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Morning Somewhere!

For October 15th, 2020, 5.

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there waiting for the drop. Ben King.

I had to bet everybody. Hi, everybody. I just flew in from Barcelona and boy, am I arms tired.

You know, probably the best example in my career of young people hearing things for the first time and misattributing where it came

from. Like we're all just like recycling material at this point. Matt made that joke on the front

page of roosterteeth.com back in the day. Like he flew back from Denver and boy, my arms tired.

And one of the first comments with like tons of likes was way to steal a joke from South Park. It's like South Park. That's, you know, that came like in the one millionth iteration of that joke. I mean, there are no new original ideas, let's be honest. No, there's really not. Especially in the age of AI. No. Let's go into it straight away. How do you feel about soon? Do you feel like we're on the cusp of something? Gut reaction, is it going to just pop, flatten out, or are we going to go like a logarithmic step up? Yeah, I think humanity is doomed. Yeah, you do. Are you there? I think, I think, like, a kid born today is not going to know what's real and what's not. And it's essentially, we're just going to be living in the Matrix. So, you know, we had a good run. I mean, we've had, we've seen some good

stuff. I feel like I'm the right age because I think I'm the last kid who remembered the pain of using dial-up internet. And that was like, you know, it was a mission to get connected to the world. I do think a lot of people as they get older think they were born at the right time.

God, I was born at the right people as they get older think they were born

at the right time. Like God, I was born at the right time. They get nostalgic for their own childhood.

What I find interesting about all of us who are alive today is we benchmark that on where we fell of when

the internet was created. My millennials would typically say, are you comfortable saying what year you were

born in? 92. 92. Okay. So like, I know some people that are like, you know, we worked with

Barb and Gav who were about six years older than you, four or five years older than you at least.

And they're in that window where they had some childhood pre-internet, really before it came around. When you say dial-up, what do you mean? Do you mean you were dialing into an ISP or something like? Didn't you run an internet ISP company? Well, for some people, dial-up means AOL and CompuServe, the like pre-Internet services that existed. But I was going to go say AOL, but you didn't have that here. No, yeah, that wasn't, that was an American thing. Essentially, it would be, is you, it would be like the internet, but you'd have to connect for your phone line, and you'd charge you, like, five pounds a minute or something ridiculous. And it would be, yeah, extremely, extremely slow. Like, to the kids these days, you don't know how slow that shit was. Like, it was a, to download an episode of Red versus Blue, I think it would take, like, over a day. Yep. My favorite story I would always ask people, because I wanted to know how things propagated and how do people find out about it. So it was like, just like an icebreaker. If someone was nervous at an event or something talking to me, I would just say, so how'd you hear about? What was the first time? How'd

you hear about red versus blue? All sorts of stories. It's usually land party, sleepover,

older brothers showed it to me. We've lost the art of the sleepover slash land party,

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