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Morning Somewhere

2025.03.12: Survivorship Bias

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9615 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Burnie and Ashley discuss carrying the burden, prolapsed chickens, stupid kid games, Roofball on ESPN, Tag The Movie, movie stars vs influencers, Scarlet Johansson's Instagram pressure, Milana Vayntrub's wildfire relief efforts, and China's fusion record.


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0:00.0

Twice in legal minute.

0:03.1

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

0:06.1

Shut up.

0:07.3

Again, morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere for March 12, 2020.

0:17.5

Five, my name is Burning Birds.

0:20.1

I can't believe I used to ever miss that drop. I've got it now. It's like awkward. You're a machine. Sitting right over there gassing me up. It's Ashley Burns and say hi to Ashley, everybody. I guess my job. My job. Same team. You're actually in a good mood this morning. I really like it. Well, yeah, I'm at a high energy moment in the morning. Pulling off the mask for a moment.

0:39.8

Sometimes we do say that, you know, Ashley is like, where I'm going around the house,

0:44.0

being careful and stuff. I want to, but we should also acknowledge when I'm in that kind of zone as

0:48.1

well. And I will just say this. You have been emotionally carrying this house this week. So,

0:52.9

thank you for that. I appreciate it. Same team. Last week, you were emotionally carrying the house. So I feel like we've got a good balance there. Yeah, I was, you know, I've been doing a lot of work lately. And when I was in, when I was in Austin in February, um, for the big announcement, I felt like I was back in like startup mode, you know, and for the announcement of getting the Rashid brand back. And, man, it was like 8 a.m. until I felt like 10 p.m. every single day when I was there. And then the last part of my workday was just writing people and going, I'm sorry, I didn't get to your thing today. Like, I had to do that every single day for like two weeks straight. It's so frustrating when you, you're having a really productive day or week or two weeks. And you're getting things done and you can, you're just trucking through tasks. It's cool. And that's really exhilarating and that feels really good. But then at the end of the day, your to-do list got longer anyway,

1:46.1

even though you were like at peak productivity and feeling, you know, just like really

1:49.9

blazing through it. That's super frustrating. When no matter how well and how quickly you're

1:56.2

doing your work, it makes more work than less work. When we first moved here, I remember I went through and made a spreadsheet of all the projects in the house and everything we had to do.

2:06.6

And I did weights for priority, like necessity, the size of the project, and then like our preference of whether or not we wanted to get this on like something we wanted, essentially This was a very nerdy spreadsheet. It was pretty nerdy spreadsheet. But it was like every,

2:22.0

it was tiny little stuff. Like everything from like replacing like a light switch to like this

2:26.2

section of the roof needs help. And, uh, yeah, uh, that was a memory serves. That was 96 projects when I made it, 96 different ones.

2:38.1

And after four years, we've got it down to 113, I think.

2:42.6

So, awesome.

2:44.6

Go us.

2:45.5

We're working on it.

2:47.5

Yeah.

2:47.6

When you chip away at something and it chips back, that's tough.

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