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Grumpy Old Geeks

280: People Are the Bottlenecks

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Fireside follow-up; creepy TVs; Zuck ain't enough; Uber safety; Snapchat's slow steady decline; OCR is now AI; Adware removal tools spying; dangerous drones; drunk on a plane movie reviews; yes, the Orville; deleting your social media; feedback loop; crypto ball! Show notes at http://gog.show/280 This episode is brought to you by Privacy. For a free $5 credit visit privacy.com/gog! 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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0:16.8

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

0:21.6

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

0:30.6

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

0:33.9

And I'm Brian Schulmeister. I actually feel like I've just finished, well, here we are again,

0:39.2

a five-day show with you. Yeah, kind of.

0:42.4

Between the flights, the night in Toronto, the four nights in at Camp Walden for fireside,

0:47.4

the flight back. I've basically just spent the last 12 hours not around you from five days straight.

0:54.1

And here we are again. Here we are again. It's like, God, can I get away from this guy for just

0:58.8

a little bit? Apparently not. So, you know, we're happy to come and do anybody's conference,

1:02.9

hit us up, but not for five days. Please, dear God, no. That ride home was brutal.

1:09.5

Four hours in the car, then about a five-hour flight plus two hours at the airport.

1:14.4

And fuck you, Uber. I couldn't even get an Uber home. I had to take a damn Prius taxi.

1:19.6

I'm sorry to hear that. You were much further away. I was also in Prius taxi, but I was home

1:23.3

within 30 minutes. I think it took me 45. My guy wanted to go really, no, he wanted to go really

1:28.7

really fast. Okay. So, he got a bigger tip for that because I was ready to go see my pups and

1:33.9

go in my own bed. The first shower was glorious. Oh, man. Yes. I know. The things we do for

1:39.4

podcasting, but it was a blast. I had so much fun up there. It was a lot of fun. It was great to

1:44.0

meet a lot of the people in our little podcasting community. It was great to meet some actual

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