View Episode 195
Originally aired 12.06.09
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4:29 – UYD: Every vibe’s contagious
20:26 – UYD: Reduction aioli
26:17 – UYD: Ghostride the fragrance
1:14 – Seth had his life changed after watching Jersey Shore.
46:02 – (Who’s Weirding Harder?) A) In 1996, in Portland, Maine, 44-year-old Angelo Vacca Jr. hit an elderly woman on Congress St. after she’d left church. He fled the scene but was later caught by police, telling them he’d panicked. He was only charged with Leaving the Scene of an Accident. This week, 57-year-old Vacca was hit by a car on the same street and killed. The crash remains under investigation; B) Shannon Broome, 15, was in a terrible accident this summer on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville. 4 of her friends were killed and she was ejected from the vehicle. She was home recuperating. This week a 19-year-old was texting while driving a little past midnight in his SUV, looking down at his phone, crashed through her fence, front yard, house and hits her in her bed in her bedroom. He pinned her against the wall, rebreaks the same shattered leg that had finally healed from this summer, broke her pelvis, all of her ribs and both of her wrists.
15:13 – Samuel Adams has released an updated version of their beer, Utopias (Episode 071, 13:54). Utopias is the highest alcohol content beer available on the U.S. market, costing $150 per bottle. It has a 27% alcohol content and is currently banned in 13 states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington.
22:20 – Sean Combs is selling the “I Am King” fragrance along with a classic gift set travel bag for $57 on the Home Shopping Network.
24:10 – The American Line – colognes officially licensed by the U.S. Armed Forces: Army – “Patton”, Marines – “Devil Dog”, Navy – “Liberty”, Air Force – “Liberty” and Coast Guard – “Riptide”)
26:35 – Daytona 500 Fragrance for men: “I get to live Daytona 500 every day. I put myself in the driver’s seat. I fuel my own fire. For a thrilling experience where performance merges with power.” It comes packaged in a glass cylinder with chrome rims and a red metal-and-rubber-like tire cover.
8:19 – Roger Avary, a screenwriter who co-wrote Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, went out to dinner in Ojai, Calif., with a couple from Italy celebrating their honeymoon last year b/c a mutual friend of theirs was a huge Pulp Fiction fan. After dinner, Avery was drunk, crashed the car, killed the man, badly injured himself and his wife. He could’ve gotten up to 8 years in prison and ended up getting 1 year in the county jail, which got knocked down to a work furlough program. He lived in military-style barracks at the Camarillo Airport but was allowed to go into his production office. However there were restrictions as far as internet use, etc. A Los Angeles Times technology blogger found a bunch of Tweets originating from the name @avary talking about movie projects and inmates that shouldn’t have been on Twitter, and it was him. Officials put him back in general population, so he writes, “Avary’s all rolled up to a higher security facility for exercising his First Amendment rights. The truth, he’s discovered, is just too dangerous.”
28:46 – Abilify is used for depression as an add-on to Lexipro, Zoloft, Prozac, Efexor, Paxil, etc. Seth saw a commercial for it where the woman is wicked sad, and on the screen it says “Actor Portrayal,” just in case.
41:45 – Amir was in a music video for a song that’s featured on the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack.
43:38 – One summer, Seth stole beer from the Sunny Corner convenience store up the street from his house in Haverhill. He wasn’t thinking but got fingered by the manager one day.
54:28 – Jah is trying to figure out which airport he was in that had a floor-to-ceiling display covered by plexiglass filled with exotic skins and reptiles and illegal stuff they’ve confiscated.
55:54 – Seth received some literature from Family Radio, which told him that judgment day was May 21, 2011.
1:28 – The Los Angeles Convention Center is hosting the L.A. Auto Show, where you can see the debuts of a lot of different automobiles. You can check out the Toyota Siena minivan, the Buick Regal sedan, the Ford Fiesta compact, the Hyundai Tucson SUV, the Kia Sorento and the Subaru Impreza Special Edition.
4:43 – 4,000 signatures were gathered in Denver, Colo., to place an initiative on the 2010 ballot to approve or deny a newly assembled extra terrestrial affairs commission. The job of the commission would be to “promote harmonious, peaceful, mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence between earthlings and possible space visitors.” It would be a seven-person panel.
5:50 – There was a slight mishap this season at the Beverly Center. They have a Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane girls he comes in toe with. Several hundred holiday shoppers watched in horror as one of the aerialists, suspended from the third level of the mall, fell to the floor with nothing to break her fall. She slipped while hanging upside down from a metal hoop and fell to the center of the mall. She broke her pelvis and her wrist. Seth says this occurred so close to the elevator he saw Tupac Shakur in (Episode 095, 23:25).
12:00 – Cosmopolitan magazine printed a handy guide for their female readers on how to avoid getting the swine flu. One of the things they suggest is reverse cowgirl as the safest sexual position because your nose and mouth will be furthest away from the sexual partner.
12:57 – The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas cruise ship is crazy. It has 15 stories, a central park, a tattoo parlor, etc.
13:20 – Jah reveals that they tried to make a Little Amsterdam in Vegas, a gigantic project where prostitution and weed were going to be legal in a certain sector of the city.
13:47 – Some wrappers of Tootsie pops have “Indian stars,” images of a Native American child aiming a bow and arrow at a star. The urban legend was that if you got one of those wrappers, it was redeemable for free candy. Jah wonders if this is a “night latte” ruse (Episode 001, 42:38; Episode 025, 26:00).
19:50 – Schwan’s, a home service frozen food company that has been around for a very long time, got together with Top Chef and is now selling meals that the contestants cooked on the show. Jah wishes they’d get together with Iron Chef.
31:14 – Super Bowl XLIV is Feb. 7, 2010 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Who will play at halftime.
37:45 – According to LiveScience.com, our brains appear to be shrinking. They have a 10-part series on the evolution and future of the human brain. Using comprehensive scans of the human genome and skull measurements over the last 5,000 years, researchers conclude that the human brain has shrunk about 10%. As to why it is shrinking, perhaps it is in big current society as opposed to hunter-gatherer lifestyles that we can rely on other people for things and maybe don’t need our brains as much as we used to.
39:44 – Paul Frommer, a linguistic specialist and professor at USC, created an entire functioning language for the tribe of 10-foot-tall blue aliens who inhabit Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar. Frommer has spent years and wants to spend more laboring on the language of the Na’vi tribe, which has over 1,000 words plus rules and structures of the language. He hopes it will be learned by other fans and then spoken to be kept alive.
42:40 – 27-year-old Jason Zacchi pulled up to a drive-through of a Dearborn Heights, Mich., Wendy’s with a sawed-off shotgun. His girlfriend was driving the getaway car. Everyone was screaming, the manager comes over to hear the commotion and see what’s going on, shouts “What the hell are you doing?!” because it’s her son holding up the joint.
44:07 – The final statements of all 446 men and women executed in Texas revealed that the most-mentioned words were “Jesus” and “Mom,” (86 times), while “Dad” wasn’t really mentioned at all. “Warden” was used 74 times, “Pray” was used 80 times, “Kill” was used 69 times, “Life” was used 126 times, “The Lord” was used 130 times. The word “Love” was used most-often at 630 times.
50:22 – Candy Spelling, the widow of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, has had her home on the LA real estate market for the last eight months. It’s 56,500 square feet – the largest residence in the country. It’s listed at $150 million and is known as “The Manor” or “Candy Land” by others. It has a bowling alley, a flower-cutting room, gift-wrapping room, wine cellar, barber shop, koi ponds, tennis court, swimming pool, 100-car motor court. They don’t know how many rooms it has because no one’s actually counted but it’s at least 100. She downsized and bought the top two floors of a brand-new condo in Century City for $47 million.
52:50 – A man who claimed to hate Christmas shoved a Salvation Army bell ringer to the ground and swiped one of the charity’s red kettles stuffed with $100s of dollars. The bell ringer, a woman, tried to pull the kettle away from the man Saturday evening, but he said, “I can’t stand you and your bell ringing. I hate Christmas.” Police said the man tossed the kettle into a stolen pickup truck and then sped away. An empty kettle was found a day later. Police arrested Shawn Kreiger of Toledo a day later and charged him with robbery. They had not recovered the money, but the charity estimated it held between $500-700.
53:54 – Michael Plank, 40, was detained at LAX by U.S. Custom agents after they discovered 15 live lizards stuffed in his fanny pack. He was returning from Australia, where U.S. Fish and Wildlife service agents found two geckos, 11 skinks and 2 lizards strapped around in his torso.
56:41 – Many women in their 30s are paying up to $10,000 to have their eggs frozen while they are still vibrant and healthy. They are single and would like to have a biological child with a future mate.
2:39 – Jah mixes it up by singing a Ben Bridge Jewelers tune instead of Kay
23:55 – UYD is closing in on #200, and they’re not sure what they’re going to do for the extravaganza.
40:37 – Jah sings “We don’t need another language.” (Episode 073, 0:43).
1:00:38 – Jogger is playing two shows over the Christmas holidays – in Chicago on Dec. 30 and in Denver with R2D2 and Daedelus on New Year’s Eve at City Hall.
3:17 – A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that lonliness is contagious. People with a negative lonely vibe can spread that vibe merely by coming into contact with other people.
17:25 – Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are set to begin shooting a movie together, so Seth apologizes to Brad Pitt because it’s inevitable that the two of them will be making out by Valentine’s Day.
23:04 – Seth asks Jah if he has any predictions for the next decade. Jah just says “stuff’s gonna happen.” Seth thinks we’re going to see some things we didn’t think possible, some beautiful things and some scary things.
7:40 – Grinch Jonathan feels like this is the crappiest Christmas ever. Seth, meanwhile, is excited because he’s ready to put this decade away and move on to 2010.
31:24 – Seth rips on The Who for playing at halftime of the next Super Bowl (Episode 024, 12:37). Jah wouldn’t be as mad about it if John Entwistle were still alive. Seth compares this to Pearl Jam playing the Super Bowl in 2041.