View Episode 294
Originally aired 10.25.11
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9:55 – Seth watched CBS Sunday Morning and they did a story about pill mills in Florida. Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw talked about the use of prescription pills among teens. He said “the kids have a party and admission to the party – there’s a big bowl, and you drop pills in the bowl. Anytime during the party you just go over to the bowl and grab pills.”
36:24 – Tonight, Thursday Oct. 20 on Showtime, Seth is saying hello to season 2 of Gigolos. The slogan: “Let’s go again.” … and, on CMT, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team 6
43:28 – Hugh Jackman has a Twitter account and has 920,377 people followers plus or minus a few bots. Some tweets: “Day off. Loving San Fran. Loving life.” … “Had dinner last night at French Laundry. OMG.” … “Dripping with sweat. Learning a new number from my one-man show in Toronto. Oh, what a beautiful morning.” … “Just arrived in Cleveland for Monday Night Raw. Definitely realizing a boyhood dream.” … “Spent the last 4 days with the Le Mis gang. Could not be more pumped.”
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
32:16 – Jah and Seth typed in “Japanese creepy robot” and watched every video about them on YouTube.
38:23 – Seth went on the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader website to check out the cheerleader blogs. He went under “Girl Talk” and the heading “Planning a Wedding.” He read about 4-year vet Casey Trammell planning her big day and read the comment from rusty79 wishing her and her future hubby the best and telling her to make God the center of their marriage.
30:31 – Somebody was telling Jah about their dad being an air traffic controller, and said the amount of stuff we don’t know about is staggering. They save many more lives than they lose b/c they’re the only ones who can see anything going on up in the air. But there were times when screens would simply go down
40:53 – Jah has had so much shit happen this week. It’s been so crazy. He sensed early in the week that shit was just rocking. But the way in which he normally would deal with something like that and the way in which he dealt with it this week shows how bad we are at dealing with shit. He would say 80% of the pain that normally would be caused by a week like this have been alleviated by his willingness to accept that when it started happening it was going to happen – and it was completely out of his control. Jah drank himself to sleep every night this week.
47:00 – On Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 8:07 a.m. in the Larchmont Village Starbucks, Seth ran into his friend Bill Simmons, an ESPN personality and editor of the website Grantland.com. He’s known as “The Sports Guy.” They had a brief exchange about Simmons’ Patriots and they discussed their victory over Dallas. Simmons told Seth, “You’ll win the division.”
16:55 – The Saturday Los Angeles Times Homes section had a piece called “Can I recycle…” Because policies and recommendations can vary from city to city, each week we ask a sampling of officials from various municipalities to weigh in on various questions… Seth was shocked at the number of things people could not recycle.
21:37 – October is National American Pharmacist Month
28:38 – Seth read about the next-gen air transportation. Apparently we’ve been trying to implement this for 20 years – it’s supposed to be there by 2025, but it’s going to transform America’s air-traffic control system from the aging, ground-based system that it is now to a more futuristic satellite-based system. Seth didn’t know that the radar screens in the towers are based on technology dating to before WWII or that many of the routes still flown by pilots today were laid out at a time when pilots in the early 1920s followed bonfires set out at night by people to help dictate where they were going on parts of their trip.
33:23 – Starting Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, the minimum age required to use a tanning bed in the state of California will be 18. Teens ages 14-17 used to be able to tan with a parent’s permission, but that will no longer be the case. The new law will allow use with a doctor’s prescription.
46:11 – Arthur Rhodes, a 42-year-old relief pitcher currently playing in the World Series against the Texas Rangers. He started the season with the Rangers and was traded to the Cardinals before the trade deadline. The Rangers are paying him $1.1 million this year even though he’s playing with the Cardinals. He’s being paid $100,000 from the Cardinals because that’s the league minimum they had to give him to play in a Cardinals’ uniform. He has said that if the Rangers win the World Series, he wants his World Series ring. So he wants a ring either way.
57:15 – Hold off on calling Jah’s cell phone for now. We’re having some financial/technical/Occupy Hobart issues. “It’s very hard to charge a phone when you’re living in a tent,” says Jah.
6:39 – Elizabeth Morgan is a professor of psychology at Boise State University. She studies same-sex attractions among heterosexuals. In a study of 484 heterosexual women, she found 60% of them were sexually attracted to other women while 45% had kissed another woman and around 50% had sexual fantasies about other women.
19:10 – A study at BYU in the Family Life Studies department found that couples who rank money and things as important might be worse off in their relationships than those who aren’t as materialistic. Researchers surveyed 1,734 married couples across the U.S. about their attitudes toward relationship values and issues such as materialism, compassion, communication and the importance of marriage. Among the participants, 58.7% had either high or low levels of materialism. Couples who did not place high value on money and things scored moderately higher on almost every marriage feature on the questionnaire compared with the couples who valued materialism.
24:33 – The US Consumer Product Safety Commission October recalls from China: the Ballard Designs Stafford stepstool, sold at Ballard Designs stores in Florida, Georgia and Ohio – sold for $80 and on HSN.com – have plastic tabs on the feet that snap and cause it to become unstable while standing on it … BOB single and double strollers sold at REI for $280 and $660, respectively, have a canopy with an embroidered logo patch that detaches from the fabric and kids can reach it, eat it and gag to death. … Guidecraft Twist-n-Sort Toys – sold for $20 at specialty toy stores nationwide – have small pegs on 3 of the 4 posts that detach from their square base and allows children to eat them and choke on them.
3:50 – People sometimes write into Ask Amy, but Seth doesn’t like that anymore. He wants to Ask Jonathan: “My son and his new girlfriend came to visit and stayed with us for a few days. She’s a nice woman but looks unwell. She never finishes her meals but loves sweets and always hits the bathroom after the meal. Actually she seems to make frequent bathroom trips all day. I think she may be bulemic. Should I mention something about this to my son?” ~ Conflicted. Amy’s answer was once again more accusatory than helpful.
50:45 – Sports Illustrated from March of 1984 – Steve Young is a Mormon and is somehow a descendent of Brigham Young. He was a star at BYU. When he was 23 he signed a contract with the LA Express of the USFL – a startup in 1984 to go against the NFL. The deal was he signed a 43-year, $40 million contract. So he got $5.9 million up front but the Express bought an innuity with an insurance company and it would gain interest and money and pay him out over time. He ended up taking the deal and then after his second season he paid to get out of the league and join the NFL, where he went on to be a successful Super Bowl-winning quarterback. The annuity started paying $200,000 in 1990 and stayed the same each year of the 90s. From 2000 to 2027, he will be paid $34 million in that time. In the final year, he will earn $3 million. He’s 50 years old now and will collect money until he’s 66.