View Episode 292
Originally aired 10.11.11
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2:54 – Pete Wentz hosts a show about the 100 Greatest Songs of the 2000s, saying “The 2000s were all about having fun and cutting loose.” The No. 1 song was Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love,” while No. 2 was Outkast’s “Hey Ya.”
10:04 – Seth watched a documentary on CNBC called The Coffee Addiction. It’s the world’s favorite drug because it’s stimulating, euphoric, mildly addictive and habit forming. The doc followed the coffee beans from Peru to Starbucks.
17:27 – It was 80s Week on GMA this week. Sam Champion was talking about sporting those denim overalls back in the day, and he admitted that he would throw one of the straps back over the shoulder.
19:16 – Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen has introduced a new “Dippin’ Chicken” for only $3.99. The new nuggets feature a spooned curviture that makes it easier to scoop up the blackened ranch dipping sauce. It also comes with Cajun fries and a biscuit.
8:17 – General Motors will introduce the industry’s first front-center airbag. It will deploy from the right side of the driver’s seat and position itself between the two front seats, acting as an energy-absorbing cusion between driver and side passenger. It will also help the occupant of the vehicle inside crashes not on his or her side and will also help with rollovers. It will be introduced in all 2013 Buick Enclaves, GMC Acadias and Chevrolet Traverses, available next fall.
3:06 – Pete Wentz has 2,332,379 followers on Twitter: “It’s so good to have a new Blink-182 album. I’m playing it on repeat.”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
21:36 – On Lifehacker, a guy took a sponge and snipped a hole in the side of it and hangs it on the arm of the faucet so your sponge isn’t lying on the countertop collecting germs. Seth learned about sponging and how it can consume one. In January of 2007, the Journal of Environmental Health said to put your slightly wet dirty kitchen sink sponge in the microwave for 2 minutes and it will kill 99 percent of the pathogens. Jah also thinks you should boil your toothbrush.
4:55 – Seth only knows it’s autumn because he has some New England foliage sitting on his mantel, sent to him from his mother via the USPS, tucked into wax paper.
7:02 – Seth did not have a computer in any part of his non-adult month. He got his first computer when he was living in his current apartment in the year 2004 at age 31. It was a dial-up internet connection and he got the PC tower from a guy named Michael Kohn, who lives in New York City now.
15:22 – Jonathan was at a Hillstone’s the other day, which is owned by Houston’s. He was talking to a guy about it, and found out that the reason they changed their name at certain locations was because it’s a law that if you own a certain amount of restaurants you must put the caloric content on the menus. To avoid doing that, they named half of their Houston’s, Hillstone’s.
19:27 – Jah ate a Popeye’s chicken sandwich in the Detroit airport that was so good. He was on a layover and he needed to pound one.
30:14 – Seth did video-on-demand on Thursday, Sept. 1 and paid $10 to see Kevin Smith’s Red State and realizes he won’t ever get that money back. It was the worst movie ever.
40:52 – Jah remembers his dad’s theory when he was a kid: he believed sex offenders and rapists should have their skin permanently dyed blue to where you would always know and be able to tell kids to stay away from them.
42:28 – Jah and Amir found a registered sex offender online that lived next to Amir. The day they looked him up they saw him outside playing with his daughter and son.
58:31 – Jah is going to go see the Dead
1:02:22 – Jah’s friend was in the Apple Store when the Steve Jobs death announcemnt occurred. Prior to announcing it in the store, the entire store, which was packed, went silent, and all the employees were called into the back. They came back and made an announcement.
1:03:39 – Jah heard a story last week about something he found interesting. A friend of his went to an Apple Store and brought their computer in to get it fixed at the Genius Bar. She shows the laptop to the guy and said it was giving her a funny glitch. He looks at it, goes through some diagnostics, and tells her that she needs another hard drive. The Genius Bar people aren’t allowed to do internal fixes like that, but they can do cosmetic fixes. She had a small discoloring on the face of the keyboard where the oil from your fingers make the finish oxidize. The employee pointed it out and told her he could replace it for her and hints that “other things could go in and get fixed when that thing goes in to get fixed.” She asked if she could tip them, and hinted that “sometimes things come across the table and they have to take them.” The guy said it would take about 8-10 minutes, and she leaves and understands she’s getting the hookup. She goes out of the store and gets a pamphlet for some condos for sale and puts a little money in the catalog – she puts $20 in there and folds up the flyer. He took it and put it in his pocket without opening it. Jah figures the dude was probably pissed for only getting $20 for this. Seth thinks she was in the right for this move. He would have given them a coffee or an Uhh Yeah Dude card at best.
1:12:10 – Seth didn’t get any celebrity endorsements this week. He got a fake one from Morgan Freeman.
5:45 – Martha Stewart’s daughter wrote a tell-all book about having to wrap her own presents for Christmas.
6:06 – October is National Computer Learning Month. The first one was in October of 1987.
12:42 – There’s a brou-haha that Seth is wrapped up in. Chipotle’s pinto beans are cooked in bacon fat, and they would only tell you if your ordered a burrito without chicken or steak. The black beans are vegan friendly. Then Seth was told on the hush-hush by someone at The Cheesecake Factory revealing that their black beans are cooked in chicken stock.
28:55 – Universal Pictures is releasing the comedy Tower Heist on Friday, Nov. 4. This is directed by Brett Ratner. The movie is about the hard-working staff of a NYC high-rise condominium. A Wall Street billionaire lives in the penthouse who has been running a ponzi scheme, and wipes out all of the staff’s money. They decide to rob him to get it back. The comedy stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Michael Peña, Judd Hirsch and Alan Alda. Three weeks after its theatrical release, Comcast will make the video available on demand for $59.95.
33:28 – According to the National Retail Federation, Americans plan to spend $6.9 billion this year for Halloween. A little more than $300 million will be spent on costumes for pets, and we will also spend around $2 billion on candy and decorations.
43:37 – Newsweek had an article about sperm donation and people who don’t use an official donor registry but just meet up and exchange seed.
52:08 – Dan Castellaneta has sold his Pacific Palisades home to Hank Azaria for $5.5 million. Azaria is downsizing from his Bel-Air home that he just sold last month for $11 million. Castellaneta and Azaria are threatening to quit The Simpsons—in its 23rd season – over another salary dispute, because the $500,000 a week they make isn’t enough for them to do voiceovers down the street from their house.
58:36 – Tom Sizemore got arrested. He claims it’s an old Heidi Fleiss snafu, some old warrant. The reason he got arrested is because the police had arrested a guy earlier in the evening for grand theft auto and the dude who got arrested wrote Sizemore’s address down – it’s because he’s Sizemore’s personal assistant. The assistant’s name is Eddie Lee Cabbage.
39:18 – Jah wonders how many people who listen to UYD are on Megan’s Law. Seth estimates 30%.
1:00:32 – Jah asks Seth if he thinks it’s weird they had a candlelight vigil outside of the Apple Store on the 3rd Street Promenade the other night.
25:55 – After analyzing 2 years’ worth of tweets by 2.4 million people around the world, researchers at Cornell University have concluded that people wake up happy but their mood deteriorates as the day goes on. That discovery, reported last month in the journal Science, will interest researchers who are trying to understand how circadian rhythms and other natural influences shape our states of mind. But the study’s primary significance may have more to do with its methods than its results. “We now have the ability to view societies as a massive scale using the internet,” said study leader Scott Golder, a grad student in sociology at Cornell. “This will open up opportunities for social scientists.” Golder said he intended to use Twitter to study behavior, not emotion. He and a colleague wrote a computer program that sampled all Twitter user accoutns created between February 2008 and April 2009 and collected up to 400 messages from each account. The program compiled more than a half-billion messages it used to analyze these findings.
47:48 – Researchers from Georgia Tech’s School of Psychology used a word association test to discover that most people have built-in prejudices. However this racism isn’t necessarily something they believe in, but something that seeps into the subconscious from modern-day culture. Study leader Paul Verhagen exposed people’s inherent racism with a straightforward but sneaky word test. Volunteers were asked for example if the letters GUB formed a word and also if the letters GUN formed word. He found that participants gave their answer much more quickly if they were shown a black face before the letters GUN.
38:05 – ‘Frightened’ writes in: “Dear Amy, I just learned that the co-worker sitting next to me is on the registered sex offender list for abducting a 13-year-old girl. I’m very uncomfortable working next to him, not to mention that I’ve had to travel to various locations alone with him in a car. No one in the office was ever notified of his record. Is this legal?”
13:27 – Seth goes off on Chipotle.
52:43 – Seth rips on The Simpsons voice actors who are greedy motherfuckers for complaining about not getting enough money for the easiest job ever.