{"id":2656,"date":"2011-03-06T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/chuck-lost-matrix-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T22:50:00","slug":"chuck-lost-matrix-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/chuck-lost-matrix-the-intersection.html","title":{"rendered":"Chuck, LOST, Matrix: The Intersect(ion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I finally got around to watching last week\u2019s episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chuck-Complete-Season-Zachary-Levi\/dp\/B000VWC9YW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chuck<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000VWC9YW\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"> and was delighted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/lostpedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Outside_references_to_Lost\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nods<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lost\/comments\/fuw5c\/lost_numbers_on_tonights_episode_of_chuck\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-Complete-Sixth-Final-Season\/dp\/B0036EH3XE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">LOST<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0036EH3XE\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"> and then later to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Matrix-Keanu-Reeves\/dp\/B000P0J0AQ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Matrix<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000P0J0AQ\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">. A bank account had <i>the numbers<\/i>\u00a0and then the bank manager turned out to be none other <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: inherit\">than\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 23px\">Fran\u00e7ois Chau,<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;line-height: 23px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the actor who played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugo.com\/tv\/chuck-geek-references-lost-numbers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pierre Chang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Z8iH9bXTDro\/TXRVDYfIPMI\/AAAAAAAAAwE\/gUV95oRkZMY\/s1600\/417-numbers3_786_poster.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Z8iH9bXTDro\/TXRVDYfIPMI\/AAAAAAAAAwE\/gUV95oRkZMY\/s400\/417-numbers3_786_poster.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4677256889107281069?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to watching last week\u2019s episode of Chuck and was delighted by the nods to LOST and then later to The Matrix. A bank account had the numbers\u00a0and then the bank manager turned out to be none other than\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Chau,\u00a0the actor who played Pierre Chang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chuck, LOST, Matrix: The Intersect(ion)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I finally got around to watching last week&#039;s episode of Chuck and was delighted by the nods to LOST and then later to The Matrix. 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