423: Earth Interrupted
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Social isolation linked to inflammation; one degree of separation; statements on misinformation is not action; Amazon suspends third party sales except for medical, household; Teams goes down; Google screening service unrolls; bitcoin price drops; what will and won't work on the internet; rich people stepping up; Picard & Westworld; Gen-X, this is your time to shine; feedback loop.
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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 |
| 0:10.5 | who's to blame. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. Now |
| 0:20.0 | Brian it is definitely definitely a strange time. Are you doing okay man? I'm |
| 0:24.5 | hanging in there. Day one of being home with everybody. Trying to get stuff done. |
| 0:30.9 | This is actually this is the morning day two. My wife and kid are still sleeping so I'm |
| 0:36.3 | trying to keep it a little bit down. You got to do what you got to do to work around things, right? |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah man, we got to do. We got to do what we got to do. And you know it's interesting. This is |
| 0:46.4 | the time when the mega rich have a chance to do the right thing and not put off their employees |
| 0:50.8 | well being and welfare to the state. The state. You know, proactively don't state should be stepping |
| 0:58.0 | up here a bit, but they're not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the state that they proactively avoid paying |
| 1:02.8 | taxes to is what I wanted to add. True. Yeah. So we've got lots of stories in this episode about |
| 1:08.9 | people doing the right thing and the absolute wrong thing. So that'll be interesting. And I was going |
| 1:13.6 | through my newsreader last night and I'm like, oh there's not going to be any news. Oh my god, |
| 1:16.9 | there's some tech news. So it's it'll be fun show, I think. Yeah, I mean, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | world continues to move on. That's why we're all theoretically working from home. We have not come |
| 1:27.7 | to a standstill. In fact, I would point out that the most highly successful people and the richest |
| 1:33.6 | people are working very hard right now. They're not just sitting at home meeting bond bonds watching |
| 1:37.9 | TV. I had a 14 hour work day yesterday and I'm definitely not the richest people are most |
| 1:43.1 | talented and successful people, but I'm working more than I probably have in a long time. |
| 1:48.2 | Well, you are working in the right industry for people isolated at home. Yep, yep. And to that |
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