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Grumpy Old Geeks

290: The Other Shoe

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nice guys finish last; Legend or Loser?; RIP Paul Allen; Russians scrape faces off Facebook; IRC turns 30; your DNA is out there; Magic Leap may be a leap, someday; Good Omens; Music Modernization Act; Pod Save America; 99 Cents; My god, it's full of stars. This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on! This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox. For FREE bacon, FREE shipping, and $20 off your first box, go to ButcherBox.com/gog enter promo code gog. Show notes at http://gog.show/290 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

This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you in part by Butcherbox.

0:03.2

For free bacon and $20 off your first box, go to Butcherbox.com slash GOG and enter promo code GOG.

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This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is also brought to you in part by Hover. Go to Hover.com slash GOG to get 10% off of your first purchase.

0:20.0

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

0:24.8

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

0:30.8

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

0:35.9

And I'm Brian Schulmeister.

0:37.1

So a little follow up, I found this one over at Gismoto. Nearly every real FCC public comment

0:42.5

support that supported net neutrality, it was all real. The fake ones, all the fake ones.

0:48.4

We said, oh, we don't need this net neutrality thing.

0:50.8

Yeah. Once they took out the fake ones, almost everybody said, we want to keep net neutrality.

0:57.0

How about them apples?

0:58.2

Does it matter? Apparently not.

1:00.6

No, it does not matter what the people want. So yeah, it is what it is. Now, where are we at with that?

1:06.4

It is officially dead, right?

1:08.0

Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Well, good to know that the, you know, this,

1:13.5

this old public platform of communications working so well for us.

1:16.5

Yeah. Yeah. Communicating with the Federal Communications Commission is apparently

1:20.7

something that they haven't figured out. Yeah.

1:23.9

In the news.

1:32.0

Well, speaking of losing, I thought this, this study was really interesting.

1:36.8

I see this, this Sandra Mats at the Columbia Business School in Joe Glassstone of the School

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