{"podcast":{"title":"Offline with Jon Favreau","slug":"offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","podcast_index_feed_id":5049631,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166623.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166623","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43405902.jpg","author":"Crooked Media","episode_count":246,"summary":"Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to deeper conversations about the impact of technology and the internet on our politics and culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, Chimamanda Adichie, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Rachel Maddow shed light on how our extremely online existence shapes the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll take on the most existential questions facing Americans right now, to figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline. New episodes drop every Saturday, wherever you get your podcasts and on the Offline YouTube channel. Subscribe to Friends of the Pod! Your subscription makes Crooked’s work possible and gives you access to ad-free episodes of Offline with Jon Favreau, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, and Lovett or Leave It, plus exclusive content and a lively Discord community. Learn more and subscribe at crooked.com/friends or on Apple Podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:23:43.397175+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631"},"episode":{"title":"Endless Slop, Cancer Cures, or Robot Apocalypse? Derek Thompson on Our AI Future","slug":"endless-slop-cancer-cures-or-robot-apocalypse-derek-thompson-on-our-ai-future","published_at":"2026-03-07T08:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/endless-slop-cancer-cures-or-robot-apocalypse-derek-thompson-on-our-ai-future","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8870909","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/arttrk.com/p/CRMDA/mgln.ai/e/284/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8870909.mp3?modified=1774283584&sid=5166623&source=rss","summary":"Derek Thompson, journalist and co-author of Abundance, joins Offline to hash out some hard truths about AI: who it will actually replace, why we haven’t seen more labor market disruption, and why the Department of War’s battle with Anthropic spells the end of private property rights in America. Then Derek lays out his Postmanesque \"Everything Is Television\" theory of media for Jon, where politics becomes theater and news becomes performance. The guys wrap it up by discussing how becoming fathers changed their views on parenting—and on living. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.","meta_description":"Derek Thompson, journalist and co-author of Abundance, joins Offline to hash out some hard truths about AI: who it will actually replace, why we haven’t s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4253,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/episodes/endless-slop-cancer-cures-or-robot-apocalypse-derek-thompson-on-our-ai-future/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/endless-slop-cancer-cures-or-robot-apocalypse-derek-thompson-on-our-ai-future.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}