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Better Offline

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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one…

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Monologue: Concentration Risk 2026-09-04 · 10m
LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan 2026-09-02 · 43m
Monologue: Into The Jensenverse 2026-08-28 · 9m
No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport 2026-08-26 · 65m
Monologue: AI Hits A Wall 2026-08-21 · 10m
The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus 2026-08-19 · 45m
AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr. 2026-08-14 · 45m
Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump 2026-08-12 · 11m
Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive 2026-08-07 · 17m
The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson 2026-08-05 · 54m
Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer? 2026-07-31 · 13m
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh 2026-07-29 · 59m
Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing? 2026-07-24 · 10m
The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson 2026-07-22 · 59m
Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle 2026-07-17 · 15m
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus) 2026-07-15 · 64m
Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive 2026-07-10 · 8m
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell 2026-07-08 · 59m
Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs 2026-07-03 · 6m
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads 2026-07-01 · 35m
Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now 2026-06-26 · 24m
Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult 2026-06-24 · 9m
The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport 2026-06-19 · 62m
Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X 2026-06-16 · 4m
CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble 2026-06-10 · 31m
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down 2026-06-05 · 6m
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky 2026-06-03 · 47m
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI 2026-05-29 · 12m
The AI Industry Is Losing 2026-05-27 · 19m
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs 2026-05-22 · 13m
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus 2026-05-20 · 50m
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak 2026-05-15 · 22m
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil 2026-05-13 · 55m
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy 2026-05-06 · 58m
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie 2026-05-01 · 19m
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC 2026-04-29 · 67m
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle 2026-04-24 · 11m
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization 2026-04-22 · 59m
Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric 2026-04-17 · 12m
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker 2026-04-15 · 48m
Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz 2026-04-09 · 43m
The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky 2026-04-07 · 41m
Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail 2026-04-03 · 18m
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic? 2026-04-01 · 11m
Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You 2026-03-27 · 11m
NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus 2026-03-25 · 58m
Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech 2026-03-20 · 12m
Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor 2026-03-18 · 49m
Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History 2026-03-13 · 15m
Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski 2026-03-11 · 59m
Hater Season: Corey Quinn 2026-03-04 · 47m
Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking 2026-02-27 · 8m
Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz 2026-02-25 · 59m
Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code 2026-02-20 · 8m
Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan 2026-02-18 · 59m
Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming 2026-02-13 · 7m
Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting 2026-02-11 · 67m
Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed? 2026-02-06 · 8m
Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard 2026-02-04 · 38m
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four 2026-01-30 · 12m
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three 2026-01-29 · 14m
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two 2026-01-28 · 20m
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One 2026-01-27 · 13m
Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff 2026-01-26 · 56m
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four 2026-01-23 · 34m
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three 2026-01-22 · 32m
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two 2026-01-21 · 44m
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One 2026-01-20 · 36m
Monologue: The Year Ahead 2026-01-16 · 8m
The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke 2026-01-14 · 60m
CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue) 2026-01-10 · 56m
CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday) 2026-01-10 · 121m
CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday) 2026-01-10 · 124m
CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday) 2026-01-09 · 133m
CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday) 2026-01-08 · 122m
CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday) 2026-01-08 · 133m
CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday) 2026-01-08 · 130m
CES 2026: Part Three (Tuesday) 2026-01-07 · 129m
CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday) 2026-01-07 · 121m
CES 2026: Part One (Monday) 2026-01-06 · 160m
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4) 2026-01-02 · 29m
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3) 2025-12-31 · 27m
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2) 2025-12-26 · 29m
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1) 2025-12-24 · 25m
Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? 2025-12-19 · 33m
Part Two: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? 2025-12-18 · 30m
Part One: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? 2025-12-17 · 31m
Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking 2025-12-12 · 6m
The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco 2025-12-10 · 33m
The State of the Games Industry with Nathan Grayson 2025-12-05 · 39m
Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout 2025-12-04 · 10m
Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? with Steve Burke 2025-12-03 · 39m
A Thanksgiving Monologue 2025-11-27 · 7m
CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown 2025-11-26 · 58m
What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck 2025-11-20 · 42m
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share 2025-11-12 · 7m
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy 2025-11-12 · 58m
Monologue: AI's Desperation Era 2025-11-07 · 7m
Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer 2025-11-05 · 53m
Monologue: Dealing With The Weight Of History 2025-10-31 · 11m
The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues 2025-10-29 · 50m
Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora 2025-10-24 · 13m
Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS 2025-10-20 · 21m
Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe 2025-10-17 · 8m
The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus 2025-10-15 · 99m
The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant 2025-10-10 · 29m
Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth 2025-10-08 · 51m
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4) 2025-10-03 · 29m
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3) 2025-10-02 · 27m
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2) 2025-10-01 · 29m
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1) 2025-09-30 · 25m
Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS 2025-09-26 · 10m
Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker 2025-09-24 · 67m
AI Isn't Making Engineers 10x As Productive with Colton Voege 2025-09-19 · 38m
Radio Better Offline: Edward Ongweso Jr. & Allison Morrow 2025-09-17 · 56m
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Three 2025-09-12 · 37m
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two 2025-09-11 · 33m
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One 2025-09-10 · 35m
Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream 2025-09-05 · 13m
The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke 2025-09-03 · 37m
Monologue: What If I'm Right? 2025-08-29 · 21m
Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher 2025-08-27 · 69m
Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works 2025-08-22 · 29m
The AI Money Trap, Part Two 2025-08-21 · 42m
The AI Money Trap, Part One 2025-08-20 · 42m
Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5 2025-08-15 · 11m
CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS 2025-08-13 · 57m
Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used 2025-08-08 · 10m
Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White 2025-08-06 · 35m
Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS 2025-08-01 · 8m
Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee 2025-07-30 · 69m
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3 2025-07-25 · 42m
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt, 2 2025-07-24 · 38m
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1 2025-07-23 · 35m
Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse 2025-07-18 · 14m
Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker 2025-07-16 · 76m
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2 2025-07-11 · 26m
Monologue: Is Anthropic Killing Cursor? 2025-07-10 · 11m
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1 2025-07-09 · 30m
Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl 2025-07-04 · 11m
Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow 2025-07-02 · 75m
Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea? 2025-06-27 · 11m
NVIDIA Vs. The Media ft. GamersNexus 2025-06-25 · 47m
Monologue: OpenAI Vs. Microsoft 2025-06-20 · 9m
Radio Better Offline: Pablo Torre and David Roth 2025-06-18 · 85m
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 3 2025-06-13 · 35m
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 2 2025-06-12 · 33m
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 1 2025-06-11 · 27m
Monologue: The AI Job Loss Con 2025-06-06 · 6m
The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown 2025-06-04 · 58m
Monologue: Don't Buy A Switch 2, Get A Handheld Gaming PC 2025-05-30 · 7m
The Better Offline Mailbag 2025-05-28 · 42m
Introducing: Away Days Podcast 2025-05-26 · 3m
Monologue: Jony Ive and OpenAI's New BS Machine 2025-05-23 · 11m
Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb 2025-05-21 · 44m
Monologue: How Better Offline Saved Me 2025-05-16 · 9m
Empires of AI With Karen Hao 2025-05-14 · 52m
Monologue: Sam Altman's BS Eye Scanning Startup 2025-05-09 · 12m
Tariffs and The End Of Affordable Computing w/ Steve Burke 2025-05-07 · 38m
I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore 2025-05-02 · 28m
Monologue: Why We Need Tech Criticism More Than Ever 2025-05-01 · 7m
The BS Bubble 2025-04-30 · 31m
Monologue: The Tech I Actually Like 2025-04-25 · 13m
How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint 2025-04-23 · 34m
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry 2025-04-18 · 43m
Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles 2025-04-17 · 10m
OpenAI Cannot Survive 2025-04-16 · 40m
Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem 2025-04-11 · 8m
Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr. 2025-04-09 · 85m
Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross 2025-04-04 · 10m
Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing 2025-04-02 · 60m
Monologue: High Noon for CoreWeave & AI 2025-03-28 · 13m
Radio Better Offline: Andy Richter 2025-03-26 · 66m
Monologue: We Need To Talk About CoreWeave 2025-03-21 · 9m
Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song 2025-03-19 · 87m
SoftBank and OpenAI's Dangerous Game 2025-03-14 · 34m
Monologue: How Does This End? 2025-03-13 · 7m
Microsoft Cuts The Power To AI 2025-03-12 · 25m
Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate 2025-03-07 · 9m
How Growth Is Killing Video Games 2025-03-05 · 74m
Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry 2025-02-28 · 43m
Monologue: What Bursts A Bubble? 2025-02-27 · 11m
OpenAI Is Not A Real Company 2025-02-26 · 36m
What We're Fighting For 2025-02-21 · 34m
Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit 2025-02-20 · 11m
How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy 2025-02-19 · 28m
Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed 2025-02-14 · 9m
How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society 2025-02-12 · 85m
Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek? 2025-02-06 · 10m
How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed 2025-02-03 · 42m
What The Hell Is DeepSeek? 2025-01-31 · 33m
Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators 2025-01-29 · 46m
The Slop Society 2025-01-24 · 42m
Facebook Was Already Zucked 2025-01-22 · 36m
Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis 2025-01-15 · 85m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 6 - Epilogue 2025-01-12 · 64m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2 2025-01-11 · 117m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 1 2025-01-10 · 101m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 2 2025-01-10 · 94m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 1 2025-01-09 · 96m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 2 2025-01-09 · 95m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1 2025-01-09 · 94m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2 2025-01-08 · 99m
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1 2025-01-07 · 76m
The Invisible War Criminals 2025-01-03 · 36m
The Invisible War 2025-01-01 · 35m
FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview 2024-12-30 · 30m
CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher 2024-12-25 · 95m
Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler 2024-12-18 · 59m
Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick 2024-12-11 · 41m
The Coming Generative AIPocalypse 2024-12-06 · 32m
Yep, We're At Peak AI 2024-12-04 · 20m
CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search 2024-11-27 · 32m
The Rot Society 2024-11-20 · 38m
William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech 2024-11-13 · 54m
The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick 2024-11-06 · 54m
A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads 2024-10-30 · 33m
A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan 2024-10-25 · 19m
Data Vampires with Paris Marx 2024-10-23 · 38m
Zephyr Teachout On Corruption 2024-10-16 · 38m
The Subprime AI Crisis 2024-10-11 · 48m
Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business 2024-10-09 · 47m
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4 2024-10-02 · 31m
How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker 2024-09-27 · 44m
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3 2024-09-25 · 42m
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 2 2024-09-18 · 33m
Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy 2024-09-13 · 39m
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1 2024-09-09 · 46m
How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions 2024-09-06 · 37m
How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse 2024-09-04 · 34m
Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies 2024-08-28 · 58m
Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain 2024-08-21 · 88m
Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation 2024-08-16 · 43m
How The AI Bubble Bursts 2024-08-14 · 41m
Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant 2024-08-07 · 113m
The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac 2024-07-31 · 111m
Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu 2024-07-24 · 33m
CrowdStruck 2024-07-22 · 30m
The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS 2024-07-19 · 56m
Pop Culture 2024-07-17 · 50m
How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry 2024-07-12 · 56m
The Shareholder Supremacy 2024-07-10 · 34m
I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans 2024-07-03 · 45m
Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz and Michael Fisher 2024-06-26 · 94m
The Onion Knight Ft. Ben Collins 2024-06-21 · 49m
Let Tim Cook 2024-06-19 · 34m
Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley 2024-06-14 · 55m
The Talented Mr. Altman 2024-06-12 · 56m
The Rot-Com Bust 2024-06-07 · 42m
The Rot-Com Bubble 2024-06-05 · 30m
AI Is Breaking Google 2024-05-29 · 49m
We're Watching Facebook Die 2024-05-24 · 37m
How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse 2024-05-22 · 46m
OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival 2024-05-15 · 44m
Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer 2024-05-08 · 55m
The Cult of Failing Upwards 2024-05-01 · 38m
The Man That Destroyed Google Search 2024-04-25 · 31m
How Managers Are Breaking The Internet 2024-04-24 · 34m
How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral ft. Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang 2024-04-17 · 37m
The AI Bubble Is Bursting 2024-04-12 · 48m
Are We At Peak AI? 2024-04-10 · 30m
Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White 2024-04-03 · 37m
Rich Idiots Are Killing The Media To Please The Tech Industry 2024-03-27 · 49m
How Growth Is Killing Tech's Innovation, ft. Robert Evans 2024-03-20 · 54m
Musk's Uncharitable Charity ft. David Fahrenthold 2024-03-13 · 45m
The Metaverse: How Mark Zuckerberg Lied To The World 2024-03-06 · 39m
How The Winklevoss Twins Lost A Billion Dollars 2024-03-01 · 47m
The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans 2024-02-24 · 49m
An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro 2024-02-21 · 49m
Introducing: Better Offline 2024-02-14 · 2m
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