126: #ForceOpenYourWalletFriday

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Star Wars has awakened to your wallet; Ashley Madison who?; Uber's pesky human problem; Google logos; free-dronin'; networkin' on the Playa; comfy butts & phantom wrist syndrome; Mr. Robot shows there's nothing new under the dystopian sci-fi sun. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/126 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	You want to talk about reality?
0:02.0	We haven't lived at anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century.
0:06.0	It turned it off to get the batteries snapped on a bag of GMOs while we tossed the remnants in the ever-expanding dumpster of the human
0:15.0	in the business branded houses trademarked by corporations built on bipolar numbers jumping up and down on digital displays,
0:23.0	hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen.
0:27.0	It's a day pretty deep kid out before you can find anything real live in a kingdom of bullshit, a kingdom you lived in for far too long.
0:36.0	Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame.
0:47.0	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks episode 126 for September 4th 2015. I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:59.0	You're Mr. Chipper. I'm Brian Schulmeister. Hello, Jason.
1:02.0	Hello, Brian. How are you today?
1:04.0	I'm all right. I'm a little tired.
1:06.0	This is my like 17th podcast this week. So I'm a little pooped myself, but I had some tea. I'm good to go.
1:13.0	All right. I've got some tea as well since we're not in person, but don't have any beer.
1:18.0	Yes, no beer this week. Well, there will be plenty of beer, but just not not for the show and not right now.
1:23.0	That's very true. Yes, because it is Labor Day weekend here in lovely United States of Marca and everybody gets out of work early.
1:31.0	And I just don't want to sit in traffic coming back from your place.
1:34.0	No, it was a smart decision. We made it last week that we didn't want to deal with any of the traffic that will be involved with Labor Day weekend.
1:40.0	And I don't know about you, Jason, but I don't know for the past 15 years. I've always had to work over Labor Day weekend.
1:46.0	Yeah, this is the first time I actually had it out with my boss the other day.
1:50.0	I'm like, we have like seven calls on Monday that were scheduled.
1:55.0	And I'm like, will you be attending? I'm like, no, no, no, no, because they were all scheduled before I kind of joined the team.
2:02.0	And I'm just like, I'm going to be at a barbecue in Malibu.
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