Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
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Grumpy Old Geeks is a weekly technology podcast where the hosts dissect the week's tech news disasters and call out what went wrong and who is responsible. The show uses a blunt, no-filter style and mixes serious tech commentary with irreverent humor. It is hosted by Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister, often joined by Dave Bittner. Episodes cover bad product decisions, online platform failures, and the people behind them.
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763: Dr. Strangeclippy 17.09.2026 1год 30хвThis week, the future arrives with no steering wheel, no brakes, and apparently no adult supervision. AI agents are escaping, Cybercabs are steering themselves, surveillance cameras are multiplying, and Space Force wants $71.3 billion. Naturally, we discuss all of this before retreating into the comforting embrace of movies, TV & books. -
762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment 10.09.2026 1год 21хвAI agents go rogue while companies call it “misalignment”; autonomous cars discover federal regulators; surveillance gets a much-needed reality check; AI medicine offers a glimmer of hope; Twitter becomes Tweet.app; Star Trek turns 60; and the Geeks discover that apparently the future is just one long software beta test. -
761: Whatever... 03.09.2026 1год 19хвAI gets sued, the Pentagon gets sued, Tesla keeps finding new ways to make driving terrifying, and Sony would like to remind you that you never actually owned that game; meanwhile, the new Twitter rises from the grave and Siri apparently takes the scenic route. -
760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident 27.08.2026 1год 6хвAI agents commit crimes, corporations get billion-dollar reality checks, data centers threaten to become everyone's problem, Tesla makes doors complicated, LinkedIn fights AI slop, plus books, movies, cybersecurity, retro gaming, and enough tech absurdity to remind us why we keep showing up. -
759: Seeking Mrs. Claude 20.08.2026 1год 27хвMeta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning; OpenAI reportedly downsizes its preparedness operation while Congress lets AI write legislation; Amazon scans books, Comcast scans your house, and tech keeps finding ingenious new ways to make Gen X yell "I told you so.” -
758: Perverts at Large! 13.08.2026 1год 13хвZuck says the future of AI depends on trusting humans, while his yacht ignores a distress call, AI agents hack gym reservations, Meta's smart glasses become surveillance goggles for creeps & OpenAI goes ethicist-free. Tech: making everything worse, faster. -
757: This Time With Chicks 30.07.2026 1год 26хвThe AI industry spent the week arguing with itself. Nvidia says "don't regulate us." AI researchers say "please regulate us." Uber, Patreon & BuzzFeed cut jobs, China rents faces to AI, eBay pays $56M for a pig mask harassment campaign & Elon is selling more tunnels. New Grumpy Old Geeks is out now. -
756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass 23.07.2026 1год 23хвThe AI clown car is back: pirated books, escaped models, chatbot girlfriends, mood-tracking patents, getting banned from the dugouts and a school buying a classroom robot from the company behind RealDolls. New Grumpy Old Geeks is out now. -
755: Less Chatty Mode 16.07.2026 1год 12хвAI companies keep proving that trust is optional but hype is mandatory; Big Tech spends another week suing, spying, and stumbling over its own ambitions; meanwhile the real world quietly reminds us that humans, books, movies, and functioning infrastructure are still worth appreciating. -
The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special 13.07.2026 26хвWe 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 the Star Wars all at once. -
754: Frankly Asinine Questions 09.07.2026 1год 2хвAI 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 thoughts... and questions. -
753: No-Talent AI Clowns 02.07.2026 1год 7хвThe 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 waves red flags & the AI bubble springing leaks everywhere. COMPUTE! -
752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla 25.06.2026 1год 5хвAI 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; billionaires continue chasing public money, and the goats from Age of Empires II may be making the strongest argument against AI hype. -
751: Brewster’s Trillions 18.06.2026 1год 8хвAI 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 concentrate power; and somehow the most optimistic technology story this week is a flip phone that refuses to let you use social media. -
750: Douchebag Ping Pong 11.06.2026 57хвOpenAI 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 the dumbest AI users of the week. -
749: Surge Bananas 05.06.2026 1год 16хвAI 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 soccer and listening to old music. -
748: Space Bone 29.05.2026 58хвSelf-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; and somehow the Pope ends up sounding like the only sane person left. -
747: Why We Sigh 22.05.2026 1год 22хвSocial 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 before civilization blue-screens. -
746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate 15.05.2026 1год 19хвMerch 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 your entire adult life; and Douglas Adams still being missed more than most modern tech CEOs will ever be. -
745: Unwanted Senior Discount 08.05.2026 1год 8хвAmnesty 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.
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