Show Notes can be found at <a href="https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-matrix-podcast-ep#details" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-matrix-podcast-ep#details</a><br /><br /><br />In this episode, we talk about the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, but more than that, we dive into the themes of the movie.<br /><br />I came down pretty hard on the franchise earlier in the week and Nicky P called me on it.<br /><br /><br />The O'Leary Review<br />A painful, every day reminder that lunatics remain in charge<br /><br /><br />So I said to Nicky, hey, let’s get on the podcast and discuss…<br /><br />It turned out to be a great discussion and we got into many topics, using The Matrix as the North Star in all of it.<br /><br />Share The O'Leary Review<br /><br />Nick Pecone “Nicky P”<br /><a href="https://nickpecone.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://nickpecone.com/</a><br /><br />Part of the “Tom Woods 100”…<br /><br />The Tom Woods School of Life - How to flourish in a world that hates you<br /><br />Nicky and I know each other through the Tom Woods School of Life via Episode 2 guest Jeremy Evans.<br /><br /><br />The O'Leary Review<br />Podcast - Ep 2<br />Listen now (56 min) | <br /><br />My goal is to get 100 people in the “Tom Woods orbit” (#TomWoods100 )on this podcast to talk about their journey, whether it be in entrepreneurship or life in general.<br /><br />Nicky’s film review podcast:<br /><br />Road to Hell Film Reviews — Roadtohellfilmreviews.com<br /><br />“Where the crossroads of science-fiction and conspiracy meet.”<br /><br />Planet of the Apes review.<br /><br />Planet of the Apes movie (original)<br /><br />“The matrix isn’t even from The Matrix.”<br />Snow Crash<br /><br />“Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia…”<br /><br />Also mentioned:<br /><br />Jiro Dreams of Sushi<br /><br />Second Life<br /><br />Transhumanism?<br />Jared Kushner?<br /><br />Metaverse<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse</a><br /><br />The Bob Murphy Show<br />On Klaus Schwab (Part 1)<br /><br />Bob Murphy has a several part series on Klaus Schwab. This is the first installment. Highly recommended.<br /><br />The Club of Rome<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome</a><br /><br />Buchanan and Nader in 2000<br />Quora forum on “Why didn’t Al Gore comfortably win the 2000 U. S. Presidential election…”<br /><br /><br />Dialectic<br />Jimmy Dore<br />The Jimmy Dore Show<br /><br />The Red Pill<br />Al Bundy’s NO MA’AM movement<br /><br />Cassie Jaye on the “men’s rights movement” on The Tom Woods Show<br /><br />The Red Pill: A feminist’s journey into the men’s rights movement<br /><br />Tom Woods on “The Red Pill”<br /><br />A speech by Tom Woods defining the “red pill.” This is a helpful talk, yet as I explained in my previous email, every “pill” discussion comes with trying to re-learn the nomenclature. I appreciate the concepts of the subject matter, not the content of it.<br /><br />The Most Important Line in The Matrix ™<br />Cypher:<br /><br />“You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.”<br /><br /><br />Michael Malice<br />“A World of Malice” book review by Jeff Deist.<br /><br />Malice is a fellow who I enjoy very much. I don’t always agree with him and some of his antics are either way above my understanding or way below my tolerance level, but he is in all actuality a serious man with serious ideas.<br /><br />His podcast “Your Welcome” is a weekly show that usually deals with important and timely ideas existing in the culture-at-large.<br /><br />Malice describes himself as “anarchist without adjectives.”<br /><br /><br />***************<br />Matrix code:<br />Photo permission: "Copyright © 1999-2003 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. 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