View Episode 307
Originally aired 01.25.12
1:11:39
11:04 – UYD: Bulgogi is the new Pad Thai
16:52 – Seth watched Drugs Inc. on NatGeo. An agent was undercover as a biker in what they call the Psychedelic Triangle (Santa Cruz – Berkeley – The Haight) and had long hair and a beard. He shaves quickly and nicks up his face and neck, and then they went into the lab to break it down and the hallucinogenic drugs were seeping through his open wounds.
21:08 – Seth watched Season 11 American Idol and Randy Jackson said, “Do people say that you can sing?”
37:44 – ABC has canceled Work It, Seth’s favorite buddy show, after two episodes.
1:03:38 – In the first episode of the 2007 Fox reality show The Academy, which followed a class of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department recruits, Henry Marin was portrayed as the class bumbler. On the first day he was caught by his supervisor dozing during orientation. “If he doesn’t have the discipline to come here on Day 1 and show some respect,” says one drill instructor on the show, “then he’s certainly not going to have the discipline to work in the field of law enforcement.” In another episode the deputy has a wardrobe malfunction. “What is wrong with you, recruit?” his drill sergeant shouts. “Your tie’s on backwards on top of your collar. You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Henry Marin’s subpar performance eventually led to his ouster from Academy Class 355 for flunking two role-playing exercises. In one he failed to call for help after a suicidal woman brandished a gun and he was unable to recall the radio code for an emergency. “You blew this one bigtime,” his instructor said. After he failed his second scenario, Marin was dismissed from the academy. “You seem to have no knowledge or understanding of the laws that guide you or allow you to do certain things,” a sergeant tells him on the show when he was let go. “Marin successfully fought to be reallowed in to enroll in a later academy, where he finally successfully graduated,” a department spokesman said. “He certainly wasn’t one of our best.” Earlier this week, Marin was charged in connection with a scheme to smuggle heroin hidden inside of a bean and cheese burrito into a LA courthouse jail. He pleaded guilty at the scene after surrounding to deputies at the sheriff’s south LA station.
4:22 – The 91st Miss America Pageant was held at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. 53 women between the ages of 17-24 competed. The winner was 23-year-old Laura Kaeppeler from Kenosha, Wisc., whose father spent 18 months in jail for mail fraud. Lara Spencer from GMA was one of the judges. In the final portion of questions, she asked “The divide between Democrats and Republicans seems to be getting wider and nastier. Do you think Miss America should be free to declare her political affiliation?” The answer was: “Miss America represents everyone, so I think a message to the political candidates is they represent everyone as well, and so … in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs and I think Miss America needs to represent all.”
6:52 – Joe Biden was at a private fundraiser in San Francisco and wanted to pump the crowd up right before the San Francisco 49ers-New York Giants NFC Championship game, so he said “This weekend, the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl!” Biden was supposedly referring to the San Francisco Giants baseball team?
37:10 – Dan Evans, 76, passed this week. He was the founder of Cracker Barrel. He died in Lebanon, Tenn., the original home of Cracker Barrel.
18:30 – Jah asks Seth if he ever came across microdots – little baby pills of LSD that were popular when they were younger. He said nobody talks about them anymore but he remembers people saying so much about them before he knew what they were.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
34:32 – Jah reads some dope Springsteen lyrics to his song, “Reno.”
10:33 – Jah is a fan of Korean food, but he’s only been hip to it for the past two years or so because he befriended a Korean.
11:26 – Seth got a phone call from an EMT who said they were loading an older gentleman into an ambulance in a shady neighborhood while being verbally assaulted by people on the sidewalk. A woman came up and screamed in his face, “You ain’t nothin’ but the fake-ass po-lice!”
54:07 – Seth went to Gas Works in Seattle, a beautiful park. He walked through bushes that weren’t really bushes, and he thought he might have a tick bite.
57:52 – Jah has a friend who got into a situation recently. He got busted by his girlfriend for corresponding with several former flames.
1:09:26 – Jah met Axl Rose last week. Not only did he meet him, but he bitched out when he first saw him and ended up following him to another store in order to talk to him. He was on foot with his dogs and stalked him for a block and went into another store. For 10 minutes he had no idea who this dude was, and then he looked up and smiled and Jah said “Holy shit that’s old Axl.” He realized he had actually met him once, at a Mobil station on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and the PCH. Those were the dark days when no one had seen him and he was wearing cornrows and a Kevin Smith hockey jersey. The Axl that Jah saw the other day was a dope old-ass happy man, with a beautiful girlfriend, covered in giant black diamond jewelry and a Johnny Cash cowboy hat. Jah made up a weird shitty story that didn’t quite make sense when he was a kid, fudged it and turned red and made Axl laugh, then J-dawg beelined it out of there.
8:12 – There was a conviction in Santa Ana this week. A city intern was convicted on Thursday of secretly videotaping men in a restroom in City Hall with a cell phone. Miguel Ruiz Fabian, 24, pled guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct by unlawful viewing and has been sentenced to 6 months in jail and 3 years’ probation. Fabian, who was an engineering student at Cal Poly-Pomona and interning the time at the Public Works Department for the city, recorded men using the restroom in Santa Ana City Hall and the City Hall Annex 64 times over the span of 23 days. Prosecutors said that Fabian would enter the bathroom stall, put his phone on the floor and record men in adjacent stalls.
10:07 – There were 206,000 feet of exhibits at this year’s Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. 17,000 attendees visited 1,300 booths to learn the future of specialty foods in the U.S. They learned that Korean food is the new Thai food.
25:53 – January is National Blood Donor Month
32:10 – A babe. A band. A brawler. Kia Motors hopes these three elements combined will make its Super Bowl ad stand out above the rest. Kia has enlisted supermodel Adriana Lima, rockers Motley Cure and MMA fighter Chuck Liddell for its 60-second ad that will air during the Super Bowl for the Kia Optima Limited. The idea is for one man’s wildest fantasy to come alive. Michael Sprague, Kia Motors America head of marketing and communications, says, “As we dream at night, our true desires come out.”
42:46 – Burger King is testing a delivery service at several of its locations. You must live within 10 minutes of the store to qualify. It’s a $2 service charge for the delivery. Breakfast foods are not included.
2:42 – Jah and Seth thank everyone who came to join them last week up in Seattle.
13:35 – The average age car and truck in America has reached the oldest age since the Polk Research Firm started detailed records almost 20 years ago. The aveage age is about 10.8 years
27:36 – Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have found internet searches for flu information to correspond with emergency room visits in Baltimore – a sign that Google flu trends may be a better tool for predicting outbreaks than the CDC reports upon which hospitals usually rely.
39:33 – A research paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior concludes that the mere anticipation of interacting with a woman can temporarily impede a man’s mental abilities. In one experiment, casually mentioning a female’s name instead of a male’s was sufficient enough to impair men’s cognitive performance. In another, a brief instant messaging exchange was enough to do the trick. Moreover, these effects occur even if the men do not get information about the woman’s attractiveness.
51:03 – Camping is on the decline in the U.S., primarily because Americans say they don’t have enough time for the outdoors, according to a new report on camping trends in 2010 and 2011. The report, sponsored by camping gear manufacturers and private campground operators, found that 40 million Americans went camping for a total of 515 million outings in 2010. That’s a 10-percent drop from 2009. When asked why there were fewer trips, 43% of people blamed the lack of time from work and school commitments, and 33% said family commitments kept them from camping.
55:27 – Ask Stacy / Ask Jah. Psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser, author of How to Be a Grown-Up, offers smart advice to readers with relationship problems in USA Today. This is the first in an occasional series. She believes in consideration, comfort and compromise. “Dear Stacy, Six months ago I started an e-mail flirtation with a former boyfriend. We dated in high school but now he lives in a different town. My husband’s a musician and works a lot. I was lonely. My husband found my computer open and read my chain of e-mails. He was devastated. I felt really bad. The e-mails weren’t sexual, just flirty, and I’ve apologized and ended the contact. I don’t even have the guy’s contact information anymore. My husband just keeps being mad. I keep saying I’m sorry and I wouldn’t have done it if you were home more. I love my husband and I want my marriage. My friends say time will heal it all. Do you agree? Is there anything I can do?”
28:45 – Seth heard the new single from Bruce Springstreen, “We Take Care of Our Own,” on the internet. It sucks, and Seth tells us how much it sucks.