We kick off the May-trix with the original from 1999 for week number one. Jeremiah Martin of Real on Reels joins us to discuss the original “Matrix” film that started it all.
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Are we living in a dream world? Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?
The Matrix has you…
We will have much to discuss on this one.
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Google Description for the film
The Matrix
Neo (Keanu Reeves) believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, can answer his question — What is the Matrix? Neo is contacted by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), a beautiful stranger who leads him into an underworld where he meets Morpheus. They fight a brutal battle for their lives against a cadre of viciously intelligent secret agents. It is a truth that could cost Neo something more precious than his life.
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Jeremiah is a 2nd-time guest and a friend of ours from the Tom Woods Elite group who also has a movie review show called ‘Real on Reels’. He and his co-host Rob (what is it with co-hosts and the name Rob?) brought an insightful levity to their discussions, along with fun games and segments that made listening to their show a lot of fun. Though they have been on a bit of a hiatus they do intend to get back to making new episodes – and one of their first will be on “The Boondock Saints” as they have strongly differing opinions on that movie. We find that contention often makes some of our better episodes.
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Show Notes:
Our old-timey sounding old episodes where we talked about the Matrix back in 2016:
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Next week you are squeezing two episodes out of us…first up is a Cinco de Mayo special on “Desperado” with Peddling Fiction as our guest. We will follow that up as we continue “May-trix” with a review of “The Matrix: Reloaded” with Pat MacFarlane of Liberty Weekly. We are doing all four of the Matrix movies (including the Animatrix) as well as a few bonus episodes for the month of May.
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