View Episode 260
Originally aired 02.28.11
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3:40 – David Arquette was on Oprah today. His yoga instructor, Dale, told him, “Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
20:13 – Seth watched NOVA scienceNow with Neil deGrasse Tyson. They showed robots people were building. One guy made one that looks like Phillip Dick and he sits on the dude’s couch in his house. From behind it looks like a robot, but if you’re sitting across from it, it looks creepily similar to a human.
26:21 – Twenty years ago this week, what did John Goodman, Jasmine Guy and Kenny Rogers have in common? They were all on Arsenio. Jah was in love with Jasmine Guy and loved A Different World with her and Kadeem Hardison.
42:10 – Seth watched Our America with Lisa Ling on Oprah Winfrey Network. She profiled 5 transgendered lives. Tonya is living as a man, and was working out at the gym with dudes gathered around amazed. Tonya says: “Since I’ve started the testosterone, my sex drive has changed. Like I’ve got these sexual feelings that I want, like a man. It’s crazy. Sometimes I really think to myself, ‘How do men hold themselves back?’”
55:21 – John Quiñones and What Would You Do? created a thing called “My Scenario” where viewers sent in their own scenarios. A teacher in middle school thought it would be a good assignment for the class, but she realized halfway through reading the rules that you had to be 21 years old to participate. She wrote a passionate letter to them and they decided to pay the school a visit. Quiñones shows up and the class goes bananas. They go around the room and ask what their scenarios are. Some responses: “Hijacking a car.” … “A lost child.” … “Child abuse.” … “Attempted suicide.” … “Kidnapping.” … “Fans fighting at a baseball game.” … “You’re driving through the countryside during a strong storm and a tree falls on the car. You know, I thought it over with my parents and we came up with car crash.”
49:29 – This month, Kraft Foods will launch “MiO” – a zero-calorie liquid water enhancer. It’s a concentrate line of liquid flavorings like berry pomegranate or strawberry watermelon. They’ll sell for $3.99 – one bottle with 24 servings. Kraft said it came up with the concept during an “Innovation Day” summit. Men and women 18-39 prefer to customize their experiences, including what they drink.
1:02:25 – Jah reads some tweets from HarvardHoochies (@harvardhoochies) in Boston, Mass. Their bio: “We are BU bitties, hooching and husband hunting at Harvard Final Clubs. We ward off RUHGs (random ugly Harvard girls)…frequently. Some tweets: “Trying to find a guy who’s in a ‘final club.’ There are currently 8 all-male clubs at Harvard. … Must snag a final club man-beast tonight. … Female boners are erect at the Harvard manimals singing on the dance floor. When HH go out we dress to look good – half-nude. … Would like to get sexual with a Harv man down to pay for a plastic surgery shopping spree. Never too late to look 18 again. … A true HH – before he wakes up you totes run to the bathroom and reapply makeup like you simply wake up that beautiful. … Man-beast march! Gentlemen, the more protein powder, the better. Bring on the beefiness, large pecs and and big arm veins. … Thanksgiving with dad. ‘What do you like about school?’ Me: ‘Harvard manimals.’
9:19 – Spigot on the Temple
8:16 – Jah has broken California law by eating an orange in the bath before.
21:56 – In reference to Seth’s segment on dreams last week (Episode 259, 44:39), Jah says he had a bizarre recurring thing when he was a kid where he would wake up from a dream, and somehow from being in that dream state, upon waking up he would know his parents were downstairs and would go to the top of the stairs, sit and listen to them talk. He would be literally paralyzed from going downstairs because he was convinced that they removed their faces when he went to bed at night, and similar to the TV show V they had “meat faces.” He couldn’t bear to see them like that so he stayed upstairs in his conscious state where the reality from his dream had crystallized.
23:50 – When Jah was very young, he went to visit his sister’s grandparents. His sister is his mother’s child and not his father’s, biologically speaking. Her father passed away but J-dawg’s mom and she stayed very close with his parents. When Jah was a kid, he would go up and stay with them because he had a grandmother in England and one in New Orleans, but no grandfathers – so hers was the only grandfather figure he had as a kid. They would go visit them in Eugene, Ore., every so often. Unbeknownst to Jah at the time, his sister’s grandmother was going through chemotherapy and he had no idea she wore a wig. One morning he woke up and walked down, and saw her with a crazy old lady bald patchy chemo head, and it was so skeletal that Jonathan freaked out about it.
52:11 – Jah ran into an old friend today who he hadn’t seen in so long. He has a son and the kid is now 14. The last time he saw the kid he was about 4 years old. He wanted Jah to come with him to drop off lacrosse equipment for his son. Jah got in the car and they drove there. His son comes up and it freaked Jah out to see a fully-grown pimply faced teen. The dad has an open dialogue with the kid about sex, and he told Jah that he doesn’t seem to actually be that interested. Jah said that the novelty for kids coming up nowadays has been removed, and it’s almost time for another wave of gentility to come around. Jah would love to see an internet generation of pseudo-Quakers come around.
59:43 – Jah remembers smoking on a transcontinental flight circa 1990 on a flight to England. He remembers getting looks from people who were annoyed that he wanted to get his smoke on.
6:02 – Some strange laws: Under the law of Mississippi, there is no such thing as a female peeping tom. In California, it is illegal to eat oranges while bathing. In Hartford, Conn., it’s illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
11:57 – In 2011, there are going to be the most sequels/prequels ever released (27). The sequels: Cars 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2, The Hangover 2, Happy Feet 2, Hoodwinked 2, Johnny English Reborn, Kung Fu Panda 2, Piranha 3DD, Sherlock Holmes 2. There are 5 of the third version of a movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Big Momma’s Like Father Like Son, Madea’s Big Happy Family, Paranormal Activity 3, Transformers Dark of the Moon. There are five fourth versions of movies: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Scream 4, Spy Kids 4, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. There are five fifth versions of movies: Fast 5, Final Destination 5, Puss n Boots, X-Men First Class Winnie the Pooh. There are two seventh versions of movies: The Muppets, Rise of the Apes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
18:08 – A “petaflop” is the equivalent of 2,507 trillion calculations. IBM supercomputer Mira is a 10 petaflop machine. She is capable of running programs at 10 quadrillion calculations per second. IBM said, “If every man, woman and child in the United States right now performed one calculation each second, it would take them collectively almost a year to to as many calculations as Mira will do in one second.”
28:32 – In 1962, 90% of babies were out of diapers by the age of 2 ½. In 1998, that number dropped to just 22%. Most of that was due to the invention of disposable diapers. As a result of that, there was something called “elimination communication,” or the practice of using timing, signals, cues and maternal intuition to address infants’ need to use the bathroom on their own. An equivalent of potty training a puppy where you figure out that it’s been a certain amount of time and it’s time to encourage the baby to go to the bathroom.
37:27 – Jah talks about the exposome, the master list of toxins encountered by the typical human body over a lifetime, ranging from environmental pollutants, natural byproducts of metabolism, etc. The exposome may be bigger than the genome and almost certainly has a greater influence on overall health. The exposome can be defined as the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to disease. An individual’s exposure begins before birth and includes insults from the environmental and occupational sources. Understanding how our exposures from our environment, diet, lifestyle, etc., interact with our own unique characteristics like genetics, physiology and epigenetic makeup resulting in disease is how the exposome will be deciphered. Exposonomics is the study of the exposome and relies on other fields such as genomics, medibinomics, lipidomics, transcriptomics, protiomics and uses biomarkers, etc.
40:36 – Rachel Alexandra is the 2009 Horse of the Year. She straight boned down with Curlin – the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year – to create a potential superhorse. They met in a breeding shed at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky., this past Monday, and just laid it down.
59:43 – Smoking on airplanes has been banned since 1987. The U.S. Department of Transportation is now amending FAA regulations to make it very clear that electronic cigarettes will fall under the smoking ban. Several anti-smoking groups, along with the federal government, feel that if passengers see someone smoking an e-cigarette that they may become disoriented or confused and light up an actual cigarette.
44:34 – Jah wishes there was a home test for testosterone. He thinks it could be as valid in your daily activities as taking blood pressure.
33:38 – Clorox sponsored an experiment to see whose apartments have more germs – bachelor pads or single ladies’. Bachelor pads have 15 times more germs than single ladies’ apartments. They swabbed night stands, doorknobs, coffee tables, remote controls, etc. Men’s remote controls were 1,000 times dirtier. 7 out of every 10 coffee tables at guys’ places had feces on the table – most likely due to the bottoms of shoes being placed on them.
10:08 – Buzz Aldrin was the second human being to ever set foot on the moon. Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Marian Moon.