Who Asked You?

EPISODE 254 – Booffet Of Blasphemy

Chase — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:52:31 +0000

A “booffet of blasphemy” (as he pronounced it) is how Mike described THIS IS THE END starring Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill and friends. If you’ve seen the movie, have listened to our show and know Mike, then you know why he described it that way. Without spoiling it too much I’ll simply say that Satan is packin’ a big one.
Blasphemy seems to be a theme these days over at Microsoft. Their ill-received Xbox One continues to get bashed and scrutinized from every possible angle. And rightfully so. It seems each week a new feature whose sole function is to annoy and rip us off gets revealed. And then they’ve got some guy giving quotes to a major gaming site basically telling people if you don’t like the new product, tough shit, go with the old one then. Really? Instead of listening to your prime customer base, you’re going to tell them to fuck off and not buy your next product meant for them? Most companies might call that blasphemy. Meanwhile Sony reveled in the demise of the mighty console. Laughing and undercutting its price point as the empire Microsoft accidentally fell into crumbles like Metropolis in the new MAN OF STEEL movie, which by the way, we saw and review along with THIS IS THE END on today’s show.
For the first time in a long time Apple wasn’t the ‘talk of the town’ so to speak during their WWDC conference. Instead, it was overshadowed by the whole Xbox One vs PS4 fiasco. Don’t worry though, we make time to cover both. Once E3 is out of the way we get into what Apple is working on. They’ve got an update to OSX and along with a few new features, they’re dumping the feline designations in place of favorite spots in California. The first being OSX Mavericks, named after a prime surfing spot in northern Cali. They also unveiled iTunes Radio, a competitor to Pandora and Spotify. But what really caught my attention was the new Mac Pro desktop. This long neglected branch of the Apple product tree has undergone a radical makeover. It looks like a black, shiny coffee grinder. At an eighth the size of the previous Mac Pro its cylindrical design is meant to keep it cool as Apple has designed a new thermal core to chill the powerful hardware inside. The last update to the desktop brought complaints that there weren’t enough expansion slots or a Blu-ray drive. Taking a cue from Microsoft, those complaints went highly ignored as this version has NO expansion slots or optical drive at all. There are external devices that’ll be available, but should it have to be that way? And speaking of blasphemy, I should note that this is the first Who Asked You? to be powered by a Mac. I’ve made the leap from Windows… sort of… although the computer is from Apple, it was booted into Windows 7 for the sake of the show due to a software limitation on the OSX side which I’m trying to get squared away before next week.
We end this week’s program with a Chase’s Chance Upon. If you’ve never heard of the Dollar Shave Club, allow me to shave off a few facts about it. It’s a fairly new service in which guys can pay as little as a dollar a month, plus shipping, and automatically get fresh razors delivered to their home. I don’t use the service, but I already knew of it and what I chanced upon was a new product they’re offering, buttwipes for men. They’re called One Wipe Charlie’s and they’re infused with what sounds like ingredients for cookies and are lightly scented so your ass crack will be clean, moisturized and smell like mint. You’ll get 40 of the wipes each month for just $4 more. Now you do have to be signed up for a razor subscription and cover shipping to get them, so it won’t just be $4 a month.
Our first show on a new affiliate, Rocking Comedy Radio, two movie reviews, Microsoft bashing, Apple bashing (even from Dennis) and a show being powered by an Apple computer? I can’t believe we even had time to talk about the wet wipes for your ass… but then again, a Who Asked You? without talk of number two? Well, that would just be… blasphemy!

SHOW LINKS:
“This Is The End” Official Website
“Man Of Steel” Official Website
Microsoft Xbox One
Sony Playstation 4
Nintendo @ E3
IGN.com: Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft
OSX Mavericks
The new Mac Pro
iOS 7
iTunes Radio
/Film: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas Predict Hollywood ‘Implosion’
Dollar Shave Club – Now offering ‘One Wipe Charlie’ buttwipes for men.

Heard In This Week’s Open:
The Witches of Eastwick

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, June 18th:
Quartet
Jack the Giant Slayer
Body of Proof (Season 3)
Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated – Spooky Stampede
Workaholics (Season 3)
Drop Dead Diva (Season 4)
Wilfred (Season 2)
SlugTerra: Slugs Unleashed
Web Therapy (Season 2)
Tourist Trap

EPISODE 253 – Say No To Dafoe

Chase — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:50:33 +0000

PHOTO CREDIT: www.nymphomaniacthemovie.com

Do you want to see Willem Dafoe naked and fully penetrating his female co-star? Perhaps you already did; that is, if you saw a 2009 Lars von Trier movie called ANTICHRIST. Or did you? Although the movie has a brief shot of a penis going into a vagina, it’s not actually his lil’ Green Goblin. Instead, it’s a double. A dick double if you will. That one brief shot though, pales in comparison to other violent scenes in the story and the overall dark and what some describe as, evil tone of the entire movie. Two words: genital mutilation. I’m getting a little sidetracked though. My point is, with some clever editing, you thought you saw Dafoe’s ding dong. And with von Trier’s next project, NYMPH()MANIAC, he’s taking it a step further. Like Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron just to name a few, he’s using CG to further his film’s story. Unlike those directors, or any others in mainstream filmmaking for that matter, von Trier is using it to create the illusion of A-List actors having actual sex. In his new movie you may very well see Shia LaBeouf, Uma Therman or Willem Dafoe doing some digital boinking. The director plans to shoot the actors from the waist up and then use doubles from the waist down who will actually be having actual, REAL sex. What do you think, is it about time we get some CGI sex in movies?
One thing is for sure when it comes to nudity in films, we wanna see more of it (depending on who it is that’s naked of course). And why not hold on the shot for a little longer? Film editor, Vashi Nedomansky did a little research and came up with the average shot length of some big name directors. Woody Allen likes to stay on one shot for almost 18-seconds! While Spielberg lets his role for about 6-seconds. But there are some directors who can’t even stay on one shot for that long. You’ll hear who cuts the quickest on today’s episode.
The show gets a little serious as Charlie and Dennis get into it over vacation time at work. A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that America is the ONLY country out of the top 21 economically advanced nations that DOES NOT require employees to provide vacation time to workers. Australia’s government for example, requires businesses to provide their employees with at least 35 days off each year! And other countries like France, Italy and Belgium aren’t far behind. But ‘Merica has no such requirement. As you can probably guess, Charlie agrees with that. Dennis, Jabari and myself (Mike is out again this week) do not. A rested employee who is not stressed is a happy productive employee. And although many US companies voluntarily offer PTO, it’s usually two weeks or less per year, comes with a catch or many places don’t offer it at all to those who work part time or haven’t been with the company for a certain amount of time. A new bill from Congressman Alan Grayson hopes to change that. Should paid vacation from employers be required in the USA? Send us an E-Mail or voice message and tell us what you think.
Two Tampa cops seemed to be taking their vacations while on duty! In Breaking News we learn that the officers pretended to be “working in the field” but were actually boozin’ it up at a local strip club where they spent almost their entire shift before supervisors caught on. Not only did one of the drunk officers get belligerent in the parking lot with his fellow PD pals, but both were sent hope without reprimand or any sort of investigation. And it wasn’t even brought up until the start of the following week.
And there’s just enough time for us to go on Jenkem Watch. In Indianapolis, an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance office got a special delivery back after sending their junk mail advertisements to one resident who’d had enough. The mailers were addressed to the unidentified recipient’s dog. So they mailed dog shit back to the insurance office. The ironic part is, unsolicited, nonstop, obnoxious junk mail isn’t considered ‘harassment by mail’, but sticking a dog log in an envelope is? This goes both ways. Stop sending your crap to me and I’ll stop sending mine to you. Only in America I suppose. If we’d get a little vacation time every once in awhile maybe we wouldn’t be so testy and go mailing off dog shit to everyone.

SHOW LINKS:
Buy “Return to Oz” on DVD
Nymph()maniac: The Movie
List of movies with unsimulated sex
Showbiz411
Sam Mendes on IMDb
VashiVisuals.com: Average Shot Length of 6 Famous Directors
Center for Economic Policy and Research
TheINDYchannel.com: Dog feces accompanies complaint letters mailed to Anthem office in Indianapolis
Spike TV’s “World’s Worst Tenants”
Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods America”

Heard In This Week’s Open:
In Living Color
GI Joe PSA: Pork Chop Sandwiches
Herman Cain on who’s president of Uzbeki-Becky-Becky-Becky-Becky-Stan-Stan

Billy Madison

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, June 11th:
Oz the Great and Powerful
Rizzoli & Isles (Season 3)
House of Cards (Season 1)
The Newsroom (Season 1)
Burn Notice (Season 6)
Snitch
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
In The Heat Of The Night (Season 8)
Big Bad Beetleborgs Metallix (Season 2, Volume 1)
9 Miles Down

EPISODE 252 – Bones, What’re You Doing With That Tribble?

Chase — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:44:03 +0000

What Bones was doing with a tribble in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS is just one of many unanswered questions about the film. One might answer, “He was injecting it with Khan’s blood, remember?” But that’s not entirely what we mean. Not only was the out-of-place line delivered by Kirk in the middle of what was supposed to be an intense back-and-forth between him and Khan, but it begged the question, what the hell was Bones doing with a Tribble? Where did it come from? How did he get it? Why was it dead? Why didn’t it multiply as they’re so famous for doing? In a film that prides itself on being a STAR TREK movie for the masses, not just the fans, you’d think they’d have taken more care to introduce the iconic creature to all these “new fans” they’re trying to usher in. But the Tribble is trivial when looking at the film overall. We’ve devoted more airtime to ranting about the reboot of this franchise than I’d care to admit. We could easily burn through another whole show on INTO DARKNESS. But I know you’re probably tired of hearing our stance. And frankly, I’m exhausted trying to convince people why they should hate these movies. So it gets EXACTLY ten minutes of our time today. The timer clicks away and when it goes off, we are done with the subject, mid-sentence or not.
Besides what Dr. McCoy has in store for that poor little fuzz ball, there’s another question we’ve got to ask… how are you liking the fourth season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT on Netflix? It’s our poll question for the next couple of weeks. Give it a star rating just as you would on the streaming service. Turns out, about 85% of the people who did, gave it either four or five stars. So it seems it’s doing quite well. I’m three episodes in, pacing myself and cherishing the Bluth family for the first time in seven years, and I’ve got a small complaint and an observation. I share those on today’s show.
The question of what Amazon Studios pilots will get series orders has been answered. The online retailer announced last week that ALPHA HOUSE and BETAS are getting season orders along with several kids shows. Both of those shows I did not watch. I’m a little disappointing THE ONION EMPIRE didn’t get chosen. But this is a whole new business model for greenlighting shows Amazon is trying out, so who knows, maybe there’s still time.
How deep is the barrel of despair with which Hollywood ladles out the big screen slop they call movies these days? That question’s answer? Really fucking deep. Like, bottomless pit leads to other dimension deep. You’ve probably heard by now that Grumpy Cat, the frowning feline seen in all those silly little memes, is getting a movie. The cat is real and the images are not Photoshopped with the exception of the clever captions you always see on them. The cat, whose real name is Tartar Sauce, even has a manager. It’s believed the movie will be similar to the live-action GARFIELD they made back in 2004. It’s also believed, by us, that this is kinda pathetic of Hollywood. Are we resorting to finding inspiration for multi-million dollar movies on our Facebook feeds? The answer to that question is… YES!
Do you know when the first computer mouse was invented? Don’t cheat and Wikipedia it. The answer is 1963! Douglas Engelbart made it out of a little wooden box and it rolled around on tiny wheels. The mouse is just one of 50 interesting people, places and things that are turning 50-years-old in 2013. The list was compiled over on MentalFloss.com and is quite an interesting read. We’ve got the link below and talk about ten of the things on it I was most fascinated with.
If you’re wondering what to do about this whole Xbox One debacle (gamers don’t seem to be happy with it), then we’ve got an answer for that too. You gotta live in the United Kingdom though. And you gotta have a Costco membership. They are selling a life-size Formula One race car complete with video game racing simulator. Sitting on top of the nose are three computer monitors providing you with a panoramic view of the virtual race track. It runs on a PC powered by an Intel i7 processor. And it’ll only cost you $138,338.00 U.S. Here’s a question, who the hell shops at Costco and has that kind of money? I guess if you buy food in bulk at discount prices maybe you’ve saved a little and can— Bones, what’re you doing with that Tribble?

SHOW LINKS:
Buy “The Goonies” on DVD
Star Trek – The official site. I refuse to link to that JJ Abrams’ bullshit.
“Arrested Development” on Netflix
Procera
Amazon Studios
Grumpy Cat’s Official Website
Mental Floss: 50 Things That Turn 50 In 2013
Costco UK’s Full Size Racing Simulator

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Dumb and Dumber
Blood In, Blood Out
X-Men: The Last Stand
All About Eve
Futurama (Volume 1)

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, June 4th:
A Good Day to Die Hard
Warm Bodies
Breaking Bad (Season 5)
Identity Thief
Falling Skies (Season 2)
Pretty Little Liars (Season 3)
Escape From Planet Earth
Adventure Time (Season 2)
Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme
12 Rounds 2: Reloaded

EPISODE 251 – Another Box To Prostitute

Chase — Mon, 27 May 2013 21:58:37 +0000

The new releases, as usual, are listed below but they are not on this week’s show. Silly rhyme aside, I decided to bump the segment to the end of the episode so that we’d have enough time to get to all the big stories of the last two weeks. Us not having a show for 20 straight days in combination with all the crazy shit that’s been going on makes for a loaded rundown.
The special, hand picked news stories worthy of our attention filled up the entire show so we didn’t get to the new DVDs. Like most blogs, vlogs, streams and podcasts this week, we talk about the Xbox One announcement. But since all the other guys are doing it, we thought we’d be the cool kids (minus the Abercrombie and Fitch clothes) and not spend an entire show on it. We only do that when berating JJ Abrams’ STAR TREK. There are a lot of things to consider with this new Microsoft rig. It’s clear the company DOES NOT listen to its user base and is on a mission to lock us all into a specific path of cloud-stored content you buy but don’t own, the need for the box to be hooked up to an expensive high-speed Internet connection at all times and shouting and gesturing at your TV trying to launch the YouTube app until you work up a sweat and flop down on your sofa defeated. Gamers are turned off by paying a premium price for a box that does way more than they want it to. And without a stripped down game console-only version, we’re all stuck coughing up $500 or $600 for something that we’ll end up only using about a tenth of the functionality and isn’t really backward compatible with the games we already own! And then there’s this business of not being able to take YOUR game YOU paid for to a friend’s place and playing on their Xbox without having to pay a fee. And there’s even more to consider. You’ll hear a lot of it on today’s show.
Then comes the skew. Dennis starts to make a point regarding the new Xbox with an example from SIDE BY SIDE, a documentary Keanu Reeves produced about Hollywood’s transition from film to digital. It takes him awhile to get to the point as we skew off the skew into projection and how Charlie repaired an old reel of SCROOGED while working at a drive-in theater. I’ll be honest, I drifted in and out, but I do know eventually Dennis makes his point.
That eats up more of the show than I thought it would which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It sends us into a sort of lightning round and we breeze right on through the rest of the rundown only omitting the aforementioned new releases.
Everybody loves Michael J. Fox right? Of course they do. But we’ve got some concerns about his new comedy coming this Fall to NBC. Fox plays a veteran news anchor at channel 4 in New York City who is forced to leave his job after being diagnosed with… you guessed it… Parkinson’s Disease. After driving his family nuts for a few years, he decides to go back to work and hilarity ensues! Even though the show is on NBC, and I swore I’d never watch the network again after what they did to Conan, I hope the show works out and I may check it out. With that said, we play its trailer and I tally all of the Parkinson’s jokes made within the roughly three-minute clip. We’re a little put off by how many there are. If the trailer is any indication of the show’s tone, it seems it’s going to be one continuously running jitter-joke. We get it Mike, you have Parkinson’s. Lets hope the show doesn’t just focus on that.
The profession of police officer dominates three of our stories this week. COPS is moving to SpikeTV. After 24-years of blurred faces and bleeped dialogue Fox has had enough and decided not to renew one of its original shows that launched with the network in the 80s.
Also, Robocop is getting his statue. After a successful Kickstarter run, Imagination Station went to work sculpting a ten-foot tall memorial to the mechanized Murphy. They’ll soon start the bronzing stage and then its time to figure out where the hell to put it. When the project first made its rounds on the web back in 2011, Detroit’s city officials weren’t too keen on the idea and I don’t think their position has changed. We’ll keep you up-to-date.
And TIMECOP is getting rebooted by Universal Studios without Jean-Claude Van Damme. Annnd our interest is gone. Moving along…
If you were a fan of Agent Phil Coulson and was saddened by his death in Joss Whedon’s THE AVENGERS, you’ll be happy to know he’s alive and well! Don’t get mad that I just ‘spoilered’ you… ABC’s AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. divulges this information in the commercial promoting the series which just got a season order.
And finally, in Breaking News an investigation by NBC 4 in New York, you know, the station Michael J. Fox works for in his new sitcom, did some investigating at a local senior living complex and uncovered some disturbing behavior. We’re not talking about neglect and bed sores this time, but rather prostitution and drug abuse! A 75-year-old man and his 66-year-old female neighbor were arrested for prostitution and drug possession. He was apparently running a prostitution ring involving young women as well as senior sirens from within the complex and she was offering up crack cocaine out of her apartment to the clientele. Stick around for the details on this.
And Microsoft may have screwed up with the Xbox One, but they did do something right over at their search engine, Bing. They’ve added Klingon to their translator! You can now translate just about any word or phrase into Klingonese (as it was called in the original series) and you have the option of displaying it in Terran or in traditional Qo’noS scribe. It’s in the Show Links so give it a try and translate this: Hogh veb qalegh!

SHOW LINKS:
Microsoft Xbox
Side By Side: The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema
NBC’s “The Michael J. Fox Show”
Cops
Fox
A.V. Club: Detroit’s RoboCop statue is almost done, and it’s goddamn majestic
The Hollywood Reporter: Universal Plans ‘Timecop’ Reboot (Exclusive)
ABC’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Marvel’s “Big Hero 6″
Disney Animation Studios
NBC 4 New York: Man, 75, Accused of Running Prostitution Ring in New Jersey Senior Housing Complex
Bing Translator – Now fluent in Klingon

Heard In This Week’s Open:
The Family Man
8MM
Deadfall
The Rock
The Wicker Man

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, May 28th:
Doctor Who: The Snowmen
Covert Affairs (Season 3)
Longmire (Season 1)
Suits (Season 2)
Dark Skies
Judas Priest: Epitaph
Beetlejuice (Complete Series)
Ron White: A Little Unprofessional
Tiny Toon Adventures (Volume 4: Looney Links!)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 2, Volume 2)

EPISODE 250 – Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Netflix

Chase — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:57:59 +0000

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.

SHOW LINKS:
Buy “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” on DVD
Maximum Comics
AMC Theaters
Star Trek Shop
AmazonOriginals.com – Check out the 14 pilots from Amazon Studios.
Bloomberg: Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video
Tosh.0: 10 Gross Fast-Food Items That Will Defeat Your Liver
Mandatory.com: The Grossest Fast-Food From Around The World
WBZ-TV: NH Man Loses Life Savings On Carnival Game
TLC’s “My Crazy Obsession”

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Whore

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, May 7th:
Safe Haven
Jack Reacher (2-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
Fringe (Season 5)
Superman: Unbound
Mama
Jesus Christ Superstar [Blu-ray]
Flashpoint (Season 5)
30 Rock (Season 7)
Royal Pains (Season 4)
Gamer 3D [3D Blu-ray/Blu-ray + UltraViolet]

EPISODE 249 – Destiny’s Chiiiii-ld

Chase — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:45:54 +0000

Destiny’s Child

We are back in full! An entire hour of Who Asked You? as nature intended is just one play button click away. As I noted last week, the show was 42-seconds short. I still haven’t figured out how or why that happened. But it seems to be a one-off anomaly, so we’ll just leave it at that.
This is another energetic show. I finally got the chance to unveil our STAR TREK-themed open. I’d been holding onto it, waiting for the perfect time to debut it. And this week was it! I went to a Fathom Event last Thursday featuring a screening of the most famous of TNG episodes, “The Best of Both Worlds”. In celebration of the series being remastered on Blu-ray they re-edited the two-parter into a feature length film and presented it along with a behind-the-scenes documentary and a blooper reel. I knew I’d be flapping my jaw about it on the show, so I made a few notes — good and bad — as I watched the stunning HD version of my all-time favorite TV show and I share them today.
And we’re pleased to inform you all that Twinkies WILL be back. We were certain they would be. Such an iconic brand will not go quietly into the night. In early March, Hostess was purchased by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Company. They paid $410-million… that’s a lotta dough for some dough. The new owners also own Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Vlasic Pickles. Lets hope Twinkies don’t go hipster, or they come out with cream filled pickles. Although, there may be an untapped market of pregnant ladies that would be all over that… the pickles, not the beer. Anyway, Hostess plans to reopen its Kansas bakery along with those in Georgia, Indiana and Illinois. They hope to have the flagship junk food back on store shelves by July.
Gwyneth Paltrow has been named People Magazine’s most beautiful woman of 2013. As you can imagine, this drums up quite a bit of discussion on the show. We love lists and the ladies, and we love picking shit apart when we don’t agree with it. This is one of those times. We’re confused as to what the qualifications are for this list. Who decides who goes on it? My guess is a late night staff meeting at People headquarters fueled by room temperature coffee and mediocre Chinese takeout makes up the panel of judges. This leads to a question of who else is on this list.
While Dennis works to find said list, we move on to news that Nintendo is releasing a sequel to THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST. Now for those of you who grew up on a Super Nintendo, you know this game. In my opinion, it is the best Zelda game out there. Full disclosure, I’ve only played two others and that new Zelda mini-game that comes with the Wii U. The game will be available on the 3DS and will take full advantage of the stereoscopic screen sure to blur your vision or make you barf all over your couch. This story gets very little commentary as Dennis reverts back to the People Magazine one after finding the top-10 list online. On the list is Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child. Charlie evidently had never seen her and seemed quite smitten with her.
Sad news from Comedy Central. They’ve decided not to renew FUTURAMA for another season. Apparently they’d rather use that chunk of the budget for their other quality programming like, THE JESELNIK OFFENSIVE. Creator Matt Groening and David X. Cohen the executive producer seem cool with the cancellation. They’re just happy the show was revived for a few more seasons. And Groening holds out some hope. They plan to shop the show around to other channels.
And that’s perfect because FX is in the market for new animated shows. They’re owned by Fox just like FUTURAMA so it’s a natural fit! I guess we’ll see what happens. FX does have a new animated show produced by Seth Rogen on the way. It’s based on Bigfoot’s memoirs. Yep, you read that right. Tune-in for the details!
Finally, last week we talked about Fundawear, the vibrating underwear you can control from your iPhone. Now we’ve got another company making women’s underwear for men. Yep, you read that right too. HommeMystere thinks there’s a market for men who want to wear ladies lingerie. And they’re right. The website, available in the Show Links, is bizarre to say the least. The teddies and panties and G-Strings are very feminine looking coming with lace trim and in colors like purple and pink, but scroll down and you’ll notice they’ve been tailored to ‘accommodate’ a man. The site is full of images of male models nonchalantly posing in the nighties and also has a promotional video where a man puts one on under his normal clothes and even stands next to his girlfriend where they compare their panties in the mirror. This raises a lot of questions, but there’s only time for one on this show… who has ever tried on the opposite sex’s underwear? Guess who in our group has done this? If you’ve got a funny story relating to this that you’d like to share, send us an E-Mail.

SHOW LINKS:
StarTrek.com
Fathom Events
Nintendo 3DS
People Magazine
EW.com: ‘Futurama’ to end seven-season run on Sept. 4
Comedy Central
FX Network
Buy “In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot”
Buy “Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir”
Buy “Bigfoot: I Not Dead”
AmazonOriginals.com – Check out the 14 pilots from Amazon Studios.
Bloomberg: Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video
HommeMystere – Lingerie tailored for men.

IMAGE: HommeMystere

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 1)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, April 30th:
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) [Blu-ray]
The Guilt Trip
Broken City
The Vampire Lovers [Blu-ray]
The Details
Patlabor (OVA) [Blu-ray]
Fairy Tail: Collection One (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
Manborg

EPISODE 248 – Seminal Moment

Chase — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:43:03 +0000

IMAGE: POETIC JUSTICE, Columbia Pictures

Either the Who Asked You? Crew was abducted by aliens last night and our memories wiped clean, or something funky was going on with our multi-million dollar studio. This show is 42-seconds shorter than it should be. I can’t explain it. I checked the file in two different editing programs and both show it coming up short. I double checked the timer and it seems fine, yet we don’t clock out at one-hour. I’ll be listening back to this show intently to see if it cuts out somewhere. That’d be where the aliens got us, or the recorder hiccuped. This is the first time this has ever happened. I’m at a complete loss. But, what’s done is done, and our hilarity is just over 40-seconds shorter than it should be this week.
Even without those missing seconds we manage to cram in quite a bit of infotainment from the past week making this a pretty rowdy show. We have an impromptu taste testing of Samuel Adams’ Grumpy Munk, Tasman Red and Dark Depths IPAs. And former Alaska Gubernatorial quitter, Sarah Palin makes a surprise appearance on the show with few words of wisdom. But that’s not all! We make fun of Ryan Lochte for a minute, Dog the Bounty Hunter and his busty wife Beth and we decide to run for office on the show. Hopefully Dennis finds the time to plan out the first Who Asked You? election. We don’t know what office we’ll be running for, but we do know we’ll be running against each other and we’ll do a debate on the show. Hopefully this actually happens.
Something else actually happening is the remake of the 1985 classic, WEIRD SCIENCE starring Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. The announcement just came down, so there’s no cast, director or release date yet. But Joel Silver, who worked on the original, is producing the re-imaging. They say the comedy will be different from the first. It’ll be much more ‘edgier’ like THE HANGOVER. We’ve got some thoughts on this.
The movie theater business has a lot of acronyms. You’ve got NATO, UDITOA, CBG and DCI just to name a few. These letters are all teaming up to convert around 100 of the nation’s drive-in theaters to digital projection. And in true Who Asked You? deviation fashion, this leads to a conversation about Janet Jackson’s tits. Tune-in to find out how!
And the results of a new study tell us what we already knew. The size of a dude’s junk DOES matter. At least, in Australia it does. Scientists there polled just over 100 women showing them computer generated male figures with flaccid penises. The figures, gray in color and completely featureless, ranged in height, weight, proportion and… length. In all, women liked a guy with a good shoulder-to-hip ratio. Women who were taller also preferred a taller fella. But those aren’t the only results they came up with.
Also in Australia, Durex, the condom company, is working on some pretty high-tech undies. Called Fundawear, the undergarments are still in development. They feature small vibrating actuators strategically placed within the fabric that are controlled by an iPhone app. There’s a bra and panties for her and a pair of boxer briefs for him. The app is touch and pressure sensitive, so the more and harder you press, the more your partner is going to feel it. We run wild with a number of scenarios involving the Fundawear. Don’t miss it!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s back to figuring out where those 42-seconds went.

SHOW LINKS:
Buy “Secret Millionaire’s Club: Volume 1″ on DVD
What Would Ryan Lochte Do?
Dog And Beth: On The Hunt
Deadline: Universal, Joel Silver To Remake John Hughes Comedy “Weird Science”
Buy “Weird Science” on DVD
NATO
U.D.I.T.O.A.
Buy “Poetic Justice” on DVD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Durex – Makers of condoms and now high-tech, Fundawear
Enter to win a pair of Fundawear

Heard In This Week’s Open:
G.I. Jane
The Happening
The Heartbreak Kid
Extreme Movie
Rocketman

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, April 23rd:
Jurassic Park 3D (3D Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
Gangster Squad (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)
The Impossible
Naruto Shippuden: Set 14
Promised Land
Marvel Knights: InHumans
A Haunted House
Great Gatsby [Blu-ray]
Family Weekend
Mistress Of The Apes

EPISODE 247 – RS77_Episode 01

Chase — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:37:10 +0000

Where’s Jabari when you need him? Unfortunately, not on this week’s show. And that’s too bad because we’ve got two stories we talk about with which his input would’ve been priceless. Those are a bit later in the show. First, Dennis gives us an impromptu review of OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN. Did it fall flat with him? You’ll have to tune-in to find out.
Exciting news from Netflix… ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT has been expanded to 15 episodes and the premier date has been set for March 26th. There’s even some new characters making their debut played by some interesting characters themselves. I can’t wait!
We grieve over the news that Disney has decided to close LucasArts. They fired 150 people working there and this week, to Mike’s dismay, they’ve also wiped out their hand-drawn animation department. The few animators left are either taking a pay cut or are being bought out of their remaining contract. As for LucasArts, the mouse house says they want to turn it into a distribution and licensing brand for video games rather than one that develops them. The closing means the cancellation of two STAR WARS games that were in the works. Another dagger in Mike’s heart is the cancellation of a Henry Selick stop-motion feature film that had just started shooting. It’s untitled and Selick has been given the option to take it to another studio. This will likely delay it’s October release date though if it even gets picked up by someplace else.
Jabari story number one: Many shows ago we introduced you to a gentleman who cooks with semen. You may remember his cookbook, “Natural Harvest: A Collection of Semen-based Recipes.” Well, that fellow, whose name is Paul “Fotie” Photenhauer, has written another book about making drinks with man milk. Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the word cocktails doesn’t it? “Semenology: The Semen Bartender’s Handbook” asks the question, why is it taboo to consume semen outside of the bedroom? It also brings up the question, are there really semen bartenders? How does one get into such a niche profession? Just like we did with the recipe book, we debate whether or not we’d want/could/should drink booze with boner butter in it. Where do you stand on this? Let us know.
Jabari story number two: Thou shalt not steal. That’s one of several commandments the Catholic Church pushes. But it appears that doesn’t necessarily apply to digital downloads. Like 75% of the rest of the connected world, there are some in the church that visit the Bureau of Acquisitions for a little Hollywood entertainment. TorrentFreak, after hearing about preists in Ireland watching illegal copies of Oscar screeners every week, decided to do a little snooping on Vatican City’s IP activity and made a rather startling discovery. For the most part, the country of nearly 800 doesn’t really download much. A couple TV shows, some old movies, a song or two… but there was something else in their torrent cue, BDSM videos including Russian slave porn and even some of the transexual variety. There’s no evidence that it was priests doing the downloading. A lot of non-holy folks have access to computers within the Vatican. Speculation online is that it could be some bored Swiss Guard officers. We’re all human, but these downloads seem a little hypocritical on a number of levels. We discuss them on today’s show.
And in the final moments of the netcast we bring you Breaking News from Target.com. Their whimsical names for dress colors has gotten them in a little hot water. Well actually, warm water, about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, around 20 feet deep to be exact. That’s the ideal conditions for the sea cow, or Manatee as it’s more properly known. A plus-sized dress on the retailer’s website was labeled as “Manatee Gray” while the standard size was called “Dark Heather.” Whether this was a little joke between the staffers in the web department, ill-worded information provided by the dress manufacturer or an honest mistake… it’s funny as shit! We ask the question, are people being too sensitive about it? You’re more than welcome to ‘weigh’ in on this.
All in all this is a pretty good show. Makin’ up for last week’s less than stellar recording. You can’t go wrong with stories about spooge and porn. Especially when they involve eating it and the Vatican City respectively. Gotta go, RS77_Episode 02 is almost done downloading!

SHOW LINKS:
Huffington Post: U.S. Navy Laser Weapon To Be Deployed Aboard U.S.S. Ponce In 2014
LucasArts
“Arrested Development” on IMDb
Netflix
Warner Archive Instant – Available on the Roku.
Buy “Semenology: The Semen Bartender’s Handbook”
Buy “Natural Harvest: A Collection of Semen-based Recipes”
TorrentFreak: Priests Watch DVD Screeners While Pirates Download Filth in the Vatican
ScanEye – No one can hide!
CBSNews.com
SF Weekly: “Semenology”: New Book Explores Craft of Semen Cocktails
Target.com

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Good Morning, Vietnam
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Showdown in Little Tokyo
Chasing Amy

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, April 16th:
Django Unchained
Flash Gordon (Complete Series)
A Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
Iron Man: Rise of Technovore
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Season 1, Part 1) (Limited Edition)
Repo Man (Criterion Collection)
WWE: For All Mankind – The Life and Career of Mick Foley with Mr. Socko Sock Puppet (Limited Edition)
Blockbuster Dramas – 6 Movie Set
Jackie Chan Double Feature: Police Story and Police Story II
Crazy Enough

EPISODE 246 – That Was Painful

Chase — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:18:33 +0000

My god this episode is a mess. If you tuned in last week we mentioned that this week’s episode was being recorded immediately after last week’s and wouldn’t be live this week but would be available for download at the usual 3pm/PT on Monday. Make sense? Anyway, putting two shows together in a single week when you barely have time to put together one is not wise. But I gave it the ol’ college try. I may have flunked out.
Then I started thinking just before writing this… maybe I should stop pointing out when we do a sucky show. You the listener may not even pick up on it. After all, they all suck, right? HA HA HA! Joking aside, I’m on the fence as to whether this is the worst episode we’ve ever done. Probably not. We did have some fun, and skimming through it we were laughing a lot. The rundown was pretty scarce and toward the end Dennis started sweatin’ me over the time pointing at his wrist. Usually I’m sad when the closing music cues, but tonight I, and the fellas were relieved. We’d done it. We’d stretched like crazy, and me, having only gotten two hours of sleep the night before — remember this was recorded last week, that’s why it’s mentioned on that show too — I was ready to go home and lose consciousness.
So the train-wreck-of-a-show we have this week includes the following… confirmation came in that another VACATION movie is in the works. As of now, it’s called VACATION. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo are going to appear in the film as Clark and Ellen Griswald. I say ‘appear’ because it’s unclear how big of a role they’ll have as the film will focus on Rusty, their son, as he takes his own family on a road trip across the country which includes a stop at his parents’ place. Now that there’s another headed our way, we wonder, what’s your favorite VACATION movie? It’s our poll question this week.
So, lets say you’re unsure you can pass an upcoming drug test for reasons that are your own business. What are you to do? You’ll be glad you tuned into this week’s episode, because we’ve got an elaborate, expensive and semi-realistic solution sure to complicate the shit — or piss in this case — out of the whole process. A guy was busted during a drug test after the parole officer administering it noticed something a little odd about the guy’s dick. It looked a little plastic; because it was. You see, the guy was using a device called The Whizzinator. You can take a look for yourself in the Show Links. As always, we here at Who Asked You? are happy to bring you a dick story of some sort and this one is a stretch. This device comes complete with a pouch to hold real or fake urine (fake urine powder packet included) and straps around your waist via Velcro. That pouch feeds a tube that is inside a simple flaccid penis you whip out to fool your parole officer. It even includes a heat packet for the fake stuff so you get that realistic temperature. Wait until you hear what happened to the guy who invented the thing and what it’s being sold as now.
We’re back on Jenkem Watch with a question you may have thought of in the past. Can we eat our own poop? After we hear the surprising answer from some scientists and a doctor, we discuss scenarios where this could be a real dilemma and whether or not we would if forced into the situation. Would you?
And the poopy-puns run wild with a second story in Jenkem Watch about a novelty gag that tortured court employees for nearly two weeks. We fill a little airtime with the usual juvenile ad-libbing.
Then we hear from a douche bag on YouTube who thinks we all have flabby bodies and repulsive nipples. Is this guy for real? Or is he just doing this to get his views up on YouTube?
And in Breaking News we question the morality of the latest Powerball Jackpot winner. He won $338-million, one of the biggest in the history of the lottery. However, he owes $29,000 in back child support. State law where he lives says those back payments will be taken out of his winnings. But the question is, should he have been spending money, no matter how little, on lottery tickets in the first place? But at the same time, had he not won Powerball, he wouldn’t have the money to pay it all. Is this one of those chicken and the egg type scenarios?
And in an attempt to fill the final minutes of the show we violate copyright law (I’ll claim Fair Use) with “Stuff from the 90s,” a song by a musical sketch comedy group called Pop Roulette. Check out their Facebook Page and the music video in our Show Links. Before you listen to the show, can you guess who got us on the topic of growing up in the 90s? Find out if you’re right at the end of the show!
Whew! Writing this wasn’t as painful as the show. Maybe I’m overreacting? Maybe it’s not as bad as I think. Maybe you guys don’t even notice when we’re struggling? Perhaps I should just stop mentioning the bad shows. Naw… we’re all about the truth here. We call out Michael Bay and the rest of the shit out there. It’s only fair we do it with ourselves too.

SHOW LINKS:
Buy the “Nation Lampoon’s Ultimate Vacation Collection” on DVD
The Whizzinator
Gawker.com: Can You Eat Your Own Poop?
THCMuscle’s YouTube Channel
Pop Roulette on Facebook

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Predator
Wedding Crashers
American Wedding
Super Troopers

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, April 9th:
Merlin (Season 5)
Boss (Season 2)
Family Ties (Season 6)
Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy
Massage Parlor Murders (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Stevie Nicks: Through The Looking Glass
Fast Five (Blu-ray/Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
Muse: The Velvet Revolution
Dragon Wasps
President’s Day

EPISODE 245 – Wolf 27

Chase — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:55:37 +0000

Happy April Fool’s Day everyone. Hopefully you pulled a fast one on somebody you know. Hopefully they didn’t punch you in the throat or otherwise cease associating with you. I’m gonna be honest, this year’s show is half-assed… as compared to other holiday shows which are usually five-eighths-assed. It’s also a testament that anything we cover on this show, good or bad, can easily be unbelievable. Due to some scheduling issues, we recorded next week’s show right after this one. That means I had twice the show to put together last week. I was already running short on time, which means both this week’s and next week’s rundowns are a little on the skimpy side. I had asked the fellas to pitch in on sending me stories both true and false, but I got nothing from them. As usual with the April Fool’s edition it’s your job to figure out which stories are real and which are fake. What DVD releases could possibly be a joke? Was that E-Mail berating us a hoax? Play along won’t you?
Like my CeeLo Green story from last week, I’ve got another intriguing tale to tell. No prank here. Listen in as I explain why I went to bed the morning of our Sunday netcast at 6am. The story also explains that stack of shot glasses you can find in our TwitPic feed. Trust me though, it goes deeper than just binge drinking. I perhaps made a new friend??? Question mark.
Only one of the new DVDs listed today is a faker. Surprisingly, the guys didn’t call it out. Don’t be fooled like they were!
What we all can only hope is an April Fool’s prank, is this first story of the night. By now you’ve all heard of ‘bronies’ right? These are grown men who have a disturbing fascination with the MY LITTLE PONY toys and cartoons. You don’t have to go far on sites like DeviantArt to find the creepy devotion these dudes have to their equestrian obsessions. Believe it or not, some of them draw elaborate scenes of the ponies engaging in sexual deviance. Many of the ponies are painted with anatomical accuracy. And if that’s not enough, take the guy in today’s story… he wrote an angry E-Mail to one of these artists demanding he stop creating pictures of one, Twilight Sparkle, a purple pony the man claims with which he’s engaged to be wed. He doesn’t like this guy drawing his “Twiley” in such compromising poses. He explains in great detail, which we talk about a little bit, about how she — A FUCKING CARTOON! — is represented in real life by a custom made plush toy that he cuddles and kisses. And although he doesn’t mention it, I’m sure he fucks it and it’s fur is probably crusty in some spots if you catch my drift. You thinkin’ this is an April Fool’s joke yet? God I hope so.
It’s no secret that the Chinese love their tea. And like the skat from a civet cat used to brew coffee, they’ve got a tea made from the manure of something much much smaller… caterpillars. The bug poop tea is just one of many varieties of fermented teas they call Pu-erh (pronounced poo-air). This one is cleverly named, Poo Poo Pu-erh. See what they did there? Like this turd-tea, the story may be hard to swallow. Find out if it’s the real deal!
Food can be a weapon. A finely sharpened carrot could stab somebody. A frozen chicken breast could be used to bludgeon. But what about a triangular flapjack? Before you jump to whether or not we’re fooling you, hear all the flap facts.
And lastly, everybody loves a wedding. A happy couple, lots of food, booze, dancing and cake! Now imagine some nudity thrown into the festivities. Even better, nudity from a stranger! That’s not good at all actually. Especially on grandma’s weak heart. She’s got the best view from the bride’s side of the exposed sausage pressed firmly against the window. What makes this story ‘unbelievable’ is the flasher’s name.
Stories aside there’s plenty of other foolin’ around on today’s show. According to the ErrorFM chat room, Jabari would make a great little league coach. And hear about Dennis’ fascination, not with ponies, but with wolves, as he stumbles upon a story about one in particular bent on escaping Yellowstone Nation Park.
As I mentioned, next week there will be a new show, just not live on Sunday evening. Download it Monday at 3pm/PT as usual. The live stuff returns April 14th. See you fools then!

SHOW LINKS:
Nicolas Cage on IMDb
AV Club: The Internet finally reaches its apex as man marrying My Little Pony character writes angry email to erotic pony artist
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magical
BBC News: Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks
The Chronicles of Wolf 27:
CNN Interactive: Wolves’ return to Yellowstone sparks controversy
Yellowstone Wolves
Yellowstone Science: Ten Years of Yellowstone Wolves

Heard In This Week’s Open:
GoodFellas

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, April 2nd:
The Bible: The Epic Miniseries
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled (10-Disc Limited Edition Six-Movie Collector’s Set) [Blu-ray]
John Dies At The End
The Baytown Outlaws
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Set 1
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
Guys Gone Wild: Fresh Meat
Freeloaders
Stitches
13 Eerie

EPISODE 244 – Cee-Ro Green

Chase — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:47:44 +0000

Today’s show is a tad out of order. We were off last Sunday for St. Patrick’s Day and I had a busy week outside of our green beer guzzle-fest, so naturally, we have some stories to tell on this week’s episode. We start with our Fremont frivolity in downtown Las Vegas. I’m thinking this may become a Who Asked You? tradition. We made our way down to old Vegas a few years back. Had too much beer, got drunk, ate some hot dogs and deep fried Oreos, took a shot of what we believe was Terpantine and ended up at a Hookah lounge where the owner gave us some hookah that… well, lets just say we’ve come to realize had more than just hookah tobacco in it. That was two years ago. This year, we ate some hot dogs and deep fried Twinkies, drank too much beer, browsed an awesome toy store with obscure action figures from every genre and ended up at Denny’s where we ate lackluster deserts and watched a guy at the bar (yes, the downtown Vegas Denny’s has a full bar) bob and twirl his head around trying to find a comfortable position with which to pass out. If we do this next year, I’m certain there’ll be even more stories to tell on-air!
A few days after that I found myself at the Nightclub & Bar Convention put on by Jon Taffer, the fellow who does BAR RESCUE on SPIKE TV. I was shooting video of the event and as I was wondering the aisles looking for interesting things to point my lens at, I bumped into the one and only Art Mann! Made my day! What a cool guy he is. You’ll hear all about it on today’s show. I’ve also got a story to tell about the ribbon cutting ceremony for the convention. CeeLo Green was on hand to operate the golden scissors, but the real story worth sharing on our show was the conversation taking place over my shoulder between two photographers. Tune in to hear all about it.
We got a rather disturbing story from a listener involving a crazy woman killing five of her neighbors because they wouldn’t befriend her on Facebook. She pretty much stacked evidence against herself leaving calling cards on the victims and even clearly stating on her profile that she’d kill anyone who didn’t accept her friend request.
Being the chatty Kathy’s we are this week I forgot to read the poll results from last time. This works out, because the We Ask You Poll question was about Facebook. We wondered if they should just leave their site alone and stop changing it. They’ve got an all-new design coming soon. Around 66% of you couldn’t care less as you’re over Facebook. The remaining 34% say to just leave it alone.
At this point we’ve burned up a good chunk of the show. Uncertain what we’ll have time for, I skip the New Releases long enough to tell you about Netflix’s new deal with Warner Bros. and Turner. We’ve got details on several animated shows on their way to the streaming service.
You’ll also get more details on an old game. And I don’t just mean from me reading the news to you. Literally, you’ll see more detail in Capcom’s DUCK TALES video game as the company has remastered it in HD with all new backgrounds from the show’s artists, some new content and even a remastered soundtrack that includes some of the cartoon’s original voice talent.
Okay, we got enough time, now I jump back to the New Releases. Our final flick on the list is actually an old children’s program from Japan. Like many shows in Japan, it involves a giant robot. And like any children’s show that involves a giant robot, it is indeed controlled by a child. But there’s more to this show than that. It’s a perfect example of the differences in broadcast standards for a kid’s show not just between the decades, but also the countries.
And finally in Breaking News we’ve got a woman whose soundbite joins the ranks of Sweet Brown and Antoine Dodson. Followed by its Auto-Tune remix. And as always, it wouldn’t be a Who Asked You? without a penis story. Gents, if you meet a hooker online and feed her Applebees, beer and drugs, don’t let her near your junk. You’ll hear all about the hard lesson one guy learned at the end of today’s program.

SHOW LINKS:
Fremont Street, Las Vegas – Our Official St. Patrick’s Day Headquarters
American Coney Island at The D Las Vegas
Nightclub & Bar Convention & Trade Show
ArtMann.com
New York Times: ‘Tonight,’ With New Host, Set To Reclaim Its New York Roots
LookeeTV – Listen to us on the Blubrry Channel!
Super Official News: Woman Kills Five People For Not Accepting Her Friend Requests On Facebook
DJ1stBlood’s YouTube Channel
Orlando Sentinel: Escort charged with attempted murder for penis-biting
Backpage.com – Seeking genital-eating whacko for night of cannibalistic fun.

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Back to the Future
Big Jake
WarGames

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, March 26th:
Lincoln
Star Wars Lego: The Empire Strikes Out
Parental Guidance
Killing Them Softly
Iron Maiden: Maiden England ’88
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVI
Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 1) [Blu-ray]
Phantasm II (Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray]
The Collection
Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (Complete Series)

EPISODE 243 – Do You Even Draw, Brah?

Chase — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:23:20 +0000

Mike was NOT a fan of this animated feature.

It’s time once again for all of you to learn something about us you’d never ask about, our underarm care and best practices. This is my fault. I brought up the fact that I was wearing two different antiperspirants. One pit smelled differently than the other. But they did both smell pleasant. I thought I had enough for both arms, but when I started to paint on that last little bit, it crumbled and fell out. I could’ve picked it up and colored it on like a crayon, but I had a fresh stick ready to go, so two scents it was. Mike told us about his grandpa’s favorite deodorant, MUM. It came in cream form and had to be applied with fingers. MUM is still around, but has modernized into a stick these days. You also learn why Charlie CAN’T use Old Spice. Don’t miss that!
It seems THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 will start setting up a Green Goblin story. They’ve chosen an actor to portray Spidey’s most popular villain. Chris Cooper will take the role of Norman Osborn. There are already two bad guys showing up in part two. And we know from experience, *cough* SPIDER-MAN 3 *cough* that too many evildoers in one movie can ruin it. I think they’re just gearing up for Gobby in the third or fourth sequel.
A good portion of today’s show involves Disney and its heyday of hand-drawn, 2D films. Our conversation stems from comments made by Disney’s boss man, Bob Iger. He told shareholders the company wasn’t working on and had no plans to do any hand-drawn animations anytime soon. Dennis threw out the question of which animated features bombed to us personally. Mike, who as you know, likes just about all things animated, said he didn’t care for Disney’s THE BLACK CAULDRON and he wished The Hunchback had died at the end of Disney’s version of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME. I think Mike has been hanging around Charlie too long. In the original tale, Esmeralda is hanged and Quasimodo starves to death laying next to her corpse. Not sure how that would look on a Disney Princess lunch box. The real question though is whether or not hand-drawn animated movies can/will be enjoyed by today’s children. These are kids who have grown up on 4K resolution CGI from companies like Pixar and Dreamworks. Dennis experienced first hand a child’s disapproval of classics like THE RESCUERS. Is it just because the animation looks funny? The colors aren’t as crisp? The characters don’t move perfectly smooth? Or is it the stories and characters of yesterday don’t appeal to the iPad generation? John Lasseter, who was responsible for the last hand-drawn Disney feature to date, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, says old-school animation became an excuse for bad storytelling, hence the reason it was phased out. We completely agree. It doesn’t matter how it’s animated, if the story is good, you care about the characters and are entertained, the fact that it was created by human hand and not key frames shouldn’t make a difference. What do you think?
We’d also like to know your thoughts on the pending new Facebook. It’s the topic of the We Ask You Poll question this week. If you haven’t heard, Facebook is preparing to roll out an all new look and feel. We have a link in the Show Links where you can preview the layout and even get on the waiting list to try it out. Surprisingly, the new look doesn’t seem as bad as ‘timeline’. It reminds me of a Tumblr blog. Mark Zuckerberg said during the unveiling, that he wants Facebook to be a personalized newspaper. Not sure if I agree with that. Pictures of cats, food duck faces in bathroom mirrors and status updates of what someone is doing or where they’re going at a particular moment is NOT what I consider news. One feature will allow you to customize what you see on your feed. There’s even a setting to see just posts from pages you’ve liked. This could help or hurt us in regards to the Who Asked You? page. I explain on the show. Only time will tell if we ‘like’ the new Facebook.
Not too many folks are liking Electronic Arts right now. Their botched launch of the new SIMCITY created quite a commotion. Not only did Amazon briefly pull the download version from their site after hundreds of negative reviews, but the always-on Internet connection requirement that caused most players’ problems prompted the launch of a Change.org petition to get EA to turn off the feature. In a nutshell, too many people tried to log on at once and EA’s servers got overloaded. That meant a lot of players couldn’t play the game at all, and those who could experienced bugs, slowdowns and missing data from saved games. It’s so bad the company’s CEO is offering those who bought SIMCITY a credit for a FREE game on any future title.
And a segment we haven’t done in awhile returns with a new intro sound! I ‘chanced-upon’ a rather interesting site that sells scented candles. Big deal right? Well, these candles are for men. And they smell like manly things. One whiff of these bad boys and your chest hair will puff right up to Burt Reynolds status. Scents include sawdust, stripper, whiskey and even campfire. The company, Hotwicks, says you can combine candles to make custome aromas. For example combine the beer, grass and campfire candles to make camping trip! But there’s two candles that we’re not quite sold on. Tune-in to hear what they are.
Next week is St. Patrick’s Day. We’re taking it off to go drink. Nobody will be listening anyway because, lets face it, our target demo will be drinking as well. New eppies return March 24th. See ya’ll then!

SHOW LINKS:
Two Thumbs Up Media – A cool place to find podcasts! Including us!
THR.com
Chris Cooper on IMDb
“The Amazing Spider-Man” Official Movie Website
Guardian: Disney turns away from hand-drawn animation
Preview Facebook’s New Newsfeed
SimCity Official Website
Change.org: Electronic Arts Inc.: Remove “Always Online” DRM from SimCity and future games.
Buy SimCity – Standard Edition [Download]
Hotwicks – Candles that smell like everyday things.
The Smoking Gun: Woman Arrested For Door-To-Door Sale Of VHS Porn

Heard In This Week’s Open:
Swimming With Sharks
Highlander

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, March 12th:
Rise of the Guardians – Limited Edition Easter Gift Pack (Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + 2 Hopping Toy Eggs)
Life of Pi
Willow (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD)
Hitchcock (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
The Blob (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
Brother Bear & Brother Bear 2 [Blu-ray]
SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 8)
Doctor Who: The Aztecs (Special Edition)
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman [Blu-ray]

EPISODE 242 – The Unsinkable Red Shirts

Chase — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:40:22 +0000

Why is Dennis Rodman the only American that’s gone to visit Kim Jong-un in North Korea? Don’t we have an ambassador or secretary of something that should’ve made this trip by now? This is one of many topics brought up on today’s show. Another is whether or not April O’Neil was black in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. Another is Jabari’s disdain for the Nintendo Wii. Although he claims he doesn’t ‘hate’ it, Dennis senses something in his voice that says he does. Do you hear it?
Remember the story from the episode titled “Unkempt Travolta” in which we examined the cost of the 5-year mission of James Kirk’s Enterprise? Well, we’ve got another story very much in the vein of that. The numbers have been crunched and the question of whether being a red shirt aboard the 1701 was more dangerous than other colors has been answered. And that answer is yes… and no. It depends on which department you work in as a red shirt. We’ll beam up the numbers and we determine our roles on the star ship as well. What tunic would each of the Who Asked You? Crew be wearing? If you disagree with our choices, feel free to send us an E-Mail or voice message and tell us what yours are!
The guys from the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe are at it again… well, they’re trying to be anyway. They’ve finished a script for the long awaited SUPER TROOPERS 2 and are waiting on Fox to give the go-ahead. Dennis expresses a little apprehension at first, but quickly warms up to going and seeing it.
One thing none of us can warm up to is taking a cruise on the Titanic II. If you haven’t heard about this, allow me to explain… a billionaire from Australia is personally funding the construction of another Titanic. His goal is to retrace the ship’s course and complete the journey it never got the chance to. He’s even providing passengers with 1912 clothing and plans to, according to one report, divvy up the ship by class. That’s right, second and third-class passengers will NOT be aloud in first-class areas. This is getting a little too accurate for my taste. The Titanic II will be identical to the original including the furniture and dishes. However, it’ll be three-inches longer and will have enough lifeboats for everyone. Funny thing is, the original had enough lifeboats for everyone, but those fuckin’ first-classers didn’t wanna share. I’ll push a millionaire CEO overboard! I’m gettin’ off alive one way or another if that bastard sinks.
If you’re a regular visitor to the Bureau of Acquisitions, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise the next time you acquire something. Several of the nation’s biggest Internet providers are engaging in a new monitoring system meant to deter people from illegally downloading copyrighted materials. The system, which is automated (that has worked out well in the past), will notify your ISP if it detects you doing something naughty. Your ISP will then send you a notice. You get three or four of these notices before you’ll be required to read about copyright law and/or they choke your connection speed. By the fifth or sixth strike you may even find yourself in court. So if you’re on Verizon, Time Warner Cable, AT&T or Comcast, this is OUR warning to you: Be careful of your activities at the Bureau!
And we finish up our show beers with some Breaking News on that very subject. One story comes from Scotland where the whiskey runs free through the water mains. Don’t expect to get tipsy from your tap. A horrendous mistake by a night shift crew at a distillery saw the draining of 4,700 gallons of Chivas Brothers whiskey. The bosses are mad and water treatment officials are worried. That much booze wreaks havoc on the equipment and treatment process.
And while we’re talking about booze and water, Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch is being sued by their drinkers claiming the beer is watered down. Yes… yes it is… it’s Budweiser! That’s the way it tastes for Christ sake! Just buy a better beer! It’s not that hard. The plaintiffs in the case believe the ABV on the label is not accurate and they want $5-million and an apology from the brewer. The ale will now be tested and we’ll see if the King of Beers gets dethroned.

SHOW LINKS:
Significance Magazine: Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration
GuySpeed.com
Buy “Super Troopers” on DVD
Buy “Titanic II” on DVD
Read about the Copyright Alert System
Chivas Brothers – Flushers of fine whiskey.

April O’Neil as she appeared in the TMNT comics.
IMAGE CREDIT: Mirage Studios

Heard In This Week’s Open:
The Dark Knight
Duke Nukem Forever
Animaniacs (Volume 1)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Dumb and Dumber

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, March 5th:
Wreck-It Ralph
Duck Dynasty (Season 2)
Schindler’s List 20th Anniversary Limited Edition (Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
Red Dawn
Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (Season 2)
Nightmare on Elm Street Collection [Blu-ray]
Power Rangers: Clash of the Red Rangers Movie
A Dark Truth
Adventure Collection 4 Movie Pack
Girls Gone Wild: Hot Summer Breast Fest

EPISODE 241 – Down The Rabbit Hole

Chase — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:38:36 +0000

Give us a topic and we’ll plunge head first down a rabbit hole with no bottom. Inappropriate jokes, friendly verbal jousting and off-color commentary is a deep, dark abyss we have a hard time clawing our way out from. Any longtime listener of this show will know that a rabbit hole exists in just about every episode. Sometimes there are multiple holes. Other times it’s a small hole or a rather large one. And like that sentence sounds, they usually lead to — if not already starting out as — something pornographic in nature. The Internet has a lot of porn on it, and a new study finds that do to the way we humans easily fall into a “rabbit hole” of content and because of how websites are structured, the web is a lot more interconnected than we all might think. The study from Boston’s Northeastern University finds that any given website is just 19 clicks away from any other website. So you can go from Disney.com to [insert favorite porn site here] in just a matter of a few mouse clicks. We talk all about this a bit later in the show.
Before that though we discuss something else that’s going to be a lot more interconnected… Sony’s new PlayStation. They quasi-unveiled it this past week. There was a lot of fancy Nvidia-rendered game footage and a controller. No console though. Sony has locked the designers in a room and given them until the holidays to come up with something that’ll probably look like a DVD player and a Maserati mated. They rattled off the specs, pulled out the new touchpad equipped controller and then left everyone wondering what the thing will cost. No price or launch date was given. And again, they didn’t even have a prototype to show. Something tells me Sony just wanted to get the jump on the folks over at Microsoft. In a way you can’t blame them, late last year, Sony’s stock was reduced to junk status, but has rebounded a bit since then. It’s been six years since the PS3 came out and the Xbox 360 seems to be the norm for many. Most people I know don’t own JUST a PS3. They also have a 360 and/or a Wii with and without the U. One of the new functions of the PS4 that caught my attention is this new online cloud shit Sony will be pushing. Among other things, it’ll allow you to hand over control of your game to an online buddy in case you’re having trouble jumping a chasm or fighting off a group of enemies. You also get the option of recording video clips of your game play and there’s a secondary processor inside the PS4 that will handle background tasks like downloading game demos without your permission. Fun! All this can be yours for the high high price of just….. ummmm…..
Our live netcast last night had to compete with the Oscars’ telecast. We couldn’t care less about these hollow, meaningless awards. However, the anti-award known as the Razzie always generates discussion on our show. And the winners for 2012 were split mostly between two movies. Find out what they are by tuning in!
No one deserves a Razzie for recent work more than Michael Bay. Sometimes we wouldn’t mind throwing him down a hole. He blipped on our radar this week with the announcement on his website that Megan Fox will be playing a role in his live-action NINJA TURTLES movie. The single line of text proclaiming that she’s been welcomed back into the family, left many wondering if she’ll take the role of April O’Neil. Although it’s not official, someone did ask his Bay-jesty about the character on Twitter and he did reply, “Yes.” To which our reply is simply a sigh and disappointed head shake.
If we ever do reach the bottom of this rabbit hole we’re going to need some light… perhaps we can get that from a lightsaber? And perhaps I can work on a better segue? In San Fran a group of STAR WARS enthusiasts are teaching lightsaber fighting. They say their technique is easy to master and will have you fighting like a Jedi in no time at all. The classes are just $10 and they even provide you with a saber for the first month free! We consider other forms of movie-combat we’d like to learn in a class as we wrap up this show and reach the bottom of another deep hole.

SHOW LINKS:
Lay’s Do Us A Flavor Contest
Orlando Jones’ Website
Sony PlayStation 4
The Razzies
MichaelBay.com
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Golden Gate Knights

Heard In This Week’s Open:
The Big Lebowski
Lake Placid

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, February 26th:
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
The Master
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Heaven’s Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork
Scooby-Doo: Mask of the Blue Falcon
WWE: Royal Rumble 2013
Law & Order: The Twelfth Year
Rocko’s Modern Life (Complete Series)
The Client List (Season 1)
Touch of Love: The Intimate Yoni and Lingam Massage (Blu-ray 3D/2D Version)

EPISODE 240 – Horsin’ Around

Chase — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:29:15 +0000

Come our loyal listeners. Let us mount our burly steed and ride through what made OUR headlines this week. I’ve branded the Who Asked Horse with our big red question mark and she’s ready to head out!
It almost seems boring in Azeroth to be seen riding a horse. The WORLD OF WARCRAFT locale affords you the option of riding a number of mythical creatures. Who knows what the lead actor in the upcoming film will ride. What we do know is that film will be directed by Duncan Jones. He previously helmed MOON and SOURCE CODE. The movie is expected to be out sometime in 2015 and will cost more than $100-million to make. You know what won’t be in the film, because it’s not in the game either? That would be aliens. As Charlie points out in his typical blunt manner, those who don’t know anything about WOW get a lot of details wrong. Take for example reporters who ‘report’ on the film finding a director. They include information in their articles that aren’t quite correct. In turn, I — not knowing much about the game either — include those facts myself on our show. Charlie is then able to correct the misinformation. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story and their article included this chunk mentioning said nonexistent in-game extraterrestrials:

“Warcraft has grown to be one of the most popular multiplayer online role-playing games. Taking an almost kitchen-sink approach to fantasy, it is part fantasy, part science fiction and — depending on the game you’re playing — includes elements such as dragons and orcs, zombies and werewolves, aliens and spaceships.”

You can read the who THR article by following the link below. In the future, I plan to NOT include information about the WOW game during future stories involving WOW. After all, you all know what it is anyway.
We then gallop into news that Aaron McGruder, creator of THE BOONDOCKS comic and TV series, has launched a Kickstarter to hopefully fund a live-action movie starring the white-man-fan, Uncle Ruckus. McGruder says that it’d be impossible to cast the show’s main characters, Huey and Riley with live-action actors, so this is the next best thing. And according to McGruder, Gary Anthony Williams — who voiced the Ruckus on the cartoon — will star in the film and, once in the costume, effortlessly brought the character to life. Ruckus will have no problem holding down his own feature length film. Like any Kickstarter, there are rewards depending on how much you pledge. And they’re all named after popular white men here in America. Ruckus wouldn’t have it any other way.
We then trot through the news that Pope Benedict has decided to step down from the position. He’s the first Pope to do so in 600 years! Mike smells a conspiracy. Benedict says he just can’t keep up given his age. And he never wanted the position to begin with. If they’d stop electing fossils every time, the Catholic church may actually get a few years out of them. I don’t know what the rules are with age limits on who can be Papal, but why don’t they elect someone in their 50s? Maybe that’s not aloud?
This is a trying time for religious folk, but you can all take comfort in a little rap song from Pastor Jim Colerick and his wife. They drop a beat and inform the youth of Jesus. The video was put up on YouTube by the guy that filmed it. According to the church website, they’re no longer in business. But they closed their doors before YouTube was even invented, so something tells me it wasn’t this video that did them in. However, if they went around telling kids that “Jesus Christ is my nigga” as they do in the video, then that might have led to their chapel’s demise. In any case, the video is funny as shit. We play the song and offer our thoughts. Plus, the Pastor’s wife gets a rare honor and is inducted into our soundboard where she’ll be heard on many-a-show to come.
Horsey is a little tired, lets stop and let her get a drink. We’ll take a swig ourselves with Epicurious.com’s taste test results on the best canned beer. Tune-in for the top three as well as a few that made the bottom of the list. We contemplate our choice for the best brew encased in aluminum. Mine isn’t out yet. But I guarantee when Sam Adams in a can does hit store shelves, none other shall come close.
Our mare is rested and we continue to a story involving dicks. It wouldn’t be a Who Asked You? without one. This tale comes courtesy of rock-n-roll legend, Chubby Checker. He’s pissed because a Palm OS app from back in 2011 used the name “Chubby Checker” without his permission. Since it’s actually his stage name, I’m not sure he has a legal claim. Did he copyright the term? Can you do that? I think he’s really mad over the association between the name and what the app does. Basically, it predicts a dudes dick length based off from what size shoe he wears. The app no longer exists and neither does the company who made it. But Mr. Checker wants, what the suit claims was all $500-million that app made. Come on, this was on Palm OS… nobody uses that shit. There’s no way the app made that much money. I think Chubby Checker needs a fact checker.
Alright, lets climb back on… hey you… sir, what are doing to our horse? Get away from there. Wha-what’s that? Is that your… do you have a boner? What the hell are doing? Stop fucking our horse! We need her to get home. Stop it! Right now! Wait a second. I recognize you. We were just talking about you on today’s show, Andrew Mendoza. Frustrated his gal-pal didn’t come by for a booty call, Mendoza decided to try a crime against nature and impregnate a horse. Seriously, he says that’s what he was trying to do in the police report. You can read it by following the link in our Show Links. While having sex with it he states that he, “blew a nut in the horse,” adding that he was trying to create a horse-man baby. Dr. Moreau goes into hilarious detail regarding his equestrian-encounter. In the end he didn’t get his hybrid baby, but rather four months in jail for criminal trespassing and public lewdness. As we’ve stated on a previous show or two, most states don’t have any bestiality laws so he off easy, no pun intended.
Well, I hate to beat a dead horse. It’s off to the glue factory with her. Don’t worry, she’s imaginary. No actual horses were harmed in the making of this episode, just sexually assaulted by a weirdo who needs to find a new girlfriend who’ll put out more.

SHOW LINKS:
THR: ‘Warcraft’ Movie Lands ‘Source Code’ Director
Legendary Pictures
World of Warcraft
Duncan Jones on IMDb
The “Uncle Ruckus Movie” Kickstarter
West Dubuque 2nd Church of Christ – PERMANENTLY CLOSED
24/7 Wall Street: Eight Retailers That Will Close the Most Stores
Epicurious: Canned Beer Taste Test
Read about Chubby Checker on Wikipedia
The Smoking Gun: “I Was Trying To Make The Horse Have A Baby.”

Heard In This Week’s Open:
The Big Lebowski
Lake Placid

New DVD Releases for Tuesday, February 19th:
Game of Thrones (Season 2)
Argo
Anna Karenina
Top Gun [Blu-ray 3D + Digital Copy]
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Sinister
Marvel The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! (Volume 6)
The Terminator [Blu-ray]
Kamasutra: Sexual Positions for Lovers [Blu-ray 3D/2D]