View Episode 270
Originally aired 05.09.11
1:14:29
31:51 – UYD : Psychological waterboarding
1:01:25 – UYD: Motor skills before cognitive skills
9:30 – Seth was watching his all-time favorite TV program, Happy Endings, and they did an Osama bin Laden joke. One of the characters was trying to catch a mouse in an apartment and said, “That mouse is like my bin Laden – Jessica bin Laden, this super-hot Arab girl I went to college with.” Then he starts to talk again, Seth sees his mouth moving and there’s no audio. Seth wondered what ABC did, then got ahold of some connections in Hollywood to figure it out. He got ahold of the original script in QuickTime, and figures out the next line: “… Always the one that got away.”
26:52 – Seth watched Steel Divas on Lifetime – an hour-long look at competitive female bodybuilders
28:25 – Seth watched Stonewall Uprising on PBS – a wonderful documentary, part of the American Experience series about the Stonewall gay bar riots in the summer of 1969 in NYC that started the modern-day gay rights movement. There was a drag queen featured named Captain Faggot.
37:57 – Seth watched a COPS episode from 1994 in which perps were fighting in a gas station where regular unleaded gasoline cost $1.01.
48:43 – The fourth season finale of Chuck is May 16.
14:57 – OUT: Gold. IN: Silver.
11:17 – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone film critic: “Who in hell wants to see a Mel Gibson movie? The answer is, you do.”
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
51:25 – Jah and Seth play a game where they go back and forth and name celebs who have floor seats at the Lakers. J: “Jeremy Piven.” S: “Will Ferrell.” J: “Pamela Anderson.” S: “Zac Efron.” J: “Guy Oseary.” S: “Jason Bateman. … Anthony Kiedis.”
2:01 – Jonathan is getting on a red eye and going to the Big Apple (the “Big City”) to see a Tony-nominated actor work his magic on Broadway – Papa Jah. Jonathan is excited to go, now that it’s no longer a parole violation for him to do so.
2:41 – Jonathan is smoking Benson & Hedges 100 Premium cigarettes.
6:07 – Jonathan had a couple of experiences on the night of bin Laden’s death. J-dawg had the information texted to him by a UYD listener before he heard anything else. When he went to verify it, he went to Google and the only place he could find any mention of it were from people’s Twitter accounts. Jah had time to send an inappropriate text to Amir (“I’m sorry for your loss.”) before the news was even carrying the story. Then all of a sudden Jonathan was getting texts from listeners saying they were at Ground Zero wearing their UYD t-shirts. J-dawg wanted to see how pro-America it was getting in Los Angeles, so he and Dimitri chose to go down to their local watering hole, Renee’s, that night. It was an acoustic set kind of night, and every person Jonathan came across in person or on TV was asking if he heard about the news.
14:08 – Seth had a Kyocera cell phone (Episode 012, 34:20) that weighed a pound and a half. He still has it.
20:35 – There’s a guy who listens to UYD named Seth Green, he had a Twitter handle @SethGreen. The actor Seth Green approached him and asked him to give him his Twitter handle, and he hooked him up and Seth Green sent the guy merch. Seth and Jah can’t figure out the movie he was in where he played a hip-hop high schooler (Can’t Hardly Wait).
44:41 – The same week when Jah found out Pete Postlethwaite was dead (Episode 268, 7:48), he came home and Jah’s girlfriend was watching In the Name of the Father, and she talked about how good PP was in it, and she watched him die in the movie and was so bummed.
54:24 – Jah ate at one of his restaurants while he was on tour with Jogger. It was a truck stop kind of town but there was a suburban area with a mini mall where they found his restaurant. The food wasn’t bad – it was a Houston’s vibe with decadent American food.
57:06 – Seth saw Jon Hamm’s girlfriend in Larchmont walking with her friend, and Seth went loco. He also saw Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, in Larchmont, then saw Vincent Kartheiser and Jessica Paré – Don Draper’s new wife that he married the last episode of Season 4.
1:01:53 – When Seth was a kid, he got on Jay Frasca’s (sp?) (Episode 017, 54:07) back and jumped and then he broke his wrist. His mom grabbed him in the supermarket and he screamed because his wrist was broken.
1:02:04 – Jonathan’s brother started walking before he had any verbal skills or any common sense of the physical world. There were a couple months where he was on a tear because he could motor but didn’t understand walls kept him from the next room.
1:06:00 – Jonathan talks about how the desert is crazy. It’s a hot place and you get heat pockets/air pockets. When he used to go to boarding school in Sedona, he would take a little putt-putt plane he would take from Phoenix to Sedona and vice versa. The pockets make you drop suddenly by about 300 feet. Jah says it’s such a horrible feeling – it’s the same feeling people who crash and die feel before they crash and die. The only difference is the pilot gets on the comm. and says “Whoa, sorry about that.” Jah says you can’t drop onto anything tight enough to make the feeling of your body doing that OK. Jah used to get fucked up before he got on those planes so his body was belligerent. It would only be him and like 4 old golfers staring at him.
3:48 – Just when it can’t get any worse for Californians with the tanning tax, California is now introducing a bill that would make it the first state in the U.S. to ban anyone under the age of 18 to use tanning beds at all.
5:19 – Seth thought that when we got Osama, things are going to change for the better – but seemingly not. Seth says that UYD was a part of the bin Laden capture, and was on a hunt for him throughout the 5 years of this show. Seth thinks SEAL Team 6 should be Team 8, including two honorary members of UYD nation.
16:55 – Some gems from among the Social Security Administration’s top baby names for 2010 – Girls: 7) Destiny, 708) Destinee, 94) Valeria, 422) Journey, 931) Journee, 437) Helen, 869), Belen, 479) Dayana, 813) Chanel, 814) Armani. Boy: 28) Jonathan, 278) Amir, 165) Seth, 101) Bentley, 668) Bently, 842) Bentlee, 201) Cash, 602) Kash, 368) Larry, 377) Walter, 478) Cason, 481) Kason, 589) Kale, 643) Sincere, 731) Maxim, 755) Gauge, 882) Gaige, 786) Steve, 811) Ean, 848) Blaze, 957) Blaise, 854) Krish.
32:01 – Illinois was sued by deaf inmates. A deaf prisoner punished when he couldn’t explain that he didn’t steal food was among 11 inmates who filed a lawsuit claiming that Illinois violates their civil rights by denying them help that they need to communicate. The lawsuit claims that deaf and partially deaf prisoners have limited access to sign language interpreters, which essentially excludes them from training programs, religious services, etc. They often can’t discuss medical care with doctors and have missed meals and visitors because they can’t hear many of the announcements – according to the complaint, filed in federal court.
37:35 – Websites that track fuel costs have drivers in Hawaii tipping the scales at $6.03 a gallon.
40:16 – The League of American Bicyclists have deemed May National Bike Month. Monday, May 16 – Friday, May 20 is national Bike to Work Week, and Friday, May 20 is National Bike to Work Day.
54:24 – Guy Fieri has a new cookbook out, called Cookin’ It, Livin’ It, Lovin’ It
1:04:17 – The Hard Rock Vegas – Reload on Friday, Revel on Saturday, Rehab on Sunday, Relax on Monday.
15:26 – Seth wonders if UYD started getting mad money, what should they invest in? Jah says they should invest in Half Brick, the company that put out the Fruit Ninja app.
1:12:15 – Seth admonishes people to just be honest this week.
1:13:36 – Jah gets trippy and begins reading from Deskerati: “The concept of time as a way to measure the duration of events is not only deeply intuitive; it also plays an important role in our mathematical descriptions of physical systems. For instance, we define an object’s speed as its displacement per a given time. But some researchers theorize that this Newtonian idea of time as an absolute quantity that flows on its own, along with the idea that time is the fourth dimension of spacetime, are incorrect. They propose to replace these concepts of time with a view that corresponds more accurately to the physical world: time as a measure of the numerical order of change.” They are suggesting that space-time has no time dimension.
25:06 – New research published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that unconscious racial bias shapes the views of people that we trust – especially with our money.
58:22 – Reuters reported that children still too young to walk are finding ways to wriggle out of protective car restraints and are increasing their risk of serious injuries and death, a study shows. Researchers at Yale’s School of Medicine found some children as young as 12 months can unbuckle their seatbelts. A majority of youngsters less than 3 years old can do it, with boys most often being the ones to attempt unhooking their seatbelts. “Young children might acquire the motor skills to unbuckle from restraints before developing the cognitive ability to understand the necessity of automotive restraints,” says Dr. Lelia Reyas, a clinical fellow at Yale and co-author of the report. Researchers said that the findings should prompt a broader study on devices that should keep kids safer, particularly because car crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 4-8. The findings, which will be presented at the Pediatric Academic Society’s meeting in Denver on Sunday, are based on 500 surveys distributed at pediatric offices in Connecticut. More than 40% of children who are able to unbuckle their restraints are doing so while the car is moving, prompting many parents to pull over, reprimand the child and re-buckle the seatbelts.
12:50 – “Dear Liz, I read an article in which you recommended getting rid of cell phone insurance. Why?” Answer: “You shouldn’t use insurance to cover costs that you could easily pay out-of-pocket. And if you can’t afford to replace your phone out-of-pocket, you’re spending too much on your phone. Insurance is best used to protect against catastrophic expenses, not minor costs. When you use insurance to cover incidental expenses, you typically pay too much for the coverage, and that’s particularly true for cell phone insurance, which is ridiculously expensive for the protection you get – plus cell phone coverage is notorious for loopholes and exclusions that make it tough to make a claim if your phone is lost, stolen or destroyed.”
45:28 – Parade magazine poses a question about etiquette. Q: “Someone in my office wears low-cut tops that are inappropriate for work. I don’t know where to look when I talk to her. Advice?” A: “Well you could crank up the A/C. But if you don’t want to force your colleagues to work in a meat locker. The best solution, says Beverly Weinstein, a recruiter and the president of Markham Media, is to have a ‘senior female executive’ take the woman aside and gently talk to her about what works for an office environment. There’s no need for conversation to be accusatory. It should be along the lines of, ‘Listen, it’s natural for people to stare at nice-looking figures, but you don’t want to be distracting.’ To avoid any potential misunderstanding, it’s important that a woman exec give the talk – not a man.”
52:04 – Seth correctly predicts that the LA Lakers will get swept by the Dallas Mavericks.
35:27 – Seth introduces this new segment by reading this story: The illegal immigrants donned Marine corps camouflage uniforms and military-style buzz cuts. The license plates on their van had been switched from Mexican to U.S. government plates. If anyone asked, they were just Marines traveling to March Air Reserve Base. But their ploy didn’t take into account the possibility of being stopped by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, who was once a former Marine, armed with one simple question. The agent, S. Smith, asked the driver to tell him the birthday of the Marine Corps. The driver, Arturo Lava, didn’t know. He looked back at all the other guys in the van, and they didn’t know. Border Patrol Agent Smith knows the Marine Corps birthday is one of the first things taught to all Marines in basic training. At that time, he knew Lava’s claim of being a U.S. Marine was false. What up dog? The date is Nov. 10, 1775.
41:56 – Jah asks if Andy Rooney is dead.