576: It’s a Meat Problem
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Elon is in the Birdhouse; is social media on the way out; we were right about Kanye & self-driving cars; smiles are the new eggs; Ford pivots to data mining; Shutterstock embraces AI-generated art; Apple begrudgingly embraces USB-C; Spotify doesn't follow Apple rules, gets mad; Internet "Radio"; Brian Eno; Andy Prieboy; the Perephrial; big-ass TVs; Doctor Who comes to Disney+; Netflix massive servers; Spark Mail; Bumble AI cyberflashing; stuff of nightmares audio from magnetic field; smart-locks, Level Lock+; Apple OS updates; Andor & Tales of the Jedi; smart Samsung privacy feature; cord-cutting through anger; live theater & the death of public norms; RIP Cracker, Hagrid.
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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. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:19.9 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.8 | Before we dive in Brian, I would just like to talk for one second about how we were so, |
| 0:27.4 | so unbelievably right about, oh, this could take the whole show. |
| 0:33.6 | Kanye West. |
| 0:35.2 | Come on. |
| 0:36.8 | Like we had, we kicked him out of more onto the week. |
| 0:40.0 | Seven years ago, I kicked him out of more on of the week because I was starting to feel bad about it. |
| 0:45.6 | Like you could tell something was up with this dude. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah, it wasn't just agent provocateur or bullshit anymore. |
| 0:52.8 | Like something is seriously wrong with him. |
| 0:54.9 | And I didn't want to keep harping on it. |
| 0:56.8 | And I didn't want to keep bringing his name up. |
| 0:58.6 | But I didn't want to keep not that, you know, not that our podcast is moving the needle |
| 1:04.0 | culturally in any way, shape or form whatsoever. |
| 1:06.2 | But you know, I just want to give him, I didn't even want to give him the air time anymore |
| 1:12.7 | because I'm just, I was tired of his shit seven years ago. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | And now it's just gotten over the top. |
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