Well, it's the end of an era. I'm in the process of moving my last device off of Verizon

and to one of those discount carriers. I'm not mad at Verizon or anything. They're great.

They're fine. I don't know. I don't really have any strong opinions. But these discount carriers

are getting crazy. You pay like 25 bucks and you get everything you were getting from Verizon.

And it's like literally 25 bucks.

How did I not know this was a thing sooner?

So I'm doing that.

This episode is not brought to you by anyone or anything.

This is what's on my mind.

This is what I'm doing right now.

It's a daily podcast.

You get whatever's on my mind at the time.

But it's a big deal for me it's the end of an age

because i have been on the same contract with verizon since the dawn of time since the advent of

smartphones when i was a kid there was a company called all tell it was in nebraska maybe it was

everywhere i don't know it was a kid and i went in and i was like i've heard about these

phones you don't have to plug into anything i want one of those give me one of the phones and

they're like all right well it's your lucky day because we're running a special it's a contract

it's the best contract we've ever offered and it lasts forever for a lifetime we have to honor

it forever so you should definitely get this thing i I was like, all right, I'd choose that one then. I got it and signed stuff. The game of phone

worked. I made phone calls was fine. Everything was fine. Well, a little bit after that,

along comes this new bigger company called Verizon and it ate Alltel. And apparently it also

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