View Episode 293
Originally aired 10.15.11
1:15:34
22:29 – Seth watched Ken Burns’ documentary on PBS on prohibition. He took in a lot of information. It went into effect in January of 1920. He mentioned that in the 1800s the age of sexual consent for a woman in the U.S. was 10 years old.
40:14 – Top Secret Recipe – Friday nights on CMT with Todd Wilbur. Todd is a professional food hacker. In the 80s he came across a chain letter claiming to be a top-secret recipe of Mrs. Field’s cookies. It wasn’t. In 1987 he began creating original clone replicas of America’s favorite foods. His website sells his books and posts new recipes. In Episode 1 he went undercover to find KFC’s original recipe. In Episode 2 he’s going to roll down to the Cinnabon HQ in Sandy Springs, Ga., and make their cinnamon roll. Jah would like to know why he likes the Jack n the Box spicy chicken sandwiches so much (Episode 032, 59:24).
44:26 (“Who’s Lawsuitin’ Harder?”) – April Bonjour lives in Northern California and describes it as having foreplay with her boyfriend while her son was asleep in another part of the house. He was using a dildo when it almost killed her. First she experienced pain then she saw blood. She got the thing from Pipedream Products. … Another woman, Coleen O’Neal, is suing Continental Airlines and is also suing United Airlines and Colgan Air – owned by Pinnacle Air – because that was the charter airline. She experienced turbulence on her 20-minute flight from Lubbock to Houston, and it forced her to believe she was going to die. She now suffers from PTSD and was going to try to get a job with FEMA but it requires so much air travel but she’s traveling from too much stress to do that.
36:32 – Zachary Levi is an actor on a show called Chuck. He has 244,990 followers on Twitter. A sample of his tweets: “For the record, seeing a movie by yourself can be quite enjoyable. I mean, there’s no need for conversation and no one’s Bogarting your popcorn.” … “My last tweet was done on the toilet. I shall call it a twoop. Thankful it wasn’t a tweearhea.” … “Damn you Starbucks merwoman creature and your coy seductive smile. You’re like the Mona Lisa of caffeinated beverages.” … “You know what I hate about traffic? Everything.” … “What idiot told Judge Judy that being condescending to people makes for good television? Because it doesn’t. It just makes you look like a jerk.” … “And now a poem to help you through crap weather: It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is peeing on us.” … “Yelling ‘Ben & Jerry’s’ at a Grateful Dead concert is like yelling ‘Fire!’ in a movie theater.” … “Twitter experiment – everyone play ‘Shout!’ by the Isley Brothers right now and tweet our your finest pics of the moment because that’s what we’re doing!”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
10:17 – Seth was on People of Walmart and found a girl who had the sickest style. She was being made fun of but she was wearing jean leg warmers – skinny jeans cut at the knees.
15:50 – Jah looks up clergy. It’s a generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion.
34:54 – Southside Sacramento is pretty raw and they call it “SouthSac Iraq.”
41:15 – Seth went to Todd Wilbur’s website. He found Outback Steakhouse’s tangy tomato dressing. He found teryaki sauce from Island’s soft tacos.
2:47 – The Halloween Snickers commercial came roaring back this year to scare Seth for a new fall season.
6:50 – It was 101 degrees in his Jeep when Jah got in it today.
8:27 – While Seth was talking to someone about La Llorona, someone asked him if he’d heard about Sinterklaas – a Dutch legend about a Saint Nick who keeps a little boy in blackface called Zwarte Piet. The story goes if you’re bad you get put into a bag and shipped off to Spain to be a slave.
31:16 – Jah saw an old man the other day, and he fits the description of an old man that he sees pretty regularly. He can read the body language and see how he moves and realizes that he’s a filthy old pervert but he’s so old that the perverted part of him has died. So the misery has come to the forefront of his visage.
33:09 – Six months ago, Jah sat Seth down, opened up his fancy laptop and told Seth he was going to show him two music videos that were going to change his life. It was a female rap artist named Lady. Seth wonders what happened to her, and Jah is confused by her dropoff as well.
51:08 – Jah admits that he bought a fake esophagus made of Cyberskin (Episode 088, 19:26 and Episode 186, 1:09:12).
52:06 – Jah wonders if Seth remembers the post-AIDS craze when there was a big push for safe sex. Dental dams, diaphrams and condoms were at the forefront. Another thing that came into play was the female condom – a reverse condom that’s like a stocking filled with lube that goes into the girl. There’s a wire frame opening that has a shape to it and you insert it correctly and it opens up the bag. They’re kind of crazy but anyone that Jah has talked to about them said they feel much better when used properly than condoms. The inserting of them is more erotic than guys putting on the condom, which is characteristically bad. Jonathan had one experience with the female condoms. He was having casual sex with one girl exclusively. Jah picked up the deal at the Rite-Aid at Beverly and La Cienega. It wound up messing the girl up pretty bad. He hadn’t seen the girl for a period after they used it – a minimum of 10-12 years – and he finally saw her in a minivan with a person the other day. Four hours later, he’s standing in front of a dude who asked her about that and realized he had just seen the girl he used it with. It was so weird he didn’t know what to do. The very first thing he thought of while looking at her was female condom.
1:00:16 – Jah was riding in a cab and got blindsided by the guy driving the cab. He told Jah he was from Egypt and had met a girl here and married her. Jah told him he was separated and is getting married to a new girl. He said it was nice that he and her ex were still friends and the cabbie asked, “Do you guys still have sex together?” Jah was surprised by the question but he bets that people do that a lot.
3:19 – Seth asks Jah if he knows about La Llorona, the weeping woman. This is a widespread legend in Mexico and Central America. As the story goes, a beautiful young woman named Maria – in order to be with the man she loves – kills her children by drowning. When the man rejects her, she kills herself. When she gets to the gates of Heaven, she’s asked about the whereabouts of her children. She’s not permitted to enter the afterlife until she’s found them. She’s forced to wander the earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring with her constant weeping, giving her the name la llorona, aka “weeping woman.” Everyone Seth talked to of Latin descent claimed they had heard of it. Universal Halloween Horror Nights is using La Llorona for the third straight year – Embark on a spine-chilling journey through the rotting remains of a haunted Mexican village. Imagined by actor Diego Luna, of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights fame. He grew up with the story on a street in Mexico called Alley of the Weeping Woman. That costs $62.
6:59 – For many people, now is the ideal time to have your furnace serviced before the busy winter season starts. The BBB has warned the public to be cautious about misleading heating contractors who may use scare tactics to buy a new furnace and authorize expensive but unneeded repairs to their existing system.
13:54 – October is National Clergy Appreciation Month
17:58 – As of yet, no airport in the U.S. uses any type of biometric techniques – such as voice matching, iris scans or fingerprints – to confirm passengers’ identities. However, that may change. A Silicon Valley high-tech company last week demonstrated an electronic gate at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport that scans a person’s iris to determine his/her identity. The e-gate, developed by Aoptics Technologies of Campbell, has not been approved by airports. However, company representatives say the technology is in use on a limited basis in airports in Britain and Qatar and could possibly be ready for deployment throughout the U.S. in about 12-18 months.
26:26 – John and Jane Does across the country are being accused of sharing and stealing copywritten material. In mid-July, Yolanda P opened her mailbox in Visalia to find a letter that has been landing in tens of thousands of mailboxes across the country. It said she was being sued by an adult film company that said she had illegally downloaded porn on her computer. These allegations of porn piracy are now part of a torrent of legal battles unfolding coast-to-coast in an explosion of copywright lawsuits filed over the last year. From Silicon Valley to Washington DC, adult filmmakers are unleashing their lawyers in federal courts to sue John and Jane Does for allegedly stealing porn and sharing it on an increasingly porn-happy internet. Duplicating in many ways what the music industry’s ill-fated campaign of a few years ago to stem music file-sharing, the adult film industry has now sued more than 200,000 initially anonymous defendants in an attempt to track down and punish those who illegally downloaded porn movies such as A Punk Rock Orgy In The Woods and Dexxxter. The lawsuits name Doe defendants until they can unearth the identities through their internet providers.
1:02:38 – Psychology researcher Felix Warneken performed a series of ordinary tasks in front of toddlers such as hanging towels with clothespins or stacking books. Sometimes he “struggled” with the tasks. Sometimes he deliberately messed up. Over and over again, each of the 24 toddlers offered to help within seconds, but only if he appeared to need the help. Video shows one overall-clad baby glance between Warneken’s face and the dropped clothespin before quickly crawling over, grabbing the object, pushing up to his feet and eagerly handing back the pin. Warneken never asked for help, nor did he ever say thank you when they did – so as not to taint the research. The toddlers did not bother to offer help when he deliberately pulled a book off the stack or threw a clothespin on the floor. Warneken reports in the journal Science to be altruistic babies, they must have the cognitive ability to understand other peoples’ goals plus possess what Warneken calls the pro-social motivation – a desire to be part of their community. When those two things come together, they are able to help.
57:42 – “Dear Amy, My husband’s ex-wife continues to telephone, text and e-mail him even after he asked her many times not to. She walked out on the family 10 years ago and until I came into the family she had his ear on ‘kid problems.’ Those kids are now grown, they’re married and have children of their own. He doesn’t feel the need to discuss anything with her, yet she continues to pester him. We’ve been married for a year and a half. I sense the ‘I don’t want him, but I don’t want anyone else to have him either’ thing going on. The children deal with him on their own terms. I think she has told them that I won’t let him communicate with her and I am the reason he can’t be civil to her. Should I speak to her myself? What can my husband do? He’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with her.” Amy replies accusingly toward the writer.
1:14:17 – We need a female president. A Mexican female president.
12:08 – Seth dips into People magazine from October 2006. There’s a picture of a couple with the heading “Break Up? No way. In Chicago and London, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn set the record straight – they’re still a couple.”