Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. 

In Part 2 of our 5th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by Robert Evans of Cool Zone Media, Gare Davis of Cool Zone Media, Kyle Chouinard of Las Vegas, Nevada, to talk labor, the true vibe of CES, and how growth-at-all-costs thinking crowds out real solutions to problems. And, of course, how much Ed loves everybody.

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Our wonderful producer: https://www.mattosowski.com/ 

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Welcome to Better Offline&rsquo;s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. In Part 2 of our 5th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by Robert Evans of Cool Zone Media, Gare Davis of Cool Zone Media, Kyle Chouinard of Las Vegas, Nevada, to talk labor, the true vibe of CES, and how growth-at-all-costs thinking crowds out real solutions to problems. And, of course, how much Ed loves everybody. Ed Ongweso Jr.: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/%20bigblackjacobin.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/ bigblackjacobin.bsky.social&nbsp;</a> The Tech Bubble Newsletter: <a href="https://thetechbubble.substack.com/">https://thetechbubble.substack.com/</a>&nbsp; David Roth, Defector: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social</a>&nbsp; Defector: <a href="Defector.com">Defector.com</a> It&rsquo;s Christmastown Podcast: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849</a>&nbsp; Kyle Chouinard, Las Vegas Sun <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/staff/kyle-chouinard/">https://lasvegassun.com/staff/kyle-chouinard/</a>&nbsp; Gare Davis <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv</a>&nbsp; Robert Evans <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social</a>&nbsp; Phil Broughton <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/funranium.bsky.social/post/3kmolcb3bmx2r">https://bsky.app/profile/funranium.bsky.social/post/3kmolcb3bmx2r</a>&nbsp; Our wonderful producer: <a href="https://www.mattosowski.com/">https://www.mattosowski.com/</a>&nbsp;
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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.

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.

Better Offline

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.

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.

Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/63a88b10-3643-4faf-9194-b261015c7099/transcript

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