View Episode 271
Originally aired 05.17.11
1:00:20
54:56 and 1:00:18 – UYD: Random-ass beveraging
13:41 – Seth watched Pretty Hurts on Logo. It’s about a registered nurse named Rand Rusher, who they call “Mr. Fix It.” He’s a skin care therapist/specialist in Beverly Hills. He’s into the freezers/fillers injectible game. Someone asked him if he saved lives. “I save social lives.”
27:32 – What Would You Do? with John Quiñones – a woman jumps over to a table. When she has one-on-one time, she says “I almost butt in because I just watched a TV show on television, it said, Would you do what’s right?” Later in the same sitch: “Listen, I just watched a TV show, Should You Get Involved? and I have some strong feelings…”
29:44 – Jah got hooked on The Voice while he was in NYC. Jah thought he would make a good contestant on that show if they couldn’t see him.
49:25 – The Discovery Network is working on a show they might release this summer called Moonshiners that follows a diverse group of people living in Appalachia who carry on a 200-year-old tradition carried on by their forefathers of making moonshine.
41:18 – The Pepsi Company unveiled a prototype of a “social vending system,” the next generation in interactive vend technology. It’s a machine that features a touchscreen that allows users to buy a drink – as well as maybe a drink for a friend. By entering the recipient’s name, mobile number and personalized text message, the machine generates a code and instructions on how to redeem the beverage at another social vending machine. Pepsi Co says the users can even buy a drink for a complete stranger and call it “random act of refreshment.”
44:23 – IN: Soft serve ice cream in NYC
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
26:11 – Judge Judy makes $45 million a year
18:44 – Seth asks Jah how his trip to NYC was, with his Broadway experience. Jah enjoyed his early NYC summer.
44:53 – Jah broke a musical artist to Seth tonight. Her name is Lady. Peep her. J-dawg is a fan, for sure.
47:20 – Jah has a few early memories from his childhood. He doesn’t remember his birth, but he knows people who do. He also knows people who didn’t, but went through rebirthing sessions and claim it brings back that memory of their birth.
48:32 – Seth remembers being 3 years old and looking at the house that he grew up in. He recalls looking at a candy dish. He’s going to tell his mother where it was in their living room and see if she confirms it.
4:11 – The end is nigh. Saturday, May 21, according to Family Radio, the jig is up.
6:22 – Google has now introduced Google Places – a feature that builds upon its mapping services by letting users see inside businesses. The service will be available this week in the U.S. and Japan. The feature will let owners showcase a 360-degree view of their shops. “It takes our imagery inside the business with the business owner’s permission,” vice president of product management, Marissa Mayer, said. Google, competing with sites like Yelp!, is catering to local businesses in a bid to increase advertising opportunities. They also announced a marketing program last month that offers discounts from local firms, putting it in competition with Groupon.
9:16 – A text message warning system is going to be implemented. Obama, who has been called the texter in chief, will soon have the ability to send any cell phone in the U.S. warning of impending danger from a tornado or a terrorist under a new emergency alert system called PLAN. The new system is an expansion of the Federal Communications Commission’s Emergency Alert System, which is currently broadcast over radio and television. Short for Personal Localized Alerting Network, the system will first debut in NYC by 2011, with the rest of the U.S. to follow about mid-2012, the FCC said in a statement. The text message warnings will be able to be sent to phones and other mobile devices based on their geographic locations across different mobile carriers. Officials said only 3 types of alerts will be sent on PLAN – messages issued by the President, alerts involving imminent threats to safety and also Amber Alerts.
15:29 – About 7.5 million active Facebook users are skirting the company’s age policy by lying about their age and saying they are 13 years or older. Among those pre-teens, more than 5 million are under the age of 10, according to a Consumer Reports survey. This violates Facebook’s own policy that’s meant to avoid federal regulations that apply to websites with young members. Those regulations require people who sign up to be at least 13, the report says. The minors’ accounts were largely unsupervised by their parents, exposing them to malware and other more serious threats such as predators or bullies. “Despite Facebook’s age requirements, many kids are using the site who shouldn’t be,” Consumer Reports technology editor Jeff Fox said. “What’s even more troubling was the finding from our survey that indicates that the majority of parents of kids 10 and under seemed largely unconcerned by their children’s use of the site.
19:06 – A team of burglars has been roaming the streets of downtown Los Angeles searching for aging, vacant buildings they can strip bare. Over the last year, at least 4 buildings have been stripped clear of copper wiring and other metals during brazen heists that often take days to complete. Police estimate that each job is yielding more than $1 million in metals. Detectives say they caught an alleged member of a team at the old Garfield building at 8th and Hill streets. Police swarmed the building after being alerted by some construction workers nearby who noticed wet footprints and heard voices. SWAT officers and police dogs crept through the 1928 art deco tower in complete darkness dodging pipe boobytraps that the burglars had set up to kill them. They arrested a suspect hiding in a corner on the seventh floor. Police believe he and others spend days ripping out newly installed copper wiring from walls, stripping transformers of wire and stealing pipe and sprinkler heads from the 13-story structure. They found the burglars had apparently lowered a massive transformer from an upper floor to the basement by using old fire hoses abandoned in the buildings. The burglars at the Garfield went to elaborate lengths, sometimes tapping into the power supply to run lights and heavy tools to spend days at a time in the building. Most of the metal was sold at recyclers in Southern California and within days was bound for countries such as China and India, whose rapidly growing economies have enormous demand and need for such metals.
21:33 – A University of Texas law professor combed through legal databases to identify song lyrics in both court filings and scholarly legal publications to find out who the top 10 most referenced musical artists are within the legal world: 10) REM, 9) Joni Mitchell, 8) Simon & Garfunkel, 7) The Grateful Dead, 6) The Rolling Stones, 5) Woody Guthrie, 4) Paul Simon, 3) Bruce Springsteen, 2) The Beatles, and 1) Bob Dylan.
31:38 – Avon Books announced they had set up a digital romance imprint called Avon Impulse. This is where books by new and established authors in the romance genre will be able to be released electronically. The imprint begins with an e-novealla called “A Ladie’s Wish,” and multiple titles will be planned in the future. The digital market has been especially strong for romance fiction, because fans can read e-editions in public without fear of embarrassment.
33:28 – May is Masturbation Month
1:44 – Seth wonders if they should do the whole show in hushed dulcitone voices.
25:42 – Jonathan’s cell phone alarm starts to go off in the background.
36:00 – Jah wonders about the percentage of people who go against their natural inclination and choose to be homosexual because it’s taboo. Jah thinks it might be 30% of gay people.
55:01 – Jah asks if he can tell a joke: “What’s the difference between peanut butter and jam? I can’t peanut butter my dick up your ass.”
55:41 – Jah admits the UYD store is behind on shipping. Everything that has been ordered will be coming to you, just be patient.
56:20 – Jah says UYD would like to come to other cities to do live UYD shows, and queries listeners to inform him of any people they might know who could set them up with venues.
46:22 – By quizzing small children about the first events that they remember (a cousin misbehaving, a trip to the grocery store, a mother’s bribe of red and green licorice), researchers have discovered that the earliest memories of children shift as they get older and don’t solidify into our “first memories” carried throughout our life until about the age of 10. The research, published Wednesday in the Journal of Child Development, could help psychologists better understand how people construct the life stories that help us understand ourselves. “These are the memories we use to develop a sense of identity – who we are and where we come from. Ask most adults to conjure up their earliest memories and they usually can’t recall any that occurred before they were school age.” This phenomenon is known as “infantile amnesia” and has been recognized for decades and studied closely in adults.
51:38 – A new study on the link between one’s view of God and the willingness to cheat on a test is the latest example of social scientists wading into the highly charged field of religion and morality. The study, titled “Mean Gods Make Good People – Different Views of God Predict Cheating Behavior,” was peer viewed and published earlier this month in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. In line with many previous studies, it found no difference between the ethical behavior of believers and non-believers, but those who believed in a loving, compassionate God were more likely to cheat than those who believed in an angry, punitive God.
2:14 – From Rolling Stone magazine this week in 1976, Seth talks about the top 5 singles on the charts: 1) Wings – “Silly Love Songs;” 2) Diana Ross – “Love Hangover;” 3) Elvin Bishop “Fooled Around and Fell in Love;” 4) The Silvers – “Boogie Fever;” and 5) Silver Convention – “Get Up and Boogie.”
12:23 – Andy Rooney chimed in on the Bin Laden death: “There have only been a few times in my life when someone’s death has been the occasion for rejoicing.”