Feb 4, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 11 segments
One of the first “internet things” that reached beyond a bunch of inevitably really cool people who hung out in chatrooms, was YouTube. Today, we’re going back in time to look back at a potential…
Willa PaskinGuestGrant IrvingHostUm, how, how much better has the internet made society? Like, you know, on a scale, like, one being pretty good to 10 being great, you know?

I have to tell you, like, my honest gut reaction is, like, zero, but I know that's not true.

But that is- like, that's my, my instinct, like, my feel is like I'm kind of ready to be full Luddite.
I, I actually have the same feeling, where, like, my knee-jerk millennial reaction is like, "Let's all burn it down!" But then I'm like-

[laughs] No, but it's that shit that makes me be like, "It's really bad." Because it's like, that is so- we could...

Like, you could have ordered dinner to your home by picking up the telephone, like-

[upbeat music] All the things that are kind about how humans relate to each other, but I'm [laughs] really skeptical about a lot of them.
Yeah, thinking about it last night, I had, like, a very online evening that, like, wouldn't have been possible 30 years ago, where I decided I wanted to watch all of the New Girl from the start-
... and then order food, and I didn't have any cash, and, like, all of that was just doable from my couch, which is maybe not a good thing now that I think about it.
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