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So big day today, recording this later in the week
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because we had some other stuff going on,
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but big day right now, huge day.
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Halo has officially released early.
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This is the pre-release.
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If you get it today, you can have it till Tuesday.
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So you get it five days early.
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So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
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and it releases officially for everybody on Tuesday.
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So early release today for the new Halo,
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so far reviews, everybody’s saying it looks great,
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but I don’t know, like I said,
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it’s still very, very early, like I said, just released,
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but people are saying it looks amazing,
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but it is still very much the older original campaign.
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So people are saying, well, I mean, it looks better,
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but it’s still the campaign.
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You could still do co-op campaign.
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You can still do regular campaign and all that kind of stuff.
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I mean, it still is kind of the original Halo,
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but it does look amazing.
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So we will see if you bought the pre-edition,
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you get some extra skins, you get some extra,
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little extras that you wouldn’t get
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if you downloadable content DLC.
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So that is a big reason why a lot of people bought it early
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they wanted a DLC.
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Some people actually spent the $20 to get the DLC,
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but they’re going to wait for it to go on Xbox Game Pass
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on Tuesday.
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So they just spent the $20 to get the extras,
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and they’re going to wait.
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So because I mean, it’s $64 plus the $20 for the early edition.
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So if you have an Xbox Game Pass and you still want the DLC,
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just spend the $20.
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You get the DLC, and then on Tuesday,
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you can play the game with the DLC.
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So I thought that’s kind of neat.
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But like I said, it’s out.
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It’s available.
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It’s in the world now.
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Like I said, in early access,
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if you have Xbox Ultimate,
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you will have it on Tuesday.
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If you have, like I said,
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it’s day one on Xbox Game Pass,
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which I would expect
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for Microsoft’s flagship game.
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I mean, Halo is literally their flagship.
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Curious to see what they’re gonna do with multiplayer, folks.
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Like I said, this doesn’t have a multiplayer mode.
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you could play co-op campaign,
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but there’s no multiplayer battle.
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A little concerning for all of us
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that are hearing that Halo Infinite
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is going to be in maintenance mode.
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It’s a little bit upsetting because, I mean,
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that’s your free multiplayer game,
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and it’s gonna be in maintenance mode,
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and eventually they’re saying possibly could be sunset.
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kind of a little bit upsetting to hear that considering all of us that really love Halo.
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What about the people that just like to play against each other?
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What if there are people that don’t want to play the campaign just want to play against
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their friends?
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So we’ll see what happens with that.
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That really upsets me.
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Really it does because I am a huge Halo Infinite fan and the reason to Halo Infinite kind of
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brought Halo back from the dead.
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Now 2019, Halo was really, really struggling.
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And Halo Infinite really brought it back.
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So, you know, I hope, you know,
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I really, really hope that Microsoft realizes
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what they have.
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I don’t think they do a lot of what they do.
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You know, a lot of people are saying that,
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you know, Microsoft has never been in tune
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with their consumer products.
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And I do agree with that, you know,
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versus Microsoft Groove.
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You know, a lot of people, myself, had that
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because we thought it was really cool
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that you could play your music off of OneDrive
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and you had a groove subscription
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so you could listen off OneDrive
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and you could listen to your subscription music.
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Microsoft did, for some reason,
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did away with playing your music off of OneDrive
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and then went, did away with the subscription service too.
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I’m like, wow, this is kind of nuts.
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I mean, considering what’s a thing to me is,
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Microsoft Groove is still on the,
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still on Windows and you still cannot play
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your music off of your OneDrive.
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You have to use a different program for that.
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I mean, I think it’s ridiculous.
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Like, wow, Microsoft really?
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Like, so if I want to listen to Microsoft Groove on Windows,
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I can’t even listen to my own OneDrive music.
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I have to use a separate app.
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So, I mean, there’s, again, I don’t think Microsoft
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has always been in groove with the consumer.
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Same thing with the Microsoft Band.
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That was a pretty big hit for them
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rid of it. MSN radio was a big hit for them. They got rid of it. Again, I just don’t think
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they’ve ever really been in tune with their consumer market. And unfortunately, Xbox is
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consumer. And I think that’s part of the problem. I think it’s part of the reason why Xbox is
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doing what they’re doing, all these layoffs and all that kind of stuff. I think it’s a
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shame. I think it’s just Microsoft. Xbox is a powerful brand. Gaming is a big business
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right now. And I do think Microsoft’s doing what they always do and dropping the ball
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a little bit with the consumer services, especially when it’s an A-list game and one of their flagship video games.
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But I hate to be, I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but
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like I said, I’m not really sure. I mean, I love Halo. I want to play the game, but I’m not really sure that I want to
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you know, spend, you know, 60 bucks just to play a key and pain. I mean, I could just play the original Halo on
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on the game pass.
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I mean, I’m not saying that it’s not gonna look as good.
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It’s not gonna be as great, but I just,
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I’m just like one of those people that’s like,
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well, I mean, why am I gonna spend,
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I mean, I’ll get it on game pass,
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so I’ll play it on game pass,
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but for those of you that don’t have game pass,
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it’s one of those things of, well, do I spend the 60 bucks?
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A lot of people are gonna say no.
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So we have some other, by the way,
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some other stuff I wanted to talk about.
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Some rumors, I hate to do rumors,
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But unfortunately, a lot of these rumors
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are pretty big news.
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So we have Apple here saying that they are going to–
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they’re saying an M6 Mac Mini is in the works.
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The current Mac Mini that’s on sales, the M4.
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They could just jump a generation of M6.
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Apparently, they are saying as well that there is going to be a–
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Well, they’re saying there’s gonna be a Mac,
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well, I should say this, a pro version of the Nano,
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the, whether the MacBook Nano,
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or they don’t wanna call it a MacBook,
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they just call it Nano, but apparently it’s gonna be
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a pro model, and they’re saying that could come with the A19.
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Now, it’s interesting to point out here that,
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that’s still an iPhone chip, that’s still not the M series.
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So, but it is a higher end ship.
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So I’m wondering what this is gonna look like price wise.
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And if the actual, I mean, I don’t know if this is,
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I mean, ’cause I mean, you have the Nano,
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what, that 599 or whatever it is,
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but then you have the MacBook Air,
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which comes in about 1100.
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So I’m curious where this is gonna price in here.
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We don’t know yet, we will find out eventually,
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But like I said, that is slated to be coming out eventually here as well.
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So we will have to wait and see what happens with that.
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Also to some other news that I wanted to point out too, we were just talking about Xbox.
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I should have lumped this in with that.
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Apparently they’re seeing that Microsoft insiders are playing around with an ad supported version
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of Xbox Game Pass so it would be free it would be free to play Xbox X Cloud it’s
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not game I will say it’s X Cloud it’s a version of Game Pass but it’s free but
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it’s only X Cloud and you will go ahead and you will get ads on it and you will
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get it in 60 minutes increments so by the way I would like to point out too by
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the way that Fortnite is always gonna be free,
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but it is gonna drop back to 60 minutes of time.
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I do important to point that out,
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but apparently there’s going to be a version of it,
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like I said, where it’s gonna be ad supported.
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I have a feeling Microsoft’s doing this
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to try to get as much as a candidate of Xbox,
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they can sell advertisements and other,
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but like I said, this is apparently going to be coming out
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fairly soon from what I’m reading.
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It’s got, you know, it’s gonna be,
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the insiders have it now.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if we see it here
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in the next couple of months.
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Usually once, I have a,
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I mean, there’s been rumors that Microsoft’s been working
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on this stuff for a while.
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I think it’s fairly true personally.
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So like I said, you know, it’s coming,
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but we will hear more about that,
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I’m sure in the, you know, things,
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you know, get closer and closer.
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Also too, it’s important to point out that game pass
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now that starter edition that they have with Discord now. They also have a
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starter edition with Meta where you can actually play VR games actually on your
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Meta headset using Game Pass. So I think that’s important too. And also I’d like
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to point out too, Microsoft really pushing this Game Pass stuff pretty hard.
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We know they’ve talked about that their numbers have been down for last year or
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so on Game Pass.
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So they’re partnering with Meta now with the Meta Quest
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and the Horizon and all that,
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so that they can put games on there with Game Pass.
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They’re partnering with Discord,
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they’re gonna be doing an ad supportive version.
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Definitely pushing Game Pass really hard,
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especially if they’re partnering with companies like Meta
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and Discord, they’re trying to get people
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into the Game Pass ecosystem.
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So something to keep an eye on as we go forward here.
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I like to see if they do give us any hard numbers here on Game Pass coming up in the next year or so
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To see where they’re actually at like I said with the amount that they are partnering with all these other partners
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They’re saying there’s gonna be more partnership deals announced fairly soon. So they are really trying to get this out there for the world
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So we will see what that lead. I hope they give us some numbers. They may not but I would like to see some numbers
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Some other interesting stuff that I wanted to talk about
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Kind of upsetting to me talking about Apple
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Apple has
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Gone up again with their services prices. I’m actually really annoyed about this for one reason so
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Apple one
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Which is there? I’m sorry. Excuse me Apple care one Apple care plus whatever it’s called their subscription based Apple care
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Which you can have on all your products, which I do is going up because they’re saying it’s more expensive to repair products
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I can understand that with the current component crisis. I actually am okay with that
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I understand that they have to go up with some of that possibly because of the cost of hardware being more expensive
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But then the one that really upset me is the next day
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Apple goes up with their
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price on
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And now you’re going up with your services business.
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Now, the reason why I’m upset with this
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is I can understand the Apple care thing
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because of the product component prices,
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but this is ridiculous because this is actually,
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this is a money grab for Apple.
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I mean, it’s not costing them really that much more
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to dish out Apple One services.
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I mean, I okay, I get it.
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You know, maybe things are costing more,
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streaming, hard drives, you know, stuff in the back end.
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But I mean, to go up with your,
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I mean, your Apple One subscription,
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which people are already paying good money for,
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especially at the thing for the ultra,
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it’s like what, $30 or something like that?
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Like, or $39 a minute?
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I’m like, wow, this is,
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like they didn’t need to go up with their services.
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I mean, I understand Apple had to go up with hardware prices
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’cause they can’t keep absorbing it.
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And I can even understand the Apple care prices,
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but do they really need to go up
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with their services pricing?
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I mean, I think this kind of ridiculous.
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I know, you know, the saying they have to stay competitive,
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but I really think that that was just like a money grab.
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Okay, well we’re going up with everything else might as well go up with this and make a little more services revenue because
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Services revenue is a big part of our business
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Like I said, I do I do really have a problem with that so but that was in the in the news today as
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well
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Little bit. Well, I want to talk about to that. I’ve been watching the new seat the new show
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Lucky on Apple TV. I like to put out to folks a lot of you guys have the feedback
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we’ve gotten is great and I’ll go through the feedback here in a minute but
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Some of the things I do want to talk about though that I thought was a little bit interesting to me is
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I guess that I don’t have Apple I have Apple TV just to watch the show
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But a lot of people are pointing out of the shows to me and I’m like, you know
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No wonder Apple’s attrition rate for Apple TV plus is so high because
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People get on that mean Apple has a lot of stuff on there, but it’s all original content
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And I mean you get on there you watch what you want and then you cancel it
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So there’s another show you want on there.
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That’s kind of what I’m doing with Lucky.
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I’m watching Lucky, which is a really good show.
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It’s really well done.
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It’s actually a book I read years ago.
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So it’s based on a book.
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Timothy Oliphant is in it.
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As well, I forget her name to star her name,
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but it’s very, very well done.
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I’m really enjoying it.
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I’m gonna watch the third episode probably tonight,
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but like I said, it’s really well done.
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I’m really enjoying it.
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Go ahead and watch it if you’re not.
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It’s a little bit more of an action show.
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A lot of Apple stuff kind of has a little campy to me,
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but this is a little more of an action show
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and stuff like that.
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So I’m really, like I said, I really enjoy it.
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It’s been really, really good.
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I think they should do more action movies,
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more action series.
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They don’t usually, but this is actually really good
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and I’m really enjoying it.
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It does have that Apple feel in the sense of,
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you could tell the production,
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they got big name actors, big name production,
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all that kind of stuff.
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I’m only two episodes in and you could already tell
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it’s Apple quality, if you know what I’m trying to say.
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So go ahead and check that out.
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I really am enjoying that.
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I finally got to watch the Formula One movie.
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You know, I thought wrestling was a loud show,
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but let me tell you, if you want to watch,
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I can’t imagine if people saw it in theaters,
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But if you want to watch a show with a lot of sound,
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you definitely need to watch the “Forever the One” movie.
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It’s very well done.
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I don’t think it did as good as they wanted,
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but it is very well done.
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And Brad Pitt was really good in it.
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And I mean, it was all, it’s Apple, so it’s quality,
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but there’s a lot of noise with that show,
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let me tell you.
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So go ahead and take a look at that.
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It actually is a really great show.
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I very much enjoyed it.
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So like I said, a couple things for you to watch.
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Also too, I wanted to kind of point out,
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I understand it’s still weird to me talking
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about streaming and all that.
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It’s very weird, a Saturday Night Main Event was on for WWE.
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And I found it interesting that it’s on Peacock for America,
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but it’s not for international.
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And it’s done on Netflix.
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So the only way to watch the Saturday Night Main Event,
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if you’re internationalist through YouTube.
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Now I don’t care, but it’s just interesting to me
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how these licensing deals with WWE works personally,
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because it’s weird, okay, it’s on Peacock
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on this service here in America,
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but it’s free on YouTube for international audiences.
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And it’s because it’s not something that Netflix paid for.
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So they don’t get it, it goes on YouTube.
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I thought that was interesting.
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Now granted, I mean, YouTube is becoming
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a viable option for things.
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I mean, things like TNA Wrestling and other,
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you know, WWE and all that, all use AEW,
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have been using YouTube to their advantage.
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And it’s great that they are the original content
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and all that kind of stuff, it’s quality.
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You know, YouTube is a real viable option for television.
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But it was interesting, like I said, to me,
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as a consumer that, okay, so if you’re in America,
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you’re watching this on Peacock, you got a paper,
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but if you’re international,
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you can watch it free on YouTube.
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Now that being said, the same thing happened
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with NXT about a month or two ago,
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where it was free on YouTube in America,
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but you had to have a Netflix subscription internationally
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because NXT certain events, the premium live events for NXT
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are actually part of Netflix’s agreement,
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but they’re not part of Peacock’s agreement anymore.
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So you watch the premium live events free on YouTube,
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but if you’re internationally,
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you gotta watch it on Netflix.
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So I thought that these licensing deals
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are very, very strange.
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So I like to point that out as well,
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that was interesting.
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Obviously, SummerSlam and all that stuff,
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obviously on ESPN Unlimited.
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I’m very curious to see what’s gonna happen
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with those rights deals going forward
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from a technical standpoint,
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because I mean, at this point,
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I just do not see ESPN Unlimited
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getting their billions of dollars in subscribers
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out of, I just don’t see it out of WWE fans.
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I really don’t.
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But apparently to now, what’s interesting is the first hour
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of WWE PLEs are free on ESPN.
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And then the next couple of hours are on unlimited.
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So it’s also, I think ESPN is now trying to use
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that first free hour on ESPN to try to lure people over
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get unlimited so that they could watch you know watch the events like I said I’m very interested about this because
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It’s it’s rather interesting that you know it just just the way this whole the whole rights thing is going
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Also, too, it’s it’s really interesting as well because like major league baseball now people have bought
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I mean you have people that have bought the rights like Sunday night is is always on peacock
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Friday nights are on Apple Thursday is is on
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prime now
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People that are on MLB comm are supposed to be able to get all the all the shows all the you know, but I guess there’s
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There’s issues with that now because they’re selling the rights to baseball to all these different streaming services on certain days
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So if your team is on there at Sunday night, you’re not watching it on MLB comm
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So it’s another again these rights deals with sports and live and it really spills sports and live entertainment specifically
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but are quite an interesting thing.
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And it’s only going to get more,
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I think more chopped up here as we go along.
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But the same could be said for football.
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You know, it’s interesting that,
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you know, Monday night football is such a big deal,
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but a lot of people are saying that Amazon has done so much
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and done so well with the Thursday night football
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and how it’s been a lot bigger on Amazon
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than it ever was on Direct TV,
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or even it’s even bigger now than Monday Night Football.
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So I’m curious to see,
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I’m wondering if we’re going to see eventually
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a Monday Night Football perhaps go to another service.
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I could see Apple possibly bidding to get it.
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I think it would be a good fit for them.
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And I also, because how many people have iPhones,
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I think it’d be a good, better fit for them.
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I could also see Peacock or Paramount,
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one of those trying to get Monday night football.
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‘Cause I think it’d be better for the league
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to go with one of those services rather than regular TV.
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But we will have to see what happens with that.
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I’m very curious.
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I’m not a football fan,
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but I am curious to see what happens
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with the rights going forward with that as well.
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So we’ll have to keep an eye out
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and see what happens down the road.
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Also too, talking about Paramount and streaming,
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I would like to point out that that McGregor fight,
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while disappointment as a fan,
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did extremely well for Paramount.
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I think one of the largest streaming audiences,
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8.3 million people watched it that night on the stream.
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So that was the peak of the Paramount numbers,
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was 8.3 million people watching at one time.
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That is a huge number.
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Kudos to Paramount for staying up and running,
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But that is a big number for paramount.
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So I definitely think the UFC is definitely
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helping them along.
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But again, live sports and things in America are a big draw.
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But 8.3 concluent people watching.
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So rather interesting.
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Also, to kind of some geek stuff I
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wanted to talk about, the Avengers trailer,
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Obviously coming out this week, breaking the internet.
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Just a thing that everybody’s been watching,
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a lot of rumors, a lot of breakdowns,
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all that stuff which happens in any of these Marvel movies,
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especially a big one like The Avengers.
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But that came out this week as well.
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I’m very curious to see what’s gonna happen with that.
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I think it’s probably gonna break huge, I really do.
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I don’t know if it’s gonna break Endgame’s record,
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but I think it’s definitely gonna be a big release.
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I think I have a it’s gonna probably break at least Avengers one or Avengers two record
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I think I’d be curious if it I don’t think it’s gonna break endgame and I don’t think it’s gonna break
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Infinite war but I do I could I could see it definitely being one of the biggest
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One of the bigger
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openings
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So I’m very curious to see what goes on with that. I am excited to see it and of course
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Not this weekend, but the weekend after is of course the Spider-Man release
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My wife and I are gonna try to go see that with our with our daughter in theater. That is gonna be a big release. I
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Have a feeling that’s gonna break some records too
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Maybe not maybe not, you know box office records, but I have feeling oh, I mean it’s maybe for like the franchise or for
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You know, maybe the franchise or maybe for Marvel’s
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that’s going to break some kind of record because the hype for that movie, all the Spider-Man movies
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with Tom Holland that broke really big and the way they’re really pushing it. I could see it
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you know being a big thing. Also too in the theaters as well right now,
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Odyssey, which I’m not going to go see in the movie theaters. We uh I just I’m not I’ve seen the
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Odyssey by the way has been remade a bunch of times. It’s the first time that Christopher Nolan is
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doing it but it’s been remade a few times. Definitely a story we kind of know. I mean
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we kind of know the story already but I probably will watch that in 4k when it comes out.
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You know but like I said I’m not really that that interesting going to see that in the theaters
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but like I said I am very interested in seeing the like it’s a Spider-Man movie.
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Also too interesting to see He-Man is on Amazon Prime right now for free. He-Man did not do that
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well in the movie theater but it did but I mean I mean it was very well done a lot
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of my friends saw it said it was really good I will see if I could probably
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watch that on streaming sometime in the next couple of weeks but did not do good
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in the movies but it’s not free already on Prime so let’s see what happens maybe
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you don’t get a second life on streaming as things usually do so that will be
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something to kind of see what happens here over the next you know over the
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I’m curious to see how the see the key is is even in the movie doesn’t do big in
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the box office it’s how well does it do in you know on in streaming numbers if
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you know what I’m trying to say that that’s the ticket if you don’t I’m
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trying to say so we’ll have I like I said I’m curious to see what what happens
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with that also – would like to point out a game that I’ve been that I’m going
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to be buying on Nintendo.
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No Man’s Sky.
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I’m into those builders kind of games.
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The games, my daughter and I have played 99 Nights.
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My wife and I like to play Minecraft.
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I like to play Starcraft on my own.
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I do like to play,
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I try to think what else I play on my Switch.
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Try to think I play, oh my Switch.
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I try to think what I play on my Switch.
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I do play that Star, a StarDoc Trader game.
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I like that one a lot.
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I’m trying to think what else am I playing on my Switch,
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but I like to get No Man’s Sky on the Switch.
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I think it’ll be, it may not be as good as it is on PC,
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but I’m probably gonna get it on the Switch
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’cause I’m hearing a lot of good things about it.
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It’s actually on sale right now, I probably should get it.
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I really, I think it’s, I like this kind of building games
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or strategic strategy games.
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Like I was a big Age of Empire guy
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back in the old, back in the older days.
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Actually that IP is taking on new life, Age of Empires 2.
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with Xbox game paths, a lot of people are starting to pick that game back up again
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and that intellectual property is starting to get in the light. They actually have Age of Empires,
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two tournaments now on YouTube, which I was very shocked to see how old of an IP that is,
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but apparently it is kind of getting a new life now because of Game Pass. So I think that’s cool
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and I think that’s kind of where Microsoft is going with this. We have all this old IP,
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Let’s put it up on Game Pass and see if people,
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one, spark an interest and can, you know,
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and we’ll, you know, and also two,
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okay, maybe they won’t pay for this,
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but maybe they’ll pay for, you know,
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some of this older or vintage IP,
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you know, retro IP is a big thing right now.
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People are really enjoying a lot of those older games,
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especially people my age, you know,
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in the 40s and stuff, those retro games
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when we were kids are really popular right now.
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I know like the DSs and stuff like that
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a big comeback because people are hacking them and making systems out of them again,
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playing Pokemon on them, things like that.
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So again, those things are getting new life again because of the whole retro gaming craze
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right now.
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I mean, hey, arcades are making a comeback.
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There’s a YouTuber called the8bitguy who actually has a…he actually restores games
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and started his own arcade now,
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that he, retro arcade, that he actually runs now
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as part of his YouTube business.
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So again, those kind of things,
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making a huge comeback, especially in the,
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you know, the current state of gaming,
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retro games are a hot item.
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And even Nintendo keeps adding IP
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to their online service.
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Nintendo Online, it’s like about $55 for the year.
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Every month, they’ve been adding a ton more retro games
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because they do realize that’s something that people want,
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Especially people like me who like the older games and stuff,
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want that IP and they’ll pay for it.
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So like I said, you know, and Nintendo realized that,
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that’s why Nintendo’s intellectual property is a huge thing.
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Especially as they have Sega and all that kind of stuff.
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You know, that is definitely stuff that people want.
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And that’s why Nintendo is using that
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to leverage the online, because that’s what that is.
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That’s a subscription business.
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Also too, I thought this was rather interesting today
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on Slash.DOT, they pointed out that GM and places like that
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are trying to figure out subscription models for vehicles.
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That’s GM is really big into that right now.
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They’re saying OnStar has about 7 million subscribers
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and is continuing to grow.
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This side that was really interesting.
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On on-star subscriptions, they’re making about 70 cents
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on the dollar profit, whereas when they sell a car,
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they’re making about 10% profit on the dollar.
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So I think that’s why these companies
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want this reoccurring revenue.
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That’s why they’re pushing on-star so hard on GM,
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’cause GM realizes that’s a huge moneymaker for them.
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So that’s why they’re really pushing the on-star service
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because they know that is reoccurring revenue,
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And even if they don’t sell cars,
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or if they have a lull in car sales,
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they have that reoccurring subscription revenue.
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They’re also looking into other revenues, obviously.
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We see them getting into now,
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you can turn your car into a hot spot.
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You could do all these other things.
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They’re trying to make the car,
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they’re trying to figure out in cars
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how to make, how to become,
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make the car a subscription business
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so that they can get more revenue.
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Instead of just selling a car,
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and then GM doesn’t get any more revenue from you
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you buy another car where GM is trying to figure out, okay, you bought a car, we appreciate
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that, but now how can we now, you know, get more money out of, you know, the person while
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they’re driving it? And subscription is going to be the way to do that. So that’s why all
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these car manufacturers are looking into this now. And it’s like, oh my, you know, it’s
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it’s crazy to me that they’re doing this. But I mean, that is the, the world we’re living
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in now with subscription services where even car manufacturers are trying to really get
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into the subscription business however they can.
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The other thing too I’d be interested to see what happens with AAA because as GM, I mean
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on-stars in GM vehicles, and I know you can get on-stars for vehicles that don’t have
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GM, but I mean that doesn’t really happen, but I’d be curious to see what the plan is
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going forward with like something like AAA and some of that, if they have a plan to try
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to get in the vehicles, I mean they already have people that are subscribed that are paying
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every month, but I’m curious to see if they’re going to get something in the car where you
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pay extra for it, like something where you can hook into your car or plug it in your
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car, something like that.
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Similar to what Sirius did in the old days where you had to hook the radio up, now the
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radio is built into the car, and that’s how they kind of grew their business.
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I’m curious to see if AAA gets into something
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that you could put in the car.
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I know vehicles now too, there’s a big thing over now.
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I guess they’re saying that certain cars
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are kind of doing a thing where if you want,
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and this has been trying for a while,
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but they’re gonna say, okay, well, do you want,
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we can make the screen built in,
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do you, if we use Apple’s platform
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or Google’s platform or whatever,
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You still have air– you still have car player,
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Andrew play in the car, but they’re trying to say, well,
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that screen that’s in the car is valuable real estate.
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There’s even been talks about companies like Tesla
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and stuff like that, eventually using the screen
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for advertising, like they do on TVs.
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I know a lot.
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I get a lot of calls from a lot of people that say to me
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all the time, well, my TV, every time I turn it off,
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it goes back to that window, and I got to hit input one again.
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I don’t want that.
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I want it to just stay logged in.
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Yeah, well, there’s a reason for that.
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You know, LG, Samsung, all that want that screen to come up.
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Same thing with Roku.
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They want that screen to come up
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so that they can sell ads on that screen.
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It’s a, hey, listen, every time somebody turns on their TV,
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they’re gonna see your ad.
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So that’s why there are companies that are paying
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to be on those screens.
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That’s why every time you turn your VTR,
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if you turn it back on,
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it doesn’t go right into input one or input two, whatever.
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Yeah, because there’s a reason for that.
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That’s ad space that those companies sell.
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Remember, they only get to sell you a TV
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once every so many years.
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So they gotta either sell you their LG services
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or their whatever services,
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or they have to sell ads on those TVs.
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Now the key part of that is,
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a lot of people hook their TV up to the Wi-Fi.
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Other part of that is some people,
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like my wife and I, don’t hook the TV up to the Wi-Fi.
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We have our own little Apple boxes
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or Roku box and stuff like that.
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They don’t want that.
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They want you to hook the TV up to the wireless,
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so this way you use their TV.
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But, and that’s how they make money.
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I mean, it’s all, it’s all a money magazine,
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but the TV to sell subscriptions and ads.
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It’s just like anything else.
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That’s the world we’re living in,
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where ad space is, in your eyeballs,
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are worth a lot of money to these companies.
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So that’s why that’s so important.
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Also, two folks on some sad news today.
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We heard, we found out, I believe it was yesterday,
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that John C. DeVorak, he was a very popular writer
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and blogger and he wrote tons of books
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and he’s been covering the tech space for over,
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since the ’90s, he was covering
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and he was doing his podcast
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and all this other stuff for years.
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He, one of the real, really big names in the,
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the tech space for quite some time covering Windows or Microsoft, IBM before them covering
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Mac, covering Next, all these computer industry stuff and then of course the iPhone and all those
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stuff but he was one of the original guys in the 90s doing this kind of stuff. Fortunately,
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passed away at 80 after complications from a heart attack and unfortunately bypass surgery
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But what a legend in the space.
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And it’s a shame, but he passed away at the age of 80.
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Like I said, really more known in the tech space, really more–
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like, wasn’t really a mainstream kind of person.
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But if you’re in the tech sphere, which
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if you’re listening to this, you probably are.
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That’s why– it’s a big name.
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And he did a lot of stuff.
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And he was one of the original really bloggers
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that was able to kind of really make a go of it
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as far as talking about tech and stuff like that.
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Even if they think about the early 90s,
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before the internet, he was even kind of
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really covering tech even before the internet,
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which if you think about how crazy that is,
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back then you had a little,
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you had to write for a magazine or write in a paper
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or something like that.
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Nowadays any of us can, in 10 minutes, get a blog up.
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That doesn’t mean you’re gonna be allowed traffic,
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but you can get a blog up and start writing.
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Back then, it was a lot more difficult
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to get the word out.
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And back then too, you had to verify sources
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and stuff like that.
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It was just so different than it is now.
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So, really sad to see him fortunately gone
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by 80 years old, but like I said,
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he was doing his podcast all the way up to,
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I think like a couple of weeks ago.
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So, good for him.
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He obviously had a passion for it at 80 years old.
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So doing his podcast,
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he’ll doing his YouTube stuff and all that.
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So really good for him,
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his sub-stack and all that sort of stuff.
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So he definitely was a real legend in the tech space
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as far as covering things and all that kind of stuff.
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So like I said, we wish him and his family the best.
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Like I said, especially, I mean, like I said,
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just a living legend really, you know,
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I mean, just for, I mean, just covering the tech space
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for such a long time.
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But like I said, shame to see it,
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but like I said, he was doing his podcast
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all the way up to a couple weeks ago.
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So good for him.
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Definitely had a passion for it.
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You know, and like I said, one of the OGs
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that the kids call it nowadays, you know?
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All right, guys, I wanna thank you very much for listening
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and we will see you on the next episode.
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