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Grumpy Old Geeks

425: Climbing Up the Walls

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Vibe Coding, Elon, Bitcoin, Nfts, Tesla, Meta, Cyber, Google, Palantir, Entertainment, Tech, Music, Lifestyle, Code, Technology, Crypto, Social, Facebook, Ai, News, Internet, Elon Musk, Web, Apple, Tech News, Security, Kanye, News Commentary, Movies, Engineering, Spacex, Scams, Business

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We killed all the TP; we're all hypochondriacs now; US Digital Dollar; Amazon Prime no longer delivering quickly; Amazon releases more kid's shows; Disney+, Facebook reducing streaming quality in Europe; smart thermometers tracking Coronavirus; comfort TV; Bert Kreisher; reading dystopian fiction in a dystopian present; Musk's coronavirus journey; 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.

0:16.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Brian,

0:21.0

I have to start the show off with an apology to the world. I'm sorry for killing

0:25.1

T.P. You're the person that has caused the can only buy one pack ban. I see, Brian,

0:30.9

I know we do have a great deal of power on the show and I may have mentioned T.P. on the show

0:37.9

that people should go and buy it. And you know, now it's just gone. It's gone from the world,

0:42.3

kind of like David Bowie, sadly. So I and I have gotten a lot of shit for quote unquote hoarding

0:50.3

T.P. But I would like to point out to everyone, I bought my T.P. responsibly before it was all gone

0:56.1

slowly one pack at a time when the world was normal. I can attest to that. I have been in Jason's

1:02.9

studio pre coronavirus, even before we brought coronavirus upon the world by talking about it

1:08.3

before anybody else. And he always had a bunch of T.P. stacked in the corner there. So. Yep.

1:13.7

So, you know, we live in earthquake country, man. We live in earthquake country. And remember the

1:19.2

the first rule of prepping is to over prepped, not under prepped because sometimes your neighbors

1:23.5

might need to borrow a role or, you know, just something. So it's good to always have extra because

1:28.7

you want to be good to the community when things like this happen. Right. Yeah. And I just can't

1:33.9

believe everybody here in LA, we're living earthquake country. Why isn't everybody stocked up already?

1:38.7

Come on, people. Well, you know, it always depends on timing at least for some people, people like

1:44.2

me because what I would normally do is like once a month, I would stop at the tarjet that's down

1:49.2

by my mom's house when visiting my mom. And that's when we do our big stock up. Now luckily for us,

1:53.8

that timed out perfectly. We bought our normal amount of toilet paper, which would typically last

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