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CYBER

The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It’s part two of our bittersweet episode of Cyber where we bid farewell to Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler. This week we do a deep dive into the Motherboard lore. The stories that broke us, the controversies that made us who we are. Come find out which popular web comic wrote a strip about us that’s aged like milk, how much horse shit you can buy for $10 in Bitcoin, why the director of Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story hates Motherboard, and why you should never bowl with someone who has ebola.


Vox Something Or Other


The Shitexpress video


Bowling with Ebola


The Chinese Mystery Seed Saga


Neil Blomkamp destroys his computers


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0:00.0

Hey there's cyber listeners. Matthew here. Just really quickly want to give you some context for this episode, just in case you didn't hear the first part. This is the second part of a long conversation that Emily and I recorded with a longtime motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Kebler. He has left. It's got his own thing going on now. Maybe you've heard of it. But before we left, we made him tell us all the deep,

0:23.4

dirty secrets of motherboard. A lot of great stories in this one. So to kind of set it up where we are

0:30.9

here, he had just finished telling us a story about one of Motherboards' earliest controversies,

0:36.9

which happened when he was in an

0:39.5

HR meeting, learning how to do his job. He came out. He had a bunch of calls from Disney.

0:44.2

If you want to hear that story, go back and listen to the first episode. Let's get into a

0:49.4

different controversy, one that ties into a movie that's out in theaters right now.

1:00.1

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

1:04.8

It's a unit system. I know this. It's all all the files of the whole park.

1:11.3

It tells her everything.

1:13.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

1:15.8

The Eagle one.

1:16.6

The package is being delivered.

1:20.3

Can we talk about another time?

1:22.9

Someone got mad at us.

1:23.7

Yeah, let's move on.

1:25.5

This one's much funnier.

1:28.7

So there's a movie coming out.

1:31.0

Perhaps you've heard of it.

1:32.6

The Grand Turismo, the movie movie, directed by Neil Blomcamp.

1:39.1

We have done some work with this director before.

1:43.2

Former friend of motherboard. Former friend of motherboard.

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