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Grumpy Old Geeks

333: Halfway to Hell

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Remembrance of internets past; what is tech ethics; Lyft stock rises, tanks; EU won't wreck internet; Zuck asks for government help; Google employee backlash; Apple shifts to rentier creep; YouTube lets YouTube go wild; the Dirt; Twilight Zone; the Cure; the Fourth Realm; things have changed; you don't own your health data; feedback. Show notes at http://gog.show/333 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

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

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

0:16.3

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. We are

0:20.8

recording at night, which we have not done for a long time and I know from my messages with you

0:25.5

earlier that you have some beers. I have a lugga-needis Maximus perfectly chilled by my side.

0:30.9

I'm insanely jealous. I'm overcaffeinated in under alcohol. I've pushed my digital detox to a

0:36.9

complete detox because me and my family have basically been sick for the entire month of March.

0:42.5

I've had two beers in two weeks, one beer each at each memorial I had to go to over the weekend

0:48.5

and that's it. So I have nothing but iced tea in front of me and we are all just trying to get

0:53.2

healthy here. I'm miss booze. I was going to say this is not like a spiritual detox. This is just

0:58.7

whole noise. It's sick of being sick of being sick. Yeah, you're trying to detox so you could

1:04.8

actually drink again. Yes, exactly. Let's be clear on that. All right. You had me worried

1:10.1

there for a second. I had a very sad. I'm very sad because we so rarely do night time recordings.

1:16.1

This is the opportunity for us to let our free flag fly, but it's just going to be you.

1:20.0

So I'll have to try to rain you in I suppose. I guess, I guess or just let me go.

1:24.7

Just let me go. I'll just turn off my mic and walk away. You may not notice after the end of

1:29.7

the sixth year. Okay. So I've got a bit of follow up. I know we've been talking a lot,

1:35.6

particularly recently about our nostalgia for the old web. And I ran across this article.

1:42.6

You can never go home to geocities again. And we have now fast-forwarded our culture so much that

1:50.2

we are recycling the early days of the internet. It is time for that to come back again.

1:54.2

Well, it hasn't one of our tag lines on the show. Ben, this has all happened before.

1:57.6

This will all happen again. Well, it definitely is now. There are two new games that are coming out

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