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Grumpy Old Geeks

220: Road to Nowhere

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

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

AI nerdfight; siliCONs; Paint, undead; App-ocalypse; Taco Mode; Twitter tanking; Roomba mapping; drones falling out of the sky, the Cheetos of the Beast; Alexa slacking; pizza-taco-burgers; Take On Me; the darkening Web; Comic-Con trailers; goodbye, iPod. Full show notes at http://gog.show/220 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 who's to blame.

0:16.1

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Jason. Yes, sir.

0:21.9

Well, Russia has kicked out a bunch of US diplomats and North Korea just lobbed an ICBM at Japan,

0:27.6

so this may be our very last episode. Oh, thank God I could use a week off.

0:31.6

All right, am I getting longer than that, man? True that. True that. Good times. How about

0:38.2

a little follow-up? Brian, guess what I got this week? Herpes. Oh, and Jesus, I wish.

0:44.8

It means I've gotten some. Okay. No, I got my treadmill desk, which means I will never get herpes,

0:50.9

because nobody will ever be coming to my house ever again. You know, you trim up,

0:56.1

loosen poundsage, get them good, get the glutes going. Yeah. So how do you, how do you find

1:01.8

working with it? Dude, I love this thing. I absolutely love it. I did three miles when I edited

1:07.8

Grumpy old geeks last week. All right. Well, there you go. It's low profile. It is the life force or

1:14.4

some hippie, hippie ass name like that, but yeah, I mean, damn near killed me getting it up this

1:20.8

stage. It was like 110 pounds. It's almost like carrying the dog up to stairs, which I wouldn't know

1:25.6

what that's like. But yes, this is, it's, I love it, man. If you have the means, I highly recommend

1:31.5

acquiring one. I have the means, but not the room. So I have a kid that's enough of a treadmill for me.

1:37.7

Oh, I mean, if it's right under the desk, it's not that big. I don't really even have the desk anymore.

1:43.4

Yeah, I have a standing desk shoved in a corner, piled up with diapers. So. Okay. So you're back on the

1:50.5

butt. Yes. Okay. I was waiting for something snarky about that one, but I guess that's my department.

1:56.8

That's your department. All right. So we talked about your phone scam last week. So I put a couple

2:02.0

notes in the show notes and turns out that it's a big thing right now. I saw the notes that you put

2:08.4

in there. I am not alone. And they, the time one specifically discusses the exact call I'm getting.

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