491: Set Democracy to Zero
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The week that lasted a year; 2021 has the worst 14 day trial period since Quibi, which Roku acquired; a plague still ravages the land; the good, the bad & the ugly of de-platforming; should all dictators be banned on Twitter; the big red button of treason; putting things in a little perspective; Area 41 alert; the week in escapism; Discovery ends; Discovery Plus had some 'splaining to do; bye, Alex Trebek; Bean Dad; Tweet Delete; Echelon; docks with ports; more Big Sur update stories; cyberattack at Ben-Gurion; social media evidence, Clearview AI & stolen Parlor data; set visibility to zero; 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 who's to blame. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks on Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.1 | You happy you're in Canada? |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.5 | Fun week, fun week. |
| 0:26.5 | Actually, it seems like a month, but yeah, what it is. |
| 0:29.6 | You know, it just keeps going, doesn't it? |
| 0:32.7 | Like we started with COVID and a week felt like a month, and a month felt like a year, |
| 0:37.8 | and then we had all the protests. |
| 0:40.0 | A week felt like a month, and a month felt like a year, and we were still in COVID, and |
| 0:44.1 | then we had the election, and a week felt like a month, and a month felt like a year, |
| 0:47.6 | and we still had COVID. |
| 0:49.5 | And now we got this. |
| 0:50.8 | It's so funny. |
| 0:52.7 | It's like, I feel like I haven't talked to you. |
| 0:56.0 | The time that we have not spoken in, you know, seven days. |
| 1:00.1 | And it really feels the distance between the last show we did in this show feels like |
| 1:05.0 | the entirety of the Christmas break. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.6 | So much. |
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