View Episode 298
Originally aired 11.23.11
1:04:21
35:59 - UYD: Whitest Diapers in the Neighborhood
28:24 - VH1 Classic just broke out an 11-part series called Metal Evolution
39:17 - Jerry Seinfeld did some stand-up on Letterman and got a standing ovation for some of his wack comedy: "I mean, these cell phones! Star 69? That's the number they picked for this thing? (Episode 036, 9:12) … Cialis? The announcer says call your doctor if you have an erection lasting 4 hours? Yeah, I think I knew that already!"
40:49 - Robin Williams did some stand-up on The Tonight Show. He did black guy, then he did Elvis, then he does elderly man, then chimpanzee, then a bird, then Anne Frank, then Quasimoto, then French paparazzo, French cat, French waiter, then he reads a Nigerian scam e-mail from his phone that takes him a minute to find. He then does Clarence Thomas, Rick Perry, Rain Man, then the two of them talk about how excited they are that Billy Crystal is hosting the Oscars. Then he does Jack Nicholson, Buddha, Freud, 3D Porn, then Sofia Vergara.
44:19 - Selling LA on HGTV is Seth and Jah's new favorite show. It's real estate agents selling the craziest SoCal houses you've ever seen in your life and the craziest richest people trying to buy them.
20:49 - New protein bar - All-Natural Pro-Max LS (low sugar). It's naturally sweetened with Stevia. On the box: "Pro-Max: Life is go. The alarm clock's our starter's pistol, the new day our stadium. We have no timeouts and we don't want any. Running, biking, lifting, working, dating, momming, dadding, studying, shopping, blogging. 24 hours, buzzer to buzzer. Pro-Max."
45:33 - Gregg Silver of Keller Williams is trying to get the word out on a new condo complex being built off La Cienega and Beverly Hills: "You need to find ways to get the word out. Social media makes the most sense. I mean, this could be a real game-changer. We need to get the most buzz with this property, and in this day and age, in our industry, you're going to have a real plugged-in kind of consumer - tech-savvy, social-media savvy. So we need to create enough traction that people are talking about us. So at the end of the day, this is going to be about social media marketing. So anything that we can upload into a video or any other social media I think is what we want to do. We want people to show their friends. Young people really understand this is the way information is being shared today. So it's important we have social media information that people are going to be buzzing about and talking about all throughout Beverly Hills. We've had so much buzz coming from the social media so we pulled together a social media campaign, and through social media, everyone that has come through in one way or another has been touched by social media. Social media is the driving force. It's about creating a conversation using the internet and putting it out there."
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
14:22 - According to Wired magazine, the 5 foodstuffs most photographed on Flickr are 1) desserts, 2) vegetables, 3) poultry, 4)meat, and 5) bread.
2:39 - Seth got fully grifted at his Starbucks by Howard Schultz. The prices went up. He slid his two one-dollar bills over the counter for his tall drip coffee, which should be $1.50. He received a quarter and a dime back for change instead of two quarters. It went from $1.50 to $1.65.
13:13 - Listening back to last week's episode, the fact that Jah didn't get the Million Dollar Mind Game answer, Subway, correct (Episode 297, 10:04), made him furious. He explains that his brain is never functioning at 100% capacity when he's doing the show.
22:18 - Jah says Seth was onto Stevia a long time ago. He used to bring it everywhere with him in packet form before it got big.
34:13 - Seth's mother tells him that they used cloth diapers on him. Seth couldn't believe he was that old to have worn cloth diapers. They would take the diaper and shake it out in the toilet, throw it in a diaper pail, then wash it with Ivory when it filled up, then pull them out on the clothesline and he had "the whitest diapers in the neighborhood" and never had a diaper rash. Seth got mad at her because he looked it up and Pampers started in the 60s.
48:44 - Jah is going to hit the LA Auto Show on Tuesday. He heard there were a few debuts. He might get into the 4-door Chevrolet Spark sub-compact hatch. Jah says the vehicles there are 95% wack but the 5% legit cars are worth the trip. Jah goes to the show ever year with Amir and his dad and his uncle - a deep Persian crew who not only know their whips but also own super-dope whips and are not afraid to sit down and talk some shop.
24:25 - Through the end of this week, the US Postal Service is offering amnesty to all people who have their official hard white plastic bins. People who return their bins will be able to avoid the possible $1,000 fine and jail time. Seth has one in his possession, and J-dawg has two that he knows of.
28:58 - November is National Real Jewelry Month
30:20 - The AARP released a bulletin this week of slang words for old people to avoid using: panties, smashed, sick, whatever, totes, hot, kick it.
16:44 - UYD is doing two live shows - Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 at 8 p.m. at the Neptune Theater in Seattle (stgpresents.org) and Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 at 8 p.m. Largo at the Coronet Theater (largo-la.com).
26:51 - Jah asks if you're supposed to tip your mailman on Christmas. His understanding was you're supposed to tip mailmen, milk men and garbagemen.
5:23 - Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss that is so severe it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led at Johns Hopkins Research Center. Published in the November archives of Internal Medicine, the findings - thought to be the first nationally representative estimate of hearing loss - suggests that many more people than previously thought are affected.
7:17 - Professors of forest ecology at Yale don't know exactly why, but it seems like acorns have all but pretty much vanished this fall in New England. This phenomenon is not understood but they feel this is going to ripple throughout the entire ecosystem and have negative impacts on squirrels, owls, chipmunks, turkeys, deer and mice.
10:01 - Ask Amy / Ask Jah. 'Stunned' writes: "Our 11-year-old daughter recently attended her first sleepover, a birthday celebration for her friend Sandi. Before the event, my husband and I met and talked with Sandi's parents, learned about the other residents of the home and conducted a sex offender search online to determine that no sexual predators lived in the area. The kids had a great time. Then our daughter reported that she and Sandi got to sit in the trunk of the parents' car when all 6 girls went out to an entertainment venue. The mom drove the girls in the family SUV - one of the two cars they owned - and because only 4 kids can fit in the seats, Sandi and our daughter sat in the way back area without seatbelts facing the roadway. We've explained how dangerous this was and said if it happens again she should call us and we will happily drive her to her destination. I am seething. I keep picturing my daughter in the back of an SUV, happily waving to other drivers. Any one of them could've easily rear-ended the vehicle and crushed her to death. I'm not sure how to speak to these parents about this without creating a scene. What do you think?" … Jah thinks she's a crazy bitch.
22:34 - T.R. from Omaha, Neb., writes in to the Playboy Adviser: "Please settle a bet - what's the correct way to pronounce C-L-I-T-O-R-I-S? My girlfriend says it should be cli-TOR-us, and I say that's it CLIT-uh-rus.
9:15 - Seth goes off on pizza being defined as a vegetable and People giving Bradley Cooper "Sexiest Man Alive" over Ryan Gosling.
41:42 - Seth fled underneath his couch and cried because he couldn't figure out how billionaires like Seinfeld and Robin Williams are still making people laugh with their wack comedy.
1:02:30 - Jah goes off on Bradley Cooper being "Sexiest Man Alive"