2025.11.10: Part One of Thirty-five

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Speaker 1 Morning to you, wherever you are, because it is Morning Somewhere! For November 10th, 2025. Check the calendar really.

Speaker 1 Hi, everybody. I'm Bertie Birds, sitting right over there.
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Speaker 2 11, 10. We're in the countdown now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I get the weekends are always rough. I always know what day it is usually, even though I can't say it sometimes because of the show.

Speaker 1 And I can like, you know, I have to name the episodes every single weekday, but then on the weekends, I get off a little bit.

Speaker 2 Like, you just, you get detached from time, right? The weekend exists almost like in its own timeline.

Speaker 1 You know what I was thinking about the other day? Go ahead. I was thinking about this.

Speaker 1 What happens typically with you're with someone and you look at the clock and it's 11-11?

Speaker 1 What does somebody usually say? Make a wish. Why, when did that start? Make a wish.
Like, that's like the Nintendo blowing on the cartridge. We all picked this up that on 11-11, you make a wish.

Speaker 2 Well, there's a couple. Look, there are a couple really specific things.
They're all built into the social contract. They only mean what we agree they mean.

Speaker 2 You look at the clock and you see 420, you say, nice.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 it's like the eyelash thing, right? Like, oh, you've got an eyelash here. Make a wish.
What the fuck is that going to do? Right. But it's just, it's just something that people agreed to do.

Speaker 1 I think it was an excuse for Victorian people to touch each other. It's what I think it was.

Speaker 1 And you're waiting for the opportunity for an eyelash to dislodge and like, oh, I can touch their face.

Speaker 2 Oh, so sensual. And make a wish.

Speaker 1 And they're like, oh, you're not, it's not like based in sin. You're doing something nice.

Speaker 1 But I was thinking because we live in a place where among all the other nuances of dates, like day, month, year format, which I'm not a fan of, I'll be honest with you. I'm still not adjusted to that.

Speaker 1 Day, month, year, are you?

Speaker 2 No, I mean, yeah, kind of. Like, I can generally read it.
Sometimes

Speaker 2 it's much easier if it's any date of the month above the 12th.

Speaker 2 It makes things a lot easier for me.

Speaker 1 It makes it a lot easier when you're in the middle of the 12th.

Speaker 2 Otherwise, I do sometimes have to like stop and double read a thing to just make sure.

Speaker 1 You ever look at the expiration date for something? Go, oh, cool. Then you take out the first button.
You're like, wait a minute.

Speaker 2 No, but expiration dates is exactly what I'm thinking of. Like when I look at something and I'm like, it takes me an extra second or two sometimes to go,

Speaker 2 oh no, it's fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What I was thinking about was a lot of times here they have the 24-hour clock, which in the U.S. we call military time because it's the only people who use it.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm surprised we don't, if we haven't even like come up with a new name for the metric system, like

Speaker 1 science units or something like that.

Speaker 2 Just wait. Wait until the marketing people get there.
They've got a lot of things on their mind.

Speaker 1 Is metric? I feel like maybe I'm biased here, but because I've moved over here and I'm moving to metric, that everyone else is as well, but that's still, they're still holding out in the US, right?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 In fact, the UK not that long ago passed a law that butchers and, you know, like people who, like food makers specifically, I think, are allowed to use imperial measurements again if they so choose.

Speaker 1 Also, U.S., don't take any bullshit about it because everyone does something weird. Like over here with this left-hand drive stuff, get out of here with that.

Speaker 1 I've been here five, six years.

Speaker 1 It's no way. Just make the move.
Everybody switch to the same side.

Speaker 1 Imagine being a car maker and you've got to make this whole different configuration of car for like, what, three or four markets that are left-hand drive?

Speaker 2 Let me look that up. But yeah, it's like there's not, there's not a lot of countries that do left-hand drive.

Speaker 1 I want to say off the top of my head, it's the UK, Australia, Australia, New Zealand. News about New Zealand and the UK in a second here when we talk about sports.

Speaker 1 And then is it Japan? Japan do the drive on the left? Is it Japan? The country of Japan.

Speaker 2 Countries that drive on the left. India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan.
Yeah, so you got that one.

Speaker 2 India is big. That's true, but it's not, for the most part, the vast majority of countries are a hand drive.
So I feel like anyone in a left hand drive country is sort of missing out on the

Speaker 2 cost optimization, right, of volume.

Speaker 1 There's got to be some car makers that are just like, we're not doing it, right?

Speaker 1 We're not doing it. Like, Japan's pretty big.
UK's 60 million people, but not everybody drives here. It's not like a big one where everybody's got to have a car.

Speaker 2 That's true, but there's a lot of vehicles that we don't see from the US in the UK.

Speaker 2 And I don't know how much of that is just that they didn't, they decided it wasn't a big enough market to reverse the entire car. And how much of it is like, well, we wouldn't fit in the road anyway.

Speaker 1 Also, it's like we have like a UTV. We have like a utility vehicle for getting around and like working the garden and the property and the farm part of it.

Speaker 1 And that is, it's a Polaris is the brand that we have. They're just like, we're not making a different one.
No, the wheel's on the left-hand side, not the right-hand side.

Speaker 1 And I feel like everyone here is like, nobody bats an eyelash at you. Totally fine with that.
If you got in one of those things in the U.S. and the wheel was on the right side, you'd be like, why?

Speaker 1 Why is it like this? What happened? Oh, my God. This is crazy.

Speaker 2 Oh, were you a postal vehicle?

Speaker 1 Right. Postal vehicles.
That's it. That's the only thing.
But so military time. How come we didn't evolve to the 2222? How come nobody, because that's only possible with 24-hour clocks.

Speaker 1 You get a full all the numbers are the same. What is so special about this 11-11?

Speaker 2 What's stopping me from starting it?

Speaker 1 What's that? Who's to say I didn't who actually who's to say I haven't like it explained so much about my life that I'm the only one making wishes on that? You think all this happens by accident?

Speaker 1 Maybe no way

Speaker 1 I manifested. I got my secret genie going on here.
I asked, what did I ask Sven the other day? We were asking about if he had one wish and I go, what would be your one wish?

Speaker 1 And he goes, I wish I could meet a genie. I'm like, dude, that's that's just a really roundabout way.

Speaker 2 That's a wishing for more wishes with extra steps.

Speaker 1 It is. It's like you got around the loophole.

Speaker 1 So next time you have a genie and they say, look, you get three wishes.

Speaker 1 A,

Speaker 1 I know this trick. No more wishing for more wishes.
Go, great.

Speaker 2 I'd like to meet another genie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, why don't you introduce me to some of your friends?

Speaker 1 Like, damn it.

Speaker 1 Suddenly you got the whole network working for you.

Speaker 2 I feel like the genies at this point have to have like

Speaker 2 a thousand-page terms and conditions in order to use the genie. Like, here's what you can wish for.
Here's what you can't wish for. Here's all the loopholes that you're not allowed to use.

Speaker 2 Like, that's got to be increasing every single time someone meets a genie.

Speaker 1 Also, I feel like all the genie, it's a filtering process, right? All the genies that got found that didn't know about the loophole, they're like in eternal servitude to somebody.

Speaker 1 Like, that explains like some of the big families in the world, right? Explains like Halliburton and stuff like that. That's where those genies are going to be.
Right.

Speaker 2 They just have the family genie.

Speaker 1 genie yeah the independent ones who are still out there are just like they have they're they're like really good at thinking outside the box they're really good about thinking through things they're good at puns too like if you ask for something specific like oh there's a different meaning to that we'll give you this horrible thing instead right so you're talking about like uh all the monkeys paw genies yeah so that's a thing right like genies are supposed to fuck you over i think so i mean how do we get on these topics

Speaker 2 it seems like like pretty commonly accepted that uh a genie is going to give you the wish that you you asked for, not the wish that you wanted.

Speaker 1 I can give you an example of somebody who's obviously got a genie in their camp. Who's got a genie? The all-blacks of New Zealand.
So this weekend.

Speaker 2 No, that's pure skill, baby.

Speaker 1 There's something that I don't really understand this coming from the U.S. You're gonna have to excuse me for a moment.

Speaker 1 There's all these different leagues, like Championship League and whatever, and this league, Premier League, and all this stuff. They got all these different like rugby league and rugby union.

Speaker 2 Well, that's two different types of rugby.

Speaker 1 Then they got the other thing, which is weird that this isn't bigger in the U.S. because the U.S.
is always so goddamn proud of everything they do as a country. There's national teams, right? Right.

Speaker 1 The only time we hear about national teams in the United States is when there's an Olympics. So we hear about them like basically once every four years.

Speaker 1 But outside of the Olympics, you don't hear about Team USA, this or that, right?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, isn't that because they don't put together team USA except for whatever the events that require team USA are? Otherwise, they go back to their teams.

Speaker 1 Yeah, also it's like Team USA is kind of a weird thing because it's like all the best players we bought from other countries. And then it's like,

Speaker 1 they're coming back at you.

Speaker 1 It's just it's just the way America works. But yeah, but they have that in where we live now in Europe.
They have that stuff, like national teams. I'm not really sure when they play or how.

Speaker 1 I'm way more into that than I am like

Speaker 1 Premier League and Champions League or whatever. You know what I mean? It's like, I just want to root, because that's, I guess, how I always knew the other countries and their teams.

Speaker 1 Like, just call it Spain or just call it France. I just want to watch that.
Right.

Speaker 2 Like, I can cheer for a whole country. That's easy.

Speaker 1 What I'm getting at here, though, is Scotland played New Zealand, the All Blacks, as they're known.

Speaker 1 They played them this weekend, and

Speaker 1 they were down 17 to nothing at halftime. I'm talking about Scotland.

Speaker 2 So, Scotland was down.

Speaker 1 Okay. This is the All Blacks.
I don't know what it is with that country, New Zealand. They can just make rugby players.
Actually, New Zealand seems very similar to Scotland.

Speaker 1 We've talked about this before. They're on exact opposite sides of the world, right? Right.

Speaker 1 Geologically, topographically, they're very similar. Very similar.
Very similar countries, even just like these two, like, you know, little island countries, basically. Very, very similar.

Speaker 1 And I found out, too, this weekend that New Zealand has a population of about 5 million people. The same.
So, once again, very similar.

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, Scotland is attached to a couple other countries

Speaker 1 tagging along.

Speaker 1 But what is it about New Zealand they can make this? So they were down 17 to nothing in half, Scotland, versus the All Blacks.

Speaker 1 They bring it back to tie 17 to 17, tie it all up, level the playing field. Then they end up losing 25 to 17, right? Oh, New Zealand wins.
Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 1 Which is really tough, but it's even tougher when you look at the current winning streak that New Zealand has against Scotland. They have a winning streak of 33 matches, which goes back 120 years.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait. An unbeat streak, one country versus another.

Speaker 2 What would it be like to be part of the scotland team lineup that actually beat the all-blocks and you know what this we almost saw it this weekend no if i may if i may seems a little bit rude you know what it feels like is it feels like the like the older sibling or whatever like the like the big brother waiting for the little kid to like their kid brother to catch up and then being like aha and leaving them in the dust again but why like that's new zealand with so many people like news i feel like rugby is new zealand Australia and South Africa, right?

Speaker 2 Even though I think France won the big yeah France has got a really good team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which is not, you don't like normally associate Frenchmen as being, like, I don't think of rugby players. I'll just say that when I think of Frenchmen.

Speaker 2 There's one particularly famous French rugby player they called the wolf.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I know nothing about this guy except he's the wolf.

Speaker 1 You're reminding me. I had a weird Game of Thrones dream last night.
You did? Yeah, that's really weird. Was it about the wolf? No, it was about the hound.
It was what made me think about it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And Maisie Williams' character, Aria Stark. Man, I don't know.
I'd love to go back and watch that show. Yeah, me too.
We talked about doing a rewatch and we never did it.

Speaker 2 Well, it's because I feel like when you know that every step you're taking, and they can be great steps. You can be looking through just, you know, insane scenery like you've never seen before.

Speaker 2 Every step is beautiful. But once you know that those steps are going to lead you straight off a cliff, the walk becomes a little less fun.
But speaking of Bernie, we need to have a discussion.

Speaker 2 We need to have what is the statute of limitations on when we watch a show?

Speaker 1 I hope it's over, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 I hope it's done. Like, how

Speaker 2 long do I have to wait before I don't have to wait to watch a show with you? Like, especially, like, there are shows, there's a couple types of shows.

Speaker 2 There's shows that you watch, there's shows that I watch. There's the rare show that we watch together.

Speaker 2 And we.

Speaker 1 So there's a couples question. So how long would a show exist? How long before the person who's most interested in the series can go, I'm just going to watch this by myself?

Speaker 2 Right. Like, this is the show that we started watching together, which then implies that we're going to continue watching it together.
But one of us, in this case, you, fell off the show.

Speaker 1 So, is this, is this like, are we talking this is open?

Speaker 1 Like, or is this the other version where you watch it and then pretend like you didn't watch it? No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 And have to hide it. No,

Speaker 2 no, this is open.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 This is open. Like, how long before you're not allowed to get mad at me for continuing to watch the show?

Speaker 1 I think that if it's a week-by-week series, as soon as all of the episodes are done, I will even go back a a week and say one is allowed to watch a series they want to watch when the finale is the next episode coming out okay right okay all right because then it's like you then you're just being a dick in your relationship and you're running the risk of spoiling something major potentially even though it seems like in tv series these days like the second to last episode of the season is always has a lot of the surprises and then the last one is actually setting up the next season yeah yeah yeah they're like oh look at all the shit you should come back for in 14 years.

Speaker 2 You know, the trick to that is to not watch the last episode of the season

Speaker 2 until one, it's the next season's been greenlit or the next season is about to come out.

Speaker 1 I have a secret theory that Stranger Things season five, because I keep hearing about this and I want to see what do people think about the show. It's still not out, apparently.

Speaker 2 No, it's coming out. It's coming out really soon.

Speaker 1 I think it's coming out with GTA 6. I think it's going to be in-game, and they haven't revealed it to us yet.
I was trying to figure out the other day for a five-season show in the old model,

Speaker 2 it wouldn't be out five years.

Speaker 1 When would Stranger Things have ended? Would it have ended in like 2020? It would have ended five years ago.

Speaker 2 Okay, so Stranger Things is coming out in this is a departure for Netflix. It's coming out in three parts.

Speaker 1 Get the fuck out of here. I know.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 the first part of the season drops November 26th. The second part of the season drops December 25th.
And

Speaker 2 the finale, I guess, whatever, drops December 31st.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Well,

Speaker 1 what? That's not three parts. December 25th to December 31st is seven days.

Speaker 2 Anyone told them that they're actually just gone back to the weekend?

Speaker 1 I mean, that's a schedule. So it sounds like they're putting out three episodes.

Speaker 2 No, I think it's, I don't think it's very many episodes. Let me look.

Speaker 1 Seinfeld released in 22 parts every season. It was crazy.
They're all one week apart.

Speaker 1 It's 22 separate volumes. Why would they distinguish that? I guess they're going to end like in the big movie.

Speaker 2 Or they also want to make sure that they get a minimum of two months out of you, I guess. So it looks like it's going to be eight episodes.

Speaker 2 I don't know how they're going to split that among three parts. If you ask me, they should have just done the mature thing and gone for eight parts.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Why not?

Speaker 2 And I think some of them are supposed to be really long, too.

Speaker 1 It sounds like that one. Did I hear you write December 25th, December 31st, or January 31st?

Speaker 2 No, no, no, December 31st.

Speaker 1 December 31st? What? That's

Speaker 2 not the finale like the last episode you have to wait a week for. That's two parts.

Speaker 1 That's the part in November. But then also,

Speaker 2 yeah, there's November, December, and then December.

Speaker 1 If I find out this part in November is like five weeks of episodes, that's going to be really weird.

Speaker 1 That's like, she just wants attention, I think, going here and here.

Speaker 2 They're trying to slow walk maybe away from their

Speaker 2 binge drop strategy to get more time out of people, but they don't want to admit that, right?

Speaker 1 You're like jealous of Jesus. Like, why is he getting all the attention? And, you know, we're a very popular streaming service.
Why don't we make a special part on the 25th?

Speaker 1 I'm I'm going to make my own holiday. Also,

Speaker 1 I got to say, like, you open presents, you have Christmas dinner.

Speaker 2 You think, I'm going to watch stranger things.

Speaker 1 You know what, though?

Speaker 2 I always think that about movies that come out on Christmas, because they're usually not Christmas movies that come out on Christmas, right? That would be silly.

Speaker 2 Speaking of which, all the Christmas movies are about to come out. Like, you know, I'm seeing the ramp up for Netflix's marketing for their Christmas movies.
And I haven't seen Begonia.

Speaker 2 Like Begonia. I haven't seen anything really crazy this year, which is surprising to me.
There's no big theatrical release. There's no one trying to do, like, hey, Jack Black is actually Satan

Speaker 2 or like this is the Rock the Christmas movie. I don't see anything like that.
I haven't seen previews for any big Christmas-themed movies coming out in theaters this year.

Speaker 1 The only thing that's made it on my radar so far is some Michelle Pfeiffer thing that's got a really stacked cast.

Speaker 2 Oh, yes, I have seen the trailer for that. Basically, it's like about how the mom feels like she doesn't get any thanks for all the work she puts in on the holiday.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? So, what's she go? Does she go rogue? Is it mom on the loose?

Speaker 2 She puts on a cat suit and then things go wild.

Speaker 1 It would be really weird if it was a whole movie about a of like a middle-aged lady in the kitchen working by herself, going, No, I'm fine.

Speaker 1 And that's it.

Speaker 2 No, it's fine. Yeah, it's uh, oh, what fun, I think.

Speaker 1 This is just my lot in life, I suppose.

Speaker 2 But even that isn't actually, I don't think that's a theatrical movie. I think that's like a prime, like an Amazon Prime movie.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 So, it's it's interesting that I feel like this year is like lower key in the like big Christmas swings. Like, where are the sexy snowmen?

Speaker 1 Yeah, where are they?

Speaker 2 Where are the stripper, I don't know, candy cane guys? Like, where is it?

Speaker 1 I would watch a movie with the Michelle Pfeiffer and a sexy stripper, you know, holiday stripper. I'd watch that movie.
Yeah, I would too.

Speaker 2 Who wouldn't?

Speaker 1 I realize my pitch for the movie actually makes more sense at Easter. It's like a martyr movie, basically.
You explore the themes of martyrdom in the modern suburban household.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that would be a good one. I don't know.
Nothing's on my radar for Holiday. I don't know what I gave up for you.
Do you like holiday?

Speaker 1 I don't like holiday movies.

Speaker 1 I can't tell you one that I like.

Speaker 2 I think they're fun.

Speaker 2 I enjoy them a lot. But what's weird is when I think of holiday movies that I really like, a lot of them are Christmas and Halloween movies.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like I like Nightmare Before Christmas. Oh, really?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I like Scrooged, which oddly enough, I feel, I know that's like a retelling of like Christmas Carol, but for some reason I also associate it with Halloween and I don't know why I do that.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, probably because the ghosts are very like in your face. The ghosts of like Christmas past maybe because they're spooky ghosts.
They're very upfront, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like there's one is literally looks like the Grim Reaper. I think it's the ghosts of Christmas feature in that.

Speaker 2 It is. Yeah.
Yeah. But it's fantastic movie.
But I enjoy holiday movies because it's the kind of thing that it's, it's like having Baileys in your coffee, right?

Speaker 2 It's something that you can indulge in for two months of the year and then just not think about it.

Speaker 1 You're getting a little bit of a chocolate and and our peanut butter here. That was a sponsor chat.
I bought Ashley this,

Speaker 1 was walking to the store. She didn't come into the store because she didn't want to like buy any snacks for herself.

Speaker 1 And then I saw something, I thought, oh, she'd like this. So I bought her some decadent Baileys flavored like a Terry.

Speaker 2 Terry's chocolate orange Baileys. And I got to tell you, that was a winning pick.
We have very opposite disciplines when it comes to shopping. Not really.
I'm really, I, no, not an hashtag, not an ad.

Speaker 2 The, I'm really good at having stuff in the house and not eating it immediately all at once, but I'm terrible at discipline while shopping.

Speaker 2 If I see something, I'm like, I might want that at some point. I'm going to get it.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 2 Whereas you are really good at having discipline while shopping. You're like, I'm just not going to get it.

Speaker 2 So then it's not in the house. And then I don't have it as an option to stop.

Speaker 1 Because then I only have to make the decision once. I don't have to make it in an infinite amount of time.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 But that causes real problems for us because then I buy all the things and then you eat all the things.

Speaker 1 Right, right. Like my own personal 120-year losing streak is versus Pringles.

Speaker 1 And I'm never, I'm never going to level that playing field ever.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So when I went through there, do you also know, remember why I went to the store?

Speaker 2 You went to the store to get ham.

Speaker 1 No, I went to the store to buy gift wraps so I could gift wrap your presents and not be tempted to just give them to you this entire time. So I'm literally in early November wrapping gifts for you.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to sit like in the living room

Speaker 1 so that I won't be tempted to just go hand them to you one day and you have to open it. Let's, let's do it.

Speaker 2 You're still going to try.

Speaker 1 You're still going to try.

Speaker 2 You keep like hiding them in plain sight where I might trip over it and open it.

Speaker 1 Real quickly, can I wrap up some other sports news? Please do. Because I feel like it's Monday.
Monday is always a good day for sports. Okay.
Really quickly, college football.

Speaker 1 Your three undefeated teams left in college football are Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A ⁇ M. Ohio State still has to face Michigan, which of course is a huge game for them.

Speaker 1 Indiana does not have any ranked teams left to play, but they do have to play Wisconsin and Purdue. Like I I said, they put a lot of rivalries at the end of the season.

Speaker 1 Texas A ⁇ M has to face a ranked number 10, Texas, Ashley. Texas has clawed their way back to number 10.

Speaker 2 So they're all the way up to 10 from number one?

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 they've clawed their way from number one to number 10. Yes.

Speaker 1 It's been

Speaker 1 a noble effort to get from, to claw their way to that ranking.

Speaker 1 And then Georgia and Alabama round out your top five. Alabama still has to face Auburn, which is unranked, but definitely no slouch.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't write them off because Alabama versus Auburn is a classic matchup.

Speaker 2 Is that one of their rivalries?

Speaker 1 Yeah, huge, absolutely huge rivalry. And then Georgia has to face number 10, Texas, number five, Georgia, has to face number 10, Texas.

Speaker 1 And then also they have to face Georgia Tech as well. Big rivalry for them.
So everyone's got a pretty tough path. Some obstacle in their way to getting things done.

Speaker 1 And Texas, you can infer from that, at number 10, has to be both Georgia and Texas A ⁇ M.

Speaker 2 The big obstacle for all these teams?

Speaker 1 The All Blacks. Yeah, the All Blacks will show up and they'll establish a new winning streak on everybody.

Speaker 2 This isn't even our sport, but we won it.

Speaker 1 It's just insane how good that country is at rugby, man.

Speaker 2 They're really good.

Speaker 1 It's insane. Five million people.
Five million people. And they just dominate everybody else in rugby.

Speaker 2 Well, I think a lot of the All Blacks also come from some of the Pacific Islands as well in the area.

Speaker 2 So I don't think it's all necessarily New Zealand specifically, but there is a lot of Pacific Island representation in that team. And they are absolute monsters on the field.

Speaker 2 How much of it do you think is like psychological warfare when they do the haka beforehand?

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't know. That's interesting.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's like, listen, I think it's psychological when you've lost to them 119 years in a row. Like they came back 17 to 17.
They had to feel it, right?

Speaker 1 They want to be the guys that you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like we got there. We caught up.
We can do this. This is our game.

Speaker 1 And 33 matches across 120 years, really quick math. That's about four years between each one.
So chances are, you know,

Speaker 1 the team will be radically different at the very least by the next time they play. But most of these guys, this is basically like their one shot to get it done, right? Right.

Speaker 1 And they know it's on the calendar. I don't even know if this is the longest winning streak in rugby, but it sure sounds like it to me.

Speaker 1 This has to be one of the longest winning streaks in all of sports, right?

Speaker 2 I mean, 120 years is hard to beat.

Speaker 1 See, it's 2025. Let's do some quick math now.
120.

Speaker 1 That's like 1905.

Speaker 1 If my math holds up.

Speaker 2 I think it is. Is the last time that Scotland beat New Zealand?

Speaker 1 It's like the guys in 1905, like, yeah, we'll get them next year.

Speaker 2 What were they doing?

Speaker 2 Is it because they had to take a ship over and someone was malnourished on the field?

Speaker 1 No, that's before airplanes. No, babe, that's the first time they played.
They've never,

Speaker 1 they've never beaten New Zealand. It's an unbeaten streak.
Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Actually, I don't know if they knew New Zealand existed before that.

Speaker 1 Honestly. Right.
It hadn't been discovered. Right.
Discovered. Right.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 2 Isn't New Zealand also one of the only countries that basically repelled English colonists?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they are. And interesting enough, they showed up there and they were like, you guys already know about rugby?

Speaker 1 How did that? It'd be amazing if like two independent like civilizations created the same sport somehow.

Speaker 2 Well, you get close enough, right? You get close enough. Like, there's only so many ways that people are going to simulate war and simulate conflict.

Speaker 2 If you give them a ball instead of like big weapons, that seems like a nice safe way to do that.

Speaker 1 The nuances they come up with, right?

Speaker 2 It is interesting. It is.
But also the nuances make the sport. Yeah.
Like

Speaker 2 one of the major differences between American football and rugby, aside from all the padding, of course, is the, can you throw forward or not?

Speaker 1 Right. Or like cricket and baseball.
They're kind of

Speaker 2 very, very similar, but like

Speaker 2 how do you hold the bat and what's it shape like?

Speaker 1 But unless the Dodgers are playing the Blue Jays, the games don't last four days, right?

Speaker 2 You know, yeah, I think you have like seven-day test matches for cricket, but it's also like, what is it? And how long do those go?

Speaker 1 I was in the first time we ever went to visit New Zealand for work when we were doing a tour. The whole time I was there, like three or four days, it was one cricket match, one cricket test.

Speaker 2 So a test match in cricket lasts five days with each state typically having three sessions scheduled to be two hours each.

Speaker 1 What the fuck is that?

Speaker 1 What is that?

Speaker 2 Cricket's a really really unique. Who scheduled this?

Speaker 1 Netflix?

Speaker 1 It's actually 28 games.

Speaker 1 See, in America, that would be 28 games.

Speaker 2 But we're releasing it in five parts.

Speaker 1 So a test is like a series. What we call a series in the U.S.

Speaker 2 I mean, I guess. I guess if it's like, but it's also ongoing scoring.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, so it's not like, you know, best of three. You still have to like get the score.

Speaker 1 Ashley, so what do you want to do in the second episode today? Do you have anything else you want to talk about in the second episode? We're going to adopt new Netflix strategy for releasing.

Speaker 1 This is not one episode, everybody. This is two episodes.

Speaker 2 It's two episodes. It's going to come out tomorrow.
It's the second part, but it's all the one episode.

Speaker 1 Government might come back. There's going to be a vote today in the Senate in the U.S.
that we're on the path to the government going back to work.

Speaker 2 Like actually reopening, which from

Speaker 2 what I've been hearing, the airline travel and things like that have been thrown in an absolute knot because they've had to furlough so many of the unpaid at the moment air traffic controllers.

Speaker 2 A lot of them are starting to resign.

Speaker 1 I'll look it up here, but if I recall, we were at 10% of flights being cut and we were on our way to 20%

Speaker 1 of U.S. flights being cut.
If that bled its way into the holiday travel season, that would have been an absolute nightmare.

Speaker 2 Yes, which we don't know that that's not going to happen, but we'll see what this vote holds today.

Speaker 1 Let me clarify my statement. Everything's been a nightmare about it so far.
That would have been a nightmare that would have motivated people to do something about it, right? Would it? I think so.

Speaker 1 I think, I think, I think, I don't know. Or what do people do?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, I guess you go watch the Michelle Pfeiffer Prime Christmas movie and don't visit your family.

Speaker 1 No, I would say, yeah, this is not financial advice, but it would be interesting if like the people were just like, yeah, there's like one of y'all for every like thousand of us.

Speaker 1 Let's just, we're also not going to work. Like, we just, and the whole thing just ground to a stop.
How long do you think it would take? Like, everybody stopped doing everything.

Speaker 2 Right. Like, oh, you stopped paying like the IRS auditors.
Great. Well, I don't have to worry about paying that then.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to have to like pay. Well, that's a tough one.
Yeah, I know it's a tough one.

Speaker 1 You're going all in, hoping everyone else does as well.

Speaker 2 I know. You don't want to be like the only guy, right? Because if you're the only guy, it's really easy to like do something about.

Speaker 2 But if there's, if everyone does it, then like you got, you got safety numbers, buddy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's like, you know, stop paying rent, stop going to work, all that stuff. I mean, there's only like one sheriff that can't evict everybody.
Everybody.

Speaker 1 Can't evict everybody. I just want to point that out.
But it looks like they're going to get this resolved, hopefully. It looks like there's some motivation to get this.

Speaker 1 Once again, frustration with

Speaker 1 things that I pay attention to. You know who's really excited about the government coming back? Who? Is the cryptocurrency crowd?

Speaker 1 They think it's going to help cause a huge run on Bitcoin because now there's talk about surplus checks and things. It's like, what are you guys talking about?

Speaker 1 Isn't this the exact opposite of why you're in this? But I guess not anymore.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 At this point, it's all like guessing, gambling, and hype.

Speaker 1 Guessing, gambling, and hype. That's a great way to look at it.
And clawing your way to number 10.

Speaker 1 All the way to number 10. From number one.

Speaker 1 Okay, can we point out one other thing that's a big deal? This actually ties into,

Speaker 1 we're talking about similar numbers between Scotland and New Zealand. I had another similar numbers thing.
Really quickly, a story from our past. When we came here to visit this place

Speaker 1 that was in January of 2020.

Speaker 1 I had already been here in

Speaker 1 mid-2019 with Teddy. We saw this place, but you couldn't travel because of Finn and pregnancy and everything else.

Speaker 1 So then we came back to visit this place to make the final decision that this is where we were going to move. And we had our young son of four months old at that point, maybe five months old.

Speaker 1 We were traveling through London Heathrow. We read a news article mid-January that China was shutting down.
They were

Speaker 1 quarantining the city of Wuhan, China. And I thought, wow, that's a sounds like a very Chinese approach to infectious disease.
And I had known about SARS and stuff like that. Never heard of Wuhan.

Speaker 1 Let me look it up. Wuhan was 10 million people.
That's a lot of people. What the fuck? So I went back, I talked to all my friends.
We were traveling through the busiest airport in the world, I think.

Speaker 1 Close enough. One of them.
Close enough.

Speaker 1 Get back, talk to my friends about this coronavirus or SARS

Speaker 1 that was going around in China. And everyone's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
That sounds like I've heard something about whatever.

Speaker 1 So I made a tweet at that point in time where I said, if you're not paying attention to what's going on in Wuhan, you might want to pay attention to Wuhan.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people have referenced that tweet over the years of saying that was the first time they heard anyone talk about what became COVID-19.

Speaker 1 That's kind of a weird, dubious distinction these days. You know what I mean? With everyone's opinions of COVID.
Had a similar experience recently because I know the city of Tehran in Iran.

Speaker 1 I know that city.

Speaker 1 Read this article where they're out of drinking water. Like they're done.
They're having this huge drought.

Speaker 1 There was even the article that I read, and I've tried to find something that substantiates it, is that they're now starting to do evacuations.

Speaker 1 Because what do you do when a city that size runs out of water? When I thought, how big is Tehran? I don't know. 10 million people in Tehran.
Wow.

Speaker 1 So here we are, just like this massive thing that is taking place that is really quiet, where humans are out of drinking water in a city of 10 million people. And then what, what do you do?

Speaker 2 Yeah, from what I read, they haven't started evacuations yet, but they're preparing to do so.

Speaker 2 They're saying if rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran.

Speaker 1 They had about two weeks left of drinking water by estimates at the end of last week.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I was going to say that was like a week ago. So it's definitely concerning.
They're saying that the

Speaker 2 Lashian Dam, one of Tehran's main water sources, is at less than 10% of its capacity.

Speaker 2 And then the nearby Karaj Dam is in a similarly dire condition. So they're just, it's just going to...
And the thing is, like,

Speaker 2 what, like, when the water's, what do you do? What do do you do? I mean, I know I've heard of like droughts in the U.S. like certain areas they run out of water and they truck it in.

Speaker 2 You can't, how do you, you can't truck in water for 10 million people, right? Like that's just not something that you can do. What do you do when a city of 10 million runs out of water?

Speaker 1 Well, that's one of the things too is like when they talk about water, they always give you these completely unrelatable volume metrics.

Speaker 1 Like for this one, they were saying the main source, this is from Al Jazeera. This is from the 2nd of November, is this article?

Speaker 1 The main source of drinking water for residents of the Iranian capital, Tehran, is at risk of running dry within two weeks. So that was two weeks, November 2nd.

Speaker 1 We're in it right now, according to state media, due to a historic drought plaguing the city.

Speaker 1 They said that it has just 14 million cubic meters of water left, which was, by their estimates, 8% of its total capacity. And 14 million cubic meters is enough for the city to drink in two weeks.

Speaker 1 So like, how would you even transport that amount of material? That's basically what the earth is made to do for us, right? Is to transport that stuff. If we had to, it just wouldn't be possible.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like there's nothing you can do. And so then how do then how do you evacuate 10 million people? Where do they go?

Speaker 1 And water is uncompressible. It's heavy as hell.

Speaker 1 right right to transport it was like it just wouldn't be worth it so then yeah where do you go what do you do and this is not what the situation is right now, but just drawing the lines out here.

Speaker 1 What do you do if the city of 10 million people becomes unsustainable? The capital of Iran, do you just like go, we're all just gonna go somewhere else?

Speaker 2 Right. Do you just like pick up and start walking?

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 It's a really crazy situation. And it's also crazy that we've been looking to this happening for what, four or five decades?

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I know everyone, like, this looks very much like a beginning of, we talk about what climate migrants, basically, like climate refugees, like when where you lived is no longer livable.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And that's, it's, it's weird that like this, an entire city of 10 million people might be the real start of that.

Speaker 1 But this is the same situation that I was thinking about back with Wuhan.

Speaker 1 It's like, if you're not paying attention to Tehran, maybe you should be paying your attention to Tehran and think, what would that be like in my area? What would that be like in my situation?

Speaker 2 Certainly, regardless of what ends up happening, it's going to be very educational.

Speaker 1 Yeah, climate change is not going to sit still, right? The same thing. It's just like COVID.
It's not just going to hang out where it is. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's going to affect all of us eventually. It's just a matter of when is it going to affect us.
And how. And how.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, on that sobering note, I want to say a big thank you to our sponsors today, Michael Lader and Kaje Lede.

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Speaker 1 All right, tomorrow we should have some announcements. We're doing some refreshes on some things and we'll be talking more about that tomorrow.

Speaker 1 I hope you will be back to talk to us about that as well.

Speaker 2 And look for some shiny new coat of paint for the morning somewhere.

Speaker 1 That's autumn. Does it for us today, November 10th, 2025? We're going to be back talking to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well.

Speaker 2 Bye, everybody.