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Grumpy Old Geeks

102: 10,000 Moderately Interested Fans

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Meta, Lifestyle, Palantir, Elon, Ai, Music, Scams, Social, News, Cyber, Vibe Coding, Crypto, Spacex, Tech News, Engineering, Security, Entertainment, Kanye, Elon Musk, Internet, News Commentary, Google, Web, Business, Movies, Technology, Apple, Tech, Tesla, Nfts, Bitcoin, Code, Facebook

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Subscription model evolution from shady to standard, Jenni-Meerkat-Periscope-Cam, content for fun not profit, banging our heads against the privacy wall, all your news are belong to Facebook, X-Files fears, butthurt.me, you & your #@$!ing bubble. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/102 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason

0:06.8

de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and

0:10.5

who's to blame.

0:16.1

Good morning, Sir Brian. How are you today? I'm okay, Jason. How are you? I have a

0:21.2

slight headache. I have a slight headache and I also have a slight cold. So if I

0:25.9

sound a little raspy, that's the reason. And of course, along with the cold, it's

0:30.4

snowed again this morning and there's construction going on outside. So I got

0:35.1

the trifecta going on today.

0:37.0

Gonna be a hundred degrees here this weekend.

0:39.0

Blow me.

0:42.8

Yeah. So I'd like to announce the our first Patreon winner of the clocky.

0:48.2

Woohoo. Gary Inman is the winner of the clocky. We will be in touch very

0:52.9

shortly. Gary to get your mailing details. But congratulations.

0:56.7

Congratulations, Gary. And thank you very much for supporting us on the Patreon

1:00.8

thingy, Ma'Babar.

1:01.8

Yes. And help. Thank you for helping to clean out my closets.

1:05.0

Yeah. That too.

1:07.3

So I posted a link in our show notes. It's called Life of Layoff. And this is a

1:13.6

blog post from my friend Nicole, who kind of details her and her husband, my

1:20.2

friend Calbee's basically addiction to getting laid off.

1:25.1

Oh, yes.

1:26.2

And you know, over time, they're photographers, which is a really tough

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