View Episode 192
Originally aired 11.17.09
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24:44 – Seth talks about Bait Car, and how every single person who gets pulled over claims that the driver told them to move the car (Episode 181, 29:35). 43:54 – MTV’s new series premieres on Thursday, Dec. 3: Jersey Shore (Episode 166, 53:24).
46:02 – TruTV’s new show, Full Throttle Saloon, follows the biggest biker bar in Sturgis, S.D. as they’re gearing up for the huge bike rally. The camera shows bartenders stealing money from the till, etc.
55:06 – The History Channel is showing World War II in full color HD all this week.
1:08 – An infomercial for WEN hair products featuring Chaz Dean boasts of a great product. Chaz Dean has an interesting look. He looks like Ken Pavés mixed with Jan and Wayne Skylar. The product is a new approach, a revolutionary concept in hair care. It’s life nurturing your scalp. The system is a completely reverse way of looking at cleaning the hair. Thus, WEN is “NEW” spelled backwards. Jonathan has used the products. If Seth had to sum up Jah’s hair in one word, it would be “luxurious.” Jah’s mom turned him on to the products, which he says do work.
13:08 – OUT: Acai, pomegranate, goji and mangosteen (Episode 005, 5:17). IN: Maqui berry.
14:41 – The Massachusetts Oxycontin Commission calls oxycontin “a rocket ship to heroin.” The use of the pill has increased 950% in the last decade. Jah calls oxy “stairway to the stars.” Seth had a couple pills one night but he didn’t get to take them.
25:16 – Seth mentions Dr. Hansen as if he were interrogating framed child porn viewers.
15:58 – Jonathan reads from a letter that he wrote to longtime friend of the show George, dated Sept. 10, 1995. At this point in his life he was 10 days from turning 22 years old. It reads: I had a great summer. Did a shitload of drugs. I have some great stories. I just went to two Horde shows. Drank like crazy. Worked here and there. Drove out here to L.A. Me, Josh, Brian. We had the best time. We took 10 days, drove 4,000 miles. We had mad weed. We smoked all day, every day. Tripped on mushrooms at the White House and Graceland. Saw the Grand Canyon, camped out in Santa Fe. Wild times. Well, I’m in L.A. Things are looking good. I’m psyched to hear from you. – Seth Jah says this must have been the Gillette of summer road trips – the best a man can get (Episode 115, 4:02). Jah looked up the HORDE shows, which were freeform rock festivals that took place every few years. It stood for Horizons Of Rock Developing Everywhere, and it was started by John Popper of Blues Traveler. The shows Seth went to were Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1995 at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and Friday, Aug. 12, 1995 at Greatwoods in Mansfield, Mass. He got to see Joan Osborne, G. Love and Special Sauce, Ziggy Marley, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Blues Traveler, Godstreet Wine and The Black Crowes.
56:50 – Seth says it was an easier time back during the HORDE shows
11:30 – Seth got a voicemail from a listener who said he was just listening to Episode 192 and Jah’s crazy lucid, intense vivid dreams (47:37 and 1:02:32), as well as the “Blueberry Children” (32:59). He said there have actually been neurological studies, and there is a direct correlation between ingesting a high amount of B vitamins and having very intense, vivid, lucid dreams. “Or,” the listener said, “maybe Jonathan’s right and somebody just planted an intergalactic phone in your head.”
19:15 – Seth remembers going to the HORDE show at Old Orchard Beach. He saw his mother at her cottage in Scarborough before he went to the show and they had just taken mushrooms. Seth and his mother’s song is John Lennon’s “Imagine,” and Seth’s parents were there as well, and Blues Traveler played “Imagine” and Seth starts crying during his mushroom trip.
22:40 – Seth asks Jah if he still carries a knife with him. Jah says it’s funny he asked because he was talking to someone about this last night. He doesn’t carry it anymore, although he did carry a buck knife for a very long time. He also carried a box cutter for a long time.
49:42 – Jah was talking with Seth earlier tonight about how there’s a flaw in the system that he wholeheartedly agrees with, hiring mentally handicapped people for jobs they are capable of fulfilling in the workplace. In order for that type of a system to work properly, there have to be people hired within those companies that have experience dealing with that and who can act as a buffer for the common person coming in and aren’t well-versed at dealing with it. Jah has been seeing a major breakdown in the flow of communication at retail stores because there is no point person to help them with this issue.
57:33 – Seth booked his first commercial on a pager. He can bring you to the payphone he did it at if it’s still there. It was a good day that day, but he got cut out of it, along with Alicia Silverstone’s husband, Christopher Jarecki. He ran into Jarecki last year, and Seth told him about the YouTube channel with the commercial he was in with Jarecki – the Playstation Cool Boarders 2. Seth could just imagine Chris and Alicia coming home and busting out laughing at the commercial on her laptop.
4:18 – Mangagement rings are being bought by women for their fiancés. They’re made of very masculine materials such as steel, tungsten and cobalt. They can cost anywhere from $300 to $1,000.
8:41 – According to a poll conducted by Consumer Reports, 36% of Americans plan on regifting this year as opposed to 31% in 2008 and 24% in 2007. Retailers are battling each other to attract limited dollars so we might have a “Cutthroat Christmas” with stores constantly trying to outdo each other.
9:58 – Wal-Marts are going to be keeping most of their U.S. locations open overnight on Thanksgiving. They’re going to stay open up to Black Friday morning to help ease the crowding and chaos that led to the trampling death of a store employee last year.
20:31 – Bullet makers are working around the clock seven days a week and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they’ve never seen anything like it. It’s called the Obama Effect. Gun enthusiasts have been stocking up on ammo, many of them 1,000 rounds per weapon. Many Wal-Marts are capping the sale to one box, which would be 50 rounds per customer.
23:54 – At any moment, about 20 million of the estimated 1 billion internet-connected PCs worldwide are infected with a virus so severe they can give hackers full control. Law enforcement officials in the U.S. are warning of cases where pedophiles deposit child porn videotapes on your home computer to remotely view later. Hackers can also make your computer itself view up to 40 child porn sites per minute.
28:43 – Arsenio Hall is denying rumors in the National Enquirer that he and Paula Abdul have rekindled their romance from 1989 and are seeing each other again. He claims they’re just very close friends. On this note Seth reads off other 1989 romances so we can imagine them together now at The Grove: Madonna & Sean Penn, George Clooney & Kelly Preston, Jennifer Gray & Johnny Depp and Corey Feldman & Drew Barrymore.
30:56 – Pam McLaurin, a 20-year veteran school teacher in East Texas, has refused to submit her fingerprints to be digitized and stored in a computer database, saying that she will have assumed what the book of Revelation calls “the mark of the beast.” She submitted verses from Rev. 13 and 14 that said she would be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb.
35:38 – Irene Villar is a 40-year-old literary agent who has just published a brutally frank new memoir called Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict. When she was 16 years old she met her first husband – a 50-year-old professor of Latin American Literature at Syracuse University. Over the course of their relationship, from age 16 to 33, she had 15 abortions.
52:55 – Starting this Wednesday, Best Buy will begin selling fitness equipment at 40 of its stores in the U.S. Said a spokesman, “We’re looking to find ways to fill the center of the store.” Seth assumes this is because there used to be enormous music sections, but not so much anymore.
55:56 – Jelly Belly Candy Company is recalling about 6,000 containers of its “49 Flavors” packages because they contain peanut butter flavored jelly beans, but the company didn’t list peanut butter or flour on the ingredients label.
26:10 – Jonathan’s father will be performing at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., in the holiday classic “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” performing the role of Old Max.
27:37 – Seth loves Christmas, and the feeling of the holiday season. It makes him feel very warm and very open, with the endless possibilities of life and love. But those feelings end on the 26th.
41:17 – Seth and Jonathan can’t believe 2010 is right here upon us.
32:58 – A sudden diagnosis of cancer can be a very difficult strain on a married couple. According to new research, when a wife gets news of a possible life-threatening diagnosis, her husband is six times more likely to leave her than if the tables were turned and the man received the bad news – 3% to 21%
39:35 – Researched published in the Journal of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research confirms long-held belief that alcoholics – even those who have long abstained – have a tendency to misread emotional cues. Sometimes taking offense when none was intended, or failing to pick up on a loved one’s sadness, joy or anger. The misunderstandings can result in more drinking, and then more deterioration of all close relationships. It raises the question, “Did alcoholism blunt emotional insensitivity, or did emotional insensitivity lead to the alcoholism?”
47:56 – Maclaren USA is recalling 1 million strollers that have been sold in the last decade due to a dozen reports of children’s fingers being amputated in the hinges. The strollers were made in China.
37:44 – JLR has filed some very important legal papers this week. “I seek 8 Gosselins and 8 Sulemins. They are my children.” Riches claims he met Kate Gosselin at a Pennsylvania Long John Silver’s, where they dined on octopus, before he accompanied her to a fertility clinic where she used stolen Capital One credit cards to inseminate herself and JLR’s sperm was added to the mix. He has filed a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order “forbidding my children from being exposed on television, where it puts me and my little rascals in imminent danger.” He also sued ABC’s All My Children, “which are my kids too.” He says he can provide a better environment for all of the kids with three square meals a day, 24-hour armed security, health care and a library. His bodyguard, Kevin Cosner, understands the whole history. He signed it, “Inmate #40948018, Jonathan Lee Riches.”
7:52 – Jonathan predicts that this is going to be the weirdest, worst Christmas ever. The whole country’s going to be fucked up.
6:02 – Old Dogs is coming out on Jonathan’s father’s birthday, Wednesday the 25th of November, and is prime fodder for Seth to rip on. It stars John Travolta, Robin Williams and Seth Greene – as well as some Justin Long and Dax Shepard.
20:13 – Seth makes fun of the 21-year-old version of himself.
54:15 – Jah and Seth hammer the new Twilight movie and the fact that Dakota Fanning is in it. Seth: “We still haven’t seen Twilight. What the fuck are we doing?” Jah: “Well, uh, not being faggots.”