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I be thinking like, yo, this phishizzle on "year of the geek" is stright whack. All you G's out dare know 1985 was the year of the nerd, sez American Splendor (2003).

Harvey Pekar: What movie could be worth driving 260 miles round trip for?

Toby Radloff: It's a new film called Revenge of the Nerds. It's about a group of nerd college students who are being picked on all the time by the jocks. So they decide to take revenge.

Harvey Pekar: So what you're saying is, you identify with those nerds.

Toby Radloff: Yes. I consider myself a nerd. And this movie has uplifted me. There's this one scene, where a nerd grabs the microphone during a pep rally and announces that he is a nerd and that he is proud of it and stands up for the rights of other nerds.

Harvey Pekar: Right on.

Toby Radloff: Then he asks all the kids at the pep rally who think they are nerds to come forward, so nearly everybody in the place does. That's the way the movie ends.

Harvey Pekar: Uhhmmm, so the nerds won, huh?

Toby Radloff: Yes.

Now I'm all up in the year of the geek. Holl, you got a loosey? Menthol. Ahhh.