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Matt D’Elia Is Confused

China & ‘The Net’

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Matt opens this week’s episode by discussing the 1995 film, THE NET, its portrayal of the early days / perceived dangers of the internet, the unfortunate fact that we ever called the internet ‘the net’ in the first place, what the internet was like back then in general, how it has changed, and how it has changed us— then he gets into a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: UFOs and their potential existence, China’s terrifying brand of totalitarianism and why it’s not talked about enough, and the one simple thing Joe Biden needs to do to win the upcoming election… which is this: to immediately stop saying really stupid things.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Not to the young, it's going to be. Hello and

0:17.0

welcome to Matalea is confused.

0:19.0

This is Matalea and it's this week whatever the fuck this week is because all the

0:27.4

weeks of the fucking same week because nothing's happening except there's

0:31.8

some bad stuff happening anytime I open the fuck happening. with myself to look at the news less, but somehow I can't do it.

0:47.5

Somehow I continue to look at the news,

0:50.0

and I made an even more specific deal with myself

0:52.0

to not look at the news right after I wake up.

0:55.0

But what do I do right after I wake up? Every single day, I look at the news.

1:02.0

So that's cool, but I'm going to put the news on hold for a little while and talk about something else.

1:10.0

I watched a movie. I watch a lot of movies but I watched this one movie in particular that I do want to talk about

1:19.9

Does anybody remember the movie starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller from 1995 directed by Erwin Winkler. A little movie I like to call

1:51.2

The Net. Now to any millennial or younger, you will probably, probably not only have no idea what the net is, but if you were to see it, it would

1:58.6

look to you like, um, fucking,

2:07.0

it's a wonderful life looked to me when I was younger.

2:14.8

It's like it's archaic.

2:20.8

I mean, the net, first of all the net

2:26.2

the net the fact that there was a time when the internet was referred to as the net.

2:36.4

Enough that there would be a movie called The Net.

2:40.0

And when that movie came out called The Net,

2:42.0

everyone who saw it saw an ad for it, saw a trailer for it, heard about it, heard The Net, and thought,

2:49.0

I know what that is. That's the Internet. That's that thing I've heard about called the internet. This is 1995, okay? This is like circuit dial-up.

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