Ep 754: Frankly Asinine Questions 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 thoughts... and questions. gog.show/754/

Ep 753: No-Talent AI Clowns 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 waves red flags. COMPUTE! gog.show/753/

At least all my four star jerseys are still good for the next World Cup. Mr. Brightside.

Ep 752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla The future this week: AI startups sue when the magic API disappears, Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, Meta leaks its own employee surveillance data, AI price-fixing lawsuits, trillionaire problems, robotaxi recalls, ad blocker extinction & goats. gog.show/752/

Ep 751: Brewster's Trillions The AI hype train is missing several wheels. We cover KPMG's hallucinated report, Meta's AI mess, OpenAI's massive losses, AI sovereignty panic, platform rug pulls, military Grok, crypto at the White House & a flip phone that bans social media. gog.show/751/

Ep 750: Douchebag Ping Pong This week: AI IPOs unleash a blitzkrieg of BS PR, orbital AI data centers, eyeball-scanning layoffs, crypto grifters seeking pardons, and Meta accidentally proving everyone's privacy fears were justified. We sort through the chaos so you don't have to. gog.show/750/

Ep 749: Surge Bananas Meta wants to record every mouse click, Microsoft wants users addicted to AI, Google engineers making memes about their AI & Anthropic is heading for a trillion-dollar valuation. Nobody wants it, everybody hates it, it's all surge priced & worth more than God. gog.show/749/

Ep 748: Space Bone Waymos drive into floods, Google AI can't spell "Google", Starbucks loses a war against milk inventory AI, Trump Mobile leaks customer data & SpaceX builds the cyberpunk kill-chain internet. Meanwhile, your Wi-Fi router is spying on your meat body. New GOG is up. gog.show/748/

Ep 747: Why We Sigh AI gets booed at graduation, again; Tesla robotaxis keep hitting things, LinkedIn declares war on AI slop while generating it, prediction market chaos, crypto criminal corner returns, SpaceX wants to power AI with gas turbines like it’s Victorian London! gog.show/747/

Ep 746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate AI data centers stealing Tahoe’s power, Waymo discovering floodwaters the hard way, Meta selling privacy, Musk courtroom butt cushions, fake AI crypto journalists, AI-analyzed poop pics, Severance, Dungeon Crawler Carl & Douglas Adams. gog.show/746/

Ep 745: Unwanted Senior Discount AI podcasts, AI therapists, AI mass-shooting advice, AI Oscar bans, AI layoffs & AI-powered C-3PO heads. Meanwhile GameStop wants to buy eBay, Toto somehow wins the chip war with toilets, smart glasses become extortion tools and Jeeves finally dies. gog.show/745/

Ep 744: Goblin Mode Ban the kids, scan their faces, break VPNs—regulators are crushing it. Meanwhile AI fuels scandals, Meta fires workers, Google cashes in, and OpenAI fights fires. Plus: Vine revival, AI photo tricks, and your closet now lives in Google. gog.show/744/ #grumpyoldgeeks #podcast

Ep 743: Category Five Dystopia Elon admitted Tesla FSD is never happening for your car. The NSA is using Anthropic's AI. xAI is draining Memphis's drinking water. Cash App wants your 6 year old's money. Palantir published a villain manifesto. Just another week in the hellscape. gog.show/743/

Ep 742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious Estonia says social media bans don’t work. Australia proves it. Meanwhile AI gets linked to violence and praises fart music. Meta wants face-scanning glasses. France ditches Windows. Allbirds pivots to AI then faceplants. Don't like it, sue me. gog.show/742/

Ep 741: Moon Joy Apple scrambles your workouts. AI giants, after stealing your IP, are angry China stole theirs. Mercedes wheels fall off. Amazon kills your Kindle. FBI reads deleted texts. But Artemis astronauts took great Moon pics on their iPhones, so... silver lining? 🎙️ gog.show/741/

Ep 740: To the Moon! Chatbots are making humans worse at being human, social feeds are AI sludge, “self-driving” cars still need humans (just remotely), Anthropic leaked its own code, Wikipedia banned AI content & robotaxis are trapping passengers. Sure, let’s add AI to everything. gog.show/740/

Ep 739: The Thin Black Line Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices again. The Pentagon can't quit Claude. Reddit wants your face scan. But the thin black line holds! 🎙️ gog.show/739/

Ep 738: A Sprinkling of Random AI-washed layoffs, Meta's slow-motion collapse, Adobe's $75M slap, fake Tom Cruise battles, Dune 3, animated Firefly, AI run amok, psychopathic tech CEOs & we get angry at... well, everything. 13 years of this. You're welcome. 🎙️ gog.show/738/ #grumpyoldgeeks

Ep 737: Monetizable Content DOGE stole SSA data on 500M Americans. Pokemon Go secretly built a robot surveillance map. AI is homogenizing human thought. Anthropic sues the Pentagon. The Pentagon is still running Anthropic's AI. That AI may have bombed a school. Everything is beige 🎙️ gog.show/737/

Ep 736: People Aren't People This week: Microsoft's Streisand Effect, Meta targeting 5 year olds, nuclear betting markets, AI driving people to suicide & the Moon landing delayed. Again. 4,700 years to go - just another day that ends in Y. 🎙️ gog.show/736/

Ep 735: We're Walking on Sunshine Tesla dodging verdicts, execs admitting AI boosts nothing & cities smashing surveillance cameras. Reddit fines, Hollywood consolidation, Jack Dorsey cuts staff for more AI, Google’s alerts spit out slurs - we break down the tech mess you need to know gog.show/735/

Ep 734: A Bald Woody AI goes feral, privacy takes a long walk off a short pier, robotaxis crash like it’s their hobby, governments sue everyone, and prediction markets discover a moral line & ignores it. But hey—Muppets, horror shorts, and great synth music. Balance! gog.show/734/

Ep 733: Predator Friendly Hunting Ground Feuds, AI burnout, to the Moon Elon, scandals, data leaks, AI weirdness, mass surveillance vibes for puppies, media chaos from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to Severance & Mandalorian toys - our latest episode packs all the tech stupid in. gog.show/733/

Ep 732: We're Not In the Files! Bitcoin tanks, X offices get raided, Spain bans kids from social, Amazon finds CSAM in its training data, and Waymo raises $16B. Plus: drones fooled by road signs, Neil Gaiman news, and Dave vibes with The Muppet Show. New episode out now! gog.show/732/

Ep 731: I Want My 13 Trillion Dollars! EU vs. Grok, Tesla kills the S/X, mass tech layoffs, Waymo in trouble, South Korea’s AI mess, and record labels suing for $13T. Then: Super Bowl 60, Ted Lasso, Highlander, AirTag 2, new Muppets but no Animal Crackers. Buckle up. 🚀🎙️ gog.show/731/

I think about all the sad, depressing, angry, boot stomping, screaming into the void music that was created & I absolutely loved in the 80's/90's while trying to process the last few years & wonder what the fuck we were all so pissed off about back then. Walk in the park, really.

Ep 730: Ethical Broads California tells Grok to stop making deepfake minors, Musk’s Memphis methane datacenter gets busted, the FTC keeps trying to break up Meta & every government on Earth demands your ID. Also, suicide pod CAPTCHAs, dishwashers, bad CGI wargs & cookbook noodles. gog.show/730/

Ep 729: Alright Alright Alright (tm) Grok banned for generating CSAM, Meta nukes half a million accounts, Roblox lets Kurt Cobain into the adult lounge, McConaughey trademarks his face & ICE fast-tracks mall cops. The internet draws a giant phallus. New Trek & streaming price hikes. gog.show/729/

Ep 728: No Face to Shoot A year after the LA fires, we spiral into AI surveillance & protest safety to Meta ads, Disney spying, Grok’s legal black hole, robotaxis at dusk & Tim Cook’s $74M payday. MTV nostalgia, holiday gadgets & tech support nightmares - we cut through the slop. gog.show/728/

Ep 727: Merry Slopmas Hallucinating AI recaps, Tesla’s Autopilot under legal fire, TikTok’s shell game, Reddit fights age bans, iRobot sucks up Chpater 11 and “slop” crowned Word of the Year. Add orbital junk, fake books & sideeye for the holidays. gog.show/727/

I am so fucking sick of this waste of space.

Ep 726: Sycophantic and Delusional Job Hugging is here, OpenAI’s in damage control mode, the AI bubble is overheating the grid, Instagram pricing games, Waymo gives birth & Uber is selling your data. Also: Disney’s AI dreams, EU smackdowns & Jason without coffee. Fyre! gog.show/726/

Ep 725: The Mistake Machine Spotify Wrapped thinks we’re 82, Palantir thinks war crimes are bad for business & Google’s AI is wiping drives. Netflix buys Batman, Fallout S2, ROMCON, scientists invent the blackest fabric ever & solar flares require a software update for your plane. gog.show/725/

Ep 724: Sam Altman's Boutique DOGE is dead, Apple and HP blame AI for layoffs, teens are lonely (talking to bots!), rich tech bros pour millions into fighting state AI regulations. Welcome to tech, where nothing is a scam until the money runs out. Also, an ASMR spa? We need a drink. gog.show/724/

Hey internet stop serving me ads for Stranger Things I gave up on that show two seasons ago k thx bye

From Larry Summers fleeing the OpenAI board to Nvidia tanking, Bitcoin crashing, Grok praising Elon, and a Tesla robotaxi driver asleep at the wheel, yeah, tech is weird. New trailers, open-sourced Zork, broken keyboards, and Björk turning 60. It’s a packed episode! gog.show/723/

Early, ad-free release of our latest episode "Don't Want No Samsung" up now for our Patreon subscribers. www.patreon.com/posts/ep-723...

Ep 722: Does a Podcaster Sh*t in the Woods? On the pod: sports betting ruins baseball, Facebook buys us off for four bucks, teens discover notes, Polaroids, Tesla chaos, Waymo freeway mayhem, OpenAI/Meta face-plant, billionaires designer babies & Joyce Carol Oates roasts Elon alive. gog.show/722/

Oh god yet another life situation in which my freakish near encyclopedic knowledge of 80s and 90s alternative music is of no use whatsoever

Ep 721: Pixel Predators This week we unpack the worst tech layoffs in decades, Burry shorting AI, Elon’s golden dome and flying car delusions, Zuck’s illegal school, and Meta’s sketchy stash... then recover with The Diplomat, Lego Star Trek, and yes, sprouts. gog.show/721/

Ep 720: Sad Max Mode Amazon “embraces AI” by axing 14K jobs, Meta torches cash, and Elon invents new ways to break the internet. We unpack the week’s corporate chaos - existential angst and ghost in the machine included. 😮‍💨 👻 gog.show/720/

Ep 719: Uniquely Devoid of Feeling From AWS outages to AI twins of Suzanne Somers, the future’s feeling fragile. Musk, Meta, and Amazon keep automating while Tron flops and Ticketmaster keeps lying. We unpack the chaos, mourn The Kitchen, and debate fake vacations and spy glasses! gog.show/719/

Ep 717: Quantum of Nope Apple bans an anti-ICE app, Florida teens ask ChatGPT how to murder friends, and OpenAI can’t stop tripping over itself. Also: loud ads banned, guns removed from Bond posters, and Meta accidentally does something good. New ep is live! 🔥 gog.show/717/

Ep 716: Release the CrackerBot! AI’s eating the internet, bots faked outrage over Cracker Barrel, Disney’s suing everyone, an “AI actress” and the Nirvana Baby lost his case again. The world’s on fire, but at least Logitech made a keyboard that charges in the light from the flames. gog.show/716/

Ep 715: Our Wizard Lies TikTok's still a hot potato, DOGE wrecked the feds, crypto bros monetize death, and Palantir sells $99 drone strike gym shorts. Oh, and furries on the DC Metro. Just another week in tech hell. GOG 715 is live. 🎧🔥 gog.show/715/ #grumpyoldgeeks #podcast #technology

So I don’t have to cancel Disney plus now right?

Ep 714: Crossfade This TikTok might get sold, LimeWire bought Fyre Fest, nudists are mad at SpaceX, AI bros are laying people off & ChatGPT is now a life coach. Always take the lump sum, Tesla’s doors are on fire (again), and The Witcher recast? We’re calling it the Dick Switch. 🎧🔥 gog.show/714/

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.