551: Sunk Tweet Fallacy
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Brimley/Cocoon Line; Elon Musk & the Twitter buyout; Truth Social's masterplan; Meta is a money pit; Ford's electric F-150; NFT phishing scams; virtual homes in the metaverse; taking off your Google Pixel Watch to eat; Discovery+; the Batman; Our Flag Means Death (of comedy); Supergirl; Danny Elfman; Severance; bitcoin got boring; when tech delights; Apple Self Service Repair; eero Pro; Sonos Roam; useful websites; the Sandman Omnibus; regret; the Art of Impossible; Milk Street & cook books on Kindle.
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IN THE NEWS
Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44 billion
Jack Dorsey set to pocket $978M if Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition closes
No one knows what Musk's Twitter takeover means for the company
Meta says its metaverse biz lost another $3B… but the 2030s will be ‘exciting’
Ford says it has produced 2,000 electric F-150 pickup trucks.
I drove an $18,500, 3-wheeled electric car with 1 seat and big dreams
Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram compromised in $2.4 million NFT phishing scam
Virtual home developer pairs up with Beverly Hills real-estate agent
Someone left a prototype Google Pixel Watch at a restaurant
MEDIA CANDY
THE BATMAN, but with Goofy Batman
Danny Elfman - Only A Lad (Coachella Festival, Indio CA 4/16/2022 -Week 1)
The Real-Life Diet of Danny Elfman, Who Played Coachella Shirtless at 68
Bridget Fonda seen for first time in 12 years on 58th birthday
APPS & DOODADS
iOS 15: How to Use Live Text to Copy and Paste Text From Photos
Universal Control: Use a single keyboard and mouse between Mac and iPad
Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
Amazon eero Pro 6 tri-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 system with built-in Zigbee smart home hub (3-pack)
Meta will open its first physical store May 9th
AT THE LIBRARY
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The Art of Impossible - A Peak Performance Primer - By Steven Kotler
Milk Street Fast and Slow: Instant Pot Cooking at the Speed You Need by Christopher Kimball
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Fort Worth to become first city to mine Bitcoin
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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 |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.5 | Quick note this week Dave Bittner will not be joining us because sadly his mother passed away |
| 0:25.2 | this week so he is off dealing with some family issues as you'd expect. So we are thinking about |
| 0:31.9 | you Dave, many condolences and I hope to hear you back soon. Yes, to the whole Bittner clan. |
| 0:37.6 | It's a tough time having been through that myself relatively recently. So yeah. Speaking of age though, |
| 0:44.7 | we are recording this on April 28th on Thursday as we usually do and the episode officially comes out |
| 0:50.3 | Friday April 29th when I will be as old as Wilford Brimley was when cocoon was released. Believe it |
| 0:56.4 | or not. Believe it or not, this made me start to think a little bit. When we started doing this |
| 1:01.7 | podcast, I was still in my 30s. Then I was in my 40s. Yes. We've been doing this for quite some time. |
| 1:09.3 | Age is not what it used to be. I mean, I know people say that all the time but it's really true. |
| 1:14.0 | Like I look at pictures of my, even just my parents or my grandparents at similar age to me and |
| 1:19.4 | boy, they looked old. That's one of the, one of the differences. They definitely had a harder 50. But |
| 1:23.6 | as I was mentioned to this to my dad because he'd never heard of the Brimley cocoon line. |
| 1:28.3 | And he's like, well, Wilford Brimley got the big house because when he was 30, he could play 50, |
| 1:33.6 | when he was 50, he could play 90. Yeah. I finally caught up to him. Yeah. Not the best line you |
| 1:39.7 | want to cross but congratulations, Jason. You made it. Yeah, thanks. Well, it's kind of the last, |
| 1:44.7 | the last hurrah until I'm like 75. So it's well, have some fun. Yes. I will be 18,530 days old. All right. |
| 1:56.8 | Let's see. If you hear any noise coming from me, we'll see, we'll see how those filters work. But |
| 2:02.3 | there's something going on at my house that I didn't even know existed until about a week ago. |
| 2:07.9 | My wife mentioned to me, you know, spring is springing here and it's time to wheel out the barbecue |
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