View Episode 257
Originally aired 02.07.11
1:15:11, 1:15:57
3:15 – This past weekend’s Saturday Night Live featured Dana Carvey and Linkin Park.
12:30 Jeopardy!, on Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 14-16, will feature IBM’s Watson supercomputer taking on Ken Jennings, who has the most consecutive wins (74) from 2004-2005, and also Brad Rudder, who had the most earnings on the show ($3.2 million) from 2001, 2002 and 2005. First place will get $1 million, second place will get $300,000 and third place $200,000. If the computer wins it, all of it goes to charity. 52:03 – Seth watched Dr. Hansen do The Hansen Files where he busted psychics, tarot card readers and air duct service cleaning people.
1:13:16 – Pepsi Max has a new 16-oz plastic bottle that they’re going to introduce.
50:51 – Band de Soleil
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
50:39 – Bain de Soleil is a brand of sunscreen produced by Merck. The name Bain de Soleil is French for “sun bathing.” The brand is known for low-SPF products that are typically marketed to women seeking skin tanning. Current product lineup includes: Orange Gelée and Spray Transpâre. In the 1920s, the famous, trend-setting Coco Chanel, sporting deeply sun-bronzed skin, turned tanning into a fashion statement. In 1925, capitalizing on this fashion trend, Monsieur Antonine of Paris developed an Orange Gelýe dark tanning formula called “Antoine de Paris.” The Orange Gelýe formula continued to thrive in Europe into the 1940's when [Lanvin], a New York based company introduced the silky sensuous gel in the United States as Antoine's Bain de Soleil...translated as Antoine’s bath of the sun.
9:09 – Seth got Jonathan a book that really isn’t a book. Jah thinks he’s reading but he’s not. It’s called The Book of Useless Information, which is filled with pretty awesome shit. One factoid Seth pulled from it: “Cleveland” spelled backward is DNA – Level C. Another – the first toilet seen on TV was seen in Leave It To Beaver.
22:55 – Now that he’s started again, Jah can’t stop watching television. He’s in a hole. He’s already in the mode where he finds himself watching it when he doesn’t even want to be watching it.
33:15 – Jah knows a girl who walked in on her boyfriend. She went to the back door – a glass door that goes into the bedroom – and the dude was fully getting blown by a girl when his girlfriend turned the corner and it was right in front of her.
49:15 – Seth’s father used to go to the beach at Plum Island, sit in a little chair and put on Bain de Soleil to attract more rays and stay there the whole day. Seth said he looked like a million bucks next to his friend Bruce Merrell (Episode 077, 43:24) – they were both brown.
57:22 – Seth looked so good driving his Dodge Caliber rental car. It had a GPS in it but Seth doesn’t use that stuff. He looks up stuff on Mapquest at home and then hand-writes out the directions.
57:50 – Jonathan got lost on New Year’s Eve. Seth was inside of a wonderful house party with L.A. hipsters enjoying himself thoroughly. Seth was wondering where J-dawg was because everyone there Seth knew through J-dawg. At 12:04 a.m., Jah and Geneva came in the door fighting. Seth made it from Pallyhouse in West Hollywood to the party in Echo Park in 16 minutes, thanks to Mapquest.
1:00:22 – Jonathan has lost a car in a parking structure before. Seth has managed to not have a lot of inconvenient stuff happen to him. If he ever walked out of a place and couldn’t find his car, he’d probably check into a hospital. J-dawg thinks this is because Seth puts the time in ahead of the game. Seth finds life barely bearable as is, and his life is about 81% pre-production at this point. Seth is literally doing pre-pro half of his day but he knows people who couldn’t do pre-pro on a bet. He wants to know how they manage to live their lives like this.
1:04:45 – Jah had an ingrown toenail removed and they didn’t put him under. They numbed the shit out of it and he watched it and it was very bloody. It was a gory experience on his big toe. He was totally fine about it, but he did think about the fact that it was an ingrown. If they would’ve been up in his shit and reconnecting tendons, it would have given him a panic attack.
1:05:22 – Jah’s mom had a C-section and was kept conscious for that. The doctor pulled the sheet back to show her a problem, and she looked down to see her own intestines on a table next to her body.
1:06:01 – Seth has to have surgery on his knee and he’s struggling with the idea of why he has to go under to have the operation completed.
1:07:59 – Seth was listening to Kevin and Bean on KROQ and they were doing a fake thing about where all the superheros are not American because they cast a Brit in The Cape, and they said “We have somebody on the phone from AAA – Americans for American Americans…” Seth was drinking his Starbucks, driving down Beverly and getting pissed off that they jacked UYD’s steez.
4:51 – Pope Benedict (no relation to eggs) gave his blessings to his flock to allow them to socially network: “I would like, then, to invite Christians to join the network of relationships, which the digital era has made possible.” This means Seth’s mom can get a Facebook page now.
10:21 – Starbucks has a new smart phone app called The Starbucks Card Mobile. It lets users pay for their coffee with a quick scan of their phone. Essentially the app uploads Starbucks cards cybernetically to create an even easier, pay-as-you-go option. Last year, Starbucks generated only a mere $1.5 billion in Starbucks card sales.
17:24 – Match.com just bought OKCupid. Newsweek featured examples from OKCupid that referred to the question, “What’s the best question to ask on a first date?” Some of the responses: “Do you brush your teeth?” … “Which is more offensive to you – book burning or flag burning?”
25:03 – Justin Bieber has a film coming out Feb. 11 called Never Say Never in 3D. He was wearing a beige bandana in his left rear pocket, and according to the Hanky Code (Episode 221, 17:02) that would make him a rimmer. When he was on Letterman, he had a purple bandana in the left pocket, which makes him a piercer.
46:30 – 33-year-old Nathan Harrington of Massachusetts is the owner of the fantasy football team, The Boston Beatdowns. Although he’s homeless and has no computer, he beat 3.1 million competitors to win ESPN’s 2010 Fantasy Football League. He received a $3,500 gift certificate to Best Buy, which he’s selling to his mother for $2,500.
55:18 – Hertz Rent-a-Car is the world’s largest car rental agency. It’s the last and only major rental company to across the board officially allow smoking in rental cars. You must request a smoking designated car, and if there are none available you are not allowed to smoke in the car you get.
59:11 – Santa Monica Place recently unveiled the first camera-based “find your car” system. Shoppers who have lost track of their vehicle amid a maze of concrete ramps and angled stripes can simply punch their license plate number into a kiosk touchscreen which then displays a photo of the car and its location.
1:11:16 – Jah is surprised that they didn’t talk about Jack LaLanne dying on the show or in civilian time, but Seth says LaLanne’s obit was featured on the ObitUYDaries portion of the UYD website.
2:33 – Seth and Jah were doing a little research about the world of R&B, hip-hop and pop. Jah says not to sleep on Stargate.
5:46 – Jah has noticed that the Facebook logo button with the “f” on it is popping up everywhere, on bus advertisements and at the end of new commercials, etc.
16:26 – Being that it’s UYD’s Valentine’s Day episode, it’s fair to remind listeners that “Every Kiss Begins With Kay.”
28:34 – This Friday, Feb. 11, Uhh Yeah Dude turns 5 years old. Episode 001 was released on Feb. 11, 2006.
45:34 – Jah reveals that the version of Smashmouth’s “All Star” that was read on the show (Episode 166, 0:14) was penned by listener John – who is the brother of their other friend, Will (electronic brother Baths), who Jogger was on tour with. Seth think Baths should remix that song in his set.
29:58 – Science Daily reports on a study that said men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than one who has cheated on them with another man. This is according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin. Women show the opposite pattern. They are more likely to continue dating a man who has had a heterosexual affair than one who has had a homosexual affair. The study, published last month in the journal Personality and Individual Differences , provides new insight into the psychological adaptation behind men’s desire for a variety of partners and women’s desire for a committed partner. These drives have played a key role in the evolution of human mating and human mating psychology. “A robust jealousy mechanism is activated in men and women by different types of queues – those that threaten paternity in men and those that threaten abandonment in women,” said Jaime C. Confer, the study’s lead author and doctoral candidate in evolutionary psychology. She conducted the study with her father, Mark D. Cloud, a psychology professor at Lockhaven University in Pennsylvania.
37:50 – Match.com did a survey of more than 5,000 single adults. They reveal that men are now experiencing some traditionally female attitudes, including falling in love quicker, wanting a more serious relationship sooner than they used to and talking about kids way earlier than they ever have. Women, meanwhile, are adopting some of the traits that have long been attributed to men – wanting to date more than one person, having more independence within an interpersonal relationship and having nights out with the girls.
48:25 – An environmental research group has issued a study that says the chemical retinyl polmitate found in most sunscreens – including Banana Boat, Coppertone, Hawaiian Tropic and Panama Jack – actually accelerates the development of skin tumors when it is applied to bare skin exposed to sunlight.
13:41 – Seth predicts that IBM’s Watson is going to wreck the human assholes he is facing in a special three-episode arc of Jeopardy!.
8:20 – In 1898, 14 years prior to the Titanic tragedy, Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility. The plot of the novel turned on the largest ship ever built hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on a cold April night.