View Episode 248
Originally aired 12.06.10
1:15:38
34:27 – UYD: Cold Old
10:53 – Seth declares Storage Wars on A&E as being “totally awesome.” Seth watched as 30 dudes in Victorville opened a unit in 114-degree heat and just looked in to pick out what they wanted. One guy, Barry Weiss, brought a midget on stilts so he could have a better vantage point to look into the unit. One guy bought a cardboard box out of Suge Knight’s home that got foreclosed on. He didn’t know what was in it, but opened it up and it was Bernini of Beverly Hills custom-made clothes for Suge that had “Custom Styled for Suge Knight” stitched in. One dude opened up a unit that had industrial kitchen stuff in it, and spent $2,600 and made $20,000.
41:10 – Seth watched Sunday Night Football on NBC with the Giants and Eagles, and they had a camera on the Giants’ pre-game huddle to get hyped up. Giants RB Brandon Jacobs is screaming, “We hungry! Let’s eat! You ain’t supposed to eat Eagles, dammit! It’s against the goddamn law, but we gonna eat ‘em tonight!”
42:46 – NatGeo’s Wild Justice follows the California Department of Fish & Game as they roll up on some bear hunters who are getting their pickup party on. They roll a bear down the hill and it’s spilling blood because they’ve cut the gall bladder out. They have to interrogate them until one of them pulls it out of a Zip-loc bag and makes him cut it up before they can leave. They’re also in Chinatown of San Francisco, and finding deer cock and other things you can’t sell.
47:21 – Chelsea Handler was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and as she came out the band played “Candy Shop” as an homage to her possible relationship with 50 Cent. She talked about going to Cabo San Lucas for Thanksgiving. She tells Jay she can’t take 50 to Cabo because he can’t swim very well. Jay Leno says, “It’s Fitty.” Handler: “I don’t know, I call him Curtis when we’re having sex.” Jay asks, “Curtis what?” and she can’t think of it. She sits and rolls her eyes and admits she doesn’t know.
8:26 – Whipahol – 18.25 abv, “whipped lightning” – alcohol-infused whipped cream. It can dress up any drink. Try it on shots, shooters, cocktails, martinis, coffee or frozen beverages – as well as spicing up your favorite desserts. Comes in several flavors – german chocolate, caramel pecan, hazelnut espresso, amaretto, white chocolate raspberry, spiced vanilla, tropical passion, coconut, strawberry colada.
34:36 – 2011 will see the release of more than 30 feature films in 3-D. To prepare for this, you can buy Gucci 3D sunglasses that retail for $225.
26:52 – Seth read a wonderful issue of Los Angeles Magazine that featured 50 local Angelinos reflecting on how much they love the beautiful city: Randy Newman, Joey Lawrence, Ice Cube, Maya Rudolph, Marisela Norte, etc. Then they interview Adam Carolla: “Potholes and assholes – that’s Los Angeles.” Jah reveals that Carolla is a Toyota enthusiast, and is also “Norm MacDonald for dumb people.”
45:23 – Futurist Ray Kurzweil in Newsweek is asked “How exactly will technology make us healthier?” Ray says, “We will reprogram our biology. My cell phone’s probably updating itself as we speak, but I’m walking around with 1,000-year-old software that was for a different era. One gene, the fat insulin receptor gene, says, ‘Hold onto every calorie because the next hunting season may not work out so well.’ I’d like to be able to tell my fat insulin receptor gene, ‘You don’t need to do that. I’m confident I’ll have food tomorrow.’”
38:14 – The Buffalo Bills were playing the Pittsburgh Steelers in a football game and managed to get a game into overtime. The first play of overtime, the Bills’ QB throws a 50-yard bomb to Stevie Johnson, who is wide open. The ball hits him in the hands and chest and falls to the ground. The announcer thought it was over and an offensive lineman has jumped into the QB’s arms to celebrate prematurely. The Steelers ended up taking over, marching down the field and kicking a field goal to win. That night on Twitter, Stevie Johnson said: “I praise U 24/7, and this how U do me? U expect me to learn from this? How? I’ma never forget this! Ever!”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
1:06:42 – Seth reads about Sherpas, who are actually an ethnic group that originated in Tibet and migrated to Nepal. They’re known for their reliability and endurance and are valued as porters and guides for climbing expeditions like Everest and K2. 38-year-old Pemba Sherpa moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1990 – the first Sherpa to do so. Since then it’s been a Sherpa party in Boulder.
8:13 – Somebody texted Jah asking if Seth was really thinking about coming off the wagon.
9:03 – Jah wants to know if he accidentally said “nucular” on Episode 247 like George W. Bush. Someone hit up and said they’d counted two already.
13:27 – When Seth handed Jah the news item in front of Jah about a potential menthol cigarette ban, he didn’t notice that sitting on a piece of Jah’s equipment was a pack of Newport Menthol Gold. Jah says he smokes menthols because they taste good.
20:49 – Listener Johnny M from San Francisco sent a birthday/Christmas/life gift wrapped into one, the Tiffany documentary I Think We’re Alone Now for Jah and Seth to watch. Jah and Seth watched it alone, and have never felt more alone.
31:12 – Jah was standing on Third Street Prominade in Santa Monica, Calif., this week, doing some early Christmas shopping. He looks over and on the corner of Broadway and 3rd is a deli called The Broadway Deli. They just opened up the mall across the street and it’s gone from being a shithole of a mall to a mega-shopping destination with Louis stores, etc. Now all the storefronts on the opposite side of the street facing the mall are worth exponentially more money than they are currently. There was a huge sign in the window of the Broadway Deli that said LOST OUR LEASE – GOING OUT OF BUSINESS – CLOSING. Jah then realized that in the 80s and 90s, the Broadway Deli was popping with all TV celebs who had moved to the west side (Santa Monica and Malibu) and the food was good and the place was huge. Jah remembered going there for his 13th birthday, and they gave him a pair of slip-on Vans and a few other things there. He took a picture of the deli and sent it to his dad with the message “I had my 13th birthday there. That was 20 years ago.” It was the most cold, bone-chilling, empty old that Jah has ever felt.
1:01:18 – Jah called Seth the other day because he happened to be at a friend’s house who had cable and said “Are you watching this!?” during 60 Minutes for the Spider-Man Broadway segment.
1:03:34 – Jah went to an auto show with Amir and got a major panic attack from looking at the Chevy Volt. Fuel TV was there and they had a weird host there describing things about the cars. Jah couldn’t believe the length of the line of people waiting to get into one of the cars to rev the engine, and couldn’t help but go back and stare at it. Amir had to pull Jah aside and tell him that the thing he does wrong is weigh up the implications that these types of activities have on mankind, and you simply can’t do that because it’ll kill you.
1:05:21 – Seth looked up his Sundance on Kelly Blue Book, and in excellent condition it is worth $1,995 – which is what he paid for it when he drove it off the lot at Sepulveda at his Pick ‘N Save. Seth wants some of the new UYD bumper stickers to put on the ‘Dance.
2:34 – Spider-Man is now a Broadway show, featuring music written and performed by Bono and The Edge.
5:18 – Seth’s friends at Family Radio have been telling him about the end of the world through Project Caravan and Project Jonah. They have 2012 written with a line through it, and have revealed the new date of the end of the world as May 21, 2011. They have paid for billboards in Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, Detroit, Little Rock, Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Ind., and Bridgeport, Conn.
13:03 – The NAACP has joined the FDA in attempting to ban menthol cigarettes such as Newport and Kool. 80% of African Americans favor menthols versus 20% of whites. Opponents of the ban say the ban would lead to a crime-ridden black market industry.
19:10 – There was an article on MSNBC about people who leave explicit details and instructions about how they want their pet to be put down and buried withthem after they die.
22:19 – Sony Pictures and Justin Timberlake are planning to launch a major publicity campaign to get him an Oscar nomination for his role on The Social Network.
24:27 – A movie called The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush is about the future king George VI who has a terrible stuttering problem and the relationship he forms with his quirky Australian speech therapist.
51:59 – An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse says that the TSA-enhanced patdowns on children under 12 are abhorrent. It is beyond comprehension to put kids under this scrutiny when they may have been a victim or are currently being abused by predators.
53:56 – There are about 300 Apple stores in the U.S., and about 7 Microsoft stores.
56:45 – Book publisher Hyperion has had major success releasing books “written by” Richard Castle – the lead character on the ABC detective show Castle – played by lead actor Nathan Fillion. He’s a ruggedly handsome NYC-based novelist who’s a best-selling author trailing a sexy female NYC police detective so he can get material for his books. Nathan Fillion showed up at The Grove’s Barnes & Noble as his character, Castle, to autograph copies of the book penned by his character, which was actually written by a show writer. Another is Sterling’s Gold, written by Mad Men character Roger Sterling – played by John Slattery – which was featured last season on the show.
1:09:01 – Investigative documents obtained by the Seattle Times under the federal Freedom of Information Act found that a large number of infantry soldiers fighting in Afghanistan had been using steroids to boost their brawn during prolonged periods of warfare.
2:06 – This is one of UYD’s very last episodes of 2010.
15:11 – Uhh Yeah Dude has been nominated as a Podcast Awards finalist for the People’s Choice category. Seth is thrilled, Jah – not so much.
36:25 – Jah has had some names floating around his brain that have been giving him fits. He follows up on Wafaa Bilal (Episode 248), who happened to go to high school with Nick, who runs the UYD website. (He was the only Iraqi in the entire school during the time we were going to war with Iraq.) Jah’s problem is that he used a song last week by Wiz Khalifa from Pittsburgh, and is trying to keep abreast of the alleged beef between Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame.
1:06:04 – There are new UYD t-shirts on pre-order right now. There’s a UYD prism that’s gray on a heather tee with a black and white logo, there’s a design from the Broad show that will be used as well.
1:14:49 – Seth and Jah haven’t given much thought to Episode 250. Callers are throwing out all kinds of special things they could do, but Jah will be lucky to get there on time to record the show let alone do something fancy.
29:34 – A journal PLS-1 reported on a version of dopamine receptor gene called DRD-4 that lies in a person’s DNA and may lay dormant and make people more prone to infidelity and one-night stands.
2:13 – Mark Seth’s words – 2011 is going to be the greatest year in recorded history.
3:45 – Jah goes off on the one-named man, Bono, for still trying to stay young with space goggles even though he’s wicked old.
22:30 – Seth and Jah whisper to Justin Timberlake that he was less than phenomenal in The Social Network.
28:10 – Seth and Jah hammer Adam Carolla.