Offline with Jon Favreau - Welcome to “Offline with Jon Favreau.” New episodes March 6.

Episode Date: February 27, 2022

Step away from the Twitter-fueled news cycle with Jon Favreau to hear smarter, lighter conversations about all he ways that our extremely online existence is shaping everything from politics and culture to the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. After a dozen interviews, Offline has moved to its own podcast feed. If you’re listening to this trailer in the new feed, congrats! Welcome to our new home. Make sure to subscribe for new episodes, which start back up March 6th.And, if you have a moment, please rate and review! Your engagement helps “Offline with Jon Favreau” find new audiences. See you soon.

Do you ever get the feeling you're spending a little too much time online? Okay, wait, you also like pee with your phone in your hand. It's insane. Probably not healthy. It's insane. Okay, maybe you're not as bad as me. But a while back, sometime during year 12 of the pandemic, I started wondering if we're underestimating just how much our collective internet addiction has contributed to how not great things feel right now.

So I did what one does when searching for answers to some of life's most difficult questions. I started a podcast. It's called Offline, a different kind of Sunday show where we step away from the Twitter-fueled news cycle to talk about all the ways our extremely online existence is breaking our politics, our culture, and our brains. What am I going to do with this one life? Am I really going to spend it just staring at this all day? And if cancel culture really existed, why is Mel Gibson working? The internet is a mess. It's just a mess. After more than a dozen conversations with guests like Stephen Colbert, Monica Lewinsky, Roxanne Gay, Hank Green, Dr. Vivek Murthy and Chimamanda Adichie, I've learned a lot about how we might be able to live a little better, both on and offline. What if we all kind of drank a potion that made us all sort of a bit more compassionate and a bit more patient? Would we use social media differently? I don't know.

One of the only things that pulls away from division and partisanship is curiosity. It hooks people in an authentic way that does not make them less happy. But there's still so much to explore. Has Spotify changed the way artists make music? Have we lost the ability to focus? Are we destined to end up trapped in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse? What the hell is Twitch? So Offline is here to stay. Starting on March 6th, you'll be able to subscribe to Offline on its very own feed, where we'll be digging deeper into all the ways the internet is affecting how we live, work, and interact with one another. Find Offline with me, Jon Favreau,

on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. I could just spend 15 minutes just people watching. And so I did, and I people watched, and every single person was on their phone. I know. And so I went, ah, fuck it, I'll do the same thing.