View Episode 277
Originally aired 06.28.11
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21:01 – The Daytime Emmy Awards featured Jonathan Jackson winning Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role as Lucky Spencer in General Hospital. JJ is 29 and has been playing Lucky since age 11.
34:24 – Celebrity Close Calls on Bio is a TV show that talks to celebrities about close calls. Ice T talked about being in Compton at age 21 and driving home at 9 a.m. He was falling asleep and his foot slipped off the break and he got T-boned in an intersection and almost died. … Ed Begley Jr. told a story that Seth did not know. On Feb. 17, 1972, he was a 22-year-old kid who wanted to go with his buddy Paul to Gardena and play cards. He goes to the Normandy Club to play poker. He gets on a bus at Santa Monica and Western to head south. At Western and Imperial Highway in Compton, the bus driver says “end of the line.” He gets off the bus and a group of teenagers come at him and his buddy. Paul takes off running and they beat Begley senseless. They only stop when a car passes by and the crowd disperses. They’ve also been stabbing him and he’s bleeding out. He is rushed to a hospital and his lungs were collapsed, and they open up his body to get him to stop hemorraghing, and they save him and he goes on to be Ed Begley Jr.
45:32 – Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) (Episode 019, 36:41; Episode 199, 2:05; Episode 201, 1:25) was bad, but this summer we have to be aware of Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder (SSAD).
2:46 – Colgate Max Clean – it uses smart foam to clean your teeth. It has 30% more penetrating foam than regular toothpaste.
58:53 – Low-rise boxer briefs by Fruit of the Loom. Their website is FruitGuyFans.com
18:40 – Alyssa Camponella, Miss USA 2011 from California, was asked about her affinity for history. “I’m a huge history buff. I watch Game of Thrones. I watch Camelot. I know those are fantasy but I also watch The Tudors.” … Andy Cohen, Mr. Bravo, asked Miss Tennessee about her summer in Paris: “Wow. There’s a good story behind that, actually. Um, I figured out what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go and what I wanted to study – fashion journalism and photography. I got it approved at the University of Memphis – Go Tigers! – sent them the application, and called my mom to make sure it was OK. She was OK with it and I had a great time.”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
53:38 – Seth reads about the Mongols motorcycle gang. They were formed in the 1970s by a small group of Latinos who were reportedly rejected by the Hell’s Angels. They have a super-dope logo with a ponytailed man and Fu Manchu riding a bike. They get rowdy. One of the guys who was recently indicted was the former president, Ruben “Doc” Cavazos. He registered and trademarked the logo, and because they used that while engaged in illegal activity, the FBI is trying to own the rights to the logo and insignia. Jah wants to know what the Hell’s Angels are up to.
17:33 – Jonathan hosted a slumber party once at his house, and they decided to pull a prank on the first kid to fall asleep early. They poured warm water in his hand and spit in it as well, and proceeded to smell his ass and sleeping bag to see if he had pissed himself.
38:21 – Jonathan got jumped once by a group of guys in Honolulu. They were guys from Oakland who were in town for a show. He got punched in the head a bunch but not stabbed. He was 17 years old and he was stretching out his earlobes actively at that point. He had a plug and they punched it out of his ear. He had just gone up a size and it was very painful – a bloody gushing hole going down his neck. He managed to run and get away from them. There were dudes who J-dawg knew who just walked by and acted like they weren’t going to get involved.
47:19 – Jah was sitting in Santa Monica last night two blocks away from where they caught Whitey. Everyone was at a bar talking about it and Rebel Without A Cause was playing on the TV above the bar. J-dawg was standing there with Dimitri, and James Dean in the movie goes to high school at SaMo High, where D actually went. They go to the Observatory in the movie as well. The LA in that movie was so crazy, and Jah realizes it was exactly the same then as it is right now.
50:19 – Jonathan wants to know if Seth knows any man who has caused minor physical harm to a girl in order to try to engage them in some sort of conversation. Seth says he definitely does.
1:00:29 – Jonathan’s friend, a lesbian, has Grindr on her iPad. She set up a fake profile with a hunky-looking guy and a dick pic so she can look at it when she’s home and start messaging and chatting. She sets up dates to meet with them and never shows up. Through that process she’s gotten a grip of info and pics sent back and forth. It was the first time he’d ever seen Grindr in action. It was crazy.
1:02:10 – Seth, after watching his friends use Grindr, claims there’s nothing more bone-chilling or life affirming when they watch the tracker get closer and closer and closer and closer and then a person appears and everyone’s dead silent and he’s like, “That’s the person.” It gets real.
7:27 – Stuffed animals, teen magazines and children’s underwear were found in a LA-area motel that was home to dozens of convicted child molesters and registered sex offenders. Eight people were taken into custody in the Friday raid for alleged parole violations, including possession of child pornography and/or narcotics. Most of those arrested were middle-aged men, whose previous offenses included lewd and lascivious conduct with children or other sex crimes, said Det. Patricia Batts of the LAPD. The Harbor Inn on the 700 block of Flint Ave. is a hub for sex offenders because it has a history of being a state-funded weigh station for newly released prisoners.
9:37 – An elementary school teacher was charged with filming child porn videos, but he was digitally modifying the porn so it showed former students of his.
12:51 – Britney Spears released the video for her new single, “I Wanna Go.” In it she stands upon a yellow taxi and fights off cyborg zombie popparazzi. She’s standing in front of a movie theater, and the marquee reads “CROSSROADS 2: CROSS HARDER.” Seth doesn’t believe he got the memo on that filming schedule.
28:16 – July is National Cell Phone Courtesy Month – the 10th anniversary. It’s founded by Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette expert.
49:15 – According to Lifehacker.com, the best day to hit the supermarket is Wednesday. Hump days are the days that supermarkets tend to reduce prices in the middle of the week on items that are expiring soon. It’s found to be true at stores located in Arizona, California, Colorado and other western stores. Mygrocerydeals.com supports this conclusion, saying Wednesday is a hot day to buy groceries. The site also recommends shopping in the evening or a couple hours prior to closing when perishables are typically reduced for a quick sale.
56:25 – Bloomberg Business Week reports a story about a big rig going down the road. The driver pulls over to take a shower and some dudes jack the big rig, which contains $10 million in pharmaceuticals.
33:06 – Jonathan wonders if they should add a “UYD Advisor” portion to the website where people can submit questions and they can give them answers.
4:39 – Hotel guests favor cleanliness over anything else. Cleanliness now trumps personal safety, at least from Hotel Guests Perspectives, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. 43% of Americans said cleanliness was a top priority when choosing a hotel, compared to 23% who said price was top and 19% who said location. Only 11% said security was important.
14:44 – You’ve tried counting sheep, drinking warm milk, maybe even taking medications, and you still can’t sleep. Maybe you should try cooling your brain. Sleep researchers say that cooling the brain can reduce the amount of time it takes for people with insomnia to fall asleep and increase the length of time they stay that way. They outfitted 24 people – 12 with insomnia, 12 without – with soft, plastic caps that had tubes for circulating cool water. It tracked how well they slept with and without the caps. Patients with insomnia, who were treated at maximum cooling intensity, took about 13 minutes to fall asleep and stayed asleep for about 89% of the time they were in bed. That is similar to the healthy subjects who didn’t have insomnia, who took 16 minutes to fall asleep and stayed asleep about 89% of the time as well. Researchers said cooling works because it slows the metabolism of the frontal cortex. They presented their findings last week at “Sleep 2011,” the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
22:56 – A child dies in a portable pool every 5 days during warm weather months. According to the first U.S. study on child drownings in such pools, a statistic the study’s senior author says demonstrates the need for consumer education and affordable protection devices from kiddie pools. The research being published Monday in the journal Pediatric shows 209 deaths and 35 near drownings of children under the age of 12 from 2001-2009. 94% of them were under the age of 5 and 81% of the accidents happened during the summer.
41:36 – The EPA and spokesman Leonardo DiCaprio claim that through several research studies, beach sand contains e coli bacteria and other contaminants that, if ingested, may cause gastrointestinal illnesses.
1:06:03 – New research by the faculty at Rice University, the University of Texas-San Antonio and the University of Minnesota, find that men’s conspicuous spending is driven by the desire to have uncommitted romantic flings and women can see right through it. The series of studies, “Peacocks, Porches and Thorstein Veblin: Conspicuous Consumption is a Sexual Signaling System,” was conducted with nearly 1,000 test subjects and published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “This research suggests that conspicuous products, such as Porsches, can serve the same function for some men that large and brilliant feathers serve for peacocks,” said Jill Sundie, assistant professor of marketing at UTSA and lead author of the paper. Just as peacocks flaunt their tails before potential mates, men may flaunt flashy products to charm potential dates. Notably, not all men favored this strategy – just those men who were interested in short-term sexual relationships with women. “The studies show that some men are like peacocks. They're the ones driving the bright colored sports car,” said co-author Vladas Griskevicius, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota. According to the researchers, women found a man who chose to purchase a flashy luxury product (such as a Porsche) more desirable than the same man who purchased a non-luxury item (such as a Honda Civic). However, there was a catch: Although women found the flashy guys more desirable for a date, the man with the Porsche was not preferred as a marriage partner. Women inferred from a man's flashy spending that he was interested in uncommitted sex.
32:17 – K.T. from Indianapolis, Ind., writes into the Playboy Advisor with a question: “Please take this question seriously. Can you have sex with a ghost?” Jonathan answers, “Yes.”
28:42 – Seth and Jah go off on people who talk loudly on cell phones – especially those who give you both sides of the conversation when it’s completely unnecessary to do so.