2025.07.22: Milk Flight

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for July 22nd, 2025.

My name is Bernie Burns, sitting right over there.

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It's Jason Seldani.

Say hi to Jason, everybody.

Hello, I'm back.

I'm the gift that keeps on giving.

Three times in one week, man.

You get to be the standard guest house.

It might be two over the course of two weeks.

I think one was listening.

Listen,

we're going to get into the speaking of which I have a co-host where we argue with each other.

I did something special just for you because I was on my way over here.

I was about to come over here.

It's not that special, but

I got excited.

I don't know if you do the same thing, but I basically wear the same outfit non-stop.

I have different versions of it.

Look at this.

I mean, I'm wearing my Psycho Bunny Pillow.

I was wearing earlier today.

I was wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts.

And that's the same thing I'd worn over here two previous times.

So now I'm wearing green shorts.

Man, Man, I do like the same thing.

Like,

you know what I mean?

Yeah, I thought something.

Something changed.

Something's different.

He offered me a Waterloo before he even, I was all the way in the door.

Everybody, drink Waterloo.

Go to drinkwaterloo.com.

Is it Drink Waterloo?

Drink Waterloo is the social handle for it.

Okay, Waterloo.

I'm a big fan of it.

It's good.

I like the Summer Berry.

Summerberry is excellent.

I'm double-fisting a lemon lime and a summer berry.

The grape is the one I drink.

Don't have this, obviously, in Scotland.

You know, this is my iron brew of Scotland, of America, I should say.

We had a fun American experience today where JD and I dropped off Teddy somewhere, and we were just going to go to the little fast food restaurant right by our old neighborhood, Circle C, that we used to always go to when we were kids.

And Teddy was like, I kind of want to go over it.

We're like, we're fine, we'll go next time.

So JD and I were going to go, but then we passed on the way

Westgate Lanes, the

bowling alley.

Yeah.

It's one of the few bowling alleys left.

Yeah, they got rid of

Dart Bowl.

Dark Bowl's gone.

That was like an

Dart Bowl was weird because because that was a place where everyone would say, Go get enchiladas

at the cafe at Dart Bowl.

So, did the like the chef ever get their own place or a food?

No, but there's a there is a restaurant here called El Dorado Cafe that

on the menu has something called Dart Bowl enchiladas.

Is that right?

But they're like 19 bucks and they're kind of the same.

It's not the same, it's definitely not the same.

So, we just we were passing and we said, I said, Ha ha, do you want to go bowling?

Jay goes, I'll go bowling.

So, we said, Fuck it, we can't really do that in rural Scotland, you know, just decide at the drop of a hat.

We're gonna go bowling.

So we bowled,

we bowled three games.

Okay.

And I'm embarrassed to admit I am sore.

Tomorrow I'm going to be like, I'm going to have to roll out of bed.

Yeah, it's going to suck.

You're not going to realize like your hamstrings are going to be sore tomorrow even if I'm sore.

Your foot by my shoulder is sore.

I don't know why my left foot is sore.

I'm right-handed.

Left foot.

Yeah.

You're planting hard on that thing.

I got to say, dude.

Western.

You're doing pretty good.

What?

Oh, going downhill or what?

Yeah, like the shoes were in kind of bad shape.

Like, they were kind of coming apart.

I should have taken a photo of them.

But I did pretty good.

I bowled about, like, on average, I bowled about a 130 across three games.

Which is good.

For me, if I break 100.

Yeah, 130 is good.

I'm pretty happy with that.

Maybe your foot hurts because the shoe was falling apart.

That's what I'm thinking.

It was just a piece of shit shoe.

Yeah.

They're so flat.

They got like an eighth of an inch of a sole, you know?

Yep.

Probably all worn out.

All that spray in there.

I never understood why you would want to slide when you bowl because I guess that's the thing until you wear normal sneakers.

And then it feels like it just stops you.

feels fucked up I don't think I've ever done it but I could picture that it feels really weird you mentioned bowling

this probably is gonna seem unrelated at first but it's not we were on a

we were on a road trip through Colorado a few weeks ago and we were in southwestern Colorado there's all these mountain passes you got to go through they're kind of harrowing and we had taken this train from Durango to Sillerton we took a bus back and The bus driver, the whole way, is telling us like scary stories about these fucking mountain passes and how there's no guardrails because they have to plow the snow off them in the winter and all that shit.

And I was thinking, you know how at a bowling alley, you can put the bumpers up.

Yeah.

Why can't they do that with guardrails?

That's a good point.

I mean, it'd be expensive as fuck, but put them up.

They just go.

They could even pivot on their posts and fucking sweep the snow off for you.

When I was teaching Teddy to drive,

there was where his mom lived.

So half the time it felt like we were going down past there to drop him off or picking him up from there to take him out for a driving lesson.

It was like this long stretch of like a culvert on either side with no guardrail.

That's scary.

I held my breath every single time we went over it.

He was perfectly fine, no issues with it at all.

But every single time I was like,

Can you say the name of the restaurant you were going to go to when you were about to pass Westgate?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's not a big deal.

I don't even know if it was secret.

We're going to go to Culver's.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, you need the custard.

Yeah, we haven't lived in Circle C in a long time.

That was like when people talk about, you know, suburban hell like McMansion, every house, cookie cutter, everything looks the same.

That's exactly what it was.

It was like a nicer version of what I grew up in in Houston.

You know, it was like, it was just by that point in Houston development, they were just like, we got a shitload of land.

Just, it's almost like Sim City, just plop, plop, plop, putting the squares down, you know?

The reason I asked about the restaurant is because when I was here the other day, I think I was, I think I was leaving for like 40 minutes and we just kept talking about food and restaurants that are closed or still here.

We wish we could go to.

Wasn't even the sandwich place you told me of?

Like in West Campus, it had an awesome name.

Was it a sandwich place?

No, Delaware?

No, something else.

Philadelphia?

No.

Mad Donkin Beans?

No, that's awesome.

There's a place called Snarfs that I've never.

I've been to Snarfs.

It's okay.

Is it okay?

Yeah, it's not bad.

What's that?

There's a place that reminds me of the places I would go to when I lived in New York.

Like in 1979.

It's like a little place in Hyde Park with like a red and bee.

Is that what?

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, like a red and white.

Having a bee still there.

It probably is.

And like a house?

I passed it just the other day.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, it's still there, man.

Having a bee was good.

There's some things you'll never be able to kill.

Yeah.

And there's one, and I don't know why I didn't go there.

We were explaining this on the Patreon, I think, this weekend.

There was an IHOP

down at Mopac and BK, 2244.

Okay.

A little IHOP there.

It was there forever.

And me and the kids would go there all the time.

I could order for the kids.

Like, I knew exactly what they're going to eat.

No, they closed it.

right?

Because every time we went in there, we were the only people there, you know?

And I think they even had a smoking section.

It was so fucking old.

And it was like so run down and everything.

And then it went out of business or they closed the location because there was nobody ever going in there.

Then they opened some Austin breakfast eatery there.

It's a breakfast place in the exact same location.

And now there's a two-hour.

And it's always crowded.

What the fuck is that, man?

I thought it was all supposed to be a location.

It's not.

It's just like, but I know that place.

In about a year, no one's going to go there anymore.

Yeah.

That's in a weird spot to get to, kind of.

It is in kind of weird.

It's got one of the only roundabouts in Austin, like from back in the day, you know?

There's more now.

Yeah.

That was like one of the only ones that roundabout there.

And then like Hyde Park, I guess, has some.

There's one at 51st and I-35.

It's awful.

I hate that one.

We used to drive through.

I drove through to go to the roostery studio all the time.

And when they first put it in, it was a nightmare, but it got better.

Like people figured it out over time.

I still don't like it.

But when they first put it in, it was like, no.

There's a, I'll have to show it to you the map.

I'll post it in the linked up.

Down by Circle C.

They built this after we moved away.

Okay, here's two roads going like this, right?

Okay, I'm doing like separated highway, two roads from passwords.

I can't see that.

This is how the road goes.

Okay.

Oh, why?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like it crosses over itself, and then people who you're essentially driving on the left, not

like

the traffic going one way in the divided highway is on the left.

It's on the wrong side of each other.

Yes.

On there in your actual street yourself, you're fine, of course.

You're driving, but it's just it crosses over.

there's a couple places that do that i don't know there's a there's a spot like that up near where ikea is in round rock or yeah you know georgetown kind of and the whole intersection over i-35 is like that and they call it like a diverging diamond or something like that and somehow you end up on the fucking wrong side of traffic and it's supposed to help the flow of traffic but i don't see how i don't see how when i'm turning right to go in there i'm like i don't know which way to fucking somebody's gonna explain how it's better but it's not i'll put it this way i'm going to make a right turn on a red and instead of looking to my left at traffic in my lane, I'm looking across the street to the other side.

Is somebody facing you or something?

Right.

It's coming at me diagonally or something like that.

And the other traffic in front of me is crossing the other way.

Here's what I know: I know that that intersection has a name, and it's probably got a Wikipedia entry

for it that I need to read, and it'll make sense to me once I read it.

Maybe not.

Does Austin, I see cameras everywhere in Austin, traffic cameras, but they're either for toll roads, which, by the way, that's fucking bullshit.

Yes.

It's one of the worst things about Austin now.

Or they are cameras, like sensors for traffic lights to tell you when cars are there.

Like they don't have any speed cameras here.

I don't think so.

They did at one point in a couple locations.

I haven't seen any in a long time, and I definitely haven't gotten a ticket for one.

But there's cameras on the toll roads, which are everywhere, and which you don't realize that you'll get on it for like three minutes and spend like $7.

Well, and then if you don't pay the bill in time, you spend like $70.

Yeah, 50 bucks.

That's a lot.

It's fucking.

I told you I got a $50 ticket for parking at an expired parking meter the other day.

That's also a lot.

But I was going to say that in the UK, there's so many

traffic cameras to catch you speeding in somebody.

Give you tickets.

You get a picture of yourself in the mail and the camera says you were speeding or you had your phone in your hand.

I know somebody who got a ticket for speeding while they had their phone in their hand and they lost their license.

For how long?

For like a year.

Jesus.

And they were like, I'm going to Germany for a year.

And I guess you can't contest it.

They got a photo of you doing it, right?

I mean, what do you do if you live in rural Scotland?

You're not going to catch an Uber.

You know what I mean?

What are you going to do?

You don't have a fucking license.

They don't fuck around with that stuff.

The cost of getting a U.K.

driver's license is so much more expensive in the U.S.

And it's so much more stringent, the test, that even to the point where if you're driving with the instructor in the car or the test agent.

And like, say, somebody's waiting to cross traffic or someone's waiting to cross in a crosswalk and you wave them ahead, you fail the test because you're directing traffic.

What?

And you're just supposed to follow the rules of the road.

I direct traffic all the time.

They don't fuck around with that stuff.

Like when you go to

like say like between cities,

there's even cameras that record you at this point.

And then when you get like a hundred or 200 miles down the road, it records you at that point.

And then it gives your average speed.

It'll give you a ticket if you keep going too fast.

It can give you a ticket even if you weren't going fast in front of the camera.

Jeez.

Yeah.

I was worried about that in Italy because there's parts of old towns that you can't drive.

further into.

Those are weird.

And I was really worried I was going to get a ticket.

I didn't, but I did get on a toll road without grabbing a toll ticket once.

And when I went to get off the toll road, the guy was like looking at me, waiting for me to hand him a ticket.

And I'm looking at him.

I don't have a ticket.

And eventually he goes,

give me your ticket.

And I said, I don't have a ticket.

He goes, no ticket.

Big problem.

Come on, dude.

And he got out and wrote down my license plate and he fined me $50.

That's it.

It wasn't that big a problem.

Like your parking ticket in Mueller.

God damn it.

Yeah.

Well,

that's the other thing, too.

It's like, when are you ever going to go back to Italy?

Just let it go.

I should have let it go.

I had to pay him.

No, I had to pay him there.

Oh, that was my big problem.

That went distorted.

Right in the pocket, dude.

Right in the pocket.

Not a big problem having a ticket, it turns out.

No.

Turns out it's a 50-euro benefit.

I told you right that we ate at a place in Denver where, or we were going to eat at this place that was kind of kid-centric and they had a milk flight.

Gross.

I told somebody else at and they said, was it a lot?

Okay, yeah.

Was it different flavors of milk or is it like goat milk?

That's what somebody thought.

They were like goat milk.

And I was like, no, it's like chocolate milk, strawberry milk human milk yeah this place we we there were seven of us and we went in there and we said there's seven of us there were like two people sitting in the whole restaurant and the lady goes do you have a reservation and i said no and she and she goes uh she's like looking on her computer and she goes it's we got a couple reservations it's going to be about an hour and a half and and literally there's like people at two tables in this restaurant and we were like uh okay so we end up going to this place that's literally next door we sit there we there's seven of us So it takes almost two hours for us to eat.

We're walking back by, and

there was one group that was about our size when we passed back by two hours later.

Nobody else in the restaurant.

It's like you lost out on a big party.

Yeah, did they, though?

I mean, maybe she saw you guys.

They have a milk fly.

Why would they, you know what I mean?

You just fucking

described.

Two things that are like, you might as well be in rural Scotland.

One is when you walk in anywhere, they tell you, do you have a booking?

And you're like, there's literally no one in here.

Every table is empty.

I have learned over time, it's not because of the tables.

It's because

they didn't staff for it.

So you got to book.

Dude, you got to book for lunch if you want to go out.

I have had to learn to do that in advance.

The other thing, if you ever come over and you bring your kids,

we go to these farms.

They have farm stores.

They're really fucking cool.

Do you remember you and I when we went to Amsterdam?

I don't remember anything about that.

Yeah, well, this might jog something that might have been buried underneath the other experiences.

But

you remember they had auto mats, which were like the cafeterias with little doors.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and that's like, that's the only place I've seen those.

They're in like photos from the 50s in America.

Right.

Like the little compartments with like, they almost look like safety deposit boxes or something.

Yeah, like street facing, and you put your money in and you get food.

The hamburger or whatever.

Yeah, you get those little, what's the fried gravy they have there?

That are so good.

Right, fried gravy.

Oh, that sounds good.

It's fucking good, dude.

It's really fucking good.

But, or I guess now they have them for, in urban areas, they have them for Amazon.

But so what, the farm stores like that?

Yeah, yeah.

So they have like fresh veg and like fresh meat.

Like, there's like some that are like, there's one that's just a goat farm.

There's one that specializes in beef, or they have like fresh made pies, you know, that you need to take them home and heat them up.

And there are these things that it's like run with an iPad.

It's like pretty advanced for, you know, in the middle, literally the middle of nowhere.

But one thing they've got, which is fucking amazing.

I'll show you a video of it.

They have milk machines.

Like, you have like the machine that dispenses in your big glass one-liter bottle,

fresh milk.

And it's like, here's my milk.

There's the cow, like right there, like right over there.

You can see the cat.

They're looking at you all mad.

and sorry they got

they got a wall of flavors like everything you could to like flavor the milk and they they call that we call it like chocolate milk strawberry milk they call that milkshake that's what milk that's what the milkshake is yeah when they say milkshake they shake the milk up with the flavor we go it actually makes a little bit more sense that does make more sense because i've never seen a milkshake here where they shake the thing up yeah kind of like blend it up no it's just ice cream that you know dairy queen right they turn your blizzard upside down what is that right to show you that it's thick i know a guy who chastised an employee once for not not turning the blizzard upside down that's funny you have an experience like that i remember that when i was a kid they did it to me at the counter and you're like was it oh my god so i took it back to my table and i said to my brother i go look and i turned it upside down

he goes you're a fucking idiot

i was so happy to share

your kids would love it i have literally sat there and drank half a liter of milk which sounds like how'd you feel after that oh it's so good it's like it's like the freshest ever man yeah it's like the best it's like that's the cow right there yeah it's all that's standing between me and that cow's teeth is this machine right here.

That's it, buddy.

I saw this earlier.

Have you ever heard of corn sweat?

Corn sweat?

Corn sweat.

Yes.

That's the Superman guy.

Right?

No, this says corn sweat will add to punishing heat humidity in midwest this sweating corn sweat.

Sweating corn, I think it says that.

You're talking about the actors playing Superman.

No, it's talking about corn getting a little nervous out there, pulling the collar down.

It says the process is officially known as evapotranspiration.

I have heard of this now.

Plants, including corn, release water vapor into the atmosphere.

Every time corn comes up in the U.S., it makes me wonder: when did we turn from a wheat country into a corn country?

Because, you know, the amber waves of grain and all that stuff.

Right.

This was a wheat country, but then we were like, nah, fuck that.

We're doing corn.

Is it just easier to grow?

But corn was cheaper.

When we showed up here, corn was already here.

But then we leaned into it at some point.

Right?

That's good.

Yeah.

Meat sweat's different than corn isn't.

That's not really meat sweats.

That's when you're eating.

What is it that you get from eating it?

I don't know.

Is that like protein?

I'm sweating back out.

You know, hot.

And you're like,

you know what?

I found the perfect thing.

I convinced,

God, I have a photo of them.

They were like, they look like babies in the photo.

It's Miles and Carrie and Barbara.

And we took them down to barbecue in Lockhart.

Okay.

And just, we went to like three places.

Did one of those tours?

Did all of it?

Yeah.

It's not a real tour.

It's an informal thing.

Just being a fucking huge fat pig is what it is.

You go eat at three different places and we call it a tour but uh we were stuffed and they were like they couldn't move like i was gonna have to roll them out the car and i said you're gonna find this hard to believe

but if you eat a bluebell ice cream sandwich you will feel amazing after you eat that like and they're like we can't eat anything else like trust me eat it and i have a photo of the three of them standing there in the middle of kreits is eating an ice cream sandwich did they and they all said it was amazing it's a secret man it's the secret eat an ice cream some dairy yeah right you got to complete the cow i didn't do that on this trip trip.

Did you, you didn't go down to Lockhart?

Didn't do it.

I wanted to.

Dude, barbecue's gotten expensive.

I ate a place the other day was like, brisket was like $34 a pound or something.

Wow.

Yeah, beef is going up.

Beef is going up, man.

Earns are going up.

I got chastised by our subreddit because I said apples were $2 each.

And I literally showed him a thing on H-E-B that said.

An Envy apple is $2 per.

You're saying that you're lying about him being that expensive?

They're like, well, that doesn't count.

I'm like, what?

It's an apple.

I buy the apples.

The apples that I buy buy are $3.99 a pound.

And I pick one up and I'm like, why is this apple so fucking big?

I know they're good.

I'm like looking for the littlest one.

Yeah, no, no, they're blood.

I get the ones that are giant.

Like, you can, honestly, they were right in that regard.

You cannot get an apple.

Like, the apples look so sad in Scotland.

Same with the bananas look.

They're tiny.

Yeah, compared to like the giant like fist.

Like, you have an apple the size of your heart, basically.

Yeah, but you can't eat that much apple.

Oh, challenge accepted.

It is.

It also doesn't feel.

I don't know.

It feels like

they stretched it, like they filled it with air.

Like it's like it's not, it's not all apple.

It's not as dense as it should be or something.

I just feel like.

Just wait for that apple sweat so you can get a

cheaper apple once it loses some of that water.

I get the honey crisps.

You buy those?

Apple sweat is who's playing Lex Luther.

Got a whole family of sweats that are doing it.

Can I just show you this too while we're talking about weird stuff and paying more money for stuff?

Yeah, let's.

I'm going to send you this on your thing.

This is a bill.

So my AC upstairs here, it went out.

Okay.

It's been out for a while.

In fact,

there were points when I was away when like the top floor inside got to like 90 degrees.

And I don't think that stuff that's indoors is rated for that.

I went to go move my air filter, which is plastic, a honeywell air filter.

And it just kind of

lump over.

It disintegrated in my hands.

Like the plastic had just decayed.

I probably had it 10 years, but it happened all at once.

It just like became brittle.

It was like psh, in my hands.

It's like, you remember

a couple of years ago, they decided for like a lot of electronics to coat them in like this weird like rubber stick.

They get sticky?

Yeah.

What the fuck?

Why did they do that?

I don't know why they did that.

And you know what it reminds me of every time I run into it?

Remember when you and I were driving to our first Comic-Con?

Yes.

And we drove my truck, which had a leather steering wheel.

Parts of it were leather.

And then it got like.

Soupy.

It just got all sticky.

It was weird.

It was gross.

Was it my hands?

We don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe it's gus's hands usually blame it on gus doing that drive i remember when you and i were driving that we had a trailer full of merchandise

and we passed where the floods were just recently we plat passed kerr county and then we're headed out into west texas which is like it might as well be out of a roadrunner cartoon it's like there's nothing nothing we saw the signs like debt gas now there is no

next gas 150 miles or whatever longer but we're we're in a truck an f-150 you just watch the fucking fuel gauge going down You could watch it.

We could watch it.

That trailer probably weighed like 8,000 pounds or something, right?

I mean, we were towing a lot.

We were towing a lot.

Those were crazy days, man.

That was fun, though.

But yeah, so my AC went out.

The AC guy came out and he fixed it.

It was great.

Look at the invoice I sent you.

See if you see anything weird on the AC invoice.

He cleared my drain.

Let's see.

I'm going to try to zero you in here.

He cleared your drain.

What does that mean?

That's cool.

The condensation area.

Oh, no, no.

Getting a float switch.

Let's see.

Okay, I've got your full credit card number.

I've got your security code.

It's towards the top.

There is a line for tip on this invoice.

For the AC guy?

It says, add a tip, 10%.

It was a digital invoice.

It came into my email.

And I could add a tip for 10%, 15%,

20%, or custom amount.

Maybe this is just like part of the software automatically that he's using.

You think an AC guy is really asking for a tip?

Maybe so, but it's still got to be a business software.

Didn't you tip him?

I didn't.

I couldn't do it.

I literally couldn't do it.

I literally couldn't do it.

How How long was he here?

He, well, he charged me 250 bucks.

He was probably here about 30 minutes, I'd say.

Okay.

But look, he's a trained technician.

He came out here.

He didn't actually solve the problem, which is a whole other thing.

But he's going to come back.

But now I think because I didn't tip him.

Now he's not going to come.

You don't think he's going to come?

He was supposed to come today and he didn't come today.

So what?

Dude, I wouldn't have tipped for that either.

Tip the AC, the AC guy.

You can't tip him.

I don't think so.

He got to build into his price.

I'm going to have to tip you for

a lot, dude.

Come back.

It's way too much.

Yeah, I mean, didn't tipping start because service industry people don't make very much money.

They have like even lower than minimum wage most of the time.

And so you tip to kind of help make up, offset what they get paid.

I mean, I don't mind tipping at all, but like

if you have a business doing HVAC stuff, just build it into your price, whatever you think you should get paid.

I don't understand why you would do a tip on that one.

It's weird.

I mean, why not?

Do we want to get chastised for saying that?

Why not ask, though, right?

For the tip?

Yeah.

I forget it all the time.

Like, because you don't just, you don't have it in the UK.

Right.

For 99% of things, you just don't have it.

And here, it's like, I do the tap to pay, and I'm like, fucking off.

And I'm leaving.

Like, hold on, hold on, hold on.

What are you doing?

You're leaving.

And I'm like, oh, right.

I have to do more.

I got to like tap the tip and then do the little SIG thing or whatever with my finger, you know, which is really at this point just an excuse to show you the tip, you know?

Right.

Yeah.

I'm a pretty good tipper.

I am too, but it's because I don't want to be an asshole.

I tipped $2 on a $5 coffee today.

That's a lot, dude uh you ever go to joe's j-o apostrophe s can i talk about j-o j-o-ing on this anyway um that's by the way a 40 tip that you did good right they have this drink called the ice turbo ever had that i had uh creamy stout iced brew or cold brew at mozart's today is where creamy stout is there beer in it no but it's just like it's it's meant to it's all thick was it nitro it's a craft coffee or something was it good I mean, I liked that.

I thought it was fine.

It was good.

It was kind of, I'm a weird dude.

I don't like,

I like

South American coffees.

Everything else tastes like tomatoes to me.

Tomatoes.

If it gets too acidic, it tastes like tomatoes to me.

It's usually like Ethiopian coffees.

Can't do it, dude.

Can't do it.

Tastes like tomatoes.

I don't know how else to put it.

Sometimes when we grind coffee, instead of smelling like fresh ground coffee, to me, it smells like tuna.

I have no idea.

It's really weird.

It doesn't smell fishy.

It smelled like tuna.

Well, Jason, man, thank you for, you know, coming by so many times.

No problem.

I actually just been hanging out in the front yard the whole time.

I I did call you and say,

I'm leaving.

Do you want to do one last before I go?

And you were Johnny on the spot.

I'll do it.

I'll do it.

And you were like, I'll do it.

I'll do it.

I do want to say too, there's a thing.

DuckDuckGo, the browser, now lets you hide AI-generated images in search.

So now they have a filter so you can start to filter AI stuff out of DuckDuckGo.

So that you don't see the AI stuff.

Dude, AI is ruining search.

They try to help you, and it's like, please don't fucking know me.

Please don't.

So

I might be a DuckDuckGo guy now.

i like an old school search does that put me on a list what's an old school search i don't know i just want bad results in there and i gotta kind of filter through and be like oh yeah this is what i'm looking for i thought you were like down at the library in the card catalog

with a micro fish or whatever you know hitting the button and just flipping through each page i wonder if you told the gen z person like use a card catalog in the dewy decimal system i wonder if they would just be like fuck you

i'm not doing this

dude i saw something the other day i won't close on this but i saw something that made me feel so fucking old it was like one of these instagram reels, and a guy was on a college campus talking to people.

And he said, What's wrong with this picture?

And he showed the people.

And it was like a woman in a hospital.

And what it was was the eight on the clock was a B on the wall.

That's what it was.

Okay.

But he would try to get hints.

He goes, He goes, Hey, look, what time is it?

And people were like, I don't know, I can't tell time.

You don't know how to read a clock face?

College campus.

And I was just like, What?

And the weirdest part about it was not that they said that, is that nobody mentioned it in the comments.

Like, I had to go

40 or 50 like entries down before somebody goes, they can't tell time?

Like how can they not tell time?

Like nobody, nobody even like registered the fact that like grown-ass people couldn't tell time, which I get it, but it just, it made me feel old.

So that brings up something I've thought about before.

I know we're about to end this, but you probably don't need to, right?

Because you never see a clock face anymore.

You've got your phone.

Do you think you could get away?

with being like a functional adult and not knowing how to read

i feel like you just just learned at some point you would have to, right?

I mean, you could like, you could get on, if you could type like a few words, you could get on YouTube and find out anything you need to know, how to fix anything, how to prepare anything by listening to people talk about it.

I think you could probably get by with like barely knowing how to read.

And I understand that there are some people who literally can't learn to read.

I'm not talking shit.

I'm saying, do you think that you could maybe just not ever do it and be okay?

Man, I don't think so.

Like I, there's teachers now that are saying that they have high school students that can't fucking read.

I just read about a woman who graduated and she ended up suing her high school.

She graduated with honors and she couldn't fucking read.

How'd she do that?

I don't know.

I don't know how this happens.

And

to me, it's like you would just like, eventually you would just figure it the fuck out, you know?

But I got to say, too, I learned because it's just time passing you by, where my kids were like in fifth grade and we were just sitting around doing something.

One of my kids, I won't say which one and they i said like well what like six times eight what's six times eight and he goes i don't know and i said what do you mean you don't know what six times eight he goes am i supposed to know what six times eight is and i go

yeah he goes hold on let me have a calculator i'm like no no no and it was like panic mode i was like we how do you not know and so i started quizzing kids that age and i even got all the way up to like people I worked with, younger people I worked with.

And like, man, I don't know that.

Like, they just didn't know their multiplication tables.

And I guess at some point, that just became like cursive writing, just not important.

But to me, that seemed so fundamental.

I was like, I was like, what the fuck is happening right now?

No, it's weird because those types, especially that stuff, like six times eight,

I don't even have to think about how to do the equation.

I just know.

I just know the number.

I memorized all those.

Did you do the grid?

Is that how you learned it when you were?

I don't see.

I don't remember how I learned it.

I just know that I know it.

And but that's so, that's it, though.

You probably learned it.

What, second grade?

Third grade?

Sure.

Yeah.

And I was, I was just kind of suddenly shocked at how that, like, there was a moment where that kind of just became not important and i don't want to sound like you know i'm i'm giving shit to people who you know somebody has to teach you that you don't go out and fucking learn that on your own but i was just like what the fuck is happening that people like what do you think is the matrix that you should know just off the top of your head what times what like what nine nine you should go be go up to nine or tens or easy right yeah 10.

yeah to me it's like 12.

i think i think you should be able to go to 12.

yeah like and beyond that like if someone said 16 times 13 i'd I'd be like, hold on a second.

Let me work that out.

But you could figure it out.

But I could figure it out.

Yeah.

You know, but I, like, all the way up to 12, I can just do that in a heartbeat.

I probably don't need to very often.

No, but I feel like you should be able to, right?

Yeah.

When, like, what's there?

What's taking up that space in people's brains now if that's not there?

And I feel like it's something that's not as useful as that.

Smash that like button that's full of that.

They can close a YouTube video.

That's what they could do.

All right, Jason.

Well, thank you for joining us today.

I'm on the road.

So, tomorrow, be on the lookout on the Rooster Teeth website.

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So, we'll be calling for questions there.

We're actually using it as a way to test like how we can sort comments and stuff like that.

Everything is secretly a test.

And if you're a member of the subreddit, take a look there because we're going to be doing some elections for some new moderators, hopefully, this week.

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That does it for us today, July 22nd, 2025.

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Later.