everyone's going to forget about this, and then
they'll be like, oh, by the way, this is an added
feature. You get seat warmers for $36, but then
you also get air conditioning. They unlock the
Freon, but that's premium plus. Welcome to the
show, people. Welcome to the show. Eat my shorts.
So here is to conversation. Tranquility Base
here. Vehicle has landed. Welcome to the Cash
Exchange. Welcome. What's up? You know, not much.
I am actively job hunting, so I'm a little bit
more prepared aesthetically for this episode
than I usually am. There's a great market right
now to be job hunting in. For who? No one's worried
about anything coming up. I love whatever bubble
that you're living in. I would like to be a part
of it. I want to be delusional. That was completely
sarcasm. Terrible time to be looking for a job.
I know. Share your secrets with me. Yeah, no,
it is brutal out there. I mean, well, I always
said that the job I'm in now was recession -proof,
and I wasn't technically proven wrong, but I
never made the claim that it was pandemic -proof.
So, but you've already made a run through my
industry, and I don't think you're a fan. Which
is fine. Yeah, I liked the industry. I didn't
like the job that I did in the industry. So I
did sales for a very brief window. And I think
that was my realization that I just was not built
for sales. I thought because a lot of restaurant
people transition into sales, usually in real
estate, that it would be a natural progression
of things. And it drove me up a wall immediately.
There's no level of good enough. The people that
you work with on your level are great, if a little
maybe inauthentic. And the people above you are,
I think, breathed down on all of the time. And
so they breathe down on you. So it's just like
a very stressful situation when I don't feel
like it really needs to be. Well, it's not my
cup of tea. That's okay. That's okay. I'm pretty
good. Not that you asked, but I figured I'd just
say that I have been pretty good as well. I had
to make a quick trip out. It was fly in, stay
the day, fly out. Worst experience ever. How
did you like Beantown? The wrong Beantown? Yeah,
the silver Beantown. Windy City. Windy City.
Home of Yeezus. The only experience I had with
Chicago was the airport. Everything I did while
I was there was 30 minutes outside of Chicago.
Airport sucks. Okay. One of the worst ones I've
been to. Everything, it's like, it's got a hub,
but none of the... None of the actual terminals
are at the hub. They just all branch out into
all these tentacles all over the place. One branches
out and then two tentacles branch off of that.
Extremely confusing and like a, no joke, like
a mile long walk to where they're supposed to
pick you up for Ubers and stuff. Everything is
either mislabeled or not labeled at all. I had
to Google how to find my way from the terminal
to where Uber picks up. Never got to explore
anything. Sure, yeah. Have you been to Chicago
before? Have not. So at the airport, I got my
magnet for the new location. Total poser. I didn't
get to see Sears Tower or the Bean. Or some pier
that apparently is big in Chicago with a Ferris
wheel on it. Yeah. Okay. And then on the way
back, I tried to get the first flight of the
morning, which was 8 o 'clock. I didn't check
anything, so I could just get there whenever.
Another guy from my work that was also getting
an early morning flight, he wasn't checking anything
either, but still wanted to get there at a god
-awful hour. So we woke up at 4 .30 to get an
Uber and got to the airport at 5 .30, so two
and a half hours before our flight. We get in
line for security. I get a notification, your
flight has been delayed to 2 p .m. So an 8 a
.m. flight that I'm already there for at 5 .30
in the morning got pushed to 2 o 'clock. So I
had a bid adieu. Did you do anything fun at O
'Hare? No, there's not shit to do in O 'Hare.
Except eat. Or I guess I could have gone on the
little kids' playground with the two -foot little
tight slides and stuff. I could have done that.
Yeah. I almost asked if you got a Philly cheesesteak,
and then as soon as that thought popped in my
mind, I heard the thing. That's the wrong city.
Did you get a Chicago -style hot dog? I did not.
No. I broke my cardinal rule of getting Tex -Mex
north of Texas. Instantly regretted it. Ew. Why?
I got a breakfast burrito. Ass. Total ass. Should
have gone to McDonald's. Didn't get any tacos
on a corn tortilla? Nope, not this go -around.
Maybe next time. Anyways, one thing led to another.
I'm trying to bounce around to flights. I got
put on standby for a flight that left two hours
after my original flight. They were like, yeah,
we oversold by 10. So if you're on standby, there's
no way you're getting on this. But then we also
need 10 people on this flight to volunteer to
not fly. I do not understand how that is legal.
You have X amount of seats. You sell X amount
of tickets. That is absolute insanity. It's not
rocket science. And then for you to have the
audacity, knowing that you're overbooked, to
put these people on standby to give them hope.
And then they're like, uh. Yeah, you're going
to be sitting here. Don't even bother. She said,
don't even bother coming up to the gate. We're
not going to have a seat for you. That feels
deeply Chicago, and I don't know why. I've never
been to Chicago. It's like, have you ever seen
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? The flight where
they give him a rental car to a car that's not
there. Then he comes back and drops like 20 F
-bombs on the lady. And then at the end, she
just says, you're effed. I mean, anyone with
travel issues have had that feeling. And that
one, he was trying to fly into O 'Hare. But he
couldn't because of weather. Oh, yeah. It's been
a while since I've seen that movie. Everything
Chicago. Was that John Hughes? I didn't know
that. All right. Let's get the ball rolling now
that I'm done bitching about the airline industry.
I have your three things for today. Oh, okay.
What do you got for today? Your three things
are houses, cars, quiche. One more time. Houses,
cars, quiche. My first thought was things I'll
never be able to afford to own. I'm pretty sure
I could afford a quiche. I don't know, man. Price
of eggs? A house and a car. Everyone's complaining
about the price of eggs, or they were, until
they found something else to whine about. That
is fair. And then things got better for eggs.
I didn't feel like I had to take out a second
mortgage to buy my eggs. I don't think that the
egg thing was an inflation thing, right? Wasn't
it like bird flu? So there was just like less
eggs available? Yeah. I might be misremembering
that. I don't know. Yes, it was. And anyone that
knows supply and demand knows that if the supply
is down, but the demand's the same, then the
price has to go up in order to compensate for
the loss of supply. But people don't want to
do their homework and would rather just say administration
bad. On both sides. I think that might be the
closest. Before the election, it was. All the
Republicans saying, can you believe the price
of eggs? I don't know why the Republicans sound
like Bernie Sanders. Just Jerry Seinfeld lit
up. And then it was, oh, I thought Trump was
going to fix the price of eggs. I mean, to be
fair, do we think that he has anything but a
Lucille Bluth level of connection to the people?
He gives off the world's strongest, it's a banana,
Michael, what could have cost $10 energy of anyone
I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah. But, same time, I don't know, I mean, eggs
are fine now. I don't know how long it takes
to go from chick to egg laying, but. I think
we're over that hump. Yeah, I don't know the
process, and I think I'm okay with that. Anyways.
Okay, so houses, cars, quiche. They are... Man,
now I've gotten inflation on the brain. I keep
thinking that it's a thing that has gotten a
lot more expensive lately. Completely. I don't
imagine that's the topic for this episode. Completely
flying blind. No idea what this episode was about.
But... I am. I actually don't know what our three
things connect today. Somehow, in a roundabout
way, she figured it out. Inflation, or faux inflation,
is a major part of the topic of today's episode.
And the topic today is... and how completely
out of hand they've gotten. All right. I have
plenty to say on this subject. Let's go. So I
did the very upsetting task of going through
and trying to name as many subscriptions that
I either A, pay for directly, or B, get from
someone else. I'm not going to say which one
is which. So, feds, you can get out of here.
Disney Plus with your, oh, update my household
or I'm traveling. Oh, you're out of traveling
voucher things. Get out of here with that. Anyways,
so I have Peacock, Paramount, HBO Max, YouTube
Premium, Netflix, Apple TV, Disney Plus. Prime
Video, MLB Network. I have subscriptions to our
podcasting stuff. I have subscriptions to AppleCare
for my phone. I have Apple Music. I have Cloud
Storage. And those are the ones I could just
name off the top of my head. I'm sure there are
many more that are just vampiring all my money.
What about you? What do you got? I know there's
a lot of overlap with ours, but... Yeah. So as
far as the streaming services go, the only ones
that you mentioned that I don't have access to
are the MLB app because that would be an insane
purchase for a person who... Yeah, absolutely.
I did, however, have accidentally subscribed
to ESPN Plus for a hot minute. I was paying,
I believe, $8 a month for ESPN Plus alone because
it was... bundled into my hulu and my disney
plus uh to which i was already paying 22 a month
that's how you get the manning cast though and
i did not i have never once in my life wanted
to see the manning cast i'm good uh i believe
you a special guest which manning is it is it
cooper i hope it's cooper uh cooper who they
say could have been the greatest if he hadn't
gotten hurt uh He has been on it multiple times.
Okay. And that is quite possibly the extent of
my sports knowledge is that there is a third
Manning. Cell 5. There you go. Who's their dad?
No, I have... I don't know, man. I told you that
was the end of my sports knowledge. Am I supposed
to know who... The senior Manning is? One of
the more famous Saints. Is he Eli Sr.? One of
the quarterbacks. Payton Sr.? Drew Brees. Archie
Manning. I don't know. Okay. I know exactly.
I know about five football players. Okay, now
you know six. I could. Now I know six. You're
welcome. And God willing, I will not commit that
to memory. I have way too much useless information
there to fit in sports knowledge. It is my worst
section of Trivial Pursuit. but I don't have,
I don't have the MLB app. I also don't have Apple
TV plus, but in addition to that, I have Apple
storage and Google storage. I have a guitar for
like ultimate guitar. I think it's like, yes,
I have a subscription to one of those because
it also comes with like lessons and things, which
is really cool. That is done yearly. If we wanted
to break down the things that I've purchased
on yearly subscriptions, it would not be fun
for me. But I know there's a number of them.
But those are like May problems probably or like
March problems because those are usually my big
like spending months. Yeah. I mean, I think the
best value that I get out of any of these. Streaming
services is probably YouTube premium because
I watch so much YouTube that if I were having
to click through commercials or wait through
commercials the whole time, I would hate it.
So that is the one that I can absolutely justify
in all this. Sure. I only ever really use my
Hulu and my YouTube. Other than that, I'm pretty
sure also. not going to rat myself out and say
which of these services i am a party to but not
paying for um all of the other streaming services
like if i were to get one of those like do you
want to update your household or add a member
or whatever like i'm i'm just accepted that i've
lost that service like i just i don't get to
watch stranger things or or the handmaid's tale
What's going to happen with Hulu whenever it
shutters and it's just fully part of Disney Plus?
Is it more expensive? So we talked about it briefly.
Disney Plus? Right now? We talked about it briefly
on the last one. Honestly, I haven't paid for
Hulu by itself, I think, ever. So whenever I
was still a student and had my student ID and
all of that stuff, I paid for the Hulu Spotify
bundle, which was only like six bucks for a month.
No ads on Hulu, no ads on Spotify. It was the
golden time of streaming for me. When do you
have to re -verify? And I think I had like two
years, but I couldn't re -verify. It just, it
had a certain time limit. So you could only get
the student subscription thing for two years.
To be fair, I did lose access to that email.
So I lost it anyway. But whenever that happened,
it was, Around the same time as when my... Because
I bought a year outright of Disney Plus whenever
it first launched because it was super cheap
for them prepping for their launch, which was
because it was not a well -made streaming service
at first. And it still has lots of problems.
But I bought it a year outright. And once that
year elapsed, I ended up just bundling Hulu and
Disney Plus. So I have no idea how much Hulu
costs by itself. Well, a little later on, I got
some price breakdowns for you. I know everyone
loves listening to those. I don't think I'm going
to like that. I don't think I'm going to love
listening to that. I mean, we can go ahead and
get into it right now. First one I had was one
of the big things that's been coming out recently,
which is something that affects me, is... Peacock
is about to go up in price. We've had Peacock
pretty much since the beginning because they
took it off everything else for you to get The
Office. So you could only get it on Peacock.
And then you got like the super fan episodes
and stuff. So like the extended cut, all that
stuff. And so I was watching The Office on it
for a while when it first came out. And then
I kind of just got... Tired of it. But I never
got rid of it. So I've had it pretty much fully
since its inception. And it was just announced
that the premium plus. Not the premium. Because
you think premium. So I have a premium subscription
to whatever. You remember when that used to mean
something? It wasn't just like. It was a simpler
time. A better name for the cheapo version. So
premium now, so that's with ads, is $10 .99.
You want to know what it started out as? How
much? When Peacock first debuted, $4 .99. And
premium plus, which is no ads, is $16 .99. It
started out when they first dropped Peacock at
$9 .99. And this is an increase over two years,
because they increased the price in 2023, too.
So if you want ad -free, so you can watch that
stupid, stupid -looking Office remake. The paper?
Yeah. You have to pay $17 a month for it. Good
grief. All right. Now the poster child for...
uh excessive price gouging throughout the years
netflix all right inception of the streaming
only service 2011 basic was $7 .99 uh 2013 they
added the standard definition and then premium
so you could get like hd stuff so they still
had the basic $7 .99 standard was $9 .99 Premium,
$11 .99. Fast forward to 2023, they phased out
basic because no one wants a basic plan, right?
We're just going to call it something else, and
it's going to be the same exact thing. So 2023,
they phased out the basic. And then 2025, you
could pay $8 for a god -awful amount of ads during...
What is god -awful? What amount are we talking?
How often? Definitely like two to three, but
they're like longer ones between every episode
of anything. And then a regular show, you're
probably going to get two ad breaks. So it's
less than what you would have gotten in like
syndication, like on just like cable or regular
TV. But you're also paying for this. I mean,
you did also pay for... syndicated tv okay but
not not like antenna not like over the air channels
so like say you're watching how i met your mother
on cbs you're not paying anything directly into
that and you're getting these commercials so
you're not getting as much there but now you're
paying them to also have commercials now and
then uh if you wanted it without ads it was a
full ten dollar jump To standard definition with
no ads. Wow. And then right now, if you want
no ads and you want to be able to stream 4K,
which at this point, like 4K is starting to get
like phased out and everything's 8K now, or I
think there's like 5K and then 8K. It's like
the ultimate goal. They're just going to keep
moving the goalpost. What the hell is 5K? 5K
is more for like a lot of action cams have 5K.
So it's a lot of fast -moving footage is going
to be shot in 5K. But 8K is the ultimate goal
where everyone's trying to get to right now.
But 4K, no ads, $24 .99 a month. Good Lord. So
$300 a year, right? Is that right? Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, no, that's $300 a year. That is
absolute insanity. I will say that I'm kind of
not necessarily out of touch, but it is before
my time because I was, whenever I became an adult,
it was just streaming services. There was no
such thing as, there was technically such a thing
as cable. My first apartment came with, spectrum
cable boxes that i did not have a port for my
first apartment was an absolute nightmare they
gave me a cable box that sat in my closet until
i moved because there wasn't even a leaked a
jack yes it rained in my living room for a solid
month it was very fun and my apartment complex
ghosted me just like my therapist i think i might
have a pattern that i need to explore with a
therapist who sticks around But, yeah, no, so
I don't really have a great concept of what cable
would cost because I never had to pay for my
own, like, DVR and things. I mean, I had it when
I first moved out. We had the AT &T cable. I
think it was called the U -verse or something.
I don't know. I don't even know if it still exists.
Yeah. But that was one, maybe $100, $120 maybe.
And that was, I don't know, 12, 13 years ago.
Maybe 14 years ago at this point. Okay. But no,
definitely much cheaper than if you were to take
all these on. On your own. We've talked about
it before. That I think what all of this is shaping
up to be. Especially with the. Like the. Disintegration.
For lack of a better term. Of Hulu come 2026.
I think that this is all just leading up to them.
Reinventing cable. And I'm pretty sick of it.
I mean we're already getting that. With the.
Okay well you can get. Disney Plus. Or you can
also get Hulu bundled in and ESPN bundled in
for one great price. Yeah. Which is like $30
a month with ads. You can also get it with like
Showtime and Starz and all that jazz. I think
it's really interesting to look at where like
Gen Z and Gen Alpha are putting their kind of
buying power. Because a lot of the conversation
more recently has turned into more like slightly
nostalgic or like a little bit older of technology.
So a lot of people are leaning towards like flip
phones, a hole that I fell into, or they're leaning.
Apparently there's a push for people to get like
landlines again, which I think is fascinating.
I don't know that I would want to go that far
necessarily. Landmines. Oh. We're going to war,
guys. That makes sense. Protect yourself. To
be fair, if we do move back to landlines being
a part of the conversation again, I would like
to formally request a lava lamp phone for my
next holiday. Christmas, birthday, something.
I would like a lava lamp phone. Please and thank
you. I mean, you're in a building that was built
within the last five years, right? So there's
no way that there are systems in place for landlines.
It would have to be like a web -based phone in
your house. Like the MagicJack? So even that,
even the MagicJack needed a phone line. Yeah,
it just split. I mean, I guess that makes sense
because it was plugged into a computer that was
plugged into that. And then it also put it through
to a phone. Oh. So you don't even have the infrastructure
to have a landline. I mean, I might. There's
no way. I have not checked because I have not
considered it. The only landline that would be
at your apartment is either in the office or
it's at the pool. Where you can call them, you
can call the police if someone is actively drowning.
Only landlines in your building, I guarantee
it. And the elevators. Is that a landline? Yeah,
because you can't leave with it. Yeah. I mean,
technically, yeah. I would think so. Who's going
to build the infrastructure? That's what's wrong
with this upcoming generation. They don't think
about these things. They think everything just
appears. Please, enlighten me. Oh, there's just
landlines everywhere. It's dumb. Kids are dumb.
I'm sorry, how old are you? I'm old enough to
know better. You know what? After this episode
is over, once we've wrapped and the recording
stops, I am going to look around my apartment
because I am confident that I have something.
To plug in a landline. I am confident that you
will find an Ethernet port, if anything, that
is not a landline line. Is an Ethernet port not
a... See, this is what I mean. This is what I
mean. No, they're not the same thing. Wait. I
don't know what a landline thing looks like then.
But... I'm still going to look around my apartment
because I'm still curious. We'll see. I will
report back in the next episode. And you're going
to have to explain to me. I have a 20 plus year
old house and I think I probably have a landline
jack in every room in this house. I was going
to say, point to the credit of Gen Z and Gen
Alpha wanting landlines. Most people cannot afford
to be in new places. If I wanted to own a house,
Not a chance. I'm getting a newly built one.
Yeah. If I wanted an apartment and didn't want
to be house poor, I would not be in a newly built
apartment complex. Is your cat licking its paw
right now or its sphincter? His paw. What part
of that bend looks like his butthole? Before
it did. He had that leg stretched way up in the
air. Oh, then yeah, that was probably a different
story. Let's just adjust this. We're just window
shopping right now for houses. And boy, oh boy,
are people trying to sell. I mean, there's houses
all over the place. $5 ,000 price drop. $15 ,000
price drop. $30 ,000 price drop. So. If you kids
have the means and you just have to have your
precious landlines, now's the time to get them.
Yeah, now's the time to buy, guys. If you can
afford a house. It's a shame that I didn't just
have all this money saved up when I was busy
feeding my Nintendogs that I definitely abandoned
one of those one day. Well, you're living your
own. I'm sorry, Zeus. I guess they didn't because
they should have learned not to trust you to
keep them alive. But, oh well. Alright, Disney
Plus. Were you excited for Disney Plus when it
first came out? When it was first announced?
Was it something like, you're like, oh, I'm definitely
going to get this? Not really, no. Uh, mostly
because the only thing that was on it that I
cared to watch was the Simpsons. And while I
was really excited to have access to the Simpsons
again, Hulu had FX at the time. And so they had
access to the every Simpsons ever. And honestly,
that was enough. Like there wasn't a good enough
poll because I didn't watch Disney movies regularly
enough for that to make sense. Were they still
edited on FX or were they, Was that just a thing
that happened after they got put on Disney Plus?
Like the aspect ratios? Some of them, yeah. I
mean, all of them got the aspect ratio, and I
think that's something that they went in and
you could change it back, right? Can you do that
on Disney? Oh, okay. I think people raised enough
of a stink because there was a lot of visual
gags that you were missing out because they changed
the aspect ratio. Yeah. But no, there's like
jokes that got taken out because of Disney+.
I don't remember what they were. But yeah, I
mean, I don't remember hearing about it on FX,
but they probably did. I don't know. I don't
think there's anything in Disney +, or The Simpsons,
that is going to warrant heavy redaction. Unlike
probably something like Family Guy or... south
park but this was a conversation that nate and
i had recently about the merger with hulu and
disney and i don't like the idea of something
that is more where their brand identity is more
family friendly taking over hulu because i think
that if you've watched the newer like family
guy you can tell that it's been deeply watered
down from what it used to be and a lot of that
you will always credit to there have been changes
in writers like i don't think seth mcfarland
does anything outside of the voice work now but
so much of the the content of the episodes is
just really really tame compared to what they
used to do because they They made their name
off of being shocking, pretty offensive. Yeah.
And now it's just, it's, it's a little bit bland.
And I think that's kind of what we have to expect
moving forward. Cause like the, there were a
couple of things with family guys specifically
that like, there's an episode that they've completely
taken off every streaming service. It's only
exists on DVD, I believe. Which is. Partial Terms
of Endearment, an episode about abortion. There's
also an episode that was debated for a very long
time that it should have gotten banned, which
is one in which Peter, the father, the family
guy, adopts a mentally handicapped horse in this
episode, which is one of Family Guy's most well
-known. Peter fills his refrigerator with bottles
of horse semen. One of those bottles is used
as milk for their baby's cereal. He takes a real
shine to it. Controversial, yes. It's not a fun
scene to watch necessarily, but it's just...
what the show is supposed to be. It's all shock
humor. And now it is none. There was also one
on the chopping block that was called Turban
Cowboy. That one is still streamable. But in
that one, I think the reason that it was actually
controversial enough to have like, or the actual
part of it that got censored out was shortly
after the Boston Marathon bombing. This episode
came out, and in this episode, one of the cutaways
is Peter winning the Boston Marathon. How did
he win the Boston Marathon? He drove through
it. And so the cutaway is him on ESPN talking
about how he won, and he says, well, you know,
I just saw people in front of me, drove right
through them. Did not land well. I don't imagine
that. Given, uh... given the timing so they did
censor that out i think it's been put back now
but there was a while where it wasn't available
on the the streaming uh version of the episode
yeah and then there's a handful of uh the south
park episodes that are nowhere to be found unless
you have an illegal copy of them uh on paramount
because i don't think you can even get the episodes
on hbo anymore Yeah. No. They were. Were they
ever on HBO? I didn't think they were. I would
watch them because I had the ad -free HBO. Have
you seen them? So I'd watch all the old ones
ad -free on HBO, and then you'd have to watch
the new ones on Paramount. Have I seen them?
No. No, I've just seen clips of them. I haven't
actually seen the entire episodes. Yeah. I watched
them. Probably, like, five, six years ago. It's
been a while. But they are... I can understand
why they got pulled, especially because the subject
matter got them threats at their studio. Because
two or three of the episodes of, like, the four
that were eventually banned... contained depictions
of the Prophet Muhammad, which is an absolute
non -starter. It will get you in deep, deep trouble,
and it very much did. But one little fun fact
of lore about those episodes is that you find
out who Cartman's real father is. That's in one
of those episodes? You do. Okay. So if you are,
if you have watched South Park and you have not
watched these particular episodes, because I
think you have to go probably on like Reddit
or somewhere with a couple extra steps to watch
these days. Yeah. There is an episode of South
Park called Scott Tinnerman Must Die, I believe.
In this episode, Cartman is being bullied by
Scott Tinnerman. And the way that he chooses
to get revenge on this bully is by killing and
cooking Scott Tenderman's parents. As you do.
And feeding them to Scott Tenderman in Chile.
In one of the band episodes, you learn that Cartman's
father is Scott Tenderman's dad. He killed and
cooked his own dad and fed him to his half -brother.
I don't think so. Wild man. So that might be
worth cutting out because it is a little graphic,
but if you didn't know, now you know. Do you
remember how much Disney Plus was when it, well,
you paid yearly. Did you pay for the three -year
span, three -year block, or did you? I think
so. I think I bought the whole thing. It was
only like a couple hundred bucks for the three
years. It was $5 .99 a month. $6 .99 a month.
Sorry. And that was. Then yes, I paid for the
three years. And I believe. Okay. That was COVID
times. Yes. I believe it got launched in 21.
No. Or it got launched in. End of 19. Yeah. It
got launched in 19. I remember the first big
thing that I was excited for that they were dropping
on it was Hamilton. And that was July of 2020.
Yes. That was during COVID. Yeah. Yeah. Are you
excited for Hamilton to come back in theaters?
You going to go see it with the little peoples?
I don't know. We watched it recently. We watched
it when we were in San Antonio. I don't know
if it's something that I'd want to watch with
a group of people. Not in a live. Because, like,
we saw it here when it was in Dallas. And you're
not going to have people, like, screaming, singing
at the top of their lungs. But I think that you
might have that in a theater. So I don't know.
Sure. That was, yeah. Would you see it in theaters?
That was why I didn't want to see. You want to
see Wicked, right? I wouldn't unless I had the
kids with me. I would watch it with them because
I think it would be a fun experience for like
a group to do like the sing -along thing because
there's no way it's not going to be one. But
during, or I think like just after COVID, so
it would have been like 2021, Bo Burnham's Inside
came to theaters and I didn't want to watch it
in theaters because although I absolutely loved
Inside, I didn't want to watch. people my age
just crashing out singing all of his stuff for
an hour that sounded genuinely exhausting and
i had friends that went and they told me that
that was exactly what happened was it was just
a bunch of people losing their minds over bo
burnham's newest album and that just sounds awful
man if that is your thing by all means do you
does it come out labor day weekend Sometime in
September. I don't remember. I know it comes
out soon. Yeah, I mean, I would go if you wanted
to go. Around your birthday? We could take the
kids. I watched too many of the... What is it?
Best of Wives and Women? Best of... What is the
name of that song? Best of... The one that's
trending on TikTok right now, where it's a bunch
of women with the Lin -Manuel Miranda goatee
climbing out windows. Yeah. I don't know if you've
seen Ashby's take on it. She is... She does just
the best job of that trend. I don't know who
Ashby is. I'll have to send it to you later if
you haven't seen it. She's a, like, up -and -coming
TikToker. Hey. She also dresses as the Lorax.
Interesting. We're up -and -coming TikTokers.
Yeah, this is true. We just need to start participating
in more trends. I think you could totally pull
off an Eliza look if you wanted to participate
in this trend. Yeah. Maybe. One of my favorite
ones. I'd be willing to fake crawl through a
window. One of my favorite ones is take a break.
And he's trying to write stuff down and she's
singing to him about their Phillip's birthday.
And then she starts beatboxing. And the reactions
that these people have whenever she just breaks
out into... That's hilarious. Is that the same
as whenever Philip does his little poem? Yes.
Yeah. Okay. Those are his bars over her beat.
Okay, yeah. And then Hamilton's like, oh. I love
that TikTok is having a, a lenissance. Where
are we at? Disney Plus? Okay. Launched at $6
.99. And now it's $15 .99 for ad free. So $6
.99 before when I first started was ad free.
You could watch wherever you wanted. And then
$15 .99 is now that version. The ad supplemented
version is $9 .99. And I don't... They release
all this stuff. It's the same thing Netflix does.
They release all this hot, hot, hot garbage.
And then they're like, yeah, but like... So we
have to raise prices so we can bring you all
this entertainment. Like, I don't care about
that entertainment. Like, maybe... They should
have a plan where you don't get anything new.
They give you, hey, this is the price you get.
This is what you're going to have. And none of...
Tiered content instead of tiered ads. Yeah. So
you're not going to get Red Notice 7 or whatever.
Whatever that terrible movie with The Rock and
Ryan Reynolds was. Reynolds. Yeah. No, I'm good.
I'm good. Don't forget about our girl, Gal Gadot.
Isn't she in that one? Yeah, I believe so. Maybe.
Enough champagne to fill the Nile. Terrible.
Terrible actress. Terrible. And now she's coming
out saying that Snow White flopped because anti
-Semitism, Israel hate. That ballpark of excuses
couldn't possibly have anything to do with Rachel
Zegler being the most unbearable person on Earth,
her being the worst actress on Earth, and no
one asking for a live -action remake of Snow
White. Couldn't possibly be it. It's just everyone
else's problem. I will say, if... My additional
subscription revenue for Netflix is going towards
the god -awful CGI baby that was in Squid Game
Season 3. I might just cancel tomorrow. I think
I'm good. If that's what you're using my money
for, it is clearly going to waste. Yeah, it was
like Renesmee levels of bad. Mine and Tin Dog's
looked better than the one in that show. Again,
R .I .P. Zeus. Oh, sounds like someone has a
bit of a guilty conscience. Keeps bringing up
the digital dog she killed. He's still out there
somewhere. Yeah, I mean, those are, in my eyes,
those are the big three. I mean, you're constantly
getting pelted in the face with, hey, just so
you know, we're raising it up. We're having to
offset costs, so we have to raise subscription
fees. And it's a beating. And the whole streaming
model. I mean, if they were just trying to stream,
and that would be it. Like, hey, we have access
to this content. This is the content we can give
you. This is how much we're going to charge.
But it's not. Because then it's, okay, well.
Amazon Prime Video is included in your Prime
membership, so you're paying for it yearly. Can
you pay for Prime monthly? I have no clue. Anyways.
I think it's yearly. So you have that. And then
they're like, but hey, here's World of Worlds.
But from the screen of Ice Cube. for an hour
and a half and then we'll sprinkle in uh Eva
Longoria and then some other faces that you know
just on screens and it'll be one of the worst
movies that has come out and you don't know how
long but hey we're giving you content that you
pay us for and we are gonna throw every single
opportunity we have to slap you in the face let
you know that Amazon made this What? Yeah. You
need a drone? Tell you what, why don't you buy
a USB off of Amazon so I can activate this drone,
and then we can save the world with it. Oh, your
drone flipped over? Wait, for real? I'm dead
serious. Your drone flipped over? Hey, there's
a homeless guy right there. I bet if you gave
him a $1 ,000 Amazon gift card, he would risk
his life to flip that drone back over so it can
go back up in the air and it can save the world.
No joke. No joke. actual plot lines in this awful,
awful movie. That's going to be my next pitch
for Movie Night with Nate. We're watching War
of the Worlds. Well... Does it feel like a Transformers
movie? Because it sounds like a Transformers
movie. No. Where it's just all Microsoft surfaces
and Bing. Oh, I mean, in that sense, I guess,
but it's not literally one of the characters.
is a Amazon delivery driver. Wears his uniform
every single scene he's in. There's a photo of
him at his engagement party. He is in his goddamn
Amazon Prime delivery outfit. That is how awful
this is. I had heard so much about it that I...
If you propose to me in your Amazon Prime uniform,
it's going to be a no from me, dog. Same day
shipping of my love to you. I don't know any
other Amazon puns. I'm sure there's something
about Alexa in there. But yeah, I had to. It's
the first movie that has been on Rotten Tomatoes
that was a true zero. And so I obviously, I had
to check it out. Didn't even make it through
the whole thing. Naturally, yeah. I think maybe
I missed like 15 minutes of it. What if it gets
better? I've seen plenty of stuff saying it does
not get better. But yeah, if there was a subscription
model that said, hey, we won't give you new stuff
because all the new stuff is ass, then I would
totally be on board with that. But that is not
the case. What if your subscription model...
was based on the tomato meter. I would like to
pay for only 25 % and down. Give me I Know Who
Killed Me. Give me Madam Web. Did you not go
into that? Give me Ice Cube's War of the Worlds.
Oh, man. I don't want to watch someone else doing
commentary. I want to be a part of it. You want
to be the commentary? I piss Emily off when we're...
I mean, it's usually something that she picked
that I just poke all kinds of holes in. And she
gets to the point where she's like, I don't want
to watch anything with you. I was like, oh, okay.
Well, sorry that I'm using logic for these ridiculous
things that you're asking me to watch. We watched,
uh, we watched Novocaine, another fun movie on
Amazon Prime last week. Most of it. What'd you
think of it? Yeah, it was fine. It was a fun
watch. It was in. Incredibly unrealistic, predictable,
unrealistic. It expects you to suspend common
sense. What is it? Suspend your disbelief. Yeah.
Yes. For just, just so hard. Like, yeah, I know
you don't feel pain, but you've also broken literally
every bone in your body. You're not moving. You're
just not. Yeah. And like you get third. Fourth
degree burns on your hand. Like your hand will
not be functional. It may not hurt you. But you
can't use that hand. Yeah. You're also fused
to that gun. Like you're not letting go of it.
You can't move. Yeah. Bananas. Still a fun watch.
But yes. Very predictable. All right. For my
last bit. Because I think maybe we got a little
too preachy about the prices. So it's just bitching
about the price of everything. Kind of yelling
at the clouds. But we'll bring it all around.
We'll bring it. Bring it around town. Have I
been bitching about the prices of things? Huh?
Have I been bitching about the prices of things?
Because it's getting out of hand, man. It's been
getting out of hand. So. I. I'm a house liver
-inner, and I have a garage door. I also have
an affinity for smart devices. It's probably
the worst thing I could probably be invested
in because literally China could shut down my
entire house, but it's fun. It's fun to come
into a room and mess around with the lights on
my phone. It's fun to be six hours away from
home and be able to check if my garage door is
closed or not. What's not fun is that there are
so many things now that are attached to subscription
services. One of them, I have a... One of them
is a smart garage door opener So I can one check
to see if my garage doors open or closed To I
can close or open it with my phone So like if
I have someone coming over Then I can just open
it for them and they can walk in or do whatever
And everything's fine. I can do that from my
phone. But I found out that they have a subscription
service that luckily I don't have to pay for
because it's only through certain cars on Apple
CarPlay. But you have to pay $20 a year for one
car to have access. Everything's already there.
The software is there. The physical mechanisms
are already in place. For you to be able to push
a button on your CarPlay screen to open up your
garage door or close your garage door. $20 a
year for one car. You know how much it is for
more than one car? Or more than one device? So
say you have like two garage doors. $99 a year.
A 500 % jump just to add more than one. Garage
door or more than one vehicle. Yeah. You want
to hear another silly one? Tesla. What you got?
You can pay $9 .99 a month or $99 a year for
access to live traffic, visualization, satellite
view maps. video streaming music streaming and
the internet browser in your freaking car a hundred
dollars a year i don't i've seen a lot of ads
and things for the like things that will convert
your car play so that you can watch netflix and
stuff on your display like that is genuinely
terrifying to me i don't care if your car drives
itself watch the road What are you doing? Why
is Mindhunter more important than you being actively
on the highway right now? Just watch it on your
phone like a normal person while you're going
down the street. Why are you going to give Elon
more money, get him closer and closer to that
trillionaire status? I don't get it. You're right.
I mean, I'm on the same page, man. Mindhunter
is not more important. Unless you're watching
it on your phone while you're going 60 miles
an hour down the highway. But on that note, full
self -driving, but still supervised. So you still
have to be paying attention, but it's full self
-driving. Not if you pay $100 a year, you don't.
A year? Catch up on the season two of Tires.
$99 a month. Oh, wait, that's a month? A month.
$99 a month for access to software to control
hardware that is already in your car. Have you
watched... Man, I don't remember the name of
it. It's a new -ish Netflix movie with Julia
Roberts. No. It's an apocalypse movie. And there's
a scene in it where all of these Teslas... Huh?
No. Similar to it in vibe because it's still
like a... Yes. I keep wanting to call it As the
World Turns and that's definitely wrong. I'm
sure that's the movie that was produced by the
Obamas. Certain side of the internet have a lot
of problems with that movie. Naturally. But there's
a scene in this movie where like every one of
these Teslas in a dealership is overridden. And
so they just like are driving down the highway.
One of them comes to a full stop and every one
of these Teslas just like piles onto it. No drivers,
just destroying themselves. What I think of self
-driving, I always think of that scene in whatever
fast movie that was where they just start flying
off the parking garage. Like on the third, fourth,
fifth, sixth floor, all these cars just pile
into the street because they've been hacked.
Leave the world behind. Sorry. That was going
to bother me. But yeah. Yeah, self -driving features
include automatic lane changes, auto navigation,
ability to navigate to a destination and pass
slower cars. But I'm pretty sure that there's
a camera. That watches your eyes to make sure
that you are looking at the road. So why not?
Why? Why are you paying $100 a month for that?
For just to put your foot down and just keep
the car straight? And why is it? Why is it $99?
I understand that there's like running costs
with it. But don't you think at some point...
Those costs are going to go down with time, but
you know that the subscription price isn't going
to go down with time. It's just going to keep
going up. There is a growing number of Teslas
and Cybertrucks in the city of Austin that have
bumper stickers. Those bumper stickers are almost
across the board. I don't know the actual name
of the symbol, but like the circle with the slash
through it, the Ghostbusters thing that just
says Elon in the middle of it or a bumper sticker
that says, I bought this before we knew Elon
was crazy, which for the record, no, you absolutely
did not. He's been crazy. Ever since he got those
hair plugs. Anyway. I want to know how many of
those people have one of those, like, boo Elon
Musk bumper stickers, but also pay $100 a month
to access the internet and Netflix on their Teslas.
Yeah. I mean, yeah. We've spoken a couple times
about all that fake protesting and throwing a
bumper sticker on your car and calling it a day.
Yeah, usually hypocrites. Coexist, man. But that's
not even the most egregious car subscription
service. This one was so batshit crazy. And it
caused such an uproar that they were like, yeah,
never mind. We're just going to go back and do
this a little more secretively. And it was BMW
trying to charge you $18 a month to use the seat
warmers. Uh -huh. What? Yeah, it would have to.
So you already have the coils. You already have
everything in the seats that you need to turn
on the seat warmers, except you needed a software
to enable the heater to activate. And in order
for you to get that software, to enable the heater
to activate, you had to pay BMW $18. Was the
plan. People thought, rightfully so, that it
was so cuckoo bananas that they were like, yeah,
never mind. But, you know, they're going to come
back and... everyone's going to forget about
this, and then they'll be like, oh, by the way,
this is an added feature. You get seat warmers
for $36, but then you also get air conditioning.
They unlock the Freon, but that's premium plus.
It's even got free in the name. Oh my god. Can
we just be at the end of the simulation already?
I'm tired of whatever is happening right now.
I think it's time. I think it's time for a reboot.
The only time I will ever say that out loud.
Do you want to know my most ridiculous subscription
service? This is one that you actively pay for?
Or this is one... It is one that I used to. I
did at one point. So fun little story time. A
couple of years ago, I got my wallet stolen and
it like, it was only out of my sight for maybe
like two minutes before I realized. And it was
already very gone by then. So I was like, okay,
well, I don't want that to happen again. So have
you ever heard of tile? So tile. It was AirTags
before there were AirTags. They sell AirTags
that are specifically meant to go into your wallet.
They are these little things right here. Credit
card sized, but a little thicker. It's credit
card sized, yeah. What I didn't know when I bought
this thing, which was in and of itself fairly
expensive, considering it is just a card that
can be located, should I need to locate it, $100
a year. Just in the chance that my wallet were
to get stolen again, I would probably be able
to tell the police where to find it after it's
already guaranteed been disposed of. Did you
pay the $100? So it gave me a discount on my
first year whenever I bought it. And so I did
it for the first year. And I've had this thing
for probably like four or five at this point.
And it does not have any... Like, this is just
a... A credit card now. This is completely useless.
I still keep it. Well, I don't know why, but
I feel weird about throwing it out. Yeah. Can't
do anything with it anymore. I don't even know
if tile still exists. I don't either. I had one
at one point. It's got a button. There's a button
and I don't know what it does. It was like a
locator. Might be summoning the authorities right
now. But no, I had one of those too. Stupid as
hell. battery went out in it and then their big
their big uh thing then was like oh no you you
can't take out the battery you can't replace
the battery you have to send it in to us we'll
replace the battery and then we'll send it back
to you and oh don't you can't take it apart don't
take it apart because you do it voids the warranty
and then it would still work after you took it
apart and and replace the battery but Yeah, that's
a whole nother thing is planned obsolescence.
That should be an episode that we get to at some
point. And that. Oh, I'll definitely add that
to the list. But whenever we were at. Or we talked
about the whole 2020 COVID era. And one thing
that I found. during that time was i needed a
printer i had been furloughed from work so it
was like laid off but we'll bring you back at
some point and so i was just doing odds and end
stuff uh and found myself doing work that needed
a lot of printing i didn't have a printer so
just looked at best buy found one that had a
good deal went and got it brought it home make
sure you sign up for registration all this other
stuff sign up for instant ink. Have you ever
signed up for instant ink? I have. Yeah. When
I had my HP printer. So it is a service that
will count how many pages you print a month and
it will charge you that. So like I have the,
the 20, uh, this is as far as I know, the most
up to date breakdown of it. Uh, if you print
up to 50 pages, it's five 49 a month. So it's
a sliding scale on what the subscription cost
is. But what it'll do is it'll send you ink,
which at face value seems okay, fine. That seems
like it's going to be way cheaper if I'm paying
$5 .49 a month, and then it knows when I need
ink, and it just sends me ink. I replace them,
and Bob's your uncle. Everything's good, right?
But the problem is that you lock yourself into
using those cartridges. And those cartridges
can just say, yeah, we're not printing anymore.
If you don't make that monthly payment, then
the printer tells the cartridge, do not print.
So you have this ink in your possession, but
your printer is getting a signal from the subscription
service saying, hey, stop work because we don't
have payment. Your printer tells the ink, hey,
don't print anything because we don't have payment.
And you're just sitting here and it's completely
bricked up your printer. After you've paid $120,
$130, however much I paid for it, for the printer
itself. And then when you go in to, like, you
take those. bullshit cartridges out and you put
in your own, you have like seven different, hey,
this is an instant ink cartridge. This is an
instant ink cartridge. Are you sure you want
to use anything but an instant ink cartridge?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, all this other stuff.
And still to this day, I have not used those
cartridges in I don't know how long. I still
get a notification on the printer screen saying
you need instant cartridges. Or otherwise, printing
may be delayed or otherwise interrupted. So ridiculous
that we have let it go this far. And I mean,
if you have something that, say, maybe two or
three times a week that you're printing stuff
off, you're easily going to blow through 300
pages. And that is $16 a month. Yeah. 700 pages
is $32 a month. And these prices are only for
ink, not the paper. So you also have to factor
in the cost of paper, too. And the last one I
have is one that I've posted on our Instagram
a while ago because I was so appalled by it.
And it is a subscription service to 7 -Eleven
for... $9 .95 a month or $99 a year. I'm so sick
of this $9 .99 attitude being used on everything.
Oh, well, it's just $99. It's not $100. It's
still two digits. It's $9 .99. It's not $10.
Yeah. So tired of it. You want to know what you
get with a 7 -Eleven subscription? What do you
get? Seven free drinks every month. This is another
problem that I have with these subscription services.
If you are paying for a subscription, nothing
in it is free. So you say, oh, but you get this
for free. No, I don't. No. It's $10 a month,
but I get seven drinks. So whatever 10 divided
by 7 is, that's how much it costs. You get an
extra 5 cents off per gallon. But I'm sure that
there is a cutoff there. Because there's an asterisk.
They push that one pretty hard on us whenever.
I worked at 7 -Eleven. Oh, yeah? Oh, that's right.
Were you part of the marketing team for this?
It was when they first rolled out 7 -Eleven Gold.
Yeah, I think that's what it's called. No. I
was not in marketing. I was in analytics. Unlimited
free delivery and 10 % cash back. Who is getting
their 7 -Eleven delivered? You don't go to 7
-Eleven on purpose. I don't know. It was just
on the side of the highway that you were on.
I don't know who this is for. I don't know who
in their right mind is spending $9 .95 a month
for these perks. Or, God forbid, someone spending
$100 a year. And then exclusive delivery. It
has to be just employees of the corporate office.
I don't know. It's just it boggles the mind.
Boggles the mind. But that's all I got for this
episode. My inner old man shining through. I'm
just tired of it. I have one more thing. Not
necessarily about subscriptions, but reasons
that I would be ending my subscriptions to a
couple things. There is a push right now for...
It's already happened in the UK. There is talk
of it coming to the States. And if it does, I
will be canceling my subscriptions. And that
is for Spotify and YouTube to start requiring
a picture of your ID. I will absolutely be canceling
my subscriptions if that happens. There's talks
of that with GTA 6. I understand why they're
doing it, theoretically. Yeah, won't be doing
that. No, there's no way. No way I'm going to
be uploading a picture of my ID for anything
that doesn't need it. Like it's not a legal requirement.
For anything, yeah. Right. What's the reason?
Absolute insanity. Just to make sure that it's
you? So there is explicit content on both YouTube
and Spotify. The reason that they've given, the
reason that they implemented it in the UK was
because... minors were getting on these apps
and were looking at things they shouldn't have
or were listening to things that they shouldn't
have. Podcast episodes, explicit content, whatever.
The way that you would prove that you're of age
to actually consume this content is with your
ID. Apparently Spotify has had for a long time.
A metric where they'll just like kind of guess
what your age range is based on the content that
you consume, which I'm also not happy about.
I know that it happens in literally everything
that I pay for these days or any website that
I visit, any whatever. But the second that they
require me to put my ID in so that I can listen
to music, I'm done. So you listen. If I can't
watch Y -Files without my ID, I'm done. I'm good.
So you listen to. Bluey, you listen to Miss Rachel,
you listen to Rafi, and then you turn on an episode
of Joe Rogan. Then you're going to get shut out
because it thinks that you're just a child that
stumbled into an episode of a show that you shouldn't
be listening to, that they dictate you shouldn't
be listening to. How far away is that from, you
have to have, when you're using their services,
you have to have your phone in front of your
face so they can constantly scan you to make
sure that it is you, a legal adult, that is watching
this content. I'm not, I also have a lot of thoughts
when it comes to the state of surveillance at
the moment. Don't need to dive down that rabbit
hole. Do you need to bring Nate in on that one?
However. Yes. Now, him and I have had this conversation
so many times that I'm pretty sure he's tired
of it. I tend to get a little bit riled up. That
makes for a good episode. Because it's really
frustrating. Well, so the TLDR, the thing that
frustrates me the most is that Walmart had to
come out pretty recently because... Virginia
had put a law in place that had required them
to disclose that they had been tracking people's
reproductive purchases. Pads, tampons, condoms,
etc. I was on a border state, but I was connected
to a server in Virginia and I got that pop up
whenever I was in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not
a statement that they have. just started recording
your information and that, like, it's not a warning
of, hey, like, we're about to do this. It was
Virginia lawmakers saying, hey, you have to tell
them that you've been doing this. Yes. And so
I'm not going to participate in any more of this
stuff than I am actually required to. Well, I
definitely think that would make a good episode.
So let's schedule something with Nate. Yeah.
I mean, it's going to be a little tough to add
levity to, uh, Hey, did you know that everybody
is watching or people are watching her every
single move at all times? Because the King of
levity. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we missed the boat
on Sydney Sweeney to be fair. I do argue that,
uh, jeans that passed off and pass offspring
is still a pretty funny, pretty funny read. It's
at least one lighter moment in that episode.
It is, yeah. Because it's just nonsense. It is.
But hey, the whole world's nonsense. All right.
Well, we got anything to wrap this up with? Any
words of wisdom? It's maybe another call to action.
I think it is time that we go back and start
buying movies. And CDs. Hard copies. That they
can't take away from you? Hard copies. Own your
things. Don't let the... Don't let the man...
Don't let the streaming giants... Tell you what
you can and can't watch. Own all of the things
you concern. Consume. Don't let the man dictate
what you can and can't watch. Have hard copies.
If nothing else, you get some exercise getting
off the couch. And... Putting in a DVD. Putting
in a Blu -ray. Putting in a CD. Good luck finding
a CD player in a modern car. But maybe just get
one of those. I mean, even in that case, you
could still burn them back onto your computer.
Good luck finding a modern laptop with a CD drive
in it. That's a fair point. Yeah. It's all on
purpose, man. It's all on purpose. They took
away. I want the simulation to end. They took
away all of your ownership so that they could
completely own you. And on that, we'll see you.
Sounds like a lot of hoopla. Peace out, Girl
Scouts.