Brumpiole Geeks. A weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo,

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

Morning Jason. Good morning sir. How are you today?

Well let's see. Typically my facial hair is a good bellweather of how my week is going.

If things are going well, I tend to stay clean, shaven. Right now my mountain man beard bristles

are brushing up against the microphone. See you've been a little busy. It's been a week.

I wouldn't say it's been a busy week. It's just been a frustrating week. It's one of

those ups and downs of being an independent contractor and working for oneself. So slow

patch. Now you say you're an independent contractor now, but you've had a job. Well, but

it's not a full time job. It's a bigger part of my overall thing. It's been say, I don't

know, 75 to 80% of my income and my work time this year, but yeah.

I see. I was confused. And there's an expiration date on this particular gig. So it's coming

up. So I'm starting to do the whole process of what am I going to do next?

Oh, this is the great time where you have to start shuffling up business before the

gig. You got to get tickets for the next train before the current train you're on pulls

into the station.

Precisely. So that's good times. Oh, yes. I always hated new business. It's the worst.

I hate it. I absolutely hate it. It's the one thing that I would have maybe gone. If

I could go back and do anything, I would probably would have done some business classes

back in college to kind of learn the the gripping grins and the how do we do business

stuff. And you know, again, I made a decision a long time ago not to ramp up the company,

but a business dev guy probably would have been a good idea. Yeah. I was just going to

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