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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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Episodes
  • Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X

    Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
    Jun 16 2026

    In a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financials of OpenAI from 2024 and 2025.

    Companion newsletter: www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

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    4 mins
  • CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

    CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
    Jun 10 2026

    Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since 2021. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how tech's decline is driving the tech industry to try and sell you useless products like the metaverse, cryptocurrency and generative AI.

    Original Air Date: 6.5.24

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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

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

    Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    31 mins
  • Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down

    Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
    Jun 5 2026

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how the “does AI have ROI?” debate is coming at the worst possible time for two companies that can’t afford to slow down thanks to their $1.1 trillion in compute commitments.

    Newsletter: AI Doesn’t Have ROI https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/
    Ed on Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKDmkJPVvI
    The AI industry's profit problem is getting bigger, says Goldman Sachs' equity research chief
    https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-ai-boom-profit-problem-semiconductor-chip-companies-investment-2026-6
    Bloomberg: AI’s Bills Are Bigger Than Ever, And Coming Due https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-04/the-ai-boom-s-next-test-is-the-roi-worth-the-cost
    Axios: AI sticker shock hits corporate America https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
    Uber COO story: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

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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

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

    Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    6 mins
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