View Episode 210
Originally aired 03.22.10
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56:31 – UYD: Trust
19:54 – Seth was watching Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show, during which they were playing charades. Fallon was partnered with Toni Collette and was giving the clues. The clue is “TV Show,” and is giving all kinds of clues so she will know it’s Jersey Shore, but she says she’s never even heard of the show.
28:21 – A Minute To Win It, Sunday nights
38:41 – Seth references NFL Full Contact (Episode 209), and another episode during which they were following the guy who is head of NFL VIP Services. He’s trying to accommodate Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Kevin James and David Spade. They show the field and cut to an old man on the back of a golf cart. It’s Andy Rooney, and is exasperated because he lost his credentials.
47:31 – A&E has shows called Hoarders and Intervention; meanwhile, TLC has shows called Hoarding: Buried Alive and Addicted, that just started this week.
16:40 – Ralph Conone, a 68-year-old grandfather in Ohio, was arrested outside of a Wal-Mart after a 6-year-old boy complained to his mother that the man punched him in the back of the head. The mother followed the man out of the Wal-Mart, grabbed him by his arm and led him back inside to security. A review of the store’s surveillance video not only confirmed the punching of the boy but also revealed blows to his 7-year-old brother and two other random children. When questioned, he told police he would put keys between his fingers and strike the children when their parents weren’t looking. He said he had been doing this since January because he liked the excitement of getting away with it.
7:03 – Starbucks stores in Denver are test marketing a new product called the blueberry waffle, which costs $2.50 and is put in the warmer. You get a small packet of syrup with it.
12:21 – Stride has a new gum called Mega Mystery Gum, which doesn’t even tell you what it is.
49:41 – Seth used to be on P90X getting crazy results with his muscle confusion, but he has now confused the fuck out of his muscles with Insanity.
52:23 – Domino’s has a new pizza – 50 years in the making. It’s a completely new pizza from the crust up, and they’re “pretty doggone proud of it.” It’s 100% real mozzerella cheese with a hint of provolone, sauce with a dose of red pepper, garlic-seasoned crust with a rich buttery taste. Jah wonders if Seth is a man of his word (Episode 098, 16:57), he will egg Domino’s for doing this.
2:09 – Ten years ago this week, on the cover of Rolling Stone, was a band called ‘N Sync. They released their self-titled debut album in 1998, which sold 10 million copies in the US and 4 million copies in Canada. Their follow-up album, No Strings Attached, sold 11 million copies in the U.S. and 7 million in Canada. Seth pulled some quotes out of the article: Justin Timberlake: “My living room is all white, like something from that Lauryn Hill video for X Factor. There’s a white grand piano, a white couch and a tapestry of knights on horses. And I have this beautiful acrylic statue of a nude man and woman that my friend got me. It’s a beautiful piece. You shine a light on it and it shines right through. I’ve got a game room that we call the Jimmy Buffett room because it’s Orlando Tropical. … I have a country kitchen to remind me of where I grew up. The bedroom’s a whole safari motif with a Japanese screen and a big sleigh bed.” … Lance Bass on his relationship with Danielle Fishel: “It was so impossible. We never saw each other because of our schedules but we tried to make it last. It’s hard when you’re both in the spotlight. She came home with me to Mississippi and we went Christmas shopping. We got so mobbed we stayed maybe 10 minutes.” … J.C. Chasez: “To me, it’s when the respect issue comes up. Good music is good music and somebody will buy it. When our fans go off to college I don’t think they’ll have our posters on the wall but that’s not to say they won’t like our music. We’ll be older too and talking about different things. Grunge was mad in 6 years ago, but Pearl Jam is still making records … You know the good groups stick around, the other stuff fades away.”
16:03 – Jah can’t remember the last time he heard a busy signal. He listens to fax forms when he gets them because they’re so rare.
13:15 – The FBI said that the amount of money swindled on the internet doubled in 2009 to $560 million. They said one of the biggest scams involved phone messages left on people’s home answering machines with a voice similar to President Barack Obama’s, urging people to visit a website to claim a share of government stimulus money, limited time offer with a small handling fee.
15:25 – 5 million people pay $25 per month for AOL dial-up service (Episode 103, 25:06).
23:23 – TIME Magazine has 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years, and #8 is TV will save the world.
23:45 – 120 million U.S. Census forms began arriving in mailboxes across the country in the government’s once-a-decade population count. Seventy-two percent of households returned their forms in the year 2000. It’s estimated that only 66% will do so this year. There’s another $1.5 billion in spending that’s directed only at the follow-ups to get people to fill out their forms.
25:22 – Tiger Woods texts to porn star Joslyn James: After I cum, you better start sucking my cock to get it hard … You ever hook up with other guys or girls? Slap your face, treat you like a dirty whore. Put my cock in your ass and then shove it down your throat. Hold you down while I choke you and then fuck that ass that I own. … Have you ever had a golden shower done to you? … Yeah, guys from Dubai, investors. My agent doesn’t know about us obviously. … Don’t fuckin’ talk to me, you almost just ruined my whole life.
30:32 – YouTube celebrated 5 years, which launched on Feb. 14, 2005.
32:11 – Becky McClain is a former Pfizer scientist who is suing the pharmaceutical company, alleging she contracted an artificial, lab-made HIV-like virus created by a colleague. She believes she became infected by the virus due to faulty safety measures which result in a complete body paralysis as often as 12 times every month. Pfizer denies the accusations and also refuses to release the genome of the suspected virus, thus preventing both identification of the virus as well as development of any cure.
35:19 – A site called eHarlequin provides romance novels for women who love to read. They have a new series set in the world of NASCAR. He then proceeds to read a passage from “Crossing the Line” by Jean Brashear, but Jah interrupts him to read it in a southern romantic voice.
40:58 – Elijah Dukes (Episode 066, 3:02; Episode 069, 2:17 and Episode 070, 14:22) was released by the Washington Nationals so we might need some new sports heroes to identify with
41:10 – Antonio Cromartie, a former high school football star from Tallahassee, Fla., just left the San Diego Chargers and signed a deal with the New York Jets. They fronted him half a million dollars because he had to resolve the five-plus paternity suits filed against him in the last two years. He has seven children from six women living in five states. Jah wonders which athlete has the most kids in the most states.
42:46 – The Daily Beast rated Cincinnati as the craziest city in the U.S. The list used four criteria to decide this: 1) The number of psychiatrists per capita, 2) the city’s overall stress level, 3) the city’s overall eccentricity and 4) the overall issues with drinking alcohol.
44:14 – R&B Jesus, a.k.a. D’Angelo, 36 years old, was arrested on March 6 in the West Village of NYC after he allegedly tried to get a female police officer posing as a prostitute to give him oral sex.
58:49 – Steven Johnson, 59, has worked as a jail guard in Dallas for almost 17 years. Co-workers claim he has a long history of making offensive comments. He was suspended in 2000 for calling several black inmates he was processing “niggers.” He was disciplined in 2008 after giving his candid opinions on “illegal aliens.” He was just fired for interrupting a private meeting of jailhouse staff to tell them that all the gays should be put to death. He then showed a co-worker a binder that proved his family once owned slaves. He claims the Bible supports his feelings on slavery and blacks. He also said, “They made it out to be that I was a bigot.” In a sworn statement he said that all homosexuals should be put to death but that his beliefs don’t lead him to treat gays any differently. He also said on tape, “I believe all dinosaurs were born of a Satanic angel who had sex with women and the animal kingdom then created ungodly reptilian creatures. None of these creatures were on Noah’s Ark.”
1:04 – This is Episode 210, what’s up with your friend? (Episode 145, 4:17)
8:19 – Two recent studies have been published concerning women. One claims that women who drink alcohol don’t seem to gain as much weight in mid-life as those who abstain. Also, women who took the birth control beginning in 1968 lived longer than those never on the pill. The women generally took the pill for around four years.
9:40 – According to internet data from Hitwise, of all web traffic last week, Facebook accounted for 7.07% of all web activity – for the first time beating Google, at 7.03%.
39:57 – Andy Rooney was featured on an episode of NFL Full Contact for losing his credentials.