409: Furby Trumpskin
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Avenue 5 & Picard; drama at the Grammies; PTSD from moderating; Netflix stats go down, changes how it does stats; but have you tried making them employees?; Google ad design change; Amazon Ring sales up despite scandals; baader-meinhof effect; Glenn Greenwald charged with cybercrime; Bezos phone hack; Apple encryption; games; legacy smart homes; CVS scarfs; hey Pepsi, I want my Harrier Jet.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:19.4 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister, Gung Hey Fat Choi, Jason, Happy Chinese New Year. |
| 0:23.3 | Because don't fight. That too. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh man, so I'm looking at the notes here and it seems like our follow-up section is all just |
| 0:28.6 | media candy follow. Yeah, well, you know, there's a lot of stuff that we watched in the last |
| 0:34.4 | couple days and a lot of things that came out. So, and a lot of news about stuff that we like. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, so let's get to it. What do you got first? |
| 0:40.8 | All right, first up Avenue 5, the new HBO show starring house in space. |
| 0:46.0 | House in space. Yeah, he was with a lot of hair in space. He doesn't have. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, so we got Hugh Laurie in this. We got Josh Gad. We've got Zach Woods from Silicon Valley. |
| 0:57.2 | And, and I actually kind of know Susie Nakamura. So I wanted to really like this show. |
| 1:06.5 | Okay, so you didn't like it. What did you think? I don't know. |
| 1:09.0 | I liked it. I liked it. It's hard to tell from one episode. I thought a lot of the jokes felt flat. |
| 1:15.1 | They certainly swung for the fences. I think maybe they got a base hit at best. |
| 1:20.7 | How drunk were you when you watched it? |
| 1:23.4 | See, that's the problem. Oh, well, I think it's a bad sign if you have to be drunk to watch something. |
| 1:30.4 | What's a comedy? I don't know. I was tanked and I watched it and I loved it. I thought it was funny. |
| 1:34.4 | I'm not done with it. I'm going to keep watching to see what happens. And I think this is definitely, |
| 1:41.6 | I guess I can get to this. Well, no, I'll get to this now. Because a lot of those things that we're |
| 1:45.8 | about to talk about in our intro slash media candy segment, these are shows that are not dropped |
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