In this episode, we talk about the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, but more than that, we dive into the themes of the movie.
I came down pretty hard on the franchise earlier in the week and Nicky P called me on it.
So I said to Nicky, hey, let’s get on the podcast and discuss…
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.
Nick Pecone “Nicky P”
Part of the “Tom Woods 100”…
The Tom Woods School of Life - How to flourish in a world that hates you
Nicky and I know each other through the Tom Woods School of Life via Episode 2 guest Jeremy Evans.
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.
Nicky’s film review podcast:
Road to Hell Film Reviews — Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
“Where the crossroads of science-fiction and conspiracy meet.”
Planet of the Apes movie (original)
“The matrix isn’t even from The Matrix.”
“Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia…”
Also mentioned:
Transhumanism?
Metaverse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
The Bob Murphy Show
Bob Murphy has a several part series on Klaus Schwab. This is the first installment. Highly recommended.
The Club of Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
Buchanan and Nader in 2000
Quora forum on “Why didn’t Al Gore comfortably win the 2000 U. S. Presidential election…”
Dialectic
Jimmy Dore
The Red Pill
Cassie Jaye on the “men’s rights movement” on The Tom Woods Show
The Red Pill: A feminist’s journey into the men’s rights movement
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.
The Most Important Line in The Matrix ™
Cypher:
“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.”
Michael Malice
“A World of Malice” book review by Jeff Deist.
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.
His podcast “Your Welcome” is a weekly show that usually deals with important and timely ideas existing in the culture-at-large.
Malice describes himself as “anarchist without adjectives.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hoppe is perhaps the most serious academic alive today. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV and a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and currently resides in Constantinople, Turkey.
Hoppe is originally from West Germany and moved to the U. S. to study with Murray Rothbard, “Mr. Libertarian.”
Hoppe is also the leading “anarcho-capitalist” philosopher of our time, and while his work is in the “libertarian” sphere, many of his adherents have taken to the “post-libertarian” moniker.
Post-libertarian
Quiñones, over the last two years or so, has transitioned from a “libertarian” to what he calls “post-libertarian.” Pete is one of the thought leaders in this realm, using common sense and practicality as the force for his philosophy or outlook on the world.
The Substack newsletter by Quiñones is a great place to start. He is a serious man and becomes more serious by the day. I’ve been reading and listening to Pete for several years now, and the degree of seriousness has ramped up severely since “covid” took over.
Also, his podcast, The Pete Quiñones Show: Getting Liberty Right is a good meeting place for ideas. Ideas are presented, some are outright rejected, some are embraced, but they are all discussed. In these days, I find The Pete Quiñones Show an indispensable part of my week.
The Progressive Movement
The progressive movement was and is a horrible pox upon humanity.
Alex Epstein
Epstein is a clear and systematic thinker who has a lot of prescient things to say about today’s “climate emergency” so-called. Well worth reading all his material.
I wrote about Epstein in this newsletter
Nicky P Substack
ESG (“Environmental, social, and corporate governance”)
Free Markets Green Earth podcast
Recent Tom Woods episode on ESG
Sri Lanka these days
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Battery-powered John Deere?
https://www.farms.com/news/coming-soon-more-battery-powered-john-deere-equipment-174477.aspx
Thomas Massie
“Heart Emoji” as Nicky P says.
This fellow is a champion. Derided by all of our “cultural betters,” Massie sticks up for the people of his district, Americans in general, and common decency. The greatest congressman currently serving.
Off the Grid
35-minute mini-documentary about Massie’s homestead in Kentucky. You should watch it.
The same newsletter we mentioned Epstein, we mentioned Massie.
Massie vs Buttigieg
Tom Woods interview with Massie that YouTube banned.
Fabian Socialism
https://www.conservapedia.com/Fabian_Socialism
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Florida man
Sheriff’s deputy resigns for being an a****le
Black Mirror (Netflix series)
Isaac Asimov (science-fiction writer)
The Expanse
Amazon series and an entire book franchise
Stefan Molyneux
Nicky P
https://Roadtohellfilmreviews.com
Revisiting The Matrix - Podcast ep. 4