2025.10.23: Saving Your Place

Gonna sit down so when I poo I can also peep

morning to you wherever you are because it is morning somewhere for October 23rd of 2025. My name is Bernie Burns.
Apparently everyone says hi to her. So I say hi today.
It's Ashley. Say hi to Ashley.

What was that?

Is that drop like guys figuring out what it's like to be a girl all the time? I don't know what. No, I don't know what the device is.
Like, you don't automatically

pee and poop at the same time. That's weird for me to think about.
No, that's, that's, I think he was just doing that because he was playing Funky Town and he was wanting that vibrato effect.

But is that what it's called? Vibrato?

Whatever. I'm not a music person.

You can't overanalyze the lore there, Ashley. It's just the lyric isn't.
But it is a thing that I now think about. It's like, you don't normally like poop and pee at the same time.
Yes, we do.

What are you talking about? Do you? How are we in this conversation right away on a Thursday? I guess it's my fault for the drop.

The drop. No, yeah, absolutely.
What do you mean? What are you like? Birds? Well, no, I mean, I guess, okay, fine. Yeah.
I mean, that's how ladies are, right? They're all birds down there.

Like, it's all out of the same hole.

Yeah, that's how.

That is how female anatomy works. Hey, so I want to follow up on what we were talking about with the saying hello to Ashley.

So I had a heartwarming post on our subreddit, and it came from, I can never read anyone's name, so I'm going to try to get this right. It's PCJ Fro.
I think that's what it's all right. PCJ Fro.

So he posted actually from, I'm guessing from his dash cam. I'm going to reveal something here in a second.
Got myself. PCJ Fro.
And it was him listening to the intro from yesterday's podcast.

And when I called out people for not saying hi to Ashley, he said hi, Ashley. And it's perfect timing.
You posted a video of it.

Him saying hi to you, you saying hi back, and then me going, I bet there's some guy in his car right right now going, hi, Ashley.

And I actually did a pretty good impression of him, I thought. But he had this thing.
So this is some idea.

Before I mention anyone's name on the podcast, especially if it's from like a Reddit post, especially Reddit, especially Reddit.

I think that's kind of like, in itself, an endorsement in kind of a way. It's not at all, but it can feel like it sometimes.
So I always click just to make sure. Click on someone's profile.

Just a little, just a little, I'm not like going Snoopy Snoop. I'm just taking a look real quick.
And actually, I'll give him a little Snoopy Snoop. He had something on his.
Tiny Snoopy Snoop.

He He had something on his dashboard. I was like, what is that? On his dashboard? The dash cam? Yeah, no, I was doing, well, the dash cam film itself, I don't think.
But

I did that thing where I noticed a thing in the background, you know? And so I thought, what is this thing on his dashboard? I went and looked, and I was hoping

it was what it was, and that he's into amateur radio, like ham radio. I think, I think.
But like I said, didn't snoop too much, just looked.

Right, but you also did the thing where you looked in the background. I did the cursory check, like profile looked and all that stuff.

I didn't like doxim or anything like that so i i'm still it's still noble uh yeah but i've always wanted to get into like ham radio like amateur radio but i just don't have the time i feel like you got to dedicate so much time to that like you got to go get like crystals and frequencies and something yeah i feel like there's antennas like i have an antenna there's probably a middle-aged lady that we can hook you up with who's going to have crystals for you hell right and then i can just use those she's going to be like well that depends what kind of vibes do you want in your ham radio but that's how they get you though isn't it and then how they put you back on the grid

Yeah, that's how they find you. That's the other thing I found out from

our audience yesterday. This is a quick community roundup.
Apparently, a lot of people in our community have these eight sleep pods, and they were they went to bat for them.

They said that these things are great and that they are expensive, but that if you can afford one, it's a third of your life and all that other stuff. That they actually wake up rested now.

Okay, so here's a question. I know.

Um, so we're learning about this thing because basically it had a catastrophic failure during a tech outage, yes, in in which people could not adjust, Bernie, the temperature of their pets.

Do you think you could just unplug it? Well, no. Just do hot, can you just unplug it? One of our users, whose name I don't have, I haven't done my due diligence to check out their profile.

They said that there was a notification from the company, actually, that they are working around the clock now. to have an offline mode for their pet.

Maybe they can connect via Bluetooth. When we like created all these tethers to the digital world, I didn't think we realized that like all at once we were going to be working to undo those tethers.

Isn't it weird? It is weird, but it's also to be expected, I guess, when you go like, oh, yeah, now I see how that could be a problem. So here's the big question, Bernie.
Have you bought one yet? No.

I know we're learning about it via this like this failure, but then you hear all these people talking about it. And I know that you like a cool bed.
When we lived in Austin, you had this thing.

It was called the bed jet. And I feel like it's the, you know, like

the earlier iteration on the concept of

managing your bed temperature, right? But it did it via airflow where you had like a special sheet with like holes in it or something.

And then there was this machine that would live like under your bed with this enormous like hose pipe, like an AC vent.

It's a fan. Like you're describing a fan.

You know, when you're a kid and you take the box fan, which by the way, they don't have here in the UK for some reason, the square box fan fan that you can get at Home Depot, as long as you go at the right time of year to buy it.

Like sometimes a year, it's like you're out of luck.

Why would you want a fan right now? Or too late, you tried to buy one in June. Everyone's already bought their box fan.
Right.

Well, or it's like, I'm sorry, we changed that section over to Christmas decorations now. So you're going to need to wait until March.

There's like four things in the United States commercial market that are seasonal. That's one of them.
Like there are not many things that are seasonal. There's a lot of things here that are seasonal.

You get kind of jaded living in the U.S. You can always have access to something.
Box fans for whatever are seasonal. By the way, I've seen pictures.
Go ahead.

If your favorite seasonal thing, Shiner Cheer Beer, is back on the shelves.

I know. So good.
And it's so good. It's back on the shelves, and I can't have it.
So I don't want to talk about it.

And I don't want to think about it because I don't think I'm going to be able to get any this year. You can

comfort yourself with your four-pound bag of Reese's pieces that JD brought over.

Actually, no, I'm sorry. I did the math.
I think it's three pounds. I think it's three pounds.
Oh, it is, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, because

it's 48 ounces, but it takes 16 ounces to make a pound. So it's really,

does that make it less sinful? It's the same number of ounces. No, not like, because you need it like a handful at a time.
I did look at it, though. We should do the math on it.

Like, just look at the calories or the cake calories.

Absolutely not. I will, I refuse to do that math.
I feel like.

I feel like looking at that now three-pound bag, I feel like if I ate that three pound bag like if i just took a day dedicated myself buckled down

ate three

really showed discipline yeah real discipline in my life and i ate three pounds of reese's pieces in a day i feel like i would gain more than three pounds doing that right

but that violates like the law of conservation of matter and energy right that shouldn't be the case i always wonder that right like when i eat something and i'm like god this is this is gonna stick with me for a million years like i know like this it's gonna i'm gonna gain way more than this handful from just eating the same thing.

But like, it can't do it, but it must do it. I don't know how it do it.
Yeah. Well, like, how does it add more weight to my body than it in itself?

Especially because there's no way I can absorb 100% of it. Or does it? Like, does it is that thing? I've always wondered, why isn't there a diet plan where you just weigh your food?

Like, you can eat two pounds of food a day. of whatever.
Like you will burn this amount of mass of food. Okay, first of all, no one does that because that's 7,000 calories.

And I also want to say to the science nerds out there, I know the pounds are weight, not mass.

You understand what I'm saying here. You understand what I'm saying.

This is not a diet plan for Mars, right?

We're not near Earth orbit trying to lose a couple.

So the other thing I want to point out too is I had another very friendly message on the subreddit. This is from Kebab Good.

Case Bernie wasn't aware, the next Babaverse book, The Infinite Extent, is finished. It should be coming in a couple of months.
This is a weird one because it is an audible-only audiobook.

So it's only an audiobook. Like, it's not a book.
It is only an audiobook via Audible. I put my only in the wrong place in that sentence.
It's audiobook only.

You can add a lot of onlys. It is only an audiobook only on Audible.
That is correct. That is correct.

So are you going to,

I was want to say, listen to it.

I was going to say read it, but not. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
It's, it's, yes, I will, I will definitely listen to it. I'm not going to be rushing to do it.

I felt like the, I don't even know, is I'm on the fourth book of the third book. I've read all of them, but the last two were very similar to me.

I felt like, I felt like all the beats in the story were very similar.

And it is a series that I'm cautious about because we've talked about it before, but I feel like I've always made caveats when we talk about it.

Like, even when I was talking with Jeff Ramsey about a book, because he was talking about something about like, you know, uploading consciousness to a, you know, mainframe somewhere or something like that.

Okay. Yeah.
And as I said, you might want to check this out. It'd be like this book.
But asterisk, it's like, you have to like really like Ready Player One. That's the closest thing I could say.

If you like Ready Player One or you can tolerate Ready Player One and all the pop culture stuff in it, then you can enjoy Bobbaverse, I think.

So yes, I will absolutely listen to it because I'm pop committed at this point. Like I would never say like if the Game of Thrones books finally came out, I wouldn't go, well, I'm not reading those.

Of course, I'm going to read them.

But yeah, it's kind of thing where I'm looking forward to it. I will definitely read it, and

I read the first one, you'll know if you're interested in the series or not. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I fell off the first one, it was, I'm not sure what it was lacking that I was looking for subconsciously at the time, um, but I kind of fell off it.

I'm not, I got, I got into, well, I don't even want to say because you know, it's like, I guess, mid-book spoilers, uh, but it was, it was fine, it was perfectly good.

I liked the narrator, uh, I like the concept. The some of the pop culture references were a little little bit eye-rolly for me personally, but that's nothing new.

I feel like when you go into pop culture references, that's going to happen with everyone. Like everyone will be on a spectrum of how much they adore it or tolerate it or don't like it at all.

And there was some eye-rolling, but mostly I could handle it. So I'm not sure why I fell off.
Yeah. So if you've read the series,

she fell off at the Archimedes thing and monitoring Archimedes. That monitoring.

of Archimedes just changed the name of Archimedes and that monitoring is why it's a common thread through the rest of the books. Okay, yeah, so maybe it's just not for me.
Is he in the first one?

Yeah, he's in the first one. Okay.
Okay.

That's We Are Legion? That's the first one? Yeah, that's where I'm at. I guess you would know if you were at the beginning of it.

It starts in a very specific way.

You would know if you're at the beginning of it. I feel like I lost so many details.
Actually, that has happened to me before.

When I first started watching Downton Abbey, I must have just put on the first episode of like a later season or something.

And I was like, they just throw you right in the deep end on this one, one, don't they? I have no idea what's going on.

People are like talking to each other about all this drama that's happened in the past, and I was like, Wow, the Lord goes deep on Downtown Abbey. No, I was just watching,

like, I just skipped straight to a later season, had no idea what was going on. They're wow, they're bringing this up midstream.

I had a similar thing. I think I talked about this when we talked about Bobaverse before, but Audible, when I ran out of books, they recommended the series called Expeditionary Force.

Yep, and I said, Okay, I'll just grab this one. But it's one of those series where they don't put the numbers on the titles of the books, which is something I've learned to appreciate.

I bought it and I realized I had started listening to book 14.

Okay, so that's that's definitely a late stream. It was like, it was like a balloon, like air leaving a balloon.

I was like, oh my God, my enthusiasm was like, there's, I got to read 13 other books in order to get to this book. I don't know if I can do this.
Spoiler alert, I didn't do it. Yeah.

Listen, that's a problem I can relate to because when we had,

when writing Red versus Blue, you know, there was points in time I felt five years was a long time for that show. So we always

had a philosophy. I always wanted to make it so that people had jumping off points in the story.
Like, if you want to jump off here,

this is

not many people will do that. An emotionally satisfying conclusion for you.
I just think that's the honest way to tell stories over a long period of time. Well, while we're following up on

various things that have happened,

there is a really lame parallel to the Louvre jewelry heist.

And that is that Spanish police have busted a criminal group that have been stealing chairs from restaurants. What? Yeah, they mean like the outdoor seating, like the chairs and stuff from

rest from outdoor restaurants. They've been stealing them.

This sounds like more of a parallel to the guy who did the scuba diving heist of the restaurant at Guinness.

Maybe it doesn't. The guys who stole the crown jewels.
You say that, but these guys have been accused of stealing more than 1,100 chairs. It's not like they like stole a chair.
1,100 chairs?

1,100 chairs what in like i guess it was over a long it was like a spree in two months give me a two months they stole 1100 chairs can i tell you something this pisses me off because i've noticed like when we go wandering around like we just went to amsterdam and amsterdam has those outdoor cafes with a bunch of chairs and everyone faces outward from the restaurant and the people watch and everything it's really cool but then when you're out drinking at a bar at night and you walk by one of these places, you see all the chairs stacked up, right?

And all the tables stacked up and moved to the side.

You know, it's still their area outside the restaurant, but they had to move all that stuff in and take one of these big locking cables and wrap it all up and secure everything.

And it's like, what a fucking pain in the ass because people think if we leave a chair unattended, some jackass is going to come along and steal it. What do you get out of stealing that chair?

Well, reselling them, I'm sure. I mean, no one's just like stealing chairs.
What for they're like, I'm putting together an outdoor movie theater and I just really need a bunch of chairs.

So I'm going to go around and steal all the restaurants. Here's the thing too.
I feel like

I don't know.

I guess they're probably not being resold locally, but I feel like they could solve the issue by having a doing what the schools here do, which is like all the kids, when you send a water bottle or like a snack box or whatever to school, just put a name tag on it, right?

And then just like you go around to all the other restaurants and going, that's got my name tag on it, buddy. Oh, my dad.
It's my chair. My dad used to do that.

Like he would have a little like vibrating pen, a little etching pen. And anytime we bought anything in the house he would etch his social security number on

that i thought that was a totally normal thing when i was a kid that just makes your social security number easier to steal you get a chair and an identity all in one i don't think that was as big a deal when i was a kid though like you didn't use your social security number for anything but social security like it never came up i didn't use my social security number until

uh

university that was the first time and it was because of my student id and even that they would print it like on the wall for test results they would print everyone's social security numbers so you could find yours because who would want someone else right we're not gonna steal my social security get out of here and then someone like steals 1100 of your numbers and sells them in romania exactly right

we say also in here in scotland the kids ride their bikes to school they don't lock them up they just put them in like there's this big open shed we call it a shed it's really just like a uh like a uh awning a paddock a corral a slightly covered to get them a little

a little bit less wet area for the bikes to live. Yeah.
But it's yeah, it's like they just put their bikes in it and then they go. There's not a gate on it.

They don't lock it up during the school day or anything. It's just this is where the bikes go and then that's it.

There's there's really virtually no security and we haven't had any issues with the bike. And you know, in some Asian countries, I think Japan and Singapore, the way that they mark their spot.

in a coffee shop like if they get up to go to the bathroom the way they mark their spot is by leaving their smartphone or their laptop there oh my god can you imagine because nobody would come and steal that.

Like no, it's just culturally like they can leave their smartphone to mark their place and someone will say, oh, we can't take the seat because there's a phone here and someone's going to be coming back.

Wow.

That would never, in fact, there was just some big bust in London, I guess, where they

busted a ring of phone thieves because there have been so many phones stolen in London.

Here we go.

Data from the Metropolitan Police released in August showed showed 116,000 mobile phones were stolen in London last year. That's 320 stolen phones every single day.

Meanwhile, also in America, I've got to get help because I got to unlock the vault that holds deodorant and CBS, right?

Right.

I mean, think about that. They can leave their smartphones laying around and I got to get special permission to get.
toothpaste or something like that. It's ridiculous.

You know what else they've put behind one of those big like protective locking cases is apparently Warner Brothers. But if you can get into the case,

you can just buy yourself a Warner Brothers. I thought you were going to say your 30 skincare products.

It's like national security. Like then you're going to give Get Smart in order to get through your facial routine.

Do you ever watch Get Smart as a kid?

I watched, they put a movie out, right?

Yeah, Steve Carell, right? Yeah, and I saw that. I didn't see the series that it was based on, but I did see that.
It's so funny. I can tell you

a single thing about that show, except they nailed the intro. The series intro to that show, Get Smart, has been referenced and lampooned so many times.

I don't know anything about the show, but I can almost verbatim tell you the intro to that show. Crazy.
Crazy. And that his shoe was a phone, and that was a big deal.
Right.

And there's a cone of silence that doesn't work. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Was it Cone of Silence? Was that? I thought that was a Mel Brooks thing.

No, I think there's a Cone of Silence in it because I think he goes in and he's like, oh my God, this is the best day ever. And everyone at the table can hear him.
Oh, I I see. For the Steve Crow one?

I think so. I'll have to go back and watch it.
Was it Steve Crow? Yeah, it was.

It's been so long since I've seen it, but I remember really enjoying it. I just read that Jim Carrey's going to come back and he's looking at playing something.

It'll come to me. He's looking at

playing some role and he's looking into the mask, too.

But he keeps coming out of retirement to be robot nice. It's not Inspector Gadget, but it's something like that.
Anyway, I'll think of it. It's something like that.
Oh, Jetsons.

He wants to play George Jetsons. Jetsons.
Are they doing it, Jetsons? Jim Carrey. You know what? I love the Jetsons, and I love the Jetsons for a specific reason.

That it has a rosy view of the future. Exactly right.
Rosie's a great

robot. Yeah.
But it was the last time as a kid, I remember when they would talk about the future like it was this cool thing. We couldn't wait to get to the future.

And we're all going to live in the sky and we're going to have flying cars. And our meals will be a pill.
And we'll have this robot made who does everything. He's got kind of a sassy attitude.

It's great. And then the 80s happened, and the future is where everything goes to die.
Right. That's when everyone was like, oh, right, nothing good will ever happen.
Ever happen.

No, it's from this point on the future is where everything horrible is going to take place. Yeah, it was a big, it was a big turn.
Big turn. Big turn.
Even like, oh, yeah, we got a spacecraft.

Yeah, we have a spacecraft and we travel between the stars and then an alien plants eggs in our chest.

Like, they all can't have anything. You can all start off with, like, you could do this and you can do this and then a terrible thing will happen.

So Warner Brothers, Bernie, Warner Brothers officially

check your pockets. We have a chance to do something really funny here.
Has announced that it is

putting itself up for sale, basically, that they are interested in taking offers. But what's interesting about this to me, well, that's a lot of interesting.

I thought they were splitting up like a month ago. Okay, yeah, that's part of it is that like they've talked about that they're potentially going to split Warner Brothers and Discovery.

So that may not happen if they don't end up selling. It's like when a divorced couple decides to stay together so they can sell their house, basically.

But it's interesting because this

Paramount Sky Dance that just went through so recently are also, they said that they're interested, but Warner Brothers has now rejected, I believe, two bids from them.

So they were like, no, bids aren't high enough. And they're considering

other suitors.

Supposedly, Comcast is maybe one of those. Supposedly, Netflix is maybe one of those.
Neither of those companies are commenting.

So is that right? Because

the article that I read said that maybe it's Rumor Mill that Amazon had passed after Netflix had passed. Okay, I haven't seen anything.
I haven't seen anything about that, but we'll look at it.

It's one of those things that's a lot of like insiders wink winking, you know, and saying things, but

the companies are not exactly issuing statements at the moment. So if you can find that, that would be, I'd love to read about it.

I've I've just heard that those are two that supposed insiders are saying may be considering something. If you just look at

Looney Tunes,

Bugs Money, that whole cast of characters, all those properties,

DC's there as well. Warner Brothers clearly doesn't hold much valuation.
It's got the potential to be a Disney, right? I mean, it's like it has a lot of the same elements as Disney.

Harry Potter's in there as well. Harry Potter's is essentially the WB Star Wars.
You know what I mean? It's a lot of properties.

I can't even begin to imagine what the price tag on something like that. No, I can't either.
I have no idea what that would even begin to look like.

Like 20 years ago, Marvel, the rights for Marvel were sold to Disney for $4 billion, right?

And then Star Wars was also $4 billion.

But that was so long ago. That was like 20 years ago for both of those.
And now it's like, I can't imagine what either one of those is worth, you know, on their own now.

But they've gone through, you know, a lot of investment and a ton of success in the case of Marvel. I just, yeah, I'm curious, I'm curious how this will go.
Yeah.

I'm also looking up to see what is the highest ever Kickstarter.

A really funny idea brewing over here. Well, and you know what's interesting about it too is they just announced like

almost within the same day as all these headlines coming out about them being up for sale, a price hike for HBO Max.

So like I'm an instantaneous one, right? Yeah. And it's like, are they trying to like

increase the valuation as quickly as they can?

Are they trying to not have people buy it? Are they trying to drive up the valuation so that people give them better bids? So they get like the maximum, you know, price possible.

Like, what, why did they do this so simultaneously? It's so funny because even like what a mess kind of all this stuff is and how big it is.

Even when you said the name HBO Max, I went to fact check you. I was almost like, I was like, no, it's right.
But then they're back to HBO Max. Yeah, but now you're right.

I was like, my instinct was oh she said that wrong because because they've been through so many rebranding different changes and stuff like that what happens if disney decides to buy wb i wonder if disney's even in a place to i mean if you had dc and marvel under the same roof you can make some mega properties dude you don't think like a dc versus versus marvel movie like a justice league versus avengers just by itself they could do that in like a multi-studio deal but just having that alone is like we can make this work And you know, James Gunn's like, son of a bitch.

Bugs Bunny.

I just quit, you guys. All right.
Now I'm back in.

But after, but to be fair, after he got fired from Marvel.

I know he was back in and then he and then he, you know, left.

He did really well with that. He did great.
Like he came out of that thing like in the best scenario possible, I think. Yeah.

We got to watch Superman again. I think I've watched that Mr.
Terrific fight in Superman.

I really like it. I've watched it like 20 times and I can't tell you what it is that I like so much about it.
Like I can't pinpoint any specific thing in it.

50% of that fight is like a reaction shot of Lois Lane. And even that's compelling.
Like I don't know what it is. It's like it's just whatever that aesthetic is, he nailed it.
He just nailed it.

It's really, no, it's good. I like a lot of things about it.
And I think it could use a rewatch. I think, do you think Finn would like it or do you think that's still a little bit too old for him?

No, man,

I got to admit that I'm having a little bit of a failing as a father because we went to go play Lego Star Wars and he

doesn't know anything about Star Wars. Like he didn't know who the guys with the swords were.
Yeah, no, you're, yeah, we need to fix that. Yeah, yeah.
And I was like, oh my gosh, because JD's here.

And I thought, this will be fun because I used to sit, me and JD on the couch when Teddy was still a baby. We would sit on the couch when JD was like four and five, we play Lego Star Wars.

And we have like 100% of the achievements in like all the Lego Star Wars games. And it was so much fun.

And so while he's here, we're like passing the torch now and like we're going to be playing that with Finn.

But then we didn't, finn doesn't know the movies or anything like that you know what i mean so so the first thing to do is hook him into the canon uh and get him to enjoy this all like all the star wars stuff you know what he's definitely of an age to enjoy pod racing uh yeah i listen i make fun of the prequels it's only because i was one of those fans who was like star wars is for me and for me only and then of course the millennials who all grew up watching the prequels they all love them remember andy at rooster absolutely adored the prequels and i was like i i he gave me so much more of an appreciation for the prequels than I had just watching them myself.

And I realized it was 100% my own stupid, like, nerd cynicism. That's all it was.
Right.

And it's like, like, at its heart, they were originally like films for not kids, but like younger people, right? Yeah. And then the prequels, like, pod raising, that segment is definitely for kids.

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I would leave my smartphone unattended around both.

That's how much I'm trusting. That's how much you're trusting.
Hope that doesn't sound too parasocial. All right, that does it for us today, October 23rd, 2025.

We're going to be back to talk to you tomorrow. We hope you will be here as well.
Bye, everybody.