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Better Offline

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 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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Episodes
  • Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

    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 Larry Ellison’s empire.

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    15 mins
  • AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)

    AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
    Jul 15 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 be when things unwind.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

    Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
    Jul 10 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 how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved.

    GamersNexus: The DRAM Cartel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

    HBM to increase 90% Year over Year - https://x.com/pequityresearch/status/2075035164833382909?s=46

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    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

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    8 mins
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Going to town on the promises that the tech industry makes. Great guest, great topics and certainly the timing. I do wish you guys posted more often.

Unfiltered and skeptical in an age of blind corporate trust

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