Who Asked You?

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The first half of the movie releases coming out this year were just too much. We needed a break and we know you needed one too. Everyone needed some time to absorb what they had heard on our show. The pure terror of what awaits us on the silver screen in 2010 had to be shuttered for a week while we all regained our composure.
And we did just that. Last week was spent moving Mike and Dennis into their new home as well as moving all the Who Asked You? equipment into its. What better way to christen our new HQ than to finish up the Glance at Gloom 2010. When we last left you we had only made it up to May. So that’s exactly where we pick up this week’s show. May starts out hopeful though with Iron Man 2 debuting the first week. It’s all kinda down hill from there though.
To make things interesting and to prove our point that some of this year’s releases are so outrageous it’s as though they drew actors and plot points out of a hat, we decided to come up with a few of our own ideas for movies and throw them into the list randomly to see if you, or our co-hosts could tell the difference between the fake and the factual. As you’ll hear, this proves increasingly difficult. We invite you to play along.
Thank goodness our show returns to normal next week. I don’t think anyone would survive this list another show. But since we’re able to power through it with time to spare we won’t have to worry about it anymore. We’ll only have to worry when all these movies actually come out. There’s even time at the end of the show to throw in some unknowns… movies that are coming out this year, the studios just don’t know when yet. It’s like holding a steamy turd and throwing it at a giant wall calendar and seeing where it splats.

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New Releases for Tuesday, February 9th:
Emma
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Couples Retreat
Army Wives (Season 3)
Stargate SG-U: 1.0
Dante’s Inferno
Running Man [Blu-ray]
The Stepfather
Dangerous Man
The Phantom [Blu-ray]
Vega$ (Season 1, Volume 2)
Bronson
Drop Zone [Blu-ray]
Hard Rain [Blu-ray]
Celebrity Nude Revue, The Saucy 70’s (Volume 2)

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This week’s episode of the…….. still……… unnamed food consumption entertainment hour gets off to a confusing start on several points. First the guys don’t initially tell us where they’re dining. So it’s a guessing game until about 42 mintues into the show. Then they bring up the fact that Chase promised there would be a title for the show by it’s 5th running. The fellas think they’re in the clear because they think this is their 4th show. It’s not… it is the 5th. And therefore it should have a name, but it does not. So we have a food show without a name and two hosts that don’t know how many episodes of it they’ve already done. This could only happen on the Interwebs.
To clarify for the record, the guys are at Pin Kaow Thai Restaurant this week. There are 3 locations throughout the Las Vegas valley to serve you. They offer a very Thai atmosphere and some authentic Thai cuisine. The two start things off with some golden brown spring rolls to snack on until the main course arrived. Charlie’s meal was Pin Koaw’s Catfish Green Curry. Featuring green Thai special curry paste with coconut milk, bamboo shoot and Thai basil leaves over catfish. To drink, the cheddar man was chuggin’ a Thai Ice Tea with ice that doesn’t quite meet his expectations. However, early in the dinner he samples Dennis’ green tea, which both of them agree is not as good as that they had at Osaka Japanese Bistro on a previous show.
Dennis went with the Pad Thai, your choice of beef, chicken, pork, tofu or shrimp mixed with rice noodles sauteed with bean sprouts and crushed peanuts. A dish he says he’s sampled at several locations. So how does Pin Kaow’s measure up? Quite well it would seem. Dennis says theirs is, “very flavorful”. And gets his seal of approval. As mentioned Dennis was drinking green tea. Charlie felt like the green tea at Pin Kaow was something on the level of what you’d brew at home. So it may not be the best beverage to choose when you’re visiting Pin Kaow.
Tonight’s dinner conversation, as usual, veers off in many directions. Charlie regales us all of the time he worked at a bowling ally concession counter and met R&B singer, Avant. Apparently, the rhythm and blues artist tried to play the celebrity card on Charlie in hopes of scoring some free snacks. But as anyone who listens to Who Asked You? knows, Charlie doesn’t follow main stream entertainment like most people do, therefore he didn’t know who this guy was. He did however know who his date was… a bored looking Tisha Campbell, better known for her role as Gina on the hit series Martin. How do you suppose she reacted when Avant couldn’t get any comped candy? Tune in and find out. By the way… she’s married, but not to Avant… case of mistaken identity? Hmmm…
Dennis has met his share of famous faces too while working in a Las Vegas hospital. He was cussed out by Jerry Lewis and once met a very kind Pat Morita shortly before his death. He also once got punched in the chin by a crazy old dude… not famous, but funny nonetheless.
Since this is a food show, Charlie also tells the tale of when he once made a pizza-sized sugar cookie at the same bowling ally snack bar. To go with it, he had a 44-ounce cup of coffee… and was probably nearly thrust into a coma either by the sugar overload or the caffeine one.
Nothing is spared at the food show table when it comes to dinner discussions. Not even Mike’s deviated septum. That’s all we’ll type on that. Just listen to the show to get the runny rundown on it. Nose and mucus news aside, it’s a good episode at a good restaurant. Both Charlie and Dennis are happy with what they ordered and the universe is at peace. Not the best they’ve eaten, but certainly good and worth a return visit. Plus, unlike at Hash House A Go Go, the service was good!
And yes Dennis… I, Chase, did listen to this. This will make sense when you too listen to this episode.

Pin Kaow Thai Restaurant is located at these 3 locations:
1974 North Rainbow Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89108
(702) 638-2746

7835 South Rainbow Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89139
(702) 225-4646

9530 South Eastern Ave. Suite 100
Henderson, NV 89123
(702) 407-1188

Visit their website for more information: www.pinkaowthai.com/

As we said last week the Who Asked You? show would be taking this week off while we get Dennis, Mike and our studio moved into a new place. As the title above says, we’ll be back with all-new episodes of the show next Monday at 3pm/PT starting with the second half of our 2010 movie release preview show. We’ll run down the remaining films releasing this year and break it all down for ya! You can catch a repeat of our 100th episode on Errorfm (Channel 1) this Thursday at 8pm/PT. And you can still hear Charlie and Dennis today on the still title-less food show as they bring us another new grub-tastic experience.
In the meantime, you can see this week’s new releases below and here’s a bit of news we would ordinarily bring you on the show for you to ponder over.
The CW network has ordered a pilot for a rebooted version of the failed USA Network series, Le Femme Nikita. The series was originally a 1990 French film by director, Luc Besson. It was later remade into a US film in 1993 and starred Bridget Fonda. The movie was called “Point Of No Return”. It was six years later though, in ‘97 that USA adapted it into a weekly hour-long series, which developed quite the following for its fast paced action and sci-fi stories. That program ran for 5 seasons. The new reboot will have Nikita going rogue and a new assassin is trained to replace her… oh yeah, and did we mention the producer for this new version is McG?
What do you think? Tell us in an E-Mail. Are you excited for a possible return of Le Femme Nikita?

New Releases for Tuesday, February 2nd:
Zombieland
Doctor Who: The Complete Specials (The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The End of Time Parts 1 and 2)
Amelia
Love Happens
Beverly Hills 90210 (Season 9)
Planet Hulk (Two Disc Special Edition)
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
New York, I Love You
Gangs of New York (Remastered) [Blu-ray]
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (Two-Disc Widescreen Collectors Edition)
The Wolf Man (Special Edition – Universal Legacy Series)
Wolverine & X-Men: Fate of the Future
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero (Season 1.3)
Hellboy: Sword of Storms & Blood & Iron [Blu-ray]
The Godfather (Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray]

There may not be a Who Asked You? episode this Monday, but you can still hear some of the guys online tonight! Charlie and Chase will be guests on Spankwagon Radio tonight starting at 7pm/PT on Spankwagon.net. Be sure to tune in LIVE for some Who Asked You? pimpage.

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Today’s show is the first part of a unintentional two-part series. We say that because it wasn’t supposed to take up two shows. But what can we say? We talk a lot, and didn’t finish the list. This list we speak of is a collection of most of the major movies being released this year. To help us sift through it all is our new friend, “Mikey V PCP“, a local indie filmmaker from right here in Las Vegas! Charlie met him through some fellow Internet radio folks and we thought we’d have him stop by and endure the Hollywood hell that is the 2010 movie release schedule with us.
With a total of sixteen pages, single spaced at 12 point font, the list of films hitting theaters this year is enormous. Sadly, ninety-percent of them are not worth the paper we printed them on. But that’s the fun of it! Chase rambles ‘em off and the guys go to town ripping them apart as they so deserve. We make it through five months on this episode and there’s maybe two or three films we think are worth the price of admission, which these days makes it very difficult to justify paying given Hollywood’s near inability to make entertaining movies anymore.
There’s a few gems in this pile of horse manure, but most are simply fodder for the ravenous Who Asked You? Crew. Join us today, for part one of our 2010 movie preview show. We make it up to May before needing a rest from the horror that awaits us on the big screen. We return in two weeks with the remaining releases due out this year. There’s no show next Monday, February 1st because Mike and Dennis will be moving into a new home as will the Who Asked You? studios. But we’re back the week after that, February 8th for all-new shows and part two of our “glance at the gloom”.

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New Releases for Tuesday, January 26th:
Michael Jackson: This Is It
Surrogates
Saw VI
Little Ashes
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Pride & Prejudice [Blu-ray]
Southland: (Season 1 – Uncensored)
Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 1
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Whip It
Bonekickers
The Red Green Show: The Infantile Years (Seasons 1991-1993)
Dirty Jobs Collection 5
Sherlock Holmes
Rifftrax: Shorts-tacular Shorts-stravaganza