Why I'll never watch The Matrix as a leading expert on simulation theory

I may be a leading expert on how to escape from the Matrix but I have a confession: I've never seen the film The Matrix...and this is why.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm here with a big confession. I've never actually seen
the film The Matrix. First of all, that film is
way too green, and you know it is. If there

(00:22):
is one thing you cannot deny about the film of
the Matrix, it is too green. Maybe if they've been pink,
I could have stuck it out for more than fifteen minutes.
By the way, welcome back to the podcast. This is
the Doctor ice Cream Show, and I've got a scoop
for you. You may be noticing a slight increase in quality. Yes,

(00:43):
the audio and the visuals are a little bit better today.
I've done some tweaking, I've done some magic behind the
scenes work, and hopefully it is an improvement on the
last episode's audio. At the very least, it's like the
microphone go gave out halfway and I didn't realize, and
I personally wasn't about to re record the entire thing.
If you did listen to the end of it, thank

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you for persevering, and hopefully today's a bit better as
I delve into the topic of why I will never
watch the film The Matrix. So given that I have
made my entire personality and online persona all about the Matrix.
It may be shocking, it may actually be really really
surprising to some people to find out that I've never

(01:26):
actually seen the Matrix, or have I Obviously I've seen
the Matrix, but I've never seen the film The Matrix.
I have tried. Believe me, guys, I have tried to
watch that movie. I've gotten fifteen minutes into it three times,
once in nineteen ninety nine or two thousand when it

(01:47):
was a new release, and then a couple of times since,
and each time I'm like, Okay, this time, I will
definitely be able to get through it. It's about the Matrix.
This time, I'll just stick it through. I'll get past all.
I'll get past the difficult to get into first fifteen minutes,
and I'll be able to do it. And every time

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I can not do it. Yes, guys, it is time
to get Wizard of Oz pilled, because, guys, there are
just better movies about the Matrix than the actual Matrix,
and the Wizard of Oz is one of them. Yes, guys,

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it is time to get Wizard now. Of course, I've
accidentally gone and made this podcast all topical because Wicked
the musical, the movie is about to come out starring
Ariana and SpongeBob. But that isn't even why I've tapped
into this. It's just been in my mind today to
talk about why The Matrix is not the best movie

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about being in a Matrix. In fact, I think The
Wizard of Oz is the best film about the Matrix.
I've never seen Wicked, I've never seen any of the
other versions. I've only seen. I haven't read book either.
I've only seen the most famous nineteen thirties musical. But
when I tell you it is superior to the Matrix
in every way, it absolutely is. First of all, we've

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got a female protagonist. Second of all, we have music.
Further of all, we've got witches, we've got drugs, we've
got heroine. Obviously, the Wizard of Oz is just the
ideal movie, and I think it's just the best media
representation of the Matrix that we have. It's certainly about

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a simulated reality. So at the start, Dorothy wants to
escape from the Matrix. Basically, she's not happy with her life.
She wants to escape. She makes a wish. That's not
say she makes a wish upon user. She makes a
wish over the rainbow. She falls asleep and then bang,

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she is escaping the Matrix, or to be fair, if
you look at it the other way around. She then
gets plugged into another and you could make various arguments
for which way around it is. But I'm going to
argue that her original world is the Matrix world that
she wants to escape from. So she goes. She gets

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knocked on the head in the cyclone. Then she wakes
up and she becomes witch pilled, and you know, the
witch says, hey, do you want to take the witch pill?
And do you want to see the truth? And this
is where you can really tell that I haven't seen
the film The Matrix. But okay, so what was my
hypo hypothesis? Again? My hypothesis was that she was started.

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She started out in the fake Matrix world, then she
gets she goes into the Wizard of Oz reality, the
real what I think is actually the real reality when
she's actually Most people don't agree with this controversial. Most
people would think that the real world is where she started.
Then she went to Oz, then she came back. No no, no, no, no, guys,

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Matrix expert here, I think she starts off in the
Matrix and she actually gets to see the truth. She
actually gets to see that the world is really strange
and you can manifest, you can zip zip zop, there's
strange creatures. But she gets overwhelmed by it and she
goes on her journey to Oz and basically she decides

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she wants to be red shoe pilled, literally red pilled.
She wants to go back. Now, actually I think I've
got the pills mixed up there, but you know what
I'm saying. She actually decides at the end to go
back home, to go back to safety, to go back
to the gray world. She had the power all along

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to go home, which is why a lot of people
read the film in almost the exact opposite way that
you know, home is where she started at, homes where
her heart is. Then she went to the simular reality.
But she had the power to return home all along.
And I've actually read some like spiritual interpretations of the
film that read it that way, like that she she

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always had the power just to return home. But honestly,
if you actually look at the text as it is,
the world she started in was shit, like I don't
know why. There's no place like home. There's no place
like home, that place for shit, guys, that place was horrible.
Why would you want to go back there? And if

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you like, if you actually look in the text, it's
not even a nice place to be. I know. The
spirit of the movie was like, well, you need to
appreciate the shit things you have. I know it, Chip,
but just appreciate it. You've got your aunt, you got
black and white, You've got that mean bitch next door
who steals dogs. But and like, you have to stay
on a farm. I'm not staying on that farm. Yep.

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You have to live on a farm with someone trying
to kill your dog, and everything's in black and white,
and cyclones are trying to kill you. But just appreciate
what you have. Get those red shoes, use a click
them together, click your heels together. There's no place like home. No, guys,
that's not how I read that text. I read the
text that she was in this shit reality. She was
actually in the Matrix, and she actually got to escape it.

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She actually got to go to this cool world, she
got to go the oz. All these cool things happened,
and then she starts crying and wants to go back. Yep,
that is the main trix. That's the Matrix. Guys. You
want to escape, you try to escape, you even do escape,
and then it sucks you back in. You get tricked.

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That's the cycle of life and life and death, birth
and reincarnation. You get sucked back in. They make you
think it's good when it's not. But I love The
Wizard of Oz, I love The Truman Show. I love
Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. I love any
number I love Sliders. I love Ena Blyton's The Far

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Away Tree. I love any number of texts and media
that goes into the idea of a matrix or a
simulated reality or alternative universes that isn't the actual movie
The Matrix, like no offense to it. I know. I
know that film got a lot of accolades, and that
actually brought to the very concept that I constantly talk

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about into public consciousness, like when people say the Matrix
it has taken on the life of its own. But
you've got me. Up until a few years ago, we
got the very title from the movie. I don't deny that.
I just can't get into it. I cannot. I don't
like action movies. I don't really sorry I mentioned this yesterday.

(08:39):
I'm really bashing Australian content. Lately, I am Australian. I
don't really like Australian movies. I feel like, oh, I
feel like you put that movie on and you can
see in ten seconds this is Australian. There's just something
about the nineteen ninety nine Australian quality. I'm getting off topic,
but I don't like action movies. I don't like The Green.

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I just find that movie so so hard to get into.
And it's like, I know what you're trying to say.
I saw The Truman Show two years before The Matrix
even came out. I was already sold, Like, Hollywood, you
have me, you had me. I was already fully on
board with the Truman Show. I was already like Truman

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Show pilled. I already knew. I was already woken up
to the world of the Matrix. I really really didn't
need an action movie. I'm trying to tell me what
to think. I need everything else to tell me what
to think. Oh my gosh, but I just can't get
into that movie. And I think, you know, it's time
to finally clear the air on that. You know, people
think Doctor ice Cream, you're a quantum influencer. You're the

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smallest influencer there is on the quantum level. You talk
about the matrix and escaping the matrix all the time,
you must be absolutely bloody obsessed with the movie The Matrix. No,
I've never seen it, and I really don't think I
ever will. But if you I think I'm really missing something,
If you think my knowledge of matrix media and matrix

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theory could be enhanced by watching the actual titular movie
on the topic, let me know. I might be wrong,
but for now I'm happy to be right. But as
I say, isn't it great to be wrong? That's one
of my sayings, one of my more recent sayings, isn't
it great to be wrong? And perhaps I will be wrong?

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Per chance, there's a chance I could be wrong. Let
me know, and I this might just be part one
in a series I'm thinking of doing about looking at
media through a simulation theory lens. You know how we've
got Marxist theory, feminist theory, class theory. No, from what about?

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I mean, yes, keeple them, but I'm thinking maybe one
day a simulation theory could be a way to read texts.
And I'm thinking of doing obviously delving more into the
so let me know what you think. And thank you
for watching this episode or listening to this episode of
The Doctor ice Cream Podcast. Until next time, stay safe

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in the matrix, guys,