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Morning Somewhere

2024.10.04: Walkabout

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9615 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Burnie and Ashley discuss their disastrous road trip, dropping their croissant, the potential death of the EU, 23andMe's dismal valuation, what happens to genome data, government regulation, and a special guest. Support our podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/morningsomewhereSupport the show

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0:00.0

Stop! I could have dropped my croissant.

0:04.8

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

0:07.8

Shut up.

0:09.0

Good.

0:10.0

A morning to you, wherever you are, because it is Burning Somewhere.

0:15.9

For October 4th, 2020.

0:19.4

My name is Bernie Burns. I use that intro for therapy, everybody. Sitting right over there. Don't call her an Edinburgh. Ashley Burns. How you doing, Ash? I want to talk about this for all of two seconds. Okay. We'll say two minutes tops. We're going to talk about it.

0:34.5

But it's going to explain a lot about us today. Today? Yeah. A bad attitude today. We had a road trip. It's not all roses everybody. It's not all good times. Sometimes in marriage, there's rough stuff. Sometimes you go on a road trip. I shouldn't say marriage. You're great. No, no, no. Look, remember this is this is the age old rule, Bernie. We are not the enemy. We're the same team.

0:54.7

The children are the enemy.

0:56.0

Yeah, that's okay, yes.

0:57.1

The children are the enemy.

0:58.6

So we had a road trip.

0:59.6

We needed to go down to Edinburgh.

1:01.4

So we thought we'll do, we'll do a little overnight.

1:03.8

It's going to be a lot of fun.

1:05.1

So excited.

1:05.8

Favorite city in the world.

1:07.0

It's a beautiful city.

1:08.4

We'll go. We're going to eat some lovely food. We'll have a good time. We'll, I don't know, buy the kids some new shoes. It's going to be easy, peasy, fun and squeezy. It's a road trip. It's a road trip. It's a road trip. What could go road? It's 90 miles away-ish. So in Scotland, that's what, three hours on the road? Because I miss a mile a minute, Ashley. I miss that. Well, here's the thing, Bernie. Technically speaking, the speed limit here in a lot of places is 60 miles per hour. You do get to go a mile a minute. In a row? Haven't seen that. Well, there's a weird thing here that's where there's two different speed limits. It's a class. It's classist, Bernie. So

1:45.7

there's the speed limit for all of us, normal people in regular vehicles, which is 60 miles per hour.

1:51.0

And then there's a speed limit for the big trucks, the, the lorries, the 18 wheelers, the ones

1:56.0

hauling timber or, I don't know, whiskey or... Big trucks. Whatever they're hauling, the big guys.

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