View Episode 291
Originally aired 10.04.11
55:32
1:09:30
1:04:17 – UYD: Humans excrete cumin
3:23 – Seth watched Dr. Phil and wants J-dawg to read something in his voice. Dr. Phil had a 4-year-old who weighed 114 pounds. He asked the mom why she was serving him the same size burrito as her and says, “You understand, he’s a miniature human. He is a miniature human, and he’s getting a real human-sized burrito.” There was another 14-year-old who weighed in at 555 pounds.
10:39 – Seth watched some TV this week. He has a three-part, 5 ½-hour documentary about prohibition by Ken Burns on PBS, then he as a two-part, 3 1/2-hour documentary about George Harrison by Martin Scorsese on HBO. … He also watched Dreamliner on CNBC about the Boeing 787 they built in Seattle and gave to an airline in Tokyo. It cost $23 billion to make.
56:34 – The Style Network has a show called Sperm Donor: 74 Kids and More. They profile a guy who was going through law school and needed money and loves busting nuts. He puts his donor number on the Sibling Donor Registry and now anyone can hit him up to reconnect. Seth’s worried about this dude getting murdered by one of his kids.
42:55 – Meek Mill – “Ima Boss” featuring Rick Ross
40:17 – Brantley Gilbert – “Country Must Be Countrywide”
28:23 – David Zelag Goodman, a popular screenwriter in the 1970s, wrote many screenplays including, in 1971, the controversial psychological thriller Straw Dogs. Ten days after its re-release, he passed away.
13:35 – Dimitri and Jah have been DJing a lot lately and people have been asking them if they have a name for their DJing duo in case people wanted them to do a wedding or something, and Jah thought it would be funny if he just named them Jamiroquai
19:25 – Time magazine had some excerpts from a new book called The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us. The article starts off by stating, “Never mind what your parents told you. They did have a favorite child, and if you have kids, you do too. Why? It’s hard-wired into all of us.”
29:34 – October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
32:11 – Imperial mass is equal to 14 pounds. Eight stone equals 100 weight. Stone was originally used for weighing agricultural commodities. Historically the number of pounds in a stone varied by commodity.
45:55 – There was an exhibition hockey game in London, Ontario. The Philadelphia Flyers were playing. Their young player, 23-year-old black man Wayne Simmonds, was skating toward the Detroit Red Wings goalie during a shootout and someone in the crowd threw a banana out onto the ice, but he scored anyway. A few days ago, the Flyers are playing in the states against the New York Rangers. A fight breaks out, and Simmonds got into a tussle with New York Ranger Sean Avery. Simmons yells at Avery, audibly calling him a “fucking faggot.” Avery has been accused by teammates of taunting black opponents and calling them “black monkeys.” Another black guy said he was crazy racist to him on the ice about 5 years ago. Avery once got into hot water by talking about a guy dating Cuthbert getting his “sloppy seconds.”
51:30 – EmotionalBagCheck.com is where you can unload or take someone’s emotional baggage from them.
1:02:07 – Jah loves Seth but he asks if he can go home soon.
1:09:22 – Jah brings in an electrocution sound effect in post production to shock people.
5:48 – There was a study done about the most popular snack items in both regular and healthy vending machines. The fare sold in healthy vending machines may do less damage to your waistline than products found in mainstream machines, but experts caution that any processed snack is worse than a piece of fresh fruit or a handful of roasted nuts. The top-selling items in mainstream vending machines across the country according to the 2011 State of the Vending Industry Report was a Snickers Bar (280 cal., 14g fat, 5g sat. fat, 30g sugar). Next was Peanut M&Ms; (250 cal., 13g fat, 5g sat. fat, 25g sugar), then Ruffle’s Cheddar & Sour Cream potato chips (240 cal., 16.5g fat, 2.25g sat. fat, 345mg sodium). The most popular healthy items were Pop Chips (100 cal., 3.5g fat, 0g sat. fat, 160mg sodium), Aged White Cheddar Pirate’s Booty (130 cal., 5g fat, 1g sat. fat, 130mg sodium), Stacy’s Parmesan Garlic Herb Pita Chips (195 cal., 7.5g fat, 1g sat. fat, 405mg sodium).
15:12 – September recalls for the US Consumer Product Safety Commission for products made in China: the Chef Mate Blender, sold for $14 at Target – the plastic pitcher separates from the base and exposes the rotating blade … the Bridgeway Bicycle, sold at Wal-Mart for $100, has a chain that’s so weak that movement causes it to break and knocks the rider off the bike. … The Chloe, Sofie and Audrey Soft Dolls, sold at Pottery Barn Kids for $40, have hair that contain loops large enough to slip around a child’s head and neck and strangle them to death. The headband loosens over time and can also slip over a child’s head.
36:25 – Ask Amy in the Chicago Tribune. ‘Confused’ writes in: “My 16-year-old daughter received an invitation to another 16-year-old’s baby shower. I was shocked to say the least. I don’t want to allow my daughter to attend. While I admire the teen’s mother, who’s also single, for supporting her child in her unwed pregnancy, I don’t believe throwing a baby shower for her age and inviting her school-aged underaged friends is any way appropriate. I don’t feel a celebration is in order. Am I just getting too old?” The advice was something along the lines of, “Talk to your teen.”
2:31 – Seth and Jah make fun of Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie for advertising for Knott’s Scary Farm
23:16 – The 44th season premiere of 60 Minutes featured no Andy Rooney. The news broke this past week that he is retiring from the show, the 92-year-old appeared this past Sunday – his 1,097th appearance since 1978 – for the final time. Seth reads some Rooneyisms in his Rooney voice … “I tend to get lost a lot when I drive anywhere.” … “No one ever gets fired anymore.” … “I bought a new toothbrush the other day. I didn’t realize there were so many different kinds. I’m not sure why. They call them toothbrushes. It’s as though we’re only brushing one tooth. Why not teethbrushes?” … “I think we gotta do something about Christmas catalogs.” … “We’re running out of places to hide things.” … “Nothing irritates me more than when people remember my birthday.” … “What I don’t know is, whatever happened to the moon?” … “I don’t know about where you are, but where I am, there’s too much to read, too much to watch.” … “It’s still 5 weeks away already but you can already see Christmas coming.”