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 deeper conversations about the impact of technology and the internet on our politics and culture.
Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, Chimamanda Adichie, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Rachel Maddow shed light on how our extremely online existence shapes the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll take on the most existential questions facing Americans right now, to figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline.
New episodes drop every Saturday, wherever you get your podcasts and on the Offline YouTube channel.
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If AI Might Kill Us All, Why Are We Still Building It?
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Max Fisher returns to Offline to face the robot apocalypse with Jon. The two discuss Jacob Coxon, the AI researcher who publicly resigned from Anthropic this week, the te
Sep 12 1 h 08 min
Why Government Makes Us Miserable
Americans don’t trust the government anymore. Annie Lowery, Atlantic staff writer and author of the new book The Time Tax, joins Offline to identify the culprit: a ploddi
Sep 5 1 h 21 min
Why College Was Too Woke For This Black Socialist Professor
Is the right wing’s depiction of academia NOT a complete caricature? Fromer Bates College professor—and current Atlantic staff writer—Tyler Austin Harper joins Offline to
Aug 29 1 h 05 min
Texas: "Is This The Year?"
Every election cycle the question inevitably comes up - will Texas flip? But the biggest story in Texas isn't whether the state will turn blue. It's how the people who li
Aug 22 25 min
1 Offline Host vs. 1 Jubilee Founder
Can the internet foster productive debate in the rage-bait era? Jubilee founder and CEO Jason Y. Lee joins Offline to talk about his company’s massive YouTube channel, kn
Aug 15 1 h 00 min
The Progressive Populists Make Their Case
Is economic populism the key to Democrats retaking power in 2026 and 2028? Faiz Shakir, political strategist and founder of the media organization More Perfect Union, joi
Aug 8 54 min
The Journalist Who Let AI Run Her Life For a Year
What happens when you turn your entire life over to AI for a year? Could it take over your emails or learn to mow your lawn? Would it replace your doctor or even your par
Aug 1 51 min
Andrew Yang Still Wants To Give You $1,000
Was Andrew Yang ahead of his time? When he ran for president in 2020 on a platform of universal basic income and the threat of AI job displacement, people didn’t take him
Jul 25 1 h 06 min
Posting My L's On Maine
What lessons have Democrats learned from the Graham Platner debacle…and what are their chances of finally unseating Senator Susan Collins with a campaign timeline that’s
Jul 18 58 min
Billionaires vs. Journalists
What exactly is happening inside CBS News, and how much is Bari Weiss to blame? How are journalists at CNN feeling about becoming the Ellisons' next target? And what has
Jul 11 51 min
What Is A Human For?
AI is creating a crisis of agency where people are becoming paranoid that they’re being manipulated, suckered, and ultimately replaced. Charlie Warzel joins Offline to el
Jun 27 1 h 04 min
Why You Should Love America
Progressives are highly critical of America, and for good reason. But we are losing more than problematic idols and ideals when we abandon patriotism. Jerusalem Demsas, f
Jun 20 1 h 06 min
Has The Left Finally Figured Out the Internet?
Ever heard a popular TikToker wax poetic about who they’re voting for? They might be getting paid…and not disclosing by whom. Kyle Tharp, author of the Chaotic Era newsle
Jun 13 55 min
Is Masculinism Holding MAGA Together?
Who are the men who want women to be quiet? Author and Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis argues it’s nearly everyone on the right. She joins Offline to make the case that
Jun 6 1 h 01 min
Chatbots, MDMA, and Finding Love in the Digital Era
Sonja Lyubomirsky, happiness researcher and author of How to Feel Loved, joins Offline to explain the secret to living a contented life—and why the internet makes it so d
May 30 55 min
Breaking the Cycle of Political Violence
Does political violence ever help a social cause? Zayd Ayers Dohrn, playwright and host of Crooked's "Mother Country Radicals," joins Offline to discuss the complicated l
May 23 57 min
This Candidacy Is a Test Case for AI Regulation
Why is Palantir, the former employer of congressional candidate Alex Bores, currently running attack ads against him...for working at Palantir? New York Assemblymember Al
May 16 53 min
Healing Our Broken Brains
Cal Newport, computer scientist and author of Deep Work, joins Offline to explain why we need a revolution in cognitive fitness, and how AI is going to get in the way. Ca
May 9 52 min
How Screens Have Warped Morality
Megan Garber, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the new book Screen People, joins Offline to explain how we’re no longer just an audience for the media we consum
May 2 55 min
God In The Machine
With Pope Leo XIV stepping up his criticisms of the Trump administration this month, the president is out for blood...and not the transubstantiated kind. Christopher Hale
Apr 25 1 h 04 min
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Engaging and insightful conversation. I really enjoy this podcast, especially now that Max is discussion partner for Jon. An idea for future online political success: Focus on parasocial relationships!! Find and support people who have parasocial magnetism.
Also, it’s time to integrate more women into your daily programming. As in, women with microphones in front of the cameras. Hysteria isn’t enough.
willa-grace · Nov 2024
Max is a great co-host and in him, Jon has found someone happy to indulge his insatiable urge to talk all the words, and as fast as possible. Witness as this leeway enables this insatiable urge to go into overdrive, as the words just start galloping out faster and faster until Jon is barley in control of the car anymore. It’s driving him. A stunning psychological spectacle slowly unravels before your ears each week.
Otterette · Oct 2024
A timely and essential podcast, offering a critical perspective on the dangerous misinformation that has become prevalent in today’s political landscape. Favreau, with his insightful interviews and sharp commentary, takes aim at the lies perpetuated by Trump and the current state of the Republican Party, which has strayed far from its core principles. In an era where disinformation can deeply divide the country, podcasts like Offline are crucial for fostering informed conversations, holding leaders accountable, and highlighting the importance of truth in our democracy.
Md713 · Oct 2024
Look forward to Sunday morning drop of the pod, and now the new midweek movie offline pod!! YES! Love Jon & Max’s bantering about all things, they have a wonderful exchange of ideas. Listening to hard issues with a lightness, humor.. and crushing on their voices too.
Absolutely blown away by how smart Peter Meladue (?) found of Birds aren’t Real is. I always enjoyed the movement these young people created, thought it was brilliant. Can see now the brilliant work is out of the mind of one remarkable person. Thank you for this interview. Fascinating, and gives me hope for the future, these young adults are it!!
K8!born · Jun 2024
This podcast has been a very helpful tool in my staying cognizant of the effects that the internet has on myself and society.
As a note of criticism, I am finding the show unlistenable as of late because of Max’s constant laughing throughout every episode. I understand that the show has a loose, casual style, which I do appreciate about Crooked Media podcasts in general, but this laughing is just way too persistent, and it lasts several seconds each time… a drawn out “a-HAH-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh” multiple times a minute gets so grating to hear, no matter who is doing it. He laughs at every little passing joke that Jon Favreau makes. Jon can be a funny guy, but sorry to say, not every single joke is laugh-out-loud funny, as Max’s laughing would suggest.
Because this is an audio medium, I would think the producers and hosts would be more conscious of things like this and recognize the value of minimizing anything that amounts to repetitive noise as this does. It feels petty to being saying it, and maybe I’m alone in feeling this way, but unfortunately I just can’t unhear it now, and it’s become like nails on a chalkboard to me. Not because Max’s laugh in particular is annoying, but simply because it is so constant, and anyone laughing that constantly would be annoying. He literally laughs out loud multiple times per minute, but it just seems like an annoying habit, rather than genuine laughter, and it’s become too distracting.
It’s a shame because I love the subject matter that Max, Jon, and their guests discuss, and I think all of them including Max are very insightful. I just can’t subject my ears to this forced laughter anymore.
SDqbf2782 · May 2024
This podcast used to be quite good but in the last few months it has become 2 millennial white guys complaining about social media and telling people to educate themselves with "better sources" yet never deigning to tell anyone what those better sources are. They make fun of TikTokers for ignorance yet don't point to anything better. Increasingly feels like they're just attacking 14-year-old girls in TikTok fandoms they don't understand
SouthernBaker · Dec 2023
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