View Episode 200
Originally aired 01.10.10
1:07:21
6:30 – UYD: On the temple tip
19:10 – UYD: Heat and eat
14:47 - Conveyer Belt of Love on ABC is the best show ever. A guy comes down the conveyer belt, while 5 girls sit there. 1 sign says “Interested” and the other says “Not Interested.” They stop the conveyer belt and the guy stands in front of the 5 women and says, “Hey, you guys know how much a polar bear weighs?” The girls collectively answer, “No.” Dude responds, “I don’t know either, but he just broke the ice.” All 5 girls hold up a “Not Interested” sign, the belt starts moving again, and the guy goes “See you later” as he gets belted away.
20:54 – American Idol kicks off this Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Seth loves peeping these girls who are convinced they can sing but really can’t.
22:22 – Jah wonders if Seth watched the American Music Awards and if he saw the complaints people wrote into the FCC about Adam Lambert kissing a male bandmate during the performance.
40:26 – Building off the success of “drank,” anti-energy drinks are expected to be among top drink trends in 2010 (Episode 120, 33:55). According to advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, drinks named Slo Cow, Ex Chill and Mary Jane’s use kava, camomile and valerian to provide a direct alternative to energy drinks. They also claim to aid mental focus and concentration.
41:48 – IN: Slacklining – it’s a balance sport that’s taken over college campuses. Involves tying a nylon webbing or robe in between two trees, and you just move between them.
43:23 – Jah’s drug journey was opposite of most people, who start getting fucked up in high school and get mad fucked up in college, then you’re still on that wave for a few more years after getting spit out of college and all of a sudden you’re 30. For Jah, he got sober when he was 16 and didn’t go to college. He watched it happen to others and saw people who he thought there was no way they were alive again.
52:45 – Antidepressants have become the most commonly prescribed prescription drug in the U.S. More than 15 million adults spent more than $10 billion last year. A new study says that 70% of the people on them are having absolutely no benefit and need to be off of them.
6:00 – Friend of the show, Rabbi Abe, sent Jah something about the Jewish kink that’s occurring in porn where there’s a new subgenre of Yiddish sluts.
14:09 – Seth asks Jah to do the voice of the hen-pecked husband he saw at the airport (Episode 199, 48:56), who he was told by UYD listeners sounded like a mixture of Dr. Phil and King of the Hill.
52:21 – Jah outs Amir for wearing the 2Exist brand underwear. Seth is flabbergasted.
3:53 – Seth lists off the 2010 AVN Award nominees
9:51 – Brothel owner Bobbi Davis got a big go-ahead this week to hire male prostitutes at her Shady Lady Ranch. It will be Nevada’s very-first legal male sex outpost. Davis and her husband Jim operate their small brothel, which is about 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and have received over 100 applications. Heidi Fleiss’ Stud Far (Episode 039, 23:35) never opened in Pahrump, Nev., in 2005. George Flint, who is a longtime lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Association, yelled, “This is the first time in the history of the world that men have been licensed to sell sex. It’s never been done!”
17:26 – The Dallas Cowboys’ old stadium, Texas Stadium, which they used from 1971-2008 before moving into their billion-dollar palace, will be demolished sometime between March 14 and April 18 in Irving, Texas, outside of Dallas. Kraft Foods has paid the city of Irving $75,000 to be the official sponsor of the demolition, calling it the “Cheddar Explosion.” The winner of the Kid’s Essay contest, held by Kraft, will get to push the button to start the implosion. Seth wishes he could be the one to push the button.
18:55 – Frozen pizzas are selling at an all-time high in supermarkets. Market research firms say frozen pizza is a gold mine. We have generations that either don’t like to cook or can’t. They like to heat, then eat. The convenience, coupled with the low price, saw sales go from $3.1 billion in 2000 to $4.4 billion in 2009. The No. 1 seller is Kraft Foods’ DiGiorno’s.
24:29 – One of the questions on the United States Census, which will go out to Americans in March of 2010, is “What is person’s race?” You can check/mark one or more boxes. One of the boxes – White, another – American-Indian or Alaskan Native (Please specify tribe), or another that reads – Black, African-American or Negro.
32:27 – Starbucks has decided to add paninis and low-calorie snacks to their menu (Episode 111, 27:04). Baristas have been informed by bosses to start persuading all customers to buy some food along with their coffee.
35:52 – There is an article in this week’s food section of Newsweek that claims that eating meat has become all the rage with vegetarians. The latest cookbook by Mollie Katzen, has a recipe for beef stew. She was a vegetarian for 30 years but is eating meat again because everyone’s responding to the new breed of sustainably raised farm animals.
38:26 – LA Gang Tours – the ultimate urban experience. Opening this week, the tour gives tourist a two-hour ride for $65 per person into the cradle of America’s gang culture. Stops include LA County Jail, the LA Riverbed, Skid Row, Florence and Normandy,a nd the birthplaces of the Crips, Bloods and the Florencia 13.
50:37 – NBA Commissioner David Stern was taking a “wait and see” type attitude regarding reports of guns in the Washington Wizards locker room. Tensions were high with the team formerly known as the Bullets, as Gilbert Arenas finally admitted to, if not exactly pulling a gun on teammates, having four unloaded guns in his locker. As D.C. police began their investigation into the unlicensed or registered firearms, Arenas, before a game in Philly, pretended to shoot his teammates during warm-ups. This act prompted an immediate, indefinite suspension by Stern that will cost Arenas roughly $150,000 for each game he misses.
1:00:40 – Jah says he obsesses on dying, and talks about how we worry about dying alone. In sunny LA County, if you die with no heirs and no will, all your belongings will more than likely end up at the LA County Estate Auction in the City of Industry. Typically held on the second Saturday of the month in a 122,000 square foot warehouse, county employees and private auctioneers break open crates, divide up the contents and sell them all day. Proceeds pay for burial expenses and other costs. Whatever is left goes to the state of California.
2:29 – Seth marvels that they’ve made it to 200 episodes. They had a dream, and they made that dream a reality.
2:37 – Several listeners told Seth that he needed to live up to his promise that he made in Episode 100 (21:25) that he would do a moonwalk this episode, but he says he has an out since the King of Pop died and this is not a vidcast.
58:46 – Although it’s Episode 200, Seth doesn’t want to get too excited. When they get to Episode 300, that’s when the real party is going to be.
1:02:42 – Seth says that after 200 episodes, there are a lot of people to thank. He and J-Dawg appreciate all the people who have worked so hard for UYD to be able to continue to do it.
55:48 – According to the nonprofit group The Conference Board, just 45% of Americans are happy at their jobs. In 1987, when the group first began collecting this data, the number was 61%. Just 56% of Americans like their coworkers as opposed to 68% in 1987.
23:03 – Jah said Adam Lambert’s face has been bothering him so much lately. He thought for a time that he was either Taylor Lautner or Pete Wentz.
29:33 – Seth is pissed at Obama because he pinned everything on him and he duped us. Jah thinks Obama double-cloaked it; because he put down the basketball and now he’s golfing and wearing mom jeans while riding a mountain bike with a helmet on.
30:12 – Seth rips on The Rolling Stones by congratulating them on not touring the United States in 2010.
30:37 – Seth hammers Ringo Starr for releasing his 15th solo album, Why Not? (Episode 070, 56:09; Episode 108, 41:54) Seth and Jah can think of a few reasons why not, namely the single he did with Paul McCartney. Seth also blasts the people who commented on YouTube about how amazing the duo sounded.
34:00 – Jah and Seth rip on Starbucks baristas and the way they will segue into trying to get you to buy paninis with your coffee.
44:41 – Seth rips on Michael Cera, who is a 21-year-old dude who looks like a 46-year-old lesbian
49:08 – Seth hammers Spiderman 4, which has lost their May 5, 2011 release date because Sony Pictures decided to halt production due to script problems.