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Offline with Jon Favreau
Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology and the internet on our collective culture. Intimate int...
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Is America Still a Liberal Nation?
Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and author of the new book On Liberalism: in Defense of Freedom, joins Offline to examine whether small-l "liberal" v...
Dramatize the Injustice
Should protests be about expression or persuasion? What makes for an effective protest? And is it still possible for protests to effect change in a fr...
How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Transformed The Way We Speak
Skibidi rizz Labubu Dubai matcha. The internet—and its algorithms—have reshaped the words we use and the way we speak—but are those changes also affec...
Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
Charlie Kirk’s assassination has rattled people on both sides of the aisle and terrified those whose jobs, like Charlie’s, involve talking about polit...
Can The Left Reclaim America's Story?
Democrats need to defend democracy without undermining it—but how? John Ganz, author of When the Clock Broke and the "Unpopular Front” substack, joins...
JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right's War on America
As the U.S. slides into autocracy, Americans need to be reminded that liberalism can still solve the problems that Trump uses to fear monger. Jerusale...
Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?
Ben Rhodes—bestselling author, Pod Save the World co-host, and fellow Obama administration alum—joins Offline to explain how America is being torn ap...
AI's Threat to Gen Z's Jobs, the FartCoin Economy, and Why the Internet Wants to Check Your ID
Kyla Scanlon, author and economic commentator, joins Offline to explain why our economy feels so weird. She and Jon talk about the ways AI — and Labub...
QAnon Reacts to Epstein, Laura Loomer Gets Loomered, and Jon Gets Caught Up in the Syndey Sweeney Discourse
As the Trump administration manufactures conspiracies to distract from the president’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, some on the right are blaming...
Trump Bans Woke AI, TikTok Cancels Sydney Sweeney, and How MAGA Became Multiracial
Why are non-white voters moving towards Trump? Yale professor and author Daniel Martinez HoSang sits down with Jon to examine how Democrats’ multiraci...
Trump’s Epstein Nightmare, Jubilee’s Fascist Debate, and the Movie Twitter Wrote
Living through a deadly plague as we watched the country descend into political violence on our screens might've left us with some...unresolved issues...
Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere
Boys today are being told to man up by the right and sit down by the left. Coming of age in the shadow of #MeToo and wading through algorithms rife wi...
Peter Thiel's Antichrist, JD Vance's Split with the Pope, and Ross Douthat's Scientific Case for Believing in God
Religion in the US has been on the decline for many years, but does atheism make us unhappier? Ross Douthat, New York Times Opinion columnist and auth...
Hugs From Your Late Mom, Interdimensional Chats, and College Cheating: The AI Future Is Here
We don't really know how AIs like ChatGPT work...which makes it all the more chilling that they're now leading people down rabbit holes of delusion, a...
The Truth About Young Men's Shift Towards Trump
Why are young men — of all races — moving toward Trump? Are high prices to blame? Their media diets? The Democrats? John Della Volpe, the nation’s lea...
Succession’s Creator Takes on the Tech Billionaires
Jesse Armstrong, the Emmy Award-winning creator of HBO's "Succession," joins Offline to chat about how he made a mockery of Silicon Valley tycoons in...
Momfluencers, Baby Gadgets, and the Perils of Parenting in The Digital Age
Are we surveilling our children too much? Do we need fancy gadgets to track their sleep? Should we be taking so many pictures of them? Longtime New Yo...
AI News Anchors, Dems $20 Million Plan to Study Men, and Max Bids Farewell to Offline
To celebrate his final appearance on the pod, Max takes Jon on a trip down memory lane, sharing his favorite Offline clips from the past two years—inc...
Elon's Offline Challenge, Grok’s White Genocide Glitch, and Silicon Valley's New Religion
The tech elite believe AI is just a few years away from displacing most computer-based jobs, and they seem…excited about it? Atlantic staff writer Mat...
Jon Gets Hacked, Woke Offline Pope, and How Jia Tolentino’s Brain Finally Broke
Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror and staff writer at the New Yorker, joins Offline to discuss how it’s becoming harder and harder to make sense o...
Pope Trump, Zuckerberg’s AI Friends, and the Shocking Truth of How Teens Live Online
Lauren Greenfield, director of the acclaimed FX docuseries “Social Studies,” sits down with Jon to talk about the year she spent shadowing a group of...
The Global Elite’s Secret Group Chats, Gen Z's Lifestyle Subsidy, and Meta's Sex Bots
Pete Hegseth isn’t the only one who loves a group chat—turns out Silicon Valley's descent into Trumpism was powered by a constellation of Signal and W...
Terminally Online: Larry David v. Bill Maher, TikTok Mystics, and the White House Correspondents' Dinner
This Terminally Online preview breaks down the liberal media’s response to the back-and-forth between Larry David and Bill Maher, right-wing transvest...
Could Blowing Up Google Save The Internet? Plus MAGA's Birth Obsession and Your Questions Answered
Google’s antitrust trial is all gas no breaks this week, with the Justice Department asking a federal judge to break up the $1.81 trillion dollar comp...
Zuck Takes the Stand, ChatGPT Turns on Lovett, and the Surprising Ties Between Our Biology and Our Politics
Free speech warrior Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand this week to defend Meta in a big antitrust case that, if successful, could break up the so...
Real Men Love Tariffs, Elon Gets Cyberbullied, Meta Whistleblower Testifies
Ryan Broderick, host of Offline’s most-cited newsletter “Garbage Day,” joins Jon to talk tariff turmoil—how it will affect the TikTok deal, whether Tr...
Jon’s Twitter Fight with JD Vance and Elon’s Scheme to Buy Votes
How does J.D. Vance have so much time to fight with Jon on X? Why are the courts letting Elon Musk buy votes in Wisconsin? And are we, as a society, r...
Offline PC Small Group
They weren’t war plans, they were BATTLE plans—that’s the White House's new, extremely believable spin on why J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth and countless o...
The Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read
Meta has called an emergency arbitration hearing over a tell-all memoir by Facebook's former Director of Global Public Policy. The author, Sarah Wynn...
Shocking Facebook Secrets Revealed, JD Vance Meme Wars, and a $10,000 Conspiracy Bet
A new Facebook whistleblower has come forward with shocking allegations—seems like company execs have been trying to cozy up to everyone from the Chin...
Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America
Not too long ago, Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, and Dana White—Offline’s favorite power brokers—identified UFC as a pathway for reshaping culture and polit...
Elon Wellness Check, The Anti-Doge Revolt, and Some Actual Good News
Twenty-one DOGE staffers resigned this week, citing the agency’s meddling in the federal government. Meanwhile, top DOGE Elon Musk was brandishing a c...
Why Elon Lies About DOGE and How To Fix Your Focus
Special Government Employee Elon Musk has attempted to access our most personal data. Meanwhile, Billionaire Tech Mogul Elon Musk attempted to take ov...
What Post-Democracy America Looks Like
U.S. democracy is likely to break down during this second Trump presidency, but what lies ahead isn’t a traditional dictatorship. Dr. Steven Levitsky...
Can Democracy Survive the Attention Wars? with Chris Hayes
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joins Offline to discuss how our society’s commodification of attention has made us miserable while empowering authoritarians like...
Fighting the Broligarchs with Senator Chris Murphy
Senator Chris Murphy joins Offline with a warning for his fellow Democrats: the longer we take to counter Trump’s horrifying shock and awe strategy, t...
Trump's TikTok Dilemma, Crypto Cons Debunked, and The Truth About the Loneliness Epidemic
TikTok is back from the dead... at least for now. After a self-imposed shutdown and a shameless appeal to President Trump, the countdown to the TikTok...
The Episode China Doesn’t Want You to Hear
The Supreme Court is the latest branch of government to kicktok TikTok to the curb—at least under its present Chinese ownership. Max and Jon break dow...
Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech
Offline’s favorite foe of Big Tech, FTC Chair Lina Khan, joins the show to talk to Jon about standing up to Meta and Amazon, how the internet has chan...
The Surgeon General's Very Offline Parting Message (and a Comically Online Holiday Segment)
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins Offline to share his final prescription for the nation He and Jon talk about why his parting message is all about c...