Why Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't
We still don’t know why a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania opened fire on Trump last weekend. Lone shooters whose paths from normalcy to vigilantism seem esoteric, obscure, or perverse have become a fami...
21 Jul 202456min
The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve
Elle Reeve, CNN commentator and author of the new book Black Pill, joins Offline to share her reporting on the darkest corners of the internet. For over a decade, Reeve has tracked the emergence of th...
14 Jul 20241h 5min
Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI
Chat GPT isn’t going to top the Billboard Hot 100 any time soon, but something is happening with AI and music—something’s BEEN happening. Unlike in entertainment and journalism, big music labels and e...
30 Jun 202454min
Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI
Has this pod saved America…from phone addiction?! We got Jon Lovett to take a rather extreme version of the Offline challenge in Fiji, AND America’s top doctor and friend of the pod Vivek Murthy is no...
23 Jun 20241h 3min
Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt
The kids are not alright, and the culprit is their phones. That’s the thesis of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation. He joins Offline to discuss why he thinks smartph...
16 Jun 202452min
How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back
Why are Republicans apologists for misinformation? How should campaigns respond to online trolls? Are Democrats still using an Obama-era digital strategy? Journalist Sasha Issenberg joins Offline to t...
9 Jun 20241h 7min
How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech
Critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Halle Kiefer join Max to talk about “WALL-E.” The 2008 Pixar film depicts a future in which humans are so addicted to their screens that it takes a robot mutiny le...
6 Jun 202448min
Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real
Birds Aren’t Real founder, Peter McIndoe, joins to talk about the impact of the satirical conspiracy that captured the imagination of Gen Z and what he learned about the appeal of false realities afte...
2 Jun 20241h 9min
