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So this week on what you need to know, we're going to talk about something that we've talked about quite a lot actually in the past, but never to this level
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So especially in streaming's been around for years and years and years now
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It's a very, very popular form of viewing for, I mean, some of us on the show, that's all we do is one movie and have for many, many years
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But now more than ever, it's become a part of people's life
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So we kind of want to do a rundown of some of our favorite streaming networks
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And maybe the ones that they might not necessarily be our favorites, but we have them or use them
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And they provide the best bang for your buck, as it were
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So I guess the simple question is, what are your favorite streaming networks
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Or which do you use the most often? I guess is a better way to go. Let's see
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Well, I use Pluto, which is totally free on your Roku. and on other devices, it's completely free
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And you know what? It's got, if you haven't seen it, check it out. You just got to get the app
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So I watch it on the Roku. I believe it's also available like on a fire stick
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But so Pluto has a very strange. It's like having cable, which I kind of like the feeling of that
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So I can kind of flip through channels again like in the old days. But so it's got like a bunch of like movie sections at the beginning
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And yes, they're old movies that they kind of play over and over. Like a whole month and a half is devoted to the exact same movies
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But so it gets a little bit old, but they're fun. They're like old classic
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Like there's a whole channel that's just romance movies. There's three horror channels
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There's an asylum channel. If you like asylum films, there's nothing but asylum films all day long on that channel
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There's a whole comedy section. There's like a British TV section, which is my favorite section because I get to watch Father Ted
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So I love Father Ted. Don't like Ram Blaine him, but I love Father Ted
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There's an American Gladiator's channel. Yeah. Which is pretty awesome. If I'm not mistaken, is there not an MST3K channel
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There is an MSC. Yes, there is. Yeah. And a separate Rift Tracks channel too
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Wow. Okay. Yeah. I remember this. And I also feel like there's a Bob Ross channel
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I could be wrong. But, yeah, I actually like Pluto. Pluto is pretty cool
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You're reminding me I should download that on my fire stick in my office. They just recently added a Three's Company channel, so Three's Company all day down
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Here's the funny thing, because I've actually been watching it for the past, like, hour and a half, two hours
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They used the same opening from like the first season or two with Chrissy
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but they're in the seasons with Cindy. So they know who the moneymaker was for that show, obviously
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We got to hook them still. Yeah. I was there for two hours, so
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It was a fun-ass show. It's in the Mr. Furley years. Oh, boy
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Wow, great outfits. Pluto's cool, because back in the day when the streaming channels first started
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I remember, I think Crackle was one of them. It was like, it's free, it's free
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But it was commercials like every 45 to 60 seconds, constant, constant commercials
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They've gotten a whole lot better with that. now um i think that it's they're spaced out like normal television like there's only two commercial
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break even one commercial break in a in a 20 minute show i don't think there's any commercial well no there are during the movies but they are the same commercials but then that's kind of like
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regular tv too so i mean cost wise you can't beat it because it's free but uh you you don't have
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to worry about the constant barrage of commercials like it was like 10 years ago when you
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it was more commercial than show so yeah Pluto's pretty cool actually though you don't
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do have to be willing to watch the same movies over and over and over again
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I mean, if you like, there will be blood, then, yeah, that's all you get to watch it over and over again
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I'll drink that milkshake. I was trying to think of a milkshake thing. So what was the question
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Which streaming network do you spend the most time and or money on Oh the most time Okay so I was thinking about this I been on a net I been on Netflix for like over time Can it be over 10 years
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It's got to be. I feel like, yeah, I feel like I've been a Netflix member for at least that long
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But the one I've been using more lately is Amazon Prime. I don't have, I don't have Apple TV and I don't have some of these other ones
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But like, I have Hulu and Hulu life. but and that's really only good for like for me it's like watching the sports right now
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but amazon prime they have such a broad uh and kind of eclectic group of movies on there and
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sometimes it's it's stuff you want to see in big and big hits and stuff but then if you go digging
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through the what's available for a prime member um there's all sorts of weird stuff that's worth
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watching and cool documentaries and uh you also get all the benefits of being and if you're an amazon
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hate or whatever. I don't know. That's your deal. But, like, I order shit all the time
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And, like, that's... And having all these movies on my, you know, available on top of having some of those bonus
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features, which include my shutter subscription, which I also use a lot of
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But I use that basically exclusively through Amazon Prime. Amazon, and you're right, they are so eclectic
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And if you dig through it, it's pretty nuts. Like, you can find..
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I just randomly found wrestling. professionally wrestling from Memphis, Tennessee, from the late 70s to mid-80s
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which is like the craziest shit to find. Because it's not, it's like not on the WWE network or anything
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But it's on, it's on Amazon for whatever. But you're right, they have
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they have a good selection. They have a really good selection of movies, actually
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They do. It's a really good. I don't use Amazon Prime that much
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It's not because I don't like it or anything. It's not, I'm not changing a stance on it
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I just, it's usually someone else will be like, oh, it's on Amazon Prime. So I'll watch it
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type of thing. Sure. Sure. I rent my movies through there, too, though
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Like, that's like the service I use predominantly. If I'm going to rent a movie that's available on streaming, that's what I'll use too
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So, I mean, yeah, they're getting some money from me. them. They got stuff I want
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Yeah, I mean, they kind of deserve it, right? Yeah. I agree
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I use a lot of frames. Oh, sorry. Talk about you. No, no, go free. Because I don't use price
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Well, no, that's where I found that movie strange behavior. I couldn't find anywhere else
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I found you on Amazon frame, and it was free. So that was cool. And then, like, I mean, you have, like, a really good collection of TV shows, too
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Yeah, they've had some really good TV shows. Fleabag, I guess. Is that, is that a prime one
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That one's really good. Oh, the Bois. The Boys is on there
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Yeah. They've made that super worth keeping around. Yeah, they have. There was the, uh, what's the one with Hugh Grant
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A very, a very English scandal, I think it is. Yeah. Very English
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Yeah. Well, that's basically, that's, you're, you're. That's kind of what it's about, actually
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That's the pervaying attitude of that. But, yeah, really good shows on there
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You mentioned Shudder also, which if you're a horror fan, it's, you know, it's an amazing, amazing channel to have
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The documentaries on there are great. They just came out within search of darkness
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which is like a four-hour documentary about 80s horror. There's the Crystal Lake memories that are on there
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But it's not just about old movies that are, I mean, yummy that zombie movie just recently came out of i i think it's like the best zombie movie in quite a
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while i'm not a big zombie fan except from like the classics like shot of the dead right but uh
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they they they find really good stuff on there um they have good television shows too they do and like
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three probably three of my more you know liked uh horror movies that have watched recently i've all
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they've all come from shutter and then i think a couple of them are shutter originals or at least one of
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them is. So yeah, I think they're doing a lot of good over there. Not to mention
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Joe Bob and all his shit. He does the... Oh, always Joe Bob
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You know what I mean? So I hope that's that I think that
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would be a selling point for some people, just that whole bit of content. Oh yeah
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absolutely. It's like their second most watched show right behind Creep Show, which
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ups and downs, but overall are very good I thought it was very fun
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I enjoyed it a lot. And you're right. I mean, they've been knocking out of the park
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recently with a host and La Yarona host is kind of taking the world by storm And La Yarona is a little under underrated I think or at least it not as well known But I mean it every bit as good in a different way
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Well, and we brought it up right before we got on. But one cut of the dead, is that, does that exclusive to that right now too
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Because like that, that's a super worth your time. And I know it was on Joe Bob's thing, but I watched it through something
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Yeah, it's a, I think it might only be on Shudder, actually. Yeah, I think that's right
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And it's, yeah, that's worth your time. because they have the classics, of course
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They have, like, Gialo, and then they have crazy stuff, like, you know, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer type thing
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But they're really, really good with mixing it up, I think. And they have comedies on there
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They have old stuff. Regina, you were mentioning Hammer films earlier. Oh, yeah, they had that really cool
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It's called Hammer Horror. It's like The Show, like, Tales from the Dark Side. Like, it's like a little, like, mini movie
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Oh, I saw that. I was wondering if it was any good. Yeah. They take it off and put it back on every now
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And then they're really fun episodes. You know what? Sometimes they'll show that on Pluto too
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But yeah, they're pretty fun. And I was looking for that one day because they had tales from the dark side for the longest time on Shutter
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And I love tells from the dark side. And then they took that off and they replaced it with the Hammer Anthology
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I think it's called. Yeah, I think it's just called Hammer Horror is what it's called. Yeah. So those are fun little like shorts
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Well, not really shorts, but they're too long to be episodes too. So short films, just go with that
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Tell us for the dark side It was actually scary sometimes It was especially just the opening credits
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It was already freaky Yeah, it had like a really great opening sequence
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One of the best did most people Yeah I would say that shutter cost-wise
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Now they just recently raised their price like by a dollar So yeah
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So basically for the whole year And I have a deal too
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You can get the whole year for 50 bucks for shutter and based on the content
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that's on there it's well well worth it you'll get that value out of it in a month if you
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actually just kind of sit down and watch something every night you would definitely feel like you got $50
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worth of value out of that yeah easily easily they have uh they recently
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renewed um the second season of a curse curse films is going to be coming
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out so if you're into that kind of thing it's cool macula's on here they got
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exploitation movie expectation uh and then they have this the weird bonko shit
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that you might not want to see, like, like, cannibal Holocaust is on there
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Oh, yeah, that's right. Get it while it's hot, because pretty soon you're not going to be able to see that anywhere
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That's, good. Not that I'd recommend that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Not even just to say that you've seen it because it's
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why would you want to? I think at Netflix you mentioned, like
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gosh, I don't know how long I've had Netflix for, but, you know, that one's kind of lost its luster
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Like, every once in a while, they'll come out with stuff. The Unsolved Mysteries, for example, has been really, really cool
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But I don't know. It's just there's so much competition. There's so many options now that Netflix is kind of
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when it used to be the absolute first thing that I would go to, it's kind of like, you know, just sometimes you'll come across it and want to see something
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But I don't know. It's just not the same. Maybe there are too many streaming networks. I don't watch Disney Plus, like, ever anymore
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Yeah, I haven't, I canceled mine, even though I was like getting for free. I was like, I'm not just, I knew I wasn't going to stick with it anyway, but yeah, there's a glut of them
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And like recently, one of the reasons I thought of was thinking about this was, there's a radio, it sounds weird, but there's a radio program
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I like to watch. They do like a simulcast thing. It's been on YouTube
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It's been on several networks. And they're moving it to Peacock, right? So that's like it's, you guys, I've heard you guys talk about it before
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It's NBC's, I guess, streaming. service. And it's all going to be free
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but I was like, well, I want to watch it. So, like, I was like, looking at a peacock and I was like
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well, it's got like free stuff. Like, but I'm like, God, this is just another one of these things that I'm like
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going to give my email to and sign up for. And then they're going to try to sell me shit for the next however long, you know
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I don't know. It feels at this point, I'm feeling like, yeah, there is kind of like too many
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And I feel personally, I feel like I, I probably have like one too many
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Netflix would be the one I would drop Believe it or not I think if I were going to pick one But yeah that weird Feels weird There too many You know it so funny that you say that because there was a time where it seemed like there no way you can go without Netflix
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But now you say that, if I had to drop one, if someone was like, you know, pick three or four
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like absolutely Netflix would be the very first one that would go. Yeah. That's crazy
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Because, like, even HBO, like now I think is like a better
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I think consistently good product you want to see stuff on and like they have all your old stuff that you'd want to rewatch you know and like Netflix I have recently watched them stuff on there that I've liked but I don't know there's a lot of Netflix original stuff it's like it's like I would say like over half Netflix original stuff on there now
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Yeah they've kind of well they've been forced to go that route almost and it's it's really funny too because before it was like whenever a new thing would come out like
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whatever it was. It was like, okay, I got to sign up for that. I got to have it. Like, now there's
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so many of them. Like, I don't have Peacock. Um, that Quibi thing that came out. Like, I didn't even
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never even considered getting that. Um, HBO Max, like, I mean, have HBO now, so I don't really
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care about HBO Max, but I don't know. Like, Disney Plus, I have it, but now I'm thinking, like
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well, ESPN Plus was cool, but I kind of saw all the 30 for 30 documentaries I wanted to see. So now I just
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kind of have it just but I don't use it so I don't know like yeah that's how I feel a lot of these
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that's how Shudder was I'm not going to lie for a good long time was like okay Shudder like you
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you've had these same 30 movies or so for but then they you know they grew and they were able to
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expand but a lot of this stuff like even even Hulu like if you go dig around on like
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who is like the content that they have just like that that's not live or like some like higher
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subscription base like it's not that great like there's not it's it's it's it's
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bunch of the same shit you've seen like, oh, pineapple express is on there
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Like, cool. Like, you know, like, I love that movie, but like, that shit's been on everything
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You know what I mean? I've seen a hundred times. I can't. I've been, we've been watching Seinfeld for the past few weeks, so I can't see anything bad about Hulu
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Otherwise, they'll take it away from you. No Seinfeld for you. Before that, we watched, we watched the Great, and then Palm Springs is on there
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And what we do in the shadows through the FX stuff that's on Hulu is where we've been
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watch it. Yeah, so that's what I do like about it. It's like I watch a bunch of like
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investigation discovery stuff that's like you can go back and watch the old episodes that I like
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That's something I don't. So I guess the question becomes at this point because there's so many
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streaming and some of them have become so specific like like Shudder. What how could a streaming network
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convince you like immediately to first day to purchase it now? Oh, that's a good question
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It was pretty ridiculous for me. It had to be I was already paying for Hulu. So it was like
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Disney Hulu and ESPN Plus for, it was like, you know, what amounted to $10 a month
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Like that was how crazy the deal had to be for me to get Disney Plus
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But just to pay like whatever, $14 a month for Disney, like I absolutely wouldn't do it
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Yeah, no. Like maybe if like, well, we've talked about this in the past, like maybe if they included in like, if it was a little bit more maybe if let's say it's 20 bucks a month, I do get access to like a
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feature movie theater release once a month, like, that I can watch
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at home, like... That'd be good. That would be something I would be
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interested in, because I'm like, yeah, I'll pay more, but I'm getting most of the same stuff that I always got. Plus
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I get to sit on my ass at home and watch some feature movie. Yeah, I'm down. I might do that. And you've probably
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just predicted a future model, because I'm pretty sure somewhere down the line, Disney's going to be like
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okay... Great Park, . Olin' me a billion dollars, whoever does that. You heard it here
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You're like the guy who invented chicken nuggets. Like, you're just forgotten in history. Yeah, I'm like one of those guys. It's a great idea, but, you know
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Yeah, 65 million bucks. Pay me out, please, whatever. We better copyright this, this episode
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It's, uh, what is it? Intellectual property. It's your, yeah, yes, ours. You know what
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It's ours, guys. I'll chip you guys. I'll chip you guys. Nice. If you get 65 million, then
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you know, I'm cool with one or two. Like, I'm on a greedy, man. All right. Well, all right. Agreed
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So, well, we can edit that part out