248: Revisting Cutting the Cord

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 101 minutes

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It's been more than three years since Katie ditched her pay TV service. This week Katie and David are joined by Bradley Chambers to discuss life as a "cord cutter", advantages and disadvantages, entertainment devices and services and the future. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

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0:00.0	Mac Power Users, Episode 248,
0:02.7	Revisiting Cutting the Chord. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users
0:16.8	Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks. Hey David!
0:20.3	Hello Katie Floyd, how are you today?
0:22.3	I'm doing great and we've got a very special
0:24.9	friend with us back to MacPower users welcome Bradley Chambers.
0:28.9	Hey guys how are we all tonight? We're doing good.
0:33.0	So you are also a chord cutter and I think it's been, gosh, almost 200 episodes since we last discussed cord cutting and thought we'd bring some friends back to revisit this episode.
0:48.0	And the interesting thing is when we did it last time you had just cut the cord.
0:52.4	Just cut the cord. Just cut the cord.
0:53.4	I think within the last month or two.
0:54.8	I just experimented with cutting the cord and here we are now over three years later and I'm still
1:00.5	cordless.
1:01.5	Okay, so I know at one point you were talking like you may have to go back to cable.
1:05.7	I briefly flirted back with cable.
1:08.4	I went back for a month or two and then cut it again.
1:10.5	Said, nope, done with this.
1:11.5	Wow, just a month. get this out of my house yeah
1:14.2	it was pretty it took the cable company that long to irritate me
1:18.1	probably took that long to make the appointment too it's true that's true that's true
1:25.0	but I thought having too. That's true. Well, Bradley's a big court cutter too. Yeah, some unique, some other perspective would be helpful on the show.
1:29.0	Well, if there's something that has, you know, one topic that has changed from like kind of your maybe we'll call it season one
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