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Morning Somewhere

2024.12.24: Black Widower

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9615 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Burnie and Ashley discuss rural Scotland holiday hours, work/life/holiday balance, broke math, forced Boomer nostalgia, Christmas movies, weird transitions for media, 80s NFL broadcasts vs NFL Films, pan and scan, motion smoothing, Q vs Q, Black Doves, Hawkeye, Lady Avengers, edible glitter, the gift card economy, and being "hard to buy for."


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0:00.0

No, no, I want to know if you're right under carbonized you want to get me by the legal

0:04.4

eye off.

0:06.9

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

0:09.3

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

0:12.3

Shut up.

0:13.5

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is...

0:19.3

Morning, September!

0:22.5

For December 24th, 202024. My name is Bernie Birds sitting right over there. She puts the hoe in Merry

0:31.4

Christmas. Ashley Burns had asked everybody. Merry Christmas to you too.

0:42.0

Merry Chrysler. How's everybody doing?

0:49.3

We are currently in, this is the period of full madness. So if we're all a little bit crazy today,

1:29.3

look, we're crazy with you, bud. A little bit. We're not as crazy as you are. If you're out right now listening to this podcast because you are running around the car, shame on you for doing your shopping this late. Yeah, we're doing it later today. We live in Scotland where that's not possible. We live in rural Scotland where it's like they're not changing their holiday hours for anybody for any reason. No, and, you know, and it's interesting because it's a thing that I, it's a strategy I respect, right? That they're like you. Do you? Because you didn't respect it yesterday when we're out. I respect it. And right up until I come up against it. And it's not, and it's personally affecting me. Theoretically, philosophically, I like that they're not going to adjust hours.

1:31.9

They're going to keep things nice and reliable for their employees.

1:35.3

Your lack of planning is not their problem.

1:36.4

Here's the thing.

1:43.1

As like a retail organization, they can absolutely profit from your problem.

1:44.3

And they're not doing that.

1:44.7

Right.

1:46.0

They definitely could do that.

1:48.8

So it is both a missed opportunity and an inconvenience,

1:51.8

but they're holding the line for their employees.

1:52.9

And that is respectable. You know, while we're talking about respectable strategies during the holiday season,

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