484: Space Karen
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Pick your machine learning bias; TikTok ban forgotten; DoorDash taking the money & dashing; Uber selling off self-driving unit; Airbnb has some bigots; Austria wants to censor worldwide; another day, another Google fine; Zoomsgiving; Dave's bum is fine; yes, your computer phones home; Big Sur slowdown; Long Way Up; the Crown; Instagram's new features; Zuck's strange decisions; hyperventilate to sober up; Elon would like to speak to the COVID-19 manager; feedback loop.
Show notes at https://gog.show/484
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How's the great white |
| 0:21.5 | North treat in your Brian? Uh, uh, nice. It's, it's been, uh, it's been very nice cold. I'm not used |
| 0:27.6 | to that. Um, lots of stairs. Lots of stairs. I just good for our house, you know, it's, uh, |
| 0:34.6 | it's four stories, you know, from basement to, to loft where I'm currently recording, which will |
| 0:39.9 | be my future podcast studio. I've got a couple duvet covers thrown about since we have no furniture, |
| 0:45.0 | no rugs, no wall hangings, no nothing yet. So yeah, you do sound like you're in the back cave |
| 0:49.7 | right now. Yeah, yeah. I'm working on it. It's a work in progress as we knew it would be. |
| 0:54.1 | Oh, ready. Alrighty. Well, you got out just in time because yeah, not good here. |
| 0:59.6 | Really? Yeah, I saw. Um, I mean, you know, it's funny because you watch the news here and |
| 1:05.6 | they're, the numbers are bad, but nowhere near as bad as they are across the border. Yeah. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, it's bad. It's bad there. Um, you know, I see, I see, you know, people are calling for |
| 1:16.8 | a nationwide lockdown. Uh, the commander in chief is completely absent. Uh, he is obviously |
| 1:22.2 | just checked out and is sitting in his bunker tweeting. Yeah, no national leadership, no nothing. |
| 1:27.2 | And, uh, you know, California, I guess, is locking down. Everything's gone purple. |
| 1:32.1 | So I hope so. I hope so. We had a pretty big scare this week. So it's been very stressful week. So |
| 1:37.9 | yeah. Yeah. Um, fortunately not gone. Wood, we're still okay, but we still are in kind of the |
| 1:43.8 | window of where we still could get sick. So it's, you know, blast. Yeah. Sorry to hear that. Yeah. |
| 1:49.1 | Uh, you know, here it's, uh, you know, we had had hopes that we'd be able to do porch visits |
| 1:54.0 | and things of that nature with our friends, but basically, uh, yeah, abundance of caution |
| 1:58.4 | as numbers are going up, uh, where we're basically just seeing our immediate family and that's that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.