View Episode 174
Originally aired 07.09.09
1:09:51
18:46 – On NYC Prep this week, we met Sebastian’s father, Jeff. Jeff told him that it’s difficult growing up in New York, and he wants him to keep his grades up while maintaining a balance by having fun too. PC went down to Cancún and got pretty gay with his Mexican roommate. Jah wants to know if he can watch the show on Hulu.
56:06 – (“Who’s Lawsuitin’ Harder?”) A) Alfred G. Rava, who specializes in male anti-discrimination lawsuits, has sued Club Med for a ladies-only promotion, bars and nightclubs for ladies night discounts and the Anaheim Angels baseball team for giving away $1 tote bags just to women during a Mother’s Day baseball game in 2005. On May 8, 2004, the Oakland A’s baseball team had a Mother’s Day promotion with a Fight Breast Cancer 5K run before the game, free mammograms for women, etc. The first 7,500 women through the gate got a floppy sun hat to shield UV rays. Rava sued, and just won – they settled for $500,000. For men who can prove they were at the game, they get $50 in cash, a $25 Macy’s coupon and a pair of tickets to a future game. One of the dude’s own mothers died of breast cancer; B) Last month, Kentucky Fried Chicken promoted a giveaway of 2 pieces of grilled chicken, 2 individual side dishes and a biscuit on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Demand was so high that they had to scale back the offer and ask customers who had printed the online coupons to visit stores and get an IOU voucher and a free Pepsi. James Asanuma and Veronica Mora have filed suit against KFC and Yum Brands in a Los Angeles court and are seeking class action status. They’re accusing KFC of false advertising, fraud and unfair business practices. The company used the promotion to pluck money from customers who hadn’t intended to go to KFC and spend any, and made them use their color printer and download a program to print it, etc.
14:25 – Kid Rock will unveil his new beer, called American Badass Beer, at his Detroit concerts at Comerica Park July 17-18. Says Kid Rock, “ People that like premium beers will not like this. I want this to be like beer I drink. You grab it, you share it with your friends. It’s refreshing, it’s cold, it gives you a good buzz. Done.”
46:19 – Seth has been seeing an inordinate amount of infomercials for hearing devices, including the Loud and Clear, the Silver Sonic XL, Sonic Ears, Lee Majors Rechargable Bionic Hearing Aid and the Songbird Disposable Flux Fit Hearing Aid. He also saw an informercial for The Comfort Wipe, which is the first improvement to toilet paper as we know it since the 1880s.
25:25 – According to Kevin Smith in Newsweek, talking about his new movie with Bruce Willis: “I fucking love Bruce Willis. Bruce is one of the only dudes on the planet that I would fuck.”
27:07 – Dana Boyd, a social media researcher, was giving the keynote speech at the New York Democracy Forum at Lincoln Center, discussing Facebook overtaking Myspace: “We might as well face an uncomfortable reality. What happened is modern day white flight. The fact that digital migration is revealing the same social patterns as urban white flight should send warning signals to all of us. It should scare the hell out of us. Myspace is the ghetto of the digital landscape.”
42:49 – A former surgery technician, Kristen Diane Parker, may have exposed roughly 6,000 patients to Hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for syringes filled with the powerful painkiller Fentanyl. Parker was working at several surgery centers in Colorado Springs and Denver. She took the Fentanyl syringes, and would replace them with her used syringes that were filled with in ineffective saline solution.
1:11 – Seth received a legitimate report from a friend, who was at the Arclight movie theater on Monday. Bill and Ted were there together having lunch, both eating salads.
5:12 – Jah admits he spends a shitload of time deciding what to wear. Seth wants to know how much time he spent tonight, because J-dawg is wearing purple locals flip-flops from Hawaii, a white two-button t-shirt with a pouch for the hands, and what Seth thought were casual gray sweatpants – but they’re actually very tapered at the ankle with a harem-like drop crotch about 2 ½ feet below his ballsack. Seth says the first thing that comes to mind is that they are MC Hammer pants (Episode 117, 46:12). Jah says he has two pairs of them. He wore a pair of blue ones with a dope muscle tank top with a T back made by Locos Only, which says FITNESS CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA in 80s font to a barbecue on the Fourth of July, and at one point Amir called him over and said, “Jonathan, come on. It’s Fourth of July. Go back to the car and put on your crazy outfit.”
7:43 – Jah wants to go on record and say that Toms are the new Crocs, because they’re awesome and he wore them. He also wore Crocs for a short period of time (Episode 011, 2:52), which he admits was an absolute criminal act and he should have been punished for it more than he was.
9:54 – Jah’s friend Will, who listens to the show, called Jah the other day and told him they bought tickets for Conan a year ago and the taping was that night. Will called Jah after he got out of the taping to make sure Jah got the message. Jah wanted to know how it was, and Will said Conan was even more awesome in person than you think he would be by watching the show. After Jah got off the phone, he realized there are people who are still super down with Conan, and at this point he no longer feels like Conan’s character or personality is authentic anymore.
17:24 – Jah finds himself eating and drinking things in his life that become staples and he wonders how it ever got that way. It’s almost subconscious because he gets so used to it. It takes a lot to break that cycle, like his coffee. Sometimes he’s so glad by the time he gets done with his coffee, and food period. Seth claims he eats to live, not live to eat.
25:12 – Jah received a text saying 2 HYPE 2 SKYPE.
31:28 – Jah talks about Myspace being played out and how he only goes on there to look at bands. Jah showed Seth the power of the ‘Book, and Seth acknowledges that it’s explosive. Jah has heard of people meeting on Facebook having never met in real life, and through messages they send to each other, choosing to meet and have sex.
45:04 – Jah is scared because he’s pretty sure at this point that his best days are behind him. As far as his capacity to absorb and enjoy external things in the world, there’s no way anything’s going to happen from this point on that’s going to be as dope for him as the things he’s already seen, had or gotten. His best days were driving down the PCH, screaming out to Jah (Episode 110, 39:50). J-dawg will be 32 years old on August 7.
2:39 – Gold’s Gym has designated July as “Cankle Awareness Month.” According to Gold’s Gym, cankles are the fastest growing aesthetic affliction in the U.S. The summer brings skirts, shorts, capris, bare feet, sandals, etc., further drawing attention to this scourge. Seth claims that Jonathan’s younger brother, Ben, does not have to worry about this, because he had calf implant surgery (Episode 001, 40:43). Before he had the surgery Seth told him not to do it, but now he thinks it was worth it.
11:53 – Denny’s All-Nighter from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. – they’re playing alternative rock music, and encouraging young, hungry, drunk patrons to come in. They sponsor more than 30 emerging bands who get free meals on the road as long as they occasionally stop in at Denny’s after a show and do a post-show jam session. Denny’s servers are encouraged to chat up tipsy customers, says their spokesperson: “We want them to say, ‘Hey, it looks like you guys are having some fun tonight. Who wants some coffee now?’”
24:12 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first at-home test kit for men to use after a vasectomy, to make sure they have achieved true serility. It’s called Sperm Check Vasectomy. It measures a protein called SP-10 that is present in each sperm head. The test may be useful because sperm can remain in the male reproductive tract for several weeks or months after a vasectomy procedure.
32:24 – TruTV’s website had executed prisoners last words. Early Wesley Berry in ’08: “No comment.” … Dale Devon Scheanette in Texas earlier this year: “Is the mic on?” … Michael Richard in Texas in ’07: “Let’s ride.” … James Jackson in Texas: “Warden, murder me. I’m ready to roll. It’s time to get this party started.” … George Harris in Missouri: “Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.” … Thomas Grasso in Oklahoma: “Please tell the media I didn’t get my Spaghetti-O’s. I just got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.” (Episode 013, 56:19)
34:28 – Facebook has a feature called Friend Suggestions, which analyzes your friends. … Jennifer Bates and her boyfriend of 3 years had a really bad breakup. She gets Friend Suggestions from Facebook of a profile of someone she “might know.” It is the ex-boyfriend, and he is holding his newborn baby, smiling – it was the newborn he had with the girl he was cheating with behind Jennifer’s back. … Tennesse resident Relámpago Negro keeps getting suggestions of the wife of her ex-boyfriend, along with the ex-boyfriend’s brother and all of his in-laws. … Jennifer Smith says that men she went out with one time keep popping back up.
38:49 – Discovery Times Square Exposition has an exhibit called “Titanic: The Artifacts.” You pay $20 and get a quasi-authentic boarding pass, you come out of the tour, and then are told you died.”
41:04 – According to GMAC Insurance, the 5th annual National Drivers Test analyzes Driver IQ on a state-by-state basis by asking 20 questions to more than 5,000 drivers throughtout the country. New York has the lowest Driving IQ, followed by Hawaii, New Jersey and California. Based on the results, 20% of current-day drivers (about 40 million) would not pass a written test if they took it right now. Drivers over 35 were most likely to pass, while 18- to 24-year-olds had the highest failure rate. Men were more likely than woman to pass (81% to 79%).
50:05 – Southwest Airlines has begun letting small dogs and cats fly with their owners for $75 each way.
51:48 – Audra Sigler Shay, the vice chairwoman of the Young Republicans, is under a bit of fire for comments made on her Facebook page. Her friend Eric Piker, July 1 at 1:54 p.m.: “Obama Bin Laden is the new terrorist. We need to take the country back from all these mad coons and illegals.” Audra Sigler at 2:02 p.m. on July 1: “You tell ’em, Eric. LOL.”
1:03:49 – In 2012, the iPhone looks as though it will finally be unlocked – with the ability to use any cell phone provider.
0:38 – There have been a lot of tech issues this week, with listeners being unable to download the last couple episodes. As of last check, Jah declares that the episodes are downloading fine. He also says that people are getting the new shipment of t-shirts.
8:27 – Seth wants to know what happened to Craig Kilborn. The last time Jah saw him was in Old School, which he accidentally refers to as Knocked Up. Jah thinks he’s an asshole and that’s why he hasn’t gotten any work.
20:59 – Seth says UYD is thinking about doing a live show in Brooklyn, N.Y., in August, but if they’re going to do it they need a head count on how many bodies will be there. Those interested in seeing the live show in Brooklyn need to call the UYD voicemail (888-842-2357) and express interest.
22:12 – Jah and Seth dip back into the UYD tech issues. Amir couldn’t download 172 or 173 and called Jah to complain, yet Seth got a hundred voicemails saying they loved the show. Seth also plugs the 18-minute montage video that he created that was put up under the “Media” tab on the website.
23:47 – UYD busted out on iTunes this week and before Seth knew it, they were getting phone calls telling them they were the 19th-most downloaded comedy podcast.
1:06:34 – UYD t-shirts are so soft. Grown men are wearing them and sending proof of it via photos to Jah.
3:46 – According to a new study, women will spend almost one year of their lives deciding what to wear. Between choosing outfits for work, nights out, dates, holidays, parties, the gym, errands, etc., the average woman will spend close to 365 days of their adult life (16-60) engaged in this act.
25:53 – Seth and Jah rip on straight guys like Kevin Smith who claim they’d fuck their male idols “if they went that way.”