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Grumpy Old Geeks

161: Everything We Know Is Wrong

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Gig economy, robots & hijacking people's minds; logo heat mapping; Thiel vs Gawker; Uber monitors your battery, won't use info, wink wink; pwned checker; nuclear floppies; Gen-X'rs vs Millennials; competitive vaping. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/161 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.

0:16.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks for May 27th 2016 episode 161. I am Jason DeFilippo.

0:22.7

And I'm Brian Schultmeister, morning Jason. Good. Well,

0:25.8

almost afternoon for me it's 11 o'clock here in the lovely town of Downersgrove,

0:29.7

Illinois, where it is really hot. It's a overcast here. It's overcast and about

0:35.4

to thunderstorm. So we may get some thunder on the on the line, but I had to run

0:38.8

out and mow my lawn this morning. So nothing like mow in the lawn to wake you up

0:42.9

when you really don't want to mow the lawn in the morning, which is pretty much

0:46.6

never. Don't they have robots for that now? No, they do have like the room buffer

0:52.7

the yard, but I've got a very complicated yard and I can't afford, you know,

0:57.4

a room buffer the yard. I can't afford a regular room. I you know what I have?

1:02.1

I have a hand be down lawnmower. I have gas money and time. So that's what that's how I mow the lawn.

1:08.4

Yes, you pay with your time. I do. So let's do a quick up to speed post

1:15.5

mortem. It's dead. It's dead. It's not coming back. We tried. There's just too much

1:20.8

going on. You're having a kid. I moved and we both have like jobs that actually pay

1:26.6

the bills. Yeah. Yeah. I know, you know, up to speed was it was a fun thought. It was fun to do.

1:34.1

Yeah, it's fun. It's a great time. You know, we were getting a lot of people listening

1:37.5

to it, which is great. But then, you know, things happen like the two star rating that we

1:42.7

got in iTunes this week. Oh, yeah. From from gadget virtuoso who said that ad reads

1:48.5

are one thing, but pre and post ad rules are going too far. I haven't listened to the radio gadget

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