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Grumpy Old Geeks
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
Episodes
Grumpy Old Geeks769: Mommie Dearest Maxxing
Brian prepares to become Canadian, securing access to maple cookies while the rest of us contemplate our life choices. AI's promised productivity bonanza…
Grumpy Old Geeks768: Rosetta Broccoli
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Grumpy Old GeeksOperation Quiet Piggy BONUS: Dark Side with Dave!
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! Dave Bittner joins Jason and Brian for…
Grumpy Old Geeks767: Operation: Quiet Piggy
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Grumpy Old Geeks767: Skibidi! BONUS: Dark Side with Dave!
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Grumpy Old Geeks766: Skibidi!
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The Geeks are back, and apparently AI…
Grumpy Old Geeks25 Door Refrigerator BONUS: Darkside with Dave!
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Grumpy Old Geeks765: 25 Door Refrigerator
The Geeks return with a brand-new Grumpy Old Geeks Wiki containing 21,577 static HTML pages, because apparently the appropriate response to having a massive…
Grumpy Old GeeksSuper Duper Intelligence - BONUS - Darkside with Dave Edition
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Grumpy Old Geeks764: Super Duper Intelligence
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Grumpy Old Geeks763: Dr. Strangeclippy
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, the future arrives without a steering wheel, apparently. We dig into Tesla’s Cybercab and the increasingly pressing question of…
Grumpy Old Geeks762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment
AI agents are apparently ready to take over the world—provided they can first stop exposing private photos, hijacking German coding forums, and generally…
Grumpy Old Geeks761: Whatever...
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! The AI apocalypse has lawyers now, and…
Grumpy Old Geeks760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident
Very Important Links! Support the show on Patreon! - Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! - Buy some merch! AI continues its relentless march…
Grumpy Old Geeks759: Seeking Mrs. Claude
Support the show on Patreon! Other ways to support the show! Join our Discord! Buy some merch! Meta is facing a $1.4 trillion legal ass-whupping over…
Grumpy Old Geeks758: Perverts at Large!
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Grumpy Old Geeks757: This Time With Chicks
The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself, which is honestly the healthiest thing it's done in years. One coalition led by Nvidia begged regulators…
Grumpy Old Geeks756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass
This week, Dave Eggers crashes an OpenAI staff meeting to tell Sam Altman’s employees that ChatGPT is effectively stealing students’ voices, which is the most…
Grumpy Old Geeks755: Less Chatty Mode
This week, the AI clown car somehow shifted into another gear. Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft, newspapers accuse ChatGPT of training on…
Grumpy Old GeeksThe Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special
We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch-up and chit-chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of Star Wars at once…
Grumpy Old Geeks754: Frankly Asinine Questions
This week, the world finally discovers what we've been saying for years: Gen X wasn't forgotten—we were quietly keeping the entire damn machine running. New…
Grumpy Old Geeks753: No-Talent AI Clowns
The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. A low-skill hacker used Claude Code and Codex to compromise fourteen companies with…
Grumpy Old Geeks752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla
This week, the AI industry continues its speedrun toward becoming the tech equivalent of a late-stage casino. Elon Musk insists reports of aid-cut-related…
Grumpy Old Geeks751: Brewster’s Trillions
The AI hype train keeps shedding wheels this week. KPMG managed to publish a report about the transformative power of AI that was apparently riddled with…
Grumpy Old Geeks750: Douchebag Ping Pong
Episode 750 arrives with a simple reminder: the bullshit never sleeps. This week Jason and Brian dive headfirst into a game of Douchebag Ping Pong featuring…
Grumpy Old Geeks749: Surge Bananas
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Brian and Jason once again survey the smoldering wreckage of the tech industry and discover that the people building the future…
Grumpy Old Geeks748: Space Bone
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Brian and Jason stare directly into the flaming garbage barge of “the future” and discover that self-driving vehicles still…
Grumpy Old Geeks747: Why We Sigh
FOLLOW UP: This week, it seems America believes every complicated social problem can be fixed by asking, “Have you tried turning the internet off for the…
Grumpy Old Geeks746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate
FOLLOW UP starts with merchandise promotion and YouTube begging reminiscent of 2007, before GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen gets thoroughly criticized by eBay after…
Grumpy Old Geeks745: Unwanted Senior Discount
In FOLLOW UP, the guys marvel at the completely normal state of America as Amnesty International issues a travel advisory for the 2026 World Cup because…
Grumpy Old Geeks744: Goblin Mode
Episode 744 kicks off with new merch in the wild and the ongoing expansion of the “protect the children from the internet” playbook. Manitoba is floating a ban…
Grumpy Old Geeks743: Category Five Dystopia
In FOLLOW UP, the child social media crackdown keeps expanding. Turkey just approved a ban for under-15s, and Sony will require age verification for…
Grumpy Old Geeks742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious
In FOLLOW UP, while countries race to ban kids from social media, Estonia is opting out — its education minister arguing that bans just offload responsibility…
Grumpy Old Geeks741: Moon Joy
We kick off with a the Dodgers spanking the Blue Jays and torn allegiances in Brian's house, then dive into Europe taking dead aim at your kids' screen time…
Grumpy Old Geeks740: To the Moon!
Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, where we're starting to notice a patience epidemic! As people get used to barking orders at their AI, they're starting to talk to…
Grumpy Old Geeks739: The Thin Black Line
Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices again. The Pentagon can't quit…
Grumpy Old Geeks738: A Sprinkling of Random
13 years of podcasting has taught us nothing; companies are lying about AI layoffs while Meta destroys itself from the inside; Andreessen has zero…
Grumpy Old Geeks737: Monetizable Content
In this week's show we start with FOLLOW UP: The world keeps trying to protect kids online — Indonesia just joined Australia, Spain, and Malaysia in banning…
Grumpy Old Geeks736: People Aren’t People
Microsoft's anti-"Microslop" censorship backfired spectacularly; Australia is cracking down on AI age verification while Meta is busy targeting toddlers…
Grumpy Old Geeks735: We’re Walking on Sunshine
Starting off in FOLLOW UP, we’ve got a tax economist who actually made money betting against the "efficiency" of Elon’s budget-slashing fever dreams, while…
Grumpy Old Geeks734: A Bald Woody
If you thought the internet was a dumpster fire before, the EU LAUNCHES SECOND INVESTIGATION INTO GROK because Musk’s bot won't stop generating nonconsensual…
Grumpy Old Geeks733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground
We kick things off in FOLLOW UP with the ongoing "nuclear war" between Automattic and WP Engine, where discovery has revealed Matt Mullenweg’s alleged hit list…
Grumpy Old Geeks732: We’re Not In the Files!
In this week’s FOLLOW UP, Bitcoin is down 15%, miners are unplugging rigs because paying eighty-seven grand to mine a sixty-grand coin finally failed the vibes…
Grumpy Old Geeks731: I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars!
We kick off FOLLOW UP by checking in on Elon Musk’s personal dumpster fire, where the EU is investigating Grok for deepfake slop while Tesla’s “unsupervised”…
Grumpy Old Geeks730: Ethical Broads
Ep 730: Ethical Broads PRIVATE We kick off FOLLOW UP with California’s AG sending a cease-and-desist to xAI over Grok generating creepy deepfakes of minors…
Grumpy Old Geeks729: Alright Alright Alright™
We kick things off with the existential dread of FOLLOW UP and the absolute joy of jury duty. While xAI’s Grok is busy getting banned in Malaysia and Indonesia…
Grumpy Old Geeks728: No Face to Shoot
Welcome back to the digital wasteland, fellow survivors. We kick things off in the FOLLOW UP by marking a year since the LA Fires—hello, PTSD—alongside a 4th…
Grumpy Old Geeks727: Merry Slopmas
Welcome back to another hour of digital cynicism. We kick things off with a FOLLOW UP on Amazon’s Fallout recaps, which were apparently so hallucination-heavy…
Grumpy Old Geeks726: Sycophantic and Delusional
The labor market has swung from the Great Resignation to “job hugging,” where workers cling to their roles out of fear of AI-driven layoffs and inflation…
Grumpy Old Geeks725: The Mistake Machine
FOLLOW UP starts with the realization that Spotify Wrapped thinks we are 82 years old, which honestly feels accurate, followed by a massive shout out to Bama…
Grumpy Old Geeks724: Sam Altman’s Boutique
After surviving Thanksgiving and the subsequent biting cold, we jumped into the FOLLOW UP with news that Malaysia is joining the trend by taking steps to ban…
Grumpy Old Geeks723: Don’t Want No Samsung
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…
Grumpy Old Geeks722: Does a Podcaster Shit in the Woods?
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…
Grumpy Old Geeks721: Pixel Predators
This episode proves that nothing gold can stay, especially your 401k, as we kick things off with the revelation that October saw the worst tech layoffs since…
Grumpy Old Geeks720: Sad Max Mode
This week’s episode started with the usual existential sigh before tumbling straight into the corporate bloodbath. Amazon chopped 14,000 jobs under the noble…
Grumpy Old Geeks719: Uniquely Devoid of Feeling
We open with a sobering follow-up: the future is less about AI toast (though Red Dwarf predicted it) and more about a soul-stripping "infrastructure of…
Grumpy Old Geeks718: Net Unhelpful
This week, Guest Host Donovan Adkisson joins Jason DeFilippo to wade through the usual tech chaos; California is attempting to regulate the inevitable AI…
Grumpy Old Geeks717: Quantum of Nope
The Dutch courts finally did something useful: they told Meta to quit force-feeding algorithmic slop to everyone, so Facebook and Instagram users might…
Grumpy Old Geeks716: Release the CrackerBot!
The world is a dumpster fire, confirmed. Following California's landmark AI safety bill SB 53, the head of Nvidia is allegedly "quaking in his boots"—which is…
Grumpy Old Geeks715: Our Wizard Lies
Grumpy Old Geeks is back with another round of righteous griping and eyebrow-raising headlines in Episode 715: Our Wizard Lies. We kick things off in FOLLOW…