View Episode 297
Originally aired 11.15.11
1:15:10
28:49 – UYD: BLP, PDB, Heavy D
10:04 – Seth reads a question from this week’s Million Dollar Mind Game: “It’s the biggest retail chain of its kind and it has the same name as a mode of transportation. Their chief product is named after a completely different mode of transportation.” The answer is Subway.
24:33 – 20th Century Fox is making a serious awards season marketing push for Andy Serkis as Best Supporting Actor for playing Caesar, the hyper-intelligent chimp, in this summer’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The actor also played Gollum and King Kong using motion-capture technology.
56:28 – Todd Wilbur is going to try to crack Dippin’ Dots on Top Secret Recipe.
2:48 – P90X 2 – kick that muscle confusion into full gear
26:34 – Bud Light has a new product in the Budweiser family: Bud Light Platinum. BLP is 6% alcohol with 137 calories.
46:30 – OUT: Black Friday. IN: Black Midnight.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
34:05 – Yelp! reviews of Taco Bells in Los Angeles: Magnolia Blvd. at N. Hollywood: Laura D gives it 1 star: “I don’t recommend it. This is not authentic Mexican.” … Priscilla M gives it 2 stars: “I really don’t know what’s so special about this place.” Donny M gives it 3 stars: “Just another average Taco Bell.” From the one on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks – Phillip gives it 1 star: “12 minutes in the drive-thru for uncooked rice and burnt chicken? I don’t think so.” … Dave T gives it 1 star: “Annoying! Typical Taco Smell!” … Michelle K gives it 1 star: “Totally disappointed in this place and the food.”
5:12 – There’s a middle school a block away from Jah’s house. They have two crossing guards every day, which is more than enough because the kids are 6-foot-2 and more able-bodied than the guards.
8:38 – One of the best Thanksgiving meals Jonathan has ever had was at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. They had a full buffet-type spread. It was a bunch of rogue Hollywood families. The year they went it was Leo and his family, Ozzy Osbourne and his family, etc. One side of the room was a full Thanksgiving spread, while on the other side of the room was a full sushi bar, full waffle bar, full breakfast bar, chocolate fountain, etc.
17:06 – Jah’s dad shot an episode of Night Court on Friday the 13th and one of the giant lights fell and almost killed somebody.
23:11 – Jah saw Seth going through his DVR earlier. He programs a phenomenal amount of content every day, and there’s an aesthetic quality there because he doesn’t like to have things linger on there too long. He likes to burn through there quick because otherwise it will eat up his hard drive capacity.
27:40 – Jonathan said that India Pale Ale (IPA) beers taste much better to him when drank from a glass versus from the bottle, where he can taste the bottle a phenomenal amount.
28:57 – Jah was thinking that he met Heavy D, who was in a play with Willie directed by character actor Delroy Lindo.
35:49 – Jah and Seth receive an influx of postcards from Mr. Hambell’s English class at Keimyung University in Daegu, S. Korea. The penmanship is so precise that when they first received them, they thought they were typed by a machine. A lot of them end with “With Every Wish,” … They all seem to respect their elders. There’s a lot of references to Kimchi and a lot of dog soup. … Seth learns that high school in Korea starts at 7 a.m. and goes until 11 p.m. … One of them says “I saw your car on Google Earth. Your car is so colorful. Your car is very marvelousous.” … “Seth, I saw your car. It was a wonderful car. Blue body. Brown roof. Correct? It is a car of sincerity. How to know your car.” … “Your car is quite OK. Cute, but you should buy car so much to better.” … “Dear Seth, God blessed your car. Your car leaves a deep impression. The design moved me profoundly.” … “I saw your vintage car. The Dance, is it? I think you have that car to high school, correct?” … “Korea is not own the gun. You should not know something. You should use two hands to older people. You should not have a gun.” … “Seth I saw your picture. You look so smart. I want your answer handsome guy.” … “Seth you are handsome guy like actor. Your life looks so good. Your figurations attractive and funny. Let me know if you have any questions.” … “Seth I saw your commercial. Your eating acting is very impressive. I hope to appear with you in a commercial eating some day.” … “I love Subway sandwiches. I think you do too. Wink. I saw you on the commercial. Seth I want to see your story.” … “you and Jonathan have hair and are very handsome.” … “Seth I saw the picture of Jonathan. His hairstyle and beard is shocking. I hope you and he will be popular in Korea. Dreaming.” … “I do not enjoy suntans, but do enjoy your faces. Your attention has been good. Please encouraging.” … “Dear Smeth, I hear about USA Burger King hamburger is really big. Is this true? If so I envy you. Smeth, I will come to USA some day to see WRestlemania.” … “In movies American students have a lot of parties. Is that really true? Believe me.” … “I heard USA night culture one party. So crazy. People so crazy. I miss you. Sing me your musical performance. This is only my opinion.” … “Korean music is most popular wide world. Do you know K pop? If you don’t, listen. Tell me your life please.” … “I like American singers. My favorite players are Celine Dion, Shakira and Adel.” … “My hobby is drive a car. But I have no car, so at times I like to drive the car with my mother. So now I am very mad.” … “Korean fried chicken is most delicious all over the world. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world. He eats only chicken to his meals 3 day all along. I heard this. Brilliant. What a holy chicken.” … “Are you still doing internet comedy show? Wow. Surprising. Comedy so nice because comedy gave laughs to people so our society would smile. This comedy of yours will remain a good memory, develop and maintain kindly life.”
44:58 – Jonathan now reads a selection of his letters from Korea: “Dear Jonathan, my name is Crazy. Let me introduce about Korean culture. In Korean culture you should not use the low forms of speech. Always foreigners speak low form of speech to elders. Korea is very propriety and you should not whistle at night. It is bad luck. If so, appear the snake. Koreans are very afraid of the snakes. Do you know Dokdo? I like Japan, but when Japanese lie about Dokdo, I hate Japan. Every day Japanese lie that Dokdo is their land. Now all of the countries of the world believe that Japan lied about that but most important in fact is Dokdo is our land. This is not change. At first Korean personality is sensitive but Japanese lie. Koreans are very tired about international conflict, therefore Korean avoid very famous terrain country proverb: ‘make way for a madman and a bull you never believe that lie.’”
55:46 – The last time Jah ate Dippin’ Dots was at Knott’s Berry Farm, which was only 4 or 5 months ago. The first time Seth had them was at a Super Bowl party last year. He was down at first, but then after processing them he wasn’t down with them.
58:33 – Kozy and Dan, friends of the show who designed the hairy logo and more, sent Jonathan photos of Sinterklaas arriving in Amsterdam not knowing what it was. There were mad Zwartze Piets all over the place (Episode 293, 8:27).
1:01:25 – Seth was sitting in Larchmont having a coffee, and two girls came up to him telling him they were doing a fundraiser. They handed him a sheet and it had their address and phone number to their house. Seth couldn’t believe it. Later that night, he’s getting coffee and sees one tacked up on the other side of the street.
1:02:15 – Last weekend or the weekend before on the West side, 4 girls were throwing a bake sale across the street from the Starbucks Jonathan goes to. Jah is looking at the girls, who all have tits and are 2 years too old to be having a bake sale. One of them starts doing a provocative dance to try and lure traffic, and eventually all of them do it. Jah is sitting with women in his 20s, and asks if they are too old to be doing this. At this age, there’s a part of Jah that’s compelled to walk over there and tell them to stop doing what they’re doing.
4:26 – November is National Child Safety Protection Month
6:52 – According to the America Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 will increase this year by 13% - coming in at just around $50.
30:30 – Starting in January 2012, the USPS will increase the price of a first-class postage stamp 1 cent to 45 cents. It’s the first increase in two years. Postcard stamps will go from 29 cents to 32 cents.
55:42 – Dippin’ Dots has filed for bankruptcy. They were invented by Southern Illinois University-Carbonville graduate Kurt Jones in 1987. The confection is created by flash-freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen.
58:20 – The Better Business Bureau has weighed in recently on the fact that there are more than 60 domain names that have been registered in the name of Santa Claus, offering children a wide range of opportunities to e-mail Saint Nick. Sadly, they aren’t always so trustworthy and can be a dangerous way to share information. The BBB is advising parents to do their homework before allowing their children to write to Santa this holiday season.
59:27 – A baseball player for the Nationals from Venezuela just got kidnapped while he was home playing in the winter league.
19:32 – Seth says his excitement about the UYD animation was slightly premature. It’s being extended and worked out by Jeff and Roy and will be on the website eventually.
1:11:58 – Jah has a short thing to read from a friend of the show. Any time he sends him something, it piques J-dawg’s interest: “The most important things are other people and significant experiences. Of the latter we have spoken. There are significant people in our lives, or there are people who become significant as soon as we feel the strong necessity to deal with ourselves. They are not necessarily those who we or others suppose to be significant at first sight. We touch one another differently, affect one another in quite different ways. Two people may be useful to one another, or quite useless. Or quite useless in this recurrence. It is not a matter of propinquity, but a position in psychological space. From the standpoint of the re-entry of the light, our relationships to certain people begin to have a new and quite peculiar value – one that cannot ever be given by the notion of passing time. We meet again, thus our relationships always lie ahead of us. This is the chief change of standpoint that is necessary to make for otherwise signficiant elements in our lives will not be understood. If we are blind to significant elements and do not value or understand them, they remain inactive in the light, but if we see them in a special light, they become active. It will give inner attention to them, inner feeling, inner thought in a way impossible when we are gripped by the illusion of passing time. Conscience will begin or consciousness in time. These active points lying in the light are to be thought of as capable as spreading their influences in either direction in the recurrences of light, i.e. backwards and forwards, obliterating useless parts of light by growing into them. By useless parts, I mean accidental circumstances, contacts and phases in the light that have no real significance or only a harmful one. We must form the picture of the light as a growth, transverse to time and capable of growing not merely in one part but in many parts, i.e. we must get rid of the idea that light only grows from the present.”
50:05 – Old-fashioned leatherhead football helmets from the early 1900s are often as effective and sometimes better than modern football helmets in protecting against injuries during routine, gamelike collisions, according to the Cleveland Clinic researchers. The study, published online Nov. 4 by the Journal of Neurosurgery – Spine, compared head injury risks of two early 20th century leatherhead helmets with 11 top-of-the-line 21st century polycarbonate helmets. In their biomechanics lab, Cleveland Clinic researchers conducted impact tests, crashing helmets together at severities on par with 95% of on-field collisions 75 G-forces or less in collegiate and high school football games. For this study, researchers analyzed hits that are common in games and practices – hits that, taken separately, may not seem perilous, but when added together may lead to serious long-term drooling. For many of the impact and angles studied in the lab, the researchers found that leather helmets offered similar and even better protection than modern helmets.
12:22 – Ask Amy / Ask Jah answers a question from Baffled Boyfriend: “A few months ago while my girlfriend and I were having a particularly tough time, I posted two ads on a website asking if anyone was interested in getting together for drinks. I didn’t receive any real replies nor did I respond to anyone. We worked out our issues and we moved on. Then she found copies of the ads I had posted in my outbox. She was heartbroken and spent a month away from my apartment and didn’t return my calls – basically acted like I didn’t exist. Two months later we continued with our lives, but she continues to bring this up. When I ask her to forgive me, am I asking her too much?” Jah doesn’t think he’s asking too much unless he’s not being entirely clear about the nature of the ads.