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Find “Offline with Jon Favreau” in its own feed. New episodes March 6. · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: Do you ever get the feeling you're spending a little
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  Speaker 1: too much time online?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, wait.
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  Speaker 3: You also, like, pee with your phone in your hand.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane. Probably not healthy.
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  Speaker 3: It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, maybe you're not as bad as me. But a
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  Speaker 1: while back, sometime during year 12 of the pandemic, I
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  Speaker 1: started wondering if we're underestimating just how much our collective
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  Speaker 1: internet addiction has contributed to how not great things feel
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  Speaker 1: right now. So I did what one does when searching
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  Speaker 1: for answers to some of life's most difficult questions. I
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  Speaker 1: started a podcast. It's called Offline, a different kind of
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  Speaker 1: Sunday show where we step away from the Twitter-fueled news
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  Speaker 1: cycle to talk about all the ways our extremely online
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  Speaker 1: existence is breaking our politics, our culture, and our brains.
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  Speaker 2: What am I going to do with this one life?
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  Speaker 2: Am I really going to spend it just staring at
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  Speaker 2: this all day?
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  Speaker 4: And if cancel culture really existed... Why is Mel Gibson working?
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  Speaker 3: The internet is a mess. It's just a mess.
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  Speaker 1: After more than a dozen conversations with guests like Stephen Colbert,
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  Speaker 1: Monica Lewinsky, Roxanne Gay, Hank Green, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and
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  Speaker 1: Chimamanda Adichie, I've learned a lot about how we might
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  Speaker 1: be able to live a little better, both on and offline.
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  Speaker 2: What if we all kind of drank a potion that
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  Speaker 2: made us all sort of a bit more compassionate and
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  Speaker 2: a bit more patient? Would we use social media differently?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: One of the only things that pulls away from division
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  Speaker 3: and partisanship is curiosity. It hooks people in an authentic
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  Speaker 3: way that does not make them less happy.
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  Speaker 1: But there's still so much to explore. Has Spotify changed
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  Speaker 1: the way artists make music? Have we lost the ability
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  Speaker 1: to focus? Are we destined to end up trapped in
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse? What the hell is Twitch? So Offline
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  Speaker 1: is here to stay. Starting on March 6th, you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to subscribe to Offline on its very own feed,
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  Speaker 1: where we'll be digging deeper into all the ways the
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  Speaker 1: internet is affecting how we live, work, and interact with
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  Speaker 1: one another. Find Offline with me, Jon Favreau, on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher,
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  Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 4: I could just spend 15 minutes just people-watching. And so
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  Speaker 4: I did, and I people-watched. And every single person was
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  Speaker 4: on their phone.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: And so I went, ah, fuck it, I'll do the
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  Speaker 4: same thing.