2006 4 Life: The Uhh Yeah Dude thread

most of them have to be made up, but you really dont know-- this is one reason why seth is a comic genius imo

I mean, the pairings are funny but it starts to come off as weird homo fixation, at least in my mind. I dunno. Maybe I'm overthinking it, lol

the way l.a. residents are fascinated w/celebrities is compelling and unique

there's def a conversation to be had re: how close they teeter towards/flirt with homophobic/sexist/racist shit while rarely every actually going there

and yeah the celebrity fixation is so weird and hilarious

i love hearing seth talk about how he "takes it to" celebs

feel like in l.a. everyone has just given up and its considered totally ok and fine to be obsessed w/celebrities

which is kinda beautiful and honest in its own way

ep 97 has maybe my favorite seth story ever (havent gotten to the restaurant story yet) about his mom being in town and how hard he was working to "get her a celeb" when they finally bump in to james spader at a news stand

well when you think about it, the town is FULL of celebs. I mean it's like talking about people who live in your hometown, in a way. Except they're all famous. Maybe it's that *we* ascribe more to celebs than they do? Like we think they're name dropping and they're just talking about, yknow, people. LA's fucking weird.

ugh 'town'. LA = city.

i think also it has to do w/that so many people work in the industry so theyve like been given permission to care abt that shit except that they care abt it in the most obviously unprofessional way

where the stars come down from the heavens and walk among us

xpost to lagoon: my LA friends are music industry people and its the same way

also for dudes like seth who want to be celebs theres this whole painful aspirational thing that can only really be laughed off by just giving into the loathsome obsession

otm

that brings up another thing i've been thinking about as i am working through the archives in reverse order-- somewhere between episodes 50 and 100 this kind of pained resentment pops up a few times that UYD was't yet on satellite radio or doing anything that will make them money

they def seem to have made peace w/ it now, and maybe the increase in live shows has something to do with that

I noticed a few mentions of that in some early teens/20's episodes too. That satellite radio was maybe the 'we've made it' endgame. Which is kind of lol now, but god when you hear them talking about how there's no funny podcasts, and when they did some of their podcast chart lists, it's like oh fuck I remember it really WAS a wasteland.

I hate that 2006 *is* a long time ago, because in my old-person brain it was just last year.

have a lot of people gone from podcast to satellite radio

i listened to satellite radio for the first time in years last week (via rental car) and holy shit what a world

I knew abt Howard Stern but did not know that Playboy and SPICE each have their own channel

xxpost Not that I know of?

Does Bob Dylan still have his station?

ive only ever experienced satellite radio via rental car too but yeah it is amazing

what the hell would Playboy Satellite Radio sound like

lots of moaning and squishing noises? erotic radio plays? ginuwine?

playboy radio is kind of like a format that is 20% UYD and 80% Howard Stern done by boring porn stars who arent as interesting or funny as they think they are

and they take live calls from listeners

occasionally they describe how each other looks/what theyre wearing

sometimes there is spanking

zzzzz

the weirdest station i found was one that played old radio dramas complete w/the contemporaneous commercials

all the diff types of metal stations were p interesting too

the best part is uncensored hip hop stations imo

i could still see a station that featured nu-podcasty programming being successful tho

Sacramento radio sucks so hard, we considered switching to xm a few years back

xpost yeah I could see Superego or something doing well on satellite, Pardo or Kevin Pollack, the more finessed stuff would work pretty well

I also listened to the shows in reverse order. I kept expecting explanations of some of weird things Seth mentions--like his 9 year old daughter living with her "bitch mother" in AZ. Thought it was a joke at first, but he brought it up so many times I started to think it was true. Of course she's 9 for like 4 years.

Oh yeah, I was trying to figure that one out too. It took me listening to nearly all of them to hear the first mention of Jeff.

you know i like my daughters to dress sexy

I loved Seth's story of meeting Jason Priestley

holy shit this week in florida in episode 21. they talk about a dude who gets bored to he murders someone and turns their corpse into a bong. i have honestly not laughed that hard in ages (it helps that i was already in stitches at jah's passage before it).

I love that story!

Maron had Jack Boulware on ages ago who told a kind of similar story about a bored punk kid who robbed a grave of a dead baby, except he didnt make a bong, the corpse/skeleton ended up stuffed inside an amp at the Gilman St punk club in Berkeley. I don't know if I'm remembering it right, but it reminded me of the UYD story

Ep 9: "He's a racer!"

Haha YES

the weirdest station i found was one that played old radio dramas complete w/the contemporaneous commercials

this sounds like the best not the weirdest

http://www.uproxx.com/media/2012/03/comedy-bang-bang-tv-sneak-peek/

Damn, wrong thread

SOBROS

WE'RE ALL HUMAN, I GET IT, NOT A BIG DEAL

SoBros has been popping into my head all weekend

ep 315 starts with a bombshell from, er... Jonathan.

he's had that bottled up inside for so long now.