View Episode 073
Originally aired 07.14.07
1:02:54
10:09 – UYD: We love beverages
1:01:14 – UYD: No doctors involved
15:20 – Repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos drew bigger share than Live Earth.
22:49 – There have been some problems at ABC with Cavemen – they’re reshooting the pilot and some people have been recast. Seth hopes he wasn’t being racist when he recommended Baldwin Hills. It wasn’t as good as he wanted it to be. Seth then got into a show called Hell Date on BET where it’s a practical joke using a really horrible date, but at the end a black midget wearing a pleather Satan outfit comes out and stabs the punkee with a pitchfork, saying “You’re on Hell Date!”; next Wednesday, July 25, 10 to 11 p.m., two new shows BET is premiering: Hot Ghetto Mess – the good, the bad and the ugly of black popular culture starring Charlie Murphy; and SOB (Socially Offensive Behavior) starring D.L. Hughley. Next Saturday, From Berkley in Boston, you can watch Bill Maher’s one-hour standup special on HBO; and Back To The Grind Wednesday night on TV Land has actors play the roles in real life that they played on their shows.
42:21 – Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD): Seth is always inside, he’s not outside getting fresh air or sunshine. It causes the same symptoms as his EHS. To solve it he’ll go to indoor places that have outdoor names, like the restaurant Trails
56:47 – Seth notes that UYD hasn’t talked about the oldest people in the world in a while, but the craziest part is that they’re all still alive: Yone Minagawa is still #1 at 114 years old. Oldest woman in the U.S. is 114-year-old Edna Parker in Indiana. Second oldest American is another woman from Indiana, Bertha Fry. On Edna’s 114th birthday in April, she met Bertha at Edna’s nursing home, they set a world record for the highest combined age of two people meeting. Oldest man in the world is still Tomoji Tanabe. Oldest man in America is George Rene Francis (111 years old) from California. Francis saw Babe Ruth play in person, quit school in the sixth grade and smoked cigars until he was 75, never saw a doctor. Jah declares Francis the “patron saint of UYD”
4:23 – Craig’s List is out
4:17 – OUT: Sudoku. IN: Kukuru
4:24 – OUT: Craig’s List. IN: Kijiji
5:30 – Jah finds the site PotPartners.com, which is a dating service for burnouts. Jah: “They say 4-20 so many times it’s crazy.”
46:06 – In the San Fernando Valley, meth addicts are stealing the brass caps off of fire hydrants, and selling them for $5-10 apiece to buy more meth. Seth: “When is my obsession with meth going to stop? When it takes me down, the way it’s been trying to do to me since I first tried it in ’97 and smoked it out of that bowl on Orange Drive?! You bastard, methamphetamine!!” (46:31)
47:23 – Jah knew a guy who used to steal freeway siding at 4 a.m. and sell them for scrap to get drug money
2:04 – The tweeeins!!
49:14 – More “Twins!”
11:41 – Seth saw two movies that he thought were going to be the greatest movies ever. One turned out to be entirely unwatchable (You, Me & Dupree) and one was completely prescient (Biodome). Jah sings it out: “All we want is life beyond Biodome.” (14:23)
14:44 – Seth watched 24 hours of Live Earth. At one point he was watching it with a 14-year-old girl. When Sting came on with The Police, she looked at him and said, “Is that Bono?” Seth looked at her and said, “Yes.”
34:00 – Seth admits to wearing Jordan cologne; Jonathan wore Joop! and “a grip” of Drakkar Noir.
2:11 – New Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary will include new words in the fall: ginormous, DVR, IED, Bollywood, Sudoku, krunk, tellanova, smackdown
6:51 – Minnesota has passed a law effective in 2008 – All American flags sold must be made within the U.S.A.
10:11 – Coca-Cola releases new can that resembles the “New Coke” can
15:35 – James Hetfield detained in the Luton Airport (close to London, England) for his “Taliban-like” beard. (Jah: “I’m in a band. Which one? Metalliban.”
31:04 – Prince’s new fragrance, 31 21 – more sensual than his old scent. Several other celebs have their own scents – Alan Cumming (Cumming), Antonio Banderas (Spirit), Calum Best (Calum), Carlos Santana (Carlos Santana) Seth: “That is the mixture of carne asada, marijuana and sweat.”, David Beckham (Instinct), Donald Trump (The Fragrance), Derek Jeter (Driven), Michael Jordan (Jordan)
44:25 – Since January, a monthly 3-hour tour run by Beauty Turner on Chicago’s south side called the “Ghetto Bus Tour” takes visitors through run-down slums and gives you stories about a South side that doesn’t exist anymore
0:43 – We don’t need another hero; we don’t need another way home; all we need is life beyond Thunderdome
1:44 – It seems that every state in the union is being represented on the UYD voicemail – Hawaii, Juneau, Alaska. Jah: “We’ve got hoes in different area codes.”
49:50 – Jah saw an article on Hanson in Us Weekly and it gave him a full panic attack