63: Yo! Can I have a quarter?

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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It's a good week for us. Yo!, Slingshot, and Washboard are all the buzz and we're all left scratching our heads on what the hell is going on. Brian apologizes. Jason is sick as a dog and contrary to Brians accusations, there was only 1 swig of Jamesons. Show Notes at: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/63 Show Notes What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents Does the World Cup Have a Lingua Franca? Two Dots update THE DISRUPTION MACHINE This startup that will sell you $10 of Quarters for $14.99 People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ Facebook launches Slingshot Amazon Fire Phone Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever (and no one’s noticed) Amazon starting their Mobile Ad offering with a $6 guaranteed CPM for the first few months. YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns SoundExchange DIGITAL RADIO REPORT Dr. Oz’s bad medicine It’s Official, You Can Finally View GIFs on Twitter Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition Private Internet Access AT&T offers customers affected by data breach one year of credit monitoring US Marshal CCs, rather than BCCs, those interested in anonymous Bitcoin auction Robert Scoble thinks privacy advocates have "overstepped their bounds", has useful advice for victims of violent stalkers, and is jealous of your threesomes SmartWater CSI Proton Mail begging for money The Long Mars It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens The Sweet Set-up Jason on Quit! Reeder 2 for Mac Reeder 2 for iOS Swarm Tech Douchebags Jason on Tech Douchebags Safety First with Jordan Cooper The Feed by Libsyn Today in iOS Negativland gives away ‘U2’ multi-track master, invites fans to remix infamous single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0 Very cool little music tool Ringly - Vibration goodie for your phone Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner Philips Hf3321 goLITE BLU This Graphic Shows How Americans Spend Money In Real Time Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2h1TOfeVFA Fermented Turmeric Tea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Oh
0:16.0	Not the old geeks two old parts a microphone and the internet like you go wrong
0:23.2	All right morning morning Brian morning Jason. How's that hot toddy treating you?
0:28.3	From last night not so good not so good well
0:31.5	We're kind of almost back to a drinking show at least one half of us but mostly because you're sick
0:36.9	Yeah, I had a little too much hot toddy last night because I have a big giant mug and I was kind of you know
0:42.5	You'd kind of port a fit thinking but it's like three times the size of a normal coffee cup
0:47.7	Oops, so besides being sick and hung over. This is gonna be a great one
0:53.0	But I got my sexy voice on uh-huh sure. We'll see what the ratings are on that one
0:57.2	Oh, thank you
0:59.3	So I have a mea culpa. I fucked up last week pretty big you never never well shot to be fair the whole uh Tesla
1:09.2	Elon Musk story all that kind of came out right before we went to record
1:13.8	Um, and my brain is still and was then in world cup fever mode
1:18.3	So I did not do my research um, and I talked uh, we were just kind of spitballing everything that was happening and I talked about how
1:24.8	Well, okay, that's interesting. I wonder how the employees feel and how you could only get away with this if you weren't a publicly traded company
1:31.6	They are a publicly traded company
1:34.1	To begin with Tesla is public uh and stock uh apparently these the shareholders are not bothered by this announcement because stock is actually taken a bit of a
1:42.8	Bump up since he announced doing this
1:45.1	Uh, so I was definitely wrong about that and and I'm quite happy to do the mea culpa because
1:50.8	I like Elon Musk and I like what he's doing and I'm very very hopeful that he will continue to be a vastly more influential figure on our near future
1:59.3	Than a lot of the other fuckwits will be talking about later in the show
2:02.2	Um, I am I am a huge fan. So uh having said all that uh, I did a bit more research
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