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Grumpy Old Geeks

117: The Rental Economy

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

You own NOTHING & double billed for it. Beats headphones suck, does Beats/iTunes mashup Apple Music? Facial recognition faux-pas. Uber ups & downs. Facebook wants to stream, too! Robot uprisings, cable cuttings, corporate sponsored documentaries, oh my! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/117 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'm the old geeks.

0:05.7

A weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points

0:12.6

of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:17.8

How's it going Jason?

0:20.0

Always peachy keen, peachy keen out here in the valley.

0:24.0

Ooh the valley of despair.

0:25.4

Yes it is.

0:26.4

Yeah, so here we are.

0:28.3

We're recording it daily because we got the holiday coming up and I'm getting the hell out

0:32.0

of town for once to enjoy not being in town.

0:35.2

Well, it is a holiday.

0:36.6

You're allowed to go on a vacation every now and again.

0:38.6

I am sweet.

0:39.6

Good to know.

0:40.6

I'll let you go this time.

0:42.3

Yeah, I don't know if my job is going to is aware of that situation because things blew

0:46.1

up a little bit this week.

0:47.3

So it's been a lot of fun.

0:48.4

But I'm also this is one of this, I guess I am going to talk a little bit about work.

0:52.2

I wasn't sure if I was going to, but I'm experiencing the strange thing because for the

0:56.5

last 20 years now you Jason, you've been an independent contractor, but you've also worked

1:00.4

full time for people over this period of time.

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