Welcome to the tech policy podcast. I'm Evan Swardstrauber. On today's show, what if you could rent a hotel for an hour or two hours or even just one minute?

Joining me to discuss this is Jared Meyer, research fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and he's been on the show quite a lot. Jared, thanks for joining.

Hey, thanks for having me, Evan.

And as I've mentioned before, Jared's got a new book out, Uber Positive, Why Americans

Love the Sharing Economy, and I can get that on Amazon.

And today we'll be talking about a different aspect of the sharing economy with hotels.

So, Jared, most of the time when we talk about hotels in the context of the

sharing economy, we're talking about the wars with Airbnb and entrenched hotel lobbyists trying

to get cities to ban Airbnb and all this bad news. But today, we're only talking about good news,

and that's nice. And so tell us about this company recharge and what they're doing.

So it's a small company headquartered in San Francisco, which was started by Manny Bampho.

And what it is really is just a way to rent a hotel on your own terms.

You know, right now when you get into a city, let's say it at 10 a.m.

What are you going to do for five hours

before you can check into your hotel? And then if you want to stay a little bit longer, what

options do you have to have some more privacy after checkout time? But this goes far beyond that.

What recharge really does is open up hotels to locals. That they the hotels have a vast new market of people

who live in their cities who may want a place to just shower rather than going back to their house

or take a quick nap all this is about is putting dead capital unused hotel rooms to use and it's it's

really a happy story so far it's just purely a win and it shows the power of the

sharing economy. Yeah. And putting dead capital to use is really what it's all about. I mean, if you drive for

Uber, it's because you have this car that's sitting around and no one's using it. If you have Airbnb,

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