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Offline with Jon Favreau (coming October 24/sneak peek)

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News, Politics

4.587.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and what can we do about it? In the new weekly series Offline with Jon Favreau, the Pod Save America co-host sits down with newsmakers, political figures, celebrities, comedians, and writers to talk about how our hyperconnected world shapes the way we live, for better or worse. New episodes drop every Sunday starting October 24. To listen, follow here on the Pod Save America feed.

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0:00.0

Tonight the information is super high-weight, an online network called Internet.

0:06.0

Millions of students use the Facebook.com to list not only their pictures and hobbies,

0:11.5

but as a virtual community.

0:13.5

And we are calling it iPhone.

0:17.5

Raise your hand if you're on MySpace.com.

0:21.0

Rick Rowling is the widest reaching internet prank out there right now.

0:25.0

Let it really light.

0:27.0

This year Americans spend over two trillion minutes on their cell phones, a direct link between screen time and mental health.

0:33.0

Conspiracy theorists are back at their keyboards banging out wild accusations.

0:38.0

Who is this 4chan person or website?

0:41.0

You're not going to win a Twitter war with the president on stage.

0:43.0

If you're a woman or if you're a minority or essentially a target.

0:48.0

We're constantly bombarded with seemingly perfect images in our Instagram.

0:52.0

What happened at the Capitol shows what some dismiss as just online boasting was actually a plan of it.

1:01.0

Well, this has all worked out well, hasn't it?

1:04.0

Hi, I'm John Favreaux.

1:06.0

If you listen to Potsay of America, you know that I have a fraught relationship with the internet.

1:12.0

Tommy, John, and Dan are like air traffic controllers making sure every tweet in the sky is monitored.

1:20.0

They never miss a fucking ship.

1:22.0

You know that little notification that comes through on your phone on Sundays that says you've spent X number of hours on your phone this week?

1:30.0

What's your's at over four hours?

1:32.0

Yours is over four hours?

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