160: Super-Secret Sony MiniDiscs

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Take the red pill and enter “The Matrix,” 1999’s influential sci-fi/action classic. Why does Morpheus talk like a fortune cookie? Is Keanu’s woodenness an asset or detriment? Was skeuomorphism the fall of man? And if we accept that living things can be used as batteries, why wouldn’t the machines just use cows? Grad students, we are about to blow your minds. Whoa.

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0:00.0	We finally made Incomparable T-shirts. It's true, but they're only on sale until October 7, 2013.
0:08.0	Visit theincom slash shirt to learn all about them.
0:15.6	The Incomparable, number 160, September 2013.
0:21.6	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I'm your host Jason Snell, and tonight we're going to be talking about a movie. I guess this is the latest in our series of kind of talking about classic movies from movies from the past that we think about fondly. And this is the movie where we take the red pill.
0:39.7	Is it the red pill that's the good pill?
0:41.0	It's the red pill.
0:41.7	You don't want to take the little blue pill.
0:43.1	No, a little blue pill and you just go back in The Matrix, which is what we're talking about.
0:46.9	1999's epic sci-fi movie The Matrix.
0:50.1	What we're not talking about, by the way, except maybe obliquely, are the sequels, because I don't want to bring you down.
0:55.9	What sequels?
0:56.5	The what now?
0:57.0	There is sequels?
0:57.9	There we go.
0:59.0	That's the stuff.
1:00.0	That's what I was looking for, exactly.
1:02.8	So let me introduce the people, the fine people who are here to talk about the Matrix with me tonight.
1:08.2	We've got David Lour.
1:09.4	David, welcome back again. We can't get rid of you
1:11.7	now. You're on every episode. You're the new Dan Morin. I'm the new Dan Morin. I'm, I'm, I'm,
1:16.7	uh, Orange is the new Dan Moran. Okay, fair enough. It's good to have you here. Uh, John Syracuse is here as
1:21.4	well. Hi, John. Hello, Jason. You mentioned that this is going to be a show where we talk about movies from the past that are classics and that we love.
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