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Grumpy Old Geeks

440: Precedented Times

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Now more than ever, in these unprecedented times, DRINK; Giphy business plan; Square at home; no end point in sight; Uber layoffs; weaponizing social media for good; Fitbit comes a bit late to the ventilator game; DJI patent infringement; Untappd tracking; Matrix co-director slaps Ivanka & Elon; new Star Trek; here comes Hamilton; kid's shorts; Shakespeare for Squirrels; mainstreamed conspiracy theories; fort plans; feedback.

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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.

0:15.9

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

0:20.7

Still with us Brian out there in the in the Monika of Santa? Yeah still here.

0:26.4

Where else am I going to be?

0:29.9

We're going to be taking these weekend trips to a Quarantine with your families.

0:34.8

That is true with my mom down in Orange County and that's been a lifesaver actually because

0:40.4

yeah it's good to have a little bit of space and a little bit of breakup with the child care

0:44.1

duties and everybody's much happier and ready to face whatever these things that are called weeks

0:50.9

are. Yeah whatever may come next. Yes exactly. So my weeks started out

0:55.9

on typical Monday fashion woke up Monday morning and found that our 15 year old refrigerator

1:00.8

had finally apparently gotten the Rona and the end of this quarantine you're going to have a

1:05.8

brand new house. I'm telling you man. I'm telling you at the same time direct TV died at the same

1:11.8

time. So they had to send me a new box. Yeah we're slowly replacing it you know what is the

1:16.8

ship a Theses or whatever that one. Whatever that one ship is that everything's been replaced on.

1:21.8

That's us. We are slowly replacing the entire house one one bit at a time. So yes seven hours

1:28.0

of cooking yesterday to try and salvage everything in the freezer. Right now you're going to get one

1:33.2

of those smart fridges so you can you know get get app updates about when you're running low on cheese.

1:39.1

Nope. We talked to a lot of people yesterday because apparently buying you know major appliances

1:44.0

in a pandemic is not as easy as you think it would be because trust me I know. Okay. What did you

1:50.6

replace? No I just I was still considering moving. So any any large items being moved anywhere is

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