View Episode 295
Originally aired 10.27.11
1:09:26
20:51 – UYD: Now with deep search capes
53:51 – UYD: Second-hand television
6:27 – Seth watched Million Dollar Mind Game on ABC, a game show on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. It was based on the hit Russian game show What? Where? When? The host is Vernon Kay from the U.K. One of the questions was, “Often found at airports or at the beach, they’ve been around for thousands of years even though their name still implies they’re new. Thanks to modern technology, thousands of them can fit in the palm of your hand.”
15:51 – Todd Wilbur showed Seth how to make a Bloomin’ Onion from Outback Steakhouse on Top Secret Recipe and now Seth is on the verge of going to Burbank to get one. There’s a Cinnabon .6 miles away from it, so it looks like Seth knows what he’s doing on Sunday.
31:06 – Satellite service DirecTV will premiere a new British TV series on its Audience Network in February 2012. The show stars Chloe Sevigny as a contract assassin who also happens to be a pre-op transsexual named Mia. When Mia learns she has a son by a former girlfriend who is now dying with cancer, she is forced to mix her killer instincts with her newly formed maternal ones.
36:29 – Seth reads another Million Dollar Mind Game question: “There’s a certain group known to stop people in the streets of Virginia and hand them printed materials. The materials are given away freely but have raised tens of millions of dollars for that state’s literacy fund. Can you identify these materials?”
49:45 – Parry Aftab, cyber security expert: “Everybody wants their 15 minutes of cyber fame.”
57:39 – Antidepressant drugs and the use of them has soared nearly 400% since 1988, making it the most frequently used medication among people ages 18-44. A report from the CDC shows that 11% of Americans ages 12 and older have taken antidepressants in the 2005 – 2008 study period. The authors add that though the majority of antidepressants were taken to treat depression, the drugs can also be used to treat anxiety issues and other conditions. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, which included information from 12,637 participants about prescription drug use, antidepressant use, length of use, severity of depressive symptoms and contact with a health professional.
48:57 – Jah saw a guy today at the store his friend works at. His friend and one of his coworkers have taken to stealing each other’s smartphones and updating each other’s Facebook statuses. Like “feeling really gay today,” or “feeling like a meat sandwich.”
13:24 – November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
16:51 – The 28th annual Love Ride drew more than 2,000 bikers to Glendale’s Harley-Davidson dealership on San Fernando Road. The annual charity event raises money for autism awareness – it has raised more than $13 million in its history. They head out to Castaic Lake for BBQ, music, etc. Tonight Show host Jay Leno was the grand marshal of the event. He addressed the crowd, “Every year the organizer says ‘Drive safe.’ I’m going to say, don’t drive safe. I want to see somebody go down so it’ll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikers go down. Get drunk, fall off the road. We’ve all become too damn polite.” About an hour later, a couple’s motorcycle collided with a big rig on the Golden State Freeway. The rig’s rear tires ran over the pair and paramedics pronounced them dead at the scene.
19:38 – There was more data transmitted over the internet in 2010 than the entire history of the internet up through 2009. “The transfer of data over the internet is growing faster than ever,” said VP of Intel’s Architecture Group, Kirk Skaugen, during the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. He also explained how infrastructure is scaling with the increasing transfer of data. He said although there are currently 4 billion connected devices around the world, Intel expects that number to increase to 15 billion by 2015; and to 50 billion by 2020. Many servers and computers will face challenges from these increases, including those that support the 48 hours of YouTube videos uploaded each minute, the 200 million tweets sent per day and the 7.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook every month.
22:58 – Seth read Hot Property in the Los Angeles Times. Matthew Perry is 42 years old. He played a character named Chandler Bing on an NBC sitcom called Friends that ran from 1994-2004. He lives in a brand-new glass-walled custom-built house that is in the Sunset Strip area of Hollywood up in the Hills. He bought it this summer for $8.65 million. He also owns a West Hollywood condo in the Sierra Towers that he bought from Elton John, which he sold for just under $3 million. He also owns another house down the street on the Sunset Strip that he sold for just under $6 million. He also has an ocean-front Malibu house that he owns that he sold for $13.5 million.
30:13 – With the help of Phish’s Trey Anastasio, the 1997 documentary about an endurance competition in Longview TX to win a pickup truck, Hands On A Hard Body, will be turned into a musical premiering at the La Jolla Playhouse in April of 2012.
41:23 – We The People is now live on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama administration to take action on a range of important issues that our country is facing. If a petition gets enough support – 25,000 signatures in 30 days – the White House staff will review it and make sure it is sent to the appropriate policy experts and they will issue an appropriate response. There are currently 159 petitions, including Legalize Raw Milk Sales and Save the Postal Service and Keep the Government Out of My Bedroom and Examine the Government’s Failure to Investigate and Prosecute the Church of Scientology for Crimes of Fraud and Abuse.
50:17 – The BBB warns of unclaimed property scams. Scammers are falsely claiming that people have unclaimed property owed to them. As people are becoming more aware of the different kinds of unclaimed property there are out there, there is a more real possibility that money could be waiting for them. BBB reports of scams that use that promise of finding unclaimed money to lure people in – forgotten bank accounts, tax refunds, security deposits, old jobs, etc. The new scam comes in a form of an e-mail that tells these people they have millions of dollars in unclaimed money. The message appears to come from the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators. It directs consumers to call an overseas number to claim their supposed money. Scammers intend to get personal information from people such as their bank account information, credit card information and social security numbers. While NAUPA is a real organization, it itself does not have control over any of the actual money – only the records of that money. Unclaimed property databases are located and maintained by individual states.
4:00 – Seth reminds everyone to check the batteries on their smoke alarms. People have been telling Jah to tell Seth that because they know this is the time of year when he brings it up. Seth also reminds people to check their carbon monoxide detectors so people don’t kill each other like Jonathan and Seth did in Episode 089.
10:57 – Research recently published online in the journal Injury Prevention surveyed 1,878 teens from 22 public schools in Boston. It found that teens who drink more than 5 cans of non-diet fizzy soft drinks each week are significantly more likely to behave aggressively – including carrying a weapon of some kind and instigating violence among peers.
27:14 – When it comes to looks, the line between candy and medicine can be a fine one, a study finds. Researchers tested 30 kindergarten kids and 30 teachers to see if they could distinguish popular candies from over-the-counter medicines. On average, the students guessed correctly about 70.5 percent of the time while teachers averaged about 77.6 percent of the time. The hardest to distinguish were M&Ms; from the cold medicine Coricidlin, Sweet Tarts from the heartburn remedies Mylanta or Tums and Reese’s Pieces form the sinus medication Sign-Off. The research was present at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference in Boston.
53:26 – A growing number of researchers are warning about the dangers of watching TV when very young children are nearby. Recent findings suggest that even casual exposure to TV can harm their development and undermine parent-child interactions. The most recent warnings came last week when the American Academy of Pediatrics for the first time included warnings about “second-hand television” in its guidelines. Recent surveys say that 1 in 3 families just leave the television on.
46:25 – Ask Amy / Ask Jah answers a question from Helpful Grandma: “I am fortunate to have 5 wonderful grandchildren. These young people are successful and kind and I love them dearly, however this Facebook thing is causing me distress. Sometimes my grandchildren post pictures that are just plain gross and it pains me when I see photos they’ve posted showing them with tongues hanging out or drinks in hand, wearing inappropriate attire and worst of all, giving the middle finger salute. Yuck! I have commented on their tackiness on their Facebook pages, but it doesn’t seem to change their behavior. In face, one of the girls seems to have blocked her profile from me. I feel this is disrespectful. Should I talk to them directly about their unseemly public behavior. How can I get them to change?”
25:18 – Seth rips on Matthew Perry for getting more out of nothing than anyone else, and then walking right by Seth in Whole Foods and pretending to be on the same plane as him.