How “You’ve Got Mail” Explains '90s Internet Culture

Offline with Jon Favreau

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Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Leave it to Tom Hanks to make internet catfishing seem so darn charming! This week, Offline’s Movie Club is watching “You’ve Got Mail,” the cozy, capitalist, and kind of creepy 90s classic. Remember when being online was a choice? When online dating was stigmatized? When Meg Ryan flounced around with unparalleled charisma? Max is joined by Jon Lovett and Crooked Executive Producer Kendra James to soak up the nostalgia of AOL, a roaring economy, and a time before Amazon.

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0:00.0	Meg Ryan's character is definitely someone who considered themselves liberal but hadn't been paying
0:06.2	attention. Shocked by Trump winning gets involved. She's a blue wave, that's right. And Tom Hanks has like kind of I'm actually an independent but fine but Joe Rogin makes great points watch never miss Bill Maher. Yeah. Never business. Never miss his
0:21.0	profile photo is is a selfie he took in his car.
0:23.3	Voted for Obama twice.
0:25.3	He couldn't bring himself to vote for Trump, hopefully.
0:29.3	Has a lot of opinions about the left in college kids.
0:32.0	Yeah, just thinks everyone's gone crazy.
0:33.4	Like this is like, here's my thing like Tom Manx's character is 100% somebody who says like, you know what I think? I think there should be a purple party.
0:40.8	Is the remake of this movie just Elon Musk and Grimes? I think it might be Elon Musk and Grimes. Welcome to offline.
0:57.0	offline. The I am Max Fisher co-host of offline. I am Max Fisher co-host of offline. I'm John
1:19.2	Lovett. I refuse to introduce myself on my own network. I had a little joke for it ready to go so I was kind of hoping you would do it.
1:28.0	I co-hosts, of America, I host, love it or leave it.
1:31.0	Oh, that's Favreau spinoff show.
1:32.0	Oh, right. Yeah.
1:33.4	All right. Sorry, I didn't realize you had such a great joke in the fucking hopper.
1:36.3	I thought it was good.
1:37.9	It was pretty good.
1:38.4	And I'm Kendra James. I'm the executive producer for cultural entertainment here at
1:41.8	Cricket and I'm also an author who wrote a book called Admissions,
1:45.3	which deals with a lot of my activity online as a youth.
1:48.9	Oh, okay, a little first-person experience of PALS.
1:52.1	Thank you so much for being here. This is a series
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