Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1
Better Offline
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
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 the second episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jesse Farrar and Michael Hale of Your Kickstarter Sucks, Henry Casey of CNN Underscored, Max Cherney of Reuters, Matt Binder of Mashable, Tom McKay of ITBrew and journalist Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about trying to find something useful that AI does in a show where everybody uses AI so liberally that it's effectively stopped meaning anything.
Your Kickstarter Sucks: https://www.patreon.com/yourkickstartersucks
Jesse Farrar: https://bsky.app/profile/jessefarrar.com
Michael Hale: https://x.com/dogboner
Ed Ongweso Jr: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social
Max Cherney: https://www.reuters.com/authors/max-a-cherney/
Matt Binder: https://bsky.app/profile/mattbinder.bsky.social
Henry Casey: https://bsky.app/profile/henrytcasey.net
Tom McKay: https://bsky.app/profile/catturd2.bsky.social
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:07.0 | New Year's resolution. |
| 0:08.8 | Own how you show up online. |
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| 0:18.2 | Ring in 2026 with a domain and matching email at godaddy.com slash new year. That's |
| 0:24.2 | go daddy.com slash new year to own how you show up online. When I was a young boy, my father, he took me to the Las Vegas-based consumer |
| 0:41.4 | electronic show and he left me here for days. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host, Ed Zipklin. |
| 1:01.7 | Better Online. Better Online. And we are back talking about the consumer electronics show. |
| 1:06.1 | I slept five hours yesterday, so I was a little low energy. |
| 1:07.9 | Today I am way higher energy. |
| 1:09.6 | So this is what you have to expect today. |
| 1:11.3 | But I'm joined by another dynamic coterie of guests. On my left here, I have Tom McKays, a senior reporter at IT. Tom, thank you so |
| 1:17.3 | much for joining us. Awesome. It's great to be here. Oh yeah. And across for me, I have Jesse |
| 1:22.1 | Ferrar of your Kickstarter sucks. Hello. I have loved YKS for years, but also tell people a little bit about what YKS is because |
| 1:31.1 | it's so Jemian to the show. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, thank you. |
| 1:34.8 | You know, it's, I guess it has morphed into something that is a tech skeptic show, |
| 1:41.5 | you know, which you're familiar with. |
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