3.02 - Ghost Work

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LCpl Fun Bus Comedy Podcast

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The first book covered in season 3 is Ghost Work by Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. The book covers a hidden form of employment where tasks are assigned by an automated system, the compensation is pennies, and the output is often meant to appear as part of a sophisticated algorithm. Charles also takes the opportunity to yell about sandwiches.   Other topics: Business is the toughest college major Burning through baby powder in the hot weather The return of the pumpkin spice latte Retiring legacy underwear Can check Drunken koozie dealers LCpl Fun Bus koozie v1.0 Pawn Stars ruined the History Channel The Mechanical Turk Boston Dynamics evil robots Corridor Digital's robot training video (we mistakenly credit the Onion) The origin of the sandwich (Dustin refers to South Sandwich Islands and Charles meant the Sandwich Islands which are modern day Hawaii) A Marine on CNBC's The Partner turns out to be a loser suck-up All Colonels talk like Foghorn Leghorn As a veteran, Dustin thinks that he should be allowed to wear military gear in his corporate office   Links for people who love us: Send in some mail call: MailCall@LCplFunBus.com Website: https://www.LCplFunBus.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lcpl_fun_bus Triston Coomes: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ySk8T1Ka7KBAfLWeBYkn3   Please subscribe and review on Apple Podcasts!