{"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":"God In The Machine","slug":"god-in-the-machine","published_at":"2026-04-25T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/god-in-the-machine","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8895355","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/8895355.mp3?modified=1777166118&sid=5166623&source=rss","summary":"With Pope Leo XIV stepping up his criticisms of the Trump administration this month, the president is out for blood...and not the transubstantiated kind. Christopher Hale, author of the Letters from Leo newsletter, joins Offline to explain the real threat this woke offline pope poses to MAGA. He and Jon discuss why the head of the Catholic Church is so obsessed with AI, how the Democratic Party should make space for more religious people, and the wisdom of Leo’s boomerisms like “an algorithm will never replace a hug.” 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":"With Pope Leo XIV stepping up his criticisms of the Trump administration this month, the president is out for blood...and not the transubstantiated kind.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3862,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/episodes/god-in-the-machine/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/god-in-the-machine.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}