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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

The Red Pill Meaning

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"The red pill" is slang.  This slang comes from the movie The Matrix.  In this Show, AJ teaches you English from the movie.  He also discusses how we use this slang in different situations.  Effortless English Courses at: EffortlessEnglishClub.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, AJ Hogue, where AJ's more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

0:14.4

Here's A.J. with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

0:18.8

Take the red pill neos

0:26.0

What is the Matrix?

0:31.0

The red pill that is our topic today the red pill. pill. The red pill and the blue pill.

0:37.0

This is slang.

0:40.0

This is slang now.

0:42.0

Take the red pill, or to be red pill, we can use it as a verb even, is now English, American slang. Now of course this slang comes from the movie The Matrix.

0:59.3

So today in the Effortless English show, we will talk about the red pill, the matrix in the blue pill, and how we use these phrases, this slang, when speaking English.

1:16.0

As part of our show today, I will play a short scene, a short part from the movie The Matrix.

1:27.8

And of course I will be answering your questions

1:31.7

from Twitter andAB. AI.

1:35.0

Free your mind from nervousness.

1:41.0

Free your mind from shyness, free your mind from shyness, speak English powerfully.

1:46.4

Join my Power English course at Effortless English Club.com. Effortless English Club.com.

1:57.0

All right, the Matrix. The Red Pill, the Blue Pill, what does this mean in general?

2:08.0

Of course, we'll learn what it means from the movie first, so I will play the scene, the part from the movie first so I will play the scene the part from the movie

2:17.3

I'll teach you the general meaning from the movie and then the more general

2:21.2

meaning now the slang and what it means culturally in the United States.

2:28.0

All right let's first listen to this short part from the movie The Matrix. Now in this scene, famous scene, I'm sure you have

2:37.6

seen it. Morpheus is telling Neo about the Matrix and then he offers him he shows him two pills a red pill and a blue pill

2:51.1

Here we go let's play it.

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