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Better Offline

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech

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59:25

Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz

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2026/02/25

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Victoria Song of The Verge about “wellness products,” bullshit workout metrics and black market peptides.Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/84rt762qenAlex Cranz: https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.social

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Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies,...

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2026/02/20

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI isn’t replacing all software companies, and why the hype behind Claude Code is utterly specious.Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1- I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go tohttps://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use codeFREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS:

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59:15

Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan

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2026/02/18

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Kill The Computer’s Juniper and Caleb and Arif Hasan of Wide Left about prediction markets, silicon valley’s billionaire whiners, and how Anthropic is trying to redefine “profitability.” Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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6:31

Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming

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2026/02/13

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a guy who previously tried to defraud the AI community, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.The Annotated version of Something Big Is Coming: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5c3m575cq21p7jjac/Something-Big-Is-Coming-Annotated.pdf?rlkey=qlr0mgnlpjifo5xkon2crhrhw&dl=0 Save $10 off a

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66:58

Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

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2026/02/11

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about the ways in which the media fails to report the truth about AI.Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/84rt762qenCal Newport’s “Don’t Trust AI

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8:11

Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?

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2026/02/06

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA’s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, and the very real possibility of Oracle’s collapse.Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1- I’d be so grateful! The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

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38:07

Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard

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2026/02/04

In the first episode of Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - Ed is joined by David Gerard of Pivot to AI to talk about Openclaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot, how seemingly smart people keep being “one-shotted” by AI, and why we’ve been headed toward a calamity in the markets since 2008.https://pivot-to-ai.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@PivotToAI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot-to-ai/id1844698298

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11:42

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four

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2026/01/30

In the final part of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron walks you through to the logical endpoints of his arguments about the AI bubble - a 40%-90% collapse of NVIDIA’s revenues, tens of billions of dollars of impairments for hyperscalers, an existential contraction in venture capital, the near-collapse of Oracle, and $200 billion or more in unpaid data center debt. Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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13:52

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three

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2026/01/29

In part three of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains how the economics of the AI bubble are much, much worse than the dot com bubble, with far fewer customers, way more debt, and a stock market with an unhealthy obsession with one stock - NVIDIA. Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/84rt762qen - it features an in-depth version of

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20:21

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two

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2026/01/28

In part two of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains the flimsy mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of fiber optic cable - and how completely different that is to building hundreds of billions of data centers of GPUs. Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/84rt762qen - it features an in-depth version of my dot

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13:26

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

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2026/01/27

In part one of this week’s series, Ed Zitron explains how the AI bubble could be so much worse than the dot com bubble - and how people are too flippant about the carnage caused by the 2000s telecommunications bubble bursting. Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/84rt762qen - it features an in-depth version of my dot com bubble analysis here:

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55:48

Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff

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2026/01/26

To kick off this week’s Better Offline Dot Com Special, Ed Zitron is joined by The Register’s Matt Rosoff to talk about what it was like to be in the tech industry during the last time the markets got drunk on a major digital hype cycle. Matt Rosoff: https://www.theregister.com/Author/Matt-Rosoff/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:agrmux4phzmfvgyblvhxrbnh Please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of

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34:13

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four

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2026/01/23

In the final part of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how ignoring the horrifying margins and destructive practices of the AI industry is setting up venture capital and the global markets for a catastrophe, and how all of this could’ve been avoided.This series was a ton of work, so please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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31:40

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three

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2026/01/22

In part three of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how the imaginary demand for AI compute is setting up every single data center developer for disaster - and how many major banks will be caught in the contagion.This series was a ton of work, so please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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44:10

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two

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2026/01/21

In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadcom and NVIDIA are swindling stockholders with the help of analysts and the media, and how decades of easy returns for venture capital are an existential risk to the future of startup fundraising.This series was a ton of work, so please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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35:55

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One

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2026/01/20

In part one of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through the enshittification of the stock market, where toxic companies appreciate in value despite their toxicity, recklessness and waste, aided and abetted by analysts who not only ignore the toxicity but actively celebrate it.This series was a ton of work, so please support me by subscribing to my premium newsletter - here’s $10 off your first year of annual

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7:42

Monologue: The Year Ahead

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2026/01/16

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI. Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! Kylie Robison’s scoop about Thinking Machines: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899 Max Zeff of WIRED’s follow-on

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60:04

The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke

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2026/01/14

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about AMD, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel’s CES keynotes - and how the tech industry has turned its back on consumers in favor of growth.Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1- I’d be so grateful! GamersNexus: NVIDIA's AI Bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFG3Ah-zf18AMD Failed Us:

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56:18

CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)

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2026/01/10

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. In our CES epilogue, Ed is joined by author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, tech bubble newsletter writer Ed Ongweso Jr. and CES bartender Phil Broughton to talk about this year’s coverage, the upcoming venture apocalypse, and what we expect

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120:49

CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)

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2026/01/10

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. In Friday’s second episode, Ed is joined by author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, the Las Vegas Sun’s Kyle Chouinard, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, Garrison Davis of It Could Happen Here, and Robert Evans of Behind The

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