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Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts · 279 episodes with transcripts

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.

Spoken has transcripts of 279 Better Offline episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 21, 2026.

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The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan

October 21, 2026

Ed Zitron (0:01)

CAUSOMEDIA Hello and welcome to Better Offline, I'm your host Ed Zitron.

On August 17th, 1944, the Allied forces pushed Germany out of the south of France, and in the Bronx, a child was born that would go on to become one of the most leathery and ghoulish software orcs in the history of capitalism. I am of course talking about Archdemon and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and today I'm…

Tom Dotan (0:44)

TOM I'm doing great, Ed. I really like that X-Men style Magneto intro to it.

Ed Zitron (0:49)

ED Yeah, he's like Magneto, but he kind of attracts bad debt at the moment.

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