2025.01.09: The Cool Parents
Morning Somewhere
Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns
4.9 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Burnie and Ashley discuss the Los Angeles wildfires, iPhone's birthday, Windows phones, Ashley the drug dealer, the games our subreddit won't delete, understanding the Scots, and our upcoming Sharing Day.
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| 0:00.0 | An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator. |
| 0:08.9 | An iPod. |
| 0:11.5 | A phone. |
| 0:14.4 | Are you getting it? |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, Steve, we're all getting it. |
| 0:21.6 | Good! I'm going to Good! Whatever you are, because it is... |
| 0:26.6 | Morning Zepley! |
| 0:27.6 | For January 9th, 2020. |
| 0:31.6 | I said four, fuck it! |
| 0:33.6 | My name is Bernie Burns. |
| 0:34.6 | With me sitting right over there is Ashley Burns. I'm living in the |
| 0:38.6 | fives, baby. She gets it. She got it everybody. She totally got it. She got that iPhone. I did. You know, it took me a long time. Do you know when I got my first iPhone? Do you know why I said 2024 today? Why? Because I was going to say January 45th today. I'm glad you caught yourself. So I called back to 2020, it said, yes, tell me your story. |
| 0:56.8 | I got my first iPhone in 2012. So before that, I'm pretty sure I initially had like, remember when they would, before the age of the iPhone, you had PDAs, right? Blackberry was like the heavy hitter in like the like office types. He just like they'd sit there and they'd be talking to you, but they'd be type type typing on their Blackberry. Uh, I had before that I had a sidekick. And then between that I had like a, it was a Microsoft like a Windows mobile. You're the only person I know who had a Windows 5. Windows mobile 5 or like whatever it was. Like back in the day, we're talking like, you know, 2006, 2007. |
| 1:31.0 | And I loved it and it was great. And then when I moved to Australia and I was working for |
| 1:37.4 | Xbox, it was like, you don't have an iPhone. |
| 1:41.5 | Remember when... Also, I got Microsoft phones for free. So So was it the first time we met down in Australia and we were at a Rooster Teeth event and I lost my |
| 1:51.5 | phone in a cab and you said, oh, I have a spare mobile phone I can give you because |
| 1:57.0 | it was almost impossible to get my phone replaced in Australia. |
| 2:00.0 | And then you showed up with like six Windows phones. I was like, is this girl a drug dealer? What's going on here? That's what I would do on the weekends is I was just stand in an alley with a trench coat and go, anyone want a windows phone? That's some really cool people on that trip. There was you and then there was... That was a second trip, I think. |
| 2:18.0 | That must have been the second trip. |
| 2:18.7 | That was a second trip because that was definitely in Sydney. Yeah, because you were, yeah, because we were in a cab and you and I were going somewhere. So that would definitely been the second time that I met. I'm glad I had you so distracted. You lost your iPhone. Oh, man, it sucks. Jobs was really disappointed in you that day. |
| 2:34.0 | Yeah, so the reason why we're talking about all this stuff is today is January 9th. |
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