View Episode 305
Originally aired 01.10.12
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50:40 – UYD: Larvae, pupate, imago.
11:09 – The 38th People’s Choice Awards, honoring the very best in popular American culture for 2011, will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theater in downtown LA on CBS on Wednesday, Jan. 11, hosted by The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco. For the category Favorite Male Comedic Actor, the finalists are Adam Sandler for Just Go With It, Ashton Kutcher for No Strings Attached, Bradley Cooper for [The Hangover: Part II, Ryan Reynolds for The Change-Up and Steve Carell for Crazy Stupid Love. For favorite band, the nominees are: Maroon 5, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
22:55 – Oprah’s Next Chapter – she went to Steven Tyler’s lakefront home in Lake Sunapee, N.H., and they got down to brass-tacks, nuts-and-bolts. They talked about “energy charges” and “receptors,” etc.
31:50 – Thursday, Jan. 12, 9 p.m., Animal Planet, a six-episode series: Snake Men of Appalachia. This follows the lives of the Shorts, an extraordinary Appalachian family with deep roots in the serpent handling religion. The series captures the family’s every-day life as they struggle to escape the grinding poverty of eastern Kentucky mountain life while still remaining true to their roots. Together, parents Verlon and Reva are raising two daughters – 16-year-old Denishia and 13-year-old Petey and 8-year-old twin boys, Jeremiah and McKenzie. Verlon attends serpent-handling churches, disappears into the mountains for snake hunts and keeps more than 40 rattlesnakes and copperheads for use in religious services. Reva hates snakes and doesn’t want to be anywhere near them – another struggle for the Shorts and their quest to survive in the mountains of Kentucky.
56:09 – Nike Vapor Strobe Glasses – usually used by high-performance athletes, it blinds your left eye at any second – it’s supposed to train football players to focus on the ball.
Games That Jonathan and Seth Play
12:27 – If Jah were on a desert island and had to bring the entire catalog from one of these 5 bands (Maroon 5, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and The Red Hot Chili Peppers), he’d have to bring the Chili Peppers. But if he had to take the worst record of all of them it would be the Coldplay record. He would not be able to sit on the island with Linkin Park’s lowest-selling album. He just figured Coldplay’s would be the easiest way to a death. He could cry along with the songs by day 4 and be dead by week 2.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
46:25 – Seth watched the viral video of the twins communicating with each other and it creeped him out – it’s lethal, cloaked, secret shit
47:32 – What about tweeeeins?!
16:45 – Seth’s “desk” is a bedroom side table from J-dawg’s first apartment he moved into when he was 18 years old in Park La Brea. At this point, Seth begins to realize that this table – in which he has photos of his brother, father and grandfather – has housed Jah’s blood, semen and lubricants and has been fucked on by Jah following a Fishbone show. Jah’s dresser is in Seth’s bedroom. He has had that dresser since Jah was 14-15 years old living in his parents’ house in Malibu. Seth reveals that Eric Szmanda of CSI gave Seth a bookshelf he still uses.
29:35 – Jah was in Toronto over the holidays, and in the senior assisted living building that Jah’s wife’s grandmother lives in, they walked in on an orderly in his 60s who had been fucking Alzheimer’s patients there for years.
40:45 – Jah watched videos yesterday of the run of college girls posting madly crazy racist shit and putting it on Worldstar Hip Hop and other places. Looking at their faces and realizing that when that girl is 40 years old, she’ll be able to look back at the heinous shit she did in her past and it will live on forever. Her lowest, lamest most desperate moment will be encapsulated on the world wide web. Jah has at least 22 of these throughout the duration of his time on the show, but at least it’s a voluntary thing within the context of the show. These people don’t understand the world yet and others are going to have to deal with their terror in the future.
50:41 – Jah remembers his parents going to a fundraiser when he was in high school for a rainforest preservation group in some fancy house in Brentwood with a bunch of actors. They showed a movie that included a beetle that has a parasite that takes over its brain to the point of being able to control it, then steering the beetle to a certain species of tree in the rainforest that is particularly tall and slender, walks up to the top of the tree and then the head explodes and shoots the parasite’s larvae out among the rest of the rainforest to further infect the foliage.
14:55 – The national retirement age was set at 65 years of age in the year 1935. In that year, life expectancy was roughly about 61.7 years. Life expectancy in the year 2012 is just above 78 years.
34:31 – January 2012 is National Oatmeal Month
36:02 – In Trenton, N.J., two chemicals considered harmful to babies remain in Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo sold in the U.S., although the company already makes versions without them in it, according to a coalition of health and environmental groups. The coalition is now urging consumers to boycott Johnson & Johnson baby products until the company agrees to remove the chemicals from its baby products sold around the world. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has unsuccessfully been urging the world’s largest health care company for 2 ½ years to remove the trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing chemicals dioxane and a substance called quaternium-15 that releases formaldehyde from Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, one of its signature products. Johnson & Johnson said it is reducing or gradually phasing out the chemicals. Johnson & Johnson clearly can make a safer shampoo in all markets around the world, but it’s not doing it.
44:37 – 1 in every 30 babies born in the U.S. is a twin – an astounding increase from the last three decades. In 1980 it was every 53 babies. Women are waiting until their 30s to have babies and for an unknown reason mothers in their 30s are more likely to have twins.
4:29 – These are your final days to purchase tickets for the UYD show in Seattle (1/13 at the Neptune Theater)
19:00 – Flushing the toilet with the lid up can spray diarrhea-causing bacteria into the air, according to a new study of hospital toilets. Researchers detected c difficile – a germ that can cause diarrhea and even life-threatening inflammation of the colon – nearly 10 inches above the toilet after flushing lidless hospital toilets. C difficile is frequently found in hospitals and long-term care facilities, where antibiotics are common. The highest numbers of c difficile were recovered from air sampled immediately after flushing. It then declined eightfold after 60 minutes and a further threefold after 90 minutes, the researchers reported in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection. C difficile was spotted on surrounding surfaces 90 minutes after flushing, with an average of 15-47 contaminated toilet water droplets landing in the nearby environment, according to the study. “Lidless conventional toilets increase the risk of c difficile environmental contamination and we suggest that their use is discouraged, particularly in settings where c difficile infection is common.” Although the study focused on hospital toilets, experts say the findings extend to public restrooms and households. “Almost everywhere we go except in some public spaces we have lids on our commodes, but not everyone puts them down when they flush,” said Dr. William Shafner, chair of preventitive medicine at Vanderbilt University. “Doing so will reduce this type of environmental contamination very substantially.” In an episode of Mythbusters in 2004, they found lidless toilets did indeed spray water onto surrounding surfaces, including toothbrushes. They also found the health risk was negligible. “Control” toothbrushes removed from the restroom during the flush were speckled in fecal bacteria. Seth concludes that you should only go to the bathroom outside.
39:44 – Blogging may help teens deal with social distress. It may have psychological benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, it will improve their self-esteem and help them relate better to friends, according to a study published in the American Psychological Association.
47:54 – A new study published in the peer-reviewed online medical journal PLOS-1 says men and women have large differences in personality.
48:38 – Scientific American is reporting of a discovery of zombie honeybees in northern California, which may provide a clue in the theory of colony collapse disorder (Episode 166, 1:04:51). The parasitic phorid fly has been found to use the honeybees as hosts. Laying their eggs inside of the bees, the bees then begin to act strange, almost zombie-like, venturing out of their hives at night and moving aimlessly in circles before eventually dying. Then 7 days later, up to 13 phorid larvae emerge from each dead bee and pupate, the final insect stage before adulthood – imago.
5:47 – This was in the monthly Health section of the Los Angeles Times: “My doctor always washes his hands before an exam, but he never seems to wipe down his stethoscope. This makes me nervous. Should I ask about the stethoscope?” People’s Pharmacy says, “Stethoscopes can carry all sorts of nasty bacteria. We too wonder why doctors are so scrupulous about washing their hands and they seem less concerned about clearning their stethoscopes. We recently learned about a clever new device called ‘Clean Stethoscope’ that could make this process safer. After every exam, the provider slides the bell of the stethoscope into a holder that attaches magnetically to the shirt or white coat. The sponge insert is moistened with a disinfectant to kill germs and is replaced daily.”
7:21 – Ask Jah-Jah: “I work in a field that requires some travel and while traveling with the company owner 20 years my junior, she requires that I share a hotel room with her. She has no sense of personal boundaries. She’ll leave the bathroom door open while using the toilet and yell comments to me that not even my husband does this. She also parades around the room in her thong and tries to discuss her dating and/or sex life with me. I’m usually hiding under the covers at this point, claiming to be tired. When I asked for my own room recently, she said it wasn’t in the budget and she has to be careful with travel costs for the company. She also wants to share room service breakfasts. She’ll order one entrée for us to share and a pot of coffee. I made the in-room coffee and said that gave us a little extra room to work with and I’d like to get my own breakfast, but she said she did not like the in-room coffee. I would rather go out to a less-expensive coffee shop and order what I choose to eat, but I’m locked into her preferences. She once suggested I should stay with her brother when I travel to another city in order to save money. I refused. Oh, did I mention she bought a million-dollar home this year? I’m actively seeking other employment, but for now I’d really appreciate some advice.”