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Morning Somewhere

2026.05.21: Barnes & Noble & Dalton & Claude

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Burnie and Ashley discuss the intro, Barnes & Noble makes a horrible change, the AI slippery slope, making Human Slop a thing, creative bankruptcy, book editors, giving notes, taking notes, Paramount credit rating, and pushing back via prose.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, we're

0:05.2

quiet in the podcast.

0:07.2

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

0:15.7

For May 21st, 2020, 6.

0:18.5

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's wondering why the intro is such a mess this

0:23.1

morning. Say, I just should burn it over. Do you have an explanation for this? I really don't. Really don't.

0:27.2

I might have got in my head. Somebody sent me, oh, I bought my mic too. I'm all over the place.

0:31.7

You are? Somebody sent me a link to saying, hey, I was having thoughts about the intro for morning

0:40.3

somewhere. And this person articulated it well. And then they sent me a link to the goddamn

0:45.7

rooster teeth subreddit where somebody had made a comment. Like, it was a lot of nice comments,

0:51.4

which, uh, mean nothing. And along with a negative comment, which also means nothing, which was that they like to binge the podcast and that the intro on a binge becomes a lot. Like, it's like if you're listening to it, like, every 20 minutes, every 25 minutes, every 32 minutes, if we're in a rush. It was just a lot.

1:11.2

It was just a lot.

1:12.0

So, yeah.

1:12.8

Anyway, so I was just thinking about that this morning.

1:14.6

So we've made it a lot less extra, but also maybe more extra.

1:17.6

Well, maybe we should put it to a vote.

1:19.0

Maybe it's time to retire the overly enthusiastic good morning.

1:23.4

How dare you?

1:24.8

That's how we start.

1:26.7

That's how we start, sir. Okay. You like your routine? I like my routine too, but listen. Man of the people over here. I want to give the people what they want. No, I'm going to tell the people to harden up. And if the people say, no. I say, okay, maybe I'll think about it. I can double down, I can triple down.

1:49.4

I'll do my due diligence for product development, market research.

1:51.3

Get out there and find out what the people want. What is it that the people want?

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