EPISODES MENTIONED
Defocused 162
Disk Not Properly Ejected
A robot shrimp in your belly button.
August 27, 2017 • 1 hour, 46 minutes • Joe Rosensteel and Dan Sturm
Robot or Not? 50
The Matrix
Agents and Oracles and Architects from the “Matrix” trilogy.
March 21, 2016 • 3 minutes • John Siracusa and Jason Snell
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Super-Secret Sony MiniDiscs
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.
September 27, 2013 • 1 hour, 40 minutes • Jason Snell with David J. Loehr, John Siracusa, Steve Lutz and Erika Ensign