Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about how much money people spend per month on subscriptions and Andy reveals he recently signed up for a gym membership that he needs to cancel.
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00:00unless you're living off the grid you got some subscriptions you're paying for every month or
00:09every year turns out those really do add up a new survey asked people how much they think they're
00:15spending every month on subscriptions including cell phone service the average person said
00:21probably about 80 bucks turns out it's way more than all if you put your cell phone stuff in
00:25there too good god when you actually add it up the average person is dropping 237 bucks a month
00:32on subscriptions you know what's crazy is i just had to cancel i totally forgot about it i had an
00:38elder scrolls online account no way you were still paying pricey it just kept coming out of my bank
00:46account and i just didn't see it or whatever oh so it's it's one of those like online video games
00:51like i would play on a pc or whatever and so you had to pay like yeah he's dark elf you have to pay
00:56like i don't know what it is if it's 13 bucks a month or whatever it was like kind of a pricey
01:01was it a 15 well it was like uh it was like a 50 a year thing or something okay yeah yeah so like
01:06i just happened to see i was like 50 bucks what is it elder scrolls come on jesus yeah i had that
01:13happened with my star wars game oh and i drunkenly signed up for a gym oh you know what i got in i
01:20think so i was drunk i was like that's a good idea what was this a long time ago a couple weeks ago
01:24so then i realized i made an egregious error because i'm not gonna go and uh they're like
01:32i'm like hey i'd like to cancel that and they make you shamefully come into this place and sign
01:37a thing so they can get one look at your fat ass get one look at your fat ass funny that you signed
01:43up for a trunk yeah it is isn't it that's really not a drunk mistake people make it is i feel like
01:50they're counting on it well i get drunk and i like i try to solve problems you thought that was a good
01:55idea i was like well yeah it's just totally gonna i gotta really this thing i just gotta work out
02:00that's how i gotta do it so i'm gonna do this one and i call and it's the peppiest dude you ever
02:04talked to oh yeah and then i get signed up and then i call and i was like dude listen i need to
02:08cancel it you called when you were drunk and then sober i would love to hear these conversations
02:13well it was a real quick call because he's like you're gonna get all our smoothies and
02:20we're gonna get we're gonna get you like signed up for the for all the courses you get a punch card
02:25you can take every class you can take every class i'm like i don't want any of that man it's like a
02:30treadmill i don't even like a smoothie so and then i'm like what have i done yet for three years
02:37and then i was like well i'd like to cancel he goes oh well um yeah that's gonna be you gotta come
02:42down here and uh sign our can you come down here and sign our cancellation form and i'm like no
02:48can i send you a goddamn email what do you want i gotta go in there number and he's like well
02:53you can go to the post office and send us a certified letter no i'm like what what have i
02:59done i'm never trying to get fit again no because of you people yeah but you got unlimited smoothies
03:07and classes i know he was he was like you take all the classes man you can come in here you get all
03:11your punch cards i guess calm down lady and it was totally a man oh yeah calm down lady listen
03:17jesus oh my god damn man so that's a that's a little glimpse into what i'm dealing with right
03:23this that's my thing this week oh so you have to you still haven't gone there no i'm gonna go
03:28because it's embarrassing like i'm gonna go in there and it's like obviously i should keep the
03:31membership i should keep the membership it's obvious do you feel like when you go in there they're
03:38they're gonna be like so you did it you know you made it and you're here right that's here
03:43they're gonna want to show you around it is i feel like it's a bully technique to like keep me
03:47in their thing and i don't like this look at that you can do this they want to tell you hey you can
03:51come back anytime i think that's part of it for sure but i think the other part is they know that
03:55andy's probably going to drag his ass and getting in there and they'll keep collecting monthly
03:58membership fees until he does no that's it if they can push you back a couple months maybe you
04:04should keep it maybe i hate this guy though you hate the guy well you have to talk to the guy
04:10oh you just want to i gotta go in there and take a photo with him for my badge and go through my
04:15goals or whatever i don't want to do all that you know what you could do you gotta wait for the last
04:22minute why do they do that you know like you have to really time this out and if it's a 24 hour place
04:28pick the the darkest time at night i want to i i'm sure the night guy's cool yeah please let us know
04:34how it goes okay please i want to see what the tactics they use to try and try and keep your membership
04:39here's another thing that makes it even more twisted so i tried to lie i tried to lie my way
04:45out of it i said i'm transferring from my job is what i tried to say
04:48you're not transferring what are you guys moving you guys are moving away i know i was like am i
05:00gonna start a whole thing because of this i just one little white lie yeah the studio is moving to
05:06boston because i had no i had no idea they were gonna make me go through this so he's like he's
05:10like oh i'm sorry to hear that why are you canceling my job's transferring me just gotta
05:13keep moving down the rail you know hoping that i'll never have to talk to him again
05:19transfer me to oklahoma can you believe it can you believe it and then he's like you gotta sign up
05:29you gotta you gotta come in you gotta go to the post office this guy said i got a membership
05:34at a gym chain and there was a 60 cancellation fee if you wanted to leave before the year was up
05:39so i lost close to 50 pounds just because i wasn't gonna pay for nothing oh yeah i'm gonna go in there
05:46i'm gonna like hate workout oh yeah like oh you bastards go get me a smoothie and then i'll throw it
05:52at him give me another smoothie punch this i'm not taking the class i have so much attitude in there
05:59that's right make them quit you yeah i dropped another smoothie all over those machines
06:05oops i guess you should have let me cancel because i'm real clumsy at a gym there you go
06:12oh wow
06:13oh wow