View Episode 250
Originally aired 12.16.10
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40:56 – Larry King had his last episode on CNN last week. Seth Googled “uhh yeah dude larry king” and realized there were a lot of instances in which they talked about him. Seth found that Larry had Deborah Tate – Roman Polanski’s former sister-in-law – on the show once. He asked her, “Do you ever talk to Roman Polanski.” She indicated that she had, then he replied, “Wow, how can you have a civil conversation with someone who so brutally murdered your sister?”
11:25 – McDonald’s is offering oatmeal at 14,000 of its restaurants. It costs $1.99 and they will roll out a massive advertising campaign starting Jan. 3, 2011. It will be maple-flavored oatmeal with diced red and green apples and a mix of raisins and cranberries.
53:55 – There’s a new iPhone application called Drive Me Crazy, with which drivers can rat out their fellow motorists’ bad driving. Drivers can speak the license plate of the offending vehicle into their iPhone and share the details on Twitter and Facebook. Registered members can also look up the driver’s previous records on Drive Me Crazy. The creator says “It’s an effort to use crowdsourcing to bring greater civility and safety to the nation’s roads.”
26:36 – John Schneider played Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard and is one of Seth’s favorites. He was at an autograph convention and was interviewed by a website called TruthisScary.com. Their slogan is “More than a website, it’s a movement.” They cover UFOs, the illuminati, Samarian tablets, chem. trails, etc. He said, “9/11 is very interesting. I have no answers. I have questions. Have you been to Vegas? There’s a hotel there called New York, NY, right? And what is New York, NY? It’s the skyline of New York City. My first thought was ‘Wow, it’s gonna be interesting because what are they going to do with the Twin Towers and the skyline of New York City because every time you see the skyline of NYC up until then it was always on the Twin Towers side right?’ Why did they build New York New York before 9/11 without the Twin Towers in it? They didn’t take them down. They were never there. Why? Find somebody to answer that question. I want to know.”
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
1:07:00 – Jah gives Seth two choices: He must either moonwalk or tell people why he doesn’t speak in Leaf. Seth chooses choice C, and gives an honest thank-you to everyone and asks them to join them next week as they embark on the road to 500.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
13:13 – After doing some research, Seth realizes that there has never been a movie called Field Trip. Jah was confusing it with Road Trip.
52:35 – Jah looks up You, Me and Dupree to see that it stars Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson (Episode 073, 11:41).
56:05 – Seth learns that a citizen’s arrest is an arrest made by a person not acting as a sworn law enforcement official. In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval Britain in English common law. Each state, with the exception of North Carolina, permits citizen’s arrests if the commission of the felony is witnessed by the arresting citizen – or when a citizen is asked to assist in the apprehension of a suspect by police. The application of state laws varies widely with respect to misdemeanors, breaches of the peace and felonies not witnessed by the arresting party. American citizens do not carry the authority or enjoy the legal protections held by police officers and are held to the principles of strict liability before the courts of civil and criminal law, including but not limited to any infringement of another’s rights.
1:00:03 – Seth finds that John Cusack was born June 28, 1966. He’s going to be in a thriller upcoming in 2011 called The Factory produced by Robert Downey Jr.’s lover and distributed by Warner Bros. In the movie, a cop is with his partner on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, NY. But when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer. The movie was shot in Montreal and wrapped filming in 2008. The release date has been pushed back numerous times. It was recently pulled from a Jan. 28, 2011 release and hasn’t been rescheduled. Cusack will then be playing Edgar Allen Poe in an upcoming movie called The Raven. In that movie, a serial killer challenges Poe to solve a series of murders based on his stories.
16:30 – Jah rats out Amir for crying during Marley and Me. He watched it on a plane and wept and dared Jah to watch it and not cry. Jah never watched it.
19:38 – Seth doesn’t have any plans for New Year’s Eve. He thinks his best one was when he went to Abiquiu, N.M., for Y2K (Episode 075, 41:24; Episode 052, 19:48; Episode 133, 11:37; Episode 190, 1:03:08) because it was the most memorable. Then he remembers he had a New Year’s in high school where he bought a white shirt with big black polka dots like Kid ‘N Play had at the Methuen Mall the day before New Year’s as a high school junior. He went to a New Year’s party at Mark Spencer’s house and people were in awe of his shirt. So that might have been his best. He then recounts his worst New Year’s, which was when he had his first sober New Year’s and took his Chevy Cheyenne up to the Hollywood Hills and counted down the clock. He then drove down to Sunset and got pulled over at a DUI checkpoint on Sunset at the Bank of America just east of Fairfax because of his colored cab lights and got a ticket at 12:31 a.m. on Jan. 1. Seth got home, went to bed, woke up on Jan. 1 and there was a ticket waiting for him on the coffee table when he woke up. Happy New Year, Seth.
34:03 – Jah was in the Nike Store the other day. His friend was looking for something and Jah got up to the Jordans/basketball section, and he saw maybe 1 pair out of 30 that if he saw someone in them he wouldn’t judge them. Most of them he thought were retarded-looking and would be even worse with shorts next to thin legs.
42:38 – In thinking about the Manson Murders, Jah started thinking about a health food restaurant that used to be in LA in the 60s called The Source, which was very popular. The guy who ran it started a small commune/cult called the Ya Ho Wha, and changed his name to Father Yod. He had mother house and father house where there were close to 200 people living there. There was tantric meditation and weed smoking and a bunch of records they recorded during this time. He had been in pursuit of his wife for a while and finally convinced him to go out with him. She blew off plans that night, which were to go to the Polanski house, to go hook up with him in his love van. Jah says Father Yod killed a couple guys and eventually got himself killed hang-gliding.
1:02:51 – Jah is down with Next-Gen Star Trek. They cover some moral issues.
4:50 – Jeopardy!’s greatest player of all time, Ken Jennings, had 74 straight wins. The woman who beat him lost the next day. He will take on Watson, a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team, on a three-episode arc of the show in February 2011.
7:46 – The Creationist Museum in Kentucky opened in May 2007. It presents the origins of the universe – life and all mankind – as a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis. This includes the belief that humans and dinosaurs once roamed the earth and co-existed together, that the great flood with Noah’s Ark was real, etc. The museum is currently raising money to build a replica ark about 40 miles from the museum in Cincinnati. It plans to open the ark in the spring of 2014. They have raised about $225,000 of the $25 million they will need. A peg in the ark will cost $100, a plank will cost $1,000 and a beam will cost $5,000.
17:10 – The internet’s key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has moved one step closer to giving all pornography websites their own online address. Domain names ending in a new .xxx suffix will supplant the others.
19:20 – Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 – the Adult Video News Awards will be held at the Palms in Las Vegas, hosted by Tori Black and Riley Steele. The theme of the night is “Dress to Impress.” If Jah had to pick one of the nominated films to watch, he would choose Wanna Fuck My Daughter? Gotta Fuck Me First, Part 8
32:01 – Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards (Episode 199, 5:31) had a long-standing contract with Adidas that has run out, and so he’s been sampling a myriad of different brands. He was spotted against the Lakers wearing a $395 pair of Dolce and Gabbana sneakers.
36:37 – Pamela Anderson is on the cover of the new issue of Playboy for January 2011. It’s her 13th cover. Her first was in October of 1989. Seth wonders at what point does she stop?
37:44 – In October, the 1968 Playboy Playmate of the Year, born Victoria Vetri but posed under the name Angela Dorian, shot her husband of 20 years on Hawthorne Ave. in Hollywood. His name was Bruce Gathreb. His quote was “I loved her for 25 years. A divorce would’ve been sufficient, not a bullet.” The interesting twist is that she played a recovering heroin addict in a tiny scene in Rosemary’s Baby in 1968 under the name Angela Dorian. After the Manson murders in 1969, Roman Polanski gave Victoria his own Walther PPK because he didn’t know what was going to happen. That’s the gun she used to shoot this guy 40 years later.
46:06 – The top 5 best-selling songs on iTunes for 2010: 5) “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz, 4) “Airplanes” by B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams, 3) “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem featuring Rihanna, 2) “California Girls” by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg and 1) “Hey Soul Sister” by Train. Jah recognizes all the songs after Seth samples them except for “California Girls.” He blames it on turning off his pop culture feed for a few months out of the last year.
57:57 – An Owensboro, Ky. man has pled guilty of making bombs claiming he feared the end of the world after watching the movie 2012 starring John Cusack. The Courier Journal reports that a James Byron Birkhead told federal agents that he was making bombs to protect his family when the government fails and food riots occur. Agent Kevin Kelm with the bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and explosives said police were called to Birkhead’s home when a social worker sent to check on the well-being of Birkhead’s daughters heard that he was acquiring weapons. Thursday, the 52-year-old pled guilty in U.S. District court in Owensboro to possessing and manufacturing explosive materials without a license.
2:43 – Jah says that he’s assembled a “look back” at the last 250 episodes, including some of the things they’ve said and funnier things they’ve said over the last 250 hours. They’re just going to sit back and roll it and hear it for the first time. Seth said he wants to throw out the index cards and pencils because anything is possible in this retrospective look back.
11:07 – Seth wants to know if there’s ever been a movie called Field Trip
15:18 – Seth saw Owen Wilson on a movie poster the other day and was freaked out thinking about the fact that “The Butterscotch Stallion” tried to kill himself in the summer of 2007.
55:30 – Seth claims that a citizen’s arrest is not a real thing. Jah wants to know if anyone has ever made one who listens to this show.
1:03:43 – Jah sends out a huge thank you to a gang of people who were nice enough to rally and send UYD some donation money. Jah was going to have a list in hand to be able to read off the names, but the list got kind of long and there were more things coming in and he didn’t want to leave anyone out. He broadly thanks people who decided to come together and do something for Jonathan and Seth. He says it’s a crazy awesome Christmas present and congratulatory present to them.
1:05:10 – Seth says he remembers Episode 001 and what Jonathan was wearing that night. Jah thinks he had cargo pants and Crocs on.
1:10:06 – Seth and Jah bump it in recognition of 250 episodes.
35:21 – A study led by researchers at Harvard University to be presented in an upcoming issue of the journal Cognition showed that the ability to recognize faces peaks at the ages of 30-34.
1:01:20 – Seth: “Hollywood, you’re killing us.”