Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.
Ed Zitron is joined in studio by actor, writer and producer Brian Koppelman, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low and comedian Mike Drucker to talk about the current state of the tech industry, what AI can actually do, and what the tech industry looks like in the next year.
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis
https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-and-openai-have-begun-the-subprime-ai-crisis/
Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is-bleeding-out/
Brian Koppelman
https://www.instagram.com/briankoppelman/
Mike Drucker
https://bsky.app/profile/mikedrucker.bsky.social
https://mikedrucker.substack.com/
Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/good-game-no-rematch-mike-drucker?variant=43103018024994
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Game-No-Rematch-Video/dp/1335012699
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/good-game-no-rematch-mike-drucker/1145272268
Cherlynn Low
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low
https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social
https://www.instagram.com/cherlynnstagram/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.0 | Quarzo Media |
| 0:08.3 | Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousless. |
| 0:13.9 | Let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into three-dimensional |
| 0:18.2 | phenomenon known as perception, yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? |
| 0:22.5 | Yes, I do. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Ed Zittron. This is Better Offline. I'm your host. Buy our merchandise. Go to my newsletter. Where's your Ed? Dot out? Anyway, fuck all that. Brian Coppulman is joining us here in the studio. He's the incredible writer-producer. And he's in The Bear. The Flipping Bear. He's a real-deal actor. He's also the co-creator showrunner and executive producer of Showtime's Billions and Super Pump, The Battle for Uber. Brian, thank you so much for joining us. Thrilled to be here with you, man. We've, of course, got Mike Drucker, the wonderful comedian, and of course you have a book, don't you, Mike? Yes, sir. It's called Good Game No Rematch. It's about embarrassing myself with video games throughout my entire life. Wonderful. I'll be embarrassing myself with tech on this show. Sherlyn Lowe as well joining us for Mangadj. |
| 1:12.7 | How you doing, Sherlin? |
| 1:13.8 | I am... with video games throughout my entire life. Wonderful. I'll be embarrassing myself with tech on this show. Sherlyn Lowe as well joining us for Mangajah. |
| 1:12.7 | How are you doing, Shireland? I am about a down of protein shake, hopefully, yes. Yeah, we're just talking about the Ninja Creamy and all our various slops. They're great. Ninja Creamy, I'll tell you, there's no endorsement out there for any of us. They don't need it. |
| 1:25.9 | Because people just get these things and they immediately go to TikTok |
| 1:28.7 | because they want to share how good they are. |
| 1:32.3 | They're honestly, they're so good. |
| 1:34.4 | That's all I have full endorse. |
| 1:35.6 | Full endorsement. |
| 1:36.5 | This is the ninja creamy show now. |
| 1:39.2 | What's great about this is literally any time I mention any product. |
| 1:43.0 | I will get an email from someone being like, |
| 1:44.5 | here is a post from 2003 from the CEO, in which case they shot a dog. |
| 1:47.7 | It's like some insane news thing. |
| 1:49.7 | They'd be like, Ed, how dare you bring up? |
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