Drop: Office Prices Never Been Lower
[00:00:00] Burnie: Good morning to you wherever you are because it is for December 4th, 2024. My name is Burnie Burns sitting right over there. She’s not allowed to mess up the intro anymore. Say hi to Ashley. Everybody. It’s ash, shh, shh,
[00:00:27] Ashley: been banned.
[00:00:29] Burnie: No, it was just, we got it. We got off the rails yesterday, right out of the gate.
So thank you to everybody for your.
Submissions for most interesting story of the year or most memorable story of the year. We will be compiling those and we will have Friday and then we’ll be talking about the winner of the most interesting story of 2024 on Monday. We’ll be talking about that.
How you doing over there?
[00:00:51] Ashley: you know, I’m hanging in there. Are you? Yeah, it’s a, look, it’s a, it’s a Wednesday. We’re right at the peak of the week. What’s not to love?
[00:00:58] Burnie: is not to love, Ashley? What is not
[00:00:59] Ashley: What is not to
[00:01:01] Burnie: How are you doing? We’ve had, uh, our baby has been going through a little bit of, uh, what they call a sleep regression, which means all the adults are going through a sleep regression as well.
[00:01:11] Ashley: And she’s just decided that sleep is a thing that she doesn’t believe
[00:01:14] Burnie: Can we call her the baby anymore? She’s two.
[00:01:15] Ashley: She’s still the We called Finn the baby until he was like four,
[00:01:20] Burnie: Oh, and speaking of that, um, we should give a shout out to a friend of ours, Olga K.
Recently welcomed her baby boy. To the world.
so exciting.
[00:01:29] Ashley: I love seeing like wrinkly little babies when they’re all just like tiny little sleepy potatoes It’s just a very special time and it doesn’t last very long right like in
[00:01:39] Burnie: It goes by in a
[00:01:39] Ashley: you look at the the size of a human’s life the whole stretch and being a wrinkly little potato is like you Got a month
[00:01:46] Burnie: You’re also as a parent, you’re not allowed to remember I’ve been through it four times. You’re not allowed. Your brain goes, we’re gonna eject this for everyone’s protection. We’re not gonna have you remember how
hard
[00:01:58] Ashley: going to It is a very specific evolutionary trend. All of it to
[00:02:08] Burnie: a very specific evolutionary
[00:02:10] Ashley: hard it was.
[00:02:12] Burnie: parents who remembered how hard it was, decided not to have any more kids, so they all died
[00:02:17] Ashley: just so they all
[00:02:18] Burnie: Yeah, it is. It is. They’re all
[00:02:19] Ashley: Yeah,
[00:02:20] Burnie: And everyone who has this weird quality of just like, I don’t even really remember that. I remember it was kinda hard, but not really,
[00:02:25] Ashley: just remember the good stuff.
[00:02:25] Burnie: We should do it again.
[00:02:27] Ashley: the smell of the little baby head? That was nice. Let’s do that again.
[00:02:30] Burnie: She still has a little baby head smell. She lets me brush her hair,
[00:02:33] Ashley: It is very, very sweet. Um, but yeah, so as a result, we’re, uh, we’re, you may be able to tell, uh, the last couple days were a little bit frazzled,
[00:02:42] Burnie: Not me,
[00:02:43] Ashley: and our brains don’t work
[00:02:44] Burnie: I’m on all
[00:02:45] Ashley: okay, my brain doesn’t work properly.
[00:02:47] Burnie: noticed our 20 minute show is becoming a 25, 26 minute show. On a regular
[00:02:51] Ashley: I’ll look I’ll try and keep it to keep it short today, but I do actually have something to talk about. It’s very timely We’ve been covering with bated breath the progress of wicked at the box office I’m gonna see what kind of legs it’s got and if it’s gonna get in the top 10 Burnie I am happy to announce that I am one of those legs
[00:03:08] Burnie: Are you?
[00:03:09] Ashley: Yep, well you knew this.
I went to, I went to see it in the theater. I took myself out for a little self date, uh, and went to see it. Uh, and I really All the good stuff that everyone is saying about it, they’re spot on. It’s really, it’s charming, it’s fun. It knows it’s a musical and it doesn’t try to not be a musical.
[00:03:29] Burnie: an original musical? It’s not a jukebox musical?
[00:03:32] Ashley: It is an original musical. It’s a Broadway adaptation. So, uh, it has all the power of a Broadway adaptation, but it’s not, like, weird in the way that, like, Cats is weird.
[00:03:42] Burnie: It’s not weird in the way that all of their press interviews are weird? Have you seen some of that
[00:03:45] Ashley: I have seen some of their bizarro press interviews and I, I don’t understand that. I guess they’re going for whimsy. Um,
[00:03:52] Burnie: Can I just ask a question really quickly? And this will probably get me in trouble. I’m just kind of curious. Are we now, are we back around to super skinny? Like that’s, we’re back to that?
[00:04:01] Ashley: I’m not sure. I They’re both, they’re, they’re both very, um, thin, uh, in the, the press interviews. I don’t know if this is a, a new thing that’s come back around, or if they’re just that le, you know, that level of fit that some dancers can get, that it’s like they’re all like suny like muscle and there’s just, there’s nothing spare because they spend all day dancing.
Yeah, it’s it’s uh, you know, there there’s a level of fit that has
[00:04:29] Burnie: need to go back to that body type? Because I’m, a little bit behind at the moment.
He’s
[00:04:36] Ashley: trying to get a little svelte, I don’t know but uh,
[00:04:38] Burnie: So let me, let me
[00:04:39] Ashley: they look great in the movie though.
[00:04:41] Burnie: Setting the stage. Well, that’s the thing about the camera, right? Is that it does like, help when you have like, a little bit less meat on your bones. It’s just the way it works. You yourself though, had you consumed Wicked before, had you seen it in the theater, soundtrack, things like that, where you were into it already?
[00:04:58] Ashley: uh, many, many years ago I read the book that, uh, that the Broadway adaptation was based on. Uh, and then I saw the musical in Sydney. So I didn’t see like a Broadway presentation of it or anything, but I did see it in musical form, uh, with all of its like absolute banger songs.
And it was fun. I enjoyed it.
[00:05:20] Burnie: it. Is the Gravity song, is that a Wicked song? Okay,
[00:05:23] Ashley: Yeah. So the, the, you’ll be hearing, um, a couple of songs going around a lot right now that define Gravity. One is like the crescendo of this particular movie arc. So this, uh, the movie covers everything up to intermission of the musical itself.
Uh, and then all post intermission is gonna be the, the next movie, which is, I don’t know when they’re planning on putting it out. I assume they’ll try to get it out. Next year, maybe as quickly as they can to really capitalize on the momentum that this has had
[00:05:52] Burnie: be called? Well, cause they left the part one off of this one.
[00:05:58] Ashley: They they
[00:05:59] Burnie: feel like a part one to you?
[00:06:00] Ashley: um the the like opening, um when they put the opening title it does say part one They’re just like they’re yeah, they’re just leaving it off the posters
[00:06:08] Burnie: You can’t bitch, we told you.
[00:06:10] Ashley: No, it um, it feels like uh the first You Entry in a duology, right?
So it does
tell a
[00:06:17] Burnie: a word. Go ahead.
[00:06:18] Ashley: It is it is it is absolutely a word. It’s just a duology. Yes
[00:06:22] Burnie: I believe the word is Pair. That’s what I believe the word is. I have a duology of pants. You know,
[00:06:32] Ashley: I put in my duologies, uh, just like everyone else
[00:06:35] Burnie: Wh While I’m being a killjoy nitpick, I do have to point out something that someone on our subreddit pointed out. Which is, we keep talking about Wicked. That it could be the thing that breaks the year of the sequel. That this is a new original thing. But it’s kinda not. It is based on The Wizard of Oz.
[00:06:56] Ashley: is, but it’s a very grey area, because it’s like someone wrote a fanfiction of The Wizard of
[00:07:00] Burnie: green. Are you colorblind? What’s going on over there? You said it’s gray, right? I
[00:07:04] Ashley: Oh,
sorry. Again, frazzled.
Uh, so,
[00:07:08] Burnie: Ashley
[00:07:09] Ashley: it’s Technicolor even. Um, so, it’s like someone wrote a fanfiction, um, in the Wizard of Oz universe, right? Uh, and then someone took that and then made a musical fanfiction of that fanfiction. And then someone took that fanfiction and said, what if we made a movie of it? So, yeah. While, yes, you could say that it’s a sequel, I would argue that it’s more of a prequel.
Um,
[00:07:33] Burnie: yeah. But prequel qualify in this discussion of year of the sequel. Like it’s a year of the quil.
[00:07:38] Ashley: That, yes, that, that is, that is
[00:07:40] Burnie: is true. What’s the
[00:07:40] Ashley: uh, uh, Ha ha ha ha ha ha! It’s,
[00:07:44] Burnie: Let’s let’s go like it is though too.
[00:07:45] Ashley: which order the train comes in, but it’s,
[00:07:46] Burnie: Prequels are also statistically almost always worse than sequels.
[00:07:51] Ashley: Yes, that is very true.
[00:07:52] Burnie: something weird about prequels.
Like you know where it ends up.
[00:07:55] Ashley: not, it’s not weird. We know why they’re weird, and it’s because they have only so much wiggle room, because you know how it has to end in order to get to the original material. And that takes a lot of freedom off the table. Right. So, uh, but this, I would say, um,
I’m gonna give it a pass because it’s so many steps removed from the Wizard of Oz.
It’s not like a sanctioned canon entry in any
way.
[00:08:21] Burnie: of Oz. It’s
[00:08:26] Ashley: it is worth noting.
[00:08:28] Burnie: like
Ascension,
[00:08:31] Ashley: treat it is very original.
[00:08:33] Burnie: anything, in any way. Well, they’ve done Moon Knight. I’m trying to think of a character they haven’t done.
Like Rom, Rom the Space Knight. If they had a Rom the Space Knight movie, Yeah, it’s based on the Marvel Universe, but this is a new thing. This would be an original movie. It wouldn’t be a sequel if Rom the Space Knight was Wicked is the Rom the Space Knight
[00:08:57] Ashley: all right, we’ll just go with that one, but it is really nice. The,
[00:09:00] Burnie: to think of a character from the MCU
[00:09:01] Ashley: the, they haven’t put in yet. Um, but the, the music is fantastic. Um, the, the acting is all great. You’re going to love this for me. Um, because your current SNL fave Bowen Yang
[00:09:12] Burnie: Just called the comic book universe DMC you by the way Which is making someone in the audience like crumple into a ball right
[00:09:18] Ashley: that’s, that’s, that’s all right. You buddy, you’re going to get through
[00:09:21] Burnie: We’re working by the seat of our
[00:09:22] Ashley: ask you
[00:09:23] Burnie: before we get too far away from wicked Can I talk about something weird about wicked? We talked about the weird warnings that UK gives to some of their movies.
The UK has the weirdest warning for wicked that I’ve ever seen attributed to any major film. Ashley, do you have that there in front of you?
[00:09:40] Ashley: Ashley, do you have that there in front of you? While you’re
[00:09:46] Burnie: While you’re looking it up really quickly, the headlines that I’ve seen have all said there’s warnings for the movie wicked. Because it features a character with green skin.
[00:09:57] Ashley: Yes, it’s specifically they call it like
[00:10:00] Burnie: is that a warning
[00:10:01] Ashley: well, it’s the look a lot of the stuff in the movie is very much an allegory It’s like CS Lewis would love this shit, right? There’s talking animals, you know Like fantastical races that stand in for like real world issues so one of them is that uh There is the main character, Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, is treated in a discriminatory manner.
So, which could be triggering for people either on a like religious or racial basis. Right, so they’re kind of pulling that out. But also like, um, talking animals are treated in like a, uh, in like an unfair discriminatory manner. Uh, and there’s also, there’s an interesting one, there’s a character, um, one of the characters is, is in a wheelchair, and so there’s a trigger warning that, uh, she’s treated in a condescending manner by able bodied people, because someone, like, tries to, like, push her chair, and they try to, like, take care of her too much.
[00:10:53] Burnie: Oh, I see.
[00:10:53] Ashley: Um, you know, and so, there’s, it’s stuff like that, which is, like, very, they, they feel, like, very strange warnings that kind of make sense in context because they’re allegories for real stuff, but, like, discrimination against green people. Just as like of a base warning with no idea what that means you go
[00:11:12] Burnie: just adds like a, a base warning with no idea what that
[00:11:24] Ashley: Yeah, so it’s like in context you’re like, okay, I kind of makes sense but it’s also interestingly
[00:11:31] Burnie: say that, um, but it’s also
[00:11:36] Ashley: Right, which is like, what’s that mean? So it doesn’t actually have strong language, but what makes you think a bad word and
[00:11:43] Burnie: but it works.
[00:11:46] Ashley: Ha ha ha ha
[00:11:52] Burnie: I’m okay with warnings. I’m a trigger warnings, all that stuff. I’m totally fine with it. Some people get really incensed about it when they see it. I give people choices of what they want to expose themselves to or not. I’m totally fine with that. The only time I ever had a problem with it was when you put the warning and the people go and get upset about it being in the movie, you know what I mean?
It’s like there, there was a warning that it was
[00:12:08] Ashley: uh, CFDs, they have a Thalassophobia
[00:12:20] Burnie: It’s a, like the game I play. Um, Sea of Thieves, they have a Thassilophobia setting to where Yeah for people who don’t like deep water And I never thought yeah that game is like by the way that game is 10 years old and still I mean, It’s not 10 years Yeah, the
[00:12:39] Ashley: Um, but speaking of, the movie looks great. It does something I really like, which is, Um, so you watched the Hamilton musical on Disney, right? When it
[00:12:48] Burnie: I had no exposure to it before that and I loved it
[00:12:50] Ashley: So what that was is, uh, very much a recording of a stage performance, right? So it’s, um, they can do closeups and there’s some things they can do, but it’s still a stage performance.
This took what felt like, um, all the bones of the musical. And it’s very, very true. There’s even like almost the entire script is there just with a couple like word changes here and there. Uh, and so it’s still very, very much the musical, but they went. What can we do with camera angles that you can’t do with a stage show?
So there’s a lot of really great close ups that let you get a much more nuanced idea of like what the characters are thinking or reacting to that you can’t necessarily get from when you’re at stage distance. Uh, the cinematography is stunning. The sets are almost all practical and absolutely lush.
Burnie, they are
[00:13:37] Burnie: practical, and absolutely lush. I’m burning here. Lush. I love it. I love that just like, I start singing and automatically
[00:13:55] Ashley: love it. I love that. Just like everyone in the world can just like start singing and automatically dance together. And that’s just, that’s part of the beauty of this world that does not
[00:14:05] Burnie: of the beauty of it. It does nothing to it. Uh, let’s see. Um, Moulin Rouge.
[00:14:16] Ashley: Uh, let’s see. Um, Chicago. Chicago. Chicago.
Moulin Rouge, Moulin Rouge is
[00:14:22] Burnie: what
[00:14:23] Ashley: and now that one is jukebox.
It is it is a great musical. I love it
[00:14:27] Burnie: a great movie. Well,
[00:14:33] Ashley: then then maybe you’ll like this one because everyone is saying it’s such a departure from the first one that you know,
[00:14:38] Burnie: one. Because you’re saying it’s such a departure
[00:14:46] Ashley: Yeah, that’s whatever
[00:14:47] Burnie: what? I’m sure it
[00:14:51] Ashley: I’m sure it does and, uh, and, uh, and someone in, uh, in visitation can, uh, can let us know what that’s actually called.
[00:15:03] Burnie: we really
[00:15:03] Ashley: that’s where he really was when he was off social media.
[00:15:05] Burnie: went. Um, I will tell you, the issues
[00:15:11] Ashley: um, I will tell you there’s, I have one nitpick because I feel like I have to find one. Um, and it’s, it ties into what you, the issue you sometimes have with prequels. Um, and this is, if you had an issue with the, in the, the Solo, the Han Solo movie, if you had an issue with the sequence where he gets his last name, like they had to include every little detail, every little detail of how you got, uh, like things in the world later on, and they all happened in a 24 hour period, and they were all happened on screen, um, that is very much the case in this movie.
Like, how did this, down to like, how is the road yellow? I don’t know. Why is the yellow
[00:15:51] Burnie: there gamma? Like, every little detail is, like, very much the case.
[00:15:58] Ashley: yeah, like, like every little, little, little detail is like very much in
[00:16:03] Burnie: It’s pretty common though, like you, you know, you were just talking about Solo, which I was totally fine with, by the way. Um, you know, there was, the egregious examples were like in the prequels, like, why did Anakin Skywalker have to be the person who built C 3PO? That just, and then they didn’t remember him?
It just like, opens up all these questions you didn’t need. Like, what were you achieving by doing that? Anyway, besides it was just like, oh, that’s interesting. That’s not enough to like, unravel entire plot holes for the original trilogy. But, uh, I just saw transformers one and they did a lot of what you’re talking about as well.
Like, how did this person get their name? How did they get their logo? Like, what’s the lore behind this? You know, what’s the motivation behind the name Autobots and things like that. And it’s, uh, I liked the way they did it in
[00:16:41] Ashley: the way you did it in Transformers.
The whole thing was so charming and so good that I will forgive it just about
[00:16:54] Burnie: Alright, well, we’re talking a lot about what’s going on in the, uh, entertainment world. Got anything else to talk about? Ashley’s in the process of getting a new laptop. I have gotten so frustrated watching her, like, try to turn this laptop on. I’ve now suggested to her that she just, like, turn off the power settings on it so it just stays
[00:17:09] Ashley: it never turns itself off.
[00:17:11] Burnie: it just goes to screen saver mode, but doesn’t, like, go to sleep. Because watching you try to wake that thing up is like It’s like when you’re trying to wake up a teenager. It’s like, get up, get up, get up,
[00:17:20] Ashley: and you’re like, get up, get up, get up. They’re, uh, they’re trying to get Hulk to sleep, and then go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep,
[00:17:30] Burnie: Oh, that’s the Hulk buster scene. Yeah.
[00:17:32] Ashley: um, it’s like that, except I want to go wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up.
I’m just like sitting there, hitting it, going wake up, wake up, wake
[00:17:39] Burnie: You know, we were talking about what our favorite MCU movies are of all time. You and I were just randomly talking about this in the car. Yours was civil war.
[00:17:46] Ashley: Civil War is up there. Civil War does a lot of things really, really
[00:17:49] Burnie: I would like to just point out, by the way, we had this conversation. You did not ask me what my favorite What was it? What’d I
[00:17:54] Ashley: You didn’t answer.
[00:17:55] Burnie: Oh, please. Get out of here. It’s Infinity War, by the way. Uh, but, Ultron has become, Age of Ultron, Avengers 2, has slowly become more important to me. Like, I really liked it.
The first Avengers does not hold up. We also just saw Babe, the original Babe,
[00:18:11] Ashley: No, not Babe Pig in the City. Oh, yeah, no, just, yeah, Babe, it’s like Babe,
[00:18:14] Burnie: The talking pig. A lot of that stuff does not hold up. That looks like Puron robots. It looks like the Hall of
[00:18:20] Ashley: hold up. Very beloved movie. So, uh, yeah,
[00:18:22] Burnie: But a very beloved movie. We like to, we watch it, but yeah, it didn’t hold up.
So, uh, yeah, we, uh, I, you know, Ultron’s really starting to, to really pick up for me a little bit. I was going somewhere for this, but now I’ve lost the thread
entirely.
[00:18:32] Ashley: to just, just saying that, you know, it was, uh, it was stronger than, uh, than it necessarily seemed when it came out.
[00:18:37] Burnie: Yeah. And, uh, yeah. So, um, I was going to say though, going back around to just you buying your new laptop, everyone’s been talking about inflation, right? There’s a weird protection that people in our demographic have for nerdy people. Computers are pretty much the exact same price they’ve been for like 40 years.
[00:18:57] Ashley: That’s happened with a lot of things. So, uh, uh, but
[00:18:58] Burnie: Like if you want a laptop, a laptop is between 1, 500 and 2, 000. And it has been for ever. That’s it. Your new laptop is going to cost just under
[00:19:09] Ashley: Cameron and Ryan like put like games on it and stuff like that. You can get ones that are
[00:19:17] Burnie: And we’re not buying like, like we looked at, he’s like tricked it out. We can play like, like games on it and stuff like that. You can get ones that are up to like 3, 500, but those laptops have always existed, right? The, those like high end, like more expensive than a desktop. But yeah, laptops have been like the same price for 25 years
[00:19:34] Ashley: A lot of the stuff that, that we get involved with has been, uh, like consoles have stayed, I mean they’ve crept up a little bit, but not like the prices of most things have
[00:19:44] Burnie: And like, games have gone up, what, about 15 percent in 20 years? Like, because they went from 50 a console game to 60? Now I guess they like, have these additions that I’m a stupid idiot and I buy sometimes that are
[00:19:57] Ashley: time ago. Ha ha ha ha ha! And
[00:19:59] Burnie: well, how do I know if I’m gonna not need that fucking baseball bat or whatever the fuck it is, you
[00:20:03] Ashley: But it’s such a pretty baseball bat, Burnie.
[00:20:05] Burnie: What do you consider to be the ultimate like, pre order bonus of all time? What’s the one that sticks in your head? For me, it’s the baseball bat from Left 4 Dead 2, which is why I said baseball bat.
[00:20:15] Ashley: I’ve gotta, I’ve gotta separate in my mind, um, like, uh, like special editions, cause I have a, um, one of my favorites is the, the Homeworld remaster. I got the special edition that actually had the mothership as like a figure, and that’s one of the, the few physical game things that I’ve kept and moved here.
Most
[00:20:34] Burnie: I know, it was such a sad day, the day that got thrown away. I feel so bad.
[00:20:37] Ashley: what? It’s, I still have it. What?
[00:20:40] Burnie: Well, I’m just kidding. I’m
just kidding.
[00:20:42] Ashley: just kidding.
[00:20:44] Burnie: I remember the baseball bat because we did a commercial, uh, for Left 4 Dead 2. It’s one of the ones that I worked on. I tried to not work on those too much because they were just like,
I
always hated when we did the commercials, to be honest with you.
I feel like now I can say stuff, you know, because it’s not gonna affect anybody. You It was always just like, we were, we had our own productions to make, and once we like, hired out to work for the people, Every time that phone rang, everybody jumped, it’s like, why aren’t we jumping for, like, our own phone ringing?
You know what I mean? Like, for us, our demands on what we should be making,
[00:21:12] Ashley: Our demands, I had what we had to say.
We, we, one
[00:21:15] Burnie: We, we, one time, we got a spot, it was 30 seconds, uh, and actually between, because they put titles at the beginning and the end, It was actually like, 24 seconds that we were responsible for,
On a 24 second video piece, we got 38 notes. Like, how is that even, how, on one version of it that we turned in, how is that even possible?
[00:21:35] Ashley: is that even possible? No, no,
[00:21:37] Burnie: No, no, no, that was the Mortal
[00:21:38] Ashley: a long time ago.
[00:21:39] Burnie: And then she gets burned to
[00:21:40] Ashley: that. So that was
[00:21:42] Burnie: Yeah, but I remember that. So that was there during our, uh, left for dead. We did the GameStop. If you pre order from GameStop, you’ve got the baseball bat that you could use and it didn’t make any difference.
But I just remember that because I felt like, is that going to matter? We like, you’re going to tell me if that’s going to give me some kind of bonus or something like that, but it was really just a hearkening back to our marketing ad filled marketing slut
[00:22:03] Ashley: Marketing, ad field, and the selectors. For our
[00:22:10] Burnie: for our stuff. Sure. Sure. Sure. Why not? So, uh, a long debate. Ashley and I’ve had for a long time. And if you remember the patron, you’ve heard us talk about Probably heard us mentioned it a few times. Uh, we have decided we’re not going to put ads We’re not going to, we might at some point get like host read ads.
I don’t know what
[00:22:26] Ashley: Yeah. I’m, I’m gonna, and I’m gonna caveat that with, at this time, because,
[00:22:30] Burnie: We keep saying at this time,
[00:22:31] Ashley: well,
[00:22:32] Burnie: for the foreseeable future.
[00:22:34] Ashley: We, we’ve, we’ve done some evaluations, um, and we’ve just decided that, that, that we, we prefer not to do ads.
Um, and thanks to the support of everyone on Patreon, we are in, um, a comfortable enough place with the production that we don’t. Need to, to keep the lights on.
[00:22:51] Burnie: And this is not to take away from anybody who does put ads. We admire anybody’s effort as a creator to go out and make a living doing this stuff. It’s just for us at some points like, yes, you can always make more money. But we do this show because we want people to enjoy it. We want people to have a fun morning.
And just, we just, we’re not interested in doing it. In fact, Spotify placed ads on one of our episodes. So if you want And we actually got to hear it. It was an error that Spotify had that one of our, uh, listeners had an article that they did and said this, this episode had them on there, uh, a pre roll ad.
[00:23:22] Ashley: And yeah, you know and it just it wasn’t the experience that that we like and so we’re we just decided not to do
[00:23:28] Burnie: Yeah. So that’s, that’s the big update is that we’re just not going to be putting ads on. And we want to say thank you to everyone. Who does make this podcast possible through the patreon? Um your support really does mean the world and it makes it available for everybody else and we thank you very much
[00:23:44] Ashley: one thing that we have been working on that we do want to do, and that we do finally have, um, all set up and ready to go is our online store.
So, if
[00:23:53] Burnie: I wanted a new coffee
[00:23:54] Ashley: do coffee without that. I know, but I felt like having like an online store with like one thing was
[00:24:00] Burnie: mean, I wanted a coffee cup for me. I
[00:24:02] Ashley: coffee shop for me.
[00:24:03] Burnie: And instead of we looked at sourcing it now now we’re doing merch. So yeah, so
[00:24:07] Ashley: So we have, um, if you go to, uh, to our website, morningsomewhere. com, you will see a shop tab, uh, and you can go to the shop, uh, and you can buy, we, we don’t have a lot of stuff in there at the moment.
Um, we’re being slow and very deliberate about it because, uh, we’re trying to make sure that all the stuff we put in there, uh, we, Like, you know, we feel good about the quality of, and a lot of it is things like it’s steel water bottles or like reusable coffee tumblers and things like that, um, where they’re, the idea is to be reusable and, um, and help, help in the war on the planet, really.
[00:24:40] Burnie: Get we have to Defeat the planet!
all right, and there’ll be a point in time where we ask you. You know is you know, you know Let’s not doing ads is a very conscious decision. Like I said, yes, we could be making more money do it But we decided not to do it. There may be a point in time Very near in the future as we coming on a first anniversary where we’re We just ask a fair review or we ask you to share the show with somebody, but we’ll ask that on a specific day.
We’ll set a date for when we want to do that kind of like effort to get the show out to
[00:25:07] Ashley: to get the show out to more people. Alright, well, Ashley, who are the people we
[00:25:12] Burnie: All right. Well, Ashley, who are the people we especially want to thank today for their support of the morning somewhere podcast via the morning somewhere patreon at patreon. com. Slash morning somewhere.
[00:25:21] Ashley: Uh,
today we are thanking Armando Cruz and Andy Pandy. Thank you both for sponsoring this episode of our show on patreon.com/morning somewhere.
[00:25:29] Burnie: to get in a rush and maybe get something in time for Christmas. We’re trying to figure out the shipping dates right now. I want to check out the Morning Somewhere store. Just go to MorningSomewhere. com and you will see the links on it there. All right. Well, that does it for us today, December 4th, 2024. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well.
[00:25:46] Ashley: everybody.