In 2006 a movie opened in 130 theaters with no trailer, no ads, and no press screenings. The studio buried it. It made $495,000 at the box office. And then it came out on DVD and everyone realized this isn’t a comedy. This is a warning.

Idiocracy. Mike Judge. The film that Fox tried to kill and America resurrected because it was too accurate to ignore.

Today on Checkpoint Thursday we make the full case. Brawndo has electrolytes. President Camacho is giving a State of the Union. The most popular show on television is someone getting hit in the groin. And Mike Judge, when asked if he was a prophet said “I’m no prophet. I was off by 490 years.”

He said that in 2016. Just before a WWE-adjacent celebrity won the presidency.

We go through every prediction. We examine why Fox buried their own movie. And we ask the question nobody wants to answer: are we the people the movie was warning about?

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SHOW NOTES:

• Idiocracy (2006) - directed by Mike Judge, written by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen

• Fox buried the film - 130 theaters, no marketing, no press kit - documented

• Box office: $495,000 - Box Office Mojo

• Mike Judge “I’m no prophet, I was off by 490 years” - 2016 interview, widely documented

• Mike Judge on the film’s legacy - multiple interviews 2016-2024

• Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator - fictional product, real cultural artifact

• Office Space (1999) and Beavis and Butt-Head - Mike Judge filmography

• Anti-intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter (1963)

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In 2025 the government finally released tens of thousands of classified JFK assassination documents. The most significant in decades. So what did 80,000 pages of government secrets actually tell us? Average Joe Nerdcast goes through the files, the grassy knoll, the magic bullet, the CIA connections, Oswald’s mysterious trip to Mexico, and the one detail that changes everything. No agenda. Just the receipts. Was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone? Was the Warren Commission telling the truth? And why did it take 62 years to find out?

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I grew up on the Attitude Era. Monday Night Raw was my show. Stone Cold, The Rock, DX, the nWo (when we'd channel swap over to check WCW) I watched every second of it and thought I was just watching wrestling.

Turns out I was watching a documentary.

The working-class rebellion of Stone Cold Steve Austin wasn’t just good TV it was 15 million people screaming about NAFTA and stagnant wages and a boss who never faced consequences. The nWo invasion wasn’t just a great storyline, it was globalization anxiety in spandex. The Attitude Era’s anti-heroes didn’t replace the good guys by accident they replaced them because a generation had figured out the good guys weren’t winning in real life.

WWE was reporting the present. Every Monday night. And nobody was paying attention.

On this episode of Checkpoint Thursday, Nate breaks down the Monday Night Wars, the Attitude Era, and why the most honest television of the 1990s was fake fighting on cable.

Also: Repo Man. We need to talk about Repo Man.

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