Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Robert and Gare return to the windy city, Las Vegas, for the annual Consumer Electronic Show, which had become drunk on AI optimism and puked all over the floor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:10.2 | Sweet baby, Jiminy Christmas, welcome back to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:14.9 | A podcast that's normally about all of the sad and horrifying and violent and dangerous and sometimes inspiring |
| 0:22.4 | things happening around the world. But this week, well, today is about something different. |
| 0:27.2 | Today we're talking about CES. Finally, for those of you who don't know or who are new to the show |
| 0:34.2 | every year in Las Vegas, Nevada, a bunch of the world's big tech companies |
| 0:39.5 | come together for the Consumer Electronic Show, where they present their visions for the future, |
| 0:44.9 | the new products that will be coming out that year and stuff that will be coming out and |
| 0:48.4 | years to come that's less developed. And the whole industry talks about itself. And Garrison |
| 0:53.8 | and I show up and largely just kind of let it wash over us, |
| 0:59.2 | like a warming tide of lukewarm garbage water. |
| 1:04.1 | It's very lukewarm usually. |
| 1:05.8 | Very lukewarm, and it smells like someone did not clean their fridge out often enough before putting it into the |
| 1:12.7 | trash. That was the feeling at showstoppers tonight. The media only presentation on the |
| 1:19.7 | finest products of CES. Yeah. Yeah, why don't we start? So, I mean, there's two different things |
| 1:24.8 | that are interesting about CES broadly. One of them is people bring |
| 1:28.2 | gadgets that are not out yet, that it will be coming out this year or coming out soon, and you can |
| 1:33.1 | actually test them and use them and see how technology is progressing. And that can be kind of fun. |
| 1:39.3 | The downside of that is that people also bring gadgets that are crap, right? Some guy has a vision for a way to, |
| 1:45.7 | like, you know, there's not a good way for blind people to use the Pogo Stiff while watching Netflix. |
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