Are you trying to find a nice place to the beach? Oh, maybe you're going to a new city for the first time ever and you want to stay in the cool hip neighborhood. Maybe you're just going out to the middle of nowhere and you just don't want to stay at a hotel. That's where Airbnb has come in. Push a button and there is a home that could have been rented by somebody else. And that rental is destroying not only the fabric of housing, but the fabric of America and even the world.

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Welcome to Too Many Tabs, a podcast where a husband and wife duo sit next to each other at, yes, it's actually two tables. Oh my God. It's a table. It's a table. It's two tables that are pushed together to be one. Don't tell anyone. Okay. Anyway, but this is a fun show where one of us, usually Mrs. Pearl Mania, goes and finds the thing they get interested on the internet, starts clicking around through hyperlinks and more things, and then comes back and tells us all about what she has learned.

Yes, and today I wanted to talk about the rise and fall of Airbnb.

Airbnb, yes, we all know Airbnb, right?

We don't need to describe what that is.

We can just leave that for context clues for everybody.

No, Airbnb is a short-term rental service.

Yes.

Where people can rent out either a room or their home or an apartment or something, right?

Yeah, it started out as a room.

It started out as subletting a room for short-term for travelers.

That's how that's what the idea is.

Yeah, it started out as a room.

How did it end up like this?

Yeah, no, but literally how did we end up like this? Yes, how did we? So here's what happened. Okay. I got fed a lot of content about people being like, Airbnb is so over. Yeah. And I was like, they've been over in my mind. I don't Airbnb. be. I don't want to pay and then have to clean. That's the whole point of me getting out of this

house. Is somebody else is going to make the bed. We're hotel girlies. Yeah. Airbnb. I don't want to pay and then have to clean. That's the whole point of me getting out of this

house. Is somebody else is going to make the bed. We're hotel girlies. Yeah, we're absolutely hotel girly. If there's anything about this podcast that you need to understand is if we're leaving the house, we're staying in a hotel. We're staying in a hotel. We're going to stay in a hotel because this is what I want. Yeah. I want folded towels. Yes. I want sheets that are on the bed too tight.

Yeah, too tight.

I want to be greeted by somebody at a front desk. If your hotel has a kiosk and not a person, we don't stay at that hotel. No, I need a person. We need eye contact with a stranger who is in a uniform. Sometimes, yeah. Yeah, that's what I want.

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