722: Does a Podcaster Shit in the Woods?
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The inevitable decline of civilization takes center stage as the show kicks off with the miserable results of the FACEBOOK SETTLEMENT, confirming Brian's $4.01 payout, followed by a discussion of the SPORTS BETTING SCANDAL, where MLB players are rigging games over prop bets, confirming that gambling is now actively killing sports; moving to the news, the guys celebrate the DENMARK SOCIAL MEDIA BAN and SCHOOL PHONE BANS, which are already proving that teenagers need mandatory digital detoxes, prompting comparisons to Footloose and the revelation that teens are now passing handwritten notes and taking Polaroids. Naturally, things aren't going well for the hyper-rich, as evidenced by the TESLA EXECUTIVE EXODUS and the launch of WAYMO FREEWAYS, which will surely bring chaos to LA, and the ongoing saga of massive capital destruction via OPENAI LOSSES and META AI FAILURES, prompting Mark Zuckerberg to announce his desperate bid to CURE ALL DISEASES with AI, a feat less audacious than the fraud of AI startup FIREFLY AI TRANSCRIPT, which admitted its original "AI" was just human transcriptionists.
They then hit a laundry list of digital woes, including the dubious convenience of APPLE PASSPORTS, the creeping dread of Sam Altman's failing WORLDCOIN EYEBALL SCANS, the ridiculous crypto fraud DEFI OFFICE SPACE that literally copied a movie plot, and Coinbase's inexplicable decision to bring back high-risk ICOs; the absurdity continued with the OPENAI LAWSUIT over a suicidal chatbot that suggested the user "Rest easy, King," and the political maneuvering of the REPUBLICAN BROADBAND REDIRECT, which will gut internet access for the underserved to fund the Treasury, but the real threat to humanity remains the clandestine PREVENTATIVE GENE HACKING startup funded by tech billionaires aiming to create modified babies offshore.
In Media Candy, they share reviews of the excellent DIPLOMAT, ZOOTOPIA, and the just-released LUSH DOCUMENTARY, confirming our combined Gen-X fragility, before celebrating two definitive wins for reality: the fact that physicists have finally CRUSHED THE SIMULATION THEORY, and the literary brilliance of Joyce Carol Oates' tweet, which expertly called out Elon Musk as uneducated and uncultured.
All this and more on this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.4 | That's audible.co.ukesl-wondery. |
| 0:13.9 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DePhilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the |
| 0:21.2 | internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome to grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Kara Swisher. Name drop, name drop, |
| 0:33.5 | name drop. You know, I call them all. I call them and I call them and I tell them they're evil |
| 0:38.0 | and they're just mean and I don't know what do you think I'm the dog all right enough of |
| 0:46.2 | that bullshit no Brad Schomeister how's it go yes after 720 episodes in almost 14 fucking years |
| 0:52.6 | we finally caved and turned on the fucking cameras so hi are hi. Are you happy now? Maybe third time's the charm. We'll see. Yeah, maybe. Maybe this will be out. Yeah. I figured out the settings problem. I was trying to push 4K video to, you know, that teeny little pipe and it didn't work. So all of that's that internet of tubes. And you'd think that, you know, oh, I have, you know, that teeny little pipe and it didn't work. So all of that internet of tubes. And you'd think that, you know, oh, I have, you know, bi-directional gigabit fiber internet to my house, but no, it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough. This morning, just in preparation for this, I was looking at our YouTube account. So, and by the way, everybody, go to the website, click on the YouTube link, subscribe, because we still need a few people to get over the threshold so we can actually make any money doing that. But we had a ding. We had a ding on a YouTube account. And I'm like, for what? And they made me take a class. And guess what it was for, Brian? No idea. We talk a lot of shit. |
| 1:46.4 | We've apparently been peddling medical misinformation. |
| 1:50.4 | So I had to take a class this morning. YouTube. I had to go to YouTube school this morning, Brian, for 15 minutes and go through seven questions. |
| 1:59.1 | They give you seven questions and they lay out, is this against |
| 2:01.5 | our policies or not? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's the fun part. So it's seven questions. |
| 2:06.7 | They tell you what you got wrong and all you have to do is retry and then click the one that they |
| 2:11.4 | said, this is the correct answer. Okay. I'm like, this is pointless. It's absolutely pointless. I did not learn a thing, Brian. |
| 2:20.2 | So how interesting. It must have been for our during COVID episodes when we probably read |
| 2:25.1 | some of the misinformation that was being bandied about online and they cannot parse the fact |
| 2:31.1 | that we were making fun of said information. Yeah, they can't discern tongue-in-chiketude. |
| 2:36.9 | So, yeah, so that was my morning, |
| 2:38.8 | dodging the rain drops here in Southern California and taking YouTube class. Did not have |
| 2:44.7 | taking YouTube class on my bingo card today. I have a feeling you'll be taking a few more |
| 2:49.0 | before we're done with this experiment. |
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