View Episode 269
Originally aired 05.03.11
1:10:11
1:10:06 – UYD: Virile and viral
22:10 – Girls Night Out: The Superstar Women of Country on CBS features the Judds. There is a lot going on with Winona. Carrie Underwood was on there, and Vince Gill came out to honor her by singing one of her songs. He sings “Jesus Take the Wheel,” and as the camera cuts over to her she’s closing her eyes and lifting up her hand, and it spreads like wildfire throughout the whole audience.
27:51 – Seth watched The Set-Up Squad on Logo. There was a guy on there who said, “I can’t fix the train tracks until I see the train wreck.”
13:10 – Seth reads in The Daily Beast about America’s top pot-smoking cities. Nowhere on the list was Los Angeles. Seth says there’s so much weed in that city that there are marijuana edibles in Seth’s fridge and no one touches them.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
30:19 – A “plumper pass” is like a Fast Pass at Disneyland except it’s only for chubby girl pornography on the internet. Jah claims it can be purchased for approximately $20 a month.
43:08 – Jah thinks about Strange Days, so Seth looks it up. It was a cyber-punk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow that came out in 1995. It features Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Angela Bassett, Ralph Fiennes and Vincent D’Onofrio. It’s garnered a cult following over the years for its dystopian and cyber-punk themes.
6:39 – Jah wonders if he told the story about being at the Ivy when Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes showed up for a brief meal and Jah’s mom got hammered (Episode 093, 22:21).
34:35 – Seth was at Whole Foods and didn’t see the customer communication cards posted up. He asked the manager about it and the manager didn’t think they had them any more. He told Seth there was a card last year that said, “Why do you insist on playing that Mexican music so loud for everyone in the store to hear?” The response was, “It’s Cinco de Mayo.”
34:40 – Jah’s girlfriend, last night, talking about Cinco de Mayo, said, “Hasn’t Cinco de Mayo already happened?”
43:21 – Jah was at the rave they threw in order to film the end-of-the-world rave in the movie Strange Days. They blocked off 6 city blocks in downtown. They had extras set up in military tanks.
58:48 – Jah has definitely dipped back into the fast food world again since he started eating meat. He admits that there’s something crazy to feeling like that afterwards and having spent $4 because it makes him think this is the way food should be. That’s the only reason Jah thinks you should be able to regulate some of the basic necessities you need to make foods.
3:26 – Seth takes us back 5 years to May of 2006. People magazine gives us “The Private World of Katie Holmes” which provides an anecdote of Katie and Suri on the tarmac with Cruise.
16:33 – A Newport Beach fitness photographer in his late 30s carried on a months-long sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl after promising to jump start her modeling career. Aiding him in this relationship, prosecutors said, was the photographer’s fiancée – who allegedly gained the trust of the girl’s mother before delivering the teenager to photographer Jason James Ellis so they could spend time alone together. Nearly 3 years later, as the statutory rape trial draws near, the case has taken a bizarre turn – with Ellis marrying his alleged victim 3 months after she turned 18. The alleged victim has declined to help the prosecution.
25:47 – On NPR, the founder of Panda Express is considering taking the Chinese fast-food chain to China.
36:05 – It’s May 2011 and Seth decides to take us back to May 2010. This is about Spencer Pratt in the Portland Mercury newspaper. “Can you talk more about crystals?” Spencer Pratt: “Once I found out that like all of our like coolest fighter jets and all the aircraft carriers’ radar and all the spaceships. Once I found out that NASA and everybody was using crystals in their computer systems to generate more power, and then when I realized that my LCD TV is liquid crystal definition, and then when I realized that my gold Rolex has a crystal running it, and that my iPad is just a crystal with like crystalline silicone chips – I realized that everything I do, everything that I love, everything has to do with crystals. Energy, like they totally give you energy, it’s science. They have pietzo electricity frequencies and they can track all this stuff with microscopes. I mean, yeah.” … “Tell me more about your spirituality?” Pratt: “I’m more like The Matrix style. I feel like we’re all connected, like The One. I would stay that instead of Christianity, I’m a crystal, you feel me?”
47:27 – A former quantitative analyst has received a $2 million grant from Google to help him open the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to mathematics. The Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath, is scheduled to open in NYC in 2012.
49:17 – According to a recent annual survey conducted by the travel website Trip Advisor, 51% of travelers said they are “comfortable” with the new Transportation Security Administration’s safety and security procedures.
55:35 – According to a fast food retail analyst, the introduction of dollar menus mixed with the effects of the recession and the end of super sizing have taken an enormous toll on French fry consumption. Numbers are the lowest they’ve been in a decade. A new trend in the fry game may be sweet potato fries – but J-dawg disagrees because they’re tougher on digestion.
1:00:53 – Lyralisa Stevens, who was born male but lives as a female, is serving 50 years to life in a California prison for killing a San Bernadino County woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes. Stevens is one of more than 300 inimates in the state prison systems diagnosed with gender identity disorder, a psychiatric condition addressed in free society with hormone replacement therapy – in some cases, sex reassignment surgery. Prison officials have provided female hormones for Stevens since her incarceration in 2003, but now she is asking the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco to require the state to pay for a sex change operation. Stevens, 42, and her expert witnesses say that surgery is medically necessary and the removal of her penis and testicles and the transfer to a women’s prison are the best way to protect her from rape and sexual abuse from male inmates.
1:05:57 – Sacramento voted to disband the city of Vernon due to corruption.
2:27 – It’s May, and J-dawg has royal wedding fever.
17:03 – After several seconds of a loud, piercing alarm going off in the background, Seth asks listeners if they can hear it as well.
51:14 – Since Seth is one of those guys who will go to a massage chair in a shopping mall, Jonathan wonders if Seth would be willing to accept a possibility of interest in a hand and face washing station that isn’t in a bathroom.
9:22 – Would you want your surgeon to party hardy the night before you went under his scalpel? There are no rules on the amount of alcohol a surgeon may or may not consume on the eve of a day in the operating room. A group of researchers conducted an unusual experiment. The team gathered up 6 surgeons and treated them to a dinner with free-flowing alcohol. Surgeons were asked to drink until they felt intoxicated. The next afternoon, when they were tested on a surgical simulator, they performed worse than they had in a pre-drinking test. At least 5 of the 6 surgeons passed a breathalyzer before the simulations began. The researchers said they were bothered that the surgeons had trouble in their virtual O.R.s despite appearing sober.
19:30 – A new research paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. The paper is called “Dark Contrasts: The Paradox of High Rates of Suicide in Happy Places.” It has used newly available random data samples of millions of Americans and it found that the “happiest” U.S. states tend to have the highest suicide rates in the country. The researchers believe the key explanation may be the counterintuitive link between happiness and suicide rates draws on ideas about the way human beings rely on relative comparisons between each other. Discontented people in a happy place may feel particularly harshly treated by life. Those dark contrasts may in turn increase the risk in suicide. If humans are subject to mood swings, the lows of life may thus be most intolerable in an environment in which other humans are happy.
31:06 – A new report in the journal The Clinical Neuropsychologist exposes a growing epidemic of adults exaggerating or even faking ADHD symptoms in order to get prescribed the drug Adderall.
45:08 – Jah reads about the world’s largest experiment in human sexuality. It’s detailed in the new book “A Billion Wicked Thoughts.” Two PhD students analyze the results of over 1 billion anonymous web searches. Their theory was that people don’t bother to lie to their search engine about what it is that they want. Their findings, the most popular erotic search term is “youth,” or “teens.” Men are wired to view women’s anatomy as objects. “It doesn’t take much to trigger male arousal. Breasts, women kissing, photos of a woman’s ass – they all basically do the trick.”
2:41 – Jonathan goes off on the royal wedding and all the hoopla around it. His mother’s English and she doesn’t even care about it.
1:00:37 – Jonathan says everybody that owns a vegan restaurant is an asshole because they charge through the nose for you to be able to eat it.