{"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":"Healing Our Broken Brains","slug":"healing-our-broken-brains","published_at":"2026-05-09T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/healing-our-broken-brains","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8901374","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/8901374.mp3?modified=1778488759&sid=5166623&source=rss","summary":"Cal Newport, computer scientist and author of Deep Work, joins Offline to explain why we need a revolution in cognitive fitness, and how AI is going to get in the way. Cal and Jon explore how smartphones and AI are destroying our ability to concentrate, how our attention spans are a third of what they were just twenty years ago, and how we can practice “deep work” in our constantly interrupted digital environment. 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, episode title, and episode date.","meta_description":"Cal Newport, computer scientist and author of Deep Work, joins Offline to explain why we need a revolution in cognitive fitness, and how AI is going to ge…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3133,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/episodes/healing-our-broken-brains/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/healing-our-broken-brains.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}