EPISODE 250 - Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Netflix

It's happened again... another 42-seconds are unaccounted for. Again, the show itself is intact, no glitches or dropped portions. Just not the full hour. So, I'll continue to try and figure out what's going on, in the meantime, let me tell you about what's going on with today's show.Dennis, Jabari and I beamed into the free midnight movie put on by local Vegas comic shop, Maximum Comics and the AMC Theaters formerly known as Rave. This month they showed STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. It seems I jumped the phaser when I said TNG's "Best of Both Worlds" Fathom event would be the last time I saw REAL STAR TREK on the big screen. And given it was in theaters in 1982, none of us were born yet so it was a great opportunity to see one of the highest regarded Treks in a theater.This coincides nicely with news that several of the Alpha Quadrants best colognes are back at the STAR TREK website. They include three scents for the fellas - Tiberius, Sulu and Red Shirt. And for the ladies, Pon Farr.We've got two listener voice messages this week. Keep 'em coming everybody. We love hearing from you, literally. One poses some pet questions in the form of song and the other makes a few requests. We're more than happy to oblige.The New DVD Releases this week are nothing to write home about. The show is a little slow getting started and these lackluster titles coming Tuesday don't help much.We pick up steam though with our first story of the night, Amazon Originals! The company (with which we're an associate) has launched AmazonOriginals.com. And on the site they're showing off all 14 of the pilots for exclusive shows produced by their internal production studio. I list a few of them and talk for a bit about the three I watched. They're available to stream for free to Amazon Prime customers.These shows are the first step toward a much bigger TV presence by Amazon. There's news that the online retailer is putting together its own set-top box. Not sure what it'll look like or how big it'll be, but hopefully it'll stack nicely on top of your Roku, Apple TV, Boxee, WD Play and whatever two of the three game consoles you likely own. We're all big Amazon.com fans, but this just seems unnecessary. Do we really need ANOTHER streaming box? After all, there's already an Amazon channel on the Roku. And I'm sure some of these other devices and smart TVs have one too. On the other hand, this could offer some interesting integration. Imagine shopping Amazon on your TV. Buying products shown in movies with a quick click of the remote. These ideas displease Charlie. You'll hear all about it. And we want to hear from you. Would you be interested in buying an Amazon streaming box? Vote now on the We Ask You Poll and we'll have the results on next week's show.This talk of Amazon shows and Amazon-branded set-tops launches an entirely new conversation. Kids and their parents using TV as a babysitter. Kids and their inability to work a device. Parents and their inability to teach the kids how to work said device. The amount of kid friendly content on services like Netflix. All of this is covered. By the way, there is a ton of kids' content on Netflix. Parents just need to take a minute and learn how to access it. In the midst of this discussion we also learn what would happen when you told Dennis' dad that you were bored as a kid.Fast food comes up a lot on this show. Sometimes in a good light, usually in a bad one. And this is one of those bad ones. Comedy Central's TOSH.0 Blog posted a list of some of the most disgusting menu items from well known chains around the world. From pizzas with hot dog crust, to what looks like a Little Debbie Snack Pie filled with tuna. There's something for everyone... to be grossed out by. I pose the question to the guys, of all the items on the list, which would you eat if there was a gun to your head.And in Breaking News we meet a man who eats something even less appetizing than the shit on that fast food list. And we meet a man who blew through all of his life savings and has nothing to show for it but a racist stuffed banana.Sheesh... maybe it's better we don't have those 42-seconds.