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Scorned by some hated by all. Welcome to Better Off'm your host ed zitron we are still at the consumer we are still at the consumer electronics show due to events beyond my

control we are recording at like 8 pronics show due to events beyond my control.

We are recording at like 8 p.m., which means we're all feeling great.

But thankfully, thankfully, we're now joined by David Roth of Defector.

Hi, how's it going?

Yeah, he's loving the show.

Yeah, I'm sorry, is this too much energy?

I can take it down if I'm like blowing the monitors out.

Little much. Yeah. This is always a problem with you. So you all are feeling weird because you've been at CES for a long time. And I'm feeling weird because I've been at CES for like five hours. Yeah. I mean, maybe you, what is it? like you accllimate, right? Like, eventually at some point you're just kind of like, wow, I really, I'm glad you've got AI in that. So what happens is that you get really sleep deprived, right? You're on your feet all day, and then you don't sleep and you don't eat properly. And so, like, your brain just kind of, like, slowly shuts down over the last, like, yeah.

Oh, cool.

So it's like, it's like dying.

But it kind of like awakens in a weird way. Yeah. You know, like you tap this part of your brain. Right. It's actually like an undeph. Like, like, an undiying. So when you go, like, in 2001, like you go through the Stargate, you encounter yourself in a weird room, and it's like an old version of you.

Or a baby.

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