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How's it going out there?

It's Wednesday, May 5th.

I am Frank Curzier, your host to the S&A Investor

Podcast, where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really moving these markets.

Man, it's supposed to be cheaper living in Florida.

Now, I'm going to have a little bit of a rant.

It's nothing personal. I'm going somewhere. So bear with me.

Here we have Direct TV, which I subscribe to, and my bill just came out to $168. Now realize that I also use Comcast because I need an internet connection. So that's

168 on top of even like $30, $40 more and that's pretty expensive. Now, Direct TV, I signed up to the football package and it's

4999 for everything and then they said, you know, afterwards it's going to go up to $100.

Well, the last couple of months went to $130 then it went to $140, and now it's $168.

Again, not a personal rant.

I'm going someplace with this, so just listen up.

Now, Direct TV, they told me they raised prices by the way in February.

So I asked them why didn't you contact me? Why didn't you let me know?

They said, well we tried to contact you and I said actually you didn't try to contact me because

you had one of your representatives call me and I'm not kidding you, about 35 times, I'm not exaggerating, to upsell me

on some special high definition thing because I'm such a good customer.

I said, how come you didn't call me 37 times to let me know that you were raising

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