- Hey guy, what the hell's going on on TV? ♪ Every woman it's all in me ♪ - I got cable again recently, because sports are back on and
I wanted to be able to look at them and I am so confused. So for the past couple of years, Fox has had a show
called The Masked Singer, and I would be lying if I said it wasn't
extremely entertaining. - I knew it, I knew it. - It's Ninja. - I knew it the whole time. What made you want to
do The Masked Singer? Other than come mess with me. - What the fuck you say
to me you little shit? - Basically, it's a show where
you can't see the contestants but you can hear them and you
have to guess what they look like. But now they have this other show... ♪oh ohh oh ♪ - Where you can't hear the contestants, but you can see them and you
have to guess what they sound like. So it's pretty innovative. It was while watching the
show that I was reminded of how everything on TV seems like it's a spinoff of
something that already exists. First. There was American Idol,
which was actually derived from a British show called Pop Idol, much like The Office,
America took the idea of milked it dry and then
ran it into the ground long after everyone's favorite character left. But by modern reality TV standards it was actually a pretty simple concept. It's just a straightforward
singing competition. However, it became so popular that the question became,
how do we rip it off? (upbeat music) Oh, I have an idea. I'm all ears. What about American Idol? But instead of one singer at
a time, there's two of them. Oh, very nice. Okay. What if we did one
that was like American Idol except they have to sing acapella? Yeah. That's different enough. We'll do five seasons of them. Oh wait what if we did one where
they couldn't see the singers before they voted for them and
the judges would compete too. Sure. I'm not gonna watch it. Oh, I got an idea. What about American Idol? Except
they're all hunter singers? Yeah, you can do that, but that's going to go on your network. Fine by me. Okay. What about American Idol? But they have to write their own songs? Love it. Oh, what about American Idol? But they have to write their own songs. Love it. I just said that. Wait, Brian, are you even awake? Huh? Yeah. Well, since you've been paying attention, why don't you tell everyone your idea? I was going to, well, it's
like American Idol obviously, except they're all wearing costumes. Brian. That is brilliant. Everyone. Give it up for Brian. A couple of years We'll
just do the opposite. I'm realizing, I probably could have
just made a whole video about weird singing
competitions because Oh my God. There's so many of them. Did you know they did one in 2008 where the grand prize was, if you won, you'd get to be in High
School Musical Three, sorta. He doesn't have like a speaking role. So he's pretty hard to miss. But if you look closely,
that's him right... Oh wait, sorry. I got to fast forward a
little bit right there. And there he goes. Well, at least his show is pretty good. Anyway, back to, I Can See
Your Voice, the epitome of network TV laziness,
much like the Avengers. It seems like all these
singing competitions live inside the same cinematic universe. Ken Jeong went from being a judge on the Masked Singer, to
the host of this show, which is judged by Nick Lachey, - Yes. - Who is the host of everything else. Really not a whole lot
else to say about the show, but I do want to point out something I thought was interesting. when I was watching it. Something felt off but I couldn't
quite put my finger on it. It's very fake. Obviously
all of these shows are, but this one felt even more so. And I finally found out
why, according to Wikipedia they only completed one episode
before the pandemic started and production had to be stopped. So they didn't film the rest until August this time
without an audience. But when you watch the show it's edited as if
there's an audience there they cut to the audience
members, cheering and laughing. They do this a lot actually. - GI Jane, what ranking are you? - Sergeant, First class. - Wow.
- Ohh. - Come to find out, all of those shots are
recycled from other shows. All of the crowd noise is put in, in post. And when they do a wide
shot of the entire studio you can see that the audience
not only looks nothing like the shots that they intersperse. There's not nearly enough rows of people but it's actually just a screen
showing a virtual audience. If you look closely, it's
the same image on both sides, only mirrored. Now I'm just pointing
this out because I thought it was interesting. I'm glad that they did it this way. I would much rather they do it like this than try to cram a bunch
of people in a studio risking their lives just
so they can watch this. ♪ Tell me how you gon be without me ♪ - But it at least explains
on a subconscious level. Why this is so uncomfortable to watch. - And that is a medical fact. (crowd laughing) - So the next big genre of television and the one that consistently
brings in the highest ratings is the government organization
that catches bad guys show. You've got CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York, NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles
and NCIS New Orleans, Blue Bloods, Law and
Order, Law and Order SVU, SWAT, Seal Team, 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Criminal Minds, Chicago PD, Magnum P.I, The Rookie, FBI, FBI Most Wanted, And I'm just going to stop there cause I think you get the idea. Lately a lot of people
have been speculating that the reason these
shows are so prevalent is because they act as a form
of propaganda, making us love and respect that government
and see them as the good guys. And while that might be somewhat true, I really think it's just
because they're popular, by design, these shows
tend to be more episodic. There aren't necessarily
a bunch of through lines you need to be following to
jump in halfway into a season. Every episode tends to
be an open and shut case. So there's that immediate resolution and the characters are usually
pretty easy to figure out, Oh, that guy's a cop and that guy's a cop. Okay. I think I got it. That being said, I
fucking hate these shows and they're all the same. - Hey Mike, I'm going
to take out the trash. Like I always do, ooh, a dead body. That wasn't there before. (dramatic music) - Well, gentlemen, it looks
like we have all the evidence. We need to pin this on
the obvious suspect. Wait, main character, what are you doing? - I don't know. Something's not right here. I, I have a hunch. - Now's not the time to go rogue kid. We got our man. Now let's go grab something to eat. - I'm so confused. This just doesn't make sense. Sense, sixth sense. (keyboard tapping) Haley Joel Osment. - What's going on here? - You're under arrest Hayley, for murder. - Okay why not, I'll go with you guys. - I believe someone owes me an apology. - Alright. I'll swallow my pride. You did good rookie. But just so you know, this was real life. Your antics would have gotten you fired. - What? - But of course you have
essentially the same sub-genre but with doctors instead,
there's Grey's Anatomy Scrubs, Chicago Med, The Good Dr. Attaway general, RugRats MD. Even if you want to delve
into the depths of cable, your best bet for entertainment is probably going to be in these so bad, it's good categories. Also known as the, these people are idiots but I can't stop watching them categories. It's going to be your TLC
shows Bravo, the CW, E! You've also got the Travel Channel. If you don't want to watch
people travel anywhere and you just like ghosts. If you're hungry, there's
the Guy Fierri channel. If you're white, there's HGTV. - We are going to love it. - Oh, come on. They always love it. Many of the channels that
I used to watch religiously either aren't around anymore or have just become functionally obsolete Sports Center used to be the
coolest show on the planet. But now that you can
just watch the highlights of any game on your phone. There's no reason to turn on ESPN, unless you want to watch
two guys yell at each other, even though they're both wrong. - Yes
- no. - My other favorite
channel growing up was G4. If any of you guys remember that, when I was in high school, I would come home almost
every day and watch X play and Attack of the Show, I loved that channel. At that point in time, you couldn't just watch
original content centered around video games. It didn't exist. Obviously things have changed a lot since then in that regard, I mean Disney XD straight up just
plays Jack Septic Eye videos now but even with the shifting landscape I feel like G4 could have kept evolving. They could have been one of the pioneers of this new age of content but instead they decided to just cancel all their original programming and start playing 24
hour marathons of Cops. Good plan guys. And then there's IFC which I think a lot of people
may not realize is responsible for many of the best
comedies of the 2010s, Portlandia, Comedy Bang
Bang, Documentary Now. These might as well be Netflix originals because that's where 99% of
people watch them anyway. But they're technically not, even though, yeah, I guess you could
just watch them on Netflix. (upbeat music) There's still plenty of reasons to get TV if you want it there's
live events like sports The Big Brother Eviction
episodes, The Debates. Okay. Yeah. So maybe it's just sports, but if you don't like sports, which you probably don't because
you're watching my channel, don't worry. There's still 20 random ass movies playing at any given point, which you can watch the way that movies
were meant to be seen, in 720P, censored and constantly
interrupted by commercials. Let's be honest though. And
I've talked about this before, but the best thing cable has going for it is that it's just always on. If you've got like 15 minutes
to sit down and eat your lunch you could easily spend that
entire time just scrolling through the Netflix selection page or hey look, a random episode of The
Office I've already seen you catch the last half of it. You eat your sandwich, and you manage to go
your entire lunch break without being alone with your
thoughts for even one second. And I'd call that a success. But the problem is if you were to think about
all the pros and cons of cable and then without doing any research, assign a price to that in your head, it's probably a single digit number. Let's say for 1299 a
month, I can use Netflix an internet library with a billion movies and TV shows that I can
share with someone else. And we can watch two different things in different places at the same time or, you know, there's cable, ♪ Ohhh ohh ♪ - Where I can watch animal planet and sometimes the news but I'm going to be spending
half that time sitting through commercials. My brain tells me that something
like that should cost $0 because I now subconsciously
associate being advertised to with free services, like YouTube videos or the
Words With Friends app. But since cable does offer a few things that you can't get anywhere else let's say it should be like $10 a month. What's that? It's like a hundred, dollars? So Netflix is $13. Hulu is 12. HBO max is 15 and Disney plus is seven. Even if I were to get all four of those it would still be cheaper than
almost any cable provider. I could get cable for $66 a month. If I go through the same
company I use for my internet, who I hate, this is a company that has the
audacity to charge me extra for sending me my bill even though before we started
using them for internet they sent us junk mail
every day for two years. So I guess it's not that
expensive to mail stuff. This is also the company that when we set up internet here charged
me a $200 activation fee. When all the guy did was plugged the modem into the wall and give me a thumbs up. But to be fair, that
$200 is nothing compared to the potential hospital
bills I could have accrued. Had I tried to plug that thing in myself? Do I use my mouth to plug it in? Yeah. So safe to say, I'm
not a big fan of Spectrum, but let's humor them for a second and pretend that I thought this double play silver
package was a rocking deal that I had to take advantage of. First, we need to figure
out the actual cost because if I know Spectrum,
and unfortunately I do there's going to be some hidden fees. Obviously going to be an activation fee. There's no way around that. They're going to charge you
to come hook everything up, in this case, it's a $50 one time fee really not too bad, but
just keep that in mind. As we keep going and
things start getting worse. If you look closely at your bill, you may notice a Broadcast
TV service fee for spectrum. It's an extra 13.50 a month. So if the price you saw was $66 it's actually going to
be closer to 80 for now. You might be thinking, what
is a Broadcast TV service fee? And do I have to pay that? Well, it's a made up bullshit. And yes you do. If you dig real deep into Spectrum's fine print,
they'll tell you that. Due to some law that
was passed 28 years ago, local TV channels, charge
us so much to broadcast them that we're simply forced to
pass those charges onto you. The word forced is of course
being used incorrectly here because the only thing forcing them to do this is their own desire
to bankrupt each and every one of their customers. Sorry guys. But the price is now demanded by broadcast stations have necessitated that we pass these costs onto customers. Okay. Well, how much do they charge you? It sounds like it's a lot, oh sorry. We can't provide that information. You're just going to have to trust us. We've earned your trust. Right? So to reiterate this 13.50 is a non-negotiable fee that will be tacked onto your bill every
single month for as long as you have cable. So why isn't it included in the advertised price? well because then it wouldn't
look like as good of a deal, which it already didn't. This is an extremely misleading and unethical marketing practice. That's used to convince people. The cost of something is
lower than it actually is. So they commit to paying
for it before they realize they're being overcharged. It's so deceptive. In fact, that in 2016,
Comcast had to refund $700,000 to customers after a class action lawsuit over this exact practice. Pretty cool, huh? Well there is more, up next. We have a DVR service charge,
which is another $5 a month unless you have more than
one cable box, then it's 10. Let's see the DVR was invented in 1999, but sure, let's not include
it in the advertised price. Even though at this point, it's
a commonly standard feature. One would expect to be
included in any cable package. It even says here that the DVR
is built into the cable box, but no that'll be extra. And then there's perhaps
the most egregious fee an $8 monthly charge for
the TV receiver and remote. Look, I understand if
they want to charge you for the cable box. Sure. But a monthly fee, does
the remote get more expensive as time goes on, is it going to grow
more buttons next month. Let's say, God forbid,
you paid for Spectrum TV for five years before canceling it. In that time, you will
have paid $480 extra just to be able to use the remote. So for those of you playing along at home without the addition of any extra content any premium channels or
anything extra whatsoever, the $66 price that you saw advertised on the website is actually 97. This is what they advertise. And this is what you're actually paying, for the first year. Because
then after 12 months, the price goes up another $25. Why did we raise the price you ask? Well, because we fucking hate you. That means after one
year of using Spectrum TV you will now be paying
double what was advertised to you just so you can watch this. ♪ Always complaining ♪ - Maybe they are not all that bad. Obviously I haven't used
every single cable provider. We did have Direct TV for
a little bit, which I got because I wanted to use the
NFL Sunday ticket thing. And if there's one thing the NFL loves it's using monopolies to
destroy their product. In my experience that worked pretty well. As long as rain doesn't
exist where you live, otherwise you're going to be looking a lot of buffering symbols. The other problem was they made
me sign a two year contract which was fine at first,
but seven months later we had to move out of that
house because it was being eaten by termites. Then the apartment complex we moved to told us we're not allowed
to have a satellite dish on the roof. So I called
DirecTV and told them that. And they said, well,
we think you're allowed to have a satellite on the roof. So you have to keep paying us. The bad news is I had to
pay a big cancellation fee but the good news is they let
us keep the satellite dish. And now I use it as a soup bowl. (upbeat music) Luckily it's not 2006 anymore. You don't have to have cable
if you want to watch TV there are plenty of cord
cutting options available. And right off the bat,
I'm going to be bold here and say, all of them
are better than cable. Every single one of these is more flexible and probably cheaper than just about any cable
service you could find. The only reason cable might
be a better option for you is if you live in an area where your internet is
extremely unreliable, because then if your internet goes out, your TV goes out too. But as far as cable alternatives go there are a bunch of these to choose from there's YouTube TV, sling,
fubo, philo, Hulu Xumo. Basically, if you type four
random letters into Google it's probably the name of
an internet TV provider. It's also worth noting that
every single one of these comes with a free trial. So if you just need TV
for a couple of days to watch the Superbowl
or the season finale of Real Housewives, just
start a trial, watch your show and then cancel that
shit. I won't tell anyone. Personally, I've used these three and
they're all pretty decent. Slings' pricing options
are kind of confusing. They have an orange
package and a blue package and they're conveniently set up so you're going to be missing
channels you want either way, but it's only $30 a month. So it's one of the cheapest. Compare that to fubo and YouTube TV, which are about $65 a month. It's a pretty good deal. It makes sense that these
two are the same price because they're extremely similar. Although I would give
the edge to YouTube TV just because they have unlimited DVR space and more stuff to watch on demand like the 2016 classic
Pixels starring Kevin James as the president. It also works the same
way that YouTube does where it figures out what you like and tailors your homepage to
you. So if I go on right now they're like sports, sports,
sports, sports, sports. Good morning football? Did you sleep good football? I made breakfast football. Sounds very cool. I've never
seen an algorithm like that used in a cable service before, all of that being said,
it doesn't really matter because I'm gonna cancel it as soon as football season is over which might be sooner than I expected. So now we've talked about what's
on TV and how to watch TV. I guess the only question left
is what even is TV anymore? Like when your friend says to you I just started watching this new show. It's so good. You got to check it out. Your next question is never
going to be, what channel is it on? You're just going to
assume they're talking about Netflix because they probably are. When I was writing this video, I was looking up articles about the best and worst TV shows of 2020. And in those articles every writer's like, well, the
best show I saw was on Hulu. And the worst show I saw was on CBS. This standard for network
television is so low now that the only shows that
seem to work are dumb ass reality shows weird-ass
singing competitions white belt style obstacle courses and the 400th season of NCIS. And it's ironic because
I truly believe we are in a golden age of television. It seems like every couple
of weeks people start raving about another 10 out of 10 show
that just blew their minds. It's just that none of these are on cable. Ozark, Watchmen, Cobra Kai, Succession, which I will plug in every video. Yet these extremely
original well written shows with movie level production
and there's no fluff. They're just condensed into that 10 best episodes
jam packed with content. And you can watch them all
back to back if you want or, you know, - I'm not seeing enough movement. - It's probably better this way too because for the first time in decades cable is now one of the
least accessible medium. The fact that you even
have to call someone and then let them into your
house so they can install a box for you is enough for most
young people to be like yeah, I think I'll just keep
doing free trials of Hulu. So as the quality continues to decline and the user base continues to age, what does the future of cable look like? It's still several times more expensive than streaming services. There's no ad-free version. And in most cases, you're
probably gonna end up tied to some shitty cable company. That's going to do everything in their power to take
every dollar to your name. That's not an attractive package to young people who
are new to this market. It's really not even an attractive package to older people, but I think a lot of them just do it because
it's what they're used to with the way things have
so drastically evolved in the past two years. I don't think it's inconceivable
to think of a future where cable is just a
distant, expensive memory. So what does the future look like? Is it just everything's on demand? Do you want to see a football game? You just go to like watch.nfl
and pay like five bucks per game, or maybe
there's a fee for just all of your team's games or maybe
a premium fee for every game. If you want to spend that much
money, it's not a crazy idea. I'm literally just describing
a service that already exists for the NBA and NHL. And as far as other shows go most of them are already
available to stream after the season ends. Or in some cases you can pay per episode to watch them on like iTunes
the day after they air, bottom line is cable
companies absolutely suck ass. And if you have the power
to, avoid them at all costs. I promise you cable is not worth it. Do you imagine watching something and being like invested
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for watching this video. I want to ask one thing of you. If you have an older relative
who still watches cable I want you to ask them
why they still pay for it. And if they think it's worth
it, if you like hearing me talk about TV, I have several videos like this. There's a playlist on my channel. If you want to do that. Okay, I'm done now as a reward
for watching to the very end of the video, you now
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I haven't used cable in years. I only watch Drews videos now. 8 hours a day. Every day. He told me I had to.
Yikes hadn’t realized television degraded THAT much
More Drew content?? A blessing like manna from heaven
At least the cake and baking shows are good
Really like this video. Drew did a good job at highlighting why cable is dying. Outside of sports, you don't need cable anymore.
yeessssss, this sub coming thru again when yt notifications don't. <3
r/cordcutters
Drew is wearing Uncle Iroh's Jasmine tea shirt. Just when I thought I couldn't love him more.
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