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Offline with Jon Favreau (coming October 24/sneak peek) · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: Tonight, the Information Superhighway, an online network called Internet. Millions
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  Speaker 1: of students use thefacebook.com to list not only their pictures
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  Speaker 1: and hobbies, but as a virtual community.
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  Speaker 2: And we are calling it iPhone. Raise your hand if
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  Speaker 2: you're on Myspace.com. Rick Rowling is the widest reaching internet
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  Speaker 2: prank out there right now. Each year, Americans spend over
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  Speaker 2: two trillion minutes on their cell phones. The direct link
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  Speaker 2: between screen time and mental health. Conspiracy theorists are back
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  Speaker 2: at their keyboards, banging out wild accusations. Who is this
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  Speaker 2: 4chan person or website? You're not going to win a
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  Speaker 2: Twitter war with the President of the United States. If
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  Speaker 2: you're a woman or if you're a minority, you're essentially
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  Speaker 2: a target.
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  Speaker 1: We're constantly bombarded with seemingly perfect images in our Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: What happened at the Capitol shows what some dismiss as
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  Speaker 1: just online boasting was actually a plan of urge.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this has all worked out well, hasn't it? Hi,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jon Favreau. If you listen to Pod Save America,
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  Speaker 2: you know that I have a fraught relationship with the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy, Jon, and Dan are like air traffic controllers making
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  Speaker 1: sure every tweet in the sky is monitored.
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  Speaker 2: They never miss a fucking shift. You know that little
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  Speaker 2: notification that comes through on your phone on Sundays that
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  Speaker 2: says you've spent X number of hours on your phone
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  Speaker 2: this week? What's yours at? Over four hours. Yours is
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  Speaker 2: over four hours? Oh, I will not share mine. I
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  Speaker 2: realize complaining about the internet isn't exactly new, and life
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  Speaker 2: was messy long before we all logged on. But lately,
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  Speaker 2: I've been feeling like we're seriously underestimating the extent to
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  Speaker 2: which our extremely online existence is making it that much
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  Speaker 2: harder to solve the world's problems, or even maintain a
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  Speaker 2: barely functioning democracy. Every day, people online seem angrier and nastier,
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  Speaker 2: more distrustful and conspiratorial. Technology that was supposed to connect
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  Speaker 2: us has made us more alienated and polarized. And the
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  Speaker 2: last year and a half of mostly virtual human contact
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  Speaker 2: hasn't exactly helped. Now, do I know exactly what to
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  Speaker 2: do about all this? Of course not. Remember? I think
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  Speaker 2: Twitter has broken my brain. It has permanently altered my
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  Speaker 2: brain chemistry. And that's why I wanted to do this show.
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  Speaker 2: Each week, I'll talk to smart, interesting people about how
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  Speaker 2: our online reality is affecting different aspects of our offline world.
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  Speaker 2: Like Snapchat's Peter Hamby on what the internet's doing to journalism.
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  Speaker 2: The same incentives that motivate a fitness model on Instagram
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  Speaker 2: and a TikTok influencer often motivate journalists now. Megan Rapinoe
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  Speaker 2: on how athletes grapple with social media.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, you have 2 million people or 20
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  Speaker 1: million people telling you their fucking armchair assessment of your
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  Speaker 1: performance all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Or writer Gia Tolentino on how the internet shapes our
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  Speaker 2: sense of who we are and what we believe.
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  Speaker 1: The trap of the internet is that so much of
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  Speaker 1: it is built around sort of like individualizing affirmation. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the problem because we feel the surface
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  Speaker 1: level dopamine, but deep down and in the deadness in
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  Speaker 1: our eyes, we feel the other part, you know?
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  Speaker 2: I'll also be sitting down with Monica Lewinsky to talk
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  Speaker 2: about online bullying, DeRay McKesson to talk about activism in
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  Speaker 2: the internet age, and a lot of other cool guests.
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  Speaker 2: Most of all, we'll be trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 2: we can do about all this, how we can live
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  Speaker 2: better in this hyper-connected world and maybe inoculate ourselves from
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  Speaker 2: the worst of it. For most of us, logging off
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  Speaker 2: forever isn't an option. But one thing I've noticed is
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  Speaker 2: that when we step away from our screens, our interactions
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  Speaker 2: tend to be different. We're more attentive, empathetic, and open
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  Speaker 2: to the nuance of an opposing view or the value
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  Speaker 2: of a different life experience. We're actually listening to each other.
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  Speaker 2: So sit back, unplug, and join us for what I
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  Speaker 2: hope will be a different kind of Sunday show. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Offline with Jon Favreau.