WEBVTT - Ep. 134: Better a $400 lesson than $4,000 lesson 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:23.599 Hey, hey, hey, Hi, it's fifty and I feel like 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.280 we always forget, like, wait, isn't what we're supposed to say? Hi? Hey, 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.400 how is everyone today? Ah? So, oh, it's the day 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.159 before fourth of July, but if you're listening to it's 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.400 probably the fourth or a half there. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:37.600 How are you fourth of July? 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.360 Are you going to do anything? 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.440 Yeah, well we are. Like I mentioned, we're doing our 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.920 annual glamping trip with some friends, which doesn't even deserve 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.199 to be called glamping. We're just renting a house. So 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.760 but we don't leave until Thursday morning, So I guess 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.200 I just have a day off tomorrow. I'm gonna try 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.480 and take it off, but something tells me I'm gonna 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.120 have to work in the morning, just a little bit, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.400 just because I can. I kind of I'm okay with 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.960 working even though you're supposed to be off, if it 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.960 means when you come back on Monday that you'll be 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:07.959 a little less stressed. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.000 Oh, so you're gonna take the whole So you guys 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.360 get Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.160 I'm taking Thursday and Friday off. No, we don't get 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.640 it off. Although if you work for the government, apparently 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.000 you get out early on the day before the fourth, like, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.800 Husbey was home at two o'clock, text to me, like, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:22.440 what's for dinner? 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.800 No, like, you tell me you're home first? 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.040 I know. I'm like, why they let you out of 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:27.640 school early? 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.240 Go, that's exactly what it feels like. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.280 Yeah, next thing, I know, He's like, I broke the 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:39.640 pipe to the sink. Oh god, that's great, my problem. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:45.399 Right exactly. No, Well, Superman, I'm like, did they Well 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.560 they have obviously off on tomorrow, but I don't know. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:48.760 If they have the rest of the week off, that 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.040 would be awesome. But I'm headed to Essence Fest this weekend. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.440 That's right? And is that going to be Superman going 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.480 with you? Is that your your honeymoon? I mean, not 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.040 your honeymore in your anniversary. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:08.200 He honestly does not like the Mega crown. So no. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.160 But I'm happy because Adrina, my best friend, will be there. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.959 She's got two of her clients that are speaking in 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.919 Essen's best but also my sister Tracy and Lisa are coming, 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.120 so that'll be fun girl's trips exactly. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.080 Wait no, wait, that was a pun, But I didn't 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:21.880 mean it to be a pun. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:27.520 Yeah I know. No. Yeah, So I'm excited because it'll 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.480 be a nice, fun time And I think the headliner, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.079 isn't it Janna Jackson? Miss Jackson, If you're nasty, I. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.560 Don't even know what's happening in the world. Yeah, I 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.600 think Janna Jackson's she's like getting her due finally. I 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.359 feel like many we did, the internet, the entertainment industry 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.280 did her so dirty. I feel like it's finally time 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.320 for Janet to just get her due. Didn't she Like 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.880 she got the Life Time Achievement Award at some award show. Recently, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.560 she's been on tour, she's been killing it. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.360 I don't know what they're doing with poor jam I mean, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.160 the thing is, she definitely has had her like whooh 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.160 jet it. She's like, you know, like before Beyonce was 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.919 on the scene. So it's not that they've never recognized her, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.240 but after that whole Nipplegate. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.760 I know, but it's not there. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.920 Yeah, especially since Justin Timberlake has gone on to like, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.519 you know, no, I agree, I agree. So any well, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.000 I'll give you some update on the house socks. Just 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.920 before we started taping today, Superman was livid because we 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.239 got a dumpster, and normally dumpsters go anywhere between I 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.280 guess like six to eight hundred dollars for a dumpster, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.440 sometimes a little more. And so we got a dumpster. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:38.920 He's like, I FO had a good one. This one's 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.800 five hundred dollars. And I was like, oh, that sounds good, right, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.200 I mean, I don't know, I'm not familiar with dumpster prices. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.680 And so we got it. You know, he didn't even 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.720 really fill it up because honestly, we didn't have that much. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.520 It was mostly wood and so it wasn't super full, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.600 and you know, they took it away. We thought everything 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.040 was great, and so we got another bill for like 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.880 four hundred and fifty dollars via email and saying that 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.720 like the dumpster was over by four tons, and I'm like, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.920 that seems odd for a non full dumpster. So I'm 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.640 realizing now. I didn't get a chance to take a 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.120 look at the company online, but I'm I'm I probably 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.680 wouldn't be surprised that that's their gotcha gotcha that they 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.080 get you with this low price and then they hit 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.000 everybody with the extra. Hey, psych thought you had to deal. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.559 So I just told Superman, call your credit card company 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.480 before they charge you. They've already charged the initial five hundred, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.760 call your credit card company and be like, don't allow 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.720 this charge to come through because it's fraudulent, and they're 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.760 trying to because how you're gonna tell us we went 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.440 over there's no like, where's the proof. It's not like 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.599 they take you to the measuring site and then they 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.000 put something else in the wording where it's like and 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.320 and even when we when we drop it off at 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.720 the at the waste whatever landfill, it might be even 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.280 more expensive because they might say it's more. I'm like, oh, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.600 we're not doing all this, so you just won't be 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.000 allowed to charge our cards. So yeah, it was just 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.640 like it's just a learning lesson about like, you know, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.719 the cheapest is not always the best obviously, and then 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.240 to do like we really typically we do our due diligence. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.440 But Superman is new to the review to the review game, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.039 so he's just looking like, oh, okay, but I'm always 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.920 all about the reviews. I don't care what your mom said, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 your sister said, I want to see the stars online, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.120 like how many stars you have? And I want to 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.840 read the one star reviews? What did they say about you? 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.239 You're a thief? Not in my house? 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.640 So you let Superman pick the dumpster people. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:21.880 Yeah. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.599 See, I'm a little too. I'm a little micromanagy And 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.400 I'm sorry to Husby, but like I I want to 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.960 read the reviews myself and I want to do I 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.919 don't know, I'm just like a little OCD about vetting 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.280 everybody we talked to, and like Husby is always like yeah, yeah, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.880 we're good, We're good, and I'm like no, no, no, no, no, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.799 Like we just got our we just chose our contractor 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.839 it was a classic case of goldilocks, Like the first 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.880 bid was too high, the other bid was too low 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.480 and they were also mean to us, and the second 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.240 bid was just right. We had a good feeling, he 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.600 had great reviews, we both liked him. Blah blah blah. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.120 His his bid, while not the lowest, was reasonable and 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.120 he seemed very like straightforward about everything. But when I 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:07.200 got the actual contract, it was like the dinkiest little paragraph, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.039 which basically was like a fancier email than what he 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.960 had sent us with the original bid, like we'll do 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.480 XYZ for this much money, it'll take this much time. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.440 It had like the essential information, but it didn't look 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.200 to me like any sort of legally binding contract should 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.600 where it didn't have anything about what happens if you 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.960 don't complete the job and what happens if we stopped 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.520 paying you. You know, there wasn't that protection for both sides. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.320 And then I did some research into what a contract 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.200 should you know. First I texted a couple of friends 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.160 I know who have recently done renovations, and they were 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.200 both like, our contract was ten pages long. Meanwhile mine 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.200 was like five hundred words. So I went on Angie's 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.359 list and they had a nice little explainer on what 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.600 a contract should include. And actually he had the key essentials. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.200 It was just very like bare bones. But what we 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.400 were missing, though, is something really important that I asked 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.720 him to add and he said, okay, which is alien elite. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.840 I can't say this word right lean release L I 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.720 E N. And what can happen if you don't have 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.560 this is like, so your your general contractor is going 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.880 to hire an electrician, a plumber, HVAC person like the 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.480 trade people working under him, and then he's going to 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.320 be the one paying them. Okay, if they do a 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.240 project on your house and the contractor doesn't pay them, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.440 they could have a case against you and sue you 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.240 put a lien on your house and then say you 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.080 owe them money. Yeah. So I checked our my husband's 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.640 a cousin's recent home improvement contract and they had a 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.960 lean release. So I emailed him and I was like, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.440 we need to add this language to the contract and 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.920 also a couple other things. And now I'm just like, 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.680 you know, like we went from kind of being like 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.080 totally set on someone and now we have another delay 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.080 because we need to get this contract in shape. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.640 Well, no, it's worth it though, And honestly, normally when 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.320 it comes to all the other things, I was like, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.440 it's just the dumpster. What's the harm. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:59.360 Can whatever? 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.400 Like you know, understand because all the other things, I 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.160 was like okay, no, ok yeah, okay, no, okay yeah, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.440 And like I was showing him like okay, like because 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.360 he was like, oh my god, I saw people across 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.520 the street were getting floors done. I got the name 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.560 of the guy. We should get them. I'm like, well, no, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.680 that's not how that works. So yeah, I mean, we 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.400 live and we learned. I just saw him, don't I know. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.080 He was like really upset about it, because I get it. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.120 Nobody wants to feel like they're ripped off, so I 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.760 just feel like, you know, it's a it's a good 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.840 It's better a four hundred dollars lesson than a four thousand. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.040 Dollars lesson, sister friend. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.760 You know, so we're learning. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.440 It's it's as that's cool. Another pro tip is, don't 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.520 spray weed killer on your if you have like a 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.120 walkway or something, you know, because weeds pop out of 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.640 the cracks of like the bricks or whatever. Husby got 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.080 super excited about this, like industrial strength weed killer, which 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.600 he which worked killed the weeds in the sidewalk, but 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.600 then the next day it rained and it washed the 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.920 toxic weed killer into the grass, and now like half 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:02.840 our yard is brown. Like okay, I just know everyone 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.120 passes by our house and they're like, oh, there's the newbies. 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.040 Yeah, like we're learning. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.160 There goes those kids. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.800 You know, we've got we've got to shout out the 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.120 social streets real quick. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.440 I mean, give us a chance. We were getting there. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.080 Oh okay, I was, you know, I was like, what 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.560 did we do it? Do we do it earlier on 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.720 or do we want to do it after we chit chat? 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.640 I mean, you know, I mean we're the boss. Yeah, Well, 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.240 now you brought it up, so it would be awkward 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.079 if we didn't do it now because now they're like, ooh, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.200 talk about me, talk about me. There was a lot 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.200 of fun stuff I posted this weekend. We had. Well, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.560 there was the news last week of the upset in 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.440 the Bronx and Queens where a twenty eight year old 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:52.000 candidate for Congress was beat the incumbent Democrat who had 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.160 been in office for a couple of decades. She's twenty 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.520 eight years old. Her name is Alexandria Cossio Cortes, and 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.920 she's of Puerto Rican descent. Dope she that that news 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.360 came out. Then over the weekend there were all those protests, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.760 the Families Belonged Together protests to support immigrants at the 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.200 border whose family whose children were taken away from them. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.040 Something like two thousand kids were taken and I think 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.200 several hundred kids still haven't been reunited with their family. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.840 So those protests happened. I missed the boat on that. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.920 I was like, man, I blame Gmail because they sent 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.120 my aclu email alert to like my promotions tab, which 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.000 no one checks that tab. But I like woke up 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.720 on Sunday and I was like, everybody is at this 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:40.400 freaking protest anyway. And then I posted about Maxine Waters 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.679 Mama Maxine, who is quickly becoming like she's always been 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.800 a living legend. But it's just I love that she's 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.160 having her She's like a social media me icon now. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.319 But apparently she's been getting really serious death threats and 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.319 she had to cancel a rally. And this was in 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.200 response to her speaking out against what's happening at the 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.880 border right now. And her response to the death threats 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.679 was pretty bad, badass. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.280 Why she said, if you won't shoot shoot straight. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.120 Straight, So where's a T shirt coming out? Is what 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:14.560 I need to know. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.439 Yeah, you already know, like between between we'reclaiming my time 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.760 and it shoot straight that those are epic T shirts. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.160 I love our I love the responses to that. I'm 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.800 going to read all of them. First of all, y'all 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.120 need to have some easier Instagram names. First of all, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.000 if these kings Ka Tuk says that she's a mighty force, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.960 Lady Lady seven oh one said the Blood of Jesus 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.640 for hand, prayer, hand prayer and prayer hand he fottoed 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.400 Ju said, Wow, this gave me chills. Racer Back twenty 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.360 nine called her a force to be reckoned with, and 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.439 Liz Liz F. 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I mean, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.160 oh god, I woke up this morning to go to 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.240 the gym. It was legit like five forty five six 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:32.040 am outside and it felt like one pm. I'm like, why, man, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.040 I mother nature? And it's like literally, not even a 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.480 week ago, it was freezing at night and now it's 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.800 like unbearably hot. It's just I mean, I know we 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.000 all wish for summer when winter comes in, the snow 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.040 is here, but I'm just looking for a reasonable summer. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.760 Why does it have to feel like New Orleans out here? 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.640 It's just this heat? And then we had a flash 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.760 flooding today. I was like, so, what is really happening? 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.960 What's really happening? I know that it's what is it? 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.560 Uh No? What do they say that they that the 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.480 Republicans say, don't doesn't this clout? 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:02.160 Global warming? 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.280 Yeah? Global warming? Shame? 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.440 What's that thing that like science says it's real, but 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.120 like conservatives say it's not real? 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.160 Like, oh, global warming? 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.079 She said on a melting iceberg. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.880 I know, so yeah, I'm kind of over it, so 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:23.239 that's just my my light break is just this unbearable 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.040 heat that we're going through. I'm hoping that this flash 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.480 flooding that we had today will help to alleviate some 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:29.320 of this heat. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.920 I was gonna do a boost today really quick for 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.240 my moviegoers out there. I signed up for a movie 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.760 past like five or six years ago when it first launched. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.960 Have you heard a movie pass? 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:41.240 I feel like I have. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.280 For anyone who watches more than one or two movies 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.840 a month, you should know about movie Past. Movie pass 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.880 is a subscription service where you pay nine ninety five 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.840 a month. Now this is what it is now, nine 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.560 ninety five a month, and you can go and see 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.360 one movie a day at most theaters, like they have 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.520 most of the major theaters in the country. But you 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.920 can go to moviepass dot com and like put in 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.680 your zip code and see if there's theaters near you 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.440 and see if it's worth it. What's funny is that 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.880 I signed up in twenty thirteen, way way way back when, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.280 because I was a personal finance reporter, a business insider, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.880 and they were this new company and I wrote a 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.760 story about them, and I was like, cool, I'll try that. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.920 Back then it was thirty five dollars a month, like what, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.960 which at the time, I mean, it still is a 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.080 good deal because like tickets in New York. I know 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.560 in other places it's not that bad, but like movie 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.520 tickets in New York are canna be fifteen to seventeen 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.040 dollars for a regular ass movie, not even like three D. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:35.920 No snacks included, no reclining chairs, like a bare minimum. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.080 So you know, if I was and I love seeing movies, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.280 so for me, even at thirty five dollars, it was 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:42.880 worth it because I would go to see like a 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.960 movie a week. But now it's it's definitely worth it 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.040 if you're looking to sign up, and other companies are 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.880 taking notice. I just read that AMC, the theater chain, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.720 is starting their own version of this, like a subscription service. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.600 I think it's nineteen ninety five a month. But for 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.640 anyone is looking to beat the heat and go watch 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.480 a movie this summer, I recommend Movie Past. And I'm 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:10.040 saying that with a touch of saltiness because I decided 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.120 to take a break from my membership because we were 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.160 moving and I wasn't going I wasn't using it like 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.120 I like, I usually did, only to find out if 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.080 you cancel it you have to wait a year before 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:21.960 you can get back on it. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.600 So wow, that's how they get you. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:26.520 Read the fine print. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.880 That's smart marketing. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.880 much fan marketing, but it's certainly smart marketing. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.560 I mean, it was in the fine print. But I 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.720 was just I was just trying to dip in, dip out, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.760 I understand. I mean nine ninety five. It's kind of 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.720 like the cost of you know, I don't know Spotify 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.320 or Hulu or whatever, So it's not that much. It's 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.840 not like expensive gym membership that if you don't use 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.800 it a month, like if you go and see at 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.960 least two three movies a month, I think. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.000 No, even Dan, that's it's totally worth it. Speaking of movies, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.640 when what's the last one you've seen? 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.640 Oh gosh, I see a lot of movies. I think 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.440 the last what I saw was I haven't seen Oceans 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.280 eight yet because I'm waiting to go with a girlfriend 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.240 and we just haven't been able to do it. But 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.679 I saw the new Star Wars movie with Khalisi okay 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.480 from Game of Thrones is I I just love Khalisi. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.360 I saw we had Donald Glover in it. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.080 Incredible tude. I know, I like Donald Glove with two. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.240 That actually was Incredibles two was good because I loved 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.520 The Incredibles one. So it was just really like I 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.560 loved it because it was very woman powerish. So I'm 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.040 just like, this is good. I like it. Plus, it's 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.680 just a good you know, that's just a it's a great, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.879 a great uh franchise, The Incredibles. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.960 So I haven't seen that one. I love Cocoa. Wait 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.040 is that Disney? What's the Incredibles? 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.000 I think I want to say Disney Pixar. Yeah, I 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.359 feel like it's Pixar, but you know, don't don't quote 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.159 me on that. But definitely I'm supergirl because you know, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.520 she's thirty five. She was like, hey, I really want 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.600 to see Oceans eight. I'm like, are you like? I 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.720 was like, is that PG? Thirteen? She looked at me 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.439 like what are you asking? I'm like, you know what, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.159 I can't. I can't. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.360 So, yeah, so did you see it with her? 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.719 No? I'm like, she's not going to see Oh shit, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:12.359 I mean I'm. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.560 Presant be incredible. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.080 Oh incredible? Oh yeah, no, no, she her mom took 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.680 her to see The Incredibles, which is more your speed, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.800 young lady. Meanwhile, with a doll baby in her hand. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.480 Do you remember that age when you were like one 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.480 foot where you still kind of had doll babies, but 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.280 then the other foot where you were like, Yeah, it's 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.080 a weird age because sometimes you'll catch her she'll be 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.560 playing with her doll and I'm like, but I thought 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.000 you were thirty five. And then the other age, you know, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.760 I'm like, oh, yeah, there goes to thirty five year 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.040 old woman. Tell me. So it's just a it's a 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.600 weird spot. She's eleven, she'll be twelve in October. So 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.960 it's like this, like I remember that age where we 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.280 were like wait, I still like like, you know, I'm 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.240 still a kid. Wait, but I want to be an adult, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.280 but I'm still a kid. So it's a cute but 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.439 frustrated age. And plus she's tall, almost as tall as 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.840 I am now because her father's so tall. So it's 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.320 like it's weird because now, like when we send things 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.080 to the laundry sometimes, like you know, they'll put like 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.320 you know, maybe like her tank top with my things, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.960 you know, oh I know, And I'm like, oh, put. 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.840 Her in a little time machine times. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.520 She was so little when I first started dating her father, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.520 I'm like, she's so tall now, Like she gets like 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.320 braids and she looks like a little lady and I'm like, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.960 oh my gosh, she looks so pretty. Nats stop growing. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.560