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Apps and subscriptions · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: In the news there, Alison was saying that the I
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  Speaker 1: guess the subscription cost of Spotify is going up. I
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  Speaker 1: think I've got a free Spotify account. I never use it,
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  Speaker 1: I never listen. But Zachar, I know you're in the music.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a Spotify or you a Spotify guy?
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  Speaker 1: And will the will the price increase matter to you?
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  Speaker 2: I am not. I have one of the only things
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  Speaker 2: I subscribe to other than like HBO and I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember what else, like two streaming platforms and YouTube Premium,
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  Speaker 2: because I've always listened to music on there. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: like when I'm driving, I can put it on, like
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't show ads during songs. That's the only reason
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  Speaker 2: I have it there, Like I can listen to it
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  Speaker 2: and then minimize it and look at other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The significance of her story is that it reminded me
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  Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of crap I need to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of. I subscribe to things like right, I got Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure why right.
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  Speaker 2: I subscribe the only one who uses it.
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  Speaker 1: Few months ago, like eight in mine, I subscribed to
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  Speaker 1: Netflix and I can't remember why I did it. Was
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  Speaker 1: there something on there? I wanted to see or why
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  Speaker 1: am I paying for Netflix. I have no idea. I
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  Speaker 1: just cut off the Fubo this past week, so as
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  Speaker 1: soon as this bill Psycho is over with, it doesn't renew.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. I only get that for college football because
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  Speaker 1: I want to, you know, have access to ESPN Big
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  Speaker 1: ten network. So I've got that. I've got. I got
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  Speaker 1: a thing today from Amazon Prime telling me that my
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  Speaker 1: price for Paramount is going up. The thing of it
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  Speaker 1: is is I also I've got Paramount. I paid for
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  Speaker 1: it by the year and Amazon I apparently I have
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  Speaker 1: it through Amazon as well for another thirteen ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: a month. So I got to cut that. But it
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  Speaker 1: just when when Allison said that about Spotify, it just
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  Speaker 1: made me think, I've got I've got Amazon Music for
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  Speaker 1: ten bucks a month. I don't know why I don't
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  Speaker 1: listen to music, do you. I have no idea why
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  Speaker 1: I even have it. Got. I've subscribed to some MLS
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  Speaker 1: for my real estate stuff. It's not the Columbus Board
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  Speaker 1: of Realtors MLS. It's a different MLS. I haven't used
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  Speaker 1: it once since the day I subscribed to, so I
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  Speaker 1: got to cut that off. I subscribe to some AI
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  Speaker 1: thing for creative. You know superhero pictures I was doing
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  Speaker 1: last week. That's where it came from. And it was
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  Speaker 1: something cheap, something really cheap, I think eight bucks a
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  Speaker 1: month or something like that. And then I got an
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  Speaker 1: add on for another seven bucks a month. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I was using it, and then it goes, oh, you've
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  Speaker 1: used up all your AI for the month. You have
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe to a higher level to get more. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. So I got to cancel it now.
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  Speaker 1: Now I got to go home and cancel a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Thanks Allison, thanks for ruining my evening by
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  Speaker 1: having a Spotify story.
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  Speaker 2: She's helping you save money.
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  Speaker 1: I wish she'd helped me figure out why I was
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  Speaker 1: spinning it in the first place. I don't think she
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  Speaker 1: can do. I just it bugs me that I have
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I don't I don't even remember why I
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  Speaker 1: got it.
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  Speaker 2: You know how much money they make from stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably a lot, yeah, yeah, probably quite a bit. I've
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  Speaker 1: got the Hulu, which I guess is going away in
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  Speaker 1: favor of Disney Plus. I switched to Hulu from Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't I don't pay for those necessarily they
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  Speaker 1: are part of my Kroger Plus subscription that I got
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  Speaker 1: so the Queen would not have to venture out to
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store, and she still does. And I've so
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  Speaker 1: I've got it. I don't really use it, but the
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  Speaker 1: kids watch stuff on there, I guess, So that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I got the the what do you call what's the
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  Speaker 1: Walmart delivery service? What's that called? Is that Walmart Plus? Sure? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got that because it made Christmas easier. They deliver
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  Speaker 1: stuff and and you know, you don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: to the store and deal with that. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I have any streaming services through that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm just I need to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and do like an Excel sheet of all the crap
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  Speaker 1: that I'm paying for every month and then see what
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  Speaker 1: I'm using and what I'm not using, because that's that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of stupid.
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  Speaker 2: I did that once I had stuff I was subscribed to.
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  Speaker 2: I think I had like two Netflix subscriptions and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know why, and there was some stuff like that
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  Speaker 2: that I had, not not to the extent that you
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  Speaker 2: had it, but I I found this app or there
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  Speaker 2: they're like rocket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I was just thinking about that Rocket
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  Speaker 1: money or something like that, So that looks cool. But
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  Speaker 1: then do you have to give them access to your
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts and stuff though, because I'll see I don't
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so you. I think it's a free
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  Speaker 2: trial or something. But then they're like, all right, you
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  Speaker 2: have this many blah blah blah blah blahs, and you
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  Speaker 2: can get rid of this, subscribe this and this.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want us to cancel it, you need
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe to us.
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  Speaker 2: Right maybe, but it said like you have to put
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  Speaker 2: in your Netflix password, your Amazon path, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: remember any of them. They weren't my phones.
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  Speaker 1: I just gave up the stuff that and this is
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  Speaker 1: this brings me to something that they're advertising have Obviously
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  Speaker 1: they make money somehow, so I want to know how
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  Speaker 1: if you've used that Rocket money thing and it's gone well,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you at a two
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  Speaker 1: on WTV. And also, while I'm thinking about it, what's
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  Speaker 1: that blasted video game that they've got all the celebrities
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  Speaker 1: doing commercials for and they there's it says no in
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  Speaker 1: at purchases and you don't have to download anything? What
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  Speaker 1: is that? What is that one? You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about? You play it on your phone, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean they've had some big time notable celebrities doing commercials.
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  Speaker 1: Is Oh my gosh, some king something Kingdom is. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's something. But here's what I want to know.
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  Speaker 1: Why do they want you playing this game so badly?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't cost you money to play the game. There
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  Speaker 1: are no in at purchases. According to their advertising, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to download the game onto your device, but
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  Speaker 1: they can afford to pay all these big Hollywood types
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  Speaker 1: to do commercials for them, So that you why I
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's something covert going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's yeah, So here's what happens. It's not that curse.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mind control thing. That's what it is. Now.
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  Speaker 2: You say you're a level two hundred, then you get
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  Speaker 2: a level two hundred and one, blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Say there's a really hard level. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's little like power up things that you can earn
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  Speaker 2: through the game, and if you're having a really hard time,
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  Speaker 2: you could like buy two of them for a buck
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: So you there are in at purchases there not.
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  Speaker 2: To play the game, but to get through it faster.
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  Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah, it's still there. Semantics, right, semantics the
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  Speaker 1: casino things they're advertising, those like crazy you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to spend real money, but you can win real money.
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  Speaker 1: How how is that possible? How is that possible? I
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. Car shield and what's the other one?
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  Speaker 1: There's another what's the other car? An extended car warranty thing,
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  Speaker 1: which on the surface, I like the idea. Now, I've
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  Speaker 1: talked to a couple of mechanics that I have used,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't accept these warranties. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: widely accepted they are. But they're paying ic Tea to
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  Speaker 1: do their commercials. They're play paying on what's her name,
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  Speaker 1: Vivicafox to do commercials for And you know, if your
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  Speaker 1: car has under one hundred and fifty thousand miles, you
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  Speaker 1: can get a ex and that way you won't have
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  Speaker 1: to pay seven thousand dollars for me. So if they
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  Speaker 1: are putting warranties on all these cars, I'm imagine they
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  Speaker 1: probably cost you one hundred bucks a month or so,
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  Speaker 1: but you got it for six months six hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: you paid for and then they have to replace a
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  Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars engine. How are they making money? There's
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  Speaker 1: just too much. I don't believe anything.
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  Speaker 2: If it sounds too good to be true.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it is. Yes, and especially with that
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  Speaker 1: game that that it'll come to me something. Kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: the name of it. Royal Kingdom, thank you. I seriously.
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  Speaker 1: There was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation
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  Speaker 1: where everybody was obsessed with this game. It had a
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  Speaker 1: thing that went on your head and you'll went right
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  Speaker 1: into your retinas, so the game was like right in
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  Speaker 1: front of you. And the whole crew ended up playing
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  Speaker 1: this and they were letting this ship get into danger
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  Speaker 1: because they weren't paying attention. They were they were addicted
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  Speaker 1: to playing this game. And I feel like, seriously, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that is kind of like what this thing is?
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  Speaker 1: It just it. It doesn't make any sense that they
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  Speaker 1: are making so much. Which money they can pay All
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  Speaker 1: these celebrities don't come cheap.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. Kevin Hart did one with the game.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you it was probably it was probably at
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  Speaker 1: least one hundred and fifty grand for Kevin Hart to
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  Speaker 1: do that commercial. Sure easy, so they're making a ton
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  Speaker 1: of money in order to pay these celebrities. Why why
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  Speaker 1: do they want you playing this game? You think I'm nuts,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. No, I don't mean to be a tenfoil
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  Speaker 1: hat guy, but I'm just I'm very skeptical of everything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now. I just pulled it
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  Speaker 1: up on the screen here to see if I could
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  Speaker 1: see anything else. It was like a big red flag.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, if you, if you play that game, I
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  Speaker 1: want to hear from you. If you got the car
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  Speaker 1: warrantine and it actually worked out, I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. If you if you did the rocket money
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  Speaker 1: thing and able to save yourself on subscriptions, I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you. A two one nine eight eighty six.
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  Speaker 1: A two one WTV is the number. The uh. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta stop all these subscriptions. I've just I've got to
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  Speaker 1: stop all these subscriptions, especially since I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I have them in the first place.