CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 56 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 our CES epilogue, Ed is joined by author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, tech bubble newsletter writer Ed Ongweso Jr. and CES bartender Phil Broughton to talk about this year’s coverage, the upcoming venture apocalypse, and what we expect from 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the better offline after-party epilogue from CES. |
| 0:13.7 | It is like 11 a.m. on the Saturday. |
| 0:17.5 | We are, I actually slept pretty well, weirdly, but we're all, this is the thing we do at the end of the show where the remaining people join us, we relax. |
| 0:27.0 | And we have to my right, Mr. Philip Broughton. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello. |
| 0:30.9 | This is our bartender for the week, Phil, you've been, I don't, so I want to give Phil immense credit for what he's been doing all week. So the way this works, we have the, we've got the main suite, which is where people come, they come sit down. It's got the big daddy bedroom where I, where I just kind of like sleep or like talk to myself. Roll around a lot. I roll around on the floor, going, but then in the main room, we have the bar that Phil was set up. |
| 0:55.0 | And during the recordings, Phil will come in and ferry in, usually a Diet Coke or a little thing of Sotul, which is close to Mezcal. |
| 1:03.0 | Jesus Christ, my voice just broke that. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm of course Ed Zittron, by the way, the host of Better Offline. |
| 1:08.0 | And Phil has been bringing me drinks all week and bringing everyone drinks just kind of |
| 1:13.0 | ferrying around the recording. |
| 1:14.8 | He wouldn't know it to hear it, but he's been an incredible bartender. |
| 1:17.5 | I finally learned how to not walk into things after last year. |
| 1:20.4 | You were pretty good. |
| 1:21.8 | You give yourself more credit. |
| 1:23.9 | To our left, of course, is Mr. Corey Doctor, activist, author, journalist. Hello. |
| 1:28.8 | And of course, Mr. Edwardan, Grasso, Jr. |
| 1:31.5 | Hello, my friends. My man, another year, another day. Another year of the butt. |
| 1:37.1 | Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I should really have my book written by next year. No, it's, we were just |
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