Idiocracy Review

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welcome back into our studio. You are now inside

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studio 2009 only on the geek cast radio network

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I am one of your hosts to join Mike Joining me

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is Steve Megatron who is bringing back M wire

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in the future. That's right folks. Movie we can

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review is making a comeback soon ish. Any teasers

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you want to give Steve before I reveal the film

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we are talking about today in this episode. So

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I'm thinking that this rendition of the podcast

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one, I will finish some particular spotlights

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that were missed the first time naming, uh, Pirates

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of the Caribbean. You finished that? No, there

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was a final film I never covered. Really? I thought

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you finished it. I went back and I'm pretty sure

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that I didn't do that, but I'm also learning

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from listening to the older M. Wire of what I

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do and don't want to do as well as looking into

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the original concept that I had for the podcast

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when I pitched it. Yeah. Well, before before

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it kind of changed into what it is or what it

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was and what studio kind of is a better evolution

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of the original M wire. So I'm looking to not

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only do kind of a shorter five to 10 minute video

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podcast with it, but also the option of doing

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it as a. audio program again. Now, if I do the

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video portion, I'm also going to export it as

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audio and publish it on the same feed. So there

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will be that option as well. Nice. Very cool.

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Very cool. Yes, folks. All right. Well, as far

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as studio goes, we it's been a weird 2025. We

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got up to fast six Fast and Furious six with

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the fast saga. We will finish that next year

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for the overall franchise is twenty fifth anniversary

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hopefully. In this episode which is episode one

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fifty two we are gonna be covering covering a

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film that is will be twenty years old next year

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mike judges. Your say more details on that in

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a moment. We are over a hundred and fifty episodes

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of this podcast in. Six years, 2020 to 2025.

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Holy crap. Uh, yeah. Wow. Over 150 in six years.

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Uh, my goal was to get it to 200 before the end

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of the year. Unfortunately, because of life events

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with me going on and arm surgeries and other

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things, it's just not going to happen. Uh, but

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we will get to. Probably one sixty before the

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end of the year cuz i've got star wars content

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already done i've got the content already done

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so all that stuff and everything else but, like

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i mentioned we're here to discuss two thousand

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six is mike judge directed idiocracy. At the

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door. of the 21st century, the army began a top

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secret experiment. Meet Joe Bowers, our first

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subject for the human hibernation experiment.

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As you know, this is highly classified. However,

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if successful, we believe humans can be stored

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indefinitely. However, the trial run was prone

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to human error. See you in a year. And Joe slept

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slightly longer than expected. Half a millennium,

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to be exact. From Mike Judge, creator of Office

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Space and Beavis and Butthead. Oh my god! If

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you were the smartest person in the world this

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was in your mouth this one goes in your butt

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This one this one goes in your mouth And we're

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stuck with the dumbest people in history if you

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have one bucket that holds two gallons and another

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bucket that holds five gallons How many buckets

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do you have to? What would you do? Excuse me,

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um, I'm actually supposed to be getting out of

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prison. You're in the wrong line. I'm the smartest

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guy in the world? Says who? The IQ test you took

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in prison. You got the highest score in history.

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Even smarter than President Camacho. in the year

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2505. He got this guy. He's going to fix everything.

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So you smart. The ordinary will be considered

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extraordinary. I thought your hair would be bigger.

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Idiocracy. You're the smartest guy in the world.

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You're pretty dumb sometimes. Uh, you had mentioned

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this. Uh, what was your. What? I know why, because

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basically. Real life is imitating art. I've seen

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a lot of articles popping up about this particular

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movie recently. And what's funny is for the last

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several years, I've been joking about it to my

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wife and I've been joking about it too. Funny

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enough, the two guys that are working in the

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same office as me, we all know the idiocracy.

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Slogans and jokes and can almost quote sections

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of the movie without ever having to watch it

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and then we'll throw the joke in the office kinda

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like you and i do here on the podcast and if

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somebody's never heard us talk nostalgia speak.

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They have no idea where we're going with it but

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we get the inside joke and then we cackle internally

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and that's the same thing that happens in the

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office with this. Particular film what i found

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funny is that. There have been multiple articles

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like Collider had one that said this dark cult

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classic comedy is finally a streaming hit on

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Netflix and They're like for some reason people

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started talking about it again in 2016 and now

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possibly for the same reason people are talking

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about it again is idiocracy is you know climbed

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the Netflix charts and What's funnier too is

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that CNET also covered the same thing? Commentary

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of the 2006 satirical movie about a dumbed down

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dystopian future feels less like a parody. And

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then even Mike Judge has said pretty much the

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same thing. I didn't expect it to become reality.

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It was supposed to be kind of this sarcastic

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social commentary about the stupidity of mankind.

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And well, here we are. And so I've liked several

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of his films. like office space. And of course,

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he does King of the Hill. And the co -writer

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of this film also wrote Tropic Thunder, which

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I liked. But again, that was Robert Downey Jr.

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I'm a dude playing a dude isn't, you know, disguised

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as another dude, you know. And so, I mean, the

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writing on it is brilliant. And. What funny especially

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with the actors they chose for all the different

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roles they kind of fit their persona that they

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were given. And. I. I for one i saw this movie

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so long ago. Yeah and i saw it with my wife and

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then we didn't see it when it came out i think

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we saw it on like a library or not a library

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movie. rental place, uh, run that we were doing.

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And that was how we, we got to see the, the film

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the first time it absolutely bombed in the box

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office. It's funny because it had a $2 .4 million

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budget with the amount of there, there were,

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there were special effects in this makes you

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wonder how they got it done for 2 .4 million.

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A good portion of them use. 1000 times that and

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look like epic garbage, and yet these somehow.

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It had like the monster truck had the flamethrower

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had the. The all my balls show or, you know,

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all the different shows that were on there. It

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the dystopian future links up. They did it all

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for $2 .4 million, which is amazing. But it's

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also scary that everybody wants to be entertained

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to the point that they are becoming stupid. They're

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letting the AI and the computers run their brains,

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and they're watching the garbage that's on TV,

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the reality stuff, and it quite literally is

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rotting our brains little by little. Those are

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the people you see in all of them. Yeah, like

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you don't see a lot of the intelligence speak.

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You see a lot of the stupid and. It's it's sad

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that we're at a place like this. Not getting

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political, but just say what you will, like it's

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been going downhill for a long time. It's just

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it's progressively getting worse faster. So this

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film, I felt like. At this point in time was

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kind of appropriate for the level of you know,

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it's like oh we We don't we don't agree with

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your your statement, you know especially when

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Secretary not sure Joe because he's a librarian

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in this just playing it safe Not not worried

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about anything. It's funny when when they're

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yelling at him because he's like, oh you got

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to put water on the plants not you know Rondo,

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which is essentially Gatorade Gatorade. They're

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like, oh, you mean like from the toilet? He's

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like, well, it doesn't have to come from the

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toilet. And I cringed at that. It is Brando.

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It's got what plants crave. No electrolytes.

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What are electrolytes? You know, it's it. But

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it's I don't know the film in general. I feel

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like is it shouldn't be a social commentary should

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just be fun and stupid yeah but it's a social

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commentary yeah but it's it's anti you know it

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touches on you know anti -intellectualism commercialism

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consumerism all different kinds of weird genetic

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trait issues voluntary childlessness you know

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because carls jr you're an unfit mother carls

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jr We have possessed your spirit. You know, have

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taken your child into protective care will be

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raised by Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. F you. Yeah,

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that was a little bit out there. It was out there,

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but it was weird, like, and then how he was able

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to talk himself out of jail. Oh, I'm actually

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not supposed to be getting in today. I'm supposed

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to be getting out. I'm in the wrong line. Yeah.

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And he hits him on the head. You moron. He's

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like, get on the other line. Yeah, that was that

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was crazy and Yeah, like it's just I See movies

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like this I see movies like I mean this really

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isn't comparative to the fifth element, but even

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some of the stuff in there like with the Sir,

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are you who are you human? No, I am a meat popsicle

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and the cops bully, you know, like But you know

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what I mean? Like, okay granted the fifth element

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is not similar so similar to this but the point

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is that they have one similar thing about the

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like And yeah, just I don't know I enjoyed this

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for what it is I thought it was funny in certain

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parts. There were other parts where I was just

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like, oh, no, no. Thank you. No, I'm not. No.

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Well, yes, the streaming of the toilet. No. Yeah,

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that's I see it in very much that category with

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all of the amount of streamers and people we

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have on online nowadays. OK. Okay, the only thing

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I, I have never actively seen this movie. I don't

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go see it. I need to go see it, but I need to

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seek it out and watch it. Uh, it's called the

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imposter. It was with Gary Sinise. All is I remember

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from this movie is the trailer and in the trailer,

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because it was done in the future. It's one of

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these future movies where they have voice technology

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for everything. He goes into his bathroom and

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he turns on the shower and he's like voice activated

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music, play whatever song it was. That's the

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only time my phone is in my bathroom is when

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I turn on Spotify and I put the music on full

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blast and it's inside my bathroom cabinet mirror

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thing, whatever. And I'm in the shower. That's

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it. I am not watching Netflix while I'm on the

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toilet. It's just not going to happen. It is

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the only way the only way you could ever get

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me. No, the only way you could ever get me to

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watch anything streaming in a bathroom is if

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there was a TV mounted to the wall. And currently

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there is no television mounted in my bathroom.

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My bathroom wall doesn't even have enough space

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to mount a decent size television. I think there's

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probably enough space in there for a 13 inch

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flat panel or less, but I obviously understand

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what you're saying. And I understand what the

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movie is saying too, but like, and that's the

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thing, like, You know, it's where that whole

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meme is go outside and touch grass get offline

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do this do that Oh my god, there's grass out

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here. Who knew? Open a curtain you fool You know

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like I am but like I do that. I go outside I

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go for walks. I do this I do that at the same

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time I'm still plugged in enough to where I catch

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most of the news stories or most of the things

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that I find interesting to me or most of the

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things I follow. Usually a day and a half before

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most of the other friends that I have catch the

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stories. Um, but yeah, this also kind of this

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movie kind of reminds me of Wally a little bit

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too. Yeah, I can see that. That's, that's kind

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of like, you know, just. piles and piles of garbage

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piling up. Wally and Eve have to fight the good

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fight and fight the man and whatever else. And

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again, I liked this for what it was. I thought

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it was interesting. I thought it was funny in

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certain places. Like I said, I didn't dislike

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the movie. There's nothing in here that like,

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Oh my God, my knickers are in a twister. No look.

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I grew up with Freddy Krueger and Jason and Chuckie.

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And if I can deal with all of them, I can deal

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with skibbity toilet streaming. Oh, no. My kids

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even are like, oh, yeah, I know. I know. And

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I'm like, what the heck is this crap? Why are

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you guys speaking this weird language? It's like,

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I know. I know. It's like in this movie. I know

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what this weird slang and Joe is like, what are

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you talking about? He's like the time machine,

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man. And he's like, oh, there's a time machine.

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And he's like, yeah, what do you think it was?

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You know, a real time machine. You must be some

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kind of idiot. Like, I, I, I don't know. I get

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entertained by the level of stupidity and some

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of this stuff. Now, the purpose, this entire

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film, Mm -hmm just the the rough of it was it

00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:37.180
Joe and Rita Joe was a just average dude army

00:17:37.180 --> 00:17:40.279
librarian selected for this experimental hibernation

00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:44.220
procedure and Rita was a prostitute and they

00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:46.000
were supposed to be placed in a state of suspended

00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.480
animation for a year and then the guy that was

00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:54.880
running it got involved with the pimp and so

00:17:55.069 --> 00:17:58.369
The military base closed down and they were long

00:17:58.369 --> 00:18:01.029
forgotten and they wake up 500 years later to

00:18:01.029 --> 00:18:03.349
discover that the country and world has been

00:18:03.349 --> 00:18:07.029
taken over by the least intelligent people. And

00:18:07.029 --> 00:18:09.250
their president is a former ultimate smackdown

00:18:09.250 --> 00:18:12.009
champion turned adult film star and politician.

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And every citizen is tattooed with a barcode.

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And. I just think of why come no tattoo? Why

00:18:22.009 --> 00:18:28.410
come to unscannable? So they've got a drought

00:18:28.410 --> 00:18:31.569
and devastation everywhere because these morons

00:18:31.569 --> 00:18:34.049
decided to use an energy drink called Brando

00:18:34.049 --> 00:18:37.910
to replace water, even for irrigating crops.

00:18:37.910 --> 00:18:40.890
But they still use it in the toilet. So the water

00:18:40.890 --> 00:18:43.450
cuts into Brando's profits. So Brando bought

00:18:43.450 --> 00:18:46.730
the FDA, which seems like a somewhat realistic

00:18:46.730 --> 00:18:51.890
scenario. And everyone wears Crocs. And I guess

00:18:51.890 --> 00:18:54.269
this was the movie that put them on the map.

00:18:55.619 --> 00:18:58.279
It was a startup. Like it was it was seriously

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like they were like, what are the most stupid

00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:02.920
issues I can find? And they put them in this

00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:07.640
movie. And it became like my kid wears them like

00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.039
the Walmart version. But it's still like they

00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.779
he wears them drives me nuts. I'm like, how do

00:19:12.779 --> 00:19:17.039
you sit in there with plastic shoes? But anyways,

00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:20.220
so the film mocks, you know, the media, the government,

00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.640
the, you know, capitalism, it mocks the fact

00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.380
that there's uneducated people, except for Costco's,

00:19:27.380 --> 00:19:29.980
you know, law school. They got a law degree at

00:19:29.980 --> 00:19:33.279
Costco because Costco apparently has everything,

00:19:33.420 --> 00:19:35.200
even the time machine. And then they, you know,

00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:36.920
they don't have roofs on part of the building

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anymore. They they have a train system that goes

00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.119
to the store and every store and TV channel has

00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:47.579
some violence or, you know, sexual act or just,

00:19:47.579 --> 00:19:51.640
you know, it's dystopian. It's it's funny, but

00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:56.029
it's. Again, it's very disturbing, like kind

00:19:56.029 --> 00:20:01.890
of showing the the lack of thought. Yeah. Behind

00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:06.910
anything. And. It's it's quite sad that we're

00:20:06.910 --> 00:20:12.690
living in this. Version of history and again,

00:20:12.910 --> 00:20:15.490
like it's been going downhill for a long time.

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It's just we're seeing the crazy come out of

00:20:18.130 --> 00:20:21.670
everybody. And so that's what's making this even

00:20:21.670 --> 00:20:23.769
more relevant. And I think people are noticing.

00:20:25.109 --> 00:20:27.650
And it's like, can we just be normal, please?

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Can we go back like 20 years ago where people

00:20:32.289 --> 00:20:38.529
were somewhat normal? But yeah, so yeah, Joe,

00:20:38.769 --> 00:20:42.490
anyways, in in this this whole thing, because

00:20:42.490 --> 00:20:44.910
obviously, Brondo not only owns the FDA, but

00:20:44.910 --> 00:20:47.690
the Department of Health and Human Services and

00:20:47.690 --> 00:20:54.329
the FCC. Yes. But he he has to go to rehabilitation

00:20:54.329 --> 00:20:57.210
as part of his thing, which is basically monster

00:20:57.210 --> 00:21:01.789
truck rally to die on a jumbotron. Yeah. And

00:21:01.789 --> 00:21:06.250
by accident, Frito, who played a Dax Shepard,

00:21:06.269 --> 00:21:09.950
who plays a doofus extremely well. Yes, he does.

00:21:09.990 --> 00:21:15.269
The camera. And it starts recording the plants

00:21:15.269 --> 00:21:19.460
growing and people see it. Yeah. And then they're

00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:24.099
like, oh, and so Rita and Joe Marion had the

00:21:24.099 --> 00:21:27.259
three smartest kids in the world because everyone

00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:32.119
else is so dumb. Yep. And then at the very end

00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:37.279
of the movie, they leave off with a joke about

00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:42.019
it going to having upgrade the pimp waking up.

00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.519
Yeah, which I never caught. It took me years

00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.630
to catch this. I didn't even know like somebody

00:21:48.630 --> 00:21:50.329
told me about it. They're like, did you did you

00:21:50.329 --> 00:21:52.470
see the ending part? And I'm like, what any part

00:21:52.470 --> 00:21:55.289
like upgrade comes and I'm like, no, he doesn't.

00:21:55.289 --> 00:21:57.089
And they're like, yeah, he does. And then I looked

00:21:57.089 --> 00:22:00.170
it up on YouTube and I was like, holy crap, he

00:22:00.170 --> 00:22:03.470
does. I would have never guessed that. But yeah,

00:22:03.529 --> 00:22:06.769
they I'm glad they didn't do a sequel because

00:22:06.769 --> 00:22:09.849
I feel like it would have been as this is one

00:22:09.849 --> 00:22:13.549
of those time in a bubble films that worked really

00:22:13.549 --> 00:22:17.480
well for when it came out. It's like Dumb and

00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:21.980
Dumber or Super Troopers should have never had

00:22:21.980 --> 00:22:25.779
a sequel. No, never. This is this is lightning

00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:28.759
bottle. Yes, it was a cult favorite. And now

00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:32.079
it's actually mainstream cult favorite. Mm hmm.

00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:34.119
Again, Super Troopers and Dumb and Dumber were

00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:36.380
kind of the same thing. And I feel like the fact

00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:38.240
that they came out with a sequel and they're

00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:40.559
coming out with another sequel to Super Troopers,

00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:43.859
which was an early episode, think like episode

00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:49.220
six or something. And the fact that they're doing

00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:54.980
this is just, yeah. So I'm glad that this film

00:22:54.980 --> 00:22:57.240
is getting the recognition that it deserves.

00:22:57.539 --> 00:23:02.259
Yes, there's a lot of stuff in it that I wouldn't

00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:06.380
necessarily watch this film again, but at the

00:23:06.380 --> 00:23:09.319
same time, I have it so well memorized, it's

00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:13.960
so difficult to remove from my brain. Just because

00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:18.000
I remember everything about it But it's entertaining

00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.880
regardless Watching the evolution of of Carl's

00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.279
jr. And fuddruckers, which Is no longer around

00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:29.279
but it turns into a totally different name by

00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:36.720
the end of that. Yep Yeah, this was a movie that

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.599
I Never had on my radar until you had mentioned

00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.869
it It's not a movie that i would ever go back

00:23:44.869 --> 00:23:48.190
and revisit it i'm glad i had the experience

00:23:48.190 --> 00:23:50.690
of watching it was interesting like i said it

00:23:50.690 --> 00:23:55.950
was funny i enjoyed it. I like it as you already

00:23:55.950 --> 00:24:00.450
said as a one and done does not need does not

00:24:00.450 --> 00:24:04.920
require. Sequel three cool four cool five cool

00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.180
six cool seven cool night cool nine cool ten

00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:11.759
cool three cool one whatever does not require

00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.680
a whole universe does not require it to tie to

00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.960
any other universe to get it to do crossovers

00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.839
or any other stupid Hollywood bullshit that they.

00:24:23.740 --> 00:24:28.960
Might want to try to do with it. It's a. Another

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:32.640
example of a good one, two, three beginning,

00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:38.799
middle and end one and done story. So there is

00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:43.920
a. I have to open my mouth. There is a a possibility

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:47.559
in 2012, Cruz said he was in the talks with the

00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:51.019
director judge, you know, judge and Fox over

00:24:51.019 --> 00:24:53.420
a possible spinoff featuring President Kamacho.

00:24:54.349 --> 00:24:58.630
Okay. The spin -off is fine. That's yeah. And,

00:24:58.849 --> 00:25:01.890
and it was set before the, the 2012 election.

00:25:02.089 --> 00:25:04.009
Then he reprised the character in a web series

00:25:04.009 --> 00:25:07.210
of short sketches for funny or die before the

00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:13.329
2016 election. And then they, they had some idiocracy

00:25:13.329 --> 00:25:19.589
theme campaign ads, and then they also have crews.

00:25:22.589 --> 00:25:24.890
I guess they didn't use the ads, but they filmed

00:25:24.890 --> 00:25:28.750
them and because they had commercial wrestling

00:25:28.750 --> 00:25:31.210
in a cage match against other candidates. And

00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:38.569
then now, apparently. There was as far as like

00:25:38.569 --> 00:25:42.329
twenty, twenty four anyway. There were conversations

00:25:42.329 --> 00:25:49.890
about. Reviving it again as a comic book. OK,

00:25:50.130 --> 00:25:53.119
now that's. All of that is fine, because here's

00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.859
the thing. Everything you just mentioned, 2012,

00:25:57.059 --> 00:26:01.480
2016, has already happened. It's not currently

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.559
in development as a sequel film. If you want

00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:09.259
to do a comic book, if it happens as another

00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:13.920
medium that is not a sequel film, fine. If it

00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.720
happens as an animated series, fine. Comic book,

00:26:17.940 --> 00:26:21.630
fine. I'm more than fine with that. Because I

00:26:21.630 --> 00:26:27.329
feel that in a different medium, it can, you

00:26:27.329 --> 00:26:29.410
can do different things with it. You can tell

00:26:29.410 --> 00:26:32.069
a different story with it and it can be fine.

00:26:32.069 --> 00:26:35.430
And you can still go to the only film it has

00:26:35.430 --> 00:26:39.710
the only film that it needs, which is the one

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:44.890
film idiocracy from 2006. Because like I've said,

00:26:45.089 --> 00:26:52.660
Hollywood has this need to just. If any movie,

00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:55.359
I don't care what movie it is, but if it makes

00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:58.460
its money back and then it makes profit off of

00:26:58.460 --> 00:27:02.200
itself, they're like, Oh my God, it made all

00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:06.240
this money. Great. Great for us. Let's make a

00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:12.680
billion more movies based off of this. I just,

00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:17.480
so at this recording, I just released, uh, Geocast

00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:20.079
radio episode. It's a new convention attention

00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:22.140
episode. It's the first time we've done a New

00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:25.980
York Comic -Con convention attention with my

00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:29.779
buddy Brad and we were talking about this exact

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:35.940
thing and we were talking about movies and budgets

00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:40.119
and box office and the whole back and forth and

00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:46.940
how Not every movie can be Avengers 2012 or Avengers

00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:50.160
Infinity War and Endgame. Not every movie can

00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:53.779
be a billion dollar box office for these Hollywood

00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:58.680
studios. And that's okay. Like I said, as long

00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:01.500
as you make your money back and as long as you

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:06.660
turn a decent profit where everybody on the project

00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:12.099
gets paid. Good. Great. Awesome. That's that's

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:15.539
more than fine. Super troopers was episode seven

00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:23.359
of movie review released August 21st, 2009. Noise.

00:28:24.059 --> 00:28:30.819
Yo. I still haven't seen the second one. Don't.

00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:35.099
It was it was terrible. Like they literally had

00:28:35.099 --> 00:28:37.359
there was like a whole scene where they were

00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:40.279
like. doing a stretching the balls thing or something.

00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.460
It was just. Oh, no. It was. It was. I was like,

00:28:43.579 --> 00:28:45.900
come on, guys. Like it was it was sick. Like

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:49.400
and it was like Rob Lowe or something. And like

00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:51.859
in the scene and it was it was just nasty and

00:28:51.859 --> 00:28:59.440
gross. And. You guys, but but yeah. All right.

00:28:59.460 --> 00:29:06.589
So let's. Let's go through some of the questions

00:29:06.589 --> 00:29:10.150
that we have here at the studio. Did the film

00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:15.009
keep your interest throughout? Yeah, I, I laughed

00:29:15.009 --> 00:29:19.329
pretty much throughout the film. It, it's still

00:29:19.329 --> 00:29:22.529
entertaining to me, despite the fact that it's

00:29:22.529 --> 00:29:28.289
kind of raunchy and, and dark. Absolutely. Absolutely.

00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:31.009
And same thing with me. Uh, there were only a

00:29:31.009 --> 00:29:36.420
couple of times where I was like, I don't really

00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:40.480
like that part, but it's OK. I can, you know,

00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:43.019
look past it and whatever. So, yeah, absolutely.

00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:50.740
Would you recommend this film to people? I would

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:56.160
just because. Again, as sad as it is, it's a

00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.880
social commentary on where we are now, and at

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:07.109
the same time, it. It feels. It feels like a

00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:09.609
warning sign for our society of where we need

00:30:09.609 --> 00:30:14.829
to not go. And I feel like, yes, it was funny

00:30:14.829 --> 00:30:21.390
as a cult classic film back in the day. And nowadays

00:30:21.390 --> 00:30:26.789
it. Speaks an entirely different message. It's

00:30:26.789 --> 00:30:30.339
still entertaining and hilarious to watch. But

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:34.039
it's also scary that we're at some of those points

00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:36.140
in society. I mean, they even have like police

00:30:36.140 --> 00:30:38.619
state stuff. If it doesn't scan your barcode,

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.039
like they literally send robo taxis to go after

00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:44.140
you and start like shooting at you. And you know,

00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:48.640
it's so it's it's. Yeah, it's very scary, like

00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.420
where some of the stuff's headed to just in it.

00:30:51.579 --> 00:30:56.609
But I feel like it's still a better. Film that

00:30:56.609 --> 00:30:58.509
people give it credit for even though it bombed

00:30:58.509 --> 00:31:02.430
in the box office decades ago. Yeah, like it

00:31:02.430 --> 00:31:07.049
made us it made like I Would say an eighth of

00:31:07.049 --> 00:31:10.029
the money back or like a quarter of the money

00:31:10.029 --> 00:31:14.910
back that it it's spent to make the film That's

00:31:14.910 --> 00:31:18.670
not good what made like 484 ,000 and it was like

00:31:18.670 --> 00:31:21.529
the two point something million two point four

00:31:21.529 --> 00:31:25.630
million dollars. Yeah, so They were two million

00:31:25.630 --> 00:31:31.410
dollars in the hole. Oh boy. Well, that's probably

00:31:31.410 --> 00:31:35.390
why I didn't get a sequel anytime soon. And again,

00:31:35.390 --> 00:31:37.609
I hope it doesn't. It was good for the time.

00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:42.309
Leave it alone. Yep, exactly. Zero to five with

00:31:42.309 --> 00:31:44.549
half points. What are you going to give? Idiocracy

00:31:44.549 --> 00:31:47.730
on the geek meter. I'm going to give it a four

00:31:47.730 --> 00:31:51.380
and a half just because it. It's still a pretty

00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:53.420
fun movie to watch. There's a lot of good quotes

00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:59.079
and interesting ideas in it. So I would give

00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:02.940
it a four and a half just on that alone. Yeah,

00:32:02.940 --> 00:32:05.640
I'll give it a four. I'm only taking a point

00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:08.099
off for a couple of the gross out moments that

00:32:08.099 --> 00:32:11.279
I just couldn't get past, but that's just me.

00:32:13.110 --> 00:32:16.710
Alright folks that's gonna do it for us here

00:32:16.710 --> 00:32:22.410
inside studio 2009 also as a crossover with movie

00:32:22.410 --> 00:32:26.750
week in review as a soft relaunch as Steve said

00:32:26.750 --> 00:32:28.890
at the beginning of this podcast He's gonna be

00:32:28.890 --> 00:32:30.910
doing a bunch of different stuff with movie we

00:32:30.910 --> 00:32:34.230
can review. It's not gonna be What we do here

00:32:34.230 --> 00:32:38.829
at studio 2009, but as I said before or at the

00:32:38.829 --> 00:32:42.200
top of the show coming up here on city 2009 we've

00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:47.380
got a bunch of stuff coming up Probably the next

00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:51.519
thing you're gonna hear is coming up in November

00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:59.980
We are going to be discussing The newest thing

00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:02.380
from Netflix that will be coming out November

00:33:02.380 --> 00:33:05.500
12th because we were both very excited for it,

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:11.150
but it is the new documentary being Eddie We

00:33:11.150 --> 00:33:15.450
just saw the trailer for this recently, and it's

00:33:15.450 --> 00:33:19.690
all about Eddie Murphy and holy crap, cannot

00:33:19.690 --> 00:33:26.529
wait. That is going to be so fun. Yep, yep, yep.

00:33:27.349 --> 00:33:29.970
And then after that, I got to figure out something

00:33:29.970 --> 00:33:33.390
for episode 154. And then after that is going

00:33:33.390 --> 00:33:37.609
to be returning to 12 months of Star Wars. Probably

00:33:37.609 --> 00:33:40.690
for majority of November and then into dark side

00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:43.630
December and that'll probably be the year for

00:33:43.630 --> 00:33:51.029
2025 and then 2026 who knows I don't know So

00:33:51.029 --> 00:33:54.450
that's what's that's what's coming up here inside

00:33:54.450 --> 00:34:02.519
studio 2009 Any final thoughts sir I don't think

00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:05.099
so. I think I'm looking forward to covering some

00:34:05.099 --> 00:34:08.000
movies again, uh, not only here on studio, but

00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.440
in M wire and kind of bringing some of that energy

00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:17.800
back in a different format. Very cool. Very cool.

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00:34:59.650 --> 00:35:02.550
next time when, like I said, we'll be discussing

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the new Eddie Murphy documentary, Being Eddie.

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I think my favorite line from the trailer is

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where he says, I'm everybody in the scene and

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everything in between. I love that line from

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the trailer when he says that. That is so friggin

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cool. I think that's a nutty professor. No, he,

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no, no. He says that in the trailer himself.

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No, I know. But I'm saying like, I don't know.

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Discussing the nutty professor. Yeah. Well, yeah,

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probably. But yeah, anyway, he, but he, he's

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saying that about he's probably talking about

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that, but he's talking about himself where About

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his work ethic. As far as I can tell, I don't

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know if he's specifically discussing nutty professor,

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but what I, from what I understood watching the

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trailer was how he works is that's how his work

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ethic is. He can be everything kind of thing.

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So yeah, that's what's, uh, that's what's coming

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up next for now. I am TFU and Mike with Steve

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Megatron. You'll hear us back in the studio and

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on movie we can review very very soon In a world

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there. I said it happy