348: No Country for No Men
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Power washers & smart hotels; orbital junk; Zuck says screw you, Canada; Amazon's small supplier purge; ba-Zynga; Google's shadow work force; robocall bill; Deadwood; GOT BTS; Rim of the World; The Church on the Cure; History of Horror; Cory Doctorow; Ark Encounter rain damage; self-entitled Cha Cha Matcha; functionally extinct; feedback loop.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by Hover, go to Hover.com slash GOG to get 10% off your first purchase. |
| 0:09.2 | Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo, |
| 0:13.9 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:24.9 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How was your Memorial Day weekend? |
| 0:28.1 | I had a migraine. So, oh, okay, good times. Yeah. I had a migraine and one of my roommates' friends |
| 0:33.6 | died. So it was a really fun day here around the casa. Ah, sorry to hear that. How was yours? |
| 0:39.2 | Busy. We took our son for our first kind of overnight trip. He was very excited and it was |
| 0:47.2 | exhausting and then my sister was also in town with her kids. So it was all family all the time. |
| 0:52.1 | I need a vacation for my vacation. That happens a lot, doesn't it? As you get older. Yes, it does. |
| 0:56.6 | Yes, it does. All of a sudden, you know, the things that used to be a lot of fun, meaning like, |
| 1:01.5 | all of a sudden, you've got three days off. So you spend every night at the bar or you travel |
| 1:04.9 | somewhere fun for yourself, become just family, strewn, horrific wastelands. No, I had a good time. |
| 1:11.2 | It's a lot of fun. Yeah, I spent most of the time either out in the yard or editing or but |
| 1:17.0 | here's one little story for you that I thought was really funny. We always talk about how your |
| 1:21.9 | phones aren't listening to you and nobody really. And the algorithms are getting smarter and |
| 1:26.8 | smarter and smarter. But I went and I took my new explorer into the car wash by the day and I |
| 1:32.8 | washed it. I cleaned it and did the armor all on the tires. So it's swanky looking at everything. |
| 1:38.3 | And as I'm pulling up to the house and I'm getting out and I'm like, maybe I should just buy one of |
| 1:42.0 | those power washers and keep it at home. So I don't have to keep going to the car wash. And I |
| 1:46.0 | thought that. Yes, why find another reason not to leave your house, Jason. Yeah. Well, so I just |
| 1:52.0 | thought that it in my head. I thought that. And later on in the afternoon, I go to Amazon and right |
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