On this season of The Wilderness, I'm finding out what voters who aren't hooked on Twitter or

cable news think about politics. We've learned a lot so far, but there is still more to cover

as we dive deeper into what it will take to actually reach these voters and help save democracy

in 2022 and beyond. Make sure to catch up on the first four episodes of The Wilderness now

and listen to new episodes every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts.

You just wrote a piece about a related topic that's all over TikTok and Twitter, quiet quitting,

which is supposed to be a pandemic-related trend where employees are only doing the bare minimum

at work. You think this is bullshit. Why? I think it's bullshit because quiet quitting is just

determined to invent that which we've historically called work. I mean, it's funny to invent new words.

Like, I'm not against the expansion of the American vocabulary. Like, cool, like, go for it.

But like, let's just be realistic about what is new and what is not new. There's this impression

that quiet quitting describes the novel phenomenon of people only working to their wage or only

doing that, which is required of them. Well, that's just what we call a job.

I'm John Febrew. Welcome to Offline.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back. Offline is back online. I'm sorry. I hate myself.

Anyway, we're back from a three-week break where I felt somewhat unplugged, at least from me.

And by that, I mean I worked on The Wilderness the entire time and checked Twitter for new midterm

polls. Good stuff. But now I'm very excited to keep talking to smart people who can help us make

sense of our social media-addled, rage-tweet-filled existence. We got a lot of interesting conversations

lined up for you, but today I wanted to start by talking about how the internet has changed the way

we work, especially after a pandemic that kept millions of us out of the office. I have mixed

feelings about remote work. Here at Crooked, we've been experimenting with a hybrid model,

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