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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual post-show wrap-up chat among friends, like a relaxed afterparty debrief following a week-long CES podcast marathon.
- The Key Players:
- Ed Zitrom: Host of Better Offline, energetic ringleader recapping the suite experience.
- Phil Broughton: Unofficial bartender and CES veteran since 2015, providing drinks and physics expertise.
- Corey Doctorow: Activist, author, journalist; first CES in 23 years, bringing sharp tech critique and historical anecdotes.
- Edward Ongueso Jr.: Regular co-host, adding banter on movies, politics, and CES chaos.
- The Vibe: Fun, exhausted, reflective—post-CES brain fog mixed with witty roasts of tech hype, design wins, and industry absurdities.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:18) **🎙️ Introduction: Cory Doctorow**
- 2 (04:42) **CES Highlights and Weird Finds**
- 3 (08:39) **Design of Everyday Things and Troubleshooting**
- 4 (12:34) **Favorite Functional Gear**
- 5 (15:57) **CES Fire Marshal Stories and Shoe Fluoroscopes**
- 6 (18:45) **Ghost Guns and 3D-Printed Firearms**
- 7 (26:19) **Gun Files Legality and Administrability**
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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 our CES epilogue, Ed is joined by author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, tech bubble newsletter writer Ed Ongweso Jr. and CES bartender Phil Broughton to talk about this year’s coverage, the upcoming venture apocalypse, and what we expect from 2026.
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