View Episode 145
Originally aired 12.13.08
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56:11 – Seth says Jimmy John’s is still leading the pack, although he did hear from one listener from Boston who’s going home for Christmas to Nebraska, and the first thing she’s doing is having her mom take her to Runza. His new chain this week is H. Salt Esquire, opened in 1965 under the name Salt’s Fish-n-Chips. The fish is a deep-fried fish, either white cod or haddock in batter or breadcrumb and the chips are deep fried slab-cut potatoes. They have 26 locations in Southern California. Jah says that when it’s good, it’s the best. Before he was vegan he used to eat at the one in Santa Monica all the time. It’s one of the few things he still gets a hankering for – that and Jack In The Box spicy chicken sandwiches
12:52 – OUT: Cutting. IN: Embedding (putting staples, etc. in your skin). Jah cautions young UYD listeners not to do this
27:24 – Jah and Seth give an elaborate question about wanting to see a dead lady’s twins
42:49 – Seth starts making amends by telling the ladies to now hide the twins
2:34 – Seth was on the phone with Jonathan today, they got off the phone, Jonathan said something that made Seth drop the phone, then Seth called Jah back 3 times in a row and Jah never picked it back up. Jah forgets what he said, but Seth reminds him: “Ciao.”
7:16 – Jah knew a girl named Savannah who was so cute in a summer acting camp that he went to. Seth calls it “Camp Actingcamp”
8:25 – Jah reveals that his driver’s license photo is dreadful. Seth describes Jah as leaning back, eyes half closed, gritting his teeth, full beard mustache, looking as if he’s “committed things that could or could not be deemed unsavory.” It’s the kind of license where you hand it to an officer and you are getting a ticket. Jah explains that it was an accident. He had to redo something and show up there again and take another picture. It was in between the two pictures when she took that picture, and Jah couldn’t believe it. There were people behind him and rather than asking to redo the photo he just said “fine.” Seth brought hair & makeup in with him to the Sherman Oaks DMV so he could get a legit license photo
15:35 – Jonathan remembers filling out a couple college admissions essays, but he never sent them out with applications because he never took his SATs. Seth thinks they should both go on a Saturday morning and take their SATs with high school kids. Jah thinks he might still be able to give the administrators a note that says he has ADD and he can take the test untimed
30:55 – Jah doesn’t currently have a TV. He has two of them in his apartment but neither of them are plugged in and neither have cable hookup, etc. He realizes this is the first time in his life he’s ever been without one
36:46 – There was a restaurant Seth went into a few years ago after he got sober on Sunset – it opened in 1978 so for the weekend it was rolling back the prices to 1978. The dudes were wearing bell bottoms and Seth got his mack on with four breakfast entrees for $7.
46:23 – Seth brings up his bad days of letter carrying (Episode 143, 2:07). He also had a friend from Texas send him photos of him with an actual mobster, Henry Hill (portrayed by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas). He gets home Friday night and sees a note in the mailbox that he has something at the post office. He goes down to the post office Saturday morning and gets through about three sections of the paper before they open the window and act confused as to where it is. Forty-five minutes later they tell him they lost it and they’ll look for it. Seth got home on Saturday night and the envelope with the photos was under his door (This is the same Nat King Cole Post Office that when his mother sent him his Christmas stocking that he used every year his whole life and she arrived in LA and it was lost, and she was bawling in the post office, and Seth hugs her and mouths to the employees Are you happy? Look at this.).
48:58 – Seth gets a phone call from a buddy of his, Andy, living in Long Island, who tells him he and his mother got his Christmas card – kind of. They got the envelope with no card in it in a bag with a note saying it had been damaged in transit. While Seth is telling his mother about this, his mother tells him that Rob and Deena (his mother’s best friend’s son and wife) in Maryland got the card but it was just the envelope. Seth thinks the reason for the mishap is that he bought some cheap 99-cent store cards and you had to put it perfectly in the envelope otherwise the corner of it would tear the edge of it. Seth’s mom laughs and thinks it’s funny, but Seth starts panicking because he’s sent hundreds of them. Jah says he’s received texts this week asking to tell Seth thanks for the Christmas cards
51:23 – Jah also had something happen this week. A long time ago he talked about having his identity stolen, people starting up accounts and putting his name on it. He had called the people and told them it was fraudulent, they were supposed to send him an affadavit which never came. He thought it was rectified. The other day he got a letter from a different collections agency regarding the same account – Sam’s Club (Episode 056, 47:51). Seth calls the number and gets on the phone with the dude, who’s being super cool and casual on the phone. He tells Jah he’s been on both ends of this and he understands completely. Jah thinks his name is something like Charles. Charles basically gets up front with Jah, telling him it’s such a drawn-out crazy process, and says, “Just pay it.” Over the process of 10 minutes he convinces Jah to just cut the $177 check and take care of it. He’ll then receive the letter and it will go off his credit – which it’s been on his credit for more than a year
0:40 – The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience at UC-Berkeley fitted 9- and 10-year-olds with an egg cap that had electrodes on it to measure the electrical activity in their brains. Half the kids were from rich families, the other half were from poor families. The pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain critical to problem solving and creativity, showed vast differences. The poor kids’ brains were psychologically similar to someone with brain damage. Attributed to these kids were reading less, and having less social activity
3:38 – McDonald’s has unveiled a billboard campaign in Seattle that will roll out across the country: FOUR BUCKS IS DUMB. NOW SERVING ESPRESSO AT MCDONALD’S and LARGE IS THE NEW GRANDE. ONLY AT MCDONALD’S
5:26 – Top baby names of 2008 (a cross-section) – Girls: #1 – Emma, #15 – Riley, #22 – McKayla, #48 – Savannah, #71 – Cadence, #86 - McKenna. Boys: #1 – Aidan. #15 – Gavin, #18 – Caleb, #53 – Tristan, #95 – Bryce, #99 – Micah
8:05 – The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has banned smiling in driver’s license photos, because authorities say it will hamper facial recognition technology.
9:56 – Because the earth is slowing in its daily rotation, an international consortium of timekeepers have decided to add an extra second to the world’s atomic clocks. It will be added on Dec. 31 between 6:59:59 and 7:00:00, EST
18:24 – There have been 0 bids for the baby pics of Ashley Simpson and Pete Wentz’s kid, Bronx Mogley. Pete Wentz this week: “Ashley is the kind of person that understands me in a way that other human beings don’t understand each other. She’s a lottery ticket.”
24:44 – Hot new trend: cosmetic surgery for the deceased
29:13 – Fox Sports has issued a public apology after their live NFL broadcast this Sunday. They were in the Minnesota Vikings’ locker room after their victory and a camera caught TE Visanthe Shiancoe’s dong by his locker. When told by a reporter that the clip was on YouTube, Shiancoe said, “How did it look?”
44:32 – A report back about the football game being shown in 3D (Episode 143, 43:11) was that it was “quite exciting.” You could see holes being opened up for running backs to run through, etc. During NBA All-Star Saturday Night (dunk contest, 3-point contest), that will be shot in 3D HD and shown in 80 movie theaters. Jah says Laura Darlington will get up on that. Jah saw the 3D television that was at the movie theater in the marina. He said it works, although it is a bizarre experience looking at what appears to be a 3D image without glasses. He says if you’re not in the optimum viewing area it could possibly give you a bad headache
55:01 – A man got a fraudulent parking ticket in NYC for $115, and he spent $7,500 to fight it because he “had nothing else to do.”
0:12 – It’s 11:11 p.m., so Jah asks Seth to make a wish. Seth says it just came true
19:18 – Brocabulary: broa constrictor – a bro who loves to hug and be really touchy. Jah thinks he might be one, and Amir would put him in that category
34:44 – Seth feels like he’s practically being paid to get gas
10:59 – Seth says that 2009 is on fire, and is going to be “the shit” for him and Jonathan
40:52 – Scientists have concluded that due to the overwhelming presence of chemicals in our environment, the male gender is in danger. Research has shown that chemicals have feminized males in every class of vertebrate animals from fish to people – baby boys born to women exposed to common household chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. More than 1,000 new gender-bender chemicals have been introduced to the world in recent years
11:15 – Seth rips Hunky Santa for being so hunky, and Jonathan wants him to be less light-in-the-loafers gay and shaved. Seth wants traditional Santa Claus
19:48 – Seth slams late night talk show hosts and how their interviewing technique and questions are so horrible. Seth legitimately wants the listeners’ opinion on what they’re seeing on late night
22:00 – Seth makes fun of Burger Kings’ “Whopper Virgin” commercials, where they have a Transylvanian, an Icelandic tribe member, a Thai, etc. eat both a Big Mac and a Whopper and choose which one tastes better. Seth also makes fun of the “Whopper Freakout” commercials
38:35 – Seth rips Ludacris and T-Pain for the line in their new song “One More Drink”: If I take one more drink, I’m gonna end up fuckin’ you.
59:02 – Seth is pissed because the celebs he’s been seeing at Whole Foods are so low-rent that they aren’t even worth his time. He’s sick of seeing Robbie Laughlin, the style guy from The Daily 10 being crazy loud at the gelato stand, so out of respect Seth gives him a “Robbie!”
2:18 – Jah blames Jesus and science for the bad results from a UC-Berkeley study that finds that poor kids’ brains resemble someone with brain damage