2026.01.23: You Know What You Did
Morning Somewhere
Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Burnie and Ashley discuss TikTok's future, beigns second, Oscar nominations, Oscar misses, Sinner, alien corrections, and the natural charisma of Michael B Jordan
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| 0:00.0 | It's probably why this muscle in your body is freakishly huge. |
| 0:03.8 | Hey, we're recording the podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Shut up. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is... |
| 0:13.9 | Morning Somewhere! |
| 0:15.4 | For January 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:18.1 | Six, my name is Bernie Burns. Sitting right over there. She is so impressed by my timing on |
| 0:24.7 | that post. It's Ashley Burns. Say hi to Ashley, everybody. Perfect timing. Perfect gigantic muscles, |
| 0:30.4 | apparently. Perfect day. It's one, two, three, depending on how you actually, you know, |
| 0:35.6 | do your dates. Great. Oh, one, two, three, yeah. Good point. One, two, three, two six. I'm blow you. But, uh, three, depending on how you actually, you know, do your dates. Great. Oh, one, two, three, yeah. Good point. One, two, six. I'm blow you. But a perfect day for me because I've got my Ashley back. I'm so happy that you're back, Ashley. It's good to be back. It's good to be back. I've missed podcasting with you. Ben's great guy. Ben's a genius, dude. That kid is so smart, dude. Really smart guy. it is crazy when It is crazy. When we sit down, we have these very long meetings, we're breaking down, like, you know, just everything about the internet, the way people are using the internet these days, Ashley. And it was just a really great set of meetings. But Ben is now back to Spain. He's back to his life in Spain. What we should be doing is sending him to the U.S. to oversee the TikTok deal. |
| 1:12.9 | That's what we should be doing. |
| 1:14.1 | Speaking of how people are using the Internet these days. |
| 1:16.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:16.7 | Or how they're going to. |
| 1:17.7 | The TikTok deal has now been finalized. |
| 1:21.0 | So there is now a new group that's going to be in charge of TikTok operations in the U.S. |
| 1:27.9 | It's a conglomerate of Oracle, Silver Lake, and the Emirati investment firm MGX. |
| 1:34.4 | So they're forming this new like TikTok US joint venture. |
| 1:38.4 | And there's some really interesting details in the AP News article I was reading that as part of the deal, |
| 1:46.7 | ByteDance has to license their algorithm to this new group for management and retraining |
| 1:54.4 | so that this U.S. group is going to redo, like, tell the algorithm what they want it to show. |
| 2:01.2 | Great. |
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