Trump's TikTok Dilemma, Crypto Cons Debunked, and The Truth About the Loneliness Epidemic

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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TikTok is back from the dead... at least for now. After a self-imposed shutdown and a shameless appeal to President Trump, the countdown to the TikTok ban has restarted. Meanwhile, the rest of Silicon Valley is taking turns kissing the ring. Jon and Max discuss the list of tech oligarchs vying for Trump's favor, explain what they have to gain from the President's new Stargate AI announcement, and debate if it's time to pump their life savings into $TRUMP a new "meme coin" launched by the President that's managed to annoy even the most ardent MAGA crypto bros. The guys walk through the grift, and discuss how a Supreme Court case on age verification for porn sites could be a great safeguard for kids on social media. Then, Max sits down with Derek Thompson, author of this month's cover story in The Atlantic, to talk about why people don’t equate social isolation with loneliness, and what this means for our society and politics.

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0:55.8	As I was reporting for this piece, my wife pointed out a trend on TikTok that is sometimes called
1:01.5	cancelation. That is the elation of friends canceling plans on you. And in this trend, you see young
1:08.3	people dancing, sometimes in very funny and goofy ways, to the
1:12.2	revelation that their plans on a Friday or Saturday night have been canceled.
1:16.0	So what are we looking at here?
1:17.4	We're looking at the most socially isolated generation in recorded history, turning on
1:22.5	their phones and celebrating with the dance when hangouts are cancelled.
1:28.9	That's not a phenomenon of loneliness.
1:31.5	That is something else.
1:33.2	We are choosing social isolation
1:35.6	rather than feeling the natural, healthy,
1:39.0	biological impulse of loneliness
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