Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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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 5th day covering CES, Ed Zitron is joined by Robert Evans of Cool Zone Media, Gare Davis of Cool Zone Media, Kyle Chouinard of Las Vegas, Nevada, to talk labor, the true vibe of CES, and how growth-at-all-costs thinking crowds out real solutions to problems. And, of course, how much Ed loves everybody.
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| 0:28.6 | We're still here. |
| 0:32.3 | We're still Better Offline. This is the second episode of Day 5, our last two-parter. |
| 0:51.9 | And I was trying to think of something like glib and kind of sardonic to say, but I'm just going to be honest, I've had one of the best weeks of my life. |
| 1:00.9 | I've just been really enjoying myself. |
| 1:02.9 | We've had so many really, really great guests. |
| 1:06.0 | I've got David J. Roth, of course, from DeFector. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello. |
| 1:09.4 | And Edward Anguoso, Jr. Hello. And Carl Shenard of the Las Vegas Sun. And all week has just been awesome people. Kyle, I talked over you. I apologize. Just saying hello. Yeah, that's enough. So, Kyle, it's Ed's show. Okay, getting ahead of you. |
| 1:27.9 | No, so you're a general assignment reporter. |
| 1:30.0 | So what have you been covering at the show? |
| 1:32.0 | Well, it's pretty unique for me because, you know, a lot of the media that comes here is from, you know, across the country, across the world, looking at whatever new tech's coming. |
| 1:39.6 | And I get to cover it from a local angle and how it affects Vegas and specifically, you know, what shown here could be implemented in the city in the next couple years. So can you talk a little bit about that? I'm a local. Yeah. I'm out in Green Valley. I'm in Henderson. Well, no, it's still less Vegas. No, H-O-A. Yeah. So, yeah, I was talking to a couple different companies this week. One of them was |
| 2:02.2 | autonomous hotel, which is, they call it the first AI powered hotel. Okay, can you define any of that? |
| 2:09.5 | Yeah. So a lot of what that means is collecting a lot of user data and then using that to |
| 2:15.6 | personalize kind of the experience of it's also it's a hotel |
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