185: 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—including lessons he learned while trying to take con...
29 Touko 20251h 16min
184: 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 Matteo Wong joins Offline to discuss why Silicon Vall...
22 Touko 20251h 10min
183: 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 of reality, especially with AI taking over our feed...
15 Touko 20251h 23min
182: 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 LA teens as they navigated their very online lives...
8 Touko 20251h 18min
181: 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 WhatsApp chats between America’s tech overlords. Ma...
1 Touko 20251h 6min
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 transvestigations, and TikTok’s “broken bone theory.” For t...
28 Huhti 202528min
180: 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 company. Jon and Max discuss all the possible outcomes...
24 Huhti 20251h 10min
179: 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 social media giant. Max and Jon run through the tria...
17 Huhti 20251h 23min
