2025.07.17: Planet Shopping

Attorney General.

Now I know it's a hoax.

It's started by Democrats.

It's been run by the Democrats for four years.

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Morning to you wherever you are because it is morning somewhere for July 17th, 2025.

Nailed that one.

My name is Bernie Burns.

Guys, who's back for the second time this week?

Say hi to Jason, everybody.

Jason's hot on ya.

I'm back.

How are you doing, man?

Yeah, I'm good.

After I backed out of

doing the morning somewhere myself, and then none of your other guests as we get done either, I was like, I guess I gotta

bring it back.

Barb said she feels like she's

she's done what she wanted to do, and she's happy to walk away.

Artistically, she is fulfilled.

Yes.

Welcome back, Jason.

Thanks, man.

So, an oddly political drop today.

We don't do a lot of political drops.

It's just like, I feel like I'm in crazy land now because now apparently democrats have been the ones that have been pushing the epstein theory now is that it's i don't know but it's weird because i've never once except when i was here a couple days ago ever talked about jeffrey epstein and i mentioned not caring about it and in those three days since then Donald Trump won't stop talking about it.

And it's, I like, should I care?

What's in here?

Now you're curious.

I kind of, are you in there, Bernie?

No, I'm not in there.

I guarantee.

I guarantee I'm not in there.

It is interesting, though.

I feel like it is weird to rewrite history before it's history, but it feels like that.

It's like really weird.

I feel like we're still in it or we were just at the end of it.

And now it's like, that's your fault the whole time.

It's like, what?

You remember when the Democrats stormed Congress on January 6th?

They were nutty Democrats doing that shit.

You know, I don't know whether or not liberals have been building up the Epstein list for the past four years, but I know that it hasn't been liberals who've been talking about it non-stop for the past decade.

But I said like over a month ago on the podcast, it's like, it's over.

It's never going to everyone come to terms with the fact this is never going to come out.

It's definitely not now.

And I said, I don't want to ever discuss it again.

I didn't say it wouldn't.

Luckily,

it has come up a thousand times since then.

But I'm just, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills at this point.

I really do.

Maybe you are taking crazy pills.

Maybe, maybe I am taking crazy.

What have you been on since you've been here?

Oh, I have been on a steady.

Did you take allergy medicine while you're here?

I should.

If I come in December,

then I start taking Zertec two days before I get on a plane.

It's like the period for me of allergies is like December 15th to February 15th.

So if I come during that, then yes.

Okay.

Like during Christmas.

That's what they call cedar season here, even though it's not cedar.

It's juniper.

What are you alleging?

I don't know.

Just whatever's in the air sometimes.

Yeah.

Random times.

Either that or I'm just sick sometimes.

Yeah.

And we were talking about the last time you were on how all the symptoms of reaction to an allergy shot are the same as a panic attack.

Yeah.

Same symptoms as everything panic attack.

So I used to do that thing where I'd have to go and take six shots in a session where they give me one in each arm wait 30 minutes one in each arm wait 30 minutes

one in each arm and then wait 30 minutes and then go home and i had to carry an epi pen around of what what is the shot like what is in it dude it's honestly it's like the material it's like i'm not kidding it almost feels like uh what's that that like not fringe but like bogus science homeopathy where they like dilute things to like one ten thousandth of whatever you know right is that what it's called homeopathy But anyway, that's what basically what they do is they like introduce the allergen in higher and higher concentrations.

I believe.

Hopefully there's an allergen

here.

I'm not kidding.

I saw the vial by the redundant.

It looked, it looked, I'm sure it was more scientific than this.

Does it poop?

No, it looked like a vial with water and a fucking stick in it, like a branch.

And it was just soaking in that.

And that's what they injected in me.

That's what it looked like.

It looked like that.

Yeah.

So they would do that.

And they did the whole thing at the beginning.

have you ever gone and gotten the uh the the panel thing no one of my kids did that on back right they do it on your back yeah no i went to dinner with my neighbors yesterday and uh we went to this restaurant uh shazy oh yeah the shazy god it's like one of the it's one of the last remaining ones in austin it's like why that one you know it's been around forever i don't know anybody who goes to shazy but we went there walk from the car to the parking lot i got bit by three mosquitoes were they big

i react heavily like you can probably even see like in the back of my arm that's from a day ago I've still got the mosquito bites on me.

And they'll be there a week.

I have a, I used to think they liked me more and I would get bit more.

I don't think that's it.

I think some people just react more.

There was one in my house yesterday that I felt it on my, I could see it.

And I kind of turned this way and he just moved like this.

And then I turned this way and then he moved the other way.

No shit.

Yeah.

Fucking creepy.

Do your kids do that when you're out in public too?

What?

Hide behind me?

No, Teddy has this thing where he stays in my blind spot.

And he was a little kid.

And you have that moment, you know, that panic you get when you think you've lost a kid.

And I go to turn, and Teddy doesn't know I'm looking for him.

So he just kind of like tracks with me as I turn, and he just stays in the same spot behind me.

And I'm like, where's tormenting you?

He's like, he's right there.

No, my kids like to step right in front of me.

You know, and then I run over them.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Kids also have, Ashley and I were talking about this.

There's a lot of videos of this online.

Like there was a kid who, during a track meet,

jumped out onto the track, totally oblivious to the runners coming.

But he just run over.

Yeah, because kids have this super weird instinct when something is heading towards them and people go, look out.

They blindly run towards the thing or in the path of the thing.

Like they have a, maybe it's just a 50-50 shot and it's confirmation bias, but it seems like kids' instinct is to get in the way more somehow.

It's like panic.

It's like when you see a roach, it's going to come at you, right?

Does that ever happen?

Where they charge you?

Yeah, a Roach.

If you go over there to kill it, it's gonna run right at you instead of away.

And it's gonna freak you out, and then you're gonna run away.

Maybe the kids think they're gonna do that.

Dude, the people that I was with in Tucson, they said they used to live somewhere.

Maybe it was a different house in Tucson, where they had tarantulas.

And the wife was telling me about like she pulled into her driveway with a car, with a car, and the tarantula sees it and like squares up and just like her arms up the front, like bring it on.

Dude, that's that's pretty badass, I have to admit.

I I don't think tarantulas aren't that dangerous, right?

What's that?

It's a tarantulas aren't that dangerous, right?

They're just big.

I think they will bite the hell out of you.

I used to not think they were dangerous, too.

And this is big trigger if you're scared of spiders.

Fast forward 30 seconds here.

I did see a thing where a guy had one in his hand and it fucking laid in.

Yeah.

Like a full-on.

Did his hand swell up?

I don't know.

The video cut pretty fast, but it was like, it was like creepy.

They also do this thing where they go,

and they shoot their hairs.

Do they?

Yeah, that's what they do.

They like they have the huge fangs, like me.

And they seem dangerous but then they also do this little thing where they go

and they throw hairs at you like a ninja and what are the hairs supposed to do i think they just they irritate you like if they get in your eyes and yeah they'll you up actually that's like like embedding your skin you ever touch one of those cactus pads but not the not the big sticker that's on it but sometimes you touch a cactus pad and there's all tiny little hairs on it too and you're like can't get those out and you can't even see them yeah right you're looking at like what's And then you can like spend all day like, and then you, oh, you obsess.

You think it's gone, but then you touch it a a certain way.

Yeah.

You know what I found out is a good solution for that?

Drinking.

Duct tape.

Really?

Slap it on there and then yank it off.

Yeah.

And then do it the opposite, like against the grain, kind of too.

You know what's probably not a good solution?

What's that?

Super glue.

Well, it'll seal it off, maybe.

But it's like that, too.

When you get something in your teeth.

Yeah.

You can feel it.

Like

it seems like it's gigantic when you feel it with your tongue.

But then when you try to find it with like your fingernail or whatever, get rid of the goddamn thing.

It's like, no, you're not getting it.

I was trying to trying to explain that to my daughter the other day because she has to get like this expander in the top of her mouth to prep for braces.

And

I was trying to describe to her because she was asking if it was gonna hurt and they told her it was wouldn't but it would feel kind of weird and I was trying to tell her that like when

If you get something new in your mouth like if you get a filling or if you get like I had a tooth this back molar I had an implant and I didn't have a tooth back there for like half a year during this process of, you know, kind of like putting the post in and all this stuff.

And then they put the tooth in and it's a normal size tooth, but it feels like it's about four by four inches in your mouth when they first put it in there.

It's all you can feel, you know?

And then within like three days, you're just used to it.

You don't, you know, it's like it was always there.

I don't know about you, but I'm the thing too, if there's something like that, I can't not touch it with my tongue.

And then I end up like, my tongue gets like sandpapered.

You ever bite your cheek and then you just keep biting it because you've bitten it?

I did.

There's two things that I think I do a lot.

So I'm glad you brought this up because I've had this before and I just had it on a plane recently.

There's two things.

When I bite my cheek and when I kind of doze off for a second and you do that,

I feel like that's way bigger in my head.

Both of those emotions, like if I bite my cheek and my jaw, I feel like my jaw flies open like I'm in a Tim Burton movie or something.

Right.

You know, I feel like it's a massive thing, and everyone at the table can see it, but no one ever reacts to it.

And I never see anyone else do it.

Likewise, I feel like when I nod off for a second, I go, like,

that's what it feels like, but I don't think I'm doing that.

I don't know.

It's probably just a little, but yeah, it does.

It's like a,

yeah, I don't know.

Like a sneeze, too.

Feels big.

Feels big?

Do you sneeze big?

Some people sneeze a little.

You have dad sneezes.

Did you always have dad sneezes?

I did, yeah.

Okay.

I didn't always.

My sneezes sometimes are like so intense that like my, like my elbows hurt afterward.

Oh, no shit.

Yeah.

Really?

It's weird.

Yeah.

You could be like a propulsion for a rocket or something.

Yeah.

Just put you down there with some pepper.

I had a stereotypical moment where I was using pepper and I sneezed when I was using pepper and I thought, you got to be kidding me.

There's no way.

Cartoon, did you slip on a banana peeler after that?

Then I caught a pie in the face.

But yeah, so

while we're talking about planes, there's a new rule now, apparently, or they've rescinded a long-standing rule where

you no longer have to take off your shoes.

in order to go through security at the airport in the U.S.

And I think that's everywhere now.

And there's speculation they're going to lift the restrictions on the liquids as well.

All that stuff is so reactive.

Do you remember the name of the guy that why we all have to take off our shoes for now two decades?

No, but it was one guy.

It was one fucking

shoes a lot.

Reed?

Something Reed?

Was it Robert Reed?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm going to dock somebody, the wrong person.

I hope they.

The shoes thing, I actually don't care about.

I don't know.

I can slip my shoes on and off pretty quick.

But the

liquids would be awesome, mostly for toothpaste.

Dude, I hate buying the little fucking fucking toothpaste they're more expensive than the big toothpaste that was a uh that was a reactive thing too the two the toothpaste yeah that was i think it was the gatwick airport in the uk yeah uh they uncovered a plot where they were gonna mix gels oh right they were gonna go in the bathroom and mix gels and blow up the planes i mean the guy was gonna do that with his shoe too didn't he have stuff in his shoe i think

he was trying to light it like trying to light his shoe in the the passenger maybe it was a bong

bong you know sir you can't say bong on a plane

have you seen all these videos, by the way, people like vaping on planes?

No.

Do you vape?

No.

Anybody know vape at all?

You're in clubs.

You play music?

Yeah.

I mean, I've seen people vape.

Sure.

Do you find also that people who vape don't think that they're smoking?

Yes, for sure.

They think this is not.

I can do smoke.

They will do it anywhere without thinking about it.

In an elementary school while you're teaching class.

Just in the car, when they're in the car with you, they just do it.

It just doesn't count.

Right.

And why is that?

I don't know.

It's like a mass delusion they all have that they're not smoking.

Have you ever vaped?

You're talking about nicotine or weed or either?

Well, I've definitely never done weed.

I guess I have vaped.

I guess I have tried it, but I can't think like it would have been one of those dumb flavors, which I just learned.

It smells good sometimes.

Illegal in California, too.

Yeah, but I hate that because when I smell cotton candy all of a sudden, I do think, um,

well, the cotton candy that I'm smelling was just inside someone else's lungs.

Right.

Like it's an indication of those molecules making their way over to my air.

Do you ever think that when you walk into the bathroom too and it stinks in a public bathroom and you're like, does it stink in here?

Am I breathing in this guy's shit?

Which one?

Which one of those two things is happening?

I do think that.

Because my older brother did that to me.

He farted in front of me.

He goes that stinks.

He goes, you know, air from my butt is now in your throat.

And it's like the tartar on the back of your teeth.

It's never coming out.

My brother was fucked.

It was like psyops living with him.

He was like

brutal psychological campaign against me.

It was fucking terrible, man.

That's what older brothers are for.

Yeah, so we might be able to do the, we might be able to do the jealous note stuff.

I like it.

I also like,

I don't know about you, but when I traveled a lot before with Rushuti, I actually don't travel that much now.

I have a wardrobe that I have for just for traveling, which is like I have a plastic belt.

And I have slip-on shoes, and that's it.

Like, I can like speed undress.

Do you keep it all in a bag ready to go?

My big move when I'm going along, I like to keep the flow of traffic going.

You know, I don't want to be the slowdown.

I don't want to be the choke point.

Yep.

So when I'm getting ready to go to the conveyor belt before I even get the bin or anything, I remove all my stuff and put it in my backpack.

Yeah, I do that stuff in the Uber.

I take my shoes off.

I get out of the shower and go straight to the airport.

And then I get dressed on the plane.

It saves so much time.

No, but I put like my wallet, my watch, you know, I usually have coins in my pocket, like those challenge coins.

And I put all that stuff in my backpack before I get up there.

So then I'm like,

and then you get the fucking agent who's like, don't put your passport in here or ooh, don't put your pay down.

What's going to happen, dude?

Are you telling me not to go?

I'm not going through with the ticket.

See the fucking ticket.

You're going to ask me.

These guys are on a power trip, man.

They are a little bit.

I also found something weird in this, too.

You might not believe this.

There exists.

A TSA subreddit where people go to discuss TSA stuff.

Like TSA agents?

No.

They're on there?

Like travelers when they're like so they can discuss TSA stuff when they're not in the airport.

I don't ever want to.

Yeah, right.

I don't want to think about that.

Why would you want to discuss that?

I wouldn't even tell my wife what happened at the TSA.

You know?

There's no way I'm going on the TSA subreddit.

I was just talking with somebody recently.

We were talking about some like

personal stuff, some business stuff as well.

And it's like, hey, you do that thing where you go, hey, man.

This is like, just keep this between us.

Or like friend.

I like that term friend DA.

This is a friend DA.

Okay.

And

they're married.

Uh-huh.

It's the assumption.

If you tell anything to a married person, 100% of that information is going to their spouse, right?

Usually.

Yeah.

I mean, unless it's like

nuclear codes or something, maybe.

Yeah.

Or like really boring.

You should assume that.

Yeah.

No matter what it is.

Or if it was like,

if the information was like what my guy, one of my guy friends does for a living, that's never going to get back to my.

My wife will be like, what do you do your friends doing nothing?

Or you don't even know.

You know, be like, what's Bernie been doing?

Like, I don't know.

We didn't talk about that.

I have no idea.

We talked about farts.

But, so wait, what's your friend ask you to keep?

What do we tell you on a podcast?

Yeah.

All I'm going to say is, if you tell me anything,

you should assume I'm going to tell Ashley.

Okay.

And then, and that's, that's, that's, we're inside the same vault, right?

We're like a COVID bubble.

So if I want to talk to Ashley, I should just tell you.

Yeah, I'd tell her.

And then you'll tell her.

I'll tell her.

Okay, cool.

Did Ashley listen to the podcast when she's not on it, you think?

She does because she does a link to them.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's pretty impressive.

That is impressive.

We've gotten to none of our topics today, too.

too i know the tsa thing in the top 40 minutes yeah but these tsa people in the subreddit they were lamenting the relaxation of these different rules for going through airport security why do you think uh

because it makes their status less worthy or something you nailed it yeah they're all pre-check people and they're like well now pre-check isn't special it's like dude what do you what do you what are you getting through life with there

this is what you're holding

is you just write yeah i mean you you just write a check for it.

There's nothing.

You don't take a test that says you're less likely to do something

bad on an airplane.

Right.

You didn't just get it.

You just give them some extra information.

You had basically

70 bucks and 10 minutes to take a third minutes.

And that's it.

They even advertise at the airport, like, hey, are you here early for your flight?

Come to the pre-check and sign up for TSA Pre-Check and get in.

You know, it's like, who gives a fuck?

Somebody did make a good point, though, in that discussion.

And I'm making fun of these people.

Here I am reading the goddamn discussions.

Yeah.

And then now we're talking about it.

We're spreading the disease.

They made the point that it is at least a line where it's people who travel a lot.

And he made a really funny comment.

He said, if you ever want to see people, a group of people who are all folding a stroller for the first time go to airport security.

I was like, that's pretty fucking funny.

Yeah.

Because that is absolutely true.

Or taking off their belt for the first time, like they didn't put it on earlier.

Or lighting their shoe bomb for the first time ever.

You got to practice that.

You can't take a long time to light that thing.

I got to say, though, I'm glad nobody else tried anything weird, like a laptop bomb or something, and then we all couldn't carry laptops.

You know, I feel like we were barely getting away with the batteries for a while.

I even have in my bag, I have a little bag.

It's like a fireproof bag that I guess in my head, I'm thinking if one of my batteries catches on fire and does one of these massive explosion smoking things that they do, I'm going to somehow grab it and throw it in that little bag.

I mean, doesn't everybody have a phone in their pocket too?

Oh, yeah, everybody does, yeah.

I saw a car on fire today.

Oh, did you?

You saw one on fire?

Was it an electric car?

Didn't look like it.

Okay.

No, it was combustion

because it was on fire.

It was

an internal combustion engine.

Yeah, it was an external combustion engine.

They don't usually work that way.

No, they usually keep that to themselves.

My daughter was with us and she goes,

was somebody in there?

I said, no, but I have no idea.

Well, let's hope not.

You got to say no.

Yeah.

I said, yeah.

Yes.

There was a, Scotland doesn't exactly have have like,

they get stuff done, but they get stuff done on their own timetable.

There was a car like in a lay-by that had like caught on fire.

It's a lay-by-and-burned out.

Uh, like a place where you can just pull off the side.

Oh, oh, like a, okay, I got you.

Yeah.

I don't know how I spelled that in my head when you said it, but now I get it.

If I, sometimes they're so slow, if there's a wrecked car on the side of the road, raccoons just walk by you out there.

What the fuck?

There's a, when there's a wrecked car on the side of the road, the police have a sticker saying, police aware.

Like saying, we know about this.

We know we'll come back.

We're not doing anything about this for weeks, but stop calling us.

Don't bug us about this thing that we're not taking care of.

And eventually we'll tow this car away.

But there was a burned out car.

Every time we passed it, Finn had to like look at it.

If we didn't point it out to him, you know how it's like a kid.

Oh, yeah.

You literally mad if you pass it.

God, they get so fucking mad.

Even more, like multiple times?

Did you see the burned up car?

Did you have to tow it home?

No.

Is it in your yard now?

It was there so long and this became such a thing.

I stopped and we took photos with it.

Okay.

Like I literally have, I'll show you the photos, photo gallery of me and Finn.

Him with the burned out car.

Photos.

It's like seven or eight, you know?

It's for the Graham.

For the Graham.

For the four-year-old's Graham.

He's going to see that one day and be pretty weirded out.

I actually think I made an album called Burnt Out.

Y'all didn't name it, did you?

I'll try to make the thumbnail.

I'll do that thing where they put the bar over his eyes and that'll protect his identity from everybody online.

You know, I've noticed recently, too, by the way,

I have a boned pick.

I'm an influencer.

With me?

Are you an influencer, Jason?

No.

Well, as an influencer, as one of the

elder statesmen of the influence sphere,

I've noticed a trend recently

where people will take photos with someone they see out in public.

Like, I see this because it happens with our friends a lot.

The weird thing is, they'll take a photo with like Jeff or somebody like that.

Okay.

And then they post the photo and they put an emoji over the face of themselves.

What?

So they block their face, but they

take like a almost like candid, bad picture of somebody.

Right.

And then it's like, I think the rationale there is like, well, I didn't look my best in this one.

I wasn't ready to take a photo.

It's like a bad thing.

And you didn't.

I would say you did a guy who doesn't fucking know you looks good.

Like, if I'm going to take a picture with my son or somebody I love, you know, I might attempt to look happy because I want to be in that situation.

If some stranger comes up to me, like an HEB, and they're like, can I take your picture?

And I'm holding like a box of tampons i'm like oh yeah we could take a photo real quick i'm gonna look fucking awkward yeah you know but then they'll cover their own face because they also they're not ready to take a photo at hb so they shouldn't put their own face out there but jason you're up there i that's actually i haven't seen that one if you're gonna post a selfie all i'm saying is you gotta you gotta you can put yourself in it you gotta have some skin in the game buddy post another e

an ussy y'all did you watch ted lasso

uh i didn't i watched the first season of ted lasso okay and it kind of dropped off.

Did you really?

Yeah.

That's interesting.

It's like too positive.

Oh, okay.

That's fair.

You know?

Yeah.

I was in the mood for that.

Yeah.

I was in a place where I was like, I was in the mood for it too the first season.

And then when I started the second season, I don't know.

At the time, I wasn't.

I do want to go back and watch it.

Hey, what's this thing you sent me about this rock?

You said Mars Rock Auction is what you sent me.

Yes, it says the largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction.

That seems low.

I think it seems low too.

I mean, I don't have $5 million to spend on a rock, but this thing looks pretty fucking big.

And can you imagine if people came over to your house and you had this giant piece of rock from another planet?

We just have a giant table.

How big are we talking?

I mean, this is.

Is it like the size of like a pebble?

Because that might be a lot to spend on a pebble.

It's 54 pounds.

Oh, that's big.

It's a big old rock and it looks cool.

That's like a coffee table.

Yeah, I'd put it on my coffee table and I would charge people $5.4 million to come over and touch it.

Yeah, if there's a, I mean, that's something you could prove is definitely unique, right?

The biggest piece of another planet on Earth.

How did that only go for 5.3 million?

I'd have spent 6.3 million.

I gotta.

Well, no, obviously, it's a lot of money.

I'm not saying it's a lot of money, but let me look this up real quick.

Let me put this in perspective.

Okay, oh, this is gonna make you fucking ill.

The Merge NFT

by Murat Pack is the most expensive NFT art sold at a price tag.

Let me guess.

Let me guess.

Go ahead.

$16 million.

$91.8 million.

$100 million.

One dude.

For an NFT.

For an NFT.

How much?

Okay.

How much money would you have to have to spend $100 million on anything, even if it wasn't an NFT?

That's an excellent question because...

The only people who would understand how hard it is to have $91.8 million are people who have made $91.8 million.

And they should know not to spend it on that.

Right.

Like that's the person.

Only the people who have that would know like, fuck no, I'm not going to spend this money on that kind of thing.

I guess if you had,

if you had a bill, $4 billion

and somebody said, you here, you can buy this for $98 million.

We think that it's going to go up 20% in the next year.

They might, as an investor, say, okay, well, in a year, I could make $18 million by buying this.

So maybe that's what they thought was going to happen.

Maybe, maybe.

Why am I defending this?

Fuck.

I don't know, but if you're going in at 92 million bucks, good lord.

Think about any other investment you could make at that point.

Think about how many Mars rocks you could, you could almost buy the whole planet.

You could have an acre of Mars on your coffee table if you wanted to.

That would be that.

That is...

I mean, a Mars rocket is really cool.

I would like that.

You can invite people over and go, look at that.

Yeah.

Would you like to touch another planet?

Because guess what?

I've got some.

Here it is right here.

Would you be scared to touch that?

Maybe a little.

Yeah, honestly.

Yeah.

I think it's radioactive.

What if it's actually like an egg from Mars?

A Martian egg?

Did you ever see?

There's a movie called Life, and they kind of intentionally.

Is it about the cereal?

No, they misdirected it in a lot of different ways in the marketing.

And it's a really interesting movie.

They get something back from Mars, and then it turns into like a totally different kind of movie entirely.

But it was interesting, it kind of fell under the radar, too.

I haven't seen it, Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal, so it's not that old.

And Rebecca, what is her last name?

She's in silo, she's in everything now.

She was in Mission Impossible.

Oh, Ferguson, yeah, Rebecca Ferguson, like early.

I was one of those things where you go back and watch and go, oh, that's Rebecca Ferguson 2017.

That's not even that long ago.

No, not even that long ago.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess she had been in Mission Impossible by then, but uh, she wasn't like Rebecca Ferguson, she is now like Dune and everything else that she's in now.

She looks looks cool and Dune.

Well, that's shit on her face.

She looks awesome.

She's like Pedro Pascal now.

I feel like seeing her in something is kind of like the default at this point.

Dude, that guy's in a lot of stuff.

He's in a lot of stuff, dude.

He's in a lot of stuff.

Who was in a lot of stuff before him?

Who was the last in a lot of stuff guy?

I feel like we're seeing a lot of Ryan Reynolds in a lot of stuff.

Yeah, I don't know.

Who was in a lot of stuff?

Ryan Reynolds, probably.

Pedro Pascal has taken it to another level, though.

Like, it's just the immediacy at which he became a star, you know?

I mean, he was in Game of Thrones and stuff, but became like an A-list, top-build star, and then suddenly was in every major program.

Good for him for capitalizing on that.

Yeah.

And I wonder, too, it's like,

who's got the most?

Like, who's got between Harry Potter, Marvel, now probably DC, because people are crossing over there,

Star Wars, Star Trek, like, who's got like the egot of like, but pop culture egot?

Like, who's in the most franchises?

They got to track that somewhere.

Somewhere.

Do the extras get ranked?

They were in it.

Who's the best background player?

Have you ever been an extra in anything?

Yeah.

How was it?

That experience?

Sort of.

I was like a featured extra in a movie called Why Him?

It was Brian Cranston and James Franco.

I was in it with another influencer, and we had some like, we had more shots.

Then we walked off the set and that influencer immediately had a big scandal.

Yeah, so they cut y'all out?

No, but I knew as soon as I saw this, I'd go, well, I don't know of any shots shots that are in this movie that I'm in that don't have him in it, so I'm probably not going to be in this movie.

And I was right.

And you weren't in it?

I'm in it for like two shots total.

Yeah.

But that was fun.

It was

Megan Malali,

Brian Cranson.

Brian Cranson was like the nicest guy on the planet.

Honestly, he really was the nicest guy on the planet.

People say that, but he was really cool.

Like, he had to do a thing where he had storm off.

We were in a party at like Dave, James Franco's house.

And he had to storm off through the group of just like, you know, the crowd, all the extras.

And people were like trying stuff probably that they shouldn't have tried, you know, like, right.

You know, and he was very receptive and very nice.

And like, even I was like, man, you shouldn't be like trying to work your way into that shot or whatever, like, get a reaction or something.

But he was really, really, very nice.

Very, very nice.

Everybody was super nice on that set.

Steve Aoki, too.

That was the first time I heard about Steve Aoki.

He was a DJ for the party.

Oh, okay.

And I didn't know.

This is going to be funny.

I didn't know him at all.

And I rode to set, and I thought I rode to set with Steve Aoki, but I might have ridden with his standing.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

We were in a golf cart together, and I'm not sure.

And he was like super positive.

And then I've seen interviews with Steve Aoki later.

I'm like, man, he's not as upbeat as he was in that golf cart.

Some intern.

Oh, man.

I probably went home and told me a little lie.

Aoki is a cool name.

Aoki's a great name.

Does he throw cakes?

Is that a thing?

Does he throw cakes?

Yeah.

That's Keoki that you're thinking.

Keikoke.

Stop it.

No, I've never seen it.

Does he throw cakes like at people?

It's just like up in the air.

I'm glad my mediocre film career gets set up your shitty pun.

What do you mean by throw a cake though?

Like at another person?

Oh,

I think it's him.

He's got a great clip where like somebody became a thing.

Look it up, so I'm not talking on the staying on a lot.

I'm just going to spread.

Steve Aoki misinformation for the rest of my life now.

I think he does a thing where he throws cakes and there's one where he like a dude in a crowd is like cheering, and he like takes a sheet cake from like a cake.

He's gonna be a sheet cake that's perfect aim throw, and he just oh, it knocks the guy who's up on somebody's shoulders.

It is fucking awesome.

It's perfect throw.

See, that guy looked pretty positive.

That's the guy who was in the golf.

All right, that's sure.

It was him.

It was Aoki.

He did throw a cake at me, so maybe it was all, it was all the same thing.

So, uh, another good investment strategy we were talking about, because I mentioned this:

Facebook's privacy thing is

the shareholders are suing Zuckerberg.

That's what it sounds like.

For $8 million or something?

$8 billion?

Oh, I think it's a bad thing.

$8 billion, right?

Yeah, let me look it up.

I'll see what exactly it is.

But they're suing him because I guess they couldn't sue the company, or maybe they settled with the company, and they're like, you know what?

Fuck it, let's go after him as well.

They think it's his fault that they had to pay the fines for their data theft and misleading.

$8 billion.

Dollar class action lawsuit, investor lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders.

Current informer began Wednesday with claims stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytical Political Consulting Firm.

That was a big thing from the previous election.

Right.

There was that whole scandal.

They were collecting the data.

Yeah, when they had already been warned not to do that.

Does it seem like this story aside,

that's old news now.

Like when I read that,

I almost didn't even, it didn't register because I feel like in 2025, my right to privacy online is just totally gone.

Based on like the type of ads that I get served all the time, based on things that I say to somebody in a room or my proximity to somebody else.

And

you suspect some of these things that are going on on your phone or whatever anyway.

Just like

everything I've ever submitted anywhere has been sold is my guess.

I just feel like, you know, there's some scenario where my wife is like.

I see a Cheez-Its ad.

You were just talking to me about Cheez-Its or whatever.

It's happened to me too.

It's weird.

Have you ever allowed an app to track your data across?

No, never.

I mean, I don't think I have.

I don't read anything that I click.

Maybe when I'm saying yes to everything.

Oh, maybe I'm clicking the wrong button.

Oh, like privacy policies?

Yeah.

Stuff like that.

Yeah.

So we're running into something like this right now where I wanted to, for a long time, been talking about it when the subreddit hit 20,000 people, which I found it puts it in the top 5%

by population of all subreddits.

So we were going to private it and just be like, let's see what it's like to have a closed group that big.

And then maybe even make a second one, you know and like keep it keep it tight you know keep it tight because we had a we have a really good community it did it does it feels like it's changing you know as the thing gets bigger uh which i expected um and then there was also a thing where we wanted to do closed beta on the rushi site now i'm gonna have to figure out how to do it differently because you were just gonna post that to your closed i was gonna private the subreddit and then post it there because then we could talk about it and then they could get the information it would still say stay a closed beta

can't do it though because i went to go private the subreddit and and I had to ask Reddit for permission to private the subreddit.

I talked about this earlier.

They denied it.

They've officially denied it and said no.

And they even came back and said, if you want to do something that's like to discuss a closed beta for something, then just start a new group and make that private for that.

So private from the get-go.

Right.

That's they're fine with because it's not a big group or whatever.

But it's just, listen.

I get it.

It's their platform.

Yeah.

It's a clear illustration.

How long did it take them to get back to you until you know?

It took about a day.

Yeah, they said they'd come back within 24 hours.

And I tested it on smaller ones.

It came back instantaneously.

So I know it's automated at a certain level.

Right.

Yeah.

And then.

Yeah, they don't care if you have four people in your subreddit.

I think about

this is not online, but I think about similar things sometimes.

Do you ever think about that when you see like a restaurant that's leasing its space?

And you're like

the amount of money you would have to put into opening a restaurant restaurant and for your landlord in three years to just double your rent.

And then you just have to go.

What are you talking about?

No, you're, sorry, I did go off on a tangent.

You're talking, you, you know, tell me about your, what's the scenario you're talking about?

So it's a restaurant and the original restaurant go to business?

No, no, no.

They're just releasing the space from the owner.

You're talking about how like the subreddit's not your thing.

It's somebody else's thing.

You're kind of holding to their rules.

If your lease is up and you're a restaurant and you've put $200,000 into your restaurant and they're like, okay, well, your rent was $6,000 grand a month, and uh, now it's going to be 18 grand a month.

Right.

And you just move out.

Like, well, fuck, I can't do it.

We actually, I think we know somebody who went through that.

Tim and Carrie League went through that when they had the original Alamo down in Colorado.

Right.

But they, is that what happened to them?

It was so bootstrapped when they started that, just like a passion project.

They were taking tickets out front, you know?

And

I think what happened was it just got to be so popular in this, you know, world-renowned location of this incredible theater that programs programs these awesome events and has food and everything that i think they just raised the rent on them like crazy because i knowing tim i don't think he would have ever let that go just to have it you know what i mean right he's a kind of a curator himself and i don't think that if he had a choice he would have ever let that location go like it wouldn't just

you make the thing popular and then the the owner sees the value in it and they essentially boot you from it so they can take it right you create the value and then you get penalized by it yeah yeah and uh so but it's you know it's right it's platform you know you you that's

you got to understand that walking in the door and i know that we've known that for decades now and it's like just right yeah it's like uh doesn't feel like a huge loss i do have to figure out what the fuck to do about the beta but uh is a reminder is a reminder that you're you know if if you don't own it it's never you're really just put the url out there on twitter i think that would be positive yeah that would be fantastic that would draw on the right people definitely they'd figure out how to break your site, you know, if you wanted to test for that.

They'd got to break the audience, drive everybody away.

By the way, I just had notification.

We're all concerned about AI and robots taking over.

The only experience I really have with that on a practical day-to-day basis is my goddamn robot vacuum.

I have to go rescue that fucking thing all the goddamn time.

Does it ever flip over?

All it has to do is just...

drive around on the floor.

I even like put little boundaries.

You get these magnet strips and it's like, don't go in this area because it's bad.

And it's like, you know what?

I'm going to go over the magnet.

I'm fine.

It goes anyway.

It just, and it's like, it's like up on its side, and it's like, help me, I'm dying.

Like, this is what I'm saying.

I don't have anything to worry about.

These fucking things.

Yeah, I'm not worried about it anymore.

All right, Jason, what else is going on?

Anything else you want to discuss today?

Not since a couple days ago, you know?

Yeah.

Just.

Is that your way of saying don't have you on?

So I'm like, no, I'm just saying I don't have anything cool that I've been up to since then.

Just making lunches and dinners.

Wednesday wasn't a barn burner with hay or anything like that?

Late Wednesday evening?

No.

All right, cool.

Well, thank you, Jason, for joining us.

Jason, where can they go to follow your music if they want to check out Jason Saldania?

Right now, the new thing that we're starting is called Valley Video.

You can find that on Instagram.

I think it's underscore Valley Video or underscore underscore Valley Video.

See, I'm not very prepared for this.

Yeah, my publicist didn't help me out.

Hey, tell you what, how can they go to your Instagram and then they can find it to there?

I'm sure, right?

I don't know if I want them to find my Instagram.

All right.

Well, that does it for us today.

July 17th, 2025.

I'll be back with another special guest tomorrow.

I hope you'll be here as well.

Bye.