Normally we go and eat and/or drink after the show each week. But as many of you were probably aware, it was an important Sunday in NFL as the final 4 teams were whittled down to the 2 headed for the Super Bowl. Because of this, we ate, drank, screamed and laughed for nearly 6-hours straight. We'd also said we'd do another drunk show someday... and this is the closest we've come to that since the last drunk show. Which was also the first.
Dennis, myself and former co-host Jabari were all pretty loopy by the time we got back to Who Asked You? HQ. You may or may not pick up on it, but our voices are a touch hoarse from the aforementioned screaming and laughing. There's also a ton of veering off topic. More so than usual... just a warning.
With that said, here's the gist of this week's program. We fumble our way into it with news from Levar Burton that he may be trying to launch a new version of READING RAINBOW on his own that would be publicly funded. He made the quasi-announcement via his Twitter feed last week. This shows the beauty and power of the Interwebs. You can personally tell all your fans what you're working on and use websites like Kickstarter.com to solicit donations to make it happen!
Meanwhile over at the FCC and DOJ, they've approved the merger of media giants NBC Universal and Comcast. What a prosperous company this will be... the least liked network teaming with the most hated cable operator... how could this NOT work?!? The government assures us rules are in place to keep the 2 companies from literally taking over all that is media and broadband. But come on? Comcast has already been in trouble for throttling its broadband customers without their knowledge. I'm sure they're cooking up skeems to screw us all already. Thank goodness that here in Las Vegas we have Cocks Communications.
Is it child pornography for a TV series to show a 17 year-old's ass? How young is too young to show simulated sex or masturbation on cable TV? These are questions MTV is grappling with over their new BBC copycat, SKINS. The show, aimed at MTV's standard issue tween demo seems to be a bit too racy for the tastes of the networks brass. They've ordered the producers to "tone it down a bit." Or in other words, make it less interesting than it already is. Lets face it, MTV hasn't had an interesting TV show since Beavis and Butthead. And this one is no exception. The main character is a cookie cutter smart-ass teenager whose always got something witty to say. His parents are clueless as to his activities outside the house etc. etc. Do what you think is best MTV, nobody is watching anyway.
We also talk about the big news of this past week, which was the announcement of the next villain(s) to grace Gotham. Chris Nolan says THE DARK KNIGHT RISES will feature Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and Tom Hardy as... Bane??? This one sparks a debate between Jabari and Dennis, which actually started earlier in the day at the bar. But they still had some left for the show.
And last but not least, with the absence of Four Loko in stores, binge-drinking college kids and lonely, depressed 40-somethings are in need of a replacement beverage to get that hot chick drunk enough to blow them in the bathroom and to fry their organs respectively. We may have found it! It's canned whisky and it comes from Panama. It's not available in the USA... yet. But even if it never comes here, the beauty of the Interwebs I mentioned early will have some on your doorstep via 2-Day FedEx no questions asked.
And if you've already found your hard liquor and just need the overdose of caffeine to compliment it, we've found that too. It's the "Trenta," a new cup size at Starbucks. You can call it the Big Gulp of coffee drinks. And given Starbucks' prices for normal sized coffees, you'll probably need a second mortgage for this one. Plus, it's only available for iced drinks, which usually have added sugar, so while you're taking out that second mortgage to pay for it, you might as well put yourself on an organ transplant list for a new pancreas. And read up on diabetes while you're at it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that "It's The Law" gets bumped from this show too due to our drunken rambling. Yeesh... I need a shot, crack open that can of whisky would ya?
