Elon Kills the Block Button, AI Comes for Podcasts, and The Good Liar's Guide to Talking to Trump Voters

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Good Liars, a MAGA trolling comedy duo, join Offline to share what it’s like on the ground at Trump rallies this close to the election. Davram Stiefler and Jason Selvig have been churning out political satire since they occupied Occupy Wall Street, and they talk to Jon about finding the humor and holes in the Trump camp’s rhetoric. But first! This week the app formerly known as Twitter announced a major change to the block function: it’s gone. Max and Jon discuss whether the ensuing X-odus will finally make Bluesky relevant, and why Jon doesn’t like to give his haters the satisfaction of being blocked. Then, it’s bros vs. brobots as the guys face down their own obsolescence and listen to an AI-generated podcast from NotebookLM. The platform is trained on whatever data–or book about saving democracy–you upload, and can synthesize the material into a jokey conversation between two hosts with a good rapport…sound familiar?

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0:00.0	In Scranton, Pennsylvania recently, a guy got really mad at us and he started screaming,
0:04.8	these guys are trying to ask tough questions, they're trying to stump us, they're trying to
0:08.5	ask tough questions. He got to the point of like going and getting a police officer, you know bringing him over and saying these guys are trying to ask tough questions.
0:18.5	We all just kind of like stood there looking at the dirt like and the cop was like yeah no no they're definitely allowed to do that
0:25.5	and the guy just like yeah kind of like slowly turning around I was like fine and you know
0:30.6	just kind of slowly walked back to his bottom line so yes like you know people
0:35.8	kind of catch on that we're trying to I don't know hold up a mirror I guess get
0:41.2	them to say these things and see if they question them most of the time it's
0:44.4	not tense and you know when it today's guest Jason Selvig and
0:59.8	de Vram Stiefler who you may better know as the good liars love those guys yeah so you may have already seen a clip from the good liars their trademark video involves Jason or devram on Mike at a Trump rally or Republican event interviewing Trump supporters about
1:14.2	the inconsistencies in their worldview so basically they go to Trump rallies and
1:18.9	they troll the attendees they've even heckled Trump himself at one event.
1:23.0	We want to be entertained.
1:25.0	No, this is boring.
1:26.0	Oh, it's so boring.
1:28.0	You got out of you.
1:30.0	Same glory.
1:31.0	Love. Love. That was my first introduction to them on that video.
1:36.8	So with less than 10 days until the election, I thought it would be fun to have them join
1:40.4	to talk about all the different things they've seen at Trump rallies over the years,
1:44.0	give us some insight on how Trump supporters are thinking about this election,
1:48.0	and you know, whether it's possible to change any minds out there.
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