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Grumpy Old Geeks

466: Batman Prime

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Giant Meteor 2020; not-good Covid news; Uber & Lyft could have complied with the law, chose not to; Overcast & Spotify testing; why tech isn't exciting anymore; TikTok sues US government; Facebook war-gaming for election meddling; Facebook back taxes; FAA testing drone detecting tech; fastest internet speeds, ever; Lovecraft Country; Entourage; bundle confusion; the Batman, again; time travel sci-fi; OpenDyslexic Font; feedback loop.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister 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, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Oh, not low energy

0:22.0

Brian Schulmeister. Welcome back Brian. Well, I mean, that's a bit much, but I did wake up. I did

0:27.9

wake up exceptionally early this morning. It's a busy day over here. So I got up at like 530,

0:33.6

made myself a pot of coffee. Well, you and I run very different schedules. My 530 is the

0:38.4

equivalent of you waking up at like one in the morning. Okay. Okay. So yeah, I got up super early,

0:43.7

made a cup of coffee, got out the door and did a bike ride and came back before anybody else in

0:48.1

the house had woken up. So I had some time alone. I've had some exercise. I'm feeling a bit more

0:54.6

normal than I normally am when I roll straight from bed to the recording platform here.

0:59.3

You should try this every day. We'll see how I feel later on. I do like my alone time at night.

1:05.8

I prefer my alone time with a glass of wine than a bike.

1:09.8

Yeah, man, it's unprecedented times. It's true. You got to do. You got to do what you got to do.

1:16.3

Yeah, speaking of unprecedented times, a little bit of follow up here. We've got some bad news.

1:21.4

Not unexpected. Not unexpected. Bad news, but bad news. Nevertheless,

1:26.2

scientists say tests have showed a man returning from Spain in August had a different strain

1:30.5

of the coronavirus than the one he'd previously been infected with in March. So yeah, you can get it

1:36.2

twice. The gift that keeps on giving. We kind of knew this was true, but this is the first

1:41.1

somewhat proven case. I say somewhat proven because it was the University of Hong Kong. So people

1:46.6

are going to say, those damn Chinese, but it was the University of Hong Kong people. It's okay.

1:51.8

These people know what they're doing. It's not really China. Yeah, so this is pretty straightforward.

1:58.8

Some people are saying this is actually a good thing because the case so far,

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