WEBVTT - Idiocracy 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.760 On the Beck dol Cast, the questions asked if movies 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.480 have women in them? Are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.400 and husbands? Do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef invest 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.400 start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hey, Jamie, Hey, Caitlin. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.720 Oh geez, we just woke up from being in a 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:29.160 cryopod and society around us is terrible. But it always 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.920 has been, so not anything different. But wait a second, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.760 it's probably the Well I'm only interested in pursuing this story. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.800 If it's the working class is fault, well you're in 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.680 luck because if the one percent is implicated in this, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.519 I'm walking. Okay, well I'm walking today's movie. That's what 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:58.040 it's about. So okay. Welcome to the Beach Dol Cast. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.560 My name is Jamie Loft, as my name is Caitlin Durante, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.640 and this is our show where we examine movies through 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.680 an intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechel tests simply as 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.600 a as a jumping off point. And this week you'll 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.119 notice is we're releasing this the week of the fourth 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.360 of July, uh national holiday that gets more and more 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.000 ridiculous with each passing year. The only good thing about 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.119 the fourth of July is Joey chestnut that has been 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:29.480 canonically true for decades at this point now. So we've 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.600 been talking about this making this episode for a while 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.600 and trying to find, you know, kind of either we 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.600 were between like, oh, we can find a really classically 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.560 jingoistic movie to kind of cover in debunk, or we 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.959 can try to find, you know, a famous American satire 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.800 to cover for this week. And since we made that decision, uh, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.880 we've just been we've just been losing our rights, Miranda rights, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:02.240 don't know them, the right to an abortion gone. Just 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.720 it's it's you know, if if you're listening to this, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:09.440 and even if you're not American, you're probably aware that 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:17.040 it's it's particularly dystopian these past few weeks, years, decades, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.520 and so I feel like it's a particularly interesting time 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.200 to take a look at the movie. So all that 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.799 to say, I just think it's uh for preamble, we 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.160 chose to cover this movie before the most recent avalanche 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.760 of lost rights, and I feel like it coincidentally ends 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.720 up being kind of an interesting discussion because we are 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:45.160 covering the movie Idiocracy today, a movie that has been 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.880 discussed a lot in the past, decade, and now that 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.120 I've seen it, I don't understand why. But first we 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:57.040 have some housekeeping to cover that being what the fuck 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.440 is that Bettel Test you were talk about, Caitlin Rante, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:09.200 I'll tell you, Jamie loftis. It is a media metric 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.919 created by Alison Becktel, sometimes called the Becktel Wallace Test, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.280 and there are many different versions of it. The one 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.520 we use, we've we've put our little flourishes on the 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.760 test over the years, and our version is two characters 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.200 of a marginalized gender have to have names, they have 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.919 to speak to each other, and their conversation has to 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.360 be about something other than a man, and ideally that 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:39.800 conversation is narratively relevant and narratively meaningful. So this this 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.080 week is actually, you know, kind of a doozy as 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.440 it pertains to that metric. It's interesting because we are 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:52.240 also recording an episode about the Minions this week, and 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.000 by the Minions technically Despicable Me. But I'm very excited 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.520 for our Minions episode. But I was watching Idiocracy and 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.880 Minions media because I you know, recovering, and this is 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.160 a you know, tacit plug for the Matreon Patreon. Of 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.520 course we are covering Despicable Me this month. And what 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.800 I think is interesting watching Idiocracy and Minions media back 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.600 to back kind of is you get two very different 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.800 interpretations of what a society of bumbling men would look like. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:33.240 And Honey, I prefer the Minions every time because at least, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.719 oh about I'm about to it sucks because I really 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.240 genuinely love the vast majority of my judge's work, but 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.320 at least the Minions are making me laugh. You know. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:50.040 I can't say the same for Idiocracy. Minions hilarious. Idiocracy 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.960 really was bumming me out in a wild way. Um So, anyways, 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.520 this is our, this is our, this is I feel 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.680 like a classic Bechtel cast at episode of taking something 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.800 that everyone keeps saying is good and being like, actually 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.359 actually be very good. But guess but you know what 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.960 argue with the wall, We're right, Um that's there. That's 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.760 what I want to tell to say to a lot 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.040 of people. Um, but I will say and we'll get 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.480 into this, but just is a little bit of a 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.760 preface that, yeah, I see what this movie was going 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.479 for and at the time I liked it. When I 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.560 saw it in two thousand six as a college sophomore. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.960 But let's talk about it, so, like, what is your 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.200 relationship with this? So I saw it when it came out, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.400 because it came out sometime in two thousand and six. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.920 I was in college at the time. I was already 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.320 a huge Office Space fan. It was like one of 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.640 my favorite movies at the time, so I was already 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:56.120 team Mike Judge and I saw this movie. And at 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.279 the time in the mid two thousand's when I when 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:07.279 my critical thinking skills and comedic sensibilities and cultural sensibilities 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:13.800 were not quite as sophisticated as they are today. I mean, yeah, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.960 it's also like, don't be hard on yourself because this 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.320 is like part of what's interesting about looking at this 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.160 movie now is like how again, it's like, I don't 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:28.320 think that this movie is uniquely pushing this kind of 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.880 comedic point of view. I feel like this is this 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.680 lines up really closely with like a lot of Bush 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.679 era comedy. Is like that we all thought was funny 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.600 at the time, right, or at least many of us 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.760 A lot of people thought was funny. And then I 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.880 also see I feel like this movie is a great 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.880 example of how the kind of aggressive apathy of this 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.160 style of comedy probably had, you know, not the biggest hand, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.560 not as big a hand as fucking villainous policy see 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.080 and disenfranchise, But I do, I do see how you know, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.680 this brand of comedy in its day served to further 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.080 polarize people in a way that I don't think was 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.640 like really recognized at the time, because how why would 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.840 it have been recognized the time? Right? Yeah, So all 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.000 I say, don't be don't be hard in yourself. Everyone 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.160 was loving this ship like it's true. It's true. So yeah, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.880 I I liked it at the time, but I didn't 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.560 really engage with it after that first maybe one or 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:37.160 two viewings in the mid two thousand's. But I'm excited 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.520 to talk further. And again, just as a preface, I'll say, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.440 I see what the movie was going for looking at 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.200 it through our lens. A lot of it, A lot 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.400 of the satire, a lot of the attempted satire, maybe 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:57.520 not executed very well, and maybe just throws a lot 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.320 of groups of people under the bus. Anyway, Jamie, what 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.040 is your relationship with this movie? Okay, so I am 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.040 going to be harder in this movie because it feels 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.600 uniquely designed to make me frustrated. Um, but okay, so 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.560 I for context. I had not seen this movie before, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.160 but I have considered myself to be a Mic Judge 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.520 fan since I was basically a kid. Like I was 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.880 very I was kind of a latecomer to King of 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.640 the Hill. But I've now seen a lot of King 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.520 of the Hill, and I really love King of the Hill. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.360 Not an unpopular opinion at all. It's a great show. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.480 But I grew up with Beavis and butt Head. My 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.160 dad was a huge Beavis and butt Head fad. We 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.120 had it on a lot. Yeah, shout out. My key 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.160 did refine my taste very young. It was all pee 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.640 weee and Beavis and butt Head, and I'm eternally grateful 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.600 for it. I've got Beavis and butt Head. March. I 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.600 watched the new Paramount Plus movie the day it came out. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.480 It's good. I didn't even know that was a thing. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.120 Well I do work for Paramount, so I was like, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.679 I was reminded, But it's really good. And I had 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.720 highly like all that to say. I watched all of 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.960 Silicon Valley and I didn't even really like it. But 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.160 I just feel like loyal to Mike Judge because I 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.080 like his work. I like Office Space, like he's made 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.840 so much amazing stuff and so, but I had never 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.920 seen Idiocracy. All that to say, I went into this 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.800 movie expecting to like it because I like Mike judges work. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.319 Really the only thing I knew like the basic premise 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.000 of like it's a future American dystopia, and I also 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.960 knew and I think that this is like I've kind 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.080 of got like more stuff for this later on in 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.840 the discussion. But I also feel like this movie just 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.920 every couple of hours someone will tweet Idiocracy was a documentary, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.480 like it was their idea, Like that is literally tweeted 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.600 every forty five seconds by someone who is like I'm 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.199 a genius, and it's like, okay, first of all, i 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.800 Q is bunk an issue this movie has that I 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.400 have been studying for years. But anyways, part of what 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:13.319 I love about Mike Judge's work is that he has 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:19.520 this like way of showing characters whose like views are 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.120 regressive and whose feel King of the Hill is the 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.040 best example of it. But like who are like goofy 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.680 people who you would disagree with that most people would 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.320 disagree with, showing them with context and enough empathy that 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.480 you're like, I understand how this person got here, and 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.920 it feels like a more productive, empathetic piece of art. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.839 And so I was just really surprised that like Idiocracy 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.280 was so heartless in its views and it just like 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.600 it just felt like a real I don't know. First 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:58.200 of all, Idiocracy is not a documentary, you fucking dorks. Sorry, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.240 but like for us, of all, not an original thought. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.520 Second of all, not true. I don't know. I just 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.680 have a lot of I didn't like the movie, and 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.839 I was really bumped. I didn't like the movie from 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.920 the first scene because of and you know, hashtag stream 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.000 my urine mensa. But like, yeah, the fact that this movie, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.880 I mean, this movie, like it's weird, because I totally 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.640 agree with you, Caitlin. I do think that it was 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.080 coming from a good place, and I think for its 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.760 time it is I don't know, for its time. I 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.720 understand why it was considered to be like controversial satire, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:38.160 and I understand why people saw value in it, especially 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.360 in the era that it came out in, which I 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.520 mean this movie was being shot and eventually released in 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.480 the middle of the George W. Bush administration, when it 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:56.120 did seem like society was heading towards us place a 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.760 certain place, and it's also like that wasn't wrong. I 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.280 feel like it's it's whatever. My opinions aside. I think 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.679 this is like a kind of a very very interesting 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.840 movie to look at to see like what were center 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.200 to left leaning people viewing the people around them like 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.040 at this time. And I feel like this movie really 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.720 because it's like we were both you know, I mean 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.679 I I was, I definitely just you know, at this 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.160 movie came out when I was like in middle school, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.160 so I didn't like hear about it at the time, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.840 but like we both two thousand and six, you know, 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.920 we're we're senior citizens. We were there, and I do 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.240 remember this a lot, and I would like even kind 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.760 of group this. And I know that I'm not saying 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.559 like the quality of jokes are the same across the board, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.400 but I would kind of group this in the like 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.400 John Stewart Daily Show era of comedy, back when my 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.120 aunt would fucking die for Bill Mara unfortunately kind of 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:02.760 comedy of like kind of like god left leaning ish 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.199 comedy of which there was a lot at this time, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.640 like even early Colbert Report. Even though I feel like 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.600 it's kind of the best of all of it. But 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.280 but you know what I mean, like it was a 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.400 very specific moment in comedy and like satire, and it's 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.560 interesting to look back on. I really didn't like this movie. Uh, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.440 let's talk more about it, shall we? Yeah? Okay, sorry 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.320 for like going on. I just was. I was so shocked. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.640 It's so you know, like when you really love a 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.200 creator and you have like a creepy little para social 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.400 connection to them, and it's like, how dare I not 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.360 like this? But I I again, I because it there 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.480 was such a big gap between when I first saw 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.360 it and now I had just forgotten about all the 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:55.199 incredibly problematic jokes and humor, like let's tacitly endorse eugenics. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.640 I'm not saying like Judge was like actively recognizing that 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:07.480 that is some people are just born inferior. That we 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.160 get there, We'll get there. Let's talk about what happens 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.680 in the movie because there and there are also were 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.199 some like specific jokes that I laughed at. Some things work, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.040 Some of the commentary does work. A lot of it doesn't. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.080 Carl's Junior stuff worked for me, The Brondo stuff, Yeah, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.720 any kind of like commentary on capitalism and consumerism worked. Yes, Um, okay, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.920 here's what the story is about. The movie opens on 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:40.800 voiceover discussing how as we entered we being society entered 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.480 the century, human evolution was at a turning point where 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:54.040 intelligent people quote unquote were reproducing less and quote unquote 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.080 less intelligent people. And these quote unquotes are from me 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.880 and not the movie. So the movie is saying intelligent 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.840 people stopped producing as much, and less intelligent people were 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.200 multiplying more than ever. Blood pressure is in peril. So 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.440 this is this is how the movie is framing this. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.600 And we get like this whole montage where we meet 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.600 these two couples. You know, one is more intelligent and 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.480 they're coded a certain way. The other couple is you know, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.160 less intelligent quote unquote. They're coded a very particular way. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.240 We'll talk about it, but I mean it's literally like yeah, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.240 like grad school. I mean, not to put you in 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.800 a box, but like, you know, people who have been 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.480 to college multiple times versus like it's coded as like 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.440 quote unquote trailer trash. Exactly. Yes, yes, yes, So we're 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.600 we meet these characters and the whole thing is the 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.720 characters who are coded poor are reproducing at a higher 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.840 rate anyway. Then we meet Joe Bowers played by Luke Wilson. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.000 He is an army librarian who has been selected to 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.640 be used as a human guinea pig for a military 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.400 experiment in which soldiers will be frozen and then on 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.720 frozen at a later date to be used for future 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.320 wars or something. I'm not really sure, but it's like 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.560 that Chris what was that? Dogshit Chris Pratt? Like Amazon 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.600 Prime movie was like the Tomorrow War. He was he 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.960 was being deep frozen for Chris Pratt, the Tomorrow War. Yes, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.520 what was that? I know what you're talking about. I 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.200 didn't see it. Sorry, Sunny, Sunny. So Sunny's here right 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.520 now and he is like looking at me, and I 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:39.400 like we can communicate telepathically, and he is saying, you bitch. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:45.640 Comma Idiocracy is a documentary because well, yeah, I'm Sunny 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.600 the dog fucking loves centrist. He won't back down. He 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.080 won't back down. He's like, I tweeted it and I 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:59.600 meant it. Sonny, you were wrong for that. Continue Okay. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.480 So Joe is selected for this experiment because he has 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:10.800 no family, and he's also just extremely average across the spectrum. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.640 They have also selected a woman for this experiment, a 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.679 sex worker named Rita played by my Rudolph, and the 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:23.000 plan is to freeze them both for one year uh 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.560 and then on freeze them. But Officer Collins, the guy 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.159 who is leading this experiment, is fired and the project 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.640 is completely forgotten about. So Joe and Rita stay frozen 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:45.200 for five hundred years while oh no, while society around 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:52.560 them descends into shambles. The cryopods that Joe and Rita 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.440 were in ended up in a landfill, but a huge 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.240 garbage avalanche shoots Joe's Paul Odd into the living room 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.240 of Freedo played by Dax Shepherd. Kind of incredible. I 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.440 don't have strong opinions on Dak Shepherd, but you're just like, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.960 but you see him in this role and you're like, yeah, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.120 that was good casting. Yes, look when we're not punching 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.359 down because his his podcast is like nine times more 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:25.040 popular than ours. So right, relax, good job, Dax. Freedo 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.040 is watching a show about a guy who is just 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.320 hit in the balls repeatedly to give you an idea 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.200 of what entertainment and pop culture is like in this society. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.360 Five years later, So Joe wakes up. He's all disoriented, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.520 and Friedo tosses him out onto the streets, and Joe 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:52.040 stumbles around town. He notices that society has crumbled into 0:18:52.480 --> 0:19:00.480 quote unquote idiocracy, where where the restaurant form really known 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.480 as food ruckers is now called butt fuckers. Okay, try 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:10.639 as I may. I can't not be like, Okay, I'm giggling. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.520 It's it's not a good joke. It's maybe the laziest 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.600 joke of all time. And also because of the strong 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:26.040 no homo energy to this movie, it feels but and 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.480 then you're just also like, I mean, I just feel 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.399 like you're given so little, so little things that I 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.199 was laughing at. Yeah, I would say it's it's not 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.399 a very good joke, and yet it's maybe one of 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.800 the better jokes of this movie. Like to give you 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.520 an idea, Yeah, that's what I like. I just I 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:48.080 feel like the bar is on the floor, and because 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.280 it's Mike Judge, the bar is like beneath the crust 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.080 of the earth. Like you're just like, but you know whatever, 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.199 I think that this is interesting in the frame of 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:03.280 being reactionary. Common terry from two thousand six, We'll get 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.639 to how Mike Judge engages with people's modern takes on 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.119 idiocracy in a bit, because I think that's very interesting. Um, okay, okay, 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.800 but so but fucker's As a restaurant, people mostly speak 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:22.840 in unintelligible grunts. A green sports drink called Brondo comes 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.080 out of water fountains instead of water. These are the 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:30.120 things in society now. Joe doesn't feel well. He thinks 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.920 he's hallucinating because of the drugs the army gave him, 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.240 and he doesn't know that it's five years in the future. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.280 So he goes to a hospital five years of summer. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:45.720 That's that's how I'm going to start describing global warming summer. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.040 Mm I like it. No, no, no, not to be 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:54.040 joked around about. But yet, what are we supposed to do? Okay? 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.640 We laugh, so we don't cry, right, and we still cry, 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.959 and we still later at night when we're alone. So 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.680 Joe goes to a hospital and sees doctor Justin Long. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.960 Oh my god. We've covered so many movies in the 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.639 like mid to late two thousand's where Justin Long like 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:19.520 is just becoming of is becoming an influencer of his time. Yeah, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:21.880 I've come all the way around. I'm just like Justin 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.959 Long kind of a cultural icon, whether I like it 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.720 or not. I mean, I've seen the movie Tusk and 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.760 it's the best movie ever made. Okay, I haven't seen 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:37.280 the movie Touch, and that's my business. So Dr Justin 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:43.080 Long realizes that Joe is unscannable because Joe doesn't have 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.040 this like bar code tattoo that everyone in the future has. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.160 That was like one of the things that I was like, Okay, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.679 that's like it's an easy thing to guess at, but 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:53.679 it's not. You know, yeah, that that worked for me. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.280 So this leads Joe to finally realize what year it 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.919 is and that it's like five years in the future. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.480 They're both freaking out and Joe runs away and then 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.520 gets arrested because he didn't pay his hospital bill. So 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.760 he's taken to court where his court appointed lawyer, Friedo, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.399 the guy whose apartment Joe crashed into, defends him, but 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.840 he does a terrible job. Joe tries to plead his 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.960 case and explain the army experiment, but no one takes 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.359 him seriously and he's found guilty. He is then given 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.119 a tattoo like the bar code tattoo, and I D 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.880 and then he's made to take i Q and aptitude tests. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:42.800 Kind of funny when he's called not sure, that as giggling, look, 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.920 look it's still my judge jokes that was pretty good. Yeah, 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.960 and they call him not sure. The whole movie pretty funny. 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.720 So then he takes his tests and then he is 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:55.400 sent to prison, but he's easily able to escape because 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.400 he is smarter than everyone there. And he goes back 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:03.040 to Frido house and he's like, hey, Friedo, has anyone 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:07.560 invented time travel? And Friedo's like, yeah, there's this time 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.440 machine and Joe is like, okay, you have to take 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.159 me there, So they head toward the time machine mcguffin 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:20.960 time machine right. Meanwhile, Rita has also become unfrozen and 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.960 is roaming the streets. She's kind of like scamming a 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:27.440 guy out of a bunch of money who is trying 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:31.120 to pay for her sex work. Joe finds her and 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.360 picks her up to take her to the time machine. 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.120 To get there, they need to catch a shuttle from 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.840 a huge costco, but the cops are chasing them because 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.080 Joe escaped from prison, and they catch Joe before he's 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:49.120 able to get on the shuttle. Quick quick interlude, Welcome 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:55.800 to Costco, I love you funny, It's funny Yeah. And 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.640 then the cops take Joe to the White House because 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.879 the results of his i Q test caught the attention 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.639 of the highest levels of the U. S. Government. Because 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:09.399 it turns out Joe is now the smartest man in 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:14.879 the world. So President Camacho played by Terry Crews, comes in. 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.920 He hires Joe as Secretary of the Interior and announces 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.040 that he's going to have Joe fix all of society's problems, 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:25.840 like the failed economy and the dying crops. But Joe 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:28.439 doesn't know what he's doing, and he's still trying to 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:31.160 get to the time machine, so he has the other 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:35.000 cabinet members bring Rita in, and then Joe and Rita 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:38.960 try to run off, but then Joe notices that the 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:43.199 crops are being watered with Brondo, that green sports drink stuff, 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:46.040 and he tells everyone that they have to water the 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:52.440 crops with water. But because this doesn't work immediately, and 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:55.440 because switching to water means that a lot of people 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.400 who work for the Brondo Corporation have lost their jobs, 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:01.520 people are furious at Joe and he is sentenced to 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:07.200 one night of rehabilitation, which is actually Joe being put 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:11.320 in a gladiator style arena, like allowing the government to 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:13.959 run you over with the truck, which again is like 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:19.439 some of this entire works. That's funny when you see that, 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:21.480 I mean, it's not, I mean, but it is kind 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:26.159 of when you see that bizarro like shredder monster truck 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:29.239 run over that guy, he just turns into dust. Like 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.600 it's kind of wild, and like all the all the 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:36.080 monster trucks are shaped like dicks, and there's just a 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:40.480 bunch of like dick and dildo jokes, and I'm like, sure, sure, 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:44.280 why not? Sure? Why not? Meanwhile, Rita notices that the 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:48.120 crops are starting to grow and Joe's plan is working, 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.760 so she and Fredo rushed to the arena. Meanwhile, back 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:56.679 in the arena, Joe manages to avoid being killed by 0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:00.000 the monster trucks and avoid being killed by this guy 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:05.000 named Beef Supreme. A lot of very two thousand six 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:09.520 special effects around at this yeah point in the movie. Yes, 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:14.320 and then Rita and Friedo prove that the crops are 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:18.239