Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts · iHeartPodcasts
Show overview
Better Offline has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 245 episodes, alongside 43 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 170 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 21 min and 54 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 57 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 124 episodes published. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 245 episodesCZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
The AI Industry Is Losing
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker to talk about their massive investigation into Sam Altman, his ouster from OpenAI, and the consequences of trusting Silicon Valley with the future.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about the large amount of speculative data center land purchases, the brittle NVIDIA GPU economy, and the economic realities of AI. https://paulkedrosky.com/ The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbDiETo29GTIjg6Lk4imig Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
bonusIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big to fail, why no bailout is coming, and how people need to learn more about history before using it to justify burning billions of dollars. This week’s free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/ Premium newsletter tie-in out later today - save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, and the dread consequences of having software written 100% by LLMs.Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/ Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful!Peak hours announcement: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/anthropic_tweaks_usage_limits/?ref=wheresyoured.at https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_source_code/ Boris on 100% of his code: http://x.com/bcherny/status/2004897269674639461 Lenny interview with Boris: https://x.com/lennysan/status/2024896611818897438 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline use free99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today!Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Ed's Socials - http://www.twitter.com/edzitron instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron email me [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.