View Episode 302
Originally aired 12.21.11
1:02:48
54:13 – UYD: Freeze, Hypnotize, Seed, Bake, Eat
4:08 – Seth’s body is right because he’s on that Felon Fitness – a body weight exercise program designed by prison inmates. You can get a hard body without doing hard time. Be cool. Behave. Be strong. In the mid-90s, the California Department of Corrections removed all free weights from all prison yards. Inmates were forced to create their own programs based on body weight exercises. This is the end result.
26:01 – OUT: The teenage babysitter. IN: The late-20s career nanny ($30/hr).
3:45 – Jonathan got a hot peppermint mocha today because it felt kind of wintery for him.
10:57 – Jah goes on the internet just to entertain himself if he’s sitting at home. Just to get on. Seth is there to work. It’s straight business.
13:01 – December is National Rising Star Month.
31:57 – The 29th annual AVN Awards are on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2012. It’s going to be held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The hosts this year are Bree Olson and Sonny Leone – often referred to as the most beautiful woman in porn – as well as Dave Attel. Jah lists through a bunch of the nominees.
40:06 – According to Expedia, the American workforce did not use 226 million vacation days this year – that equals roughly $34 billion worth of time.
47:53 – LA County sex offenders held in sweep: a 4-day sweep of sex offenders’ homes led to the arrest of five probationers on suspicion of decorating their homes for Halloween to make them inviting to children. Officials said on Tuesday 3 of the 5 were taken into custody. One was a probationer who had a trapdoor in his bedroom leading to a basement where officers found a chair and rope. County supervisor Michael DiAntonio said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting the county probation department also arrested a married ocuple “both on probation for molesting their own children, who had their home fully decorated for Halloween and were in possession of drugs and child pornography.” Sex offenders on probation are supposed to keep their front porch lights off and blinds and curtains drawn on Halloween.
3:14 – The holidays can be depressing. UYD got a lot of voicemails to this effect.
25:55 – Jah gives us an epic “Every Kiss Begins With Kay.”
1:00:32 – Jah apologizes for all the website troubles.
1:00:46 – UYD put up a bunch of videos on its YouTube channel (youtube.com/uhhyeahdude), featuring a bunch of cut-up segments from live shows.
6:13 – A study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility claims that 25 percent of the sperm in men stopped moving when those men were using wi-fi connected laptops, compared to 14% of men who weren’t near a wi-fi signal.
10:08 – The Pew Research Center Internet and American Life Project reported that 53% of young adults 18-29 went online today or yesterday “for no particular reason other than to have fun or pass the time.”
28:44 – Can your posture influence the way you think? Cognitive psychologists had volunteers estimate numerical quantities. Mainly they had people stand in front of the Eiffel Tower on a Wii balance board. The people thought they were standing up straight, but they were either tilted a little bit to the left or a little bit to the right. People gave lower estimates of the height of the tower then they were leaning to the left and they gave higher estimates of the height when they were leaning to the right.
50:57 – The investigation of a 2009 multi-state outbreak of shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli – an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness – led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial pre-packaged cookie dough. Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online, a new report describing the outbreak offers recommendations for prevention, including a stronger message for consumers: don’t eat pre-packaged cookie dough before it’s baked. The investigation didn’t conclusively implicate flower, but it remains the prime suspect. They pointed out that a single purchase of contaminated flour might have been used to manufacture multiple lots and varieties of dough over a period of time as suggested by the “use by” dates on the contaminated product. Flour does not ordinarily undergo a “kill step” to kill pathogens that may be present, unlike the other ingredients in the cookie dough like the pasteurized eggs, molasses, sugar, baking soda and margarine. Chocolate was also not implicated in the outbreak since eating chocolate chip cookie dough was less strongly associated with these illnesses compared with eating other flavors of cookie dough. Eating uncooked cookie dough appears to be a popular practice, especially among adolescent girls. The study author notes that several patients reported they bought the product with no intentions of actually baking it.
15:21 – Ask Amy / Ask Jah-Jah: “ I had a one-night stand with an old college friend two years ago and my boyfriend discovered the truth. He was really, really angry but he said he wanted to put it behind us. I recently found out that I’m pregnant. Although the baby was unplanned, I’m very excited to be a mother. The problem is, my boyfriend wants me to get a paternity test to prove that the child is his. I haven’t slept with anyone else. I know he’s the father. I could easily prove it, but I think that if I have to, something’s definitely wrong with this relationship. I thought that we had rebuilt this trust with each other, but apparently not. I have no idea how to proceed with this and am seriously considering ending this relationship. Signed, Positively Pregnant.
22:23 – “Dear Jah, my mother-in-law died and my husband inherited her daily journals, which she kept in a safe deposit box. Because of this, we assumed she wanted them saved and passed along to her children. One evening I decided to start reading some of them. The bitterness, hatred and racism she expressed on these pages was shocking. She wasn’t at all like this in person. It was as if she was expressing things in writing she never would have said in her daily life. My husband was extremely saddened by this. We put the books in storage because of how upsetting they were. My husband’s sister said she didn’t even want them in the house. We were afraid our children and other younger family members will read these books and this will forever tarnish their feelings about her. We wish we had buried these books with her. What should we do. Signed, Flummoxed.”