View Episode 301
Originally aired 12.13.11
1:08:24
28:32 – Liev Schreiber signed a deal to star in a drama pilot for Showtime. During his negotiations with Showtime, HBO decided to not renew his deal as a voice guy for HBO Sports despite the fact that he’s been doing it for 16 years.
31:44 – HBO’s Paradise Lost 3 on Thursday, Jan. 12
43:05 – Pepsi Max has a crazy ad campaign in New Zealand: “Test your bromitment.”
41:41 – There’s a new app in a beta phase right now called Bromance. It’s designed for the dude that does. You can use it to organize a poker game, a beach volleyball, ultimate Frisbee, a pub crawl, a pick-up basketball game, a spot at the gym, brokkake BBQ, etc.
17:17 – Nuns on the Pill
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
52:51 – Jah asks Seth, “Would you kill one person to save five?”
37:45 – Jah’s girlfriend Geneva’s grandmother referred to us as a lost generation. His tendency would be to believe her since she’s 94 years old and she’s looking at what her generation did and the one above Jah’s did. Jah thinks Seth is a perfect example – graduating with a communications degree pre-internet. Jah says Seth has to surround himself with younger people who truly grew up with the internet in their households.
1:00:48 – Jah’s father got them a podcasting manual book when they first got started.
2:38 – PANTONE’s 2012 Color of the Year is Tangerine Tango – a spirited reddish orange. Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, it marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow to form a magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.
4:33 – December is National Spiritual Literacy Month
5:44 – According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, in the United States and its territories, in 2011 there are 739,853 registered sex offenders.
20:36 – Maum Meditation – when human mind changes to universe mind
25:23 – Beware of porch pirating – thieves who take packages left on doorsteps and porches of neighborhood homes.
33:43 – 2012 food trends to look out for: for the young, “Free From” foods – free from gluten, dairy, soy, nuts, etc. For the old, foods with health add-ons, i.e. glucosamine for joint health, omega 3s for brain health, artery cleanses for cardiovascular health.
43:55 – A quarter of Iraq’s population has been born since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Almost half of the country is under the age of 19. They have taken cues from American soldiers, media, culture, DVDs, magazines, etc., and are wearing baggy jeans and hoodies, getting tattoos, listening to hip-hop, eating pizza and burgers and watching Twilight.
2:08 – This is an entire new threshold when you leap over the event horizon.
1:02:26 – Jah is maxed out with 5,000 friends on Facebook. He can still receive friend requests but can’t accept them. However, people can subscribe and follow his page without being his friend – there is no limit to how many people can do that.
16:08 – Like any other women who do not have children, catholic nuns find themselves with an increased risk of dying with breast, ovarian or uteran cancer – compared with those who bear children. A comment published online first by The Lancet suggests that since the contraceptive pill reduces overall mortality and mortality due to ovarian and uteran cancer, the catholic nuns should be given the pill for health rather than contraceptive reasons. The comment is by Dr. Kara Britt.
48:22 – University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute reports that those 70 and older comprise the largest group of drivers on the road. Licensed drivers as a percentage of their age-group population has risen for all age groups over the age of 45 since 1983.
54:01 – Recently researchers tried to make the dilemma of killing one person to save several feel much more real. They placed 147 subjects in a 3D virtual environment where they are in front of a railroad switch controlling two tracks. They watch five people hike along a track bordered by a ravine, and a single person hikes along the other track. Suddenly, a train comes barreling toward the five people. The subject has the option to reroute the train using a joystick. 90% of the study subjects switch tracks, killing the lone hiker to save the five. These findings matched past studies that were only abstract through thought experiments. The study is in the journal Emotion.
9:14 – “Confused” writes to Ask Amy / Ask Jah-Jah: “My ex recently asked out one of my closest friends. He talks to me daily asking me for advice about her and has frequently said that he values my advice the most. I’m confused about what his intentions are and am confused about our so-called friendship.”
12:42 – More Ask Amy / Ask Jah-Jah: “Three years ago when I started dating my husband, I asked him about kids and he said ‘I could never have kids.’ Then I asked about what would happen if I got pregnant, and he said we would raise the child together. At the time raising kids was not a priority for me so I brushed it aside. The problem is that once we got married five months ago, I realized all of a sudden that having a child is a huge priority for me and I was running out of time. I knew it was wrong but I would ‘accidentally on purpose’ skip days of my birth control, eventually ceasing to take the pills at all. I knew if we had a child my husband would grow to love it. The problem is that after months of this, we never conceived. A few weeks ago I finally decided to broach the topic again with my husband. I discovered that he had a vasectomy a year before we met. He swears that he’s mentioned it before but I know he hasn’t, and I feel sick knowing that he has kept something like this from me. I also feel trapped in my marriage, knowing that it will always be just the two of us. Should I get out now while I can and find a husband who wants a child, or will I outgrow this need?”
1:07:54 – Jah declares 2012 will be the year of the alien reveal
28:50 – Seth rips on HBO for not renewing Liev Schreiber’s deal with HBO Sports