The Geeks are back with stories from Self-driving cars to Facebook, Facebook, and Facebook.

Interview 2.0 with Michael Lopp (@rands), VP of Engineering at Slack. We chat about the dangers of Performance Management, Speaking Last, the Builder's High, Front Page of Reddit, Biking Inspiration, Sharing Your Things, Phone Home Screen, some useful apps: 1Password, DarkSky & Wonderground, Strava, Bear App, MarkDown.

Then we get into some Email vs Slack, Slack Tricks and thoughts on Slack for Social and as a knowledge base.

Finally-Spoilers: Last Jedi & Blade Runner

Fellow software engineer Kyle Bahr joins me for a good metaphoric description of Block Chain Tech. Why does Bitcoin burn so much power and are all crypto currencies like that? Also a look at what other neat things are being done using bitcoin technology. And how smart contracts work. Learn a bit about initial coin offerings (ICO) and get a good general understanding of crypto currencies without any math nor too many complex terms.

This week's episode is dedicated to John Perry Barlow; Writer, Lyricist, and Internet Freedom pioneer.

On the show we look into Google Chrome's move to label unsecured sites, Verizon's trouble with phone thefts, and speak in depth on cryptocurrencies.

Days after the launch of the world's smallest orbital rocket SpaceX is set to launch a Tesla Roadster into space. Meanwhile, Strava has accidentally mapped out secret bases around the world, and the Slomo Guys demonstrated the differences in TV technology at 380,000 frames per second.

Snap Inc. may need to change it's culture, Nvidia suggests limiting purchases of their high demand cards, Amazon Go, tech shuttles under attack, copyright static, some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown, and a bit more geek news from Lyle and Miles.

We have been talking about the problems with Twitter, Facebook, and social media throughout the last year. Our guest has too, and he's trying to do something about it. Manton Reece, talks about Micro.blog, the technology it is built on, and how he is being thoughtful about building something new.

I interview Nate Walkingshaw the Chief Experience Officer of Pluralsight an online developer skills site. We chat about his buisness and product advice and dance around the themes of his new book Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

Can you hear the difference between a human voice and a computer's? Maybe not.

It turns out that the infamous Nigerian Prince actually lives in Louisiana, and that Facebook's Hate speech policies don't work. How should we interact with our tech? And what is the truth about Apple's iPhone battery?

Join the geeks for these stories, and many more, on this week's Geek Speak.

The trailer for the movie of Ready Player one was just released and it got us quite excited. The book is amazing.. here is my interview with Ernest Cline about 1980s nostalgia first broadcast with the release of the his book Ready Player One in August of 2011.