Insider trading can be delicious! | How to Drink

It felt like time to finally do some drinks inspired by one of my favorite movies, Trading Places. Sorry no grungy Santa suit for this one.
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00:00 - Mere didn't do the homework
00:44 - Trading Places summary
06:57 - Orange Juice from the Future
10:44 - Tasting Notes
12:12 - One Dollar-Aire
16:13 - Tasting Notes
18:01 - Mr. Beek's Lament
21:19 - Tasting Notes
23:27 - Realizations that have come too late
23:48 - We have a podcast coming soon!!
Orange Juice from the Future:
Build in Mixing Glass
.25 oz. or 8 ml. Simple Syrup
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
1 oz. or 30 ml. Cognac (Pierre Ferrand)
2.5 oz. or 75 oz. Clarified Orange Juice
Add ice and stir
Strain into glass
Top with champagne or sparkling wine
Sink a little Blue Curaçao (Hiram Walker)
One Dollar-Aire:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
.75 oz. or 22 ml. Simple Syrup
2 oz. or 60 ml. Licorice Infused Moonshine (Old Smokey)
1 whole egg
Dry shake
Add ice and shake again
Strain into a glass
Top with seltzer
Drink with a straw
Mr. Beek's Lament:
Built in glass
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Simple Syrup
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Passion Fruit Liqueur (Chinola)
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Tempus Fugit Banane
2 oz. or 60 ml. Rum (Plantation Original Dark)
Put some mint leaves in the glass
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Lime Juice
Fill halfway with crushed ice
Stir using swizzle stick
Top with ice and stir again
Drink with straw
Top with Angostura Bitters (Optional)
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[@howtodrink]

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[@acoupleofschoes]

Could you make Hulas from Meet the Deedles.

[@CyrusBluebird]

I have a suggestion: since you have a few things that are uncomfortable to poar without spilling, look for a small bowl ladle for those cases and poar into a jigger via that.

[@peterwilks4391]

I'm 1 of the 5ish people that saw & semi-liked Dr. Detroit. Kinda.

[@Medieval_Arpad_cooks]

Blues Brothers! Lord of the Rings I'll think of more

[@jacoboconner1348]

You should play games where you make cocktails from around the world drink them and guess where they are from

[@Desco9111]

Suggestion for a series of "but cheaper" cocktails-- instead of exotic ingredients and gold-leafing everything, making the best of the bottom shelf.

[@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH]

You watch Josh don't you.

[@jamesplowman5277]

This some Joshua Weissman inspired stuff

[@Desco9111]

Absolutely I do. He's got over 7M subscribers. So should Greg.

[@captainnemog1705]

yes

[@apollohateshisdayjob9606]

Never seen that channel, but I support that idea! No bottle that costs over $20 (no online discounts or special deals, MSRP only) and give genuine advice for people that can not afford mid shelf or higher for more than one bottle at a time

[@JohnBainbridge0]

For your One-Dollar-Aire, you could replace the lemon, simple, and seltzer, all with Sprite to make it even cheaper.

[@thestrangegreenman]

Brilliant. Mind if I use Squirt instead, though? Either one is in the checkout line at Target

[@tompadfoot3065]

Gotta go for that Faygo Mountain Mist

[@KassFireborn]

That's an abomination. I love it.

[@rtdugan04]

My husband said to use the plastic squeeze lemon container of lemon juice.

[@CAP198462]

SoCo or Colt 45 would make the drink cheaper.

[@PartyRockProfessional]

“This is AHRnge juice, it comes from AHRnges” I will never grow tired of the way Greg pronounces things.

[@howtodrink]

Here in NJ we all do. Except south jersey. Who other world.

[@erinohmy]

Greg, you are partially responsible for my current D&D character being named Angostura. Your love for the bitters made it top of mind when I was naming her.

[@Seattle41791]

“It occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.” Denholm Elliott

[@barockobummer2448]

I think bullets would be better

[@Kaijugan]

Oh that is deeply horrible, on so many levels

[@yeeaahhzz]

That's Murphy's/Valentine's line. Elliott/Coleman replies with, "You have to admit, sir, you didn't like it yourself ."

[@ScaryMeadow]

@5:10 Reason #1: movie producers are so paranoid over leaks that they don't even allow actors to know the story of the movie they're playing in, meaning they have an actor do a dozen takes of a one-sided conversation, without anyone else on set, and without context, and then the producers pick their favourite. #2: set designers, costume, SFX departments and the like are unionized. The CGI department is not. It's cheap labour and that's all that producers care about.

[@Evan-dc6mt]

I agree lazy union workers are the worst

[@Iceman259]

Not just that - watch the Great Balls of Fire scenes from both Top Guns side by side. Characters aren’t allowed to be life-size anymore. They’re hyper-polished as to be pretty much entirely unrelatable.

[@ashleyjohnson9651]

@@Evan-dc6mt go lick your bosses feet somewhere else evan

[@PatrickRatman]

@@Evan-dc6mt id rather be a lazy union worker than someone that breaks their back for a company that doesn't care about them :)

[@gamemeister27]

@@Evan-dc6mt go lick boots

[@taramavery]

Not only is Trading Places a bona fide Christmas movie, it's also a bona fide Thanksgiving movie and a bona fide New Year's Eve movie. It's the funniest holiday movie ever, and a great thumb in the eye to '80s Reaganism. Maybe some of the character beats and gags wouldn't make it past corporate censors today, and maybe that's okay, but it's genuinely funny. And as you said, Greg, it comes from a place of good intentions. Also, great drinks!

[@JacobPadlock]

The chanting during the train scene in this movie is the source of a sample that is basically one of the "backbone" samples of ballroom vogue music lol

[@howtodrink]

Ballroom vogue as in 80’s drag culture? Like Paris Is Burning stuff? That’s amazing! That’s for that info

[@Malthan]

Now that you mention it I can definietly hear it :D I'm amazed someone took this one short fragment of the movie and built a whole range of music tracks around it

[@Skull35]

"Making this show for 10,000 years." Further evidence that Greg is a vampire.

[@Furry-iousNews]

No garlic in any of his drinks neither....

[@tiny989]

@@Furry-iousNews there's a whole episode where he did garlic drinks about a year and a half ago

[@nicholaspoling9691]

@@tiny989 so we know he turned into one at some point after that. I heard 10,000 years can give you such a crick in the neck.

[@joshllorens4514]

Yess this is a perfect episode idea. Making drinks inspired by movies and talking about the film. Plus some class consciousness here to boot

[@benjiman7259]

“I’ll rip out your eyes and piss on your brain” a yearly family tradition 😂

[@daithiodonnell2825]

Don't worry, Greg, I'll imagine the Santa costume.

[@drinkland1]

😂😂😂👌👌👌

[@TallDarknGruesome]

double aged usually means that after the first aging process the spirit is recasked in a specialty barrel (sometimes after being blended into a batch) and aged a 2nd time to pick up secondary flavors from the second cask. Its usually done using things like sherry or port casks that have flavors left in the wood from the previous spirit.

[@Kios_Antares]

This movie is possibly THE Christmas classic in Italy. To the point where it's almost a joke that it's an integral part of the holidays, even more than Christmas songs etc. Needless to say basically everyone has seen it and/or likes it lmao

[@ZeroBusterXX]

I came here to post this.

[@sottosopravoce]

DAVVERO????

[@lefterismplanas4977]

Just like home alone in Greece?

[@jadaz5818]

@@ZeroBusterXX same

[@CHIMERA_INC]

for some reason this is a cult christmas movie in Italy, it's been aired EVERY SINGLE YEAR on christmas eve for 1986 (at first not just in december)

[@jgberzerker]

I loved that Eddie Murphy brought the Dukes back for a cameo in Coming to America.

[@Wolfesbrain]

Never saw this movie, but I watch all your episodes. Hell, I don't even drink I just find your presentation and info dumping entertaining. I know as much obscure lore about cocktails and spirits as I do about some of my favorite video games thanks to y'all and I could not be happier for it.

[@Wolfesbrain]

sidenote: recently rewatched the Dewgarita episode because I turn on autoplay when I need background noise while I work on other stuff, and got an idea: Dewgarita matrix, but comparing different Mt Dew flavors instead of different spirits. Like, set it up with the original Red Lobster recipe but then use as many different flavors of Mt Dew as you can get your hands on.

[@Black_Knight767]

According to a front page post on Reddit the other day, Trading Places was originally written with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in mind. After Pryor was hospitalized for severe burns, Wilder dropped out. And now I finally have a reason to share that tidbit lol

[@howtodrink]

That’s true!

[@ashamar]

I love this movie so much. And it is educational! When I started my first job at a Futures and Options firm, one of the first things they said to me was, "Have you seen Trading Places? Then you know about 90% of the work we do here. Let's just dive into some of the details". The trading room floor is 100% accurate in what the pits used to be like - kind of scary to think that is basically what our entire modern economy is based on.

[@AnchorJG]

Didn't the Stock Exchange rapidly put new rules in place when they realized that anyone could do what the characters did?

[@ashamar]

@@AnchorJG Not really. What they did at the end is called insider trading, and is very illegal. We used to joke that the reason they are on a beach at the end is because they fled the country. There would have been a massive investigation for something so public and egregious. Still an awesome ending, and even mentions a margin call, which was but in after 1929 to stop people carrying positions on margin over night.

[@DrBrangar]

@@AnchorJG The 2010 market reform bills have what gets called "The Eddie Murphey Rule", which governs how potentially sensitive info like that is handled. So, not immediately, but eventually.

[@SamAronow]

Few movies can claim to have changed US law. _Trading Places_ is one of them.

[@andrewjohnston9115]

Watched it as a student back in the 1980's, Friday night at the Penultimate Picture Place in Oxford, full of half cut studentry, the biggest cheer I've ever heard in a cinema happened when Jamie revealed her most generous and perfect assets. It still cheers me up some 40 years later. Its just a superb film.

[@GiveZeeAChance]

Casting Eddie Murphy really paid off for John Landis... he got Landis Coming to America after Landis's incredible negligence killed three people on the set of the Twilight Zone movie

[@ludi3444]

Wait seriously? What's the story behind that?

[@GiveZeeAChance]

@@ludi3444 Long story short, Landis ignored the safety concerns of people on set and wanted to go for "realistic" explosions and aircraft maneuvering. It resulted in a helicopter crash that killed one adult, two children, and injured six others. The podcast Behind the Bastards did a two-part episode that goes into much more detail

[@matthewsmith22]

I have to watch this just before Advent every year, never gets old! The original death at a funeral scratches the same farce laugh out loud itch for me definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it

[@rebeccajones6345]

I’m a bartender at a movie theater so I especially love a movie related episode!!! Also served my wedding signature drink based on your ectocooler from the ghostbusters video.

[@FortunateJuice]

Love Trading Places. I'm glad to hear you putting it over so hard. That OJ trading scene in the end is such a great sequence. Really fun movie.

[@jpcampbell]

Absolutely my favorite Christmas movie

[@mainruss]

I love your channel. Personally very rarely have mixed drinks with more than 2 ingredients, usually a glass is involved. As its Christmas time I just want to say I appreciate you and your team. Yall make me smile, even laugh. Thank you.

[@SuperStarr817]

I love watching you nerd out talking about movies and the drinks you make inspired by them always intrigue me.

[@cam4894]

This movie is phenomenal! Aykroyd, Murphy and Lee Curtis are a match made in heaven!! This is my second favorite Jamie Lee Curtis movie, number one is True Lies. It makes me happy that two of the funniest movies are one with Jamie Lee Curtis and one with her dad. 😁

[@nephicus339]

"They destroy someone's life over a $1 bet." -- yeaaah, that sounds like billionaires.

[@SimuLord]

No worse than what God and Satan did to Job in the Bible.

[@eskarinakatz7723]

@@SimuLord thing is, these are people doing it, not God.

[@dogfellow3848]

@@SimuLord While true, don't quite see the relevance

[@itsonlyafleshwound9024]

Its just a life, how much could it be? 1$?

[@aformofmatter8913]

@@SimuLord Okay?? And it was also bad there too

[@travisbdub4952]

Trading Places was one of my favorite movies growing up. My parents had recorded it onto a VHS tape and I proceeded to wear the tape out over the course of a year and a half I watched it so much.

[@carritrj]

Love your videos! You always deliver a video worth watching and inspire me to be the best alcoholic I can be. Never knew I wanted to get into mixology until I came across your channel. Keep up the good work.

[@dustinalexander]

Trading Places was such a great movie; comedies with social commentary are something we need more of!

[@SimuLord]

Movies that make earnest social commentary and have something to add to the discussion are great. Movies that shoehorn it in because some marketing executive say "the kids love 'woke', let's put woke in the movie, they'll share it all over Twitter" can die in a fire. Not because they're woke but because they insult the audience.

[@2bitgypsy]

At Christmas dinner we got on the topic of how Helen Mirren has been the same age her entire career, gave me an extra bit of chuckle when you referenced the other immortals.

[@howtodrink]

Well, in the 60’s she was much younger, like in the film Age of Consent… which is, well, about that.

[@robkorczak]

Trading Places is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it dozens of times and I can still watch it over and over and still laugh at all the gags.

[@floydiandroid]

One of my all time favorite movies. I watch it every Christmas time.

[@GameStarrArts]

Classic movie, criminally underseen, and absolutely a must-watch every holiday for me. Did not think I'd be seeing it on HTD, but here we are. My holidays are made.

[@charlesrense5199]

Man, back in the day they showed it about five times a year in syndication, and a few times a day on cable.

[@MarkusJevring]

Would LOVE to see a cocktail with *salty* liquorice (salmiak)

[@meloncholy428]

That would be good but the issue is American pallets associate it with ammonia.

[@DefconMaster]

Christmas movie or not (although for the record I'd count it as one), Trading Places is one of my favorite movies of all time and you knocked it out of the park with those drinks! Truly a worthy tribute!

[@drew2794]

I love this! Classic HTD! Cocktails, movies, history, and a dash of Mere!

[@AllTimeLow419]

Greg, I haven't seen half the shows and movies you reference nor have I drank three quarters of the drinks you make even before getting into the awesome originals you create. I'm here because you're entertaining as hell to me. Any movie or show or whatever you want to talk about and riff some drinks for is going to be a good time for me if it's a good time for you.

[@abolishpolice5232]

This movie is so progressive through most of its run time that when I revisited it after 6 or 7 years I was shocked to find that I had fully forgotten about the blackface scene 🥴

[@Evan-dc6mt]

It’s a comedy who cares

[@gunrack4]

@@Evan-dc6mt So is Idioracy, but apparently the half assed setup for the universe at the first five minutes of it means the entire move is "pro-eugenics" lmao

[@tygonmaster]

@@gunrack4 Don't worry. Decent messages about not giving into brand loyalty or celebrity worship as well as importance of education and a stalk, very real reality that, yes, there is a very real correlation to higher education levels and lower birth rates we see in the world today can all be hand waved away because cherry picking is all the rage nowadays. A lot of good comes in the world from taking the good parts of something and discussing it with the bad, but that is often not what happens in the world today. Not that it ever did, but it is more apparent today with the internet. All about hardline stances and "with us or against us" style tribalism. Such as it is. I think it is pretty apparent from the mediocre user score on sites like metacritic (issues of review aggregates aside) that most agree it is not a very good movie. It's at best passable and as one critic put, ". Certainly not a movie I think most people would or should consider their favorite movie, but the movie is "pro-eugenics" line is a bit of a stretch when there are many ideas on society, classism, environmentalism, and consumerism talked about. Well? Definitely not, but at least it tried to do something instead of another "oops I farted" comedy movie. Now, if you take it in the context of Etan Cohen's comments....well then you get into authorial intent and all that crap and, yeah, fair enough reason to have a strong opinion on the movie, but that is more "do I support this guy that made the thing than the thing itself." td;lr a bad movie with bad parts can have good messages.

[@DimT670]

@@Evan-dc6mt why wouldn't you care? Since when does a movie being a comedy mean its above criticism? If anything comedies should be subject to more criticism not less because what is subjected to ridicule sends a lot of powerful messages and can tell you a lot about what people think is a laughing matter

[@DimT670]

@@gunrack4 I mean you have to admit its suspiciously like what pro eugenics people are talking about. Its not intentional I dont think but its way too close

[@CaitieLou]

"It's more of a Christmas movie than Die Hard" Greg just casually starting fights in the comments before the intro has even rolled, lmfao

[@autumnavalanche1097]

wasn't expecting a new vid till next year! thanks as always for your hard work : ] and for the movie rec haha it sounds hilarious

[@bombshellblonde544]

Hey I've never seen Trading Places and I was so in on this episode, because it's just exciting any time you combine your cinephilia with drinks! What a fantastic episode, and I'm thinking I need to go watch this movie!!

[@patriciaaturner289]

Please, go find this movie! There are scenes that make me laugh until I’m sick!

[@MOON_BOYS]

The Wizard of Speed and Time. When speaking about strange movies that are surprisingly good, this one takes a high position in my books. As off course does trading places

[@theoptimisticmetalhead7787]

I've been thinking about Trading Places a lot lately, thinking it doesn't get enough love. So stoked to see an episode themed on this.

[@Alexm920]

I haven't seen Trading Places, but now it's on my 2023 list! Amazing vid as always.

[@iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis]

Can i make a recommendation? You should try making alcohol from "Deep Rock Galactic", they're all labeled as beer but with the ingredients that one or two of them have listed (ale and energy drink? Fizzy and fruity? Maple syrup?) I feel you could make an equivalent mixed drink based off of them.

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[@bryanjohnson6633]

This is what I needed right now, thanks Greg

[@AnastasiaIvanova03]

Greg, I just watch all your videos 😂 and would love to see more of the ones where you just talk about your favorite movies. Can't remember if I've seen Trading Places when I was young, but you definitely made me want to watch it. Thanks for all you do, looking forward to the podcast, and Happy Holidays!

[@CBirthwright]

This is my favorite Christmas movie. My group of friends watch it every year, but I've never thought to do a cocktail from it. Good shit! I also didn't realize that Coming To America was a direct sequel until this year.

[@ethanwesthoff7444]

Love this film.

[@echardcore]

Love it! More movie drinks!

[@bonniemann8360]

Media commentary and analysis combined with drink mixing - one of my favorite Greg genres!

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[@TheDriedfrogpills]

I am so glad I wasn't drinking anything when I got to the tasting notes for the one dollar-aire. I cackled so hard 🤜🏻 I love the verbal and textual humor in this show, please never change

[@howtodrink]

I mean, I gotta change a little, don’t wanna stagnate, but I appreciate the sentiment!

[@tomskyring7639]

Merry Christmas Greg I hope you snd your family had a good one

[@roscoemuttley]

I used to work with a guy who loved this movie so much. He could recite it word for word. Before meetings, I would say "hey, do some Trading Places" and he would do "who has been puttin they Kools out on my rug..."

[@lefterismplanas4977]

Shorted food suggested that you can turn leftover jam marmalade or peanut butter into drinks(the leftover bits that you can't get out with a knife). Just by adding the materials into the jar instead of wasting what's left in there. Like, they said you could make a white rushian into a jar of leftover peanutter if you begun by throwing in some milk

[@MightyMurloc]

Don't worry Greg, I'm not sure I've even HEARD of Trading Places, and I enjoyed this video immensely!

[@thesilverhydra22]

Love the episode! I haven't seen the movie but I'm going to sit down with your $1-aire or two and watch it now m

[@justin908]

Greg's drinks are always so god dang creative. Never stop being you my mans!

[@O4C209]

I love Trading Places. When I watched it when I was young, I had no clue what the trading floor scene was about. Later, when I became familiar with the stock market, I realized how brilliant the movie truly was.

[@Cliffdog01]

This video (particularly the part where you go over people who play 50+) made me want you to revisit Golden Girls and give the ladies signature cocktails.

[@purple-flowers]

the director of this movie was featured on behind the bastards because he is responsible for the deaths of two children on the set of the twilight zone movie

[@howtodrink]

Yeah, he sucks, but that’s a whole other video to do

[@dontalionsomber6080]

Easily top 5 greatest timeless comedies ever. Now I have cocktails to make for friends at watch parties. Many thanks for this one.

[@RyanDB]

Honestly, I often have very little clue what you're talking about, but I enjoy hearing you talk about it

[@HaydenX]

I don't think the eugenics in Idiocracy are meant to be taken seriously. This is Mike Judge we're talking about. I think it is possible to enjoy Idiocracy without being a bad person. I like the movie, but I don't support forced eugenics. I'm choosing myself to not have children because of a litany of genetic diseases (probably caused by one side of my family having a long history of inbreeding) ranging from extreme neurochemical disorders to some 11 different kinds of cancers and more...but that's my choice to make for myself. I honestly think Mike Judge had the idea for a world of idiots before he came up with the "dumb breeding" excuse. You won't find eugenics in Office Space, or King of the Hill. Basically...I consider Idiocracy to be a fun movie in spite of the intro rather than for it.

[@bubbles4769]

I always appreciate when Greg veers into “ain’t no war but the class war” mode. Preach it, comrade.

[@murdockberk8888]

Us vs Dystopian Corporate-Controlled Governments

[@fedupN]

Right on.

[@lmsmith015]

I watch your episodes regardless of whether or not I'm familiar with the movie/media that inspired it. :) It's just fun seeing how your creative mixology mind works.

[@anthonysmith6674]

Love Trading Places! One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the episode.

[@semorebutts2584]

Fish are not a "Meat alternative" Fish are made of meat.

[@A16AdamWalker]

Biggest thing I learned this episode... Don't send Meredith any Whisky Barrell shaving Smoked Scottish Salmon for her to use in canapes at the next fancy dinner party she hosts... more of the Hebredes and Shetland's finest for me I guess... now where's the bubbly

[@felixhenson9926]

What's extra lovely is how close this drink is to a Buck's Fizz; a drink you drink on New Year's!

[@Cajerunner]

These drinks are great. Can’t wait to try them. Trading Places is one of my all time favorite movies. Holds up today. Awesome episode! Thanks Greg and Meredith!

[@illgrooves]

Blazing saddles best anti racist movie and great puns for drinks

[@Butter_Warrior99]

More of a Christmas movie than Die Hard. I wonder what party was going on in Nakatomi Plaza.

[@danielseelye6005]

As much as I love "Die Hard" and think of it as something to watch on Christmas, it's not a _Christmas Movie_ because the holiday is a setting. It could've been set on New Years, July 4th or Halloween and it could've fit in. The comedy bits and the theme of the season worked very well together but if they were set on other holidays and tweaked the jokes to fit it would still be able to stand.

[@FaoladhTV]

@@danielseelye6005 I disagree. There is no other holiday that could get John to travel across country. The themes are also Christmas oriented, in that it is about going to a party that you don't really want to be at just for family and everything spirals increasingly out of control.

[@al5547]

I've never seen it, I just watch whatever you put out; cause even if I'm unfamiliar with what you're talking about, I can still usually follow along.

[@rubenalvarez6830]

Angostura bitters is great on everything. Thanks to you, Greg. It truly does elevate every drink.

[@TweakaliciousTV]

I never thought about Idiocracy as being a "pro-eugenics" movie, but I guess that's something you could take away from that film. The film posits that "stupid people" out-breed everyone else making the world full of nothing but stupid people, so I guess it's implicitly saying that we could prevent that dystopia by stopping "stupid people" from breeding. Interesting take.

[@howtodrink]

Any projection about either the right or wrong sorts of people breeding is a eugenics stance. The idea of breeding humans for intentionally selected traits *is* eugenics. The idea that people could accidentally breed for specific traits *is* eugenics. It’s 100% a eugenics movies.

[@TweakaliciousTV]

@@howtodrink I definitely don't disagree, but I had just never thought about the movie like that. Sort of an eye opening moment for me lol

[@chargerdude]

Idiocracy is one of my favorite movies. Also, Die Hard IS as Christmas movie.

[@dieseldragon140]

I coiuld listen to him talk about movies for hours. Greg's episode on pre-code movies is one of my favorites. I'd still be a patron if I hadn't lost my job a few weeks ago XD But, thank you Greg for helping me understand the world of mixology

[@ghu83]

funnily enough trading places is the traditional christmas movie in italy, they do it every year on one of the main channels on the 24th evening. great movie

[@legomojo]

Hmm why don’t they make movies like this any more? *remembers the Black Face scene* Hmmmmmm… I can’t imagine. But seriously, it is a very funny movie. That is fully about class warfare and it’s incredibly relevant…except for that one part… It’s my partner’s favorite comedy. She played it for me last year for the first time. She totally forgot the black face part. I’ll never let her live it down. 😂

[@xanadu6784]

When I'm feeling charitable, I think of Idiocracy as a movie that just wanted to wallow in simple humor behind the universal experience of being annoyed at stupid people during the Bush years, created a world where they could do that as a bit for 90 minutes, and didn't think about the implications of what they made for a single. Solitary. Second. I'm willing to give that benefit of the doubt because Mike Judge also made King of the Hill.

[@valentinogiacometti8664]

In Italy Trading Places is one of, if not the main, Christmas movie. It is airing every 24 of december at 9pm since I have memory (so at least since 1998 or so). I love it.

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[@B1gZ23]

Trading Places is my favorate Christmas movie. Thanks for the drinks.

[@SparklRebel]

Idiocracy is not a pro eugenics movie, it’s a comedy satire on commercialism and anti-intellectualism

[@andrewdunn8778]

The movie starts in the present day by showing middle-class to rich people having one or no kids, and showed "poor trailer trash" having lots of kids. If they had just cut out that single scene, the movie would have had zero to do with eugenics, but seeing as how that was the inciting incident in the movie, the entire movie says that "breeding stock" changes the course of human history.

[@SparklRebel]

@@andrewdunn8778 again ‘over the next five centuries, societal expectations lead the most intelligent humans to choose not to have children while the least intelligent reproduce indiscriminately, creating generations of increasingly low intelligence’ not because of eugenics, but because of anti-intellectualism, people look down on intellectualism as a politically driven or motivated thing so they’re going to dismiss them the same way people look down upon college students or graduates saying they’ve been brainwashed by antifa terrorists or some shit. Yes, the movie is satire! But ‘trailer trash’ doesn’t always guarantee a dumbass, I’m glad you have golden expectations of the human population

[@zandithshloper2005]

@@andrewdunn8778 this scene was put in for teh laughs, and yes if you think about it, it does come off as bad. But its all a joke, so it doesn't matter.

[@poshboy4749]

@@andrewdunn8778 Well what would have been the reasoning to get to the idiot filled future then?

[@zandithshloper2005]

@@poshboy4749 manipulation by rich people and corporations so all of the "dumb" people would only eat product and watch TV (which is what frito does in the film)

[@dr.raccoonphd8045]

Loved the Idiocracy comment lol

[@howtodrink]

For real

[@veganmonter]

Haven't watched it in years, but I remember liking it. I wonder if it is like Boondock Saints. Liked it when I was young but then absolutely hating it when I saw it again as a middle-aged adult.

[@SamAronow]

@@howtodrink I had to watch it in school. I feel like it's one of those high-concept comedies that just uses an absurd premise to deliver jokes and doesn't intend to make a point, but inevitably collapses under the weight of its own conceit. See also: _The Invention of Lying._

[@twentun9005]

@@veganmonterSarah Z did a great video on Idiocracy if you like video essays

[@veganmonter]

@@twentun9005 I will check it out - the film got talked about in 2016 but otherwise I kind of forgot about the film.

[@danpowell2018]

Love this kind of episode! Excited for the podcast!

[@unfortunatebear]

I havent seen this film, but i love episodes like this! Im so pumped for midnight local!!

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[@cleric1125]

I mean i like Idiocracy, not the funniest movie ever by far, but I do remember liking it. I cant really see it being a "pro eugenics" movie unless you just flat dont get the joke of it parodying the concept, I remember getting an anti eugenics message from the concept. The whole joke being "look at this ridiculous idea of a future that eugenics suggests". Totally cool if you dont like a film but calling it a red flag if someone does like it? ...oof

[@DrBrangar]

That old "Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize" adage rings true here, even if you do wanna give them some benefit of the doubt (which I really dont) Idiocracy fully fails to clear that bar. It doesn't ever meaningfully push back on the eugenics central to the plot, it just presents it as a fact, and now the "genius" is left to navigate the world of idiots, ensue "hijinks"

[@zandithshloper2005]

Yes you are a smart cookie and you get the point of the film. It is not evil. Its A JOKE. people are too dumb to understand it. Just too immature to understand a movie from 2006

[@sethwick8348]

Almost everyone I've known who referenced Idiocracy did it in a "We are heading for Idiocracy, look at all these dumb people having kids" way. I don't think it's satirizing eugenics at all, and if it is it is subtle enough that most of the audience does not see it. Satirizing fascist ideas is incredibly difficult, because generally fascists don't care about the satire aspect and enjoy it unironically. See Warhammer 40k.

[@cleric1125]

@@sethwick8348 I sincerely hope you are not suggesting that a majority of 40K fans enjoy the fascist themes in the setting unironically Side note: the movie is written by Mike Judge, who has stated he does not believe in eugenics during interviews about the movie. Much of his content has commentary on being good parents and being involved with your kids lives raising them well.

[@thatdudebro]

saying that 'idiocracy' is a "pro eugenics" movie is the perfect example of reading way too deep into something. also saying things like "they don't make movies like this anymore" is so damn hipster. movies and shows have come so incredibly far and gotten so much better it's laughable to insinuate the opposite.

[@howtodrink]

Way too deep?! The movie opens with a breakdown of the future dystopia being caused by dumb people outbreeding the smart people. That’s not some hidden meaning, it’s right there, that’s the whole point

[@thatdudebro]

@@howtodrink it. is. a. comedy. not a descriptive analysis of a future dystopia of dumb people. there is no AGENDA that is being pushed as you imply. do you think that mike judge is a supporter of eugenics or something? it's PAINFUL to see people basically accuse it of being eugenics propaganda. it's just literally an awful take. sorry. i watch all of your videos and enjoy your content, we don't always have to share the same opinion.

[@howtodrink]

This is possibly the dumbest take I’ve ever read.

[@thatdudebro]

@@howtodrink imagine lashing back with rude insults because someone doesn't agree with your unpopular hot take which is a reach to begin with. you lost a sub, dude.

[@zandithshloper2005]

@@howtodrink That is a farce you dumby. It is a fake future of what eugenicist would think what would happen. Do you think Mike Judge creator of Beavis and Butthead wants to kill all stupid people? It is not about that. I'm with idol hands. I'm unsubbed

[@teemuruotsalainen1852]

One of your best episodes!! KeepUp with the ”movie-inspired” -themes in 2023!

[@felixhenson9926]

Omg this single video just ROCKETED you up in my estimation ngl. Good takes, good takes everywhere, more anti-eugenics cinema!

[@Wrencher_86]

The artwork for the podcast is really cool. Props to the artist on that.

[@quickforce255]

i watched this, never saw Trading Places, and still loved it!

[@Roby1Kenobi]

Love these episodes where Greg talks about things for at least as long as he makes drinks

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[@juandacharroninja]

My old man and I used to watch this movie every Xmas, it was a riot