486: Bye, Bye Mr. FCC Pai

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Happy Pandemiversary; Comcast price hikes; Internet's gonna internet; Microsoft's creepy Productivity Score; health risks of space; Facebook's self-serving self-reporting ads tool fail; Ajit Pai to step down; the McRib is back; Star Wars corner; hackers sell access to C-Suite emails; COVID data spies get personal; an FDA for algorithms; Tubi; the Undoing; Spotify stories; kids TV; Zoom PodTrak; Bowflex; Wes Anderson's office; all dumpsters include the fire; Ready Player Two; High-Rise; Earth; feedback.

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0:00.0	Okay. How do...
0:03.1	Tastefully do this one. Good luck.
0:07.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason
0:14.7	DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:24.6	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:27.2	I'm Brian Schultmeister. Happy pandemic, Versaerie Brian.
0:31.2	I've only been in lockdown for nine months.
0:34.0	Well, December 1st, which is the day that we're recording this on Tuesday,
0:38.3	marks the one year since the first known patient showed symptoms of COVID-19
0:43.0	in the Hubae provincial capital of Wuhan.
0:45.9	Uh-huh. Well, yes.
0:48.3	Uh-huh. I'll go get some balloons.
0:51.7	Please do.
0:54.2	I just can't take them to the hospital with you or anywhere.
0:57.6	Nope.
0:59.9	Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's cases are rising even here in Toronto and Canada in general.
1:06.6	And anytime I look at the news in the US, the word shit show comes to mind.
1:12.0	Don't do it. Don't do it.
1:14.6	Yeah. Well, vaccines are coming. Hang on, everybody.
1:18.4	Yeah. Yeah.
1:21.0	It's going to be, uh, it's going to be an interesting December, not a good, not in a good way.
1:24.3	No, you live in interesting times.
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