Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing

with finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schoenheimer. Happy 13th anniversary, Brian.

My God.

You know, Brian, when we started this show 13 fucking years ago, we started with the premise of making fun of people who taught other people how to make money on the internet.

Right.

And, you know, they were basically selling courses.

This was the big thing that was hip at the time they were basically selling courses. This was the, the big thing that

was hip at the time, which was selling courses. How to make money on the internet. And how to make

money on the internet. Exactly. The oroboress of the grift. And I saw, I saw a headline this week

that just cemented the fact that we are not getting any better as a

species.

We're getting worse.

It's just a, we're sliding down the, the poop emoji of life.

People are using AI to create influencers with Down syndrome who sell nudes.

I guess it's better than children.

Well, that's a different, that's a different article.

Yeah.

And I think Sean Bonner kind of summed it up on Blue Sky when I posted this.

He was just like, I didn't really know where this was going word for word until the end.

It was just like, or however we put it, it was.

And I was reading it too.

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