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Speaker 2: forty dot com. And now there's no business like show business.
Speaker 2: Let's start with HBO No Max No.
Speaker 3: Two years ago, the deep thinkers at Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 3: had the not so bright idea of taking HBO Max
Speaker 3: their flagship streaming service, dropping HBO, which was, as you know,
Speaker 3: synonymous as being the Cadillac of PayTV, and instead just
Speaker 3: went with Max. Yeah, that worked out really, really well.
Speaker 3: It turned out that not only did consumers not really
Speaker 3: respond to a company called Max, but by bringing in
Speaker 3: all of the Discovery content as a selling point, turned
Speaker 3: out nobody's really watching the Discovery content. They were going
Speaker 3: on to Max to see the HBO content.
Speaker 2: Now, hold on, I do love the HBO content, but
Speaker 2: I love watching house hunting shows because I I think
Speaker 2: I've mentioned this before, I mock the people on there mercilessly.
Speaker 2: If you want a genuine look into my ID, hang
Speaker 2: out with me while I'm watching one of those shows.
Speaker 2: I am a horrible, horrible person. And my son and
Speaker 2: I do this together. It's how we bond, and we
Speaker 2: laugh and we laugh and we laugh, Okay, Carrion.
Speaker 3: And that was a real issue, and so the execsit
Speaker 3: Warner Brothers Discovery finally came around after two years and said,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: What we should do.
Speaker 3: We should rename Max HBO Max. And so here we are.
Speaker 3: What's old is new again, deja vu all over again.
Speaker 3: Put it however you want. We're back where we started.
Speaker 3: And it's not such a big surprise because right now
Speaker 3: Warnerer's Discovery is discovered they can't compete with Netflix. Netflix
Speaker 3: wants to be all things to all people, whereas Warner
Speaker 3: Brothers Discovery now realizes the way to position HBO Max
Speaker 3: as it's being re christened, is as a high end
Speaker 3: niche player, in other words, the Cadillac of PATV companies,
Speaker 3: which is what HBO was in the first place.
Speaker 2: All right, Well whatever, as long as I got the content,
Speaker 2: I was just getting used to calling it Max. But
Speaker 2: I thought it was a dumb move too. But I've
Speaker 2: seen other companies that have rebranded themselves, and it takes
Speaker 2: a little while for us to get used to it,
Speaker 2: and then we do or we don't call the max.
Speaker 4: I just called it HBO Max the entire time, and
Speaker 4: it's just like Twitter and X. Nobody calls it X
Speaker 4: you're weird. So yeah, it's so pointless. Just give me
Speaker 4: my shows, man.
Speaker 2: I think you're right when when we've talked about Last
Speaker 2: of Us and other shows on there, we just say
Speaker 2: it's on HBO, don't we right? Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: I just don't care. But I don't have any investment
Speaker 2: in it. So as long as I know which icon
Speaker 2: I'm clicking on on my Prime or my yeah my,
Speaker 2: what do I have Amazon TV or my Roku or
Speaker 2: whatever I have one of each, then uh, I don't care.
Speaker 2: As long as I can log in, I don't care
Speaker 2: what it's called. Don't don't start cracking down on passwords.
Speaker 2: That's the big one.
Speaker 4: That and never take friends off of the streaming service.
Speaker 4: That's all I care about.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to crack down on password schaaring.
Speaker 2: Why why do you say that I read something that
Speaker 2: they're cracking down on password chearing?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well yeah do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hope they don't, but I hate when
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 4: Well Netflix said that they were going to do it,
Speaker 4: and I have not been impacted. I don't know about
Speaker 4: anybody else in the world.
Speaker 2: But here's the funny thing is that I'm not the
Speaker 2: one who's who's stealing it. I'm not the one who's
Speaker 2: benefiting than me. Well, no, I share my no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I would share with you. I share with my kids, though,
Speaker 2: who are all like your age. I share with my
Speaker 2: kids so that they don't have to pay right, because
Speaker 2: they're broke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother shares with me because I live in
Speaker 4: LA and it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, right, right, So I share with my kids
Speaker 2: and they're like, well you can do that, Like, they
Speaker 2: don't have the money for it, so you know, as
Speaker 2: far as they're concerned, they don't care. And I think,
Speaker 2: now you want my kids watching your shows because they're
Speaker 2: going to talk about it with other people. And that's
Speaker 2: how you you know, remember when Netflix used to encourage
Speaker 2: people to share their passwords because that's how they get
Speaker 2: word of mouth, that's how they get buzz. So some
Speaker 2: of these smaller streamers, you know, the HBO, I don't know.
Speaker 2: HBO has like thirty million subscribers, a hundred million I
Speaker 2: don't know how many of that, but not as many
Speaker 2: as Netflix. And so I think when you're the underdog,
Speaker 2: you've got to have as many eyeballs on your product
Speaker 2: as possible. I was saying, give it away for free.
Speaker 2: You got to get eyeballs on your products. Speaking of
Speaker 2: trying to get eyeballs on the product, how about the
Speaker 2: greatest cable channel ever? You know what that is? C Span.
Speaker 2: Of course, c SPAN is getting ready to really live
Speaker 2: and things.
Speaker 5: Up in a nation divided, a rare moment of unity
Speaker 5: this fall. C SPAN presents ceasefire, where the shouting stops
Speaker 5: and the conversation begins.
Speaker 2: This sounds like a Saturday Night Live bit, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Cease fire. It's when we don't really do much that's exciting.
Speaker 2: Cease fire only on c Span.
Speaker 5: In a town where partisan fighting prevails.
Speaker 2: They even found like the boring is v O guy
Speaker 2: who's got a place. Don't get me wrong, I never
Speaker 2: want to knock somebody in the business who's you know,
Speaker 2: working hard, but it's like they're trying to build excitement.
Speaker 2: And then they go in a world, in a world,
Speaker 2: in a town where in a town, in a town, right,
Speaker 2: you gotta in a world, give.
Speaker 4: The most boring delivery, drive delivery you could possibly get.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what the note said when they.
Speaker 5: In a town.
Speaker 6: Where in a town, in a town, and if you
Speaker 6: want to come by, it's okay, it'd be great.
Speaker 2: No, you gotta be like you want to be a
Speaker 2: town in a town? Yeah right, I just like I
Speaker 2: kicked it by my EQ.
Speaker 5: In a town where partisan fighting prevails, one table, two leaders,
Speaker 5: one goal, to find common ground.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: In a town, one table, two leaders, one door, only
Speaker 2: one gets out alive veins only on c SPAN.
Speaker 5: In a town where partisan fighting prevails, Right, two leaders,
Speaker 5: one goal.
Speaker 2: Only one survives.
Speaker 5: To find common ground.
Speaker 2: No this fall.
Speaker 5: Ceasefire on the network that doesn't take sides only on
Speaker 5: c SPAN.
Speaker 2: Listen to that uplifting music Ceasefire, turning down the rhetoric.
Speaker 2: I support it. I think it's going to be very intelligent,
Speaker 2: and it is also proof that we are never going
Speaker 2: back to a world of civility ever, because if it's
Speaker 2: on c SP, it is officially uninteresting and way too smart.
Speaker 2: We are not going to sit down and try to
Speaker 2: find solutions. That is not what America does anymore. We
Speaker 2: don't so good tri c span and you've ruined everything. Well,
Speaker 2: speak of politics in entertainment. Did you see that the
Speaker 2: the tariffs that proposed, you know, the one hundred percent
Speaker 2: tariffs and things not produced in Hollywood could wreck Croatia?
Speaker 2: Did you catch this? Poor Croatia? It turns out that
Speaker 2: the town that the Game of Thrones was filmed in
Speaker 2: has been in a number of other projects as well,
Speaker 2: and they are really worried.
Speaker 8: Dreams of tourists flocked to the ancient Croatian city of
Speaker 8: Dubrovnik to visit Game of Thrones filming locations.
Speaker 2: And now that we've got writers reporting in their high
Speaker 2: English accent, we know it's legit.
Speaker 8: But US President Donald Trump's threats to impose a one
Speaker 8: hundred percent tariff on all movies produced outside the US
Speaker 8: have alarmed the entertainment industry. Some locals in Dubrovnik, which
Speaker 8: was also used to film Star Wars The Last Jedi
Speaker 8: Thear directors, may no longer film there. Central European countries
Speaker 8: and the Balkans have been used by Hollywood for years
Speaker 8: for their dramatic scenery, architecture and tuop filming costs. If
Speaker 8: a movie or series is a hit, those locations can
Speaker 8: become hugely popular with visitors. At Dubrovnik, tour Guide said
Speaker 8: the numbers of visitors there have hiked, with one thousand
Speaker 8: of tourists joining a Game of Thrones tour every day.
Speaker 2: Wow. Here Throw has been off the air for a
Speaker 2: few years too, and they've still got a thousand tourists
Speaker 2: a day for that.
Speaker 8: New souvenir shops were opened and jobs created for tourist
Speaker 8: tribes and locals. Assisting in form.
Speaker 6: Was that let's say it's not too shocking, because don't
Speaker 6: people still.
Speaker 2: Do the walk for Lord of the Rings. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: probably in New Zealand probably. Yeah. Last Jedi, she said,
Speaker 2: was film there twenty eighteen's Robin Hood. Did anybody see that?
Speaker 2: Not like that was one of those where it was
Speaker 2: in the theater for a week. No. Yeah. James Bond
Speaker 2: franchise specific scenes are limited and often focused on locations
Speaker 2: outside of the old town. The city's stunning coastline and
Speaker 2: architectural beauty have been featured in the background of various
Speaker 2: sequences in James Bond movies, as well so a few
Speaker 2: other things that have been in there. It's a really
Speaker 2: cool old town, kind of a medieval, kind of deal,
Speaker 2: and yeah, they're worried about tariffs and it could could
Speaker 2: wreck everything. All right, we'll continue. There's no business like
Speaker 2: show business.
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Speaker 2: There's no business.
Speaker 4: Line show business.
Speaker 2: The latest on Diddy Diddy or Didity Union Tea and
Speaker 2: his ex girlfriend. I guess, Cassie Ventura. Fine, she's married
Speaker 2: now and she's eight months pregnant. I took the stand
Speaker 2: as a tough spot for defense attorney because they have
Speaker 2: to you basically say to the victim, You're not really
Speaker 2: a victim, are you? That is awkward.
Speaker 9: Cassie Ventura on the witness stand for a fourth day
Speaker 9: in the federal criminal trial against hip hop mogul Sean
Speaker 9: Diddy Combs. The defense continuing cross examination this morning, confronting
Speaker 9: her with dozens of her own messages, many explicit, hoping
Speaker 9: to convince the jury she was an eager sexual partner
Speaker 9: who matched Combs's desires. I'm always ready to freak off,
Speaker 9: one message, said. Ventura testified that she had no free
Speaker 9: will in their relationship, and that when she tried to
Speaker 9: leave one of those drug fueled performances, this violence captured
Speaker 9: on cameras at a Los Angeles hotel ensued you can.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you remember you saw that video. That's the
Speaker 2: one where he comes She comes out of a hotel
Speaker 2: room and heads to the elevator, and he comes out
Speaker 2: wearing nothing but a towel and flip flops, catches her
Speaker 2: at the elevator and then just smacks the hell out
Speaker 2: of her, kicks her, drags her by her hair. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the video we're talking about in Sea.
Speaker 4: Combs kicking in, drag her.
Speaker 9: But the defense said Ventura's participation in the freak Offs
Speaker 9: was at times her idea, showing a text message from
Speaker 9: days earlier that said, baby, I want to fo so bad.
Speaker 9: You proposed a freak off? A defense attorney said, you
Speaker 9: kept asking him. Combs's lawyers revealed he overdosed on painkillers
Speaker 9: in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: That anybody ever been invited to a freak off? I
Speaker 2: never got invited to one. I wonder why.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm cool enough to get invited to
Speaker 4: a freaking yeah or unlucky enough.
Speaker 2: Usually they just tell me to buzz off freak but
Speaker 2: never a freak.
Speaker 4: Off, So asking Ventura.
Speaker 9: Were the worst years associated in any way with his
Speaker 9: drug use. Yeah, I would say the defense.
Speaker 2: Oh, the drugs made him do it. Oh, that's the problem.
Speaker 9: I'm hoping to convince the jury Combs became violent not
Speaker 9: to coerce Ventura into sex, but because.
Speaker 4: He was an addict.
Speaker 9: They argue he may have been abusive, but that he's
Speaker 9: not guilty of sex trafficking.
Speaker 2: Yah. That's the defense you get when you've got the
Speaker 2: guilty as sin defendant. Like, he may have been very violent,
Speaker 2: he may have beaten the the s out of his girlfriends,
Speaker 2: but he's not a sex trafficker, is he? Trump? Stop it,
Speaker 2: don't go down that road. Don't you dare you? Don't
Speaker 2: you dare to?
Speaker 9: As attorney's optimistic outside of court, get us in trouble,
Speaker 9: doing great.
Speaker 2: I said she was ready, and I think she's demonstrating that. Okay,
Speaker 2: But there's a twist to this. Remember I said she's
Speaker 2: eight months pregnant now.
Speaker 10: In a letter to the judge overnight, federal prosecutors argue
Speaker 10: that defense lawyers are trying to purposely prolong their cross
Speaker 10: examination of Cassie Ventura, hoping that if she goes into
Speaker 10: labor that there could be potentially a mistrial. The defenses
Speaker 10: argue though, that they have a right to thoroughly cross
Speaker 10: examine the witness fill up.
Speaker 2: So they're like, well, maybe we just have to we
Speaker 2: just have to delay as long as we can, so
Speaker 2: maybe she goes into labor and then they have to
Speaker 2: call the whole thing off. You gotta love the American
Speaker 2: justice system. Were We're like, well, you know, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna do? She went into labor, so I guess
Speaker 2: we can't put this sex trafficking guy behind bars, So
Speaker 2: you know better look next time. Sorry? Did he did
Speaker 2: send her a text after that elevator incident. You want
Speaker 2: to hear what it said? Mind you, this is pretty gross. Okay,
Speaker 2: So here it is. So he beats the hell out
Speaker 2: of her at that elevator. It's the video that we
Speaker 2: all saw. And then just days after the incident, did
Speaker 2: he texted Ventura and said, I'm so horny for you.
Speaker 2: Ventura said she was surprised and replied, you are What
Speaker 2: made you feel that way? He said, I felt that
Speaker 2: way from Friday? What you doing? Yeah? She said she
Speaker 2: thought it was a little strange that Colmbs would say
Speaker 2: that he desired her sexually after he kicked and punched
Speaker 2: her that day. She said that wasn't a good vibe.
Speaker 2: We need a different vibe than Friday. And he said
Speaker 2: f Friday. Lol, I don't even want to do that again.
Speaker 2: She said, lol. True, So that feels like a healthy relationship. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: just see, Chris Brown got dragged into this this ole
Speaker 2: diddy thing. His name got dropped at one of the trials.
Speaker 2: So Chris Brown's the name gets dropped, and he came
Speaker 2: up when Combs lawyer asked Casey Venture about the time
Speaker 2: when the Bad Boy Records mogul was mad at her.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when Comb's thought you were dancing with
Speaker 2: Chris Brown? She said, I do, but I was not.
Speaker 2: I wasn't dancing with Chris Brown. And then he moved
Speaker 2: on to another topic. So Chris Brown came up in
Speaker 2: the conversation. Chris Brown has got his own problems. Though
Speaker 2: Chris Brown is now under arrest in the UK.
Speaker 11: A UK cort has ordered Chris Brown to be held
Speaker 11: in custody for twenty twenty three nightclub assault. Police arrested
Speaker 11: Brown in Manchester for his alleged attack on a man
Speaker 11: at a London nightclub two years ago. He's been with
Speaker 11: grievous bodily harm with intent Brown is currently on tour
Speaker 11: in the UK, but it's unclear how this case will
Speaker 11: impact his remaining shows there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not the not great news for Chris Brown. You
Speaker 2: just got brought up in a sex trafficking trial, although
Speaker 2: not really associated with anything, and then now you've been
Speaker 2: arrested for assault. Incidentally, did you see what sug Knight said?
Speaker 2: Sug Knight said that Trump is gonna pardon Diddy if
Speaker 2: Didd he is convicted. What are the odds that happens?
Speaker 2: Is Trump gonna pardon did he if he found guilty
Speaker 2: for sex trafficking and racketeering?
Speaker 4: I don't think Trump said anything about Diddy.
Speaker 2: And hasn't sug Knight did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but I think if Trump was gonna
Speaker 4: do that, Trump would have probably said something, don't you think, Uh?
Speaker 2: You know, they they pitched to Trump that he should
Speaker 2: that he should pardon Derek Chauvin. That's the guy that
Speaker 2: killed George Floyd. Who do you think what would be worse?
Speaker 2: What would be a bigger mistake? Let me phrase it
Speaker 2: that way, would be a bigger mistake pardoning Diddy or
Speaker 2: partning Derek Chauvin.
Speaker 4: Both of them are awful, horrible.
Speaker 2: I think he could get away with. Politically speaking, I
Speaker 2: think he could get away with pardoning Derek Chaulveren because
Speaker 2: I think a lot of his his accolytes are like, oh,
Speaker 2: that was a terrible trial, that was all media and racism,
Speaker 2: and Derek Chauven was just being a good cop. But
Speaker 2: if you pardon a sex trafficker, then that's a bad deal. Like,
Speaker 2: you'll have no support on that. But I'm with you.
Speaker 2: How about you don't pardon anybody? That would be fine
Speaker 2: with me too. I hope Chaven rots for the rest
Speaker 2: of his life behind bars. That's what he deserves, So
Speaker 2: I hope nobody gets a pardon. It just frustrates me
Speaker 2: that these names even get thrown out as potential pardons.
Speaker 4: And then this political climbing. You just never know what's
Speaker 4: going to happen. It's like, you know, you were talking
Speaker 4: about the White House having its own channel or streaming
Speaker 4: service service, yeah, entertainment service.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like it's it doesn't feel like political reality. It
Speaker 4: seems like a reality television show.
Speaker 2: And it's plausible though, Like you throw that out and
Speaker 2: you go, I believe that could happen, right, nobody goes
Speaker 2: that would never happen. We all go, yeah, I could
Speaker 2: see it. Oh, unbelievable. All right, we messed up with
Speaker 2: No Broke Broke. Next, you're gonna find out just how
Speaker 2: broke we all are.
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Speaker 2: How much are you spending on your subscriptions? We just
Speaker 2: made mention the last I don't know, two seconds ago,
Speaker 2: whatever it was, we made mention that HBO is changing
Speaker 2: their their name or I guess Max is changing their
Speaker 2: name back to HBO Max. And we were talking about
Speaker 2: how I don't really care what the what they call themselves.
Speaker 2: Just don't crack down and password sharing because I share
Speaker 2: my password with my kids. My kids are adults, they're
Speaker 2: all they're all in there, rule breaker. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I'm a real rebel. Uh and uh so I share
Speaker 2: with them. They're broke, they ain't got nothing, huh and
Speaker 2: uh As we all know, nobody's messing with No Broke Broke.
Speaker 12: Saying see you go, dig u machine mess and win.
Speaker 12: No broke broke up saying, see machine, well, how much
Speaker 12: are you spending? Because I got to think it about this.
Speaker 12: I have a lot of subscriptions I've made mentioned before.
Speaker 12: I dumped Netflix because it was my most expensive subscription,
Speaker 12: and so every time I see one of those, Oh,
Speaker 12: this show on Netflix is breaking records and this has
Speaker 12: one hundred percent Rotten Tomatoes score, I.
Speaker 2: Kind of feel like I'm missing out. But I just uh,
Speaker 2: I just added Disney Plus and so I've rather Disney
Speaker 2: Plus Hulu package or whatever. And then, uh, I was
Speaker 2: just thinking about this. I got Apple, which I like
Speaker 2: best value, although I got around Christmas. I got Peacock
Speaker 2: for two dollars a month for a year, So that's
Speaker 2: pretty good value. Hell yeah, Peacock rules, it's pretty good value,
Speaker 2: especially two bucks a month, Right, how do you pass
Speaker 2: that up? But I also have I got Max and
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime, and I feel like I'm still missing one
Speaker 2: in there somewhere.
Speaker 6: I just feel like, and they all have their own strains,
Speaker 6: but I feel like Peacock has like the broadest library
Speaker 6: because technically it's NBC, right, right, But you've got shows
Speaker 6: that are from CBS, Fox, Kate or not Kate DLA.
Speaker 6: But the CW Yeah, like they it covers so many
Speaker 6: great lot of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I get it. I
Speaker 2: get it, which is what you know, Netflix was trying
Speaker 2: to do with so many And that's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons I like Hulu so much, because Hulu's got a
Speaker 2: bunch of that too. It's not just ABC products, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's a bunch of other stuff, including Wrexham, which
Speaker 2: first two episodes of Wrexham are stellar. So I was
Speaker 2: thinking about it and I go, man, I'm putting in
Speaker 2: you know, it's ten bucks here, it's eighteen dollars there,
Speaker 2: it's fifteen dollars here, and then Amazon Prime keeps going up.
Speaker 2: To come to find out, Seene did a study and
Speaker 2: they said that Americans spend over one thousand dollars a
Speaker 2: year on just subscriptions. Now we're not even only talking
Speaker 2: about We're not just talking about streaming subscriptions. These are
Speaker 2: other subscriptions as well.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 2: That's adding up quick like. But by generation it's a
Speaker 2: little bit different. The generation that spends the most is Kayla,
Speaker 2: that's you girl, You are spending the most.
Speaker 4: I've really helped me.
Speaker 2: I can't do it millennials spending the most, but also
Speaker 2: the millennials tend to and I'm going to lump you
Speaker 2: in with all the other millennials, Kayla. They tend to
Speaker 2: be at that age where they're settling down, starting families,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and so they're starting to assuage
Speaker 2: the night life and engage in the family life. Kaylee,
Speaker 2: you're not. You're still crazy.
Speaker 13: I'm a millennial doing exactly that what you're talking about exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's use Brigitta a lot.
Speaker 4: That's an example. I'm outside party. I was spending so
Speaker 4: much too as a family woman.
Speaker 2: Okay, on streaming or on other stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh I just jumped into this conversation.
Speaker 13: No not oh yeah, no, on streaming and on just
Speaker 13: subscriptions in general, every service, yes, everything.
Speaker 2: The other thing too. If we take a look at
Speaker 2: the breakdown, it's not just it's not just streaming services.
Speaker 2: We're spending it on. Hold on here, what I got
Speaker 2: in front of me. It's not just streamers, industries under pressure,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah. Oh, that's that's about streamers specifically,
Speaker 2: But it's it's like you said, magazine or online news articles.
Speaker 2: It's about other subscriptions that we get wrapped up in.
Speaker 2: And then the crazy thing is you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of places that are making money on you that promise
Speaker 2: to track your subscriptions. Have you seen what's the is
Speaker 2: it quick Books? It's got the They're like, oh, are
Speaker 2: you anyway do you have a subscription? You don't even
Speaker 2: know about it. And everybody's to spend a Spotify and
Speaker 2: Pandora and maybe they got to satellite radio. Don't do that,
Speaker 2: you got iHeart free. But a lot of other subscriptions
Speaker 2: going on as well. So people are going, I don't
Speaker 2: have any money, and then they take a look and
Speaker 2: they go where's my money going, and go, oh, it's
Speaker 2: going away fifteen bucks at a time. And we are shifting.
Speaker 2: We are shifting to a rental economy. I tried to
Speaker 2: explain this to my kids. I said, we rent everything
Speaker 2: because you can't take anything with you. But the longer
Speaker 2: you own it, the less your payments on the rent.
Speaker 2: So for instance, you buy a house, I own this house. Sure,
Speaker 2: you do until you're dust, and once your dust, you
Speaker 2: don't own it anymore. That house is getting passed on
Speaker 2: to somebody else, or it's being sold and somebody else
Speaker 2: is going to take the profits. Ultimately, everything that we
Speaker 2: have is temporary. And I'm gonna sound a little bit
Speaker 2: philosophical here, and I don't mean to get too deep
Speaker 2: in the weeds on this, but everything is a constant payment,
Speaker 2: even after you get something paid off. Like, for instance,
Speaker 2: I got a car. I'm making payments on my car
Speaker 2: right and I know that once I have that car
Speaker 2: paid off, the longer I hold on to that car,
Speaker 2: the more value I get out of every payment that
Speaker 2: I made along the way. Okay, so everything is a
Speaker 2: constant payment. But what happens when you go and buy
Speaker 2: a car? What does the salesperson always say? Salesperson doesn't
Speaker 2: say how much you want to spend? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no, no, salesperson knows. They say what do you
Speaker 2: want your monthly payment to be? That's because we do
Speaker 2: everything now. We don't base our lives any longer about
Speaker 2: building equity. For many people, they've given up on the
Speaker 2: American dream of owning a home and they just go,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a forever renter. And rather than saying
Speaker 2: I'm gonna squirrel away money so I can come up
Speaker 2: with a down payment, we start seeing the news articles
Speaker 2: in California about how you have to make three hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars a year to be able to
Speaker 2: afford a median home in Orange County, and you go,
Speaker 2: I'll never do that. But I can keep renting my
Speaker 2: current place at three grand a month or four grand
Speaker 2: a month, whatever you're paying, I don't know. And you go,
Speaker 2: I can do that, but I can't keep squirreling away
Speaker 2: enough money to come up with two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: for a down payment. Instead, I'm gonna take any extra money.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that in a vacation front and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go live my life. I'm gonna rent, and then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna spend the rest of my money on living.
Speaker 2: In other words, we're not concerned with building equity any longer.
Speaker 2: It's all about cash flow, not a great way to
Speaker 2: build wealth. A lot of people saying, yeah, but I'm
Speaker 2: living my life. I'm not saving money. I'm not squirreling
Speaker 2: that away for a down payment in order to build wealth.
Speaker 2: But I am going to enjoy the new season of
Speaker 2: Wrexham or Last of Us or ted Lasso or whatever's
Speaker 2: on Peacock. That's what we've decided we're gonna spend our
Speaker 2: money on instead, and we've basically resolved ourselves to saying
Speaker 2: life is about rentals, It's about cash flow. And since
Speaker 2: I can't take it with me anyway, what do I
Speaker 2: care if I have a lot in the end. When
Speaker 2: you're gonna care is when you want to retire. That's
Speaker 2: when you're gonna care about it, because honestly, building wealth,
Speaker 2: as long as you're taking those cash flows, that's fine
Speaker 2: until it comes time to retire. And I don't know
Speaker 2: about you guys, but I hit my mid forties and
Speaker 2: I went I only got about twenty some years left here,
Speaker 2: and that means I better make sure I got enough money.
Speaker 2: And if I got enough money, if I've got enough wealth,
Speaker 2: I can enjoy another twenty years after that. Of course,
Speaker 2: probably not. My heart will probably give out, probably have
Speaker 2: some heart attack day before I retire. My wife will
Speaker 2: collect all the life insurance. I won't enjoy anything. Just
Speaker 2: don't get any fights, that's right, because, as we learned
Speaker 2: earlier on tonight's show, every time I get in a fight,
Speaker 2: I get my ass kicked bad. All right? If I
Speaker 2: kick off, will my wife DI have a broken heart syndrome.
Speaker 2: Probably not, according to science.
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Speaker 2: Wendy Walsh. She brings to doctor Wendy after dark, starting
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock. Doctor Wendy, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 2: about this. What's a broken heart syndrome? I was reading
Speaker 2: about this week. It is the thing, and I've said
Speaker 2: before my grandmother died like a year after my grandfather, huh,
Speaker 2: and when he passed, she just didn't know what to
Speaker 2: do with herself. And when she died, it was I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a surprise, but well it was like I
Speaker 2: think it was a broken heart syndrome situation. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: they're saying that it kind of manifests itself in uh,
Speaker 2: you know, like.
Speaker 4: Right grieving.
Speaker 7: Here's the thing about relationships, You actually kind of emerge
Speaker 7: and become one identity. Obviously, you have to have individual
Speaker 7: autonomy to have a healthy relationship and some overlap, but
Speaker 7: that overlap is what dies.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: And actually my own parents, my mom died of breast
Speaker 7: cancer and like about six months later, my dad got
Speaker 7: lung cancer and died in six weeks.
Speaker 2: Really, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was young. It was it was, it was bad.
Speaker 7: But anyway, So we had a cardiologist on our show
Speaker 7: a couple of years ago who said two things that
Speaker 7: was interesting. He said, broken heart syndrome really is a
Speaker 7: thing and people can die from it. But secondly, he's
Speaker 7: never known anyone who's in deep love in the early
Speaker 7: stages of love to ever have a heart attack. He
Speaker 7: thinks love is very protective of heart disease.
Speaker 2: Interesting, is that like maybe the adrenaline or something, maybe.
Speaker 7: All those hormones, all of those hormones.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting. So, doctor Wendy, I wanted to kind of talk
Speaker 2: with you about that and then the things that you've
Speaker 2: talked about about relationships, that relationships have like a time
Speaker 2: period and you go and this relationship was great until
Speaker 2: it was over right, But like in the case of
Speaker 2: my grandparents is fifty years together and I'm guessing your
Speaker 2: parents were together a long time.
Speaker 4: You know, thirty thirty five, thirty years thirty five.
Speaker 2: So I mean, when we talk about a relationship, it
Speaker 2: was good and then we were just done and it
Speaker 2: was fine, and that's that's part of the cycle of relationships.
Speaker 2: But how does that how does that reconcile because this
Speaker 2: broken heart syndrome seems like, as you mentioned, people start
Speaker 2: to kind of meld into one identity.
Speaker 7: A lot of people can suffer great mental health and
Speaker 7: physical health after divorce as well, not just death. And
Speaker 7: that's from really secure, long term attachments. But I think
Speaker 7: the other thing you're kind of getting that here is
Speaker 7: that because of our very long life expectancies, you know,
Speaker 7: we're outliving our relationships, right, and they end when they end,
Speaker 7: and closure and culmination happens. I hate the term a
Speaker 7: failed relationship. No such thing, right, But in our grandparents' time,
Speaker 7: there were different expectations for relationships. You didn't expect to
Speaker 7: find your soulmate and have romantic love until death to
Speaker 7: us part. You kind of stayed in your own lane,
Speaker 7: and you each had your job to do, and it
Speaker 7: was one of survival and exchanging enough care to get
Speaker 7: some kids up and out of the nest and everybody
Speaker 7: stay alive. And today relationships are far more fragile because
Speaker 7: people are putting much higher expectations on them.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 7: It's not fair at all. But I'll tell you what
Speaker 7: relationships have become a replacement for the village. We have
Speaker 7: lost our interconnected village. So our social support system used
Speaker 7: to be our friends, our family, our small town. But
Speaker 7: now because of the last of really i'd say thirty
Speaker 7: forty years of the mobility needed for modern capitalism, mobility
Speaker 7: of employees. People are just moving around the country like
Speaker 7: crazy and being pulled away from their support networks. So
Speaker 7: they're putting it all on their significant other to be everything.
Speaker 7: And it is really unfair.
Speaker 2: I've really but I yeah, yeah, why is my wife
Speaker 2: soone fair to me? I've done that. I mean radio,
Speaker 2: You know how radio goes. You work your way up
Speaker 2: and you move from market to market.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, this is if you're moving.
Speaker 7: You're moving her uprooting her and bringing her around. That
Speaker 7: means every place you land and the people you've left
Speaker 7: behind you replace them and their jobs in her life,
Speaker 7: their emotional jobs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but she the same thing for me, right, I mean, so.
Speaker 4: You start to rely on each other more.
Speaker 2: Right, But I always thought that was a good thing
Speaker 2: for the relationship, like, hey, we're always there for one another.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but humans need a wide support system. Yes, you
Speaker 7: do need a best friend that you can rely on
Speaker 7: in your relationship. But it also makes them more fragile
Speaker 7: because most relationships can't live up to that expectation of
Speaker 7: all be everything for you.
Speaker 2: And this is why I keep telling her to lower
Speaker 2: her expectations of me.
Speaker 7: I actually think it sad, but it sounds like good
Speaker 7: advice see listen.
Speaker 2: If you want to warm up to Doctor Wendy, you
Speaker 2: want to listen to my show starting at four o'clock
Speaker 2: every Sunday, and the Doctor Wendy will take it home.
Speaker 2: But if you want good relationship advice for a few
Speaker 2: hours beforehand will before you get the great relationship advice,
Speaker 2: I'm here for you and lowering expectations is where it starts.
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