View Episode 222
Originally aired 06.13.10
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15:27 – Uhh Yeah Dude: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys
27:03 – UYD: Phantom Recall Syndrome
1:07:26 – UYD: Gotta Live By The Hanky Code
19:50 – The 9th Annual Country Music Television Awards featured Jada Pinkett Smith who introduced the next performer, “...one of my favorite people, Toby Keith.” Jah then reveals that he and Seth talk to each other about things outside of the realm of the podcast. They were talking earlier about how many people, including Smith, showed up that didn’t belong there. David Spade, Snooki and The Situation were others who turned out.
27:55 – Seth watched his Season 3 premiere of Bait Car back in New Orleans. There was a bait car set up that some kids were going through. You could see a woman on the front porch of a house yelling “Baaaaiit Caaarrrr!” but they didn’t pay attention.
29:29 – On the Today show this morning, a girl that knows the “text rage” couple was on discussing the text that led to him beating up another girl. Meredith Viera asks the 13-year-old if she saw the texts, and the girl said “I saw the one where she calls him a rapist and she calls him a cunt—I mean, he calls her a cunt.” Seth couldn’t believe he heard “cunt” dropped twice, again on Viera (Episode 104, 10:16).
27:05 – Phantom Recall Syndrome is when you’re convinced that products have been recalled when they haven’t and you go to every store scouring through products.
17:25 – The Fushigi magic gravity ball is dynamically designed. It’s a sphere that’s able to mesmerize the mind, confuse the senses, mystify, amaze and confuse everyone around you. It has mind-altering moves like the prayer cross and the enigma. They’re $20.
32:00 – Huggies has a limited edition Jeans Diaper. It’s the coolest you’ll look pooping your pants. It’s available until the end of July.
6:12 – After Chamillionaire was featured on TMZ for defaulting on his home loan in Houston, he said “When I’m Chathousandaire, then you’ll have to worry about it. But not now.”
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
2:12 – Seth revisits the Hanky Code from last week (Episode 221, 17:02). He has Jah give him another color and direction. Jah gives him a light blue and a right direction. Seth reveals that this means Jah gives oral sex.
1:06:59 – Jah gives Seth one more color and direction for the Hanky Code – a magenta and left. This means he wants his armpits worshiped.
14:31 – The Center for Disease Control conducted their first survey looking at prescription drug abuse among American high school students. They found that at least 1 in 5 American high school students have taken a prescription drug without a physician’s prescription. This includes oxycontin, percocet, vicodin, adderall, Ritalin and xanax. The abuse was most common among the whites.
33:23 – Jah has heard of a peed referred to as a “Chi-Mo” but he wonders if Seth has ever heard of a peed referred to as a “Baby’s Man,” like Jah heard earlier in the day.
5:10 – Jah bought so many records back at the turn of the century. He was at a record store almost every day. He would go to the Virgin Megastore and Penny Lane whenever he got the chance. He remembers the longboy packaging albums had that they made so you couldn’t stick them in your pocket and walk out of the store with them.
8:35 – A couple days ago Jah came home from rehearsing with Amir. They were scheduled to play on the radio the next day and he was very nervous about it. He came home kind of late, opened his door and his dog darted out and ran down the stairs. A strong smell hit him when he walked in the apartment. He starts walking around and it comes to him – it smells like burnt plastic. He looks up and sees a mass of boiled black plastic on his kitchen counter in a metal casing. It’s his toaster, which had set on fire, and the entire cupboard it was sitting underneath was completely consumed in black ash, which is also over every corner of his ceiling in the room. He realizes that right before he had left for rehearsal, he was starving and packing up all his gear. He put two slices of cinnamon raisin toast in the toaster, forgot they were there and walked out. The toaster is a novelty Japanese toaster he was given when he was with his wife. It had a contraption on it where two arms came up to launch the toast up, but they never went so the thing just stayed on and the whole outside of it ignited. It had burned through the bottom shelf of the cupboard and was just starting to boil the paint on it. He then realizes his dog was in the apartment the whole time with no windows open and the door shut. It was the most horrifying experience of his life to realize what had nearly happened. There’s now a permanent stench in his apartment.
3:16 – The highest one-week tally recorded in the 16 years of the Sound Scan Data was in December 2000. 45.4 million albums were sold that week. This past week, some say it’s the lowest since the early 1970s. Just under 5 million albums were sold last week.
7:27 – Next Friday, the 25th of June, marks the 1-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.
23:54 – William Shatner boldly goes where no dad should go based on the Twitter sensation “Shit My Dad Says.”
25:16 – U.S. lawmakers have demanded company records from two contractors they say were hired by Johnson and Johnson to buy back all the defective Motrin children’s medicine from stores in what they were calling a “phantom recall.” Johnson & Johnson paid inventory counting services to have agents go into the stores, pharmacies and gas stations where it was and purchase all of them as if they were actual customers.
34:11 – NASA is inviting the American public to send their portraits into outer space. One of the final two space missions this year – you can choose Discovery in September or Endeavor in November – you just sign up and upload your photo. You will receive flight confirmation and a certificate signed by the mission commander. Seth wonders if anyone can do it for them.
35:55 – In 2004, Frank McCourt bought the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. He was a real estate developer in Boston who tried to buy the Red Sox but failed miserably. He hired his wife of 30 years, Jamie, as the new Dodgers CEO. Last October, they filed for divorce. Through their legal filings and papers and such, much of their dirty laundry has been aired. One of the things revealed on TMZ a little while ago was that she tried to go up to the stadium with her attorneys and the security had to stop her from even coming in. In the separation/divorce, she was supposed to get some type of monthly stipend. She asked the judge for $1 million a month, but last month he awarded her $637,000 a month. It was found out that their two adult sons were on the Dodgers’ payroll. One was making $200,000 a year and one was making $400,000, but they had no job title and no specific duties. Now we’ve learned that the McCourts hired a 71-year-old Russian physicist named Vladimir Shpunt as a “special advisor” to the Dodgers. His job was to watch every game on television from his home in Boston and sent positive energy to the team and its players. He lived most of his life in Russia and knows absolutely nothing about baseball, but was paid a six-figure salary for his long-distance healing, which was called “V Energy.” His grandfather was a village healer in Russia and he supposedly has healing power in his hands where he does touch therapy. At one point he put his hand on Jamie McCourt’s eye when she had an eye infection and was healed. There was a player on the Dodgers named Jayson Werth, who was into alternative holistic healing. He had an injury and they did some long-distance healing on him, and he ended up suing the Dodgers for misdiagnosis.
42:40 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is urging the photocopier industry to address privacy risks arriving from the fact that digital copiers store thousands of documents on their internal hard drives. CBS News reported in mid-April that nearly every copier built since 2002 stores images of documents that pass through the machines. The report found sensitive health and law enforcement information on copiers ready to be re-sold. In a recent letter to Rep. Ed Markey (Mass.), FTC Chairman John Leibowitz said the agency is examining whether copier makers and resellers are warning their customers about the privacy risks. He called the hard drives a treasure trove for identity thieves who could obtain social security numbers, birth certificates, medical records and bank records.
45:33 – Zappos, an online shoe store, has a call center in Las Vegas called the Customer Loyalty Team. The owner of Zappos says it’s a branding opportunity. They offer them no script and no time limit, and give full discretion to make the caller happy. They cut to a guy in a cubicle with his headset on. On his computer screen he has an IMDB page up, and he’s on the phone with a woman who was calling to see if she could get the boots that she saw someone wearing in a Lifetime TV movie. So he’s looking it up and even suggesting going to YouTube. They said the longest customer service call they’ve ever had is 5 hours and 57 minutes. Seth wonders who many old-ass people saw this report on CBS News and started calling Zappos.
1:00:19 – There’s a newly identified human retro virus called XMRV – Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus. There are only two other retro viruses – HIV, which causes AIDS, and HLV I and II, which causes T-cell Leukemia and T-Cell Lymphoma. XMRV is transmitted through bodily fluids. Right now research indicates that it can lead to prostate cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome and various neurological disorders. This came about because there’s a ban in play that prohibits gay men who have had sex since 1977 from donating blood. It was enacted in the hysteria of the early 80s.
1:49 – When things overwhelm you, you just have to remember to breathe. Jonathan and Seth audibly illustrate this for us.
24:57 – Jah asks if he can talk shit about Pineapple Express or if he can’t because it’s too wack.
33:56 – Jah asks Seth if they’re doing a live show this summer, or if they’re doing any kind of a summer break together
58:23 – Jah asks if there’s something happening on the website. Seth says you can visit Seth’s Corner from the homepage to view video mixtapes of awesome television moments, and Volume 4 is now up.
49:15 – According to a study in Newsweek, the percentage of internet users who have entered their own name into a search engine is 57% (Episode 114, 7:00).
13:27 – Don D. of Mobile, Ala., writes in a question to PARADE Magazine: “I heard that Nicolas Cage and Richard Gere are brothers. True?”