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Grumpy Old Geeks

143: Flux Decapitator

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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

4.96.1K 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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