527: Tribal Knowledge
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Congrats, Shatner, boo, Bezos & Takei; rideshare bubble bursts; FCC going after spam texts; Square to build a Bitcoin mining system, maybe; Tesla's really bad Beta-based insurance; Canon USA says no ink-y, no scan-y; Amazon creates its own brands by stealing "tribal knowledge" of competitors; Dune; Squid Game; Succession; Here We Are; Mel Brooks; Disney delays; Sinead & Delores; canceling NYT Cooking, CleanMyMac X subscriptions; USB-C & VPNs; ah, the 80s; pogo-power; Cosby sweaters.
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FOLLOW UP
George Takei Roasts “Star Trek” Costar William Shatner After Rocket Trip
For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused WayMo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’
IN THE NEWS
New FCC rules could force wireless carriers to block spam texts
Jack Dorsey says Square is ‘considering’ building a Bitcoin mining system
Tesla debuts new car insurance that uses Texans' real-time driving behavior
No ink, no scan: Canon USA printers hit with class-action suit
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show
MEDIA CANDY
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Mel Brooks Is Back With ‘History of the World, Part II’ Series
Disney delays all of Marvel’s 2022 films
Sinead O’Connor and Pillow Queens to feature on album of covers inspired by The Cranberries
SECURITY HAH!
Apple's latest MacBook Pros have MagSafe, SD card slots and camera notches
At last, a middle ground, a place where skateboarders and rollerbladers can all get together.
The 1985 MTV Music Awards really kind of sucked.
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo |
| 0:07.5 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.3 | We didn't kill Shatner. |
| 0:25.3 | The week is young. |
| 0:26.3 | I wait, no, no, no. |
| 0:28.1 | He got off the rocket. |
| 0:29.1 | We're covered. |
| 0:30.1 | We're covered on that one. |
| 0:32.2 | I was seriously, I had to watch it just to make sure because I'm like, God, nobody's |
| 0:37.0 | dead in the water if we killed Shatner. |
| 0:39.6 | I mean, I'm really glad he went. |
| 0:42.4 | I think this whole space billionaire thing is complete nutter bullshit, but I mean, come |
| 0:47.0 | on, we put, we put Captain Kirk up there. |
| 0:49.0 | It's awesome. |
| 0:50.0 | I know. |
| 0:51.0 | It's awesome. |
| 0:52.0 | And his speech when he came back, I mean, he was legit broken up, you know? |
| 0:56.2 | Yep. |
| 0:57.2 | And you have fucking bezos trying to blow champagne in the middle of this guy's like |
| 1:01.0 | heartfelt speech. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm just like, how fucking annoying was that? |
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