Offline: Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage
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🗓️ 24 October 2021
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Offline is here to stay and the show has moved to its own feed. To listen to Jon's interview with Jia Tolentino, and the many great episodes to come, search Offline with Jon Favreau and click subscribe. See you there!
Jia Tolentino, New Yorker staff writer and author of Trick Mirror, talks to Jon about how the internet has turned life into an endless performance, why that makes politics hard and virtue signaling easy, and what being online during the pandemic has done to our collective psyche.
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| 0:00.0 | What's that tweet again? |
| 0:01.2 | It's a two year old had a fatal alligator accident in Disney World, but this woman tweeted, |
| 0:07.2 | I'm so finished with white men's entitlement lately that I'm really not sad about a two year old |
| 0:11.6 | being eaten myigator because his daddy ignored signs. |
| 0:17.3 | And it's like, it's amazing. I mean, it's beautiful. It's actually such a good tweet. |
| 0:21.6 | It's been, it's the perfect tweet. It's a perfect tweet. I'm so grateful for that tweet. |
| 0:25.4 | Without it, I might have spent six more months thinking the other day I was good. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm John Favreau. Welcome to Offline. |
| 0:34.8 | Hey everyone, exciting news. Offline is here to stay and the show has now moved to its own feed. |
| 0:41.2 | If you'd like to listen to my full interview with Geotolentino, you can find it on that new feed. |
| 0:46.0 | Just search offline with John Favreau. Once you're over there, remember to subscribe to |
| 0:50.3 | keep up to date with all of our upcoming episodes. We've got some exciting conversations ready to go |
| 0:55.1 | over the next few months. I'll see you there. |
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