View Episode 209
Originally aired 03.15.10
1:09:58
4:48 – Boston: All the peeps, not all the peeds.
8:02 – UYD: Why leave?
28:45 – UYD: CB Rambos
44:05 – UYD: Drive a Plymouth
1:02:41 – UYD: Smoke more and take an Ambien
22:42 – Seth was watching CBS News Sunday Morning, and they were at the 19th annual Reel Awards in Las Vegas, celebrating over 1,000 celebrity impersonators/look-alikes/tribute artists. The Tim McGraw look-alike was there, along with Joe Mannuela – who’s been doing DeNiro for 30 years. K9, the dog impersonator, was there.
23:26 – Seth was watching NFL Full Contact on TruTV, which was a good show that started a day after the Super Bowl. The first episode featured the Steelers receiving their Super Bowl rings last season and doing a concert in Pittsburgh during which they hired thousands of paid extras so it looked like a huge party. The guy running the event things he sees a real Tim McGraw even though it’s a look-alike, and the guy from the NFL is freaking out. When everyone leaves he’s under a bridge singing a Tim McGraw song in front of 10 people, one of which is closing his eyes and getting into it.
10:24 – Seth isn’t down with Pepsi Max Ceasefire. It’s a cross promotion with the new Doritos Third-Degree Burn.
39:15 – A woman was selling furniture on Craig’s List to redecorate her apartment and said it was going for a great price. She was selling framed art, including her framed DNA poster.
56:48 – Mickey Rourke, on acting opposite actress Megan Fox: “She’s probably the best young actress I’ve worked with.”
17:24 – Ke$ha has a Twitter account and 253,000 followers, featuring some awesome tweets: “PS – It’s my mofuckin birthday. I want a baby whale with a lasso and an eyepatch. And peace on earth and shit.” … “Funky. Worst word ever.” … “Neck tattoos. Hmm.” … “After party! My room!” … “I love it when they print ‘vagina.’” … “Dammit, forgot to brush my teeth again. I smell like poo. Bummer.” … “Celery. Eww.”
47:50 – Since Major League Baseball officially banned the use of all amphetamines, or “greenies,” in 2005, the number of players at this season’s spring training who have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD has shot up tremendously. The diagnosis allows players to be prescribed Adderall. Many say they are just using it as a game stimulant as opposed to addressing ADHD. Twenty-eight players in 2006 were exempt and allowed to be on Adderall. The number this year is going to be closer to 150.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
2:40 – Seth went onto The Consumerist website, where a gentleman from San Francisco wrote in. He heard about this from a cashier at a local McDonald’s and said it’s getting a cult following in San Francisco: 1) Go to McDonald’s right when they’re transitioning from their breakfast menu to their lunch menu (10:30 a.m.). Order one of the remaining Egg McMuffins from the breakfast menu but also order a McDouble since the lunch menu’s now open. 2) Take the egg and the Canadian bacon from the Egg McMuffin and put it on the McDouble. The guy at the register said that people call it the Mc10:35 because that’s pretty much the only time you can make it.
21:00 – There’s a guy on QVC, Dave Venable, who joined the network in 1993, who Seth suspects of being bona fide gay. He typed his name in Google and ended up on a blog called “Hope Shopping Queen.” There were pics of him a few years ago looking ripped on a cruise, and all the comments were similar to “I’d fuck that power bottom.”
9:49 – Maybe it’s a sign of getting old, but Jonathan feels like he less frequently falls prey to new items and needing to know what they taste like.
41:57 – Seth notices that he hasn’t been hearing random people walking around saying “Obama!” all positively (Episode 142, 25:55) or wearing Obama t-shirts as often.
43:24 – Seth had a Prius pull up next to him in Larchmont and he wanted to ask the woman driving it if she was terrified.
53:12 – Jah say Leo Kottke play live at the Troubador. Kottke said a funny thing that had Jah going: “If you have a song stuck in your head and sing it backwards, it gets out of your head.” Seth wonders if you could do this with “Gonna Make You Sweat” by C&C Music Factory.
4:17 – According to ABC News, there are more than 700,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. For perspective, the city of Boston has 620,000 people living there, Portland has 557,000 people and Pittsburgh has 310,000.
6:03 – Pringles has recalled their cheeseburger flavor Pringles Restaurant Cravers and their “Taco Night” flavor of Pringles Family Flaves because of possible salmonella bacteria. Non-recalled flavors are Slow-Cooked BBQ, Cheesy Fries, Mexican Layered Dip, Onion Blossom, White Cheddar and Cheddar BBQ.
12:28 – Neuromarketing is consumers being exposed to ads while hooked up to machines that monitor brain activity, pupil dilation, sweat responses and flickers in facial muscles.
14:42 – The newest Forbes billionaire list features 403 U.S. billionaires, while China only has 89. Bill gates is no longer the richest man in the world, he’s only worth $53 billion. The richest man in the world, with $53.5 billion, is Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim. The world’s youngest billionaire, worth $4 billion, is Mark Zuckerberg (Episode 107, 25:19).
19:34 – Sean Hayes, who played the very flamboyant character Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (which went off air four years ago), is on the current cover of The Advocate confirming “rumors” that he is gay. Jah recalls having to be informed that French Stuart was not gay, but he didn’t need confirmation of this one.
28:10 – State troopers across the country are discussing a surge in what they call “Trucker Rage.” It’s more and more incidents of road rage involving long-haul truckers driving semis, big rigs and 18-wheelers. They’re exchanging taunts via CB radio and then pulling over to fight at rest stops after talking shit. Channel 19 is a place that a lot of “CB Rambos” go. It’s where a lot of young truckers go to blow off steam. Jah lists off some Channel 19 terminology: “alligator” is tread from tire, “a free ride” is a prostitute, a “beaver” is a female, a “Christmas card” is a speeding ticket, “sailboat fuel” is riding on empty, “magic mile” is the last mile of a trip, “Colorado Kool-Aid” is beer and “Use the Jake” is slow down.
31:33 – Ashleymadison.com, an adultery website (Episode 102, 53:13; Episode 150, 2:07) reviewed the 1.9 million accounts they have to come up with the occupations that have the most adulterous people. Among women, #5 is real estate agents, #4 is administrative agents, #3 is nurses, #2 is stay-at-home moms and #1 is teachers. Among men, #5 is engineers, #4 is real estate agents, #3 is lawyers, #2 is police officers and #1 is physicians.
44:16 – The Los Angeles Times was asking people what their favorite movie of 2009 was. Ron Artest, Lakers Forward: “Easy. 2012. Every time I get to the team hotel I watch it. Every single time.”
54:01 – Federal authorities charged 24 people last summer with the looting/theft of Native American artifacts from sites in the western part of the U.S. in the Four Corners – Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Since then, three of these people have committed suicide.
57:48 – Seattle police have launched a prostitution investigation aimed at Frank Colacurcio, who owns five strip clubs in the Seattle area including Rick’s, Honey’s, Talent’s, Sugar’s and Fox’s. Reports show that one undercover officer visited the clubs 160 times. He got approximately 130 lap dances and spent about $18,000 while not making a single arrest.
59:19 – LA Sheriff’s Department said there was a dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a showing of Shutter Island. It was a packed 9 p.m. Saturday night screening and found a man complaining about a woman who was having a full-blown conversation on her phone during the movie. She left the theater with two men, then came back a short while later and plunged a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who was complaining.
1:02:47 – Seth reads from an article in the LSU student newspaper, the Daily Reveille about a student named Storm Erie who drove his car into the LSU Quad, parked and began throwing contents of his vehicle into the Quad: dirty rubber boots, a half-empty bottle of wine, a large sling blade, a djembe, a four-sided lug wrench, a skateboard, a wooden chess set, a sweater, a pair of shoes, landscaping bags, a flashlight and a small mug. He also propped up a set of blueprints along the back of the running vehicle.
42:59 – Jah provides some commentary on how Toyota done fucked up.
43:36 – Seth predicts that everyone with a Toyota will probably be dead by the Fourth of July.
46:33 – Seth’s favorite movie of 2010 will be Hubble, which will be in IMAX 3D. He thinks it will be the single greatest experience of his life.