157: U.S.S. Irony

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dig if you will, this podcast; big GOG news; drone attack; science replication crisis; suing Kanye; get to know your new cash; Comcast kills the box; Alphabet rewards negative realities; Twilight Zone returns as a choose your own adventure; black holes! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/157 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 22nd 2016. This is number 157. I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:25.6	And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Morning Jason. Good morning Brian. How are you?
0:29.2	Oh, you know, it's the day the music died. The day the music died. Why is that? Well, Prince.
0:35.6	You know, I, Prince's death actually affected me more than I thought it was going to.
0:43.0	I really did. Me too. I'm actually personally I could give or take on his music. I am very much,
0:50.1	I recognize his genius, however, and especially as a performer. It's just I think, you know,
0:55.6	young Bowie, you know, Bowie definitely I was way more into, but he was also quite old. Yeah,
1:01.8	Prince was on the 57. And I know that me, myself and I went through three different cassettes of,
1:09.7	you know, with Little Red Corvette in 1999 and all that. And I warm out because I was such a fan of
1:15.3	his back in the day. And I also built his first website. Well, in the large part, I have a personal
1:22.6	connection with him as well in terms of my career. You know, I really got started in the music industry
1:26.8	due to basically the mentoring of Steve Farnoli, who was Prince's manager through the big period.
1:33.7	And also she needs manager and, you know, obviously hooked up the song for them. So
1:38.9	nothing compares to you and all that sort of stuff. So Prince being a big part of my life and my
1:43.8	career as well. So interesting and sad. Yeah. No. And also since my roommate is in the music industry,
1:51.9	we had, we just had phone calls all day long from people who, because she, you know, knows everybody,
1:58.2	like Barry Gordy called the house yesterday. Right. He's the founder of Motown.
2:04.1	Any called the house to make sure that she was doing okay. That's cool. So I mean, that's how,
2:09.2	I mean, that's kind of how much it affected our house yesterday. It was a big deal. And yeah,
2:13.3	yeah, same here as well because the whole group of people that I met through Steve Farnoli and
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