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Grumpy Old Geeks

372: My Little Homies

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Messing about with Google; cutting down facial recognition towers; studying digital technology's societal impacts; questionable benefits; ISS has better internet than we do; trusted partners; Another Life; the Great Hack; Star Wars news; Breaking Bad; Your Undivided Attention; Death Row owned by Hasbro; Instagram influencers; Mary Ann; feedback loop.

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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.

0:16.4

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

0:20.4

I had a little visitor yesterday on International Dog Day.

0:24.8

My roommate was leaving and she texted me frantically saying,

0:27.6

come outside, come outside, there's a dog loose. So I'd go outside and I'm like, don't

0:31.9

chase him, don't chase him. I know this dog. I've seen him before and it's a husky, a little boy

0:35.3

like you're in a half old husky, beautiful dog. But if you chase him, he runs and we're like

0:40.2

right by this giant street with all the rush hour traffic going by. So I just stopped there,

0:44.2

look at him and said, come here buddy. And he ran up to me and like he walked into the backyard

0:48.9

with me and I was stuck with him. All God damn day. So we could find the owner.

0:54.0

I do like because we were talking with each other a little bit and you you just kind of assumed

0:58.4

that I knew what was going on with you because you're like, well did you check my Instagram?

1:02.3

And I was like, of course I posted it. Everybody should know.

1:04.6

Yes. Well, first off algorithm. Maybe I didn't see it. And secondly, you have to remember my brain.

1:09.6

I have trained my brain not only to not see ads, but to skip over any pictures of pets or children.

1:15.1

Okay. So none of the registers. So I never see pictures of your kid. I think I have the same

1:20.1

mental algorithm going on. Yeah. So it took all day, but we found the owner. They came in

1:26.5

and got him. So it was a happy end for a little Arlo the Husky. Arlo. Arlo the Husky.

1:33.2

The family's Iranian. So I don't know how Arlo fits into that, but I don't know. They were

1:38.4

very nice though. You know, I didn't get to spend any time with my dogs on international dog day,

1:43.6

but I had a little visitor in the in the studio. Very gorgeous, very gorgeous puppy. You can see the

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