View Episode 304
Originally aired 01.02.12
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37:17 – Dick Clark hosted a series of seven specials called TV Bloopers on NBC from 1981-1984. That morphed into TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC from 1984-1988. This fall, Dick Clark Productions is bringing back the franchise with Bloopers – a new half-hour syndicated series.
38:32 – Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 8:30 p.m. on ABC – the series premiere of Work It. Kind of like Bosom Buddes, which ran for two seasons (80-81 and 81-82) on ABC.
39:56 – Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. on ABC – Celebrity Wife Swap with Gary Busey and Ted Haggard. On Wednesday, Jan. 4, switch over to CBS at 8 pm.. for I Get That A Lot with Pamela Anderson working at a Victoria’s Secret, Jerry Springer behind the counter at an Italian deli and Dr. Drew working at a LensCrafters.
52:25 – Moonshiners on Discovery is Seth’s jam.
3:18 – Seth wonders about the newfangled electric toothbrushes everyone’s getting into. He uses a standard toothbrush but people tell him you can never be as good as a machine. Seth has decided to dip his toe into the water and do half and half.
51:41 – Theraflu Max D – for severe cold and flu. It’s OTC, but in little fine print it said “Prescription Only in Oregon and Mississippi.”
56:00 – Drug companies are working to develop a purer, more powerful version of a highly abused medicine which has addiction experts worried it could spark a new wave of 2012 abuse. The new pills contain the highly addictive painkiller hydrocodone but packs 10 times the amount that an existing vicodin would have. A company in San Diego called Zogenix has applied to start marketing the product next year under the name Zohydro. If approved, it would mark the first time patients could legally buy pure hydrocodone. Existing products take the hydrocodone but combine it with the non addictive painkiller acetominophen. Critics are worried because Zohydro is a time-released drug meant for severe pain.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
14:20 – Jah looks up Autoclaves, which subject equipment to high pressure saturated steam at 121 degrees Celsius for about 15-20 minutes.
42:53 – Seth found a clip on people using an escalator for the first time in Algeria and Uzbekistan and not knowing how to deal with it.
9:33 – On Jonathan’s plane ride, he watched about 15-20 minutes of Contagion. It wasn’t as awesome as he wanted it to be, but there were some sequences that got his blood rushing and made him think we’re all dead.
11:09 – Seth’s mom shone so bright this week in Episode 303, but Seth has been telling her that her satanic ritual of using neti pots is like playing with father.
25:16 – Jah’s dad bought and sent Jah a download link for Louis CK: Live at the Beacon. It was only $5 a download via PayPal.
5:05 – Proponents from the AIDS Health Care Foundation gathered 70,000 signatures – far exceeding the 41,000 required – to put the Adult Film Workplace Condom Initiative on the June ballot in Los Angeles. This proposal, if passed, would require all adult film actors to wear condoms in all sex scenes.
7:45 – The month of January is National Bath Safety Month
10:19 – The Louisiana State Health Department has issued a warning about the dangers of improperly using nasal irrigation devices, aka neti pots, responding to two recent deaths in the state that are thought to have resulted from a brain-eating amoeba entering the victims’ brains through their sinuses while they were using these devices. Both victims are believed to have filled their neti pots with tap water rather than manufacturer-recommended distilled or sterilized water. When they use these pots to force the water up their noses and flush out their sinus cavities, a treatment for colds and hayfever, a deadly amoeba living in the tap water worked its way from their sinuses into their brain. The parasitic organism infected the victims brains with a neurological disease known as PAME. This rapidly destroys neural tissue and typically kills sufferers in a matter of days. Jah thinks everyone should turn to autoclaves.
14:15 – A year after introducing Riverdale’s first gay character, Kevin Keller, Archie Comics will show Kevin’s marriage to his boyfriend, Clay Walker. The issue will hit comic book stores on Jan. 4 and newsstands on Jan. 10.
18:02 – Barefoot driving is legal – even on a motorcycle, but that does not mean it’s a good idea.
20:10 – Seinfeld is doing a live show at the Pantages Theater on Hollywood and Vine. He’s going to do Friday, March 16 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 17 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $89 with a $14.55 fee for a total of $103.55. Total capacity of the Pantages is 2,691 seats – for $278,653.05 per show for a grand total of $1,114,612.20.
46:19 – Couples only have until Friday, Jan. 6 to apply online to be one of the 10 engaged couples to be married in the Nude on Valentine’s Day 2012 at Hedonism II resort in Negril, Jamaica. No children are allowed. The definition of hedonism is (n.) the pursuit of pleasure. The ethical theory that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life. Everything you’ve heard is true – the legends, the rumors, the myths – all true. For 30 years Hedonism Resorts have enjoyed a reputation for shattering inhibitons and provokig the kind of behavior people don’t talk about in polite circles. It’s what happens when you combine warm water, white sand beach, open bars and open minds. This is about as far as you can get from your everyday life. And best of all, just about everything you can eat, drink, fuck and smoke is included.
31:46 – A study shows that persistence pays off in the mating game. In Austin, Texas, a new study co-authored by a UT psychology professor suggests that self-deception may help men succeed in the mating game, while women will benefit more from effective communication. David Buss, professor of psychology and psychology grad student Judith Easton – both of UT-Austin, conducted the research with Williams College psychologist Carin Perlioux, senior author of the study. The findings will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. The research, conducted at The University of Texas at Austin, involved 103 female and 96 male undergraduates who were asked to rate their own attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 7 before participating in a "speed-meeting" exercise in which the students had three-minute, one-on-one conversations with five members of the opposite sex. After each conversation, they rated the other person's physical attractiveness and perceived sexual interest. Participants were also assessed for their level of desire for a short-term sexual encounter with each person with whom they interacted. Men looking for a "quick hook-up" were more likely to overestimate a woman's desire for them, researchers found. Men who thought of themselves as attractive also overestimated a woman’s desire for them. Indeed, the more attractive the woman was to the man, the more likely he was to overestimate her interest in him. Men who were actually considered attractive according to the women's rankings did not seem to have this discrepancy in evaluating the situation. Interestingly, women tended to show a bias opposite that of most men — they consistently underestimated men's sexual interest in them. In terms of human evolution, it is likely that ancestral men who overestimated their appeal to women and pursued them — even at the risk of being rebuffed — were more likely to reproduce and pass along this tendency to "over perceive" to genetic heirs. The research suggests that women should be as communicative and clear as possible, while men should consider that the more attracted they are to a woman, the more likely they are wrong about her interest.
42:06 – Taking the stairs instead of the elevator – it won’t just make you more fit, it may also save you time. This study was only done with four people. They pitted stairwalking against elevator riding to see which mode of transporation took longer and which produced more fatigue. The participants made 14 trips of various lengths by going up and down stairs at a normal pace in a seven-story building and by using two banks of elevators. The trips were made at different parts of the day and on different days to get a cross-section. The average stair trip took 13.1 seconds compared to 37.5 seconds from one of the elevator banks and 35.6 seconds for the other. Most of the extra time for the elevator riders was spent by people waiting for them. The stair takers saved almost 15 minutes per day – no difference in fatigue was seen between the groups.
27:04 – “Dear Jah, I was divorced a year ago after 19 years of marriage. Like most divorces, it was very difficult. But my family has insisted on continuing a very close relationship with my ex. In fact, my sister and her family are taking a trip with my ex-husband, his new girlfriend and our new daughter. Among other things, I feel it’s far too soon to be taking my daughter on a trip with his new girlfriend. My family knows my feelings and knows this is extremely hurtful to me but they see nothing wrong with it. In fact, my mother said to me, ‘I don’t see the problem, you’re divorced.’ Am I missing something here?” Jah says yes, the family isn’t down with you.
21:00 – Seth hammers Jerry Seinfeld for making $1 million off one weekend of shows.