690: An Insult to Life Itself
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is alive, well, and running the show. Elon’s approval rating is cratering while experts warn he could blow a hole in federal spending; war plans are accidentally texted, and top U.S. officials’ passwords are found online; 23andMe files for bankruptcy; TikTok attempts a patriotic glow-up to stay alive in the U.S.; OpenAI admits trying to make chatbots honest, while research shows lonely users are emotionally clinging to ChatGPT; Amazon wants the Consumer Product Safety Commission erased; SEVERANCE, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing |
| 0:08.0 | with finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schoelmeister. And I suppose right out of the gate, we should offer our condolences to Dave Bittner. He will not be joining us this week as there has been a death in the family. So our thoughts are with you, Dave. |
| 0:29.6 | Our thoughts are with you, Dave. We'll talk to you soon and take care of your family. |
| 0:33.4 | Yep. |
| 0:34.1 | Now, Brian. |
| 0:35.2 | On to the stupid. I wake up every morning now with one... |
| 0:39.3 | I'm always sad about it, too. |
| 0:40.9 | I know. |
| 0:41.2 | I know. |
| 0:42.0 | It's... |
| 0:42.8 | God, I'm like, God damn it again. |
| 0:45.0 | And I can't help but look at the news. |
| 0:48.0 | And then this is just what goes through my head every single morning. |
| 0:52.2 | We finally, really did it. |
| 0:55.2 | You maniacs! |
| 0:58.2 | You blow it up! |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, damn you! |
| 1:04.2 | God damn you all the hell! |
| 1:09.2 | And that's how I start my day. |
| 1:12.6 | That's pretty much it. |
| 1:15.4 | And this morning I was in the shower, and I was trying to think of, oh, man, there's that |
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