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Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Jon Favreau, the chronically online host of Pod Save America, puts down his phone for an hour each week to go deeper on the questions shaping this chaotic moment in history. From the future of democracy and AI to raising kids and staying…

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Winning Is Fun. Let’s Try It Again. 2026-11-07 · 79m
The One Thing You Can Do That Campaigns Can't 2026-10-31 · 50m
Bigger Tent, Bigger Majority 2026-10-24 · 71m
What Does It Mean to Be a Good Man? (with Jon Ronson) 2026-10-17 · 67m
What A Big Tech Whistleblower Learned About Power 2026-10-10 · 61m
Erin Brockovich Is Taking On Data Centers 2026-10-03 · 70m
Bunkers Won't Save the Billionaires 2026-09-26 · 62m
Have You Tried Unplugging the AI? 2026-09-19 · 66m
If AI Might Kill Us All, Why Are We Still Building It? 2026-09-12 · 68m
Why Government Makes Us Miserable 2026-09-05 · 81m
Why College Was Too Woke For This Black Socialist Professor 2026-08-29 · 66m
Texas: "Is This The Year?" 2026-08-22 · 26m
1 Offline Host vs. 1 Jubilee Founder 2026-08-15 · 61m
The Progressive Populists Make Their Case 2026-08-08 · 54m
The Journalist Who Let AI Run Her Life For a Year 2026-08-01 · 51m
Andrew Yang Still Wants To Give You $1,000 2026-07-25 · 66m
Posting My L's On Maine 2026-07-18 · 59m
Billionaires vs. Journalists 2026-07-11 · 51m
What Is A Human For? 2026-06-27 · 65m
Why You Should Love America 2026-06-20 · 66m
Has The Left Finally Figured Out the Internet? 2026-06-13 · 56m
Is Masculinism Holding MAGA Together? 2026-06-06 · 62m
Chatbots, MDMA, and Finding Love in the Digital Era 2026-05-30 · 55m
Breaking the Cycle of Political Violence 2026-05-23 · 57m
This Candidacy Is a Test Case for AI Regulation 2026-05-16 · 54m
Healing Our Broken Brains 2026-05-09 · 49m
How Screens Have Warped Morality 2026-05-02 · 52m
God In The Machine 2026-04-25 · 59m
The Revolt of the College Grads 2026-04-18 · 48m
Sam Altman's Big Little Lies 2026-04-11 · 50m
Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment 2026-04-04 · 54m
Optimism In Our Age of Anxiety 2026-03-28 · 51m
What We Lose When We Bet on War 2026-03-23 · 38m
Trump's Memeification of War 2026-03-14 · 59m
Endless Slop, Cancer Cures, or Robot Apocalypse? Derek Thompson on Our AI Future 2026-03-07 · 67m
The Big Tech Critic Trump Is Trying To Deport 2026-02-28 · 55m
Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, Pete Hegseth vs. AI, and Max-Maxxing with Max Fisher 2026-02-21 · 54m
The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good 2026-02-14 · 53m
Can Truth Survive the Trump Era? 2026-02-07 · 59m
Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand 2026-01-31 · 66m
The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America) 2026-01-24 · 61m
The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow) 2026-01-17 · 66m
ICE Killings and the Death of Shared Reality 2026-01-10 · 50m
What Comes After Trump? 2025-12-20 · 72m
The Movement to Protect Kids from Big Tech 2025-12-13 · 59m
A Techno-Optimist’s Case for AI 2025-12-06 · 55m
Max Returns! AI Bubbles, Info Silos, and 67 2025-11-29 · 66m
Zohran Mamdani’s Offline Campaign 2025-11-22 · 63m
James Talarico Wants to Fight with Love 2025-11-15 · 71m
Have the Democrats Decided to Win? 2025-11-08 · 63m
Is AI Too Big to Fail or Too Dangerous to Succeed? 2025-11-01 · 69m
Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention 2025-10-25 · 69m
Introducing: Runaway Country with Alex Wagner 2025-10-24 · 70m
Are Men Okay? 2025-10-16 · 75m
Is America Still a Liberal Nation? 2025-10-09 · 70m
Dramatize the Injustice 2025-10-02 · 77m
How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Transformed The Way We Speak 2025-09-25 · 62m
Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination 2025-09-18 · 56m
Can The Left Reclaim America's Story? 2025-09-11 · 63m
JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right's War on America 2025-09-04 · 60m
Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy? 2025-08-21 · 65m
AI's Threat to Gen Z's Jobs, the FartCoin Economy, and Why the Internet Wants to Check Your ID 2025-08-14 · 66m
QAnon Reacts to Epstein, Laura Loomer Gets Loomered, and Jon Gets Caught Up in the Syndey Sweeney Discourse 2025-08-07 · 47m
Trump Bans Woke AI, TikTok Cancels Sydney Sweeney, and How MAGA Became Multiracial 2025-07-31 · 75m
Trump’s Epstein Nightmare, Jubilee’s Fascist Debate, and the Movie Twitter Wrote 2025-07-24 · 73m
Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere 2025-07-17 · 66m
Peter Thiel's Antichrist, JD Vance's Split with the Pope, and Ross Douthat's Scientific Case for Believing in God 2025-07-10 · 78m
Hugs From Your Late Mom, Interdimensional Chats, and College Cheating: The AI Future Is Here 2025-06-26 · 81m
The Truth About Young Men's Shift Towards Trump 2025-06-19 · 66m
Succession’s Creator Takes on the Tech Billionaires 2025-06-12 · 63m
Momfluencers, Baby Gadgets, and the Perils of Parenting in The Digital Age 2025-06-05 · 68m
AI News Anchors, Dems $20 Million Plan to Study Men, and Max Bids Farewell to Offline 2025-05-29 · 77m
Elon's Offline Challenge, Grok’s White Genocide Glitch, and Silicon Valley's New Religion 2025-05-22 · 70m
Jon Gets Hacked, Woke Offline Pope, and How Jia Tolentino’s Brain Finally Broke 2025-05-15 · 83m
Pope Trump, Zuckerberg’s AI Friends, and the Shocking Truth of How Teens Live Online 2025-05-08 · 78m
The Global Elite’s Secret Group Chats, Gen Z's Lifestyle Subsidy, and Meta's Sex Bots 2025-05-01 · 67m
Terminally Online: Larry David v. Bill Maher, TikTok Mystics, and the White House Correspondents' Dinner 2025-04-28 · 28m
Could Blowing Up Google Save The Internet? Plus MAGA's Birth Obsession and Your Questions Answered 2025-04-24 · 70m
Zuck Takes the Stand, ChatGPT Turns on Lovett, and the Surprising Ties Between Our Biology and Our Politics 2025-04-17 · 83m
Real Men Love Tariffs, Elon Gets Cyberbullied, Meta Whistleblower Testifies 2025-04-10 · 55m
Jon’s Twitter Fight with JD Vance and Elon’s Scheme to Buy Votes 2025-04-03 · 65m
Offline PC Small Group 2025-03-27 · 80m
The Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read 2025-03-20 · 64m
Shocking Facebook Secrets Revealed, JD Vance Meme Wars, and a $10,000 Conspiracy Bet 2025-03-13 · 69m
Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America 2025-03-06 · 98m
Elon Wellness Check, The Anti-Doge Revolt, and Some Actual Good News 2025-02-27 · 69m
Why Elon Lies About DOGE and How To Fix Your Focus 2025-02-20 · 80m
What Post-Democracy America Looks Like 2025-02-16 · 84m
Can Democracy Survive the Attention Wars? with Chris Hayes 2025-02-09 · 74m
Fighting the Broligarchs with Senator Chris Murphy 2025-02-02 · 82m
Trump's TikTok Dilemma, Crypto Cons Debunked, and The Truth About the Loneliness Epidemic 2025-01-26 · 72m
The Episode China Doesn’t Want You to Hear 2025-01-19 · 84m
Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech 2025-01-12 · 66m
The Surgeon General's Very Offline Parting Message (and a Comically Online Holiday Segment) 2024-12-22 · 87m
Was Luigi Mangione Too Online? 2024-12-15 · 56m
Can Talking to Strangers Fix Our Politics? 2024-12-08 · 44m
Subscriber Exclusive: Terminally Online 2024-12-01 · 35m
Do Libs Need a Social Media Safe Space? Did Misinfo Hurt Kamala? How Much Should the Left Influence Democrats? 2024-11-24 · 78m
Why Democrats’ Media Problem is Deeper than “Liberal Joe Rogan” 2024-11-17 · 93m
Where We Go From Here 2024-11-10 · 67m
Offline’s Anti-Anxiety Election Special 2024-11-03 · 79m
Elon Kills the Block Button, AI Comes for Podcasts, and The Good Liar's Guide to Talking to Trump Voters 2024-10-27 · 51m
Biden’s Weather Machine, Leaked TikTok Docs, Elon’s MAGA Ground Game, and Big Porn to the Rescue? 2024-10-20 · 63m
Hasan Piker on the Bro Vote, Kamala Harris, and the 2024 Election 2024-10-13 · 82m
Silicon Valley’s Newest Bad Idea, Vigilantes Infiltrate the Far Right, and Should We Buy Infowars? 2024-10-06 · 74m
Trump Truths vs. Trump Tweets, Chappell Roan's Non-Endorsement, and Behind the Scenes at Elon's Twitter 2024-09-29 · 60m
Why "Blade Runner" Still Defines How We See Tech 2024-09-26 · 56m
GOP's "Black Nazi" Porn Posting, Instagram's New Rules, and Tristan Harris's Guide to Humane Technology 2024-09-22 · 74m
How “Fight Club” Created a Generation of Sh*tposters 2024-09-19 · 84m
Robert Putnam on Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and Making America Social Again 2024-09-15 · 56m
“Tár” with Jon Favreau and Amanda Hess 2024-09-12 · 71m
Trump Tours the Manosphere, Russia Funds MAGA Influencers, and Hawk Tuah Girl Cashes In 2024-09-08 · 54m
How "Zola" Explains Social Media Brain 2024-09-05 · 68m
Obama's Offline Speech, Zuck Fears Trump, and the Crank Political Divide 2024-09-01 · 59m
How “The Truman Show” Explains Life in 2024 2024-08-29 · 76m
How Peter Thiel Became the Right’s Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker 2024-08-25 · 62m
“WarGames” with Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes 2024-08-22 · 64m
Trump and Elon’s Trainwreck Interview & J.D. Vance’s Real Tech Agenda 2024-08-18 · 57m
How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral 2024-08-11 · 41m
JD Vance, Project 2025, and How the Right Got Weird 2024-08-04 · 50m
Kamala Harris’ Coconut-Pilled Brat Girl Summer 2024-07-28 · 55m
Why Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't 2024-07-21 · 57m
The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve 2024-07-14 · 66m
Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI 2024-06-30 · 54m
Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI 2024-06-23 · 63m
Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt 2024-06-16 · 52m
How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back 2024-06-09 · 68m
How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech 2024-06-06 · 49m
Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real 2024-06-02 · 69m
How "The Matrix" Created Modern Silicon Valley 2024-05-30 · 75m
ScarJo v. AI, the Digital Guillotine, and Why We Play Make Believe with Misinformation 2024-05-26 · 70m
Why "Her" Reveals How We Really Feel About AI (with Ezra Klein) 2024-05-23 · 65m
AI’s Flirty Upgrade, Facebook’s Zombie Internet, and Why We May Be Doing Mental Health Wrong 2024-05-19 · 44m
How “You’ve Got Mail” Explains '90s Internet Culture 2024-05-16 · 66m
TikTok vs Biden, Kendrick vs Drake, AI vs Loneliness 2024-05-12 · 52m
How Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Inspired Offline 2024-05-09 · 54m
How Cognitive Bias Explains Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and Internet Malaise 2024-05-05 · 52m
How “The Social Network” Explains Silicon Valley 2024-05-02 · 64m
The Biden Campaign’s Plan to Beat Trump Online 2024-04-28 · 47m
Right Wing Media Collapse, Trump Trial’s Repost King, and How To Live Like You’re Not Dying 2024-04-21 · 74m
Trump’s Stock Crash, AI Gets Junkier, and Paying to Delete Social Media 2024-04-14 · 46m
Are You Treating Politics Like a Hobby? 2024-04-07 · 47m
How to Be Happy with Dr. Laurie Santos 2024-03-31 · 69m
Is Trump Benefiting from Our 2020 Amnesia? 2024-03-24 · 62m
Kate Middleton MIA, UFOs, and How Conspiracies Got Fun 2024-03-17 · 79m
TikTok Ban Returns, AOC Hounded by Protesters, and Jon Ronson on the End of Public Shaming 2024-03-10 · 63m
Woke AI, Libs of TikTok DESTROYED, and the Offline Reality of Long COVID 2024-03-03 · 73m
An Ex-Tucker Carlson Employee Tells All 2024-02-25 · 82m
The Neuroscience of Why We’re Susceptible to Lies, Outrage, and Fascism 2024-02-18 · 63m
Authoritarians or A-holes? Kara Swisher on Tech's Biggest Egos 2024-02-11 · 57m
What's Really Behind the Media Apocalypse? 2024-02-04 · 73m
Are Algorithms Making You Boring? 2024-01-28 · 53m
Were Trump’s Opponents Too Online? Plus, R. F. Kuang on Her Twitter Era Novel 2024-01-21 · 64m
The Science of Achieving (and Enjoying) Your New Year’s Resolution 2024-01-14 · 53m
Dry January, Cali Sober, Soft Sober: Why Gen Z is Breaking Up With Booze 2024-01-07 · 68m
Millennials v. Gen Z, Twitter v. Threads, Social Media Trends for 2024: Jon & Max Answer Your Questions 2023-12-17 · 62m
Best Of: How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints 2023-12-10 · 50m
Is a $16 McDonald’s Order Going to Elect Trump? 2023-12-03 · 51m
Inside 2024 - Preview | Favreau + Tommy Talk Election Night 2023-11-26 · 17m
How Jezebel Changed Media and Why TikTokers Are Rizzing Up Osama bin Laden 2023-11-19 · 74m
The Truth About TikTok’s Spin on Israel-Gaza 2023-11-12 · 56m
Naomi Klein on What Happens When You’re Mistaken for a Conspiracy Theorist 2023-11-05 · 83m
Why Do People Love Joe Rogan? 2023-10-29 · 49m
Jon Stewart, Donald Trump, and How Comedy Changed Politics 2023-10-22 · 57m
Why Has Social Media Made It Impossible to Follow the Israel-Hamas War? 2023-10-15 · 53m
Heather Cox Richardson on Donald Trump, Democracy, and Taylor Swift 2023-10-08 · 68m
Fox News’s Succession Battle, Breaking Up Amazon, and Twitter CEO’s Disastrous Q&A 2023-10-01 · 79m
Fetterman’s Body Double, Biden’s Misinformation Strategy, and OpenAI’s Secret & Scarier AI 2023-09-24 · 70m
The U.S. v. Google, Elon’s Secrets Revealed, and Why Trolls Got Nastier 2023-09-17 · 64m
How to Survive the 2024 Election, Tech Predictions for the Decade, and the Best Life Advice 2023-09-10 · 60m
A Very Online Summer (Friends of the Pod Preview) 2023-09-03 · 32m
How Social Media is Changing Movies — and Their Place in Society 2023-08-27 · 57m
Welcome to the Take Recession 2023-08-20 · 77m
How Facebook Changes Us, Influencer Riots, and AI Gets Funny 2023-08-13 · 82m
How Taylor Swift Conquered the Internet, Plus: Xtra Xtra the Bird is Dead 2023-08-06 · 70m
The Strike to Keep Hollywood Human, with Adam Conover 2023-07-30 · 53m
Big Tech vs. Hollywood; AI vs. Journalism; Socialists vs. Bananas 2023-07-23 · 77m
Is 2024 the AI Election? Plus, an OG Twitter Exec on Elon, Threads, and Tech Bros 2023-07-16 · 76m
QAnon is Thriving, Twitter is Dying, Zuck to the Rescue? 2023-07-09 · 78m
Joe Rogan Debates Vaccines, Elon Challenges Zuck, and the Submarine Discourse 2023-06-25 · 77m
Why You Should Make Silly Things 2023-06-18 · 56m
How to Break Your Phone Addiction 2023-06-11 · 79m
The Kids Are Not Alright. Is Social Media to Blame? 2023-05-28 · 80m
Is Fox News Doomed? 2023-05-21 · 72m
Did Clickbait Kill Buzzfeed and the Digital Media Era? 2023-05-14 · 80m
Jon and Max Surrender Their iPhones 2023-05-07 · 55m
How is Collective Grief Rewiring our Brains | Hysteria Excerpt 2023-05-03 · 37m
Hasan Piker Wants the Left to Persuade, Not Scold 2023-04-30 · 63m
How the Internet is Radicalizing Young Men 2023-04-23 · 57m
John Green Doesn’t Think the World is Ending (Yet) 2023-04-16 · 63m
Should America Ban TikTok? 2023-04-09 · 88m
The End of Big Tech as We Know It 2023-03-26 · 55m
How to Beat Fox News 2023-03-19 · 51m
Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity 2023-03-12 · 46m
What Do We Lose if We Lose Black Twitter? 2023-03-05 · 37m
What Happened To Your Ambition? | Work Appropriate 2023-02-26 · 50m
Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? 2023-02-19 · 44m
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from an 84 Year Study on Happiness 2023-02-12 · 49m
Who Can Own the Most Libs? Tim Miller on the ’24 GOP Primary 2023-02-05 · 62m
What’s With All the Tech Layoffs? 2023-01-29 · 46m
Do Dating Apps Make it Harder to Find Love? 2023-01-22 · 35m
Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI 2023-01-15 · 47m
How to Avoid Distraction with Johann Hari 2023-01-08 · 58m
Offline Mailbag with Emily Favreau and Dare We Say 2023-01-01 · 58m
The Worst Tweets of 2022 with Rebecca Jennings 2022-12-18 · 29m
Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost 2022-12-11 · 44m
What Democrats Could Learn from Republicans with Brian Beutler 2022-12-04 · 58m
How to Talk Your Uncle Out of QAnon this Thanksgiving 2022-11-20 · 39m
Bad Vibes v. Good Results. Lynn Vavreck on the ’22 Midterms 2022-11-13 · 61m
Elon’s Twitter is in the Sh*tter with Nilay Patel 2022-11-06 · 42m
Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Internet 2022-10-30 · 43m
Persuasion Isn’t Dead with Anand Giridharadas 2022-10-23 · 56m
Rachel Maddow on America’s Forgotten Insurrection 2022-10-16 · 45m
Is Remote Work Here to Stay? With Derek Thompson 2022-10-09 · 52m
Offline presents The Axe Files hosted by David Axelrod, featuring Maria Ressa 2022-10-02 · 64m
Introducing The Wilderness Chapter 1: The Divide 2022-09-18 · 40m
Lessons from the Depths of the Internet 2022-09-11 · 61m
The Inside Story of How Silicon Valley Rewired Our Brains 2022-09-04 · 60m
How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints 2022-08-28 · 48m
Katie Couric on Sarah Palin, Disinformation, and the Future of Journalism. 2022-08-21 · 62m
How Can Democrats Win the Digital Wars? 2022-08-14 · 53m
Is TikTok a Secret Threat to America? With Scott Galloway 2022-08-07 · 57m
Has the Internet Trapped Us in the Past? 2022-07-31 · 58m
Jane Coaston on Why Internet Debates Suck 2022-07-24 · 59m
What the F*** is the Metaverse? 2022-07-17 · 50m
How to Restore Roe (From Positively Dreadful) 2022-07-10 · 66m
The 19-Year-Old Helping Gen Z Log Off 2022-07-03 · 43m
Has Google Created a Soul? 2022-06-26 · 42m
Steve Bannon’s Very Online Insurrection 2022-06-19 · 50m
Crypto for Beginners with Kevin Roose 2022-06-12 · 40m
How Should Parents Manage Kids’ Screen Time? 2022-06-05 · 35m
Ro Khanna is Optimistic About the Internet 2022-05-29 · 47m
Can We Blame the Internet for Buffalo? 2022-05-22 · 40m
Sex, Drugs, and Phone Addictions with Dr. Anna Lembke 2022-05-15 · 45m
Chris Hayes on Why We’re All Famous Now 2022-05-08 · 63m
Does Elon Musk Want Free Speech or Attention? 2022-05-01 · 52m
Are Russians Buying Putin’s Propaganda? 2022-04-24 · 57m
A Newsroom’s Fight Against Misinformation in the Black Community 2022-04-17 · 48m
A Twitter Founder on Elon, Trump, and the Edit Button 2022-04-10 · 56m
Samantha Bee on Laughing at our Political Hellscape 2022-04-03 · 49m
Lilly Singh on YouTube to Late Night 2022-03-27 · 49m
Taylor Lorenz on Why All Culture is Internet Culture 2022-03-20 · 46m
Greg Daniels on the Digital Afterlife 2022-03-13 · 36m
Kara Swisher on the Very Online War in Ukraine 2022-03-06 · 52m
Welcome to “Offline with Jon Favreau.” New episodes March 6. 2022-02-27 · 2m
Ezra Klein on the Democrat’s Echo Chamber 2022-02-20 · 69m
Hank Green on Inspiring Curiosity 2022-02-13 · 49m
Roxane Gay on Why People Are So Awful Online 2022-02-06 · 45m
Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok 2022-01-30 · 59m
Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing 2022-01-23 · 50m
Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith 2022-01-16 · 59m
Alex Stamos on Leaving Facebook and Zuckerberg's Reign 2022-01-09 · 51m
Mailbag Episode with Jon and Emily Favreau 2022-01-02 · 44m
Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers 2021-12-19 · 55m
Dr. Vivek Murthy on Defeating Doomscrolling with Human Connection 2021-12-12 · 50m
Charlie Warzel on Facebook's Original Sin 2021-12-05 · 52m
DeRay Mckesson on How Twitter Saved Black Lives 2021-11-28 · 48m
Stephen Colbert on Finding Laughter in the Darkness 2021-11-21 · 49m
Megan Rapinoe on Social Media and Mental Health 2021-11-14 · 47m
Peter Hamby on Saving Journalism from Twitter 2021-11-07 · 46m
Monica Lewinsky on the Internet's Culture of Humiliation 2021-10-31 · 48m
Jia Tolentino on the Internet's Endless Stage 2021-10-24 · 40m
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