301: Useful Idiots

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Facebook admissions; everyone's an influencer; fake trumps real; Russia fines Google; holiday tech talk; GPS as a tech prosthetic; Elon goes to Mars; Ohio wants your bitcoin; no collusion; Singularity Trap; ban billionaires; normalizing new age; pooping legos. Brought to you by Privacy. Get up to $5 off your first purchase. Signup in under a minute with your debit or checking account at https://privacy.com/gog Show notes at http://gog.show/301 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 is sponsored in part by Privacy.com.
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0:16.7	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo
0:21.5	discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:30.5	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:32.9	And I'm Brian Schulmeister.
0:35.2	Okay, you send a little hesitant there for a second.
0:36.9	I wasn't sure. We took an episode off, so I kind of forgot who I was.
0:41.6	That happens. That happens.
0:42.9	Podcasting does make the man.
0:44.6	Yes, it does.
0:46.0	Would you do over the break? Anything technical exciting?
0:48.6	No, it was great. I did absolutely nothing.
0:51.9	It was fun. Just family and didn't look at tech news at all.
0:54.9	I did have to do a little tech research, which I'll get into a little bit later in the show,
0:58.2	because we slide directly into Christmas and I am the go-to gadget guy and tech guy for my
1:04.2	entire family. So there was some research and looking into various different things to buy
1:08.6	for the kids and whatnot for Christmas. So I didn't fully escape tech hell, but mostly.
1:13.8	That's good. Yeah, it's usually over Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's like you and me both were tech
1:19.2	support for everybody. It's like, I want my outlook work. I'm like, because you're using
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