738: A Sprinkling of Random
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
13 years of podcasting has taught us nothing; companies are lying about AI layoffs while Meta destroys itself from the inside; Andreessen has zero introspection and it shows; Dune 3 looks incredible; Firefly lives again; one idiot executive staked Buffy; Adobe paid $75M for being evil; your AI passwords are garbage; Dave Bittner is here to make you feel worse about all of it.
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| 0:33.9 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show where we discuss the finer point of what |
| 0:37.3 | went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. I'm Jason DeFilipo. And I'm Brian Schoen, Brian, we got a little follow-up this week. And March 25th, 2013 was the day that we launched our first episode. How to make money on the Internet. Have we figured that out? |
| 0:55.6 | No. |
| 0:56.5 | We have figured out what not to do. |
| 1:00.7 | Podcasting. |
| 1:01.5 | Definitely don't go into podcasting if you want to make money on the Internet. |
| 1:04.9 | Not necessarily true. |
| 1:06.9 | You can get into podcasting if you appeal to the lowest common denominator, make shit up all the time, a la Joe Rogan, or if you're already a celebrity. |
| 1:16.2 | I was going to say, if you do the, what was her name, what was Neil Gaiman's wife that you always bitched about? |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, Amanda fucking Palmer. |
| 1:24.7 | Amanda fucking Palmer. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:26.0 | If you build up an audience on mainstream media and then take that audience, |
| 1:30.5 | like the swateless guys. |
| 1:32.7 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:34.7 | See, that's also Joe Rogan. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
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