442: White Claw Wall
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Quarantine, tech & the third-quarter phenomenon; of course Facebook knew the algorithms were divisive; 44.2Tbps cables; NASA & SpaceX astronaut launch a go; stretching out wine & White Claw walls; Muppets & Fraggle Rock are back; Hotel Artemis; Into the Night; good ol' Huell Howser; Minions; Spy Wars; Hightown; Amazon & Apple invest in podcasts (just not ours); e-cheating in e-sports; feedback.
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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 who's to blame. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.2 | How did duty Brian? |
| 0:22.2 | Uh, I'm alright, how was your long weekend? Wasn't it great being out and about in the general public go into the beach with hundreds of your friends? |
| 0:29.3 | Oh wait, neither of us did that because we're saying I said inside and watched all those people on TV. |
| 0:36.0 | Just why I have a TV. |
| 0:37.6 | I figure this is the grand experiment. Let's see what happens in two weeks. |
| 0:42.5 | I had three to four, I'm guessing it's when it'll all play out, but yeah, we'll see if we're leading indicators in two weeks. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, exactly. So I am curious because you know, we don't know too much. Let's see. Let's see what happens. |
| 0:54.4 | Let's see what what happens with the spread. Let's see. Maybe maybe the coronavirus is is dying off a little bit right now. |
| 1:00.7 | We're about to find out because God knows nobody stayed home. |
| 1:04.4 | Nope, this is either going to be a big nothing burger or it's going to be oh shit, we should have stayed home. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, and if that is the case, that means, you know, those of us that have are now well into their third month of lockdown can look forward to being here at Christmas time. |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, dude, you're just going to be there Christmas time. Don't even think about it. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, those get those zoom accounts topped off and you know, hey man, maybe we can just all get Microsoft or Facebook portals. |
| 1:31.2 | We'll just get Facebook portals and put them everywhere. Yeah, let's just move to all, you know, just always on. |
| 1:37.5 | So it's like the old webcam girls back in the day who were just like 24 seven. I'm streaming everything. |
| 1:42.0 | Everybody just streams everything and right. That's the big one too. That first girl Jenny cam. |
| 1:46.8 | Yeah, Jenny cam. Yeah, that's right. I remember that. |
| 1:52.4 | Got a bit of follow up here because I mentioned Wallace and Grommet and I think I'd call it hard, hard, hard bark animations or something like that. |
| 1:59.4 | But it is art and animations. It's been quite a while since I've seen any of them. |
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