Better Offline

Weekly investigation of tech industry's influence on society and politics AI summary

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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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  1. 2026-11-13 · 11 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the ousting of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang - and his apparent participation in a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring to sell GPUs to China.Link to…

  2. 2026-11-11 · 1 hr 4 min

    In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the Anthropic IPO, the mid-terms, hauling fraudsters in front of congress, and Jensen Huang’s tryst with a Chinese spy.Ed Elson’s…

  3. 2026-11-06 · 10 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the Blue Wave is an ill omen for the AI trade, and how we can build a better future by fighting for everyone’s…

  4. 2026-11-04 · 39 min

    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about how gambling is poisoning everything, how legislation is struggling to keep up, and the damage already being caused by sports betting…

  5. 2026-10-28 · 54 min

    In this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the new data center book “Hyperscale,” to talk about the AI buildout, the community groundswell against data centers, and how both politicians and the media fail to…

  6. 2026-10-23 · 11 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how Amazon is warehousing billions of dollars of GPUs, and how NVIDIA created an artificial supply chain crisis by forcing hyperscalers to take early…

  7. 2026-10-21 · 1 hr 1 min

    In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Tom Dotan to talk about the life of Larry Ellison, his children, his companies, his decades of existential crises, and how all he really cares about is his…

  8. 2026-10-19 · 3 min

    Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show…

  9. 2026-10-16 · 14 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how Anthropic’s big Q3 revenues underwhelmed an already-nervous market, and how the more of the real numbers we learn about AI, the worse things seem to…

  10. 2026-10-14 · 42 min

    In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Robin Wigglesworth of the Financial Times to explain how both corporate and sovereign bonds work, why you should care, and what you need to know about the tech…

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iHeartPodcasts
Oldest episode in feed
02/2024 · over 2 years
Typical length
41 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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