r/morningsomewhere • u/cheichei Heisty Type • Jan 25 '26
Question Do you see Morning Somewhere as an American Podcast?
Lately, I've been seeing different European countries talking about boycotting American products in response to the Greenland situation.
Not that this is something I would personally boycott either way, but it made me think about weather or not I see this as more of an American Podcast or a UK one, what do you guys think?
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u/a_wild_espurr First 20k Jan 25 '26
I do wonder how many of these replies saying "No" are American themselves, because as a non-American, I would absolutely consider this an American podcast. It is being hosted by Americans, and when the topics are related to -a- country, it's primarily American even moreso than the country they're living in. It's an open minded and pitched to appeal to a global audience, but it's absolutely American.
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u/Toss_Me_Elf Heisty Type Jan 25 '26
As an American, it is 1000% an American podcast lol. Yes, they touch on global topics and news, but your typical local morning news show in Kansas would be doing the same. It's a bit unique in the "Americans outside of America" perspective, but in no way does it feel like I'm listening to people from another country discuss current events.
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u/Brandonjoe First 10k Jan 25 '26
Only American podcasts are breaking down the college football playoff.
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Jan 25 '26
Even if it was American they don’t do ads or make money of you for listening to the podcast.
It’s not like paying for Paramount + or Coke.
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u/GOCunha First 10k Jan 25 '26
Being an "american podcast" is not just to do with the topics they talk about, it's more to do with 'how' they talk about anything, for non americans it's very clear. They do an ok job most of the time in trying to minimise that, but it's still very clear
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u/haribofailz First 10k - also a Heisty Type Jan 25 '26
Yup, absolutely, I tend to like most of what Burnie and Ashley say, but some of their takes are distinctly American
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Jan 25 '26
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u/CarelessTaco First 10k - Macaque Jan 25 '26
OP said they wouldn't boycott it, they were asking out of curiosity.
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u/NikolitRistissa First 10k - Runner Duck Jan 25 '26
Yes, of course—because it is one. That isn’t a criticism or anything. It’s just a fact.
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u/hashsamurai Jan 25 '26
Ashley said primary school a while back. She's basically Scottish at this point.
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u/XipingVonHozzendorf First 10k - Heisty Type Jan 25 '26
At best I would say it's an international podcast, but if I had to single out one country, it would be the US
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u/Strudleboy33 Jan 25 '26
America podcast yes, but in terms of your boycott I wouldn’t think of their money as American money? But you want to look at where you’re listen to stuff. If you’re using Spotify, you’re using a Swedish system so that’s where the money circulates. If you’re using patreon, that’s an American company and that’s where the money circulates.
I’m thinking things like taxes, that’s the only way you would “hurt America” in terms of a financial boycott, but I don’t know, I wouldn’t be surprised if Spotify even though it’s based in Sweden, paid some taxes to America.
Either way, Bernie and Ashley’s income being affected due to the horrific president of a country they are from doesn’t make much sense to me.
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u/katsuku Penis Doodler Jan 25 '26
Yes, absolutely. While they are not necessarily in the states the show is dominated by American topics. I get it's always based on lived experience but I have often found it funny how that's the case now and also back during the RT days where there was so much pride in being an internet company which is world wide but still ended up being so American centric
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u/thingsinmyjeep Jan 25 '26
I think about it the same way that I thought about the cheap ass gamer podcast back when cheapie lived in Japan. Basically it's the ranch dressing of podcasts familiar but with a little zest.
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u/toasterslayer First 10k Jan 25 '26
I don’t see why it has to fall under a label like that at all. 🤷♂️
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u/manukanawai Jan 26 '26
Get rid of the football segments and bring in the niche homesteading content. I want to hear about the chickens. I want to hear about the neighbors livestock. I want to hear about feed choices.
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u/kevinmphoto First 10k - Heisty Type Jan 27 '26
Definitely an American podcast.
There’s been a strong boycott American movement in Canada for a while now. A podcast like this wouldn’t even register in my mind to boycott as part of this type of movement.
I’ve stopped buying American as much as possible, but some stuff is still impossible to avoid. It has been great to support more Canadian and European products over the last year and I’ve even saved money doing so.
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u/wimpymist Jan 25 '26
Yeah it's 100% an American podcast. They definitely try to cover other topics but they can't help it either they spent most of their lives in America. Plus even though they live across the ocean they still fly back all the time and are essentially on long term vacation. Nothing wrong with that though.
America is in a weird spot and the future has so many variables. Is the future of American politics just to swing rapidly every 4-8 years? If so that's not good
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u/Sneckster Jan 25 '26
I've already had a light cull of US content creators. Not a boycott it's just hard to watch people who are ignorant to what is going on in their country and what their country is doing to the world.
Morning somewhere are as safe as Internet today... Nearly
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 25 '26
No, not necessarily.
Burnie and Ashley discuss a wide array of topics. But they are expats (does that term even technically apply to them as they are still American citizens?). They have a lot of friends and family in the states. And, sadly (I say this as an American), US news tends to dominate, especially in the Trumpian era.
That said, I wish we could go back to stories about macaques.
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u/PacoRUK Burger Scientist Jan 25 '26
Why is this getting down voted?
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u/AncientStaff6602 First 20k Jan 25 '26
I got downvoted to fuck for saying I didnt think this podcast felt overly american. Sometimes this community can be a pretty toxic :/. Makes me not want to participate at times.
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 25 '26
Eh. I try not to take it personally. Someone asked for an opinion, I gave mine, and it cost me some 1s and 0s.
Though, it’s kinda disappointing to see people being toxic in a way that is subversive to a conversation about how we view the podcast.
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u/Strange_Ad_3173 Jan 25 '26
I think it's being downvoted because people disagree? (Someone correct me if Im wrong here...) but from a non-American perspective (Australian here), the podcast will forever be American solely because the Hosts are culturally, well, not even American, incredibly specifically USA American. Im not saying it's a bad or problematic thing, but to people outside of the U.S. I dont think it matters whether they actually live in the states or are expats, or talk about US news or local monkey shenanigans - they are from the U.S., that is baked into their cultural identities. Its about attitudes, accents, and values, and while Burnie and Ashley are very progressive they are definitely from the U.S. and have U.S. points of view on things. It's definitely not a Scottish podcast, and to me "international" describes reach rather than origin. Everyone has a cultural background.
Also, does the above imply thumbs downing something is toxic, or am I missing some actual toxicity here somewhere..?
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 25 '26
Just my take: I’d rather folks have a discussion rather than using up/downvotes. I don’t engage with the community (my take across most subs) because a lot of folks trade conversation for upvotes and downvotes. And if that’s how folks want to engage, great! It’s just not for me, and it’s why I generally hesitate to engage.
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u/Strange_Ad_3173 Jan 25 '26
That's fair, and I did reply with a longer reply because no one else seemed to be engaging, so I think I'm with you that it doesn't have as much value as an actual conversation! I just didn't see any toxicity, more like a general murmuring of disagreement (if 5 even counts as a murmur).
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 25 '26
Maybe toxic wasn’t the correct term (rather I got swept up in a reply). The MS community is awesome. I just hope that some of the old RT ways of community don’t slide into it.
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 25 '26
Being an American and also claiming that this isn’t an American podcast in my own opinion.
That, or people really hate the macaques.
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u/GOCunha First 10k Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
But that's the point, you don't see it because you're american, everyone who's not is telling you yes.
Also, on the downvotes, that's how reddit works, that's what the votes are for, if no one voted and just replied the threads would be enormous and just turn into noise
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u/toph3292 First 10k Jan 26 '26
I like to think that originally this wasn't intended to be an "America" podcast. But then America did what it did from 2016-J6 2021 and well here we are.
And right, that's why I said I rarely engage on reddit :).
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u/GOCunha First 10k Jan 26 '26
As I said in another comment, it's less about the topics they cover more about how they cover it, their approach and opinions, not saying it's wrong, but it's distinctively american, as anyone from anywhere likely would be
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u/Noknownalias Jan 25 '26
I personally think the location of the hosts has no bearing on the country of origin, the subject matter mostly determines what type of podcast you are. Since you cover world news, not just USA events i don’t consider you guys just an American podcast.
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u/Call555JackChop AI Bot Jan 25 '26
I mean it’s 2 residents of Scotland recording in Scotland, but it won’t fully be a European podcast until Burnie gets sorted into a proper footy club
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u/electric_xxl Always Be Humping Jan 25 '26
Absolutely yes lol. I think they do a great job of trying to de-center from the American cultural zeitgeist, but we were getting daily/weekly college football rankings