00:00Question number one for this week, Columbia House, who used to allow us to buy 12 CDs for a penny,
00:05shutting down after 71 years, did you ever utilize or take advantage of Columbia House back in the day?
00:12Absol is a very young boy. Yes, I did. It's a famous Felger family story. Anyway, they still might have
00:18the letter.
00:18It's the maybe one and only angry letter I wrote to a merchant of some kind. I can't remember what
00:26I ordered, but they ended up sending me love songs, 70s love songs.
00:31And I wrote it angry as like a six year old boy. I asked for Fleetwood Mac and you sent
00:37me effing love songs or something like this.
00:39And so, yes, I did as a very young child. I remember it well. Yes, definitely.
00:43Absolutely. A hundred percent. Like when the whole transition to CDs, I think, came is when I did it.
00:49It was a good way to build your sort of CD collection. Yeah. So, yes, absolutely. I did it more
00:53than once, I think.
00:54I think it was 12 CDs for a penny or 20 tapes or 18 tapes. I did records. I don't
01:00know.
01:00Oh, wow. Well, I know I took advantage just like you wouldn't believe me.
01:03So I used my name, my parents' names, sisters' names, fake names. I started sending them to my grandmother's house.
01:10I'd send them to my neighbor, Ann Mumford. May she rest in peace. I'd swipe them from her.
01:14I'd say 85% of my CD collection from 1991 to 2001 were courtesy of ripping off Columbia House.
01:22I bet.
01:22It was the best scam.
01:24Oh, it was. I mean, seriously.
01:25I don't know how they made money.
01:26No, you really do. You wonder how they did that. You had to buy like, what was it, three in
01:31the next three years or, you know, whatever.
01:33Come get me.
01:33Yeah, exactly. Right. I remember there was a big, I was in fraternity in college and it was, they ran
01:38a scam there where there were CDs all over the place. It was like a freaking hoarder CD place.
01:44What product is so well produced by one company? There's either no chance of any other company making a comparable
01:49product or it's just not worth their effort to try.
01:52Right. So I think there's a bunch, but one that comes to mind, I think it's an excellent product is
01:56Neosporin.
01:58Like Neosporin works and it's just an excellent product and I would never buy an off brand Neosporin.
02:06It does fix a cut pretty damn quick.
02:07You're right.
02:08Yeah.
02:08No, Neosporin is good. Yeah. Excellent. It's antibacterial too, right?
02:12Right. The, uh, so look, I, I kind of went generic on this cause I had trouble coming up with,
02:17I was trying to get something that maybe a lot of people don't, I would just say like McDonald's, French
02:23fry and Coke, like Coke makes the best cola.
02:27I'm sorry. They do other.
02:28That's not close.
02:29Yeah. And I know other people, you know, there are others that have been successful, like Pepsi has been successful,
02:33but Coke is the best cola and the McDonald's French fry blows everybody else out of the water.
02:39Like you should all just give up making the French fry cause McDonald's does it better than anybody.
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