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Grumpy Old Geeks

39: Beyoncé doesn't take Bitcoin

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2013

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Sean Bonner joins the guys in the studio this week to enlighten us on Bitcoin and other baubles. Brian gets belligerent about Beyoncé news. Billionaire Bill Gates plays Santa, and more news about how everyone is saying screw-it to privacy. Shownotes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/39 Support the show at http://tugboatyards.com/gog 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

Oh, it's the holidays. Hi, Jason. Hi, Brian. How you doing? Um, shoveling snow and packing

0:25.7

the clothes and getting ready to go to the airports for holiday fun. Yeah, I'm getting ready

0:29.2

to do some traveling too, but you know what really make my holiday? What would make your holiday,

0:33.0

Brian? If I'd like brought up my my iPhone on on Christmas Eve and I saw a nice personalized

0:37.9

message from Nike on Facebook. Okay, you're a strange one, but if that's what turns you on,

0:43.9

then all right. Well, does that turn anyone on? I'm getting really annoyed by this because

0:48.4

I'm not only am I being asked to do it for all my clients. I'm talk to some other people.

0:53.5

Everybody has to do their updates for that just say, marry holidays or something generic

0:58.5

that doesn't offend anyone for no particular reason. Who gives a fuck? I don't care if

1:03.8

some celebrity posts a crap can message that some peon is obviously posting for them

1:08.4

on December 25 saying, boy, I hope you have a happy holiday. Yeah, because nobody's online.

1:14.7

It's the worst the day after Christmas is like the worst day in the world to do anything

1:19.3

or even on Christmas. People are busy. People are busy and nobody cares. And it doesn't

1:23.8

mean anything. And what the fuck? Why do we have to do the stupid shit? What's wrong with

1:27.8

people? Well, charge, charge 4x for for holiday has to pay. Yeah, that's probably the

1:33.2

way to go about it. But I mean, really, I mean, it's I know you're saying nobody's online.

1:36.9

I don't think that's true anymore, especially with mobile phones. I think people are going

1:40.0

to be sitting around with their families bored out of their mind, whip it out their phone

1:43.2

and checking Facebook. But still, who cares? Do you need to be wished a generic, marry

1:49.4

holiday from Rihanna? Is it going to make a difference to you in your life? No, I don't

1:55.4

think so. No, I have no one on any any other day. It wouldn't matter. Even on any, you

2:00.0

know, you know what I'm saying. I mean, I get it if like, okay, say the celebrity or whoever

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