2025.11.03: Everything Gets A Date

Speaker 1 The fuck is this man?

Speaker 1 Austin Fowers. Fuck shit, Michael Myers.
This is Mike Myers. It should be the Halloween man.
This is a Halloween mask. No, the killer dude from Halloween.
Argument Jason.

Speaker 1 No!

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

Speaker 1 Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is MOLLIC SOMEWHER!

Speaker 1 For November 3rd, 2025, my name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there getting ready for Super Tuesday to Ashley. Say hi to Ashley Burns, everybody.

Speaker 1 I always associate Election Day in the U.S. with November 4th because I think that was just the first election day I ever learned of.
And tomorrow, November 4th, is falling on a Tuesday.

Speaker 1 But I always associate November 4th as being the day that elections are held in the U.S.

Speaker 2 Do you think of that because

Speaker 2 it's so close to November 5th, which is Guy Fox Day?

Speaker 1 Oh, God. So we did did that this weekend.
We did Guy Fox Day.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we observed. Guy Fox Day observed was

Speaker 2 actually on Saturday. So it was a little bit early.
I guess the

Speaker 2 actual date is flexible. It's not like 4th of July where you celebrate it.
The fireworks are lit on the 4th and that's it.

Speaker 1 Hey, can we do away two things that I would love to do away with? I would love to do away with the daylight savings, which the U.S. just went through.
Okay. God bless you.

Speaker 1 We got an extra hour of sleep this today. This weekend, it's great.
But when you're up, that's when you got to make the changes, right?

Speaker 1 You can't just do it when we're down and like complain about the hour that we lose. We gained an hour this time, so you got an extra hour of sleep.
It's still not worth it, right?

Speaker 2 So then debate. Do we stay on daylight savings time forever or do we never have to stop? Does it make it has to do with when you want your light?

Speaker 1 Split a half hour. What is going on in the world that changing the clocks by an hour shifts when the sun shines?

Speaker 2 Well, it's called seasonality, Bernie. And especially here in Scotland, we get it a lot.
Like this hour shift makes a really big difference as to when you get your light and what your day looks like.

Speaker 1 So let me walk me through this, the logic of this, because everyone says this. Like this is the God-given explanation for why we do this weird ceremony.

Speaker 1 So by changing the clock an hour backwards, right? Okay. Really, when it's six o'clock now,

Speaker 1 it is seven o'clock normally?

Speaker 2 Well, no, because we set the clock clock backwards. Because we're now normal.
Now we're normal. In daylight savings time, we were unnormal.
But apparently, daylight... I guess daylight.

Speaker 2 According to who?

Speaker 1 According to who?

Speaker 2 I guess daylight savings time was, what was it?

Speaker 1 People have really strong opinions about this, and it's so fucking arbitrary.

Speaker 2 It was a World War II effort to conserve energy or something. Wow!

Speaker 2 By bringing the daylight later into the day.

Speaker 1 By bringing the daylight later into the day. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay, then that's fine. Okay, look, I'm just going to concede every other point.

Speaker 1 Then we just stick with that one okay so daylight later in the day period where humans will adapt without like going through this weird change in the clock bullshit i wasn't even my point i was going to make my point i was going to make was let's get rid of daylight savings first and then the next thing we got to target is this fourth thursday of november first tuesday in november blah blah blah of the first whatever or the second to third after the the the full moon

Speaker 1 everything gets a date period i don't care i don't don't care. Everything gets a date.
Everything. Thanksgiving gets a date.
Elections get a date. If it falls on a Sunday, who cares?

Speaker 1 More people will vote. Everything gets a date.
None of this, I hate calculating when I got to figure out when a holiday is. I had to look up when Thanksgiving was today.

Speaker 2 When is Thanksgiving? I mean, is it the fourth? No, the third Thursday.

Speaker 1 Thank you for proving my point immediately.

Speaker 1 When is the second most important holiday in America?

Speaker 1 Let me get out, calculate. Get about the fucking slide rule to make your vacation plans.

Speaker 2 How dare you? The holidays in America go like this. Christmas,

Speaker 2 birth of Santa, followed by 4th of July, birth of freedom. Then Thanksgiving, birth of naps.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 1 That's Friday. That's after Thanksgiving.
Black Friday.

Speaker 2 No, no, no. We don't sleep on Friday.

Speaker 1 Also, on Friday, we shop. It would kill Black Friday, too, which I'm happy with.
That'd be good. We need to kill some of this consumer.

Speaker 2 No, I feel like Black Friday is already

Speaker 2 well on its way out. And now it's like you just wake up early and order something online.

Speaker 2 I don't know the last time I considered, legitimately considered getting up and going out early to get a thing. I know I did it when I was a kid, right?

Speaker 2 Like I was there for the like, I don't know, 4 a.m. Walmart opening or whatever it was.
I still when everyone's going for the TVs.

Speaker 1 Well, like a couple of times.

Speaker 2 Look, if I can stay up till midnight for a console release, I can get up at 4 a.m. for a TV.
True, that's true. But also, I was probably like 12 and my mom thought that we would find it exciting.

Speaker 2 And we did because I still remember it. But I don't know the last time I felt the need to do that.
Now it's like, oh, check out what the deals are.

Speaker 2 And you already know in advance what they're going to be because everyone puts out their like deal lineup well ahead.

Speaker 2 So you're like, all right, I'm going to set myself an alarm, wake up and go tippy, tippy, tap on my phone and put that order through. Good, I got one.

Speaker 1 You know what I was thinking about? I was just thinking about like we're going into gift season or whatever.

Speaker 1 I was thinking about we're going to do a refresh on the Ruchi store, probably have something to talk about middle of this week later this week but I thought maybe doing like

Speaker 1 Like some kind of like gift guide too because it's getting tougher and tougher to figure out what to get for people and remember Eric used to always do a gift guide Yeah, yeah, yeah Eric Vespi he did a really

Speaker 2 it was a really elaborate really involved gift guide for like basically any sort of

Speaker 2 like movie movie related or like movie lifestyle thing because he he was he was very much like a movie guy

Speaker 1 and he would find like these incredible like box sets or like these incredible like limited edition like figures of stuff and he was really really good at it yeah yeah and his his gift guide became renowned so maybe we could do something like that this year i'm supposed to probably just point people to erics again this year or something like that but uh let's go chronologically through this weekend so first we did trick-or-treating that was friday night that went really well It was great.

Speaker 2 It was great.

Speaker 1 Weirdly warm here, so we didn't need to put jackets on the kids.

Speaker 2 We got lucky.

Speaker 2 We managed to find, get this one little window of time where it's been really chilly but friday it decided to warm up maybe it was all the candles and pumpkins getting switched on that like you know really just warmed up the world uh but also

Speaker 2 also there it's been really rainy and we had this little window of time where it stopped raining so the kids could go trick-or-treat without heavy jackets it was perfect we're glossing over the big event for that night though the huge discovery that was made by Ashley, where we were moving really quickly.

Speaker 1 By the way, trick-or-treating started at 5.15 here because it gets dark so early. I was like, we're going out at 5 o'clock to go trick-or-treating.
That's the end of daylight savings time.

Speaker 1 Whatever the fuck that means. I don't even want to talk about it anymore.
So stupid. Luckily, Halloween always falls on the 31st and nobody sweats about what day of the week it is, right?

Speaker 1 Weird how we manage that. It's just the 31st.
Fucking deal with it. From now on, Thanksgiving is the 25th, right? Canadians have a different Thanksgiving.
Americans have a different Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 The people who listen to this podcast can have their own Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 You know, doing it on the 35th would make it easy to remember for Americans. It's like you're doing a month after December 25th.
And then, yeah, it's your one-month warning. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Or if you want to be crazy, do it the 23rd. Then the 24th of December is Christmas Eve.

Speaker 2 Then 25th. Bernie, now you're messing up the schedules because then we can't call Black Friday Black Friday.
What if it's on a Tuesday?

Speaker 1 Exactly my point. Get rid of that.
Fucking take that out and just remove it from the calendar entirely. We don't need more consumerism.
We're fine. Even after we just talked about having a gift card.

Speaker 1 Besides, this is how upset I am about daylight savings time. It's so stupid.
The big discovery, though, was Ashley, because we were on the move, Ashley pulled, I'm talking top shelf, top tier move.

Speaker 1 She cooked a bunch of chicken nuggets in the air fryer because we were going so fast, put them in a thermos, in a Yeti thermos, and then we carried that around.

Speaker 1 I have never seen those kids eat so many chicken nuggets. Evie ate eight chicken nuggets.

Speaker 2 And she doesn't normally, normally it takes 45 minutes. She's sitting at the temperature going, eat a chicken nugget.

Speaker 1 They came out of that thermos all sweaty and soggy because they were sealed up together.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so like it kept all the moisture in and they just were like reabsorbed it and they got soggy. And I was like, like, oh, no one's gonna want these she ate so many of those.

Speaker 1 If you are on a cold Scottish street and someone hands you a hot chicken nugget, you're like, this is the best chicken nugget I've ever had in my life.

Speaker 2 You deal with the sog.

Speaker 1 She's as big as a chicken nugget. She ate.
I'm not even sure how that works. So it was successful.

Speaker 1 People put, it's weird because Halloween isn't as big a thing here, but I feel like the people who do it put in a lot more effort. Like everyone makes little

Speaker 1 like gift bags. Yeah.
That's what they get.

Speaker 2 There were a couple of the houses we went to that had like little baggies where the kids had they had like a packet of crisps and they had a little treat and then they also had like a lollipop, you know, something like that where there were multiple things and they had a gift bag.

Speaker 2 And I was like, we did not give our kids big enough Halloween baskets for this.

Speaker 1 Sidebar, we go to a lot of birthday parties now because kids are like getting up to like five years old and stuff.

Speaker 1 When I was a kid and I went to birthday parties, there was no like takeaway gift bag gift for the kids who came to the party, right? Why is that a thing now?

Speaker 2 I actually really like it.

Speaker 2 it i think it's a nice like thank you for coming right like uh when i was uh young the equivalent of that i guess would be we would take cupcakes to school for our birthday okay right like it's my birthday my mom is making the cupcakes and sending them to school and then i'm handing them out to everyone else saying it's my birthday congratulations to you makes sense makes sense and so this is like kind of the equivalent of that i feel like it's like thank you for coming to my party i appreciate this is i feel like it's the it's the parents driving it's the kids not going out and like like putting gift bags together right it's the parent driving and they're saying thank you for bringing your kid to my party it would have been really I would have been really sad if no kids came to my kids party so thank you for bringing your kid to my party I know it takes effort it took you had to organize your weekend you didn't know what day of the month it was and so we had you had to look it up and you had to reserve the time also while we're fixing things on the calendar everyone's birthday is now the sixth of the month you're welcome everybody

Speaker 1 you just get a month and that's it after a decade, we're all going to consolidate down to June 6th. That's it.

Speaker 1 That's all of our birthdays period. What difference does it make?

Speaker 1 Somebody's birthday is 10 days after somebody else's birthday. Who gives a fuck?

Speaker 2 I think there are...

Speaker 1 What do we, like, kids?

Speaker 2 I think some countries specifically count age.

Speaker 2 by year. It's like this is the first full year that you've been around.

Speaker 1 Most countries count age by year, actually.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's like, you were born in October, but you're not turning one until like the next January.

Speaker 1 Ah, I'm in my 800th moon.

Speaker 1 Hey, while we're talking about this, can I give a quick shout out to

Speaker 1 somebody on our subreddit? Go ahead. It was, there's a new trend that has developed on the subreddit.
We have a lot of commuters that listen to the show.

Speaker 1 And so we're getting more and more dash cam videos of people listening to the show.

Speaker 1 And this recent one came from CEPL28. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.

Speaker 1 He agreed with me on his Dash Cam that two seconds before I said it, that the Easter egg Reese's holiday variant is the best of the holiday variants.

Speaker 2 And does not, in fact, mess with the ratio.

Speaker 1 It's not even debatable, right? So this is why you have to, like my calendar, just like no more daylight savings. Holidays fall on a set given date.

Speaker 2 No more birthdays.

Speaker 1 Counting days of the week to celebrate the holidays. Draconians.
Americans get four days of vacation a year.

Speaker 1 Why do we have to plan and do math? Just tell us what it is and we're all off

Speaker 1 that's it that's it i don't think those ones count i'm not doing it anymore

Speaker 1 the fucking blue jays you know up in canada we can do whatever we want oh well now you're getting brutal oh wait are we to that point in the weekend

Speaker 1 the next thing we did was uh we we had a great idea for doing a play date with a community and i say great because i thought it would work and in hindsight it was uh tremendous so we started a guild in sieve thieves we didn't really push it that hard because i was kind of curious how well it would go go.

Speaker 1 It was going to go over the course the entire weekend. It was fantastic because we had this guild.
People could jump onto ships and we're playing all weekend.

Speaker 1 And then you could see when another ship set sail would let you know when somebody else in the guild started sailing.

Speaker 1 When you joined up, you could see all the different boats that were sailing and like where there were empty slots. It went great.
So we'll keep that going.

Speaker 1 And probably for future games, as they become popular, I'm like an eight-year-old game that I play exclusively, we'll be doing more stuff like that. But thank you to everyone who participated.

Speaker 1 It was amazing. And if you're you're interested in more video game talk, we talked about it at length.
What did I do? Like 30 minutes on Sea of Thieves last night? Basically. In the sponsor chat?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the back end chat. So, and you had, as part of this play date, you had what you said was your best

Speaker 2 session of Sea of Thieves in the past eight years you've been playing. This was your best session ever.
Right.

Speaker 2 While the World Series final game was happening and was also an incredible game.

Speaker 1 So Friday night, the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays to extend the World Series to game seven. So then it was do or die.
So then I was like, okay, I've got to watch this game live.

Speaker 1 I just can't wake up in the morning and find out who won the World Series. So I thought, I'll play Sea of Thieves with the Americans.
I'll get on at midnight. I'll start playing.
It'll be

Speaker 1 six, seven o'clock their time, whatever the fuck it was on Saturday, you know, on the fifth Saturday in October or whatever.

Speaker 1 I started playing with them. And then I had the game like on the side on my phone phone while I'm playing.

Speaker 1 And I did this kind of shitty thing where I was playing on a webcam mic instead of a headset and like it kept like interrupting the voice chat all the time with the ball game.

Speaker 1 So I finally figured that after a while and changed it. Played till four in the morning.

Speaker 1 What a phenomenal game. The Blue Jays, man, I feel so bad for Blue Jays fans because that whole series

Speaker 1 You can tell by the way I'm talking about this, the Dodgers ended up winning in 11 innings. They ended up winning.
It extended into extra innings for game seven of the World Series.

Speaker 1 But in the entire series, the Blue Jays dominated, I felt like the games they won, they won handily. The problem is, they didn't win any of the close games at all.

Speaker 1 Like, even the 18-inning one, that was the Dodgers. The Dodgers somehow came back from like a 3-0 deficit.
I think it was 4-1 at one point.

Speaker 1 And they just clawed their way back to in the top of the ninth, tied up the game, and then ended up winning in the 11th inning.

Speaker 1 And it was so crazy because it was like the last two, I was complaining about basketball the other day, how everything happens in the last five minutes. That was kind of like this.

Speaker 1 Blue Jays had a chance to win it. They got the bases loaded with only one out.

Speaker 1 So they had all the opportunity in the world to just get someone across home plate in the bottom of the ninth to win the World Series. And I'm not kidding you, Ashley.

Speaker 1 They came within about two inches of that. Like they had a guy cross-home plate.
It was a grounder to second.

Speaker 1 The guy, the second baseman stumbled picking it up for the dodgers threw it home if he had thrown it like an inch more to the left to his left the catcher would have had to come completely off the plate there was some like closeness of like him getting his foot back on the plate and it was called save on the field and they couldn't overrule it it was that close to it the weird thing was the dodgers had the exact same scenario in the following inning working from memory here it was four in the morning for me uh but uh they had the bases loaded again with one out and they couldn't get it done either and they ended up winning on a solo home run uh and they they won the world series now they're back-to-back champions i think first time in like 23 years or something like that that's impressive yeah yeah it was impressive and i feel like they i feel like they got away with one in this one so hats off to the blue jays and the blue jays fans um i thought canada deserved a big win uh this year but uh you know just wasn't in the cards this time and uh congrats to the dodgers they did great so now that your uh your baseball world series is over are you switching focus to college football yeah i'll probably switch over to college football it was weird because texas got uh out as one of the big upsets of the week.

Speaker 2 Upsets in a good way or bad?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because Texas, number 20, Texas, beat number nine Vanderbilt. And it's so funny to read that at this point in the season when we were ranked number one at the beginning of the season.

Speaker 1 And now we get shout-outs.

Speaker 2 They're like, oh, this sucky team did great for once.

Speaker 1 Oh, look at this huge upset. Texas beat Vanderbilt.
You know what I mean? Not usually a classic historical headline. All that matters at this point for Texas is the A ⁇ M game.
That's it. That's it.

Speaker 2 Once again.

Speaker 2 That's the one that you're now headed towards?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then somebody's got to take out Ohio State at some point.
You know, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 Well, speaking of major upsets, Bernie,

Speaker 2 Nintendo has been handed a big legal win.

Speaker 2 They filed a lawsuit a while ago against

Speaker 2 this person who kept pirating Nintendo games, getting them even before release,

Speaker 2 streaming them, and then also telling other people how to get them. And so they filed a lawsuit against this person.
They've now been handed a legal victory

Speaker 2 because the defendant reportedly did not prepare a defense or any objections.

Speaker 2 So, it's just like, it's like judgment in default.

Speaker 1 Nintendo got the victory against this person because the person didn't respond to a lawsuit.

Speaker 2 Basically, so which is interesting because the pirate Jesse every game guru Keegan

Speaker 2 or Keeheen

Speaker 2 infamously wrote

Speaker 1 shorter shorter than your actual name

Speaker 2 wrote like on social media that they had like a thousand burner channels to stream from and saying they could like do this all day. They said,

Speaker 2 you might run a corporation, but I run the streets.

Speaker 1 What? What streets?

Speaker 1 I love it. He's talking about NBA Street, the video game.
He owns it. It's Rainbow Road.
Right, Rainbow Road.

Speaker 1 Listen, I'm out here on these Rainbow Roads, man.

Speaker 1 You can't keep up with me.

Speaker 2 So Nintendo's now now been awarded $17,500 in damages, which honestly, like, that's a lot of money for, you know, everyday people like you and me.

Speaker 2 But for Nintendo, I'm kind of surprised that they didn't go for something a lot higher, just because Nintendo is infamously litigious. They love to make a point.

Speaker 1 Right, let me get this straight. Did they pull out their blue shell in the form of the giant law firm on Retainer? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sorry, pal.

Speaker 2 So yeah, Nintendo's always been like really litigious in that way honestly everyone's like hey nintendo you're going a little bit overboard here a lot of times right um but in this case i mean this guy was literally pirating the games streaming the games telling other people how to pirate the games and then going nintendo like nyen yen yeah i dare you so i mean i it's

Speaker 2 I have limited sympathy for the guy in this specific case, although in a lot of cases, I'm like, Nintendo, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 While we're cutting stuff today we're fixing the calendar can i cut something else what are we cutting the three green shells that you get in mario give me the red shells or don't you know or give me the green shell by itself and let me be disappointed the three green shells it just feels like what could have been no if you get three green shells though that's that probably means you're towards the front of the pack and that's when you get the shitty power-ups right like that's when you're getting a banana It's the worst.

Speaker 1 But it at least goes back. I guess this shell goes backwards.
Shell can go backwards.

Speaker 2 Shells go backwards. You know, but it just, it means that you're doing well and and you don't need the help.

Speaker 1 Okay. How do you feel about the blue shell?

Speaker 2 The blue shell, whenever I see that thing,

Speaker 1 let me ask you a question. Let me rephrase that.

Speaker 1 Let me rephrase that. Okay.
I asked you how you felt about the blue shell. Let me rephrase that in a way that's less biased.

Speaker 1 Do you believe in achievement or are you a person who's a socialist who just believes

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 2 let me tell you this? The blue shell is the game, is the Mario Kart equivalent of the crap bucket, right? The like you're doing too well. Let's just pull you back down there.

Speaker 2 Although, I actually have heard that there's some, there's something you can do, and if you have the like exact precise timing and doing the thing, you can avoid the blue shell.

Speaker 1 Horse shit. Horse shit.
What is that precise thing that you can do?

Speaker 2 Well, first of all, you have to set the clocks back.

Speaker 1 Oh, did you learn this where you can get like Mewtwo under the truck or whatever, too? Did you read that in the same form post?

Speaker 2 Yeah, that urban legend.

Speaker 1 Fucking blue shells. They're the worst.

Speaker 1 Would you, do you think, hate the blue shell as much if you didn't have the warning that it was coming and there's nothing you could do about it no no because at least that gives me time to prepare if all of a sudden i just exploded when i'm in first place i don't know it would make for some better moments i think maybe so quick recap

Speaker 1 sol dates for holidays no more daylight savings Everybody's birthday is on the same day of the year. No more blue shell.

Speaker 2 I feel like Bernie woke up woke on the wrong side of the panel.

Speaker 1 I fixed so much stuff today

Speaker 1 for a Monday. I can go back to bed.

Speaker 2 I woke up and fixed the world.

Speaker 1 I did.

Speaker 2 I fixed everything. There's been another legal upset as well, by the way.

Speaker 2 Maybe this will wrap on because this is like a nice conclusion in a lot of ways, which is that its official, Justin Beldoni, has lost his $400 million lawsuit,

Speaker 2 but for a really similar reason to the Nintendo streamer.

Speaker 1 Why? He says we run these streets

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 2 he didn't file paperwork to amend claims before a deadline.

Speaker 1 What the fuck is going on? Do people just think they can ignore the court?

Speaker 2 Honestly. Didn't he file the lawsuit? Yeah, yeah, the lawsuit was filed.
It was thrown out

Speaker 2 before because I guess some of the claims in it, the judge said, like, these are not claims that you can make in a lawsuit, basically saying that.

Speaker 2 Because part of his claim was that over comments that Blake Lively had made in her harassment

Speaker 2 complaint, and then there was a New York Times article about it as well. And those were mentioned in his lawsuit.
And the judge said,

Speaker 2 those are reportable things. You can't claim those in your lawsuit.

Speaker 2 So he had to amend the claim, didn't do it. And so now the deadline has passed and it's just thrown out.
Go ahead, Bernie, with your hand raised.

Speaker 1 I would like to remind you, Ashley, point of order, that we said we were no longer going to talk about this stupid lawsuit. Right.

Speaker 2 But this is like the end. This is it.

Speaker 2 It ends with us.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Not going to respond.

Speaker 1 I'm going to keep my integrity and I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to talk about this.
Not even in the face of that overwhelmingly horrible pun.

Speaker 1 Just gonna stand back. I'm gonna keep my honor.
That's what I'm gonna do. Ashley, who do we have to thank for keeping us honest?

Speaker 2 I want to say a big thank you to today's legal winners, Jacob Neal and Walker Woollett. Thank you both so much for sponsoring our show at patreon.com/slash morning somewhere and roosterteeth.com.

Speaker 1 Yes, thank you for sponsoring on the first Monday in November, which is the most important holiday of the year. All right, everybody, that does it for us today.
November 3rd, 2025.

Speaker 1 We're going to be back to talk to you tomorrow. We hope you will be here as well.

Speaker 2 Bye, everybody.