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Are Movie Ticket Prices Out of Control? · The Lineup by CableTV.com. Stop Overpaying. Start Watching.

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  Welcome to CableTV .com's The Lineup. Today,
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  we are going over our recent survey data, the
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  average cost of a movie ticket, and we're answering
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  a very important question. Are Americans sneaking
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  in snacks to the movie theater? Let's get into
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  it. All right, joined by two of the best, Nathan
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  Sherman and Eric Openshaw. Welcome in, guys.
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  Hey, how's it going? Good hey excited to be talking
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  about the average cost of a movie ticket because
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  like everything else nowadays The price is only
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  going up but how much? Yeah, no this survey is
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  really it's been really fun to look at the data
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  First off craig since you were crunched the numbers.
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  Why did we even run this survey in the first
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  place? Like what's what's why is it worth digging
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  into? Well, I mean with the average age of streaming
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  and everything that's going on. We really want
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  to get sentiment on how people view their entertainment
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  so what we did is we surveyed about a thousand
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  people nationwide movie fans. And then we also
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  collected data from 48 different states. I mean,
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  for some reason, Rhode Island and Vermont were
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  lacking, so they're not on there. But that's
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  where we got our national averages for tickets
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  and concessions. OK, OK. Well, so then I guess
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  that begs the question, what is the actual average
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  cost of a movie ticket? Yes. So I'm curious,
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  like when you back in your day, where were you?
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  How much was it, Eric? Probably like like $10
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  a ticket. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like $8 to 10.
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  Guys get this, we are sitting
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  at $16 and 30 cents for the national average.
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  That's just for a ticket. Well, you know that
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  makes sense because I definitely have been feeling
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  it each time I go I've been choosier too with
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  the movies that I want to go see
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  because it I can feel it in the wallet, you know.
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  Yeah, you almost have to be right? Eric go ahead
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  and pull up that map for us because that's the
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  national average and let's look at it by state
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  I mean just off the hip who do you think is the
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  most expensive right now? What state is leading
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  the way? Oh? New York $25. Oh my goodness, $25?
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  Yeah, right crazy great and then 20 bucks in
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  California $20.61.
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  I Came from Midwest and
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  I was definitely expecting some of them like
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  most of the Midwest to be cheaper but that's
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  not necessarily the case. Okay...
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  Which one is the cheapest state? Okay, so
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  there are some states where you can you know
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  find money in the couch cushion and go off to
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  a movie It's not super expensive, our neighbors
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  to the south, Arizona. Okay, They are $12 and
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  73 cents while Tennessee closely behind $12 and
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  74 cents. Wisconsin's not too bad either. Well,
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  I actually never would have guessed these three.
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  I probably would have said like North Dakota
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  just cost of living super low. But right. I mean,
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  Arizona's cost of living isn't like the lowest.
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  It's probably in the mid-range but pretty cheap for
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  tickets. So that's great news for you Arizonians.
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  No, but if you're planning on moving to a state
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  strictly for the movie cost tickets, here you
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  go. These are your three states to look into.
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  Wisconsin, number three, Tennessee, number two.
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  Yeah, I know that I know cost of a movie ticket
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  is the top priority for anyone moving to a different
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  state 100 %. That's what that's what everyone's
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  first priority is. Okay, Singular movie tickets
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  only though. This is singular movie tickets.
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  Okay, let's look into date. Nice. I mean, there's
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  some of us I'm not gonna judge. I mean Quick
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  poll do either of you go to the movie alone?
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  Never not anymore. I mean I do because my wife
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  hates movies, but I've done it once or twice,
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  but usually it's like a night out for my wife
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  and I okay, so it's a date night Okay. So two
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  tickets, two drinks and a large popcorn. Okay.
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  What do you think the national average is? I
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  guess if a ticket is what it was $15 or something
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  in the average, maybe like a $35. Well, I'm going
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  to say, I'm going to say $55. Okay. Eric, right
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  on the money. $54 and eight cents. Okay. That's
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  a date night. I'm feeling that a little bit.
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  I'm going to the movie tonight. My wallet's crying
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  just a little bit. OK, you know, yeah, well,
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  now that you say that large popcorn is like a
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  couple of bucks more than the actual ticket itself
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  usually. So that makes for sure. That's for sure.
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  And New York, they kind of follow the same trend
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  here. The average their cost for a date night
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  is going to be $73.39
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  with Hawaii $10
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  cheaper. They're the second most expensive.
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  $63.34. That's kind
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  of crazy that there's a $10 difference between
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  New York and Hawaii and you're paying about $75
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  a ticket or no for a movie date night in New
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  York. I mean, like I feel like if I had $75 to
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  go on a date, I could do so many other like really
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  cool stuff than just see a movie unless it was
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  probably a movie I like. I really, really wanted
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  to see. So which probably just means I would
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  see a lot less movies, right? Is that the case
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  for y'all? Yeah. 100%. I mean, maybe call me
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  broke, but that's not just a, Hey, let's go to
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  the movies. That's maybe we got a, we got a plan
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  around that to get to the movies. What are some
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  options that you would go to? Like, what would
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  you do with $75 to have like a really good date
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  night instead of maybe see like a movie that
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  you were kind of like, Oh, maybe I'd see that.
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  Okay. Well, I mean, first of all, you got to
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  go to dinner. That that's a big part. I mean,
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  I'm a big fan of the chilies. Give me a trip.
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  Give me a triple dipper. Okay. That's money out
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  of the pocket. Yeah, no, I was thinking I recently
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  like Go -karting there's a place called the grid
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  that's close by and the race is like $30 Go like
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  having a date night go -karting You probably
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  just wouldn't do as often as you probably would
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  think about going to a movie But if you have
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  $75 instead you could spend it up otherwise I
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  know also a lot of people the way they're trying
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  to save money now too is by going to less of
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  the movies and just renting the movie at home
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  they got Sound bar, a nice sound bar. Oh, yeah
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  TV so you got you spent $20 to rent a movie and
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  you got what? You know $55 left to buy snacks
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  desserts, you know, whatever you like really
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  Yeah, I mean streaming definitely has been disruptive
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  and that's cause I think more people will stay
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  home Throw some popcorn in the microwave grab
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  a couple cans of soda save some money. I mean,
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  there's still some relatively low cheaper states
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  For date nights when it comes to going to the
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  movie Okay, Tennessee, $44 .73, Wisconsin, $46
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  .71. Okay, still kind of come a long way from
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  just picking up, you know, hopping in the car
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  and, you know, going to the movie. No, for sure.
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  No, I think that's really interesting. Like that's
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  definitely the trend, like in this economy, right?
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  Like people are just finding ways to save money.
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  And one of my favorite stats from this survey
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  was how many people are sneaking in snacks. First
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  of all, I'm not going to admit anything, but
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  I understand why people do it. You don't want
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  to incriminate yourself? I'm not going to incriminate
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  myself. Plead the fifth? Plead the fifth. Confession,
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  confession right here? Yeah. Let's go with a
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  solid 71 % of our respondents admitted to sneaking
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  in snacks to the movies. Yeah, the majority of
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  Americans almost. three and four Americans are
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  sneaking in snacks, which is pretty crazy. So
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  if you sneak in a snack and you're worried that
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  someone's judging you a 100%, they're
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  doing it too. Don't, don't feel shame. They,
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  everyone else is doing it. I'm not condoning
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  it. Right. But it's, that's pretty, uh, that's
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  pretty, that's a high number. Yeah. No. And I've
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  seen some pretty wild stuff gets snuck into the
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  theater. Um, one time I saw a family like pull
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  out a full, like several like a box of watermelon
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  wedges like full on and just a bottle of
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  Tajin just loading that up on there and just munching
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  away like it's a summer party, you know in the
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  theater. Hey, don't don't let me catch you smacking
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  on some watermelon in the middle of the Odyssey.
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  Okay, That's going to ruin my movie-going experience
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  super quick, but let's put a bow on this. All
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  right. Let's talk about what I think some ways
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  that maybe you can make this more variable, right?
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  Some ways to save money at the movies. One thing,
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  especially here in the state of Utah, some of
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  these discount days, right? $5 Tuesdays, matinee
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  Mondays. A lot of our respondents are planning
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  their movie-going trips around those days. So
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  something to keep an eye on if that's available
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  in your state. Yeah, 100%. That's like the
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  way to do it. I, we were trying to see a movie
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  the other day with my wife and she was just like,
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  let's go on a Tuesday instead. It was a weekend,
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  but she was like, we're going to save like $15
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  just by going on a different day. So that's a
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  perfect way to save. Um, and if you're like the majority
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  Americans sneaking a little food too, may save
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  you, you know, 10 bucks on, you know, what you
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  would buy at the concessions. So a hundred percent.
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  Okay, and look into some loyalty programs. A
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  lot of you just sign up. You can save on concessions,
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  you save on snacks, movie tickets, some different
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  kinds of fees. Another great way to go, hey,
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  and like Nathan said, and I'm not going to condone
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  this, and I'm not going to tell anyone to sneak
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  in a movie snack, but I will say when you are
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  wearing a long-sleeve shirt, a burrito does fit
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  snugly inside, and it kind of keeps you warm,
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  and it's a perfect holder, but that's totally
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  unrelated. You got to balance it out, one on
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  each side. Gotta balance it out. I didn't say
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  that. I didn't say that. You technically got
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  two spaces if you think about it, right? Yeah,
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  that's four burritos. Do the burrito math. No.
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  So some great ways to save some money, but if
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  you're looking, you know, still go out, enjoy
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  the movie, but take advantage of those, you know,
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  certain discounts. What we're going to do is
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  we're going to be back here every week giving
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  you ways to save on your entertainment, giving
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  you stats, talking about some surveys, talking
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  about some data, diving into it and giving you
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  alternative choices to really stream and get
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  your entertainment.