This week the geeks wade through the wreckage of modern tech, from the Tesla Diner's instant failure and the disastrous GPT-5 launch that created an army of digital mourners; they mock the billionaire class for building apocalypse bunkers while their AIs feud over who is more full of it; they pour one out for the end of AOL Dial-Up's iconic screech; and find solace in analog escapes like a thousand-dollar Lego Death Star and premium Star Wars playing cards, fully embracing their new Grumpy Old Gardener identities.

On this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks: AI takes over everything from driving to therapy to music, often with hilarious and alarming results; big tech shuffles the deck with layoffs and questionable product choices; and we dive into some media and apps that might actually be worth your time.

Jason and Dave Bittner dive into a chaotic week of digital disasters and generational despair; from Gen X angst and Tom Lehrer tributes to dating app doxxings, AI-trained-on-porn scandals, and Tesla-fueled neighborhood nightmares; it’s a snark-filled sprint through cyber screwups, social absurdities, and furry-adjacent federal failings.

This week, the Grumpy Old Geeks cover Elon Musk's absurd diner and "disadvantaged" multi-billion dollar startup; the worsening AI bubble, complete with hallucinated features and faked medical studies; the latest in crypto scams and misguided legislation; a media roundup including "Spinal Tap" in 4K and AI-generated songs on Spotify; and somber closing shout-outs to several recently departed celebrities.

This week, the Geeks dive into the AI dumpster fire as Nvidia's CEO admits his fear, Elon Musk aims for a cosmic religion, and Elmo's X account gets hacked. They also cover Tesla's desperate sales tactics, Jack Dorsey's bizarre new app, and the surprisingly decent new trailers for 'Mortal Kombat II' and 'Tron: Ares'.

This week, the infamous Fyre Fest dumpster fire continues as Billy McFarland hawks the brand's remains on eBay. We dive into the latest AI-powered chaos, from Tesla's self-crashing robotaxis to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot going full Nazi—which is, of course, being immediately installed in Teslas. Plus, we explore how you can hack McDonald's with the password ‘123456’. But it's not all doom and gloom; we also celebrate the return of Murderbot, check out trailers for Neuromancer and The Running Man, and review the fantastic new documentaries on Jim Henson and The Beach Boys. We then go hands-on with the latest iPhone game emulators, turning our phones into the ultimate retro gaming machines. Finally, we build a fully functional web app in just two hours using AI-assisted coding... and realize just how utterly screwed the next generation of developers really is.

ICE raids and FuckLAPD.com highlight America’s surveillance circus; a Norwegian tourist gets booted over a JD Vance meme; Big Balls lands at Social Security; Tesla robotaxis need adult supervision; judges can’t decide if AI training is fair use or just theft; YouTube debuts an AI Slop button; Russell Crowe joins Highlander while Bourdain Day becomes a thing he’d hate; Windows finally kills the Blue Screen of Death; and Dave Bittner drops by to nerd out on malware, retro consoles, and Star Wars cartography.

Trump punts the TikTok ban again; Tesla mows down dummies and dumps Cybertrucks like yard sale junk; AI kills jobs, fries budgets, and melts brains; Microsoft and Wikipedia pump the brakes; Altman wants your electricity; crypto kidnappers bail on a broke influencer; bankruptcy spikes in the Bay; the internet swears with style; Liam Neeson makes the Naked Gun reboot awesome; and Dr. Demento exits stage left after 55 bizarre years.

We light a candle for legends and torch bad takes; Molly White says truth still matters as apathy and flaming Waymos rise; “No Kings” protests erupt while Elon licks Trump’s boots; Uber reinvents the worse bus, Tesla delays again, and Meta builds Skynet-lite; Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, Shopify goes full stablecoin, and Trump launches a chatbot because of course he does; Foundation returns, Spaceballs gets a sequel, and Zaslav continues his slow collapse; finally, we salute the fallen—Sly, Brian, Ananda, Douglas, and Bill—Grumpy style.

Elon and Trump’s feud torches billions while launching a sketchy crypto wallet; DOGE fires someone for praising government efficiency; Ukraine weaponizes open source code in a drone blitz; U.S. states fumble social media laws; Tesla hides crash data; AI tells addicts to try meth and hires fake employees; Hollywood secretly uses AI like unpaid interns; Downton ends, Foundation still sucks, Garbage is oddly hopeful, and yes—we discuss Jawa anatomy and antique-hunting with Amy Sedaris.

AI asks if it’s 2025 and proves it’s not; Facebook’s violence spikes after policy changes; Trump Media dives into Bitcoin and DJT dives with it; Texas wants teens off social media; Germany eyes a Big Tech tax; Anthropic adds web search and Netflix’s Reed Hastings; crypto kidnapping drama unfolds in NYC; MTG fights Grok over God; Elon and Telegram go halfsies on $300M; Opera Neon gets weird, WhatsApp hits iPad, and Apple skips to iOS 26; Billy Joel cancels, Wheel of Time gets axed, and the CIA ran a Star Wars fan site.

Elon Musk melts down mid-interview and calls the reporter an NPC; 23andMe auctions off your DNA to Regeneron; Coinbase insiders leak customer data; OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s studio while planning spy-wearables; Klarna flip-flops on AI and humans while using a CEO avatar; AI tools blackmail devs, write fake news, and dump billions of Discord messages; Tesla’s “self-driving” gets geofenced; Notepad writes for you now; Dave Bittner reviews digital monsters and theme parks; and we say goodbye to Norm from Cheers.

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: Trump hawks crypto for $2 million a plate; Elon tunnels into taxpayer wallets; NFTs get nonprofit’d into irrelevance; Microsoft axes more staff while Metaverse washouts DoorDash from trailers; Klarna backpedals on AI; the Pope targets robots; Elon’s Copyright coup crashes; YouTube bans fake trailers; Jamie Lee Curtis slashes at Zuck; Tesla implodes again; the universe might peace out early; Murderbot lands May 16; NIN spawns a new fest; Star franchises get nostalgic; Jessica Jones and Nobody return; Dave’s customer support tales go full Kafka; and yes, there’s a haunted Mickey, cat toilets, and birthday botched florals—because reality is optional now.

Crypto bros drain Kuwait’s grid; Celsius founder lands 12 years; Apple ethics on trial; DoorDash devours Deliveroo; Google gives Gemini to tweens; Tesla’s “Robotaxi” is too basic; Grok goes streaking; AI ghosts your grandma; dating app leaks like it’s 2003; Squid Game returns; Theron duels Thurman; Netflix pretends to help; Disney sells sassless bots; and Bittner exposes KISS’s lipsync sin, all in your weekly dose of dystopia and digital dumpster fires.

On this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks: Staingate delamination gets messy; Trump’s meme coin gets government domains; Elon wears two hats to a Trump meeting; DOGE hands housing laws to AI; MoviePass launches crypto box office bets; 4chan limps back online; Meta’s bots get creepy; AI rewrites 30% of Microsoft’s code; Pinterest fights AI slop it helped create; Epic scores a win over Apple; and Lyft wants to take grandma’s keys.

Fyre Festival reboots as a music app; Amazon and Microsoft hit pause on AI infrastructure; Google’s AI hallucinates confidently; Kevin Roose wants us to feel bad for Skynet Jr.; OpenAI wants Chrome despite being broke; Perplexity brags about stalking your browser; Meta axes more VR staff while faking human rights concern; Uber gets sued for canceling like a cult; Adam Neumann cons investors (again); sperm racing becomes crypto sport; Bluesky sells out to the blue check; Affinity claps back at Adobe; Wheel of Time RPG is coming—eventually; Wednesday gets another season; and on The Dark Side, we rage about Andor, bad scripts, arcade nostalgia, and color memory, while Altman sobs over AI’s manners budget.

Fyre Fest 2 is postponed again; Automattic’s leak-hunting watermarks creep everyone out; Katy Perry’s space PR stunt flops harder than her last album; Elon Musk juggles baby mamas, GOP cash, and creepy DMs; DOGE may have swiped labor data; OpenAI wants to be a social network now; 4chan’s down for the count after a hack; Google loses an ad tech monopoly case; China cracks down on fake self-driving hype; Trump’s FCC chair wants NBC to act more like Fox News; the Pentagon’s tech team quits over Musk interference; Reality Labs sets $45 billion on fire; and AI agents are now just confidently wrong at scale.

On this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks: Fyre Fest’s con man promises a sequel; the IRS shares migrant tax info with ICE and promptly loses its commissioner; Microsoft lets OpenAI burn cash while plotting global domination; Musk’s DOGE spies on critics as Tesla tanks and Cybertrucks become trade-in rejects; the UK flirts with murder pre-crime; AI avatars show up in court; crypto fraud gets a hall pass; and Instagram still can’t make an iPad app—plus, AI dumbbells, sticker peelers, and Murderbot finally gets a trailer.

Protests erupt across the U.S. in a “Tesla Takedown” while Elon merges his AI and social media empires and dodges jet trackers alongside Taylor Swift; meanwhile, Signal faces government heat over military chat mishaps as OpenAI flexes AGI funding and ChatGPT users flood the internet with 700M freshly minted images. Trump tries to cash in on Truth Social, tanks his meme coin with tariff talk, and wages war on “information silos”—aka your privacy; the Moon may take one for the team with a near-miss asteroid, while a brain-to-voice implant hints at sci-fi becoming science fact. In media and gadgets, Apple teases AI doctors and iPads, Facebook attempts relevance with a friends-only feed, and Kermit the Frog somehow lands a graduation gig—because 2025 is weird.

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: Dunning-Kruger takes the spotlight, Elon’s approval sinks, TikTok tries to stay patriotic, 23andMe files for bankruptcy, and Napster rises again. Plus, AI, security chaos, and more!