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Grumpy Old Geeks

318: Sweet Dreams

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The American dream; Google raking it in; self-aware robot overlords; Snopes checks out of Facebook; your brain off social media; Slack goes public; Russia outlaws fake news; the end of crypto; self-driving parking; Gotti; Jim Jefferies; Sex Education; Russian Doll; Crash test girl; Load of Goop; feedback loop. Show notes at http://gog.show/318 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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0:16.4

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason de Philippo

0:21.2

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

0:30.1

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason de Philippo and I'm Brian Schulmeister.

0:33.6

We got a little follow up on the net neutrality, kerfuffle, fisticuffs, goodness that's going on.

0:40.2

Yeah, I feel like we've been talking about this for the entire life of the show because we have been.

0:46.2

Yeah, I had a really weird dream last night that I got in a fist fight with Ajit Pai

0:51.4

at Davos of all places. That is an odd dream. Eddie hit me in the head with his ridiculous mug.

0:57.9

Right. They called him a. But what are you going to do? I think we just broke a record for

1:03.8

the seaword being dropped in the earliest the show ever. I'll see if I can put it in the in the

1:09.6

pre roll next time. Yeah, so the EFF has a breakdown of the court battle so far. And it sounds like

1:18.0

they're killing it, but you never know. You never know. Well, look, as we discussed last week,

1:23.6

none of the trickle down benefits that were we were told we're going to get the investment

1:28.4

in infrastructure and all that. None of that's happening. So yeah. Yeah, we didn't even get our flying

1:34.6

cars either. No. What are you going to do? I want my flying cars. So I found another article on

1:42.8

Vox called wire millennials burned out capitalism. And again, not just millennials. Sorry,

1:50.1

Fuxk stick. And this guy wrote a book about it. We're all burned out. I did six, 12 hour days

1:55.0

last week and haven't had a day off. And I can't can't remember when and even Brian, when you and I

1:59.3

were out in the woods at a fucking digital detox retreat, I still worked every day. Well, to be

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