View Episode 287
Originally aired 09.05.11
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14:10 – Transgender kids are red-hot this week on television. Seth watched a mini doc on the Style Network called “Transgender Kids,” and then on ABC primetime Nightline he watched “My Kid Is Trangender.” One of the segments from the Style Network was actually from a documentary from 2008 called “Born In The Wrong Body.”
12:02 – The Texas State Fair, held in Dallas Sept. 30 – Oct. 23, is the country’s biggest state fair by attendance and has been around since 1886. Some finalists this year for the Annual Big Tex Choice Awards include fried bubble gum and a walking taco – seasoned hamburger meat, lettuce, onion, tomato, grated cheese, sour cream and salsa, all served in a Nacho Cheese-flavored Dorito bag.
38:06 – Huggies has released a limited edition Blue Camo diaper sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. For every diaper sold, one will be donated to a military family in need.
41:30 – Thank Your Wank links through Facebook and helps you find out who has thought of you while “doing it” and vice versa.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
44:21 – The Tetris Effect occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images and dreams. People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street. The effect can also occur with any prolonged visual task, such as classifying cells on microscope slides, weeding, picking or sorting fruit, flipping burgers, driving long distances or other sensory modalities.
3:40 – Jah’s previous birthday month was better than this past birthday month. 34 was rough.
3:56 – Jah was in Staples two days ago. They had a 25% off discount and he saw 350 kids in there. He heard a mom complaining about the fact that they didn’t do this before the school year started. Jah got freaked out by some of the 9-year-old beefy boys mad dogging him.
7:31 – Jonathan’s dad was a Ford spokesperson and a Holiday Inn spokesperson. There were quite a few commercials in the late 80s and early 90s that included his voice.
15:37 – Jah knew a girl who went to school every day as Princess Leia and she would only respond to that name.
23:17 – Jah remembers thinking it was so cool when he met guys who dipped as a kid. He wanted that ring in his jean pocket so bad. Jah knows there’s dudes who dip who listen to this show and are also on the forums.
27:08 – Jonathan can’t use any of the organic laundry detergents because they make him break out in hives after he wears clothes that use them. Gain and Tide don’t have the same effect.
29:54 – Jah can’t understand how he didn’t get to Burning Man this year because last year he was pretty dead set on going and then people were talking about it again, and it only felt like it was 4 months ago to him.
1:01:22 – Jah tried to get off Facebook. He attempted to quit it, but it made it very difficult for him to X out, and it told him he had until Sept. 11 to decide, and he backed out of it.
5:26 – Seth read an article about Burger King retiring “The King” from its advertising. They mentioned other retired advertising mascots such as the Taco Bell Chihuahua, the Domino’s Noid, the McDonald’s Hamburglar, the Arby’s Oven Mitt, etc.
9:10 – Arizona has a Snow Bowl – a ski area in Flagstaff, Ariz., which is one of the country’s oldest continually running ski resorts. Even at 12,000 feet, though, snowfall fluctuations have made it difficult to maintain a consistent ski season. They want to construct a pipeline that will bring water to make snow from a sewage treatment facility that’s about 15 miles away. The EPA claims the water will be safe for manmade snow. However, there have been some studies done at Northern Arizona University that say the snow would contain pharmaceuticals, hormones, industrial pollutants, carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.
24:12 – A company that makes oral cancer detection tests is suing Listerine’s maker Johnson and Johnson in a New Jersey court, claiming they are actively trying to stop the sales of one of their subsidiaries. Mouthwash can contain up to 26% alcohol and mouthwashes that contain alcohol can contribute to the increased risk of the development of oral cancer.
32:07 – We know about the Duggers from Springdale, Ark., but they’re super-good friends with a family called the Bates from the hills of East Tennessee. They have 18 children. Kelly Bates suffered a miscarriage with her 19th kid, but she just announced she’s pregnant again.
36:46 – September is National Baby Safety Month
39:30 – Jah thinks he wore a pacifier around his neck for a while when he was a raver.
46:09 – Ron Artest is trying to change his name to Metta World Peace, but can not legally do it because he has two outstanding traffic warrants for unpaid parking tickets. He has a court date on Sept. 16. This reminded Seth of a pro basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers named World B. Free (born Lloyd Bernard Free).
52:35 – Seth talks about the North Korean soccer team claiming they were struck by lightning prior to a 2011 Women’s World Cup game, which is why Team USA beat them 2-0. Now a bunch of the women have been banned from the 2015 Women’s World Cup because they tested positive for musk deer gland therapy, which is on the IOC banned substance list. N. Korean officials claim they had to take it to help them cope from the lightning strike.
55:11 – Christopher Ryan Smith e-mailed all his family and friend with awesome news – he was embarking on an African adventure. He used to be a surfboarder and wakeboarder and loves jumping off of shit. Over the next few months his e-mails recounted the events – one day he was paragliding near Johannesburg and another day he was sandboarding in huge mines in South Africa. In December, the 32-year-old internet executive from Laguna Beach announced that he was going to the Congo and Rwanda. Then abruptly communication stopped. His family in Oregon called U.S. authorities and launched an international hunt fearing he was in a war-torn region and something happened to him. But Orange County authorities say Smith was never in Africa; in fact, he was already dead – killed months ago inside of his office in San Juan Capistrano by his business partner, Edward Younghoon Shin, who had been using his e-mail account to send the messages to everybody. Shin was arrested earlier this week and charged with the killing, capping an investigation that began months ago.
3:17 – Jah loves when shows fall on the first of the month – especially Seth’s birthday month
9:04 – The guys received an amazing piece of UYD needlepoint that is awesome.
11:10 – Seth wants to make sure Jah has no gum on him this week. Jah apologizes because many UYD listeners sent in complaints about how loud it sounded in last week’s episode. In Jah’s defense, however, he is trying to quit smoking.
20:55 – New research in Pediatrics says that babies born to snuff-using mothers are more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant.
25:52 – A new study published online this week in Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health found that the air released through the vent while a dryer is drying that has handled a load of wash that has any of the top 5-selling detergents or dryer sheets has 25 extremely volatile organic compounds and at least two known wildly unhealthy carcinogens.
48:42 – More adults use social networks. A new study says how half of American adults are now on social networks. Use among baby boomers is growing. A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says that of the adult that use the internet, 2/3 use social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. That’s up slightly from a year ago. Among Baby Boomers, 32% say they use a social networking site on a typical day – up from 20% a year ago.