View Episode 212
Originally aired 04.05.10
1:05:46
32:58 – UYD: GLBTQ and all the Ps
56:40 – The sixth and final season of The Hills will debut later this month on April 27, with only 12 episodes.
21:00 – Anderson Cooper did a five-part series on Anderson Cooper 360 called “Scientology: A History of Violence.” It talks about David Miscavige getting up and whacking people across the face in meetings. It mentions what SciTis call “Suppressives,” former SciTi members who are not down with the church. Cooper interviewed the suppressives’ ex-wives, who are still SciTis and mad. Their resounding quote was “I know every inch of his body!”
9:29 – OUT: Vegans. IN: Hegans. Hegans are manly male vegans, whose diet has nothing to do with animal rights or politics. They just want to look better and they’re rectifying behavior from the past and cheating death.
5:06 – Esquire magazine published some fiction this month, featuring a story entitled “Just Before the Black” by James Franco. One line: My window is cracked just a bit and the air plays on my forehead like a cold whisper.
37:11 – Matthew Modine on the current socio-geo-political state we’re living in: “Imagine if somebody were really able to sit down with Osama bin Laden and say, ‘Listen man, what are you so angry about?’”
17:00 – Seth once sat toe-to-toe, eye-to-eye with John Travolta, and Travolta undressed Seth with his eyes. There’s no getting around it. Seth got “Cruised” by John Travolta, which he says is a story for another time.
2:14 – The U.S. Census Bureau reports that some parts of the nation, namely Texas and Alabama, are lagging behind in sending in the 2010 Census. Director Robert Groves said, “Every household that fails to send back their census form by mail must be visited by a census taker starting in May at a significant taxpayer cost.”
3:34 – A group of Confederate rights activists is urging Southerners to declare their “heritage and culture” by classifying themselves as “Confederate Southern Americans.” This would be under the blank spaces under question #9 asking for “Race.” They claim that this will help protect them because federal law makes it illegal to discriminate based on a citizen’s ancestry or culture.
7:01 – The entire species of koala bears (Episode 141, 45:46) is currently being threatened by an outbreak of Koala AIDS, or “KIDS.”
12:24 – Markus Bestin, 25, Nevada’s first male prostitute, from the Shady Lady Ranch (Episode 200, 9:51). He’s otherwise known as a “prostidude.” Here’s his quote: “I’m basically doing what Rosa Parks did when she decided to sit at the front of the bus and not the back.” He’s left the Shady Lady Ranch after a two-month stint because he only saw nine customers. Shady Lady hired a new guy who works under the name “Why Not?”
14:02 – Subway will unveil a new breakfast menu this week. Cage-free eggs are the centerpiece. Egg and cheese sandwich will start at $1.75 and will be available in their 23,000 locations.
15:09 – Ricky Martin came out of the closet. Jonathan’s father delivered this news to him this week.
22:54 – Federal investigators submitted phony products to the government’s energy efficiency certification program and found it very easy to obtain the coveted Energy Star rating. The Energy Department and EPA gave approval to 15 of the 20 fake products they submitted. One of them is a 1-1/2-foot by 1-1/2 foot gasoline-powered alarm clock, another was an air room cleaner that was a space heater with a feather duster taped to it.
28:32 – Actor Aaron Johnson (19), star of the film Kick Ass, just played a young John Lennon in a British film called Nowhere Boy. He’s currently engaged to be married to the director of that move, Sam Taylor Wood (43). She’s pregnant with their first child.
31:21 – The first online private high school for Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered youths has opened to business, so far to limited interest. The GLBTQ (Q for Questioning) currently has 6 students. None of them are from Minnesota, even though the founder and executive director, David Glick, is the founder and executive director. Glick, who runs the school out of his home in St. Paul, said the dirth of students results from its mid-year start, but school officials continue to receive inquiries from potential students and Glick says he expects enrollment to increase by 50-100 by fall. Enrollment also could increase if the school has a successful campaign to raise funds for its startup costs and student tuition subsidies. Annual tuition is $5,900 per year for a full-time student, and that rate compares favorably to similar types of home schools. It is open to students nationwide because it’s private and online. Its faculty and administration are actually scattered all over. The school has 14 teachers and counselors that all live in other states. The servers the students use to access the curriculum and interface with instructors is based in Florida. Glick says, “We are headquartered in cyberspace.”
36:25 – U.S. intelligence officers have some secret recordings of a Chicago cab driver originally from Pakistan who’s been traveling back and forth dealing with Al-Qaeda. They have audio of him in a coffeeshop speaking freely, claiming Osama bin Laden is alive and well and giving orders for Al-Qaeda.
39:18 – British secret intelligence is reporting that female suicide bombers could be recruited by Al-Qaeda, planting explosives in their breast implants that would be able to bypass security.
41:34 – A provision in the newly passed health care bill adds a 10% tax on tanning salon fees. The Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) is mad. This will go into effect Thursday, July 1.
43:30 – Larry Gene Pendley was hunting on opening day of turkey season in Central California. He went out with 5 of his friends early in the morning. He was crawling on his hands and knees through a bush trying to sneak up on a turkey when one of his friends mistook him for a turkey, fired and shot and killed him.
46:24 – Santa Fe, N.M. features a lot of turqoise and is known for its abundance of new age healers. Arthur Firstenberg says he’s hyper-sensitive to certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. He moved to Santa Fe to get away from it all. He found a home at the end of a narrow lane that he thought would be a refuge from physical and neurological symptoms that have plagued him for three decades. But last October, when a friend of his rented a house on the next block that was backed up to his property, the familiar waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arythmia and insomnia all returned. He says it was because this friend of his was using an iPhone, laptop, wireless router, dimmer switches and microwaves in the home. When he couldn’t reach an agreement with this person, he sued him in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages. His doctor treated him and testified at the hearing that she is convinced that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a real disorder that affects his nervous system.
1:24 – UYD is considering changing the name of the podcast to “Tough Stuff.”
16:50 – Seth lists off famous people who need to stop cloaking that they’re gay and just come out of the closet: Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Zach Quinto, Anderson Cooper, Shepard Smith, Evan Lysacek, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Tyler Perry and Ryan Seacrest.
53:26 – Seth and Jonathan have a deep discussion about kids being able to see 3D
59:47 – Jah takes a minute to ejaculate all over the new UYD website. He’s been getting a lot of texts from people noticing that awesomeness that Nick created.
50:08 – Researchers at Wayne State University looked at photos of 230 baseball players who began their professional careers before 1950. They were separated into three categories after looking at their photos from their baseball registries: big smile, no smile and partial smile. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science. found that the players with no smile lived to be 73 years old on average. The players with partial smiles lived to be 75 years old, and the players with big smiles lived to be 80 years old.
8:08 – Seth rips on Iggy Pop for his performance at Carnegie Hall, when he attempted a stage dive and no one caught him.