Grumpy old 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.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

And welcome to the 10 new people who are listening from our shout out on tech meme ride home.

You think we got 10? I don't know. I don't know if it's one perhaps. I think maybe one. I looked at

the stats. There was no giant bump. So yeah. But I got a little story for you Brian.

Okay. So you know, I'm I spend a lot of time doing nothing after the stroke just a, you know,

for recovery stuff. So I come up with ideas all the time. And I had an idea. I'm watching a lot

of TikTok and reels because there's nothing else to do in their addictive is hell. And I'm thinking

man, these people who wrote the music for these videos got to be making bank.

You should could have could have just texted me and said, uh,

dare musicians making money on social media. Well, let me have my fantasy for a second here.

Okay. I'm thinking because they're only like four songs and they're, you know, they're not great.

So I'm thinking, man, yeah, I can I'm going to start a jingle factory. And we're just going to

make jingles for TikTok and reels. Those never mind that you don't write music. Yep. Yep.

So I like start doing the doing the research. I sign up for tune, core and music gateway.

Because there's an article I found on music gateway called does TikTok pay you for your music?

Do you get royalties from TikTok? I should have known from the get that better age was,

the better age as ghost was hanging over my shoulders. Yes, because those are two questions in a headline.

Two and two wrongs do not make a right. Two wrongs actually make the fact that TikTok

pays once or twice a year to start with. So that was a non starter. Then I got deeper into the math.

Why do people write music, Brian? Oh, well, used to be able, if you were very,

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