Brumpy old geeks. A weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

to Phillip Hope discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet.

And who's to blame?

Hello, Jason. Good morning, Brian. How are you?

I'm doing all right. We are recording a day early, which was somewhat planned, because

you are traveling tomorrow. But as of yesterday, we had canceled the show, and I almost rejoiced

because we I would have had my first vacation from Grumpy old geeks in two years. But

here we are. You decided we're going to do what anyways. And it's going to be a bit of a

short one because basically I was like, you know, laying back, sipping a my tie, assuming

I wasn't going to have a show today. So why were we going to have a show today, Jason?

We weren't going to have a show today because there was almost no power in my house. And

actually, all day yesterday, there was literally no power in my house. They rewired half of

the damn place. And it, yeah, it was kind of a kind of a long crap, tacky, or day, I must

say.

Well, I was actually just at your house over the weekend because you invited me out to

your barbecue. And I'd like to say I have nothing to do with it. I did not do anything

to your house to try to get out of a show.

Now, I think that all comes down to a 1948 electrician, but also a bad breaker. So that's

why I'm now sitting in a sweat box on an exercise ball talking to you waiting for the electrician

again. So this is going to be, this is going to be very quick. So I think we should probably

get to it right out of the gate. Let's go straight into it. I have yet another article

about how the middle class is dying. Oh, okay. That's new. I like to beat this over people's

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