View Episode 229
Originally aired 08.02.10
1:19:25
8:16 – UYD: Refuse to participate in hate
10:13 – UYD: Let your haters be your motivators
10:20 – Seth asks if they’re going to bring back Roc starring Charles S. Dutton. A show about a Baltimore garbage collector, it aired three seasons from 1991-1994. Every episode of Season 2 was aired live. Seth is still right there on The Wire, ready to put the first disc in and get into Baltimore, but he’s wondering if he should explore this Baltimore first.
15:54 – In October of 2009 on TLC, we saw a little special called My Monkey Baby (Episode 187, 25:26) which changed Seth’s life and deeply affected many of the listeners of this show. This Friday, to celebrate Jah’s birthday weekend, NatGeo (“Live Curious”) will kick off a special called My Child Is A Monkey. Go inside the controversial world of “monkids.” Jah asks what an appropriate relationship is with an animal, because the fact that his dogs sleep on the bed with him makes Seth wants to jump out the window.
20:13 – Seth was watching Good Morning America, which had on the mother who started the Donor Sibling Registry (Episode 007, 27:47), a website that lists the sperm donor dads for kids. They have a donor who has 70 kids under the age of 7. He knows them all on an Excel spreadsheet and is in contact with them on the site, but he’s in contact under 70 names. They were saying the question arises, what happens 10-15 years down the road when he has 70 18- to 23-year-olds who show up and knock on his door. The lady’s son has 30 half-siblings that they know of and he’s contacted six of them so far. They find that they not only look alike but have similar likes and dislikes. One donation can bring up to 20 different kids. Another component is that grandparents are in the mix and by blood want to have relationships with the kids.
44:48 – Seth was disturbed this week watching Don Draper get slapped in the face by a prostitute on Mad Men.
1:16:48 – Seth references Boston Med on ABC which is his show. He says that if you have any health issues or know anyone involving a hospital, do not watch this show. If you aren’t and you just want to be frightened/see the miracles of modern science and technology, then watch the show.
26:06 – Seth can’t find Pepsi Max anywhere, and that’s because they switched the logo up on him.
46:21 – Sarah Palin justified a post she put on her Twitter account where she called for all peaceful Muslims to “refudiate” the building of a mosque on Ground Zero. It’s not a word, and Seth and Jah couldn’t think of the word she was trying to use (repudiate). She responded, “English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. You gotta celebrate it.”
7:36 – Paula Abdul has 1,701,685 followers on Twitter. (Kanye West is currently gaining 80 followers a minute and will surpass everybody.) Here are some Paula Abdul tidbits: “Put words into action.” … “Find a quiet spot and take a few breaths. You deserve it.” … “Refuse to participate in hate.” … “I kindly ask that you please stop sending gossip or nasty sarcastic things that people are saying.” … “Pray for the person who insults you. Pray they receive all the love and kindness you can imagine.” … “Hey guys! It’s a gorgeous Saturday. Hope you enjoy it!” … “Let your haters be your motivators. BTW I love you all. Keep each other inspired.” … “It’s going to be a gorgeous Wednesday!” … “For dancers who signed up on CBS.com to audition for my new dance show, really live your movement. Live your dance moments.” … “Love yourself and your dreams.” Seth says this is a Twitter account that he can get behind.
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
4:22 – Seth and Jah revisit the Hanky Code game (Episode 221, 17:02; Episode 222, 2:12). Seth asks Jah for a color and a left or right side. Jah picks Kelly green and left pocket. This means that Jah is a hustler. If Jah would’ve went with right pocket olive drab he would’ve been a uniform bottom.
12:35 – Seth asks if Jah referenced light pink or dark pink. Jah says light pink, then chooses left pocket. He is a dildo giver. Every single time. “It’s like The Secret.” (Episode 052, 0:17).
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
44:10 – After looking up information on the bondage club that burned down, Seth ended up on some crazy sites that included a girl taking two steps and kicking dudes in the nads and they were like “Yeeeaaaahh!” Seth was like “No. No. No.”
1:33 – Seth asks Jah to hold his “And this is Seeeeeeeth” for as long as possible. J-Dawg shatters his previous record of 11 seconds (Episode 114, 0:22) with a 19-second effort.
2:25 – J-dawg asks if Seth thinks it’s funny that most people that listen to this show don’t know that he is beardless. He has had a beard for eight years and just shaved it. When Seth saw Jah for the first time without his beard, it was so disorienting that his heart rate went up, as well as his blood pressure and body temperature. Within a moment Seth knew it was Jah because he looked him dead in the eye, but if he couldn’t look him dead in the eye, he might have not recognized him.
6:14 – When Paula Abdul and Emilio Estevez were together, Jah remembers meeting them at a sushi restaurant in Malibu. He was probably about 10 years old and was with his folks. Emilio and John said hello and J-dawg was smitten. She was little and cute and J-dawg remembers the two of them being dead in love at that point. Seth thinks they could still come full circle and get together again.
13:18 – When Seth was at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Mass., the class of 1991, he started his first class at 7:22 a.m. Jah thinks it should just be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. That way you have two hours to get to school by 9 a.m. and if you go to bed at 1 a.m. you’ve got plenty of sleep ahead of you. Seth thinks we should abolish school and knowledge will just come from word of mouth. Seth says half the stuff he hears during the course of the day is absolutely wrong – he could look it up and print it out but he just knows it from his knowledge. His mother had some sort of saying that went “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you read.” Seth says “Believe none of what you hear and don’t read.” Seth knows that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and that’s all he needed to know throughout his schooling.
26:06 – Seth went to find Pepsi Max at his supermarket and it wasn’t there. He left and came back the next night and still couldn’t find it. He screamed at a customer service representative, who then called over a kid who found it for him. They still have it but they mixed their logo up, preventing Seth from having it for a night.
34:51 – Jah went to a rave last weekend in San Bernadino with 30,000 other people. His good friends Daedelus and Nosaj Thing played. He walked out on to the floor when Daedelus was playing, and as he walked out everyone was eating ridiculous amounts of ecstacy and he started slipping on the thousands of water bottles that were on the floor three deep. He found it ironic that everyone was shirtless and sweaty and loving each other and dancing and drinking water – yet not conscious of the ridiculous amount of waste they were creating.
37:49 – Seth got a voicemail from a guy who lives in New Mexico, who was trying to establish an intimate relationship with a Native American. He said the reason we don’t know anything about Native American cultures is they’re super top-secret about things.
40:48 – When Seth went to King Kong 3D (Episode 228, 2:03), they fingerprinted Seth. He had to slide his finger into the crazy machine. Seth didn’t know what happened; they might’ve even taken a blood test.
50:31 – Jah says he’s never had the guts to go see Ground Zero, even when he was in New York City. He never actually got through the area. Seth said it was crazy, because it’s a humongous deep hole in the ground. It was October of 2009 and that shit happened in September of 2001. He wanted to scream out to these dudes, “What are you doing??!” Jah asks what happened to those crazy beams of light that were shooting up from the site because he thought they were fresh.
1:03:29 – Seth goes to Starbucks at the exact same time every single day and orders a small black coffee. There’s the same four girls who work there, and he thinks at this point he’s earned the fact that he can place two $1 bills on the counter, they will see him and make his drink and slide him over two quarters. He went in there today and it was the same four girls he sees every day. He didn’t say anything and put the two $1 bills down. The girl sees him and makes him a large coffee, which comes to $2.10 and she waits for him to hand her a dime.
1:04:20 – Jah talks about his Starbucks. He walks up every day with his dog. He ties him up, they see him tying him up, and by the time he gets in there the drink is already waiting for him on the bar to pick up. It’s heaven for Jah. One of his baristas today said, “It’s my last week.”
1:04:59 – When Jah and Seth went up to Mendocino, Seth missed the Los Angeles Times on Saturday and Sunday so he had three different people pick it up for him. He didn’t even ask any of them and went to read it at the library on Monday, after calling and putting his name in the day before he left for the trip. It was so easy to get them, and he took a mini pencil and a piece of scrap paper, asked for the Times, handed her the slip, and she walked him over to make copies. That was heaven for him.
1:11:11 – Jah references the rave again. He says it was a crazy rave. He went to a lot of raves when he was a teenager. There were some scantily clad people there. What happens now he would constitute as “an underage drug sex party.” He says the regular garb was underwear, bras, furry boots and nothing else. It was Victoria’s Secret underwear where you could kind of see their little furry bushes.
33:12 – Seth was reading in the Health section of the Los Angeles Times, where he found that the Director of Sports Nutrition from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Director of the National Institute for Athletic Health and Performance at the Stanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota are letting people know that sports drinks are for peak performance recovery and are not intended for people sitting in front of the computer doing no physical activity.
39:24 – According to the Washington Post, there are somewhere around 854,000 American citizens who hold top-secret security clearance within the U.S. government agencies.
42:09 – Sheriff’s deputies say a disgruntled former employee of a Los Angeles bondage parlor set the blaze that destroyed the Passive Arts Studio bondage club near LAX this week and killed the man inside who’s believed to be one of the owners of the club. David Edward Albert, 53, was booked this week on suspicion of arson and murder in connection with the fire. Deputies found him across the street from the blaze hiding in the bushes. Seth tried going to the website and it said “Down until further notice.” Seth discovered that it’s such a huge story in the bondage community – it had seven dungeons, torture chamber, interrogation room, classroom, office, etc. It was LA’s largest, most elegant and best-equipped play area – one of the best in the nation – founded in 1974 by 2 guys who had a love for “the lifestyle.”
52:14 – A 44-year-old man from Craig, Alaska, by the name of Kevin Carle, has admitted intentionally on two different occasions ramming endangered humpback whales on a jet-powered boat, violating U.S. laws protecting animals. He admitted in a plea agreement he twice struck humpback whales with his employer’s 34-foot boat as the animals breached the water’s surface. The fate of the whales is unclear. He paid a $1,000 fine and is on two years’ probation. He’s working for a helicopter logging company out of Portland, ferrying loggers and supplies to the sites. There were people from the company on the boat who witnessed him going off course to run down the whales on top speed. Reached at his new job for an exclamation: “I just want it to be over and done with.”
57:08 – Seth talks about the Grim Reaper Sleeper guy in LA, who killed about 50 prostitutes. There was a dude who knew him who saw a pair of panties fall out of his glovebox. All the guy ever did was talk about killing hookers.
1:17:52 – In Dalonega, Georgia, a newborn zedonk (unusual cross between a donkey and a zebra) is attracting attention at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in North Georgia. The animal has a zebra father and a donkey mother, and black stripes predominantly displayed on her legs and face. She was born at the preserve about a week ago and has zebra-like instincts, sitting up as opposed to laying on her side. Donkeys and zebras do not usually mate but zedonks do turn up occasionally. Seth then says “Honky Tonk Zedonkadonk.” (Episode 001, 18:29)
2:08 – Jah reveals that he turns 33 years old on August 7.
12:03 – Seth references the discussion from Episode 227 (1:01:07) about counterfeit bills, in which Jah says he recalls a story about nickels that Jean Shepherd (not Bob Shepherd) of A Christmas Story lived off of. Jah then says that $5 bills have the same pink hue as a $50 bill. $5 bills are washable and can be easily reprinted as $50s.
1:09:48 – Jah explains the problem with recycling. He says that garbage must be pre-sifted anyway by waste management companies, so recylable items that are dumped into a regular trash can are sifted out and profited from. He thinks one waste company should be doing all of the job rather than a third-party company getting paid for more work.
12:49 – In the latest issue of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, they’ve done a study at a boarding school in Rhode Island that has teens starting school 30 minutes later – at 8:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. This has led to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness and even healthier breakfasts. Schools in Minneapolis and Iowa have also had similar results.
28:48 – Lab tests commissioned by a nonprofit group formed to protect human health and and the environment called the EWG found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical BPA on 40% of receipts received from major U.S. businesses and services – including McDonald’s, KFC, Whole Foods, CVS, Safeway, the USPS and Wal-Mart. BPA is a plastic hardener and a synthetic estrogen that has been linked by scientists to a very long list of health problems.
58:03 – A study just released by researchers at UCLA says that 1 in 5 Californians say they need some sort of mental healthcare. They say around 1 million Californians meet the criteria for “serious psychological distress.”
39:53 – Jah goes on record and says that someone that listens to UYD has top-secret government clearance.
1:07:39 – Jah gets mad thinking about how some people can’t remember your order. He thinks he should be able to expect that because he’s a regular and regulars get preferential treatment.