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Grumpy Old Geeks

464: Rideshare Mythological Complex

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Firenados, because why not; Epic & Apple battle it out; we're on Discord; defeat by Tweet; Uber & Lyft may shut down, may franchise; Google & Australian pay-for-news ruling; Facebook algorithm actively promotes Holocaust denial; Amazon facing anti-trust probes around the world; Oracle interested in TikTok; Star Trek: Lower Decks; facemasks; bundles get more confusing; AMC theaters re-opening; super light & super heavy Sci Fi; 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.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:22.7

So we have a fire NATO. Yep, because 2020 can't be more 2020 than it is.

0:28.7

Yes, the National Weather Service is issued America's first ever warning for a fire tornado.

0:34.0

The Reno Office of the National Weather Service, Ward Northern California, of a fiery tornado

0:38.8

on Saturday that had sprung up near a large fast-moving wildfire in the Sierra.

0:43.5

For the first time in history, a tornado warning has been issued for a likely fire tornado

0:47.7

Washington Post-Mediaologist Matthew Capucci reported, these are not fire worlds. This is a

0:53.3

rotating smoke plume being ingested into a pyro cumulonimbus cloud that could produce a bonafide

1:00.4

fire-induced tornado at tornado wind speeds. I've seen video of this thing. It's pretty.

1:07.4

Pretty hellish. The only thing you could do is sprinkle in some murder hornets and that would

1:11.8

just be 2020 in a nutshell. Well, in addition to that, just before we went to record, I was running

1:18.8

through my news really quickly. We had a meteor of the size of a car that just narrowly missed the

1:24.2

earth over the weekend and they didn't find it until it had passed us. And according to Andrew

1:31.2

Hunter Murray, one of the hosts of No Such Thing as a Fish, the podcast that we both listened to,

1:35.8

I just saw heat we did. There is an incredibly large anomaly in our magnetic field called the

1:43.2

that that scientists are extremely concerned by that they're tracking.

1:47.2

It's that's been going on for a while though. Yes, I read about that.

1:50.0

That one has been going on for a while, but I just saw it for the first time today. And so,

1:54.0

you know, I thought I'd throw that in there too because, you know, why not? What else is going to be

1:57.6

go wrong? This is what happens when you doom scroll before coffee.

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