Drop: Celery Man
[00:00:00] Burnie: What’s that look?Good morning, you guys. Oh, there. December 2nd. No, 3rd, 2024. Best intro ever. My name is Burnie Burns. I’m so early. Sitting right over there. She doesn’t know the routine. It’s uh but we’ve been doing this almost a full year. It’s coming up on a year and she’s interrupting. It’s like, what was that drop
[00:00:29] Ashley: was [00:00:29] Burnie: Can you explain that to me right in the middle of this? That’s uh it’s uh Tim and Eric. It’s like that absurdist stuff. Have you ever watched like the Eric Andre show? No, never. But you’ve seen like all the clips and memes where [00:00:41] Ashley: I’ve seen lots of clips. [00:00:42] Burnie: clips. It’s like a certain kind of humor.The, uh, the kids right at the end of Rooster Teeth, uh, had a similar The Best Friends Today kids,
[00:00:52] Ashley: end. Yeah, there’s uh, there’s certain like types of shows that I, I recognize that they’reThe or something, I’m not sure. I recognize they’re like, they’re good shows, uh, and they’re very funny, but I find that I have to be like, in a specific mood to watch
some
[00:01:09] Burnie: funny [00:01:10] Ashley: I’m just like, not in that mood, like [00:01:13] Burnie: I’m like, not in. Perfect. That’s what I do. [00:01:28] Ashley: I do all day long. [00:01:33] Burnie: You cannot explain it to someone like you can’t even explain to them. What was funny about it. It’s just it’s a complete [00:01:40] Ashley: It’s just, it’s a complete lie. Yesterday we were [00:01:43] Burnie: we were talking about the Oxford word of the year, which was brain rot, which was kind of weird I was gonna on my list of like You know back atches was Riz Apparently Riz was their word from 2023.Did you know that?
[00:01:58] Ashley: I just looked that up, I was looking that up because I was like, I wonder what their word last year was. Uh, and so RIS, okay. That’s fine because guess what, by the end of 2024 I was able to use that in a complete [00:02:10] Burnie: Various organizations have put out their word of the year. Uh, Demure also madeit.
[00:02:15] Ashley: kind of like, uh, It’s like, it’s important, yes, but it doesn’t have [00:02:24] Burnie: it’s kind of like, uh, Balotro. [00:02:27] Ashley: like, for that [00:02:29] Burnie: It’s like, it’s, it’s important. Yes. But does it have the [00:02:32] Ashley: the game [00:02:34] Burnie: does it have the legs? [00:02:35] Ashley: for game [00:02:36] Burnie: I do feel like for that game in particular, that’s the game that’s up for game of the year, the independent poker game, poker ish game. I just basically think you have like, it’s, it’s more lucrative instead of playing that game, go get a graduate degree in you’re better off [00:02:52] Ashley: No, but it’s, uh, it’s, it’s a nice thing ’cause it can teach you sort of math, it’s almost intuitive math without realizing, without you realizing that it’s teaching you Right. Uh, so basically Burnie, very important for STEM learning. Yes. So, uh, really it’s doing, uh, a service and should be included in public school curriculums.Both were very safe. I’m
[00:03:16] Burnie: service [00:03:17] Ashley: in a second. Um, Other, uh, nominees in addition to [00:03:22] Burnie: in. Uh, there was, in addition to demure, was brat, which I think is a pretty good and I would have, I would have a hard time, I would have a hard time coming up with a word that was more 2024 than brat. [00:03:39] Ashley: you define, Brad? [00:03:41] Burnie: Uh,no, it’s just more like a vibe
[00:03:43] Ashley: just more [00:03:45] Burnie: you’re having your brat summer. What does brat summermean
[00:03:48] Ashley: piece. What does Black Summer [00:03:52] Burnie: girl summer? I understood that was, I was all up on that. [00:03:54] Ashley: Summer, I understood. I was on that.What other people and you’re and you don’t you’re not gonna worry about being like well behaved you’re not worrying about demure Okay, it’s like there’s the there’s the demure and mindful vibe and then there’s the brat vibe That’s like i’m doing my thing and i’m not going to apologize for
[00:04:18] Burnie: Yesterday we talked about too, Sonic 3 is gonna come out in 2024, but will it’s box office tally be a 2024 [00:04:26] Ashley: If,I, I was, I’m gonna say no. ’cause if it can’t, I, I, it has like 10 days to earn its way into the top 10, which I think is asking a lot. So I’m gonna say no because then a lot of its earnings are gonna be 20, 25 earnings.
[00:04:41] Burnie: Okay. Okay. Well that might take away from what I’m about to say, because if it did count, like in that vein, I think my word of the year is, even though it wasn’t made in 2024, it’s a very important word in 2024, and we’re all starting to realize the importance of the word is the wordunification. Because we’re all, we’re feeling it right now.
I think 2024 is the year we’re definitely feeling and shitification dead internet just encapsulates everything that’s going on. At least I, for me personally, it’s like, I just feel like the drop off in the internet this year has been
Of course, I was also off social media for like four years.
[00:05:22] Ashley: right? Yeah. You, you got way ahead of the curve. Yes. So in unification was the word of the year for 2023 from the American Dialect Society. So in the vein of Game of the Year, right, where everyone can be, uh, can have their own game of the year, everyone can have their own word of the year.So yours for 2024 is ification. So that’s the morning somewhere word of the year. We’re getting in on the word of the year game.
[00:05:45] Burnie: to join an association. I’m like, I, I mean, I’m part of like unions. I was in two different unions. I still am, but Be the association. But [00:05:52] Ashley: but I feel like part of [00:05:54] Burnie: like part of like just like a little like niche association, you know? I always heard this great story about they would have these crossword conventions for people who were into publishing crosswords.And apparently, I didn’t know this, Sudoku was brought to the U. S. by one dude. Like, if, if you play
[00:06:14] Ashley: play a violinistLike
[00:06:16] Burnie: Like he just, like he imported and he had basically had the rights to Sudoku where he was the Sudoku guy and all the crossword people hatedhim. I like that amount of like, that like, really specific petty
[00:06:29] Ashley: Like, really [00:06:30] Burnie: he’s doing at work. Yeah. Runaround for my word of the year would have been, uh, Tua. Hawk Tua would have been, uh, close. Any, any candidates for, did you do your homework and do word of the [00:06:44] Ashley: year? Um, my word of the year is Boeing. [00:06:46] Burnie: that would be a good one. [00:06:47] Ashley: that, that’s [00:06:48] Burnie: you’re getting into our potential topic [00:06:50] Ashley: criteria. Yeah. Well, the, I’m just gonna say that that’s a word that came up a lot Yeah, right. That like all through the year, um, there were a lot of stories specifically revolving around Boeing.So maybe that’s brand of the year, not in a good way. Um, but certainly. In, in a way that made an impact.
[00:07:08] Burnie: okay, so let’s talk a little bit about how december’s gonna work so this week we are focusing on What was the story of the year? We want to hear from you. What are your nominees for story of the year? What was the most interesting thing that took place this [00:07:20] Ashley: Can, can we make a couple suggestions just to get things rolling? Like, get people thinking about stuff that [00:07:25] Burnie: Yeah, and then I think probably Thursday ish we’ll probably have like our nominees or maybe Friday we’ll end this week with the nominees and then we’ll have our announcement on Monday. I don’t want to like, I don’t want to overshadow the game awards actually, [00:07:37] Ashley: All of it, you’re fine, they’re not till the [00:07:38] Burnie: we’re flying by the seat of our pants here.Uh, and then Monday we’ll announce it, and then we’ll have our new category for next week. Then we’ll start taking nominations for that. So give me, give me like two or three nominations for your story of the
[00:07:50] Ashley: Okay, well, in light, [00:07:51] Burnie: Captured the national attention. [00:07:53] Ashley: in light of, uh, of our brand of the year, uh, I feel like the year kicked off really strong with the door falling off the Boeing plane. [00:08:04] Burnie: Yeah, that’s how that whole thing started, didn’t [00:08:06] Ashley: and I know that that’s not necessarily the most important thing that happened to Boeing this year because there are some people that are definitely not stranded in space because of Boeing.Um, but,
[00:08:15] Burnie: a candidate that that story alone is a [00:08:16] Ashley: It’s amazing, like, you guys, they’re still [00:08:19] Burnie: We probably talked about that story individually more than just about any other story. Maybe some box [00:08:23] Ashley: I look up at the sky and I wonder how Butch and Sonny are [00:08:26] Burnie: yeah, they came up a lot. AI also like lots of general stories about AI came up in our tags for the year.So, but Butch and Sundance individually is probably one of the most talked about stories in the
[00:08:37] Ashley: so it’s been it’s been a big year for for Boeing in a lot of in a lot of bad headline kind of [00:08:43] Burnie: We’re of course talking about the two astronauts who Went to space in a Boeing spacecraft, and then there was a helium leak. This was in May, the flight was delayed, and then once they got up there, they determined it was unsafe for them to come back. The actual craft has come back to Earth safely, but they’ve been up there and will be up there all the way through February of 2025. [00:09:03] Ashley: a ride home on a rival brand. They’re catching, uh, a ride home via [00:09:08] Burnie: It was the uh, inshinification of [00:09:10] Ashley: uh, inchification of Boeing. Definitely. They’re definitely not having a good [00:09:15] Burnie: Mine is from the first year of the podcast. My first nominee is from the first year of the podcast, but not really a story from 2024 specifically. Right out of the gate, one of the first stories we talked about was the story about the 23 schools in the Baltimore area that had zero students.Proficient in their grade in mathematics, uh, as measured by standardized
[00:09:38] Ashley: mentioned by the [00:09:39] Burnie: It’s still just an astounding [00:09:42] Ashley: just an astounding story. It was like, uh, the ordinary [00:09:48] Burnie: was like, uh, the Oregon Trail would for math [00:09:51] Ashley: Yeah, [00:09:53] Burnie: I think they were [00:09:54] Ashley: we had a computer lab and there was, let’s see, there was, we had the choice between Oregon trail number munchers, and there was definitely a third, uh, a third game that was on, uh, those computers, but we, those were the, the, the big two, everyone was into number munchers. [00:10:09] Burnie: Uh, ours was like, uh, mine was pretty early. So it was like a two outlaws and they would shoot at each That was a cool thing to show to kids. Uh, there was some news about Oregon trail recently. Are they going to make a movie or a series about Oregon trail or something like [00:10:23] Ashley: God, that’d be amazing. [00:10:24] Burnie: they going to remake it?So anyway, there’s something about Oregon trail out there. I looked it up, but you know, it was somebody’s word of the year. I’m sure. Yeah. But to clarify that story too, it’s still never, uh, fails to astound me. That it wasn’t that 23, uh, schools failed the test. 23 schools had zero students that could pass the test.
That seems mathematically impossible. Just like no kid got lucky in 23
[00:10:49] Ashley: right? I, I believe there were several other schools in addition to that, who, uh, had some students passing, but not as many as they needed to. [00:10:56] Burnie: We need smart people. We need and math will set you free. We talked about that. So that’s from the December very, if you want to go back and listen to early podcasts, uh, I show that here, according to my handy dandy database, that was from our December 29th episode of 2023, but technically still within this year. [00:11:12] Ashley: Yeah, we, you know, look, we, we squeaked that one right under the, the line [00:11:15] Burnie: It was probably in our yearly wrap [00:11:18] Ashley: there was one of the only candidates for the yearly wrap [00:11:21] Burnie: I think it was on the yearly wrap up is what it was. All right. You got another story for us that, that, that. Peaked your interest and held your attention this [00:11:28] Ashley: Well, so no, I’m going to cheat and I’m going to go back a little bit further because we weren’t doing the podcast when this story came up. We’ve referenced it a couple of times. I feel like just very lightly, but I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to pull it into this year by sheer will. And that’s, [00:11:45] Burnie: uh, judges, hello? get a ruling on this, please? [00:11:49] Ashley: No,we’re going to do it. Uh, no, this is the cesium pellet that went missing in Australia.
[00:11:54] Burnie: We talked about this on our Patreon. [00:11:55] Ashley: We, uh, yeah, no, so we, uh, [00:11:58] Burnie: This is a little bit of an inside [00:11:59] Ashley: We, we did, uh, uh, a number of sort of test shows before we launched the podcast to make sure we, we had got it to a place that we were happy with and that we were, you know, we’re happy doing this every day and then we felt like we could commit to it.Uh, and so we did, uh, a number of these shows and, uh, So we were following in real time as the cesium 137, I think, uh, pellet went missing in the Australian outback. This thing is like, it was like the size of like,
[00:12:27] Burnie: Cesium 137, [00:12:28] Ashley: yeah, thank you, is like the size of a little like tic tac or something, right? And, uh, and it’s wildly radioactive to the point where it’s like, if you see it, [00:12:37] Burnie: It, it looks [00:12:39] Ashley: Treat, treat it like anything else you find in the Australian outback and run away [00:12:43] Burnie: It looks like something you would hold toothpicks in. Like it’s that size. Like a little cylinder. Like if you wanted to take toothpicks camping, maybe matches would be a better [00:12:49] Ashley: toothpick. Can you match [00:12:51] Burnie: You’d store it in something like this. Little cylinder. Little, little metal cylinder. What we loved about it was when we, uh, were investigating the story, Uh, pictures of this canister is basically just says on an imprinted drop this runaway.That’s what it
[00:13:07] Ashley: That’s how radioactive it was. And so, and so it went missing in hundreds of miles of Outback. And then they found the thing. This was like one of the most riveting sagas. [00:13:19] Burnie: or something, [00:13:20] Ashley: Yeah. Like it was like on the bottom of a truck or something [00:13:23] Burnie: the way, this is, this was January of 2023. That goes, that’s how far back the test shows [00:13:27] Ashley: Wow. Really that far back. [00:13:29] Burnie: Uh, Western Australian [00:13:30] Ashley: I pulled that one by sheer will then. [00:13:33] Burnie: So that was between January 10th and January 16th of 2023.So I don’t think the judges are gonna allow that but the audience will be the ultimate arbiters for what gets nominated for sure for news story of the year. I’m going to nominate another one which I think is something we’re going to be talking about. for decades.
[00:13:50] Ashley: Is this AI related? [00:13:51] Burnie: No, this is not AI related. Although there, there’s some AI stuff going on right now, which I want to talk about in a second.There was a crazy upswing in attacks by Amazon. This will show you just how bad things are getting, but, uh, it’s the story of, uh, the Israeli operation to insert explosive devices into the cell phones and pagers. I think that’s something they’re going to make movies about. I think I, to this day, I don’t like.
Fully understand like the impact of that or how the hell they pulled that
[00:14:20] Ashley: pulled that off. That one will, will continue to, like, fascinate me. Just from the, the point of view that it’s so convoluted. That if you pitched it as, like, a movie plot.Everyone would go, no, that’s not remotely believable. That’s like, that’s not plausible. You can’t, like, no one’s gonna buy that. It would never work. And then it fucking
[00:14:40] Burnie: Or it being Kingsman or something [00:14:41] Ashley: yeah, yeah, it would be something ridiculous. Yeah, and then, and everyone goes and shoots up a church. [00:14:45] Burnie: And I think we’re not there yet, but I do think like five six years from now You When you get far enough away from a world history event to where the current politics don’t interfere with the discussion, I think then that thing will be really dissected. So I think years from now, people will be talking about the Israeli with the cell phones and pagers.I think they will. So I think it’s a really important story for 2024.
[00:15:09] Ashley: And, and look, it was um, Uh, It was kind of crazy, uh, and it was very very like fascinating A lot of the big stories, um, are, are kind of politically motivated. This of course was, uh, was motivated, was, uh, quite motivated. Um, and a lot of the stories from 2024 are going to be political stories, but I’m going to try and steer clear of those because I’m, I’m, I’m exhausted. [00:15:32] Burnie: Right, right. No Trump, no Biden, no Willy Wonka. Stuff like that. away from all that [00:15:37] Ashley: the Willy Wonka event, the fact that the Willy Wonka event keeps on giving is absolutely fascinating. You told me they’re making a Broadway production. About this Willy Wonka event [00:15:47] Burnie: Yeah, some of the, they heard that was in development at one point. Yeah, but it’s, [00:15:50] Ashley: I can’t wait to see what this [00:15:52] Burnie: People love a good train wreck, man. People love agood train wreck.
[00:15:54] Ashley: a good train [00:15:55] Burnie: You know, in stories that you thought would be bigger that didn’t, but like the Jake Paul Tyson fight, which turned out to be kind of a dud. Uh, there was some stuff with, uh, the Iranian president, I thought would be when crashed in the helicopter or whatever that was.I thought that was going to be a much bigger deal when the head of state for Iran died. Yeah, not, not nearly as big a door, as big a deal as, uh, what I thought it was at the time. So, yeah, so it’s interesting. So please let us know in the comments. What do you think was the most memorable story of the year?
What, you know, obviously some political stuff will be the most influential, but what do you think, like off the beaten path a little bit? What do you think would be the thing we talk about for years and
[00:16:28] Ashley: fun, crazy, memorable stuff. What marks 2024 for [00:16:32] Burnie: What March 2024 for you? And who knows how long you’re going to have to talk about this because Ashley, I sent this to you. There is now an app that is doing really well. We’re going to talk about some AI stuff now, probably for the rest of the podcast. There is an AI app that is doing really well on the various paid app stores because you can enter in a bunch of data and now you can have an AI analysis that’ll tell you when you will probably die. [00:16:56] Ashley: Well, that’s dark. [00:16:58] Burnie: And so it begs the question, this was always kind of a philosophical, theoretical question, if you could know the day that you’re gonna die, would you want to know the day? Of natural causes, obviously you can’t predict if you’re gonna walk into traffic [00:17:13] Ashley: I’ve always said no. I don’t want to knowI Mostly because then I’m living my life as if it’s already ended, right? I’m living up to the end of my life instead of just living my life So I I don’t think that I want to know I can see where there are a lot of benefits like you Know to get a will in place Uh, and to spend all your money. Uh, you know, take all your vacation days. Whatever it is that floats your boat. Uh, you know, whatever it is. So, but uh, so there are certain benefits to knowing, but I don’t want to know. And so, it’s, it’s very dark to me that, so there’s an AI app, you go out and you put what, you just like, attach it to your like, apple health, your biometrics, and get, what, you’re giving it your pulse, and your like, your average heart rate, what’s your sleeping heart rate, what’s your sleeping, I don’t know, breath rate, or what, like, you’re giving it all that stuff, and it goes, this is when you’ll
[00:18:10] Burnie: Yeah,This is all your data. This is when you’re going to die. I mean, pretty soon you’ll be able to go in a machine and probably do that. Like I’ve been seeing more about this. What they call executive health care, more private health care. I might be seeing that here in the UK more because people travel to Turkey a lot for.
Cosmetic procedures and also just for like you go in and get like a full body scan Like what was the Matt Damon movie that looked like halo,
but
[00:18:32] Ashley: movie that looked like Caleb in that? I think I might be, I might be a real [00:18:38] Burnie: I think I might be I might be hitting the age range where they’re like, let’s serve this guy [00:18:42] Ashley: and get a full work up, right? [00:18:46] Burnie: It’s like when you start getting retirement stuff from like aarp It’s like dude i’m in my mid 40s. Leave me alone for another 20 years, [00:18:51] Ashley: My god, so I [00:18:53] Burnie: Also retire in this economy get [00:18:55] Ashley: So quick quick side note is I had finally finally figured out how to watch Hallmark movies to to work on my Christmas movie project and So I managed to tune into the Hallmark channel on Peacock and It has ads, like it’s basically like broadcast TV, it’s just done streaming, so it has an, like a, you know, two or three minute ad break every couple of minutes.And the number of pharmaceuticals that I was told to ask my doctor for was astonishing. It’s like, do you ever get fatigued or sometimes hungry or um, do you feel like, I don’t know, you don’t drink enough water? Blog a pedibics is, uh, ask your doctor to describe Novavitrix, you know, and it’s like side effects may include horrible diarrhea, memory loss, uh, premature aging, um, sudden death, like
[00:19:47] Burnie: Pre mature aging, interdimensional travel, swapping of timelines. [00:19:53] Ashley: It’s just like this crazy stuff and it’s like are you tired sometimes? You should ask your doctor for this prescription. It was ridiculous stuff Right? Get your vitality back. Uh, and I [00:20:02] Burnie: Ask your doctor about the soul stone. [00:20:04] Ashley: a doctor, about the Solstice. Hahaha Your sacrifice will [00:20:08] Burnie: sacrifice will be honored. [00:20:10] Ashley: So it was, it was really crazy, just, it’s been, I guess, so long since I had to watch that stuff on a regular basis and had become numb to it, that, uh, I was coming back into it, like, fully raw and sensitive.It was horrendous how much there was, just making me afraid of my own body.
[00:20:28] Burnie: Well, so I don’t want to circle back on this to the app that was released is called Death Clock. This is from Bloomberg, UK. The recently released Death Clock and AI powered longevity app has proved a hit with paying customers downloaded some 125, 000 times. Since its launch in July, according to market intelligence firm SensorTower. [00:20:48] Ashley: a century.the
[00:20:54] Burnie: AI was trained on a data set of more than 1, 200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. [00:21:00] Ashley: Here’s, okay, so here’s, here’s where this is going to get really interesting is someone’s going to listen to this and it’s going to be like, you’re going to die on January, um, 25th of, of 2025.So, uh, get prepared and someone’s going to do that, right? They’re going to go and they’re going to get everything in order. They’re going to take a bunch of vacations. They’re going to go skydiving. They’re going to do all this stuff. They’re going to live it up. And then January 26th rolls around and they’re like, What the fuck, man?
Right?
And now they’re They’re living! Yeah, but now their savings is gone, they gave all the money away, they have no PTO left!
[00:21:32] Burnie: that’s when death clock starts serving you [00:21:34] Ashley: people with patience. That’s what [00:21:35] Burnie: that’s that’s what it recruits to a or pivots to a recruiting [00:21:38] Ashley: It’s gonna, it’s [00:21:39] Burnie: Like, oh, you’re out of money here. Can they get a side hustle, buddy? We need a new Willy Wonka [00:21:46] Ashley: like start locking people in to like, eternal servitude. [00:21:50] Burnie: So, uh, this is the last current event story that I want to read while we’re on the topic of AI and shitification everything else This is from the singularity subreddit on reddit. The headline is that in the last six or seven months Amazon saw an increase from 100 million to To 750 million hacking attempts per [00:22:12] Ashley: Up from [00:22:14] Burnie: Up from 100 million to now 750 million hacking attempts. Per day in Amazon. Uh, this is from a, what looks to be a quote from the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal asked, uh, how many attacks are you seeing these days? CJ Moses said, we’re seeing billions of attempts coming our way.On average, we’re seeing about 750 million attempts per day. Previously, we’d see about a hundred million hits per day. And that number has grown to 750 million over six or seven months. Wall Street Journal asked, is this a sign that hackers are using AI? Moses said, without a doubt, it’s just like, here we go.
It’s like, everything is going to be under attack all the time, all the time.
[00:22:49] Ashley: also because it’s generative AI, it’s all going to be kind of doing the same thing, right? Like, uh, you know how AI generated art all kind of has a look to it.The, a lot of these hacks are gonna be coming in and they’re, the server’s just gonna be like, Oh no, that’s an AI one. I feel like, I feel disrespected.
[00:23:06] Burnie: Moses said now it’s more ubiquitous. Such that normal humans can do things they couldn’t do before because they can just ask the computer to do it [00:23:16] Ashley: Like no one will die apparently. [00:23:18] Burnie: exactly. Find, find me this episode of, uh, Good Times from 1982 or whatever. Or take down all of Amazon, please. [00:23:26] Ashley: was that show where that one thing happened? Also, um, could you attack Amazon for me? Thank you. [00:23:31] Burnie: Also, uh, just rounding out our AI news for today. Uh, Elon Musk. Uh, is now either threatening to or just about to file a lawsuit to keep OpenAI, uh, from converting to a, uh, for profit company from being non profit. Elon Musk was actually heavily involved with OpenAI at the beginning when they began as a non profit and forever non profit company.So, just yet another ironic turn that the guy who’s got a big for profit AI wants to keep his competitors
[00:23:59] Ashley: So he just, he’s just trying to hang on to me. I, well, [00:24:04] Burnie: Just trying to take down the leader [00:24:06] Ashley: you know, it’s, I mean you [00:24:08] Burnie: Oh well. The courts are really starting to get weaponized. [00:24:12] Ashley: and a lot of people don’t do it, you know what I [00:24:17] Burnie: I would, no, I wouldn’t do it. I mean, I volunteered it. I definitely wouldn’t do it. You know, it’s just like, you know, I mean, you can go and do a lot of tests and a lot of people don’t do it. You know what I mean? A lot of people wait till something goes wrong health wise to take a step, you know, uh, I just think it’s like, you got to take care of yourself, get your regular checkups and things like that.And you never know. Anyway, you know, you just never know. It’s a little bit of a depressing topic, but yeah. Also to me, it’s a little bit like Astrology, right? It’s like, or tarot card reading. It’s, you know, you can input the data and it’ll spit something out and you’ll either feel good or bad about it.
And that’s it. But it’s really not relevant.
[00:24:54] Ashley: Burnie, you really can’t say that kind of thing to me. You know that I’m a Taurus with Aries rising. [00:24:58] Burnie: Are you, do you have any of that in you at [00:25:00] Ashley: I have no idea [00:25:00] Burnie: Isn’t it kind of [00:25:01] Ashley: I know, I know I’m a Taurus, but I think, I think, I think, remember they, they introduced another one, like a 13th one that threw the whole schedule off, and I think That I might now be a different astrological sign if you [00:25:15] Burnie: Wouldn’t all of [00:25:16] Ashley: with the with the new schedule No, they got all like shortened up.And so some of the dates shifted around I don’t know and I also don’t know what like the the rising versus like I don’t know waning or waxing Mean except i’m gonna say aries rising just makes me very Um aggressive and warlike, uh, and that seems appropriate. Um for uh, my current state I’m gonna manifest it
[00:25:41] Burnie: Ophiuchus iswhat it looks like. That’s what I’m reading this as. That’s the
[00:25:45] Ashley: at. That’s the [00:25:46] Burnie: the uh, 13th zodiac sign. When did they decide to putthis
[00:25:49] Ashley: Zodiac time. When did they decide to put this in? It’s still born [00:25:55] Burnie: 29th and December 17th. That’s like two weeks. [00:25:58] Ashley: weeks. So all of these memes [00:26:01] Burnie: So all the people being born literally right now are Ophiuchus. [00:26:05] Ashley: Congratulations, Ophiuchus, with [00:26:08] Burnie: O P H I U C H U S. Ophiuchus at the end for sure. Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus? I don’t know. I’ll do that guy who’s got that really weird creepy accent who reads things to you on YouTube. [00:26:23] Ashley: I’m axolotl rising. [00:26:24] Burnie: Many people want to know how to pronounce third zodiac sign. Here we go to pronounce it. It’s pronounced Ophiuchus. [00:26:33] Ashley: Can I tell you what’s annoying about those videos is that they know exactly why you’re there and Somehow the video is still two minutes long and they won’t even attempt to pronounce it until like a minute 45 because they’re so busy Saying you want to know how to pronounce this word in this video. We will discuss how to pronounce this word Just say the word [00:26:52] Burnie: have been around for on the internet for a while and so I can sometimes see like people will send me look. I found you in this video recently. Someone sent us, uh, or posted somewhere the celebrity bowling by Chris Hardwick. And they were like, why is this video 10 minutes? And it’s like, because that’s what YouTube wanted when that came out.Like people were even saying, it’s like, right, right, right, the algorithm was all 10 minute videos at that point in time. So there’s no way to like build a narrative or anything like that. We’re running long here, so we’re gonna end on this guy telling us how to pronounce this. Let’s see if he can set us straight, Ashley. There you go, Ashley. Ophiuchus.
[00:27:46] Ashley: did pretty [00:27:47] Burnie: Not bad. I thought, I thought it was gonna be Ophiuchus or [00:27:49] Ashley: be Ulster. That’s the [00:27:51] Burnie: that’s clearly how you pronounce it, duh. [00:27:52] Ashley: that’s Ophiuchus’s cousin. I [00:27:54] Burnie: I will say, I admire all my friends and I want them to be happy and do stuff. I have to admit, I do kind of go, come on, whenever they post astrology stuff.And it happens every now and then. And I’m just gonna say this, Ashley. It’s almost exclusively female friends that do
[00:28:09] Ashley: that. Well, yeah, of course. [00:28:10] Burnie: Like, there’s no dudes who all of a sudden start talking about, like, Sagittarius and stuff [00:28:13] Ashley: Look it’s the it’s the feminine version of putting on a football jersey. [00:28:17] Burnie: What, what, what is the guy version [00:28:18] Ashley: joining. It’s joining your team, bro [00:28:20] Burnie: But what is it? What is the guy version of that word? But if you see a guy in a football jersey, do you go like, [00:28:24] Ashley: No, no, I’m just like, you [00:28:26] Burnie: what’s the guy version of [00:28:27] Ashley: that nerd The guy version of let’s see I’m gonna say the guy version of that is is maybe not like a birth thing so much but you have your hmm [00:28:40] Burnie: We’re in a weird household though, because there are many households where if the wife or girlfriend, here’s the console startup sound, they get very upset, [00:28:49] Ashley: know what’s going on. [00:28:51] Burnie: right? Exactly. Like when you, you pop in and go, what’s going on, what’s happening here? What do you, what do you, what do you got? Mass Effect run, [00:28:56] Ashley: look at that, you made [00:28:57] Burnie: There are some people in this world when they hear that Playstation startup sound, they go,And they hate it, for whatever reason.
[00:29:04] Ashley: that’s just the, that’s just the, you get the, the guys who play the video games all just need to hook up with the girls who read the books.That’s right. That’s the way that goes. And that way everyone is happy.
[00:29:15] Burnie: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that’s, you know, do you consider an iPhone to be a bookbecause a lot of people are reading those all day long, but still, when they hear that startup
[00:29:23] Ashley: Those that got a kindle app, they can be a [00:29:26] Burnie: their PlayStation has mercury all right. Well, we want to hear your nominations for most interesting story of the year that does it for us today.December 3rd, 2024.
We will be back to talk to you tomorrow. We hope you will be here as well.
[00:29:42] Ashley: Bye everybody.