View Episode 214
Originally aired 04.20.10
Originally recorded 04.09.10
1:06:28
1:06:29 – Jah: “You’re only as sick as your secrets – SEATBELTS.”
6:27 Good Morning America (UYD’s sister show) reports that sites all over the internet sell software that allow you to track someone’s cell phone. They’re very easy to install – you download the software when no one’s looking, install it, remotely listen in on phone calls, read texts, activate the speaker and listen to phone conversations when the phone is off.
4:33 – Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, with the Department of Energy lab, confirmed in a study that fatty foods are addictive, and said “We make our food very similar to cocaine now.”
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
41:34 – Seth begins to ask people who are driving to see how long they can close their eyes before opening them, then immediately retracts it. Jah says it’s the “Best Game” over and over with his hands cupped around the microphone.
5:00 – Jah agrees that food nowadays is made like cocaine. Seth explains that chicken factories are basically naked women standing there working so they can’t sneak any nuggets for themselves.
10:03 – Jah asks Seth about something because he had a conversation with two ladies today about remembering a time in his life which these ladies did not have. He remembers the novelty factor of walking into a high-end electronics store, and watching yourself on a live feed from a surveillance camera and thinking it was awesome that you were on TV. Seth says he’s quite convinced that the world didn’t exist until 10 years ago.
21:34 – Everybody does goo-goo and ga-ga talk with babies. Seth sees it all the time on Larchmont and it drives him crazy.
24:31 – Jah had a carry-on bag on his last tour that was 11 pounds over the weight limit, and it cost him $110 on top of his initial $20 to check the bag.
32:12 – Jah reveals what works for him all the time he’s been using them, pretty consistently – regular land-line phones. Seth says that, “If you can see the sky, it should work.”
36:49 – Jah watches people sit at bars, 6 people at a table, and there are two girls having a pseudo-conversation, while one girl is holding her own camera taking a picture of herself drinking her drink coyly, while the other girl is also doing the same thing. He thought other people were supposed to take pictures of you.
45:00 – Jah spoke with a UYD fan in Baltimore when he was on tour who is studying sign language. They talked about trying to get two really good signers to sign an episode or a part of an episode, because there is a shorthand to it. Jah and Seth would love to play UYD for a deaf person. Seth says if he did it, he would hold up the “I Love You” sign the entire time.
48:00 – Seth hasn’t met a person in three years he hasn’t wanted to choke out, but everyone he sees in public inherently runs to dogs. Jah, as a dog owner, disagrees. He has a cute little 18-pound terrier dog, and he deals with people crossing the street steering their babies out of the way. He has to apologize sometimes and wonders why he’s having to do so.
59:08 – Seth wonders why he can drive by Pink’s at 9:30 at night and there’s 700 people in line to buy a hot dog.
1:51 – Seth explains to us that a simple battery occurs when a person makes intentional contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a person of another or causes intentional harm to another. It is a misdemeanor, however it becomes a misdemeanor of aggravated nature when committed against certain classes of persons, e.g. the elderly, a pregnant woman, a police officer, a child, and also a sports official while the official is officiating any amateur contest. Seth reads this to us there was an amateur official that made a shitty call recently and got shoved, and the shover was charged with aggravated assault. Jah likes the law because it keeps the kids safe.
9:52 – 50% of the security cameras in the NYC Subway system are completely defective.
12:00 – In the summer of 1984 there was a movie called Red Dawn, and now they’re remaking it.
14:21 – Seth has read some reports from the Nielsen company that Road House is the most cable-ized movie of all time.
17:57 – Four years ago, a Little Saigon fortune teller and her daughter were found stabbed to death. Their hands and faces were covered with white paint. The killers fled with credit cards, jewelry and cash. Five weeks after this happened, police arrested a woman named Tanya Nelson in North Carolina in the slayings of the fortune teller, Ha Jade Smith, and her daughter. Police said Nelson was caught allegedly assuming the identities of the victims and spending more than $3,000 on clothing. Police speculated that theft was the motive. Prosecutors added another twist to the bizarre case this week: Smith and her daughter were stabbed to death because a spell did not work. Nelson, a longtime client of Smith's, blamed the fortuneteller for a fortune gone bad and was so angered that she decided to kill her, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Sonia Balleste, who is prosecuting Nelson at the murder trial in Orange County Superior Court. A letter found in Nelson's North Carolina home indicated that Nelson wanted Smith to change the fortune, Balleste said. Smith wrote in the letter that she could not do so, Balleste said. And Nelson felt so cheated out of her money that she decided to fly to Orange County to kill Smith.
20:49 – According to the parenting book, Nurture Shock, which brought us, “Is Your Baby Racist?” (Episode 183, 57:52) infants from 9 months old to 2 years old should not be spoken to in baby talk. Parents should avoid any and all goo-goo and ga-ga talk.
23:14 – Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines (Episode 094, 33:16; Episode 159, 21:24) has become the first airline in the world to charge flyers for putting carry-on bags into their overhead storage bins, possibly up to $45 each way.
25:18 – So many people are flying with small pets in airline cabins, and the 1 in 10 people with allergies to animals are being put at great risk. The preferences of pet owners should not supercede the well-being of their fellow passengers, according to the spokesman of a lobbying group. Jah thinks it’s clear there are people who want provisions made for them and their pets, and it should be its own market and should have to deal with it. There should be either animal flights or non-animal flights.
28:20 – Foot Locker has announced some store closings. Jah describes the smell of a Foot Locker store as the blend of a super-clean smell with a super-dirty smell. Some of their underperforming stores are going to be shuttered, including Lady Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker.
30:29 – Google has announced they are building and testing an experimental, high-speed, fiber optic network that would make the internet “the dial tone of the 21st Century.”
39:35 – BeenVerified.com is America’s #1 background check. You can run it right on your home computer.
41:29 – Less than 10% of blind people in the United States read Braille.
50:31 – An Arizona man who allegedly stole the identity of a San Francisco physician and posed as a doctor running a West Los Angeles sperm back, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting/fondling two men. Jeffrey Lynn Graybill of Phoenix is accused of pretending to be “Dr. Richard Richardson” and soliciting sperm donors for the nonexistent fertility clinic. Graybill was brought back to Los Angeles after being arrested Wednesday in Arizona, investigators said. He had moved from Marina del Rey to Phoenix in August. Investigators believe that there may be more than two dozen other victims in California and Arizona. Although he had no medical license, Graybill allegedly advertised himself as a physician through Internet listings on Craigslist and solicited potential clients, offering up to $4,000 monthly for sperm donations for “stem cell and other research.” Graybill, a property manager, had been trained as an emergency medical technician and used leftover medical equipment such as a stethoscope and blood pressure monitor to convince men that he was a doctor, said Officer Ian Carbonell of the LAPD. Graybill arranged to meet the first victim at the man's home June 10 and the second on June 20 at an apartment Graybill managed. He is accused of posing as a physician and fondling both men, Carbonell said. After Graybill failed to pay the men, one of them filed a complaint with Los Angeles police in June, triggering the investigation, Carbonell said. He said Phoenix police also are investigating Graybill in connection with several similar assaults on men there.
1:20 – Jah explains that UYD is coming to you on this early recording date (April 9) because Jah will not be able to be there for the normal recording time. Seth wants Jah to divulge why, but Jah doesn’t want to get into it.
37:54 – Jah proposes that they need to make a camera that is connected to your forehead, strapped onto your head from the moment you’re born, and it records everything in your life. Every time you blink, it stores a still picture away so you waon’t miss any of the moments you’ve blinked. You would them have your entire life documented in moving picture and stills, and would share it with anyone you wanted. Jah says data storage is relatively cheap nowadays, and you could record an entire existence of a human lifetime.
44:44 – Jah and Seth reference that they do have at least one blind listener, but Seth wonders if they have any deaf listeners who try to simply feel the vibration.
1:07:24 – A callback to Jonathan’s funk rap from Episode 024, 50:38 as we hear Anthony Kiedis tells us “True men don’t kill coyotes.”
14:53 – A study published in the journal Cortex suggests that old people might be happier than young people because older adults remember the past through what they call “rose-tinted glasses.” They recorded brain activity using MRI scans while both young and old adults viewed pictures with positive and negative themes. The older brains showed a much stronger connection in the emotion-processing regions of the brain, known to be important in the formation of memories.
46:08 – After several years of studies, a paper was just published by researchers who said veterinarians are four times as likely as an average citizen to commit suicide. Seth thinks this is entirely believable. Jah and Seth disagree on the fact that they are doctors.
53:41 – A study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that atrazine, a commonly used weed killer, can turn male frogs into female frogs and it is one of the chief suspects in the decline of amphibians across the world.
1:03:02 – According to a study on PsychologyToday.com, looking at sick people can boost your immune system. In the study, called “The Psychological Immune System,” young adults were asked to watch 10-minute slide shows containing pictures of people who looked ill in some way or control pictures of people brandishing guns. The subjects’ blood samples were then tested for levels of Interleukin 6, which is produced by the immune system and indicates reupping to fight infections.
31:23 – Seth rips on the internet and the fact that he has to endure YouTube videos stopping after 7 seconds every time. This is in stark contrast to Seth gushing over the internet in Episode 101, 25:42.
32:54 – Seth goes off on people who make rock-n-roll devil horns in photos, and tells them to please stop.
36:07 – Seth rips people who have 890 photos on Facebook.