Best Margaret Weathers Podcasts (2024)

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Biden’s Weather Machine, Leaked TikTok Docs, Elon’s MAGA Ground Game, and Big Porn to the Rescue? 1:02:51

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Why are FEMA workers being threatened for trying to help clean up after Hurricane Helene? Jon and Max break down the misinformation spreading on social media, including the now infamous girl-with-puppy AI image. Then, they discuss the leaked documents that show TikTok knows exactly how harmful their app is, and check in on Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO …

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024 – Sara Weaner on Lawn Transformation 29:19

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Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Hasan Piker on the Bro Vote, Kamala Harris, and the 2024 Election 1:21:31

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Hasan Piker, Gen Z’s favorite left wing political commentator and Twitch streamer, joins Offline to talk about the Trump campaign’s bro-first election strategy, the right wing’s dominance of the digital media landscape, and why, 25 days until the election, he’s feeling mostly…tired. Jon and Hasan debate the Biden-Harris policy agenda, particularly …

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024 – Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal 28:36

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It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Silicon Valley’s Newest Bad Idea, Vigilantes Infiltrate the Far Right, and Should We Buy Infowars? 1:13:50

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Alex Jones’ conspiracy media network, InfoWars, is up for sale, as is the at-home genetic testing service 23andMe…and potentially the DNA of 15 million people who used it. Meanwhile, TikTok grifters are using AI to fake defecting to North Korea, and it’s for a dumber reason than you could possibly imagine. But first! Silicon Valley thinks it’s fina…

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024 – Tim Johnson on Native Seeds 29:22

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When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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The Doggy Diva Show - Episode 170 Seasonal Pet Safety Tips for Fall and Halloween 24:08

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Pet health and lifestyle contributor, Monica Leighton, shares helpful advice on keeping your pets safe during the fall season and fun tips for celebrating Halloween with your pups. EPISODE NOTES: Seasonal Pet Safety Tips for Fall and HalloweenBy Susan Marie

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Trump Truths vs. Trump Tweets, Chappell Roan's Non-Endorsement, and Behind the Scenes at Elon's Twitter 1:00:27

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New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger joins Offline to discuss Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, a new book she coauthored with Ryan Mac. It’s the best coverage out there of Elon’s takeover and the subsequent deterioration of the platform, with behind-the-scenes reporting on how and why he bought the company, and the decisions he…

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Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024 28:53

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Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines.... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Why "Blade Runner" Still Defines How We See Tech 56:17

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Critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Halle Kiefer join Max to discuss “Blade Runner,” the 1982 classic that asks the question: could an AI chatbot become so hot that it would be unethical to delete it? Perhaps no other movie has had as big an impact on sci-fi or the aesthetic of futurism as Ridley Scott’s film. Is this Harrison Ford’s peak hotness?…

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GOP's "Black Nazi" Porn Posting, Instagram's New Rules, and Tristan Harris's Guide to Humane Technology 1:13:30

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Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and ex-design ethicist at Google, joins Offline to chat about the attention economy, why tech execs don’t let their own kids on the apps, and how our AI arms race is one giant game of Jenga. But first! Jon and Max break down Instagram’s new sweeping changes for teen users—do they addres…

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Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024 27:59

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If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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How “Fight Club” Created a Generation of Sh*tposters 1:23:33

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Since “Fight Club” hit theaters in 1999, the movie has become both a cinematic cult classic and a building block of how people (mostly men) express themselves online. Film critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Erin Ryan join Offline Movie Club to talk about whether David Fincher’s opus deserves its top tier rankings, how the movie has been misapprop…

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Robert Putnam on Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and Making America Social Again 56:14

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Robert Putnam, renowned political scientist and author of Bowling Alone and The Upswing, joins Offline to explain why bowling alone and scrolling alone are two sides of the same coin. Putnam has spent his life deciphering why social capital—our connection to each other and our communities—has been withering away for the last 50 years. The consequen…

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Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024 28:05

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“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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“Tár” with Jon Favreau and Amanda Hess 1:10:50

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This week Offline Móvie Clúb takes on “Tár,” the 2022 film about a music conductor whose narcissism and abuses of power bring about her very public downfall. Max is joined by New York Times critic at large, Amanda Hess, and Offline critic at large, Jon Favreau, to examine the movie’s takes on cancel culture, identity construction and the limits of …

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The Doggy Diva Show - Episode 169 K-9 Mystery Author Margaret Mizushima 29:27

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Award- winning and internationally published author Margaret Mizushima premieres the ninth thrilling installment in her popular Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series "Gathering Mist" where sinister secrets hide deep within the fog of the mossy forests in the Pacific Northwest. EPISODE NOTES: K-9 Mystery Author Margaret Mizushima…

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Trump Tours the Manosphere, Russia Funds MAGA Influencers, and Hawk Tuah Girl Cashes In 54:22

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It’s not just supplements and energy drinks fueling the manosphere. Your favorite right-wing podcaster may be sponsored by…Vladimir Putin! Jon and Max discuss the new federal indictment alleging that the Kremlin has been funding right-wing internet personalities, including Tim Pool. Then they break down why the Brazilian Supreme Court has blocked a…

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– Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024 28:11

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Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much,... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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How "Zola" Explains Social Media Brain 1:07:56

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Has there ever been a more dramatic Twitter thread than A’Ziah King’s 2015 saga about a roadtrip turned kidnapping? Erin Ryan and Josie Duffy Rice join Max to discuss “Zola,” the movie adaptation of those tweets. The film tells the (mostly true) story of a young stripper getting whisked away to Florida by a new acquaintance and her pimp. Its searin…

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Obama's Offline Speech, Zuck Fears Trump, and the Crank Political Divide 59:19

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Max and Jon sit down to break down a very online DNC, diving into Obama’s anti-social media convention speech, the MyPillow guy’s embarrassing troll attempts, and a Taylor Swift & Beyonce rumor that spun out of control. Plus: Mark Zuckerberg’s fear driven turn towards Trump and the new political divide: cranks vs. everyone else. For a closed-captio…

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How “The Truman Show” Explains Life in 2024 1:15:58

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Jon Lovett and Erin Ryan join Max to discuss how “The Truman Show,” predicted our current era of continuous surveillance and content mining. The movie may be from 1998, but its insights are just as applicable 25 years later—from cults of celebrity, to Fox News, to Instagram. Is Ed Harris’ dome over Burbank a cautionary tale about fascist governance…

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How Peter Thiel Became the Right’s Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker 1:02:26

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Peter Thiel isn’t as rich as Elon Musk or as notorious as Steve Bannon. But over the last 10 years he has grown from Silicon Valley’s oddball conservative to an ideological anchor of the Trump era. And, unfortunately for us, he thinks the country would be better off without voting. Bloomberg Businessweek reporter, Max Chafkin, has written a book ab…

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Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024 28:51

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Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I both have... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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“WarGames” with Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes 1:04:25

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Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes join Max to explore how 1983’s “WarGames” predicted the internet era. The film is a fascinating time capsule of Reagan era tech optimism, nuclear war doomerism, and Matthew Broderick’s puckish charm. Ben dives into the foreign policy behind the movie, drawing on his own experience traveling the country with Obama and a bri…

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Trump and Elon’s Trainwreck Interview & J.D. Vance’s Real Tech Agenda 57:25

2M ago57:25

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Elon Musk hosted Donald Trump for a two and a half hour ramble on Twitter’s garbage live streaming platform—and if you think SpaceX flubs launches…well, they’ve got nothing on X Spaces. Max sits down with Hysteria’s Erin Ryan to recap the most head-smacking parts of the conversation, and ask the question of our generation: if Elon doesn’t call it X…

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Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024 28:43

2M ago28:43

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I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral 40:50

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Why is Tim Walz, a 60-year-old dad from Minnesota, so internet savvy? And why is he so good at making right wingers look not just weird, but also extremely, chronically and dangerously online? Jon and Max discuss the meme appeal of Harris’ new VP pick, why Republicans are sinking deeper into weirdness with transphobic attacks on Olympians, and what…

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Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024 28:07

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I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when to do... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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JD Vance, Project 2025, and How the Right Got Weird 50:14

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All of a sudden, nearly every Democrat in the country has started calling out Republicans for being really damn weird. And with JD Vance’s pronatalist views and Trump’s insistence that Kamala Harris isn’t actually Black, the GOP isn’t beating the allegations. When did Republican rhetoric go from fear-inducing, to groan-inducing? Jon is joined by La…

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Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024 28:14

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When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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The Doggy Diva Show - Episode 168 Celebrating National Dog Month 24:53

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Colleen Gray - lifelong dog mom with three active pups - shares important information about a special time of year for pet parents and their beloved dogs - August is National Dog Month! Colleen offers helpful suggestions on celebrating and honoring the unconditional love and bond between pet parents and their pups - highlighting the benefits and im…

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Kamala Harris’ Coconut-Pilled Brat Girl Summer 55:01

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Kamala Harris memes are bringing together leftists and wine moms, neolib shills and NeverTrumpers, political wonks and pop stars across every platform. Why is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president breaking the internet and right-wing brains? Jon and Max discuss the danger of the VP leaning into the memes, MAGA trolls' reaction to her can…

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Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024 28:36

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It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue bloom from big-leaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it seems—which is not always the case, in colder... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Why Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't 56:44

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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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Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024 28:20

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We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book by Amy Stewart called “The Tree... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve 1:05:44

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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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Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024 28:26

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Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparatory steps – so... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024 29:17

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It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI 54:08

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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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Hortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024 28:49

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Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe Schisandra, are ones you’re more likely to see on ingredient labels of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI 1:03:22

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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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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024 28:46

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Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt 52:18

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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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Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024 29:27

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What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back 1:07:36

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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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Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024 30:40

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I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech 48:53

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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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Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real 1:09:20

5M ago1:09:20

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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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Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024 28:58

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Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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