View Episode 203
Originally aired 01.31.10
1:01:49
7:40 – UYD: Anime Eyes
8:10 – Seth was watching an episode of COPS and they were talking to a guy who was suspected of a DUI. They said, “Sir, have you been drinking?” He answered, “I’ve had about 12 beers.” That probably explained why he clipped off a side mirror off a guy in a 7-11 parking lot, then hit three parked cars and a truck with plywood on it.
15:35 – 20/20 did an exposé on the alarmlingly high number of teens who have been sexually harassed on a daily basis in the United States in the workforce, usually by slightly older, early-20s male managers. For many of these younger girls, they’re vulnerable and most of their managers are males in their 20s, and they’re feeling a little cocky.
0:38 – Seth isn’t trying to hurt anybody, he’s just drinking a Pepsi Max
18:19 – NECCO, the company that makes Sweethearts Valentine’s candies, is finally getting rid of its FAX ME phrase, replacing it with TEXT ME and TWEET ME. Another one in the rumor mill is MY BOO?
21:06 – Plan B, the morning after pill, must be taken within 72 hours or 3 days of unprotected sex. However, there’s a new 120-hour, 5-day pill, that’s being tested at Planned Parenthood centers across the U.S. Jah says that B is for a crazy weekend, while C is for Coachella.
42:45 – South Carolina Lieutenant Governor André Bauer had some things to say about families in his state that receive kid’s free or reduced price meals at public schools: “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person an ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”
40:10 – Shanna Moakler and Stephanie Pratt were both at Voyeur, a hot Hollywood nightclub. They were both driving BMW X5 SUVs. The valet brings them both the wrong cars. Moakler gets in her SUV and notices immediately that the entire backseat is filled with gifting suite bags. Meanwhile, the paparazzi have snapped photos of Pratt in her SUV, who is smiling at the paparazzi and not noticing the baby seat in the back seat of her SUV. Moakler goes to her Twitter account and tweets, “Dear Stephanie Pratt … valet gave us the wrong car. How do wanna do this? LMFAO!” She gets a message back from Pratt: “OMG! Worst!! Swap ASAP!”
34:36 – Seth says that medical marijuana game in Colorado is hot right now.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
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?”
5:00 – Having spent some time in recovery-based groups, Jah knows a lot of people who were into drug recovery who moved into sex recovery later on. It always seemed fucked up to Jah that they would all come into the same room to talk about sex addiction. He thinks there’s something very much there, he just doesn’t know if they’re going up about it the proper way.
12:24 – Jah was having a conversation the other day with his female friend who is from Canada and grew up in an ethnically mixed school and neighborhood. Wherever they were sitting, they had just seen some melting pot type of activity going on at a bar. She said, “You know what’s at the base of all of these prejudices and racial problems? It’s not communication. It’s hate. Each one hates the other one. Chinese hate the Japs, Japs hate the Chinese, etc.” Jah thinks the deep seed of hate comes from an unwillingness for humans to accept their nature.
23:43 – Jah was mad excited about going to Universal Studios when he was a kid. He used to get hyped for it. When he was living up in the hills, you could drive through a neighborhood and get to a vantage point where you could see the whole backlot, and listen to the announcer on the megaphone.
26:21 – Seth talks about walking out of the theater during King Kong, while Jah remembers going outside to smoke and coming back to cry and get angry at the movie at the end (Episode 118, 17:04).
47:00 – Seth saw a Live Links commercial where the girl looked at Seth and whispered, “I want to hear your voice.”
56:44 – Jah walked by an LA Times dispenser the other day, and someone had written across it in some sort of intense markering that said SWINE FLU IS A HOAX.
3:26 – Candeo: Hope, Help, Heal – to overcome porn addiction, sex addiction and masturbation addiction. For anyone struggling with PA or MA, Candeo can provide powerful, anonymous online training program to help individuals recover.
6:40 – When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S360 digital camera with face detection intelligent technology for Mother’s Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction in the camera. Every time they took a photograph of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, DID SOMEONE BLINK? They hadn’t. Her brother then posed with his eyes super wide open, or bug eyed, and the message then stopped. The camera, made by a Japanese company, can’t recognize Asian eyes.
22:47 – The old animatronic King Kong at Universal Studios burned down in a fire almost two years ago. Peter Jackson has led a team of digital experts to create a new theme park attraction that will open this summer and feature the next generation of King Kong in full 3D. He’ll jump over the guests at the backlot tour and you’ll smell his banana breath.
30:12 – Blippy.com is a website that discusses “What are your friends buying?” They’re calling it the Twitter of personal finance. You allow all your credit and debit purchases to be immediately posted on the site – where and what and how much you spent will go up. You can sign up for an invitation on the site and it will open up within the next couple months.
36:11 – Researchers at UC-San Diego have developed a baby robot named Diego San. It’s a robot with a tiny metal body and a gigantic baby doll’s head.
37:23 – The BK Whopper Bar in South Beach will open up mid-February and will be the first major fast food company to sell beer at its location. $7.99 will get you a Bud or a Bud Light and a Whopper.
47:16 – Seth refers to an article in the Los Angeles Times from December 2004 about a home developer in Huntington Beach who had a new set of model homes with a Mediterranean theme and they needed a name for it – they named it Alcala, which is a bustling university town in Madrid. Before people moved into the model home, there was a break-in and the police officer went out there and saw the street, Alcala Drive. He had been a cop there forever, and 25 years ago a girl close to there was kidnapped and murdered, and the man who was accused was Rodney Alcala. The developers changed the name. This creepy dude who is still on trial for kidnapping and rape, was featured in the LA Weekly this week from when he was on The Dating Game in 1978 before she was kidnapped in 1979. He was Bachelor #1 and the lady picked him, but he was too creepy for her to actually go out with. She asked him, “Bachelor #1, what’s the best time of day?” Answer: “Nighttime is the best time.” Question: “I’m a drama teacher. You’re a dirty old man. Talk to me like a dirty old man.” Answer: “Come over here and take it. Take it.” Q: “I’m serving you for dinner. What are you?” A: “I’m a banana and I look good. Come and peel me.” She goes, “Well I love bananas, I’ll take Bachelor #1.”
53:01 – There is a second pregnant dude, Scott Moore. The first was Thomas Beatie (Episode 110, 22:08). Scott still looks like a dude but has female parts. Scott’s partner, Thomas (unrelated), got the complete sex change. Scott’s baby boy is going to be Miles. He’s going to join his two brothers, 10-year-old Logan and 12-year-old Greg, the sons of Thomas from a previous relationship when he was a dude from a woman who has since passed away.
19:39 – Jah hated fax machines, but Seth still likes them. He likes what they do. He thinks they’re still efficient in terms of calling someone about a magazine article, then seconds later they’re looking at the exact same thing once you fax it to them.
58:47 – Seth thinks UYD had more voicemails than they’ve ever gotten this week
1:00:00 – Seth reminds listeners that in February, Jah will go on tour with Amir Yaghmai and their musical outfit, Jogger. Their tour dates are listed on their Myspace page. Although Jah won’t be in town, they will be posting fresh new episodes.
1:01:12 – Seth previously asked people to get some sleep (Episode 202, 1:04:06). He now has another good idea – changing or washing your sheets, which feels so comforting.
0:58 – According to a new Pew Research Center study, in 2007, 22% of husbands had wives who made more money than they did, compared to just 4% in 1970. However, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based thinktank, in 2008, women earned 77 cents for every $1 a man made.
51:18 – Psychological scientists Emily Balcetis from New York University and David Dunning from Cornell University conducted a set of studies to see how our desires affect perception. In the first experiment, particpants had to estimate how far a water bottle was from where they were sitting. Half of the volunteers were allowed to drink water before the experiment while the others ate salty pretzels, thus becoming very thirsty. The results showed that the thirsty volunteers estimated the water as being closer to them than the volunteers who drank water earlier. Our desires for certain objects may also result in behavioral changes. In a separate experiment, volunteers tossed a bean bag toward a bean bag toward a gift card worth either $25 or $0 on the floor, winning the card if the bean bag landed on it. Interestingly, the volunteers threw the bean bag much farther if the gift card was worth $0 than if it was worth $25. That is, they underthrew the bean bag when attempting to win a $25 gift card because they viewed that gift card as being closer to them. These findings indicate that when we want something we actually view it as being physically close to us. The authors suggest that these biases arise in order to encourage perceivers to engage in behaviors leading to the acquisition of the object. In other words, when we see a goal as being close to us, literally within our reach, it motivates us to keep going successfully to attain it.
10:40 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has listed six major recalls in January. The first was Starbucks glass water bottles, which can shatter in your mouth – they’re made in China; Zippo candle lighters, sold at Bath & Body Works, start melting and lighting shit on fire for no reason – they’re manufactured in China; Zybex strollers, sold at Target stores across the country, cut off kids fingers – they’re manufactured in China; Radio Shack’s Nighthawk toy helicopters’ propellers spin off and take your eyeball out – they’re manufactured in China; Wal-Mart’s toy horses are covered in lead paint that kids put in their mouth – they’re manufactured in China; and dollar stores across the country are selling little military figures whose pieces snap off and get lodged in your throat – they’re manufactured in China.
15:11 – Jah thinks we should seriously reign back the amount of shit that China is importing into this country that is toxic, poisonous and dangerous.