421: All Alone Together
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Coronavirus effects roll on; Jack keeps his gig at Twitter, for now; Twitter tags Trump tweet as manipulated; NetNewsWire for all your RSS; Wuhan students tried to boot DingTalk from the app store; Kids in the Hall; Sex Education; Dracula; 1917; Knives Out; Hardcore History; Facebook groups, explained; feedback loop from down under.
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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. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Jason, |
| 0:22.0 | we can really go no other way. We're in the midst of an emerging pandemic, and yet, theoretically, |
| 0:27.3 | we worked in probably one of the safest careers there is, the life of the lonely podcaster in a dark |
| 0:31.6 | and studio, seeing nobody in person only reaching out digitally. And where am I? You're in my studio. |
| 0:39.9 | We did not shake hands. We did not shake hands. I will not touch you. I will not hug you. I will not |
| 0:44.2 | do anything to you. We are idiots. And of course, it's one of the only rainy days in California. So I |
| 0:49.6 | dodged morons driving out here, but I am here safe and sound. I'll try not to cough on you. |
| 0:54.8 | I appreciate that. I really do appreciate that. But yes, you made the trek to the |
| 0:59.9 | the fortress of solitude. So here we are sharing germs. And let's make no mistake about this people. |
| 1:05.5 | We are in an emerging pandemic right now. Oh, yes. Yes. The numbers do not lie. Geometric |
| 1:11.1 | explosions do not lie. It's going to get ugly for a bit. We will all survive. Most of us. |
| 1:16.0 | Most of us. Most of us. 97% of us, I think, is the current number. 97% of us will survive this. |
| 1:22.4 | It does involve some self-sacrifice at this point. Stop complaining about not being able to go on |
| 1:28.0 | your cruise. Actually, you know what? If you really want to go on a cruise right now, if you're |
| 1:32.2 | that dumb, have at it. Have at it. Yes, seriously. Self-selecting sample on Apple. Yeah. Pretty much. |
| 1:39.6 | Well, we do get a bit of encouraging news of a sort from Apple. Apple, who has always claimed that |
| 1:44.8 | we cannot use anything except for some nice water. Clean H2O on our phones has confirmed and |
| 1:50.3 | changed their websites to say, yes, you can use disinfectant wipes on your phones to which there |
| 1:56.2 | was great, wonderful outcry, which made me wonder, have any of you people ever actually cleaned your |
| 2:02.3 | phones? No. People are acting like this is new. People are acting like information about how to |
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