r/morningsomewhere

Hi. I'm with Ashley, don't change a thing about the intro because someone prefers to listen to save up and binge a daily, short podcast and doesn't know how to use the skip function and is mildly inconvenienced by having to hear the intro multiple times. I don't know how people like this expect to operate in life, but in the words of Eric Badour: "get real".

-an adult who knows how to skip intros of podcasts I listen to on a regular basis if I prefer not to hear them

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.

Mentioned in Wednesday's podcast. His name is Harrison Okene, I linked an article that goes into more detail.

Burnie and Ashley discuss The Boys ending, but first: cave diving accidents, looking to the helpers, Immersion Shark Week, the predicability paradox, and our thememorable narrative endings.

Orange, monkey, eagle.

The British sitcom Only Fools And Horses had a similar problem with it’s music rights to the point where even when reruns on tv cut important iconic scenes both in the sense of some of it more iconic jokes and some of the moments that push the story forward are completely removed

Every morning it feels like I'm waking up to another shooting and murder, another war starting, another animal going extinct or a policy gutting environmental protections and promoting corporations over communities and I wonder how this keeps being allowed to happen

Then I read the comments...

I know comments aren't representative of a community as a whole and should only represent a vocal minority online, but I hear them in person when going to the store, and I hear my coworkers echoing the same ideas.

Like the mosque shooting today, every random person in my town seems to be commenting on the local news post about it saying they deserved it and this country is better without "those people". Clicking on their profiles and it's someone that works at a car dealership, or a school, or a local construction company. This hate has infiltrated everything. It is no longer a fringe belief that people try to hide. They're totally fine with publicly admitting what people they think deserve to live.

Sort of a rant. But it's exhausting to keep seeing this every day knowing nothing is going to change and people are just getting worse.

Burnie and Ashley discuss influencer fatigue, influencer licensing, America's latest mass shootings, Trump's 1.8B tax fund, Cannes updates, Supermodel certification, ventriloquism, and Sunlight.

I have like a 3 minutes left too. It usually appears later in the day. I really need to get off this app for my podcast switch to Spotify or something.

Good morning to you, wherever you are.

I start my days 24 hours in the past so was catching up with yesterday's episode, with the talk of Eurovision. Burnie questioned why the UK even bothers with Eurovision and Ashley cites that our best point tally was 47 points in 1967. Ironically, 47 points in 1967 won Eurovision for us, and we've since won it four more times, most recently in 1997 with 227 points. Our highest points tally was in 2022 with 466 points, where we came second behind Ukraine.

I'm not a "stop getting Eurovision wrong!" mega-fan or patriotic in any way, I think I'm more just befuddled that either I've missed something in the broader discussion, or Ashley was done dirty by Wikipedia - which I also used. I have seen no other post regarding this (apart from Israel's involvement with Eurovision) so I'm thinking it's the former.

Anyway, I should probably go back to work. Will catch today's episode tomorrow when it will be yesterday.

P.S. I'm not sure the UK can boycott Eurovision, as we are apparently the biggest financial contributor to the European Broadcasting Union.

As per podcast 2026.05.15 what is your favourite game expansion ever? And can we pick a community winner?

For me it’s likely going to be Diablo 2s expansion, lord of destruction that introduced two new classes, new act and Diablos savage brother Baal.

I adored that game back in the day and still do and therefore I think it gets my nomination. Oblivions Shivering Isles is a super close second for me.

(Mods, if this has been posted please delete, I tried searching for an existing post and couldn’t find anything)