485: The 34 Days of Christmas
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We give, it's Christmastime; how's that crypto going, bro; Apple lowers their app store cut; Buzzfeed acquires HuffPo because…?; Facebook's E.gg on the face; Comcast data caps; its a mess at the FCC & FTC; Facebook, Twitter face content moderation problems; adios, Arecibo; RadioShack in the Land of the Lost; Panopticon worries; Utah monoliths; Shane MacGowan; the Iron Lady; micropayments for artists; Hollywood isn't in Kansas anymore; Jeopardy hosts; AirPod woes; it's all about the grip; 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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. A very grumpy |
| 0:21.3 | Brian Schultmeister. Yeah well you know a couple days ago we decided |
| 0:27.1 | fuck it it's the 34 days of Christmas. I used to lose my mind if we even heard |
| 0:31.9 | a Christmas song I had a Thanksgiving but this year's been so crap to hell with it |
| 0:36.0 | and besides it's no tear so it's Christmas. Yeah we've had a tree up for a week |
| 0:40.4 | and a half now we're fine and since we are a multicultural household we have |
| 0:45.7 | an eight-foot blow-up dreidel in the front yard. We're like let's just mess with |
| 0:51.0 | everybody why not. It's like this year has been so screwed up. Time doesn't |
| 0:55.9 | matter. It doesn't matter so why not have fun. Yes we're just gonna have a |
| 0:59.2 | longer Christmas and I think for Christmas I need to actually get rid of my |
| 1:03.3 | AirPods and maybe get AirPods Pro. I don't know if there'll be any better but I |
| 1:07.5 | have just had a nightmare recently. I don't know what's changed but the |
| 1:12.3 | AirPods switching auto switching to devices has gone off the charts like I'll |
| 1:16.7 | be playing music on my phone and I will walk by my Amazon Echo and it will switch |
| 1:22.1 | to the Amazon Echo or switch back and then I will walk down the street and it |
| 1:27.3 | will automatically switch to my laptop for some reason. It's just I cannot |
| 1:31.4 | keep my AirPods like Bluetooth onto something if I want to keep them on |
| 1:35.2 | something I have to turn Bluetooth off on all the other devices because it |
| 1:38.7 | just keeps switching it's like it's like gone crazy on me. Oh that's messed up |
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