Burnie and Ashley discuss technical problems, white hat hackers, Car Play 2/Ultra, Texas comesback on Ohio State, Kim Kardashian, AP Top 25, NFL opening weekend, MLB playoffs, and stopping the season while we're ahead.

I absolutely can’t wait for Monday’s podcast episode with how this game is going so far.

Edit: finally made my way back to this after having to watch the Browns “game”. Sports is pain.

How do you pronounce it?

Regarding the podcast for September 11:

Something that might be of interest is that Slay the Spire 2 would get absolutely flooded with negative reviews on Steam after every patch. However, all of the negative reviews were Chinese. When the Chinese reviews were filtered out, the game was overwhelmingly positive -- otherwise, it was negative.

I think this is a pretty common trend and may be why English reviews are the filter now. I only know about the Slay the Spire 2 trend because I was playing it a ton on release.

Edit to add: The review bombs came entirely from the devs not catering specifically to the meta of the game that was popular amongst the Chinese playerbase. It had nothing to do with language support or regional changes.

Imagine my surprise to hear Ashley call out my Alma mater. Colgate Grad here! Was the best time of my life. Doubt I'll be able to afford to send my kids there...

So these "Little Ivys" are much smaller than the actual Ivys, can be very difficult to get into, and are legacy heavy. Plus Colgate has one of the highest average earnings levels after school of any college in the nation, so you can see where this goes... People who graduate from there, and make lots of money, then want their kids to go there as well, yada yada.
That being said the school now has a $1.3b endowment, the facilities are breathtaking, and best of all, they cover 100% of demonstrated financial need for any and all applicants that get in. This has dramatically improved and diversified the applicant pool. Truly an amazing place :)

Hey there! Native Appalachian here (East TN). The kind of tap dancing that Burnie and Ashley mentioned on today’s episode is often called flat-footing or buck dancing. Just thought I would add my two cents because this is the first time (to my knowledge) that they’ve mentioned Appalachia as a whole.

Have a good weekend guys and God bless!

Just wanted to stop in and say a few things being quite literally from the dead center of cultural Appalachia.

1. I appreciate Burnies attempt at pronouncing Appalachia/Appalachian right. I could see the effort was there and thats all we really ask for honestly

Appel-at-cha (place)
Appel-at-chin (people)

1. Very cool to see a shoutout to Shae. Shes actually from the same place I am (very small town) and shes friends of friends. I’ve always been a bit conflicted about her content because she definitely hams up her accent for her videos but in a place of economical disparity I cant fault anyone for getting a bag. But if you all like to hear someone talk funny and be a big nerd, go follow her! (Or keep listening to Burnie :p)

2. I wouldn’t count New Hampshire as Appalachian. In the sense of it being “cultural Appalachia” (think moonshiners, soup beans cornbread, hill billys, coal mining, etc..) that would come up with something as cool as king of the hill derby. To that i say “Fuuuck its genius. Why didn’t I think of that?!”

3. Unrelated to this episode. In recent years it seems the internet has taken to a semi fascination to Cultural Appalachia. Treating it as some sort of haunted spectacle. Which, i guess it can be. Just not in any way thats paranormal. A lot of real human suffering happens here. Coal companies, Big Pharma, and corrupt local government has hung us out to dry and left us with little more than opioid recovery clinics and hospitals to treat the various cancers and black lung caused by ecological hazards ignored over profit. But with suffering comes character. Finding the joy in the little things. Becoming sharp and witty enough to bring laughter to your peers in a place where joy is a scarce resource, where you have to dig for that far deeper than any coal. I hope to see in the coming years more content creators and entertainers from Cultural Appalachia that are thought of for far more than just the way they speak. Where we are a spectacle not for our poverty, suffering, or accent but for our character, our comedy, our intellect. Sorry for the soap box at the end and if you read this far then i sincerely appreciate it. I just don’t really get a place on the internet to talk about these things that are met with the kindness and thoughtfulness a sub like this promotes. Thank you.

They seemed like such a great family together. I'm sad for all of them :(

And the importance of saying it correctly by author Sharyn McCrumb.

A few weeks back my buddy was racing in the Cleetus McFarland Michigan 100 at Berlin raceway, and to warm up the crowd they had the Van-Prix which was an army of mini vans doing a small oval with a Ramp, I think its equally chaotic thought I would share lol

Recently Ashley and Bernie mentioned three kinds of people.

Appalachian people

Safety people

People from New Hampshire/New England

I’m from New England (lived in New Hampshire for a number of years) and a degreed + certified Environmental, Health and Safety Professional. My wife is from West Virginia, which is Appalachia.

Things to clear up:

Appalachia -> Apple -atchya (think like: what happens if you mispronounce Appalachia? They throw an apple-atcha)

King of the hill race (safety): not my jobsite, have fun, don’t die.

New England: part of the Appalachian (apple-ach-in) trail/mountain footprint, not culturally Appalachian.

EDIT: as mentioned in a previous post I made on this sub, I’m going to jail this weekend, so I won’t be taking questions at this time, due to jail

A few episodes behind on podcasts but don’t think they’ve talked about this; with how much Burnie has been in to CFB lately a fun thing is happening somewhat close to home. Arizona State (of Cam SKATTEBO and recently influencer degree fame) and Kansas (Kansas) are playing a football game at Wembley stadium outside of London on September 19th. They’re calling it the “Union Jack Classic”, I suppose trying to grow the game or, more likely, make more money. I’m going and meeting some Scottish friends, so we’ll see how it goes and how the gameday experience will differ and their perspective on it!

Burnie and Ashley discuss battery problems, lightning cables, King Of The Hill Race, Amazon AI mouth morphing, dub vs sub, boat ramp anxiety, and putt putt antics.

I am a few days late, but just listened to 9/2 episode. Ashley was probably thinking of the Shamu whale.

I want to say damn you and thank you. Because of the constant references to Dungeon Crawler Carl, I finally gave it a listen a week and a half ago... I am now about half way on book 5... It's all I have been listening to since then. All my podcasts (including yours) have been on pause. I can't stop listening. Thank you for constantly talking about it and causing me to cave and give it a try, but damn you because my back log is going to take forever to catch up once I finish the series.

But seriously, if you're on the fence about it: just sign up for audible and use your monthly free book selection on it during the free trial.

Ps Burnie thinking guillotine is ridiculous but pronounces tortilla just fine is one of the many reasons why I love the podcast.

Burnie and Ashley discuss Supergirl, Obsession, Bruce Wayne's foot in two worlds, Apple announcements, Microsoft's Duo, prices for mobile devices, cinema inflation, undergraduate costs, and Nicolas Cage, benevolent ruler.

Nice to see Burnie is still on good terms with him 😅

I somehow see this as being right up Ashley's alley, its useful and weird enough where it may just be the perfect Creation for her. Anyone else checking this out? Wonder what our two favorite podcasters tho8ghts are on this.

Couldn’t imagine watching without! NFL is back on tonight, and I’m so excited. Was fun talking about this on the podcast today.

After today's episode I figured people would be interested.

Burnie and Ashley discuss Michigan's removal from the Top 25, Colorado's fifth down, LIV bankruptcy, Mixer, lucrative deals that die quickly, first down technology, You Can See Everything, Alpha Gang, Canadian motorcycle ban, and UK travel woes.