474: Boring Guy
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Client statue of limitations; Apple updates causing issues; the TikTok deal stinks; coronavirus work from home continues; Facebook vs Europe; iPhone voice memo "tracking"; Quibi exploring "options"; Microsoft buying up gaming companies; Amazon Sidewalk, why?; Palmer's podcast; Peacock on Roku; Emmies; Ted Lasso, Raised by Wolves renewed; Go Go's doc; Dune & Hackers; the Postman; Goodreads bad; Darwin Awards; crypto currency advice; feedback loop.
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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. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to episode 474 of Grumpy Old Geeks for September 23rd, 2020. I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I had two weird work things happen to me this week, Jason, |
| 0:27.6 | or not weird, but interesting and... |
| 0:29.6 | Works. What's that? |
| 0:30.8 | ...double-einteresting because I'm not really working. That is the funnier part of it. |
| 0:34.0 | Like, all I'm really doing is the podcast and, you know, full-time teaching and babysitting and all |
| 0:39.1 | that sort of stuff. But I got a work email and for the first time ever, I saw as part of the |
| 0:45.3 | little thing at the bottom where you provide your, you know, all your pertinent details about your |
| 0:50.8 | work, your position, your phone numbers, your email, all that sort of stuff. I saw gender listing. |
| 0:56.3 | Which I think is nice. No, it's good. It's a good thing, right? |
| 1:00.0 | Preferred gender, you know, call me he-him or whatever. |
| 1:04.9 | Okay. And now you got... You should put that in as part of your little tagline. |
| 1:09.2 | Just to help people along. I thought that was a nice touch. |
| 1:11.9 | Okay, what are you putting? |
| 1:13.2 | It's 2020. He-him. I'm pretty standard. I'm pretty boring. I'm cis. |
| 1:18.2 | Okay. You know, so boring guy. That's what it tells everybody. |
| 1:22.5 | And the other interesting thing I got is, and I already know your opinion on this, |
| 1:26.8 | but I'm going to ask you anyways, what's your statue of limitations in terms of helping a client |
| 1:32.0 | that has fired you? Three years. That's pretty long. That's longer than I thought you'd give them. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, I mean, three years. Three years? Three years? Three years? |
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