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CallZo Media. Hello and welcome to Better Offline.

I am of course your host, Ed Zittron.

And after a few three-part-epart. And after a few three-part episodes, I had an idea.

What if I did a four-parter?

In all seriousness, I know that this is a little bit long,

but the topic we're about to explore demands quite a bit of depth,

and it isn't something I could really do justice to in a one-parter or two-parter,

or I guess even three-parter.

But let's get into it. Over the last few months,

we've felt the vibes shift downward in an aggressive way, with both Mark Zuckerberg and Clammy

Sam Altman saying that we're in a bubble. In the latter case, said warnings of a bubble are

always couched in rank hypocrisy, as it's always implied that whoever it is and the companies

they represent aren't part of that bubble, but rather it's always implied that whoever it is and the companies they represent aren't

part of that bubble but rather it's other people and other companies making unfortunate decisions.

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