View Episode 233
Originally aired 08.30.2010
56:13
9:01 – UYD: Nutritional modification behavior food
9:53 – Seth watched Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and they were trying to meet nutritional requirements in school menus – they weren’t meeting them.
32:39 – Seth made his mother watch Jersey Shore and she was screaming at JWoww and Snooki.
30:52 – The City Council of Oakland Park, Fla. – a suburb of Fort Lauderdale with a population of 42,000 people – have tentatively approved an ordinance that anyone who responds to a beggar with money or an article of value would face a fine of $50 to $100 and as many as 90 days in jail when they’re in their vehicles in traffic. It’s modeled after a law in Gainesville, Fla.
4:05 – Bubble clouds or “flogos,” (flying logos) created by an Alabama special effects company called Snowmasters, uses machines to mix a bubbly liquid with helium and then cut it into whatever shape or size you want. Instant airborne advertising.
8:44- Nutriloaf, or “prison loaf,” is a nutritional behavior modification food for inmates who have demonstrated significant behavioral issues. It requires no utensils to eat. Some of the American prison population are calling th e loaf “cruel and unusual punishment.” The prison bread contains spinach, beef, carrots, cheese, potato flakes, vegetable broth, applesauce, tomato paste and bread crumbs. It meets the U.S. prison nutritional guidelines.
46:41 – LittleTikes.com offers the Young Explorer for $2,500. “In this age of technology, we think it’s essential that children learn about computers as early as possible – between 3 and 7 years.” It features office cubicles with a bench seat, a PC with a 19-inch widescreen flat panel LCD, a keyboard and a mouse. It comes with five types of pre-loaded software.
49:32 – The Sani-Door, at $1,300, is an electronic door that lets bathroom users exit a public restroom without having to touch a handle. The company is based out of Daytona Beach, Fla., and has sold about 700 units since 2005. Door handles are hot zones of foreign bacteria. A Sani-Door information video on their YouTube page had 23 views as of May 3, 2010.
3:36 – Seth asks if he ever ate Pop-Tarts. Marcia thinks he did, but not a whole lot. She was a working mom and it was easy. She laughs off Seth’s comment about being a latch-key kid.
5:04 – Marcia talks about how up in Maine up on the coast, when you’re on the beach, they have small planes dragging a banner sign advertising breakfast or pizza places.
6:47 – Seth asks Marcia how many texts she’s sending these days but she says she doesn’t text because Seth doesn’t have a cell phone. She doesn’t know how to do that.
7:39 – Marcia flew Continental Airlines to LA but she only remembered having to pay $25 to check her baggage. She got some cereal and a banana and coffee.
11:40 – Seth was making a left turn and a car screeched behind him and Marcia screamed so loudly in his face that he literally crossed over the lines with his eyes closed because he didn’t know what was happening. The screeching car was nine cars back.
24:44 – Seth wants to know how cute he was when he was a kid. Marcia groans but tells him he was cute as a kid. She adds that he is equally cute as an adult. Seth loves this because he never hears it from Jonathan.
26:13 – Marcia says they only put two things in a plastic bag at the grocery store so you end up with 50 plastic bags on a $100 grocery order. Also, if you bring the eco-friendly bags in and ask them to fill it up, they look at you disgustedly.
29:56 – Seth and his mom were talking about their hometown in Haverhill, Mass., and Marcia said, “Do you remember when they had a monkey outside that would serve people peanuts?” Seth refused to believe that he was so old that in his lifetime they still allowed monkeys to serve peanuts to children on the streets. He doesn’t remember it so he’s going to say that it did not happen in his lifetime.
33:01 – Marcia has been to Vatican City (Episode 056, 22:45). She said it was awesome. She saw the Pope but he was too far away to yell anything at him. He was up in his window waving. They show him on a million screens. It was on a Sunday and no one knew he was going to be around all day. The window at which he appears has a shade covering it. It goes up and a rug comes out of the window, and the whole crowd cheers because they know he’s going to appear. His voice is translated into six or seven different languages. Every time the specific language is spoken, they all cheer, then the next crowd cheers. She says it was a beautiful day and it was in March around the Feast of the Assumption, March 15.
42:58 – Seth wonders what he did as a kid. Marcia says he did whatever he wanted. As an adult Seth did whatever he wanted to. Marcia says he was well-rounded – he did whatever sport he wanted, and pick and chose what he wanted and through process of elimination he decided what his level was of how good he could do it. When Seth started to play ice hockey, he didn’t start as young as some of the kids on the team, so it was hard for him to learn how to skate. Then he did it and ended up being a goalie, and he was great at it. He won a game for the team and they gave Seth the puck. His parents got him special goalie skates which are different from normal ice hockey skates. He had an enormous duffel bag because he had way more equipment than everyone else. He did it for a year and was great at it but then he decided not to do it again. Then he started playing soccer and he did it really well. Marcia knew he’d be good at it because he was fast and little, but he dislocated his shoulder in high school as a freshman. If they wouldn’t have gotten him to the hospital as quickly as they did, the doctors said he would’ve had nerve damage in his hand. The game was away and they kept Seth on the bus for 45 minutes bouncing on the 495 highway. Marcia thought Seth had a boob because his shoulder was way down on his chest. Seth bounced back from that and then he started drinking with all the seniors. The seniors came to his house because they thought Seth was super cool for breaking his bone, and as a freshman he started drinking with them. Brian Chase wore Guess overalls and let one of the straps hang off, and Seth wanted to be like that. Marcia then reveals that Seth played tennis and he was a Wildman, but he played great doubles tennis – which was great therapy for his shoulder. Seth recalls that he went crazy and threw his racket, and his coaches made him get off the bus and go apologize to the team. At the banquet, the coach described Seth as “being from another planet” because he was so crazy. Marcia knew how John McEnroe’s mom must’ve felt.
49:05 – The advice was to see the world through the eyes of a child, but Marcia told Seth when she arrived at his apartment that you should do what Auntie Carol said and take two minutes to just breathe.
50:34 – Seth and his mom were walking through the Farmer’s Market and saw a couple parents who didn’t know what the hell they were doing. The kid had a spoon in his mouth, it fell on the ground, picked it up and put it right back in his mouth. Marcia explains that the father was eating and not paying attention, while the mother was talking on her cell phone.
2:37 – Kellogg’s opened up a Pop-Tarts store in Times Squre where you can get 25 different flavors of Pop-Tarts, get a variety sampler, t-shirts, etc. Marcia says she would rather have a Toaster Streudel. Some of the Pop-Tart flavors include Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Wild Tropical Blast, Hot Fudge Sundae, etc.
6:59 – This fall, Continental Airlines – which had been the last major holdout – will stop offering free food on all of their domestic coach flights. An airline spokesman said the upside to this was you’ll be paying for food but it has resulted in a much better product – regional microbrews, avocado hummus, roast beef sliders, signature chicken Caesar salads. It’s hard to do good food apparently because of cabin pressure and lack of humidity and a host of other factors.
10:36 – Walt Disney Co. is building expensive new homes in a new gated community at its Florida resort. Thirty of the 450 homes will be available for purchase this year. The prices will range from $1.5 million to $8 million each.
12:19 – The Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., employs food technologists to make the military’s MREs (meals ready-to-eat), which the soldiers have nicknamed “meals rarely edible,” “meals rejected by the enemy” and “meals refusing exit.” They have meatballs in marinara, spicy buffalo chicken, southwest beef and black bean, etc. Each has 1,200 calories to sustain the soldier.
14:13 – The newest workplace corporate team builder exercise is taking the office to kids’ places. Pump It Up offers bouncers, inflatable jousting bats, inflatable slides, skee-ball, etc.
16:30 – After he dies, Christopher Hill plans to speak to his grandchildren, great-grandchildren and even future generations from beyond the grave – but not with a psychic medium or with his last will and testament, but with a microchip. “I think that when you walk by a gravestone and see things like only a few words and a name or a date, it can be cold and personal and almost incomplete,” said the 41-year-old from Northern Virginia, who talked to ABC News. “This new gravestone is supposed to tell the story of a person and provide you with a connection and emotional remembrance.” With new technology developed by a Phoenix, Ariz., company, he now thinks this could be real. Launched by Objects LLC, personal Rosetta Stones, or iPod stone tablets, embedded with RFID – Radio Frequency Identification Tags – can store up to 1,000 words or a picture. When they’re near a mobile phone equipped with compatible technology, the information in the microchip is beamed right onto the cell phone screen. Objects says the tags – which can be affixed to headstones – can last for 3,200 years.
18:32 – Catholics lifted the ban for cremation in 1963, but the ashes were not allowed to be in any sort of funeral service. In 1997, they changed that so you could make it part of the service, but you couldn’t scatter them – only bury them.
21:36 – As baby boomers age, more families are faced with the question of what to do with their older parents. Some are trying to avoid nursing homes and are turning to a company called Med Cottage – tiny dwellings that can be parked in the backyard, hooked up to your water and electricity. Some people are calling them “granny pods.” They’re big enough for a bed, small kitchen and a bath. It includes a camera at ground level that maintains privacy but also allows you to see if they’re lying on the floor.
23:19 – Sadly, about 32,000 U.S. adults kill themselves each year. The 2008 survey found that an estimated 8.3 million people ages 18 and older had serious thoughts. 2.3 million of those made a distinct suicide plan and about one-half of those actually attempted suicide.
25:14 – San Francisco became the first city in the nation to ban plastic grocery bags in 2007, but since then only one other city in the entire state – Malibu, in 2009 – has followed suit. Each year California dispenses 19 billion plastic bags.
27:28 – Moms in New York staged a bake-in at City Hall to protest rules that banned homemade goods from public school bake sales because they don’t list nutritional content. The protestors held up signs that read, PURE, NOT PROCESSED, because the Department of Education does allow Doritos and Pop-tarts.
32:30 – The Roman Observer is the Vatican’s “semi-official daily Italian newspaper.” It covers all of the Pope’s activities and is headquartered in Vatican City. They have released their list of the Top 10 Albums of All Time: 10) Supernatural by Carlos Santana, 9) What’s the Story? (Morning Glory) by Oasis, 8) Achtung Baby by U2, 7) Graceland by Paul Simon, 6) Thriller by Michael Jackson, 5) The Nightfly by Donald Fagan, 4) Rumors by Fleetwood Mac, 3) Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, 2) If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby, and 1) Revolver by The Beatles.
36:36 – There is a year-long waiting list at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago to volunteer as a cuddler – someone who holds premature babies in a blanket for several hours to soothe the infant, giving them a human touch.
39:30 – An article in the San Francisco Chronicle tells us that for 20 years, scientists and biologists have been living on the Farallon Islands, 27 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It’s one of the world’s most environmentally fragile ecosystems. It’s part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The researchers there have kept a dream journal for 20 years, a daily log of their dreams. All people who live there tend to have eerily similar dreams. They’re called “island invasion dreams” because they’re about animals turning against the humans and getting buck-wild and banding together to take over the island – pelicans wearing roller skates and shooting machine guns.
41:37 – Henry M. Gunn High School is in the affluent high-achieving part of the Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, Calif. In the last six months, four students from the high school have committed suicide near where the East Meadow Drive crosses the Caltrain’s tracks.
51:01 – 21-year-old Nikolas Colton Evans was punched outside of an Austin bar and died. A judge has granted a request by his mother for someone to harvest sperm from her dead son’s body to fulfill, she says, his wish of fathering three boys of his own.
1:06 – J-Dawg kicks off the episode, then passes the mic over to Marcia Romatelli, who is again co-hosting with Seth (Episode 206)
1:33 – Marcia’s theory on wine is that it’s better than pills. She is in Hollywood because she missed her baby boy, plus UYD nation was clamoring for a repeat performance. Marcia thanks everyone who listens to J-dawg and Seth every week and thanks everyone for the shout-outs and gifts that she received after co-hosting the last time.
2:21 – Seth explains that Jah is on a spiritual retreat that is well-deserved.
15:48 – This week’s lesson is to see things through the eye of a child
55:40 – Marcia says it has been her pleasure to help “these two boys” out. She loves doing this and thanks everyone who listens and understands podcasts. She encourages everyone to go to the live show on Oct. 2.
5:37 – There is a study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project that says 43% of teenagers chat on their phones while driving. Meanwhile, 61% of adults do. Seth then mentions that Heidi Montag’s plastic surgeon was killed while texting while driving.