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22:21 – Seth introduces this segment, because when he gets on it “shit gets crazy.” Seth found a cordovan (leather from a horse’s ass) chuckaboot (three-quarter high top), then went to “death erections” when people hang themselves. The phrase is also known as “angel lust.” … Sarah Michelle Gellar did a Burger King commercial when she was 4 years old, but her ad agency, J. Walter Thompson, and Burger King, got sued by McDonald’s for declaring there was more meat on BK burgers. … Seth finds 9-minute clips of Frank Zappa on Arsenio Hall that he declares “awesome.” At the end of the interview Arsenio says “Stay tuned for Edie McClurg of The Hogan Family,” and Seth got in his car and drove to clear his head at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Santa Monica
20:48 – Seth was blown away by the Taco Bell commercial Cash did in 1992 and how wack it was. Jah: “Is it about Ring of Fire? Because that’s what I get when I eat Taco Bell.” (21:32) … Seth finds a clip of Morton Downey Jr. as a guest on Wally George, and at the end of it Wally comes around his desk to get in a fistfight with Morton Downey Jr., who gets tackled by security guards. Seth’s faith in the 80s and 90s and YouTube was restored after watching this.
20:59 – Seth learns that Cedric the Entertainer graduated from Seth’s high school, Haverhill High School
22:43 – Seth found a commercial from 1985 on the McDLT with Jason Alexander
21:12 – McDonald’s Filet of Fish was created in 1963 in Cincinnati when a local franchise owner noticed a decline in sales on Fridays when Catholics tend to not eat meat, BK and Wendy’s got in the mix too
10:24 – Seth watches the Diff’rent Strokes episode “The Bicycle Man” on YouTube of Gordon Jump as a pedophile taking Dudley and Arnold in the back of the bike shop to hang out with them. Dudley has his shirt off in the scene
27:22 – Seth spots a clip of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno character dancing with a small Asian man in a Wichita airport for a scene in his upcoming movie. Seth also learns that Bruno duped Ben Affleck in an interview, but Seth doesn’t want to believe it because Affleck’s his boy from Boston
41:59 – Seth goes on YouTube to click on Nirvana videos, and scrolls down to the comments, and sees one that says “Hey, these guys are pretty good.”
22:47 – Seth found a link to a 20/20 segment from 1981 on RapRadar.com. It referenced “the new sound of the 80s” that is “all beat and all talk.”
15:19 – On Newscientist.com, a professor was studying male and female anatomy, and had a couple perform intercourse under an MRI scanner, took the photographs and created a video out of it. You could watch boning down MRI. … Seth also saw a video of a guy interviewing a Scientology member and taking him to task and the SciTi kept speaking in SciTi gibberish.
12:12 – Seth found a website that showed what websites started the first day they started. He found Google in 1996, The Facebook in 2004, the New York Times in 1995, Wikipedia in 2001, YouTube in 2005 and Craig’s List in 2005 – which looks exactly the same.
44:31 – Seth is on the computer all the time and every week he’s reading about female teachers being inappropriate with young men. He wants to know if it happened before the internet and we didn’t know about it, or if it is a recent phenomenon. Jah says that if any dude would’ve hooked up with a teacher, it would’ve been him, and he didn’t do it. He hit on teachers and he was boning at a young age. Jah thinks it’s evolution, because we’re getting developed at a younger age.
22:20 – Seth saw a video on TMZ of a play on Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman. They’re playing present-day Chicago beat cops. Seth gives Daniel Craig a pass but can’t resist hammering Jackman. On the video on TMZ, somebody’s cell phone goes off in the play and Jackman stays in character, saying “Answer the phone! Just answer it!” One of Jackman’s lines is “Hey, you gotta problem wit the bottle, and I gotta problem wit my mouth!” Seth thinks Jonathan would come off more believable as a Chicago cop than Hugh Jackman. Jah is disappointed in Daniel Craig because he thought when he was first coming up that he would be the best thing ever, but he’s not thrilled with the way he’s carried himself since the start of the new Bond movies. Jah declares Jackman a fruit.
11:31 – Seth visited the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, and they had a 40-page PDF, which is the Voluntary Guidelines for Methamphetamine Laboratory Cleaning. So basically if you have some spare time to voluntarily clean the meth lab next door to you, go for it: After the structure has been vacuumed with a hepafilter vacuum, conduct a “once-over,” or precursory washing of the walls and floors to cut contamination using a detergent washer solution.
12:00 – Seth gets lost on the monsterweb and finds a 1992 movie starring Christian Slater called Kuffs featuring the tagline, “When you have attitude, who needs experience?” Seth discovers that in San Francisco, they have something called the Patrol Special Police – private security officers overseen by the SF Police Commission who are paid by local merchants whose property is protected. They roll around in weird cruisers with weird badges. They were founded in the 1800s in response to the lawlessness during the Gold Rush.
21:56 – Seth discovers the term “alienation of affection” – a legal action brought by a deserted spouse against a third party alleged to be responsible for the failure of a marriage. It’s typically the adulterous spouse’s lover. The law was abolished in 42 states by 1935, but is still on the books in Hawaii, Illinois, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Mississippi, New Mexico, Utah and South Dakota.
12:49 – Jah discovered that on YouTube you can search recordings of people channeling the spirit world.
0:53 – Seth learns more about circus peanuts, then talks about learning about the origin of Lucky Charms. In 1963, General Mills VP John Holahan was having breakfast cereal and found that circus peanut shavings over his cereal yielded a tasty enhancement to his breakfast. General Mills formalized this and started Lucky Charms.
4:53 – Seth visited the ABC News website, specifically the “ABC News Vault” from January 1979, where they profiled a Video Cassette Recorder: “There are close to 600,000 currently in U.S. homes. You can buy The Sound of Music for $75!” They were also talking about cable news channels that would be entering the mainstream. They showed a family sitting in their family room in Sacramento watching a newscast of a weather report from Chicago, and they were enthralled by this.
10:03 – Renowned actor Gene Hackman is going to turn 80 very soon. Seth discovers that he made a movie with Ray Romano in 2004 called Welcome to Mooseport and hasn’t been acting since.
26:39 – Seth visited the Avatar forums and browsed some of the threads he found there: “Jake and Neytiri: Who will be an authority in this relationship?” … “To what extent would you go to steal Neytiri from Jake?” … “Would Neytiri be as attractive if played by another actress?” … “Post your most beautiful pictures of Neytiri” … “My favorite Neytiri quality…” … “? Neytiri’s pregnancy” … “Could Neytiri breathe our air?” … “How much does Neytiri weigh?”
2:40 – Seth went onto The Consumerist website, where a gentleman from San Francisco wrote in. He heard about this from a cashier at a local McDonald’s and said it’s getting a cult following in San Francisco: 1) Go to McDonald’s right when they’re transitioning from their breakfast menu to their lunch menu (10:30 a.m.). Order one of the remaining Egg McMuffins from the breakfast menu but also order a McDouble since the lunch menu’s now open. 2) Take the egg and the Canadian bacon from the Egg McMuffin and put it on the McDouble. The guy at the register said that people call it the Mc10:35 because that’s pretty much the only time you can make it. 21:00 – There’s a guy on QVC, Dave Venable, who joined the network in 1993, who Seth suspects of being bona fide gay. He typed his name in Google and ended up on a blog called “Hope Shopping Queen.” There were pics of him a few years ago looking ripped on a cruise, and all the comments were similar to “I’d fuck that power bottom.”
42:18 – Seth reads an article on the Daily Beast that talks about guys looking at less-slickly produced pornography, because they prefer stuff that looks real or might be real. It talks about guys going onto Facebook just to look at pictures of their female friends, co-workers, girlfriends’ friends, etc., to get the fantasy going and ramping/amping it up.
7:23 – Seth didn’t watch the American Idol finale but he did watch videos of other people watching the finale and losing their minds when it was announced. One large woman screamed, “My life is ruined!” Jah says if they truly believe that, then he has no choice but to agree with them. Jah asks Seth if it’s weird that he resists watching these kind of videos the day after something like a finale where everyone’s watching them and laughing at them.
10:10 – Seth and Jah saw the Chris Klein (Episode 012, 28:08) Mamma Mia! audition tape and wondered how there wasn’t one leaked every single week. He wanted to see Ryan Philippe and Dane Cook in a tent together auditioning for Brokeback Mountain.
8:52 – Seth was in a Wikipedia K-hole this week (A “W Hole) and found out Bill Maher has never won an Emmy but Ernest has won an Emmy from a kid’s show he hosted on CBS in 1989. He looked at the 1989 Emmys, which were hosted by Jonathan’s father at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
36:47 – Seth went back to Friendster this week because “Friendster emphasizes genuine friendships.” The problem was the latest post of everything Seth scoured through and read was from July 2007. Somebody posted “Are you going to that party?” Jah wonders what would happen if we had a UYD mass exodus to Friendster.
26:25 – Dan Aykroyd has a younger brother named Peter Aykroyd who was a member of the fifth season of Saturday Night Live. Seth can’t wrap his mind around the concept of how unfunny that guy is.
10:07 – Seth was on a Dallas newspaper blog and read about The Beef Jerky Outlet in Garland, a suburb of Dallas. He ended up on their website and saw all the crazy jerkies they had – ostrich, kangaroo, elk, alligator, antelope, wild boar, pheasant, etc. For dessert they have cherry cheesecake popcorn. They have t-shirts for sale and one of them said PETA: PEOPLE FOR THE EATING OF TASTY ANIMALS. Another one said VEGETARIAN: ANCIENT TRIBAL SLANG FOR THE VILLAGE IDIOT WHO CAN’T HUNT, FISH OR RIDE.
44:10 – After looking up information on the bondage club that burned down, Seth ended up on some crazy sites that included a girl taking two steps and kicking dudes in the nads and they were like “Yeeeaaaahh!” Seth was like “No. No. No.”
18:53 – Stigmatized property in real estate is a home where a murder, suicide or possibly paranormal activity has taken place. In general, “absent specific inquiry about the incident from the prospective purchaser, there is no duty for the broker to affirmatively disclose any information.”
1:12:55 – Jah begins to read from Wikipedia: The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested – often by destroying mechanized looms – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt was leaving them without work and changing their way of life. It took its name from Ned Ludd. The movement emerged in the harsh economic climate of the Napoleonic Wars and difficult working conditions in the new textile factories. The principal objection of the Luddites was to the introduction of new wide-framed automated looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labour, resulting in the loss of jobs for many skilled textile workers. The movement began in 1811 and 1812, when mills and pieces of factory machinery were burned by handloom weavers, and for a short time was so strong that Luddites clashed in battles with the British Army. Measures taken by the British government to suppress the movement included a mass trial at York in 1812 that resulted in many executions and penal transportations. The action of destroying new machines had a long tradition before the Luddites, especially within the textile industry. In modern usage, "Luddite" is a term describing those opposed to industrialization, automation, computerization or new technologies in general.
28:05 – Seth goes to Wikipedia to look up Giovanni Ribisi because he’s trying to figure out the name of a shitty movie with him and Ben Affleck. He finds out he’s 35 years old and that he owns a 3D company that worked on Avatar. Turns out the movie was Boiler Room starring Vin Diesel.
27:52 – Seth looked up Nia Vardalos, the star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which came out in 2002. She wrote and starred in the romantic comedy film with a budget of $5 million. It made $241 million. She then had a CBS sitcom based on the show that lasted seven episodes. She wrote and starred in a movie that came out last year (2009) also starring John Corbett called I Hate Valentine’s Day. It made $11,000.
37:21 – Online penny auctions have been around for a while – you buy packs of bids for a sum of money and then bid on items a penny at a time. Every time you bid it costs you 60 cents plus you bid on the initial pack of bids. The one person who wins gets the awesome deal. There’s about 25 different sites on the internet where you can do this.
50:28 – Volunteer readers at the Houston-based nonprofit Taping for the Blind read everything from daily newspapers to Playboy. Seth read an article about a woman who reads everything in a Playboy. The woman painted a picture for blind men with her audio: “She is a Latina. Brunette, with dark chocolate-brown eyes. She has long curly brown hair. She is in the first photo sitting in the ocean. She has a very large grin on her face. Pink lipstick. She has a small tattoo right over the small of her back, over the dimple area that appears to be some sort of tribal design. Her legs are kind of crossed. She is sitting in the water. Behind her shoulder, down past her arm, you can see her breast peeking out. There are no tan lines at all. She is not wearing any nail polish, or jewelry, or bathing suit, or anything.” Asked later why she mentions nail polish, she replied “Sometimes it’s all they have on.” She said describing Playboy models doesn’t get repetitive: “Each one is different. Each one is like a little snowflake. There are different poses or scenarios or features or attributes. Whatever is there I try to describe what I see so they get a picture in their head.” J-dawg says he wants to do a version of this on UYD since they have blind listeners.
50:45 – A woman wrote an essay for Salon.com about insisting that her 3-year-old and 7-year-old daughters watch her give birth at home to their new little brother. “I wanted them to know everything. I told and re-told their birth stories. I described Beatrice’s hangnail at her birth and how during Francis’ birth I crapped all over the floor.” During this birthing session, one of the children yelled out “Is mommy OK?” She was naked, sweating, crying, screaming and bleeding, and was looking at her children saying “This is totally normal.”
12:46 – There’s a movie in theaters right now called Conviction. It stars Hillary Swank and Sam Rockwell. Seth looked it up to find out more. It’s a true story about Kenneth Waters. He was convicted of murder and armed robbery and sentenced to life in prison in 1983 when he was 29 years old. He maintained at the time that he did not do it, and his family maintained innocence, etc. In a random 5-day trial, they brought up the fact that when he was 10 years old he broke into the woman’s house and was sent to reform school because of it. The blood found at the crime scene was the same blood type as his. His sister, Betty Anne (played by Swank), was a high school dropout but put herself through law school because she wanted to spend her life trying to get him out of prison. She spends 18 years researching the case until finally she finds a box of evidence with her brother’s name on it sitting in the courthouse basement. It has the knife from the incident and pieces of clothes found at the crime scene that have dried-up blood on it. It’s now 1991 and they have DNA, she brings it to the Innocence Project, a team of people help her out and DNA tests prove that he wasn’t at the scene and was working a double-shift at his restaurant like all his co-workers corroborated. He’s released in 2001 after 18 years in Walpole, Mass., maximum-security prison. He’s 49 years old. The first thing he does is get out, get a corned beef sandwich and go to town on it. He goes to Starbucks to check it out, he gets a cell phone, etc. Six months after he gets out, he has dinner at his mom’s house and is walking to his brother’s house after dinner, takes a shortcut, falls off a 15-foot wall, fractures his skull and dies.
34:36 – Elle magazine is celebrating their 25th anniversary. They put a video on their website of attractive actresses and models, talking about memorable birthdays in their lives and talking about what it meant as a milestone. Leonardo DiCaprio’s supermodel girlfriend, Bar Refaeli, is doing her video testimonial, and says “Twenty-five looked really, really old. I remember when I was 14, I had a boyfriend who was 25.”
50:26 – Jah tries to guess what huge artists or records that came out in 1986 would have led to believe the former version of himself that he would be on his couch 25 years later still hearing about this artist in pop culture. Seth says it’s Men at Work, while Jah chooses Terence Trent D’Arby. This prompts Seth to look up 1986 music and pontificate.
53:39 – Seth reveals his findings, many of which are followed by J-Dawg singing clips of their music: Miami Sound Machine, “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and The Range, “There’ll Be Sad Songs” by Billy Ocean, “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys, “True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper, “Two of Hearts” by Stacey Q, “Word Up!” by Cameo, “All I Need Is A Miracle” by Mike & the Mechanics, “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” by Jermaine Stewart, “Who’s Johhny?” by El DeBarge, “Invisible Touch” by Genesis, “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, “Hip To Be Square” by Huey Lewis & The News, “Dancin’ On The Ceiling” by Lionel Richie, “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits, “Holding Back the Years” by Simply Red, “What You Need” by INXS, “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” by Janet Jackson, “Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer, “Secret Lovers” by Atlantic Star, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” by Wang Chung, “Human” by Human League, “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco, Mister Mister, Prince & The Revolution, Whitney Houston, “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne and Friends, “Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money, “Life In a Northern Town” by The Dream Academy, “Love Touch” by Rod Stewart, etc. Jah wonders why “In A Big Country” by Big Country isn’t on the list.
1:04:16 – Now Seth wants to explore the music landscape of 1987 since that was his senior year of high school. He looks up “Faith” by George Michael, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston, “La Bamba” by Los Lobos, “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship, “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany, “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” by the Georgia Satellites, “Heart and Soul” by T’Pau, “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House, “Lookin’ For A New Love” by Jodi Watley, “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael, “Head To Toe” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, “Land Of Confusion” by Genesis, “Should’ve Known Better” by Richard Marx, “Touch Me (I Want Your Body)” by Samantha Fox, “I Heard A Rumor” by Bananarama, “Luka” by Suzanne Vega, “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” by Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine, “When Smokey Sings” by ABC, “Something So Strong” by Crowded House, “Doin’ It All For My Baby” by Huey Lewis and The News, “Wipe Out” by The Fat Boys and The Beach Boys and “Respect Yourself” by Bruce “Bruno” Willis.
23:20 – Jah proves to Seth during the show that Lou Ferrigno and Steven Seagal have joined a posse in Arizona to crack down on illegal immigrants.
44:12 – Seth was reading the Bay Area Hip-Hop Dictionary, and discovered the phrase “flight to Boston,” which is getting head from a girl.
1:06:42 – Seth reads about Sherpas, who are actually an ethnic group that originated in Tibet and migrated to Nepal. They’re known for their reliability and endurance and are valued as porters and guides for climbing expeditions like Everest and K2. 38-year-old Pemba Sherpa moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1990 – the first Sherpa to do so. Since then it’s been a Sherpa party in Boulder.
13:13 – After doing some research, Seth realizes that there has never been a movie called Field Trip. Jah was confusing it with Road Trip.
52:35 – Jah looks up You, Me and Dupree to see that it stars Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson (Episode 073, 11:41).
56:05 – Seth learns that a citizen’s arrest is an arrest made by a person not acting as a sworn law enforcement official. In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval Britain in English common law. Each state, with the exception of North Carolina, permits citizen’s arrests if the commission of the felony is witnessed by the arresting citizen – or when a citizen is asked to assist in the apprehension of a suspect by police. The application of state laws varies widely with respect to misdemeanors, breaches of the peace and felonies not witnessed by the arresting party. American citizens do not carry the authority or enjoy the legal protections held by police officers and are held to the principles of strict liability before the courts of civil and criminal law, including but not limited to any infringement of another’s rights.
1:00:03 – Seth finds that John Cusack was born June 28, 1966. He’s going to be in a thriller upcoming in 2011 called The Factory produced by Robert Downey Jr.’s lover and distributed by Warner Bros. In the movie, a cop is with his partner on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, NY. But when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer. The movie was shot in Montreal and wrapped filming in 2008. The release date has been pushed back numerous times. It was recently pulled from a Jan. 28, 2011 release and hasn’t been rescheduled. Cusack will then be playing Edgar Allen Poe in an upcoming movie called The Raven. In that movie, a serial killer challenges Poe to solve a series of murders based on his stories.
4:15 – Seth cites a 19-page Wikipedia page to report on the Rajneeshee bioterror attack in Dalles, Oregon in 1984. There was a 53-year-old Indian mystic guru cult guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (now known as Osho) who died in 1990. His followers deliberately contaminated salad bars in 10 different restaurants with salmonella, sickening 751 people. The liquid salmonella was called “salsa.” The goal was to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that the group’s own candidates would win a local county election. It was the first and largest bioterror attack in this nation. Osho believed in meditation, love, celebration, creativity and humor. When Seth read that, he thought that sounded like his friend Jah. Osho’s quote: “Die each moment so you can be new each moment.”
1:07:38 – Seth looks up “phrenology,” the pseudo-science primarily focused on measurements of the human skull based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. It was especially popular from 1810-1840. Following the materialist notions of mental functions originating in the brain, phrenologists believed human conduct could be understood in neurological rather than abstract terms.
38:06 – Jason Mraz and Tristan Prettyman are both accomplished singer/songwriters. They dated in 2005-2006 and were madly in love. She ‘opened’ for him on some tours. Rumor has it they broke up in 2006. She went on a tour with G. Love and supposedly dated him. G. Love had a song in the 90s called “Cold Beverage.” G. Love was on vacation in Paris in November when he announced his engagement to Sarah Rabby Frigo. Then, this week, Mraz and Prettyman announce that they are engaged on Twitter.
40:09 – Rachel Weisz separated from her director/boyfriend Darren Aronofsky. They’ve been together since 2001 and have a kid. She’s now dating Daniel Craig.
41:02 – Scott Rosenberg – a screenwriter from the Massachusetts area who wrote Beautiful Girls, Con-Air and High Fidelity dated the beautiful actress Bridget Moynahan for three years, and she dumped him to go out with Tom Brady. Moynahan was pregnant with Brady’s daughter when he dumped her for Gisele Bündchen.
12:24 - R.J. Reynolds is a company based in Winston-Salem, N.C. Their brands include Camel, Kool, Winston, Salem, Doral, Eclipse, Export A and Pall Mall. There are some brands they still manufacture but no longer receive marketing support for. Seth thinks he and Jah need to pick one of these brands and start smoking them because they would be super fresh: Barclay, Belair, Capri, Carlton, GPC, Lucky Strike, Misty, Monarch, More, Now, Tareyton, Vantage and Viceroy. Seth chooses Terryton.
19:21 – Somebody told Seth to look up an ABC News close-up from 1979 called “Mission: Mind Control.” It was an exposé about CIA and Army intelligence using LSD and such in experiments. Some of them went “operational,” or rogue, to branch out in their experimental paperwork. One soldier’s mission was to “peel back his brain.” They interviewed him after the experiment and he broke down while covering up his face. Seth’s mind was peeled back when he watched the commercials from that broadcast including Michelob Light, Grape-Nuts and Maxwell House coffee.
30:35 – Jah gets on his browser to look up acoustic psychology. He can’t find anything. Then, later (32:19), the only acoustic psychologists he has found are consultants for car companies.
55:55 – Jonathan explains that before the show they were re-visiting past segments from the show, in particular the Craigs List straight bro-on-bro sports fans who like to jerk each other off to straight porn. He came across a new genre of dorm-room setting type porn that had a Girls Gone Wild feel to it. The lights were on and the girl was getting banged out by a dude, and the dude was performing his fuck steeze and getting coaxed and critiqued by the other guys coming in the room. The other men were more focused on what the guy was doing than what the girl was doing, although the girl was putting on a show of her own as well. It was almost like a performance with dub-step playing in the background, but it was too set up to be fully amateur.
26:41 – Seth tries to figure out what the name of the movie was with Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda, where he gives her a winning lottery ticket as a tip. At 30:39, Seth discovers that it is It Could Happen To You (1994), a rom-com that is the story of a NYC police officer who wins the lottery and splits his winnings with a waitress. It also stars Rosie Perez, Isaac Hayes and Stanley Tucci.
32:34 – The Garbage Pail Kids movie was a live-action film adapted from the popular series of children’s playing cards. It came out in 1987. The film depicted many of the Garbage Pail Kids played by dwarf actors in costumes.
50:39 – Bain de Soleil is a brand of sunscreen produced by Merck. The name Bain de Soleil is French for “sun bathing.” The brand is known for low-SPF products that are typically marketed to women seeking skin tanning. Current product lineup includes: Orange Gelée and Spray Transpâre. In the 1920s, the famous, trend-setting Coco Chanel, sporting deeply sun-bronzed skin, turned tanning into a fashion statement. In 1925, capitalizing on this fashion trend, Monsieur Antonine of Paris developed an Orange Gelýe dark tanning formula called “Antoine de Paris.” The Orange Gelýe formula continued to thrive in Europe into the 1940's when [Lanvin], a New York based company introduced the silky sensuous gel in the United States as Antoine's Bain de Soleil...translated as Antoine’s bath of the sun.
23:17 – Seth looks up Billy Bush to find out what his story is. He finds out that he has 3 daughters and George W. Bush is his cousin.
57:09 – Seth looks up the synopsis for Terminal Velocity mid-show and finds that it’s a 1994 movie starring Charlie Sheen. Seth also looks up the synopses for Timecop and Freejack.
24:42 – Seth loves his baby videos. His new baby jam is babies in car seats crying and bouncing around, but they’re instantaneously calmed by music. Seth loves the sub-genre of them being calmed by hip-hop music.
10:58 – Seth does some digging on Richard Grieco and discovers that he goes by @JusticeOutlaw on Twitter and has 355 followers.
38:44 – Seth looked up “jawn” on Urban Dictionary, and discovered that it’s “a word used by Philly cats to describe anything and everything.”
30:19 – A “plumper pass” is like a Fast Pass at Disneyland except it’s only for chubby girl pornography on the internet. Jah claims it can be purchased for approximately $20 a month.
43:08 – Jah thinks about Strange Days, so Seth looks it up. It was a cyber-punk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow that came out in 1995. It features Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Angela Bassett, Ralph Fiennes and Vincent D’Onofrio. It’s garnered a cult following over the years for its dystopian and cyber-punk themes.
26:11 – Judge Judy makes $45 million a year
3:01 – Seth saw somebody on a Domino’s website building his own pizza to be delivered, and he acted like it was no big deal.
7:21 – Jah plays “Can A Drummer Get Some?” with Lil’ Wayne and Travis Barker for Seth
8:01 – Seth wants to know how many people the Hollywood Bowl holds, so he looks it up on Wikipedia. It has a seating capacity of 17,376 people. Seth then looks up The Greek Theatre, which holds 5,700.
13:59 – Jah looks up Lil’ Jon’s real name – Jonathan Mortimer Smith
26:14 – Seth looked up Pleasures’ sex toy website. Their stores have three drive-thru lanes.
5:50 – If you’re in front of a computer, Seth wants you to go to MissingMoney.com and Unclaimed.org.
53:38 – Seth reads about the Mongols motorcycle gang. They were formed in the 1970s by a small group of Latinos who were reportedly rejected by the Hell’s Angels. They have a super-dope logo with a ponytailed man and Fu Manchu riding a bike. They get rowdy. One of the guys who was recently indicted was the former president, Ruben “Doc” Cavazos. He registered and trademarked the logo, and because they used that while engaged in illegal activity, the FBI is trying to own the rights to the logo and insignia. Jah wants to know what the Hell’s Angels are up to.
25:05 – Seth saw something on The Gothamist about a boy, his dad and his grandfather having lunch at a Taco Bell in Long Island. The boy complained that his soda smelled bad and was beginning to make him feel totally nauseous. The boy’s father then decided to take the foul soda to a police station. There, police officers smelled the soda and immediately became sick. The Taco Bell was then shut down by police and a haz-mat crew was called to check the place out. A camera crew from CBS 2 caught the unit sanitizing countertops and other items to ensure everything was safe. Locals expressed shock that the Taco Bell was closed. After several hours of cleaning, the Taco Bell reopened to an incredibly long line of people who had just been sitting there waiting for it to reopen.
15:16 – Jah brings up the movie Problem Child. He remembers the kid being a live Chucky, and he wants to know who the kid was and what he’s up to. Jah looks up the movie that came out in 1990: “A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.” It starred Jack Warden, John Ritter, Gilbert Gottfried, Amy Yasbeck and the child is Michael Oliver. Oliver is the half-brother of Luis-Daniel Ponce from The Hogan Family. Contrary to his most-known character, Michael was not a problem child at all. He was a very laid-back child and very intelligent. One of his favorite pastimes was reading Omni magazine. As of June 2009, he was working as a crew member for the music groups The Samples and Nural.
25:13 – Seth looks up a bunch of cover bands for Steely Dan.
17:17 – A felon’s claw is a written stroke made by the human hand that goes below the baseline. It resembles a claw and curves downward while you’re writing.
1:00:59 – Jah looks up “Karma” in Hinduism online and explains the definition to Seth.
25:35 – Seth found a viral video of an MTV News report about the internet from 1995. Coolio talking about “the information superhighway” and David Bowie saying he’s “on it.”
21:09 – Seth went on Yelp to look at McDonald’s reviews. He originally went on there to read a review of someone he knows who had mad shit talked about them. Seth reads a few reviews: “You know, they only get the 1 star because I can’t give them zero stars. Really I’ve learned not to expect too much from this place, but it’s either them or the overpriced Carl’s Jr.” … MK from the Pico Union: “Four stars. Not bad.” … Nicki C. in Silver Lake: “Two stars. I’m sitting here eating my cheeseburger and I just realized they forgot to put a pickle on it. Am I going to send it back? No, but I’m still unhappy. A cheeseburger has to be one of the easiest things to make here.” … Mary G in Pasadena: “One star. Man I hate this place, but it smells good. I’m allergic to wheat. Everything at Mcdonald’s has wheat in it, even the fries. Jerks. I am doing anything but loving it. It does smell good though.” … Aisha A. in West LA: “Two stars. Lame.” … Russ N. in Silver Lake: “Three stars. Typical McDonald’s. The only bad thing is that you have limited options on which way you can turn because you can only turn right when you exit.”
27:55 – Patrick Dempsey is a 45-year-old actor. When he was 21 years old he had a breakout year in 1987. He was in Can’t Buy Me Love. That same year he released In The Mood, the true story of a man named Ellsworth “Sonny” Wisecarver Jr., aka “The Woo-Woo Kid.” He became infamous in the 1940s for having two different affairs with married women while he was in his teens. In real life, Dempsey had an intimate sexual relationship with his manager, who was also the mother of his best friend. Her name was Rocky Parker, and she was 48 years old at the time. They got married that year. They were married seven years. They divorced when he was 28 and she was 55.
43:34 – Seth and Jonathan look up “mogul.” It means important, powerful, influential. Also a mongol or a Mongolian. A steam locomotive having two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels and no rear truck.
33:55 – Canada has tiers of driver’s licensing. They have multiple tests. Stage 1 is for young drivers (no restrictions, but you must be in the car with someone who has a Stage 2 or Stage 3 license, and you can have zero BAC). Stage 2 licensees are allowed to have 2 ½ Molsons and drive unaccompanied. Stage 3 is a highway test and you can be piss drunk.
44:21 – The Tetris Effect occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images and dreams. People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street. The effect can also occur with any prolonged visual task, such as classifying cells on microscope slides, weeding, picking or sorting fruit, flipping burgers, driving long distances or other sensory modalities.
43:36 – Seth found a video of a dude putting a grape in a microwave – it turned into a plasma-like ecto futuristic DMT space continuum time warp.
42:21 – Criss Angel is 39 years old. Ben Affleck is 39 years old. The Rock is 39 years old.
21:36 – On Lifehacker, a guy took a sponge and snipped a hole in the side of it and hangs it on the arm of the faucet so your sponge isn’t lying on the countertop collecting germs. Seth learned about sponging and how it can consume one. In January of 2007, the Journal of Environmental Health said to put your slightly wet dirty kitchen sink sponge in the microwave for 2 minutes and it will kill 99 percent of the pathogens. Jah also thinks you should boil your toothbrush.
10:17 – Seth was on People of Walmart and found a girl who had the sickest style. She was being made fun of but she was wearing jean leg warmers – skinny jeans cut at the knees.
15:50 – Jah looks up clergy. It’s a generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion.
34:54 – Southside Sacramento is pretty raw and they call it “SouthSac Iraq.”
41:15 – Seth went to Todd Wilbur’s website. He found Outback Steakhouse’s tangy tomato dressing. He found teryaki sauce from Island’s soft tacos.
32:16 – Jah and Seth typed in “Japanese creepy robot” and watched every video about them on YouTube.
38:23 – Seth went on the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader website to check out the cheerleader blogs. He went under “Girl Talk” and the heading “Planning a Wedding.” He read about 4-year vet Casey Trammell planning her big day and read the comment from rusty79 wishing her and her future hubby the best and telling her to make God the center of their marriage.
34:05 – Yelp! reviews of Taco Bells in Los Angeles: Magnolia Blvd. at N. Hollywood: Laura D gives it 1 star: “I don’t recommend it. This is not authentic Mexican.” … Priscilla M gives it 2 stars: “I really don’t know what’s so special about this place.” Donny M gives it 3 stars: “Just another average Taco Bell.” From the one on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks – Phillip gives it 1 star: “12 minutes in the drive-thru for uncooked rice and burnt chicken? I don’t think so.” … Dave T gives it 1 star: “Annoying! Typical Taco Smell!” … Michelle K gives it 1 star: “Totally disappointed in this place and the food.”
14:22 - According to Wired magazine, the 5 foodstuffs most photographed on Flickr are 1) desserts, 2) vegetables, 3) poultry, 4)meat, and 5) bread.
1:01:05 – Jah looks up the Whatchamacallit commercial jingle on YouTube.
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.
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.
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
34:32 – Jah reads some dope Springsteen lyrics to his song, “Reno.”
8:53 – Jah learns that the rights to Candlestick Park were licensed to 3Com from September 1995-2002 for $900,000 a year.
53:14 – Newsweek’s The Daily Beast had an article about how American Chinese food is being sold back in China. Fortune cookies are not a thing in China. The biggest fortune cookie producer in China can’t really distribute them in China. They have instructions on how to open them so people don’t eat the whole thing and choke on the paper. They try to make them for a high-end market in China so people will use them as gift items for weddings, graduations, etc. They made a fortune cookie for Thanksiving – a holiday not celebrated in China. One of the fortunes read THANKSGIVING IS A TIME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I LOVE YOU. Another said NO BIG DEAL. I’M HAPPY ENOUGH. I’M FORREST GUMP.
20:01 – Jah looks up grapefruit season, which typically runs from October-June. Peak season is January-June. 33:28 – Jah looks up a statistic. In 2008 and 2009, Facebook was growing somewhere in the region of 600,000 or 700,000 per day. So 1 million Myspace signups in a month isn’t that big of a deal.
4:54 – The Ritz Carlton in Dallas, Texas, has their very own guacamologist.
44:29 – Jah explains that he wants to look something up because he wants to give it the right name. He doesn’t want to talk about it now because it will be 10 minutes of people getting mad at him because they know what he’s talking about.
55:51 – Jah circles back and says he can’t find what he was looking for online. It had to do with an underground pagan facility that he was told about. A cult built it in 1978 in Italy under the facility that the cult was living in. They managed to do it and not let anyone know, and once it was discovered they had to shut down construction immediately because it wasn’t sanctioned. When they went inside, the work was so insane that they allowed them to pull permits and be retroactive and finish it. They’re a weird new age neopagan cult that named it after an Egyptian city.
1:04:58 – Jah finally redeems himself by reading from a 2007 article in the UK Daily Mail: Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque. But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed. Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World' by the Italian government. For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away. Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet. Few have been granted permission to see these marvels. Indeed, the Italian government was not even aware of their existence until a few years ago. But the 'Temples of Damanhur' are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock. It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples. Around these he dreamed there lived a highly evolved community who enjoyed an idyllic existence in which all the people worked for the common good. More bizarrely still, Oberto appeared to have had a supernatural ability: the gift of "remote viewing" - the ability to travel in his mind's eye to describe in detail the contents of any building. "My goal was to recreate the temples from my visions," he says. Oberto - who prefers to use the name 'Falco' - began by digging a trial hole under his parent's home to more fully understand the principals of excavation. But it was only as he began a successful career as an insurance broker that he began to search for his perfect site. In 1977, he selected a remote hillside where he felt the hard rock would sustain the structures he had in mind. A house was built on the hillside and Falco moved in with several friends who shared his vision. Using hammers and picks, they began their dig to create the temples of Damanhur - named after the ancient subterranean Egyptian temple meaning City of Light - in August 1978. As no planning permission had been granted, they decided to share their scheme only with like-minded people. Volunteers, who flocked from around the world, worked in four-hour shifts for the next 16 years with no formal plans other than Falco's sketches and visions, funding their scheme by setting up small businesses to serve the local community. By 1991, several of the nine chambers were almost complete with stunning murals, mosaics, statues, secret doors and stained glass windows. But time was running out on the secret. … Retrospective permission was eventually granted and today the 'Damanhurians' even have their own university, schools, organic supermarkets, vineyards, farms, bakeries and award-winning eco homes. They do not worship a spiritual leader, though their temples have become the focus for group meditation.
1:04:30 – Seth uses Classic Mapquest. He doesn’t like the new look of the new Mapquest. He just Googles the classic one to access it.
40:45 – ‘NSync and Backstreet Boys – one of these bands sold 37 million albums in the United States and one band sold 28 million. Jonathan guesses correctly that the Backstreet Boys sold more. Seth then goes over the top-selling bands of all time: 1) The Beatles – 177 million, 2) Elvis – 134.5 million, 3) Garth Brooks – 128 million, 4) Led Zeppelin – 111.5 million, 5) The Eagles – 100 million, 6) Billy Joel – 81.5 million, 7) Pink Floyd – 74.5 million, 8) Elton John – 72 million, 9) Barbara Streisand – 71.5 million, 10) Michael Jackson – 71 million.
48:38 – HD Guru wrote to Samsung about their smart TVs that have speech recognition and facial recognition software on them. They wanted to know if people on the other end were able to watch people in their living rooms, but got no response when asked.
41:47 – Jonathan looks up the history of Caesarian sections.
1:09:10 – Seth visited the State Department’s website (travel.state.gov) and asked if there were any concerns about traveling to Guatemala. He was told that child stealing is a problem. Jonathan’s mom had seen that same advisory and asked Jonathan about it after he had already arrived there.
30:17 – Seth had a panic attack after watching the Dr. Scholl’s “gellin’” commercial that took place at a wedding on YouTube.
38:18 – Seth goes through the generations. The Greatest Generation was born 1901-1924; The Silent Generation was born 1925-1945; Baby Boomers are 51-66 years old; Generation X is 31-50 years old; Generation Y or Millenials is 13-30 years old. Seth considers Jonathan to be an “Xcennial.”
3:24 – Seth guesses that Hugh Hefner is 85 years old, so Jonathan proceeds to look it up and finds that he was born in 1926, so he’s 86.