View Episode 159
Originally aired 03.25.09
6:46 – Seth wonders if people are wearing seatbelts in Europe, and Jah confirms it.
1:11:43
1:46 – UYD: Reiki my answer
18:01 – Uhh Yeah Dude: It’s your t-shirt
18:06 – Uhh Yeah Dude: It’s what’s on your t-shirt
32:03 – Textual harassment is an issue affecting young teenage girls today. Teenage boys and young men have been inundating the girls with nonstop texts including sexual advances, etc.
41:51 – Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates, told Vogue magazine: “Every now and then I look at my friends and I say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone.’” The family obviously has a policy to not own Apple products.
54:04 –Kanye West on VH1’s Storytellers: “Michael Jackson – amazing. Michael Phelps – amazing. OJ Simpson – amazing. I mean, what he did, what he did – was he not amazing though?” A couple other quotes he had: “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.” … Outtakes: “Can’t we give Chris (Brown) a break?” … “When (Thom Yorke) performed, I sat the fuck down.” Jah has always hated Kanye, but he admits that the video for “Heartless” is dope.
58:33 – Michael Jackson and Corey Feldman no doubt softly, tenderly and gently gummed each other. Seth would stake the show’s reputation on that notion, but doesn’t think Macaulay Caulkin ever got that far with Jacko.
2:58 – Phish had a reunion show in Hampton, Va., during which local police netted over $1 million in drugs and made 200 arrests.
5:09 – Jah explains Catnip – a plant-based speed for cats. Word on the street is that it’s a legal drug you give to cats and it makes them crazy. You can purchase it in flakes and pellets and it’s basically ecstacy or cocaine for cats. Jah explains it only does it to some cats in various amounts or degrees.
39:09 – Kids are smoking Smarties, crushing them up into dust, blowing it out and making it look like smoke with rings, etc.
3:51 – Jah is reading a book right now and is pretty sure it’s changing his life. He remembers Seth going off on people for reading books and letting it change their lives (Episode 154, 48:37), so he feels guilty for doing the same.
5:02 – Jah went to his first Grateful Dead show in Tempe, Ariz. He was not abducted there.
6:34 – Jah wonders if he should fill people in on the things he’s seen during his European travels. He says it’ll come up organically over the next several weeks.
10:35 – Seth knew Jah was back in the country because he felt it. He was asleep on Monday, and he woke up, looked, and whispered, “J-Dawg’s back.” J-Dawg climbed into bed with Seth and whispered “Wake up, sweet prince.”
12:48 – The USPS got rid of about 900 mailboxes, and Seth knows this because he’s literally visited all the mailboxes in Los Angeles and drops something in the mail every day. Seth was driving around and couldn’t find his usual boxes and couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
13:39 – The sales tax in California is going up to 9.25% on April 1 in California. Seth had everything down to a science, to where if he ordered a sandwich he knows how much it costs with tax. Now he doesn’t, because everything’s going to be recalculated in his life. Jah went to buy a Wetzel Pretzel and a lemonade today at The Grove and paid $7. It also cost him $8 to valet park because he was running late to the Apple Store, where he dropped $200 for a hard drive, then tipped the valet an extra $3. Basically he spent $220 in 17 minutes.
1:00:59 – Jah tells about something a lot of people do in Europe: The people who would book a lot of the shows would meet them at the train station, take them to the venue, where lunch was waiting for them. They do the soundcheck, and the hosts make dinner for them. Jah thinks in the state we’re in, people in the U.S. should think about doing that some more.
1:03:09 – Seth saw this girl who got a manicure, and the tips of her fingernails were dollar bills. He thought that was fresh.
1:05:09 – There were a few minutes when Jah was in Europe that he had a severe feeling of technological disconnect, because he had the phone completely turned off and didn’t know what was happening back home. Last year when he went to June, it was an amazing trip, but this time around he never completely left L.A. and was wanting to get back and take care of some stuff.
1:16 – Google’s original name was Backrub. Just as UYD has changed names (previously Jesus & John), other great institutions have done the same
7:59 – An administrative assistant at a church rectory in Arlington, Wash., was charged with stealing $73,000 from the church. When asked about this, she said Satan had a big part in the theft.
9:26 – Red states buy and view more online pornography than blue states do. Eight of the top 10 states that buy and view more online porn all voted for John McCain for president. Utah is #1 for their porn consumption and 60% of the state is allegedly devout Mormon.
11:12 – Earth Class Mail is a new all-digital mail service. You pick a PO Box wherever, pay a monthly fee, and this company will open all of your mail, scan and upload all of them to a computer. The client can then check their mail and click on boxes and tell the company, shred this one, recycle this one, forward this one to me in person, etc. Packages can be sent to the person’s home or PO Box or picked up at the nearest Earth Class Mail center. It starts at $11.95 a month for 50 pages of mail. Seth is uneasy about this, he doesn’t want somebody reading his love letters.
19:53 – Monsters and Aliens is a 3D movie coming out this week. Nine more movies are coming out this year. Jah doesn’t care about the 3D movies unless they make them where you don’t have to wear the goofy 3D glasses to view the movie.
21:24 – Spirit Airlines (Episode 094, 33:16), a no-frills airline, will charge you an extra fee unless you buy your ticket in person at a Spirit Airline counter at the airport.
26:03 – In Staten Island, the Community Education Council Member Salvatore Ballarino, is in hot water over an e-mail he sent to members of the council. It contained images of Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, and said, Q: Why are these two guys always smiling? A: Because they don’t know they’re black. To this he responded, “If they’re upset about something, it’s their own inner-workings. I have black people who are my friends. I have black people who sit at dinner tables with me.”
29:38 – First-year Girl Scout Wild Freeborn, 8 years old, set out to sell 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies so she could take her entire troup to a summer camp. She enlisted the help of her father, a web designer, and made a YouTube video of her doing a pitch, put an online order form up and got a gang of requests for cookies. A local father, a former Scout dad, alerted the troup and said it was an unfair advantage, so the troup made her take it down. Seth notes that one of the Girl Scout merit badges requires a girl to visit three websites.
37:01 – Porn.com is the second-most expensive .com name, at $9.5 million. The number one, for $9.9, is www.fund.com - mutual funds and investment portfolios. Others in the top 10: 10) Cameras.com, 9) Datarecovery.com, 8) Seniors.com, 7) Computers.com, 6) Creditcards.com, 5) Vodka.com, 4) Toys.com, 3) Diamonds.com.
40:30 – Chicago police said the 14-year-old boy who posed as a police officer in January actually did spend 2 hours behind the wheel of the squad car. Previously they had said he hadn’t driven. (Episode 152, 7:43). He also entered the police station through an unlocked back door. They admitted that in his 5 hours in uniform, he used the terminal dispatch in the patrol car, he responded to five different assignments and helped in the arrest of a suspect who violated a protection order.
42:35 – Apple released 3.0 software for its iPhone which will let you copy and paste, send and receive MMS and turn the phone sideways to view the landscape.
44:22 – Neighbors of Bob Dylan, who has a sprawling ocean-view estate in Point Dume Malibu, have contended that the nighttime sea breezes have sent an obnoxious odor across all of their properties, which has stemmed from a portable toilet that sits on Dylan’s property. For more than six months Dylan has ignored all the complaints of his neighbors to remove the outhouse. It has sickened family members and forced some to install industrial fans to block the odor.
45:30 – According to the website OddJobNation.com, there was a job called “Balloon Popper” that pays $50 per hour. There are a large group of people with the sexual fetish of watching videos of fully-clothed men popping balloons by sitting on them.
46:44 – Three different companies currently available and in business online called Death Switch, Slightly Morbid and Legacy Locker – created for gamers in the unlikely event that they pass away. You pay a monthly fee, and if you die, they will contact all your fellow gamers and notify administrators to let them know that you’ve died and not just quit the game.
51:33 – Smith & Wesson gun company is recalling a couple guns they sold from 2002-2009. Apparently the affected pistols were discovered to discharge ammunition without the trigger being pulled.
52:39 – 42-year-old Daniel Doster was arrested in Yorktown, Ind., masturbating at his mailbox on his front lawn. When arrested he said he was “letting my neighbors know who’s boss.”
0:39 – Jah shocks us by telling us this is being recorded on March 24, 2009 – giving us a fresh episode instead of a lost episode as there had been the previous two weeks
4:45 – Questions that came up in the time since Jah has been gone: 1) The pronounciation of Tempe, Ariz.; 2) Is it middle school or junior high; 3) What’s the deal with Catnip?
10:03 – Seth is so glad Jah’s back because he appreciates the perspective on human nature, psyche, etc., that J-Dawg adds to the show’s element.
15:07 – Seth and Jah announce that they have premium quality UYD t-shirts on sale. Seth describes that it feels like your favorite t-shirt. The shirts are Alternative Earth 100% organic cotton. The design is the hair logo, created by artists/friends of the show Kozy and Dan. Jah says the information will be up soon. Jah wore one of the shirts in Europe. He thinks it’s more awkward for J-Dawg to wear it because it’s a little more obvious by the design that it’s him on the shirt. He also doesn’t know if it’s OK to wear a Jogger t-shirt since it’s his own band. J-Dawg’s dad and mom both own shirts and Jah’s mom might be handling some of the phone ordering, so they caution not to be rude as some voicemail callers can tend to be.
35:01 – Seth notes that the day Jonathan left the country, the word “twitter” started being said nonstop for three weeks and wouldn’t stop. Jah said someone texted him “Twitter is Facebook for minimalists,” which he thought was funny. When Seth told his father about that, his father got really mad at him.
50:33 – Seth tells us we might have thought we were getting the third lost episode, but they are fully back.
1:09:45 – Jah says that Daedelus and Jogger have an EP that’s out, and you can buy a t-shirt designed by Kozy and Dan and get the six-song EP for free – the EP is titled Friends of Friends.
7:15 – A new study says that people who drink more than 7 cups of coffee a day are more likely to see ghosts. Jah thinks he might drink the equivalency of that each day, and he’s maybe seen a few ghosts.
2:12 – Jah thinks in the next year or two we will see a convergence of Coldplay and U2 becoming one big superband called “UCold” or “UPlay” or “Cold2.”
1:49 – Seth rips on U2 for their new tour “No Line On The Horizon,” which was originally titled “Kiss The Future.”
25:00 – Seth hammers Jamie Foxx for his new video for his song “Blame It,” which features appearances by Ron Howard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson and Forest Whitaker, who all appear “in da club” in the video.
28:00 – Seth says if you wanna be racist, you gotta be racist – but stop twisting it on the public. And don’t e-mail it. Keep it within your own racist friends.