Was Booger Really A Nerd?

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Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why does the movie Revenge of the Nerds continue to resonate today? Because, aside from how funny it is, it stands up for outcasts. Actor Curtis Armstrong explains what he took away from the film playing Booger, who was accepted by the nerds despite not really being one of them. Armstrong is the author of Revenge of the Nerd: Or… The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger. In the Spiel, health care for all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	It's Monday, September 18th, 2017, from Slated to the Gisdai, Mike Pesca.
0:12.9	You know, labels are hard.
0:14.8	What's called people?
0:15.8	What's called ourselves?
0:17.9	What's called Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore?
0:21.2	Call him Chief Justice Roy Moore, former Chief Justice, Injustice.
0:25.0	You call him leading candidate for next week's primary election.
0:28.8	But today, a recording was aired on Earth to Roy Moore, who is leading and could unseat
0:35.2	the Senator Luther Strange.
0:37.3	And he was talking about racial divisions.
0:39.8	Now, know this?
0:41.1	Moore was the Supreme Court Chief Justice twice tossed off the Alabama Supreme Court for
0:47.0	refusing to adhere to federal rulings about things like the Ten Commandments and same-sex
0:52.0	marriage.
0:53.0	So here, he is talking about racial divisions in the United States.
0:57.2	Now, we got blacks and whites fighting.
1:01.0	Reggie Yellow is fighting.
1:04.2	Democrats and Republicans fighting.
1:08.9	Men and women fighting.
1:12.9	What's going to unite us?
1:13.9	What's going to bring us back together?
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