745: Unwanted Senior Discount

745: Unwanted Senior Discount

Author: Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner May 9, 2026 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 eBay; smart glasses become extortion tools; Ask Jeeves dies; Pornhub comes back; and Dave contemplates robotic C-3PO heads, mechanical keyboards, and furries.

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: 100

Grumpy Old Geeks
Podcast Episodes
667: Nuclear Recall [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:01
Sam Altman stands alone at OpenAI; Gen Z employees not impressing bosses; X complies with Brazil's Supreme Court, but kill blocking; former FTX Exec given light sentence; Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island nuclear pla…
666: The Episode of the Beast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:29
Fun 666 Facts; Notebook AI follow up; Moviepass fraud; 23andMe settlement, disappearing board; Elon's deleted tweet; AI laws in California; Trump cryptocurrency; Amazon returns to work 5 days a week; new Moderna cancer v…
665: Human Referees [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:42
Gaiman & Good Omens; Waymo means Uber drivers are cooked; local muggers; EU not messing around with Apple, Google; DOJ after Google as well; another genetic testing company with security breach disasters; META scraping A…
664: I Love It When a Ding Dong Comes Together [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:54
SEC AI crackdown; Starlink & X vs Brazil; Navy's STINKY Wi-Fi; Microsoft tool for deepfake scrubbing on Bing; Clearview fines for violating GDPR; Bitcoin ATM scams; mobile phones not linked to brain cancer; NaNoWriMo AI…
663: Habsburg AI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:38
Hey, hey we're all Monkees; Waymo rides; Sober Outfitters; the cruel passage of time; Telegram CEO arrested in France; Zuckerberg's bizarre open letter; Uber slapped with a big Dutch fine; Tesla semi crash; tariffs on Ch…
662: Tempest in an Instant Pot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:33
Yes, we have all been p0wned; more Tesla recalls; Waymo honking greetings; Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet; more OpenAI content deals; Cortex delivers both fewer and more errors; just how bad was Musk's Twitter deal; billi…
661: The Nightmare Before Overcast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:38
AI label turning off consumers; Sonos app mess continues; SAG-AFTRA makes an AI agreement with Narrativ; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says go ahead and steal content, let the lawyers clean it up after; Grok AI is a dum…
660: The Bendy Piece [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:50
NFTs & crypto, oh my; Google ruled a monopolist in search; you can't run an AI company ethically - with plenty of examples; Grokking without consent; Google's targeting "unknown" minors loophole; MetaAI celebrity voices;…
659: Shark or Not [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:20
Well hello, there, LA; State of the AI Union: staggering amounts of money, power & water for what; COPPA 2, electric boogaloo; no phone searches without warrants by border agents; TikTok data collection; DMV on the block…
658: Red Hot Chili Coasters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:15
The yes, dear AI boom; Altman supporting UBI; step counts are the new eggs; Crowdstrike buys partners a coffee for their troubles; search news; video game performers striking over AI; platforms struggling to deal with ch…