View Episode 308
Originally aired 01.31.12
1:09:59
8:08 – UYD: Bait Life
15:11 – March 11 on Bravo, brought to us by Ryan Seacrest, the premiere of Shahs of Sunset, a new reality series about 6 young Persian American friends living, laughing, learning and loving in Los Angeles.
30:14 – 20/20 had a story on cruise ships. Apparently below the water, the crew quarters get rowdy. Open bar, after hours, late night, underwater sex orgies.
35:01 – Drugs Inc. did ketamine. It’s never a good sign when you see that it was developed as a battlefield anesthetic in Vietnam. It shuts off the nervous system so there’s a complete disconnect and you enter into another dimension.
55:47 – Cold urticaria – you can develop a release of chemicals called histamines. You go out into cold weather and red itchy hives arrive minutes after exposure. Swollen hands after holding a cold beverage. Swollen lips while eating cold foods.
57:56 – Jah thinks he has adult onset diabetes from all the sugar he drinks. He’s thinking about keeping a food blog so he can monitor his caloric intake.
12:25 – Taco Bell has struggled this past year but is now staking its hopes for a turnaround on new menu items, including Firstmeal. This is a breakfast lineup as well as tests of healthier fare to try to compete with more upscale rivals. Taco Bell is an Irvine chain that serves mostly Mexican-style meals. They will roll out an 11-item roundup of classic American breakfast options next week in 750 restaurants in 10 different states including California. This includes Cinnabon Delights, breakfast burritos, Johnsonville sausage n egg wraps, Tropicana orange juice and Seattle’s Best coffee. The restaurant is also testing Cantina Bell menu at select restaruants, including one in Bakersfield. This could position it as a stronger competitor to the fast casual Mexican restaurants like Chipotlé. These more health-minded offerings will feature grilled-corn salsa, black beans, marinated chicken and others.
36:39 – Seth recalls doing ketamine in Pasadena. (Episode 082, 51:35)
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
8:53 – Jah learns that the rights to Candlestick Park were licensed to 3Com from September 1995-2002 for $900,000 a year.
Crazy Things Dudes Say While Boning Down
5:04 – An open invitation to keep these submissions rolling in via the UYD voicemail
1:03:34 – Seth re-requests to ladies to submit nominations for crazy shit guys have said whilst in the pursuit of trying to see the live twins.
24:44 – When Jah and Seth flew back from Seattle, no one was happier than Seth. Jah peaced out and went to sleep because there were 50 empty seats on the plane.
33:23 – When they were coming back from Seattle, the turbulence was very mild, but Seth thought about going full Muslim so he could get back on the ground.
36:39 – Seth did a bump of K. He doesn’t know why. He was in Pasadena sitting half in his Chevy Cheyenne truck and half on the sidewalk. He was hating it. Seth’s friend was doing a job interview in Pasadena and Seth was his driver, parked outside the restaurant freaking out. It was a Tuesday at like 3:30 p.m. (Episode 082, 51:35)
37:52 – On April 20 Seth will be 10 years sober. Jah remembers getting 10 years sober and being floored when it happened. Seth thinks he’ll go out to Joshua Tree and get a tattoo of his cat Joshua to celebrate.
38:46 – Backstage in Seattle they lined up the booze for Seth and Jah. Seth couldn’t believe it. Fifteen minutes before the show Seth is having a heart attack. He looks over at Jah, who is texting, laughing, drinking tequila and eating Thai food with chopsticks. Seth stopped eating at 11:30 that day when he had a soy yogurt.
46:42 – Jah’s friend has some coffee that he gets from Colombia that is so strong – it beats any of the espresso shots he’s ever had.
1:00:48 – Jah watched the new Conan the Barbarian a few days ago. There were demons and swordplay and his dad was played by Ron Pearlman. If anyone can get through the first 10 minutes where Conan baby gets cut out of his mother’s womb dying on the battlefield and Ron Pearlman lifts it up to the sky, then you’re golden.
3:55 – February is National Wedding Month
6:17 – During the NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, members of the SFPD were dressed up in New York Giants football garb to keep an eye on crowds and fans that can get unruly. Seth refers to this as “bait fans.”
9:56 – The New York Giants won the NFC Championship Game against the 49ers. 50 Cent bet $500,000 on the Giants to win. He claims he’s going to bet $1 million on them. If he loses, he’s going to tweet a picture of his dick.
10:53 – Birdman is so confident that the New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl because BenJarvus Green-Ellis is his nephew. He wants to put up $5 million on the Pats.
16:51 – For every minute that passes in real time, 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. That’s 5 months of video every hour and 10 years of video every day. More video has been uploaded to YouTube every month than there’s been broadcast by the big 3 TV networks in the past 60 years. The pace is accelerating. Last year the rate was only 48 hours per minute. William Blake once wrote something about seeing a world in a grain of sand and seeing eternity in an hour. YouTube has not reached that point but it’s well on its way. It gets 4 million page views a day which adds up to 1 trillion a year.
19:17 – Seth gives an overview of Liam Neeson’s movies The Grey and Taken, and then drops the bomb that filming has begun on Taken 2.
32:28 – After 30 years of giving passengers spiritual words to reflect on while they eat their meals, Alaska Airlines is retiring the prayer cards from its meal trays. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Eagan said the decision was made after hearing from customers who preferred not to mix religion with transportation. She said the cards began as a marketing ploy to differentiate the regional airline from its competitors. The cards offer a rotating message of different Psalms from the Old Testament. They are a Seattle-based company.
39:46 – USA Today reports that in 2009, 13% of gun owners were women. In 2010, 15% were women. In 2011, 23% were women.
41:17 – Bubba Watson is a professional golfer. He is 33 years old and bought the Lee I for $110,000 at the Barrett Jackson Automobile Auction. This is the 1969 Dodge Charger General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard. It’s the model that was used in the TV series’ opening credits that jumps Roscoe P. Coltrane’s police car. It was completely destroyed in the jump and then rebuilt.
44:42 – The world famous Philippe’s French Dipped Sandwiches in downtown LA has been serving 10-cent cups of coffee since 1977. On Thursday, the price will jump to $0.50 a cup ($0.45 plus $0.05 tax)
23:02 – Even when buying airline tickets, timing seemingly is everything. Passengers can get the lowest airfare if they buy 6 weeks before their flight, according to a study done by Airline Reporting Corp in Arlington, Va. This company handles ticketing transactions between the nation’s airlines and travel agents. The study looked at millions of transactions for airline tickets over the last four years and found that passengers paid the lowest price – nearly 6 percent below the overall average fare – if they buy 6 weeks before their flight. The study also showed that ticket prices begin to soar dramatically about a week before the day of travel and can rise nearly 40% above the average price if passengers buy the ticket on the day of the flight.
48:43 – Gossiping is bad, right? Not so fast. Spreading information might have some positive effects such as lowering stress, if it’s the right type of gossip. A study found that the way people gossiped about four experimental settings led to constructive outcomes. The scenarios involved observing others playing a game in which cheating took place. Volunteers had the opportunity to pass “gossip notes” to warn players about the behavior. In one scenario, volunteers heart rates went up when they witnessed cheating, but after passing the notes their heart rates went down. Researchers from UC-Berkeley used the term “pro-social” gossip to describe people warning about deceitful behavior observed in others. It’s different from the type of rumor-mongering we do when we’re talking about the bad behavior of celebrities, although let’s not count that out as a good times. The study was published online this month in the journal Personality and Social Psychology.
51:33 – People often view the last moments of an event positively simply because they signal the end of the experience, says University of Michigan researchers. Even if the experience is painful or negative, but concludes on a pleasant note, people will consider the event a more positive experience, says Ed O’Brien, a graduate student in the U-M Department of Psychology. Endings are powerful,” he said. O’Brien and colleague Phoebe Ellsworth, the Frank Murphy Distinguished Professor of Law and Psychology, conducted a chocolate tasting experiment with 52 college students to test the theory. Volunteers could sample five different Hershey's Kisses chocolates (milk, dark, crème, caramel and almond), but did not know in advance how many pieces they would eat or the type. Participants rated how much they enjoyed the chocolate and described each flavor so that the researchers could record the order in which the randomly pulled treats were eaten. Volunteers were randomly assigned to the “next” or the “last” condition. In the “next” condition, the experimenter said, “Here is your next chocolate,” before offering each chocolate, including the fifth. For the “last” condition, the experimenter said, “Here is your last chocolate,” before offering the fifth chocolate. These participants rated the fifth chocolate more enjoyable than volunteers in the “next” condition. As predicted, participants who knew they were eating the final chocolate of a taste test enjoyed it more. In fact, when asked to pick their favorite chocolate, the majority of “last” participants chose the fifth—even though the flavor of the fifth was randomly chosen. They also rated the overall experience as more enjoyable than volunteers who thought they were just eating one more chocolate in a series. O’Brien says these findings may have far-reaching implications. For example, the last book in a series or last speaker in a symposium may receive unwarranted praise simply because they are at the end of a series. The last job applicant may look more qualified. The findings appear in the current issue of Psychological Science.
26:13 – Ask Amy / Ask Jah. Traditional writes: “My wife and I are having a conversation about how our children, ages 6 and 4, should address adults. I maintain that our children should call adults by their last name, and my wife contends that they should call adults by the name they want to be called. I think it is confusing to young children and that parents should have the say and not someone else. I’m hoping you can settle this between me and her.”
59:48 – If Seth got his hands on the arsonist, he would throttle him. He doesn’t want to sound too much like Mark Wahlberg though when he threatens this.