Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't
Episode 135
We still don’t know why a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania opened fire on Trump last weekend. Lone shooters whose paths from normalcy to vigilantism see…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve
Episode 134
Elle Reeve, CNN commentator and author of the new book Black Pill, joins Offline to share her reporting on the darkest corners of the internet. For o…
1 year, 6 months ago
Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI
Episode 133
Chat GPT isn’t going to top the Billboard Hot 100 any time soon, but something is happening with AI and music—something’s BEEN happening. Unlike in e…
1 year, 6 months ago
Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI
Episode 132
Has this pod saved America…from phone addiction?! We got Jon Lovett to take a rather extreme version of the Offline challenge in Fiji, AND America’s …
1 year, 6 months ago
Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt
Episode 131
The kids are not alright, and the culprit is their phones. That’s the thesis of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation…
1 year, 7 months ago
How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back
Episode 130
Why are Republicans apologists for misinformation? How should campaigns respond to online trolls? Are Democrats still using an Obama-era digital stra…
1 year, 7 months ago
How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech
Episode 129
Critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Halle Kiefer join Max to talk about “WALL-E.” The 2008 Pixar film depicts a future in which humans are so addict…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real
Episode 128
Birds Aren’t Real founder, Peter McIndoe, joins to talk about the impact of the satirical conspiracy that captured the imagination of Gen Z and what …
1 year, 7 months ago
How "The Matrix" Created Modern Silicon Valley
Episode 127
Are we all living in The Matrix? Eh, probably not. But our tech obsessed, social media driven world is a lot closer to the reality The Matrix posed i…
1 year, 7 months ago
ScarJo v. AI, the Digital Guillotine, and Why We Play Make Believe with Misinformation
Episode 126
Do we treat political affiliation like a religion? Which parts of our identity are based off factual belief vs. imaginary belief? This week, Max talk…
1 year, 7 months ago