{"podcast":{"title":"Grumpy Old Geeks","slug":"grumpy-old-geeks-168050","podcast_index_feed_id":168050,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/grumpy-old-geeks-podcast","website_url":"https://gog.show/","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/bf/2a/76/62/bf2a7662-a9d2-49e0-8076-7a0401837a3d/5d83b63135090896adf3458bce3b5c113b6c59fb43aa7ca584e31c0ffc29bbb648102fea56468b037e13666746193fb6244c511cc9777c3c731ec4268f1bcf5b.jpeg","author":"Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner","episode_count":754,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:19:04.887938+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050"},"episode":{"title":"729: Alright Alright Alright™","slug":"729-alright-alright-alright","published_at":"2026-01-16T23:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/729-alright-alright-alright","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050","url":"https://gog.show/729","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/802/rss.art19.com/episodes/819696e5-dbca-4b06-bd31-072298ce33e9.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"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 Senate is unanimously passing the DEFIANCE Act to give us some legal teeth against the deepfake machine. Meta is busy nuking 550,000 Australian accounts to appease regulators, while Roblox’s age verification is so broken that a drawing of stubble or a photo of Kurt Cobain can get you into the adult lounge. Moving IN THE NEWS, Meta is trading its $70 billion Metaverse graveyard for a Reality Labs layoff and a pivot to AI hardware, fueled by an \"AI infrastructure\" buildout that’s hiring former Trump advisors. Bandcamp is heroically banning AI \"slop,\" Matthew McConaughey is trademarking his own face to fend off the bots, and ICE’s AI hiring tool is such a disaster it’s accidentally fast-tracking mall security as \"officers.\" Between self-help gurus charging $99 for chatbot \"advice,\" GM finally settling its driver-spying suit with the FTC, and NASA prepping for a February moon shot while China plans to launch 200,000 satellites into our already crowded orbit, the future looks exactly as messy as we expected. For MEDIA CANDY, we’ve got Lord of the Rings marathons, the diner-bridge of Starfleet Academy, and the usual joy of streaming price hikes hitting our \"Premium\" plans. We’re tracking the 2025 \"In Memoriam\" and Gabriel Pagan’s exhaustive movie list before sliding into APPS & DOODADS. Jony Ive and Sam Altman are reportedly building an hearing aide called \"Sweetpea\" to kill your AirPods, Siri is officially Google Gemini’s new puppet, and Apple is finally bundling its creative apps into a \"Creator Studio\" subscription trap. Tesla is making Full Self-Driving a subscription-on…","meta_description":"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 Indo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5065,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/episodes/729-alright-alright-alright/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grumpy-old-geeks-168050/729-alright-alright-alright.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}