Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 2
Better Offline
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🗓️ 10 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 Part 2 of our 4th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Ed Ongweso Jr, David Roth of Defector, Karissa Bell of Engadget, reporter Rob Pegoraro and Senior Transportation Reporter at TechCrunch Sean O’Kane to discuss mobility at CES, violent robots, furry robots, electric boats and, well, varying levels of potential fraud.
Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social
The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/
David Roth, Defector: https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social
It’s Christmastown Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849
Defector: Defector.com
Karissa Bell, Engadget https://bsky.app/profile/karissabe.bsky.social
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/karissa-bell/
Rob Pegoraro: https://bsky.app/profile/robpegoraro.com
Sean O’Kane: https://bsky.app/profile/seanokane.bsky.social
https://techcrunch.com/author/sean-okane/
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| 0:50.7 | It's on my passport and my birth certificate. Welcome to Petrovline with day four on our part two episode and we're joined now by |
| 1:07.0 | Sean O'Kane of TechCrunch, the Senior Transportation Report, I believe? |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, among other things. |
| 1:12.6 | Wonderful. |
| 1:13.4 | Carissa Bell, Van Gadgett. |
| 1:14.8 | How are you doing, Carissa? I'm doing great. Hell yeah. And of course, David J. Roth. Hi. Which is what you have to type in to find you on Blue Sky. Can't just type Roth? No. There's another guy. there's a more famous guy with my name. |
| 1:25.0 | No, there's just a bunch of other guys with... |
| 1:26.7 | Okay, Yol Roth, maybe. |
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