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Better Offline

CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)

Better Offline

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Technology

4.6687 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

In Wednesday's first episode, Ed is joined by Garrison Davis of It Could Happen Here, Matt Binder of Mashable, Ben Rudolph of Cartographiq, standup comedian and host of the Factually Podcast Adam Conover, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, and standup comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe to talk about an “agent-powered” BBQ, showstoppers, the multiple wife cubes being shown on the floor, how solving male loneliness comes from male introspection, empathy and kindness, and how CES perpetuates a culture of trying to make women the solution instead.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:06.0

Clause Media.

0:08.3

Someone through a portal to the podcast dimension, I am Ed Zitron, and this is Better Offline's coverage of the Consumer Electronics show.

0:37.9

Better Off! It's a goddamn Wednesday, and we're here at the Goddamn Wednesday, and we're here at the Goddamn Palazzo Hotel and beautiful Las Vegas Nevada all week with an open bar, tacos in a comfy place to relax for reporters covering the largest and, I don't know,

0:42.3

most offensive technology show in the world, I'd say. And we're here all week with two episodes today and we've got an all-star cast bringing you the best and, well, mostly the worst from the

0:47.4

show floors at the Las Vegas Convention and Venetian Expo Centers. And my first contestants are

0:52.8

joining me on Nice and D damp from the show floor.

0:55.3

That was actually in the notes before that, Chloe. I apologize. I've got...

0:58.7

I just filled half a can of liquid death all over myself in this chair. I bought an entire can

1:03.5

over this table yesterday. It, like, exploded because it froze. Anyway, Mr. Anguoso, Jr.

1:09.9

Hello, my friend. Jesus, Engros Jr.

1:11.0

Jesus Christ.

1:12.1

I'm keeping going.

1:13.3

Thank you for joining me.

1:14.1

Tech Bubble newsletter, of course. Thank you. Thank you. Happy to be here. And you've got star of is this thing on. Chloe Radcliffe. Yeah. Stand-up comedian as well. That's right. Flawless intro. and of course, stand-up comedian

1:25.0

and host of the factually podcast, Adam Conover.

1:27.0

Hello, thank you for having me.

1:28.6

So it sounds like you've all been on the convention floor. intro and of course stand-up comedian host of the factually podcast Adam Conover. Hello, thank you for having me.

1:28.6

So it sounds like you've all been on the convention floors and based on the little I've

1:33.0

heard, real bang a day.

1:35.2

Chloe, you got some free stuff?

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