View Episode 303
Originally aired 12.27.11
Originally recorded 06.05.11
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3:56 – Middle-aged men in their 40s and 50s are being chased by so many single women since they far outnumber the ladies that they’re suffering from Hotness Delusion Syndrome.
4:56 – Ensure Muscle Health with HMB – a new muscle drink marketed for middle-aged and older adults who are losing strength naturally. Its 13g of protein and HMB will help older folks shore up some muscle strength for their older years.
30:40 – A plastic surgeon has created an app that performs virtual plastic surgery on photos to show women curious about breast implants what it would be like to have a different bra size. The free app called iAugment uses 3D imaging technology to simulate different implant sizes. It allows users to visualize what larger breasts would look like them in a matter of seconds. Dr. Elizabeth Kinsley, a New Orleans-based plastic surgeon, said she created the app to give people interested in breast implants a tool to determine which size would be the best fit. Users choose a new or existing picture and highlight the breast area by clicking on it. Photos are supposed to be taken in a bra, bathing suit or light-colored top to give better results.
18:23 – IN: Bellycasts.
3:25 – Marcia just railed some bath salts so she’s revved up and ready to go. She also drank some almond champagne.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
15:27 – Seth wanted to show Marcia a video on YouTube of a gender reveal party where they send the sex of the baby to the bakery, they have a huge party and then they open the cake box and know whether it’s a boy or a girl from the color of the icing on the cake.
8:28 – Marcia’s plantar fasciitis is very painful. She had it for a year before she did anything about it. It’s worse when she wakes up in the morning because her foot is really tight and she had to walk it off. She saw a podiatrist and got all kinds of equipment to deal with it and wears something to bed after she ices it and stretches it.
10:09 – Seth had a friend who came to California and did a winery tour in Napa. They went to the Wilson Creek Winery and sampled some flavors, then tried an almond champagne that she raved about. She told Marcia that she should go when she goes to visit Seth. Marcia fell in love with it, went back to Massachusetts and then they researched it – the winery would not ship wine to Massachusetts but it can go to New Hampshire, so they had it shipped to a mutual friend in N.H, then smuggled the alcohol across state lines so Marcia and her friend could enjoy it.
13:16 – Marcia is proud of Seth for his nine years of sobriety. She likes coming to LA and having a designated driver. She didn’t have one the night she went to Bar Marmont with Seth and drank butterfly kisses. Seth was driving pretty fast in the truck on the way home.
16:40 – When Marcia’s water broke, she had no car and Seth’s dad was bartending while taking a 10-speed bike to work. In Marcia’s defense, Seth came a little early. She had to call her dad at 3 a.m. and get him to take them all to the hospital.
19:02 – When Marcia first found out that she was pregnant and Seth was due Oct. 7, so on the 7th of every month, she stood in front of the refrigerator and had her picture taken to see the growth.
22:30 – Seth stopped at a Hooters with Josh and Brian in Nashville, Tenn., when they were driving cross-country in 1995. Marcia has never been, but Seth said they should do it – there’s one on Hollywood Blvd. by Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
26:38 – Marcia has noticed that anytime she sees men and women walking down the street holding hands, the woman is always on the outside. When she was growing up she was taught that the woman was supposed to be on the inside.
48:56 – The first two weeks Seth moved to LA, the smog burned his baby lungs and he was given a bronchial steroid at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank.
54:07 – When Seth went to watch the Kentucky Derby at Hollywood Park, he couldn’t believe some of the characters who came into his path. Seth put his money on a horse called Brutally Handsome and made $58.
22:09 – A San Francisco / Bay Area attorney filed a complaint on behalf of the National Organization for Women alleging that the Hooters restaurant chain was violating state and local laws by marketing itself as an adult-oriented business while selling food and products to minors.
31:11 – Google has unveiled an application that allows for customers to use their Android phones to pay for things – it’s called Google Wallet. They can run it like a bar code. By 2014, purchases made on mobile phones is supposed to quadruple to $630 billion of transactions, while Visa and Mastercard process $6 trillion in credit card transactions annually.
35:35 – The Adams Funeral Parlor has been a fixture in Compton since 1974. It has a drive-through funeral home
38:57 – Tactile Mind – porn for the blind. It’s $225 for a book by Lisa Murphy. It took 2 years and $14,000 to make. The pages of the thermoform plastic, consisting of 17 tactile photographs with accompanying Braille text.
46:00 – The sneezing, eye-watering, itchy-throated misery that comes with allergies is on the rise, led by a growing number of Americans allergic to ragweed and mold. A new national study by Quest Diagnostics Health Trends found that sensitization to ragwee and mold has increased 15% and 12% respectively in the last four years. People in the South, Great Lakes states and the Plains are reporting the highest concentration of ragweed.
49:30 – Airworthiness Directives is the name of the new FAA rule that might kill you one day. It dictates that emergency oxygen masks should be removed from lavatories in commercial airplanes in the U.S. The new rule was just made public by the FAA after keeping it secret for a long time in the name of national security. It has already been enacted in 6,000 planes in the U.S. fleet as of March of 2011. Neither the government nor any of these airlines have notified the passengers about any of these changes. According to an FAA note, the oxygen generators are a security risk that could be used by terrorists as explosive devices to take planes down.
54:35 – An online survey of 1,000 Americans was commissioned by Mariott’s Springhill Suites brand. When vacationers children become unruly, the top 3 respones were 15% yelled at their kids, 13% walked away and took deep breaths to calm down and 12% ignored the children altogether. Southerners prefer a deep breathing technique while Midwesterners are more likely to yell. Before traveling, 38% of men get a haircut, while 28% of women do the same. When it comes to personal routines, 24% of Americans from the Northeast said they would not put off shaving during their vacation, while 26% of Southerners would not go without praying.
2:33 – This episode was originally recorded on Sunday, June 5, 2011, and was hosted by Marcia and Seth Romatelli. This is Marcia’s third episode to co-host.
19:46 – Marcia wants to know when tonic changed to soda. She used to call coke and pepsi “tonic.” Dungarees are now called jeans and pocketbooks are now called purses. Grinders are now called subs.
6:25 – People who have a heart attack are likely to be more seriously affected if the attack happens in the morning, reveals research published in the Heart Journal. Heart attacks that occur between 6 a.m. and noon are likely to leave 20% more larger area of dead tissue. A person’s 24-hour clock influences several cardiovascular psychological processes, including the incidences of heart attacks which tend to happen more around the time when a person is waking up from sleep. But what is less known is the extent of damage than it leads to.
14:08 – A report issued by Nielsen said 51% of iPad users use them in bed or in front of their TV.
40:29 – Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have shown that public information readily available to anyone from government sources, commercial databases, Facebook, etc., can be used to routinely predict most and sometimes all individuals’ 9-digit social security number. The government never could have predicted both the population growth and the invention of computers when the system was devised in the 1930s. With just a birthdate and a state of birth, the researchers were well on their way – especially if you were born after 1988. With only a partial number, you can try multiple times to get a CC repeating until successful.
42:01 – Personality can affect longevity. Those with the most optimism and cheerfulness die younger than their less-positive counterparts, U.S. researchers have found. Study leader Howard Friedman, professor of psychology at the University of Cal-Riverside and Leslie Martin, a psychology professor at La Sierra University in Riverside and staff researchers over a 20-year period analyzed data from a study of 1,500 bright children who were about 10 years old when the study began in 1921. Longevity project participants who were the most cheerful and had the best sense of humor are kids who lived shorter lives on average than those who were less cheerful and joking. The most prudent and persistent individuals stayed healthiest and lived the longest.
52:17 – Forget the booze. It’s simply the lack of sleep that causes gamblers to risk more. In a recent Duke University study, researchers polled 29 young adults who had just pulled an all-nighter to find out how sleep deprivation affects decision-making – specifically choices linked to economic gambles. The experts learned that when people are sleep-deprived, they’re more likely to place riskier bets.