733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground

Author: Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner February 14, 2026 Duration: 1:24:14
The tech world is currently a "nuclear war" over trademarks and alien catapult rants while AI safety researchers flee their posts; Meta and Discord are locked in a cycle of predator-friendly lawsuits and government ID breaches while we outsource our thinking into a state of "cognitive debt"; the media landscape is a mix of seventy-million-dollar Severance deals and free Babylon 5 episodes; Ring and Waymo are turning the world into a surveillance-heavy gig economy where humans are paid ten bucks to close robot car doors; Dave finishes us off with Sigourney Weaver action figures and the realization that our Gen-X nostalgia has finally been commodified into rare book catalogs and telephone-handset microphones.

There’s a certain flavor of chaos that defines the technology industry each week, and Grumpy Old Geeks serves as your brutally honest guide through the wreckage. Hosted by Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, and Dave Bittner, this isn't a polite roundtable discussion. Instead, it feels like grabbing a drink with friends who have seen it all and have absolutely no patience left for corporate spin or broken promises. They pick apart the biggest tech news stories with a seasoned, cynical eye, always asking the messy questions about what actually went wrong and who should be held accountable. Listening to this podcast is like getting the unfiltered post-mortem from veterans who remember when the internet felt different. The tone is sharp, often funny, and deliberately irreverent-picture a conversation that’s equal parts informed critique and cathartic venting about the state of digital life. You’ll hear them dissect the moves of figures like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg not as distant celebrities, but as players in a ongoing saga of power and missteps. It’s a weekly ritual for anyone who loves technology but is deeply frustrated by the direction it often takes, offering analysis that’s as informed as it is impatient. If you’re tired of sanitized tech commentary and want a take that pulls no punches, this is the place.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

Grumpy Old Geeks
Podcast Episodes
754: Frankly Asinine Questions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:56
AI keeps getting weirder, Meta keeps getting creepier, Waymos keep getting stuck, and somehow Gen X turned out to be America's critical infrastructure. It's another week in tech dystopia, and the Grumpy Old Geeks have th…
753: No-Talent AI Clowns [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:04
The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. AI-powered hackers, Ford rehiring the engineers it tried to replace, Tesla settling another FSD lawsuit, robot strikes, satellite overload, Oracle w…
752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:18
AI companies are learning that rented platforms, runaway costs, and public backlash have consequences; Meta keeps proving surveillance is a product strategy; self-driving vehicles remain aggressively self-driving; billio…
751: Brewster’s Trillions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:26
AI keeps embarrassing its biggest boosters; CEOs are learning to hide their automation fantasies; platform dependency remains a terrible business strategy; governments and corporations continue finding new ways to concen…
750: Douchebag Ping Pong [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:36
OpenAI wants Wall Street money; Anthropic wants everyone to slow down; Elon wants AI servers in space; crypto grifters want pardons; Meta wants your face; Apple accidentally made a good app; and somehow the lawyers were…
749: Surge Bananas [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:10
AI companies get sued, tracked, hacked, funded, and IPO'd; governments keep trying to ban kids from screens; Tesla rewrites history while BYD bets money on the future; and somehow the safest place this week is watching s…
748: Space Bone [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:52
Self-driving cars drown themselves; AI keeps getting dumber while executives keep firing humans anyway; surveillance capitalism mutates into full sci-fi horror; Jony Ive redesigns Ferrari into an Apple Store accessory; a…
747: Why We Sigh [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:52
Social media panic; AI backlash; Musk chaos; robotaxi disasters; crypto collapse; fake-content infestations; Star Wars exhaustion; surveillance capitalism and Gen-Xers desperately trying to back up their hard drives befo…
746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:40
Merch plugs; billionaire AI stupidity; methane-powered robot futures; scammy crypto ghosts; flood-seeking robotaxis; AI morality fanfic; poop surveillance capitalism; Wordle becoming network television; Spotify tracking…
745: Unwanted Senior Discount [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:24
Amnesty warns people about visiting America for the World Cup; AI continues speedrunning societal collapse through podcasts, surveillance, fake therapists, layoffs, and murder-planning chatbots; GameStop tries to buy eBa…