Minute 115: “I’m going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.”

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Transcribed automatically from the audio, and imperfect for it — names and punchlines suffer worst. Useful for finding a moment, not for quoting one.

0:00Welcome to the Matrix Minute. Welcome to the Matrix Minute. Yeah. The pattern. I broke the pattern. The world is broken. And proud of it. Cheers, gaffer. Amazing. Anyway, we're back. It's Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. I hope you had a productive and fructible Monday and Tuesday. Yes. But now we're on Wednesday. Drew's back. Welcome to the Matrix Minute. A podcast where they talk through the Matrix one minute at a time because they love this movie. Look at that. Even he knows it, Phil. That's awesome. I see how much your repetition has embedded information.

0:40I mean, it happens 95% of the time. That's true. It's the beginning of every episode. It's so cool, though. I'd say like 97%. Yeah. Okay. It works 60% time all the time. So, we're here. Me and 150. We're gathered here today. To use our brains and our mouths. Yes. To talk about a movie called The Matrix. That's right. Hence, The Matrix Minute. Mm-hmm. Minute. It's only one minute. So, every episode equals one minute. Thank you for listening. It's been one minute. Oh, no. Hi. What if that was the case? Well, we have to talk about the whole movie in one minute.

1:21Yes. Dude. We should do that once. April Fool's? No. No. No, no, no. So, minute. Eins. Eins. We're back. Phil will read now. Yes. Okay. 115. I just want to say, can you imagine we're in 115? I can't imagine. I'm imagining right now. It's reality. Go read. Okay. Go, go. Go get your books. You're just bitter because I stopped you guys from talking too much. Yeah. Okay. Cut us off. This is what happens. This is what happens. Smith cracks his neck and they begin to... That sounded like he's killed himself. He's going to crack an egg. No, no, no. Smith cracks his neck and like, you know... I feel for himself.

2:03Suicide. And they begin to beat each other up with fury. Neo eventually kicks Smith in the face, notching his eyeglass. I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson. And then they keep fighting. I love the ending. And then they keep fighting. To be continued. I don't know. I can't remember. I don't even know. I don't think we've even been... There's a lot of punching and fighting. So, you know, Don Davis writing his score in logic.

2:43Copy paste. Copy paste. Velocity shit. All right. Well, there's a lot of fights going on. Hopefully we can describe all of them. So whoever's listening actually gets to follow along. So first we see Agent Smith. He goes up to the stove and he cracks an egg into the pan. And he's like, Mr. Anderson, do you want a breezy or a scramble? Well, that's great you mentioned that because Hugo Weaving does start making eggs in V for Vendetta. You're right. They look pretty good, I think, if I recall correctly. Yeah, they look great. Look pretty tasty. I made eggs today. I made... I did too, actually. I made two over easy. Really? Wait, where's this Pepsi machine?

3:24Nice. So you made two over easy. I made three over easy. It's amazing. Wow. By the way, if you like to... I also made bacon. If you like to see food being made from movies and you've been under the rock, you haven't found this YouTube channel, check out Binging with Babish. What's that crazy shushy shush sound? Is there a rat running on your keyboard? What is that? Oh, sorry. That was me shushing. Stop. Stop it. It's just like... So that sound is I'm lying down on my bed with a blanket over my head and laptop. So we're watching the podcast with the swishing. You are... Because the swishing is the blanket on my laptop. You are professionalism. I'm half falling asleep on the Matrix.

4:04That's right. No, it's... I'm trying to like deaden the echoey sound of my room. I honestly imagine... I was imagining Drew actually sitting somewhere in some kind... Like on a chair in front of a computer with a microphone and everything. And now it's all gone. I've got it out on one of those suspended arms that isolates it away from the table. Yes, yes, yes. No, I'm just holding... It's all gone. I'm just holding it. What were we talking about before? Cracking eggs. And then Tim was talking about his YouTube channel, a guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Check out Binging... If you haven't seen Binging with Babish. He's like does food for movies. And the funny thing is he was obsessed with Jon Favreau's character from The Chef.

4:44And I think last episode Jon Favreau came on a show on YouTube. That's like within a year. That's awesome. Now you guys need to get your Phil Osterhaus. Yeah. Get an Osterhaus here. Yeah. We gotta get him. Although there aren't many episodes left, right? I don't know how... No. I mean... How feasible it is. Yeah. You know, it's... It's processing. Phil, didn't you have a connection? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's processing. It is processing. It's processing. That'd be like the supreme... Yeah, he sent him a message. Where does Oster live? I don't know. I have no idea. Okay. I think Los Angeles... I think it's Osterhaus. Anyway, he cracks his neck a little bit. Wait, wait, wait. Before we go on, I just wanted to say that I like that that guy, you mentioned him on YouTube.

5:27What's his name again? Binging with Babish. That's a show. I don't know what his name is. Thank you. Babish? And I did like... When I clicked one of his videos, I was expecting like, oh, he's gonna do the whole replica of the dish from the movie. Mm-hmm. But I like that he... In the second half of the video, he sort of makes a edible version. Yes. Like something that would... I like this. I like this a lot because you can, you know, nicer. It's much nicer than just like making crap and then be like, it tastes like crap. Yeah. The old Ashen Streetman. Oh, yes. What is this? Okay, they start... They go and fight. They fight. And this is the... This fight scene is called the L fight because of the L train.

6:11That's E-L. And Drew would know something about that. Drew, speak to this subway. Speak to this strange... Sure. So it's sort of... It's like the L train. L is actually for electric. I believe. E-L. Yeah. Not for elevated because it's not all elevated. I always thought the L train like L, like the actual letter L. Mm-mm. But I guess not. No. It's for electric. Mm-hmm. So anyway, even the trains I think in New York are also electric. So whatever. But it's a subway system in Chicago that's named after different colors. So in the movie, they're not even... They're like... Take the... What was it? Like the Kimball line or something like that.

6:51And that would be the... Yeah. Some kind of line. There's all kinds of lines. So it's actually the brown line to Kimball. Okay. That's how you would... So the direction is the street name that the line ends on. Mm-hmm. And then the colors. So it's like brown line, pink line, orange line, blue line, yellow line, purple line, red line. Do you call them that though? Like I'm taking the red, purple line. I live off the blue line, Logan Square. Okay. Something like that. Okay. But I don't. I live in the west suburbs. So I would be closest thing when you take like the green line to Oak Park. But really you'd want to take the metro. But obviously you'd look at the map, right? And be like, oh, where do I want to go? No. You just use Google Maps. Like, I know, but I'm saying like if you want to be like super, you know, researched, you'd

7:35be like looking at lines. Whatever. That's what I would do. Yeah. What's your guys' opinion on the, you know, the redesign that happened a couple of years, well, a couple of tens of years ago with subways are not put like geographically correctly, like, you know, how the line actually goes? You like that? I like it. So you're saying, so basically just to recap, like if you would take a subway map and if you actually represented the lines as they are in real life, you'd get kind of crazy sort of blood vein. Yeah. You get like a crazy blood vessel thing, picture, but they actually just sort of like relatively adjust the lengths and the positions because it's a lot easier to read.

8:16Yeah. Well, it's like a straight horizontal line. Well, I feel like they did that in Chicago a long time ago. Maybe I'm wrong. But the reason why that would make sense in Chicago is there's this huge density of stops in a very small area right downtown. And then as you spread out into neighborhoods, it starts to be like five or 10 minutes between stops because you're going at like 35 miles an hour because you're kind of spreading out and you want to cover more ground. Yeah. I don't know. To me, it just makes complete sense because I mean, the whole, you don't really care about the actual, you know, shapes of the lines when you're traveling. All you care about is getting from point A to point B. And if that's easier to read on the map.

8:56From Cockfosters to Canada water. I mean, I get it and it's totally, it's great. And you know, when you know where you want to go, it's fantastic to kind of figure it out. But I just, when I go to a new place, that's what I love on Google Maps, you can actually see it because I need to figure out, I want to go from this place to this place. And I need to see how those actual, those lines go so I can figure out the most minimum, like the best way to go. Like once you're in this. I think for a subway map, that's less important. But for like a bus map, if you can't really do like a bus map as a subway map where, oh, it just kind of goes, because like already buses are like horrible for me to be able to understand like what direction is the one I'm getting on going.

9:39Honestly, to me, like buses are the most confusing ever because you basically, like they can't, why don't they make, I don't understand why they don't make like maps. They probably do in like other cities and stuff, but like maps of the bus lines. So you can see like this bus goes on this route or something. Yeah, yeah. You do have that. They have that? Okay. I wish like there was a map where you can see everything because a lot of times if you know where you're going and you know already the shape of the subway, you can go, oh, there's my stop. I need to go there. So I need to change the thing. But a lot of times it's like, I need to figure out where that actual stop is. Like, I don't even know. So I'm like just looking at this. And if you don't have it geographically shown and you don't like, because I like to think

10:19of things very like visually and geographically. So I remember like the shape of the city and that's completely lost on the subway. So I'm like, I don't know what I'm looking at right now. Where is this? This is there. Well, and beyond that, one of the things having ridden the subway a lot in Chicago is, especially for like blue and red line stops, once you're underground, where you come up, it can be very disorienting. You could come, oh, I've been to this stop before. And you get up from underground and you'd gone to like the northwest corner instead of the southeast corner. And now you're like, where am I? I'm streets away from where I was the last time I got off at this place. Yeah. Yeah. You just start walking the wrong direction.

10:59Like, end up just. Well, you know, I have to say, which is really strange is that when we were in Phil and I, when we visited London last fall, I have to say that the maps, the London maps are kind of confusing. The underground, the tube, because they're sort of like, they're designed to be sort of like relatively useful, like relative to where you are. It's less of like an absolute map. It's more of like, if you're here, we'll show you these parts on the map. It's really confusing. It's very, we really know what, what, what you, where you want to go, you know, and memorize some of the lines and like, oh, this is where the switch is and stuff. So it's very strange. It's very strange because like the subways were very windy windy. And like when I was in London, I was always lost.

11:41Like I couldn't figure out how to get to lines. Like I had to follow Google maps like perfectly. When I went by myself, it was not lost. But Berlin in comparison to it, it's so easy to navigate. Well, that's the thing I wanted to say, like, like, like I've only been to a few subway systems and like I said, the London tube is one. And also the Vienna subway system, I have to say is like very simple to understand that you can look at the map and they're all the nice colors and it's, it's an absolute map, which means like you look at it and that's the whole system. But it was very strange how in London it was like very relative. The Berlin one is basically like a spider web. So it's really easy to get from, you know, point A to point B. And also like have like a couple of like S-bounds, you know, the ones that go over

12:23that go through all the main attraction, like the, like the main parts of the thing. So you can just hop onto one and get to any part. It's like so easy to navigate. Drew, you went to New York, right? How is that compared to, listen, this is fun. I like talking about subways. Go, go, go, go. There's just fighting. I had subway for lunch, okay? Who cares? You went to New York, right? Like you visited, I think, was it this year or last year? It was this spring. Yes. Nice. What do you think? Since we're on the subways. I watched some of the vlogs. Yeah, it was last, yeah, it was last spring, I guess, early summer of last year. How does it compare? How does the subway compare to the Chicago subway? Right now, none of the trains in New York are good. The infrastructure there is like absolutely crumbling.

13:05Do you know what I think? Yeah, go ahead. I saw some stuff on it where like everything, all the switches and stuff are from like 1920. Well, yeah, it's crazy. So the trains are having to be super spaced out apart from each other because the way that the track system works, it only knows if like, is someone on the last, let's say like 800 feet of track. Wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree? At what point on that track it is? So they all look like the subways we have here. In the Matrix. In the Matrix scene. Wouldn't you agree that the United States needs an overhaul in public transportation? I think that's the case. Yes, definitely. I feel like, so two of the cities that are doing the best job, in my opinion, are Chicago

13:45and New York in terms of like, it's easy to get around. Atlanta has some underground traffic, but you can't really... I heard Seattle's good. Pretty good. Yeah. I mean, it's like some places where it's like, it's okay. But in general, even in Chicago, it's just like the parking is unbelievable. Where you are paying like $30 a day US for parking. Yeah. One day, you're like, oh, if you get in early, you might be able to get it down to like 20. It's a bargain. It's crazy deals. Crazy. So it's just like, it's insane. And the reason, and then as a result, then everyone's like, well, I'll just take a taxi, I guess, because it's cheaper than the parking.

14:26And then everyone's like, taxi, you mean Uber? And so now all these ride sharing cars are just like all over the road. And there are more ride sharing cars than there is demand for taxis. Yeah. So then as a result, there's just like way more cars than there need to be on the road and way more cars than there need to be parked. And it's great. Yeah. Yeah. LA is even worse because there's no rail system. Oh, man. And it's just like a net of confusing traffic. Yeah. I heard it's horrible. Like in LA, like traffic is horrible. And then like no public transport. At all. So it's like, if you think about it, it's like the worst. I think there might be a bus system, but it's like regional.

15:07Yeah. It was funny. I was listening to the guys, the guys from Austin. And in one podcast, at one point at the beginning, they were like, everyone's like, no one knows how to drive in this city. Everyone's terrible. It's horrible. It's the worst city to drive in. Everyone sucks. And then like later on, they were talking about it. And someone was talking. So when did you learn to drive? Oh, like I learned. I learned with my parents and that's fine. And did you know, in Texas, you don't actually have to have to take the test. If your parents say that, you know, you're okay, you can drive. That's it. No way. You're like 14, 15. Your parents teach you how to drive by themselves. And then they fill out this form, which says they're like certifying. Okay. Yes. I told him everything.

15:47He knows how to drive. So no wonder that's a city of a bunch of idiots who have no idea how to drive. Well, and this is something interesting I found in Illinois is I grew up in more rural Indiana and there were more stop signs there as opposed to traffic lights. Yeah. Here, there are way more traffic lights for your stop signs. So some of the rules and etiquette around stop signs, people here just don't understand it. Like if two people arrive at the same time and they're like on corners, they're 90 degrees from each other, right? They're going different directions. Who goes first? The person to the right. Yeah. Oh, it's the right. Well, if you arrive at the same time, the person to the right. Unless it's like one is the main road and one is the off road, then, you know.

16:28Right. But it's like no one actually knows those rules. And I always get so frustrated. My wife says, no one here knows it. Yeah. And that makes me so frustrated because it doesn't matter if anyone here knows it or not. It's still the rules. You're supposed to follow the rules of the road. It's sort of like, well, no one here knows to stop at a red light. So let's all just drive at the same time and kill each other. No, it's the same thing. It's a rule of the road. You're supposed to know how to drive. Okay. So anyway, subways are crazy. Yeah. And public transportation in some areas needs fixing. In some areas is good. That's basically the summary. LA definitely needs public transportation overhauls. That's true. But they'll never do it. So let's keep going here. Yeah. Let's go to the subway where they fight. You do fights. So there's these wonderful wide shots.

17:11There's these wonderful stable camera movements that are moving around. And some of the camera work in here, I think, is a gold standard when it comes to showing fights that are choreographed and balletic and very dance-like. Is that even an adjective? No. And there's some great shots here with the Steadicam. Like there's one where Neo starts hitting with an uppercut. I don't even know. I can't describe any kinds of punches. But he kicks in and he punches and then, you know, Smith kind of blocks. And it's wonderful. Let's just have Phil describe the whole fight. Yeah, the whole fight. All right. Okay, Phil. Come on. Talk us through this fight.

17:51I just don't know that, like, Neo... Give it your best shot. Clearly, clearly you want to talk about... Neo puts up a right hook and it's blocked by Agent Smith with his left hand. And then he retaliates with another low kick. But then, you know, Smith uses his shin to kind of block that. And then he pushes him. So listen to this. And as he's walking by, you know, he pushes him into a corner in one of the pillars. And this is where the famous... Wait. Before you get to the pillar, you're going too far. There is a 1985 Pepsi machine. Even at the pillar, it's, like, especially highlighted. It is. It's totally there. And it's the... It's the... Like, from the 80s. That's an old... Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

18:32Before the butt crack. Because after that logo, then... The simplified 90s one, yeah. The simplified 90s one. And then the 2000s ones, which was... 2000s one, which was, like, very bubbly and watery and wet. Looks like the guy with the red shirt bending over and you can see his crack. Well, that's the new one. That's the 2000 whatever. Yeah. Yeah. That's the 2008 one. That's the crap one. Yeah. That's the one I still don't like. Yeah. Horrible. It's been 10 years. Still don't like it. Almost 10 years. It's bad. Korean air. Yeah. It's similar, right? I think. Yeah. Anyway, but back then, this was an okay Pepsi logo. I think this is the Pepsi logo featured in Back to the Future. Yeah. Yeah. It was like that for a while. And look at that. It's just there. Yeah. You can look at it and... It's too bad they didn't stop and go, like, go on.

19:12Let's get one of these drinks. Yeah. Go to eat quarters. It doesn't work. I'm sure if this movie came out now, there's, like, some brand integration where they're, like, they're playing out this exact same scene and then they stop, like, is that, wait, is that a Pepsi? And they both stop and drink one and solve the world's problems. Yeah. They can solve everything. Like, if you just give someone a Pepsi. Like, in an amazing commercial. Just like that. Just like that. And we'll date our podcast when someone listens to it in the future. You're talking about that commercial? Yes. The infamous one? But the person now listening in 2021, if they are listening, they'll be like, I don't even know what you guys are talking about. No, they'll be like, that's old. That's old. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. That's what you're talking about. In case you missed it, there was a commercial where Pepsi saved the world.

19:53Yes. They stopped riots and protests just by handing a Pepsi. By a Kardashian giving a cop a Pepsi. It was amazing and beautiful. It wasn't, but. Sounds great. That's our opinion in 2018. So. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, what I want to say is that after Smith, before Smith punches the pillar. Yep. Punching through a concrete wall. There's a shaha. There's a shot. Where you can. Shaha. Where you can clearly see. Yes. Yes. Where the punch is. The punch will happen. Yes. Yeah. It reminds me of, you know, cartoons. Yeah. I was going to say the same thing. Where it's like, oh, wait.

20:33Everything is this beautiful watercolor painting. And then there's a single tone digital block of like, or it's like a bunch of boxes. And then there's some really toony looking boxes. Well, it would be like. I wonder what those are. Wasn't it in the past. Oh, there they go. They're moving. Yeah. Like in the past, wasn't it that they would have a background? Like you said, beautifully painted. And then over that would be a cell. Yes. Yeah. And then painted more simply. How come that set piece there is painted by cell and not by the background? I love that because when you watch. Yeah. When you watch the cartoon, you would like, no. You could predict like, it's going to move. Yeah. Yeah. The background. It's part of the real world. But I like Neo's face at the wall punching scene. He just, it looks like a little bit of a stroke.

21:16He's got an angry face. Look at him. He's like. He's got a boxer face. Yeah. His face. And then Agent Smith punches through that concrete wall. Croncrete. Croncrete wall. Walter Croncrete wall. And then Neo kicks him almost in the balls, but not really. Yeah. And then pushes him back with the sheer power of his kicking force. Well, Neo loves to kick. Do you know what? Neo kicks like that. Which is interesting because Keanu had an injury, a spinal injury that he had to get fused because there was something wrong with it. And he had to wear a neck brace throughout most of the training. And he wasn't allowed to kick because the spinal fusion healing process would be damaged

22:01if he did. And it was very painful for him. So they never trained for him to do any kicking action for a very long time. And then when it came time to do this, he's kicking all over the place. And it was particularly challenging for Keanu to do. There you go. Oh, here's the kicker. And we have Keanu on the show. Keanu's here. If only. Hey, guys. Yeah. Yeah. I kick so hard. Okay. So the question is, what do you guys think about Agent Smith's broken glasses? Okay. Okay. I want to talk about this. Well, it's the Drew talk. He hasn't said anything. Of what? His glasses. Of Agent Smith's glasses. Yeah. What do you think? It's very distracting. Like, actually, the first time I saw it, I thought, like, the white of his eye was supposed

22:45to be his pupil. And I didn't know if it's like, oh, is this some weird thing with the DVD where it, like, glitched? You know, where it does, like, a JPEG block that got corrupted or something? So it was very, like, hard to see at first until after he blinked. Interesting. Because it didn't look like his eye. It looked like a glitch until he blinked. And then my mind kind of caught up and saw, oh, it's his eyeball. I don't know if that's something where they had a couple different takes that they swapped in and figured out, oh, the blink actually helps a lot. Probably. Yeah. Very likely. Um, well, I wanted to talk about this because I've been waiting to talk about this since the beginning of our...

23:26Oh. Childhood. One of those. No, no, since the beginning of our podcast. Because I've noticed for a long time that once he gets kicked up to that pillar and that little notch is broken on his glasses, it shows how particular and how precise Neo's kick was and how ferocious it was that it didn't break anything else except that little part of his, uh, glass. A little chunklet? Yeah, a little chunklet. Are you telling me you think Neo, uh, intentionally? No, no, no, not intentionally. It's just that these people are superhuman and this is, this shows the, the work of a finessed kicker that doesn't happen in real life. And it shows the value of having frames on your glasses.

24:07Because otherwise, yeah. Yeah, no, it's true. It's true. It wouldn't have happened if he had frames. But I think they're not like, they're, they're not like human made. I don't think they have any blood inside them or anything. They're just like... Oh, no, no. They're glasses? Yeah, what are you talking about? The, the, the face, the body of, of, of the agent. No, no, it totally has, has, has blood. Do agents ever bleed in this movie? No. I think so. I think there was a few. When he, when they got shot, they got... Oh, that is true. That is true. He did get shot. But I, I do believe that, that these are just totally 100% human bodies. Like, as far as the Matrix simulation is concerned. So, they do bleed. Why he's not bleeding? Because he's durable. Sure, whatever.

24:48But a bullet doesn't stop. Like, the bullet, like, why don't you just make them all like made out of whatever, vibranium or whatever? I don't know, Tim. This is... Tim, why don't you submit your questions? Enter the matrix. Look, listen, the Wachowskis, their, their home base is in Chicago. So, if Drew ever meets them, if you see someone with a pink, with pink hair. Yeah, you can make Lana. Oh, as soon as I see someone with pink hair, I'll go running at them. Yeah, just never have. With a video camera. Turn them around and be like, is it you? Oh, no, it's not. I'm sorry. I have some questions, guys. Yeah. I have some questions. Glasses and blood. And why aren't agents not made out of vibranium? Yeah. Yes, my name is Tim. Was it, was it a problem with the rights with Marvel?

25:28Well, what's happening? I'm sure the Wachowskis are really interested in having random people come up to them on the street and immediately accost them with questions about the original Matrix movie. Yes, they're basically waiting for that. That's probably what they want to happen. Waiting the entire time. Just come out at a random out of the house, just in case. No one recognized me? No one accosted me with questions about vibranium? Why did I make the Matrix? Stupid. No, no. This is what I wanted to mention, like, completely. Before he says, I'm going to enjoy watching you die, that close-up as the camera dollies in to him, without his eyebrows, because the sunglasses are blocking his eyebrows, he looks a lot like Neo's old boss.

26:11Hmm. Before he takes off the sunglasses. You're right with the hair. The hair is a little bit fluffy in the shot, so it looks like, yeah, his boss. Right there, see it? Yeah. He looks like his boss. It looks like... Like... Bossy McFox. Mr. Reinhardt. I just like that after this little, you know, I'll watch it die, he starts to kick and hit really, really ferociously. I don't know if you noticed, but one of the, like, from the... I don't know what's... Again, I'm not good at this Phil describing punches, but he goes from above, and he starts smacking him at the beginning right after that. Look at that. He does, he smacks him three times like an angered five-year-old.

26:52Yeah, like, that's the punch that, like, Phil and Jake would punch each other when they were kids. It's just like... Yeah, yeah. Phil! And just like... Yeah, when you're really angry, and it's just unbridled rage. I think we can call that safely the sibling punch. Yeah, look at that. He's just like, I hate you, I hate you. Drew, did this happen with your siblings? No, I don't think we did too many physical... Mostly, like... We didn't either, but... We were fighting, it was like proxy fighting through, like, we're playing a game. Haha. Oh, my God. Oh, I see it. For a specific reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Better than us. As opposed to like, all right, that's it. It's come to blows. Punchy punch time.

27:32Fisticuffs. Yep. Fisticuffs. What does it mean, by the way? I never figured it out. What does it mean? Well, you have your fists, you have your cuffs. Oh, I see, I see. I actually don't know. You're just making this up, huh? Yeah. Wonderful. So, anyway, so he punches Neo, and he punches Neo, and Neo gets sucked into another string. Yeah, but the way they made it look is they made Smith's kick look like he kind of rotates him a little bit with his... He bends it like Beckham. Yeah, with his leg. You see that? That little insert shot of... It's so cool. I love it, though. Oh, shang! Oh! And then he's like, defying physics is great. I love it. Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be. This is like an anime, man.

28:13And he also defies like, you know, like perception because Neo changes a face. Yeah, he looks like Chad. He goes into Chad mode. He looks like a director of John Wick. Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, what the hell? You're possessed? No, it was... Laugh track. Laugh track. I'm making my own laugh track. That's a really good laugh track. Thanks. Great. Thank you. You should, you know, license it. Yeah, that'd be great. For shows. All right. So he gets pushed into a wall, sucked in by the... By the... By the string gods. By the string. The string gods. Gods of string. And then what? He just falls over and then gets back up and then proceeds to punch him some more.

28:56By the way... There's a dent. Kick him. He's kicking him. Kick him. By the way, I'm really excited for Incredibles 2. I hope it's good. We broke Phil. I love how Phil is like, I do not like tangents. But I do like Incredibles 2. Yeah. Shut up. What's up with that? Shut up. What's up with that? So you get to talk about your Incredibles 2 dating the podcast for the 2021 listener. I'm excited for Incredibles 2 to come out. Yeah. Who knows what will happen? Yeah. Who knows? Listen, I just wanted to... The future listeners was like, I watched it. It was okay. How did Incredibles... And it's like... I was trying to... We were talking about universal themes like subways. Subways have been around for like 100 years. What triggered Incredibles 2?

29:37Because someone said, kick him. And it sounded like Edna Modes. So only you would know this. Did she say kicking in Incredibles? No, no. No, she doesn't. No, it's so esoteric for Phil. It's like, oh, it sounds like her. Therefore, I'm thinking of her. And then... I just wanted to join the cool kids. That's all. I just wanted to join the cool kids. It's okay. You failed. It's all good. No, it's fine. I'll stop. I'll stop. It's all good. Come back. It's all good. So anyway, it reminds you of Incredibles 2. No, no, no. Let's go back to the Matrix. Okay. Anyway, so they punch around again. And there's something coming up here in the minute, which is very interesting. And we can talk about that. So they do a bunch of fighting. No, no, no. We missed the best part. There's this one part where...

30:17They dance? It's not here, Philip. No, it's this here. Where Smith... First of all, there's some headbutts going on, right? Keanu does a little headbutt. And he does the little... And then, you know, like sort of triple punches him, like does a few clips of... Punchy punches on his... It's not here. No, at his chest. At his chest. And then smacks him over the head. And then... And then... And then Smith kind of grabs his arms with his other arms. Yes. And kind of locks him in. And... Love happens. And then... And then they kiss. And Neo blocks with his knee. But then... Then Smith kind of like just opens up his...

30:57You know, like... I'm not sure this will translate very well to... Unlocks... Unlocks his arms and go... And then... And then he punches him in the... In that chest area that's really sensitive. Because that's where the lungs are. Where are your balls, Philip? The chest area where it's very sensitive. He unlocks himself. Shoot. There's a word. It starts with an X. Or it has an X in it. Mm. Yes. Sternum? Xylophone. No. Xylophone. But yeah, you know what I'm saying. Because like it really knocks the breath out of you. If you... Because I remember... Because I punched Jacob in there once. Oh, where you do the Heimlich maneuver, right? Yes, yes.

31:38And then... And then there's this... There's a shot. There's a shot like... And as he punched him out of the frame... Smith starts walking up to him. And then they fight again. They spar a little bit more. And as they spar a little bit more... There's this wonderful rotating camera shot, I think. Yes, that's the one. I don't know, man. This is going to be really confusing. That's good. Yeah, when he like dodges the... And then... That's the one... Yeah, that's the one where Smith is punching him in the gut. Like... And then kind of does a little twist because he locks his arm into... Like he has his arm into a lock. And then with Smith's other arm, he punches him in the... The thigh. No, not the thigh. The... The... The side.

32:19The side. And then what? The side. The rib. The side. The waist. The waist area. And I love that camera movement. I love that camera movement. For me, it's one of the... What? If you ever get wrong, it's a whole sequence. Okay, and one more... One more thing before I stop... Before I stop being cryptic. I know, I mean, side. But one more thing... This shot is amazing, though. One more thing before I stop poorly describing, you know, fighting moves. Do you know, if we had a million listeners, one listener would get this. Yes, and then we would have an argument in the forum or whatever. Anyway. He's punched him really hard. Yes. And then let's look at this. There's one shot where...

32:59Right at the end of this minute... The listener can't look. He can't listen. You're the one who's scrolling and I can't see it. Why get your own screen? I can't right now. I'm looking at yours right there. This is when you wish you were back in that high-tech studio in Chicago, right? Where you each had your own screen. You bought this iPad and you can't even look at the video yourself. Is this a time where the talking fades out and the show ends? It's just like, I was fighting. There's this big band music. It's cut to MeUndies ad. If only we had a MeUndies ad. I'd be happy. Yeah. I actually have MeUndies. They're really comfortable. I've heard many ads and it sounds really good. I would love to... Yeah, they're great. And what was interesting is a lot of times when you have softer material for underwear, if you have boxers, the legs will start scrunching up during the day.

33:43Just go all the way up. That's awesome. You have no underwear. Is it like... My question is, I never actually went to the website, but is the material classic cotton-y or is it like under-ombre-y? I think it's much more stretchy than you'd expect. It's really breathable. But then I was expecting because it's stretchy that it'll get stretched out during the day and then start just rolling up like crazy. And it doesn't. That's awesome. No, and they're great. And at the end of the day, it's the exact same stretchiness as at the beginning of the day, which is so unusual. You know, there's like a lot of podcast ad products I would love to buy. Like, for instance, I would get MeUndies. Stamps. I would get a Casper mattress.

34:25Sleep on the mattress with your MeUndies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd order also like food from... What's that place called? There's like a bunch of them. Like Blue Apron and stuff like that. If only the oyster. I've done Blue Apron. It's a big hassle. Really? Because then you take like an hour and a half to make this meal and then there are no leftovers. Nothing for tomorrow. What did I just do? So basically, it's a complicated version of like just basically going and getting your own groceries. Yeah, it's like someone else went shopping for you and has a recipe. Like, you do this now. Sounds good in theory, but I guess it's not. But then it's like, here's a whole onion. You need a quarter of an onion. Congratulations. Your leftovers are raw onion. Beautiful. We can make half an onion and eat it.

35:05Anyway, one more thing I wanted to say about the fight scene here. There's this shot where... I can see it. The listener can't see it. I'm going to describe it. Describe it. Where Smith actually kicks him from the back, but his leg twists in an unnatural way and actually hits him in the face. That sounds crazy. Yeah. Is he like a contortionist? Oh yeah, like with the back. It's just like there's a little... How did that even... A little horse flop. How was that supposed to happen? Wait, like a little gazelle. Oof. It's around... 53. Yeah. And Neo does a weird face. You're right. Do you think that's actually his leg? No.

35:45Because you can kind of do that with your leg. You can do that easily. It wouldn't be a powerful kick, but it would be... Because I think what that... That's a hammer trick. That looks so funny if you freeze frames. Yeah. That's right. I see now. Now. Audience, listen to that. Do you hear that? His leg travels. Listeners. Listeners. Do you hear that? They're all laughing at something you can't see. So, ha. So, what it is, it's like if you stand and you try to grab your leg and pull it up towards your body. But that's kind of what he did where he rotated his leg so his heel was... The bottom of his foot is facing up, but it's actually not that close to Neo's face at all. It's super hard to see. I think it's a camera trick. If you notice, the camera's so low.

36:26And that's it. That's all I have. Oh, wait, wait, wait. But also, could it be his left foot? No. No. But that would be more natural just to do it like that with your left foot. You know what I feel like this podcast would benefit from is like, I always wondered about this. Like, you know, with these very visual scenes. Yeah. Like, have a YouTube video of it. Not necessarily YouTube video. I wish I had like a guide. Like, an interactive guide where you listen to us. Look at your screen. And it's GIFs and images. Yeah. Well. There's a... When we went to the Berlin Museum, you have the audio guide and it was like a little like iPhone kind of device. And every time it would be, if you hear this beep, look at the screen for pictures. So, we should have that as well.

37:07So, as they're listening, there goes a little beep. They pull out the phone. Oh, there's the picture of the foot. And then... So, basically, anyone out there who would be interested in enhancing our podcast for posterity... Phil Osterhaus? ...contact us at... Phil Osterhaus? ...at the Matrix Minute dot one. No, the Matrix Minute. What's our email? Ha ha ha! You lost it too. Ask at the Matrix Minute dot one. Thank you so much. Ask at the Matrix Minute dot one. And, you know, we'll basically employ you to make this interactive at the beep stuff. Unfortunately, we don't have any money. So, it'll be pro bono. It'll be great for your portfolio, though. Yeah. For a good exposure.

37:47For a good exposure. Blue apron and MeUndies money. And a Casper mattress. It's beautiful. Yeah. Oh, man. We'll put the MeUndies on you personally. Ha ha ha! I put my MeUndies on like everyone else. One week at a time. Yeah, man. All right. All right. I think we're done with this episode. All right. See you later. We'll see you on Friday. See ya. Bye. Agent Smith punches like a bully. Ah!