View Episode 281
Originally aired 07.27.11
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3:37 – UYD: Tonight Tonight, by Hot Chelada
4:44 – Discovery Channel next week – it’s Shark Week once again.
59:28 – Seth watched Primetime: Nightline Beyond and an episode called “Battle With the Devil.” It had footage of exorcisms and battles with demons. They talked to a preacher of a conservative evangelical Baptist congregation: “The devil doesn’t like anybody. In fact, he hates everybody, but his arms are too short to box with God, so he boxes with us.”
1:16:23 – Decompression Sickness describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization. DCS most commonly refers to a specific type of scuba diving hazard but may be experienced in other depressurization events such as caission working and also in spacecraft extravehicular activity.
10:50 – The New Yorker that featured an article about scientology sold like hotcakes at Seth’s magazine stand. Seth theorized that SciTis bought up all the issues so as not to have the negative PR reach the masses.
5:37 – The question is, “Do you take this condiment?” Miracle Whip will give you $25,000 toward your wedding or divorce if you create a video with your significant other that shows how Miracle Whip impacts your relationship.
15:37 – Astroburger spicy chipotle sauce
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
25:41 – Seth asks if Robert Palmer is alive or dead. Jah says he’s dead, and he’s correct. Seth then keeps the game going with Wilfred Brimley (alive – Jah says dead); Tom Bosley (alive – Jah says dead); Phillip Drummond (alive – Jah says dead); Waylon Jennings (dead – Jah says alive); and Bruno Kirby (dead – Jah says alive).
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
17:17 – A felon’s claw is a written stroke made by the human hand that goes below the baseline. It resembles a claw and curves downward while you’re writing.
1:00:59 – Jah looks up “Karma” in Hinduism online and explains the definition to Seth.
4:02 – Seth went to Time Warner to get a brand-new remote because he banged up his other one.
8:50 – Seth is at his newsstand in Larchmont and his homie is moving a stack of magazines. (Jah interrupts Seth’s story to reveal that Seth reads magazines he subscribes to at the magazine stand because the stand gets them before he gets them delivered to his apartment.) The magazines he’s moving feature Kate Middleton on the cover of People and Star, etc. Seth goes there every day, and the stack of magazines with royal wedding coverage just sat there. He asked the guy what magazine would sell thematically, and the dude responds, “the New Yorker with the article about scientology that came out in February.” He put out a stack and it was gone, put out another stack and it was gone. Seth wondered how many he sold, and the dude told him he sold 65 magazines in less than two hours. He then called all the other newsstands across the city and they were all gone. They called the New Yorker offices and they said they weren’t sending out anymore. Seth thinks it was a calculated effort by the SciTis to cover up all the released information.
15:37 – Seth splurged and went into Astro burger today to pick up some spicy chipotle sauce. As the girl hands it to Seth, he notices a guy leaving giving an over-the-shoulder knowing nod, and there’s a phone number written on the receipt in the girl’s hand. Seth predicts he was a PA working for Paramount carrying a gang of lunch items.
31:37 – Jah admits he does something that’s gross and off-putting to people. He calls it a “bad habit.” He bites his nails, and while he’s biting them, if he actually gets a nail that he bites off, he breaks it into pieces in between his teeth. To be honest, some of them get spit out and some of them get swallowed. Dimitri says he knows what J-dawg is doing and can hear it happening with his teeth, and so he automatically tells Jah it’s gross when he hears it.
35:13 – Two weeks ago, Seth picked up a beautiful Saturday Evening Post 99-cent calendar. He was coming out of the store and there was a hobo sitting out front asking for change. Seth had a dollar bill and a dime and left it on the counter for the clerk rather than wait in line. The hobo was talking with another homeless guy, and he says, “Yeah, Commissioner laid it down. Lockout’s over.” Seth had a little skip to his step as he got in his car and headed home, then he checked online and was saddened to learn the lockout was still ongoing.
41:23 – Jah doesn’t know if he’s ever blacked out. He’s drank and vomited himself into unconsciousness (Episode 115, 53:07), but at the point that he stopped remembering it was because his body was lying down and his eyes were closing. Seth has blacked out a grip of times.
1:14:02 – Seth went to the Billy Wilder Theatre at the Hammer Museum on Monday night. He saw a movie from 1980 called Can’t Stop The Music, a loose bio about The Village People. It was so mind-melting crazy and done by the producer of Grease. It was filmed in the summer of 1979 at the height of the disco craze and when it came out disco wasn’t so popular.
19:43 – Twitter launched in 2006 on July 15. There were 224 tweets the first day. There are 350 billion tweets per day now.
34:36 – Ashley Harlan is marrying Ben Roethlisberger. If you’re down with rape, that’s awesome.
44:09 – July is National Hot Dog and National Ice Cream Month.
52:36 – A judge ruled that a restaurant in Edison, N.J. called Mogul Express can be sued by a group of strictly vegetarian Hindus after the restaurant accidentally served them meat-filled samosas.
2:27 – Jah begins the episode by riffing on a song by Hot Chelle Rae called “Tonight Tonight.”
13:05 – Female soldiers may do a good job of suppressing pain responses but physiology doesn’t make it easy. Men produce endogenous opioids – neurochemicals that function as natural anesthetics – more abundantly than women do. Women are also more susceptible to inflammatory pain disorders like fibromyalgia and arthritis, especially because estrogen can worsen inflammation. Even female newborns demonstrate higher pain sensitivity than male newborns. While popular wisdom says men are likelier to complain about their pain, researchers also found that in male study subjects, the tendency was to “cowboy up” a little bit and hide their suffering when a woman was gathering the data from them.
22:05 – A study came out this week that says a BPA-Free label does not mean a product is harmless. When scientists conducted lab tests on more than 20 top-brand baby bottles and more than 450 plastic food and beverage packages, virtually all leeched chemicals that acted like the hormone estrogen, even though many were free of BPA. The new study, along with other works, suggests that the public’s attention to BPA has been misguided. It now looks as though there are thousands of possible chemicals in all sorts of plastics that act exactly like BPA. They’re called encocrine disruptors, which falsely tell the body’s cells that the hormone estrogen is around – potentially causing all sorts of troubling developmental and reproductive consequences. Results showed more than 90% of the products leeched estrogenic chemicals before they were even put through stresses, the team reported this month in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. After being stressed, nearly all of the plastics showed estrogenic activity when applied to the cancer cells.
38:51 – Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified brain cells and brain function that allow extremely intoxicated people to perform complex tasks such as dancing, debating or even driving home without having any recollection of it the next day. In the study published in the July edition of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers reported they previously reported consuming large amounts of alcohol killed brain cells, which explained the temporary amnesia commonly called blackouts. They now understand alcohol interferes with brain receptors that produce steroids, which cause neurons essential to memory and learning to misfire. “It’s been known for a long time that changes in the way neurons connect with each other underlies the ability to learn new things and people thought alcohol blocks memory function,” says senior investigator Dr. Chuck Zorumski, the head of the department of psychiatry at Washington University. “It’s actually the main neurons or brain cells that shut themselves down when they’re exposed to alcohol.” Once a person even has one blackout, it is likely that others will follow.
47:39 – People who use big forks eat less compared to diners who use small forks, but only when eating from a plate loaded with food, according to a new study. Over a period of two days, researchers from the University of Utah wasted their time monitoring customers at an Italian restaurant during two lunches and two dinners. With one of the study's authors and two research assistants serving as waiters, the researchers assigned either large forks or small forks to certain tables. The fork assignments were rotated after every meal, and the ordered plates of food were weighed on a food scale before they were brought to the customers. After the plates were brought back to the kitchen, either empty, with leftovers to be disposed of, or needing to be boxed to take home, they were weighed again. The findings showed that when the initial quantity of food was more, with a well-loaded plate, diners with small forks ate significantly more than those with large forks. That may be because diners feel they are not eating enough of their food when using the smaller fork and are therefore not satisfying their hunger, according to the researchers. When customers were given plates with small servings of food, however, the fork size did not affect the amount of food consumed. This may be because small servings allow diners to better visually gauge how much food they've eaten, while it's harder to tell how much progress has been made when eating from a large serving. “People do not have clear internal cues about the appropriate quantity to consume,” the researchers wrote in the current issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. “They allow external cues, such as fork size, to determine the amount they should consume.”
1:04:17 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has the July recalls for products from China: Task Force 5-ton Electric Log Splitter sold exclusively at Lowe’s – has a hydraulic arm that during use slides under the handle used to move the machine. Users’ hands can be amputated if they are near the handle during operation. … Diving Unlimited International Deep Sea Weight System, sold at diving equipment retailers across the nation – there’s a defect in the lanyard that connects the weights to their harness, which causes the weights to not be released when the diver pulls the handle. … children’s task lamps overheat, causing the adhesive inside the lamp socket to overheat and migrate into the bulb area of the socket. The flammable glue then melts into the electrical components, and those spark up together to cause a fire. … Uvex ski helmets imported to Haverhill, Mass. – the helmets provide insufficient shock absorption and virtually zero resistance to penetration.