View Episode 160
Originally aired 04.05.09
1:03:10
29:21 – UYD: Breathe the air. Hear the show.
56:08 – UYD: Tweaking the wheel
1:21 – In the show Battlestar Galactica, the characters replace the word “fuck” with “frack” and use it in copious amounts.
53:40 – Starting April 15, The Cougar on TV Land, 10-11 p.m. starring Stacy Anderson, a successful realtor in Scottsdale, Ariz., who will choose among 20-somethings; Pitchman on Discovery Network – Billy Mayes and Sully Sullivan look into the history of people who sell their products
56:19 – A couple things happened in Florida. Jah was there recently so he knows. A 53-year-old Sarasota woman videotaped herself having sex with two dogs while she was watching child porn. … A man in Oseola county was arrested going door-to-door posing as a dentist, working out of the back of his pickup truck in a lawn chair
10:43 – A company in Humboldt County has created a new energy-efficient lightbulb called the “Geo Bulb,” an LED bulb that will last 10 years and emit 60 watts in a 7.5-watt bulb. It will cost $119.
6:21 – OUT: Sudoku. IN: Ken-Ken
8:30 – Jah got Kevin Spacey flying back from England. He wonders if he’s straight but Seth dismisses him as “bona fide queer.”
0:40 – In anticipation of the new Star Trek movie coming out May 8, there are Star Trek photo booths, theme night dance parties where Orion girls will dress up in green bikinis, etc.
4:56 – Some more interesting college courses are available: At UC-Berkeley, you can take a class where you argue the logic of Judge Judy; at Wisconsin, they have “Daytime Serials: Family and Social Roles”, dissecting soap operas; at UC-Irvine, “The Science of Superheroes”; at Columbia College in Chicago, “Zombies In Popular Media;” and at Center College in Kentucky, “Myth and Science Fiction,” where they analyze Star Wars, Matrix and Lord of the Rings
7:01 – Brad and Angelina might adopt a child from India. They already have 6 kids – Maddox from Cambodia, Zahara from Vietnam, Shiloh from Namibia, Pax from Vietnam, and 9-month twins born in France, Knox and Vivienne.
9:16 – A judge in Illinois has ruled that it is OK and protected under our free speech laws for a 58-year-old man to go up to parents and kids in local parks outside of Chicago and ask if he can tickle their children. Charles Douglas loves to do his “tickle monster” routine, and now he has precedent to do it full-bore.
11:44 – An 88-year-old man lost control of his luxury Jaguar sedan on Sunday afternoon in Redondo Beach, Calif., and drove it through a crowded restaurant. There were bodies strewn about the room, and it left the man shocked and confused. Police did not cite the man.
14:08 – The average age of Facebook users is slowly rising. Women over 55 are the fastest-growing demographic, and over the past two months members over the age of 35 has doubled.
19:05 – Two new talk shows are coming out: The George Lopez Show on TBS and The Wanda Sykes Show on FOX.
21:59 – An elementary school in L.A. took a field trip to the Port of Long Beach where they chartered a boat for the 20 kids to go on their first fishing trip. One of the crew members, 54-year-old Jeff Twattle, was trying to make the students laugh by putting his bait fish in his mouth. He accidentally swallowed the fish and choked to death in front of them.
23:23 – Question posed on the physicscentral.org website, “How long would you have to yell at a cup of coffee to heat it up?” Jah guesses 20 minutes, but it would take a year and a half.
34:26 – New Line Cinema is going to make an NWA video called Straight Outta Compton, produced by Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.
35:40 – Seth talks about Michael Jackson and his kids. In 1997 he married Deborah Rowe, and they had two kids: Michael Jackson Jr. (Prince), 12, and Paris Michael Catherine Jackson, 11. They divorced a couple years later and she gave him custody of the kids. In 2002, he had Prince Michael Jackson II (Blanket), born to a surrogate mom through artificial insemination using Jacko’s sperm. The identity of the mother has never been detailed.
40:00 – Jay Leno is doing two free shows outside of Detroit for the homeless and jobless.
41:33 – US Conference of Catholic Bishops has warned Roman Catholics to shun the Eastern healing art of reiki because it lacks scientific credibility and is especially dangerous because the theory of rebalancing a universal life energy operates in the realm of superstition, and any and all healing should be given by the divine power of prayer to Christ the Lord and Savior.
43:24 – There’s been a rash of bitings at high schools across the country because of the enormous success of the movie Twilight.
47:02 – There was a Save Darfur benefit concert last week in Atlanta. Tickets were $35. The band? Collective Soul.
49:30 – Veterans Affair spokesperson Katie Roberts announced this week that VA hospitals across the country might have exposed veterans to several infectious diseases by government clinics that performed colonoscopies with equipment that wasn’t properly sterilized.
50:14 – Lindsey Lohan has a line of self tanner called Sevin Nyne Tanning Mist that comes out Wednesday, April 15. It’s a play on her favorite numbers.
51:00 – CBS Morning Show had a boy named Liam Hoekstra, 3, from Michigan. “Super Kid.” He has a rare condition called Myostatin-Related Muscle Hypertrophy which gives him extreme muscularity. He’s ripped.
52:22 – April 15 is the 17th birthday of Richard Sandrak, Little Hercules
20:02 – Jah has been out of the country for a while and he wants to know how Jimmy Fallon’s late night show is doing, which forces Seth to sit down.
28:29 – Jah wonders if the economic situation with this country is actually as bad as he thinks when he gets these random pangs inside of him.
31:48 – Seth wonders what déjà vu is, and Jah explains that it is while experiencing something, your brain misfires and tries to file something that’s supposed to be in your short-term memory into your long-term memory.
1:00:15 – Seth proposes an idea for buying UYD t-shirts: buy a t-shirt for the person who turned you on to UYD
29:26 – According to market research group Experion, 43% of 6- to 9-year-olds are already using lipstick or lip gloss. 38% are using hair styling products. 12% use adult cosmetics.
44:52 – Nearly 10,000 O’Neill children’s sweatshirts made in China have been recalled because the drawstrings have the tendency to tighten up and strangle children
2:56 – Seth dips back into Parade magazine Q&A, and Kaitlynn Hoop of Wyoming, Mich., sent in this question: “Bones star David Boreanaz has a tattoo on his right wrist. What does it mean?” The answer: “Actually, Kaitlynn, Boreanaz has tattoos on both wrists. Like many young actors, he chose Japanese Kanji ideographs. In this case, one says soul, the other says destiny. By the way, other celebrities fond of Japanese Kanji characters include singers Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Janet Jackson and Britney Spears.”
16:19 – Seth goes off on Peter Arnell, an ad guy who designed the Pepsi logo which was nothing more than a rip-off of Obama’s logo. In his 27-page memo to Pepsi that was leaked to other people in the ad world, he cited a bunch of mumbo-jumbo as his reasoning for designing it. He also designed the new Tropicana label, which everyone hates.
33:21 – Seth hammers Seth Rogen for constantly talking about his weight loss
45:30 – Seth and Jah go off on China for not being able to make a sweatshirt
42:27 – Jonathan goes off on Catholics for shunning reiki, and calls them “close-minded, narrow-sighted fucks” and “devil people.”