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Offline with Jon Favreau — 251 episodes

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1

Why College Was Too Woke For This Black Socialist Professor

2

Texas: "Is This The Year?"

3

1 Offline Host vs. 1 Jubilee Founder

4

The Progressive Populists Make Their Case

5

The Journalist Who Let AI Run Her Life For a Year

6

Andrew Yang Still Wants To Give You $1,000

7

Posting My L's On Maine

8

Billionaires vs. Journalists

9

What Is A Human For?

10

Why You Should Love America

11

Has The Left Finally Figured Out the Internet?

12

Is Masculinism Holding MAGA Together?

13

Chatbots, MDMA, and Finding Love in the Digital Era

14

Breaking the Cycle of Political Violence

15

This Candidacy Is a Test Case for AI Regulation

16

Healing Our Broken Brains

17

How Screens Have Warped Morality

18

God In The Machine

19

The Revolt of the College Grads

20

Sam Altman's Big Little Lies

21

Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment

22

Optimism In Our Age of Anxiety

23

What We Lose When We Bet on War

24

Trump's Memeification of War

25

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

26

The Big Tech Critic Trump Is Trying To Deport

27

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

28

The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

29

Can Truth Survive the Trump Era?

30

Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand

31

The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America)

32

The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow)

33

ICE Killings and the Death of Shared Reality

34

What Comes After Trump?

35

The Movement to Protect Kids from Big Tech

36

A Techno-Optimist’s Case for AI

37

Max Returns! AI Bubbles, Info Silos, and 67

38

Zohran Mamdani’s Offline Campaign

39

James Talarico Wants to Fight with Love

40

Have the Democrats Decided to Win?

41

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

42

Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention

43

Introducing: Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

44

Are Men Okay?

45

Is America Still a Liberal Nation?

46

Dramatize the Injustice

47

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

48

Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

49

Can The Left Reclaim America's Story?

50

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

51

Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

The Truth About Young Men's Shift Towards Trump

60

Succession’s Creator Takes on the Tech Billionaires

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

Offline PC Small Group

73

The Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

Why Elon Lies About DOGE and How To Fix Your Focus

78

What Post-Democracy America Looks Like

79

Can Democracy Survive the Attention Wars? with Chris Hayes

80

Fighting the Broligarchs with Senator Chris Murphy

81

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

82

The Episode China Doesn’t Want You to Hear

83

Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech

84

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

85

Was Luigi Mangione Too Online?

86

Can Talking to Strangers Fix Our Politics?

87

Subscriber Exclusive: Terminally Online

88

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

89

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

90

Where We Go From Here

91

Offline’s Anti-Anxiety Election Special

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

Why "Blade Runner" Still Defines How We See Tech

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

“Tár” with Jon Favreau and Amanda Hess

102

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

103

How "Zola" Explains Social Media Brain

104

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

105

How “The Truman Show” Explains Life in 2024

106

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

107

“WarGames” with Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes

108

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

109

How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral

110

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

111

Kamala Harris’ Coconut-Pilled Brat Girl Summer

112

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

113

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

114

Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI

115

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

116

Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

How "The Matrix" Created Modern Silicon Valley

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

TikTok vs Biden, Kendrick vs Drake, AI vs Loneliness

126

How Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Inspired Offline

127

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

128

How “The Social Network” Explains Silicon Valley

129

The Biden Campaign’s Plan to Beat Trump Online

130

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

131

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

132

Are You Treating Politics Like a Hobby?

133

How to Be Happy with Dr. Laurie Santos

134

Is Trump Benefiting from Our 2020 Amnesia?

135

Kate Middleton MIA, UFOs, and How Conspiracies Got Fun

136

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

137

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

138

An Ex-Tucker Carlson Employee Tells All

139

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

140

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

141

What's Really Behind the Media Apocalypse?

142

Are Algorithms Making You Boring?

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

Inside 2024 - Preview | Favreau + Tommy Talk Election Night

150

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

151

The Truth About TikTok’s Spin on Israel-Gaza

152

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

153

Why Do People Love Joe Rogan?

154

Jon Stewart, Donald Trump, and How Comedy Changed Politics

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

A Very Online Summer (Friends of the Pod Preview)

162

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

163

Welcome to the Take Recession

164

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

165

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

166

The Strike to Keep Hollywood Human, with Adam Conover

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

Why You Should Make Silly Things

172

How to Break Your Phone Addiction

173

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

174

Is Fox News Doomed?

175

Did Clickbait Kill Buzzfeed and the Digital Media Era?

176

Jon and Max Surrender Their iPhones

177

How is Collective Grief Rewiring our Brains | Hysteria Excerpt

178

Hasan Piker Wants the Left to Persuade, Not Scold

179

How the Internet is Radicalizing Young Men

180

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

181

Should America Ban TikTok?

182

The End of Big Tech as We Know It

183

How to Beat Fox News

184

Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity

185

What Do We Lose if We Lose Black Twitter?

186

What Happened To Your Ambition? | Work Appropriate

187

Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?

188

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

189

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

190

What’s With All the Tech Layoffs?

191

Do Dating Apps Make it Harder to Find Love?

192

Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI

193

How to Avoid Distraction with Johann Hari

194

Offline Mailbag with Emily Favreau and Dare We Say

195

The Worst Tweets of 2022 with Rebecca Jennings

196

Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost

197

What Democrats Could Learn from Republicans with Brian Beutler

198

How to Talk Your Uncle Out of QAnon this Thanksgiving

199

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

200

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

201

Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Internet

202

Persuasion Isn’t Dead with Anand Giridharadas

203

Rachel Maddow on America’s Forgotten Insurrection

204

Is Remote Work Here to Stay? With Derek Thompson

205

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

206

Introducing The Wilderness Chapter 1: The Divide

207

Lessons from the Depths of the Internet

208

The Inside Story of How Silicon Valley Rewired Our Brains

209

How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints

210

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

211

How Can Democrats Win the Digital Wars?

212

Is TikTok a Secret Threat to America? With Scott Galloway

213

Has the Internet Trapped Us in the Past?

214

Jane Coaston on Why Internet Debates Suck

215

What the F*** is the Metaverse?

216

How to Restore Roe (From Positively Dreadful)

217

The 19-Year-Old Helping Gen Z Log Off

218

Has Google Created a Soul?

219

Steve Bannon’s Very Online Insurrection

220

Crypto for Beginners with Kevin Roose

221

How Should Parents Manage Kids’ Screen Time?

222

Ro Khanna is Optimistic About the Internet

223

Can We Blame the Internet for Buffalo?

224

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

225

Chris Hayes on Why We’re All Famous Now

226

Does Elon Musk Want Free Speech or Attention?

227

Are Russians Buying Putin’s Propaganda?

228

A Newsroom’s Fight Against Misinformation in the Black Community

229

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

230

Samantha Bee on Laughing at our Political Hellscape

231

Lilly Singh on YouTube to Late Night

232

Taylor Lorenz on Why All Culture is Internet Culture

233

Greg Daniels on the Digital Afterlife

234

Kara Swisher on the Very Online War in Ukraine

235

Ezra Klein on the Democrat’s Echo Chamber

236

Hank Green on Inspiring Curiosity

237

Roxane Gay on Why People Are So Awful Online

238

Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok

239

Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing

240

Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith

241

Alex Stamos on Leaving Facebook and Zuckerberg's Reign

242

Mailbag Episode with Jon and Emily Favreau

243

Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers

244

Dr. Vivek Murthy on Defeating Doomscrolling with Human Connection

245

Charlie Warzel on Facebook's Original Sin

246

DeRay Mckesson on How Twitter Saved Black Lives

247

Stephen Colbert on Finding Laughter in the Darkness

248

Megan Rapinoe on Social Media and Mental Health

249

Peter Hamby on Saving Journalism from Twitter

250

Monica Lewinsky on the Internet's Culture of Humiliation

251

Jia Tolentino on the Internet's Endless Stage