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 interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country
Oct 18, 2026
Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures…
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Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down
Oct 15, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how Anthropic’s big Q3 revenues underwhelmed an already-nervous market, and how the more of the real numbers we learn about AI, the…
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The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth
Oct 13, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Robin Wigglesworth of the Financial Times to explain how both corporate and sovereign bonds work, why you should care, and what you need to know…
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Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse
Oct 08, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the Australian media has set…
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"Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus
Oct 06, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s “cycular” financing, Trump’s “superintelligence” accord, the growing bubble in the gaming industry, and the…
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Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden
Oct 01, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task of borrowing $50…
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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
Sep 29, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI.Dead…
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Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
Sep 24, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why…
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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
Sep 22, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US Treasuries, how AI…
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Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
Sep 17, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amodei truly believes that Anthropic is building dangerous AI, he should stop any and all cybersecurity model…
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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport
Sep 15, 2026
Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven…
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Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift
Sep 10, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by former researcher Jacob Coxon, how the media keeps falling for AI safety grifts…
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Managing The Situation
Sep 08, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to deal…
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Monologue: Concentration Risk
Sep 03, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series…
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LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
Sep 01, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never…
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Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
Aug 27, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how NVIDIA’s revenue is mostly…
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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
Aug 25, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI…
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Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
Aug 20, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing economics create…
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The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
Aug 18, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of LLMs, and how…
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AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
Aug 13, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little robots, Mark…
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Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
Aug 11, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-theoretical $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with various asset managers, all to keep up with analyst…
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Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
Aug 06, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 7% of Microsoft’s FY26 revenue coming from…
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The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
Aug 04, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the recent slew of tech earnings, how analyst estimates show that 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI…
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Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
Jul 30, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is near-entirely driven by Anthropic…
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
Jul 28, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and creating a culture…
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Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
Jul 23, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and report on how without…
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The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
Jul 21, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of financial regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and…
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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
Jul 17, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy…
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AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
Jul 14, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll…
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Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
Jul 09, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and…
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