CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)

January 8, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual live chat from CES 2025 floors, rotating guests in a panel-style banter with host commentary, ads interrupting.
The Key Players:
- Host Ed Zitron (tech critic, Better Offline), sharp-tongued ringleader mocking hype.
- Chloe Radcliffe (stand-up comedian, Is This Thing On?), hilarious stories on sexism.
- Adam Conover (Factually Podcast host), witty AI skeptic.
- Rotating: Edward Ongueso Jr. (Tech Bubble), Garrison Davis, Matt Binder (Mashable), Ben Rudolph (ex-Microsoft, fitness bro).
The Vibe: Fun, sarcastic roast of tech absurdity—educational takedowns laced with crude comedy, turning to deeper male loneliness chat.

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What you'll learn

1 `(01:53)` **🎙️ Introduction: CES 2025 Coverage**
2 `(03:20)` **Free Swag and Accessories Hunt**
3 `(04:53)` **Gendered Product Fails**
4 `(11:44)` **Aging Tech and AI Companions**
5 `(16:28)` **Missed Opportunities Like Wii for Seniors**
6 `(18:14)` **Robot Shenanigans and CES Fringe Pitch**
7 `(20:26)` **Useless AI Kitchen Gadgets**

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Show Notes

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

In Wednesday's first episode, Ed is joined by Garrison Davis of It Could Happen Here, Matt Binder of Mashable, Ben Rudolph of Cartographiq, standup comedian and host of the Factually Podcast Adam Conover, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, and standup comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe to talk about an “agent-powered” BBQ, showstoppers, the multiple wife cubes being shown on the floor, how solving male loneliness comes from male introspection, empathy and kindness, and how CES perpetuates a culture of trying to make women the solution instead.

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Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social

The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/

Matt Binder: https://mashable.com/author/matt-binder

Gare Davis: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jm6ufvsw3hg5zgdpnd3zb4tv

Chloe Radcliffe:

https://www.instagram.com/chloebadcliffe/?hl=en

https://punchup.live/chloeradcliffe

Adam Conover:

https://www.instagram.com/adamconover/?hl=en

www.adamconover.net/tourdates

Ben Rudolph:
https://www.cartografiq.com/

https://x.com/benthepcguy

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