View Episode 282
Originally aired 08.02.11
1:05:34
21:02 – PCP. EDC. UYD.
13:32 – Friends With Benefits was a feature film that came out in January of 2011. Friends With Benefits 2, also known as No Strings Attached, came out in July of 2011. Now, this Friday on NBC, there will be a sitcom following a group of friends living in Chicago called Friends With Benefits.
30:51 – Seth watched Same Name on CBS. They took David Hasselhoff, and found a dude living in herda-hadda also named David Hasselhoff. They brought the herda-hadda to a shitty mansion in Encino where celebrity Hasselhoff lives and the dude was blown away.
32:54 – Seth watched Famous Food with Mike and Lonnie of Geisha Food trying to teach imbeciles to put a restaurant together.
35:43 – Seth used to love Cheaters back in the day when it was good. The first time J-dawg watched it he couldn’t believe it was happening. He could have sworn it was illegal and didn’t know how they got away with it.
24:12 – Bleachorexia – primarily affecting women, this is the addiction to teeth whitening toothpastes, trays, strips, strange lights at the malls, etc. Anything that involves bleaching of the teeth.
7:10 – Seth read an article about the Mexican cocaine cartel – the Cinaloa cartel. The drug trafficker was going to a psychic in Compton while the DEA was listening in on all of his calls.
21:07 – There’s been a lot of talk about Oxy Babies, which are the modern-day crack babies. From Seth’s research, the earliest findings of oxy babies were in Boston in 2002.
23:28 – Seth took oxycontin at a party in 2001
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
25:35 – Seth found a viral video of an MTV News report about the internet from 1995. Coolio talking about “the information superhighway” and David Bowie saying he’s “on it.”
23:27 – The first time Seth had an experience with oxycontin, he was at a party the summer of 2001. He was with some guys in a band called The Bad Apples. One of the guys had a pill and was fucked up, and he lost it at the party.
6:13 – August is National Eye Exam Month
17:27 – Kevin Keller was the first openly gay character in the Archie comics. He debuted in September of 2010. He has been so well-received, selling out in less than 2 weeks, that he will get his own monthly comic series starting in September.
37:57 – X Games 17 happened this week in LA. The first X Games ever held was in 1995. It included rock climbing and bungee jumping.
43:06 – A service animal is not a pet. The landmark Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 stated very clearly that people with disabilities had a right to take their service animals along with them wherever they want. But in retrospect, the law wasn’t as clear as it might have been on one little point – what exactly is a “service animal?” The law termed it “any animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks to the benefit of a person with a disability.” The new interpretation of the law limits it to dogs and miniature horses.
18:12 – Seth reminds us that Archie comics is based on his high schoo, Haverhill High School. Seth wonders if he could be a friend of Kevin in the upcoming gay comic.
19:58 – Seth reveals that there’s a new edition, Volume 10, of Seth’s Clips up on the UYD website.
11:13 – Study done about 3D displays causing extra eye fatigue. Published by the Journal of Vision it was funded in part by Samsungs R&D arm. Researchers from Cal-Berkeley found that when test subjects watched 3D displays, they reported more eye strain and fatigue and less vision clarity afterwards than when they watched 2D video. The disparity between the depth of the screen and the depth of the 3D image caused most of the problems. Nearness of the screen also played a role.
26:33 – According to the National Retail Federation, families with kindergarten through high school will spend an average of $603.60 on new clothes, school supplies and electronics for their child. That is down almost $3 from last year.
48:07 – Positive emotions like joy and compassion are good for your mental and physical health. They also help foster creativity and friendship. People with bipolar disorder seem to have too much of a good things. In a new article to be published in the August issue of Current Directions and Psychological Science, psychologist June Gruber of Yale University considers how positive emotion may become negative in bipolar disorder. One of the characteristics of bipolar disorder is the extreme periods of positive mood, or mania. People in the grip of mania also have increased energy, sleep less and exhibit extreme self-confidence. “The fact that positive emotion has gone awry is something unique about bipolar disorder, as almost all other emotional disorders are characterized by difficulties in negative emotions,” Gruber said.
54:45 – Tall women are at greater risk for cancer than their vertically challenged peers. A new study finds that for every additional 4 inches of height, a woman’s risk of developing cancer increases by 16%.
2:52 – Seth takes us back to People magazine, 5 years ago this week. The cover story is called “So In Love.” It’s about Sandra Bullock and Jesse James being one of Hollywood’s happiest couples. … The same issue has a story about Avril Levigne and the Sum-41 singer getting married in California (they separated in 2009 and she is now dating Brody Jenner).