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Grumpy Old Geeks

403: The 2020 Extravaganza!

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Rose and Eric Hunley guest host; Star Wars finale, finally; Sleep Trackers as birth control; Uber and Postmates Sue California; CRISPR baby doc gets hard time; Segway brings WALL-E to life; CCPA is now in effect; Wyze isn't wise; SB-237 is coming soon!

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0:00.0

A quick note before we start this show, this is a special guest host extravaganza, Kevin

0:06.3

Rose of the Kevin Rose show and formerly of Dig and the million other things and Eric

0:10.9

Hunley of the Unstructured podcast kindly stepped in and helped out because Brian still

0:15.6

is not back from his vacation, lazy bastard.

0:19.0

So let's get on with the show.

0:23.4

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:28.0

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:37.4

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm here this week with an all star cast.

0:42.4

Our first co-host of the day is Kevin Rose.

0:45.6

Kevin is internet royalty from his early days of tech TV, defounding Dig and so many other

0:50.4

things and will be joined later by Dave Betner and Eric Hunley of the Unstructured podcast.

0:56.1

Welcome to the show, Kevin and before we get started, any chance of Oink ever making a

1:00.1

comeback?

1:01.1

Yeah, well thanks for having me.

1:03.1

Oink is dead forever.

1:04.1

I know that I've ever been called internet royalty though.

1:07.8

That's, I don't know if that, that entitles me too, but it sounds fantastic.

1:12.7

That in accord, I'll get you cup of coffee.

1:14.4

No, man, I missed Oink.

1:15.7

That was one of the best apps that never, never made it.

1:19.1

Yeah, Oink was fun, man.

1:20.4

It was, it was a really cool way to kind of rank things inside of places.

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