{"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 We Lose When We Bet on War","slug":"what-we-lose-when-we-bet-on-war","published_at":"2026-03-23T16:21:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/what-we-lose-when-we-bet-on-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8877722","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/8877722.mp3?modified=1774303305&sid=5166623&source=rss","summary":"Life or death decisions are being gamified for profit on online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. But these platforms may also have the potential to create a modernized—if morally questionable—method of opinion polling. Politico Magazine contributing writer Nancy Scola joins Offline to explain the rise of these markets, the argument for them, and the people in D.C. who stand to gain the most. But first! Senator Chris Murphy stops by the show to break down the brand new BETS OFF Act, which bans wagering on government actions, terrorism, war, assassination, and events where an individual knows or controls the outcome. He and Jon discuss the bill's prospects for passing, and discuss what happens to us spiritually when every moral question becomes a market.","meta_description":"Life or death decisions are being gamified for profit on online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. But these platforms may also have the poten…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2622,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631/episodes/what-we-lose-when-we-bet-on-war/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-we-lose-when-we-bet-on-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}