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

Emmanuel and Alex are the only ones on the show tonight, Emmanuel and Kyle went to visit Greg Newby in hospice, benefits of train travel, Apple removed ICEBlock from app store, listener email.

Friend of the show Greg Newby is in hospice, listener complaints, feds dismantle illicit network of SIM servers in New York area, listener phone calls.

The backlash to the Charlie Kirk assassination, listener email, FCC objects to comments made by Jimmy Kimmel, Proton disables journalists' email accounts, NYC wireless emergency alert test.

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.