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Grumpy Old Geeks

143: Flux Decapitator

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Facebook's death-feed; RIP middle class, Bitcoin, desktops, Soundcloud, Foursquare; sexual harassment in Silicon Valley; going post-mobile; hidden Airbnb cams; Internet of Things hackery; Cloverfield 2?; Epic Tea Time; silly, Snapchat is for kids! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/143 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 on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.5

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for January 15th 2016. We're just going to roll into this show today.

0:21.6

I am Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. Oh my god. I think a bit of a day. I've been

0:27.9

up since 3 a.m. No hot water. Hoppy won't poop. Got three shows to do today, including this one.

0:34.4

And I'm tearing my hair out. What's left of it? Because I'm going bald because I'm an old man.

0:38.6

Yay, Friday. Okay. I wasn't a good mood. I guess I'm not anymore.

0:44.1

Hey, don't let me bring you down. Don't let me bring you down, man.

0:47.2

I don't need you to do it. I've got Facebook or as I've been calling it this week,

0:50.5

dead book. Yeah, no doubt. I'm sorry, killer of celebrities.

0:55.6

You know, sorry about that, Bowie. Yeah, if I find out that you killed Alan Rickman,

0:59.9

I'm coming after you. No, no. I inadvertently made a comment after LeBie's death last week that,

1:05.4

wow, you think that was crazy. What will happen with David Bowie passes away and then he promptly

1:09.7

proceeded to do so. Yep. Thanks, David. The power of the power. Yeah, no, it's been insane this week.

1:18.4

You know, or even standing in the last week, first we had Lemmy, then we had David Bowie,

1:22.6

then we had Alan Rickman. And then it's kind of continued for me on. Can we, can we please?

1:28.4

Because, you know, Lemmy was 69. Alan Rickman was 69. Donald Trump is 69. Can we, can we kind of

1:36.2

like keep the trend going? Let's see if we can continue our personal trend of knocking people off

1:40.8

if we say it. So no, my, my, then it just continued. I almost miss seeing cats and things like that on

1:47.5

Facebook, Renee Angelie, who was the husband manager of Celine Dion, particularly in my circles.

1:52.8

That was getting a ton of posts. Brian Bedford, who was the voice of Disney's Robin Hood, tons of

1:58.0

posts about that. And this morning Dan Haggert from Grizzly Adams, also getting tons of posts.

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