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Offline with Jon Favreau — 236 episodes

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1

Healing Our Broken Brains

2

How Screens Have Warped Morality

3

God In The Machine

4

The Revolt of the College Grads

5

Sam Altman's Big Little Lies

6

Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment

7

Optimism In Our Age of Anxiety

8

What We Lose When We Bet on War

9

Trump's Memeification of War

10

Endless Slop, Cancer Cures, or Robot Apocalypse? Derek Thompson on Our AI Future

11

The Big Tech Critic Trump Is Trying To Deport

12

Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, Pete Hegseth vs. AI, and Max-Maxxing with Max Fisher

13

The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

14

Can Truth Survive the Trump Era?

15

Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand

16

The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America)

17

The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow)

18

ICE Killings and the Death of Shared Reality

19

What Comes After Trump?

20

The Movement to Protect Kids from Big Tech

21

A Techno-Optimist’s Case for AI

22

Max Returns! AI Bubbles, Info Silos, and 67

23

Zohran Mamdani’s Offline Campaign

24

James Talarico Wants to Fight with Love

25

Have the Democrats Decided to Win?

26

Is AI Too Big to Fail or Too Dangerous to Succeed?

27

Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention

28

Introducing: Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

29

Are Men Okay?

30

Is America Still a Liberal Nation?

31

Dramatize the Injustice

32

How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Transformed The Way We Speak

33

Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

34

Can The Left Reclaim America's Story?

35

JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right's War on America

36

Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?

37

AI's Threat to Gen Z's Jobs, the FartCoin Economy, and Why the Internet Wants to Check Your ID

38

QAnon Reacts to Epstein, Laura Loomer Gets Loomered, and Jon Gets Caught Up in the Syndey Sweeney Discourse

39

Trump Bans Woke AI, TikTok Cancels Sydney Sweeney, and How MAGA Became Multiracial

40

Trump’s Epstein Nightmare, Jubilee’s Fascist Debate, and the Movie Twitter Wrote

41

Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere

42

Peter Thiel's Antichrist, JD Vance's Split with the Pope, and Ross Douthat's Scientific Case for Believing in God

43

Hugs From Your Late Mom, Interdimensional Chats, and College Cheating: The AI Future Is Here

44

The Truth About Young Men's Shift Towards Trump

45

Succession’s Creator Takes on the Tech Billionaires

46

Momfluencers, Baby Gadgets, and the Perils of Parenting in The Digital Age

47

AI News Anchors, Dems $20 Million Plan to Study Men, and Max Bids Farewell to Offline

48

Elon's Offline Challenge, Grok’s White Genocide Glitch, and Silicon Valley's New Religion

49

Jon Gets Hacked, Woke Offline Pope, and How Jia Tolentino’s Brain Finally Broke

50

Pope Trump, Zuckerberg’s AI Friends, and the Shocking Truth of How Teens Live Online

51

The Global Elite’s Secret Group Chats, Gen Z's Lifestyle Subsidy, and Meta's Sex Bots

52

Terminally Online: Larry David v. Bill Maher, TikTok Mystics, and the White House Correspondents' Dinner

53

Could Blowing Up Google Save The Internet? Plus MAGA's Birth Obsession and Your Questions Answered

54

Zuck Takes the Stand, ChatGPT Turns on Lovett, and the Surprising Ties Between Our Biology and Our Politics

55

Real Men Love Tariffs, Elon Gets Cyberbullied, Meta Whistleblower Testifies

56

Jon’s Twitter Fight with JD Vance and Elon’s Scheme to Buy Votes

57

Offline PC Small Group

58

The Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read

59

Shocking Facebook Secrets Revealed, JD Vance Meme Wars, and a $10,000 Conspiracy Bet

60

Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America

61

Elon Wellness Check, The Anti-Doge Revolt, and Some Actual Good News

62

Why Elon Lies About DOGE and How To Fix Your Focus

63

What Post-Democracy America Looks Like

64

Can Democracy Survive the Attention Wars? with Chris Hayes

65

Fighting the Broligarchs with Senator Chris Murphy

66

Trump's TikTok Dilemma, Crypto Cons Debunked, and The Truth About the Loneliness Epidemic

67

The Episode China Doesn’t Want You to Hear

68

Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech

69

The Surgeon General's Very Offline Parting Message (and a Comically Online Holiday Segment)

70

Was Luigi Mangione Too Online?

71

Can Talking to Strangers Fix Our Politics?

72

Subscriber Exclusive: Terminally Online

73

Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats?

74

Why Democrats’ Media Problem is Deeper than “Liberal Joe Rogan”

75

Where We Go From Here

76

Offline’s Anti-Anxiety Election Special

77

Elon Kills the Block Button, AI Comes for Podcasts, and The Good Liar's Guide to Talking to Trump Voters

78

Biden’s Weather Machine, Leaked TikTok Docs, Elon’s MAGA Ground Game, and Big Porn to the Rescue?

79

Hasan Piker on the Bro Vote, Kamala Harris, and the 2024 Election

80

Silicon Valley’s Newest Bad Idea, Vigilantes Infiltrate the Far Right, and Should We Buy Infowars?

81

Trump Truths vs. Trump Tweets, Chappell Roan's Non-Endorsement, and Behind the Scenes at Elon's Twitter

82

Why "Blade Runner" Still Defines How We See Tech

83

GOP's "Black Nazi" Porn Posting, Instagram's New Rules, and Tristan Harris's Guide to Humane Technology

84

How “Fight Club” Created a Generation of Sh*tposters

85

Robert Putnam on Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and Making America Social Again

86

“Tár” with Jon Favreau and Amanda Hess

87

Trump Tours the Manosphere, Russia Funds MAGA Influencers, and Hawk Tuah Girl Cashes In

88

How "Zola" Explains Social Media Brain

89

Obama's Offline Speech, Zuck Fears Trump, and the Crank Political Divide

90

How “The Truman Show” Explains Life in 2024

91

How Peter Thiel Became the Right’s Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker

92

“WarGames” with Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes

93

Trump and Elon’s Trainwreck Interview & J.D. Vance’s Real Tech Agenda

94

How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral

95

JD Vance, Project 2025, and How the Right Got Weird

96

Kamala Harris’ Coconut-Pilled Brat Girl Summer

97

Why Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't

98

The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve

99

Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI

100

Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI

101

Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt

102

How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back

103

How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech

104

Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real

105

How "The Matrix" Created Modern Silicon Valley

106

ScarJo v. AI, the Digital Guillotine, and Why We Play Make Believe with Misinformation

107

Why "Her" Reveals How We Really Feel About AI (with Ezra Klein)

108

AI’s Flirty Upgrade, Facebook’s Zombie Internet, and Why We May Be Doing Mental Health Wrong

109

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

110

TikTok vs Biden, Kendrick vs Drake, AI vs Loneliness

111

How Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Inspired Offline

112

How Cognitive Bias Explains Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and Internet Malaise

113

How “The Social Network” Explains Silicon Valley

114

The Biden Campaign’s Plan to Beat Trump Online

115

Right Wing Media Collapse, Trump Trial’s Repost King, and How To Live Like You’re Not Dying

116

Trump’s Stock Crash, AI Gets Junkier, and Paying to Delete Social Media

117

Are You Treating Politics Like a Hobby?

118

How to Be Happy with Dr. Laurie Santos

119

Is Trump Benefiting from Our 2020 Amnesia?

120

Kate Middleton MIA, UFOs, and How Conspiracies Got Fun

121

TikTok Ban Returns, AOC Hounded by Protesters, and Jon Ronson on the End of Public Shaming

122

Woke AI, Libs of TikTok DESTROYED, and the Offline Reality of Long COVID

123

An Ex-Tucker Carlson Employee Tells All

124

The Neuroscience of Why We’re Susceptible to Lies, Outrage, and Fascism

125

Authoritarians or A-holes? Kara Swisher on Tech's Biggest Egos

126

What's Really Behind the Media Apocalypse?

127

Are Algorithms Making You Boring?

128

Were Trump’s Opponents Too Online? Plus, R. F. Kuang on Her Twitter Era Novel

129

The Science of Achieving (and Enjoying) Your New Year’s Resolution

130

Dry January, Cali Sober, Soft Sober: Why Gen Z is Breaking Up With Booze

131

Millennials v. Gen Z, Twitter v. Threads, Social Media Trends for 2024: Jon & Max Answer Your Questions

132

Best Of: How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints

133

Is a $16 McDonald’s Order Going to Elect Trump?

134

Inside 2024 - Preview | Favreau + Tommy Talk Election Night

135

How Jezebel Changed Media and Why TikTokers Are Rizzing Up Osama bin Laden

136

The Truth About TikTok’s Spin on Israel-Gaza

137

Naomi Klein on What Happens When You’re Mistaken for a Conspiracy Theorist

138

Why Do People Love Joe Rogan?

139

Jon Stewart, Donald Trump, and How Comedy Changed Politics

140

Why Has Social Media Made It Impossible to Follow the Israel-Hamas War?

141

Heather Cox Richardson on Donald Trump, Democracy, and Taylor Swift

142

Fox News’s Succession Battle, Breaking Up Amazon, and Twitter CEO’s Disastrous Q&A

143

Fetterman’s Body Double, Biden’s Misinformation Strategy, and OpenAI’s Secret & Scarier AI

144

The U.S. v. Google, Elon’s Secrets Revealed, and Why Trolls Got Nastier

145

How to Survive the 2024 Election, Tech Predictions for the Decade, and the Best Life Advice

146

A Very Online Summer (Friends of the Pod Preview)

147

How Social Media is Changing Movies — and Their Place in Society

148

Welcome to the Take Recession

149

How Facebook Changes Us, Influencer Riots, and AI Gets Funny

150

How Taylor Swift Conquered the Internet, Plus: Xtra Xtra the Bird is Dead

151

The Strike to Keep Hollywood Human, with Adam Conover

152

Big Tech vs. Hollywood; AI vs. Journalism; Socialists vs. Bananas

153

Is 2024 the AI Election? Plus, an OG Twitter Exec on Elon, Threads, and Tech Bros

154

QAnon is Thriving, Twitter is Dying, Zuck to the Rescue?

155

Joe Rogan Debates Vaccines, Elon Challenges Zuck, and the Submarine Discourse

156

Why You Should Make Silly Things

157

How to Break Your Phone Addiction

158

The Kids Are Not Alright. Is Social Media to Blame?

159

Is Fox News Doomed?

160

Did Clickbait Kill Buzzfeed and the Digital Media Era?

161

Jon and Max Surrender Their iPhones

162

How is Collective Grief Rewiring our Brains | Hysteria Excerpt

163

Hasan Piker Wants the Left to Persuade, Not Scold

164

How the Internet is Radicalizing Young Men

165

John Green Doesn’t Think the World is Ending (Yet)

166

Should America Ban TikTok?

167

The End of Big Tech as We Know It

168

How to Beat Fox News

169

Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity

170

What Do We Lose if We Lose Black Twitter?

171

What Happened To Your Ambition? | Work Appropriate

172

Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?

173

What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from an 84 Year Study on Happiness

174

Who Can Own the Most Libs? Tim Miller on the ’24 GOP Primary

175

What’s With All the Tech Layoffs?

176

Do Dating Apps Make it Harder to Find Love?

177

Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI

178

How to Avoid Distraction with Johann Hari

179

Offline Mailbag with Emily Favreau and Dare We Say

180

The Worst Tweets of 2022 with Rebecca Jennings

181

Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost

182

What Democrats Could Learn from Republicans with Brian Beutler

183

How to Talk Your Uncle Out of QAnon this Thanksgiving

184

Bad Vibes v. Good Results. Lynn Vavreck on the ’22 Midterms

185

Elon’s Twitter is in the Sh*tter with Nilay Patel

186

Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Internet

187

Persuasion Isn’t Dead with Anand Giridharadas

188

Rachel Maddow on America’s Forgotten Insurrection

189

Is Remote Work Here to Stay? With Derek Thompson

190

Offline presents The Axe Files hosted by David Axelrod, featuring Maria Ressa

191

Introducing The Wilderness Chapter 1: The Divide

192

Lessons from the Depths of the Internet

193

The Inside Story of How Silicon Valley Rewired Our Brains

194

How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints

195

Katie Couric on Sarah Palin, Disinformation, and the Future of Journalism.

196

How Can Democrats Win the Digital Wars?

197

Is TikTok a Secret Threat to America? With Scott Galloway

198

Has the Internet Trapped Us in the Past?

199

Jane Coaston on Why Internet Debates Suck

200

What the F*** is the Metaverse?

201

How to Restore Roe (From Positively Dreadful)

202

The 19-Year-Old Helping Gen Z Log Off

203

Has Google Created a Soul?

204

Steve Bannon’s Very Online Insurrection

205

Crypto for Beginners with Kevin Roose

206

How Should Parents Manage Kids’ Screen Time?

207

Ro Khanna is Optimistic About the Internet

208

Can We Blame the Internet for Buffalo?

209

Sex, Drugs, and Phone Addictions with Dr. Anna Lembke

210

Chris Hayes on Why We’re All Famous Now

211

Does Elon Musk Want Free Speech or Attention?

212

Are Russians Buying Putin’s Propaganda?

213

A Newsroom’s Fight Against Misinformation in the Black Community

214

A Twitter Founder on Elon, Trump, and the Edit Button

215

Samantha Bee on Laughing at our Political Hellscape

216

Lilly Singh on YouTube to Late Night

217

Taylor Lorenz on Why All Culture is Internet Culture

218

Greg Daniels on the Digital Afterlife

219

Kara Swisher on the Very Online War in Ukraine

220

Ezra Klein on the Democrat’s Echo Chamber

221

Hank Green on Inspiring Curiosity

222

Roxane Gay on Why People Are So Awful Online

223

Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok

224

Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing

225

Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith

226

Alex Stamos on Leaving Facebook and Zuckerberg's Reign

227

Mailbag Episode with Jon and Emily Favreau

228

Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers

229

Dr. Vivek Murthy on Defeating Doomscrolling with Human Connection

230

Charlie Warzel on Facebook's Original Sin

231

DeRay Mckesson on How Twitter Saved Black Lives

232

Stephen Colbert on Finding Laughter in the Darkness

233

Megan Rapinoe on Social Media and Mental Health

234

Peter Hamby on Saving Journalism from Twitter

235

Monica Lewinsky on the Internet's Culture of Humiliation

236

Jia Tolentino on the Internet's Endless Stage