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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 different kind of Sunday show. A place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology & the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Megan Rapinoe spark curiosity ...
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The Blind,Leading the Deaf

Wayne-o winterhillgang617

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Welcome to my podcast, where I’ll bring you the latest news and events from around the world. From politics to entertainment, sports to technology, Wayne cover’s it all. His aim is to keep you informed and up-to-date with the most important stories of the day. We’ll be discussing the latest developments, analyzing the trends, and providing you with insights that you won’t find anywhere else. So sit back, relax, and join us as we explore the world of current events.”
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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 familiar pattern—but there’s actually a lot we do understand about the origins of political violence. Max sits down with terrorism scholar J.M. Berger to …
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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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 the alt-right, watched them radicalize on sites like 4chan and 8chan, and documented their migration off the web and into the streets of Charlottesville…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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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 even musicians like Drake and Grimes are cautiously embracing the latest in AI. And the results are not all bad! New Yorker writer John Seabrook sits d…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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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 now calling for a Surgeon General’s warning label on social media platforms. Max and Jon bask in their success, then mourn the dismantling of the Stanfo…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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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 smartphones and social media are fueling a teen and adolescent mental health epidemic, the evidence behind his claims, and the criticism his anti-phone crusa…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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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 talk about his new book, The Lie Detectives, and to break down how to defeat conservatives in a truth-agnostic world. He and Jon discuss how today’s po…
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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 led by a mobile trash compactor to get them to log off. Why did the filmmakers opt for a trashpocalypse? How problematic is the movie’s portrayal of fat…
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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 after spending years in character as one of the nation’s leading conspiracy theorists. But first: Is TikTok helping Trump win? Why is Google telling peopl…
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Are we all living in The Matrix? Eh, probably not. But our tech obsessed, social media driven world is a lot closer to the reality The Matrix posed in 1999 than the Wachowskis probably ever dreamed of! New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and host of Hysteria Erin Ryan, join Max to watch the beloved sci fi film and break down the ways The Matrix …
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Do we treat political affiliation like a religion? Which parts of our identity are based off factual belief vs. imaginary belief? This week, Max talks to Professor Neil Van Leeuwen about the difference between thinking and believing, the power of groupish thought, and the similarities between religious creeds and political ideologies. But first! Jo…
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Ezra Klein joins Offline Movie Club to discuss “Her,” the movie that more or less incited this week’s Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI drama. Back in 2013, when ChatGPT was just a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye, no one thought a writer falling in love with his sentient virtual assistant was a near-term scenario. But here we are! Ezra, Max and Jon debate w…
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100 is trying to stop Hassan Campbell YouTube channel demonetized because of what Hassan did to whack by recording a phone call supposedly Nipsey Hussle is gay whack $1 million to show the video. Let’s buy the video for $1 million and we will make 10 times more off of it, where your mouth is do you wanna play poker? I want to see your hand also if …
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ChatGPT has officially entered its “Her” era! Jon and Max talk about the flirty AI that debuted this week, whose husky voice and warm enthusiasm evokes Scarlett Johansson. But not all the tech titans are doing so hot; Facebook’s noxious combo of AI-generated content and the real people who are falling for it has been coined the “zombie internet.” T…
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Leave it to Tom Hanks to make internet catfishing seem so darn charming! This week, Offline’s Movie Club is watching “You’ve Got Mail,” the cozy, capitalist, and kind of creepy 90s classic. Remember when being online was a choice? When online dating was stigmatized? When Meg Ryan flounced around with unparalleled charisma? Max is joined by Jon Love…
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Is it time for you to make an AI friend? Jon and Max weigh the pros and cons of robot affirmation, sink their teeth into a new study on smart phone bans in schools, and then turn their attention to something they’re both very qualified to talk about: the rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that’s reanimating Twitter. Plus, a new East vs. West…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item belongs to: audio/crapfromthepast. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3…
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Bo Burnham’s comedy has long captivated and caricatured the internet, but the era his songs skewer the best is the hyperactive, blood-thirsty, online world of peak-pandemic lockdown. Max, Jon and comedian Jamie Loftus discuss “Bo Burnham: Inside,” in which a child of the internet breaks it down and breaks down. Was 2021 the peak of performative vir…
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