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Grumpy Old Geeks

263: Bird Flu Epidemics

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

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Scooters spreading; Sherlock, hero; RIP Bourdain; browser swapping; streaming scandals; Facebook data trending; declining crypto-crap; Buzzfeed pivots; Apple WWDC; Riverhead holo-phones; VR doilies; revisionist memories; Scalzi; an incomplete list of bunk. Show notes at http://gog.show/263 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

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0:17.6

Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo,

0:22.4

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:30.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:33.6

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:35.0

We do not have Dave Bittner this week. He's off on a secret mission, so he will be returning with us next week.

0:41.5

Yeah, I don't know what he's doing. He's probably just screwing off with his kids, but I think he's

0:44.9

seeing solo again.

0:46.0

Ah, it could be. It could be, which I still haven't seen, but I'll try to.

0:50.1

So the collective world basically had its heart broken this morning because we're recording this

0:55.6

Friday morning on June 8th and we woke up to the news that

0:59.6

and one of my heroes is now gone, Anthony Bourdain.

1:02.9

Yeah, um, yeah, you know, we talked about him on the show a lot, so I thought I'd talk about him on

1:07.4

the show a lot. I've been joyed all of his shows as a family with my wife.

1:13.3

Kids too young, obviously, but you know, a kitchen confidential, an amazing book, his cookbook,

1:19.0

gorgeous, his recipes amazing. You know, I've so many thoughts. I'm really

1:27.2

heartbroken right now. There's no other way to describe it. I've got to stop keeping my phone

1:33.8

in my room because that's not, you know, you roll out of bed and you grab your phone now and

1:39.8

boy, it can set the tone of the day and to kind of roll over and tell my wife, Anthony Bourdain

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