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Better Offline

Better Offline

By: Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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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 industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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  • Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl

    Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl
    Jul 4 2025

    In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron talks about why you should get into vinyl, and why analog music is so much fun in the digital age.

    U-Turn Audio: https://uturnaudio.com/pages/turntables
    Discogs: Discogs.com

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    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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    11 mins
  • Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?

    Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?
    Jun 27 2025

    In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the murky lawsuit between OpenAI’s soon-to-be-acquired hardware wing and Iyo, a company they met with multiple times that makes a similar-sounding product with a near-identical name.

    Sam Altman tweets: https://x.com/sama/status/1937606794362388674
    Jason Rugolo tweets: https://x.com/jasonRugolo/status/1936933761964511721

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    LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    11 mins
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fairly objective but critical, good patter. a much-needed more upbeat addition to cooler zone. thus far not much Doom or gloom

worth a listen

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No one else can get across how frustrating it is that silicon valley promised a bright future and instead delivered a corporate dystopia.

Exposing the rot

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