View Episode 244
Originally aired 11.08.2010
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7:37 – UYD: ICBMs
8:55 – Seth was watching the Pacquiao-Margarito: 24/7 on HBO which counts down their fight on Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium. Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is sitting in the VIP section of the airport in the Philippines’ capital city of Manila. He’s on a 10 p.m. direct flight to LAX, Philippines Air Flight 102, waiting for Manny and the crew to show up. Freddie is explaining that Manny doesn’t have to be there on time because he doesn’t have to go through security, etc., and can get there 10 minutes before the flight. He actually doesn’t show up until 10:15 p.m. and the plane waits for him.
20:45 – Seth was watching Parking Wars, which is dipping into Philly and Detroit. In Philly, people park like assholes. In Detroit, people are driving around and giving tickets out that are suspect at best. One woman named Joyice is getting a ticket and a boot and comes out with her mom to chew out the two female parking authority cops. The mom says, “Trust me, God’s got his eyes on all of us, and we will answer to him one day. You will answer. You’re gonna see his face, and I don’t think you gonna like it.” The parking lady replies, “You can’t sic God on people like he’s a dog. Booting your car is about paying a debt.” Joyice’s mom: “Jesus Christ paid the debt for me when he went to the cross for us all.” Parking lady: “God ain’t got nothin’ to do with this.” Joyice: “You need to get God in your life!” Parking lady: “I go to church every Sunday, and I don’t want to have a discussion about Jesus because that’s one thing I don’t debate about.” Joyice’s mom: “You have to repent. Christ paid the debt.” Parking lady: “But the parking tickets weren’t included.”
33:26 – This Wednesday at 8 p.m. on ABC, you can watch the Country Music Association Annual Awards. Making her country performance debut is Gwyneth Paltrow, singing the song “Country Strong,” which is the title of her upcoming film in December.
32:37 – Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who looks like a methed-out Salvador Dali and held his daughter captive in a sex dungeon for 24 years while raping her 3,000 times and impregnating her seven times, gave his first interview from jail since his 2008 arrest. One of his quotes, “My favorite show is Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen.”
3:25 – There’s a new birth control called “Mirena.” Their slogan on their website is “Keep life simple.” The commercial for the drug features a very attractive mother of 2 in a supermarket and her kids are going buck-wild. She’s walking around wondering if she forgot to take her pill. Cut back to the house and they’re going buck-wild in the house. She then says to herself, “I think two’s plenty.”
16:01 – An article in the Wall Street Journal talks about chemists and laboratory-adept entrepreneuers who are constantly creating new psychoactive drugs in the so-called “legal high” market. The first drug Jah thought of that constituted a legal high was herbal ecstacy. These new powders and pills work and are marketed as not for human consumption, and they’re sold over the internet. Twenty-four new party drugs were invented in the last year alone. Officials crack down on them, and by the time that’s happened the companies have already sold a buttload of money and have begun developing a new one. Chemists get their ideas by scanning scientific literature and papers about mind-alterting substances. There’s a pharmacologist at Purdue University who has been invaluable with his work in brain receptors and the breakdowns of psychoactive chemicals and their makeups.
37:26 – They busted a DMT lab at Georgetown University. This is a stretch for Seth, who remembers putting towels under the door and taking fabric softener in the empty toilet paper rolls and then blow the smoke out.
51:00 – A senior at Wesleyan University who was assigned a 24-hour take-home exam went to the Wesleyan Honor Code Review Committee and said his classmates were “cheating.” It’s the same as plagiarism because they all took study drugs to get through the tests – Ritalin and Adderall – taken by prescription or from friends. The senior likened it to an athlete taking performance-enhancing drugs and the review board disagreed.
6:08 – Jah loves his parents and he loved them pretty consistently throughout his entire life. But there’s been 12 instances where he almost killed them. He also thinks they were on the cusp of killing him a couple times. Jah almost killed his brother twice. Seth wants Jah’s mother to send him a picture of his brother sleeping on Jah’s chest.
12:38 – Jah needs to talk about a film that he saw called I’m Still Here starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Casey Afflek. Jah talked a fair amount of shit leading up to the film’s release, but he wants to clear the air and say that he actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Jah did not see it in theaters like Seth did; he rented it on iTunes. Jah admits that it’s pretty weird, and was tripped out by Joaquin’s hair – which looks similar to Jah’s from high school in the mid-90s.
24:16 – Jah has had so many parking tickets in his life. He’s had so many boots put on his car in his life. He hates them so much that they become things he can’t deal with, which is the worst thing you can possibly do. And they always come back.
27:54 – Seth got a voicemail from a girl who talked about how weird it is to run into your significant other’s ex out in public and think about them blowing them. The girl said it’s way worse for girls b/c they have to think about all the dude’s exes and all the random people he hooked up with and “all the head that he got from gross stripper girls.”
44:15 – About 900 people sent free Kleenex packs to Seth this week.
50:10 – Jah lived in the throes of Hasidic jews when he was in Hollywood. When they’re walking to temple on Friday you can’t go anywhere in traffic.
6:59 – On Oct. 23, 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) – representing 1/9th of the U.S. land-based stockpile – briefly went out of communication with launch control computers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. The failure lasted less than an hour, according to the Air Force, which also said the IBCMs were always protected thanks to a secondary security system.
11:59 – Tom Cruise held a press conference in Dubai to announce the title of the fourth Mission Impossible movie set for release Dec. 16, 2011. It will be called Mission: Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol
18:48 – There was a huge rave in L.A. this past summer, Electric Daisy Carnival. A girl died who was underage and wasn’t supposed to be there. She dehydrated. It was held at the Coliseum. The L.A. Memorial Coliseum Commission has voted to overturn a moratorium placed on raves taking place at their venue, so long as there are doctors and nurses who can work at the rave site.
34:47 – Taylor Swift just released her third album, Speak Now, and it sold 1 million copies. Taylor says, “If you listen to my songs, it’s like reading my diary.” From this album, “Back to December” describes her split with Taylor Lautner, “Innocent” is addressed to Kanye post-VMAs, “Dear John” is a rebuke of a reported fling with John Mayer, and “Mean” is aimed at a specific journalist.
38:11 – The American Heart Association has issued new guidelines for CPR. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation has officially died. From now on, if you come across one of the 300,000 people each year that suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, hands-only CPR – rapid chest compression – is the recommended and preferred option. It was found that eliminating the rescue breathing component saved 22% more lives.
39:53 – 18-year-old Alexandria Mills of Louisville, Ky., was just crowned Miss World at this year’s ceremony in China. She is the first American to win this award since Gina Marie Tolleson in 1990. In 1991, Gina Marie held the next pageant and met Alan Thicke. Shortly afterward they had a son, Carter Thicke, then divorced in 1999.
42:14 – “Greenwashing” is making false or misleading claims that a product is eco-friendly. It’s so prevalent now that a marketing company surveyed 5,296 “green products” only to find about 95% of them were totally inaccurate.
45:26 – An article in the Style section of the Sunday Los Angeles Times told the story of Orthodox Jew women mailed to lubavitch rabbis living in LA. It talks about Tzniut modesty and covering up your hair.
2:01 – Seth has a Diet Sunkist right now. You know what that means – summertimes. It was still really hot in LA today.
2:13 – Seth shows a pressed maple leaf he received from his mom the day after mentioning it in Episode 243. He loves receiving New England fall foliage in the mail.
2:45 – Jah finds it weird that autumn and fall are the same thing but summer and winter don’t have other names. Jah says it was a bunk summer and it still feels like summer to him even though it’s moving into the holiday season. He’s prepared for full depression to set in by Thanksgiving.
30:10 – Seth mentions that you can go to Seth’s Corner on the website and view two new volumes, 5 and 6, of Seth’s video mash-ups. Also, if you go to the homepage, there’s a homepage banner link for the Podcast Awards (podcastawards.com), where you can vote for Uhh Yeah Dude for Best Comedy Podcast. Just like when Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to accept his Academy Award for The Godfather, Seth and Jah’s plan is to send Jeff, Nick and Weck to the ceremony in mandarin-collared, knee-length, Michael-Jordan-style tuxes while wearing Michael Jordan cologne, to accept their award for them.
1:04:59 – Seth’s advice for this week is to crush up an Addy and take it. Even give some to your twin babies in their gums.
24:57 – There was a study published in the journal Neurology that says 25% of test subjects in a sleep study carry a particular genetic mutation known as DBQ*0602. People that don’t have it tend to sleep better and can get by on less sleep.
55:36 – Michael Skinner is a molecular biologist at Washington State University: “We just published a paper last month confirming epigenetic changes in sperm which are carried forward transgenerationally. This confirms that these changes can be become permanently programmed.” Basically this means that the life experiences of grandparents and even great-grandparents alter their eggs and sperm so indelibly that the change is passed on to their children, grandchildren and beyond. It’s called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance – the phenomenon in which something in the environment alters the health not only of the individual exposed to it but also to the individual’s descendents.
1:01:51 – Jah doesn’t think it would be an honor just to be nominated for the Podcast Awards. He’s going to be pissed off if UYD doesn’t win.