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Grumpy Old Geeks

556: Leaning Out

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Facebook, Elon, Vibe Coding, Crypto, Elon Musk, Spacex, Nfts, Cyber, Tesla, Apple, Meta, Bitcoin, Kanye, Google, Movies, Ai, Palantir, News Commentary, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

More crypto fails; Sheryl Sandberg leans out of the Metaverse; PayPal & other tech firms tighten their belts, lay off workers; Amazon stops in-app purchases on Android; Jonas Brothers launch Scriber for established artists like themselves; Netflix password-sharing plan isn't much of a plan; unions are good for workers; Legendary; Stranger Things; Yvonne Orji; Norm MacDonald; Willow; Starz; Groove Belt; Jiffy Reader; Obi Wan Kenobi; toxic fans; China anti-starling measures; I want to be a dog.

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FOLLOW UP

Texas's bizarre social media law suspended by Supreme Court

Collector sells Bored Ape for $513,000 less than they paid for it

Former OpenSea executive arrested, charged with money laundering

Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme


IN THE NEWS

Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO

What Sheryl Sandberg’s Replacements Are Up Against

PayPal has been laying off workers to reduce costs

Amazon no longer offers in-app Kindle and Music purchases on Android

The Jonas Brothers help launch Scriber, a creator subscription company

Netflix’s password-sharing test in Peru is confusing subscribers, report suggests

Here’s why the BuzzFeed News Union’s contract includes protections from ghosts


MEDIA CANDY

Bosch: Legacy

Legendary Season 3 on HBO Max

Stranger Things

Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!

Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar

Ricky Gervais: Supernature

Grace and Frankie

Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special

'Willow' TV series comes to Disney+ on November 30th

Lionsgate plans to officially announce a Starz spinoff this summer

Downton Abbey: A New Era 


APPS & DOODADS

Groove Belt Black

Jiffy Reader on Product Hunt

Twitter will shut down the TweetDeck for Mac app on July 1st


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Obi Wan Kenobi

A personal message from Ewan McGregor.

At What Point Do We Give Up On Star Wars Fans?

The Orville 

China's military scientists call for development of anti-Starlink measures

Japanese Man Spends ₹ 12 Lakh To "Become" A Dog


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Last Howard Johnson's Restaurant In America Is Officially Closed

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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

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:16.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks on Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.6

Little follow up on the the new studio Brian. I have toured it. I have a draft

0:25.2

to lease in hand and now it's just down to running numbers and finding people

0:30.3

that'll help pay for it. You know the hard part, the actual creation of the

0:34.5

business. Yeah. Yeah, the business part, the business part, the part that takes

0:38.6

all the time and it is very very time consuming. Lots of phone calls, lots of

0:44.0

emails, lots of money. Didn't we do a whole story or a whole story, a whole

0:48.7

episode long time ago about starting up your own business and all that and we

0:53.2

were screaming about all the people that spent all the time worrying about

0:57.5

getting their letters of incorporation together and placing their ads in the

1:01.5

newspaper because you have to run three ads with the name of the company

1:05.6

to make it legit. Oh yeah, yeah, we're always just like make sure you have the

1:08.8

actual work first. Yeah, yeah, you got that part. You definitely have to have the

1:13.2

business first. I'm doing both at the same time because there's time time

1:16.6

constraints involved. But doing the numbers first is actually really humbling to

1:22.4

figure out how much money it's going to cost to run that. How much money I have to

1:26.2

make before I actually start making money is that's where that's where the

1:31.1

you know the trout of truth comes slapping you in the face. Oh yes, modeling and

1:35.6

projections. Yes, yes, little things that you forget about like oh general liability

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