2025.09.05: That Lucas Bump

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Jordan Sweers.

Hey, Jordan Airbnb.

I'm back.

Back again.

You thought I was gone.

You had a day off.

What did you do with your day off yesterday?

I went on a distillery tour and

then had Thai food.

We might have messed up.

We may have messed up by doing that because we went to the Glen Farkless distillery yesterday.

And it's really cool.

You go around, you learn how the barley is delivered and how they turn barley.

Where the water comes from.

And water.

From

across the glen.

And yeast, and they make a liquid that goes and sits in a warehouse for 20 years and then goes all over the world.

Right.

Takes about three days to make it and then sits in a barrel, a cask, excuse me, for a decade.

Don't you dare call it a barrel.

Don't I dare.

How dare you.

Don't I dare.

They are either a butt or a hog's head.

Oh, look at you with all your knowledge.

Yeah, the interesting thing is, so what they do is they basically make moonshine.

They make clear spirit and it goes in clear.

In fact, we should link in the Instagram and I should show it to you because we saw the casks there.

They did a really cool experiment or demonstration, probably is a better way to put it at this distillery where they put clear ends on the casks and they showed them filling it and you look at it it's like whiskey it's just it looks like vodka right yeah it's basically clear liquid sitting in there because it's just been placed in the barrel right and then even in i called it a barrel eight times you did right there 18 months later then it's like you can see it like start to darken and take on the character and then also you can see the uh evaporation as there's less and less liquid in it the angel share angel's share definitely not the guys that work in in the warehouse, like taking a little bit.

There's the angel's share, and then there's the distillers, the stillman's share.

I heard,

God, I was in Arizona, and I did a distillery tour for somebody, but it's different because Arizona's way hotter.

Yeah.

They had a thing where

because the alcohol evaporates in Scotland because of the weather,

in Arizona, they were saying that the ABV, the alcohol by volume, can go up because the water evaporates in their stuff.

So they can actually go up.

So there's less water in it and more alcohol.

Right.

It gets stronger over time.

So interesting.

Yeah.

You leave it in for 20 years there and it gets like weaponized.

That sounds like because there's very clear rules about what makes scotch scotch, what makes bourbon bourbon, stuff like that.

A lot of scotch is made in Scotland.

That's one of the rules.

Right, yeah.

But what I'm saying is

in Arizona, they could have a category into their own selves because it's a higher alcohol by volume kind of situation.

And you only get that if you mature it in Arizona.

Here it has to be, there's also regions here like Space Eye and Isla and things like that.

It has to be in the cask for five years.

At least.

And I pause when I say that because I've heard different things.

Like I've heard some people say as low as three.

And I'll be honest, I haven't cracked open the law books, but I believe it's five years in the cask.

Minimum to be considered scotch.

I do know to be considered whiskey in Scotland, it has to be above 40% alcohol by volume.

Right.

Or 80-proof, as we say in the U.S.

But we ruined ourselves

how we screwed up.

We had a very, a friend here in the region gave us a tour of the place and he gave us.

some incredible drams of whiskey yesterday.

We had a

straight from the cask.

In the warehouse.

Yeah.

Which, by the way, if you could ever live in a warehouse, like a

whiskey warehouse where they're aging the casks that is probably the best environment it's the best smell it's the best temperature it's cozy it's dark cozy is a great word it's like but it's like a comforting cozy too it's like it's aggressively cozy it's not just like passively right like getting there it's like it's just like you it feels like you're in a glove yeah you feel like you're swaddled must be what it's like for a baseball to land in a baseball glove that's what it feels like but uh yeah it's very traditional too like they have an earthen floor is a big part of it as well.

High ceiling.

But I think what it is, is I think

I was trying to describe this to you yesterday.

If you ever watched the show, Rick and Morty,

Morty's like talking about something being level, or maybe the dad is, and Rick goes, I can have you experience true level.

And he spends all the time like leveling a square on the garage floor and it's perfectly level.

And they're all laughing at him.

And then Morty steps into it and he freaks out because he's never experienced true level.

It's perfect, yeah, balance.

And then, and then can't walk ever again.

Can't go anywhere else because everything else is askew.

Out of that, one of those great Rick and Morty moments.

But I think the air quality in that warehouse, it's because it's filled with a bunch of basically buffers with these liquid containers.

I mean, just filled with these things.

And they're, what, 500 liters, some of the big sherry casks?

And it's just like, it's such a different feeling being in there.

And he even said this.

He goes, You're this is you won't ever match the experience like going to a vineyard and you're there at the vineyard and you take the bottles home and they're not quite ever the same.

Right.

Like you won't experience, you won't match this experience of having these drams.

But also at the same time, there was something we had from 1985, something we had from 1972, 1963, 1963, and then 1954.

Yeah.

And it was straight, straight from the cask.

And he did that on purpose.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was trying to show us that even the what was which was the best one, do you think?

Because normally people would say, oh, the oldest is going to be the one.

The oldest is better, but there were different flavor profiles in the 1954 because they peated it a tiny bit and that came through.

The 85 was

the most complex, interestingly.

It was the darkest and the most complex.

My favorite, though, was the 63, because that one was like caramelly.

And like,

they've been in these barrels for so long, they're not as alcoholic.

And so, like, they don't burn.

So, you kind of taste all the flavors a little bit more.

Like, my olfactory senses are not that great.

So, I need, I actually, it's actually required that I have ones that are that old.

Um, otherwise I won't enjoy it as much.

Well, also, by the way, so for your podcast,

this conversation would usually be like, So, I had a 32-ounce country gravy that I dressed and I dipped the chicken tender in it.

This is a departure for both of our podcasts.

This is what I wish 100% eat was sometimes where we're talking about complex notes and uh and uh tail-end flavors.

I have uh notes of uh paprika and grade D but edible beef from Taco Bell.

Yeah.

The notes of horse meat that they're using.

A lot of people,

for some reason in the U.S., the Isla Scotches, which are very peaty and smoky, Lagabool and LaFroue, those are some have gotten a lot of traction.

Yeah.

They taste like a campfire sometimes.

Yeah, yeah, they taste very smoky.

But if you're looking for something that's a departure from that, Glenn Farkless is, they do higher temperatures, which kind of has a caramelization.

So it's a sweeter style of that.

So if you've never, if you've never experienced it before, here's one you can experiment with yourself.

Yeah.

Job well done.

Because now I'm a big Glenn Farkless fan.

Weird how that works, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That tour locks you in.

Yeah.

And all it took was four samples of the best whiskey they could offer.

Yeah.

I didn't want to think how much one of those was.

Yeah, I don't either.

I was telling Holly, I was like, this is just one distillery and how different they all were.

It's like, well, I must try all of them.

I'm trying to think, too, because it's other things like that.

It is weird when you,

it's really easy to go deep on something.

The example I always use for my life is Saturday morning in the U.S., they would always show golf on television.

I'm like, I'm not watching golf.

Like you with F1.

The way you talk about it, I would love to get into F1.

I just like, it just seems,

pardon me, I'm not trying to insult your passion.

It just seems like really boring and repetitive to me.

I feel like if I went to one F1 event, I'd be like, I'm all in on F1.

There's something weird about that moment when you go deep on something and it locks it in for you.

Kind of similar, like

back in like 2018, talking about like primo experiences.

The first time you do something, first F1 race that I went to was down in Austin at Circuit of the Americas.

Eric, who I do 100% eat with,

had a friend he used to work at Razor with.

Now this guy works at Red Bull Esports.

I forgot Eric worked at Razor.

That's right.

Yeah.

And so when F1 was coming to Austin, he was like, hey, you live in Austin.

I got some like

paddock passes via Red Bull for you guys to come uh experience the race.

And the paddock area is where all the teams are, the garages, lots of hospitality.

When you think about the people drinking champagne in the suites watching the races, that's what that is.

Oh, is it?

I was thinking like cars where all the Winnebagos sit in the middle of the track.

It's not that, it's not that, okay, okay, not that.

So, uh, basically, we were yeah, eating uh

steak, filet mignon, watching uh, the race in an air-conditioned suite with all the other people like invited by Red Bull.

We got to go down to the garage, listen in on like the radio in the team garage.

And even before the race,

we're walking down the entire pits and you can see everybody's cars.

When you go by Red Bull, they recognize that you've got like their pass.

And the guy goes, hey, come here.

like opens the stanchion.

Come in the garage.

Check out the wing.

Wow, they're just showing us, like, invited us over and like explained their aerodynamic philosophy.

Great experience if you can get it, right?

Yeah, and you can pay, especially if you can pay zero dollars for it.

It's great.

And it's weird how those things, like, those experiences, like, there's some people who get that all the time, but then it's like you just kind of stumble into stuff like that in your life.

And you're sometimes you're shocked.

Like, how the hell did I end up here?

And a few years ago, I went with my buddy Dustin.

We went to the race and we sat at

the grandstand, and it was hot, and there was no champagne.

and

there were people in front of us standing.

I don't know, just to have the same feel to it.

Dude,

I got invited when they put the skyboxes in at the UT stadium.

I just knew a person who knew a person, and they said, Why don't you come out and do it?

They handed you like a stat sheet between each quarter, like however

to like update you.

Yeah, hey, you might not be watching the game.

And you check out how it's going.

I was locked in, and then there was like food and everything there.

And then I thought, oh, you know, I got it to a lot of friends who like this.

How much would it cost to get a skybox?

I want to say it was like,

it was astronomical.

I want to say it was.

Just for one game?

I want to say at the time, this is like 20 years ago.

Yeah.

The game that I went to, by the way, I was in the skybox when Ricky Williams broke the record

for rushing record for a season or his career or whatever it was.

That guy was smoking.

Yeah.

Yeah, so it's like, could never repeat that.

And I think it actually kind of ruined it for, you know, know, ruined me for going back to the stadium.

But then I went back after like 15, 20 years.

Enough time to forget.

College football teams are great because they're like every other sport in every other country.

They're not like going defense.

You know what I mean?

There's chance and tradition and everything in every single.

What I really like about the Austin FC matches, like they got, they got a band going in the supporter section the whole game singing songs and stuff.

It's a great atmosphere.

I can't do it though because I'm so awash in football here that when I go back to the U.S., I just go watch minor league baseball games, Round Rock Express, which is great.

Those are great too.

Those are, you know, everything is legitimate, and that is a legitimate thing to enjoy.

You know, there's no shame in that.

But attendance on like a weekday in the summer hits.

Well, you buy, you buy a general admission ticket and then you go and sit behind home plate.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, it's a little secret and a little cheat code there for the Round Rock stadium.

They won't check.

They will not check.

Like

the attendance is so low.

Finn caught a ball in his second ever

professional, I'll call it professional baseball.

Sammy Pro.

Yeah, yeah, he got a ball, foul ball.

I've been to a lot of baseball games, never caught a ball.

Me neither.

As a kid, you're spoiled.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, they just hand him to you.

He'll be like us.

He'll be like, every time I go to a baseball game with his, I expect a ball.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

But you were watching NFL last night.

Was that tough for me?

I was trying to stay up.

The kickoff was 1.20 a.m.

here.

I didn't make it, surprisingly.

It's rough.

But I did.

I woke up and watched the highlights.

And

it's always weird when the game highlights start with no action and people standing around and uh it was because they were showing even before the first play of the game one of the eagles players walked up to the cowboys quarterback and uh they were jawing at each other and then he spit on them and then the he was before the game he before the game had started it was after the kickoff before the first offensive play of the game the the the defense and offense are out there in their huddles and then they kind of like came together And yeah, he was John at him.

And he spit on Dak Prescott.

And right, all Dak does is like point to the ref who was standing right there.

It's like, did you see that?

And the ref goes, yep, and threw flag.

And he's gone.

Yeah.

And so ejected him.

After the fact, I noticed this, though.

They didn't show this in the highlights.

Dak, the Cowboys quarterback, was kind of calling him over, join at him first, and spit on the ground as he was approaching almost in some sort of like inception move yeah buddy yeah that's games

but yeah some some expert level rage baiting yeah otherwise it just sounds like that guy was at home in the entire offseason stewing about something you gotta be incredibly angry to do that

post kickoff before the first play of the entire season yeah yeah and he's out of the game like that's a lot of emotion there man i liked your comment i was telling you about this though and you were like is that a little overreaction though?

Like, how many times do you think Bill Romanowski spit on someone?

And I go, that guy is crazy, though.

Well, I wonder if the passage of time, are the players worse?

Like, is the behavior worse, or is the tolerance for those activities much lower than?

I think the players are actually better behaved.

The tolerance, therefore, is also lower.

And there are more cameras constantly detecting everything.

So it's harder to get away with that stuff.

I'm sure Bill Romanowski spit on every player he tackled, but

with the pre-HD cameras,

nobody was catching it.

You didn't need an HD camera in order to see in the lineup.

You wouldn't even need to know who Romanowski was.

What was he like an outside linebacker?

I think he was a linebacker.

Yeah, for the Denver Broncos.

You could just pan across and see it because his eyes would be glowing with rage.

I've never seen anybody who is the embodiment of rage like that guy was.

He was playing the right sport sport for

his personality.

In the right era, you know what I mean?

Otherwise, he'd be playing in the prison league today, I think, probably.

Yeah, so I guess.

Actually, I think he may have had a cameo in the longest yard remake.

Yeah, he did.

I think he did.

Or he was, yeah, it was at the, maybe he was in the Adam Sandler one.

Was that right?

The remake, yeah.

Is that the one he did?

Yeah.

Maybe I'm conflating that with Adam Sandler did the longest yard.

He also did Water Boy, which is kind of confusing.

Oh, he might have been in the Water Boy.

Maybe that's what it was.

Waterboy has an interesting place in history that's been kind of lost.

Okay.

We talked about this before, I think, on here, but it's a really specific memory I have of The Water Boy, that The Water Boy did really well, and everyone was shocked by how well this Adam Sandler

movie did.

But I remember very specifically, people went and saw The Water Boy because it came out in 1999.

or 98

and it had running before it the trailer for a little movie called Star Wars: the Phantom Menace.

Oh, really?

And so, people would buy a ticket, go see the trailer for Phantom Menace, and then just walk out.

They'll just leave.

And I might have win one of those.

Worth the price of admission.

Yep.

And so the Water Boy did really well.

There's a couple different movies that had Phantom Menace, and they got a huge bump.

But I remember specifically, I want to say Waterboy made something like $40 million.

Think about that in today's

market.

I mean, you'd kill for that today.

$40 million.

And he was just like, yeah.

And so it's like really set off Adam Sandler as a huge star.

And and george lucas got none of that money yeah he doesn't doesn't get any credit for the water boy at all did the matrix also come out in 99 or is that 98 yeah matrix was 99 that's a weird thing to think about being contemporary with like the phantom menace oh that's a good point yeah was was was phantom menace was 99 yeah come out before

the turn of the millennia yeah yeah

the uh the the the crazy thing is all these things kind of like come together in a weird way talking about adam sandler talking about like poorly behaved players because they're after the 50th anniversary season now of SNL going into 51, they're doing a big shake-up, which makes sense after

the 50th anniversary.

But also there's a weird thing where a lot of people weren't leaving the show because the 50th was coming up.

Right.

So there's like this damn kind of thing.

They wanted to reach the 50th.

Yeah.

Yeah, it makes sense, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the weird thing is, too, I should say on this podcast.

You might be surprised by this.

Whenever we talk about Saturday Night Live, people in the UK or outside the US are like, this means nothing to me.

They don't know anything anything about Saturday Live at all.

It kind of doesn't.

If there's not a cast that you really like to, it could mean nothing to a lot of people.

I don't watch SNL every weekend.

Anybody does.

I wait for the clips, you know.

But there was a time with like Bill Hayter and Kristen Wigg and

those

comedians.

Like I would watch it.

uh every weekend mine was the farley sandler era yeah will ferrell those guys yeah

And the weird thing is,

Saturday Night Live casts are like

actors who get cast to play the Joker.

When you hear about it or the first blush, everyone's like, I hate these guys.

And then they become weirdly beloved over time.

That's why I never kind of get like, oh, so-and-so is joining SNL.

Like, I don't feel any way about it because I just want to see what they do.

And.

And if it's funny, I was like, okay, then this is good stuff, you know?

You talk about Heidi Gardner leaving

after eight years.

I didn't know she was on there for so long.

That's all the stuff coming together to me.

Yeah.

For me, today is like all this.

You were talking about the poorly behaved players getting ejected before the first official offensive play of the game.

She played a character in a bit that was about Michael Jordan, and she was his head of security.

I didn't know that was based on a real character.

Yeah.

Not a character, real man.

Real person, sorry.

Kind of a character unto himself.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't remember if he was security or if he, I think he worked at the United Center or something.

But yeah, it was this, it was in the last dance, this, this

long-haired, curly, long-haired guy who's kind of like scrawny, doing like a

stupid, like coin-flicking game with Michael Jordan in the back room at the, at the United Center and Michael Jordan not wanting to lose, but like this, this little scrawny guy beating him and then doing the Jordan shrug

when he's running Michael Jordan.

And I think the camera pans over to him and he's just, he's steaming.

He didn't want to lose.

Yeah.

That's like a whole identity that he completely embraced.

Well, she played this, uh, played that guy in an SNL sketch, and it was such an over-the-top character.

I assumed it was completely fictional.

Like they take his house and it's like

he has to, Michael Jordan gets to sleep with the guy's wife or something.

It's awful.

But she was such a fantastic cast member.

And I was, I was shocked to see her leave after eight years or disappointed, not necessarily shocked, because she'd been saying publicly that it's hard, man, making those sketches, coming up with like even like three or four killer ideas every week.

It's got to be a drain on it.

It's a drain thing.

Yeah.

Michael Longfellow.

Eight years.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Michael Longfellow is on the way out.

Some other people have left.

He was only there for three years, but I liked him because he was really absurd.

And, you know, SNL is a great launching pad for so many people.

I'm sure they'll go on to great things.

I was saying that too.

It's like, it seems like now SNL is the thing you do first when you're young and then you go on to other things in your career.

And you were also talking about like Heidi Gardner has one of those faces where like she could be 20, she could be 40, somewhere in between.

Do you want to know how old Heidi Gardner is?

Yeah.

So the clip we played at the top of the podcast today was when she was in a sketch with Donald Glover and Pete Davidson, who was weird because he was so popular on SNL, you know, and then had a short run on SNL.

You never can predict where people are going to go

afterwards.

But she, in that first sketch, she plays a she works at Mattel and is writing for the Barbie Instagram.

And it's such a funny sketch.

Donald Glover kills it in that sketch.

But I thought she was like 18 when that was the first thing I remember seeing her.

And I thought, who's this young girl they hired?

But I have no idea.

How old is Heidi Garter?

She is 42.

So she started in her 30s, mid-30s at SNL.

Yeah, I remember it was with millennials.

You can never tell how old they are.

Good.

It's all the extended childhood.

It's true.

You don't age when you never grow up.

It's like you don't have the everyone being child-free.

It

doesn't get the life sucked out of you by the next generation at all.

Mr., I'm afraid to get a haircut because

the color ain't coming back.

Yeah, I'm afraid.

I'm at the last vestiges of any kind of color in my hair.

And I'm not ready quite yet to go full James Gunn.

But when I cut this hair, I'll be.

There's some dignity in the old gray.

It's not even gray.

It's like James Gunn's Gunn's like white hair.

Like, you know, like Steve Martin went gray very quickly.

Right.

Gray,

Steve Martin's gray in the jerk.

It's so.

I never remembered Steve Martin as having

non-smart hair.

But it's also, it's like, too, when I quit Rooster Teeth, I went full David Letterman.

I got like the

Rick Van Winklebeard and everything.

Crazy vagrant beards.

Oh, yeah.

I loved it.

It was great.

I understood why.

You retired to the wilds of Scotland and grew up beer

where exciting things happen.

Like a cow walked down the road.

Yeah, you were talking about getting steak.

When you talk about getting steak at the paddock, I was like, yeah, we give you the same experience here because we were just at breakfast this morning and a cow just wandered into the front yard.

Yeah, it was a big to-do.

The phone started ringing.

Well, it wasn't just one cow.

We saw the one cow.

Right.

But then I talked to the farmer.

I had him on speaker so you guys could hear the Scottish farmer.

Yeah,

there's about 15 goose.

Yeah, I understood him perfectly.

And you guys were like leaning in and squinting.

Every other word.

And yeah, apparently 15 cows are on the loose right now.

So we should be out helping, but we got work to do.

We had to do a podcast.

Yeah, we're working.

Well, Jordan, you're heading back to Austin pretty soon.

Thank you.

Thank you for

going down to Edinburgh after this.

Going to Edinburgh.

Can you say why you're here?

Is that okay?

I think, yeah, I think that should be fine.

This has been a trip that's been long in the making, going all the way back to last year where my wife applied for a master's program at the University of Edinburgh and got accepted earlier this year.

And we were like, oh, well, she's doing remote.

So,

you know, no reason to go out there.

But they were like, hey, welcome week.

Even the online students.

can come out.

And we were like, well, we know Bernie's out there.

We'll make a vacation out of it.

So we're going down to Edinburgh and she's going to go down to the university for her welcome week.

And it's really crazy because the weather here in Edinburgh, you can have these crazy seasonal things.

There's a whole row of like cherry blossom trees on the campus.

But then also it's like, kind of like UT, there's like buildings kind of all over Austin.

There is a courtyard that is in Old Town in Edinburgh that's part of the University of Edinburgh.

And it's like, that's like a Harry Potter courtyard.

It's crazy how picturesque that is.

It's like a complete Instagram spot, but it's not always open.

It's not always open.

I got to go see it because my son was applying at that university.

He ended up going to Sterling.

JD also accepted to the graduate program at Sterling, and he's probably going to do it remote, which is interesting because it makes it two years versus one year.

Yeah.

She's also kind of part-time.

So she's still working.

So yeah, it'll take her two years.

She's doing

data analytics and AI ethics.

Which is a very interesting program.

She's way smarter than me.

She's,

yeah.

Also, I'm the jokey one.

She's the smart one.

For in JD's, I mean, she's obviously out in the workforce.

But for JD, who's entering the workforce,

when he was talking to me about going to graduate school, I'm like, yeah, I don't know if it's a bad idea to punt on job hunting for a couple of years.

It seems like maybe a good idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But he's like, no, I'm not going to stop looking for a job.

I'm going to continue to look for a job and then go to grad school.

Yeah,

you can still do stuff.

At that point,

I dropped out of college.

So I don't really have much expertise in this, but

you are basically

a grown-up who's also just continuing their education.

You're not like at that point when you're in a master's, you're not like, you know, you're basically a scholar and that's your job.

You mean you're not doing it in order to further a career necessarily?

Or you could, you could be,

but like, I just see it as in my mind, when I, what I thought college was going to be was like still structured like my high school was and stuff like that.

And it was much more free you know so you you're almost like this floating adult who's doing other stuff and then you're doing school as well yeah and so that's kind of why college didn't really work for me i i actually like wanted something more structured it also depends on the school like ut yeah 50 000 students there i mean i went there nobody knows i even went there like there's no like professor that thinks about me occasionally or something like that and this the college i was going to was columbus state university in georgia so is that so you went when you were on the east coast that's when you were going to school yeah i graduated over there and I actually got accepted to Pace University and thought I'd be studying film in New York.

And then I saw how much that cost and I was like, maybe

not that.

It's weird the way that works, too.

I was going to go to Notre Dame my whole life and then find out it was going to be $21,000 a year.

There's no Catholic discount?

$19.90.

No, my dad was even alum.

Yeah.

No.

No former priest father discount?

No, no, none of that.

$21,000.

So I ended up going to UT.

I didn't even apply to UT.

I was automatically accepted.

Because

public schools, you, yeah.

Yeah.

Back then, if you were in the top 10% of your class, you got accepted to UT.

I think now it's whittled down all the way to like the top 3% or 4%.

It's way more difficult to get in now.

My degree has gained in value over time as UT has become a more prestigious or renowned school.

It was not quite at that level when I went there in the early 90s.

There's also a discount for like in-state students, right?

Big time.

Yeah.

It's like 4X.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is subsidized by the kids coming in from out of state.

And then internationals get paid.

Big time.

Yeah.

Big time.

Yeah.

A lot of schools are funded by their international students.

Yeah.

Well, I'm doing my wife and I are doing our part for Scotland.

And watching the pound, you know, the dollar versus pound.

I'm constantly trying to convert it.

It's like, when's the right time to pay this tuition?

Everyone, the administration continues to like target the Fed.

The outlook for the dollar is not fantastic.

I don't know that the relationship between the dollar and the pound will change that dramatically.

That specific relationship.

Globally, they'll both probably not be great, you know, compared to what they were.

But they're kind of, they'll be hovering at this kind of difference, this exchange rate.

Yeah, in our own little shitty ecosphere we built together, yeah, we'll be fine.

Relatively, we'll be fine.

Our toxic bubble.

Can I just ask you

quickly, did you,

when you were at university, did they take attendance in class?

Gosh.

That to me is the mark of a smaller school or a bigger school.

There was no illusion of attendance at UT.

I don't think they did.

Maybe on the first day of classes, but after just to be like, okay, everyone who's here is in the right spot kind of thing.

And then after that, if you missed a class, they wouldn't even note that you were gone.

And it was up to you to figure out what you missed and stuff like that.

I had one of the most horrific.

school experiences ever where I had skipped like a week or two of class and had been getting notes from from friends and thought I should go to class.

I went to class and they started handing out tests as soon as I sat down.

I didn't know there was a test that day, which is one of the worst experiences.

That's like a nightmare

school scene.

And I was in my underwear for some reason.

I'm not sure why.

Well, let's take a 10 to say for some of our sponsors, thank you, Jared Wolf and William Taylor, for sponsoring today's podcast at patreon.com/slash morningsumer or at roosterteeth.com.

Oddly enough, Jordan has another podcast which fits into today's discussion, which is the Michael Jordan podcast, which is the supplemental to 100% eat.

I saw a comment in the first episode we did where somebody said, technically, this is a Michael Jordan podcast.

Technically, this is one as well.

I didn't think about that.

Yeah.

This is a Michael Jordan podcast or a BJ podcast.

Maybe not that one.

So what is that?

Is that just you and Michael sitting down?

It's basically our form.

non-structured podcast.

So it's not about food.

It's about whatever we want it to be that week.

And it'll be me, Michael, and Eric and Nick just talking about stuff.

This week, we actually put a clip out, a little preview clip.

We

drove down to

where there's a McDonald's and a Taco Bell, and we split up

and went and ordered this new Baja Blast and this new shake that McDonald's have got.

And we reconvened in the car and we sampled those.

So it's 100% adjacent still, but we do go off on like some unstructured tangents.

Did they invite you back into the kitchen to sample the shake directly from the machine?

It's cask strength shake.

Got it.

Drink

directly from the carton of nicks that they dump into it.

It comes straight out of Grimace.

All right.

Well, we'll also have a new RTAA going up this weekend for sponsors on Roost.com.

And you should be able to check that out, everyone else, probably early next week on the website.

Jordan, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for coming out to Scotland.

Always appreciate when people make the trip out to come say hi to us.

It's been a great trip.

Thanks for not getting sick of us.

All right.

Well, that does it for us this week, ending September 5th, 2025.

I'll be back to talk to you on Monday with Ashley.

Hope you'll be here as well.

Bye.

There you go.