CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 121 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 Friday’s second episode, Ed is joined by author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, the Las Vegas Sun’s Kyle Chouinard, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, Garrison Davis of It Could Happen Here, and Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards to talk about Vegas’ reaction to CES, the useful stuff getting pushed to the fringes, the hollow nature of this year’s CES, and an acoustic version of the Better Offline theme.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:08.4 | Unstoppable, unbelievable, impeccable, unflappable, outrageous, stupendous, chosen by God and perfected |
| 0:14.6 | by science. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Ed Zittron, and this is Better Off Lines coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show. |
| 0:35.9 | That's right, we are back for a final two-hour stretch here in the beautiful Palazzo Hotel and even more beautiful a Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 0:38.8 | We've been here all week with an open bar and tacos for journalists to hang out and chat shit |
| 0:42.7 | about the world's largest technology conference. Thank you all. Thank you all for joining me. |
| 0:47.7 | Thank you for being here as listeners, as guests for everyone. This has been the best CES yet. |
| 0:52.7 | There's only been two, but nevertheless, you don't know how the next one's going to be. But in all seriousness, this has been an incredible, incredible show. We've got four more 30-minute blocks and then an epilogue tomorrow. Hoo, it's been a lot. Our first quarter lineup is the incredible activist, journalist, and author, Corey Doctoro. Hello, Ed. |
| 1:11.4 | The fantastic writer of the Tech Bubble newsletter, Edward on Grasso, Jr. |
| 1:15.3 | And the wonderful returning champion, Carl Shenard of the Las Vegas Sun, local boy. |
| 1:20.5 | Hi there. |
| 1:21.1 | How you doing, Kyle? |
| 1:22.1 | How's your show been? |
| 1:23.8 | Pretty good. |
| 1:24.7 | I started with a pre-CES, a little conference between some Korean companies and Nevada investors and businessmen. |
| 1:33.4 | Okay. What happened in that? |
| 1:35.1 | Well, it was talking about how to bring their products, bring their companies kind of to the American market. |
| 1:42.7 | And kind of the main point of it was, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | CS has been here in Las Vegas for so long at this point. But Nevada itself or Las Vegas itself |
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