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Grumpy Old Geeks

154: Fool Free Zone

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Google's April Fool's joke; Gig economy falters; millennials love Facebook; Spotify pivoting to video, because money; Messenger becoming a platform; hospitals need security, badly; FBI opening more phones; not so smooth drone operators; the Rift is here. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/154 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.

0:16.7

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for April 1st, 2016. I am Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:23.7

And unlike the rest of the internet today, we're not going to play any pranks.

0:26.9

None whatsoever because this is the day the internet breaks.

0:30.6

Yes, it's kind of horrible out there. So anyways, I want to thank everybody for coming to our

0:35.2

three-year anniversary party last weekend. We had quite the turnout. I think roughly around 30

0:39.8

people shuffled in and out through the entire time we were there, which I dare say other than say

0:44.6

your Adam Corolla's where you pay to go see him. That's a pretty damn good turnout for a podcast.

0:49.0

Yeah, yeah, it wasn't so bad. We had a really good time. And I especially want to thank

0:53.7

friend of the show Joey Robby for 3D printing me a brand new mule that I had lost in a move.

1:00.6

But this time it's a Grumpy old geeks themed mule. Which we'll have pictures in the show notes for.

1:05.5

Yeah, make sure you send me a photo of that so we can post that later.

1:08.4

Yeah, and I could desperately use that on this podcast today, but a little bit later because we're

1:12.4

going to smash some heads in. Okay, yes. You can find pictures of it right now if you want to go to

1:16.8

Instagram.com slash JPD, but I will send you shiny new pictures of it.

1:21.6

Yes, so we'll put it on our Instagram account. Google launched the worst April Fools joke today.

1:27.1

Apparently, it may have even cost some people some jobs and they quickly took it down.

1:30.8

Oh, really? Yes, they put a minion's mic drop animated gift that you could send as through Gmail.

1:37.4

Unfortunately, because of their UI, they replaced the normal send one send button or the send

1:43.5

right next to it, which I've sent an archive button with the send plus mic drop. So people at work

1:48.8

did this. Oh, no, so everybody was archiving their mail and they didn't mean to. Yeah, and instead

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