89: Better Safe than Sony

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In the last full show of the year the guys take on Sony and their cowardice. Oprah is going full Amanda Palmer. Rappers are morons. And the best gift you can get this year is a box of bullshit. Happy holidays everyone and thank you for listening! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/89 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian and Jason, discussing the final point
0:10.0	of what went wrong on the internet and who's the blame.
0:13.8	Let's get started.
0:14.8	Jason, hey Brian, how's it going?
0:17.6	Oh, it's going well.
0:18.6	I've got the tree up.
0:20.1	I've got presence wrapped.
0:21.7	It's the season forgiven, isn't it?
0:23.3	Oh, it is.
0:24.3	Give away.
0:25.3	Unless, of course, you happen to be Oprah.
0:28.3	Well, she should be the biggest giver.
0:30.4	Doesn't she always give away cars and houses and, you know, she seems to give things away
0:34.6	when it's good for ratings.
0:35.8	But apparently she suffers from Lena Dunham slash Amanda Palmer disease.
0:39.9	She's got this big tour called The Life You Walks, which apparently is charging $999.00
0:45.6	a ticket if you'd like to attend.
0:48.6	And Oprah's minions are reaching out to local performers in all the areas and asking them
0:52.6	to come out and perform, which is lovely, except they don't want to pay them.
0:57.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.8	And to be clear, it's up to $999 for the tickets.
1:02.2	There are a range of prices.
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