146: Beyond BananaDrone

Grumpy Old Geeks. A weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFillippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, episode 146 for February 5th, 2016. I am Jason DeFillippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Hi, Jason. How you doing, buddy? I'm wondering if there are any adults left in the world. No. No. Okay. I didn't think so. I was watching the news this morning and here in L.A. they're tearing down a historic bridge this evening and they're shutting down the 101 freeway to accommodate that.

And it's the news. Yet they titled the segment Slow Jam. Slow Jam. There are no adults left. I do not need humor with my news. I just want news. Why? I don't want clever jokes. I don't want stupidity. Isn't that for the internet? That's what the internet's for.

Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing here? So that's kind of hypocritical, I believe. Well, we don't claim to be real news. Neither does news on TV anymore. No, apparently not. Anyways. Well, you know, it's an 18-year-old intern that writes those headlines. Pretty much, yeah. Maybe it's an AI.

Oh, maybe. Could be. Could be. So we've mentioned many times, well, you have specifically, how everybody wants to take away your bandwidth and charge you more money. Yeah. And we missed this one last week and Comcast is doing it again, again.

Are we surprised? Yeah. I've been saying since episode one, hey, guess what? Guess what? The entire world is pushing you towards streaming so they can charge you more. Yes. And Comcast is working on that with, you know, this is the overage plan. This is nothing new. People have tried it before.

This has all happened before. They will all bill you again. You know, that kind of thing. Yes. And they might be in a pickle with this one, though. Why is that? Well, there's this whole issue of they've got their own streaming service, and for some reason, that doesn't get dinged against your bill.

Only things like Netflix and Hulu do. Yeah, but there is no net neutrality. This is going to happen everywhere. This is the deal. We talked two weeks ago about how basically these services, Netflix, Spotify, et cetera, are going to start paying, paying Comcast and Time Warner, et cetera, so that you don't have to pay for the bandwidth.

So there will be free bandwidth if you make a deal with Time Warner, Time Warner. We'll have a deal with Spotify. Spotify streaming won't ding you against your limits. Isn't it a great world we're creating for ourselves? We'll just go buy some DVDs and CDs, and there's no bandwidth involved. I so wish I didn't sell all my CDs.

Oh, yeah. Well, you know what? You can still hit up about every yard sale this summer and go find them all again because everybody else is selling their CDs. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, this is the new world, people. This is what you all created. This is what you're all happy with, and you're not saying anything, and you're not complaining.

So thanks a lot, guys. Listen to you, buddy. Hey, I've been complaining episodes one through 146. I'm doing my part, people. Not really. And I want to do a little bit of housekeeping. Yeah, we had a little kerfuffle with the ads last week.

Sorry about that. We're going to make that transition a little bit smoother now. The tool that we have to do it is not exactly what you would call a laser-sharp scalpel. It's very bad. Helpful. Or good, or decent, or words that come to mind.

Well, it's just very – you're trying to place a very specific point in a waveform that they don't let you zoom in on. So it's tough. Yeah, it's not ideal. So sorry about that. But we're working on it. We'll get better. We're going to do a little transitions now and all that stuff. We're new to this.

Hey. We're new to the concept of actually maybe making a buck or two. Yeah. Well, maybe. We'll see how that goes. But, yeah, just thanks for all the feedback and thanks for your patience, people. We're doing our best to get this transition over with. And, you know, it's just part of the business.

We've got to do it. And everything else is free. Free. In the news.

Alphabet, formerly known as Google, is now the world's most valuable company, or valuable public company, I should say. Right. Knocking off Apple as the prime mover before. Yeah. Okay. Figured this was going to be coming at some point. Of course.

I mean, the price, the stock price is ridiculous. Overvalued beyond belief. I'm still a big believer in anybody that actually makes some real physical products probably has more value. But, hey, what do I know? Hey, they make self-driving cars. Ah. Yeah, so their market cap is $558 billion as of the writing of this article, which was four days ago.

So this is kind of old news, but I still wanted to bring it up because it's, yeah, I figured it was going to happen at some point. They own search, without a doubt. Analytics, Google Analytics isn't used by anybody that knows how to do anything.

There's not even really a competitor anymore. You know, Android operating system is out there for people that don't want to use real ones. Yeah. And to protect their, you know, their kingdom, they have decided to start taking ad blockers out from the Google Play Store.

Ah, you're taking a page right from Apple. Ah, no, but the other way around. Oh, yeah. You can have ad blockers in the iOS store. Yeah, but they started by trying to block them. No, they just didn't have an, they didn't have an API for them. Then they let them roll out.

So this is, it's, it's different because Apple doesn't have an ad business. They don't give a shit. Google does. And that's, so they do. Yes, they do. So we'll see how long that lasts. Probably a very long time. Well, the nice part about Android though is it's, you can get around that and you can get ad blockers from other places.

We'll see. We'll see. You still have to go through the store or do the, you know what, it's sideloading on Android. I'm sure you can just do whatever you want to. It's Android. Exactly. It's Android. You can get around it if you know how to use it, which people that use Android don't. Yes. Okay. Speaking of getting around, Uber has changed their logo to, if you turn your head sideways, a little square bunghole.

Oh, really? I saw it as a hammer poised to crush humanity below it. Okay. Yeah. I, I, I looked at it sideways. So it's like, oh, well, since all of the taxi drivers are getting fucked in the ass, well, then that's just because, you know, they slam your head on the hood of the car.

We both, uh, with the same concept, you just went, uh, through the butt. I did. Yeah. Because at first I was like, okay, I, yeah, whatever. It looks interesting. And then I'm like comparing it to the Airbnb logo, which is Goatsy. And then I'm like, okay, well, at least it's not a butthole. And then I'm like, oh, wait, it is.

It kind of is. Yeah. Uh, I think we can all agree. This is probably one of the dumbest rebrands that's ever occurred for no particular reason whatsoever. Uh, the view was incredibly well recognized. Uh, the company is doing much to my dismay, uh, beyond well everywhere. And there was absolutely no point for a rebrand at this point.

Uh, other than the CEO wanted to do it and help design it. I think he's just bored with, you know, he got bored swimming through his swimming pools of money and he's like, let's, let's put a new ad up or a new logo up. Yeah. Uh, you know, it must get boring when you're flaunting regulations in multiple countries at the same time.

What else are you going to do? Uh, let's redesign the logo myself. It's horrible. It's absolutely ridiculous. And it's ugly. I like their other logo. I thought it was nice and clean. It made sense. It was perfect branding. Everybody knew what it was. Uh, and there was a kerfuffle about this.

Uh, people were posting. I don't even know where the app is anymore. Oh God. Read the fucking words Uber underneath the icon. You dumb fuck. Well, I wasn't defending them, Jason. I know I was talking to them, not you, Brian. Okay. Thank you. Uh, it increased Uber news.

Uh, angry Uber drivers want to shut down Superbowl Sunday up in San Francisco. Uh, yeah, well, guess what happened? Um, uh, Uber is basically becoming a regular cab company and they've cut, uh, they've cut their not employees, uh, rates. Uh, so they're making less money.

Um, and they're pissed off about it now. So all of a sudden Uber finds itself basically dealing with. It's the same sort of thing that everybody else does. Okay. Whoopsies. So we'll see what happens at the Superbowl because, uh, basically the regular cab companies have been pretty much run out of business by Uber in San Francisco.

So if there's no Uber, there's no public transport. And when you've got the Superbowl going on, that's a lot of people and a lot of money and a lot of people trying to get around that won't be able to. Yeah. I'd, since I've left San Francisco, I don't know where the Superbowl is. I think it's a, I think it's pretty far South now though. It's not like actually in the city.

So if it was in the city, like an AT&T park, you could just walk anywhere. No, no, you, uh, there's going to be a, a massive need for public transport for basically the entire weekend, not just for the game itself. And, uh, I, I kind of hope these guys do, uh, go ahead and shut it down. That'd be awesome. Whatever.

We'll see. Whatevs. As the kids say. Whatevs. Yeah. Who cares? Who cares? Uh, the Today Show is being sued for copyright infringement. I like this one. Uh, what did they do? Uh, they stole a picture, uh, several pictures that this guy took of tiny homes. Okay.

Just taking those little tiny home pictures and they tweeted them and posted them on the show and, uh, basically took this guy's work without, you know, paying him. So he's suing. Okay, good. And, uh, there were eight photos in total and the damages could reach a million dollars. That's insane.

But, uh, yeah, that's a lot of damages for eight photos. And, you know, they're, they're pictures of tiny homes, but still, I, I, I applaud this guy for going after, going after them and, you know, keeping it, keeping it going with his rights. Yeah. And everybody needs to do that because as soon as you roll over and go, oh yeah, well, you gave me publicity, uh, they win.

Yeah, no, I mean, I've been through it. It's hard. It's a pain in the ass. You just got to find a good lawyer and one who is either a complete shark and we'll just go for the jugular, which actually, you know, that's what you need anyway. Nevermind. Yeah. That's basically what you need. Especially if you're going up against somebody like the today show or Madonna or Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, or this goes on and on and on.

Okay. Speaking of moving on. Amazon. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, they, uh, they basically ran every bookstore out of business. So now they're going to open up some bookstores. You know, I got to give it to them. That's if, yeah, I mean, you know, if your goal is to be an asshole and win, congratulations.

Exactly. Hey man, you didn't get, nobody got rich by being nice. I'm telling you. No, no, that's true. It's just, uh, is this the world we want to live in? Who cares? We live in it. If you don't want to live in it, don't buy anything from Amazon. But I know that's not going to happen because. Well, I know it's not going to happen because you just bought a microphone that you're sending to me from Amazon.

I bought it. You didn't. Well, you can send it back. You can send it back. Yes. I can send it back. So they're going to open up a whole bunch of bookstores and they're going to be, I don't know. Yeah. It was whatever I, I, I like bookstores. I'll be happy to be able to go to one again. Luckily for me, I still have a Barnes and Noble nearby, so I can go to one anyways.

Um, maybe these are just going to be like drone drops. Well, see, that's what I was thinking when I first heard this news, I'm like, okay, you know what? This is just a, a way for them to get a toehold into these retail spaces. Well, it's physical locations that are in major metropolises that they can use as the base for their drones.

Exactly. You know, okay, well, we've just rented all this space inside. Well, we'd like to rent the roof too, because we need a drone landing pad for on the roof. So, and look at a mall. What does a mall have? Massive amounts of rooftop space that they could repurpose for drone delivery. Yeah, exactly.

Without having to rebuild anything and just, they could just retrofit the roofs. And if they get, uh, even bigger than they just rent roof space from the stores next to them. Cause you know, uh, forever 21 doesn't need the roof. So I found a really good article, uh, on Vox called Amazon explained in one chart.

Yes. And this is, this is really what tells you why they're, they're poised to take over the entire retail world. All they do, they make billions of dollars and all they do is reinvest it back into the company.

Yes. Which is smart. I cannot complain about that at all. Well, I mean, it's, well, the shareholders can complain. That's the problem. Yeah. That's what they're running into. They're not making any profits. Exactly. Yeah. Shareholders are complaining, but what they're going to end up with, you know, maybe hopefully by the time they die is, is a, is a massive payout because Amazon will own the world.

It's seeming to go that way, isn't it? Between Amazon and Google, you know, you search on Google for something to buy on Amazon and then it shows up in a self-driving car or a drone. Yeah. And hopefully you're still using your Apple phone to do that. So there's one more player in there, but we'll see. Cause I have stock, two of them.

So, okay. Do you have any Yahoo stock? I do not. Good man on that one. Yes. Well, I have, they figured out what they're doing with their business plan, anything yet? Oh, well, they're laying off 1700 people and closing five offices. That is unfortunate, but not surprising.

Not surprising at all. No. Uh, yeah. Somebody needs to, out of those 1700 people, somebody should really like try and throw Marissa Myers, you know, name into that 1700 pool because she's not really doing a damn thing. I really don't understand how she's still hanging in there.

And basically, I mean, I haven't really seen anything bad said about her. She, she's still a media darling, even though she's basically running a company into the ground. As fast as humanly possible. Yeah. You know, talk about failing up. Yeah. Jesus.

And they're, Yahoo's also being sued. Um, this one's funny. Everybody, everybody's bitching and moaning. Okay. There's not enough gender equality in tech. We need more women. And now this dude is suing Yahoo because they preferred to hire women. Well, yeah.

I mean, that that's, yeah. Okay. Good luck. Good luck with that, buddy. Yeah. You just can't win. It's just like, okay. Well, I mean, this is the winning now, right? It's, it's instead of actually hoping to get a decent job, that's going to pay you well and, and, you know, get a retirement package and stay with the company for 30, 40 years.

Like we used to, uh, now you sue to, to make your money. That's, that's the way. That's always been the way. Welcome to America, dude. I got to move countries. Well, in very fun news. I love this one. Microsoft is starting to deploy like ocean bed data centers.

I think this is great. This, this makes so much sense. It's like, oh, okay. We have, we have this problem with data centers that get hot. They get really, really hot. Yes. What's the ocean when you go down? Really, really cold. Hmm. Okay. Let's stick it down there. What else do we have technology to do today?

We can get free energy from the ocean with turbines. Well, let's slap some turbines on it too. Yep. And it'll be closer to the underwater data, data cables. So we can just tie her up. Yeah. This is a great idea. Good on you, Microsoft. It's a fantastic idea.

I love it. And they're doing all the environmental testing. Now the first run went really well. And they said that there was a, it had an extremely small amount of local heating outside of the capsule. So they're not worried about it like superheating the ocean. Right. So we're not going to contribute to global warming here in theory.

In theory. Yeah. But this, this is great. Yeah. It's, it's, this is, this is genius. This is, this is exactly the kind of innovation that we need to have happening. It's smart. It's just makes sense. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. And, uh, apparently Facebook is going to be pissing everybody off again for some reason.

Uh-huh. They just want to change their, change their news feeds again. Okay. It is getting, uh, laughably almost unusable now. Because I just don't see almost anything from my friends. Even if I go to, uh, most recent. Yeah. I have, I have tested this with someone sitting across from me who has posted something I go to most recent and it's not there.

But if I go to their timeline, their personal timeline, it's there. So they are just pulling stuff out willy nilly now. Facebook is, is doing something a little bit dangerous here and that they're rolling out things too fast for people to keep up. And it gets to the point where you start to feel like you're no longer in control of anything and you don't understand anything, which pisses you off.

And then you stop using it. So they've really got to slow this stuff down and stop messing around so much because otherwise people are just going to flood over to those competitors like Ello. Ello, goodbye. Uh, yeah. I mean, the, the newsfeed algorithm right now is so jacked.

It's so messed up. I had to, um, I'm working with a large sports agency. A large. I'm not going to mention which one, but I had to like them on Facebook to get access to do some development. And basically my entire Facebook feed is sports articles that I have no interest in now. There you go, buddy.

Yeah. So it's great. Thanks a lot. Uh, yeah, they, they need to fix it. It's, it's messed up, but stop jacking around so much. And how about a little, a little transparency, Facebook, tell us how this thing's actually working. Dude, that's the secret sauce. That's the, I know, I know. That's the 11 herbs and spices or whatever.

Yes. And if you use Instagram, you've probably noticed that, uh, you're getting a hell of a lot more ads. I have not noticed that. I have, I've definitely noticed it. Um, massive amounts. There's a article on business insider that basically shows the staggering growth and ads in charts.

So you can see exactly how many more you're getting. It's strange that you aren't, but, uh, you know, maybe they having trouble with their algorithm, figuring out how to advertise to you when all you do is post puppies. Well, you know what I have, I tell you what, if you want to get a lot of traffic post about puppies. Uh, yeah, the puppy hashtag is, is the way to get traffic that you don't really want.

I don't even use puppies. I use, I use Bam Bam, Rottweiler and Doberman because I've always got three, all three of those in a picture and I, I get, I'm getting like, you know, twenties and thirties on likes of people. I just don't even know. So. Right. But I, when I go through my feed, no ads, I don't know.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I, I get tons. So I, I have seen this. If you've seen it as well, let us know. Look at that. See, I'm being social. Yes. Uh, have you heard of Brooklyn Beckham? Uh, nope. Is that some kind of, I don't even know what that would be. Well, apparently, you know, uh, 18 or so years ago, um, uh, the, the, uh, uh, Beckhams had sex in Brooklyn and, uh, so they named their child Brooklyn.

So yeah, Brooklyn Beckham now. And, uh, he is not a professional photographer by any means, but he's been hired by Burberry to do their entire campaign because, you know, because, you know, rich kids. Okay. And this has upset many working artists, obviously.

This is a new, this is news. Yeah. It's news. Oh, the, the rich actually get a preferential treatment to do jobs that they're unqualified for. Kardashian. Um, Hey, hold on a second. You apply the Kardashians actually do a job. They did. She did have a job. She was a sex tape.

That was her job. Well, I, I'd argue she was probably qualified for that. Okay. Oh, dear. Yeah. So there you go. So yeah, rich kid gets job and professional photographers pissed. Okay. Well, and the world turns. If you're a professional photographer, that's, that's just starting to get pissed off.

Yeah. You are probably, you probably just became a professional photographer yesterday and didn't look at the last 20 years of the entire photography industry being gutted and torn apart. So yeah, yeah, that's, that's why I went to college for photography and promptly became a computer programmer because there was nothing to do in photography.

That's true. Yes. And I don't think Brooklyn Beckham could actually program. Probably not. And there's no cachet in hiring him to do it. Burberry hires Brooklyn Beckham to code out the WordPress page for $10 an hour. Yes. Brooklyn Beckham thwarts hackers is a headline you will never see anywhere.

Okay. Good times. Mm-hmm. Moving on. It's your story, man. Oh, yeah. I gotta get Brooklyn Beckham in here to do this fucking podcast. No, you know, I had that crazy tab thing going and I'm just like, oh, they, they, then they just came up out of order.

Cause I got something about Beyonce and Justin Bieber that showed up. Oh, I killed that one. I was going to talk about that. Okay. Thank God. I decided not to. After Brooklyn Beckham, we can't go to Bieber. I couldn't do Bieber after that. So let's do Google again. Okay. Google Skybender project plans to beam 5G internet from solar drones.

What's the Skybender? That really shitty movie by, uh, uh, the M night Shamalama ding dong. Yeah. That was airbender. Oh, okay. My bad. That was a terrible movie. Utterly terrible movie. So this one that's, you know, kind of, uh, this is the same. I talked about the company last, uh, last week that's going to try to do this as well.

So it's a millimeter wave radio internet stuff. Everybody's got some kind of different thing. This is, you know, part of project loon and, uh, cause they were doing balloons before and they're like, ah, screw the balloons. Let's just go with solar powered solar drones. Right.

I don't know. Um, once any of these people get something working, then call me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, this is, I'm just tired of reading all these speculative, uh, tech stories where we're never going to hear about this again, unless it actually works. And then it'll be a big deal. You know what? They should just write some goddamn science fiction.

Cause this stuff would be interesting if it was couched in science fiction. But when you're talking about it as like, you know, this is coming tomorrow, we're going to have internet from space. It's like, okay, great. Um, and then we never hear from it again. Yeah. It's, it's, yeah. I'm going to go down. I'm going to walk down to Google and pitch a speculative science fiction arm.

Oh yeah. But there's two letters in SF. I don't know how that's going to go in alphabet. Good point. And we'll be right back. But now a word from our sponsors. Security.

Ha. Looks like you're back, Jason. I see security is full of links. Woohoo. Uh, I've got two, I've got two hacks of the week. So let's start with my stories. Uh, let's always start with your stories. My segment, your stories. Go ahead.

Well, that gives people time to put on the tinfoil hats for your stories. They're not prepared, Jason. Okay. Go ahead. So at least 63,000 current and former students at the university of central Florida are getting bad news. Uh, uh, their school network was breached and all their social security numbers and other sensitive personal data have been stolen.

Yeah. Uh, you know, at this point, social security numbers, like I, I just cannot believe that every social security number ever generated in the United States, because that's where they're from, uh, has not been leaked. I think all of them have to be out there. Many, many, many, many healthcare providers use that as your personal ID number and put it on the fucking mail.

Yep. So it can be read by everybody. God damn. Yeah. I can't believe that these things are still, uh, still out there. Anyways, uh, in addition to that, all the top female stars, uh, from U S soccer have had their home and email addresses, uh, posted on a public U S soccer court filing.

Oopsies. Okay. So if you want to know where hope solo lives, like I do, uh, apparently you could find that out now. Okay. They've, uh, this is, this is extremely bad because the team has had many, many stalking issues already. So I'm sure oopsies.

And of course, then they then redacted the posting online, which is not helpful because it's the internet. And once something's been posted, it's now everywhere. So thanks a lot, guys. It lives on. Yes. Um, now this one, this one, I just find so goddamn funny. Pardon me. Did I take the Lord's name in vain?

Oh, that could be because I'm talking about Oral Roberts's university. They're about to track all of their students' fitnesses, fitnesses, fitness eye, uh, incoming freshmen are going to be required to wear a Fitbit. Right. Yep. Okay. Uh, let's, you know, this, this is security, huh?

This should be just, uh, oh, what could go wrong? Yeah. What could possibly go wrong with this? Yes. There's no issues with the internet of things. Oh, oh, oh, or civil liberties. It's like, oh, okay. Well, it's a private university, right? Um, well, yes, but they can do whatever they want. Uh, you make the personal choice to not go there.

Although who the hell would go to Oral Roberts, you know? I know it is, it is a, it's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I have, I have actually stayed across the street from Oral Roberts university because I saw the big hands as I was driving through Tulsa. It was late at night and I needed to stop and have a break. And it was like eight 50 on a Thursday, right?

Right. I get my, my hotel room. I'm talking to the guy who's checking me in. I'm like, Hey man, where's a good place. I just want to go pick up a six pack. And he just starts laughing his ass off. He's like, dude, you're in Tulsa. Look outside. Nope. There was no beer to be had at nine o'clock on a Thursday night, unless you, you went to a bar, which, uh, there was, uh, none of those to be had right across the street from Oral Roberts university either.

Yeah. Good times. Yes. And in a more fun news in gadget, uh, has a little post about that. Your fitness tracker probably has security issues. Yeah. So, uh, of course. Yes. The interesting, uh, thing that they talk about in this one is that, uh, you can actually change the data on some of these, which means if they're being used for things like criminal prosecution, uh, that totally makes it not a viable, uh, piece of evidence.

Right. So yeah, say you were wearing your Fitbit and you could prove that you were walking somewhere in Santa Monica, even though the crime was committed. And in Culver city that gets you off except for the fact that you can actually change your data. Or I could change your Fitbit to put you at the scene of the crime that I just committed.

Awesome. Good times. Mm-hmm. Speaking of, uh, this is from the MIT technology review. Your future self-driving car will be way more hackable. Yep. Um, thank you MIT for telling us something that we've been talking about for two and a half years, but it's MIT.

So they're, you can go read that article and, or you can just go back and listen to a couple of our shows where we know this, we know this, the more complex these systems get, the more holes they get. Yeah. And, uh, that's just the way things are going to go.

And I'm personally going to be driving a self-driving Faraday cage car. That's, that's my solution. I still want a self-driving car. I'm not backing down from that, but the fact that they will be hackable is true. Just, you know, get some airbags, put some airbags in these puppies. Yeah.

But you can hack those to shut them off because everything's going to be controlled. Damn it. Brian, quit shitting on my parade. Nothing is going to be mechanical. It's all going to be digital. It's all going to be hackable. Woohoo. You know what I need to get? I'm just going to, I'm just going to go get an old Jeep. No electronics. So you just backed away from the self-driving car thing.

I'm going to have to, if, if, if you're going to just keep, you know, ruining my day. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I do that a lot. Except I'm not driving stick in LA ever again. Forget it. Give me my self-driving car. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, you know, I'll risk it. Okay. Oh man.

Remember the Silk Road. I do. It's where you go to get drugs and kids, right? Yeah. Long time ago. Long time ago. Well, there was the secret service agent, Sean Bridges, that was basically caught stealing money from the main guy, the Dread Pirate Roberts. And they said, oh, well, it wasn't germane to the main case.

So he's gone. But they just went back and re-arrested him this week or last week. Okay. He was going to try and leave the country. I wonder if he did the Google thing. No, he used Tor for that search. Oh, I gotcha. Well, as we know, Tor is notoriously unstable.

Oh, boo. I know, I know. But the best one of the week comes from The Intercept. In a note to readers, Betsy Reed basically says, uh, Juan Thompson was a staff reporter. Yes. From November, 2014 until last month, fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account to her, Betsy Reed.

Yes. I, nobody is safe. No. Nope. I love it. It's just, you know, this is The Intercept, right? These are the people who- They're supposed to know what they're doing. Yeah. They're supposed to be intercepting this sort of stuff. I know. Yes. So, yeah, you just, what's the point of even reading on the internet anymore?

I'm starting to just, oh. The security segment has just become one big schadenfreude for me now. I know. I know it has. Okay. Okay. Uh, yeah. Oh, wait, we got one more. Oh, okay. I forgot about this one. I was going to blow my nose because I'm getting a little stuffy.

What are we going to not trust now? Retailers capable of tracking shoppers through their smartphones. Oh, of course. Yeah. That's the whole point of Beacon and all that. That is true. That is exactly what it's supposed to be. And, uh, but they're using Wi-Fi to do the pinpointing of tracking and things like that and facial recognition, other things.

Uh, yeah. Wasn't this a minority report, Tom Cruise? Exactly. Walking through them all and then ads are just, uh, popping up specifically for you. This is the dream scenario that, uh, people are going to live in, in the future. Yes. But, yes, but now we have reports on it.

And it's, they're not minority reports. They're like, you know, professional reports. Oh, okay. They're majority reports. Yes. From the Information Commissioner's Office blog. Okay. Well, I can't wait for this. Mm-hmm.

Comment of the week. Our first comment of the week comes from iTunes, from JoeWeb0159. Okay. Got a five-star rating. He says, love you guys. I enjoy listening to all your shows. Keep up the great work. Well, thank you, Joe. We will. Thank you.

We're, we're going to give it a go. Uh, friend of the show, Miller, posted on Facebook, which I luckily caught and found because it's very difficult. Uh, great link. Uh, Ant Simulator game canceled because crowdfunded money was spent on liquor and strippers. This is a really funny article.

So thanks a lot, Miller. I was, it's worth a laugh. Um, it's definitely worth a read. Go, uh, check it out in our show notes. Very funny stuff. I love these guys. I love crowdfunding. Uh, on Twitter, Gary from, uh, at Gary can't love. Apparently he can't. Yes. I think, I think this may be, maybe the root of the problem here at GOG podcast.

Brian's you're, you're not spelled with a Y B R I A N not B R Y A N. Look, if you're going to take the time to take a dump on me, at least, uh, drop a couple extra seconds to, uh, figure out how to spell my name. Seriously. Brian's smug comments about Trump, lowercase T, are making me hate the show.

Most of us aren't Christians. Read a Roman history book, old man. I'm not entirely sure I'm parsing this right. I don't, I don't quite get this. I'm not Christian. No. By any means. I'm an atheist. Um, I'm well-versed in Roman history. Um, young boy.

Uh, no, I don't know. It's, you know, the great thing about our country is, uh, we're allowed to have different opinions, right? Yep. So I got a link in the show notes for you. Gary can't love is Donald Trump. The modern Nero, a Roman scholar, uh, basically, uh, points out the, uh, the similarities between Trump and Nero.

Enjoy. Yeah. Seriously. Uh, second comment on Twitter from, I'm never going to pronounce this right. Vassar, how's that going? Uh, at GOG podcast, is everything okay with the RSS feed? The latest, the last episodes are not in it. We have a new RSS feed now.

So if you're hearing this, you've probably figured that out. Yes. Yes. There was the, there's a problem with the switch over. We can't do redirects with it, but we do the iTunes new feed tag, which has the new one in it and the old one. And it should have, if you're using a modern pod catcher, uh, pulled it up. But if you just subscribe to the old feed, yes, things are broken and you are probably not hearing this unless you're listening to it on our website at grumpy old geeks.com.

But I will be putting up a note in the old feed today. Yeah. Everything. Uh, yeah, we're, we're pretty much done with the switch over. So this sort of stuff won't be happening anymore in theory. Yes. And fizz hog, right? Uh, okay. That was funny. Grand pricks and sake. I'm going to Patriot on you. Is that a verb is for me?

Yes, it is. It is. So thank you very much. And I'm glad you enjoyed the little story. Um, and then at grumpy old geeks.com, Daniel wrote in to say, hi, the podcast feed, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yes. So same thing. Thanks, Daniel. Uh, hopefully you found our new feed and it's all fixed. And, uh, then we got a comment from panfilius.

Great show guys. Keep up the awesomely grumpy work. A few things. One, thank you for the PIA VPN advice. Really useful. I'm loving it. Number two, I just made my change to one password. Thanks to you guys. Hey, Jason, another one. Another one. Uh, I'm not sure, but am I your first Android user with one password?

I can already hear your rants on Android. I think we covered that earlier. Hey man, as long as you're using one password, you can use it on a BlackBerry if it'll. Yeah. I wonder if it does. No. Okay. Uh, number three, have you heard anything regarding eSIMs? I read they will be slash are the end of physical SIM cards.

Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks again. If I could give, if I could, I would give you five stars on iTunes. Again, I'm on an Android. Can't you do that through your desktop? Yes, you can. So you can give us five stars. Anybody can give us five stars on iTunes. Anybody with Mac PC. I even think Linux might even support iTunes nowadays, but.

Uh, eSIMs. Uh, I've got one sitting next to my eVape. Okay. No, I'm kidding. I have not heard of eSIMs. I haven't either. Yeah. So I'll, I'll take a look into this. Um, we'll talk about it maybe a bit next week. Okay. Uh, Seth, Seth, Nicholas Stevens.

I'm getting my blittlers on. Uh, y'all are going to love this one. Why didn't one of you think of this? Dutch police are training eagles to capture drones. And this is, uh, an article that's been passing around. And, uh, I saw it before he sent it in and Chen sent it in too. And a couple other people sent it to us. It's interesting.

They're using a bald eagle to capture drones. I'm just, I'm personally, I would possibly go wrong when you send a bird after something that has rapidly spinning propellers. Exactly. That's the problem I had with it. It's like, I would not, I would never put an animal in danger to get a drone when I can just get a couple of cans of silly string and a t-shirt cannon and boom, take it down.

Um, yeah, it's an interesting concept, but I also think it's a very irresponsible concept for the animal. I agree. Yeah. So if, uh, you want to comment or send something to us or tell me I'm an idiot because of my opinions on Trump, you can find us on Twitter at GOG podcast or at Patreon at patreon.com slash GOG.

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And it'll take you right there. At the library. I'm still working my way through the final Ian Tregellis book of the milkweed series, but, um, I took some time to go check out a new bunch of audio books from Tim Ferriss, of all people.

It's called the Tao of Seneca. It's like 30 some odd hours of audio books, right? It goes through all the letters and all the other stuff. Uh, I actually worked on this and I did the audio editing for his intros and outros and stuff like that. There was a problem with the original audio book.

I, that was not me. So if you bought this thing and you're listening to, uh, on the shortness of life, the first letter and the first volume, and it's all jacked up, that was not me, but they're fixing it. Uh, otherwise it's really nice to finally have these in audio format. Nobody's ever put Seneca into audio before with, with all the letters and we finally have it.

So it's pretty cool. I recommend checking it out. Okay. I'm just a, I'm a Seneca nerd. So yes, I know. I remember. Um, I actually, I might actually listen to that. I think it'd be interesting. Uh, I was not able to get through it, just reading it. So this might be my, uh, my, my agreement with you about audible audio books for once.

Seneca is a gateway. Listen, okay. We'll see. So you've been talking about Charles Strauss and the laundry files for a while, and I was supposed to actually go ahead and start to read that. But, uh, somebody, I think we missed a comment somewhere cause, uh, somebody wrote in and, uh, said, uh, he was curious about our opinion on glass house by Charles Strauss.

So I've started to read that and I'm only about halfway through so far, but, uh, I'm really enjoying this. It's, it's pretty cool. Um, I'm, I'm hoping that, uh, it'll continue in the direction that I think it's going to go. And if so, I definitely liked the way he writes as well. So I'm definitely going to read the laundry files after this, but, uh, this is a great book and it's a really interesting because it's, it's way future looking towards the past being our current time and how they perceive the way that we're living right now, which is awesome.

It's a mind blower. Okay, cool. Yeah. I'm looking at it on Amazon right now. I can buy it for $8 on Kindle or I can buy it for 77 cents used. Or even a hardcover for one cent. One cent. Yes. Uh, so this is, or I could go to audible and get it for $22 and four cents.

Yeah. The pricing is all over the map on this. It's kind of insane. See, this is Amazon. Well, this is, this is the way it goes with the use stuff. Every, I mean, there are a ton of these things for one cent. Yeah. And for $4 in shipping. Yeah. So you can get the hardcover for basically cheaper than the Kindle.

Does that make any sense at all? It's funny because these are all old library books. Yeah. That's crazy. So these people are going and buying library overstock and then reselling them on Amazon. Yeah. Crafty. For one cent. I don't exactly think it's breaking the bank here.

It costs 77 cents to ship a book through media mail. So they're making a couple of bucks on it. Don't let that $3.99. Again, I don't think that you're going to be retiring on an island anytime soon. Yeah. In bulk, man. If you buy a library, that's a lot of books. Yeah. That assumes people are going to buy these hardcovers.

This is something I didn't see coming. Depth sensing cameras. Right. They're going to be in smartphones coming soon, which is going to be really interesting. I've seen some mock-ups of the iPhone 7 with the dual cameras on it.

I don't know what's going on with any of the other ones. But yeah, I mean, we've got depth sensing cameras with things like the Kinect and stuff like that. But if we can start getting these things into smartphones, it's going to open up, as they say, a whole new frontier. Right. Yeah.

Okay. I don't know. I mean, yeah, of course, there's definite uses for it. And as we move into more and more of a VR-type-y world, according to Oculus Rift and everyone else, apparently, this will be pretty cool and pretty interesting. It just always makes me think of Blade Runner.

Like, that scene just always stuck out. When I think Blade Runner in my head, I see Harrison Ford, like, zooming into a photo and going around a corner to find something. Well, the thing is, I don't think that was anything to have to do with depth sensing. I think that was him, like, doing voice control on Photoshop. Well, you know.

That's all it was. It's like, okay, pan, right, zoom, sharpen, unsharp mask, 70%. Okay, zoom again. Now that I've got a camera that's, like, a 36-megapixel camera, it puts that scene in Blade Runner to shame. Well, it was quite a long time ago, Jason. It was, but that is one of the most memorable scenes, for sure.

Yes, definitely. And I found this post on Boing Boing, speaking of enhancing photos, which is awesome. It's how to remove all tourists from your travel photos. You take a bunch of photos, you put your camera on a tripod, take a bunch of, you know, pictures of the same scene.

That'll give you a baseline of places where people aren't. Yeah. Then you go into Photoshop, you go to File, Scripts, Statistics, and select Median, and it will just remove everything that doesn't appear in every photo. That is beyond cool. Is that not the coolest damn thing? I cannot wait to try it.

I had no idea you could do that. I totally want to just try that, too, like, for no reason whatsoever. I know. I want to go take a picture of downtown LA, like the 101, you know, how do you have those, like, you know, post-apocalyptic dystopian freeway scenes where there's no cars? Yeah. That's probably how they do it, like that type of thing.

So I just want to sit there over the 101 and just take, like, a couple hundred pictures, shove them in there, and see if I can get a good rendering of it, because that would be cool. It would be very cool. I had no idea that was even possible. And it's super simple. Yeah. And I found this one, which is actually a really good tip if you have an iPhone. It's from a hospital employee.

Hospital employee shares iPhone tip that can save your life in an emergency. And this is something I actually didn't know. If you go into the health app in, you know, in your Apple shit folder that everybody has where they shove all the stuff that Apple puts on their phone that they never want to look at again. Yeah. Go dig in that folder and find the health app, and you can put in your medical ID information that people can get to if you're, like, hit by a car and they can't unlock your phone.

Yep. And that will give them – you can get blood type. You can get all sorts of different things. But the one for me that's most important is emergency contact info. Like, who are you going to call? You know, ain't Ghostbusters. Unless I'm dead, then who cares? But if I'm still alive, you want to be able to get somebody's info, and then you just go to the emergency screen, hit, you know, the medical ID info, and boom, you're done.

Yeah. So I recommend everybody do this. Actually, I did do this when they first launched the health app, and I wanted to check it out to see, you know, if it was actually going to be useful. Spoiler, not. It's not. But I did fill out all this stuff. Everybody should definitely do this.

And I guess there's an app called ICE in case of emergency for Android. So we're paying attention to you Android users. Get that. Do it. Put it in. This makes total sense. Now, I'm going to put my tinfoil hat back on here for a second. Oh, God. Now you're going to ruin it.

I am going to ruin it. If somebody finds your phone, they can go to that and then find out who your contacts are because you can just get right to that. You don't have to. That is information that is publicly accessible on your phone. Yes. So from anybody.

You don't have to log in or get to it. So if you're super paranoid, don't put in the phone number of somebody who is like a celebrity. Oh, I'm going. Oh, my contact is Justin Bieber. Whee! Or you could basically put in your contact information is Justin Bieber and have it as the phone number of the local police if you're trying to prank somebody.

I don't know. You can have fun with it or you can just like not worry about it and put in your dad's phone number in case you get hit by a car. I'd go ahead and not worry about it, people. We'll be right back. Enjoy a word from our sponsors.

Media Candy. Brian? Yes? Do you still want to believe? I do. I do. I actually enjoyed it. I'm not going to lie. I mean, it's not perfect. Gillian Anderson's face doesn't move. Duchovny doesn't seem to remember what Fox Mulder's character is.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So which episode are you up to? Have you seen all three? I've seen all three. Okay. The first two, meh. This is the X-Files formula. The super serious, the, you know, everybody's going to take over the world.

The aliens are coming, blah, blah, blah. Conspiracy theory. And then you get to the third one, which is just the silly fun episodes, which are my favorite. Yeah, I totally forgot how silly the X-Files could be. And that was such a good throwback. And it was great. It was a great episode.

I really, really did enjoy it. Yeah. I think out of all of the X-Files that did the silly episodes, honestly, they did such a good job with this one. This, this trumps the other ones. And it made me just go like, oh man, they're not going to be back again. This is just a mini series. Damn. Yeah, that's probably going to be the only silly episode because if they are going to pay attention to this arc, they've only got three more episodes.

Exactly. Unless they're going to leave us on a cliffhanger. You know, it's, it's fine. Is it great? No. Is it nostalgia? Yes. So I'm enjoying it. Yeah. I'm enjoying it. Yeah. That's, that's the thing. It's just like, oh, I don't care if it's bad.

It's just fun. But episode three was not bad. It was amazing. It was, it was funny and yeah, it was good times. I really did enjoy it. Yes. I've also been watching Billions. I love Billions. I have not watched it. You have to watch Billions. I think it is just as good as House of Cards.

Well, let me, let me clarify. The first, the first two seasons of House of Cards. It is just as good as the first two seasons, if not better than House of Cards. Yes. House of Cards now. Well, that's a very low bar. I haven't finished that last season of House of Cards.

I totally gave up on it. I finished it and it's coming back. I will go through it. And then they're doing another season after this coming season. And I guess the showrunner's leaving. So who knows? I don't know. All right. So what is, what is Billions? I see it's the guy that was on the first season of Homeland.

It's Damien Lewis, who was in Band of Brothers and Homeland. Right. Love him. Paul Giamatti. Okay. Can't go wrong with him. Yep. Except that one really terrible movie about the wine that everybody loved. I like that. I hated that movie. It was a great movie. You're such a, you're a crook engine.

Yeah. He was so good in John Adams though. Um, and a bunch of other people. I can't even, there's so, there's, it's got an amazing cast hands down. And Damien Lewis is just awesome in it, uh, for a Brit playing an American. Okay. So you have to watch it. It's about, uh, government agencies going after corrupt hedge hedge fund managers.

Oh, okay. Topical. Very much so. I will give it a go. Why not? I don't have show time anymore. So hello, Sweden. Or you can get the show time on demand app. Oh, I could. Yes. And they do believe they have a trial. Hmm. Wonder what you can do with that. Hey. Anyway, speaking of, uh, Americans and Brits, uh, cross contaminating.

Shows I will not be watching. Matt LeBlanc joins the British version of Top Gear. Um, okay. Yep. All right. Okay. Cause yeah. Mm-hmm. Wow. They're killing that show fast. Well, here's the thing. It's dead right now.

There's no show to kill. So we have to see if they can revive it. Yeah. When, uh, when are we getting the real Top Gear back on Amazon? Very soon. And it's not Top Gear. I forget the name, but they've got a pretty substantial cast and they're filming. So it's coming soon. Yep. Can't wait. It's going to be this year.

I think it's this summer. Good. Good. I will not, uh, I don't even think I'm going to watch the first episode of the, the Top Gear reboot with Matt LeBlanc. It's not worth going to Sweden for it. That's for sure. Oh, definitely not. But it's going to be on BBC America, which I do have, and I don't have to go to Sweden for. Oh. We'll see.

Uh, Serial, the podcast that was going to say podcasting, but then nobody cared about the second season. Right. Yeah. Well, I think they realized that because, uh, they're going back and revisiting season one in a short 15 minute episodes because, uh, the main guy, Aidan, uh, is having a, basically opened up a new trial to basically try to get a retrial.

And, uh, so because nobody's paying attention to season number two, they are redoing season number one. They're not redoing season number one. They're just talking about the court case. Cause she's in court every day. Is there, she's recapping the court case, but they're not talking that much about season one. Yeah. Well, we'll see. I have a feeling that that segment's going to grow and grow and grow.

But I'm fine with it. I actually listened to it and I'm engaged. I really love the first season. So I I'm totally into hearing about this again. See, I'm actually enjoying season number two more than I am season number one. I have not been able to get into season number two. And I just even hearing the music from season number one got me all.

Ooh. Yeah. It was interesting to hear that back again. But yeah, I mean, I, I have so many other podcasts that I listened to that are so much better than cereal. It's just. Oh, I know. It's the NPRification of podcasting. We talk about that a lot. So, but, uh, I, you know, it's just interesting that they're going back to, to cover it again because, you know, people are paying attention.

Yeah. Yeah. Mail, mail camp. In the most depressing video that you'll see all week, uh, a political student group at Texas tech university released a video named politically challenged in which they walked around the campus and asked very, very basic questions about our political system and our U S history.

And people couldn't answer them. Well, don't they do this on Jimmy Kimmel like every day? Yeah. But that, you know, that's not on a college campus. This is just depressing. What's the difference between a college campus and the main street of Hollywood? I mean, people are stupid everywhere.

It doesn't matter where you go. And it's also, you can craft any video to make it what you want. Yes. I understand. It's self-selecting sample, but still you should not be in college. If you don't even know what the civil war was, you know, I can't, I, I understand it.

We were taught history. These kids nowadays, they just, it doesn't matter to them. They don't care about what happened before. And as we know what happened before will happen again. So we'll have another civil war. And then they'll be like, Oh wait, we did this before. They're like, Oh crap. You know, it's just the way the world turns.

I just can't get upset by it anymore. We are absolutely doomed. No, we're not. People have been stupid far longer than we've been alive and we're still here. So when you went to college and you walked around campus, everybody knew what the damn civil war was. I don't know, man. Honestly, I don't know.

You did not see the people at my college. I went to a community college in suburban Chicago. So there were a lot of people doing a lot of pot. Let's talk about more happy things like Susan Sarandon's breasts. Boobs. Yes. At the SAG Awards. Oh, bad, bad, bad pun.

What? The Screen Actors Guild Awards. They're called the SAG Awards. I'm not even making a pun. Anyways, she showed up wearing a very low cut kind of jacket thing with a black bra and her breasts were on full display. They're fantastic. Of course they are. She's Susan Sarandon. I know.

They're absolutely fantastic. But apparently this upset a lot of people, particularly Piers Morgan, who, would not shut up about it on Twitter and calling her tacky because she wore this to do the immorandum segment at the SAG Awards because who gives a fuck? Who gives a fuck about Piers Morgan, period?

Exactly. So he wouldn't let go of it. A lot of people were freaking out about it. I say good on you, Susan Sarandon. And she actually tweeted the best response ever, a shot of her from a Rocky Horror Picture Show. There you go. So good on you, Susan Sarandon. And you look absolutely fantastic. She looks fabulous.

The web's not dead. Oh, no, it's not. My favorite find on the internet this week and possibly ever, this is something Gary can't love, won't love, americabutbetter.com.

The Canada Party, I believe I finally made my political decision. I am voting Canada for president. They actually are putting out a book, America But Better, the Canada Party Manifesto, an intervention from your continental BFFs. It's very funny. But all you really need to see, and you do need to see it, is the main video on the homepage.

It is fantastic. I'm dying, dying laughing. That was amazing. I just got to say, that was utterly amazing. Just, uh, what the fuck? America? What? His delivery was perfect. Yeah, it is. It is perfect.

And, you know, the clothing, the moose and the sweater is so good. Gotta watch it. It's in our show notes or just go to America. lovebutbetter.com. Are you kidding me?

Love it! Uh, more depressing links, uh, in our show notes. This first one is an excerpt. Brian, Brian, Brian, we told them last week that we were going to end on a high note. What are you doing? We're not done yet. Okay, okay. We're, we're dipping down first. Okay.

And then we'll triumphantly rise. Like the phoenix of podcasting. Something like that. Yes. Uh, so this is an excerpt from a book, Bread, Wine, Chocolate, The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, which is something I definitely want to read. Uh, this goes in depth into how we're basically the, the, you know, mass market, the grocery stores, the shopping, et cetera, are, we're breeding out of existence, uh, really delicious varieties of different things and only keeping the ones that, uh, basically travel the best or look good.

Uh, which is sad. Did you know that there were over 1,000 varieties of bananas? Uh, no, I did not. All of which have slightly different flavors, different tastes, et cetera. Uh, the one that we keep in the grocery store is basically one type and it's usually, it doesn't actually taste the best.

Uh, there are six kinds of apples that you traditionally see in a grocery store, even though there are now over 7,500 different varieties of apples grown all over the world. Well, that sounds like we're doing okay. Then we've got thousands of different types of bananas, thousands of different types of apples. Where's the, but we can't get to them.

We can get to anything. Okay. Yeah. We'll just, we'll have to go. Let's see if we can get, uh, uh, 500 different types of bananas off Amazon. Okay. See how that's going to work. See, the drones, we'll have banana drones. It's a very interesting story and I would recommend reading it.

And I would like to find this delicious banana. I'm telling you the rise of the banana drone will be something we will talk about in a couple of years. Okay. The banana drones. Ooh, title. And then the other thing that's doing the rounds as of today, uh, is this ancient Greek? Okay.

This is a Beckenridge's lot. What is it? I believe it's Breckenridge's. Breckenridge's law, except they even answered it in the title. Is this ancient Greek statue proof someone took a laptop back in time, parenthesis, or is it just a tablet and parenthesis?

It's a tablet. Okay. It's a, it's a guy. Go look at it. And I'm sorry. It is better. It is not Breckenridge's. I knew that was because we had, we had Beckham on the brain, but it's, it's better. It's better. It is law. So it's a photo from a statue and somebody is holding something that looks, kind of like a laptop with USB ports.

If you're stupid and you've never heard of the civil war. Okay. It's the, okay. Nice sculpture though. Yeah. See, ended on a high note. Closing shout outs. And now I'll bring us back down again.

Last week I talked about my friend Stacy who lost her battle with cancer. There is an Indiegogo set up off of generosity.com. There's a link in the show notes. This was when she was originally battling cancer. So it looks like it's funded, but they've kept it open. And now it's for her two twins to help out because she has passed away.

So if you can spare, like, don't get your double decaf cap with a twist of whatever, save five bucks and send her five bucks. If you could do that, you would be awesome. And I would like you forever. All right. Sounds good. All right. So yeah. Happy.

Bring the happy, bring the happy Jason. I've got a puppy. Okay. No. Yes. I've got a puppy. That's the only happy I've got. So yeah. I don't have much either, except I'm going to Hawaii next week. So aloha, aloha. Oh, you poor guy, poor guy.

So we'll be doing this in, uh, Hawaii time. I will be sipping on a Mai Tai and, uh, doing the podcast from Hawaii next week. So, uh, okay. Well, maybe we can, we can plan this so we can both have a Mai Tai and go back to the old days. Excellent.

Yeah. We could do a little drinking episode. Awesome. Yeah. So these early morning ones don't really work with, uh, with that, that, that causes problems and, and people in white coats to come take you away. Yes. Yes. The early morning drinking is dead is frowned upon. Um, but, uh, speaking of the puppy, if you would like to go check out, uh, the progress, go to life with bam, bam.com.

There are four posts up there now, because I find that trying to do a blog, have a full time job and a podcast on the side with a puppy doesn't really leave you a whole lot of time. So I've just been taking pictures and putting them up, but I'm just saying friend of the show, Dr. David Teeter, and I have been exchanging emails about the lack of updates.

Well, okay. I'm glad you guys are taking your time to go right about me with your update. Uh, whatever. I don't care. Uh, the, the puppy is doing well. She's about 35 pounds in 13 weeks. All right. But healthy as a horse and about the size of a small one at this point.

So I'm going to go take her out to pee right now. I'm going to take me to pee. And so on that note, thanks for listening. I'm Jason DeFilippo, and you can check me out at jpd.me and lifewithbambam.com. And I'm Brian Schulmeister with an I, and you can follow me on Twitter at Slender Fungus and tell me that I'm wrong about things.

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