More favorite TV shows

All the TV shows and movies I mention on the blog can be bought on amazon.com.  The TV shows are usually $2 per episode.  Some older stuff is free if you have Amazon Prime.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

If you haven’t seen it, he starts out with jokes about current events for about 15 minutes.  Then there’s about another 15 minutes or so that varies depending on the day.  Some days it’s funny headlines.  Some days, it’s funny videos.  Some days, it’s weird stuff they found on ebay.  Or funny 911 calls.  Or funny animals.

Then it’s about 20 minutes of interviewing some celebrities, who usually have something to promote, like a new tv show or movie or book.  My favorite recurring guests are Wanda Sykes and… Terry Bradshaw because they are funny.  If the celebrity is funny, i’ll watch the celebrity part. If not, i skip it.  then it finishes off with a musical performance from various artists, which I usually skip.

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Homeland

A very popular and highly rated series.  It’s about CIA officers that try to catch terrorists.  It has interesting surprises and things that don’t happen on other TV shows.  In the first season, a marine who was forced to stay in the Middle East returns after 8 years as a prisoner returns to the US secretly as an agent of a terrorist group trying to harm the US.

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Shark Tank

Ah probably one of my top 5 favorite shows. Each week, small startups pitch a bunch of funny millionaires and billionaires.  The most famous ones are Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Daymond John, founder of FUBU, a fashion brand.

Main thing I like it is because it’s funny.  For example, after one person pitched… creating these artificial tornadoes over the ocean to gather gold dust, one of the billionaires, Kevin O’Leary, says “How long are you staying on Planet Earth for?”

There are demonstrations of new products, and negotiation of the terms of an investment, like $100k for 10% of the company.  There are also other arrangements, like 10% company for a $1 royalty on each product for forever.  The royalty is the favorite structure of Kevin O’Leary as it’s a way to insure he gets his money back.