View episode 300
Originally aired 12.05.11
1:10:23
1:01:35 – UYD: Whatever it is, whatever it was, Whatchamacallit.
24:57 – Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 10 p.m.on the Discovery Channel – Moonshiners. It will have another episode on Wednesday, which will be its regular timeslot. We’ll meet Tim the Moonshiner, Tickle the Sidekick, Jesse the Law, and will be introduced to late great Appalachian moonshiner “Popcorn” Marvin Sutton. To avoid a prison term at the age of 62, he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
45:16 – Jah understands there is a drug problem, but a bigger problem than drugs themselves are addictions in their entirety. People can be addicted to so many other things besides drugs. If you were to legalize drugs within the country and control them and allow people within this country to grow, process and be compensated for the cultivation of those drugs, you would probably be able to generate enough income to not only fix the deficit but also seek a solution for addiction in its entirety. If free drug trade and cultivation were allowed through governments, you would fix the global economy as well.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
1:01:05 – Jah looks up the Whatchamacallit commercial jingle on YouTube.
7:43 – Some Grandparenting 101 submissions to UYD – a lady’s baby had an ear infection, and her mother swears by the old technique of blowing cigarette smoke into the ear to help clear up the infection. … Also, a sip of red or white wine to help the baby sleep.
11:37 – Seth buys 1 or 2 lottery tickets a week. He buys Super Lotto and Mega Millions tickets. It’s just a dollar, in good fun, and there’s a certain excitement. He does a quick pick and is the first one to touch it after it comes out of the machine.
15:27 – Jah has picked up a new skill that he’d maybe like to utilize for a couple people – jewelry making.
47:50 – A fellow plane passenger of Jah’s had a conversation with him about drugs. She explained that the brain produces dopamine, and she had gone to a seminar that dealt with its production in the brain. We as humans can’t go more than 2 hours without doing something that causes a release of dopamine in our brain. If we don’t do that, we begin to slip into a state of depression within about 2 hours. Our lives are structured the way they are to stagger our day and give ourselves dopamine. The catch is that nothing in itself creates dopamine. We create it in our brain by experiencing something that we believe gives us relief from suffering.
5:29 – City workers in Echo Park drained the lake in Los Angeles. It was last drained in 1984 for the Olympics. The 2011 drain included 7 shopping carts, 6 skateboards, 3 boomboxes, 20 frisbees, 20 park trash cans, 36 construction cones, 1 payphone and 2 guns.
10:09 – The month of December is National Bingo Month.
11:12 – Second Life has relegated all their adult-oriented stuff into a red-light district in Second Life. It’s compartmentalized into a porn world within Second Life.
14:34 – It’s the season of regifting, a tried and true old holiday tradition.
33:46 – Quorn is a line of meat substitutes. It’s showing to possibly cause gastrointestinal distress and may even cause a life-threatening allergic reaction. This is according to the Center for Science and the Public Interest, a non-profit based in D.C. It’s a microprotein that’s included in the cylindrical roast. Since 2002, the Center has found more than 500 complaints from the U.S., including vomiting, diarrhea, fainting and blood in the stool and hives.
50:02 – According to the National Greeting Card Association, Americans will send 1.5 billion Christmas cards this year. That’s down from 2.7 billion in 1995. On Valentine’s Day, 144 million cards are sent. On Mother’s Day, 133 million are sent. On Father’s Day, 94 million. Easter, 57 million. Halloween, 20 million. Thanksgiving, 10 million. St. Patrick’s Day, 8 million.
55:30 – The USPS is releasing limited-edition 44-cent stamps produced and sold by PETA that will have a cornucopia of famous vegetarians such as Bob Barker, Pamela Anderson, Woody Harrelson, Joan Jett, Pythagorus, Ghandi, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, etc.
56:48 – In Revere, Mass., there is a candy company called NECCO that made a trillion candy wafers in 8 flavors – orange, lemon-lime, clove, chocolate, cinnamon and wintergreen. They thought the legendary chalky sugary candy would appeal to a modern health-conscious consumer if they started using all-natural ingredients such as cabbage and beets instead of using coloring and flavoring they previously did. They have experienced tremendous opposition, both in e-mails, letters, phone calls and sales, and have decided to go back to the original formulas.
4:52 – Jah says Episode 300 should be the introduction of the third entity on the show, which is the zany voice guy.
18:29 – Firefighters are more likely to be hurt exercising than while operating on the fire ground, according to a study in the journal Injury Prevention. It found that physical exercise, patient transport and physical training activities were responsible for a greater percentage of injuries than fire ground operations. Firefighting and EMS work are inherently dangerous, and the two combined have one of the highest rates of injuries and deaths in any profession. This is according to a writeup in the Science Codex. The injury prevention study looked at data for injuries sustained while at work for 21 fire stations in the metro Tuscon, Ariz. area in 2004 and 2009. Nearly 33 percent of all injuries – most of which were not deemed serious – occurred during mandatory exercise during the workers’ shift.
22:01 – Researchers from the University of Washington and Aalto University in Findland are one step closer to developing a contact lens that may one day allow you to see words displayed over your regular field of vision. Potential for applications for this developing technology include navigation and gaming and also the ability to display short e-mails and texts over one’s field of vision. In a study published in the November issue of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the paper’s authors explain the lens would receive data through an antenna that is embedded right inside of it. The contact lens also has a tiny silicone power harvesting and radio integrated circuit, metal interconnect, insulation layers and a very small transparent sapphire chip, containing a custom-designed micro LED.
52:00 – “Subcutenous Penile Insertion of Domino Fragments by Incarcerated Males in Southwest United States Prisons: A Report in Three Cases.” This is an abstract from a medical journal by the International Society for Sexual Medicine.
37:49 – “Dear Amy / Dear Jah-Jah: I have a half-sister. She was offended by something one of my adult children supposedly did to her. She got all bent out of shape and refused to celebrate birthdays and holidays with us anymore – no gifts, no cards. We are not taking this too lightly. I’ve always known she was a little shady. She has, on more than one occasion, helped herself to pens and post-it notes from her workplace. Since she felt that my family and I are no longer good enough to be with her on her Christmas list, I took it upon myself to let her bosses at work know why their office supplies may be dwindling. In turn, she was reprimanded at her job, which cost her a couple of days’ pay and a letter in her personnel file. I also let the IRS know she may not have been reporting all the waitress tips she earned while she worked at a restaurant. Since other family members learned of my tattling, they’ve shunned me. She’s the criminal, not I. So Amy, what do you think? Am I some kind of evil person? To paraphrase Seinfeld’s George Costanza, ‘Was I wrong?’” Jah gets a panic attack from this scenario.
41:05 – “Dear Jah-Jah, I’m a junior in high school. My sister Martha just started college at a nearby university so I see her quite often. Since she started school, she has had a string of boyfriends. Her relationship with our mom isn’t that great, so mom usually relies on me for information on her and her boyfriends. My sister started dating Leon, and she’s in love. The problem is that he is Latino and our mother is racist. I met Leon and he’s a good guy. Our mom hasn’t given him a fair chance and won’t even meet him. My dad stays out of conflcits so I’m stuck in the middle. How can I convince my mom to accept or at least get to know Leon, and how can I convince Martha to talk to my mom again? ~ Upset Sister” Jah wants to know what to do about a Latin man named Leon.
32:30 – Jah predicts in our lifetime it will be more dangerous for old people to be on the internet than all the cases of pedal error put together.
27:27 – Jah is not a fan of the tacky Christmas sweater parties. He doesn’t like the activity of those dorky people going out and getting jazzed about having to buy an ugly sweater.
1:08:40 – Jah goes on record saying that he is boycotting Scott toilet paper – a product that is not fit for murderers in jail let alone everyday citizens. It’s a disgusting product and they should be ashamed of themselves for producing such malarkey