696: Googliearchs
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we’re serving up a buffet of dystopia with a side of snark. First, Kuwait has finally realized crypto bros are an energy drain, not a feature. Celsius Network’s founder gets 12 years for running a “safe investment” Ponzi scheme. And in Lopez v. Apple, we find yet another reason to question Cupertino’s moral compass.
Then it’s time for a trip through the tech trash fire. DoorDash gobbles up Deliveroo, proving there’s no such thing as too many overpriced salads. Google wants your kids to befriend Gemini—because what could go wrong giving tweens supervised AI access? Tesla’s “Robotaxi” trademark gets the boot for being as generic as Elon’s pickup lines. Meanwhile, Grok strips in public, deepfake porn sites get the axe, and dating app “Raw” rawdogs user data like it’s the early 2000s internet. We also hit peak Black Mirror with brain-typed tweets, AI-resurrected relatives, and crypto kidnappers playing real-life GTA.
On Media Candy, the streaming overlords dump trailers like Halloween candy. Squid Game is back to traumatize you, Star Trek: Lower Decks keeps boldly going where no animated series should, and The Old Guard 2 teases a Theron-vs-Thurman sword fight. Plus, Apple’s UX team found the “enhance” button, Netflix wants to be helpful (lol), and Google dreams of becoming a Hollywood darling. Over in Apps & Doodads, Apple wants to stagger iPhone drops, Disney sells you a $3,000 droid with zero sass, and Smart Flowerpots are now a thing because apparently, you can’t be trusted to water your plant.
And finally, it’s time for The Dark Side with Dave, where Bittner brings us malware, click tracks, fake vocals, and the shocking truth about KISS’s lipsync disaster in Antwerp. We also dip into ILM’s jaw-dropping legacy, Star Wars’ shady back alleys, and a new Disneyland in Abu Dhabi, because nothing says “happiest place on Earth” like 120°F desert heat. All this and more, right here on your favorite snark-fueled ragecast
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Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners to cut down on electricity usage
Founder of crypto platform Celsius Network is sentenced to 12 years in prison
IN THE NEWS
DoorDash is buying British rival Deliveroo for $3.9 billion
Shrinking Website Run By Nazi Psychopath Wants to Improve Its Image
Tesla 'Robotaxi' trademark refused for being too generic
Kids under 13 will soon get supervised access to Google Gemini
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Dating App ‘Raw’ Accidentally Rawdogs Users’ Location Data, Personal Info
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show
Leading deepfake porn site is shut down for good
Lehigh County's $500 Million Pension Fund Halts Tesla Investments
NOAA Warns of Attacks on Radar Systems by Militia That Thinks They Are ‘Weather Weapons’
Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial
We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution
MEDIA CANDY
Apple renews Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire 'The Studio' for season two ahead of finale
The End Is Here in the First Trailer for Squid Game 3
The Long Walk (2025) Official Trailer
The Third Crisis dawns in Foundation S3 teaser
New Old Guard 2 Trailer Sees Charlize Theron Cross Swords With Uma Thurman
The best travel show on Apple TV+ just made its triumphant return
Google is reportedly getting back into film and TV with a tech-friendly production initiative
Golden Globes Adding Best Podcast Category Beginning In 2026
APPS & DOODADS
Apple reportedly wants to split up the iPhone’s release schedule
Apple to add AI search partners to Safari as Google usage falls
Patreon update lets U.S. fans bypass Apple’s 30% fee in iOS app, more changes coming
Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store change
Disney’s Got a Star Wars Droid to Sell You…for $3,000
Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects
Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Digital Dreams: The Work of the Sony Design Center
Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld
Disney Just Announced a Brand New Theme Park: Disneyland Abu Dhabi
KISS : Total Lip Sync Fail in Antwerp Belgium 6 June 2022
KISS In Ear Monitor Feed with Click Track, Cues and FAKE VOCALS The Smoking Gun Eddie Trunk
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the 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 Schillmeister. I have a little follow-up that I want to start on today. Brian, about algorithmically curated content. |
| 0:26.1 | The bane of my existence, yes. |
| 0:28.0 | The bane of everybody's existence, it would seem. |
| 0:30.9 | Except for the influencers. Well, I had to explain to my roommate today that the TikTok she sees is not the |
| 0:38.1 | TikTok I see. And I thought, oh my God, it's 2025. Why do I still have to keep doing this? |
| 0:43.0 | And I thought, well, if I have to tell her, maybe I should just tell the audience, too. |
| 0:46.7 | Have you tried turning off the social feed and restarting it? |
| 0:49.4 | I've actually had to limit myself to 90 seconds now per any social media app because it will suck me in. And I know |
| 0:56.7 | that. I started posting on Instagram again because I had to. And if I stay more than 90 seconds, |
| 1:04.4 | it's 20 minutes, period. It's 20 minutes, no matter what. I know better. I know better. |
| 1:10.9 | And it sucks me in. |
| 1:12.3 | I hate to be so graphic about this, but I have decided and kind of been doing it. |
| 1:17.1 | I am limiting my social media perusals to the bathroom trips. |
| 1:20.7 | Oh, I wish I could just do that because the problem there is my legs fall asleep and I can't get up. |
| 1:25.9 | It's not good. |
| 1:27.1 | It's not good. So here's |
| 1:29.3 | what happened this week. And I think I think you might get a kick out of this. So she's on the |
| 1:32.9 | TikTok. And every time I come home, she'll be telling me what is new and exciting on the TikTok |
| 1:38.0 | because everybody's talking about it on TikTok. And this week, it was they know something. |
| 1:43.3 | They're going to kill the president. |
| 1:44.9 | I'm like, what? What are you talking about? She's like, everybody's talking about this same date. |
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