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  • The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodriguez
    Oct 29 2025

    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.

    Ed is joined in-studio by Paris Martineau of Consumer Reports and freelance writer Ashwin Rodriguez to talk about the amount of lead in protein shakes, why people turn to the internet for medical advice, and how supplements are the wild west of e-commerce.

    Paris Martineau
    https://www.consumerreports.org/about-us/our-people/our-experts/paris-martineau/

    https://bsky.app/profile/paris.nyc

    Protein Powders story: https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/

    Ashwin Rodriguez
    https://bsky.app/profile/ashwinrodrigues.com

    Supplements Story: https://archive.ph/L6OZz/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/well/doctors-supplements.html

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    50 min
  • Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora
    Oct 24 2025

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why nobody should be afraid of generative video, and how it’s impossible, impractical and expensive to make movies with Sora.

    https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/nx-s1-5567119/sora-2-openai-hollywood

    https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/video-generation

    https://mediashower.com/blog/first-ai-viral-ad/

    https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/1932893269228466270

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    13 min
  • Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe
    Oct 17 2025

    In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through data from Deutsche Bank that shows ChatGPT’s growth is flatlining in Europe, and how advertising isn’t going to save OpenAI.

    OpenAI’s ‘flatlining’ subs in Europe: The AI boom’s poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-flatlining-subs-europe-ai-145343677.html

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    8 min
  • The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus
    Oct 15 2025

    In this week’s episode of Better Offline, Ed flies out to North Carolina for a deep interview with Steve Burke of Gamersnexus about the state of PC hardware, AI, Linux gaming, their extremely scientific hardware testing, and building a channel watched by 2.5 million people.

    https://www.youtube.com/gamersnexus

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    1 h et 39 min
  • The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant
    Oct 10 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Brian Merchant to talk about US AI regulation, and how governments never seem to make the effort to understand technology.

    https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
    https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/were-about-to-find-out-if-silicon

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    29 min
  • Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth
    Oct 8 2025

    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 The Verge’s Victoria Song and Defector’s David Roth to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

    Victoria Song: https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song
    https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social

    David Roth, Defector: https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social
    Defector: Defector.com
    It’s Christmastown Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849

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    51 min
  • The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
    Oct 3 2025

    In part four of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how there’s literally not enough money in the world to pay for OpenAI’s estimated $1 trillion four-year burn, and why the media tell the truth about AI to save retail investors.

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    29 min
  • The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
    Oct 2 2025

    In part three of this week’s four-part case against generative AI, Ed Zitron walks you through how “AI replacing software engineers” is a myth spread by the media and investors - and how Microsoft only has 8 to 12 million active paying customers for Microsoft 365’s AI Copilot out of 440 million users.

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    27 min