View Episode 213
Originally aired 04.11.10
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1:30 – UYD: 213
55:34 – Seth was watching Letterman and saw a performance from the new Broadway musical, The Addams Family, featuring Nathan Lane. Tickets start at $136.50.
1:14 – Seth isn’t going to lie – both he and Jonathan are drinking Pepsi Max.
8:48 – Seth points at his butt and asks how it’s looking. Jah thinks it looks pretty good. Seth says this is because he’s been using Brazil Butt Lift, a Brazilian butt lift workout by Leandro. He uses triangle training to work his maximus, his minimus and his medius. He’s reducing, shaping and lifting thanks to Leandro. He’s doing such moves as the Caliente Corkscrew and the Samba Tornado.
54:48 – Wrigley’s 5 has a new flavor called “React.” “Cobalt” was one thing but this is too much for Seth.
42:12 – Rush Limbaugh lambasted a caller to his radio show about Obama’s health care plan. The next day he made a correction: “So the caller was right. I was not wrong, I was just misinformed.”
33:14 – Bernie Carbo was a journeyman baseball player who played for the Red Sox in the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in 1975. It was Game 6, the bottom of the eighth and they were four outs away from losing the Series to the Reds. Carbo was minding his own business when he was asked to come off the bench and pinch-hit with two men on base. He hit a three-run homerun to tie the game at 6-6. No one scored in the ninth, it went into extra innings and led to Carlton Fisk trying to wave the ball fair that went off the foul pole to win the game. Carbo was talking to the Boston Globe last week in an article about his life since he was out of baseball, referring to substance abuse problems. Referring to that particular game and night, “I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some amphetamines, took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, then got up to the plate and hit. … I probably played every game high. I was addicted to anything you could possibly be addicted to. I played the outfield sometimes where it looked like the stars were falling from the sky.” He also said he would toss baseballs into the stands to fans who would trade him for joints. He came into the big leagues with Cincinnati, and recalled the trainer tossing him his “vitamins” from the get-go.
36:44 – Jah recalls when he would get really fucked up, then restabilizing on the other point of fucked-up-ness, when he had his “sea legs” and knew how to do shit while being fucked up.
2:45 – Seth wants a sleep update, and Jah says he got a decent night’s sleep the night before last, a shitty night’s sleep last night, however he did take a nap today. It helped him, although he doesn’t like doing it because it’s very disorienting for him. Seth feels like he’s given up on the day if he takes a nap.
10:15 – Jah asks Seth if girls he’s been intimate with in the past have given him compliments on his tush. Seth admits he’s gotten more compliments from gay men.
19:35 – Jah admits that he cried in The Notebook. It’s one of those movies he looks back on and wonders how he got so duped by it. It was a date movie and he was down with Ryan Gosling being all low-pro.
21:23 – When Seth was having some internet issues he had to go to the John C. Fremont Public Library on Melrose Ave., and he found it pretty creeptastic to see some of the pervs browsing hardcore porn with the volume on full-blast in front of children. When Jah sees students sitting at the club chairs in Borders, he’s pretty sure they’re doing the same thing. He saw a dude with a demon’s foot sitting there once.
59:40 – Seth’s mother said he used to sleepwalk when he was a kid. He would walk all the way down the stairs, come sit on the couch, talk jibberish and then walk back up. Jah remembers waking up in random places and come to while he was already peeing. Seth got a voicemail from a dude whose kid sleepwalks, and sometimes the kid will be standing in the doorway of the parents and it scares the crap out of the dad.
10:59 – There is a new social networking site called Unvarnished, which is in private testing. It’s like Yelp! for people. It has a reputation marketplace where anyone can post anonymous reviews about anyone else. You access the site through Facebook, you must be invited by a current user. There are several-hundred now. You can only register after you’ve written a review of the person who invites you and you must accept every review – you can’t remove them. There are 400,000 pre-loaded Silicon Valley profiles in order to jump-start it.
14:10 – Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz directed his store designers to “break the mold” and build a neighborhood test coffee shop from the ground up. It’s located in Seattle’s eclectic Capitol Hill section. It’s home to a vibrant gay community, indie rockers, hipsters and mansion owners. It’s called Roy Street Coffee & Tea by Starbucks. It features heavy velvet curtains, indie movie nights, single origin coffees, small-craft brews, organic wines, vegan pastries and gourmet cheeses.
20:14 – A federal judge has barred Albuquerque (which Jah can’t spell correctly) from enforcing an ordinance that banned registered sex offenders from using their public libraries. The judge said it violated their First Amendment rights.
25:57 – Seth talks about the Ministry Family Radio, whose judgment day was May 21, 2011. He’s been getting a lot of mail from them and almost expects to do so every time he goes to the mailbox. The latest literature reads: “The end of the world is almost here. Holy God will bring judgment day on May 21, 2011.” Seth wonders if he should call them and ask if they can make an agreement that when the world doesn’t end on May 21, they have to stop sending him stuff.
28:00 – A decades-old policy affecting U.S. pilots will be reversed this week. Pilots taking antidepressants were not allowed to fly planes under the old policy. Under the new policy, pilots can seek FAA permission to take 1 of 4 drugs – Eli Lilly’s Prozac, Pfizer’s Zoloft and Forest Laboratories’ Celexa or Lexipro. FAA policy bans pilots from flying if they claim depression but don’t take one of these four drugs.
37:40 – Cheating on your boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse by arranging liaisons via text messages is now called “chexting.”
43:26 – It is official that Barack Obama is the country’s first black president. It has been confirmed by a White House spokesman that Obama checked “Black/African-American or Negro” on Question No. 9 of the 2010 U.S. Census.
44:55 – 22-year-old Justin James Warren Green of Birmingham, Ala., was arrested for slapping his 2-year-old daughter across the left side of her face for eating some of his BBQ Pringles.
48:04 – 6-year-old Samantha Kuberski was a happy kid who did well at school, which is why tragedy was compounded by a shock back in January when medical examiners in Yamhill County, south of Portland, declared Samantha’s death a suicide, making her the youngest person to take her own life in Oregon’s history. On Dec. 2, the first-grader was allegedly sent to her room after getting in a fight with her mom. While her mother and three sisters were in other parts of the McMinnville house, Samantha reportedly crawled into an unused crib that had no mattress or box spring, tied a corduroy belt around her neck and onto the crib’s top rung and hung herself. She was found unconscious and rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her parents and siblings were later interviewed by police, who ruled out any foul play and said they found no signs that the young girl had ever been abused. Other detectives would rather rule it an accident because of her age.
57:40 – Rosalyn Cartwright, the former director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, wrote a book due out next month called The 24-Hour Mind, a psychological thriller resolving around sleepwalking. When sleepwalking, a person’s frontal lobe is completely asleep. You also lose all facial recognition whatsoever.
1:28 – This is Episode 2-1-3 (in Malibu)
1:50 – Seth wonders if Brad Pitt left Angelina Jolie and fell into the open arms of Sandra Bullock, would it create the best nickname ever? PittBull.
1:02:14 – This episode is crumbelievable (Episode 096, 4:39 and 5:00)
1:03:51 – Jah talks about how some listeners who get the show from an alternative RSS feed are getting broken links from when UYD used a hosting service. So basically, use iTunes.
3:33 – The National Sleep Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes sleep health, released its annual “Sleep in America” poll. It for the first time examined how ethnic groups differ in their sleep habits. The poll was of 1,000 Americans aged 25-60 who were asked to identify themselves as white, black, Hispanic or Asian. It was meant to examine how cultural differences push the psychological boundaries for how much sleep we need. The percentage of ethnicities that use the internet in the hour before bed every night or almost every night: Blacks - 20%; Hispanics – 20%, Whites – 22%, Asians – 51%. … Use sleep medication at least a few nights a week: Whites – 13%, Hispanics – 8%, Blacks – 9%, Asians – 5% … Rarely or never have a good night’s sleep: Blacks – 15%, Hispanics – 14%, Whites – 20%, Asians – 9% … Have sex every night or almost every night: Blacks – 10%, Hispanics – 10%, Whites – 4%, Asians – 1% … Usually sleep with a pet: Whites – 14%, Asians – 2%, Hispanics – 2%, Blacks – 2%. Jah thinks the polling demographic is skewed because they probably only polled about 3 black 25-year-olds. He also knows some Asians who get mad laid.
17:32 – Two social computing scientists at HP labs in Palo Alto contend that using computational formulas in Twitter feeds regarding rates at which movies are mentioned and the overall sentiment about the movie, they can predict within 97.3% accuracy how much money a movie will make during its opening weekend. For example, they predicted Dear John would make $30.71 million and it made $30.46 million.
13:15 – Seth says he’s been on Yelp!, and he’s been to places reviewed on there where he’s never had a problem, but some dick logs on and tries to give it a bad reputation. Seth said he’d sooner throw a brick through a company’s window before writing a measured review about their poor service.
14:47 – Seth rips on Starbucks and people living in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle.
38:24 – Jah directs a calm rant toward Johnny Depp. He tells Depp that he finds him to be an attractive and charismatic man and has thoroughly enjoyed watching him from 21 Jump Street on, but he wants to warn him that the garb he is currently donning is nearing a Steven Tyler-type status that Jah doesn’t think he’s intentionally doing, and he thinks he can rock it a touch back. Jah thinks flat-ironing his hair at his age isn’t necessary.
7:16 – Jah says only 2% of Asians sleep with pets because they prefer to eat them, while only 2% of Hispanics do so because they prefer to fight the animals.