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Speaker 1: Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and Matt, and

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Speaker 1: today we're discussing why streaming sucks and how you can

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Speaker 1: eliminate expenses as cost creep up. That's right, man, we

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Speaker 1: are talking about the streaming services out there. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of times when we talk about

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Speaker 1: nerdier topics, we talk about subjects that are a little

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Speaker 1: more theoretical. Not today. Today we are getting super practical,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about some of the different ways. First

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Speaker 1: of all, that some of the different reasons why we

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Speaker 1: think streaming should be less a part of your life.

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Speaker 1: But also we're all gonna do some streaming, so we

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Speaker 1: need to find ways to reduce that cost as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the practical world we live in means we all gotta

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Speaker 1: stream at least a little bit, and so we've gotta

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Speaker 1: talk about the whole gamut ideologue. We're not purists, know.

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Speaker 1: We talk about some of these shows we watch on occasion,

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Speaker 1: for sure. And and there's what you've been watching there,

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Speaker 1: if you watched anything recently, trying to finish up Stranger

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Speaker 1: Things season four. Okay, so I'm not I'm not there yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything. I guess I've not watched a

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Speaker 1: single episode, still trying to get settled into the new place,

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Speaker 1: and I haven't. I haven't watched much tving. So you

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Speaker 1: should just leave at least a few of those boxes

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Speaker 1: unpacked and get that's exactly what we're gonna tell folks

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Speaker 1: to not do during this episode. But hey, did you

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Speaker 1: see that article about beer being good for gut health? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I did, yes, yes, yes, I thought of it. It

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Speaker 1: said something like one beer a day. Beer day keeps

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Speaker 1: the doctor. I know. It's like, instead of apples, who

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Speaker 1: needs those? Just drink a beer every single day, and

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Speaker 1: and it, yeah, increases the microbiomes in your gut. It

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Speaker 1: also only had like twenty something participants in that study.

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Speaker 1: This is something like meta study, Matt, I'd rather pudget

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Speaker 1: Pidgeon hole these, you know, this small study but suit

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Speaker 1: my narrative. But but also obviously this is something we

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Speaker 1: already knew, right, I mean, was it athena that creature

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Speaker 1: comforts beer. It even features lack of basillas on the label.

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Speaker 1: And that's one of the gut bacteria that's supposed to

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Speaker 1: be good for you, Like, that's the bacteria that's also

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Speaker 1: in yogurt that is a probiotic and so man, we've

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Speaker 1: known this for a while. Drinking kombucca also supposed to

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Speaker 1: be good for that. All the fermented vegetables evidently are

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Speaker 1: supposed to be really good for the kim Oh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so actually I think kimchi and sara krat are like

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Speaker 1: the number one and number two when it comes to

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Speaker 1: those different fermented vegetables that you can enjoy. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know this is something we knew and aside from

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Speaker 1: just like the scientific chemistry reason why it's good for you,

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Speaker 1: let me come on, everybody knows that happen a beer.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna make you less dressed, It allows you to

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Speaker 1: unwind a little bit, and when you're happier in extreme

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Speaker 1: moderation folks, well yeah, I mean if you're crushing crushing

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Speaker 1: a pat like a case of beer every night and

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Speaker 1: you have a disease that doesn't apply to you, you

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Speaker 1: should be drinking much much less but a beer day, absolutely, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Part that's what's why we drink it on the Show's

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Speaker 1: we do it for the gut. We do it for

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Speaker 1: the gut health really in here, it's just to make

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Speaker 1: our bodies are stay as Finally, two machines as they are, right,

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Speaker 1: that's speaking of That meant the beer we're having on

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Speaker 1: this episode is called Benevolence. It's by Flying Machine, It's

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Speaker 1: a Vienna lager. And we'll give our thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: spear at the end of the episode. Yes, I guess

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna give like a gut review

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Speaker 1: at the end of this episode too. Let's you know

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Speaker 1: kind of how things are going on my tummy. My

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Speaker 1: gut reaction is that this is a good one. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about streaming today, Matt, because we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to be nuanced here because people like to stream.

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Speaker 1: Like this is one of those things where we can't

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Speaker 1: come down hard and be like nobody should stream anything ever,

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Speaker 1: because one that would not necessarily a good advice. There's

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Speaker 1: good stuff out there to watch on occasion, but it's

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Speaker 1: worth talking about. And and and made me think as

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Speaker 1: we were preparing for this episode about curb alerts, because

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Speaker 1: you you like finding cool crop on the side of

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Speaker 1: It looks great. Kids are playing on it. That was

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Speaker 1: a curb alert win, right, um, And then there are

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Speaker 1: best really when somebody nearby where you live is getting

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Speaker 1: so just because you can throw it in the back

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Speaker 1: of your car doesn't mean you should, right. But Matt,

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Speaker 1: if you continue done that path, and you're doing it

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Speaker 1: you go on that show holders or something like that,

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Speaker 1: you might turn into a person I barely recognize if

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Speaker 1: that was the case someone I used to do right exactly.

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Speaker 1: So similarly, we would say streaming subscriptions can be great, right,

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Speaker 1: but doing business with too many of these streaming companies

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Speaker 1: right that have the word plus at the end of it.

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Speaker 1: Why do they always like that? Why is there no

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Speaker 1: good naming convention besides plus originality? Yeah, honestly, like it

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Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of So this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tangent, but Nibisco, you know, the company that makes

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Speaker 1: you used to stand for National Biscuit Company, Okay, And

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Speaker 1: so like all of these companies back in the day,

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Speaker 1: they always put co at the end of their name.

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Speaker 1: In a similar way, I feel like all these streaming

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Speaker 1: services are just putting the plus plus. It's just kind

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Speaker 1: you should be in marketing, and and it's partly because

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Speaker 1: we don't want you giving Netflix, Disney or HBO too

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Speaker 1: much of your money, but really there are other reasons

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Speaker 1: too that we're gonna touch on in this topic. We

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily want you dedicating a hundred dollars a month

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Speaker 1: some people are spending more money than on streaming then

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Speaker 1: they used to on their cable bil Yeah. Yeah. Subscriptions

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Speaker 1: someone recently posted a Captain Planet gift in the Facebook

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Speaker 1: group that kind of it sums up exactly how we

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Speaker 1: and then Captain Planets saying when your prices combined on

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Speaker 1: but that golden age comes with trade offs, uh, namely

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Speaker 1: for your attention as well. Yeah, exactly. So it feels

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Speaker 1: our TV's streaming content. And I get it. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of good content to watch. There's too much, right,

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Speaker 1: Matt right, And I think you know, we've talked about

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Speaker 1: No way, But get me to watch nine hours of

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Speaker 1: news on TV or to you know, see the news

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Speaker 1: that we're reading online and finding ways that we can

430
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Speaker 1: engage at whatever capacity and at whatever level, whether it's local, community, state,

431
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Speaker 1: nationally that you have the ability to whether it's you, uh,

432
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Speaker 1: sticking your head in the sand and avoiding your financial situation.

433
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the case for you and and you're thinking,

434
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Speaker 1: you know what, instead of facing that, I'm just going

435
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Speaker 1: to flip on the TV, you know, watch another episode.

436
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Speaker 1: But I think there's a way for us to engage

437
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Speaker 1: with these things and not to just escape or to

438
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Speaker 1: even know why it is or what it is or

439
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Speaker 1: trying to escape from, but then to sort of see

440
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Speaker 1: it and to point it out and say, Okay, I'm

441
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Speaker 1: not going to let my life look like that. Instead,

442
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Speaker 1: I'm going to engage and wonder that. Other surveys reflect

443
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Speaker 1: the fact that we have fewer close friends than we

444
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Speaker 1: used to as well, We're spending less time with our

445
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Speaker 1: neighbors and friends, leaving us feeling more disconnected. And while

446
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Speaker 1: watching TV it's easy, it's not ultimately as alfilling as

447
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Speaker 1: finding and building real community where you live. And so

448
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Speaker 1: we would ask you to maybe even start documenting how

449
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Speaker 1: much TV you're watching, uh and once you figure out

450
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Speaker 1: that amounts basically we're trying to create a TV budget

451
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Speaker 1: for you, and we're trying to get you to count

452
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Speaker 1: your your viewing minutes. But once you identify that, maybe

453
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Speaker 1: can cut back by May and opt to spend more

454
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Speaker 1: time cultivating an actual hobby or going for a bike ride,

455
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Speaker 1: or you know, calling a friend, and we see all

456
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Speaker 1: this realizing that we're probably sounding like your mom, but

457
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Speaker 1: we're only highlighting this because we're recognizing the fact that

458
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Speaker 1: not only will you be able to save money, but

459
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Speaker 1: there's a good chance that you're gonna be happier because

460
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Speaker 1: of it as well. Yeah, and and even when you

461
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Speaker 1: think about it, Matt, we're watching a lot of TV,

462
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Speaker 1: and then we're having conversations with our friends about the

463
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Speaker 1: TV we're watching, like it dominates so much of our

464
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Speaker 1: lives in so many ways. And even just the conversation

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Speaker 1: do you find yourself having with other people. If you

466
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Speaker 1: watch less TV, they're more productive, they're more fulfilling because

467
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Speaker 1: you're not just catching up literally on the thing you

468
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Speaker 1: spent three hours doing the night before. And so we've

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Speaker 1: said that the reasons people watch TV are fomo are

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Speaker 1: for escape. But then a third reason I think people

471
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Speaker 1: watch TV is it's just purely for entertainment, and and

472
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Speaker 1: that is it's the innocent reason to watch TV. So

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Speaker 1: I do it because I enjoy it, because it's freaking entertaining.

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Speaker 1: And they are right, like we are in this golden

475
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Speaker 1: age where there there's a lot of good stuff to watch,

476
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Speaker 1: and and so we are trying to we don't want

477
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Speaker 1: to get overly preachy. We don't want to say make

478
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Speaker 1: it sound like, you know, we don't like watching awesome stuff,

479
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Speaker 1: and and so yeah, I don't know. Some some TV

480
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Speaker 1: shows are just truly artistic. For instance, J d Roth

481
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Speaker 1: that we've found on the show before, he recently wrote

482
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Speaker 1: about why he loves Stranger Things so much, and I

483
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Speaker 1: just kind of found myself in total agreement. I'm like,

484
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Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it. I just thought of

485
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Speaker 1: it as just kind of entered an entertaining show. But

486
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Speaker 1: the reality is, uh, it's got this nostalgia factor, right,

487
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Speaker 1: it's got deep concepts. It is it is, and it's

488
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Speaker 1: got concepts like friendship and loyalty at the heart of

489
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Speaker 1: the show, which he appreciated, which I do too. Makes

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Speaker 1: me think about breaking bad, Like why was I so

491
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Speaker 1: attached to that show when it was on and you

492
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Speaker 1: valued all the things that they were doing The LAS

493
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Speaker 1: show exactly. I think meth hampenamine is great for everyone. No,

494
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Speaker 1: it's because like all of these like deeper aspects of humanity.

495
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Speaker 1: Maybe the fact that that some of these people, these

496
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Speaker 1: characters were flawed they were torn. They were they were good,

497
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Speaker 1: they were but they were simultaneously good and bad. Like

498
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Speaker 1: they had a lot of distinct features. I mean, I

499
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Speaker 1: felt like the human element of that show was raw

500
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Speaker 1: and powerful, not to mention just kind of the New

501
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Speaker 1: Mexico scenery that was was pretty pretty solid in there too.

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Speaker 1: So it's artistic from like a cinematography standpoint as well. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think so there's many reasons that you

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Speaker 1: can enjoy something right, whether it's because of just the

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Speaker 1: artful storytelling, the narrative that someone is able to wee

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Speaker 1: you throughout a story. Maybe it's the drama involved within

507
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Speaker 1: a story, or like it makes me think of Planet

508
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Speaker 1: Earth that like the BBC series when it first came out,

509
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Speaker 1: it was it was amazing, It was breathtaking. I remember

510
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Speaker 1: why walking through the Best Buy and they had scenes

511
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Speaker 1: from that playing on their ultra high def TVs and

512
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Speaker 1: just having my mind blown watching these the first of

513
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Speaker 1: Nature's phenomenal. It was phenomenal, and so you know, or

514
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Speaker 1: maybe it's like maybe like a nice twist at the

515
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Speaker 1: end of your like a m Night Shamalan style, Like

516
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Speaker 1: there are so many different reasons that we are drawn

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Speaker 1: to entertainment, and every one of those reasons are valid,

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Speaker 1: but sort of like what I was saying at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: like these are sort of the quote unquote innocent reasons

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Speaker 1: that were you know that we say that we like

521
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Speaker 1: something and that's totally fine, but keep in mind some

522
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Speaker 1: of these less innocent reasons like FOMA or escape, where

523
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Speaker 1: we're trying to ignore what's going on in our real life.

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Speaker 1: That is the key thing that we're trying to to

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Speaker 1: highlight into point out here that we want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we are all avoiding. But so that being said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel like we've philosophized enough here, so

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Speaker 1: let's talk about how to actually cut that streaming build

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Speaker 1: down h to size and in a practical way. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: if you're a heavy streamer, if you're looking to cut

531
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Speaker 1: your monthly costs, there are more good free options out

532
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Speaker 1: there for you than ever before. So we figured we'd

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Speaker 1: mentioned a few of those, and also don't worry because

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Speaker 1: we will make sure to list all of the different

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Speaker 1: resources up on our show notes for this episode just

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Speaker 1: in case you're driving. But let's start with some of

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Speaker 1: the free options out there that the that the library

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Speaker 1: offers and that is Hoopla and Canopy. Both of these

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Speaker 1: library apps are great when it comes to being able

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Speaker 1: to watch stuff for free. Personally, I prefer the different

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Speaker 1: audio books, even some of the e books that they

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Speaker 1: have available, but generally speaking, those are resources that we

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Speaker 1: oftentimes forget about. But there are other options as well. Pluto, Uh,

544
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Speaker 1: they give you some great live streaming options for free.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have to create an account with them.

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Speaker 1: I was actually shocked at how many options that they

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Speaker 1: had up there. I randomly checked in on that one

548
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Speaker 1: map because we were kind of like preparing for this

549
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Speaker 1: episode and uh, you know, caught five minutes of one

550
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Speaker 1: of those old school Iron Chef episodes. Those things are classic, man,

551
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Speaker 1: like what a good show. It's like, oh man, I

552
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Speaker 1: remember when Richard Blade looked like that, and then I

553
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Speaker 1: had to be Chef. I had to be like wait,

554
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Speaker 1: no stop, Joel, like you know you got you got

555
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Speaker 1: sucked in. You don't need old school Iron Chef in

556
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Speaker 1: your life, but to be Roku. They both have some

557
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Speaker 1: very popular free streaming channels as well. They are also

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Speaker 1: worth checking out. I think Crackle is another one. So

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Speaker 1: there are a bunch If you're like, hey, I Matt

560
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Speaker 1: and Joel, I you're wrong. I don't care how much

561
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Speaker 1: how many hours I'm spending in front of the TV.

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Speaker 1: I just want to do it for less money. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what the services are offering, many of them AD supported,

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Speaker 1: and it's one of those things where, Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: shocked at how much free content there is now, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's again what's going to start eating away

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Speaker 1: at the profitability of some of the ones that you

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Speaker 1: pay a monthly fee for. And more and more people

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Speaker 1: are are b are okay with watching ads, Matt, So

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Speaker 1: I know you and I were. That's not our preference,

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Speaker 1: but there's times if they're not too intrusive, I don't mind.

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Speaker 1: I would be fine with it if it was on

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Speaker 1: a TV show like Iron Chef or something like that.

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Speaker 1: But it's not gonna work when it comes with with

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Speaker 1: a movie, right exactly. So, like if you're watching a

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Speaker 1: Harry Potter with your kids, you're like, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be stopped for commercial breaks of like two minutes

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Speaker 1: every fifteen or twenty minutes, and so I totally get that.

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, I think something like fifty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of people UH surveys say they're now totally fine to

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Speaker 1: watch uh, to stream content in exchange for watching ads.

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Speaker 1: And so hopefully yeah, one of these one or two

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Speaker 1: of these services are ones that you'll like as you

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Speaker 1: kind of look into them. And of course, like Peacock

585
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Speaker 1: has come around, they've got like a free tier that's

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Speaker 1: AD supported as well, so you can watch that. And

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Speaker 1: you know, while streaming is pretty great, I would say,

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Speaker 1: don't forget about the antiquated technology that still works like

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Speaker 1: a charm that allows you to watch television for free. Antennas, right,

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Speaker 1: that's one of those things that people forget about. Like

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm a single friend who has an

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Speaker 1: antenna attached to their TV and if I could fix

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Speaker 1: that on their behalf, I would, and maybe I should

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Speaker 1: like and buy the antenna's for Christmas or whatever. But

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Speaker 1: it just works great for getting a lot of your

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Speaker 1: local channels and it's, um it's like streaming over the

597
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Speaker 1: air before streaming actually existed. So and you can actually

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Speaker 1: surprisingly get an amazing picture too when with your antenna.

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Speaker 1: Well it's HD, right, I mean, so they're broadcasting in

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Speaker 1: full HD compressed with anywhere exactly, so it's not digitized.

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Speaker 1: And when you say I mean, I think most people

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Speaker 1: know what we're talking about when we see antenna, but

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Speaker 1: we're not talking about the old school bunny ears. We're

604
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Speaker 1: talking about the black, uh little square like piece of plastic. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that you tacked to the wall. That's how we do it.

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Speaker 1: We just as long as you don't hit the I guess.

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Speaker 1: If you don't hit the wires, I think it's fine.

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Speaker 1: But we just use the thumb tack and literally just

609
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Speaker 1: tack it to the wall behind the TV and it

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Speaker 1: does a great job and capturing those ABC and NBC signals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I forget which one of them we don't get too well,

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Speaker 1: but that's fine. One then you can like tarn it,

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Speaker 1: I guess, or you can even get a more high

614
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Speaker 1: powered antenna, or you can there's YouTube videos where you

615
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Speaker 1: can make your own antenna and stick it in your

616
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Speaker 1: attic like seriously for likeucks or something like that, and

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Speaker 1: they're they're gonna really be able to catch a signal

618
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Speaker 1: and they're even better and they'll reach you for then

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Speaker 1: you know part of what channels you're gonna get. It

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Speaker 1: depends on where you live and the kind of antenna

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Speaker 1: you have, but I think it's antenna web is a

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Speaker 1: good website to kind of check and see what channels

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Speaker 1: are available where you live, which ones you can get well.

624
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Speaker 1: But yeah, antenna's are like fifteen bucks. They're cheap fixed

625
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Speaker 1: and they allow you to get some of that TV,

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Speaker 1: the local TV at least that you might want, without

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Speaker 1: paying a dime. And it makes me think that just

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Speaker 1: one more free service. YouTube, of course, is one of

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Speaker 1: those things that it's kind of different than a lot

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Speaker 1: of the other ones we're talking about because it's user

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Speaker 1: generated content. But there's so much good stuff on there now,

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Speaker 1: and there's even educational stuff on there. Now. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying YouTube is mostly educational content, but some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that I consume on YouTube is like long form

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Speaker 1: interesting conversations or whatever. And so if you're into learning

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Speaker 1: something while you're streaming, I think that's a much better

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Speaker 1: use of it. And YouTube is actually one of the

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Speaker 1: best places for that kind of content now. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I think that's I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Most content on YouTube is free. You just

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Speaker 1: have to watch like that five seconds of ads before

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Speaker 1: you hit skip ads in the lower right hand corner.

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Speaker 1: But there is a way that you could pay a

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Speaker 1: lot of money for the YouTube content that you consume.

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Speaker 1: That's right, you guessed it. We're gonna talk about sports

646
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Speaker 1: and the myriad ways that you can get your sports content.

647
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Speaker 1: We will get to all of those different options right

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Speaker 1: after this. Alright, we're back. We're talking about why streaming sucks,

649
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: and it's mostly because it's parting you from your money

650
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Speaker 1: and your time. Um, you know, more more than it

651
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Speaker 1: should be, and so we want to help you come

652
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Speaker 1: at that in your life. We want you to sign

653
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: up for some of those free services to spend less

654
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: when you're streaming. We want you to also just spend

655
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Speaker 1: less time streaming in general, find more productive things to do,

656
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: and create more connections in your community. We think that's

657
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: a healthy approach. But man, let's talk about sports too,

658
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: because when we're talking about streaming and cutting the streaming bill,

659
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Speaker 1: one of the hardest sections of your streaming bill to

660
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Speaker 1: lower is if you're a big sports fan, because the

661
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Speaker 1: costs rack up quickly, and people who are die hard

662
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Speaker 1: for their team, or their sport or all the sports

663
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Speaker 1: have the most difficult time being able to reduce the

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Speaker 1: costs of their monthly bill. And the it seems like

665
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Speaker 1: live sports is kind of fracturing into a bunch of

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Speaker 1: these different streaming services. So like for some NFL games,

667
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Speaker 1: now you're gonna have to have Amazon Prime in order

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Speaker 1: to watch them. You know, ESPN still hosts a lot

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Speaker 1: of important games for basically every sport, so it feels

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Speaker 1: like you need to have ESPN as well, And and

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Speaker 1: some of them are on regular cable ESPN others are

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Speaker 1: on their streaming cousin, which is ESPN Plus. You know Apple,

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Speaker 1: Apple just bought the rights to stream MLS games, Hulu

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Speaker 1: has Live Sports to the list just goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: So it feels like if a person wants to watch

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Speaker 1: live sports but it doesn't want to go bankrupt, um,

677
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: at least for some of them, cable might be the

678
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Speaker 1: best option. Uh, the antenna comes in handy, like we

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Speaker 1: were just talking about for for lots of NFL games

680
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Speaker 1: and ESPN Plus, it's it's not expensive, but it also

681
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Speaker 1: doesn't stream everything that ESPN itself is broadcasting. So when

682
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Speaker 1: when we're talking about the best streaming options for for sports,

683
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Speaker 1: two of the best channels out there are food Boat

684
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Speaker 1: TV and YouTube TV. And so yeah, you're you're you're

685
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Speaker 1: gonna pay a lot of money though in order to

686
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Speaker 1: sign up for those, guys, YouTube tv is sixty a month,

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Speaker 1: So you gotta really expensive, you gotta really like sports,

688
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Speaker 1: you gotta that's gotta be a big part of your

689
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Speaker 1: life in order to justify that. Uh, the great thing

690
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Speaker 1: is if you're a Premier League soccer fan, all you

691
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Speaker 1: gotta have is Peacock Premium and you can watch those

692
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Speaker 1: matches for five bucks a month. That's not bad. But really,

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, because there are regional

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Speaker 1: sports packages Matt that some of the baseball games are

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Speaker 1: on your your local hometown team, and there aren't many

696
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Speaker 1: places that offer those. You can't sign up for those

697
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Speaker 1: directly at think direct tv is the only place where

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Speaker 1: you can get those regional sports packages, so you need

699
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Speaker 1: to look into their streaming option, which I think is

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Speaker 1: eighty five dollars a month. Um. Sling tv is another

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Speaker 1: one worth looking at if you're a big sports fan.

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Speaker 1: But really, those all of those live sports streaming services,

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Speaker 1: you need to kind of compare and decide well, which

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Speaker 1: which teams, which sports are most important to me, or

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Speaker 1: which ones can I give up and kind of do

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Speaker 1: a cost benefit analysis to make sure that you're not

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Speaker 1: overpaying for sports that you're not able to watch as

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Speaker 1: much as you'd like. That's right. Yeah. One thing that's

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Speaker 1: important to note is that there are a lot of

710
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Speaker 1: different scammy sites out there purporting to offer free sports streaming,

711
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Speaker 1: but they might be attempting to take your money or

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Speaker 1: you know, or give your computer virus. Uh. It is

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Speaker 1: best to stay away from those sites. Oftentimes, I feel

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Speaker 1: like they're just praying on people who are desperate to

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Speaker 1: get the game on. They're like, dage, I wasn't counting

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Speaker 1: on the desire that I have right now to watch

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Speaker 1: this game, and you end up at the dark Web

718
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Speaker 1: and you're like, I mean to go here. Watching live

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Speaker 1: sports can be a tough thing for for price conscious streamers,

720
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Speaker 1: and I do hope that there's going to be more

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Speaker 1: innovation on this front in the near future. But one

722
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Speaker 1: way to bring down those costs is to share your

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Speaker 1: plan with someone else. And we're talking about family plans.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have to be in the same family necessarily, uh,

725
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Speaker 1: in order to do it. That being said, Hulu and

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Speaker 1: Netflix they appear to be cracking down on folks who

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Speaker 1: are on the same plan who don't live in the

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Speaker 1: same house. But Amazon Prime they're totally cool of sharing. Uh,

729
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Speaker 1: they've got Amazon Household actually, Joel, you and I we

730
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Speaker 1: actually use that to share the cost of Prime and

731
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Speaker 1: we've been doing it for years now. The terms of

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Speaker 1: service oftentimes can be ambiguous with some of these different

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Speaker 1: streaming companies. But looking to some of these different ways

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Speaker 1: where you do have the ability to share the bill,

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Speaker 1: if you can do that with another individual or with

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Speaker 1: another family, that can dramatically lower the costs as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you're gonna want to make sure that the streaming

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Speaker 1: service you're signed up for is cool with that. Um,

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Speaker 1: But if it is, that's a great thing. Like I

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Speaker 1: think YouTube TV, for instance, it's sixty five a month,

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Speaker 1: but I think it supports up to six simultaneous streams,

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Speaker 1: and so you might be able to share that with

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Speaker 1: a friend down the street. That's a lot of people. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Or even if you just share it with one other

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Speaker 1: family that's thirty two bucks a month, then it cuts

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Speaker 1: it in half and it makes it a lot more

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Speaker 1: reasonable to consider signing up for that service and then

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Speaker 1: to be able to keep your pressure sports and uh.

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Speaker 1: One one other way to save money on streaming that

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some some other ways too. Because family

751
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Speaker 1: plans are a good way, but but canceling some of

752
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Speaker 1: your services is obviously another way to save money on

753
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: those recurring streaming costs. And and in particular, if a

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Speaker 1: show that you like, if you just got done watching

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00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: it and there's nothing else that strikes your fancy, well

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Speaker 1: guess what If you log into the every day, you're

757
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: going to find something to watch. But if you cancel

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00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: it and you move on, then you're saving money and

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00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: you're wasting less time, and and there's just no reason

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Speaker 1: to be perpetually subscribed to the same service. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, sign up for HBO Max in order

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Speaker 1: to catch up on the new season of Barry, which

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00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: here's a great show, but uh, you know, then then

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Speaker 1: drop it like it's hot once you've finished that season.

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Speaker 1: Don't stick around hoping that something else comes in the

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Speaker 1: near future. And don't get to set a calendar reminder

767
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: too in order to cancel, because that, um it helps

768
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: you actually follow through instead of spending in perpetuity. But

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Speaker 1: doing a little planning when it comes to your binging,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna save your real money. And it's the same

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00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: with those free or dis kind of trials. Use those

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Speaker 1: to your advantage. If you're like, all right, can I

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00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: race against the clock and watch all of this one

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00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: mini series in my free seven day window? Um, and

775
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: then maybe you know what, I'll take the next week

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Speaker 1: off and I won't watch any I won't watch any TV.

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Speaker 1: But man, I made a nice money savvy move and um,

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Speaker 1: spending zero dollars to watch that show that I wanted

779
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: to see. Totally. Basically, we're asking you to be more

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Speaker 1: selective in what it is that you're watching and when

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Speaker 1: you watch. But I will say it's I think it's

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Speaker 1: been a little bit harder because we're talking about Stranger

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Speaker 1: Things earlier, and Netflix is doing that little experiment with

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Speaker 1: Stranger Things where they broke up the season uh into

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Speaker 1: two halves where they had to span multiple months, so

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00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: you can't get in there for that single month do

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Speaker 1: all the benjing. Instead, they got you paying for it twice.

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Speaker 1: And I guess what they're banking on is the fact

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Speaker 1: that people would be a little more used to the

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Speaker 1: fact that they're paying it. Right, Like, one month, you

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Speaker 1: pay for it, and it's it's kind of stands out

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Speaker 1: like a sore thumb. But when there's two of them,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe there's the two charges that they

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Speaker 1: look kind of comfortable, uh so you don't feel bad

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Speaker 1: if there's a third charge. And then before you know it,

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00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: it's been in an entire year, you've been paying for

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00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: Netflix and you haven't watched a single thing. And then

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Speaker 1: you're like, on there, the new spinoff of Stranger Things

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Speaker 1: isn't as good as I thought. It's a original series,

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Speaker 1: and then you're like, that's when you finally cancel. That's

801
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: when you get fed up. But another small thing that

802
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: you can do is pay for your streaming services with

803
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: the right credit card. That's the benefit that more the

804
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: credit card issuers are offering. Specifically, I'm thinking of the

805
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: American Express Blue Cash Preferred Card, which is my favorite

806
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Speaker 1: card to use at the grocery store because they give

807
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: you six percent, but they also give you six percent

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00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: back on streaming expenses. But that is one of our favorites,

809
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: so we would recommend that you check that one out

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00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: for sure. And also, like, there's some different cell phone

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00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: companies out there and they'll offer like a free Netflix, uh,

812
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: offer pust some other stuff, but often your best bet

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00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: is to go with a cheaper phone service provider and

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Speaker 1: then pay for your own super streaming. That's not always

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Speaker 1: going to be the case. We definitely recommend for you

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Speaker 1: to do the math. But I guarantee that the Verizon

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00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: plan that comes with free Disney's plus, that that is

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Speaker 1: not going to save you money over the course of

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Speaker 1: a year. It's like, Yeah, I sign up for this

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Speaker 1: hundred dollar a month cell phone plan, but guess what

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Speaker 1: We'll throw in a free twelve dollar a month streaming service.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, no, just go with the fifteen dollar

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: uh cell phone plan and the twelve pay the twelve

824
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 1: dollar streaming service for yourself if you want it, and

825
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: you're still coming out incredibly ahead instead of going with

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Speaker 1: those packaged deals that usually aren't a deal. And Matt,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some streaming alternatives for a second, because

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Speaker 1: let's say you find yourself saying, you know what, Matt

829
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Speaker 1: and Joel, right, I am spending something like four hours

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Speaker 1: a day watching TV. I'm doing it. I'm doing it

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Speaker 1: too much. I have let it maybe overtake some of

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Speaker 1: the areas of my life where I had bigger goals

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to meet, whether it's financially or personally.

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Speaker 1: And you found yourself maybe becoming more Laxa daisical about

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Speaker 1: those goals. Are are not even attempting some of them

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Speaker 1: because there's just too much good stuff to watch? Well, um,

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Speaker 1: we we would say that if you do find yourself

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Speaker 1: paring back in order to save money and watch less

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Speaker 1: in general, you want you're gonna want to have some

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Speaker 1: go to activities to fill that time with, to incorporate

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Speaker 1: into your life. And I think reading more books is

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Speaker 1: one of those things that you ideally should be doing

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00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: more of. Like that would be a great thing. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a timeless, beautiful thing to

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Speaker 1: be reading a book, right. Yeah, Before we go any further,

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Speaker 1: like I would venture to even say that, like, we

847
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Speaker 1: don't have to give you a bunch of things that

848
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: you could do if you were to eliminate TV from you,

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Speaker 1: you know, more TV from your life. I would venture

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Speaker 1: to say that these are the things that you will

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Speaker 1: get to do when you are watching less TV. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel like oftentimes we know the different things that

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Speaker 1: we could be doing. It's just a matter of being

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Speaker 1: reminded of the things that we're giving up because we're

855
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: sitting there on the couch watching T Yes, yes exactly.

856
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: And I think one of those like books. We we

857
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: were like, I haven't had the time to read the

858
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: books I want to do this year. Or I had

859
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: to go to read twelve books this year and one

860
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: a month and I read two or three. And you

861
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: know what, if if we just curve back some of

862
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: our our streaming, we'll be able to meet those girals,

863
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: We'll be able to read more of those books. And

864
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: it's just true, like if you, if if anybody out

865
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 1: there has ever read the book by Neil Postman, Amusing

866
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: Ourselves to Death. His line of thought is that the

867
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: medium is the message, and what he says is is

868
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: basically that the quality of the information that you can

869
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: get from watching TV has a lower ceiling. It's just

870
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: it can't, by by definition, be as good because the

871
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: medium sucks. And so yeah, TV news is something that

872
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: he takes issue within the book, and I think he's

873
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: spot on on that. But you know, books, as a medium,

874
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: they just offer a richness and a depth that is

875
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: it's basically impossible to find when you're scrolling through TV

876
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: channels or streaming options. And Matta makes me think about

877
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: my kids experience watching Harry Potter after reading it and

878
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: the girls were so disappointed that some of those most

879
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: important features in the book, some of the best parts,

880
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: were left out of the movies. And just by definition,

881
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: they can't include it all, right, there's just no possible way.

882
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: The books are clearly richer, deeper, more fun and vibrant

883
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: than the movies. There's a gap there between what you

884
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: see and what you've got to read, the imagination you've

885
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: got out to bring to the table when you were

886
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: when you were reading that book, and so books is

887
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: a medium, are just superior in so many ways. And

888
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: my kids found that out, and I hope that they

889
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: remember that because they still do love to watch TV,

890
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: but I'd love I want to see them reading more

891
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: and more books and uh and and watching less TV. Totally, yeah,

892
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, aside from books being a better

893
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: version of what you could watch on the screen, Like,

894
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: think about the different opportunities that you're missing out on

895
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: when it comes to just bettering bettering yourself in general,

896
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: Like how often have you said that you're just too

897
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: busy for a leisurely walk in the afternoon, a walk

898
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: that you know would be good for your your stress

899
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: levels for you're like how too busy the works too much,

900
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: Like I can't I can't afford to get away for

901
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes exactly. But you are definitely caught up on

902
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: on all of the latest shows on each of the

903
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: streaming services. Uh. And so your time might be filled up,

904
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that you spent it well or

905
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: that you spent it in a way that truly feeds

906
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: your soul. So, whether that's just walking in nature, are

907
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: going for a bike ride, uh, talking with a friend, right,

908
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: catching up, these are all far more humanizing active VIDs.

909
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: But you could even attempt something even grander, maybe even

910
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: actually writing a book of your own or like, maybe

911
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: that's too lofty, right, maybe that's just you going to

912
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 1: the climbing gym, whatever it is. The options are endless. Uh.

913
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: You just need the time to do the thing, and

914
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: for most folks, the place to most easily grab that

915
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: time is going to be from the time that you

916
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: spend watching TV. Yeah, agreed, just because there's such a

917
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: huge chunk of time there. And Matt, with the way

918
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: people have been able to kind of so many people

919
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: in kind of the new work environment, working from home,

920
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: more more hybrid, more flexible, flexible work options, you can

921
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: even go for a two hour chunk in the afternoon.

922
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: Lots of people could away from their work and do

923
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: something awesome during the best parts of the day and

924
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: save some of your work for that evening if you

925
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,959
Speaker 1: if you wanted to, instead of then turning on the TV.

926
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where a lot of us

927
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: have more flexibility than we like to assume, and because

928
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 1: of that, we end up kind of falling into ruts.

929
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 1: And one of those ruts for a lot of folks

930
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: is watching too much TV and putting on the back

931
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: burner or just putting off all together more fun, more

932
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: invigorating activities that are good from like that personal development

933
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: standpoint totally and and really when it comes down to

934
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: what we're choosing to watch. Also, Matt, I think I

935
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: think it's so easy to get a recommendation from someone

936
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: at the water cooler, or to see a review, let's say,

937
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: in the New York Times, or see somebody tweet about

938
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,959
Speaker 1: a show that they're catching up on. But I think

939
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: sometimes part of the reason we watch too much television

940
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: is because everybody's telling us to watch something, and we

941
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: decided to take all the recommendations uh that maybe we

942
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: haven't curated our selection enough and it just there's this

943
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: actual there's this app called just Watch, and I think

944
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. You can go to the website or

945
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: download the app. And I think for our listeners out

946
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: there who are like man, I just find myself constantly

947
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: moving on to the next thing that the streaming service recommends,

948
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: or a friend, uh, going with some sort of app

949
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: that has a better algorithm that curates more effectively what

950
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: you're into, might actually prevent you from watching garbage TV

951
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: shows or watching something that isn't actually up your alley,

952
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: and and so that you're spending the time that you

953
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 1: are watching TV on things that are actually awesome and enjoyable,

954
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: because because we really are living in an age where

955
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: there are a lot of great TV shows and so

956
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: you don't want to waste your time on some of

957
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: that mad content because there's a lot of that stuff

958
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: out there too. Yeah. I mean again, basically, we I mean,

959
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: if you are going to go with streaming services, like

960
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: we just want you to make sure that you're directing

961
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: your dollars towards the services that are going to bring

962
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: you the most bang for your buck. Um. But I

963
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: mean we've kind of been making an argument though for

964
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: you to spend less time watching streaming watching TV. And

965
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: you know, like I say this because I hope that

966
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: this resonates with you a little bit more deeply today

967
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: maybe than it did like a couple of years ago.

968
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: I think if if we were releasing this episode spring

969
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: of it's sort of like a headwind, right because we

970
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: a lot of folks were afraid to go out, Like

971
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with my time? Exactly?

972
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: I can't go to the bar, I can't go see

973
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: my parents exactly. Yeah, And so because of that, we

974
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: we did spend a lot of time watching TV. But

975
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: now that I think that the pandemic is over and

976
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: a lot of folks are trying to move on with

977
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: what they feel like is their normal life, they're kind

978
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: of hopefully they're looking back and saying, you know what,

979
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: I'm done with that, Like like I think back to

980
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 1: the pandemic and how like I swear like maybe every

981
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 1: other night KIT never watching like a Marvel movie. And

982
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: that's what we did at that point in time because

983
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: we had a lot of time on our hands and

984
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: like we weren't going out. And maybe that was fine

985
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: for them, but it's not fine for today. Like I'm

986
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: I'm done with that, not just because I don't want

987
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: to watch any more Marvel movies. Uh. They also come

988
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: out with one a week well, and they released schedule

989
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: on Marvel. It's ridiculous. They have gone downhill. I feel

990
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: like as well, the quality has to have gone town

991
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: with with just the sheer number of TV shows and

992
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: movies are releasing from the Marvel universe exactly. But aside

993
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: from that, I just don't want my life to to

994
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: be that consumed with television because I am wanting my

995
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: life to look more quote unquote normal, or at least

996
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: what I'm calling normal today. Uh. And so hopefully this

997
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: resonates with you and you feel that this is true,

998
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: like at a deeper level, and that this isn't something

999
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: that we're having to convince you of that you're thinking,

1000
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: you know what, like this is the exact kind of

1001
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: kick in the pants that I needed to go ahead

1002
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: and ancel some of those subscriptions, to maybe sit down

1003
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: and like lisp out, to write out some priorities of

1004
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: the things that you would rather spend your time doing, uh,

1005
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: and to proactively head yourself off at the past. That way,

1006
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: you don't come home after a long, hard day at work, uh,

1007
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: and where your will is weak and you just want

1008
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: to park it and watch another episode of Stranger Things.

1009
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: Although maybe maybe Stranger Things for us is like the

1010
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: Crafty your equivalent. Maybe like for us, that's the one

1011
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: show that I will definitely watch at some point soon. Yeah,

1012
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: and and so I think, yeah, we want you to

1013
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: limit your your TV intakes so that you can do

1014
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: more of what matters, like, do more of the things

1015
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,479
Speaker 1: that are good for your mind, your body, and your soul.

1016
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: And also it is good for your wallet, right because

1017
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna be spending less money on some of those

1018
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: streaming services too. So hopefully that's your takeaway from this episode. Uh.

1019
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: You know, as I was doing it, Matt, like, I'm like,

1020
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't watch anywhere near what the average American watches.

1021
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: But it's still made me like, then the Nilsen stats

1022
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: are still mind blowing, still blowing. Yeah, that number of

1023
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: hours is being watched in the American household. Yes, but

1024
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: still and it makes me realize that I just want

1025
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: to find ways to you know, curb my consumption even

1026
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: more so that I can, especially now that as we're

1027
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: like you want to like, I'll set the curve a

1028
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, And just as like we're kind of

1029
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: moving into a new neighborhood, I'm like, I want to

1030
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: spend even more time out there with people developed making friendships,

1031
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: exploring my neighborhood, like exploring the mountain that's close by

1032
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: where we live, and and and working out with a

1033
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: friend like stuff like that. Like those are the kind

1034
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: of things I want to be doing more of. And

1035
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: I feel like the more and more time I dedicate

1036
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 1: towards streaming, the less options I have for that other stuff. So, uh, yeah,

1037
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: it's a It's a direct trade off when it comes

1038
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: to your time and how you're spending it. I want

1039
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: to read more books too, Like, I just want to

1040
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: get better about that. So I think cutting more streaming

1041
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: from my life is really the only way to make

1042
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: that happen. Totally agree, man, All right, let's go ahead

1043
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 1: and quickly mentioned the beer that you and I enjoyed

1044
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: during this episode. This was a Benevolence, which is a

1045
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: vienna style logger by Flying Machine. Uh. These guys are

1046
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: out of North Carolina. Have we had one of their

1047
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: beers before? Flying Shame? I think so? I think we

1048
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: had one. Yeah, as well, I feel it kind of

1049
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: had like the mosaic colorful looking label, didn't it. Maybe, Yeah,

1050
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: this one looks like it's through a kaleidoscope right laid

1051
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: or it's like a yeah part roar shock test. Yeah,

1052
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: like what do you see, Joel, but benevolence. This was

1053
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: when we poured it. Like it's called a Vienna style lagger,

1054
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that means that it's kind

1055
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: of a darker or like reddish color lagger, but in

1056
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: my mind it's totally poured like really dark and more amber. Yeah, yeah,

1057
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: more amber and kind of had some sweeter notes, yes,

1058
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: say sweeter logger. Yeah. I thought it was interesting. It

1059
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: almost had like some notes of like a brown ale. Right. Um,

1060
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: it's because it had a little bit more sweetness and

1061
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: it was a little darker, but it was also kind

1062
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: of that classic logger profile at the same time, it

1063
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: was like somewhere in between. So I thought this was

1064
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: really interesting one. And I don't know that I've had

1065
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Speaker 1: something that tastes like this any any time in recent memory. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I definitely had a lot more flavor, like more I

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Speaker 1: don't know, like barley or rice or whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that you you know that you're supposed to pull out

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Speaker 1: of a beer like this, but it was very enjoyable

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad that you and I got to share

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Speaker 1: one of these today, But that is going to be

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Speaker 1: it's We will make sure to link to some of

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Speaker 1: the different resources that we mentioned during today's episode up

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Speaker 1: on the website at how to money dot com. We'll

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Speaker 1: link to some of the all the different free options

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Speaker 1: will link to us, like the c nets. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: a c net story where they compare some of those

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Speaker 1: different HD antennas. We'll link to all of that up

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Speaker 1: at how the money dot com. And we'll link to

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Speaker 1: Matt's top twenty list of shows to watch on Netflix

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Speaker 1: right now. I'm just kidding. That would defeat the purpose

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Speaker 1: exactly everything we've talked about. But we hope you have

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Speaker 1: a great rest of your evening, reading a book tonight

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Speaker 1: and sent streaming and Matt, that's gonna do it for

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Speaker 1: this episode. Until next time, best Friends Out and best

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Speaker 1: Friends Out.