Right Wing Media Collapse, Trump Trial’s Repost King, and How To Live Like You’re Not Dying
We did it folks! Jurors for Trump’s hush money trial are getting to read their resistance tweets to his face as Meta’s crackdown on news is slowly asphyxiating conservative media. Jon and Max celebrat...
21 Apr 20241h 13min
Trump’s Stock Crash, AI Gets Junkier, and Paying to Delete Social Media
Is FOMO the only thing keeping you on social media? Have we already reached peak artificial intelligence? And are Max and Jon too old to enjoy Glorb, a Spongebob Squarepants AI that’s become the hotte...
14 Apr 202446min
Are You Treating Politics Like a Hobby?
Are college educated Democrats going to cost Joe Biden the election? Eitan Hersh, a Political Science professor at Tufts, joins Offline to take a closer look at “political hobbyists,” aka people who t...
7 Apr 202446min
How to Be Happy with Dr. Laurie Santos
Dr. Laurie Santos, Yale University's “Happiness Professor,” joins Offline to lay out a scientific guide to finding happiness. On her podcast The Happiness Lab and in her course Psychology and the Good...
31 Mar 20241h 9min
Is Trump Benefiting from Our 2020 Amnesia?
Eric Klinenberg, sociologist at New York University, joins Offline to discuss why our failure to process 2020 may lead to another disastrous Trump term. His newest book, 2020, breaks down the year tha...
24 Mar 20241h 1min
Kate Middleton MIA, UFOs, and How Conspiracies Got Fun
Kate Middleton sightings have dipped below UFO sightings, and the internet is having a heyday! It’s conspiracy theory week at Offline, with Max and Jon offering up their own takes on the missing Princ...
17 Mar 20241h 19min
TikTok Ban Returns, AOC Hounded by Protesters, and Jon Ronson on the End of Public Shaming
Jon Ronson, author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and host of the BBC podcast “Things Fell Apart,” joins Offline to discuss culture wars—why do they originate in America? Are they going too far? Ar...
10 Mar 20241h 2min
Woke AI, Libs of TikTok DESTROYED, and the Offline Reality of Long COVID
Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist and New York Times opinion columnist, joins Offline to discuss why long covid has unleashed so much online vitriol, united the Senate, and exposed just how little Americans...
3 Mar 20241h 12min
