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Speaker 1: play one O three to one Austin. It's the JV
Speaker 1: and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty station one O three
Speaker 1: point one. If you're just joining us Stephen Presley as
Speaker 1: our guest. He joins us every Friday to talk Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Follow him on Instagram at under pop tv, same thing
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Earlier, he told us Little House on the
Speaker 1: Prairie is getting a Netflix reboot and that the Minecraft
Speaker 1: movie runs the risk of killing the vibe, killing the
Speaker 1: street cred of the actual game. Now let's talk. Since
Speaker 1: we've talked about Netflix and Little House on the Prairie,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about the price increases. I
Speaker 1: mean it's pretty significant increase in different tears. Have you
Speaker 1: seen this? JB.
Speaker 2: Yeah heard, No, I did, I did see Uh I
Speaker 2: got I think I got a money alert. What is
Speaker 2: that rocket money rocking money alert that that was going up?
Speaker 2: And then they'll let you know if you they can
Speaker 2: go dispute it for you, which is nice, but I
Speaker 2: was wondering what the deal was with that.
Speaker 1: What's the social media saying Steven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are you know, there's some mixed reviews, but
Speaker 3: mostly people are upset. But one one woman said it's
Speaker 3: still cheaper than cable, so get a grip.
Speaker 4: She's telling people to. Also, this is the best one.
Speaker 3: Chai said, Cobra Kai never dies, but my subscription will
Speaker 3: after next month.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's tough. You can't look at it just
Speaker 2: as one thing. You're not replacing one thing. In this
Speaker 2: modern world, you have to have six subscriptions to get
Speaker 2: all the shows you want, and everyone's got subscription fatigue.
Speaker 2: It's you're not the main player. It's not it's not
Speaker 2: like you're the days of bidding making a decision between
Speaker 2: Direct TV and Time Warner Cable, right right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: not like that at all, all this oli cart stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, periodically I just go in and cancel it
Speaker 2: just to see what my wife and daughter are watching
Speaker 2: or not watching.
Speaker 1: That's smart.
Speaker 2: And then when they go Hey, what happened to HBO Max?
Speaker 2: I go, oh, let me, let me check and I
Speaker 2: go start sign it back up.
Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty good stuff and it's free, but
Speaker 1: it's full of ads. But tob have you guys watched
Speaker 1: to be a lot of good programming on that? I
Speaker 1: mean the programming, Uh, probably not. It's all old stuff that, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's things I'm interested in.
Speaker 2: But it's the old model of get it for free
Speaker 2: and watch the ads.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, and some stuff I just like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to look at my phone during the ads anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No problem is that it's always a price hike.
Speaker 5: I feel like we've just had one six months ago.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's not like every year eighteen months,
Speaker 5: it's multiple times. And then when you have multiple streamers
Speaker 5: that you have a subscription to, it's just constant notification.
Speaker 6: That's your more.
Speaker 5: Eventually, if not already, you're paying more for all of
Speaker 5: your subscriptions.
Speaker 6: An you work for cable and start that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. And somehow some way Netflix manages to
Speaker 1: lose money at this.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean is that what they're saying
Speaker 5: is why they're hiking their subscriptions prices because they lose money.
Speaker 1: Got to be the reason. I mean a bit of
Speaker 1: a turnaround. But I'm just looking at something that searched
Speaker 1: real quick. You know.
Speaker 3: My hunch is is they're all trying to keep up
Speaker 3: with the Joneses, and there's you know, there's arms race,
Speaker 3: and now they all want in on the NFL and
Speaker 3: live sports. Well that's yeah, to compete with with you
Speaker 3: know things like you know, Time Warner, Cable or now
Speaker 3: Spectrum and you know cable that has that live sports component.
Speaker 3: So that's costing them money to get you know, that
Speaker 3: one that whether they broadcast two games on Christmas Day.
Speaker 4: Or one game, they paid beyond.
Speaker 3: They did that big Beyonce concert, which I'm sure costs
Speaker 3: a lot of money too. So they're spending on things
Speaker 3: like that to try to keep up with the Joneses.
Speaker 3: And that's why I think subscriptions right now are going on.
Speaker 2: Oh, in twenty twenty three, their CEO did take a
Speaker 2: pay dip to forty nine point eight million.
Speaker 1: He's all right, yeah, I'm gonna set up a go
Speaker 1: fund me for it.
Speaker 6: Were God, yeah got out.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, if the Mike Tyson fight his indiandication, I don't
Speaker 5: think Cable has anything to worry about. I think they're
Speaker 5: going to be able to keep the live events because
Speaker 5: that was a disaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was Yeah, it was uh Harrison Ford really yeah,
Speaker 1: I can says why. That's the perfect answer for what
Speaker 1: Harrison Ford's what Steven's going to tell you, Harrison Ford's
Speaker 1: going to do? Go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My first thought, you know, he's in his early eighties
Speaker 3: is eighty two.
Speaker 4: That's what I looked up this morning.
Speaker 3: I thought he was in his seventies. He's actually in
Speaker 3: the early eighties. It looks like, Yeah, I thought he
Speaker 3: was about done after he came back and did that
Speaker 3: one more Indiana Jones, one more Star Wars, not that
Speaker 3: he wasn't in great shape or anything and could could
Speaker 3: still keep going, but I felt like, you know, he
Speaker 3: kind of like, you know, it's kind of like done
Speaker 3: with it it. But my theory why he keeps working
Speaker 3: is to keep him out of trouble, because he kept
Speaker 3: getting in those plane crashes, his plane around and I
Speaker 3: think I think Alan mcbeil's wife was a Calissa Flockhart.
Speaker 3: I think his wife is like, you're going back out
Speaker 3: to work to keep you had trouble that.
Speaker 2: My theory was he just wants to keep working because
Speaker 2: he's marrying a young woman is just driving him crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like the old rock bands that
Speaker 1: go out on tour, like Bruce Springsteen and the East
Speaker 1: Street Band went back out on tour because they wanted
Speaker 1: to get away from their wife and family. That's why
Speaker 1: they wanted to hang out with their bros for a
Speaker 1: while and just be dudes instead of being told wipe
Speaker 1: the toilet seat when you're done, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, that's what they wanted. So that problem.
Speaker 1: But he's going to be the Hulk, right, He's going.
Speaker 3: To be a verst He's going to be a version
Speaker 3: of the Hulk, which was in the comic books. Is
Speaker 3: the Red Hulk? He plays actually the President of the
Speaker 3: United States in this new Captain American movie that becomes
Speaker 3: the Red Hulk. But I'm thinking, like an eighty year
Speaker 3: old guy morphing metamorphosing into the Hulk is not can't
Speaker 3: be good on your heart?
Speaker 6: And is it an old Hulk? Is it an eighty
Speaker 6: year old Hulk too? What does he look like like?
Speaker 1: How's that that's what he looks like? Probably? Yeah, right, Steven?
Speaker 1: What does your shirt say your microphone's covering up your shirt?
Speaker 1: What's it say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the inside joke.
Speaker 6: Killers out Post, Miller's Outposts, Miller's Outpost.
Speaker 3: So we live so my neighborhood, my cul de Sac.
Speaker 3: We live behind a shopping center in the crispy neighborhood,
Speaker 3: and there's always new stuff going in this shopping center.
Speaker 3: The anchor is the Taco Deli and the T twenty two,
Speaker 3: but there's always new stuff going in there, and there's something,
Speaker 3: you know, there's something new coming in. We get on
Speaker 3: a text thread with me and the people in the
Speaker 3: cul de Second. We're all kind of speculating what's coming
Speaker 3: in next, like what do we get in the shopping center?
Speaker 3: And so I made a joke with my one of
Speaker 3: my neighbors, my neighbor Bob.
Speaker 4: It's a real funny guy. I said, maybe we're going
Speaker 4: to get a Mervyn's Miller's out Post.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 7: He didn't think it was.
Speaker 4: Funny, and I was like, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Come on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So now I'm trolling him and I found it
Speaker 3: a Miller's Outpost T shirt on Prime.
Speaker 1: So what is it? I don't I'm not familiar with
Speaker 1: the Miller's Outpost. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: Oh, it was great, did you know, JB. Just know
Speaker 4: Miller's Outpost.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember the name. It's like a department store
Speaker 7: kind of thing, right, my.
Speaker 3: Favorite store in the early nineties, late eighties. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Our local Austin historian here, Tricia okay.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 6: All right, yeah, yeah, it was like a Mervin's.
Speaker 3: They had it over near Anderson one eighty three, kind
Speaker 3: of near the uh that that area, and it was
Speaker 3: Now there's a Planet Fitness in there and I don't
Speaker 3: know what else, like a hobby lobby's in that shopping
Speaker 3: center now, but that was the Miller's Outpost Mervins, and
Speaker 3: that was the hot.
Speaker 4: Spot from back to school shopping for me.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, yeah, I think Murvins would have been
Speaker 5: a lot more successful if its name wasn't Mervin's. It's
Speaker 5: also like when the department store that was big that
Speaker 5: all the kids to shop out Wieners because it was
Speaker 5: embarrassing because of the name. Name is important for your
Speaker 5: place of business.
Speaker 1: Dick Sporting Goods has worked out for him. What about it?
Speaker 6: I know, but that's a little bit more man. You
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Wiers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Miller's Outposts is now known as Anchor Blue. The company
Speaker 2: filed for minkruptcy in two thousand and nine, closed all
Speaker 2: its stores in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't remember a T shirt though. That's funny.
Speaker 5: Let's get a Mervin's T shirt.
Speaker 4: Pick it up another.
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Speaker 1: one of three point one. Breakups are harder on men
Speaker 1: than they are for women. But Tricia is just delighted
Speaker 1: to tell everybody why that is. Because I don't know.
Speaker 1: In my mind, I would just think, I guess they
Speaker 1: would be harder on girls. I don't know. But tell
Speaker 1: everybody why they're harder on men.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The reason that they're harder on men is not because
Speaker 5: if his girl leaves them, he's heartbroken and he's sad
Speaker 5: and he's emotional. It's because in most relationships, girls take
Speaker 5: care of all the details of everyday life.
Speaker 6: So it's harder for guys because.
Speaker 5: When she leaves, they don't know where anything is, or
Speaker 5: passwords to get into accounts or anything like that. It's
Speaker 5: more difficult like in reality, not difficult emotionally for them
Speaker 5: to to get over it.
Speaker 1: I kind of gotta agree.
Speaker 2: That, right, Yeah, it's the opposite at our house. Oh really,
Speaker 2: I handle everything I wish I didn't have to. Yeah
Speaker 2: really And yeah, and she's the one with with a
Speaker 2: major in economics. I kind of was hoping she'd take
Speaker 2: over all this crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you this. If it wasn't or Tricia,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have the faintest idea anything to do with
Speaker 1: health insurance, right nothing. Tricia just does it, and I'm like.
Speaker 4: Okay, it so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know where to start
Speaker 1: with a health and try. I know. I get this
Speaker 1: low plastic card that Tricia gives me and tells and
Speaker 1: looks me in the eye every time and goes, put
Speaker 1: that in your wallet. I go, look at me, lose it?
Speaker 6: Take this? Do you watch you put it in your
Speaker 6: wallet right now?
Speaker 1: Gone, take a picture of it and put it in
Speaker 1: your phone too, because you're going to need this. It's
Speaker 1: funny somehow I always managed when I do go to
Speaker 1: the doctor, give him the wrong card yep.
Speaker 5: And then he calls me and says, will you take
Speaker 5: a picture of your card and send it to me, please.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Nate Bergatsi and his stand up.
Speaker 5: He talks about how his wife's the gatekeeper, and he's like,
Speaker 5: I can't get any money without asking her. I don't
Speaker 5: know where anythings he goes. So some days I just
Speaker 5: walk around to local banks and go, is my money
Speaker 5: in here?
Speaker 6: Do you guys have my money?
Speaker 5: Like he's trying to find it his wife.
Speaker 1: I do, guys. I'm not gonna name names, but I
Speaker 1: know guys that still just get an allowance from their wife.
Speaker 1: This is how much they She pays all the bills,
Speaker 1: does all the things. But this is how much money
Speaker 1: you get to spend for two weeks. Is what I need?
Speaker 7: But actually both of us need that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So that's an interesting question, JB. At what point,
Speaker 1: what dollar amount or is there a dollar amount that
Speaker 1: you have to you feel obligated to let your wife
Speaker 1: know you're making a purchase, Like for me, if I'm
Speaker 1: going to spend more than five hundred dollars, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: plutricia in on it. Do you guys have anything like that?
Speaker 1: Are you just out there just wow?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: No, any big purchases are a dark deep secret.
Speaker 2: And then I go through all the accounts, so I'll
Speaker 2: see it and I'll go and she'll be like like
Speaker 2: she knows that tone, yeah, like what was this? And
Speaker 2: then she just gets all apologetic and squirrels away with
Speaker 2: his shoulders slumped out.
Speaker 1: It's funny, but sometimes you got to take the take
Speaker 1: the reins on things. Chris's pretty much handles money in
Speaker 1: our house now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, money and health insurance the worst.
Speaker 5: I do. Make Sandy deal with her taxes, though, I'll
Speaker 5: make health insurance over taxes any day, any.
Speaker 1: But taxes are only like for a short time in
Speaker 1: the year. Health insurance is all year long. The health
Speaker 1: insurance company, yeah, I mean just.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't mind picking up the phone and lighten
Speaker 5: somebody yet, because those health insurance companies are Yeah, I
Speaker 5: have to do it.
Speaker 6: All the time.
Speaker 5: I'm battling with them right now over one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: that they owe me. And it's just one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: in the amount of time I've spent on the phone
Speaker 5: with them. Probably I should let it go, but I'm
Speaker 5: digging in and I'm like, no, it's it's just the
Speaker 5: print of it. Now, you owe me one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: and I want it. It's like that guy give me
Speaker 5: my two dollars in that movie.
Speaker 1: You think it's in the training manual to tell them,
Speaker 1: make it hard, make it difficult, make them just tell
Speaker 1: them no the first time, and see if they call
Speaker 1: a ball.
Speaker 2: I fully think that's the policy of most health insurances.
Speaker 2: Just bill them and see if they'll pay it without
Speaker 2: say anything, because most people won't.
Speaker 5: One thing that I do. Sometimes, you know, at the beginning,
Speaker 5: they'll say this call will be recorded for accuracy, blah
Speaker 5: blah blah. So of course you never get it handled
Speaker 5: with the first customer service rep you talk to. You
Speaker 5: always end up talking to a second and a third
Speaker 5: different phone calls, different days, and I will go, nope,
Speaker 5: you guys told me that you were recording my last conversation,
Speaker 5: so I will hold while you pulled that conversation up
Speaker 5: my face. And they're like, well man, and I'm like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: it says what I'm saying. I meanwhile, they probably didn't
Speaker 5: record it at all. But that has worked a couple
Speaker 5: of times where they're just like, God, give this check
Speaker 5: her money and get her off the phone.
Speaker 2: Well, just tell them right back. I'm recording, Yeah, freaking out. Well,
Speaker 2: don't do that app. You can do it during your call.
Speaker 2: You can record your calls that app owl it's a
Speaker 2: no taking app. That's an AI note taking summary, but
Speaker 2: it'll record a call pretty easily.
Speaker 6: iPhone feature, that's true.
Speaker 7: I think it's filled under the iPhone now yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, but yours will write up a summary, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was funny, dude. We had a meeting last week
Speaker 1: and Jamie and I were chatting after the meeting and
Speaker 1: then I said to JB Sorr, I got to go
Speaker 1: because I have to have this exact same recap conversation
Speaker 1: with Tricia, and JB's like, oh man, I should have
Speaker 1: recorded the conversation. Then what does it do print out
Speaker 1: a summary? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I started doing that with my wife.
Speaker 2: She wants to know how every call I have went
Speaker 2: there a meeting, So I just go. I just email
Speaker 2: her the summary.
Speaker 5: Then let me get She still has questions, right, because
Speaker 5: yes I did.
Speaker 2: She goes through the summary with a red pen. I
Speaker 2: think she wants to as out I'm crazy.
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