View Episode 220
Originally aired 05.30.10
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1:39 – Pepsi Max Extreme: Brought to you by UYD 57:40 – UYD: The only cool way to do something
13:32 – Seth was watching The O’Reilly Factor. On Monday’s show he put a question on the screen to direct people to the website to answer it. The question was “How do you rate YouTube’s impact on American life or culture?” The answer choices were Positive, Negative or What’s YouTube? The results were Positive – 29%, Negative – 41% and What’s YouTube? – 30% (Episode 034, 6:39).
22:33 – The 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee is this Friday on ABC. Indian tweens dominate this competition.
29:55 – Inside the Actor’s Studio welcomes Sean “P-Diddy” Combs onto the show.
50:04 – TLC has a show called Cake Boss about a Hoboken, N.J. pastry chef. Bravo has Real Housewives of New Jersey. Style network has Split Ends, about New Jersey hair salons. Of course there’s Jersey Shore on MTV. Style network also has Jerseylicious about a salon and Oxygen channel will now debut Jersey Couture about a dress shop.
1:25 – Jah says you don’t need to call Pepsi Max “Diet Pepsi Max.” Seth thinks they should call it Pepsi Max - Extreme
1:54 – Burger King is rolling out fall-off-the-bone ribs for the summer. They have a new Fire-Grilled Pork Rib, which will be using the chain’s new “game-changing batch broilers.” It costs $8.99 for an 8-piece combo that comes with fries and a drink. Seth saw pictures of them and said they look delicious.
4:29 – Chick-fil-A has a new spicy chicken sandwich. It’s the first one they’ve unveiled since 1989. They have 1,485 locations and offered up a reservation to come in and try the sandwich for free. They’re completely booked. It doesn’t officially hit stores until June 7. Chick-fil-A is still second to KFC as far as chains go. They’re also closed on Sundays. Jah guesses this is because the owner is observing the Sabbath.
15:43 – Christian Audigier has a sex line out with condoms made in Malaysia. They also have a “baggy head,” which is technology for more sensitivity. There’s lubricants and sex toys are coming. One of the slogans is, “Thank you for being furiously sexy.”
41:22 – IN: The men’s high heel. Smaller-statured men are now buying what’s called the “Cuban Heel.”
43:03 – Cuban Heel
32:55 – Next month the FDA will consider greenlighting a drug called flibanserin – “the Viagra for women.” It was originally developed as an anti-depressant and the market is expected to be worth $2 billion.The pill would tinker with the brain chemicals to treat what they call “hypoactive sexual desire disorder.”
45:35 – When Jah took anti-depressants he noticed the effects were extreme in some ways. Seth asks Jah if he’s ever doubled up with an Adderall and Viagra. Jah claims he’s never taken an Adderall and he doesn’t think he’s ever taken a Viagra.
What Seth Learned on the Monsterweb
7:23 – Seth didn’t watch the American Idol finale but he did watch videos of other people watching the finale and losing their minds when it was announced. One large woman screamed, “My life is ruined!” Jah says if they truly believe that, then he has no choice but to agree with them. Jah asks Seth if it’s weird that he resists watching these kind of videos the day after something like a finale where everyone’s watching them and laughing at them.
10:10 – Seth and Jah saw the Chris Klein (Episode 012, 28:08) Mamma Mia! audition tape and wondered how there wasn’t one leaked every single week. He wanted to see Ryan Philippe and Dane Cook in a tent together auditioning for Brokeback Mountain.
4:05 – Seth says LA doesn’t have Chick-fil-A, but he looked it up and saw there was one in Torrance or Redondo. Jah saw them everywhere when he was on tour and realized LA was just about the only place that didn’t have them.
25:38 – Before they did the show tonight, Jonathan looked at Seth with a shocked look on his face and said “Episode 220?!!!” For some reason it didn’t make sense to him when he read it.
42:35 – Jah remembers seeing a lot of men’s high-heeled shoes, or Cuban Heels in his childhood. He said it was different from a Beatle Boot.
51:29 – Jah reveals that he saw Orphan. Seth says it had the all-time greatest scene ever in a movie when the girl goes to jerk off Sarsgaard under the sheets. Seth then describes the scene in detail. Seth wishes that the trailer for the movie would’ve just been Timothy Olyphant telling him that the movie was awesome and he would’ve seen it.
57:56 – Seth has been getting voicemails in reference to UYD’s $25 reward that was given out to a random voicemail caller in honor of the show’s 25th episode (Episode 024, 39:12; Episode 025, 0:50). People are trying to get $25 off Seth and wondering if it’s still on, even though the original contest was won by New York City listener George. Jah had mailed George a check that bounced and it cost him money. George is the only person who’s ever paid for UYD. Seth predicts that by now, with interest, they owe George $130.
18:44 – Seth read about the World Sauna Championships, which are held in Finland each year. They’ve had it for 11 years and every single year it’s been won by a Fin. Seth wishes an American would get in this competition and beat the Fin. There are 5.2 million people in Finland and 2 million saunas. They start the sauna at 230 degrees and pour water on it. The winner can do about 10 minutes. Breathing through the nose causes you to burn the skin.
21:32 – The guy who won the Boston Marathon in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008 was named Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot. The guy who won this year’s marathon was Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot. The International Track & Field Federation said there are 36 Cheruiyots in the Kenyan highlands training for competition.
24:21 – Apple has officially ended its “I’m A Mac” campaign. Seth thinks he could’ve seen another 4-5 of those and not minded (Episode 094,16:54). The last commercial was on TV last October. The first spot with Justin Long and John Hodgman debuted in 2006. Apple pulled all the spots from its website, which totaled more than 60 in TV and print.
26:20 – The New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium have banned anyone entering the stadium from bringing in an iPad. They say it should be classified as a laptop. The Boston Red Sox and Fenway Stadium do not have a ban on them.
35:40 – Thousands of pieces of undelivered mail have now been found in another home dating back to the early 1990s. They have been found in a shed in Michigan by the sister of a 66-year-old former postal service worker. His name is Earl Hicks and is retired in Florida. He said he was so overwhelmed by his route that he began bringing the mail home. He feared if he ever brought it in he would lose his job.
46:32 – There was a cop in UYD’s neck of the woods, in Costa Mesa, who was charged on Thursday with hiding a GPS tracking system in a woman’s car so he could follow her around. Aaron Paul Parsons, 30, was charged with one misdemeanor count of unlawful use of an electronic tracking device. He hid the device in her vehicle on March 18 and then would allegedly just show up at places where she happened to be. She went and looked in and around her car after several run-ins and found it, stamped “CMPD.”
59:30 – It’s estimated that 45 million Americans drive our roads every day without buckling up.
1:17 – Seth has a variety of beverages for Jah to choose from – Diet Dr Pepper, Diet Mt Dew, Sunkist and Pepsi Max
5:45 – After a long pause, Jah simply says, “Ozzy, man.”
23:20 – Seth observes that Indian tweens dominate spelling, Kenyans dominate running and Finlandians dominate hotboxing. Jah wonders what it is that Americans dominate in. Seth thinks it’s competitive comedy podcasting.
38:23 – An article on slate.com talks about a psychologist named Milton Rokeach. He worked at a state mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Mich. In 1959 he took three schizophrenic dudes who all believed they were Jesus Christ and had them live together to see what would happen. He wanted to study identity. He invented messages and imaginary characters and put them in all of their lives. They all stayed there until they died. He wrote a book in 1964 called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
3:42 – Jah predicts that Amir will love Burger King’s new pork ribs.
5:56 – Seth rips on 50 Cent for his latest new look. He’s playing a football player with cancer in a new movie, Things Fall Apart, and went full DeNiro to get ready for the role. He lost 54 pounds, from 214 to 160, about a pound a day, to do it.