2025.11.11: Bananapocalypses

Speaker 1 Monkey Everyday Bananas.

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 So how many did you have today?

Speaker 1 Three.

Speaker 1 Hey! We're recording the podcast!

Speaker 2 Gut up!

Speaker 1 Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is Morning Subware!

Speaker 1 For 11-11, Make a Wish 2025. My name is Bernie Burns, sitting right over there.
She's holding out for 22-22. It's Ashley Burns.
Hey, Ashley, everybody.

Speaker 2 I'm waiting for 420.

Speaker 1 I was totally on the fly. I'm actually happy that worked out time-wise.
It did.

Speaker 2 It did. You really made that flow.
I'm proud of it.

Speaker 1 I wonder if that was in my brain because 11-11 was coming up. It's like it just suddenly clicked as I was doing the date.
Hey, everybody. It is Tuesday.
You made it to Tuesday of this week.

Speaker 1 Congratulations. It's Tuesday.

Speaker 2 You're 20 and a bit percent of the way done.

Speaker 1 See, it's Tuesday. They've got that worked out.
Obviously, Monday wants to be the first day of the week because we have Tuesday. Right.
Tomorrow is Thursday.

Speaker 2 Which makes Sunday officially the last day of the week.

Speaker 1 I think somebody was in here monkeying with my dials here.

Speaker 2 My headphones are turned out. Would not be surprised.
You would not be surprised.

Speaker 2 Well, there's too many lights on the mixer.

Speaker 2 And there are a few children in the house who are drawn to lights like fireflies or like little moths to the flame.

Speaker 1 It is very

Speaker 1 rainbow colored.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 You're lucky you don't have a robot voice right now.

Speaker 1 Don't threaten me with a good time. I won't do it.
it. The uh, what do you think was like made multicolored stuff a thing in electronics? Because I feel like it wasn't like that for a while.

Speaker 1 Was it Twitch?

Speaker 2 I think someone, no, I think it was probably things like keyboards, right? Like the keyboards and accessories.

Speaker 2 But it seems honestly like the first thing I remember seeing being brightly colored and not like slick gamer black or steel or red, whatever, was

Speaker 2 in PCs, specifically the ones made to have Windows. Everyone's like, oh, here, we're putting RGB lights in now.
So now you want to have a clear PC and it's going to look great.

Speaker 1 I feel like that made it confusing, calling it RGB, which feels like a component, which technically it is, of the PC, but it feels like something that should be doing something for graphics, which technically it is, but it's not.

Speaker 2 Well, it's doing something for the graphics, like, of our eyeballs, not the graphics being rendered via the PC.

Speaker 1 Oh, I should point something out, and I'm not going to mention your name. I'll try to look it up and then just shout it out randomly at some point during the rest of the episode.

Speaker 1 But somebody showed up and made a comment saying, hey, I know Bernie has always been into

Speaker 1 LED strips and has complained about the fact that there's points of lights in them.

Speaker 1 But there's a new kind they're installing my work and they're just like a seamless bar of light.

Speaker 1 And I had actually run into these because I was working on an LED project here and they're called, I don't even know if I'm saying it right, F-Cob strips, but now you can get LED lights that don't look like a string, like a rope of a light.

Speaker 2 Which has always been

Speaker 2 like one of the things holding back those lights. Like those light strips, first of all, they were great when they were developed, when they first came in.

Speaker 2 They were an amazing solution to like a problem of like backlighting or detail lighting, whatever.

Speaker 2 One of the issues they had is, especially if you're trying to almost like backlight a surface that has any sort of reflection, is you could kind of see the dots. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 2 Or if they like poked out a bit, you're seeing the dots, right? The illusion was broken. I will say I've seen these light ropes of yours in action and they, they almost like, my eyes almost reject.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's weird.

Speaker 2 It's weird seeing a rope light up. It looks like,

Speaker 2 I don't know, like a golden lasso, right?

Speaker 1 It does. It looks like a golden lasso.
It's a great way to put it.

Speaker 2 It looks like it can't possibly be real. Right.
You know, it's like all Uncanny Valley, but I'm looking at it and I know it exists.

Speaker 2 And so it breaks my brain a little bit, but in a good way, they're fantastic.

Speaker 2 And also the fact that you've been able to like cut them into strips and just put on an electronic clip at the end and then it plugs in is great.

Speaker 1 I'm also

Speaker 1 have revealed this about myself before. I am firmly in the warm light camp.
I'm not in the cool light camp.

Speaker 2 The, the, the blue, like daylight balance stuff, I feel like was an interesting social experiment. And we can all agree at this point that that's over, right?

Speaker 2 No one does, no one looks good in it, no one feels good in it. I realized they were probably trying to, I don't know what, make people just autonomously generate vitamin D or something like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's supposed to be daylight balanced.

Speaker 1 No, there's like, I saw a chart recently, like in some interior design forum where they were talking about, here's the chart of where you should use low temperature lights and high temperature lights, basically warm lights or cool lights or whatever.

Speaker 1 And they had like, you know, here's this environment for bedroom or bathroom or whatever. And it's like, and I was just like, no, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 But then there were people in the comments saying like, you should never, ever use warm lights. They're yellow and they're disgusting and look weird.
Yeah. And I was like, how dare you?

Speaker 2 How dare?

Speaker 1 How dare this is just, this is one of those lines in the sand that we don't realize we fall on one side or the other. Like the inverted controls on controllers.
Remember when that was a thing?

Speaker 2 Right. With the difference being I don't have to deal with your inverted controls.
This is like one of those things.

Speaker 1 Until someone hands you a controller that's inverted and you're like, what is wrong with you?

Speaker 2 Have you been living your whole life like this and then you just sit there and like swear at it as you try to get through the settings to figure out how to turn that shit off yes do you know i don't know if you know this about me or not

Speaker 1 i used to be an inverted control guy what we're talking about if you're not a video game person

Speaker 1 on a control have to air all your dirty laundry okay When you push up on the stick, it would go down or when you'd pull back, kind of like a airplane yoke.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so it's, yeah, it's more like an airplane yoke than like your traditional joystick.

Speaker 1 And you would have to go into the settings and flip it to inverted.

Speaker 2 I I theoretically understand the logic. I just completely disagree and reject it.

Speaker 1 And there are some people who live in both worlds, actually. They on a controller, they're inverted, but they can't do it on mouse.
Anybody who inverts a mouse, I want to meet those people.

Speaker 1 Who inverts a mouse? Who inverts a mouse? That would be insane.

Speaker 2 No one does that, right?

Speaker 1 That would literally be an insane person.

Speaker 2 No one inverts a mouse, do they? That's like a cat. If you invert a mouse, I want to hear from you.
That's right. That's right.
Publicly shame yourself.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Reveal yourself to us.
Don't hide anymore. We can help.
We can help you from here. First step is admitting.

Speaker 2 The second step is a straitjacket.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But

Speaker 1 going back to all this, you know, revealing all this F Cobb stuff, Marcus Laporte, a guy I used to work with all the time, and I greatly miss working with him, production designer for Rooster Teeth.

Speaker 1 And he hated. LEDs, I think as much as I did because he liked them, but you had to do indirect lighting all the time.

Speaker 1 Like you had to put them behind something and then indirectly shine their light on stuff and give the impression of it.

Speaker 1 And even that, you couldn't do that too close to the surface because then it would just show up in little pockets.

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 1 And then if you did it directly where you could see it, he had to diffuse it with like frosted glass.

Speaker 1 And the amount, you could never put enough diffusion in front of it in order to get rid of the points.

Speaker 2 Those dots were really stubborn. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 It was crazy how stubborn they would show up through stuff. But now you can have it and don't do it.
This all leads you back to, I don't know much about the history of Twitch.

Speaker 1 Who is, do you think, the first person who was like, I'm going to do some kind of like purple color-themed background of my streaming setup?

Speaker 1 That person was widely influential.

Speaker 2 I'm going to say it's someone named Justin. Probably.
Probably, probably, his name was Justin TV.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 But there had to be somebody who did the lighting setup first, right?

Speaker 2 Right. Somebody.
Someone, there was someone somewhere who went, I'm going to put these crazy colors on my wall and sparked an entire industry. And they're a big deal now.

Speaker 2 So we use like in the house, we use an app called Govi, right? But we use it for like thermometers to keep an eye on, like make sure the kids' room is warm enough at night and like stuff like that.

Speaker 1 And carbon monoxide detectors.

Speaker 2 And carbon monoxide, which they, which they do, and those are great. But also

Speaker 2 what that company really does is lighting. They do, we, we don't use that company.
in remotely the way they intend us to use them.

Speaker 2 They're, they, the number of lighting things that they have, like the just the lighting panels that like stick together, or like

Speaker 2 stands that will then what shoot light at your walls so that it looks really cool. All kinds of crazy stuff.
That's what that company really does. Hexagons.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of hexagons. A lot of hexagons.
You buy a hexagon. Put a hexagon behind you on the wall.
Light it up. Purple, want it green, whatever you want.
They got a hexagon to suit your needs.

Speaker 2 You want all of them? You got it, baby.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a lot of panels.

Speaker 2 A lot of white plastic and RGB became a really specific look. And I wonder how that's going to age.
You know how, like, we, I would associate wood panel TVs

Speaker 2 and like brick walls with the 80s, right? Uh, and very clearly, this white plastic with RGB lights, this is a specific era of a look.

Speaker 1 It's the streaming look, right? I don't like, I don't see anyone else doing it. Like, I don't see the president sitting in front of a couple like hexagon panels giving an update on where we are.

Speaker 1 Don't give them ideas. By the way, while we're talking about lots of different rainbow colors and the government now, apparently.

Speaker 1 The Supreme Court in the U.S., trigger warning, by the way, American politics here.

Speaker 1 Supreme Court rejects calls to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. That hit yesterday right after our podcast came out.
What a,

Speaker 1 like the tiniest ray of sunshine in the world at this point.

Speaker 2 It's one of those things that you feel like shouldn't have to be revisited. Exactly.
I will be grateful, but that they've decided not even to take the case. It's one of those things.

Speaker 1 They're not even to take it. Should we be grateful for this? It's one of those things, right? Yeah, but it is a ray of sunshine.
Thank God this is not something we have to revisit.

Speaker 2 Let's take them where we can, shall we? Yeah, it's specifically, do you remember Kim Davis? She was like a county clerk who refused to perform a same-sex marriage.

Speaker 1 For some reason, yes, I do remember her.

Speaker 2 I don't know. And I think it was Kentucky.
She's the one who tried to get this reheard.

Speaker 2 I think she was trying to, she's been trying to get away from the market.

Speaker 1 I think it probably just worked its way up through the courts to now got to the Supreme Court and they said, no.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're not going to revisit that. So, yeah, it's

Speaker 2 one of those things that would have been nice to have continued to be a given. And it is nice that they refused to hear it.
And I'll take the ray of sunshine and RGB lights where I can.

Speaker 1 Imagine telling people they can't get married, right? It doesn't even make any goddamn sense on any level whatsoever. But there's another thing, too.

Speaker 1 Like, this is actually, it probably, this situation will probably be

Speaker 1 defused by the potential. government restart.

Speaker 1 But there is now the Trump administration has said to the Supreme Court they want to contest the ruling that snap payments have to be made in full for November. So they're going to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 If the Supreme Court now says, no, we don't want to hear this, what a weird island to be on by yourself. Yeah, very weird.

Speaker 1 The snap payments are like food stamps, essentially, for food benefits for underprivileged people in the U.S. So basically...

Speaker 1 the Trump administration would then be on an island by themselves saying, yeah, we don't want to feed people. We don't want to give people food.
And they would be the only people saying that.

Speaker 2 Right. In the richest nation on earth, where this is already a rule, you know, we've set the money aside for this thing.
You have to do this thing. They're like, but we don't want to.
Right.

Speaker 1 This is a don't even let them eat cake moment, right?

Speaker 1 If the Supreme Court were to say, no, we don't want to hear this, right?

Speaker 1 But the whole thing could potentially be diffused by the government starting back up, because then the payments would start back up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we'll see. So, yeah, as I understand it, a couple of Democrats that have are sort of crossing the aisle, as it were, to vote to reopen the government have basically capitulated

Speaker 2 on extending the ACA benefits. So that's one of the reasons that everyone's health insurance is going way, way, way, way up.
I want to point out that they're still wildly expensive.

Speaker 2 Like health insurance in the U.S., you don't realize how expensive it is until you don't have to pay that stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we had to buy into the NHS as part of our visa. I don't know if I'm allowed to

Speaker 1 say what it is. I don't know if that's a

Speaker 2 thing. Yeah, well, I also don't know if it varies from person to person or like your family makeup or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 It was probably even paying into the NHS, which everyone associates with like really high taxes and payments or whatever. We were paying about a fifth of what we would pay privately in the U.S.

Speaker 1 for our same size family.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So it's, I'm, you know, I worry a lot for people in the U.S.

Speaker 2 who are having to cover the increases in health insurance themselves because it's going like some people are being asked to pay like, you know, an extra like 500 or more per month and when they were already paying hundreds that's a lot for the affordable care act right you keep using that word yeah

Speaker 2 i don't think it means what do you think it means but uh what a what a great moment to uh uh have a t-shirt that says i uh i just want to love my wife and hate the government yeah well great timing on our part yeah so we're uh we're doing a little store refresh today we're adding in a a new shirt in a variety of flavors so you can get one that reflects you and your personal life.

Speaker 1 We couldn't cover everything, but we did as best we could.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 we did as much as we could.

Speaker 1 We're not the Supreme Court people.

Speaker 2 And then also bringing back the fan favorite, People Like Grapes.

Speaker 1 Yes, by popular demand. We'll see.
We'll see. This is a test.
People like grapes will now be in the refresh for the Rushi Teet store today.

Speaker 1 I'm actually, I don't want to talk all about Rushi stuff. We have a lot of refresh.
There's a new Morning Somewhere logo that has finally been put out.

Speaker 2 The autumn facelift has officially been rolled out. I want to give a big shout out to Ross Schaefer, who worked on this riff on the logo for us.
I'm loving it.

Speaker 2 It's very autumnal, and I'm glad we got it out before the last of the leaves fell off the trees.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 good timing. Look, it'll be when it's winter and there's snow on the ground, people will want to remember the lovely autumn that we all had, Ashley.
Just in time for us to roll out the winter.

Speaker 1 I mean, doesn't autumn like go all the way through December anyway?

Speaker 2 It goes pretty far into December. That's what I think we need to have a big meeting.

Speaker 2 If the Supreme Court wants to revisit anything, I think we should revisit when seasons are assigned because I feel like spring should definitely end at the beginning of June, not the end of June.

Speaker 2 And I feel like winter should start at the beginning of December, not the end. Yes.
You know, I mean, I think there are things that we can do that we can all agree on, right?

Speaker 2 That make a lot more sense.

Speaker 1 And just so we're not doing a bunch of like Rooster Teeth housekeeping on this podcast, I'll probably do like an extra podcast on the Rooster Teeth website.

Speaker 1 We can talk about like what's going on business-wise, what we're working on, refreshes of logos, store recorded by Arizal leaves the website this week.

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Speaker 1 Anyway, stop by therusheet.com website sometime this week to see all the new stuff.

Speaker 1 And I'll put up a little thing explaining all the new things that are available on the website, including the refresh of the store and the people like Grape Shirt, and then what we're working on for the future.

Speaker 2 So if we're discussing current events, Bernie, there's a weird thing going on with music and with AI-generated music. It keeps popping up in the billboard charts.

Speaker 2 You remember there was it was a few months ago, there was that band that turned up and it had like an Instagram account and everything, Velvet Sundown, and was getting, you know, hundreds of thousands of plays on Spotify.

Speaker 2 And everyone's going, who is this band? And it turned out it wasn't a real band, it was an AI band.

Speaker 1 We had one on this podcast that I think we promoted that i think might be ai generated yes the girl who does the girl yeah that's ai generated

Speaker 2 it really is we know that for a fact now yeah the girl the girl who does did the song about the uh train couplers yeah it turns out that's ai generated um you know and it it sucks to get got like that you know what's weird about it though is is someone just like moving it through different accounts so that people can continue to follow it?

Speaker 1 Because it doesn't seem to have any ownership, even though it's AI generated.

Speaker 2 It must be a tool that people can use, right? To like generate songs or something. But there's a couple more artists now that are getting into the billboard charts that are AI artists.

Speaker 2 The newest one, I think, is an AI country singer that just took the top spot in the country billboard charts and doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 How bizarre. Why is country feel like such a weird fit for that in particular?

Speaker 2 Because it's like the, you know, they're singing about, you know, what, dogs and trucks and broken hearts. And it feels very taking our jobs.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, it feels very like, you know, traditional and rooted in, you know, sort of like the traditional country values. And then like, there's an AI artist who's taking your job.

Speaker 1 Right. It's okay, though, because he's got a hexagon that's red, white, and blue.
So it's fine.

Speaker 2 It's fine. You should see his streaming wall.

Speaker 2 You know, but then also, like, how much would it suck to be the artist just behind them and be like, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 I just lost my opportunity at like the top spot on Nigeria to someone who doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's rough.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 there was a thing recently too for within, I think it was like an RB singer, like a Janaya Monet, I think, who became the first AI artist to chart on the U.S. Billboard rankings.

Speaker 2 Crazy.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, it makes me think though, because this is like technology in general, right?

Speaker 1 I even read earlier this week about somebody who was putting out a bunch of AI stuff. And now I can't even remember who it was.

Speaker 1 AI so because there's so much stuff that follows that now it's just like we're in that mode of it. It used to be a standout, but now it's just more and more content being generated for people.

Speaker 2 Well, it also doesn't help that like AI has become such like a buzzword that it almost bounces off your brain. But you're probably thinking of Coca-Cola.
So Coca-Cola recently.

Speaker 1 No, but I can read that one.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, they recently got caught out again

Speaker 2 for doing a bunch of Christmas-themed ads using AI. I guess they did this last year too.
And they were, you know, they're weird and uncanny valley and they just like, they don't look right.

Speaker 2 And people hate them. But I'm sure the company is going, well, it saves us so much money.
We don't have to get someone to actually animate polar bears this time. Right.

Speaker 2 You know, because the thing is, I remember Coca-Cola having really well-regarded Christmas ads.

Speaker 2 They had their whole campaign with like polar bears and Santa, and I think there might have been some penguins involved, but people really liked those ads.

Speaker 1 It was weird that like Coca-Cola became synonymous with polar bears during Christmas for a while. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just weird. I don't know why that one's weird, but it's weird.

Speaker 2 Polar bears are just Coca-Cola's version of Bailey's. Yeah.
Right. For two months of the year, like that's what they do.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're the Terry's orange of the Coca-Cola world. Have you ever had orange Coke? They sell that here.
Did you ever tried that? No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 They sell lemon coke here and they sell orange coke here.

Speaker 2 I've tried a lot of the different varieties of Coke. I've tried vanilla Coke.
I've tried Cherry Coke. I've tried lime Coke.
I think they have the lemon Coke as well, but I have not seen orange Coke.

Speaker 1 The orange Coke to me, this is not to disparage the number one beverage company in the world's primary product, but the orange Coke to me tastes like, remember the baby aspirin we used to have when we were kids?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. It's always a weird thing.
Or like chewable vitamins.

Speaker 1 It's always a roll of the dice when you make kids' medicine taste good. Like that can lead to really negative things.

Speaker 2 Yeah, tell me about it. I'm constantly have to argue with my two-year-old that she doesn't need medicine.

Speaker 2 She keeps pretending to cough. Yeah.
And I don't think she realizes how transparent she is.

Speaker 2 She thinks she's being really clever, but she really wants

Speaker 2 the local equivalent of robotusin.

Speaker 2 She wants that. Cowpaul?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Cowpole.

Speaker 2 She's like, she's really into it. And I'm like, no, you're not sick.
You don't need this.

Speaker 1 She goes, I'm sick.

Speaker 2 No, you're not.

Speaker 1 She's a little junky.

Speaker 1 The other thing, too, is I can't believe that it's 2025 and we still

Speaker 1 sell kids scented markers. Why are we teaching kids to huff markers? Like,

Speaker 1 you smell your markers up until about 12, and then after that bed,

Speaker 1 you are not allowed to smell your markers anymore.

Speaker 1 Why do we do that to kids? Why do we teach them to smell markers? I don't understand.

Speaker 1 Even when I was a kid, I didn't understand it. I'm like, why do they make these things blueberry scented or whatever? And what the fuck does blueberry smell like? Right.

Speaker 2 I got to be honest. Blueberry is not a real scent, right?

Speaker 1 What does a blueberry smell like?

Speaker 2 Look, I've had blueberries. I've grown blueberries.

Speaker 1 They made that shit.

Speaker 2 I've baked with blueberries. I don't know what blueberries smell like.

Speaker 1 It's like that banana flavor that you find out later is based on a now extinct banana.

Speaker 2 You know what? I actually love that, though. I love that we have a flavor profile saved from something that doesn't exist anymore.
It's like a ghost.

Speaker 1 Yeah. A flavor past.

Speaker 2 It's a ghost, but also, as far as people are concerned, that's what the flavor is supposed to be.

Speaker 1 I'm going going to try to do this from memory. You can look this up.
So you guys might know the song, Yes, We Have No Bananas.

Speaker 1 That's from a period of time where there was a fungus that killed the primary species of banana in the world and it made them go extinct. And I want to say it's the Gross Michelle banana.

Speaker 1 The gross Michelle banana. And that the banana that we eat today, well, like when you go to the store and you go, I'm going to get a banana.

Speaker 1 The banana you're eating is a Cavendish banana and that the artificial banana flavor that we all enjoy today never made the transition, and that it's based on the Gross Michel banana.

Speaker 2 But there's also a risk that the bananas that we eat today could also fall to fungus. Correct.
Like we might have, we might be chasing new varieties of bananas for all time.

Speaker 1 It's just we're going to constantly be on the move. Eventually, we'll be eating a tomato and calling it a banana.

Speaker 1 But it's okay. It'll be hexagon-shaped and sold to you by Gojo.

Speaker 2 As long as it's got the RGB.

Speaker 1 Gross Michelle,

Speaker 1 often referred to as Big Mike, is an export of banana and was until the 1950s the main variety grown. The physical properties of the Gross Michel made it an excellent export.

Speaker 1 Its thick peel made it resilient to bruising during transport, and the dense bunches that it grows make it easy to ship.

Speaker 1 However, due to its vulnerability to Panama disease, it has been entirely replaced in the banana industry by the Cavendish cultivar. Wow, look at me with that.

Speaker 2 And taking this up from

Speaker 2 taking this up from Fizz.org, today the most popular type of commercially available banana is the Cavendish, which was bred as the disease-resistant response to the Gross Michelle extinction.

Speaker 2 So for about 40 years, the Cavendish banana thrived across the globe in vast monocultured plantations that supply the majority of the world's commercial banana crop.

Speaker 2 Now, that's part of the problem as well, because it's a monoculture, it's particularly susceptible to disease.

Speaker 2 So if I think like if like a banana plantation gets like this fungus or if it gets sick, whatever, they basically have to burn the whole thing because every banana is then susceptible to that.

Speaker 2 Dude, bananas are a wild world. Did you have any idea that bananas were this complex?

Speaker 1 I'm just thinking of what a lofty name Cavendish is. It's such a great name.
You know what Cavendish sounds like to me?

Speaker 1 It sounds to me like Lord Cavendish would be like a thario character in one of your like Bridgington shows, one of your sexy Victorian shows.

Speaker 2 Oh my goodness, who is that? Oh, why? That's Lord Cavendish.

Speaker 1 Does he have something in his pocket? No, that's Lord Cavendish.

Speaker 1 He supplies all the bananas for the ladies in the area.

Speaker 2 But watch out for him and his banana. I hear he has a fungus.

Speaker 1 Oh, gross, actually.

Speaker 1 Turned it into a medical drama. Next on the pit.

Speaker 1 By the way, I got lost in the weeds yesterday after the podcast about the Netflix release. Dark 5455555

Speaker 1 posted that

Speaker 1 it's coming out November what?

Speaker 2 Stranger Things.

Speaker 1 Season Season five is coming out in three parts, but they're releasing four episodes on November what? 26th?

Speaker 2 November 26th. So they're releasing four episodes November 26th.
And then apparently they're releasing three episodes December 25th and saving the finale for December 31st.

Speaker 1 Which I was griping about

Speaker 1 because I said that's a week apart. How are they calling that a different thing? It's just another episode.

Speaker 2 Because there's four episodes across like the four weeks. So there's November 26th.
And then what, the week following November 26th?

Speaker 1 Is December 3rd. Okay.
And then seven days after that is December 10th. Seven days after that is December 17th.
Seven days after that is December 24th.

Speaker 2 So really, it's like.

Speaker 1 So the December 24th episode is coming out on December 25th. It's really what they're saying.

Speaker 2 Okay. So they're a day late on that one.
But otherwise, it's a weekly release.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, it's just an episode a week.

Speaker 2 But and then and then there's a one-week gap between the 25th and the 31st.

Speaker 2 I guess there is, technically, they can say they're still doing the Netflix release model because they're releasing three episodes the 25th, not one.

Speaker 2 And by the weekly model, they would be releasing one, you know, and then into January. So, you know, they're definitely not gone to weekly releases, Bernie.

Speaker 1 We're talking about this two days in a row. So we are falling prey to this stupid marketing scheme.
We are. We are.
We're talking about it. Okay.

Speaker 2 While we're revisiting some things from yesterday, I need, so we discussed the statute of limitations on watching a show together.

Speaker 2 This was specifically about a show that we started watching together, but then one of us has like fallen off and I want to keep watching the show. So by the way, I've done that.

Speaker 2 I've started watching the show again

Speaker 2 because I now have express permission. But now I need to find out what is the statute on limitations for a show that we might watch together that we have not started watching together.

Speaker 2 I think the same rules apply.

Speaker 1 Okay. If you're interested in the show, that's all that matters.

Speaker 2 Okay. Do you want to watch Pluribus? Because

Speaker 2 I hear nothing but really amazing things about the episode that's come out so far.

Speaker 1 I will say yes while referring to my previous statement, therefore i am not changing the statute of limitations on series watching you're saying that i have to wait until it's almost the finale to start watching it yeah you let me tell you something you watch whatever you want babe you go ahead i should also let you know i started watching and or without you i know you did i know you did i know so and it's i gotta say everyone was like

Speaker 1 greatest show ever i'm like three episode in nothing's happening the first two episodes of that show and or's like literally in a field just in a he's in a field That's it.

Speaker 1 Like in a jungle, like a clearing. That's it.

Speaker 2 Is he looking for bananas?

Speaker 1 I'm not feeling Andor season two so far after all the incredible lofty things I heard about it.

Speaker 1 And I don't think I'm damaging or disparaging the artists that worked on that show by saying this because everyone said how amazing this is. Maybe it gets amazing in episode four.

Speaker 1 I'm watching it on my phone while I'm experimenting with my bread, Ashley. I'm about five years behind everybody else.

Speaker 2 I do love that you finally, it's taken some time, but you've entered your bread era. But you've got, everyone else got into sourdough.
You've gotten into baguettes.

Speaker 1 I thought I want to make a baguette because a baguette is one of those things when you buy it at the store, you either have to make a trip every day if you want to enjoy a baguette, which is tough for us, or I have this new method by which I can make baguettes.

Speaker 1 It turns out, though, I'd rather drive to the store, I think.

Speaker 2 Is that less effort?

Speaker 1 Well, it's like this recipe I've got. You make the baguette, then you've got to let it rise for two hours, which would be fine, except I'm also supposed to fold it every 15 to 20 minutes.

Speaker 1 So that means I'm hanging out for two hours with this lump of bread. It's bigger.
And then I got to refrigerate it overnight. And then in the morning, you know, everyone talks about how easy it is.

Speaker 1 But in the morning, I got to get it out, shape it into like five loaves. I have this little baguette like baker pan that I put them in.
And I put them in there.

Speaker 1 And then I've got to let it rise for another 90 minutes. So what am I doing? I'm waking up at five in the morning, like an actual baker.
Right. You like that stuff?

Speaker 2 I was going to say, that's why bakers have to get up early, right?

Speaker 1 Like they show the steps and they're like, look, what are the simple, there's like five steps and it's super simple simple two of the steps are three and a half hours of just hanging around doing nothing right and it's not like you can just drop it and go away you have to come back and like i don't know feed it and and talk to it and make sure it's got an education and you gotta feed this hour stuff

Speaker 1 you don't have to feed this one and uh yeah so i'm in my baguette era but i think i'm very quickly gonna fall out i'm gonna move away from this because three and a half hours every single day to make baguettes i just i'm not doing that well who's doing that look on the bright side, though, what it does give you is an appreciation for the baguette process, right?

Speaker 2 There's a lot of things that you like, you don't realize what goes into them until you try to do it, like trying to like raise a calf and dish.

Speaker 1 Yes, Ashley, that's what I have, is an appreciation for it.

Speaker 1 That's the word I would use. Madam, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 The process.

Speaker 2 Well, I want to say a big thank you to some people that we appreciate.

Speaker 2 Daniel Schubert and Arial Olgwin, thank you both so much for sponsoring this episode of our show at patreon.com slash morning summer and roosterteeth.com.

Speaker 1 All right, well, come visit roosterteeth.com. I don't know when I'll record that thing, but at least you can start to look at some of the refresh, the new store, items in the store.

Speaker 1 We're watching recorded by Arizelle. We've got a new RTA this week.
And then at some point in the next couple of days, I'll put up an extra episode talking about all of those things.

Speaker 1 All right, that does it for us today, November 11th, 2025. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well. Bye, everybody.