View Episode 275
Originally aired 06.13.11
1:08:41
5:48 – UYD: He hath who wrought this charade
1:05:46 – Seth says thank-you to his friend Gary Samuel Trock, who sported an Uhh Yeah Dude t-shirt on TMZ.
47:47 – Tout is in beta form. Their slogan is “Life as it happens,” or “Life’s moments.” It’s basically Twitter with video. Shaq announced his retirement on Tout, so it’s on.
50:37 – For some people, no amount of sunscreen feels like enough protection from those harmful ultraviolet rays. So when they’re ready to hit the shore, they can slip into a long-sleeve, thigh-length Sarasota ZNO Beach Cover-Up for $68. You can also get matching full-length ZNO Beach Drawstring Pants for $54 from Coolibar, a Minneapolis-based maker of sun-protective clothes. Sun Precautions of Seattle offers a high-neck long-sleeved swim top.
11:01 – Drug rings from Mexico have taken to the sky. There is an ultra-light aircraft ferry that delivers pot over the U.S.-Mexico border. They fly low and slow over the border. Their wings are painted black and motors hum faintly under the moonlit skies. The pilots, sometimes armed in the open cockpits, steer the horizontal control bar with one hand and pull a latch with the other, releasing 250-pound payloads that land with a thud – leaving craters as the only evidence of another smuggling run. Mexican organized crime groups, increasingly stymied by stepped-up enforcement on land, have dug tunnels and captained boats to get drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Now they are taking to the skies, using ultralight aircraft that resemble motorized hang gliders to drop marijuana bundles in agricultural fields and desert scrub across the Southwest border. What began with a few flights in Arizona in 2008 is now common from Texas to California's Imperial Valley and, mostly recently, San Diego, where at least two ultralights suspected of carrying drugs have been detected flying over Interstate 8, according to U.S. border authorities. The number of incursions by ultralights reached 228 in the last federal fiscal year ending Sept. 30, almost double from the previous year. Seventy-one have been detected in this fiscal year through April, according to border authorities.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
7:21 – Jah plays “Can A Drummer Get Some?” with Lil’ Wayne and Travis Barker for Seth
8:01 – Seth wants to know how many people the Hollywood Bowl holds, so he looks it up on Wikipedia. It has a seating capacity of 17,376 people. Seth then looks up The Greek Theatre, which holds 5,700.
13:59 – Jah looks up Lil’ Jon’s real name – Jonathan Mortimer Smith
26:14 – Seth looked up Pleasures’ sex toy website. Their stores have three drive-thru lanes.
20:08 – Jonathan claims he hasn’t gotten grifted in a while. All it takes is a good convincing story and he’s in.
38:16 – Seth’s Woodstock, Woodstock 2, was dope. Jah always thinks someone got raped during a Limp Bizkit show there, but that was the third Woodstock. Jah’s dad did not go to the original Woodstock, but his mom did. She says it was disgusting.
58:52 – Jah has been traveling a bit lately. He wasn’t down with a lot of it. He found it surprising that they marked down the time it took him to get through check-in and go through security. He also couldn’t believe how few agents they had in the airport during the low-traffic times. Jah thinks that if you enjoyed the flight/pilot you had, you should be able to enter in the information and stay with that preferred pilot throughout all your travels. Seth thinks you should be able to do that with stewardesses. Jah reveals that there is a JetBlue pilot who is also a UYD listener. He came to the live show in Santa Monica.
1:07:01 – UYD got an e-mail from a listener who discretely listened to UYD during a mass at the Vatican in front of the Pope.
4:49 – An article on CNN talked about biblical passages that people use all the time that don’t actually appear in the Bible, or “phantom scripture.” These include, “this too shall pass,” “God helps those who help themselves,” “spare the rod, spoil the child,” “God works in mysterious ways,” “cleanliness is next to godliness,” etc.
5:55 – Blink-182 is touring this summer. Their tour schedule includes the Hollywood Bowl and other big venues.
13:41 – Betty Taylor, 91, and Wally Boag, 90, were both personally hired by Walt Disney. Betty was hired in 1956 and Wally was hired in 1955 to star in the Frontier Land attraction, Disney Land’s Golden Horseshoe Review. Betty played the singing saloon hostess Slue Foot Sue and she was the on-stage sweetheart of Boag’s Pecos Bill. They performed the show more than 40,000 times. Boag died this past Friday in a nursing home in Santa Monica. Taylor died the next day at a nursing home in Washington State.
16:45 – The month of June is Ride A Cat to Work Month. Just kidding, it’s National Adopt A Cat Month.
18:33 – The Better Business Bureau is urging consumers to be very careful when dealing with door-to-door magazine grifters. The BBB received more than 600 complaints in the first five months of 2011 about magazine sales – most from people saying the mags never arrived or that they were tricked into ordering more subscriptions than intended.
22:43 – Bands have turned to something that was once relegated to the back of the auditorium next to the beer and hot dogs – merchandise. Not just t-shirts, these days band merch includes a host of sometimes bizarre items, including dolls, tooth brushes, pinball machines, sunglasses, etc.
25:28 – There was a minor league baseball game last Friday night in Alabama between the Huntsville Stars (a Milwaukee Brewers affiliate) and the Tennessee Smokies (a Chicago Cubs affiliate). Two promotions took place on the same night to bring fans into the ballpark. The first promotion was Pleasures Lady Night Fridays. The other promotion was for an Alabama Girl Scouts sleepover at the stadium following the game.
28:22 – Married couples have dropped below half of American households for the first time. The Census Bureau says it’s a milestone in the evolution of the American family toward less traditional forms. Married couples represented just 48% of American households in 2010, according to data being made public Thursday and analyzed by the Brookings Institution. This was slightly less than in 2000 but far below the 78% of households occupied by married households in 1950. What is more, just a fifth of households were traditional families – married couples with children, down from about a quarter a decade ago and from 43% percent in 1950.
36:05 – Shoppers can now check out their own behinds in the dressing rooms of two locations of American Rags. There’s a camera that projects an image on the fitting room mirrors so you can see how your tush looks in those jeans.
39:09 – Jockey Michael Baze, only 24 years old, was found dead in his car near the horse stables at the Kentucky Derby in Louisville last month. He had an upcoming court date for a cocaine possession charge. In the autopsy they found cocaine and oxycontin in his blood.
54:14 – If you’ve had a laptop computer lost or damaged during security screening at LAX, you are not alone. Laptops are the item most often listed as lost or damaged in claim reports filed against the TSA at LAX, according to analysis of TSA records. In a 3-year period, passengers at LAX filed 1,702 claims – second only to NYC’s JFK Airport, with 2,277 claims.
2:12 – Seth is in anti-distress. There’s one reason for it – Diet Dr Pepper, with Thor on his can.
9:13 – Jonathan is drinking another Fresita (Episode 274, 13:20). Jah likes it because it’s sticky and sweet. Seth wonders how many J-dawg could drink in one setting. He says he could drink 8-11 of them.
13:17 – Seth thinks Lil’ Jon should start a pizza chain.
33:05 – “Gay Teens Report Risky Behaviors.” The study by the CDC surveyed 156,000 high school students. It was the largest study of its kind ever done by the federal government concerning gay youth. It says that GLBT students are more than likely than heterosexual students to drink alcohol and take drugs. Included in this behavior is carrying guns.
42:19 – Newsweek and The Daily Beast did a poll that finds that Americans are angry about pretty much everything – from President Obama to congressional Republicans to even God, who currently has a 33% approval rating. Unemployment is at 9.1%. Gas and grocery prices are skyrocketing. The housing market is in the dumps and people aren’t happy. Three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track and 81% say the job market is not where it needs to be. Half of the respondents don’t think Obama has a plan to balance the budget and 58% think Republicans aren’t doing their part to balance the budget either. The poll finds that Americans are being affected by their anger in other parts of their life as well, not just their political views. 56% are so angry they can’t even sleep. 13% say their anxiety has affected their sex life. 26% of married respondents claim the country’s economic problems have affected their marriage, with more than half of those people saying it’s made their marriage worse.
44:20 – Americans are the funniest country in the world. The Germans have been voted the world’s least funny nationality. A global poll from the social networking dating site badoo.com asked 30,000 people from 15 countries what the funniest country was. Third funniest country was Italy. Spanish were second.
2:26 – Jah and Seth tease Snoop Dogg for being a soccer mom. He began as a gangster rapper but there’s been a transformation there.