2025.09.17: Hitting The Post
Morning Somewhere
Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns
4.9 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Burnie and Ashley discuss hitting the post, Limewire buying Fyre Festival, the Klarna IPO, reinventing everything, layaway, broke economics, A24 dating bios, red flags, making fun of games while planning a game, scuba heists, and Disney dishes.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's party, dude. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey, we're recording the podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Shut up. |
| 0:08.2 | Good. |
| 0:09.3 | Wherever you, wherever you are, because it is more like somewhere. |
| 0:15.6 | For September 17th of 2020, 5. |
| 0:18.6 | Most early. |
| 0:19.9 | My name is Burning Burns. I'm so raring to go. I'm early on my drops. This is me. |
| 0:26.1 | That's over her over there. It's actually, hey, I'm blah, blah, bye. I got early and then I |
| 0:30.2 | fucked myself up. That's okay. When there's this much dumb shit to talk about, it's understandable |
| 0:36.0 | that you get so excited. You just can't help yourself from running ahead. |
| 0:39.4 | There's a radio term for that. |
| 0:40.8 | I learned this from Howard Stern. |
| 0:43.8 | Howard Stern Watch is still employed. |
| 0:46.6 | He talked about hitting the post, which I guess this is some old DJ thing. |
| 0:50.6 | It used to annoy the shit out of me. |
| 0:52.5 | You probably dealt with this too, Ashley. |
| 0:55.1 | There used to be this thing for Gen Xers and Zinials like yourself, Ashley, where we would |
| 1:01.1 | sit with a radio with a cassette deck in it, with record and pause pushed, and we would |
| 1:07.1 | wait with our hand over pause when a song came on the radio we liked and we unpause it and then we'd have a mixtape essentially that we would build from songs as they played on the radio. And if you got unlucky, that mixtape would consist of little clips of, like, right as the DJ is like, here, it's a, now it's a downward spiral, nine his nails. There we go. So that's it. So that's a skill they actually developed and that was intentional. |
| 1:31.3 | You get really pissed because the DJ would talk over the beginning of the song and in a lot of cases would talk right up until the first lyrics. |
| 1:40.9 | They call that hitting the post and that was an actual thing that they tried to do a radio |
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