432: Unified Theory of Oprah
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eggs, fat, masks & step counts; Apple & Google promise they'll turn of tracking, someday, maybe; Amazon is essential, essentially horrible; JEDI silence; the end of the office as we know it; drone scolding; Peacock launches, not really; coronavirus should make us grateful for big tech; security is back, change those passwords; wear your pants; podcast profiteering; last names; stinky ride hails; selfie-sticks for guns.
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank God it's Friday, am I right everyone? Is it? Is it Friday? I haven't checked. |
| 0:26.9 | Says so on the calendar thingy that no longer has any meaning. |
| 0:30.1 | Okay, good joke Jason trending number one trending joke in Germany right now. |
| 0:35.0 | What borders on stupidity? Canada and Mexico. I didn't even know the joke. |
| 0:41.4 | Pull that one out of my ass. That's nice. We're doing a great job. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, yeah. So we talked about the Apple and Google, you know, |
| 0:52.2 | get together like cats and dogs. Shocking wedding. And so I did I not say that |
| 1:00.8 | they're going to have to have some kind of Batman dark night kill switch. |
| 1:03.8 | Yep. And then the next day they came out and answered some questions and |
| 1:07.4 | says the company's promised to use the system only for contact tracing and to |
| 1:11.0 | dismantle the network when it becomes appropriate. Well, they're in line. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, that's going to be never. Yeah. So that thing is going to be here for the rest of our lives. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, well, it's funny because you talked about this. Some readers have asked me whether |
| 1:27.3 | the system might be put to other uses such as targeted advertising. That's what it's for right now. |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah, it's already done that. This exists. It's already tracking us everywhere. |
| 1:37.5 | They're just repurposing it. So yeah. And so, you know, eggs are the new good. They're |
| 1:43.6 | oh, wait, they're the new bad. Wait, they're the new good fat fats. The new good fats. The new bad. |
| 1:48.5 | No, fat is definitely fat has always been bad. Everyone. Let's not let's just know wait. |
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