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Offline with Jon Favreau

Can Truth Survive the Trump Era?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Warzel, Atlantic staff writer and host of the "Galaxy Brain" podcast, joins Offline to break down the news of the week: how Elon Musk's negligence and the Epstein Files continue to corrode our society, whether we’ve reached The Singularity with new AI-only social media sites like Moltbook, and how phones—and neighborliness—have been the saving grace of Trump’s assault on Minnesota.

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You have the stuff we were talking about in Minneapolis, which is like, you know, this is real

1:48.0

footage that people risk their lives to get that's showing this stuff. Maybe that doesn't fit

1:53.1

into that paradigm, but so much of the other stuff, the memes, all that, it's being compressed

1:59.1

into this weird thing where gossip is just

2:01.7

sort of like how we process the world now. And it's just like, I'm just whatever I think

2:05.7

feels good, feels true. I'm going with that. I'm going with that.

2:15.5

I'm John Favreau, and you just heard from this week's guest, friend of the show, Charlie Worsell,

2:20.0

a writer at the Atlantic, and host of the Galaxy Brain podcast. Had Charlie on to talk about some of the

2:25.9

insane news of the last week, everything from Minneapolis to the Epstein Files to a social network

2:34.1

that's now only for AI bots. But they all

2:37.1

have something in common that I want to talk about before we get into the show. I ran into a friend's

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