COTC - 19 Dec 2025 - Ads are everywhere!

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Good morning, Northern Michigan,

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and

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happy Friday.

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And, yeah, we'll talk about the weather. It,

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was really warm and rainy yesterday. A lot

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of the snow melted,

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and then it froze overnight.

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And a little dusting of snow happened, which,

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was enough to close the schools this morning.

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At least the Traverse City Schools and a

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whole bunch in the surrounding area

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are closed today. So a snow day without

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a whole lot of snow,

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but,

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that's alright.

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And let me get to the weather here

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today. Snow showers mainly before 1PM. Patchy blowing

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snow between

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10AM and 3PM.

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High near 24, blustery.

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Love that word.

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With a northwest wind of 15 to 20

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miles an hour, gust as high as 40,

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chance of precipitation is 90%, total daytime snow

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accumulation

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around three inches.

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I don't know. We'll see. Doesn't look like

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it yet, but, yeah, it is what it

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is.

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Tonight,

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chance of snow showers before seven and a

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slight chance of snow showers after 1AM.

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Mostly cloudy with a steady temperature around 22.

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West wind five to 10 becoming south in

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the evening. Chance

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precipitation is 20%.

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And, let's see tomorrow

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on Saturday, 50% chance of snow showers, mostly

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cloudy high near 35. South wind, 15 miles

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per hour becoming west in the afternoon. Winds

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could gust as high as 30 miles an

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hour.

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And, you know, doesn't look like it's, too

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much different for Sunday. So,

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anyway,

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full forecast in the show notes over at

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cupoftravertcity.com.

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So as promised, I wanted to rant just

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a little bit.

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The

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amount of advertising,

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excuse me, the amount of advertising that somebody's

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exposed to lately, and this, by the way,

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is not a local story. This is everywhere,

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mainly on the Internet, but,

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anywhere else.

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But

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it's just amazing to me. I I not

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I don't watch a lot of

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regular TV,

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you know, like,

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cable channels or anything like that. But every

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once in a while I flip on the

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local news. That's not too bad

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ads wise, but it, you know, seems like

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they do run a lot of ads which,

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you know, I guess that's their business,

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selling ads,

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but other places

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where ads pop up. If you try to

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watch YouTube now, if you're not paying them

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and I am paying them because I don't

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want to watch all the

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inserted

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ads when they insert it halfway through a

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sentence, and it's a completely irrelevant

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ad.

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They're not good at this.

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Google, come on. You you should be better.

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But, you know, just all the

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freaking ads and and in podcasts, you know,

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I I have a couple of shows that

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I absolutely

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love,

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but they have the most

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insane amount of ads.

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And I understand the podcasters need to make

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money and I'm in that business, you know.

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I don't make money from my podcast necessarily

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but working in the business,

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but

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it's getting to the point where it's ridiculous.

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I mean you get a weather app on

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your phone and there's gonna be banner ads

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and there's gonna be pop up video ads

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and things that cover the screen. The one

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that ones that really bug me are video

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games. I mean you just cannot get any

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sort of

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casual

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video game

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on your iPhone, iPad, Android, whatever

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without having these insane

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ads. You get to the end of a,

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you know, end of a hand, so you're

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playing a card game or you get

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to the end of a level in a

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in a regular game, they have these video

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ads

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of, you know, other video games and you

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can't close them for thirty seconds or even

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a minute.

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And that's not so bad. I mean I

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get that as well.

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I don't like it and I don't pay

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attention to those ads on purpose because I

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don't want them to work because I don't

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want them to keep happening but they do.

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You know, I have a Euchre app, and

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I actually have to turn off

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the

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you know, I put it in airplane mode,

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put the iPad in airplane mode, and then

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that does sort of prevent the ads

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in between hands. But what really annoys me,

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I'd as soon as I turn on the,

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Internet again, it

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there's the ads again. The one that really,

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really ticks me off is I have a

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security camera system.

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And it's you have to use the proprietary

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app

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to look at your security cameras.

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And that app

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puts up those stupid video game app ads

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where you gotta sit there for thirty seconds.

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I just wanna look at my cameras. I

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bought the cameras.

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I wanna look at my cameras

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and

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I can't for a minute. You You know,

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what if I hear some noise out there?

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And I wanna see what's going on. Nope.

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Gotta wait for the stupid video game ad.

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And

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and it's prohibitively

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expensive to remove the ads. I think it's,

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like, $29

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a month for the the security camera system

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I have,

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and

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that's just not right.

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You know? And now even

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Netflix is, putting ads in certain shows. I

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mean, you're paying Netflix for the privilege of

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watching the stuff on there, and that should

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be enough. But nope. They gotta have ads.

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Paramount plus, you gotta pay them extra to

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get rid of the ads. For me, it's

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worth it because I watch a lot of

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Star Trek.

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But,

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you know, everything

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has ads.

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couple other things related is now, Stellantis,

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which is, you know, Chrysler, Jeep,

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Fiat, 100 other

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company brands, whatever.

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Now they're putting ads in their cars on

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the infotainment screen.

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You know? Excuse me. You can't use your,

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car right now because you gotta watch this

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ad or listen to this ad or read

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this ad.

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Like, come on. That's beyond ridiculous.

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And on top of that, some car companies

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now are charging you to use a feature

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that is built into your car that you

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bought.

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That that's going over the top too. You

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know, this

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number of subscriptions you have to have now,

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you know, no. I don't pay for cable.

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I don't pay for cable TV.

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And

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I don't pay for cable TV, and I

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watch other TV. You know, I watch, you

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know, my wife watches Netflix. I watch Paramount

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and and YouTube.

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So we pay those three,

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subscriptions.

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I pay for, Amazon Prime mainly for,

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you know, the

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the free shipping and all that stuff, but

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on top of that you get the video

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app or the streaming app. But guess what?

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Every single movie

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I wanna watch. I come up, you know,

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I said, oh, I haven't seen this movie

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in a long time. I type it in.

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The only place that has it is Prime,

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and you have to rent it or buy

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it from them. Even though I have Prime,

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I can't

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watch hardly anything free.

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Anyway, enough for my rants. Everybody have a

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great weekend. I may have a special episode

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this weekend. I may not. I don't know.

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Look for that on Sunday if it happens.

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Otherwise, we'll see you Monday.

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Happy Friday.