345: Farewell Tard
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We lose our spirit animal; do we really like privacy; where's our manuals; Twitter sets policies; Wing delivery in Finland; smart walls; Señorita needs a Margarita; San Fran bans facial recognition; end to end encryption, cryptocurrency not as safe as you think; Alexa Guard; Quora; mobile podcasting gear; smart strollers; boozeless bars; spice up your life.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Privacy. |
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| 0:03.2 | To sign up for free and get a $5 credit, go to privacy.com slash GOG. |
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| 0:14.6 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo, |
| 0:19.4 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:31.1 | And I'm Brian Schulmeister. |
| 0:32.4 | I had a thought this morning, Jason, we're recording Friday morning and as a creator new |
| 0:36.6 | plan, this will be coming out this evening. |
| 0:39.1 | But that's not, this has nothing to do with that. |
| 0:41.1 | Friday morning is traditionally when marketers tend to tend a lot of dumps. |
| 0:44.9 | I wake up every Friday right before we start to record and I've got emails from everyone. |
| 0:49.9 | Every mailing list that I've never signed up for and something I have, particularly even |
| 0:54.4 | from our sponsors, from the people that have paid us money to advertise on our program |
| 0:58.9 | that put us on their mailing list, which I'm not even sure if that's legal because technically |
| 1:03.9 | we didn't opt in to anything. |
| 1:05.4 | But I just get all this stuff and some of these things I would like to keep. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm happy with them, but not the frequency. |
| 1:13.0 | So I was thinking, and why don't more marketers do this? |
| 1:17.2 | There should be an option to sign up for like, I'd like a reminder that you exist. |
| 1:21.9 | Twice a year. |
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