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Grumpy Old Geeks

298: Excelsior!

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

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Twitter on fire; deep fakes going mainstream; get rid of that red dot; Amazon to sell (most) Apple; Snapchat still hemorrhaging employees; Iron Fist; Salt Fat Acid Heat; more Star Trek is coming; fires destroy movie & TV history; HotnHairy72; Threatin rocks! This episode is brought to you by Privacy. Use Privacy virtual cards, and get up to $5 off your first purchase. Signup in under a minute with your debit or checking account at http://privacy.com/gog! Show notes at http://gog.show/298 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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0:17.2

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

0:21.9

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

0:30.8

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks.

0:31.8

I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:32.8

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:34.0

A little follow up on the fire that I talked about on the last time we recorded.

0:38.2

What a hairy couple of days it's been.

0:41.3

Yeah, I'll went a little crazy, didn't it?

0:43.1

Yeah, and it's still not over yet.

0:44.8

Nope, last I heard 15% contained for the one down here in Southern California, 25 for the Northern California.

0:50.8

It's actually 30% contained as of this morning.

0:53.2

And see, I did not look at the news this morning.

0:55.6

I've been looking at it, which I'll tell you about in a little bit here.

0:58.8

But yeah, we had to evacuate my roommate's mom because she was in Calabasas and mandatory evacuation.

1:04.5

So she stayed with us for a bit.

1:06.5

And we packed.

1:07.5

We were ready to go because the way these winds were going, you never knew if they were going to shift.

1:11.7

And we're only a mile and a half away from some of the bigger stuff that was going down.

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