{"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":"What Is A Human For?","slug":"what-is-a-human-for","published_at":"2026-06-27T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/what-is-a-human-for","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8921564","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/8921564.mp3?modified=1782793528&sid=5166623&source=rss","summary":"AI is creating a crisis of agency where people are becoming paranoid that they’re being manipulated, suckered, and ultimately replaced. Charlie Warzel joins Offline to elaborate on his Atlantic essay, “The Feeling of Control Slipping Away,” which illustrates the myriad ways AI is driving people insane. He and Jon talk about whether human creativity is endangered, if AI is anything more than a corporate black-box, and what it means to be human when a robot can do everything better than you. They also discuss Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO, what its valuation means and Musk's efforts to rewrite DOGE's devastating legacy, as well as his own. Correction: The bot farm startup whose tagline is \"never pay a human again\" is misstated in this episode. The startup is Doublespeed, not Superhuman. 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":"AI is creating a crisis of agency where people are becoming paranoid that they’re being manipulated, suckered, and ultimately replaced. Charlie Warzel joi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3884,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/episodes/what-is-a-human-for/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/what-is-a-human-for.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}