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Grumpy Old Geeks

428: Fundamentally Useless

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Masks are the new masks; the C19 playlist; Zoombombing; Airbnb, Amazon step up a little; restrictions are slowing things, a little; will a recession mean more automation; DoorDash doesn't know what's open; tech giants giving away ad credits, not cash; pop-up experiences shut down; fired by Zoom meeting; we give up on security and reminisce about the old days; Americans are drinking tons; whiskey doesn't protect you; Ina Garten, hero; dark humor is indicative of a high IQ.

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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

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:15.6

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I

0:20.4

have reached the stage of coronavirus where I desperately need a haircut and

0:26.0

shaving no longer seems necessary. That's about it, man. I'm like I looked at my

0:32.4

saw I mean like one week into it because I was already ready for a haircut. I'm

0:35.7

like man I should make an appointment at Floyd's. Oh shit. Yeah. And my wife and I

0:42.1

have decided we are not going to give each other haircuts. We shall just suffer

0:45.6

through this. I'll be wearing a lot of caps over the next few days. I suppose

0:48.8

next few months. A few days, few months. I'm gonna have nice Fabio Scare at the end of this.

0:53.5

No, I know. Yeah, no, it's not good. I was gonna say I would grow a beard for

1:00.7

this, but you know, I can go like three months without shaving and I still just

1:05.1

look like an old Italian woman. That's true. You are you are folically

1:08.9

facially challenged. Well, me on the challenge. Me on the other hand, my five o'clock

1:13.4

shadow comes in at noon. So yeah. Yeah. No, they're fortunately I have many blades.

1:20.0

I'm good. I'm good to go. Yeah. So in the in the big news, I suppose we know that

1:26.1

masks are the new masks. Oh, Jesus Christ. We actually should have been wearing them all along.

1:31.2

And it does stand to make a little bit of sense. Again, you know, unless you've got the medical

1:35.8

grade, which they're still asking us not to buy because we need those for hospitals and all that sort

1:39.8

of stuff. You know, it's a it doesn't stop it from getting in, but what it does do is if you're

1:47.2

asymptomatic or you happen to be carrying it and you're out and about in public and you cough

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