Off The Hook - Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:00:00 EST

Alex is driving, listener email, embarrassing corporate hacks, therapist caught secretly using ChatGPT, senator calls for FTC to investigate Microsoft.

Alex is in a cab, Emmanuel and Kyle were in Vermont, phone problems, listener complaints, Mastodon is unable to comply with age verification laws, court rules in Google monopoly case, DOGE put critical Social Security data at risk, ICE agents unmasked by AI.

Alex is still in Sicily, Denmark to stop delivering letters, listener phone calls.

A late start, Alex is in Sicily, the HOPE conference was this weekend, Off The Hook AMA, the ICEBlock talk, the "LA Music Festival", the DOGE talk, the Harper Reed talk.

It's conference season, Jason Scott and Kusanagi join the panel to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference, AOL is sunsetting dial up Internet service, Illinois bans AI therapists.

A verdict in the Tornado Cash trial, Google loses app store anti-trust case, Meta found guilty of illegally collecting data from a period-tracker app, parts of Constitution disappear from US website, people in positions of power doing dangerous things.

Weather challenges, Alex's Gmail is full, Blu-ray region challenges, listener mail, ICE agents, YouTube censorship, Signal messages, Tornado Cash trial.

Justice Department fires wife of ICEBlock developer, Director of Human Rights First Innovation Lab Perris Richter joins the panel to discuss their ReadyNow! app, listener phone calls.

Republicans oppose bill to prevent ICE from deporting US citizens, identification requirements for law enforcement officers, listener email, evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at ICE protest.

Twitter's Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic remarks, fake AI Marco Rubio targeting high level officials, Joshua Aaron joins the panel to discuss his ICEBlock app.