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🗓️ 8 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Catching the Twitter hackers through Bitcoin; Trump orders TikTok, WeChat ban; Facebook finally takes down a misinformation post; Fyre merchandise sale; Jake Paul's misadventures; Levandowski sentenced to prison; Robocall lawyers leak; Canon ransomware attack; Intel leak; rethinking the hacker trope; Reels launches; Sommore; Muppets Now; Star Trek: Lower Decks; speeding up Netflix; Alan Watts; Monkey.
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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 on Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.1 | Are you well rested after your VK? I actually am. It was kind of it was nice. |
| 0:26.0 | No, I didn't even open up my laptop for four of the five days. |
| 0:30.3 | I noticed we didn't have any socials going on. I was like, Brian really is taking this seriously. |
| 0:34.7 | I really did take a vacation and it was pretty rejuvenating. That is up until |
| 0:39.1 | basically our last full day when Beirut exploded because the quarantine family that we are |
| 0:47.8 | hanging out with and went down on our break with are Lebanese and lived in Beirut. |
| 0:53.3 | Still had family and friends in Beirut so that day it was all CNN all day on the TV and |
| 0:58.5 | a bit stressful. But other than that, it was really nice to take a break. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, that's good. Yeah, we were going to have a show on the fifth come out, but I kind of called |
| 1:08.5 | to call the play on that one the night before. I'm like, yeah, you know what? We're going to skip |
| 1:13.4 | this one. And I turned out I'm just psychic because the guest host we had lined up Eric Hunley. |
| 1:19.3 | Well, he's right in the path of that hurricane that came through and he lost power for like a day. |
| 1:23.2 | It went out right before we were going to record. So all is all is good. Yeah, I was wondering |
| 1:30.6 | where my new show was as I was getting ready to drive back to Los Angeles. I was going to listen, |
| 1:34.9 | but I was actually proud of you because you were practicing what we preached. We've been talking |
| 1:39.9 | on this show about the importance of taking breaks and you knew I was going to be gone. I was kind |
| 1:44.2 | of in the back of my mind. Well, you know, Jason actually really likes doing the shows, whatever, |
| 1:48.2 | but I was going he should really take a break. Yeah, I did. I did. It was nice. I gotta say. |
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