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Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Met Zetron, host of the Better Offline podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Cool Zone Media network. I've been both a

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Speaker 1: tech writer and a tech executive for the last fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen this industry grow from a bunch of

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Speaker 1: dorks building things in their garage into a multi trillion

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Speaker 1: dollar behemoth that has monetized every corner of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Better Offline is a podcast where I'll lead you through

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Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and the stupid of the tech industry,

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Speaker 1: cutting through the fanciful jargon and telling you exactly what

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Speaker 1: executives like Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk are really planning to do with your future. Tech

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Speaker 1: can often feel confusing and monolithic, and it's my job

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Speaker 1: to break down the biggest stories that you can see.

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Speaker 1: It's actually pretty straightforward. Somebody's using software or hardware to

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Speaker 1: get rich. Sometimes that benefits you, and sometimes it hurts you.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it means that Google makes their search results worse

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Speaker 1: because they want to make more money. Sometimes it means

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Speaker 1: that you don't see your friends on Instagram because they

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Speaker 1: need to sell more ads. And sometimes it means that

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Speaker 1: shady foreign entities use massive compute resources to pump up

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Speaker 1: the price of cryptocurrencies, conning customers into losing billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: I want you to be smarter and more aware of

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Speaker 1: your digital lives or while understanding the agendas of those involved,

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Speaker 1: be they big tech entities like Microsoft and Meta, or

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Speaker 1: untrustworthy little startup founders that are working on innovative new

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Speaker 1: ways to trick you into giving them access to your data.

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Speaker 1: I'm your guide to the future, even if the future

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Speaker 1: can be a little bit intimidating. I'll bring you tales

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Speaker 1: directly from the rock and core of the tech economy,

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Speaker 1: joined by a rotating cast of the smartest people in

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Speaker 1: the industry, including researchers, journalists, and some of the other

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Speaker 1: members of the Cool Zone media team. No nonsense, no buzzwords,

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Speaker 1: no bullshit, just a crystal clear window into a world

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Speaker 1: that quietly finds new and innovative ways to make billionaires rich.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever else you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening.