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Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Burnie and JD discuss Austin changes, Avatar Fire & Ash, Odyssey trailer, IMAX, brand loyalties, tipping in the US, UK university, Eurail pass, bed bugs, data centers, getting out of 2025, and rock stars we never loved.

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0:00.0	I said,
0:03.0	Oh, technology.
0:04.0	Hey, we're recording the podcast.
0:08.0	Shut up.
0:10.0	Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is
0:16.0	Morning Somewhere!
0:17.0	Four December 29th, 2020.
0:20.0	My name is Bernie Burns. It is 29. Sitting right over there. 4 December 29th, 2025.
0:23.2	My name is Bernie Burns.
0:23.9	It is 29.
0:24.8	Sitting right over there.
0:25.9	Say hi to J.D., everybody.
0:26.5	It's J.D.
0:27.7	Come back to hello.
0:28.8	Hi, J.D.
0:31.8	So, J.D. and I, we did a sponsor chat this weekend.
0:33.7	I'm in Austin in case you can't tell.
0:39.2	And if you don't follow me on Instagram, I was doing, made a story about the horrible Austin construction in the airport, which is never ending, it seems like. One of two constants
0:45.2	in Austin. What's the other constant? Change. Oh, yeah. Yeah. J.D. does, are you okay if I say what
0:51.5	you do for a living? I'm a tour guide. I don't want to say what company, but...
0:55.5	I think you have the best setup for that because you're born and raised in Austin. So you can talk about all the changes and all that stuff? Well, yeah, but then it makes me sound like... I'm too, like, jaded when I talk about the changes in Austin. Mostly because I don't like New Austin. But then also you did your undergrad in Scotland. Yeah. Which people who take tours, they all have kids about your age. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. A lot of the people who go on them are usually like older middle-aged couples. So I remind them of like their kids. So I mostly just end up talking to them about their lives. Make good tips, right? Yeah. Yeah. You're also doing, you're in grad school too. You should mention that. This is a job you're doing while you're in grad school. What is your master's that you're getting? It's a big data management. Big data management. So it's mostly like organizing data flows and like server farms and that kind of thing. So when everyone else is reading about these data centers that are destroying the world, though, you're like, hey, hey, job opportunities. Well, they keep building them. It won't stop. Yeah. Dude, I was, I saw some kind of plan in Scotland for where all the major data centers are going to be. And I'm so happy that they're all like down the border.
2:02.5	Like they're just really far away from us.
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