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Grumpy Old Geeks

140: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

A holiday potpourri of delights: Force blockers; internet famous, cash poor; Elon Musk; Taylor Swift; music windowing; driverless cars; phishing, hacking & drone nets; the fate of Abrams; schadenfreude'n Shkreli; new Yule log v2; Tiffani Amber Thiessen! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/140 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 Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:15.5

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for December 18th 2015, the holiday edition as it

0:23.1

were. I am Jason DeFilippo. I am Brian Schultmeister. Where does the time go Jason?

0:27.3

I don't know. End of the year. Anybody see anything interesting last night? Oh,

0:31.7

and I hope not. There might be like the last large, massive full scale everybody in the

0:37.6

world pop culture moment is currently occurring. And that's what they said last time.

0:41.4

Well, if this movie sucks, I guarantee you it's the last time that we'll see.

0:45.9

Well, yeah, we're going to talk, we're going to talk a little bit about this whole

0:49.4

star wars shenanigans going on. But yeah, well, I'm going in two hours and 15 minutes to go see

0:56.6

it myself. So I will not be going to see it until tomorrow. But the review started flooding

1:02.6

the internet as of Wednesday and don't say anything. Nothing. Thank the majority of the internet

1:09.4

to Rewebbers for not putting spoilers in. But to the some of you that did FU for putting

1:15.7

minor spoilers in the Fing title. So it's not even like I clicked on the link. I was scanning

1:21.1

headlines and I got some minor spoilers. F you guys. Yeah, that is worthy of an internet

1:26.6

cockpunch. Totally. This is just just wrong people. It's just wrong. I don't want to know a damn thing

1:31.7

anymore. I don't want anyone to say anything. I am probably as soon as we publish and I post

1:36.6

our this particular episode. I am shutting down the interwebs for the day. Yeah, that I mean,

1:40.3

that's where I've been. But then I found thanks to a friend of the show and voiceover artist

1:45.0

Robert Fogarty. The how to block or no, the force block, the Star Wars spoiler blocker,

1:49.8

which is a chrome add-on. Yes, that that will actually stop a page from loading if there are

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