2025.11.04: Proper Props

Speaker 1 I like the red.

Speaker 1 Hey! We're recording the podcast! Gut up!

Speaker 1 Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is Morning Somewhere! For November 4th, 2025, my name is

Speaker 1 Maddie Burns sitting right over there. It's her Super Tuesday.
Say hi to Ashley Burns, everybody.

Speaker 2 You know what? It is a Super Tuesday. Thank you.

Speaker 1 It is. Listen, there is something I want to point out.
First of all, it's Election Day in the U.S.

Speaker 1 So if there is voting where you live, go vote. Have a good time.
Go vote.

Speaker 2 Practice democracy.

Speaker 1 Do your part. You know what I realized?

Speaker 2 What did you realize?

Speaker 1 I think I realized it last year. I was looking up in the handy-dandy transcription database that we have for this podcast.
And I couldn't see where we had talked about it before.

Speaker 1 But I find it interesting.

Speaker 1 Tomorrow is Guy Fawkes Day here in the UK. It falls on November 5th.

Speaker 2 Remember the 5th of November.

Speaker 1 It actually falls on a date, not like the first Wednesday in October or something like that. There was a lot of reaction to yesterday's discussion.

Speaker 1 I have a new proposal for you. Okay.

Speaker 2 All right. We're revising.
All right.

Speaker 1 But I find it interesting that

Speaker 1 they have a big bonfire and they have fireworks. And the two big holidays

Speaker 1 that we have fireworks here in the UK to celebrate those holidays are Guy Fawkes Night. Yes.
And then also New Year's. But New Year's is kind of a scratch because everyone does New Year's.

Speaker 1 Everyone does New Year's.

Speaker 2 That's it. Like, New Year's is like that, is the fireworks industry Super Bowl.
Like, there's nothing that compares to it because everywhere does fireworks for New Year's.

Speaker 1 I feel like if you went like halfway between New Year's and whatever the fireworks holiday is for your country and just went to the fireworks company, go, hey, how much do fireworks in my front yard?

Speaker 1 They'd be like, 50 bucks, right?

Speaker 1 Are they just hanging around

Speaker 1 all year long waiting for that to happen?

Speaker 2 But no, what you got to do is you to go right after New Year's and you got to get their clearance sale.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right, right. Like Soot Monday is for fireworks.

Speaker 1 So let me ask you a question. Just off the top of your head, if you had to guess, in the United States of America, what would you say is their other fireworks holiday? If you had to guess?

Speaker 1 Fourth of July. I think that's an excellent answer.
And I think a lot of people would say the same thing as that.

Speaker 1 So I think it's interesting the holidays that countries choose to have as their fireworks holiday.

Speaker 1 What I find especially interesting about the UK is most countries use fireworks to celebrate a successful revolution. The UK celebrates putting one down.

Speaker 2 Well, if you think about it, that's very British.

Speaker 1 It is very British because there is no Independence Day for the UK, right?

Speaker 2 Right. Aren't there like, there's dozens of countries that have holidays celebrating independence most from Britain.

Speaker 1 Right, right. From Britain specifically, right.
Yeah. But I do find it's interesting that they have their fireworks holiday be the we suppressed a revolution.

Speaker 2 Right. Like someone tried to start one and we said no.

Speaker 1 We beat them.

Speaker 1 Which I guess in a way is winning your independence. You just were playing defense.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 In the war for independence, we won.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like when you have a Super Bowl team that's like, you know, defense wins Super Bowls. It's like, yeah, but it's so lame.

Speaker 1 I get it, but it's lame i do want to call it something else out though too well while we're doing a little bit of roundup here all right i have not given you your proper props what does props mean by the way your props your um uh prop um i don't have one i don't know yeah i don't know snaps your proposals what is what does props mean like when you say you give someone their props but i have not given you your props whatever it's short for

Speaker 1 for growing three of the most impressive pumpkins I've ever seen before in my life.

Speaker 2 I did a good job with that.

Speaker 1 You did a really good job with that.

Speaker 2 So this spring, I took the kids down to their little plot in the garden.

Speaker 2 We set aside

Speaker 2 a little area for the kids to grow whatever the kids want to grow. The kids always want to grow the pumpkins.

Speaker 2 And so this spring, we took them down to their little plot and we planted a bunch of pumpkin seeds. We had to pull a little bit of an audible because I couldn't find our usual pumpkin seeds.

Speaker 2 And so I had to go just get some pumpkin seeds. And I was like, God, what like I hope these turn out all right.

Speaker 2 And out, we planted like seven batches, like seven, seven spots, and three of them grew.

Speaker 2 And I was really, really worried that we were going to have a repeat of last year where we grew pumpkins, but last year was kind of a very cold, very rainy summer, not a lot of sun.

Speaker 2 And so our pumpkin didn't turn orange until halfway through November. And we just had to go to the store and get pumpkins.
Eventually, we had to admit defeat.

Speaker 2 I was really worried that was going to happen again this year. It did not.

Speaker 1 These were prize winners, man.

Speaker 2 After a slow start in which it looked like we might only get one pumpkin out of all the pumpkins we planted, two more came up as well. And they all turned out to be pretty heavy hitters.

Speaker 2 They are among the largest of the pumpkins that one might get at a pumpkin patch.

Speaker 1 I'm very proud of them. You should be.
You should be very proud of them.

Speaker 2 Their form was spectacular.

Speaker 1 Saving the seeds so the kids can have their own genetic line of pumpkins for their jack-o'-lantern.

Speaker 2 It seems like a seed vault, except just pumpkins.

Speaker 1 It's just their pumpkins, and that's it, that they carve and make silly.

Speaker 2 The family pumpkins.

Speaker 1 It was a solid showing in the jack-o'-lantern category this year. So congratulations.
And I did not give you.

Speaker 2 Thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 I didn't give you your proper prepositions.

Speaker 1 So now I have. Now I have.
But what else is going on in the world, Ashley, besides elections and suppressed revolutions and everything else?

Speaker 2 Well, we have another holiday to celebrate, and that's Sexiest Man Alive Day.

Speaker 1 Oh, well,

Speaker 1 I was so unprepared. I don't have a speech ready or anything here.

Speaker 2 People magic.

Speaker 1 Who won sexy? Who won? Who won last year? Was it?

Speaker 2 Last year was John Krasinski.

Speaker 1 John Krasinski, that's a decent choice. That's a decent choice.
This year, Pedro Pascal, is this the year of the year?

Speaker 2 No, no, I think, I'll look. Pascal might have already won.

Speaker 2 No, this year is probably going to take you a little bit by surprise. Jonathan Bailey.

Speaker 1 Jonathan Bailey, it does take me by surprise because I best know Jonathan Bailey from his performance in

Speaker 1 Downton Abbey, where he plays Sir Whatchapancho?

Speaker 2 Who is Jonathan Bailey? So Jonathan Bailey,

Speaker 2 most recently of Wicked fame and about to be of Wicked 2 fame.

Speaker 2 But also he was in the new Jurassic Park with Scarlett Johansson. But he took a lot of people by surprise in Bridgerton.
The series.

Speaker 1 How close did I get?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you actually got fairly close. It was.
Yeah, like Downton Abbey, except like with

Speaker 2 the string quartet Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 so he played like one of the brothers in the family in Bridgerton. And so he's had his season of romance.
The show is like every season, another member of the family finds true love, right?

Speaker 2 And so there are a lot of kids in this family. They're really going through it.

Speaker 2 So he, when he had his season, he, like, people were

Speaker 2 very thirsty about this man.

Speaker 1 And that is enough to get people's, it's People Magazine?

Speaker 2 It's People Magazine, yes.

Speaker 1 Sexiest Man of the Year. It was really smart of them to do that.
Like nobody else was awarding sexiest man of the year.

Speaker 2 And instead, they got all these handsome dudes.

Speaker 1 Who would be your sexiest man of the year? Obviously.

Speaker 2 Well, besides you. Besides me.

Speaker 1 We can go through the motions here. Obviously, besides me.

Speaker 2 I actually think Jonathan Bailey is a really really good choice um i'm gonna i'll show you after this uh and well i'll put in the link dump because i think everyone should watch it um this one sequence is like his song from wicked um this man could seduce the curtains oh really oh yeah like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter who you are it doesn't matter what way you swing this man can seduce you okay okay Okay.

Speaker 2 No one is straight enough not to fall for Jonathan Bailey.

Speaker 1 Well, my choice would be in that same category then as well. I I would go with Bo and Yang of Saturn Live.
That's what I'd say.

Speaker 2 Also in Wicked, by the way.

Speaker 1 Oh, right. Also in Wicked, because I've seen that so many times.

Speaker 2 I actually wonder if this is also part of

Speaker 2 the sort of grassroots level of push they're doing because Wicked 2 is coming out in theaters later this month.

Speaker 1 Or, you know what else you could do? You could just watch the whole world burn and go, you know what, sexiest man of the year? Justin Baldowne.

Speaker 1 And a word?

Speaker 1 Chaos.

Speaker 1 Well, luckily, it's weird. It is interesting that they put out Sexiest Man of the Year right before Election Day because they're really like stripping away that veneer.

Speaker 1 There's no even illusion that anyone would get to vote in this. Is there like a people's choice for Sexiest Man of the Year?

Speaker 2 It's People Magazine. People don't get a choice.

Speaker 1 Right. We tell the people.

Speaker 2 We tell the people. Okay.
We're not asking the people. We're telling the people.

Speaker 1 And then they tried to vote once, but then we pushed that down and now we celebrate with fireworks.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's insane.

Speaker 2 Now we burn an effigy of the people on the 5th of November.

Speaker 1 The name of the magazine used to be, okay, listen, people.

Speaker 1 They just shortened it down to people.

Speaker 1 Tell you what. I'll tell you people what to do.
All right. Well,

Speaker 1 if you have any choices for sexiest man of the year, I want to hear those from the audience. I want to hear what your sexiest man is.

Speaker 2 And why is it universally Jonathan Bailey?

Speaker 1 Why is it always Jonathan Bailey? I have to look at this guy.

Speaker 2 All Rose leads Jonathan Bailey.

Speaker 1 He was the lead dude in Bridgerton. I've seen this guy.

Speaker 2 He's a handsome dude. Well, yeah, like in for his season.

Speaker 2 There's a different lead every season.

Speaker 1 I don't like that.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 1 Like White Lotus, but for like a second. No, no, no.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 yeah, sort of. But it also, like, it follows the family.
So it's every, every, um, each one of the kids finding their love as they debut in society.

Speaker 1 Hey, let's take some mental stepping stones here. Go from Bridgerton to White Lotus to how come I haven't seen Fallout Season 2 yet? What's going on there?

Speaker 1 Didn't they announce that like a billion years ago?

Speaker 2 Uh, yeah, they did.

Speaker 1 I got their via golden goggins, by the way.

Speaker 2 Uh, it's set to premiere December 17th. So, I am, I imagine you will see the push for that starting fairly soon, but they're probably gonna go like really big on the holiday marketing.

Speaker 1 December 17th, why not the third Wednesday in December? Make it really clear to everybody.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, so you had a new proposal. What's your new

Speaker 1 it's not a new proposal, it's like a twist on a proposal that's been out there. As many of you know, there is a proposal for a 13-month calendar.
Now get how many problems this goddamn thing solves.

Speaker 1 13 months would give us 13 28 day months. Now, Ashley, remember how I was bitching about third Thursday in November or whatever or something like that? Listen how that solves that problem.

Speaker 1 If you have 28 days in a month, how many seven-day weeks do you get in a 28-day month?

Speaker 2 You get four. You get four.
Four, exactly, four.

Speaker 1 Exactly. And then if you have 13 28 day months, that gives you 364 days in the year, which means you have one extra day at the end of the year that doesn't fall in any month.
The purge.

Speaker 1 The purge, or that's everybody's birthday. That's the day we have our birthday.

Speaker 2 Right. So you have like all of the days and then the birthday.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like the idea of having a day that doesn't belong anywhere. Like that could be New Year's Day when everyone's hung over.
It's like just like it's void day.

Speaker 2 Well, it's kind of like, and then you also are going to end up with, that's like the, like the leap day where something will happen on the date and everyone will make a joke about that day.

Speaker 1 Right. Forever.
Well, there is leap day as well. That's just astronomical.
There's nothing we can do about that. So every four years we'd have to have it.
But we're already used to that.

Speaker 1 We just don't put it in any month, right? We just, we just have like that every four years, you get two void days, right?

Speaker 1 But think about this. If you have 28 days in a month, right? If you have 28 days in a month, this is going to take a lot of work, but we can get this done, folks.

Speaker 1 Then you have four seven-day weeks. you never have to worry about third thursday in november because the third thursday in november always is always the same

Speaker 1 on the same date in that month there's no overlap there's no rolling days into the next month there's no what what month has 31 days what 30 days what's whatever counting on your knuckles or whatever horseshit that is no so i think this is

Speaker 2 i think this is a good solution bernie so um in order to clear up the confusion about uh holidays that uh fall on the third thursday or what's the the easter one is weird it's like the first sunday after a specific moon the paschal full moon yeah after after the full moon it's the out of here with that what are we doing what are we doing you guys stealing the holiday from the pagans a little bit like on the nose on this one you're still you're you're still you're putting it after the moon you're scheduling based on the moon also i want to point out you're scheduling based on the moon which is a very pagan thing to celebrate jesus right that's kind of weird yeah but isn't that how christianity got most of its holidays?

Speaker 1 I know, but it feels weird. Like, that was the point of demarcation where we're done with all the pagan stuff.
Like, we're done with that stuff. Now we're into the horrible, like, judgy.

Speaker 2 Christmas is also the same thing, by the way.

Speaker 1 We thought the Christians were super judgy, and then we ran into Gen Z. Then it's entirely, they showed us how to weaponize that.

Speaker 1 All it took was. So the solution.
Internet, no drinking, and no nudity.

Speaker 2 The solution to avoiding the confusion over like when exactly this holiday falls is just to change the entire calendar and how we count everything.

Speaker 1 But listen,

Speaker 1 it's worth it to add that this happens every now and then, right? There was even like a point in time when they were just like, you know, we're going to reset what year we're in right now.

Speaker 1 We're going to catch up or whatever.

Speaker 2 Right. Now we're in AD.

Speaker 1 No, no, there was like a period where they were just like, no, we're just going to reset. There's a theory that like there's 300 years that didn't actually happen.

Speaker 2 Wait,

Speaker 2 as in we're counting an extra 300 years or there's 300 years that we pretend don't exist.

Speaker 1 Like we say it's like 800 AD. We think it's here, but you know what? Fuck it.
We're just going to say it's 1000 AD.

Speaker 2 That's what we're going to do. Okay, let's let's get a nice round number.
What's 200 years?

Speaker 1 What's that?

Speaker 2 What's 200 years? Just frustrating it.

Speaker 1 What could possibly happen?

Speaker 2 Round it up. We're practicing rounding.

Speaker 1 What do you grow? A couple of trees.

Speaker 2 It's going to make things a lot tidier. We're going to just lose 200 years and make it 13.

Speaker 1 I have no idea how to implement this, but there was a thing where they were going to get rid of daylight savings.

Speaker 1 And I think like, especially everyone in the technology sector was like, hey, dude, if you change, that's that's a big deal.

Speaker 1 That's like a Y2K thing because this is all hard programmed into operating systems and computers that no one's touched in years.

Speaker 1 And putting the clock off by an hour for half the year could suddenly be a big problem. Right.

Speaker 2 You're going to break the server in the closet.

Speaker 1 And then I think the government even said, oh, okay, well, if that's the case, then it's going to be a big problem. We won't turn it off.
We're just going to move it by two weeks or whatever.

Speaker 1 It's like, what the fuck? That's 10 times worse.

Speaker 2 How does that make anything better?

Speaker 1 And we got rid of daylight savings time in

Speaker 1 the Nixon era, and then they brought it back. People wanted it back.
Get the fuck out of here with that. So we can solve this problem.

Speaker 2 It's because people need a little chaos. But maybe, maybe your solution, the 13-month solution and having your purge day or whatever, that's the chaos people need.

Speaker 1 We just don't change the clock. We do the thing of like, even if we want to split the difference and start over at like a half an hour, it's all relative anyway.

Speaker 1 We choose all this shit whenever we want to. January doesn't mean anything.
Like January 1st on the earth going around the sun doesn't mean anything. It's all relative.
We can pick whatever.

Speaker 1 It's a fucking circle. Pick whatever point in the circle you want to begin.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the earth is going to be really upset to hear you say that.

Speaker 1 Well, the earth is like, what the fuck, you guys think you guys control time? Get the fuck out of here. It's birthday.
That's right. That's it's birthday.
It's avoid day.

Speaker 1 You can make it earth day or whatever. I think there is a proposal to use that extra day in the 13-month calendar for like an earth day or something, but no one's going to do that.

Speaker 2 No one's going to do that.

Speaker 1 It's a bunch of lip service. We call it mental health day.
Why don't we?

Speaker 2 It's going to be, it's going to be sexiest man day.

Speaker 1 We all pretend like we care, but we really don't.

Speaker 2 But you know what, though? Yeah, I here. I do have a solution for some people.

Speaker 2 If, if you do manage to watch this, this clip of Wicked and Not Be Seduced by Jonathan Bailey, there's something else you can be seduced by. Do you know what that is?

Speaker 1 Hot pumpkins.

Speaker 1 Hot pumpkins.

Speaker 2 Hooters is coming home. Oh.
Hooters just went through a big bankruptcy and it's just been

Speaker 2 reacquired by its original owners. And they're bringing Hooters back to its roots.
They're re-hooterizing Hooters.

Speaker 1 It's kind of the story of 2025, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a lot of people buying their original stuff back.

Speaker 1 That's really interesting.

Speaker 2 Who would do that? Who would do that?

Speaker 1 Who would possibly do that? But do you think, how does Hooters make its mark in the world of OnlyFans?

Speaker 2 Honestly, I don't know. They said that they're planning on focusing on the food and going back to the original uniforms.

Speaker 2 I don't know what the original Hooters uniforms look like, but they're like, yeah, we're going back to our roots. We're going to have like the original uniforms.

Speaker 2 And also we're going to do like nice food where they make like the breaded fries and stuff in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 Although, let me think about this because

Speaker 1 there does seem to be a movement rapidly away from adult content online, which was kind of the death knell for Hooters 1.0 or whatever it was.

Speaker 1 So maybe this is a good time to do it, right?

Speaker 2 Because suddenly it's like, I mean, maybe this is just the right amount of titillation, as it were, for Gen Z.

Speaker 1 I mean, we might be moving into an era where you're not having stuff like that, or we're going to weaponize it with like AI, you know, where you can generate,

Speaker 1 who knows? Who boggles the mind to even think about it. But maybe it is, maybe it is a good time for it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they said post-acquisition, original Hooters is focused on restaurant upgrades, exceptional service, equipment enhancements, and a streamlined menu built around better, higher quality ingredients.

Speaker 1 Where did Hooters start? Does it say that anywhere in there?

Speaker 1 I'm asking you a question for something I'm sure you have.

Speaker 2 I want to say it was in Florida.

Speaker 1 That would make sense. It feels like a Florida restaurant to me.
That would make sense. And so they built it into this big juggernaut franchise chain.
Yeah, Clearwater, Florida. Clearwater, Florida.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
All right. Well, good luck.
I mean, I hope they do it. I do think it's an interesting era for a restaurant like Hooters.
Like what was titillating in 1995

Speaker 1 is probably not going to make a dent in 2025, but we'll see. We'll see.
Then, you know, they could just change it entirely.

Speaker 2 If they have high-quality breaded chicken wings made right there in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 Have you had Hooters food? I have not.

Speaker 2 I have not. There was, there was a Hooters in Austin that I think closed down.
And I remember I drove past it a lot and was always like, Look, Hooters. And I never went in.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was one of the restaurants that

Speaker 1 somehow managed to avoid the wrecking ball in downtown Austin as it was expanding forever. And it's like, wow, if that Hooters closes down, I know things have really changed.
And then it closed down.

Speaker 2 And then it closed down. And then

Speaker 1 closed and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm sure there's a skyrise where it used to be.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. Maybe.
I mean, last time I was there, it was like a parking lot, really weird-shaped piece of property. It's a triangle.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and like, but, but it's, it's a triangle because it's between so many roads, but it's difficult to get to from any of those roads.

Speaker 1 And if I recall correctly, too, it's like where

Speaker 1 in Austin,

Speaker 1 South First crosses First Street.

Speaker 2 I mean, if you think about it, though, it would be easy to give people directions and just go, like, get on first and go to first.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Just drive on first until you hit first and then park.

Speaker 2 And then, bam,

Speaker 1 go to Hooters, have some of the worst chicken wings of your life

Speaker 2 for now.

Speaker 1 Beer with an ice bag in it.

Speaker 1 Gross. Maybe they'll have a Hooters.
It's all the sexiest men alive from People Magazine.

Speaker 2 Look, I would go to that Hooters.

Speaker 1 When you think of, like, who's like,

Speaker 1 what was your first awareness of the sexiest man alive competition? Who was the first person you had to do?

Speaker 2 Hugh Jackman, I think. Was it Hugh Jackman?

Speaker 1 That would have been really late in the game, babe.

Speaker 2 You think I was like browsing people all the time?

Speaker 1 No. I think mine was.

Speaker 2 I was busy being like, man, Xena is the best.

Speaker 1 Okay. I think mine was Ted Danson.

Speaker 2 Way has People Magazine's sexiest man been going that long?

Speaker 1 Yeah, or George Clooney or somebody like that. It was definitely like back to the 90s.
Who is the first ever sexiest man alive? I think Sean Connery was one of them. Xena at one point.

Speaker 2 Sexiest. I can't believe I'm...
Here we go. Sexiest man alive.

Speaker 2 First sexiest man alive awarded by People Magazine was given to Mel Gibson in 1985.

Speaker 1 That's held up well, I think. 1985, huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah. So, so, yeah, your numbers are off a little bit, but it looks like Sean Connery did get it.
Uh,

Speaker 2 but after Mel Gibson in 85, I guess. Yeah, yeah, he would have been like, Yeah, he was

Speaker 2 1989. I just found a magazine cover.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look at him. Look at him there.
They're in all Scottish glory. Sean Connery.

Speaker 1 That would have been way post-James Bond. That was even like post-Roger Moore James Bond.
I think that was in the Pierce Brosnan era.

Speaker 2 I wonder if that's the

Speaker 2 interview he gave where he he was like, yes, I think hitting a woman is fine.

Speaker 1 No, that was with Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that he was giving that. Not Barbara Streisand, Barbara Walters.
Sorry, not Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 1 Barbara Walters.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 she's had some really interesting moments in a progressiveness.

Speaker 1 Like when she interviewed

Speaker 1 one of the Coreys on the view, that's a very damning conversation if you ever go back and look at that, especially the way things have changed over time. It's insane that interview with him.

Speaker 2 So speaking of things, Bernie, that did stand the test of time.

Speaker 1 Thank you for getting us out of that, by the way. Thank you.
Whatever the segue is, I'm all on board with it. Thank you.

Speaker 2 As quickly as possible. Nintendo just announced their quarterly results, their financials.
And the Switch 2, it's weird because

Speaker 2 I don't feel like anyone is really talking about the Switch 2. Like, there's not a lot of buzz, but its sales numbers are insane.

Speaker 2 In its first four months, it's past 10 million units sold, which is huge.

Speaker 1 10 million?

Speaker 2 Is it huge? It's huge. To put it in perspective, the Nintendo Switch, which by any measure was a huge success,

Speaker 2 did, I want to say, like 4 million units in roughly the same timeframe.

Speaker 2 Oh, wow. Yeah.
So the Switch 2 is moving a lot of units. And we're about to go into the holiday period where a lot of people like to buy Nintendos.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wow. Wow.
Do they have the hardware units to supply?

Speaker 2 I assume so. I haven't really heard much about shortages.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's why. Maybe they have the

Speaker 1 supply to meet the demand.

Speaker 2 They did note ahead of the Switch 2 launch that

Speaker 2 they were really focused on making sure they had enough hardware to meet the demand.

Speaker 2 And clearly,

Speaker 2 it works. I know people like to talk about how artificial scarcity drives up demand and all that.

Speaker 2 And Nintendo went, I don't think we're going to do that. And it seems to be working really well for them.

Speaker 1 Does it drive demand or does it drive marketing, right?

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 I mean, it drives buzz, which then, yeah, which then then makes people, gives them people FOMO, and then they're like, well, now I have to buy it, but I can't buy it, but I want to buy it even more now.

Speaker 1 Turns out just having enough for people to buy, that's the real secret sauce, I suppose.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, this could also be a really interesting anti-scalping measure. Just have enough.

Speaker 1 Anti-scalping, yeah. That's going to be more and more of a conversation, isn't it? The scalping stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, because like, you know, some people can have bots and go and get the thing first, right? That's just how it is.

Speaker 2 And they can, they can load up however many are available and they can get this stuff first and then sell it, you know, however they want to sell it. Unless there's enough.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 2 If there's enough and they can't do that, then really there's no market for them to operate in.

Speaker 1 So in a 13-month calendar,

Speaker 1 think about December 25th, right? That would always be 28th, 27th. Depends on if we went on Sunday.

Speaker 1 Do you want Sunday to be the first day of the week or you want Monday to be the first day of the week? We can also settle that shit too.

Speaker 2 Right. I mean, look, I would say the Monday's the first day of the week because the rest is the weekend.

Speaker 1 i think so too it's the weekend so sunday's the 28th of december saturday's the 27th friday's the 26th 6th you get thursday you get 26th you get 25th excuse me for christmas it'll always be on a thursday right right and then you get the 26th four days later four days none of this like a week later although that is kind of cool in the current calendar that you get literally new year's always one week after christmas that's nice if you celebrate christmas wouldn't you all wouldn't it always be oh you mean that it's exactly one week in the current calendar it's exactly one week, which is an arbitrary situation.

Speaker 2 In our new 13-month calendar, which we're officially moving to.

Speaker 2 All right, before you mess up our calendar anymore, I want to say a big thank you to our sponsors today, Shakahir, Jan Mohamed, and a big happy birthday as well to new mom, Michelle, who's kicking off her 30s in a big way, just before we change the calendar.

Speaker 1 You are our now sexiest people alive for 2025.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's official. You're going to get a plaque.

Speaker 1 They didn't keep down our revolution, Ashley. We were able to vote on our own, and we voted for y'all.

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Speaker 1 All right, well, that does it for us today, November 4th, 2025. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well. Bye, everybody.