#101: The Matrix

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

The 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix was released at an interesting inflection point in the history of nerd culture. It launched at a time when -- with the help of Star Wars' resurgence, the soon-to-be-released Lord of the Rings movies, and others -- dorkiness went mainstream, and The Matrix might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, in this regard. The story of Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity, and their battle to break out from a computer simulation and into a horrifying reality, is considered a genre classic, and with good reason. More than two decades later, it holds up shockingly well, with deep philosophical, technological, and even religious messaging that seems to uncannily predict at least one permutation of our actual future. So let's chat about The Wachowski Brothers' (now Sisters') stylish tour de force, and maybe learn some kung-fu along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback is brought to you by, well, you.
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0:06.4	Greetings and salutations, back to knockback my name is
0:15.2	column Moriarty I'm joined as always by my brother Degan he knows kung-fu
0:19.2	Moriarty I You knew it.
0:23.0	I knew you're going to do that.
0:24.0	What's up, Copper Top?
0:26.0	How are you?
0:27.0	I'm doing good.
0:28.0	I hope you're doing all right, my friend.
0:30.0	How are you over there in VA?
0:32.0	How's the weather been over there? It's kind of hot. I don't really I mean it's not like
0:35.6	Sweltering, but it's you know in its 50s 60s it's a little too much for me. I was hoping for a little more winter
0:42.1	To be honest. It's been pretty crazy it's been pretty crazy I was it
0:43.7	hoping for a little more winter to be honest. It's been pretty crazy. It hits 67 here was
0:47.4	it yesterday or the day before I think it was Sunday so a couple days ago 67
0:52.0	degrees now it's back down you know in the morning like it's in its mid-30s a little more normal for this time of year
0:58.1	But yeah, man, it's been it's been really bizarre. It's enjoyable. I actually really dig it, but when you start to think about it really came out here for many reasons but I also came out here for weather you know for like a different
1:16.3	sort of vibe and it just feels like California you know?
1:19.7	Seasons yeah you want the seasons my friend. Exactly. So I'm a little disappointed on that front,
1:24.8	but there's nothing I can really do about it.
1:27.6	And I get it just because living out here too,
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