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Grumpy Old Geeks

250: Useful But Creepy

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

250 episodes of mild grump; not making $ w/ YouTube & Uber; fighting Birds; unintended consequences; baffling Snap; Bat Day; Netflix, rising; Dirty Coin; bad UI; Jessica Jones; the Cure; Moviepass tracking; Alexa laughing; the Narc Squad; Goop; the Cyber. Show notes at http://gog.show/250 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.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.4

Episode 200 Muffa Fiddy. 200 Muffa Fiddy. Can you believe it? Five years.

0:27.2

No, we're going to do 10 and then maybe 100 and if we didn't make any money after that,

0:31.6

we'd call it a day and here we are 250 and still not making any money.

0:36.2

We're making more than most podcasters though, which is kind of scary.

0:39.7

That is terrifying actually and we'll talk about more of that and these new fangled jobs that

0:46.3

everybody is taking on and not making any money doing. I googled 250 anniversary to see if we

0:54.0

might get a snappy show title. I would say no, here we go. This is the cester centennial or the

1:00.4

semi-quinn centennial or the bison-quinn-quagonary or the quarter millennial. Now I got to say here,

1:08.3

yet another thing that you millennials have ruined is the word itself, millennial. It used to sound

1:12.8

cool. Now when I read quarter millennial, I was like, oh, it's tainted. It is tainted.

1:17.8

Oh, what are you going to do though?

1:22.1

Here we are, 250 and the shows just keep getting longer.

1:27.1

Well, we'll see this week. Yeah, even last week it was just editing it. I'm just like,

1:31.4

oh, my God, why didn't we shut up? Why don't we shut up? Why can't the tech world get it together

1:36.0

and stop giving us so many damn stories? I know. Speaking of last week, we joked about the

1:41.9

Skydo flying laptop, Hunter Killer drone with a camera. For the first time, I got to walk the

1:50.4

dogs together and training them. I was all excited because this was a breakthrough to get

1:55.1

BamBino in one little group there going out. I'm like, man, I wish I could get a picture of this.

2:00.0

But I had dogs in both hands. I'm like, man, I could use a Skydo right now. Sadly,

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