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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you think we'll find anybody that is in AMC
the movie theater? Right, AMC? Do we think we'll find
anybody that's in AMC's A List program?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I guess is this for like frequent.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Moviegoers, Kristin, do me a favor? They say, people that
are in the program may as well be in a cult.
But will you see if you could find me somebody
Kristin that is in or can speak intelligently on behalf
of the AMC A List Program, please eight six six
(00:34):
to Elliott eight six six two three five five four
six eight. So I was reading yesterday. Here's how I
get there. So I'm reading yesterday, AMC announces that they're
going to do fifty fifty percent off tickets on Wednesdays.
So if you go to the movies on Wednesday, tickets
will be half price. And I know, like I know
(00:56):
that I don't know what all the different movie theaters do.
Like when I worked for wind Chimes way way way
back in the day, like if you went matinee, it
was cheaper. Then if you went in the afternoon evening,
like the first movie of the day was the matinee,
And if you went to the matine it was cheaper
then if you went in the afternoon or at night,
(01:17):
so we would do matinees. And then there were some
places that did, like Tuesdays, not us wind Chimes didn't
do it, but there were some places that did, like
Tuesdays were cheaper. And now I don't know if that
still exists in with movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I mean, oh for days, yeah, days Mommy and Me
ones that they have in the mornings.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I little cheaper.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't know the answer to that. I don't know
the answer to that. Maybe it is for the kid
where the kid gets in or something. But this is
for AMC. They said on Wednesdays, and I think it's
all day tickets are fifty percent off.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's unrelated to the A List, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But so that's what got me there. So I was
reading about that, and then it talked about the AMC
A List program. The AMC A List is not an
exclusive club. Membership costs twenty to twenty eight dollars a
month and anyone over the age of thirteen can join,
(02:27):
So I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's just
regionally or based on your location, whether it's twenty or
twenty eight dollars. Maybe depending on where you are. If
you live in a city where tickets or movie tickets
are more expensive, maybe it costs you twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And let me just say as we proceed here, I'm
not going to take any offense to you not knowing
anything about this, even though it was part of my
Christmas gift for you this past holiday.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, and I know, and I will tell you this,
I will no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I gifted him an A List membership.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Now I do know this. No, but I haven't activated it,
of course not. No, And I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's mid Bay, it's still I haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Gone to a movie. But I can tell you when
it's getting activated. Because the first thing I said to Jackie,
let me finish. The first thing I said to Jackie
was I'm definitely going to see I'm definitely going to
see Final Destination this weekend. I have a gift card
from Tyler. I'm going to use that. I didn't know
it was an A List. I just knew that it
(03:27):
was it was for free movie.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So did Jackie activate hers?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I was thinking you guys would be able to go
because you were in a stretch of going to the
theater quite a bit. When I got it for you right,
that you'd be able to entertain yourselves when the boys
weren't home exactly. Well, who got back yesterday and he's
coming back later this week? Anyway, another chapter, but no offense?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Take him?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, no, I'm going to use it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yep. It's on a chair in a little used room. Anyway,
let me I could do that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Hi is this mean?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
This is Courtney?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, Courtney? Are you? Are you an A List member?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I am, and it's basically my whole personality.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So would you agree where they say people that are
part of the A List program essentially treat it like
they're in a claw or in a cult.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I would say, so, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
How often do you go to the movies?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, prop, I go at least twice a week. But
they just like upped it, so it used to be
three you get three movies a week, and now I
think it was like for twenty two dollars a month,
and now they like there's kind of some drama going
on because they upped the price of twenty five a month.
But now you get four movies a week, but I
think that's kind of crazy, Like I don't I don't
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know who's going four times a week, even though I'm
I go twice a week. But it's just like so
worth it, like it's so fun and like I like
and my whole life around it, honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
What movies did? And so are you one of those?
Like like I have I have some friends whose dad
not damn, but their dad. He goes to see every
movie that comes out every week. Really yeah, and it
doesn't matter if it's a big movie, a small movie,
an art house movie. He sees every movie that comes
out every week. He loves movies, just loves him. That's
his thing. God bless the the three movies do you say?
(05:24):
But you said you you don't do three? You do
two a week?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I do at least two a week. I've gotten up
to three. I don't think I'll do four, but at
least two a week.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, And what do you? How does it work? What
do you? How do you?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
How do you?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
How do you use it?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well? So I go see, like so me and my
boyfriend has it, and my friend, like my whole friend
group has it. So we'll just like meet up at
the movies, and like we'll see like really dumb things
like there was one like clown in a cornfield, just
like the just like random things that like we don't
really care about, but like it's free, so we're gonna go,
(06:01):
and we love the popcorn, so that's a big reason.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
There you go, But like, for is that true?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I did to even read I print. I made a
whole print out that they didn't send to me. I
made it on the computer with like clip art and
explanations of the gift.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I am making somebody explain it to everybody else?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Was the part I didn't?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I can't wait for the next perk? Is that that
is true? To tell everybody else about it?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But how do how do you use it?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Though?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Like let's say, let's say I want to go see
Final Destination this weekend, right, so I'm gonna take I'm
gonna take the boys to go see Final Destination? Can
can can I get three tickets? Or can just Jackie
and I use it and the boys have to pay?
Like you can't bring a guest.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, not for AMC, but like you can, like if
I was ticket three tickets and my two friends didn't
have it, then mine would be free, and then I
would pay for the other two. But there's also a
thing called entourage, where like you can have like a
group of like all your A list friends like in
your account, so then like I can book a ticket
for like all my friends and then it's all free
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if they have a.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Lists, I like your wife would have had. I explain
that the.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Tickets right now, like tickets for like Dolby and like,
like what is it the big one?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
What is it called.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm ax?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Those are like twenty dollars tickets now. So if you
go more, if you go to the movies, like twice
a month, it's like you're going for free anyway, You're
paying like five dollars more to just see unlimited movies. Basically,
it's so worth it. If you love the movies, it's
still worth it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
What she's not saying is there's no up charge for
the premium formats.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh yeah, no, correct correct correct correct, And you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Get rewards, you get like it's like I think it's
fifteen percent off.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But but nobody's answering my question. If I want to
go see Final Destination this weekend, how do I? I
go online? But do I have to do that before
the movie sells out. Like, how did they know? How
do I get priority tickets?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, you just it's like normal. You just go like
I would just go on the app and then I'll
just like be like, oh, I want to see this movie,
and then you just pick your seat and then it
says do you want to use your A lesson? You
say yes, and then it's free.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I do, of course it's free.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, very good, very good. How many friends did
you get into it?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I think there's about eight of us now.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, that's my own trush. All right, very good, very good,
Thank you, thank you. Now I'm excited to start using
it now, he is, well, now that the boys are
home again, I'm not upset. No, there's no reason to.
I know exactly where the email is. It's in my inbox.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I gotta scroll to answer it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
December, Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Hey, this is Matthew. I go three to four times
a week. I'm a retired drama teacher and I got
nothing better to do. Weird. I just I just saw
that clown in the cornfield that she meant and it
was hysterical, and I would have never gone to see
that felt.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Where do you Where do you live? Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh? I live in Rosal, Georgia. Oh okay, I'm near Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah sure, just outside of Atlanta. Hey, what is the
what is the And you go? How many times a
week do you go to the movies?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh? Three to four? I walk in. They're like, hey, coach,
what do you want to see us? I don't know
what's what's Clown on the Cornfield about. They're like, clown
the Cornfield you Jack Athman, It's pretty obvious what it's about.
And I go see it. I don't care what I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But do you have to buy the ticket? Ahead?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Not buy?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But well, yeah bye, you just use your code? Do
you do it?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I know?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Some people can't you? Well, you can get online and
do it. But at the place that I'm at, I'm
luckily the only people. It's not like anybody's going to
see Clown in the corn but me. So I'll walk
in at four or five o'clock and they're like, hey, coach.
I'm like, hey, Andy, I'd go up there and they
put it on my I get my phone number and
we go into theater and I said, now, it's i'd go,
I'd go three or four times a day if I
(10:14):
wanted to. I'm running out of movies to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Now, don't. But but you're only allowed X number of
movies a week.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
All right, I'd say four. But if you see four
a week, then guess what you didn't there's nothing to
see next week. You kind of run out of movies
before you run out of But I also see like
my students there, Like you said, it's kind of a
cult thing. We all hang out. Like I'll text them
or get them on Instagram and say, hey, I'm gonna
go see this movie, and they'll show up. So I
get to see like my ex soccer players and some
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of my theater kids, and we all just hang out
into the movie theaters. It's you said you got two
sons going, Well, then the three of y'all pay twenty
five bucks a piece and you can see as many
movies as you want them up. That's a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Does that makes sense? They're making them running off the popcorn?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now, I will Now, I will say this, and this
may be a little insider, is so when the movie
theaters make very little money off of the movies.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, right, because that's all Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Deals with like distribution companies and movie companies and stuff.
And you're right, coach. They all ninety percent of movie
theater money is made from whatever goes on in the
theater selling, whether it's you know, concession stands or like
sometimes they have like other little like arcade areas. They
get a piece of that and stuff. But that is
(11:30):
where their money is made, not on ticket sales, so
it doesn't matter. So they're happy to just get people
in the theater and then that's where that's where the
money is made. Can I ask you this? So I
was reading about this one woman who is an A
list member, and she says sometimes if she's out in
public and the urge hits her and she has a
movie left over for the week, she will book a
(11:53):
ticket and go to AMC just to use the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
A one hundred a lot better than that, I might
run into her at the movie theater. Now I met
somebody who's as bored as I am, And it's better
than hanging out at the bar. You won't believe, Like
when you're walking out, CEV, you're the only two in there.
You're like hen, what'd you think of that? And like that,
you know, and the next thing you know, you've got
a conversation started. It is kind of a club, kind
of culfish. It's fun. There's there's a lot of people
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that show up at these movies that nobody goes to
at a certain time when no one else is going.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You know, are you going to go see Final Destination?
I just no, No, I just read a great review yesterday.
I mean, you don't realize how long it's been since
there's been a Final Destination movie. But they said that
it does such a beautiful job of paying homage but
still kind of elevating the deaths that it's I mean, honestly,
(12:45):
they just raved about how good it is.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Right. No, So I'm on letterbox as well, which is
a way for me to remember what movies I've seen,
because there's this thing there's and a half where you
can write that where you right that you've seen that movie,
and now you've got to of all the movies you've seen, like, hey,
I really like that movie. This play on the court
Field thing, it came out of nowhere? What else has
this guy done? And I can find it on this
app without going through all the IMBB stuff and boom,
(13:10):
I can go watch this next movie or pull it
up on Amazon pric.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Did you like movies while you were still working or
is this totally since you stopped working.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No. I was a record store guy, and then they moved.
Blockbuster bought us out and we started. I watched everything
they had. I've always been a hut, and the Netflix
showed up and I started getting like movies all the time.
I use these movies to turn around to think of
script ideas. We do plays I've done in you know,
Rocky Hart Figure show, a Little Shop of Hars. I
just saw Ruling Class last night, which is an old
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seventies movie with Peter O'Toole, and I want to turn
it into a play. I think it already was a play. Good.
I look it up and say, oh, James McAvoy was
in this play in London just a few years ago.
I'm like, holy smoke, I should I should do this play.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Good for you, Good for you. I appreciate it, Thank you.
You know what, Jackie and I are going to start
going to the Bolston Theater a lot now that I know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You can also use it at Tyson's. It's a AMC.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah no, I mean I I'll more screens of Tysons.
I'll use it wherever I want, well at AMC.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But you do get that priority laying access for the
concession stand.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
As an A lister.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I think a lot of people know that. Where am
I going?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Line one?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hi, Elliet the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Hey I thy good morning, Randy.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
What's going on, dude?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Not much.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I've had the AMC A List membership for a minute now.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh wait, you're an A list also, welcome to my club.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I mean you not love going to the movies?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Sol Wait say again?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You know I love going to the movies, not myself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh yeah, no, listen, I here's my problem. I love
going to the movies. I just don't go enough. I
just don't go enough.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
As you were.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was going a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I thought this is perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I was going a lot. That is true. Hey what
how many times a week are you going?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Well, that's what I was gonna say. It's kind of
a waste of money. Now because the movie theater is
over the bridge, and now that I don't I don't
have to go over there. I don't go as much
as I used to because come home from work or
you know, I could just stop before I come home.
But now I don't even go that way. So I'm
basically paying for nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So is it hard to can have? Is it hard
to cancel?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Well, if you cancel it, you can't. You can't join
again for a year.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh so if I if I, well, I have it. But
if I stopped using it and you said that you
were going to cancel, you can't reactivate for a year.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
So basically it's basically like a Planet Fitness, uh membership because.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Plants, but Planet Fitness you could pause your membership.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Yeah you can't. Yeah, you can't do it if you
can with AMC, I don't think so. I think I tried,
and they we're like, no, you have to if you
were warning here, if you cancel, now can join the
game for it. And so I just keep it. It's
like it's twenty four dollars a month. So yeah, right,
I'm waiting for no, not at all, but I'm waiting
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for twenty eight years later.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So oh that's good. I'm going to use my list
for that. Also. All right, very good, Brandy, it's good
talking to you about it. Yeah, you got later, there's
a great club I'm in. I'm part of the cult.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The best part of all this will be Monday, and
we know how this story ends because we've been tuned
in for a quarter of a century. Elliott's going to
see that movie and not use or activate his A.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Why wouldn't I activate?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Was I too hard with the boys?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Well then the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Fresh yep, No, you know what's got me express express
Lane for concessions. That's what'll That's what will get me
to activate I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Then you also get free food on your birthday. Oh
look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
God damn it, time for my birthday.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I included that in the note too. You would have
had it in February.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I love Christmas.
Do you think we'll find anybody that is in AMC
the movie theater? Right, AMC? Do we think we'll find
anybody that's in AMC's A List program?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I guess is this for like frequent.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Moviegoers, Kristin, do me a favor? They say, people that
are in the program may as well be in a cult.
But will you see if you could find me somebody
Kristin that is in or can speak intelligently on behalf
of the AMC A List Program, please eight six six
(00:34):
to Elliott eight six six two three five five four
six eight. So I was reading yesterday. Here's how I
get there. So I'm reading yesterday, AMC announces that they're
going to do fifty fifty percent off tickets on Wednesdays.
So if you go to the movies on Wednesday, tickets
will be half price. And I know, like I know
(00:56):
that I don't know what all the different movie theaters do.
Like when I worked for wind Chimes way way way
back in the day, like if you went matinee, it
was cheaper. Then if you went in the afternoon evening,
like the first movie of the day was the matinee,
And if you went to the matine it was cheaper
then if you went in the afternoon or at night,
(01:17):
so we would do matinees. And then there were some
places that did, like Tuesdays, not us wind Chimes didn't
do it, but there were some places that did, like
Tuesdays were cheaper. And now I don't know if that
still exists in with movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I mean, oh for days, yeah, days Mommy and Me
ones that they have in the mornings.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I little cheaper.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't know the answer to that. I don't know
the answer to that. Maybe it is for the kid
where the kid gets in or something. But this is
for AMC. They said on Wednesdays, and I think it's
all day tickets are fifty percent off.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's unrelated to the A List, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But so that's what got me there. So I was
reading about that, and then it talked about the AMC
A List program. The AMC A List is not an
exclusive club. Membership costs twenty to twenty eight dollars a
month and anyone over the age of thirteen can join,
(02:27):
So I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's just
regionally or based on your location, whether it's twenty or
twenty eight dollars. Maybe depending on where you are. If
you live in a city where tickets or movie tickets
are more expensive, maybe it costs you twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And let me just say as we proceed here, I'm
not going to take any offense to you not knowing
anything about this, even though it was part of my
Christmas gift for you this past holiday.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, and I know, and I will tell you this,
I will no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I gifted him an A List membership.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Now I do know this. No, but I haven't activated it,
of course not. No, And I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's mid Bay, it's still I haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Gone to a movie. But I can tell you when
it's getting activated. Because the first thing I said to Jackie,
let me finish. The first thing I said to Jackie
was I'm definitely going to see I'm definitely going to
see Final Destination this weekend. I have a gift card
from Tyler. I'm going to use that. I didn't know
it was an A List. I just knew that it
(03:27):
was it was for free movie.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So did Jackie activate hers?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I was thinking you guys would be able to go
because you were in a stretch of going to the
theater quite a bit. When I got it for you right,
that you'd be able to entertain yourselves when the boys
weren't home exactly. Well, who got back yesterday and he's
coming back later this week? Anyway, another chapter, but no offense?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Take him?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, no, I'm going to use it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yep. It's on a chair in a little used room. Anyway,
let me I could do that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Hi is this mean?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
This is Courtney?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, Courtney? Are you? Are you an A List member?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I am, and it's basically my whole personality.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So would you agree where they say people that are
part of the A List program essentially treat it like
they're in a claw or in a cult.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I would say, so, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
How often do you go to the movies?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, prop, I go at least twice a week. But
they just like upped it, so it used to be
three you get three movies a week, and now I
think it was like for twenty two dollars a month,
and now they like there's kind of some drama going
on because they upped the price of twenty five a month.
But now you get four movies a week, but I
think that's kind of crazy, Like I don't I don't
(04:49):
know who's going four times a week, even though I'm
I go twice a week. But it's just like so
worth it, like it's so fun and like I like
and my whole life around it, honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
What movies did? And so are you one of those?
Like like I have I have some friends whose dad
not damn, but their dad. He goes to see every
movie that comes out every week. Really yeah, and it
doesn't matter if it's a big movie, a small movie,
an art house movie. He sees every movie that comes
out every week. He loves movies, just loves him. That's
his thing. God bless the the three movies do you say?
(05:24):
But you said you you don't do three? You do
two a week?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I do at least two a week. I've gotten up
to three. I don't think I'll do four, but at
least two a week.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, And what do you? How does it work? What
do you? How do you?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
How do you?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
How do you use it?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well? So I go see, like so me and my
boyfriend has it, and my friend, like my whole friend
group has it. So we'll just like meet up at
the movies, and like we'll see like really dumb things
like there was one like clown in a cornfield, just
like the just like random things that like we don't
really care about, but like it's free, so we're gonna go,
(06:01):
and we love the popcorn, so that's a big reason.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
There you go, But like, for is that true?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I did to even read I print. I made a
whole print out that they didn't send to me. I
made it on the computer with like clip art and
explanations of the gift.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I am making somebody explain it to everybody else?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Was the part I didn't?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I can't wait for the next perk? Is that that
is true? To tell everybody else about it?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But how do how do you use it?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Though?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Like let's say, let's say I want to go see
Final Destination this weekend, right, so I'm gonna take I'm
gonna take the boys to go see Final Destination? Can
can can I get three tickets? Or can just Jackie
and I use it and the boys have to pay?
Like you can't bring a guest.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, not for AMC, but like you can, like if
I was ticket three tickets and my two friends didn't
have it, then mine would be free, and then I
would pay for the other two. But there's also a
thing called entourage, where like you can have like a
group of like all your A list friends like in
your account, so then like I can book a ticket
for like all my friends and then it's all free
(07:18):
if they have a.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Lists, I like your wife would have had. I explain
that the.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Tickets right now, like tickets for like Dolby and like,
like what is it the big one?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
What is it called.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm ax?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Those are like twenty dollars tickets now. So if you
go more, if you go to the movies, like twice
a month, it's like you're going for free anyway, You're
paying like five dollars more to just see unlimited movies. Basically,
it's so worth it. If you love the movies, it's
still worth it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
What she's not saying is there's no up charge for
the premium formats.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Oh yeah, no, correct correct correct correct, And you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Get rewards, you get like it's like I think it's
fifteen percent off.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But but nobody's answering my question. If I want to
go see Final Destination this weekend, how do I? I
go online? But do I have to do that before
the movie sells out. Like, how did they know? How
do I get priority tickets?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
No, you just it's like normal. You just go like
I would just go on the app and then I'll
just like be like, oh, I want to see this movie,
and then you just pick your seat and then it
says do you want to use your A lesson? You
say yes, and then it's free.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I do, of course it's free.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, very good, very good. How many friends did
you get into it?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I think there's about eight of us now.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, that's my own trush. All right, very good, very good,
Thank you, thank you. Now I'm excited to start using
it now, he is, well, now that the boys are
home again, I'm not upset. No, there's no reason to.
I know exactly where the email is. It's in my inbox.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I gotta scroll to answer it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
December, Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Hey, this is Matthew. I go three to four times
a week. I'm a retired drama teacher and I got
nothing better to do. Weird. I just I just saw
that clown in the cornfield that she meant and it
was hysterical, and I would have never gone to see
that felt.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Where do you Where do you live? Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh? I live in Rosal, Georgia. Oh okay, I'm near Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah sure, just outside of Atlanta. Hey, what is the
what is the And you go? How many times a
week do you go to the movies?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh? Three to four? I walk in. They're like, hey, coach,
what do you want to see us? I don't know
what's what's Clown on the Cornfield about. They're like, clown
the Cornfield you Jack Athman, It's pretty obvious what it's about.
And I go see it. I don't care what I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But do you have to buy the ticket? Ahead?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Not buy?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But well, yeah bye, you just use your code? Do
you do it?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I know?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Some people can't you? Well, you can get online and
do it. But at the place that I'm at, I'm
luckily the only people. It's not like anybody's going to
see Clown in the corn but me. So I'll walk
in at four or five o'clock and they're like, hey, coach.
I'm like, hey, Andy, I'd go up there and they
put it on my I get my phone number and
we go into theater and I said, now, it's i'd go,
I'd go three or four times a day if I
(10:14):
wanted to. I'm running out of movies to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Now, don't. But but you're only allowed X number of
movies a week.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
All right, I'd say four. But if you see four
a week, then guess what you didn't there's nothing to
see next week. You kind of run out of movies
before you run out of But I also see like
my students there, Like you said, it's kind of a
cult thing. We all hang out. Like I'll text them
or get them on Instagram and say, hey, I'm gonna
go see this movie, and they'll show up. So I
get to see like my ex soccer players and some
(10:43):
of my theater kids, and we all just hang out
into the movie theaters. It's you said you got two
sons going, Well, then the three of y'all pay twenty
five bucks a piece and you can see as many
movies as you want them up. That's a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Does that makes sense? They're making them running off the popcorn?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now, I will Now, I will say this, and this
may be a little insider, is so when the movie
theaters make very little money off of the movies.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, right, because that's all Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Deals with like distribution companies and movie companies and stuff.
And you're right, coach. They all ninety percent of movie
theater money is made from whatever goes on in the
theater selling, whether it's you know, concession stands or like
sometimes they have like other little like arcade areas. They
get a piece of that and stuff. But that is
(11:30):
where their money is made, not on ticket sales, so
it doesn't matter. So they're happy to just get people
in the theater and then that's where that's where the
money is made. Can I ask you this? So I
was reading about this one woman who is an A
list member, and she says sometimes if she's out in
public and the urge hits her and she has a
movie left over for the week, she will book a
(11:53):
ticket and go to AMC just to use the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
A one hundred a lot better than that, I might
run into her at the movie theater. Now I met
somebody who's as bored as I am, And it's better
than hanging out at the bar. You won't believe, Like
when you're walking out, CEV, you're the only two in there.
You're like hen, what'd you think of that? And like that,
you know, and the next thing you know, you've got
a conversation started. It is kind of a club, kind
of culfish. It's fun. There's there's a lot of people
(12:17):
that show up at these movies that nobody goes to
at a certain time when no one else is going.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You know, are you going to go see Final Destination?
I just no, No, I just read a great review yesterday.
I mean, you don't realize how long it's been since
there's been a Final Destination movie. But they said that
it does such a beautiful job of paying homage but
still kind of elevating the deaths that it's I mean, honestly,
(12:45):
they just raved about how good it is.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Right. No, So I'm on letterbox as well, which is
a way for me to remember what movies I've seen,
because there's this thing there's and a half where you
can write that where you right that you've seen that movie,
and now you've got to of all the movies you've seen, like, hey,
I really like that movie. This play on the court
Field thing, it came out of nowhere? What else has
this guy done? And I can find it on this
app without going through all the IMBB stuff and boom,
(13:10):
I can go watch this next movie or pull it
up on Amazon pric.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Did you like movies while you were still working or
is this totally since you stopped working.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No. I was a record store guy, and then they moved.
Blockbuster bought us out and we started. I watched everything
they had. I've always been a hut, and the Netflix
showed up and I started getting like movies all the time.
I use these movies to turn around to think of
script ideas. We do plays I've done in you know,
Rocky Hart Figure show, a Little Shop of Hars. I
just saw Ruling Class last night, which is an old
(13:41):
seventies movie with Peter O'Toole, and I want to turn
it into a play. I think it already was a play. Good.
I look it up and say, oh, James McAvoy was
in this play in London just a few years ago.
I'm like, holy smoke, I should I should do this play.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Good for you, Good for you. I appreciate it, Thank you.
You know what, Jackie and I are going to start
going to the Bolston Theater a lot now that I know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You can also use it at Tyson's. It's a AMC.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah no, I mean I I'll more screens of Tysons.
I'll use it wherever I want, well at AMC.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But you do get that priority laying access for the
concession stand.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
As an A lister.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I think a lot of people know that. Where am
I going?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Line one?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hi, Elliet the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Hey I thy good morning, Randy.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
What's going on, dude?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Not much.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I've had the AMC A List membership for a minute now.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh wait, you're an A list also, welcome to my club.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I mean you not love going to the movies?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Sol Wait say again?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You know I love going to the movies, not myself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh yeah, no, listen, I here's my problem. I love
going to the movies. I just don't go enough. I
just don't go enough.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
As you were.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was going a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I thought this is perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I was going a lot. That is true. Hey what
how many times a week are you going?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Well, that's what I was gonna say. It's kind of
a waste of money. Now because the movie theater is
over the bridge, and now that I don't I don't
have to go over there. I don't go as much
as I used to because come home from work or
you know, I could just stop before I come home.
But now I don't even go that way. So I'm
basically paying for nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So is it hard to can have? Is it hard
to cancel?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Well, if you cancel it, you can't. You can't join
again for a year.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh so if I if I, well, I have it. But
if I stopped using it and you said that you
were going to cancel, you can't reactivate for a year.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
So basically it's basically like a Planet Fitness, uh membership because.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Plants, but Planet Fitness you could pause your membership.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Yeah you can't. Yeah, you can't do it if you
can with AMC, I don't think so. I think I tried,
and they we're like, no, you have to if you
were warning here, if you cancel, now can join the
game for it. And so I just keep it. It's
like it's twenty four dollars a month. So yeah, right,
I'm waiting for no, not at all, but I'm waiting
(16:10):
for twenty eight years later.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So oh that's good. I'm going to use my list
for that. Also. All right, very good, Brandy, it's good
talking to you about it. Yeah, you got later, there's
a great club I'm in. I'm part of the cult.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The best part of all this will be Monday, and
we know how this story ends because we've been tuned
in for a quarter of a century. Elliott's going to
see that movie and not use or activate his A.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Why wouldn't I activate?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Was I too hard with the boys?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Well then the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Fresh yep, No, you know what's got me express express
Lane for concessions. That's what'll That's what will get me
to activate I.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Then you also get free food on your birthday. Oh
look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
God damn it, time for my birthday.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I included that in the note too. You would have
had it in February.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I love Christmas.
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