Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.

Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Allison Morrow of CNN, Victoria Song of The Verge and Gare Davis of It Could Happen Here to talk about the fairy tale of AGI, AI boosters’ religious attachment to the industry’s success, and how the tech industry fears admitting they’re out of ideas.

Allison Morrow

https://www.cnn.com/profiles/allison-morrow
https://bsky.app/profile/amorrow.bsky.social
AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep their workers afraid of losing their jobs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos

Victoria Song

https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song 
https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social

The Unbearable Obviousness of AI Fitness Summaries
https://www.theverge.com/fitness-trackers/694140/ai-summaries-fitness-apps-strava-oura-whoop-wearables

Gare Davis
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv
https://www.instagram.com/hungrybowtie

It Could Happen Here 
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

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Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city. Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Allison Morrow of CNN, Victoria Song of The Verge and Gare Davis of It Could Happen Here to talk about the fairy tale of AGI, AI boosters&rsquo; religious attachment to the industry&rsquo;s success, and how the tech industry fears admitting they&rsquo;re out of ideas. Allison Morrow
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/allison-morrow">https://www.cnn.com/profiles/allison-morrow</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/amorrow.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/amorrow.bsky.social</a> AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep their workers afraid of losing their jobs <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos">https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos</a> Victoria Song
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song">https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social</a> The Unbearable Obviousness of AI Fitness Summaries <a href="https://www.theverge.com/fitness-trackers/694140/ai-summaries-fitness-apps-strava-oura-whoop-wearables">https://www.theverge.com/fitness-trackers/694140/ai-summaries-fitness-apps-strava-oura-whoop-wearables</a> Gare Davis <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hungrybowtie">https://www.instagram.com/hungrybowtie</a> It Could Happen Here <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/">https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/</a>
YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to <a href="https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline">https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline</a> and use code&nbsp;FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more.
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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.

Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow

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