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.

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730: Ethical Broads

730: Ethical Broads

Ep 730: Ethical Broads PRIVATEWe kick off FOLLOW UP with California’s AG sending a cease-and-desist to xAI over Grok generating creepy deepfakes of minors, while regulators finally notice Elon Musk’s ...

23 Tammi 1h 26min

729: Alright Alright Alright™

729: 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 for its CSAM-generating "features," the ...

16 Tammi 1h 24min

728: No Face to Shoot

728: 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 Strokiversary and three years of sobriety,...

9 Tammi 1h 15min

727: Merry Slopmas

727: 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 they made the actual wasteland look organ...

20 Joulu 20251h 21min

726: Sycophantic and Delusional

726: 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, crushing engagement and accelerating burnout....

12 Joulu 20251h 17min

725: The Mistake Machine

725: 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 Bryan on Bluesky for listening to us for o...

5 Joulu 20251h 15min

724: Sam Altman’s Boutique

724: 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 social media for children under 16, mirror...

29 Marras 20251h 8min

723: Don’t Want No Samsung

723: 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 and Nvidia stocks confirm everything is ...

21 Marras 20251h 13min

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