View Episode 285
Originally aired 08.23.11
1:08:50
12:47 – Willard Scott on the Today show said a happy birthday from Smuckers and kicked it over to the Birthday Buddies in attendance: “This is Alfred Strong, Hazard, Kentucky, 100 years old, still drives.”
32:25 – Jah doesn’t know much about Hollywood, but he can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia. Nobody talks about it but it’s the big secret and it’s widespread. Corey Feldman, in an interview with ABC Primetime, said “There’s one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim, and that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul. That person needs to be exposed, but unfortunately I can’t be the one to do it. But the person who knows who did it and knows who he is is watching right now. I guarantee you.”
54:54 – Jah has been watching a lot of Law & Order, especially the years featuring Jeremy Sisto. In one recent episode he watched, a gallery owner got stoned to death in a Muslim hate crime.
2:40 – Seth saw that Jah was drinking an Arizona Iced Tea. He was concerned for him but then he saw it was Vitamin C fortified. Jah likes the company, the cans and the artwork on the cans. He likes the old-timey aluminum. He just wishes they used natural sugar because it would be his favorite drink in the world.
8:56 – Channing Tatum has a Twitter account. He has 576,539 followers. Here are some of his tweets: “Which upcoming Channing Tatum film are you most excited to see? Cast your vote in Tuesday’s Facebook Question of the Day.” .. “Did anyone see the teaser for The Vow on Entertainment Tonight? If you missed it, check your local listings for the replay later tonight.” … “Guess what’s new at Redbox? Fans can now pick up Chan’s film The Eagle all across the country.” … “Step Up is on TBS right now. Who’s watching?” … “We’re kicking off our annual Biggest Fan contest later this week. Are you going to enter?” Jah finds this kind of spam wildly irresponsible.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
21:09 – Seth went on Yelp to look at McDonald’s reviews. He originally went on there to read a review of someone he knows who had mad shit talked about them. Seth reads a few reviews: “You know, they only get the 1 star because I can’t give them zero stars. Really I’ve learned not to expect too much from this place, but it’s either them or the overpriced Carl’s Jr.” … MK from the Pico Union: “Four stars. Not bad.” … Nicki C. in Silver Lake: “Two stars. I’m sitting here eating my cheeseburger and I just realized they forgot to put a pickle on it. Am I going to send it back? No, but I’m still unhappy. A cheeseburger has to be one of the easiest things to make here.” … Mary G in Pasadena: “One star. Man I hate this place, but it smells good. I’m allergic to wheat. Everything at Mcdonald’s has wheat in it, even the fries. Jerks. I am doing anything but loving it. It does smell good though.” … Aisha A. in West LA: “Two stars. Lame.” … Russ N. in Silver Lake: “Three stars. Typical McDonald’s. The only bad thing is that you have limited options on which way you can turn because you can only turn right when you exit.”
27:55 – Patrick Dempsey is a 45-year-old actor. When he was 21 years old he had a breakout year in 1987. He was in Can’t Buy Me Love. That same year he released In The Mood, the true story of a man named Ellsworth “Sonny” Wisecarver Jr., aka “The Woo-Woo Kid.” He became infamous in the 1940s for having two different affairs with married women while he was in his teens. In real life, Dempsey had an intimate sexual relationship with his manager, who was also the mother of his best friend. Her name was Rocky Parker, and she was 48 years old at the time. They got married that year. They were married seven years. They divorced when he was 28 and she was 55.
43:34 – Seth and Jonathan look up “mogul.” It means important, powerful, influential. Also a mongol or a Mongolian. A steam locomotive having two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels and no rear truck.
34:09 – Jah had two interactions with Corey Feldman several years ago. He’s been around a lot of drug addicts in his life, and Jah thought Feldman was a borderline street person.
50:42 – Jah and Seth’s moms used to brown bag their school lunches for them. J-dawg’s lunches were health-conscious but he didn’t get laughed at.
1:00:29 – Jah has a friend who told him about his girlfriend who was with years and years ago. They fought all the time and he decided to break up with her. But around the time they were breaking up, she was diagnosed with breast cancer so he took the break-up off the table to help her through recovery. She started going to radiation and chemotherapy treatment, lost about 20 pounds and shaved her head because her hair started to fall out. It gets to a point where she can’t handle it anymore and she attempts to kill herself. He takes her to Cedar Sinai and she checks in. She was automatically on 72-hour watch. He realizes she has a chemo session the next day, wakes up and walks in and tells them they have a patient who won’t be able to be there that day. They go through the file and said they had no record of the patient. He then realizes that the woman has faked this entire thing.
3:13 – Keiko Fukuda, a pioneer in women’s judo, achieved another milestone this past week when USA Judo promoted her to 10th dan – the highest black-belt level in judo. She is the first woman and one of only four people ever to have reached that rank. The 98-year-old San Francisco resident is the last surviving student of Jigorõ Kanõ, the founder of judo. She has devoted her whole life to this.
5:47 – August is National Family Fun Month
7:05 – Due to budget cuts, a lot of schools are going to be getting rid of recess this year.
37:05 – Actor Tony Danza has listed his longtime Malibu beach house for sale. He purchased the property in 1987 for $1.15 million. It’s 50 feet of beachfront. The 1949 traditional Maine house has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a master suite, a sitting area, a fireplace, a deck that takes up the second level of the home. The property also has 2 detatched guest suites. Mr. Danza, 60, is selling the property for $9.1 million.
1:03:43 – Under a new passenger protection rule that will take effect this week, airlines must refund your checked baggage fees if your bag is lost.
7:12 – Seth’s formative years were when he came up in recess. Jah wouldn’t call it recess, he would call it “nutrition.” (Episode 041, 43:24)
8:59 – Whenever J-dawg sees Channing Tatum’s name, he always thinks of Biffin’s Bridge. His name makes him think of a choade, which is also known as a taint. So he thinks of the small piece of skin between his scrotum and asshole.
16:54 – A Harvard study in New England Journal of Medicine says that 75% of doctors in America will be sued at some point during their careers, while surgeons face a near certainty of being named in a malpractice case before they reach the age of 65.
23:58 – OKCupid ranked the 10 most promiscuous cities based on how many users’ profiles said they were seeking casual sex. #10 was Houston, #9 was San Diego, #8 was Denver, #7 was San Bernadino, #6 was Dallas, #5 was San Francisco, #4 was Miami, #3 was Pittsburgh, #2 was Seattle and #1 was Portland.
51:03 – In the first study of its kind, researchers found that most sack lunches taken to school by preschool children were stored at unsafe temperatures, potentially encouraging the growth of harmful bacteria that can cause food poisoning. Only about 45% of lunches containing perishable foods like sandwich meat, yogurt and vegetables included a lunch pack, and even those items tended to be dangerously warm. To reduce the risk of food-borne illness, the study’s authors offer a few guidelines for parents – make sure your child’s school stores lunches in a fridge; do not refrigerate lunches in insulated bags, which keep school from staying cool; avoid using mayo, which spoils quickly; freeze juices and waters, which help the lunches stay chilled.
57:55 – Robot-assisted physical therapy may improve stroke patients’ mobility more than regular human therapy. Researchers assigned 10 patients to robot-assisted therapy and assigned 10 stroke patients to a more traditional human physical therapy program. Both groups had sessions lasting 90-105 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 4 weeks. Participants did repetitive bilateral arm movements. The device could adjust its settings to encourage patients to engage in more active movements with their weaker arm and they offered immediate visual feedback of the efforts. Those using robot-assisted therapy were able to do more daily tasks with their weaker arm compared with the control group. Arm movements improved, as did their bimanual ability. The study was published this week in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation.
44:35 – China is a nation that is trying to kill us by taking common household products, children’s toys and life essentials and embedding in them a dangerous lethal components. August recalls from Chinese products include Nextorch flashlight batteries, sold for $2 at law enforcement supply stores. The batteries overheat, rupture and ignite the flashlight on fire. … The LHQM LED exit signs sold for $200 at hardware stores nationwide. They fail to light up or illuminate during a power failure. … The Me2 clip-on chair for kids, sold for $50 at Toys R Us and Target, has a clamp that attaches to the table that becomes worn and causes the chair to detatch from surfaces and also become an ampuational hazard. … a Martha Stewart enamel cast iron casserole dish, sold for $170 at Macy’s, has enamel coating that heats up and cracks off and becomes a burning projectile.
15:02 – Ben Affleck turned 39 last week. On his birthday in 1997, the Boston Red Sox won. Good Will Hunting released in December of that year. Since then, the Red Sox have lost on his birthday every single year – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. In 2008 there was a rain delay, and they lost on the make-up date. They lost again in 2009 and 2010. They didn’t play this year on 2011.
39:34 – Seth reads from People magazine this week 5 years ago. Lance Bass was on the cover with the heading “I Feel Like Myself. I’m Not Hiding Anything.”