WEBVTT - Streaming Sucks! Eliminating Expenses as Costs Creep Up #542 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.720 Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and Matt, and 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.880 today we're discussing why streaming sucks and how you can 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:28.319 eliminate expenses as cost creep up. That's right, man, we 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.360 are talking about the streaming services out there. You know, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.080 a lot a lot of times when we talk about 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.800 nerdier topics, we talk about subjects that are a little 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.800 more theoretical. Not today. Today we are getting super practical, 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.240 and we're talking about some of the different ways. First 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.400 of all, that some of the different reasons why we 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.360 think streaming should be less a part of your life. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.159 But also we're all gonna do some streaming, so we 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.400 need to find ways to reduce that cost as well. Yeah, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.200 the practical world we live in means we all gotta 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.680 stream at least a little bit, and so we've gotta 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.320 talk about the whole gamut ideologue. We're not purists, know. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.600 We talk about some of these shows we watch on occasion, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.960 for sure. And and there's what you've been watching there, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.199 if you watched anything recently, trying to finish up Stranger 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.479 Things season four. Okay, so I'm not I'm not there yet. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.640 I'm not saying anything. I guess I've not watched a 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.000 single episode, still trying to get settled into the new place, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.480 and I haven't. I haven't watched much tving. So you 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.440 should just leave at least a few of those boxes 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.160 unpacked and get that's exactly what we're gonna tell folks 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.920 to not do during this episode. But hey, did you 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.479 see that article about beer being good for gut health? Oh? 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.320 I did, yes, yes, yes, I thought of it. It 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.240 said something like one beer a day. Beer day keeps 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.119 the doctor. I know. It's like, instead of apples, who 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.640 needs those? Just drink a beer every single day, and 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.399 and it, yeah, increases the microbiomes in your gut. It 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.600 also only had like twenty something participants in that study. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.200 This is something like meta study, Matt, I'd rather pudget 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.920 Pidgeon hole these, you know, this small study but suit 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.440 my narrative. But but also obviously this is something we 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.800 already knew, right, I mean, was it athena that creature 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.639 comforts beer. It even features lack of basillas on the label. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.920 And that's one of the gut bacteria that's supposed to 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.800 be good for you, Like, that's the bacteria that's also 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.440 in yogurt that is a probiotic and so man, we've 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.919 known this for a while. Drinking kombucca also supposed to 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.920 be good for that. All the fermented vegetables evidently are 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.640 supposed to be really good for the kim Oh. Yeah, 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.760 so actually I think kimchi and sara krat are like 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.640 the number one and number two when it comes to 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.079 those different fermented vegetables that you can enjoy. But yeah, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.000 you know this is something we knew and aside from 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.840 just like the scientific chemistry reason why it's good for you, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.919 let me come on, everybody knows that happen a beer. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.480 It's gonna make you less dressed, It allows you to 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.799 unwind a little bit, and when you're happier in extreme 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.720 moderation folks, well yeah, I mean if you're crushing crushing 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.120 a pat like a case of beer every night and 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.919 you have a disease that doesn't apply to you, you 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.120 should be drinking much much less but a beer day, absolutely, yes, exactly. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.880 Part that's what's why we drink it on the Show's 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.000 we do it for the gut. We do it for 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.920 the gut health really in here, it's just to make 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.600 our bodies are stay as Finally, two machines as they are, right, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.000 that's speaking of That meant the beer we're having on 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.680 this episode is called Benevolence. It's by Flying Machine, It's 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.160 a Vienna lager. And we'll give our thoughts on the 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.720 spear at the end of the episode. Yes, I guess 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.280 you know what I'm gonna give like a gut review 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:17.560 at the end of this episode too. Let's you know 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.120 kind of how things are going on my tummy. My 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.880 gut reaction is that this is a good one. All right, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.200 Let's let's talk about streaming today, Matt, because we're gonna 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.320 have to be nuanced here because people like to stream. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.200 Like this is one of those things where we can't 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.720 come down hard and be like nobody should stream anything ever, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.320 because one that would not necessarily a good advice. There's 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.400 good stuff out there to watch on occasion, but it's 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.800 worth talking about. And and and made me think as 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.720 we were preparing for this episode about curb alerts, because 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.240 you you like finding cool crop on the side of 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.680 the ro like a nice curb alert. Yeah, you mentioned 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.360 the slide recently on the show that you found and 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.160 you you ended up putting that up in your new backyard. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.000 It looks great. Kids are playing on it. That was 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.800 a curb alert win, right, um, And then there are 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.920 other things that let's say, let's say you took herb 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.760 alerts to the extreme right, you found yourself driving around 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.520 town for a few hours every Saturday, and your wife's like, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.120 where are you going? You're like, I'm a hunt for 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.280 curb alerts. I would have a problem, not only a 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.600 personal problem, but a personal relational problem, a problem with 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.320 her too. She wouldn't be down with it. You know. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.160 It's it's possible to be dedicating too much of your 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.920 free time to the pursuit of free stuff. I see 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.160 where you're going. Yeah, so you know curb alerts their 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.640 best really when somebody nearby where you live is getting 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.120 rid of an item and you're going to be able 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.240 to use it in the near future, not just like 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.560 hoard it and put it in the attic somewhere. And 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.680 so just because you can throw it in the back 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.640 of your car doesn't mean you should, right. But Matt, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.320 if you continue done that path, and you're doing it 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.040 for a few hours on the weekend, like you could 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.520 you go on that show holders or something like that, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.040 you might turn into a person I barely recognize if 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.240 that was the case someone I used to do right exactly. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.240 So similarly, we would say streaming subscriptions can be great, right, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.400 but doing business with too many of these streaming companies 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.960 right that have the word plus at the end of it. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.960 Why do they always like that? Why is there no 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.680 good naming convention besides plus originality? Yeah, honestly, like it 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.080 kind of reminds me of So this is gonna be 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.320 a tangent, but Nibisco, you know, the company that makes 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.120 cookies and stuff. Did you know that it stands for 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.760 you used to stand for National Biscuit Company, Okay, And 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.640 so like all of these companies back in the day, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.720 they always put co at the end of their name. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.000 In a similar way, I feel like all these streaming 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.320 services are just putting the plus plus. It's just kind 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:24.800 of the go to. There's got to be a better, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.800 better naming convention that someone can come with, come up with. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.680 But uh, but yeah, it just makes me the plus co. Yeah, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.479 you should be in marketing, and and it's partly because 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.560 we don't want you giving Netflix, Disney or HBO too 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.800 much of your money, but really there are other reasons 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.800 too that we're gonna touch on in this topic. We 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.360 don't necessarily want you dedicating a hundred dollars a month 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.640 ord screaming streaming services, which it feels like that's totally 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.120 possible to do right now, if if not even more, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.320 some people are spending more money than on streaming then 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.560 they used to on their cable bil Yeah. Yeah. Subscriptions 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.240 in general are proliferating like rabbits, and streaming services are 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.920 one of the biggest culprits within the subscription space. Actually, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.480 someone recently posted a Captain Planet gift in the Facebook 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.479 group that kind of it sums up exactly how we 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.839 feel about streaming at this point. Had their kids holding 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:17.479 up their rings and saying Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, Hulu, Netflix, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.600 and then Captain Planets saying when your prices combined on 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.080 the same price as cable. It is starting to feel 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.479 this way that this is true because it's actually the 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.039 reality today. Uh, you know, streaming it was supposed to 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.520 save us money while simultaneously giving us more choices back 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.320 in the day, and you know, like when the streaming 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.000 air began, that was kind of the case. Netflix was 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.479 way cheaper than cable at that point, paying you know, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.440 like five nine for one DVD at a time. Uh, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.039 and it was really the only game in town. But 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.120 now that they're making multimillion dollar movies and TV shows 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.440 that they released like seemingly on a on a weekly basis, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.120 Netflix is not as cheap as it was a few 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.360 years back, and a bunch of competitors have also entered 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.000 the space as well. But this means that we're living 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.520 in sort of this golden age of streaming content. Uh. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.960 It may never get better than it is right now, 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.960 but that golden age comes with trade offs, uh, namely 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.480 for your money and for your time as well as 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.760 for your attention as well. Yeah, exactly. So it feels 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.400 like we're spending more and more time in front of 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.960 our TV's streaming content. And I get it. There's a 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.440 lot of good content to watch. There's too much, right, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.720 none of us could watch all the good stuff that 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.960 we want to because there's just a deluge basically of 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.880 stuff on every single service. There's there's plenty to watch 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.800 for multiple lifetimes. And a recent article in Bloomberg was 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.760 it was making the point that we've hit peak streaming. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.960 Matt right, And I think you know, we've talked about 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.200 living in the golden age of streaming, but we might 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.000 be on the tail end of that at this point, right, So, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.600 I think so, and and and the point in that 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.640 article was that we're going to see more austerity from 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.600 the big companies when it comes to purchasing content, Like 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.600 they're not going to be spending as much because some 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.640 of them had spent two million dollars in an effort 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.880 to lure the big name act ors and make some 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.400 you know, a movie that's that that's a blockbuster, and 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.480 they've realized that, well, it doesn't necessarily turn into the 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 eyeballs they want, doesn't always with the revenue they I 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.840 do agree with that. I mean, so when I say 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.480 golden age, I mean I think we will continue to 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.080 have amazing options at our disposal. But I do think 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.520 that the in general, that the different companies will be 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.720 spending less money because they're seeing that they can't count 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:27.000 on their revenues continuing to increase. Subscriber growth was bound 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.840 too slow, right, and they can't keep retaining eyeballs forever. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.560 And because there are more and more services now, people 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.439 are bouncing around from service to service, they're not necessarily 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.480 just paying the Netflix bill every single month. Without thinking 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.400 about it, and it's it's just short lived too, because 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.800 of the how bingeable things are these days, Like people 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.160 will watch a show and then they're like, great, got 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.120 what I wanted, I'm out. And so it looks like 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.480 some of these streaming services are going back to an 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.120 old school release schedule for some of their more popular shows, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.440 like the two at the beginning and then one every 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.480 single week. I think it makes a lot of sense 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.960 from an economic perspective for these companies, but you know, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.480 it's probably better for everyone's health as well, yes, for 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.120 everybody watching instead of sitting down. Man, it makes me 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.240 think of another meme literally started like nine nine on 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.000 Friday and end at like five ams, where someone's just like, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.600 sit down for a three and a half hour movie, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.840 No way, But get me to watch nine hours of 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.000 a TV show where you put little breaks in between 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.160 each episode. Oh, sign me up. Yeah, even though it 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.640 starts instantly, you know, streaming the next episode, and unless 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.520 you tell it not to exactly, you're sitting there watching 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.959 two hours back to back, always right, right. But the 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.440 products we've been paying like twelve dollars or more a 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.719 month for I think they're likely to get worse in 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.000 the coming years. We'll see what happens. But your bill 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.559 is going to go up, the quality is going to 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.120 go down. I feel like it's already happening, the writings 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.880 on the wall. So this is just another reason to 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.120 to reconsider which streaming services you're subscribed to and how 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:50.760 much you're paying for me. Yeah, yeah, So I I 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.280 could foresee the quality staying the same or potentially even 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.440 I don't know, maybe getting better, like a little bit. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.240 But I do see the prices going up for sure, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.559 because honestly, like the way I see this is similar 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.160 to like the ride sharing apps, right, Like we're basically 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.920 your your rides are getting subsidized because these companies are 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.960 wanting market share, and so like with the ride sharing apps, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.400 they're wanting to get as much market share as possible, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.200 and they're counting on that continuing growth. They're counting on 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.240 the continually increasing number of subscribers. And what we saw 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.400 first quarter earlier this year was Netflix experiencing their first 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.320 ever decline in the number of subscribers that they have, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:26.720 and so I'm sure that was a wake up call. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.160 Whether they're like, oh shoot, uh, we we weren't expecting 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.080 all that to happen, and so because of that, yeah, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.680 they can't keep spending like crazy. Uh. And so I 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.360 do think that we're gonna see the prices take up 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.720 as these different companies are trying to make a profit 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.040 keep their shareholders happy. But at least you don't have 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.600 to deal with commercials though, right, Like that's one of 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.800 the that's probably one of the biggest perks of streaming, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.760 although even that might be coming to an end because 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.680 commercials and streaming services are becoming more in vogue these days. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.280 It sounds like Netflix that they're going to adopt an 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.520 ad supported model pretty soon. Hulu they've been doing this 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.760 for a while. Uh. And some of the different free 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.880 services that we're going to mention later on, they are 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.800 all built on the AD model. Uh. And that I mean. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.959 I mentioned that because it's not necessarily a bad thing. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.200 But you can't skip them like you can when you 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.400 listen to podcasts. And so some folks hate commercials, other 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.200 folks don't mind them. Personally, I am not a fan. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.360 If I'm being held hostage, right, if I have the 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.120 ability to quickly put up my phone, you know, hit 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.000 forward four or six times depending on the show, I 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.880 know I know how many times they hit it. I 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.120 don't mind that. I don't mind using the ad supported 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.719 version of Spotify. I'm not gonna pay the premium. I 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.560 don't mind if the little ad pops up and I 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.560 have to click off of the thing where they're trying 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.480 to get me to upgrade to save you ten bucks 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.480 a month. It's like, all right, yeah, that's a minor 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.480 inconvenience exactly. But when it comes to it, like the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.240 medium matters, I guess, is what I'm saying here. And 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.400 recently we did use one of the free platforms to 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.240 watch a movie and it was the worst because these ads. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.760 First of all, I wasn't used to it, and it's 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.600 hard to step back from that once you've realized how 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.640 good it can be. It just like ruined the whole 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.000 flow of the movie because they weren't strategically placed or anything. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.800 You're watching the scene and all of a sudden, just 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.040 in the middle of it, right in the middle of it, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 and by the second one, I was wanting to pull 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.959 my hair out. Uh. That is not something that I'm 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.800 willing to give up. Is having commercials within Definitely not 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.400 in movies with TV shows, that's that's fine, that's one thing, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.079 because I mean the old TV shows were created with 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.959 commercials in mind, Like they had specific breaks. A thirty 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.600 minute TV show was like twenty two minutes minutes exactly, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.439 and they would end at certain scenes and you knew 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.840 to expect that. You know, when you just slice up 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.200 a movie when your jarred out of like this really 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.679 emotional or hilarious. I don't know any scene like that. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.640 I'm not cool with that, Okay, I got you. I 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.640 feel that. I think maybe one of the best things 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.600 about streaming commercialists is when it's kids stuff, because I 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.400 feel like my kids one time we stayed at a 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.520 hotel room and they were watching something on live TV 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.200 on Nickelodeon or something like that, and I remember them 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.319 just being ecstatic over all the commercials more than even 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.080 than the content. Where have all these toys been my 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.120 entire life? And then they start begging for things. I'm like, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.560 oh no, we're gonna have to go back to streaming 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.480 kid content and and we'll never get cable because that reason. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.440 So that that's probably the biggest reason doabley commercials. Like 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.920 all of a sudden, my kid wants a slipping slide 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.960 exactly exactly all these things that didn't they didn't even 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.560 know existed. But yea, yea, it'll it'll mess your kid's 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.520 brains and they're gonna start begging for stuff. But the 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.000 reality is, you know, we might be spending ten to 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.400 twelve dollars a month for something that we're barely using. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.120 Right there, there's some people are still subscribed matt to 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.480 streaming services or to you know, other subscriptions for that matter, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.360 that they're not even really taking advantage of. That's one 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.280 thing that has to we have to point out, like 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.320 maybe canceling it isn't even going to make a big dent. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.280 It'll help your monthly budget, but it's not gonna make 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.480 a big dent in your viewing habits or in what 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.280 your life looks like. And so yeah, multiply that by 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.000 the number of different platforms. Right tend to twelve bucks 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.080 a month, but some of them are even more expensive 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.080 than that, and you can find yourself in that Captain 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.920 planet territory, that cable bill territory that is like terror 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.200 zing your monthly budget. And so uh, it's actually it's 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.520 it's interesting at the beginning what you're talking. There's so 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.320 much to talk about cutting the cord, and now it 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.840 seems like, at least for some people's doing habits, cable 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.640 might actually save the money over uh there there, especially 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.160 if they're subscribed to one of the live TV style 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.360 services that are five dollars a month. But I think 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.280 now is as good of a time as any to 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.640 kind of reassess your your streaming needs in in the summer, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.680 because maybe you're, yeah, taking more trips, You're going to 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.560 local pool more often, You're going on more hikes, and 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.080 you're like, I have found myself not sitting in front 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.440 of the TV as much. I don't know, but yeah, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.880 we want to offer some solutions in this episode for 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.760 how to think about the which streaming options you you 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.560 choose to pay for and and how to lower your 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.440 overall bill a little bit. Um. But but first we're 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.760 actually gonna get a little philosophical about streaming and we'll 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.200 do our best impression of Plato for you guys right 0:14:53.240 --> 0:15:05.440 after this break All right, we're back from the break Angel. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.560 We're talking about why streaming sucks. But first we're gonna 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.680 change directions and ask the question why do we stream? 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.400 Let's go ahead and wax poetic. Let's get philosophical here 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.800 for a second, because I think it's also important for 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.280 us to ask ourselves why it is we even watched 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.400 TV in the first place, instead of just picking the 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.080 two or three streaming services you like the best in 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.400 calling it a day. I think it's a good exercise 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.240 to think about why we're so excited to pay for 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.080 streaming entertainment in the first place. And uh, you know, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.920 like one of the I think top reasons I think 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.400 that's worth mentioning is because of fomo fear of missing out. Man. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.000 I think this is one reason that it seems many 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.080 are addicted to streaming content because, for example, like if 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.640 everyone at work was talking about Game of Thrones, is 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.720 you know, like back in twenty nineteen, when it was 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.160 just NonStop everywhere, you may have felt left out of 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.280 the conversation. You know, I didn't. I never watched it, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.720 and you didn't. You didn't have that sense of fomo 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.600 back then. I mean I heard a lot of people 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.280 talking about it. I knew it was popular, but it 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.120 just well, there are a lot of people listening who 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.440 who did feel that Because of that, they're like, maybe 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.000 I should you know the Banisters? Who are they? Or 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.600 what banisters or the lanisters banisters like a stair railing. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.160 The only thing I know from Game of Thrones is 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.760 winter is coming. And I don't even know what that means. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.120 I just see them, but you know it because it 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.280 was such a part of our culture, right, And if 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.000 that was you, there's a chance that you felt culturally irrelevant, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.440 maybe even at that point in time. But like we 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.520 we share this because it takes this element of not 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.560 caring to push past this. Like, dude, just this morning, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.360 you know, we had a lovely conversation about the hike 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.600 uh that we went on. You you talked about the 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.600 pool that you all visited recently, Like we were then 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.720 talking about what we're looking for most in our our 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.000 new community here. We were talking about the things that 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.920 matter in life, right, And obviously there can be times 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.080 for those types of conversations and catching up on the show. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.800 But the more you're talking about these real things that 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.920 matter in life, you know, I think you're gonna find 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.440 less of a need for your life to be consumed 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.400 with the latest series or the latest O or the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.400 you know, the latest movie that might be out. Also 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.120 to just with a volume of content, uh and diverging 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.199 tastes out there with everybody. You can't be caught up 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.760 on everything anyway. And so what we're saying here is, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.439 don't worry about feeling, like I said, culturally irrelevant, and 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.600 instead focus on the things that matter, focus on the 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.960 just the deeper and truer conversations that spans all of 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.520 the different streaming genres. Yeah. Yeah, And and we're not 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:24.960 saying that you need to live some sort of like 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.560 walden Pond existence where you build your own log cabin 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.119 and you live on a lake. And I'm not even 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.520 sure if that's what happened in walden Pond. I'm just 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.240 making a guess here. Uh, yeah, that's what he did. Yeah, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.960 So so I'm just like, it's not that you need 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.879 to cut yourself off from anything modern. You know, you 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.439 don't need to go live amongst the amish too to 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.159 get away from this sort of nasty and nefarious disease 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.680 that is streaming. Like, that's not that's not what we're 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.960 trying to say. But what we're saying is, like some 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.040 of the reasons that people stream is it's not necessarily 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.080 because it's in their best interest or because they want 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.600 to watch TV for four hours a day. It is 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.840 because they want to be caught up in the cultural 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.320 zeygeist match. They want to know what's going on, and 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.160 streaming television and movies are one of the top things 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:09.840 people talk about and they don't want to be left 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.280 out of the conduct exactly. And I think another another 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:17.399 reason that people tend to stream a lot watch a 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.639 lot of TV is for escape. And I think the 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.159 sad reality is, yeah, we we use TV as a 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.560 way to kind of forget about the cares of our 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.480 everyday life. We kind of hit the pause button on 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.160