View Episode 232
Originally aired 08.23.2010
1:05:32
16:48 – Seth was watching TMZ and Kid Cudi was coming out of a 7-11. Harvey Levin is obsessed with what people eat and always wants to know what they ordered. The camera guy asked Cutty, “What do you got there?” He had a bag of Fun-Yuns and a Starburst.
37:48 – ESPN’s Outside the Lines watched every play from every baseball game – 184 total – from a two-week span this summer (June 29-July 11). They reviewed every call not including balls and strikes. In those two weeks, there were 230 close calls. 1.3 in every single game they watched would require instant replay. Of those 1.3, 66% - when reviewed by a panel of experts – of the calls the umpires made were right. 14% were inconclusive, and 20% or 47 times, they were dead wrong.
39:21 – Jah cites a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where the Katrina family stays with them and there’s ejaculate on the blanket.
5:40 – Seth reads from a sidebar in Entertainment Weekly: “I met Katherine Heigl in Cabo San Lucas a couple years ago, right after she and her husband, musician Josh Kelly, got married,” Josh Duhamel recalls on his first encounter with his Life As We Know It co-star. “My wife, Fergie, and I had just gotten engaged, and we ran into them at a resort on New Year’s Eve. We were sitting up at this tequila bar and Fergs was like, ‘You two should work together.’ But the best part was that we had a few shots of tequila, all of us. And after the band quit playing, Josh asked the band if they minded if he borrowed their guitar. He goes up to the mic and he sings, then Katie’s like to Fergie, ‘You should go up and sing a song,’ so she goes up and Josh jumps on the drums and they do this acoustic version of Sublime’s ‘Santeria.’ I will never forget it. It was one of the best nights ever.”
57:50 – Parry Aftab, cyber lawyer / internet expert: “Every teen wants their 15 megabytes of fame, and that’s where the problem lies.”
20:05 – Bereavement Fare
31:47 – Pocket Drop – the new album by Spacequake
17:38 – Jah has been doing a couple of jaunts lately – a couple shows up north and down south – and reveals it is so hard to walk into a convenience store and buy something healthy or even fulfilling. He almost didn’t buy a banana that Amir asked him to get because the consistency of it was so disgusting. Jah reveals that the beef jerky kiosks are so gigantic. What Jah doesn’t mind eating are cream cheese jalapeño taquitos from 7-11. Seth wants to puke after hearing this.
27:20 – Jah circles back to the fact that he’s a full-bore meat eater (Episode 171, 43:07). He ate at an In-N-Out in San Diego yesterday and ate a hamburger. Jah is monitoring what is happening with his body and psychological state, and is convinced that the way we as a people consume food is absolutely crazy. There’s a frenzy to it, a mob mentality where people gather in large groups and shove it down their throats. Jah says there’s no doubt that he functions better now by putting protein from the meat in his body, but he’s still puzzled by eating.
31:07 – Jah has been in a few planes where there was severe turbulence or pocket drops, where you get the feeling of the weight regaining its equilibrium and the pure physics of it start to come apart at the seams.
39:43 – JB Smoove aka “Leon” from Curb Your Enthusiasm was outside of the place where Jah was eating the other day. He pulled up in a super-dope Dodge Charger. As Jah walked down the street and saw him, he thought to himself, “That motherfucker better have gotten a personalized license plate that said JACKLIT,” and it wasn’t there. Jah walked straight up to him and just bitched out. JB Smoove was with a few other people and Jah just couldn’t do it.
51:55 – Jah has been listening to music for a very long time. He listens very loud and has been to many live shows. He predicts that at this age he’s probably suffering from some high frequency hearing depletion, but he means that in the highest possible frequencies – 12,000 kHz and above. He thinks that there is a hearing fatigue if the volume of something is too loud and that reports of hearing loss are widely overblown.
3:08 – If Seth could be so bold, it’s basically all about thermogenetics – heating it up from the inside.
9:15 – Newsweek profiles “The Best Country In The World Is…” and on page 32 it shows us Finland. USA ranks No. 11.
20:15 – In the event of an imminent death in your immediate family, you can get some type of a discounted airline ticket to go home – called a “bereavement fare.” This includes spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, sister, brother, stepparent, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, stepbrother, stepsister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law. Seth is disappointed that there’s nothing in there for a step-grandchild, which he initially thinks would exclude Jeff. Jah corrects this.
23:26 – With the global population pressing against food supplies and vast areas of the ocean swept clean of fish, Tiny Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc. of Waltham, Mass., says it can help feed the world. The firm has developed genetically engineered salmon that reach market weight in half the usual time. They get to 8 pounds in 18 months instead of the normal 36. What’s more, it hopes to avoid the pollution, disease and other problems associated with saltwater fish farms by having its salmon raised in inland facilities. The FDA has yet to approve what would be the nation’s first commercially genetically modified food animal. Some people are calling them “frankenfish.”
29:19 – SmarterTravel.com compiled a list of the 10 scariest airports in the world based on the suggestions of pilots and passengers: 10) John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif. – this is because the planes take off on an extremely short runway and climb at an extremely steep grade with the engines going at full bore on takeoff.
38:00 – A poll on AskMen.com says that 60% of male teens would punch a co-worker in the face if they could get away with it. 40% would punch their boss if there were no repercussions for it. This urge decreases with age. Apparently 20% of 50-year-olds and above would do it.
41:09 – After an office worker has been charged with twice ejaculating into a female’s bottle of water, Michael Kevin Lallana faces two counts of releasing an offensive material in a public place and assault for sexual gratification. The first alleged offense is said to have happened in January at the offices of the Northwestern Mutual Mortgage Company in Newport Beach, Calif. Lallana, 31, is accused of entering the victim’s office and masturbating into a bottle on her desk, which she later drank – unaware that it had been contaminated. Police said she felt sickened and irritated and then threw the water away. He is alleged to have repeated the offense in April at the company’s Orange branch – which they had both recently been transferred to. This time the victim, who is in her 20s, sent the bottle off to a private lab to be tested after drinking it. The results showed that the water had been contaminated with semen. His DNA was linked to the crime and he was arrested outside of his home in Fullerton by officers from the Orange Police Department. If found guilty, he could be jailed for three years. He has been released on $500 bail.
48:12 – Beloit College (Episode 181, 43:21) in Wisconsin released their Mindset List for incoming college students, who only have knowledge of 1992 and beyond: Sam Kinison has always been dead … “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caff vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo … colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause … Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways … these kids have never twisted a coiled handset around their wrist while chatting on the telephone … they have never recognized pointing at their wrist is a request for time of day … second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen … seems the post office has always been going broke. (There are 75 of these statements.)
54:34 – Sextortion: using pictures that were sexted to demand more and more explicit pics or sexual favors
55:19 – Embedded with all videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones or digital cameras are something called “geotags.” This bit of data provides the longitude or latitude of where the picture was taken, hence providing a bit more information than maybe intended. Disabling the tags can be very very difficult. There’s a website, icanstalkyou.com, which provides step-by-step instructions for iPhones, Blackberrys, Androids or Palms on how to disable geotags on photographs.
3:51 – Seth references Go The Distance starring a real-life couple, Justin Short and Drew Barryless (Episode 231, 2:38), and then talks about the upcoming movie Life As We Know It, coming out Oct. 28, starring former couple Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl.
7:04 – Seth didn’t know that Jah and his family performed at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. By “you” Seth means “you and your brothers – the Neville brothers.”
46:36 – Seth talks about the live show on Saturday, Oct. 2 in Santa Monica at the Broad Stage.
1:00:44 – Jah thanks all the listeners for the flood of amazing birthday wishes they sent him on Aug. 7.
1:02:59 – Jah begins to read: The question “What shall we do about it?” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once. This applies particularly to the problem now before us. How are we to heal the split between “I” and “Me?” The brain and the body. Man and nature. And bring all the vicious circles which it produces to an end? How are we to experience life as something other than a honey trap in which we are the struggling flies? How are we to find security and peace of mind in a world whose very nature is insecurity, impermanence and unceasing change? All these questions demand a method and a course of action. At the same time, all of them show that the problem has not been understood. We do not need action, yet we need more light. Light here means awareness – to be aware of life of experience as it is in this moment, without any judgments or ideas about it. In other words, you have to see and feel what you are experiencing as it is, not as it is named. This very simple opening of the eyes brings about the most extraordinary transformation of understanding and living and shows that many of our most baffling problems are pure illusion This may sound like an oversimplification because most people imagine themselves to be fully enough aware of the present already, but we shall see that this is far from true. Because awareness is a view of reality free from ideas and judgments it is clearly impossible to define and write down what it reveals. Anything which can be described is an idea, and I can not make a positive statement about something, the real world, which is not an idea. I shall therefore have to be content with talking about the false impressions which awareness removes rather than the truth which it reveals. The latter can only be symbolized with words which mean little or nothing to those without a direct understanding of the truth in question.
12:12 – According to Newsweek, 30% of American couples who dated from 2007-2009 met online.
21:29 – Women whose saliva has high levels of alpha amylase – a marker of stress – are 12% more likely to get pregnant than women who have low levels of it.
25:29 – There was another study done with a genetically modified apple that created its own pesticide. It was a regular version of the apple, the genetically modified apple and the regular apple sprayed with the insecticide that the genetically modified one now produced on its own. Out of the three, the only one that actually developed problems in the animal was the genetically modified one.
31:56 – A study by the American Psychiatric Association found that in 1997, 11% of college students took some form of psychiatric medication. Last year the number was 24%.
51:04 – A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said that 20% of teens have some sort of hearing loss at this point.