723: Don’t Want No Samsung
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We open by tracking our video money and mocking the chef who quit Elon’s "epic" bacon diner, before diving into the IN THE NEWS segment where plummeting crypto and Nvidia stocks confirm everything is a sham; we cover Bezos’s new $6.2 billion AI flop, a sleeping Tesla Robotaxi driver, and why OpenAI’s new school tools are a Recipe for Idiocracy with students who can't read; in MEDIA CANDY, we tear apart Disney's lazy Moana remake; THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE we discuss Zork going open source and why movies just don’t feel real anymore before CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS where we are mourning Mani from the Stone Roses, and wishing Bjork a very metal 60th.
We start with a FOLLOW UP on our channel’s performance, wading through the garbage pile of Monetization questions and Stats, including the scourge of Shorts—because apparently, that's what we do now. Speaking of people running from trouble, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is ditching his OpenAI board seat after a fresh batch of cringey Jeffrey Epstein emails surfaced. Meanwhile, the financial world is having a meltdown: Nvidia’s Stock is Falling Again after its earnings report, exposing the fact that almost Yet Another Study Shows That Most Companies Aren’t Making Any Money Off AI, and Bitcoin is Getting Absolutely Crushed Right Now, which we happily remind you will Trigger the Next Financial Crisis. Don't worry, Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup because the world clearly needs more tech billionaires throwing money at things they don't understand, while Apple is reportedly getting ready to replace Tim Cook.
The tech-bro corruption parade continues as a former DOJ official points out that Trump’s Crypto Pardon of the Binance co-founder is exactly what it looks like, and Elon's pet AI, Grok Insists That Elon Musk Is More Physically Fit Than LeBron James and better at everything else, proving the bot has been sampling its boss's Adderall. Even though ChatGPT Achieves a New Level of Intelligence by finally letting you disable its em-dash addiction, companies like Intuit are integrating its tax and accounting products with ChatGPT—because who doesn't want an AI-powered tax audit? This all dovetails nicely with the news that OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teachers’ right as students’ math skills hit a low, leading to a literal Recipe for Idiocracy where elite college students Can’t Read Books. The whole thing is broken, including Tesla’s so-called Robotaxi, where a Passenger Alarmed When Tesla Robotaxi “Safety” Driver Falls Completely Asleep at the Wheel. On a lighter note, we check out the new trailers for The Witcher S4, Frankenstein, and Project Hail Mary in MEDIA CANDY, and tear apart the absolutely unnecessary live-action Moana teaser, before mentioning the biggest drama launch on Apple TV, Pluribus.
Next up is THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, where our tireless security guru Dave Bittner throws in some random facts, like Microsoft making Zork I, II, and III open source and videos on why the iOS Keyboard is Broken and Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real” Anymore, and we discuss Thanksgiving plans. Finally, in CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS, we end with a shout-out to our generous PATREON supporters and PAYPAL/STRIPE donors, mourn the passing of Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani, and wish the incomparable Bjork a milestone 60th birthday.
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FOLLOW UP
Tesla Diner Chef and Co-Operator Quits to Open a Jewish Deli
IN THE NEWS
Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
Bitcoin Is Getting Absolutely Crushed Right Now
How Crypto Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis
Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup called Project Prometheus
Yet Another Study Shows That Most Companies Aren’t Making Any Money Off AI
Passenger Alarmed When Tesla Robotaxi “Safety” Driver Falls Completely Asleep at the Wheel
Meta wins antitrust trial as judge denies that it's a monopoly
Apple is reportedly getting ready to replace Tim Cook as early as next year
Former DOJ Official: Trump’s Crypto Pardon Is Unprecedented Corruption
ChatGPT Achieves a New Level of Intelligence: Not Using the Em Dash
Grok Insists That Elon Musk Is More Physically Fit Than LeBron James
11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Intuit is integrating its tax and accounting products with ChatGPT
OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teachers’ to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
Pornhub Begs Tech Giants to Verify User Ages on Their Device: Report
London thieves gave stolen phones back when they weren’t iPhones
MEDIA CANDY
Pluribus is Apple TV's biggest drama series launch ever
Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2
Project Hail Mary | Official Trailer 2
Goo Goo Dolls: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
RIHC: Disney’s Legacy, with Bob Iger
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
The greatest space battle in Cinema history, and my personal favorite VFX shot. @ 7:07
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani dies at 63
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo from Rainy, L.A. |
| 0:21.6 | And I'm Brian Schoelmeister from very chilly Toronto in Fastest Free, mostly Canada. |
| 0:27.6 | I have to apologize. Speaking of being in Canada and it being chilly, there may be some sound. |
| 0:33.8 | There's a lot of home improvement stuff going on up and down the street. We are in the final run. In about two weeks, the snow will start to fall and all work basically stops for four to five months here in Canada. Oh, so it's the mad dash. I've learned in my past couple years here that these last two weeks, these two weeks of November are just insane and like concrete trucks are |
| 0:55.3 | rolling up and down the street. There's woodworkers. Every contractor in the city is working right now. |
| 1:00.8 | Oh, I know all about it because I'm the one that has to fix it every year. So not surprisingly. |
| 1:05.7 | But it is raining here. So if you hear some, what it sounds like, metallic gunfire coming from outside, the air conditioner |
| 1:14.0 | I have in my lovely garage here gets rained on. It goes, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. So tinkle, |
| 1:19.6 | Tinkle, little star is what I'm getting today. And it's 62 degrees in here in my office. |
| 1:24.5 | That's positively balmy as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, but inside, inside, Brian, inside at 62. |
| 1:31.6 | All right. Okay, so we got some follow-up. So I want to say thank you to everybody who checked out our |
| 1:36.9 | first foray into the YouTube videos. Complained about it? Nobody complained. We've got zero complaints. |
| 1:43.5 | Knock on wood. So far, and here's the crazy part. So we've got zero complaints knock on wood uh so far and here's the crazy part so we've got |
| 1:48.8 | 853 views on the video tons of comments because i finally turned them on i can't you know this is the |
| 1:57.1 | we've got the best comment day in the history of comments ever because this is the first time we ever turned them on. Yeah. So, because I'm like, I'm a fragile, wilting flower. So I don't know if I can handle YouTube comments, but I'm going to try. I'm going to try. And it's all for engagement. So then I made, so yeah, we got like 850-some views on the video. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to make a quick short and see how the short works. I'm thinking, okay, few people will check out the short. So far, the short has 1,400 views. Well, what that tells me we should do, Jason, is screw this long-form video podcast thing that we're doing. And we just talk for like 15 minutes. |
| 2:35.2 | And then you can cut it up and then we just go from there. |
| 2:37.7 | Okay, okay. |
| 2:38.8 | See, now this comes into the second issue. |
| 2:41.6 | The questions that I did get all week were, |
| 2:45.1 | what is the best way for you guys for me to consume your show? |
| 2:48.9 | I'm like, well, here's the deal. I don't care if you consume the |
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