Offline with Jon Favreau

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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 interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, Chimamanda Adichie, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Rachel Maddow spark curiosity and introspection around the various ways our extremely online existence shapes everything from the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll 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. Subscribe to Friends of the Pod! Your subscription makes Crooked’s work possible and gives you access to ad-free episodes of Offline with Jon Favreau, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, and Lovett or Leave It, plus exclusive content and a lively Discord community. Learn more and subscribe at crooked.com/friends or on Apple Podcasts.

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