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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 1

Better Offline

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Technology

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 103 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 1 of our 5th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Ed Ongweso Jr, David Roth of Defector, Cherlynn Low of Engadget and Health Physicist Phil Broughton to talk about men and their lack of vulnerability about sex, the sex toy industry, age tech, exoskeletons…and lasers!

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 
Defector: Defector.com
It’s Christmastown Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849
Cherlynn Low, Engadget: https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low/
Engadget’s Best Of CES: https://www.engadget.com/ces/

Washington Post story about AVNs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/02/25/ai-porn-avn-industry/

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0:36.0

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0:44.7

Hello and welcome to day five of the Better Offline Consumer Electronics Show saga.

0:46.4

I'm your host at Zetron.

1:11.6

Better offline. I am well slept. I ate two meals yesterday. My feet feel great. I look fantastic. I'm having a hell of a show, but it's the last day, sadly. But only the last day of the show we have today. And then we have tomorrow kind of a positive masculinity day. We're getting massages. We're having brunch. We're

1:17.2

going to have a wonderful podcast and talk about our feelings. It's going to be amazing. But today

1:21.0

we have an incredible cast with us. To my left is Edward on Grasso Jr. My wonderful correspondent.

1:26.8

Hello. How's everyone doing? I'm great, as I just said. Clearly, was thinking of something else. But over to my right, I have the wonderful Sherlyn Lowe, the deputy editor at N. Gadget, Sherlin. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. And to my right, David J. Roth. how you doing, David? I'm good. How are you?

1:44.4

Oh, wait, no, you already said.

1:45.4

There we are.

1:46.6

I'm the only one that didn't ask. Great. Well, you were paying attention. I wanted to know how everyone was doing. Oh, okay. Well, I didn't ask, though. Anyway, until now. Shirling. Yes. So how many CES is this for you?

2:00.6

I've lost, well, few enough that I'm not like as seasoned as people who have done as 25 years. I think I'm under 10. I think I'm nine or eight. That's still a lot. Yeah, that sort of seems high to me. This is my first and Edward's first too. Oh, how does it feel? Oh, surreal. Yeah. Is it everything you expected? Ann Moore. I want to know about and more. I want to know about Ann Moore. Most of what I got in terms of expectation setting was from Ed and it was, like, I kind of expected it to suck more than it does. Okay. Like, because he was more or less, you know, trying to get me. I don't know if it was just that's how you get me motivated.

2:36.2

It was like, you have no idea how depraved it is. Like, you're going to see things down there. And it's like, it's a trade show. Like, I mean, it still kind of stinks, but there's, it was more normal for the most part, which made the stuff that was

2:48.8

like ridiculous and dystopian pop

2:52.0

that much harder for me.

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