370: Weaponized Winona
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
China retaliates against Cisco; CEOs change corporate accountabilities; banks look to blockchain; IRS wants its crypto-cut; Uber cuts balloons; Facebook moderators in India get pay hike; News tab will be people not AI; Idiocracy coming true; Mrs. Maisel; Jett; the Boys; Stranger Things; Apple media news; Carlin book; Standard Ebooks; biohacking; feedback loop.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by Hover. |
| 0:03.2 | Go to Hover.com slash GOG to get 10% off your first purchase. |
| 0:09.6 | Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:13.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:26.1 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:27.4 | More changes Brian. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm not getting another job, we're leaving another job, but we are changing up our Patreon |
| 0:35.1 | tiers soon and we will be removing the $1 tier. |
| 0:39.5 | Just the math doesn't work out with the transaction fees and you know that 35 cents as much as |
| 0:44.4 | we really do appreciate it. We're just getting hammered on it. So we're going to change things around. |
| 0:49.5 | If you are a $1 patron or anything under the minimum that we're going to set, you will be |
| 0:54.4 | grandfathered in, so don't worry. And that'll hopefully be taken effect by the next show or the |
| 1:00.0 | next Wednesday show. Whatever we have at the time. Well, whenever we have a chance to sit down and |
| 1:05.3 | try and figure out what the hell we're doing over there because it's a mess and we apologize, |
| 1:10.3 | but we do appreciate your money. Yes, we do. And now I get a little follow-up. |
| 1:13.9 | Remember when I said last week that you know, okay, the US is banning Huawei and you don't see |
| 1:19.1 | China banning Cisco. Well, spoke too soon. Yeah, I don't know if it's the Grumpy old curse or what, |
| 1:27.0 | but yeah, Cisco has been dropped precipitously on invitations to bid on different contracts. |
| 1:34.0 | So it looks like they're getting pissy and fighting back. Yeah, well, you know, this is, |
| 1:38.4 | this is these are unintended consequences of our trade war at the moment. Of course, |
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