136: Morale Removal Machine

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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More fun and lack of profit with Kickstarter; solving the last problem in the world, Dog Vacays; on asking permission; VHS FTW; gamified gunning; Rumblr & 3nder; announcing the announcement about an announcement; it's going to be ok; where is Luke? Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/136 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 DeFilippo
0:07.5	discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:14.4	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks for November 13th, 2015 Friday the 13th.
0:22.6	It's Friday the 13th and it's been a hell of a Friday the 13th already for me.
0:26.8	Indeed I am Jason DeFilippo and I'm with my co-host.
0:30.2	I'm Brian Schulmeister and Jason did you notice this beginning to look a lot like Christmas?
0:34.3	I did.
0:35.3	Everywhere you go online.
0:37.6	Everywhere.
0:38.6	It's ridiculous.
0:39.6	It's not even Thanksgiving yet.
0:40.6	I actually hauled in a metric shit ton of catalogs from the mail yesterday from places
0:46.4	I've never signed up for.
0:47.6	Never been to never ever ever anything.
0:50.1	Oh, direct mail, isn't it?
0:51.9	And you know, there's algorithms that tell them exactly who you are and what you want
0:56.7	to buy.
0:57.7	So how accurate were they?
0:59.7	Well, if the algorithm said I would throw it directly into the recycling bin, they were
1:02.9	correct.
1:03.9	catalogs for a crappier planet.
1:07.3	Oh, God.
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