View Episode 288
Originally aired 09.12.11
1:02:35
5:27 – UYD: A hatred of sound.
1:02:30 – UYD: Twitpic the moonshine
1:02:33 – UYD: Retweet this my niggas
25:48 – Las Vegas Jailhouse on TruTV – a woman tells the booking agent, “I don’t have any priors,” and the guy replies, “You were here five hours ago.” She then tells them she has a tattoo of a cupcake on her ass because that’s her name, Cupcake. She tells them it’s on her butt so people can frost it.
26:55 – Just weeks after Fox has dropped America’s Most Wanted, creator/host John Walsh has a new home for the show on the Lifetime Network.
2:57 – Seth has had many ailments, but he doesn’t think he’s had misophonia until now. Misophonia is a form of decreased sound tolerance. The slight arbitrary noises of a day can drive him into a crippling anxiety or furious rage.
21:31 – Antoine McColister, aka Ace Hood – “Twitpic” Country Song of the Week
18:21 – Jake Owen – “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”
30:24 – Seth was driving by Mozza on Melrose and saw two gentlemen laughing and slapping – Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Justin Long
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
43:36 – Seth found a video of a dude putting a grape in a microwave – it turned into a plasma-like ecto futuristic DMT space continuum time warp.
55:35 – There’s one woman at the post office Jonathan goes to. Any time she’s there, there are only 3 people in line. She’s efficient, good at her job and no bullshit. If someone’s taking too much time, she vocalizes it, everyone in the room agrees and the person at the counter agrees to sort their stuff out elsewhere.
9:47 – Rosalie Bradford (Episode 042, 46:15) died in 2006 and had the all-time record for heaviest woman at 1,200 pounds. Donna Simpson, 44, from Akron, Ohio, currently holds the Guinness Record for weighing the most at the time of giving birth – 532 pounds, requiring 30 doctors. After birth she got up to 600 and was on her way to challenging the record. She just split from her “feeder fiancée” and is now going on a diet. Pauline Potter, 47, of Sacramento, Calif., currently is the Guinness record holder at 643 pounds. Suzanne Eamon, 32, of Casa Grande, Ariz., has not been documented by Guinness but is 728 and wants to be recognized.
23:54 – September is National Better Breakfast Month
31:04 – When the 55 mph national speed limit was replaced in 1987, states were once again free to establish speed limits based on safety standards and not just fuel economy. States in the overpopulated and traffic-choked northeast set a fairly conservative limit of 65 mph on interstate highways while less population-dense western states gave drivers a bit more free reign. Montana, for example, initially set their interstate speed limit at “reasonable and prudent.” This turned out to be a bad great idea since the terms varied greatly from driver to driver. Until it was changed back to 75 mph on interstate highways, Montana probably had more tourists driving Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes than any other state in the nation. Today, Utah and portions of Texas have the highest interstate speeds, capped at 80 mph. This will soon change, however, since Texas has approved a new maximum speed limit of 85 mph. The first step is a review of interstate highways to see which are approved for an upgrade from 70 to 75, then those that are approved for 80 to 85.
36:20 – October 5 is considered to be the most common birthday, while May 22 is considered to be the least common.
38:48 – At 7-11 in the Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, there is a 7-foot tall P.O. Box-style locker with about 40 different sizes of compartments pushed up against the wall. It’s owned by Amazon.com and it’s a test trial they’re doing to see if people will pick up their Amazon purchases from a place like this as opposed to getting them delivered to your home.
49:04 – In addition to worrying about keeping up with their studies, new college students should also take steps to prevent themselves from being victims of identity theft. The BBB said it’s not always strangers that commit identity theft. Sometimes it’s a new roommate. Students should keep statements in a safe place and have sensitive mail sent to their parents’ homes, the Bureau said in a release.
52:27 – President Obama was at a town hall in Atkinson, Ill., and said, “Businesses have gotten so efficient – when was the last time someone used a travel agent instead of going online?” The travel agents were not happy and wrote him a strongly worded letter.
14:31 – You would think your doctor’s white coat is as clean as a whistle. A study finds dangerous germs could be lurking on nurses and doctors’ uniforms. Researchers cultured 3 spots on the uniforms of 75 nurses and 60 physicians working in a 550-bed hospital. Potential pathogens were found on 63% of the uniforms. Antibiotic resistant bacteria were found on samples from 14% of the nurses’ uniforms and 6% of the doctors’ uniforms.
45:44 – This week, a report from the National Research Council urged NASA to start getting serious about cleaning up “space junk.” Scientists are tracking about 22,000 pieces of satellite, rockets and other spacecraft that humans have sent into space without any real plans to retrieve them. Even a small paint fleck has the kinetic energy of a hand grenade in space.
6:10 – An offer has been made to Frank McCourt, current owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, to purchase the Dodgers for $1.2 billion. The offer was made by a group of investors, some of whom include “certain state-owned investment institutions of the People’s Republic of China.”
38:36 – Seth congratulates the Cowboys now for the Super Bowl they’re going to win this season.