398: For Your Protection
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Disappointment with tech; Uber's appalling safety report; Larry & Sergey leave Google; regulation & driving; DNA testing has peaked; that Peloton ad; TikTok suppressed videos for your own protection; Jason rejoins Facebook, Dave thinks about quitting; precious metal schemes; drunk on a plane & a sofa movie reviews.
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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. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:18.9 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.3 | Mahalo Jason. |
| 0:21.6 | Mahalo. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm back from five days in Hawaii. |
| 0:24.6 | Fuck you. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, it's not quite as exciting as it sounds. |
| 0:27.6 | It's, I took my, well, obviously my son and we brought my mom along because that seemed |
| 0:33.2 | like a nice thing to do. |
| 0:34.6 | So it was a bit of a far cry from my previous wake up at the ass crack of noon. |
| 0:40.6 | Swim up to a pool bar and get drunk all day, kind of trip that I used to do, but it was |
| 0:47.4 | still nice because, you know, everything's nicer in Hawaii. |
| 0:50.3 | As I noted, even watching the Food Network on TV is nicer and we're relaxing in Hawaii. |
| 0:55.2 | Why the hell are you watching the Food Network while you're in Hawaii? |
| 0:57.5 | Well, I'm supposed to be out doing things. |
| 0:59.9 | Not when you travel with a three year old. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:03.8 | It's a little different. |
| 1:04.8 | You spend a lot more time in your room, which is why we kind of, we, we plunked out for |
| 1:10.0 | a very nice condo that had an ocean view and all of that sort of stuff. |
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