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Hi. I'm Met Zetron, host of the

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Better Offline podcast on the Cool Zone Media

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network. I've been both a tech writer

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and a tech executive for the last fifteen

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years, and I've seen this industry grow

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from a bunch of dorks building things in their garage

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into a multi trillion dollar behemoth

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that has monetized every corner of our lives.

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Better Offline is a podcast where I'll lead

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you through the good, the bad, and the stupid of the

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tech industry, cutting through the fanciful

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jargon and telling you exactly what

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executives like Tim Cook, Sam Altman,

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Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are really

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planning to do with your future. Tech

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can often feel confusing and monolithic, and

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it's my job to break down the biggest stories

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that you can see. It's actually pretty straightforward.

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Somebody's using software or hardware to get rich.

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Sometimes that benefits you, and sometimes it hurts

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you. Sometimes it means that Google makes their

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search results worse because they want to make

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more money. Sometimes it means that you don't

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see your friends on Instagram because they

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need to sell more ads. And sometimes

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it means that shady foreign entities use

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massive compute resources to pump up

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the price of cryptocurrencies, conning customers

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into losing billions of dollars. I

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want you to be smarter and more aware

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of your digital lives or while understanding

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the agendas of those involved, be they

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big tech entities like Microsoft and Meta,

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or untrustworthy little startup founders

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that are working on innovative new ways to trick

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you into giving them access to your data. I'm

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your guide to the future, even if the future

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can be a little bit intimidating. I'll

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bring you tales directly from the rock and core

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of the tech economy, joined by a rotating

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cast of the smartest people in the industry, including

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researchers, journalists, and some of the other members

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of the Cool Zone media team. No

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nonsense, no buzzwords, no bullshit,

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just a crystal clear window into a world that quietly

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finds new and innovative ways

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to make billionaires rich. Listen

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to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever else

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you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening.