View Episode 230
Originally aired 08.10.2010
1:14:35
48:50 – UYD: WTU (Whisper Talk University)
1:08:28 – UYD: With deet
1:14:32 – UYD: Fuck the Luddites
10:58 – Seth watched the sixth season premiere of Criss Angel: Mindfreak. He was wearing a lot of heavy layered black clothing with a Slash top hat pulled down low. He does a crazy illusion where he gets a scorpion, puts it in his hand, smoke begins coming out of his hands and the scorpion is gone. He starts pressing on his chest and his body is contorting. He grabs a woman by the back of the neck and goes to make out with her, she’s choking and all of a sudden a scorpion walks out of her mouth. He looks at the camera and says, “Don’t let me kiss ya!” and eats the camera.
53:59 – Monday night, 10 p.m., second season premiere of Dating In The Dark. There’s nothing like when those lights come up and seeing facial expressions.
58:22 – Seth gives a recap of the two episodes of Tony Robbins’ show Breakthrough With Tony Robbins that got canceled.
16:18 – Electronic cigarettes – a miniature vaporizer that does not burn tobacco. You can smoke them in bars, movie theaters, restaurants, etc. Seth wonders why he didn’t see anyone smoking them when he went to see Grown Ups. It’s just a mixture of odorless water and nicotine vapor. You can even smoke them on airplanes and in offices.
6:34 – Young Jeezy – “All White Everything” (Seth says that when Jah does these lyrics, they will come from the truest place now that it is revealed he is part black)
9:44 – Billy Currington – “Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
18:53 – Stigmatized property in real estate is a home where a murder, suicide or possibly paranormal activity has taken place. In general, “absent specific inquiry about the incident from the prospective purchaser, there is no duty for the broker to affirmatively disclose any information.”
1:12:55 – Jah begins to read from Wikipedia: The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested – often by destroying mechanized looms – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt was leaving them without work and changing their way of life. It took its name from Ned Ludd. The movement emerged in the harsh economic climate of the Napoleonic Wars and difficult working conditions in the new textile factories. The principal objection of the Luddites was to the introduction of new wide-framed automated looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labour, resulting in the loss of jobs for many skilled textile workers. The movement began in 1811 and 1812, when mills and pieces of factory machinery were burned by handloom weavers, and for a short time was so strong that Luddites clashed in battles with the British Army. Measures taken by the British government to suppress the movement included a mass trial at York in 1812 that resulted in many executions and penal transportations. The action of destroying new machines had a long tradition before the Luddites, especially within the textile industry. In modern usage, "Luddite" is a term describing those opposed to industrialization, automation, computerization or new technologies in general.
3:30 – After much speculation and a lot of research, it has come to light that Jonathan’s great-great grandmother on his father’s side was half-black. Jah’s mother has been doing some geneaological research on this. The only thing they need to know is that Jah’s part black. Apparently in the same generation of that family, another relative was full-blooded Mexican (basically full-blooded Native American). Her son had to go to court because she was registered as a teenager as mulatto and then as a 50-year-old woman as white with white children and a white husband, but her son—in order to marry the woman he wanted to marry—had to go to court to prove he was white because it would’ve been illegal to marry the woman if he were black. Seth and Jah pound it.
8:24 – Seth refers back to Jah’s black news, and says he’s never been more happy than right now.
8:42 – Seth grew up in the northeast in Massachusetts, but when he drove cross-country to move out to his spiritual birthplace of Hollywood, he got in touch with the Chatahoochie (Episode 033, 29:01).
19:35 – Jah went and looked at a house quite some time ago off Hollywood above the Chinese Theater near a tiny park. There was a little yellow house to the side of it and they were looking into renting it, and the real estate agent told Jah that a woman was stabbed to death in the home. Immediately Jah wanted to know where it happened because he had gotten weird vibes walking through there. When he showed him, Jah said “I knew it!” As they walked out of the house, the creepy neighbor guy from across the state waddles over and asked “Are you guys thinking about getting this place? Did he tell you…?” Jah confirmed, and the guy said, “Just so you know, I do a lot of work, so if you need to clear the place out, I was around when it happened and I would be happy…” Jah says that if they weren’t turned off enough by the murder, this creepo guy put the icing on the cake. Jah’s friend bought a house and then found out that a person had hung himself in the shower.
26:28 – When Seth went to see a Pictures of the Year show at the Annenberg Photography Space, he saw a photograph from NASA that made the Hubble look like a black and white 3-channel TV.
27:22 – Seth saw Inception the first time when it was called Hubble. Jah says that Seth was the only person he knows that was down with Inception, whereas most people he knows were wildly upset about it.
39:28 – Jah remembers his mom looking at his brother one day when he was 2 years old and she noticed a black mark on Ben’s finger, and she assumed it was leukemia. It was just magic marker.
52:17 – Jah had a friend who was being stalked when he was in high school. She was being stalked by a guy she had met at his place of work and never went out with him or anything. It was old-timey, pre-internet, and he would just follow her car and show up in a parking structure she was in or something.
57:47 – Seth says “Poor Tony” in reference to his show getting canceled after two episodes. Jah says he’s the richest guy in the world. Jah went to a wedding at the house next door to his in San Diego and he responded with “Oh My God! This house is crazy!”
1:00:55 – Jah was at a gas station, and a brand-new black Ferrari pulls up next to him with black California license plates. He waited for the dude to come out and he was from the Ferrari shop. He told him the black plate was no joke and the guy responded that it was a custom order. Jah told him a story that his understanding was guys used to go to pick-your-part and places where they have junk cars, yank the black plates off of them, then register a new car, get a customized license plate with the old black plate number and then put the black plates on because when they pulled it up it would still pull up the same car with replaced black plates. Seth explains that if you have a vintage car in Los Angeles, the stock license plates on them are stock black with yellow letters. The old 1977 Chevy Cheyenne that Seth had had the old L.A. Law sunset license plates on it, until some hooligan in his neighborhood snapped off the plates to scrape the sticker off and pay their registration (Episode 061, 54:51).
1:03:37 – Seth had to put a padlock over his hood because 3 times in a row the battery was stolen from his truck when he was living in one of the worst neighborhoods in Los Angeles – Rampart. He moved there in October of 1998 and the scandal broke in January of 1999. On the front page of the Los Angeles Times the broke a story about corruption in this CRASH Unit of the Rampart Police Station that was a gang unit that was made up of actual L.A. gang members. The TV show The Shield was based on this unit. In the movie The Car Wash that car wash was at 6th and Rampart in L.A.
1:11:49 – Seth got hundreds of people to call the show claiming they had top-secret clearance, per his request from last week
7:48 – On Sept. 29, 2007, Young Jeezy crashed his white Lamborghini Murciélago when it was hit by a taxi crossing Peachtree Street outside of Sean “Puffy” Combs’ restaurant called Justin in Jeezy’s hometown of Atlanta, Ga. The crash has given Jeezy “a new appreciation for life.”
9:18 – On Aug. 1, 2009, Billy Currington suffered a concussion at the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, after the stage he was performing on collapsed during a giant windstorm.
13:42 – “Mindfreak” Carlos Marcia just opened his third branch of his restaurant chain, Maggie Rita’s Mexican Grill and Bar, in Galveston, Texas. The first one is in Houston, Texas and the second one is in New Orleans.
25:05 – NASA scientists have come across a new form of space weather called “spacequakes.” Spacequakes are strong vibrations in the planet’s magnetic field. They can affect auroras and generate space twisters. They can fail power lines and bash grids out via “unseen forces.”
32:35 – The Little League World Series, starting next week in Williamsport, Pa., will feature instant replay for the 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds on virtually everything except balls and strikes.
41:26 – The USPS issues stamps, which Seth is down with. From what he’s reading, here are some of their books of stamps: Scouting, Sunday Funnies, Katharine Hepburn, Cowboys of the Silver Screen, etc. Seth thinks they should flip the script and get crazy with their stamps and make Justin Bieber designs so kids will send letters just to use those crazy stamps. Jah thinks they need to flip it and make a “Huge Hollywood Cocks” collection featuring Milton Berle and James Woods.
44:23 – The Princeton Review has released its annual edition of Best Party Schools 2010. For the 12th straight year, Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City was voted “Most Stone-Cold Sober School.”
59:50 – 5 most stolen cars in 2009 – 5) Chevy Corvette, 4) Dodge Charger, 3) Infiniti G37 Coupe, 2) Ford F-150 pickup truck, 1) Cadillac Escalade
1:05:31 – Mosquitos carry malaria and it still continues to kill around 1 million people each year. Scientists at the University of Arizona have been doing research to alter the mosquito’s DNA, making it 100% resistant to the disease. They are also shortening its life span to stop the growth of the malarial parasites. The next step after this is to release the modified mosquito into the wild, where it can conquer the world’s existing mosquito species. Scientists have never replaced a natural species with one of their own creations, and these genetically modified organisms are already coming under fire by several groups.
3:13 – Seth says if you’re at work, go to uhhyeahdude.com and tell your boss to “go screw.” He thinks that if your boss looked over your shoulder and saw what was going on, he would pull a seat right up.
30:10 – Jah wonders why there is no technology available that allows cars to go places on their own. When he was younger he just assumed that by the time he was 20 it would be happening. He says there’s not a piece of technology out there that doesn’t exist to allow it to happen.
35:44 – According to a just-released poll, the number of cyberchondriacs (hypochondriacs that regularly go online for their health information) has leaped from 22% in 2009 to 32% this year.
48:57 – According to numbers from the Stalking Resource Center, 3.4 million people over the age of 18 are stocked in the U.S. each year.
12:40 – Seth and Jah hammer Criss Angel for biting at the camera and telling his audience not to let him kiss them. They assure Mr. Angel they will not let him.
27:54 – Jah and Seth rip on Hyundai: “In your own words. Real people, real comments. Uncensored.” They put hidden video in the car when people are taking it for a test drive. Some of the comments are a little to good to be true: “Wow the handling on this car is amazing.” “As far as luxury cars would go, this car would rank…” … “It’s comparable to a Jetta but the price is so much different on the sticker!”
55:12 – Jah hammers people that appear on The Bachelor or other dating-type shows and the fact that they get such intense amounts of magazine coverage. He is stupefied by it. He says their faces are the most banal, unattractive and not real faces he’s ever seen. He says it’s astonishing how undetectably undecipherable they are. He doesn’t know who any of them are and their names and faces are interchangeable. Anytime he sees someone he doesn’t recognize he assumes they are on one of these shows. “Every one of them looks like John Stamos with Down’s syndrome!”