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Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner · en · 778 episodes

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.

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Grumpy Old Geeks
176: Ready Player Pobama
Apple’s premature tweet; exploding Samsungs; Airbnb’s “constitutional rights”; costly cord-cutting; Americans not into self-driving cars, ride-sharing; Attack…
Sep 9, 2016·1h 19m
Grumpy Old Geeks
175: We Are the Dreamers of Dreams
Paternity leave is over; psychology on the ropes; Ireland doesn’t want Apple’s taxes; Olds & Emojis; dark forests & Dresden bombing; big ol’ TVs; pinch & zoom…
Sep 2, 2016·1h 26m
Grumpy Old Geeks
174: Morphable Faraday
DNS is Ok; Uber still sucks; Facebook WTF; Pokemon Plateau; WiFi is tracking you; Sleep Rules; The Monkees are back; Kanye loves fries; Baltimore No-Fly Zone…
Aug 26, 2016·1h 36m
Grumpy Old Geeks
173: Economy Drone.0
1 Drone, 2 Drone, Red Drone, Blue Drone; R2D2’s final beep; No Hyperloop for us; Uber’s shoe drops; the Great Con; NASA research free; phishing ain’t just for…
Aug 19, 2016·1h 20m
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172: No Wood for Vader
Social network fails; your friends don’t like you; flawed design; FTC crackdown on sponsored posts; ad-block wars; data-fusion; Golden Key; read for health…
Aug 12, 2016·1h 39m
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171: Faradayspotting
Peak app; elevated buses; Pokemon mind control; Faraday caged bars; stupid chip payments; uber mapping; Netflix tax; IoT disasters; hacking autonomous…
Aug 5, 2016·1h 33m
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170: Brian's Getting a Drone!
CEOs paid to be average; Pono down; Yahoo deconstructed; Facebook value rising; 7-11 wins the drone race; Apple’s billionth iPhone; DNC hack & treason; IoT…
Jul 29, 2016·1h 20m
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169: Tinfoil Toupe
Power surges; suing the government over the DMCA; storing biometrics; Musk’s Master Plan 2.0; mesh Guifi; the Disobedience Award; Pokeman robot societies…
Jul 22, 2016·1h 44m
Grumpy Old Geeks
168: Crowd Based Pokeman Capital Management Solutions
Addressing the Pikachu in the room; Silicon Valley solving the wrong problems; disrupting truth; breaking the 1st law; Sharding your passwords; 360 degree…
Jul 15, 2016·2h 11m
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167: Come and Knock On My Tor
The world’s news is bleak & Facebook is sorta reporting it; smart pirates; music sales tank; burn, Google, burn; fair & balanced email scandals; a load of…
Jul 8, 2016·1h 11m
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166: Bye, Bye Kanye
Tech monopolies; 1st autopilot death; Facebook pulls the rug under businesses; booze & books; the sky’s gone out; Apple camera blocking; US customs wants to…
Jul 1, 2016·1h 16m
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165: Brexit Through the Gift Shop
UK leaves EU, UK preps to leave GB; Tronc propaganda; Apple & Ticketmaster class action payouts; machine learning; blockchain code fails; Supreme Court backs…
Jun 24, 2016·1h 35m
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164: NerdWatch 2016!
WWDC; Napster’s back; Microsoft’s LinkedIn & Twitter’s Soundcloud folly; telecoms want love, too; internet makes you dumb; Swedes go cashless; Olli & Watson…
Jun 17, 2016·1h 28m
Grumpy Old Geeks
163: Da Da Da
What makes a song? Silicon Valley of hardware; 3d printing hype; Atari pivots; sports tech; scrubbing google for Hillary & #fataxl; hacking Zuckerberg…
Jun 10, 2016·1h 25m
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162: Tronc in the Trunk
Gates on AI, Stephenson; Musk on neural lace; Troncin’ it; Periscope’s lynch mobs; Facebook ads & deep text; Uber brings back indentured servitude; Daltrey…
Jun 3, 2016·1h 10m
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161: Everything We Know Is Wrong
Gig economy, robots & hijacking people's minds; logo heat mapping; Thiel vs Gawker; Uber monitors your battery, won't use info, wink wink; pwned checker…
May 27, 2016·1h 4m
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160: Get your drone off my wall!
Hamburgers everywhere; Tesla takes on touts; Amazon takes over; home automation not worth it; .blog; the death of class action lawsuits; LinkedIn hack…
May 20, 2016·1h 17m
Grumpy Old Geeks
159: The Text Pistols
Austin takes a stand against Uber, Lyft, Apple invests in Didi Chuxing; Parsey McParseface; Web brutalism; Facebook news curation; Twitter & Dataminr spy but…
May 13, 2016·53m
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158: It's Neat!
The grumps are back in the saddle; bots in the wild; Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Tinder & Facebook shenanigans; Apple Music steals music, Reznor to the rescue; OpenAI…
May 6, 2016·1h 2m
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157: U.S.S. Irony
Dig if you will, this podcast; big GOG news; drone attack; science replication crisis; suing Kanye; get to know your new cash; Comcast kills the box; Alphabet…
Apr 22, 2016·51m
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156: I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha
Bots, bots & bots; Tesla's real innovation; Apple ends allowances; augmented reality caffeine environments; no texting in AMC; Homeland Security hates…
Apr 15, 2016·1h 14m
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155: Let Them Eat Cake
Panama Papers & Wordpress security; AirBnb's revisionist history; NFL no longer tax exempt; buy a failing business; the 1099 economy; the singularity is not…
Apr 8, 2016·1h 10m
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154: Fool Free Zone
Google's April Fool's joke; Gig economy falters; millennials love Facebook; Spotify pivoting to video, because money; Messenger becoming a platform; hospitals…
Apr 1, 2016·1h 3m
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153: We Face a Shining Future
It's our 3rd anniversary show & there were drinks; we meander through biocoding, universal basic income, VR, death of Moore's Law, Apple is 40, basic security…
Mar 25, 2016·1h 12m
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152: Don't Kick Our Robot Overlords!
Modern life is rubbish; fast food moves to robots; Uber gets disrupted; Alzheimer's breakthrough; DARPA derps; Feds find Fappening phisher; Amazon Echo; funded…
Mar 18, 2016·1h 1m
Grumpy Old Geeks
151: There IS a Spoon
Social media can be good, really; music startup fails; brain pain via dyslexia & FBI; McAfee & idiots; drones in the USA; 8k/VR Olympics; Darth Maul; old…
Mar 11, 2016·56m
Grumpy Old Geeks
150: The Truth is On Hiatus
Financial & emotional repercussions of social media; app bubble burst; big data & Banksy; Yahoo & Linkedin WTFs; McAfee, show your work; do not use 23andMe…
Mar 4, 2016·1h 12m
Grumpy Old Geeks
149: Now, to Be Fair to Uber…
Uber's not to blame; don't write open letters to your boss; more journalism woes; Facebook emojis; Team Apple; Project Shield; Shatner & Nimoy; apps for…
Feb 26, 2016·1h 8m
Grumpy Old Geeks
148: Give Me Secure iPhone or Give Me Death!
Apple takes a stand against the US Government; Twitter loses Stephen Fry, many others; Snapchat publishing; Moore's Law on the ropes; hospital pays off…
Feb 19, 2016·1h 12m
Grumpy Old Geeks
147: Jesus Take the Wheel
Brian’s recording from his Lanai; Jason charms a Lyft driver; Stupid Hackathons; Google kills Picassa, Jason longs for Flicker; Twitter Pivots; Flash is…
Feb 12, 2016·56m
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146: Beyond BananaDrone
The greatest hits collection: streaming & bandwidth charges; Uber logo idiocy; Alphabet, Amazon & Apple; Yahoo still clueless; copyright infringements…
Feb 5, 2016·57m
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145: The Curse is Real
The Grumps strike again, RIP Abe; more income inequality news, so meditate the pain away; our robot overlords are on the way; what's going on at Twitter?…
Jan 29, 2016·55m
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144: Internet of Poop
The Internet's taken a scatological turn this week; bad news from the WEF; Tidal's billing problem; Verizon kills Net Neutrality; blinding us with science…
Jan 22, 2016·58m
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143: Flux Decapitator
Facebook's death-feed; RIP middle class, Bitcoin, desktops, Soundcloud, Foursquare; sexual harassment in Silicon Valley; going post-mobile; hidden Airbnb cams…
Jan 16, 2016·59m
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142: That Drone Really Tied the Room Together
The grumps abide news from CES; pre-net life; Lumosity lied; Zuck's Hoodie Home AI; taking down power grids; Everkey vaporware; Oculus Rift, Drone B4UFLY &…
Jan 8, 2016·49m
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141: Should Auld Grumps Be Forgot
Sending out 2015 and ringing in 2015 2.0 with robot birds, leaving it at the office, suing Spotify, stealing art, crowdfunding intellectual properties, Uber…
Jan 1, 2016·56m
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140: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
A holiday potpourri of delights: Force blockers; internet famous, cash poor; Elon Musk; Taylor Swift; music windowing; driverless cars; phishing, hacking &…
Dec 18, 2015·1h 29m
Grumpy Old Geeks
139: The Bill Murray Disruption Clause
Marissa Mayer, Martin Shkreli, Airbnb, Zano, Trump, Apple Music, Silicon Valley job production & other fails; whiskey pronunciations; to-do apps &…
Dec 11, 2015·1h 26m
Grumpy Old Geeks
138: We Are 138!
Kickstarter, delayed; 7,728 years of Adele; Zuckerberg does good, gets yelled at; Apple changing cables again; Li-Fi from light bulbs; big hacks & lifetime…
Dec 4, 2015·54m
Grumpy Old Geeks
137: I'm a Belieber!
Ello again; the digital prophet has no clothes; streaming is the future unless we make money; 30 years of Windows; Man in the High Castle; Jason on a Train…
Nov 20, 2015·45m
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136: Morale Removal Machine
More fun and lack of profit with Kickstarter; solving the last problem in the world, Dog Vacays; on asking permission; VHS FTW; gamified gunning; Rumblr &…
Nov 13, 2015·57m
Grumpy Old Geeks
135: The Satchel of Life
Working on spec; paying rent with reach; #BenCarsonWikipedia & the Temple of Grain; Oyster dies & Amazon goes brick & mortar; Candy Crush worth more than Star…
Nov 6, 2015·1h 14m
Grumpy Old Geeks
134: Gimme Some Sugar Baby
Yet another spying bill dressed up as cybersecurity; slowing down the net for fun & profit; Google gets podcasts; YouTube didn't Google it's pay scheme's name…
Oct 30, 2015·54m
Grumpy Old Geeks
133: A German and an Irishman Walk into a Waterpark
Jason's taking a personal day so guest host Fergal Lyons joins to talk waterparking, Star Wars, parenting in the digital age, Uber, hacking your fitbit & plane…
Oct 23, 2015·1h 25m
Grumpy Old Geeks
132: Achtung Grumpy
Brian's back from Europe; drunk on a plane movie reviews; Jason's figuring out sportsball; no nudes is good nudes at Playboy; Twitter execs don't tweet; Tesla…
Oct 16, 2015·1h 4m
Grumpy Old Geeks
131: The Billion Dollar Show
Jordan Cooper and Gigi Edgley join the show to fill in for Brian while he's on holiday. We talk drone camo, poop maps, luxury selfie sticks, Waze-holes…
Oct 10, 2015·1h 17m
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130: Pre-Hacking so You Don't Have To
Apple Music & Google Inbox fails; getting screwed as a business; static salaries & rising costs; no peeple please; Derbycon recap; Amazon no longer a store…
Oct 2, 2015·50m
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129: Selfie Selection
Jason's live at DerbyCon; a # is not consent; offloading our memories; Du Hast vomiting rainbows; algorithms will beat your fantasy team; dislike this…
Sep 25, 2015·45m
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128: Demand your Replicator
Is Star Trek's Utopia coming? Is HP irrelevant? Do e-books earn more at lower prices? Is Twitter going to lose a lawsuit over scanning DMs? Is the ad-blocking…
Sep 18, 2015·1h 4m
Grumpy Old Geeks
127: Give Me Porn, or Give Me Death
Quiznos burns Burning Man; Apple's new crap; McAfee 4 Prez; Augmented v Virtual reality; Russia bans porn, still into voyeurism; not into OverSuccess; new…
Sep 11, 2015·1h 28m
Grumpy Old Geeks
126: #ForceOpenYourWalletFriday
Star Wars has awakened to your wallet; Ashley Madison who?; Uber's pesky human problem; Google logos; free-dronin'; networkin' on the Playa; comfy butts &…
Sep 5, 2015·1h 7m
Grumpy Old Geeks
125: Brony Madison
What do Ashley Madison & the Middle Ages have in common? Flying Penises & Bronies! Rich idiots; Dismaland & Disneyland; Facebook billion day; Spotify…
Aug 28, 2015·1h 6m
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124: Come and Knock on My Door
Jason slammed for Apple Watch, Brian slammed for Uber; that whole Ashley Madison thing; the real cost of YouTube stardom; Amazon burn & churn; AT&T sells you…
Aug 21, 2015·1h 8m
Grumpy Old Geeks
123: ABC, As Easy as Episode 123
Apple Music almost as broke as musicians; Google, sorry, ABC's MusicKey MIA; rent explosions; Sesame Street for the privileged; CIA apology drafts; OverSuccess…
Aug 14, 2015·1h 10m
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122: The Middleman Economy
Big data for cities, transparency in music, the Middleman Economy, no good deed goes unpunished, our first salvo against Canada, Facebook's illegal video…
Aug 7, 2015·1h 8m
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121: We Don't Need Another Hero
Your job will never love you; WIFI isn't making you sick; mind your own business, twitter vigilantes; RIP Google+; Win10; air-gapped hack, Rowhammer, Black…
Jul 31, 2015·1h 14m
Grumpy Old Geeks
120: Podcasting from the Parking Lot
San Fran fails to fall into the ocean, NASA finds new ones; Americans working longer, 80s lessons learned; Russell Brand vs. Uber, Instagram #ban, jerks with…
Jul 24, 2015·1h 1m
Grumpy Old Geeks
119: The First Rule of Glee Club
Apple Music fail, Neil Young hissy-fit, Sinead slam. Sharing economy & Internet of Things stumbling blocks, Java & Flash on the ropes, geek reminiscing &…
Jul 17, 2015·58m
Grumpy Old Geeks
118: The Bug Out Episode
The world is running down and we're bugging out to Canada and Estonia. Ecological collapses, depressed start ups, death by selfie, Greeks without Apple Music…
Jul 10, 2015·1h 5m
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117: The Rental Economy
You own NOTHING & double billed for it. Beats headphones suck, does Beats/iTunes mashup Apple Music? Facial recognition faux-pas. Uber ups & downs. Facebook…
Jul 3, 2015·1h 2m