Who Asked You?

Who Asked You? – Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Netflix
May 6, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Destiny’s Chiiiii-ld
April 29, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Seminal Moment
April 22, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – RS77_Episode 01
April 15, 2013
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!

Who Asked You? – That Was Painful
April 8, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Wolf 27
April 1, 2013
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!

Who Asked You? – Cee-Ro Green
March 25, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Do You Even Draw, Brah?
March 11, 2013
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!

Who Asked You? – The Unsinkable Red Shirts
March 4, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Down The Rabbit Hole
February 25, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – Horsin’ Around
February 17, 2013
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.

Who Asked You? – SUH-MASH: The Story Of Kai
February 11, 2013
Boy, I thought to myself, “If this power relay is good enough for the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, it’s good enough for our show.” But apparently even a few volts pulled by an audio mixer and some computers proved too much for it and we too experienced a power outage. For nearly 15-minutes we’re forced to fill airtime with nonsensical conversation until electricity is properly restored. How is this any different than a normal episode? It is not… okay… just play along with our little idiotic joke. Jabari and Dennis argue about next year’s SUPER BOWL, Charlie’s hate-o-meter is turned up all the way and to make matters worse we learn that the stupid cat won the Monopoly new token contest. Now there’s two animals. That’s just dumb.
Alright, the power gets restored and the show is off and running with the big news from Disney. What they’re doing with STAR WARS could be described as Bob Iger driving past you and throwing a Yoda lunchbox at your head shouting, “Wish upon a star bitch,” before speeding off in his $200,000 Ferrari. The house of mouse plans to not only crank out another trilogy, but says it’s also going to do several stand-along films to be released concurrently. We may see a tale of how Yoda grew up to become a Jedi Master. Or a story about a young Han Solo galavanting from one alien pub to another before meeting a tall, furry associate and later losing some cargo that belongs to a fat guy named Jabba. Or did he meet Chewy after that? I don’t know… I’m a STAR TREK guy.
By now you’ve almost certainly heard of a homeless, hitchhiking surfer named Kai. He’s the stoner-esk fellow interviewed on Fresno’s local Fox station after killing a crazy guy with a hatchet. It was self defense of course. The wacko had run over an unsuspecting utility worker and later started beating up two women who were trying to help. Kai, being the resourceful fellow he is, happened to have a hatchet which he used to quote, “Smash, smash, suh-mash,” in the crazed man’s skull. When the video went viral on YouTube, KMPH-TV responded faster than you could say ‘breaking news’ and cashed in on the worldwide phenomenon. They have a special banner at the top of the website and even tracked Kai down for a second interview about his life and his thoughts on his new-found web fame. The only thing Kai really seems interested in is getting his hands on a new wet suit and surf board. Don’t worry man, I’m sure you’ll be getting something from one of these surf companies wanting to also take advantage of the free marketing very soon. You’ll also likely be offered a reality show, a record deal (he actually sings and plays the guitar) and society might as well throw in a book deal too. Judging from the 5-minute interview that skyrocketed him to Internet stardom, he probably has a number of interesting anecdotes to tell.
Our big story of the week is this rumor bullshit surrounding the new Xbox and possibly PS4. It’s floating around out there that the next iteration of either console may require activation codes over the Internet that would lock a game to a single console. In other words, no more trading games with your buddy, no more picking up cheap titles at used game stores or renting new releases from GameFly. Game makers have lost out on revenue thanks to more and more people buying used titles for a fraction of the cost of something that just came out. This is a pretty shitty idea. I smell the foul stench of anti-trust in the air. Do you? I’m mulling over the idea of buying a console myself. The ol’ PS2 has run its course. But if this shit happens, I’m out. I refuse to buy an overpriced game console and then be forced to only buy new games and once they’re mine in my own house, not being able to share them with friends and family. I’ll bust out the the N64 that’s been packed away before I invest in this scheme god dammit! What do you think? It’s our poll question this week.
And I know you’ve been wondering where he is… so here’s an update on the one and only Randy Quaid. He and his wife fled the US as they’re facing felony charges for vandalising a home they didn’t have permission to live in. They fled to Canada in hopes of avoiding the cops and the “star-whacker” Quaid claims is out to get him. He even went so far as to apply for permanent residency there. But it has been denied. If they return to the US, they’ll be arrested. So it looks like Cousin Eddie and wife will be on the lamb. They may just bump into Kai during their travels. Maybe Mr. Quaid will get a book deal too.

Who Asked You? – The Skeet Bandit
January 28, 2013
I left it to chance last night as to what I’d be eating for dinner. It’s a Who Asked You? ritual that we all grab some grub following the show at one of our usual haunts. Often times, we end up eating breakfast for dinner. I couldn’t choose between the Sweet Banana Pancakes or the Bonanza Breakfast on special for just $4.99. So Jabari came up with a quick, band complicated, number game to which I had to guess the numeral he chose which would in turn decide my meal for the night. I should mention we did this because none of us had a coin to flip. Like my tasty dinner, I left this episode’s title to chance as well. This time I flipped a quarter and “The Skeet Bandit” was the winner over “The Skeet Barrier”. Either would’ve fit nicely. These title choices come from what might be one of the craziest stories we’ve ever had on the show. It features a number of subjects we bring up quite often on-air; masturbation, nudity, poop, shooting people, fighting, being tased and carnies just to name some. I won’t give any more away here. I really want you to listen to the story and the group’s reaction.
That’s later in the show. The first item we MUST discuss is the news of J.J. Abrams taking the director’s chair for the new STAR WARS movie. As you can imagine, we void off, once again, into talking about his STAR TREK. But not as bad as in the past. We’re getting better at not traveling into that wormhole as much. We’ve said our piece many-a-times, plus I don’t want to promote that piece of shit film any more than we already have. Should one man control so much popular science fiction? This is something we should all ponder. We welcome you thoughts.
Another pressing matter you simply must hear about is the shortchanging taking place all across the world by Subway restaurants. Some of their footlong sandwiches are NOT measuring up. Evidence of this appeared on the company’s Facebook Page thanks to an Australian customer who happened to have a tape measure handy. You can check out the image below in the Show Links. It clearly shows an 11-inch sandwich. The missing inch has a lot of customers getting ‘short’ with Subway. Additional images of length challenged subs have been popping up across the web, the New York Post even did an investigative piece and their are lawsuits in the works by those who’ve been duped prompting the restaurant to release a statement. They apologized of course, but the question remains, was it on purpose? I’m reminded of those stories of airlines that saved millions by cutting out food services or using less paint layers on their planes to lighten their weight. Is Subway trying to pull a fast one to save a buck? Or does some of their “fresh baked bread” need a little more yeast?
But perhaps the most spirited conversation of the night — more so than the J.J. Abrams one — takes place at the end of the show. In Indiana, a lawmaker there is trying to get cursive writing put back into school curriculum as required learning for elementary students. Proponents say it’s good hand/eye coordination skills for kids. It’ll also enable them to READ cursive writing and connects them with the past. Opponents say it’s archaic and unnecessary… we have iPads now. All but four states have dropped cursive as a requirement. It’s up to local school districts whether they want to teach it or not. My concern is whether or not kids will be able to read it. Road signs and credit card bills aren’t written in cursive, but a letter from meemaw might be. Perhaps it’s up to junior to teach those relatives how to use Skype. But then there’s the question of signatures. Will there be a generation of adults who print their name on the dotted line? I think learning to read it should at least be required. Our discussion of this turns into how and when we write in the script and even how we write certain letters. And even how legible our names are. How many letters can we make out in our signatures? I know at least four in mine. Just take a look at the receipt for my Bonanza Breakfast!

Who Asked You? – On The Ball
January 21, 2013
I’m on the ball this week. I’d like for that to mean I ran a tight ship, didn’t flub on reading any stories or make any sort of technical goof (not that any of this happened this week). But alas, it just means I was literally on a ball. I pulled a Leo LePorte and hosted the show while poppin’ a squat on a big ol’ silver exercise ball. I have to say, I understand why Leo does it. Not only is the ball comfortable to sit on, it makes you a little more energetic by having you in a sort of half standing, half sitting pose. Oh yeah, and you can bounce on it! That’s always fun.
Drinking started much earlier in the day as we gathered to watch some football before taking to the airwaves. Luckily the football we were watching did not involve one, Manti Te’o. If you don’t know who this guy is yet I must ask what part of the galaxy you currently live in? The Notre Dame linebacker is in some hot water as he has allegedly made up a fantasy involving a fake girlfriend who died of cancer just hours after his grandmother’s death. He claims he was fooled by an Internet prankster. By the way, the two apparently only had an online relationship. However, after finding out she wasn’t real and the photos of her were stolen from some woman’s Facebook page who is very much alive, he continued to talk about her in interviews as though the girlfriend did exist. Plus, his dad was quoted as saying the girl came to visit Te’o while he was on break at home in Hawaii. Some think he’s playing the sympathy card as some sort of inspirational publicity stunt. The question is, was he in on it? Or was he genuinely fooled by a cyber-prankster? The investigation is just getting started. We’ll know soon enough.
As I mentioned, we’d been drinking so some of us may be a tad buzzed on this episode. We’re just as chatty and obnoxious as ever, so really there’s no difference. Fox got chatty last week with two big announcements. They’re introducing a new Animation Domination block to late Saturday nights where they can test out short, new concept series. One of which, AXE COP, was created by a 29-year-old comic book artist and his 5-year-old brother. It’s been around on the web for awhile now as a comic strip. So those of you who are a fan of the birthday cake-eating superhero can now catch up with him in full animation form come July 27th.
Fox also announced that they’re breaking the FX network into two channels. Similar to the Turner-owned TNT and TBS, FX will focus on drama programming and FXX, as it’s being called right now, will do comedy. That network is expected to premier sometime next Fall. And our beloved IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA will likely move to the new channel. This makes me nervous. But we’ll see. Meanwhile they’re also renaming their Speed and Fuel networks to Fox Sports 1 and 2 respectively. Those channels will be direct competition to ESPN.
REVOLUTION, FRINGE, THE WALKING DEAD… these shows all have something in common. It’s both flattering and frustrating for those who pay to have them made. They, along with seven other TV programs made the top-ten list for the most (not so legally) downloaded shows of 2012. TorrentFreak.com, the website we often turn to for news regarding the Bureau of Acquisitions compiled the list. There’s an interesting statistic involving the only three shows on the list that are on premium cable channels. Tune in to hear about it!
And finally, Hollywood is showing that they truly and deeply need ideas from anywhere they can possibly scrounge them up. We’ve seen them rape classic cartoons, plunder comic books and desimate our childhood toys and memories. As they continue to mine those entertainment sectors along with video games, novels, TV shows and even board games, there’s yet another place they’ve turned to for a movie script… the Internet… more specifically, Reddit. If you’re unaware of Reddit, it’s a website that’s been around for quite some time. It’s a sort of forum/social network/online community/link dump. There are some magnificent and some terrifying things to be found buried deep within the bowels of Reddit’s databases. One idea, Warner Bros. didn’t have to dig for at all. It was featured on the homepage. Likely what turned the studio onto it. A former Jeopardy champion wrote a thread asking whether current day military soldiers could defeat the Ancient Romans if sent back in time. It started as a 350-word short story and the response has been overwhelming. Now it’s up to 3,500-words and, as I said, is being optioned as a movie script.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I’m talking about using ideas from the Internet as movies, not this particular movie plot. On one hand, it allows regular folk a foot in the door to the elite, members only club that is motion picture production. Someone can potentially bypass the WGA process and have their idea quickly brought to life. On the other hand, Hollywood is a drug addict, and is currently addicted to terrible ideas and unnecessary remakes and adaptations. At this point, they’ll snort up just about anything. Without a riff raff filter we could see even worse movies on the way.
I’ve got a plot for a movie… a college football player makes up a terminally ill girlfriend to gain sympathy on his way to a BCS championship. It’s a moving story of personal loss and hilarious comedy high jinks. I don’t know if it belongs on the Lifetime channel or as a summer blockbuster. Perhaps I’ll post the idea on Reddit and let the chips fall where they may. What’s that you say? Somebody already had this idea? Damn! Oh well, at least I get to bounce on a ball. I’m on the ball this week. I’d like for that to mean I ran a tight ship, didn’t flub on reading any stories or make any sort of technical goof (not that any of this happened this week). But alas, it just means I was literally on a ball. I pulled a Leo LePorte and hosted the show while poppin’ a squat on a big ol’ silver exercise ball. I have to say, I understand why Leo does it. Not only is the ball comfortable to sit on, it makes you a little more energetic by having you in a sort of half standing, half sitting pose. Oh yeah, and you can bounce on it! That’s always fun.
Drinking started much earlier in the day as we gathered to watch some football before taking to the airwaves. Luckily the football we were watching did not involve one, Manti Te’o. If you don’t know who this guy is yet I must ask what part of the galaxy you currently live in? The Notre Dame linebacker is in some hot water as he has allegedly made up a fantasy involving a fake girlfriend who died of cancer just hours after his grandmother’s death. He claims he was fooled by an Internet prankster. By the way, the two apparently only had an online relationship. However, after finding out she wasn’t real and the photos of her were stolen from some woman’s Facebook page who is very much alive, he continued to talk about her in interviews as though the girlfriend did exist. Plus, his dad was quoted as saying the girl came to visit Te’o while he was on break at home in Hawaii. Some think he’s playing the sympathy card as some sort of inspirational publicity stunt. The question is, was he in on it? Or was he genuinely fooled by a cyber-prankster? The investigation is just getting started. We’ll know soon enough.
As I mentioned, we’d been drinking so some of us may be a tad buzzed on this episode. We’re just as chatty and obnoxious as ever, so really there’s no difference. Fox got chatty last week with two big announcements. They’re introducing a new Animation Domination block to late Saturday nights where they can test out short, new concept series. One of which, AXE COP, was created by a 29-year-old comic book artist and his 5-year-old brother. It’s been around on the web for awhile now as a comic strip. So those of you who are a fan of the birthday cake-eating superhero can now catch up with him in full animation form come July 27th.
Fox also announced that they’re breaking the FX network into two channels. Similar to the Turner-owned TNT and TBS, FX will focus on drama programming and FXX, as it’s being called right now, will do comedy. That network is expected to premier sometime next Fall. And our beloved IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA will likely move to the new channel. This makes me nervous. But we’ll see. Meanwhile they’re also renaming their Speed and Fuel networks to Fox Sports 1 and 2 respectively. Those channels will be direct competition to ESPN.
REVOLUTION, FRINGE, THE WALKING DEAD… these shows all have something in common. It’s both flattering and frustrating for those who pay to have them made. They, along with seven other TV programs made the top-ten list for the most (not so legally) downloaded shows of 2012. TorrentFreak.com, the website we often turn to for news regarding the Bureau of Acquisitions compiled the list. There’s an interesting statistic involving the only three shows on the list that are on premium cable channels. Tune in to hear about it!
And finally, Hollywood is showing that they truly and deeply need ideas from anywhere they can possibly scrounge them up. We’ve seen them rape classic cartoons, plunder comic books and desimate our childhood toys and memories. As they continue to mine those entertainment sectors along with video games, novels, TV shows and even board games, there’s yet another place they’ve turned to for a movie script… the Internet… more specifically, Reddit. If you’re unaware of Reddit, it’s a website that’s been around for quite some time. It’s a sort of forum/social network/online community/link dump. There are some magnificent and some terrifying things to be found buried deep within the bowels of Reddit’s databases. One idea, Warner Bros. didn’t have to dig for at all. It was featured on the homepage. Likely what turned the studio onto it. A former Jeopardy champion wrote a thread asking whether current day military soldiers could defeat the Ancient Romans if sent back in time. It started as a 350-word short story and the response has been overwhelming. Now it’s up to 3,500-words and, as I said, is being optioned as a movie script.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I’m talking about using ideas from the Internet as movies, not this particular movie plot. On one hand, it allows regular folk a foot in the door to the elite, members only club that is motion picture production. Someone can potentially bypass the WGA process and have their idea quickly brought to life. On the other hand, Hollywood is a drug addict, and is currently addicted to terrible ideas and unnecessary remakes and adaptations. At this point, they’ll snort up just about anything. Without a riff raff filter we could see even worse movies on the way.
I’ve got a plot for a movie… a college football player makes up a terminally ill girlfriend to gain sympathy on his way to a BCS championship. It’s a moving story of personal loss and hilarious comedy high jinks. I don’t know if it belongs on the Lifetime channel or as a summer blockbuster. Perhaps I’ll post the idea on Reddit and let the chips fall where they may. What’s that you say? Somebody already had this idea? Damn! Oh well, at least I get to bounce on a ball.

Who Asked You? – Taken A Two
January 14, 2013
We’ve certainly had one of these before… I’m, of course, talking about a shit-centric show. And, of course, there will be discussion of actual shit. However, we do have some news on the other kinds of shit. Those include steamy logs dumped off at your local cineplex. And turds you see on TV. Charlie is out this week and filling in for him is our semi-official go to backup host, John Flemming.
Lets start with the tube turds. We waited to talk about this until today because last week was our annual movie preview show and also Dennis was absent. On New Year’s Eve we didn’t tune into the typical Time Square extravaganza broadcast, but rather a cable access-worthy brown nugget called, FIRST NIGHT 2013. It was hosted by Jamie Kennedy. It was a complete train wreck. Entertaining for all the WRONG reasons. Sloppy camera work, awkward comments made while mics were still hot, bland off-key musical performances and colorful language the FCC frowns upon were sent out over the airwaves uncensored as though it were airing on HBO. These were just a few notes we made as we drunkenly laughed at what could be one of the worst network broadcasts in history. If you didn’t catch any of the Carl’s Jr. sponsored bedlam, fear not. We’ll squeeze out the details for you on this week’s show.
We’re not done crapping on TV yet. News has just come down that NBC is passing on MOCKINGBIRD LANE, their weird, gothic dramedy take on the old THE MUNSTERS sitcom. Having the highest Friday night ratings of any show in the past two years on the peacock apparently wasn’t good enough. I was the only one of the group who watched it and NO, it wasn’t good enough… despite those ratings.
But there’s even more poop on NBC. We’re on Jenkem Watch thanks to a hilarious confession from TODAY’s Al Roker about an ill-timed shart he once had. We’ll tell you all about it and we’ll reveal what we would’ve done if in Al’s situation.
Do beautiful women turn you on? What if they’re covered in animal feces? Or compost? Oh, I know… you get off on the dames caked in manure, don’t you? You’re a filthy one aren’t you? Well, IF — and that’s a big ‘if’ — you’re into that sort of thing, you may want to check out the calendar from the Fertile Earth Foundation. They’re on a mission to educate folks on the benefits and cost savings of composting with your own dookie. The caca-calendar features a lovely model for each month in some sort of smelly situation. It’s the second part of Jenkem Watch this week. There’s only about a thousand of these getting printed, so act fast.
Now it’s time for a steamy log on the silver screen. Friday brought us an announcement from Universal Pictures that the long awaited JURASSIC PARK 4 will release the summer of 2014. Now, as JURASSIC PARK is my favorite movie, I am excited. However, when I read some of the details from a previous draft of the script on today’s show, that excitement will quickly be flushed away. Butt, there may still be some hope floating around thanks to the news of who’s writing the NEW screenplay draft. By the way, I’m not sure how many poop puns I have left. So I’ll try and wrap this up soon.
It’s no wonder we haven’t seen a STAR WARS live-action TV series yet. The one Rick McCallum over at Lucasfilm came up with would’ve cost $5-million per episode to make. Apparently those who saw the budget shit their pants worse than Al Roker and fifty scripts that were written got shelved. Well, now that ABC owns STAR WARS and won’t have to pay enormous royalties to anyone, they’re seriously looking at that show once again.
One of Monopoly’s iconic game tokens is getting shit on. Hasbro feels it’s time to let one go. And they’re letting you decide… sort of. For a time you can go to a special website they’ve set up and vote for the piece you want to save. Then you can vote for the new piece that will replace the least popular one. Vote now so your favorite pewter pal has a, ‘Chance’. That pun wasn’t even poop related.
Lastly, it’s award season in Tinseltown which means some actors, directors and films will get shit on in the form of the Razzie Awards. Recognizing the absolute worst in motion picture production — a monumental task these days — the Razzie nominations included A-Listers from all walks of film. Tyler Perry, Kristen Stewart, Nicolas Cage, just to name a few. And the Worst Picture category has some doozies. You’ll hear our choice and lots more on this shitty edition of Who Asked You?.

Who Asked You? – Spoiled Alert… Dennis Eats Tuna
January 7, 2013
Happy New Year everybody. We here at Who Asked You? hope you survived the holidays with your families and any drinking or eating binges. We had a modest little New Year’s celebration at Dennis’ place. It included egg nog and brandy, beer, chips, pizza and a New Year’s Eve TV special which we’ll be talking about on next week’s show. Come back for that.
As for this week… per our tradition, at the start of each year we take a show and look ahead at all of the theatrical releases Hollywood plans to spew at us. More chunk blowing than Dennis did last night after eating some spoiled tuna at work. He’s out this show, but is with us in spirit and in the chat room.
What more can I say about the volley of cinematic bullshit headed our way in 2013. I’d estimate about one in every eight movies is worthy of the overpriced $10 ticket waiting for you at the box office. One way around the cringe of coughing up that much cash for a questionable 90-minutes of entertainment is a subscription-based system at the theater. An E-Mail brings us an article about a group of friends in California who’ve come up with a monthly-fee service that could save many of the US’s ailing small town movie theaters. For $20 you can see any movie once and buy discounted tickets for friends or family who aren’t members. “Ticket sales” would be tallied by swiping some sort of member card at the door. This could work for large theaters like Regal or Cinemark too. But would it be more than $20 a month? And would it be worth it? Given the next 12-months’ worth of coming attractions my answer is ‘no’ and I hope yours will be too.
The most promising movie on today’s show, for me, is probably Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM. I’m a fan of giant fighting robots controlled by humans. Throw in some aliens and del Toro’s directing style and I think we might just have a picture. Coincidentally, one of the worst sounding films on the list comes out the same month. The week after PACIFIC RIM will bring us R.I.P.D. starring Ryan Reynolds. Undead police officer… that’s all I’m gonna say. Tune-in for the rest.
Disney’s PLANES starring John Cryer from TWO AND A HALF MEN as well as THE SMURFS 2 also blip loudly on our shit-dar. While THOR: THE DARK WORLD, IRON MAN 3 and THIS IS THE END show promise. Now we’ve been wrong about movies before. And we’ll gladly admit it when the time comes if any of these we shit on turn out to be good. And vice versa, for those we talk up and turn out to be complete garbage. Only time will tell.
One thing is for certain. No matter how bad the last one was, we’ll all go back for another helping. Kinda like Dennis does with the lunchroom tuna at work.

Who Asked You? – Honey Boo Boo 2016
December 24, 2012
Alright, everyone exhale… here we are. The world didn’t end on Friday, I think we made it. Unless… no… that can’t be, can it? The Mayans never accounted for leap years in their celestial calculations, so their calendar could be off by a few years. I guess we’ll probably go through all of this hype and hysteria all over again soon enough. After all, there are more doomsday books and movies to sell.
The world didn’t end, but the year has. And that means it’s time for us to reflect on the last 52 weeks. Good movies, forgotten TV shows, game consoles we thought would be stupid but turned out to be really fun… it’s all on this rapid fire year-in-review edition of Who Asked You?. Along with technical difficulties involving Dennis’ microphone. A sort of foreshadowing of a much needed studio upgrade happening during our holiday break. It wasn’t really a technical failure at all. It was a button-pushing failure on my part. We all can hear Dennis, but the guys couldn’t. Eventually all is worked out and the show carries on.
But there’s more to this show than just the good, the bad and the Honey Boo Boo. We also play the CLIP OF THE YEAR as chosen by you. It was a landslide by the way. And we enlist the help of the ErrorFM chat room to choose our 2013 Calendar Girl. A brief history on this…
The Who Asked You? calendar is a chronological masterpiece to rival even the Mayans’ stone chiselings. You at home don’t get to see it. It’s merely a production calendar with our year’s show’s highlighted so the fellas know if there’s an episode coming up on any given week. The girl was added only to attract Dennis’ eyes to the calendar as he never paid attention to the first one and constantly asked me, “Are we doing a show this week?” And although it hasn’t worked, and he still pays little attention to it, the girls have become a bit of a tradition. It’s truly an honor to appear — without giving us permission — on our production calendar, and you famous females shouldn’t take it lightly. Previous beauties included Jessica Biel and Alba, Denise Lawton and most recently Chell from the animated feature, THE ROAD TO EL DORADO. Jabari suggested Cherokee D’Azz, but wanting to keep things classy we thought up Charlize Theron and Sofia Vergara. Mike threw in Catherine Zeta-Jones. The chat room had a suggestion or two as well. Ultimately it’s decided and you’ll hear our choice during the show! Then it’s back to recounting 2012 points of interest or disinterest like Microsoft’s release of the overpriced Surface tablet or Apple’s bullshit iPad Mini.
New episodes of our little program return, LIVE on January 6th. Here’s wishing you all happy holidays! Thanks for listening this year and we hope you do so during the next one as well. Big things coming! I can feel it!

Who Asked You? – Don’t Google Blue Waffle
December 17, 2012
For the good of soul, heed our warning/show title this week. Sure, it’d be nice to think a blue waffle is nothing more than a few droplets of food coloring in some batter… but this spirit-crushing Internet phenom is anything but. It’s been around for quite awhile, but to the best of my knowledge, I don’t think it’s ever come up on our show before. This hued-heinousness comes up during our final moments of this episode. We’re exchanging gift ideas. And one of the gifts is dye for your pubic hair. If you’re unaware of what a Blue Waffle is… there’s a clue.
There’s plenty of other gifts on that list. But before that, there are a few other bits of news to tell you about first. Most importantly, Dennis’ quest for a Twinkie has come to an end. He finally obtained two of the precious pastries and brought them both — unopened — to the show. He ate one right in front of us and then left it up to the chat room to see who got the other. Was it Mike? Or Charlie? Maybe it was JB. Or perhaps twas me? Tune-in to find out who was gifted this little Christmas miracle.
In one of Disney’s hands is the teet of the STAR WARS franchise about to be milked yet again. In the other is their own TRON franchise about to see a third yank. Garrett Hedlund, the guy who played Flynn’s son, Sam plans to reprise his role. And Joseph Kosinski will once again direct. He says they’ve got a great idea and it all comes down to the execution at the script level… soooo, it’s gonna suck. If Hollywood has shown us anything in the past several years it’s that the talent pool for writing has dried up. To be a WGA member these days you simply need to contort an old toy, comic book or cartoon into a cookie cutter screenplay eligible for desperate green lighting automatically by any given studio. Now we here at Who Asked You? are in the minority, and not cuz we have three black guys on our crew, but because we enjoyed TRON LEGACY. But, we’ve learned through numerous disappointments that one good sequel doesn’t mean the third will be too.
You wanna know what’s really disappointing? Michelob’s sales numbers. The beer that’s been around since the 1890s ain’t doing too good. And there’s eight other brews that are right there with it. Today, we’ll bring you a list of the nine American beers Americans no longer drink compiled by the folks at 24/7 Wall Street.
Is Santa Claus a Democrat or a Republican? American’s were polled to find out. On one hand, he thinks of others and hands stuff out for free without considering the financial or economical impact, so he could be a Democrat. On the other he only gets things done one day a year and he’s old, white and fat… so he could be Republican. We’ll tell you what those polled thought about his political affiliation as well as what percentage of folks would tell their dads if they saw ol’ St. Nick slippin’ mom the tongue. Also, would you press charges against him if his reindeer ran over your grandma? You might be shocked at just how many people would. More shocked than you are to learn this poll was even conducted.
After all that, it’s the gift guide bit and the Blue Waffle. I capitalize it because, thanks to the Internet, I think it’s become a proper noun. Be sure to do the same when you search for it. But seriously, don’t search for it. If you do, you’re in for a ‘blue’ Christmas. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Who Asked You? – Cold, Chapped Reach Around
December 10, 2012
For us fellas a reach around can be pretty darn nice. The keyword there being ‘can’. There are circumstances I’m sure we could all dream up where such a favor may not be in our best interest. Charlie too enjoys the reach around, but not one he has to pay for. We learn that on this show while running through Tuesday’s DVD releases. There are a couple of them that could be considered a reach around by Hollywood. But not the good kind. This one comes from a cold, rough, dry hand whose grip is too tight and retard-strength tugs uncomfortably hard over and over again. And worse of all, Hollywood wants you to pay for this miserable masturbatory assistance.
Since our 5th Anniversary show the episodes have been pretty mild. I began to wonder if we’d lost our spunk after five long years. I can tell you now that we have not! In probably our most lively show since then we’re all over a number of stories. We warm up on one that relates to last week’s poll that we didn’t get to in time. That story is one of Eric Hartsburg who got Mitt Romney’s campaign logo tattooed on his face for a mere $15,000. Talk about a cold chappy reach around.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting the good kind of reach around. He’s been asked to reprise his role as Conan the Barbarian in a sequel/continuation/not third film but rather replacement to second film but taking place after second film. THE LEGEND OF CONAN will pick up where the 1982 film left off… a seasoned, older Conan perched on a throne. Best of all, using Arnold’s real life aging, they won’t need any make up! Arnold says he’s thrilled to be back. Get it? Because he’ll… be back?
What are your top-ten movie villains of all time? Ript Apparel — the 24-hour limited edition shirt printer — has theirs. And boy do we have ours… more specifically, Dennis. But we all throw in making a master list of sorts. Ript’s rundown includes the likes of Hannibal Lecter (we agree) and the Wicked Witch from THE WIZARD OF OZ (we disagree). Our list includes Clarence Boddicker of ROBOCOP and Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn!!!!!! Plus others. Tune-in to hear ‘em.
There’s a list from Forbes Magazine of some actors in Tinseltown that are most certainly getting the good kind of reach around. They’re incredibly over paid. I present a Chase’s Challenge to the guys to see if they can name the number-one highest over paid A-Lister. Spoiler… they don’t, but they do get several others on the list while guessing.
AMC’s WALKING DEAD has certainly grown a fan base. Some of the fans may take the comic-turned-show a little too seriously through. Now I know what you’re thinking, Chase, you and Jabari have torn JJ Abrams a new one numerous times over his STAR TREK. But without spoiling too much of this story here, I’ll just say Jabari and I likely wouldn’t do to Abrams what one WALKING DEAD fan did to his girlfriend because she disagreed with him over the show’s plot validity. Don’t miss this Breaking News.
And lastly, we need your help choosing our 2012 CLIP OF THE YEAR. Head over to the special page we’ve set up for it and listen to the three nominees, then vote for your favorite. The winner will be deemed our CLIP OF THE YEAR and will be replayed on our December 23rd year-in-review show. Just think of it as your reach around on us… no dry or chapped hands please.

Who Asked You? – Sausage Taker
December 3, 2012
It’s time now for another one of those episodes where we run out of time. And the cause of our time dilemma is the same as it always is, conversation drift. Things start off with the ol’ bacon or sausage debate. Dennis is liking sausage lately. And we stay on food as Mike is now back and he briefly fills us in on his Thanksgiving.
Then we chat for a moment about the Nintendo Wii U. We got a chance to play it before today’s show. Now in the past we’ve expressed our concerns, made our jokes and gave our predictions on how the Wii U would ‘play’ out. And after a few hours of NINTENDO LAND fun, we all agreed it’s definitely worthy of consideration if you’re picking up a new console and can’t decide which one. Nintendo may not have the latest in graphics and may be a bit borderline gimmick with the whole shaking the controllers and what not, but they’ve managed to once again make things damned fun. Now we had a blast just playing NINTENDO LAND, which comes with the Wii U. I’m imagining the potential of what they can do with it in the coming years. Especially that tablet controller called the Gamepad. We thought it might be silly, but it actually adds a lot to the game play and will surely have the kids arguing over it come Christmas morning. Maybe a future firmware update will allow the console to support more than one someday?
What would you do with a zillion dollars? We ponder that on the news that the lucky Powerball Jackpot winners will take home over $193-million after taxes. If I had won, I would launch Who Asked You? cable and radio networks. Maybe call it Who-Net. Us five big mouths, 24/7 on your TV and radio… ahh, the glory it would be.
Within a few minutes time we create a pornographic scenario involving the grandparents from Willy Wonka, catch up on Dennis and Jabari’s Fantasy Football standings and fathom whether or not $18 to a Fathom movie event for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is too much money.
Dennis derails the New Releases with a question of favorite sci-fi movies, which brings up the question of whether or not JURASSIC PARK and STAR WARS are science fiction.
And then finally, it’s into the show rundown starting with Angus T. Jones’ new found faith. If you’re unaware of events this past week involving the 19-year-old star from TWO AND A HALF MEN, allow me to easily fill you in. He went on YouTube and called his bread and butter, “filth.” Then quasi-apologized to his co-stars the next day in a written statement. His girlfriend, Internet celebrity — question mark — “Stalker Sarah”, apparently introduced him to the Seventh Day Adventist religion. Jones is still under contract with CBS, so he’s still collecting an enormous paycheck that is undeserved given his talent, or lack there of for acting. If he’s really that passionate about his new faith and upset over the filthy show he’s worked on for the last ten years, maybe he should start giving all that money to his church.
Then it’s back to Nintendo. Their magazine, “Nintendo Power” is publishing its final issue this month. The gaming rag went retro for its final cover recreating a clay scene it depicted on its very first copy. “Nintendo Power” has been in continuous publication since 1988. It’s not the first gaming magazine to run out of lives. And it probably won’t be the last. But the question we wonder is, like newspapers, are they even relevant anymore with the web and Internet-connected consoles?
And the last bit of news we have time for, because Dennis takes up the rest of it complaining about the new Macs not having optical drives, is more rumor than actual news. It seems like more than a coincidink that a time frame for the next Xbox gets leaked shortly after the Wii U hits the market. But whether it was planned or not, the rumor is that it’ll be out in time for Christmas next year and could include — among other interesting features — a Blu-ray drive. And if you’re like Dennis and use your Xbox mostly for watching Netflix, there could be a version of it minus the video game capabilities. A Microsoft version of the Roku essentially. Since we don’t have time for the story that spawned this week’s We Ask You Poll, I simply pose the question and once your votes are tallied, we’ll read ‘em and the story on next week’s show. Been looking for a way to spice up the poll. This could be the beginning of a new way of doing it. We’ll see how it goes.

Who Asked You? – Blood Bath & Beyond
November 26, 2012
It’s Cyber Monday and have we got a deal for you! It’s a totally free Who Asked You? download! Just use coupon code “WHOWOULDPAYFORTHISCRAP” at checkout. If it’s Cyber Monday, that means Black Friday just passed. And just like last year we’ve rounded up some of the biggest black-blunders of note so we can all collectively shake our heads in shame at the way a portion of us behave on this darkest of days. A couple of trends are developing when it comes to the day after Thanksgiving. First, it’s getting worse each year. Nobody got trampled to death this year, but as you’ll hear on today’s show, there were guns fired, hair pulled and run overs with automobiles. The other thing I’ve noticed by looking at the countless shaky, cell phone clips on YouTube, Walmart is an instigator of this deplorable behavior! Besides the rock bottom prices on flat screens made by companies you’ve never heard of, the way they present the items only fuels the flame. The stuff is wheeled out on a huge palette in a spectacle chaperoned by cranky Walmart employees who don’t want to be there and rented police officers who don’t either. Once the megaphone alarm sounds, that’s the cue for all the idiots to pile-drive one another. It’s up to the customers to tear off the cellophane and then box their way to the boxed item they’re about to save 20% on. Compare that to one Target video I saw where everyone was lined up in a neat orderly fashion. The check out lines were roped off and everyone seemed quite pleasant. Now, that’s not to say this was the scene at every Target, but anytime I’ve been in one, it’s quieter than a library. So it’s a good bet you didn’t get your jaw broken over a $10 coffeemaker if you went there instead.
Lets move on before I write a novel on Black Friday. It’s been a week since the Nintendo Wii U came out. The first new console since 2006 seems to be doing well. While there’s a bit of trepidation with the direction Nintendo is going these days, the gimmick of jumping around your living room waving your arms about to get Mario up onto a brick wall has taken the next step… the gampepad. A tablet-style controller your kids are sure to Black Friday one another over for the first turn come Christmas morning. The guts of the Wii U aren’t ground breaking. It’s practically a regular Wii that can output in HD. But there are some strong titles available at launch like ASSASSIN’S CREED III and BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM. Nintendo is hoping you’ll snag one these new games as it’s taking a loss on each Wii U sold. And buying just one extra game puts them back in the green, according to the company.
Now to the Xbox 360. An Australian man has set a new world record for marathon game play. He sat for a week and played CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II. During that time he stood up, sat down, used his banked break time to catch a few Z’s and perhaps thanked his lucky stars he didn’t keel over dead like some other long term gamers before him have done.
We’ve got another toilet story. This one does not involve a theme park unfortunately. Instead, it involves an old used toilet that was auctioned off in Toronto for $5,000! This can is special though, it’s seen the asses of a number of players on the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. One devoted fan picked up the potty and plans to display it in his sports memorabilia room. Maybe he and the McJordan BBQ sauce guy can get together… start a blog or something. The Canadian lawyer was going after a banner that quickly escelated out of his price range. So like 99% of Black Friday customers who show up for that $100 TV the store has five units of, he was forced to settle for something else.
Alright, that’s all, turn on our show and get to that Cyber Monday shopping spree!

Who Asked You? – Mexican Bimbo
November 19, 2012
Much like the Lucasfilm/Disney news of last week, another story has swept the web in a blaze of commentary, confusion, ranting and most of all parody. Hostess Brands, the company behind classic junk foods like Twinkies and Ding Dongs announced that it’s closing its doors and will be ceasing operations. Tired of staring at memes of Twinkies in coffins on their Facebook feeds, people stormed their local grocers and ransacked the snack aisle hoping to get their hands on what soon could be a forgotten food. One last Suzy Q for the road… a final Donette to say goodbye. They taste extra sweet this time… oh who am I kidding? Donettes have no taste.
Still, while some were buying up their nostalgia, others were seeing a business opportunity. It didn’t take long for packages of these pastries to pop up on eBay. A quick search found a 10-count box of Twinkies priced at $21-million! This Ho Ho hysteria may all be a little premature though. It’s already rumored that the world’s largest bakery, Grupo Bimbo which is based in Mexico, could pick up a Hostess recipe or two and soldier on the sugary snacks. I doubt they’re going to vanish. So be patient… they’ll be back. And if they aren’t, we’ve got a recipe to make Twinkies at home below in our Show Links.
Mike is back this week and we get his opinion on the before mentioned Disney acquisition. Being the biggest STAR WARS fan of the group, his opinion is important to note. Also, being the biggest STAR WARS fan of the group you’d think he’d heard the news before this week’s show… you’d think anyway.
A couple of happenings in TV and movies to note this week. The BEVERLY HILLS COP series is moving forward. They’ve cast Brandon T. Jackson as Aaron Foley, the son of Axel Foley who is now working as a cop there. Eddie Murphy is expected to make cameos if the series gets picked up for a season.
In other casting news, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN sequel has found its Mary Jane Watson. Actress, Shailene Woodley won the part. Meanwhile, we’ve learned that the villain will be Electro and Jamie Foxx is up for that role.
To gif is to create one of those little gritty images that, if animated, plays over and over. It’s a favorite amongst the meme creators and the word gif is the Oxford Dictionary word of the year. At least here in America. As Charlie points out though, it’s not really a word, it’s an acronym. You’d think people who write dictionaries for a living would’ve caught that.
A new company from Walmart is offering a home delivery service of snack foods for just $7 a month. The foods which may or may not be widely available on the market are to be rated and reviewed on the site in exchange for points. Those points will earn you more snacks for free! Would any of us sign up for this? Find out on today’s show.
In Breaking News we pay a visit to Amsterdam where the world’s worst hotel can be found. Thin mattresses, no bath towels, bad smells and dirty carpets make things rather hostile at this hostel. And get this, the place has been in business for decades! In fact, the shitty conditions are part of their marketing strategy, and it’s working! Young travelers are staying there because it’s super cheap and for the novelty of it. Would the Who Asked You? Crew spend the night? Stay tuned to the end of the show for the answer. And now I’m off to try and find some Twinkies. I’ve eaten maybe five of them in my entire life, but for some reason, I’ve got a hankerin’ for ‘em. See you on eBay!

Who Asked You? – What Kind Of Pimples?
November 12, 2012
After a week away we’ve retuned. And of course, the biggest news in the geek world occurred while we were gone. By now you’ve most certainly heard that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm. George Lucas said he felt the time was right to pass it on and he plans on focusing more time on his philanthropic endeavors. If you’ve been keeping… err, rather, TRYING to keep up with the buzz across the Intertubes you know that’s quite a task. Rather than spend a ton of time and printer paper on everything that’s been announced or speculated up to this point, I narrowed down most of it to several talking points which we run through. Good times! In an ironic twist, STAR WARS fanatic and Who Asked co-host, Mike Reddic, is not here this week. It’s like CNN doing a story at the Pentagon without their senior Pentagon correspondent.
While writing that enormous check to George Lucas, Disney said they would do another STAR WARS trilogy, post RETURN OF THE JEDI. But there’s other films that shouldn’t be made that also deserve attention. Like the LEGO movie. Warner Bros. plans to build a CG feature about a little LEGO man who must save the world with a few unlikely companions to help.
The Schulz family has written a script for a new Charlie Brown movie and 20th Century Fox will make it into an animated feature film. They’ve taken great care to keep Charlie, Lucy, Snoopy and the gang in the family and it looks like it’s about to pay off.
Now onto a TV show that doesn’t need to be made. Disney has announced that they’ll be producing a sequel series to the popular TGIF show, BOY MEETS WORLD. For anyone who watched ABC in the late 90s when HOME IMPROVEMENT and THE DREW CAREY SHOW were must watch programs, you are likely aware of Cory Matthews. And if you’ve listened to our show for any length of time you’re likely aware of his love interest on the program, Topanga. According to the casting breakdown sent out by Disney late last week, Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel who played those characters respectively are going to reprise their roles. But this show will be called GIRL MEETS WORLD and it’ll focus on their 13-year-old daughter, Riley. She’ll have an emo best friend named Maya and a slightly older brother, Elliot. The show will run on the Disney Channel. Being — as Charlie puts it — nostalgic motherfuckers, there are some thoughts we have regarding this old televised favorite of the gang.
We’re once again on watch for Jenkem as news from South Korea tells us a new toilet theme park there has really flushed out visitors. Koreans are far less ‘skiddish’ about these sorts of things so the place is proving to be a hit. It’s dedicated to the city’s former mayor who was affectionately known as Mr. Toilet for his efforts to bring better commodes to the region and promote overall toilet education. There’s a garden with squatting sculptures, art galleries and even Mr. Toilet’s house, which is shaped like a giant toilet, has been converted to a museum of toilet and poop knowledge.
Finally, with a new STAR WARS trilogy on the way, you’re going to want to see it at its best right? Well by the time EPISODE VII hits theaters, Ultra HD will be commonplace at your local Best Buy (if they’re still in business by then). The Consumer Electronics Association, which puts on the CES show every year, voted to call the new format “Ultra HD” as they gear up to push it onto consumers since 3D was a huge flop. With resolution four-times that of conventional HD… yeah, I said conventional HD, Ultra HD will allow you to see even more detail like wrinkles and skin blemishes. Although, one in particular, a typo on the rundown that I didn’t catch, is probably a detail you don’t want to look at. One of the first Ultra HD sets coming out is an 80-incher from Sony for the low low price of just $30,000. Those stupid 3D glasses and blurred vision are startin’ to look pretty good all of a sudden.

Who Asked You? – Who Axed You?
October 29, 2012
This year’s Halloween show could’ve been titled “Hot Mess”. Urban Dictionary defines the term as: “…somebody that has NO REASON to look the way that they are looking at the time.” and “…when something just aint’ right or off da chain.” Both of those definitions could easily work. We’ll start with the latter.
Not every year there’s enough ‘Halloween’ news to fill an hour. As is the case this time. Although there are a couple of candy and costume stories, we drift in and out of our theme with a number of topics planned and unplanned. For example, one planned topic was a few observations I made regarding our sloshed-soiree last week for our 5th anniversary. And an apology to JJ Abrams for being a little too mean during yet another STAR TREK rant. Note: Jabari apologizes for nothing. Then unplanned conversations that included Charlie’s dating a wanna-be stripper, the make up of Ambrosia salad and putting donuts on your penis. Told ya this show was messy.
Then it’s onto the FINAL edition of the Who Asked You? Calendar. Last year, about this time, I made it my mission to bring you the week’s special days, observations and celebrity birthdays each show so that you would be aware of all the holidays that don’t get as much love as they should. And now, a year later, we’ve covered a good portion of those worth mentioning and it’s time to move on. Calendar… you served us well by sometimes just killing 10-minutes of a show, often needed on slow news weeks.
We have three E-Mails! One is a voice message, one sent directly to Charlie asking pointedly about his anatomy and another explaining why a listener couldn’t bring themselves to whack us… yeah, listen to understand the meaning of that sentence and get your mind out of the gutter. Or not, it’s Halloween. Do what you want. We did!
The hot mess continues as I completely skip the list of DVDs coming out on Tuesday. Oops! Don’t worry, if you really want to know what’s coming out this week, they’re in the Show Links as usual. What a mess!
Since this is our Halloween show, it’s about time we talk about something Halloween related… candy! The Huff Po created a list of the worst candy handed out each year and we look at some of it and offer up our own suggestions. Once again, Candy Corn gets no love. But that’s okay, more for me.
Then you’re ‘treated’ to something real special. For probably the first time in the history of this show, Michael Bay says something with which we actually agree. Recently the actor who voiced Megatron in the TRANSFORMERS movies, Hugo Weaving said he didn’t care about the part and basically got nothing fulfilling out of the role. In turn, Bay posted on his website that actors who get paid tons of money to sit in a booth and talk into a microphone should stop whining and be glad they have a job. Suffering from poster’s remorse, Bay pulled the comments from his site. But not before everyone — including The Hollywood Reporter — got a good look at it and re-posted it for all to see. The Who Asked You? Crew actually takes Bay’s side on this one. With the economy the way it is and the fact that there are starving actors by the tens-of-thousands out there that would kill a fellow thespian in cold blood for a gig that paid the $200,000 that Weaving got, not to mention all the other problems in the world; is this really an issue that an actor needs to raise or make a fuss about? You got paid in an hour and 45-minutes what takes most working class three or four years to earn and all you did was read off a piece of paper. Quit complaining!
Now to the first definition of hot mess, Patricia “Tan Mom” Krentcil. She’s the Jack-O-Lantern pictured. And she’s on our list of costume suggestions for this year. If you enjoy dressing topically each Halloween, then you’ll wanna hear our costume ideas.
So yeah, I could’ve titled this episode “Hot Mess”, but the show’s intro was already made. Plus, it would break our tradition of using silly puns of our show title each year for the Halloween episode. With that said, we are breaking tradition starting next year. As I stated above, it’s often hard to scrounge up Halloween-only news for these specials. So we’re going to try something new in 2013. We’re excited about it, but we’re not telling you what it is. You’ll have to wait until then. Halloween is my favorite holiday, so we’ll still be well within the spirit.
I’ll be traveling next week, so the show is off. But we’ll be back on November 11th with new shows all the way through the end of the year! So more mess to come.

Who Asked You? – That’s How You Get A Lisp
October 22, 2012
It’s our 5th anniversary!!! Spoiler alert, we take a shot of whiskey at the end of the show to celebrate this. I’m telling you now, because that shot ruined the rest of my evening after we went off air. At any moment, do to my body’s inability to metabolize hard liquor, I may spew vomit across my keyboard. I’m taking the risk to get our celebratory show posted for you, the listener. After I’m done here, I’ll probably go lay down as it takes me two days to recover from hangovers like this.
As you’ve probably guessed by now, we were drunk for this episode. Well, three of us were. Can you guess who? And as a result of our intoxication we’re louder than usual and the f-word gets used a lot more, even by our standards. I’ll apologize now.
With our milestone episodes we’ve adopted a ‘plan nothing’ strategy. This means for these event shows, we simply go on-the-air and see where the conversation takes us. And it’s not too different than our normal planned out shows. A testament to how similar our planned shows are to the normal, everyday conversations the five of us have all the time.
So lets see… on our anniversary special you’ll hear how loud we are when we’re drunk. I bring up growing a beard, which leads to a discussion on manscaping. Then we talk about a substitute teacher whose twat got tweeted by a student she was banging as part of his initiation into college. Later we butcher the Australian accent thanks to a listener E-Mail. And as we do often when we get drunk, we rant about JJ Abrams’ STAR TREK.
It’s all topped off with that whiskey shot I mentioned earlier. Thanks for the support and for listening… you guys and gals rock! Here’s to another five years! Maybe by then I’ll have recovered and can take another shot.

Who Asked You? – The B-List
October 15, 2012
We’re now just one week away from our 5th anniversary! But before that happens, we’ve got another standard issue episode of crap that caught our eye this past week. For example, Ridley Scott revealed on the DVD commentary of PROMETHEUS that he is, in fact, working on a sequel to BLADE RUNNER. You’re probably aware that this is Dennis’ favorite movie, so he shares some choice thoughts and words on the matter.
That’s just the beginning though! Did you know that John Travolta has a brother who is also an actor? If you’re like us, the answer to that question is ‘no’. We ponder how many other A-listers have B-lister siblings prominantly displayed on the straight-to-video rack at Blockbuster. Oh, excuse me… we live in the age of Roku and Xbox 360. The equivalent to that statement would be, the suggestion cue on Flixter. Which coincidentally, might be described as the B-List Netflix. You’ll also learn about the Hagfish on today’s show. ‘Nuff said.
In Charlie’s view, the show is once again brought to a grinding hault by the Fantasy Football Update in which Dennis explains to Jabari the complexity of trading players that aren’t currently doing well but will later.
Director’s commentary for the theater? That’s right, we may be seeing the birth of a new trend when heading out to the cinema. And LOOPER director Rian Johnson is leading the way. After previously offering up a downloadable MP3 for his film, THE BROTHERS BLOOM, he received requests to do it again. So he did with his latest time travel actioner starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Here’s how it works. You download the track, put it on your iPod — or in my case, Zune — play the file when the instructions tell you to as the movie starts and it should be syncronized. They ask that you wear headphones so you don’t disturb others, obviously. And Johnson recommends you only listen to his commentary on second viewing. I’m beginning to wonder if this could turn into a dirty scheme by Hollywood. Think about it… 3D didn’t take off like they were expecting, so lets start doing DVD-style commentaries that require you to go back and pay to see a movie a second time. At $10 a ticket, they’re damned lucky they’re getting me a first time around. I’ve never really listened to the commentaries on my DVDs. I’m just not that interested with most movies. Maybe you feel differently? This is the subject of this week’s We Ask You Poll. Make sure you cast your vote. And if you have additional thoughts on this, send us an E-Mail or voice message.
An amusing prank pulled on the make believe world of Azeroth had some World of Warcraft players, as well as Blizzard, fuming while others simply laughed it off. A few hackers found an exploit in the game allowing them to instantly kill anyone in their path. They ran with it and created what was dubbed “The Rapture” last weekend killing thousands of other players over the course of four hours before Blizzard was able to patch the bug. Now an investigation is underway and Blizzard is pissed. Is it really that big of a deal though? We cast our spell of discussion over this question and increase your knowledge skill tenfold.
WoW has been known to end marriages and in some cases, cost people their jobs. It didn’t receive the nickname “World of Warcrack” for nothing. People who play not just this game, but all online games, or even use Facebook and Twitter may have what’s now being called “Internet Use Disorder”. Those of you who have a compulsory need to check your E-Mail, Facebook feed or any number of social apps on your phone could be suffering from it. The debate is on in the mental health field as to whether this should be an official mental illness or not. Some think it needs more study. But when you look at the brain scans of kids who use a lot of Internet and they’re strikingly similar to those of drug abusers… you kinda have to wonder if there isn’t something there. We run down the symptoms so you can decide for yourself if you or a loved one is suffering from “Internet Use Disorder”. If you are, stop using the Internet immediately except for downloading our show.
And speaking of using the Internet, we hope you’ll do so next week as we turn the mics on and bring you our 5th anniversary show. Some of us may (i.e. will) be drunk. And you can join us in the chat room and help guide the totally unplanned conversation. This should be interesting.

Who Asked You? – Femspendables
October 8, 2012
We’re not playing games when it comes to some news out of Hollywood that we have for you today. I guess maybe the toy business just isn’t what it used to be. Hasbro perhaps has fallen on hard times? What else could explain their continuing support of un-originality in Hollywood? What was once a joke among the Who Asked You? Crew when we heard they were turning BATTLESHIP into a movie, has now become reality. We’ve just learned that Hasbro will make an animated feature film out of their classic board game, Hungry Hungry Hippos. This is nothing more than cashing in on name recognition. A cartoon about a bunch of fat hippopotamuses is pretty damned general. This film could easily NOT be called Hungry Hungry Hippos and it would still be the same exact film. Using the title of a classic children’s game is completely unnecessary and is nothing more than a fat licensing check for the game maker.
But they aren’t done yet! They’re also making a movie out of Action Man. He was the British version of G.I. Joe. A direct copy to be exact. Joe’s likeness was licensed by a UK toy maker and sold to children there in the 60s. Now, Hasbro will see it turned into a motion picture. Soooo, we’ll have a movie about a toy that was a direct copy of another toy that is already a movie?
And if that’s not bad enough… Hasbro has teamed with Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, to bring to life a few ‘themed’ versions of their board games. We’ll soon see a CityVille version of Monopoly (also being turned into a movie by the way) and FarmVille-themed Hungry Hungry Hippos. Also, the popular mobile app, Words With Friends is getting the board game treatment. That’s right, a ripoff of Scrabble is being turned into a… uhh… ripoff of Scrabble.
Now that we’re all mentally exhausted, perhaps it’s best we relax like men do aboard Cathay Pacific Airlines in the business class section. Allegations from some passengers that business men were doing a little too much relaxing prompted that quirky computer animation company, Next Media Animation, to create one of their newsreel shorts explaining the problem. From what we gathered in the video, the secluded business class accommodations are leading some guys to join the self-mile high club, in view of other passengers no less. The airline is quite upset by the video and wants it pulled from YouTube. Next Media says no way! Watch it while you can in our Show Links below for a good laugh.
Lastly, we have more results from another new study! This one isn’t about diseases, discoveries, sciences or technologies… it’s about fast food drive-thrus! QSR Magazine — you’ll learn what that stands for during the show — polled fast food goers to see which eateries had the best and worst car service based on speed, accuracy, courteousness of staff and view of the restaurant’s dumpsters. Burger King didn’t fare so well in several of these categories. Where it did score high, a place we’d never even heard of did very poorly. We order up the findings at pay at the second window on today’s show.
We’re just two weeks away from our 5th anniversary. As always, your questions, comments, thoughts, rants, raves, praises, complaints and other textual and vocal ramblings are welcomed and encouraged. Send us an E-Mail or a voice message and you may just end up part of our anniversary special!

Who Asked You? – Something In The Attic
October 1, 2012
A word of warning… you may be weirded and/or creeped out a couple of times during this week’s show. For the weird part, Charlie inexplicably has a British accent during the entire episode. He may have had a stroke, or a long conversation with Madonna. We can’t be sure. It is however a little weird. The creepiness, like pretty much all of our shows, comes from not just the stories we talk about but the hosts as well. Today you’ll hear Jabari’s rape voice and mine as well. Creepy… ’nuff said. But the real creep factor comes in at the end of the show during Breaking News. More on that in a moment.
We take a short trip down memory lane thanks to a listener E-Mail asking us how we came up with our show’s name. We cover this at every convention panel we’ve done so far, but I’m not sure if it was ever talked about on the show. It probably was, we just don’t remember. They all start to blend together after seventy or so episodes. One of our hosts was responsible for coming up with the “questionable” name… get it? Because our name is a question? Yeah, listen in to find out who. You’ll also hear what the original title of our podcast was going to be. And, while rummaging through some hard drives thanks to a new hard drive dock I just bought — which you’ll also hear about on today’s show — I even ran across the original theme music we were going to use. The format and premise of that program never took off and was ultimately mutated into what you see and hear before you today. Did we make the right choice? Let us know!
And after their absence, followed by a week off, then a bump due to being short on time last week, it is FINALLY time to check in with Jabari and Dennis on our new Fantasy Football Update segment. We also discuss the whole referee debacle and along with that we play you a clip from NBC’s SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in which the crowd lets the temporary refs know just how they felt about a “bullshit” call one of them made against the Ravens coach. It’ll likely be the only time you’ll hear such words chanted over and over again on network television.
We also tell you about a long awaited sequel to the Farrelly brothers’ DUMB AND DUMBER film. They twatted that the script is nearing completion and the film will be called DUMB AND DUMBER TO. Not a typo there.
And on the small screen, a twice canceled show on NBC and ABC is being revived. Not on TV though but on stage. SCRUBS will be turned into a musical according to the show’s creator, Bill Lawrence. We chat about the good and bad of SCRUBS’ run and more.
Gamers want bigger titties! That’s according to feedback Gamasutra got regarding the female characters in the new DEAD OR ALIVE 5. Apparently, going off direction from their corporate overlords, they intended to tone down the sexiness of those female fighters. But after fans played the demo, they let Gamasutra know that the ladies weren’t cuttin’ it. So, the programmers piled on the chest pixels and here we are with DOA 5 back to it’s big-busted self.
Do you know what someone is doing when they’re butt-chugging? If not, you’ll find out on this episode. And devastating news from the golden arches. It turns out, in a flat-out act of pure greed, they’re gonna make you wait until December before you can sink your teeth into the McRib sandwich. Personally, I don’t eat ‘meat products’ shaped like what they’re ‘trying’ to taste like, so this news doesn’t really affect me, or any of the Who Asked You? Crew. But we felt like you should know in case you’re a fan of it.
And now, that creepy bit of news… in South Carolina a woman was shocked to discover something lurking in her attic. I don’t want to spoil it here. I will say, it was watching her, made itself at home up there and required large cups to hold its waste. That bit alone prompts a segue into Jenkem Watch! I think I’ve said too much already. Go listen to the show, then check your attic just to be on the safe side.

Who Asked You? – Just Drack Her
September 24, 2012
Once again we bring you one those shows where we’re running a little behind schedule. In a typical episode we plow through the hellos, the calendar, any E-Mails, new DVD releases and the previous week’s poll results within the first half-hour. I glance at the countdown timer and if it says anything less than 00:30:00:00, I know we’re in pretty good shape. This week, we’re just getting to Tuesday’s DVDs at about 35-minutes in. Okay, not too bad, I can play catch up somewhere. We get to the first story with just about 15-minutes left in the show. Oh damn, that’s not good. There are a couple of sidetracks that killed a lot of the time. It’s the nature of the beast though. And I don’t mind. That extra filler is entertaining. You won’t wanna miss it. We recap a few little events that happened while we were off for a week. Including the iPhone 5 announcement, Wii U’s pricing and we update you on that old lady who botched the Jesus Christ fresco restoration over in Spain. You won’t believe what she’s doing now!
And Dennis explains the intricacies of our friend John, who filled in for him and Jabari on our last show thanks to a listener E-Mail questioning John’s voice. And we’ve also got a voice message from someone else regarding that strip club tax issue in Albany, New York followed by what he thinks the Dirty Igloo should be. See the previous episode for reference.
Since we were running a little short on time this week, we scrubbed the new Fantasy Football Update segment. It’ll be back again next week though since you’re all DYING to know how Jabari and Dennis are doing with their picks so far.
Waterman Entertainment is a Hollywood company bent on destroying our childhood television memories. They’re shaping up to be quite the factory of cookie-cutter remake, reboot and re-imagined adaptations of any program or cartoon series that has ever been previously produced. And they’ve targeted THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER as their next blunt force trauma to the movie screen. It’s confirmed that it’ll be a live-action feature with a computer generated toaster. And since lamps, electric blankets and something called a radio are no longer stylish or used, Waterman has decided to update the household objects that befriend the toaster with more current day gadgets. We surmise what they might be. One of them may have already been officially decided though. Tune-in to find out what!
And Waterman’s rampage continues as they’ve acquired the rights to MR. ED, a 60s sitcom about a talking horse with plans to turn it into a movie as well. This wreaks of something in the vein of that MARMADUKE catastrophe. Or even, Waterman’s own take on ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS. Mr. Ed’s voice on the old show was over the top with a whinnied inflection that said “I’m a talking horse” without actually saying it. You can bet this new Mr. Ed will not get the voice actor treatment. Instead any given A-list actor will be called in to phone in the gig.
After skipping Michael Bay news in the interest of time (yeah, THAT’S the reason we skipped it), we move onto a study that was found in some government archive which looked at the effects of nuclear radiation on beverages in glass containers. Most notably, beer and soda. You may be surprised at the results to the study conducted back in the 60s.
And the best story of the night, aside from those relating to strip clubs and Jabari’s birthday, has to go to the drunken English woman who literally became a pirate by stealing a 45-foot ferry, then proclaimed such as she and her intoxicated pal barreled down the River Dart running over small boats before crashing into a really expensive one. She claimed to be Jack Sparrow, but I doubt that’s what was put on her arrest record.
And on a side note, this week’s show marks just one month until our 5th anniversary! We’ve got some exciting changes coming. Nothing too major… there’s a new logo on the way, the site is also getting a face lift and I’ve been toiling away on my audio editing program putting together some new intros (that’s what we call the opening music at the start of a show). We’ll eventually have around twenty or so that we’ll rotate. Keep things fresh. Drack on!

Who Asked You? – The Dirty Igloo
September 10, 2012
Our pal John joins us this week as Dennis and Jabari are on vacation. We all take a quick turn imitating both of them to help us cope with their absence. Actually, it just gives us free reign to make fun of them without their impressions of us taking up valuable imitating them time.
If you’re a fan of Candy Corn, then you’ll probably love the latest twist on Nabisco’s classic Oreo cookies. Beginning today, the half orange, half yellow cream center cookies will go on sale exclusively at Target. The web is a buzz with jokes and tasting reviews. Unfortunately, the Target on the way to the show decided not to stock them a day early so we weren’t able to taste test them on-air. But that doesn’t stop us from putting in our two-cents. Also, I’m apparently the only person left on Earth who actually likes Candy Corn.
Have you seen the latest feature on our website? It’s to the right. Thanks to a new website called SpeakPipe, you’re now able to leave us a voice message. Instead of typing your rant or rave or question or comment, you can say it and we’ll play it. And our first voice message is on today’s show. It’s neither a rant, rave, question or comment. Instead, it’s also an impression.
JJ Abrams has clearly made an impression on Fox. As his hit series, FRINGE winds down to its final season, a pilot has been picked up for production from his company that will take place in the near future where police in Los Angeles are partnered with human-like androids. Looks like Mr. Data will be trading in his Starfleet comm badge for a police badge. Not to be outdone, NBC is also working on a robot/human co-existence show that has basically ripped off the plot of BLADE RUNNER. No series commitments yet for either program.
We head down to the Bay once again to bring you up-to-date on the exploits of the world’s best aerial cinematographer of Washington DC. You might call it damage control, but to hear Michael Bay tell it, there was no damage done. Apparently a script for his much reviled NINJA TURTLES movie was leaked online. It included Krang, the Technodrome and cartoon favorites Rocksteady and Beebop. Not so fast though! Bay says that script is old news and was written before any deal was signed between his company, Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures. They are still planning to have the turtles be aliens instead of mutants. He again told everyone to calm down and wait for the movie. That’s right… wait for the complete dismantling of the cannon. Thanks to Hollywood, we’re used to it by now though.
Is stripping an art form? The Albany, New York city council will have to decide that next month as a local strip club says it shouldn’t have to pay over a $100,000 in taxes because its exotic dancers are artists. One might argue, the time and effort that goes into a lap dance is no different than that put into any other form of professional dancing. One might also argue, strippers are 1099 and therefore are responsible for paying taxes as any other sole proprietor would be. But the question really is, under the local tax code, can exotic dancing be classified as an art form? Can the tax code be interpreted that way? We wanna know what you think. It’s the topic of this week’s We Ask You Poll. Be sure and cast your vote!
Do you know what a Dirty Igloo might be? Only Mike knows inside that noggin of his. He was under the impression that it might be a Ben & Jerry’s flavor. It’s not, but it might make a good one. It also might be a good name for one of those sex acts like the Russian Candy Cane or the Eiffel Tower. This discussion is ‘aroused’ during a story about a lawsuit filed by Ben & Jerry’s against a pornography company for using the parody name, Ben & Cherry’s while designing their dirty DVD covers to look like the popular pints of ice cream. They even go as far as to parody the flavor names. Listen for those as well as a few we make up ourselves on the show today.
We head to India for our first bit of Breaking News. The country’s government got involved after complaints rolled in about the name of a new men’s clothing store. The shop was called “Hitler.” The shop’s owner claims he didn’t know who Hitler was when he named his business. He said it was the nickname of his business partner’s grandfather. The grandfather was given the nickname because he was “strict.” Hmmm… that’s a clue right there. But something isn’t adding up here. If you look closely at the sign on the storefront, the “i” is dotted with a swastika and it’s tilted just as it was on the Nazi Germany flag during WWII. I’m gonna call bullshit on this guy claiming he didn’t know about the tyrant. He knew… and I also think he was hoping it would create all this buzz and his little store would get tons of free advertising. Well it worked. He’s agreed to change the name however and the BBC reports that he’s even getting reimbursed by the Indian government for the costs of changing the store’s name and all his marketing materials!
Darwinism is in full effect as cases of Russian Roulette deaths are on the rise here in the US. Estimates say there have been four reported so far this year. That doesn’t count any that were not officially reported as being related to the deadly game of chance. The most recent was just last week when a 35 year-old man and his friends had a go with the man’s own gun. He lost the game. Police say the group was likely high as they found a pipe in the apartment when they responded to the 911 call.
We’re off next week for Jabari’s birthday. I don’t think we’re planning a game of Russian Roulette, but you never know. New shows start September 23rd, same ask time, same ask channel. In the meantime, if you happen to try out the new Candy Corn Oreos, shoot us an E-Mail or voice message and let us know if you like ‘em.

Who Asked You? – Sir Arthur S. Vandergoogle IV Esq.
September 3, 2012
Happy Labor Day errbody! Hopefully you’ve got the day off and can spend an hour of it listening to the show. You’ll hear a number of interesting things. For example, this coming Friday is Google Commemoration Day, celebrating the founding of Google way back in 1845 by Sir Arthur S. Vandergoogle IV Esq. It’s true… don’t believe Wikipedia.
What you can believe is that Marvel is cashing in on their success with THE AVENGERS. They’ve got an exclusive TV deal with ABC. Gee, I wonder how that worked out. Marvel is owned by Disney… ABC is owned by Disney too… hmmm. They’re taking advantage of THE AVENGERS popularity and have greenlit a pilot series called S.H.I.E.L.D. Can you guess what it’ll be about?
Meanwhile, Sam Raimi is breathing a sigh of relief as he’s won a court battle to block a sequel to EVIL DEAD that would surely interfere with the one he just finished producing. The company that was trying to make the unauthorized version believes Raimi’s Renaissance Pictures forfeited the rights to the EVIL DEAD trademark by allowing dozens of other films to use it and Raimi himself saying he had no plans to make another film in the franchise. Obviously, the judge disagreed with that assessment. We share our thoughts on this next film from Raimi and the EVIL DEAD franchise in general.
Jean-Claude Van Damme thinks Steven Seagal should lose weight if he takes a role offered to him in THE EXPENDABLES 3. It’s not bad advice. Seagal could probably use the work to pay over $330,000 in back taxes that he owes to the state of California. I guess his Lightning Bolt energy drink was a success.
By now you’ve probably seen that botched restoration of a Jesus Christ painting in Spain. If not, you’re in for a treat. An old lady took it upon herself to try and repair the water-damaged 100 year-old fresco. Instead she turned it into something that would make Picasso proud. It immediately became the Internet meme of the day as jokesters Photoshopped it into other world-famous paintings. Now experts have to see if the damage (caused by the woman, not the moisture) can be undone. They’re said to even be considering legal action against her.
DNA can now be used as a storage device. Say goodbye to thumb drives and hello to just pricking your thumb. Okay, we’re nowhere near that point yet. But the possibility is there. Scientists have found a way to store as much as 700 TB of data on a single gram of DNA. As you’ll hear on today’s show that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to turn to blood for a little hard drive space.
And a quick Breaking News blurb tells the tale of a Montana man who died trying to pull a Bigfoot prank on local residents. Wearing a military-style ghillie suit he snuck out onto a highway at night in hopes of tricking drivers. Instead, the Sasquatch got sasquished by two different cars! Although it was certainly his last outing, police say they don’t think it was his first. They believe he’s responsible for other sightings recently reported. Do you believe in Bigfoot? Maybe you’ve seen him yourself. Tell us about it. You can send us an E-Mail or try out our new voice message option. We’ll read your comments or play them on next week’s show.

Who Asked You? – Potty Power
August 27, 2012
We should eat pizza and drink beer minutes before the show more often. This week’s presentation is pretty lively. One of our better shows this year if I do say so myself. We all scarfed a slice or two and cracked open some brewskies while waiting to go live on ErrorFM.com. It seemed to energize us. And rightfully so, because there was some good stuff on this week’s rundown worth energizing over.
For the first time in our show’s history, our intro music is interrupted with pertinent and important breaking news… the engagement of Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne. As you know we’ve developed this morbid curiosity with the bland-band from Canada. We poke a little fun at the engagement and even give you an exclusive look into what their wedding night might sound like.
Another famous Who Asked You? sidetrack takes place during the Calendar segment. This one is all me though. I ate a cookie. A special cookie for the first time and recount my experience. Tune-in for the details.
The legion of doom… err, I mean, the Parents Television Council is at it again. Now they’re complaining about all the censored nudity on TV. You read that correctly… they’re complaining about the CENSORED nudity. Man, you just can’t win with them! The problem now is they don’t like all the scripted shows using ‘implied’ nudity. They claim the number of blurred birthday suits has jumped dramatically this season. We share a few choice words on the matter.
And speaking of choice words. Merriam-Webster has released their list of new words for the dictionary this year. Many of them are two words, so it’s a little strange. It’s like the dictionary has stock holders that need to be appeased. So they just keep making shit up to spike their stock price. Is Merriam-Webster a publicly traded company? Anyway, some of the new words include ‘cloud computing’ and ‘man cave.’ You’ll hear the rest on today’s show.
While the dictionary folks are making up words, eBay is banning the sale and auction of made up items. More precisely, metaphysical products. They include things like spells, voodoo dolls, potions, curses, etc. The intangible is becoming increasingly hard for the auction site to manage. Apparently there are a lot of complaints when it comes to the authenticity of these items. Whudda thunk? That mystical crystal you bought didn’t conjure up a horny vampire ghost to fuck you ’til you pass out? What to do?!?! I know… don’t buy the bullshit in the first place. Which brings us to the question, should this stuff be banned from eBay? There are people out there… crazy people… who do genuinely believe in this stuff, should they be deprived? Perhaps if they’re dumb enough to buy it, they deserve to lose their money. And eBay will still get their commission. Maybe a better alternative to an all-out ban might be a huge disclaimer posted at the top of every single auction under the metaphysical category. We saw this happen before. One instance was with used undergarments. They had to put a stop to selling smelly old briefs and bras to horny old goats because too many people weren’t getting what was expected. I missed out on that money making venture. I would’ve gladly sold my dirty underwear for a $100 a pop. Would’ve saved me from having to do a ton of laundry.
I doubt they would’ve fetched as much as Elvis’ undies. That is just one of the stories in this week’s Jenkem Watch. Before that though we gotta tell you about the latest technological advancement out of Japan… a shit-powered motorbike. As part of a campaign for awareness of clean-burning fuels, a toilet manufacturer there has created a motorcycle that runs off of processed livestock waste. Take a look at the picture and you’ll see the seat is made to look like a toilet. The company stresses though, it’s just for looks! Don’t use this commode on the road. The day may come though when we can kill two birds with one… turd. If you catch my drift.
Stay to the end of the show for a special musical treat. That’s all I’m gonna say. Yes, it’s in the Show Links, but it’s much more entertaining with the precious laughter of the Who Asked You? Crew in the background.

Who Asked You? – The Knee-High Club
August 20, 2012
It’s the strawberry jam on the butter knife all over again. I make a joke that’s apparently “too far” on today’s show. I can’t make a pedophilia-on-a-plane joke, but it’s okay to joke about Tony Scott’s death… Dennis. Or make a similar pedophilia pun for this week’s title… Jabari. Both of those were after the show, but close enough to count damn it!
Before any of that happens we share some thoughts on THE EXPENDABLES 2. We were all pleased with the film. Less story, more gratuitous violence including fight scenes you could actually follow and tons of self-aware jokes from the cast that came off campy and funny. Along with our review of the second film comes news that the third is already in the works. If all goes as planned, we’ll see the cast return as well as a few awesome additions and one that isn’t so awesome.
A listener E-Mail brings us a tale from right here in our neck of the woods. A new anime convention opening this week made a rather presumptuous proposition to a famous cosplayer. They asked her to come to the show in her costumes… and strip! For $200 and snacks. Not only is she NOT a stripper and has no interest in becoming one, but she says she’d have to alter her costumes to be able to easily strip them off, plus the pay is pretty lousy for the amount of work they want her to do and the apparent contract they E-Mailed her was sloppy and unprofessional. We strip down the details of this convention-catastrophe.
Alright, that pedo-joke comes in during our first big story of the show. A man on a Quantas flight in Australia was forced to move to another seat after the airline plopped him next to an unaccompanied minor; a violation of their policy. Apparently some airlines don’t like seating adult men next to children who are flying alone. A safe precaution says the airline. A discriminatory one says the passenger, a registered nurse by the way. He’s not alone. It happened to a firefighter as well back in April on another airline. And who’s to say the woman he switched seats with wasn’t a kiddie fiddler? By the way, that’s what he called a pedophile and it was almost this week’s show title. How would Quantas have explained that one? We discuss this policy. And make offensive jokes as usual.
Then it’s time to catch up on some news we missed last week while we were off for Mike’s birthday. First, MORTAL KOMBAT: LEGACY is returning for a season 2! This time, it takes place at the actual tournament!
We learn that Joss Whedon will be back to write and direct another Avengers film. This is good news. Getting ahead of ourselves, Dennis fears for a third movie after being let down by THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. If it’s like most trilogies, the third — if made — could be the weakest even if Joss Whedon does it too. With the few minutes we devote to it, we’re unable to think of an action film trilogy where all three were equally good or damn close. This is our challenge to you. If you can think of the ultimate trifecta-perfecta of cinema, drop us an E-Mail and state your case. We’d love to hear from ya!
While on the subject of three-quels. The third adventure of BILL AND TED is still in the works. The creators of the franchise are still working on the script and GALAXY QUEST director, Dean Parisot will helm the project.
Another iconic 80s character will be coming to the big screen. We watch Mike’s face light up with delight that ALF will be turned into a feature-length film. Gordon Shumway (no relation to me) will be voiced by the same guy who did it on the TV show, Paul Fusco. He also created the character. Along with the creator of the sitcom and the producer of that terrible SMURFS movie, they’ll reinvent the cat-craving furry little alien from planet Melmac.
We’ve got dildos in this week’s Breaking News. About 10,000 of them. In an effort to promote the use of sex toys, Trojan handed out free ones from a fake hot dog cart in New York City recently. Somehow this gets us onto the topic of Oprah and what her show would’ve been like if she’d handed out plastic dicks instead of new cars to her audience… Jabari
And we stay in NYC and on the subject of sex with the “Who’s Your Daddy?” van. A mobile paternity testing service. The Maury show had nothing to do with this! The RV, which also provides drug tests, is proving popular. It gets flagged down and has even reunited a father with his long lost daughter.
Talking about how awesome 80s action movie stars are, anime and stripping, pedophilia jokes, movie news, and dildos? we’re back baby!!!

Who Asked You? – Chilian Tax
August 6, 2012
There’s a reason I spelled Chilean the way I did in the episode title. Let me back up though for a moment. Perhaps you saw this on the news as well, but US Olympic athletes are taxed on the medals and prize money they win while repping our country in the big games. Thanks for making us look good by busting ass all year and winning the gold, now please make an $8,000 check payable to Uncle Sam. A bill is in the works in Congress… when they return from vacation that is… to make Olympians tax exempt. It astounds us that this wasn’t already the law.
At this point you’re probably thinking, “Am I listening to Who Asked You? or Meet The Press?” We talked a lot about taxes last week too. But, the absurdity that is the United States Tax Code fuels a good, continuous, ribbing from the crew.
So, after talking about what Phelps and friends will dole out for their hard work, we transition into what Chili’s suggests we dole out for good waiters. It seems ‘tipping’ is turning more and more into ‘taxing’ these days. Gratuity conversations have paid out a number of times on this show because, like taxes, it’s getting ridiculous! On a recent visit to Chili’s we discovered they are now calculating the tip for you on your receipt. You’re not obligated to pay the amount, but they’ve taken it upon themselves to do the math for you assuming your server deserves it. Unfortunately for them, the suggested tip they calculated was lower than what I was planning to leave. It’s a bit insulting to be told what you should leave your waiter. What if he or she blew? What if they were really awesome? Americans are lazy enough, it won’t hurt us to do a little arithmetic in our heads. I could’ve called this episode any number of stupid titles, “Tip-Tax-Toe” or “Taxing Situation” or “Tip Over,” but in the end I decided to squarely plant blame on Chili’s.
The meat of the show starts off with the 2012 Azeroth census. It finds there are about a million less wizards and other whimsical creatures roaming World of Warcraft. The game’s makers don’t seem too concerned though. They say most of them will probably be back with the next expansion release, or when they get bored with Diablo III.
In other WoW news, the movie is still moving forward. It’s got a new screenwriter. Sam Raimi is out as director and a search is on for someone else.
We IMDb Denzel Washington and breakdown the good and bad of his career with the announcement that he’ll be starring in a new feature film version of the 80s series THE EQUALIZER.
And we breakdown the results to a study about air travel. They aren’t surprising. It looked at what annoys passengers the most on an airplane. Farts and B.O. make the list, as well as the oft being seated next to a fat person. But neither of those are the number-one gripe. Tune-in to hear the top-five.
Finally, there are a number of things we’d drive over with a monster truck or giant tractor. In Vermont, a farmer decided he’d get back at police for a drug possession arrest by running over their fleet of cop cars. Once again, we’re back on the subject of taxes. It’s our tax dollars, or in this case, the residents of Montpelier, Vermont’s tax dollars, that paid for those cars. In the end, it’s just more money out of their’s and the farmer’s pockets. That’s the way I see it anyway. The fellas have a slightly different take. What would you crush with a tractor if given the chance? You’ll hear our hit list. It’s just the ‘tip’ of the iceberg. Damn it, that shoulda been the title!
New episodes return Sunday, August 19th LIVE in ErrorFM.com. As always, they’ll be up on this site, Mondays at 3pm/PT for your downloading pleasure. Join us then!

Who Asked You? – Baneconomics
July 30, 2012
It was inevitable, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES once again came up. You thought we were done talking about it last week? Silly you… Actually, silly me. I should have known that by creating a poll question last week on this very subject, it would come up again when I read the results. After having a week or so to stew on it, Dennis has found further issues with the film. You’ll hear those grievances today.
You’ll also hear about a new series coming to NBC based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula story. It’ll star Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the title character. Now although this could be considered a reboot of sorts, at least the network isn’t going the typical douche route and setting the story in modern times. This show will take place in Victorian London. The problem though is being on network television, this is going to be pretty tame compared to other vampire shows like TRUE BLOOD. How far will they really be able to go with it?
Over at ABC, Marvel is willing to go pretty far to cash in on THE AVENGERS fame. They’re in discussions to possibly produce a TV series based within the universe set up in the film. The show however, would not necessarily involve any of the Avengers characters. Sounds fantastic already.
The city involved in Google’s fiber optic Internet test has been announced. Kansas City, Missouri is the lucky one. The rest of us will just have to wait and see how the beta goes. However, looking at the guidelines for getting the service on Google’s website, they’re making those who want one-gigabit per second speed jump through hoops to get it. You’ll hear the details of the plans on the show, but it’ll basically involve residents in KC having to talk to their neighbors… at least fifty of them!
Tax talk inspired this week’s show title. You have to wonder if, with all the shit that went down in Gotham, how would Bane handle taxes? Or Congress? Or in another of our fantasy scenarios, the CEO of General Motors? Our lovely representatives in DC are in the midst of overruling the US Supreme Court by passing a law that would require online retailers to collect sales tax no matter what. Currently, it’s optional; and many of us enjoy tax-free online shopping from various e-tailers. But that’s most likely about to change. States are strapped for cash and they want sales tax charged on your Amazon and eBay purchases. As well as every other site known to man.
And if that’s not bad enough, plans are in the works all around the country to possibly tax us while we drive. A study is being considered in San Francisco and a pilot program is starting in Oregon which will look at the feasability of taxing people based on how many miles they drive. In the Bay area, it’d be about ten cents per mile. That works out to an average of about $1,300 a year depending on how much you drive around. Declining revenue from gas taxes is apparently to blame. We were all told to buy more fuel efficient cars and now that we have, we’re being taxed for it.
After an enraging story like that we need to lighten the mood with some ridiculous Breaking News. In this week’s bit we tell you about a new kind of aisle that may be popping up at a grocery store near you. It’s being called the ‘man aisle’ and it’s a one-stop-shop section of the market where we dudes can pick up the bare essentials like beer, condoms, chips and razors. And we have a few suggestions of our own for what this aisle should be stocking.

Who Asked You? – The Curse Of Paul Reubens
July 23, 2012
We’re joined on today’s show by our Australian pal, Marshall Davis. There’s a bit of a host exchange going on as Marshall sat in on this show and this weekend, we’ll be guests on his show, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS WITH MARSHALL DAVIS. You can find a link to his site in the Show Links below. It doesn’t seem like it’s been this long, but the last time Marshall was on was over a year ago.
As we review THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Marshall remains relatively quite for the first part of the show as he’s not seen it yet. This is probably a good thing as it kept us from blurting out any spoilers, which we have done in the past on other movies. Four out of five of us recommend it for sure. Can you guess who doesn’t? Everyone is a critic these days because everyone can have a blog… or a podcast for that matter. Sometimes it seems people get a little obnoxious with it. Just ask the staff over at RottenTomatoes.com, where they had to shut off commenting for the first time in their site’s history because they couldn’t keep up with moderating the flood of negative attacks from fanboys onto those who had even the slightest critical comment about the new Batman. Hope they don’t listen to our show.
After the Calendar and New Releases we dive back into comics and movies with the news that CHRONICLE director, Josh Trank will helm a reboot of FANTASTIC 4. Giving young directors these huge projects when they have relatively little experience in big budget movie production seems to be a growing trend. It did pay off for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS. So we’ll see if Sue, Richard, Johnny and Ben can make a fantastic return after the rather lukewarm reception both previous films got from fans. I personally enjoyed both. But that’s just me… and we’re not on RottenTomatoes, so I can say that without fear of digital persecution. Plus, I AM the staff here at Who Asked You?. If someone leaves a comment I don’t like, I can delete it and ban them. Our listeners are all cool though and entitled to their opinion. I wouldn’t do that. Maybe.
Then it’s onto the rather surprising news that Fred Willard, the actor best known for his role in ANCHORMAN as the station manager, Ed Harken, was arrested for allegedly playing with himself in an adult movie theater. During a surprise inspection by police, Willard was apparently discovered with his little Willard hanging out. He says it was just a misunderstanding and that things are being cleared up with the police now. Honestly though, is this that big of a deal? I enjoy Fred’s work. He’s funny. I don’t think any less of him because of this. Every guy spanks it. If they say they don’t, they’re lying, or they’re in a weird cult. Paul Reubens got busted for this very same thing and it didn’t harm those of us who watched Pee-Wee Herman. Plus, Fred’s 78 years-old! Good for him for still being able to get it up!
An actor may not have anonymity in a XXX theater, but they certainly do now on YouTube. It’s parent company, Google has announced a new feature on the site that lets you automatically blur out the faces of everyone in your videos. For now, it is applied to all faces, you can’t select specific people to censor. And the company warns the facial detection system is not perfect. It’s still new, so there may be moments where the blur doesn’t work and somebody could be revealed. So don’t rob a bank and record it with your phone thinking you can blur your face when you post it. Now it’s my hope nobody is that dumb that they’ll rob a bank and put it on YouTube, but we at Who Asked You? do have a feeling that this functionality on the video sharing site will encourage some bad/stupid behavior. It’s already pretty crazy on there now… somebody is going to die doing something they shouldn’t, thinking it’ll be fine because their face will look like they’re on an episode of COPS.
Everything above pales in comparison to this next story. The Bubonic Plague is back! Well, at least one poor guy in Oregon was ‘plagued’ with it after being bitten by his family’s adopted cat. Unfortunately, when antibiotics failed, the diagnosis of Black Death came too late. He’d already suffered the gross side effects of the illness. He’ll be okay, but his fingers and parts of his hands will have to be amputated due to the gangrenous effects the bacteria had on his flesh. There are pictures of him in the Show Links. If you’re squeamish, I wouldn’t click it. But if you’re curious about an infection that wiped out 25-million Europeans in the 1300s, be our guest. You’ll hear our reactions to the photos on today’s show. And wait until you hear the cat’s name! Don’t miss this one.

Who Asked You? – Whack Up
July 9, 2012
If you tuned into the show last week, you may have heard talk of a Jabari-centric spin-off. Well, we give that a go right at the start of today’s show and it gets cancelled faster than a CW sitcom.
In 2012 corporate mergers, buyouts and name changes are the norm… and apparently in the fictional world they happen too. It’s time once again to torture Dennis with more ROBOCOP reboot news. Omni Consumer Products, the company that “built the fucking thing” has undergone a name change. Perhaps they were purchased by another evil corporation in the ROBOCOP universe. The new film will feature a company called OmniCorp. The name was unveiled on a new viral website to promote the movie. Also there you’ll find some teaser images of Robocop’s… shoulder? We’re not quite sure. The link is in the Show Links. Judge for yourself.
Nearly 11,000 people on YouTube agree… a six year-old should not be rapping about poppin’ booties. Apparently little Albert didn’t get the memo. He’s the lad bustin’ a rhyme poolside while suggestively squirting a water canon onto a group of bikini clad chicks. Harmless fun? Horribly inappropriate? We debate this while listening to the song. And you’re welcome to also! Send us an E-Mail with your thoughts.
In case you missed it — like we did — Floyd Mayweather, who was sent to jail for domestic violence, is unhappy in the big house. His lawyers pleaded with a judge to let the boxer finish out his sentence in the comfort of his own big house because jail food doesn’t meet his expectations and neither does the jail’s workout facilities. This story is the subject of another edition of our Get The Fuck Outta Here segment.
A new study finds that a good portion of meat eaters don’t want to date non-meat eaters. Non-meat eaters don’t care so much about dating meat eaters. And most eaters don’t want to date picky eaters. We’ll serve up all the stats.
We end things with ten random factoids to make you the life of any party. Just make sure when you recite one of them you plug our website. This week’s fact selection includes 900 Terabytes of information, a statistic that’ll have you choosing your Facebook friends more wisely, the number of times you’ll indirectly touch someone’s genitals over the course of a year and more!
Dennis celebrates his birthday next week and we’ll be right there along with him. So we’re off next Sunday, but we will be back on July 22nd with more new shows.

Who Asked You? – What’s Good?
July 2, 2012
What’s good? Well, we’ve got a number of things that are, on today’s program and few that aren’t. Most notably… WE ARE ALL BACK!!! It’s been a few months since all five of us hosted the show. Schedules got jumbled, trips were taken; there was always someone missing. But now, with Jabari’s return, the circle is once again complete.
First, the inspiration for this week’s title, a viral video on YouTube called, BEAUTY AND THE BEAT. It’s a rather urban spin on, “Little Town,” the very first song sung in Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Once again we find Belle as a bit of an outcast amongst her neighbors in the sleepy little projects. She makes her way through town as everyone she passes greets her with, “what’s good?” This video is certainly good. You can check it out in the Show Links below.
It’s also good that scientists are keeping an eye on how fast this rock we live on is spinning. Turns out, it’s actually slowing down. As a result, on Saturday they added one-second to the Universal Coordinated Time. They do this so that us normal folks’ clocks stay in tune with atomic clocks and we’re not eating lunch at midnight in 100,000 years.
Take a look at the image above. This is a charcoal filter that adheres to your underwear and filters out the odor of your farts. An E-Mail from a listener brought us this gem. We’ve run across similar products on the show in the past. But these set us off on a hypothetical of where the pads might come in handy best. We think at about 37,000 feet.
What’s NOT good? A new Snoop Dogg movie coming out on DVD tomorrow called, MAC & DEVIN GO TO HIGH SCHOOL. Once you hear the plot, we think you’ll agree. Snoop’s a little old to be playing a high school student. Maybe that’s the joke? Obviously the movie isn’t taking anything seriously. Just wait until you hear the name of the school.
Something else not too good, Foie Gras — fattened goose or duck liver. Not only is this delicacy cruel to the birds, it’s now banned in California for that very reason. Food advocates are going to try and get the law repealed. But as of Sunday, it’s illegal for restaurants in Cali to serve it. I’m going to go on record and say that internal organs of animals should not be eaten. It’s gross. Maybe that’s a bit hypocritical of my to say while jamming a fat hamburger down my gullet, but that’s as far as my meat consumption goes. I’m boring that way. Foie Gras doesn’t even look appetizing. It looks gross and slimy. Do we really need to eat this anyway? And who likes liver? Honestly? That’s our We Ask You Poll this week. Be sure and cast your vote!
What else is good? We’re once again on Jenkem Watch. A flood of fecal related news has been pinched off onto our radar and it’s our doody to bring it to you. There’s quite a mystery to solve at a Dollar General store in Lufkin, Texas where someone pooped on the storeroom floor despite readily available restrooms. There was so much of it, employees believed a large animal had gotten trapped in the room and did the deed. Security camera footage releaved that wasn’t the case. You’ll hear who done it!
This week is Be Nice To New Jersey week. It’s hard not to make a joke about them with stories like this next one. A 72 year-old man was arrested after threatening his neighbor with a gun because the neighbor farted so loud he heard it and smelt it through his apartment wall! The real question here is what in the hell has that guy been eating?
We wipe up Jenkem Watch with a principal in Canada being fired after he failed to stop a shitty prank played on two of his students. While on a canoe trip, an adult chaperone convinced a boy and girl to eat moose poop. How’d he do that? You’ll have to tune-in to find out.
It wasn’t intentional, but this week’s hour skews heavily toward flatulence and shit. Perhaps it’s what’s good? Who knows, maybe it’ll land us a sponsorship with a gas relief or constipation medication.

Who Asked You? – For Fetter Or Worse
June 25, 2012
Most of today’s topics can fall under either the ‘better’ category or the ‘worse’ one. We’ll start with Karen Klein. She’s the old lady on that now infamous YouTube video in which some kids on a school bus tease her until she starts crying. These awful little bastards have since apologized and are getting threats themselves. Things got a lot ‘better’ for Karen though when an IndieGoGo project meant to raise $5,000 to send her on vacation exploded with enough donations she can probably retire today and live out her life comfortably. She’ll soon have over a half-million dollars. No word on what she plans to do with all of it, but on today’s show, you’ll hear what I would do with it if I’d been on that bus in her situation. My actions would be much ‘worse’ than her’s. This whole situation brings up another colorful conversation about whoopin’ your kid’s ass.
You might say things have gotten ‘worse’ for Microsoft. The company, struggling to catch up to Apple when it comes to innovative, cool products that sell like crazy, unveiled their own tablet last week called the Surface. It’s the name originally signed to that big-ass table they showed off some years ago that was meant to be a touch surface computer where you could share photos, videos or if at a restaurant, place your order digitally. Needless to say, the Surface table never really took off, so MS put it into a a tablet slightly larger than the iPad. To their embarrassment, the thing crashed during the presentation and Steve Jobs ghost fell from the rafters from laughing so hard. I’m rootin’ for Microsoft, but it’s really hard to take them seriously when something like this happens. Not to mention, I’m not at all sold on Windows 8 yet.
Over at Adidas, something ‘fetter’ is going on as well. It seems a new shoe inspired by the classic, My Pet Monster toy has sparked some debate. The shoes, like the monster, have bright orange shackles meant to cuff your legs while you wear them. A bunch of people liked them and a bunch of people cried ‘slavery.’ First off, the shoes are ugly, they obviously aren’t something most people would wear daily. Maybe to a costume party? And second, where do we draw the line on what reminds us of slavery? A shoe can’t have a shackle, so then why are scenes of people in shackles aloud on TV and in movies without an uproar? Why are whips sold. What about parents who name their child Tobey? I know this may seem ridiculous, but the question here is what qualifies as ‘too far’ and what doesn’t?
Things certainly aren’t getting ‘better’ for Best Buy. With declining sales, lost revenue, tons of closed stores and layoffs, the company’s founder and its CEO have both stepped down. The new interim boss says changes are coming. They don’t include the obvious solutions which are lower prices and bigger selection (which has gotten awful in the past few years, by the way)… no no, his solution will probably make things ‘worse’ there.
We wrap with the second half of Georgia’s It’s The Law. You’ll learn why you can’t shout, “Oh, boy!” in Jonesboro and about a common sense approach to flooring requirements in adult stores. You ‘better’ not miss this show!

Who Asked You? – Gayality
June 18, 2012
Macs, Madonna, Munsters, milk and moron. Just a few words that sum up today’s show.
We’ll start with Macs. Apple unveiled their new addition to the MacBook Pro line up during the WWDC conference last week. The machine wreaks of typical Apple. New connectors, impossible to upgrade, functionality sacrificed for aesthetics… oh, and as usual, horribly overpriced. They touted its new Retina display that actually doesn’t display at the Retina resolution with most applications. They changed the power port so your old AC supplies won’t work as back ups. They got rid of the Firewire ports, so if you want to use your Firewire devices you’ll have to buy an adapter. There’s also no ethernet port so if you want to hard wire your computer to the Internet, you’ll have to buy an adapter. You also can’t upgrade anything in it or conduct any simple repairs to it yourself. Basically, if you buy one you’ll want to max out all the components at the time of purchase. That’ll set you back nearly $4,000 when you throw in AppleCare (because remember, you can’t repair it yourself. So AppleCare is pretty much a must) and when you add up all the stupid overpriced adapters you’ll need to make it work with your existing devices. There’s more to be said on the show.
Next is Madonna. Evita’s 15th Anniversary Edition DVD is coming out this week. This spawns a conversation about her; the good, bad and ugly moments of her career all led by the recent incident in which she flashed her old-ass boob unnecessarily to a bunch of concertgoers. No wardrobe malfunction here… just one of judgement.
And now Munsters. CNN ticked a bit of news that had me rushing to my laptop for details. THE MUNSTERS reboot is well on its way to pilot. NBC could be picking it up mid-season. Herman, Lily and Grandpa have all been cast and the show is getting renamed to accommodate its new one-hour dramedy format. My god… NBC… I don’t know what to say. Could you dig your hole any deeper?
This brings us to milk. Scientists are always breaking new ground in research. That’s why we have our According To A New Study segment. It examines these experiments, surveys and tests conducted daily around our planet. Costly, time consuming and delicate research on the most important and vital subjects that could ultimately better mankind. Take for instance two studies on beer and porn. The first looks at what scientists are calling a “miracle molecule” found in beer and milk. The molecule, they claim, could reduce your chances of obesity. Did you get that? Drinking beer and milk won’t make you fat… nevermind the beer belly effect. Apparently the molecule is too finite in milk to measure and it’s hard to reproduce. Scientists aren’t even sure how much of it you’d need to consume to benefit from it. So buy some 12-packs of brew and some cartons of milk and start chugging. Let us know how it goes.
The other study involves porn and its effects on one’s state of mind. A new survey has found that watching porn could make you depressed. You’ll hear the reasons why when you tune in.
Our moron is a Swedish resident awarded command of the country’s official Twitter account. Since December, they’ve been allowing a different resident to control the feed for one week. The latest twatter is a 27 year-old mother who has been tweeting her thoughts on a number of things including what a whiny son of a bitch her child is and why a circumcised penis doesn’t necessarily make a guy Jewish. A model representative of Sweden and what it stands for. She also twatted a Photoshopped image of Freddie Mercury eyeing a plate of food which she calls, “Hungry Gay With Aids.” A model representative indeed!

Who Asked You? – Electric Shrapnel Carnival
June 11, 2012
It’s official, having checked the records, this episode to date has the smallest number of official Who Asked You? Crew members ever! We can blame the Electric Daisy Carnival for the absence of Charlie, Jabari and Dennis. But all is well because Mike has returned for this show. And helping us two are our backup hosts, John and Sheena. Too many more sit-ins and I’ll have to put their names in the show’s intro. I still stand by my promise that the five ACTUAL hosts of this program will one day host it together again. It’s been an odd few months, but we’ll get there.
And now onto EDC. John and Sheena attended, but due to an appointment John had with the Clark County courthouse (i.e. jury duty) they elected to skip the final day and instead, provide us with their account of the blazing music and light-filled party. If you’re not a fan of dub step, you might not enjoy EDC as much as you might think as John explains on today’s show.
I went shoe shopping, as I said I would in last week’s show notes. And I noticed something about the shoe selections these days. I share that and brag a little about the ones I did pick up finally. They’re DC Shoes. Yeah, I know, skater shoes… but I have a very logical, if not frugal reason why I wear them.
Believe it or not, there are actual news events for us to discuss. You wouldn’t know it since it takes about 30-minutes before we start in on them; but they are there. First up, a recap of E3! If there’s really anything to recap… I’m lookin’ at you Nintendo. We could spend hours going over the expo with a fine-toothed comb, but we only got one. So we focus on the big three, or rather two-and-a-half. Nintendo left attendees incredibly underwhelmed… again… with an hour long presentation on a game that’s been out for over a year. Then with the unimpressive and quite obvious announcement that they’ve tweaked the Wii U so that it’ll support two of those tablet gamepad controller deals. They STILL didn’t announce a price for the damn thing OR a release date. We do know it’s coming this winter and we do know that Nintendo needs help badly.
Meanwhile, Microsoft didn’t announce a new Xbox — which those of us with common sense knew they wouldn’t — but instead showed off some new games, features and an app to improve the current user experience on the 360. The app is called SmartGlass and it’ll allow you to access extra content on your mobile device that relates to what’s going on on your Xbox at the same time. It may even offer some sort of control functionality from your phone or tablet as well.
And Sony didn’t have a ton of wow factor either. They showcased some new PS3 games and offered up a new game peripheral called Wonderbook that seems to be aimed at the younger crowd. It allows them to basically have an interactive story time with their television.
A nonprofit called Little People of America is ticked off over the casting choices made by Universal Studios in the new SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN film. Full sized actors were chosen to portray the seven dwarfs. I don’t remember a fuss like this being made over THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Many of the actors chosen to play hobbits and the dwarf, Gimli in that trilogy were not little people. They were digitally manipulated to look small as well. Nevertheless, the organization wants Hollywood to try harder at finding dwarf actors to play these ‘small’ parts. More puns where that came from.
We wrap with Breaking News from the east coast where a pastor named Dollar gets arrested for choking his 15 year-old daughter. And a 15 year-old girl in Orlando is forced to change out of her Tinker Bell costume she worked her magic on for months before being allowed to enter Disney World.

Who Asked You? – Spork Use, Number 167
June 4, 2012
I need a new pair of shoes! Yes, once every five years or so when the stars align just right, or the padding on my current pair has worn down so much so that the plastic stiffener along the back is exposed and the insole has been pulverized by my pedestrial-parading, it’s time to pick up a new pair. This has nothing to do with today’s actual episode, but it is an explanation as to why the write up below is brief and less winded than usual. I’m not a fan of the mall, and I want to get in and get out, sooner rather than later. So I’ll be heading there promptly when this is over.
Here’s what’s up… Mike is back in town, but absent from the show since his flight was landing just as we were going on-air. In fact, he calls us during the show. We surmise he needed a ride from the airport and poke a little fun at him. Warming up for his return I suppose. Jabari is still MIA, a few more weeks and he should hopefully be back. Sitting in is another friend of Charlie’s. Her name is Dee.
There are a ton of uses for a spork. You’ll hear the 167th during the new releases segment courtesy of Dee. It involves that boring-ass show CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
Then it’s onto news that Arsenio Hall will likely be returning to late-night TV in the near future. Nothing official yet, but he’s in negotiations with CBS to do another syndicated talk show. We’re wondering if you’ll be tuning in to watch? Vote on the We Ask You Poll and tell us.
And then there’s some gay comic news. I’m not using the word in a derogatory fashion… it’s literally gay news. Marvel has a gay wedding coming up in a June issue of one of their X-Men comics and DC announced just in the past week that Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern from the 1940s will be outed this month in the “new 52″ series of comics DC hopes will reinvigorate interest in their older heroes. Of course, the conservative Christian stick-in-the-muds are complaining that comics are no place to promote gay lifestyles. Publishers are just trying to reflect current times and say a gay comic character is not going to turn a reader homosexual so these bitches should just stop bitching.
We also bring you another installment of It’s The Law. It’s been awhile, we’re down to less than ten states. Georgia is this week’s pick. They’ve got so many dumb laws, just like Texas, we’re breaking it up into two parts; maybe three. After all, we only made it to cities that start with ‘C’.
And we grade a story out of Phoenix, Arizona where an elementary school teacher enraged a mother after giving her daughter a “Catastrophe Award” for the most excuses as to why her homework was never done. The mother wants disciplinary action taken against the third grade teacher. Clearly the mom should stop spending time arguing with her kid’s teacher and more time making sure her 8 year-old is doing her damned homework!
There you go… I’m off to the mall to buy my Vans. I’ll be steering clear of the food court, unless I find an ingenious use for a spork on the way.

Who Asked You? – Peni With Meat Sauce
May 28, 2012
What a diverse, multi-cultural, multi-lifestyle show we have for you today. We start in the south where a rapper named Krispy Kreme is making his way around YouTube. We play some of his music and debate whether he’s for real, or just messin’ with everyone. I’m the only one in the group who believes he’s putting on an act. You can judge for yourself when you hear his mad rhymes done with a southern drawl.
For the first time in our history, Charlie wore shorts to the program. He had just come from an LGBT pool party at the Luxor and was introduced to a rather revealing type of swimwear. I’ll let him explain it. Charlie went with his friend Will, who’s sat in on the show before. He’s the musician known as wonkknow. Although straight, Charlie said he had a really good time. He added everyone was really nice… and in shape.
Then we’re off to Colorado where a white second grade student was assigned a project on Martin Luther King Jr. and decided to dress up as the civil rights leader. The problem… he wore black face. A staff member at the school was offended and complained and the boy was asked to leave. Both he and his parents couldn’t understand why. The school kept saying students were also offended, but the complaint doesn’t mention them. Just that staffer. This is a tough one. Clearly the boy didn’t mean any disrespect. He wanted to dress up for the assignment and his parents just wanted him to get a good grade. Should they have known better? Being a small child, does he need to know the significance of black face? Should the teacher have known better than to assign this to him? Was it appropriate under these cercumstances? There are a shit ton of questions here. We’d love your opinion on the matter as well. Cast your vote on the We Ask You Poll and send us an E-Mail with your thoughts for next week’s show.
For those who have an active lifestyle at night, you may wanna hear this next story. A new app designed to help you find an age and gender appropriate bar is being tested out in San Francisco. The watering hole installs a camera that takes your picture as you enter the door. It uses sophisticated software algorithms known as ‘biometrics’ to determine your gender and age just by measuring different distances on your face. It then beams that data to any smartphone with the app installed. You can then look and see if your favorite bar is full of dudes or has just the right balance of sexes and whether or not the majority of them are your age. Accusations of privacy violations are already flying. The makers say no personal data is stored. But, this is just the beginning. With facial recognition software, this could quickly change.
Finally, we do a little multi-cultural dining at the Who Asked You? Cafe. Starting off in Naples, Italy where police there believe an underground coffin-theft ring is in the works. Pizzerias are apparently buying dug up wooden coffins and using them to fuel their pizza ovens. Now, if you’ve ever had wood fired pizza, you know it’s damn tasty. But pizza cooked on moldy wood with the scent of rotting corpse on it?
I’d rather eat that I suppose than this next dish. To Tokyo, Japan we go were a popular chef there who suffers from gender identity issues not only had his package removed, but he also cooked it and served it to five crazy fucking wackos who paid him $250 a plate! We were once told by comedian, Clayton Fletcher that we talk about dicks a lot… this conversation is no exception. If you’re curious about this (the story, not the actual taste of cooked human penis) you can read about it and see pictures of the dish in the Show Links.
So there you have, a deep south white rapper, gay pool parties, black face, authentic dead body-smoked pizzas and literal dick eating.

Who Asked You? – Hits For Hitler
May 21, 2012
Cookie Monster turns 43 years-old this Friday. Dennis took the opportunity when this came up to tell us about his favorite all-time clip of the SESAME STREET staple. This is just one of many items on the to-do list for this week’s program.
We’re fresh from our panel at the OkamiCon convention. To help us convey the fun we have on the show Stephanie Payne and Julie Priest from V.A.G.I.N.A. once again. That’s double the V.A.G. and a Who Asked You? first! We’ve never had two chicks on at once. They also had a panel at the con. Be sure to check out some pictures from the event on our Facebook page!
And in other awesome news, the opening weekend for BATTLESHIP here in North America has been described as ‘disappointing’. Opening in over 3,600 locations, the film took in less than $7,000 per theater. Giant robot aliens don’t work in a movie about a board game that had nothing to do with giant robot aliens… who’da thunk it?
Most of this episode is TV/movie news. Every so often we like to get back to our roots and focus on such things. This typically happens when there’s enough stories within that genre to get us fired up. For example, Cartoon Network made a few announcements last week regarding their programming. They’re bringing back a fan favorite to Adult Swim… Toonami! It returns this Saturday. And THE BOONDOCKS will return for a fourth season. No official date is set. I do hope though that it’s better than season three. And even more news from the Turner-owned network; they’ve greenlit a HAROLD & KUMAR animated series featuring the voices of the actors from the films.
We also talk about, somewhat briefly, the return of the ‘movie’ movie guys, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. They’re working on a spoof of THE HUNGER GAMES. Like their other masterpieces… well, pieces of something anyway… it’ll spoof a number of current blockbuster films.
And Frank Miller will have another giant-ass royalty check rolling in before too long as his SIN CITY prequel, SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR will receive the movie treatment. It’s do out late 2013. Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba are set to reprise their roles. Robert Rodriguez will direct.
And with all this TV and movie talk, we should warn you about the new FBI warnings on all new DVDs and Blu-rays. They started rolling out the un-skippable screens last week. Included in the new warnings are a badge from Homeland Security and the seal from some long-winded center that apparently keeps track of piracy on the tax payer’s dime. Oh yeah, and they also suggest a website you can visit that explains why downloading movies illegally can harm the entire economy, not just Hollywood… yeah, we’ll all check that site out straight away.
We finish up the show with news of a guy stabbing his computer with a Samurai sword, but more importantly, Hitler’s medical records. It seems his six physicians were interrogated back in the mid 1940′s regarding the Nazi leader’s health. The documents were recently auctioned off and reveal why he was so angry. He suffered from a laundry list of ailments including the early stages of Parkinson’s and uncontrollable flatulence. Must’ve been all that Bratwurst. It’s no secret Hitler was a piece of shit, so why not make fun of his sinus condition they treated with a cocaine hit. Hey that rhymed!

Who Asked You? – Unkempt Travolta
May 14, 2012
Have you ever wondered how much it’d cost to build the Death Star from STAR WARS? What about the cost of a five-year mission aboard the starship Enterprise? Well among a great many things, I wonder this myself and now we have some answers. Today’s show is scratch-skewed as we analyze a few costly events from film and TV.
First, as mentioned, we look at the estimated cost of building the Death Star. Students at Lehigh University were able to calculate the price tag for just the steel needed for a moon-sized space vessel and it is NOT cheap. And since we’ve got just as many STAR TREK fans (including myself) I looked into the cost of the Enterprise. I’ve wondered for a long time what it would take to build the NCC-1701, and I’ll have to keep wondering as there is no definitive total yet. Someone who majors in finances should sit down and come up with a figure. The closest I could find is what it might cost for Captain Kirk’s original mission. That ain’t cheap either. And if tax payers were footing the bill, we’d all be putting in around $35,000. Tune in for the astronomical price tags on these astronomical vehicles.
If you’re like me, when watching the destruction of a major metropolitan area during the climactic scene of any given blockbuster feature, you may ponder random thoughts of the paper work involved after the dust settles. How do you explain to your boss an alien picked up the taxi you were driving and threw it down the street? Or, Iron Man punched straight through your office building while punching a slobbering creature in the face… do you show up for work the next day? There’s nothing left of your desk, or anyone else’s. These are the things I briefly consider during movies. And thanks to The Hollywood Reporter and the Kinetic Analysis Corporation, we now know what the bill is for the battle seen at the end of THE AVENGERS. It too is out of this world. But the real question is who would pay for it? New York tax payers? US tax payers? FIMA? It’s anyone’s guess. Good thing it’s not real.
We do know one thing, S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn’t be on the hook since it’s a government agency. Or is it? This lack of clarification led our real-life US government to back out of participating in the film. Ordinarily Uncle Sam has no problem providing jets, personnel and consultation to Hollywood when a scene calls for it. I bet Michael Bay is super chummy with the guys that take video of the Pentagon. But the ambiguous nature of S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to have frightened the powers in Washington. I wonder why?
And we’re not done with THE AVENGERS just yet. Change.org is once again making our radar as a stick-in-the-mud has created a petition demanding an apology from Marvel over the adoption joke Thor makes during the movie. The Who Asked You? Crew found the joke funny and not at all offensive; but none of us are adopted, right? WRONG! Dennis is adopted and he wasn’t bothered by the joke at all. The petitioner believes the joke in which Black Widow points out Loki killed eighty people in two days and Thor, his brother, simply replies, “He’s adopted,” makes it sound as though all adopted children turn out bad. I didn’t interpret the joke that way at all. I saw it as simply Thor pointing out that ‘hey, we’re not related. Don’t put that on my blood line.’ Still, some may not have liked it, and that may include you. It’s our We Ask You Poll this week. Cast your vote now!
With all this money talk, we couldn’t leave out the $2-million lawsuit filed against actor, John Travolta by two different male masseurs. They both want the big bucks claiming the PULP FICTION star fondled them and even masturbated in front of them. This shit isn’t true at all, but we have a good laugh at the overly-descriptive court documents. Like the description of Travolta’s pubes, this show is wiry and unkempt. Then again, most of our shows are at least the latter.

Who Asked You? – What About Ant-Man?
May 7, 2012
What’s this? A podcast with a review of THE AVENGERS? WOW!!! Nobody else is doing this! This is amazing! And sarcasm is complete. Actually, given we have a reputation of being cynical and hating everything, you might be interested to hear yet another review of this marvel. Notice I didn’t capitalize the ‘M’? I was using it as an adjective. This film was great! Tons of action, fair amounts of screen time for all the characters, great story, nice one-liners… the list goes on and on. In fact, the absence of Ant-Man is probably one of the only complaints made within the Who Asked You? Crew. I’m sure they’ll be introducing him in a future sequel. After all, according to IMDb he’s got his own movie due out in 2014. Just in time for an AVENGERS sequel me thinks.
We don’t spend the entire show gabbing about Captain America and friends. There are a quadrillion other podcasts already doing that. Plus, there’s other movie news to attend to. Cue that cynicism I mentioned earlier. It’s been confirmed Alex Kurtzmen and Roberto Orci (the guys behind writing TRANSFORMERS and STAR TREK) will be rebooting Universal’s THE MUMMY and VAN HELSING. The only detail known so far is that Tom Cruise will play Professor Abraham van Helsing. There was talk of Guillermo del Toro directing, but it’s sounding like that’s not gonna happen.
Meanwhile, Hulu is shooting itself in the foot with the announcement that in the coming years, if you want to use the free side of their site, you’ll have to prove you’re a pay TV subscriber by signing in with your account number from said cable company. It’s unclear if this will work with satellite customers too. The change in direction prompted the only non-TV backer to pull out of the partnership. Providence Equity Partners has washed their hands of Hulu, perhaps sensing this could blow up in the streamer’s face? This is all happening for no other reason than greed and old fashioned thinking. The heads at both networks and cable operators still refuse to accept that their business models are out of date and no longer apply. On the other hand, you can buy a Hulu Plus subscription for around $8 and that coupled with a Netflix sub and decent broadband Internet, you’re still coming out cheaper than a mid-range, decent cable package.
In the interest of timing, since we spent so much of it on THE AVENGERS, we forego a story teased at the top of the show about tipping and stick with online streaming movies and such as our theme. A story from TheVerge.com is claiming that a new cell phone-like plan may be in the works from Microsoft that would allow you to buy an Xbox 360 for just $99! There’s just one thing… you gotta commit to a two-year contract at $15 a month for an Xbox Live Gold membership to get the deal. This is an attempt by Microsoft to simply get more Xbox’s in more living rooms. Oh, there’s one other catch too. It’s sounding like it’ll only be available at Microsoft Stores. Microsoft has their own stores?
Maybe I’d have heard of their stores if they offered services like the vendor in our last story. In New York, a woman has been arrested for the second time for offering prostitution services along with her sales of hot dogs. Think of the bottomless puns she has to work with on her marketing! Based out of a camper, where she also performed sex acts in the past, she sold a couple of frankfurters to an undercover cop, then asked if she could fondle his for a mere $50. The mother of four is said, by neighbors, to wonder around in her panties during the summer and to be quote, “disgusting”. The real question here is who the hell buys a hot dog from someone in a camper? We end the show with some good name options for a food truck that might offer this naughty value menu and a few final thoughts on THE AVENGERS.

Who Asked You? – Super Jesus Kung Fu Activate
April 30, 2012
Hot girls have problems too; so says a new song making its viral rounds on YouTube. The singers, shallow whores, as described by Charlie, audibly abuse our ears as they explain their plight of being hot and the tribulations that go with such a curse. The song isn’t all that hot though. It’s poorly mixed, horribly sung and has surpassed Rebecca Black’s, Friday as the worst song ever! You can check out the music video for it (equally terrible) in our Show Links.
As you’ll hear on today’s episode, it’s not just hot girls that have problems. Other folks do too, including yours truly. I have a problem with all the people who carry around Canon 5D Mark II DSLR cameras and think they’re filmmakers because of that. I attended the National Association of Broadcasters convention and couldn’t help but notice how Canon has become the Apple of the video production world. Overpriced, over hyped, and not necessarily any better than other options out there. Since this show isn’t really about video production or the gear used within it, I’ll leave it there before your eyes glaze over.
Another person with serious problems is Mel Gibson. He has, once again, been recorded having a cuss-filled tantrum. The teenage son of a screenwriter is to thank for this entertainment. He whipped out his iPhone and recorded Gibson going to town on his dad for not finishing the script to a movie in which the LETHAL WEAPON actor is supposed to star. What makes this even funnier, is the meltdown takes place just before a dinner party with other guests and their children present. I play some of the highlights from it for all of our amusement.
Hot chicks wanting to travel the world could quickly have problems thanks to a new online dating/travel website. MissTravel.com helps pretty ladies who can’t afford to see the world link up with rich lonely fellows as traveling companions. The one-percent spring for all expenses, and in exchange they get some arm candy for their trip. The website says to use the service with caution because they don’t perform ANY background checks on ANY members. Sounds completely safe to me.
And there’s heart problems for a woman in our Breaking News segment this week. She collapsed while eating a Double Bypass Burger at The Heart Attack Grill. As I state at the top of the show, this place is in the news so much and blips our show’s radar so often, it may need its own segment. This incident occurs less than two months after another patron there dropped to the ground from a heart attack. Both he and the woman are expected to recover. But blame is once again flying as idiots point their stupid fingers at the restaurant. It is, after all, America. In this country it’s always someone else’s fault. You got a problem with that?

Who Asked You? – Maid In The USA
April 16, 2012
We’ve got several things on today’s show that come from right here in the USA… including the show itself! But you probably already knew that.
Special guest-host, Stephanie Payne from V.A.G.I.N.A. joins us to talk about the AFAN Aids Walk fundraiser that took place here in Las Vegas. As far as I know, Stephanie was ‘made’ in the USA.
Then in our Calendar segment Husband Appreciation Day on Friday the 20th, spawns a rather interesting debate on just how many holidays are devoted to men and how many are for women. The chat room gets involved, there’s some disagreement… good fun. Charlie hates the Calendar segment altogether, but this is why I do it! Dialogue!
Something else made in America… THE SIMPSONS. The show’s creator, Matt Groening, finally gave away the location of his Springfield. He told Smithsonian Magazine it’s based on the Springfield he lived near in Oregon. Everyone in the room is in agreement that this little secret DID NOT need to be revealed. That was part of the charm of the animated Springfield; we didn’t know where the heck it was! But now we do… honestly though, who watches THE SIMPSONS anymore? You all know our opinion on the show, so we’ll move right along.
This is definitely made in the USA… Hollywood to be exact… although we wish it weren’t. The new SHORT CIRCUIT remake is well underway. Its director, Tim Hill, says Johnny 5 will get a meaner, more modern makeover. Apparently he was too lovable and cute in the first two films. Which… was… what… made Johnny 5 so interesting. Number 5 will take inspiration from current computer design and unmanned drones. Will he be visiting Afghanistan too?
The USA has no shortage of stupid studies. There are diseases to cure, alternative fuel sources to find… but naw, lets figure out if drinking a lot of beer makes you smarter.
We also have the results to a study done here in the USA that makes an alarming connection between the number of Wal-Marts and the number of hate groups in a given community. The study found that the more of these stores there are, the more hate groups there will be. Tune-in to hear researchers’ reasons why this could be and decide if you agree or if they’re just picking on Wal-Mart.
And we’ve got some maids in the USA. Naked ones! A new nude maid service in Lubbock, Texas is raising the eyebrows (among other things, I’m sure) of local law enforcement. The owner claims she runs a maid service. The city says it’s an adult business and she needs to pay for the proper permits. We’ll be the judge of this and you can too!
And lastly, an invention of the USA… 3D re-releases of movies you’ve already seen. In this case, it’s TITANIC 3D and the lack of tit in the Chinese version. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television believes seeing Kate Winslet’s tatas in three dimensions may lead some viewers to reach out and try to touch them. And that could in turn annoy others in the theater that aren’t stupid and know it’s just a movie. Is this a genuine concern by the government? Or just further censorship of their media? We discuss it briefly before we too are shut off and ca………

Who Asked You? – Ghostface Fillah
April 9, 2012
As indicated with our title this week, the show has both a mention of rapper Ghostface Killah and contains a bit of filler. Or ‘fillah’ for the sake of a rhyme. Dennis, who had been partyin’ hard with family for Easter got a little tipsy, and as a result is somewhat quieter than usual on the program. Without his nuggets of knowledge and opinion a void is left in the hour that must be filled. Luckily we do so. Not as smoothly, I must admit, as in the past. Here’s how it breaks down this week.
Get ready for another integrated Bowel Movement. After our discussion on EPISODE 200 – FROM BACK TO FRONT, regarding the various techniques of wiping one’s arse, I came across a product that could unify us all in this matter. It’s called the Comfort Wipe. It’s a plastic wand with a gripper on the end that holds your wad of toilet paper. You’ll hear the commercial on the show explain the many advantages to using this $20 device. Throw in our classic Bowel Movement theme and it’s a trip down memory lane. If you’ve never heard these brief podcasts, just search our site for “The Bowel Movement” to find these past gems complements of Dennis.
Then it’s onto the Calendar where we celebrate Bat Appreciation Week, New Releases where we forget Margaret Thatcher’s name, call on the ErrorFM chat room for help and then the results to last week’s ‘We Ask You Poll’ regarding Michael Bay’s changing of the Ninja Turtles origin story.
Uwe Boll, the German movie director that many consider the worst in the world is being sued by a producer from one of his latest films. I present a Chase’s Challenge to everyone not so much to see if they can guess what he’s being sued for but more so just to hear a rapid-fire list of Uwe Boll jokes.
Charlie loses his mind on the next story. It’s the subject of Get The Fuck Outta Here, our segment where Joe Pesci does the honors of telling some person, place or thing to do just that. These stories are absurd. After hearing them you literally recite the famous Pesci line involuntarily. The school system in New York is retracting a moronic list of banned words from tests that they pulled out of their asses. Backlash from parents seemed to be brutal and swift. And with good reason. They wanted to remove words like birthday, dinosaurs, Halloween, junk food and more from all standardized tests. They sent the list of fifty words to the various publishers of these tests. Tune in and hear other words and phrases they wanted removed in an ongoing attempt to pussify our nation’s youth further than they already have been.
Did you know that Encyclopedia Britannica is still in business? Did you know up until 2010 they were still making physical books? Well now you do. You shoulda looked it up. They announced however, that they are ceasing their print editions in favor of digital interactive content through their website and apps. Apparently the free Wikipedia has caught up to them. Although you’ll still have to pay to access a lot of Britannica’s content, at least you know what you’re reading is true and not written by some vindictive contributor that Wikipedia just hasn’t caught yet. This begins our first chunk of fillah in which we review an old commercial for the encyclopedias in an attempt to learn how much they cost.
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES is returning to MTV in the form of, HIP HOP SQUARES. It’ll be a new take on the game show featuring musicians, athletes and MTV personalities in the tic-tac-toe boxes instead of Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried and the like. Among those chosen to appear, Nick Cannon… of course… rappers, Biz Markie, Fat Joe and Ghostface Killah — all of which I’m too white to pronounce correctly. And Pittsburgh Steelers’ linebacker, Lemarr Woodley to name a few.
This cues our second chunk of fillah where we think back to the last time we watched MTV. For me, it was THE REAL WORLD: NEW ORLEANS. Immediately, Dennis remembers the guy on that season that sang that stupid song, “Come And Be My Baby Tonight”. To YouTube we go for that and a rather uninteresting clip of a fight between him and some other chick in the house.
In Breaking News we have a story involving a horrid injury during a couple’s spat that’ll send a chill down any man’s spine. Followed by more filler from the chat room about another couple’s spat resulting in possible cannibalism. I make the comment that I sometimes worry we may run out of things to talk about on the show, but when I come across stories like these and with a little assistance from the chat room, clearly I have nothing to worry about.

Who Asked You? – Shell Shocked
April 2, 2012
I can’t think of a better way to kick off our 200′s than with our April Fool’s Day show. The wonderful thing about Who Asked You? is that most of our stories from any given episode sound like they could be a joke. That’s why our April Fool’s show is so easy to put together. And that’s why it’s so hard for the guys to figure out what’s real and what’s not. I thought this year’s show would be rather easy to figure out. Boy was I wrong. The guys are each fooled multiple times. This made me very happy. I stuck in a fake DVD that IS NOT coming out on Tuesday. Can you guess which one? The fellas couldn’t!
Now, our first story of the show is all true. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have included such an easy one on the April Fool’s episode, but this could not be ignored. It of course, is the news that Michael Bay is turning the Teenage MUTANT Ninja Turtles into aliens in his new live-action movie. You’ve no doubt heard about this already. By all accounts, we really wish this were an April Fool’s prank. And so does a good portion of the Internet. Bay made the announcement at a Nickelodeon presentation and the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook and most other website errupted with hatred and rage. The backlash was so bad, Bay had to make an official announcement on his website. Anytime you have to make an announcement because your target audience hates your script idea before the script is even finished, means you should rethink your idea. But no! Not Michael Bay. He’s pushing forward and simply telling everyone to “chill”. Meanwhile, Hollywood politics are in full effect as voice actors from the previous films take either the fans’ side or Bay’s side. Basically, the ones looking to score a voice gig on the project are the ones buttering up Bay.
Once we’re warmed up, it’s time to really get the foolery going. Keep in mind, one, some or all of these stories may or may not be real. No cheating! News has come down that movie theaters are mad 3D didn’t take off the way they thought it would. Awww, you mean most sane people didn’t want to cough up $17 to wear a giant pair of plastic glasses that blurs and desaturates the screen? Who’da thunk it? So, their plan is to level off the ticket prices. In other words, lower the price of a 3D ticket and raise the price of the 2D one. They’ll meet somewhere in the middle meaning we’ll all have to pay even more to see a crappy remake, sequel or comic book adaptation. Orrrrr will we?
Streaming video is apparently growing in popularity and in price. We enjoyed the killer deal from Netflix for far too long… as part of an effort to pay their bills and pay for production of exclusive content, the monthly price for their streaming only service is nearly doubling later this year. Or is it? Yeah it is. Or maybe not.
This next story had the entire Who Asked You? Crew fooled. It was announced this week that a TWINS sequel is in the works. This was the 1988 film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito find out they’re long lost brothers and classic 80′s comedy ensues. The director of the first one, Ivan Reitman, will produce this sequel. Here’s the part that swayed the guys’ opinion of whether this was for real or not… The story will apparently center on a triplet played by Eddie Murphy. April Fools? Perhaps… what did Dennis, Mike and Charlie choose? Find out by listening in.
And lastly, does it sound like an April Fool’s joke that a gas station is offering self-serve beer on tap? What if I told you for about $3 plus the price of the beer, you could buy a 64-ounce growler and fill ‘er up while filling your tank? Do you think I’m foolin’ you on this one? I just might be. After all, it’s illegal in most, if not all states to have an open alcohol container in your car. I’m sure a Solo lid with a red straw sticking out of it doesn’t count as unopened. How could this possibly be legal? Is this possibly real? Take your best guess on this one. Join in the fun for our April Fool’s edition of the show and see how many you guess right and how many the gents got as well.

Who Asked You? – From Back To Front
March 19, 2012
It’s our 200th episode!!! Congratulations to, umm… us!!! Yay!!! We’re trying something a little different this week. Instead of preparing a huge elaborate show/celebration, we went low-key and didn’t plan a damned thing. That’s why there are no Show Links or New Releases listed below. We’ll return to our regular format next time. I was a little apprehensive. No, scratch that… I was incredibly apprehensive about doing a show with no pre-planned topics or segments. But as you’ll discover, there was nothing for me to worry about. I should’ve known better. Especially after 200 shows. We have the gift of gab. We are chiefs of chat, bosses of blather, masters of the yak if you will. Filling an hour with random conversation is beyond second nature to us.
A whole spectrum of topics awaits you. For starters, Charlie throws out a random shout out which ends as abruptly as it begins. Then it’s onto a couple of E-Mails (the only predetermined part of this episode). This is where the randomitity picks up. More random than that word I just created. Charlie shares several short stories with us from being kicked out of a parking lot by a scary Russian guy, to mistaking Australian people for British people while doing his stand-up. This then leads to a critique of Pippa Middleton’s forehead.
Why not throw in a random movie review of JOHN CARTER while we’re at it? That’s thrown off by an announcement from Arnold Schwarzenegger that he’s pregnant. Which then turns our attention to Snooki. Charlie asks nicely to change the subject within a matter of seconds, so we do.
I could sit here and write out every thing that comes up and why, but that’s really for you to find out by listening to the show. I don’t want to spoil the fun. Listen in and find out why I’m posing the way I am in the photo above. Hear more of our thoughts on Apple’s new iPad, what we had for breakfast, Jennifer Garner’s career, the return of ‘The Bowel Movement’ and lots lots more. Hopefully this’ll all hold you over for a couple of weeks. We’ll be off next Sunday, but our April Fool’s show returns on the 1st and we’ve got new shows for the whole month!
Thanks to everyone for listening and showing your support… here’s to another 200!

Who Asked You? – Master Of Segues
March 12, 2012
The show before our 200th brings the return of Dennis, but now Jabari is out. Sitting in for him is our good friend Sheena Johnson. It’s nice to get a female perspective from time to time on the show. So what might Sheena be offering her thoughts on along side us this week?
First off is the news of Apple unveiling their new iPad called The New iPad. The biggest improvement on the thing is its Retina display. It’s still incredibly overpriced (standard practice for all things Apple), it still has no USB ports and it’s horribly uncomfortable to use for extended periods of time. Even Dennis, our resident Apple apologist isn’t impressed with the third generation tablet. Two years ago I would’ve called Dennis our resident ‘fan boy’ in that sentence. But even he is having a hard time getting on board with some of Apple’s recent decisions. Primarily the one to move away from desktop computers. Being someone who comes from broadcasting, Apple confused me with their decision to turn their highly successful Final Cut Pro video editing software into nothing more than a glorified app. They want broadcast editors to start editing with their fingers! On a 10-inch screen! Yeaaahhh… that’s not going over well. More of our thoughts on the new… err, I mean The New iPad on this show.
I impress Charlie — no easy feat I might add — with my broadcaster segue skills as we transition from the DVD segment, to last week’s poll results. As the producer, it’s my job to try and smoothly transition us from topic to topic. And on a show where we go from talking about a man with a DIY sperm bank to cakes being frosted with poop, that’s no easy task. That’s why when I saw that THE KILLING’s first season was coming to DVD, I had to put it at the end of the list. It’s star, Joel Kinnaman, was the subject of the ‘We Ask You Poll’. Perfect! The poll, which asked your opinion of Kinnaman landing the role of Robocop, gave Dennis a chance to offer his thoughts on one of his favorite films getting rebooted since he was absent last week. Find out what other sci-fi travesty with which he compares it.
Fox has confirmed they’re canceling their dino-drama TERRA NOVA after just one season. The big budget, Spielberg-produced series about a group of people that travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs to save humanity and its future garnered pretty decent ratings, but the raptors in suits at Fox didn’t seem impressed. They’d rather stick with tired, worn out shows like THE SIMPSONS or programs that should’ve never been created in the first place like the NAPOLEON DYNAMITE cartoon. Because of its respectable following all around the world, Fox says they’ll offer TERRA NOVA to other networks before completely pulling the plug. Don’t hold your breathe though.
Perhaps they could strike a deal with Netflix since the streaming media company can’t seem to do so with cable operators. It was revealed last week that Netflix was trying to partner with cable giants like Comcast and Time Warner to package their service with premium cable tiers. But before they even pulled up chairs to the negotiating table, Comcast shot ‘em down. It recently launched its Streampix service on Xfinity. And Dish Network is working on a similar on-demand deal with Blockbuster. Meanwhile, Verizon has struck a deal with Redbox to do their own streaming offerings as well. Looks like nobody wants to play with Netflix. Which is fine, all they gotta do is keep their prices low, continue to grow their titles and for god sake… get 5.1 surround sound working! Then I think they’ll be just fine. Especially if they find a way to do even higher quality and faster streams.
Another story of note, IKEA is going to start selling houses. Insert flimsy, missing parts and/or collapsing joke here. But don’t rush to judgment just yet. The pre-fabricated houses are actually being designed and built by a company called Ideabox. And, unlike that shaky coffee table held together by three tiny wooden dowels, the homes arrive fully assembled! As you’ll hear, the guys are not as forgiving as I am. Sure, the places look like sheds with sliding glass doors, but the insides are nice… in the photos… despite being furnished by IKEA……. I think it’s time for another of my genius segues. See ya next week for our 200th show!!!

Who Asked You? – Charles DeLong Academy For The Gifted
March 5, 2012
It’s dump on Dennis day here at Who Asked You? HQ. That may sound like a celebration from our ‘Calendar’ segment, but sadly, it’s not recognized by any government, group or organization… just the co-hosts of this show. Dennis is absent from our studio do to some food poisoning that required him to be near a toilet. But he’s with us in spirit… and in the ErrorFM chat room! We spend the first few minutes of the netcast poking fun at our pal’s poop predicament and then it’s down to business… poking fun at everything else.
First a couple of past due E-Mails. Thanks to a recent server change, which I had to find out for myself and was never informed about until the inboxes quit working, we have two messages that fell through the cracks. The first brings us a list of the most manly names out there that are actually real people! The other revisits the story we did about Pizza Hut offering weddings on Valentine’s Day for $10,000 with an alternate location just as pathetic to host your special day.
As you’ve probably noticed, we sometimes like to get warmed up with a few stories out of Tinseltown. First up, news of a sequel to THE MUPPETS film from last year. It was a success and Charlie says it followed the Muppet movie formula, so another feature with Jim Henson’s characters is no surprise. After all, the characters are already created, there’s a simple template for lazy writers to follow. And the budget is big enough to hire a couple of big names to interact with Kermit and friends. Hollywood is good at taking things already created and recreating them. And by good… I mean bad.
There’s another classic getting the reboot treatment. We knew it was coming and it’s probably better Dennis wasn’t in the studio to hear it. He probably would’ve slit Jabari’s throat (he sits the closest to Dennis). The director of the new ROBOCOP has found his Alex Murphy in actor, Joel Kinnaman. Nothing against the guy, but he looks like he should be posing in a catalog, not a cybernetic cop costume. The director, José Padilha explains that his reimagining of the film will focus on the time between when Murphy got riddled with bullets and when he goes on duty as Robocop. He wants to explore the transition from man to machine. And we want to explore the transition to the next story.
If ever Charles DeLong were to run his own school the way Charles Xavier did in the X-Men comics, he would probably have math problems very similar to those we tell you about on today’s show. Here’s the deal… a teacher in Washington DC got fired after assigning some math problems to his third grade class he printed out from a home schooling website. Sounds fairly harmless right? Don’t forget, this is math class, Charlie-style. The website, homeschooling-paradise.com features a rather unorthodox style of teaching arithmatic known as the ‘Singapore Math Method’. The nearest I can tell, it’s a style of problem solving that uses real life like situations. The difference here is that the site seems to be attempting to hold the kids’ attention by making the problems gross, morbid and just twisted. They are funny as shit… but the parents of the third graders at the Trinidad Charter School didn’t think so. Get a load of this question on a third grade worksheet: Brian, a brave member of a SWAT team in California, had a terribly busy week last week. He had to work for 7 whole days. He killed 163 terrorists, 296 murderers and 206 arsonists. How many criminals did he kill on average each day? After solving this one, the teacher would then lead the class in a rendition of “America, Fuck Yeah”. You can read more awesome equations like this one by visiting the Home Schooling Paradise website in our Show Links.
We’ve now got just nine states left in our ‘It’s The Law’ segment. Washington has one of the most peculiar laws we’ve EVER heard since starting this bit. Charlie calls it out. Be sure to stay tuned for it and many more.
Lastly, breaking news from China as an eldery woman sort of dies, then comes back to life and is forced to climb out of her own coffin! You don’t wanna miss this one. Given what her neighbors did to all of her stuff, per Chinese tradition, she might have just stayed in the box.

Who Asked You? – Ferengi Face
February 27, 2012
Some might say we’re a little TMZ-ish at the start of today’s show. I for one, absolutely loath shows like that. Once you hear what the subject matter is, you’ll understand why it made our radar. Singer Rihanna is quote/un-quote, back together again with her facial reconstruction lover, Chris Brown. The buzz is that they’re just working on some songs together, but now there’s rumors they’re a couple once more. Either way, why in the fuck would she want to be around him? Does she have a fetish for biting? It’s not like she’s hurtin’ for money. I don’t care how big the check is, if you made me look like — in Dennis’ words — a Ferengi from STAR TREK and bit the shit outta me… I ain’t working with you. And I sure as hell wouldn’t return to any sort of romantic relationship.
Anyway, that’s the ACCESS HOLLYWOOD part of the show. We then switch gears to being ESPN-ish with news that Ben & Jerry’s made what some might consider a racial faux-pas when mixing up their newest frozen yogurt flavor to celebrate New York Knicks’ player, Jeremey Lin. It was only being sold in the Boston area where Lin went to college. But now everyone knows about it. You’d think after the ESPN “Chink In The Armor” headline debacle of last week, companies would be treading carefully on the ‘Lin-sanity’ front. Someone at the ice cream giant thought it’d be a good idea to crumble fortune cookies in the celebratory flavor. Out of all the ingredients you can put in yogurt, they chose fortune cookies? Now, in full disclosure, I’m a huge ice cream junkie. Love it! And Ben & Jerry’s is my favorite brand out there. So I’m going to defend them to a certain extent on this. I don’t think they meant anything by it. They were probably going for that ‘good fortune’ element rather than, ‘he’s Asian, lets crumble fortune cookies on top because chow mein would be gross in ice cream.’ After all, if you wanna get technical about it, fortune cookies are actually an American invention. Not to mention, Ben and Jerry are two pretty liberal guys and probably didn’t have anything to do with it anyway. The flavor was created at a specific scoop shop. But again, looking at the recent pun-filled controversies flooding the web, there should’ve been a little more care taken when choosing a cookie to crush on top. Why not just do a sweet swirl of honey and a sour swirl of… err uhh, scratch that. Moving on…
The Razzie nominations are out, and some records were set. Mainly by one particular actor. I pose a ‘Chase’s Challenge’ to the guys to see if they can figure out who it is. Dennis does so, right off the bat… he cheated though.
Jonathan Liebsman is likely to take the helm of a new live-action TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. Yep, something else Hollywood couldn’t leave alone. We’ve talked about this film before. News of its production has sprinkled the rumor mill for the last few years and it looks like the stage is finally set. The one constant throughout it all is that Michael Bay’s company, Platinum Dunes will produce the movie. If the Technodrome transforms, I’m out!
Poor AT&T… they just can’t win. Whether it’s a $4-billion purchase of T-Mobile or a pissed off customer in small claims court, there’s just no justice for the mobile phone industry. In California, a judge sided with a customer who sued AT&T because his unlimited data plan was being slowed down when he reached just 2 GB. The judge told the miserable area sales manager who lost the staff straw draw and had to represent AT&T in the courtroom that morning that it is unfair for the company to throttle customers’ bandwidth while at the same time calling the service ‘unlimited’. The guy won over $800! He can put that towards a new iPhone!
If you’re a PORTAL player, have we got news for you! Transport yourself down to the local toy or comic shop this summer to pick up your very own replica of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. It won’t get you inside a gender of your choosing’s locker room or a bank vault. But it’ll work as a flash light when the power goes out, or as a damn nice prop in your YouTube fan film. Suggested retail price? $130.
Finally, a bridge linking Slovakia and Austria is getting named after an action movie star. You’d think, given it’s Austria, that our pal Arnold Schwarzenegger would be receiving the honor. But that’s not the case. Tune in for the surprising choice voted on by the residents there.

Who Asked You? – Sidecock
February 20, 2012
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Thanks to the Julian and Gregorian calendars, we’re not quite sure when Washington was born. The debate continues… we do know it was sometime in February, likely in the second or third week of the month. Lincoln’s was February 12th; close enough to merge with Washington’s and move both to a completely separate day for celebration. Some folks take the opportunity to celebrate ALL of the US Presidents. They all made their mark on this country’s history… take President William Harrison for example. He delivered a 2-hour inauguration speech, the longest of any president, and he did it in the pouring rain! Impressive, but a flawed idea given he caught pneumonia and died 31 days after taking office. There, you learned something. And Mike learns, at the end of today’s show, what the theme music means. Stay tuned for that!
With all this talk of history and catching things, I feel it’s time to tell you about today’s show! A certain TV series made ‘history’ last night during our broadcast (central time). THE SIMPSONS aired their 500th episode. Its plot was just like the ho-hum movie they released a few years back. As you might expect, this launches us into our usual quote-fest of Simpson memories followed by the continued mulling of how relevant the show is still.
Then a quote-fest you might not expect… TITANIC. During the Calendar segment, I announce that Billy Zane will celebrate his birthday on Friday. We ramble off a few films he’s done including the James Cameron epic, followed by his best lines in it.
Perhaps our biggest story of the night is the ironic events that occurred at the Las Vegas branch of The Heart Attack Grill. For some reason this place just keeps coming up on our show. Perhaps its their morbid sense of humor. Their view on enjoying life and food the way YOU want to. Or maybe it’s just the fact that funny shit keeps happening with them. Our chronicle continues with the latest incident in which an actual heart attack is suffered by a “patient” while eating a Triple Bypass Burger. The call for the grills to be turned off for good is once again resonating with health experts and all around stick-in-the-muds. After all, a single burger WILL trigger a heart attack. It’s not your lifestyle or years of fat accumulation. No no… it’s that single burger you crammed down your pie hole that jammed the cogs of your ticker. Some have gone as far as calling the establishment socially irresponsible. Our take on this view today.
From lots-o-calories to lots-o-money. Or lack there of. Former NBA superstar, Allen Iverson brings us a cautionary tale of what NOT to do with your easily-earned scratch. The ball player once amassed a fortune of over $150-million. Now he can’t even pay $800,000 owed to his jeweler. His bank account has been seized and he is as poor as the rest of us. With all this “we are the 1%” talk buzzing the nation, it’s infuriating to read about someone so disgustingly rich just pissing away their money. How many times have you read about someone winning the lottery, inheriting a fortune or somehow coming into a huge sum of cash and you said to yourself, “What I could do with that kind of money…” On the other hand, it is his money to lose. I’m sure that’s no comfort to him of course. We share our thoughts on this as well.
And it may not be hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars, but a public high school in Cincinnati is offering students $25 gift cards if they have good attendance and stay out of trouble. The school, which has a graduation rate lower than that of the middle class’s federal income tax just starting the program and has already seen a 15% improvement in students’ attendance. That’s great news, but why should schools — which are more broke than Allen Iverson right now — have to pay students to show up? Where are their parents? Where are the leather belts? I would go to school with my kid and sit through every class with them if they tried to skip. I would handcuff them to their desk if need be. It all starts at home folks. This is money the district is taking from teachers and other students who are good and do show up… just not on President’s Day… we all get that day off.

Who Asked You? – From Porn To Pizza
February 13, 2012
Whitney Houston wasn’t the only treasure we lost this week. Unbeknownst to us, BT Junkie, a longtime steadfast arm of the Bureau of Acquisitions, died as well. With the recent government shut down of MegaUpload and the fiasco surrounding SOPA and PIPA, it’s no surprise these guys packed up shop and said “peace out!” Dennis, Jabari, Mike and I weren’t even aware they were gone. Charlie broke the news to us! There are 2 entities to blame for all of this… the MPAA and the Walt Disney Company. I’m gonna stop here before this turns into SOPA Chase-rant part 2.
Porn and pizza not only sounds like a pretty relaxed Valentine’s Day both for couples and singles alike, it’s also a good description of this week’s show. We were certainly do for another one of ‘those shows’. You know the type, we skew off on a tangent that takes up at least 1/3rd of the show. In this case, it’s porn. A lengthy discussion that flows from genres that turn us off, to what’s on Jabari’s hard drive, to where to find porn, whether it should be downloaded or streamed and concluding with why Mike is predictably silent during this conversation.
At some point we’re back on schedule with news that MACHETE KILLS, the sequel to Robert Rodriquez’s grindhouse-style actioner has been greenlit. Given the first film was over-hyped and didn’t live up to Who Asked You? expectations, it gets less than a minute of our airtime.
It’s quite the coincidence that pirating content and torrent sites shutting down would come up on this episode given we have details on a report released by NATO… no, not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but rather the National Association of Theater Owners. In this report they breakdown the average price of movie tickets and reveal their justifications for charging those amounts. Again, Charlie breaks news that here locally, our prices have gone up. Surprise, surprise. An evening movie ticket in Las Vegas, Nevada now costs $11.00. That’s up $0.50 from just this past summer. And they wonder why people pirate movies so much. The theaters claim the prices are high because Hollywood has forced them to go digital and retrofit theaters to display 3D. Hollywood claims the prices are high because it costs more to make and market movies. Which, when you opt to make Ryan Reynold’s costume digital instead of using actual fabric and thread, yeah, we can see why it would cost more. Sadly, hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars doesn’t make a good movie. That’s evident with almost EVERY SINGLE blockbuster released last year and the year before that. Nice try, Tinseltown… not buying it.
We also take a moment to talk about Fox’s decision to cancel their power-’house’ show… HOUSE. It’s creator, David Shore and fellow executive producer/star, Hugh Laurie agreed the show has reached a creative impasse and it’s time to move on. After 8 seasons of the same exact plot over and over, it had its run and it’s time to call it a day. Expect House’s bill in the mail.
And as the title suggests, we end up on pizza. This conversation is sparked by a new promotion Pizza Hut is running for Valentine’s Day. For $10 you get their box dinner that includes a pizza, bread sticks and cinnamon sticks. But for just $10,000 more you can get married at your local Pizza Hut. They’ll videotape and photograph it, give you a ruby wedding ring, flowers, a limo ride and even set off some fireworks. And since you’re getting married where the reception will take place, you don’t have to rent a reception hall. Plus, you won’t have to choose between the chicken or the fish but rather deep dish or thin crust. From here on out the debate rages over Pizza Hut versus Domino’s. Mike is team Pizza Hut… Jabari, Dennis and I are Domino’s. And Charlie is neither. Discover the definition of pan pizza, who has stuffed crust and who doesn’t, why you shouldn’t eat P’zones and more! It’s not an A to Z show, but rather a P to P, which coincidentally, could also stand for peer to peer, another name for what BT Junkie was… *sniff. I need a tissue.

Who Asked You? – Hide And Go Get It
February 6, 2012
It must’ve been that second plate of pizza and chicken fingers. We were on track to bring you an awesome make-up show after last week’s non-recorded one. We were all at least 4 beers deep by the time Madonna took the stage for the Super Bowl Half Time Show. We commented to each other how it was going to be another famed ‘drunk show’. What a great way to make up for my blunder. But while Madonna and LMFAO were having a middle-finger malfunction, we were all loadin’ up the paper plates. By the time the game ended and we were done enjoying the ‘NBCeeIt’ closeups of Tom Brady pouting, we’d all been downgraded to a moderate buzz; which still made for an entertaining show.
Mike couldn’t make it, so in his place was Stephanie Payne of the local geek girls group, V.A.G.I.N.A. You can learn more about them and what they do by checking out their website in the Show Links. We, as well as Stephanie, attended this month’s free midnight movie screening sponsored by Rave Motion Picture Theaters and local comic book store, Maximum Comics. The silver screen styling this time was Mel Brooks’ SPACE BALLS. Learn today what all of our favorite films are from his repertoire.
And, in case you haven’t heard, Punxutawny Phil saw his shadow once again meaning we’ll have 6 weeks more of winter. And, in case you haven’t heard, Punxutawny Phil saw his shadow once again meaning we’ll have 6 weeks more of winter… HAHA! See what I did there? GROUNDHOG DAY starring Bill Murray… watch it. Good stuff.
I pose to the guys this question: Is Paula Deen a hypocrite? Just over a week ago she announced that she has Type-II Diabetes. Wilford Brimley gave her a badge and welcomed her to the club. But there are some crying fowl over a decision Deen made to become the spokeswoman for a Diabetes medication made by Novo Nordisk. And it’s a valid point… it’s no secret love isn’t the only ingredient in Paula’s recipes on her shows and in her books. Often times they call for large amounts of butter and sugar. Usually your entire monthly value of each in a single cookie. And she’s been cooking this way on her shows and in her books for years! Now all of a sudden, she’s hawking insulin? In her defense, she does actually use the medication she’ll be pitching and she says a portion of her income from that gig will go to the American Diabetes Association, but is that enough? Is this a case of, ‘you can’t have it both ways?’ Is Paula Deen a hypocrite? This question is to you as well. It’s out poll this week. Be sure to vote!
Another question asked of the guys: Color-blind casting, is it okay? By that I mean, would it be okay for say a black guy to play a white guy? Or vice versa? We all agreed it is if the character they’re playing is fictional (i.e. Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury, who in the comics was white). But what if it’s a biopic? Gawker.com made a joke on their website that Jamie Foxx was in the running to play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming film from Martin Scorsese. Tabloids the world over got wind, and as is typical with digital-run news desks these days, nobody bothered to confirm it and ran it front page. This prompted Gawker to post a “Just Kidding” article, which you can read by following the link below. Still, even though it was a joke, casting without regard for race is worth pondering.
We finish making up to you with a story about a South African strip club selling colognes that’ll mask the establishment’s scent so your wife or girlfriend won’t know you were there. And, a different kind of bumping and grinding taking place… on a playground. It’s called Rape Tag. And you’ll have to tune-in to hear the details.

Who Asked You? – To Whom Did You Inquire?
January 23, 2012
Something a little fancy for you this week. Evan Pederson from the FancyPantsGangsters.com podcasting network in Minneapolis sits in with us via Skype. And what a show he chose to join us for. This week’s presentation of our podcast is probably the closest — to date — that we’ve ever/will come to a full-on political discussion. As you can probably guess, it revolves around SOPA and PIPA, the 2 anti-piracy bills now shelved in the US Congress. Evan chose to make his site go dark on January 18th along with thousands of others as part of the largest online protest ever. As I mentioned in a SOPA rant posted that same day, we at Who Asked You? stayed online mainly because I didn’t want to break our site in fear of not being able to fix it. You’ll hear the wildely different approaches Evan and I had to accomplishing the black-out. His was far less extreme and overall, smarter than the way I wouldn’ve done it. So it’s a good thing I declined to participate.
The SOPA story starts in the form of a Chase-rant. Those role around on occasion. In an attempt to keep my blood pressure in check, I don’t go too crazy and in an attempt to keep you awake, I don’t go to in-depth with political jargon. Charlie is also grateful for this. He proclaims on the show that we shouldn’t get any more political than we do with this SOPA thing. As we’ve always maintained on Who Asked You? we try and limit our conversations on politics and religion because those “cans of worms” are a slippery slope for us and you listeners. They can result in shouting, bad feelings and overall butt hurt. Unlike today’s movies or someone named Zopittybop-Bop-Bop getting arrested for drug possession, which we can all joke about. But something like SOPA directly affects our website, so it feels like a requirement to at least acknowledge it. Charlie again pitches the idea of doing a serious show where these topics can reside, after all, just 10-minutes earlier we were talking about the Squatty Potty. What do you think? Should we have a separate show for serious/political topics… please say no. Another show is more work for me. And in all honesty, that’s what makes Who Asked You? the show that it is; being able to simply go from a product that makes you squat on the toilet to legislation that could terminate our show as we know it.
Once DE-FACE THE NATION ends, we move onto more of what makes our show great… Vince Shlomi for example! He’s the ShamWow guy. Vince has once again straped on his little headset and is hawkin’ made-for-TV gizmos at you like his life depended on it. And it probably does. I’m sure he needs the commissions to pay off his attorney fees. If you don’t remember what he got arrested for, I explain it on today’s show. Or if you want to hear the original story, check out EPISODE 63. What’s funny is that in his infomercial, he’s more than happy to poke fun at himself and includes plenty of inuendo relating to his arrest.
Do to time constraints we skip 2 stories and head straight into Breaking News. Once again, Taco Bell makes our radar. If you frequent the web, you’ve probably seen a joke where Taco Bell is the punchline. The mystery as to how digestible their food is still remains. Also, whether it’s actually food or not. See, there was another one. It seems the fast-food giant has heard one to many riffs and is starting a test market on a new menu featuring fresh ingredients… as apposed to…? See Taco Bell, you bring it on yourselves! The idea is to compete with shops like Chipotle and Q’doba. Offering the same “quality” (in quotations) but for a cheaper price. If you live in Louisville, KY or Bakersfield, CA… please let us know how it goes. Those are the first test markets for “Cantina Bell” as they’re calling it. If it proves a success, they’ll role it out nationwide. Call me skeptical on this one. A fast-food joint with taco shells made out of Doritos can use “authentic” and “fresh” in their menu vocabulary about as convincingly as we can “serious” and “political” in our show’s.

Who Asked You? – Bored Games
January 16, 2012
For the third show in a row, there’s at least 1 host missing. This time around it’s Mike. Our pal John once again fills the empty seat of a co-host and does his best Mike impression in the process. I think when 1 of us is out, the conversation’s timing gets thrown off. Despite having a fill-in, we’re incapable of always filling the hour. We 5 have become a well oiled machine always delivering 60-minutes of chatter. But a wooden sabot shoe in the form of a missing man, a shitty segment or technical difficulties can be thrown into the gear works and you’re left with something like today’s show.
In this case the sabotage is ‘It’s The Law’. What was once a popular segment on the show doesn’t garner the conversation it used to. With only a few states to go, I feel obligated to finish before retiring the bit. This time we’re looking at laws in Virginia. The state has some pretty strict guidelines you must abide by when getting’ it on. There’s only 1 position allowed, you have to do it in the dark and it’s only aloud in 1 hole. More odd ordinances where those came from.
‘It’s The Law’ wasn’t the only segment where not much was said. At the top of the show we took a moment to recap CES, which by most accounts was pretty ho-hum this year. No major game consoles were unveiled. Most of the flat panels were the same 3D, LED, LCD, or SOB units they’ve been bugging us to buy for 2 years now and the rest was pointless accessories for the iPad. So, not much to talk about there.
The ‘New Releases’ would surely have something worth conversating over… nope. Most of this week’s DVD’s, none of us have heard of. And that’s saying a lot, because our combined knowledge of obscure media is quite vast. I couldn’t even get the guys to stretch on the subject of Andy Dick while I pulled up poll results I forgot to mark down on my paper. Can’t blame them there though… what is there to say about Andy Dick?
We learn that Steven Spielberg will NOT direct Jurassic Park 4. There’s not a whole lot to be said there either. The CW is raiding the box full of DC comics for their next TV series. And they’ve asked the guys that did GREEN LANTERN to develop it. Yeah, because that movie was soooo great right?
No wonder we blast through the rundown with 19-minutes to spare. In our ‘Breaking News’ segment we introduce you to a man arrested for drug possession who has one of the most ridiculous names ever. His first name is Beezow… and there’s plenty more where that came from.
Thank god for YouTube. It’s where everyone goes these days to waste time. To kill the nearly 20-minutes of unplanned Ask-ness we do what we do best, remissness. And what better way to do so on, than old board games and their commercials. The show title is startin’ to make sense now isn’t it? I promise — despite everything I’ve typed here — this is not a ‘bored’ show.

Who Asked You? – Le Cordon Poo
January 9, 2012
I may have spoiled a surprise. I don’t remember if I previously mentioned what we had planned for our 200th show or not. And I don’t remember if I said it was a surprise. In any case, it’s no longer one… I reveal today what’s in store for that milestone. You’ll have to wait until the end of the show to hear about it though. Or you can just skip to it, your choice. If you do bypass the bulk of this episode, there’s a few things you’ll miss.
First up is GEORGE LUCAS STRIKES BACK! A fake movie trailer posted on YouTube and then on our Facebook Page by a listener. This trailer is hilarious! It was posted on our Facebook in response to our underwhelmed response to the 2012 roster of theatrical releases. If there were more movies like this one coming out, we would be a lot more excited. To see the mock-movie trailer for yourself, scroll down to the Show Links.
Just a couple of weeks ago a man named Trent Arsenault received a cease and desist order from the FDA. What could a single man do to warrant such a stern reaction from the federal government? Should federal government be capitalized? These questions need answers. The former has one. Trent is running his own at-home sperm bank. Couples who are troubled with fertility issues are more than welcome to help themselves to Trent’s baby batter. The FDA claims he’s a quote “tissue manufacturer,” and is not abiding by their guidelines and he should undergo more STD tests and lab work to insure his Cupid’s toothpaste is safe and clean. But just browse Trent’s website and you’ll see he’s done his homework. He’s got test results, family history, sperm bank facts, FAQ’s, tons of pictures and more. And the icing on this cake? He doesn’t charge! Not even for shipping! So it’s not like he’s running a scam. How is this any different than a 1-night stand gone awry? We discuss this and you’re welcome to interject your thoughts as well. It’s this week’s ‘We Ask You Poll’.
Speaking of cakes and their icing. You may be staying away from them for awhile after hearing our next story. I’m going to warn you now, it’s in our ‘Jenkem Watch’ segment, so what does that tell ya? In Pennsylvania, 3 teen girls were just criminally charged for a prank they pulled way back in March on a fellow student at their high school. It was her birthday, what better gift than a cake? They’re tasty, they’re sweet, fairly easy to make and inexpensive. They show you care. Well, that is until you smother them in dookie. Not sure what the victim did to deserve this corn cake, but she didn’t question it when the friends asked her to try it in front of them. And it seems the girls were able to mask the sewer smell well enough she didn’t question that either. Or maybe it’s just girl poo doesn’t stink? Yeah, I’m gonna go with that.
You’ve probably seen the images by now. A hamburger with a black bun being touted as the “Darth Vador Burger”. It’s a new promotional bit by a French fast food franchise to celebrate the re-re-release of the STAR WARS films… this time in 3D!!!! You can choose the dark side and go with the black buns, or you can choose the path of a Jedi and enjoy a more traditional looking patty. There’s also a ‘Darth Maul Burger’. I think its poppy seeds might get stuck in my teeth though. Mike, our resident expert on that galaxy far far away chooses his slab-o-beef. Tune in to hear which one!
As always, Breaking News rounds things up. MC Hammer is being eyed by the IRS. Seems he owes then a shit-ton of back taxes going back to his 1996 bankruptcy filing. He claims he paid those and is even asking the court that he be reimbursed for the legal fees.
With a few minutes to kill we discuss our marketing strategy and merchandising plans on-the-air. That’s how we roll. We’re ramping up a T-Shirt line. Or at least, we’re planning to have a plan to make T-Shirts featuring our hilariously ambiguous show titles. Charlie is heading up our marketing department consisting of… Charlie. He’s looking for funny, cartoon-ish illustrations of our episode titles. Something that would work well on a shirt. And he’s willing to pay you $50 to do it, if we choose your design. This isn’t a contest so much as a Craigslist-like search for artists. If you’re good with crayons or other drawing utensils, pick your favorite title and submit your design to Charlie.

Who Asked You? – Dick Crisp
January 2, 2012
If you’re staring at this week’s show title wondering if that’s a snack in the food aisle at your local adult store, it is not. It’s Channing Tatum’s new nickname. Why would we call him that? Please see the episode titled, “The Beck-ening” which contains one of our more memorable stories still brought up from time to time. Why are we talking about Channing Tatum? Because he’s got several movies coming out this year including G.I. JOE: RETALIATION and 21 JUMP STREET. Both of these films sound awful.
Charlie can count his lucky stars he slept too late and missed this week’s program because it’s not just reboots of 80′s TV series and toy-turned-movie sequel blandness we have to look forward to in the theater this year… oh no, there’s also sequels to films that didn’t need them, sequels to films that shouldn’t have had a first one to begin with, a movie based on the Navy SEALS mission that killed Osama bin Laden, more comic book flicks, a 3D version of a certain chainsaw-wielding wacko who goes on a massacre, a sequel to a comic book movie whose original was really bad, Daniel Radcliffe ditches the wand, the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake gets an unneeded second, Johnny Depp stars in another Tim Burton film, Tim Burton produces a movie based on one of his first stop-motion shorts, Hasbro continues to sell its soul, Will Smith insures his is never coming back, a guy named ‘Webb’ will give us his emo-take on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Bruce Wayne slips on his cape for the last ‘good’ time — although DC is probably already planning Batman’s reboot after Nolan calls it quits, you’ll be demanding a recall on Collin Farrell’s version of TOTAL RECALL, Stallone and friends will come back to blow stuff up and blow people’s heads off, the fight against the Umbrella Corp. will continue, Universal’s monsters will be raped a second time in the ass after contracting Hepatitis from VAN HELSING, RED DAWN will also see the dawn of its reboot, KNOCKED UP will get a spin-off, a Hansel and Gretel movie will come out this year with a plot so ridiculous the guys are convinced I made it up. We did that on the 2010 look ahead and it was just as difficult back then to tell the real from the fake. I swear to you, I did not make any of these up this time around. These films are all real!
Somewhere between the messes of movies being rattled off I run out of Sam Adams Black and Brew (my new favorite of theirs having tried it for the first time on today’s show) and we learn what pig semen smells like from Sheena, Charlie’s female fill-in.

Who Asked You? – 2011 Year-in-Review
December 18, 2011
What a year it’s been. This seemed like as good of a time as any to switch things up. Instead of doing our look back and calling it a “Christmas Special”, we’ve decided to do our look back and call it what it is, a Year-In-Review Special. Being weary of this time of year these days coupled with the fact that the show was never really about Christmas and was always a yearly recap prompted the change.
So what all do we ‘review’ today? Well I’m glad I asked that in the previous sentence. We forgo the new DVD releases because of time, but they are in the Show Links as always. First, we start with a listener E-Mail that does 2 things. First, he offers up his best/worst picks for movies, TV and radio. Then he nominates his choice for our first ever “Clip of the Year”. It worked out pretty well because I planned on playing a “Clip of the Year” and I too, was thinking of the same clip he mentions! You’ll hear said bit, in its entirety, on today’s show.
From there we get into the bests and worsts of things. As with many of our shows, we run out of time and don’t make it through all our primary topics. But we make a pretty decent dent. And since we were all sipping brandy-laced egg nog, it’s a miracle we got as far along as we did.
First on the list… movies! Some of our best picks include, THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, DRIVE and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. That’s not all though. There’s plenty more where those came from. One from Jabari wasn’t even made this year. I think he was a little confused as to how a year-in-review show works. Or it was the spiked egg nog.
As you might imagine, the ‘worst’ list for films in ’11 was quite lengthy. Some of them included THE GREEN LANTERN and THE GREEN HORNET. Others brought up, TRANSFORMERS: THE DARK OF THE MOON, TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN and THE SITTER, which by most accounts, could very well be the absolute worst movie of 2011.
To the boob tube we go as we channel surf through the good and bad of televised content, or at least what qualifies these days as network quality programming. On the best list: IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (this is a given) and HOMELAND. On the worst list (let me take an Ace Ventura-style deep breath here): THE JERSEY SHORE, KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS, TWO AND A HALF MEN, most, if not all reality shows, the entire primetime line up on The CW… and many many more.
A few noteworthy events occurred this year in the world of comic books. Charlie and Jabari agreed DC’s BLACKEST NIGHT was good while BRIGHTEST DAY was not.
We end this show and year with a recap of celebrity deaths. We lost folks like comedian Patrice O’Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Arch West who invented Doritos, Andy Rooney from CBS’s 60-MINUTES, Kill Keane, the creator of Family Circus and actor Michael Gough who is probably best known for his role as Alfred on Tim Burton’s BATMAN movies. And of course, Steve Jobs died this year. As did singer, Amy Winehouse and Jack LaLanne. He’s that buff old dude that sells juicers. Juicing jokes follow quickly on this one. Tune in for that.
The final moments of our year-in-review show reveals Charlie’s New Year’s resolution. And we want to know yours! It’s this week’s ‘We Ask You Poll’. And with that, I’ll wrap by wishing you all a happy holiday and New Year. We’ll be back right off the bat in 2012, Sunday, January 1st LIVE on ErrorFM.com at 8pm/PT. It’s unknown how hungover we’ll be. You’ll just have to listen in and find out. See ya then!

Who Asked You? – Whilst
December 12, 2011
Strong words on today’s show for a few upcoming movie and TV projects. First, THE SITTER. A film starring Jonah Hill. We had no intention of sitting through THE SITTER but due to some technical issues with SCROOGED at a free midnight movie event on Saturday, we did just that. Hey, it was free. Sadly, this film was such an uneven, poorly paced travesty, the fact that we didn’t have to pay for it does little to comfort us. Dennis was the lucky one in the group. He drank himself into a stuper and wasn’t able to attend the screening. Charlie — who is out again this week — Mike, Jabari and I, however, took one for the team. You’ll want to tune into this episode to hear a number of reasons why you shouldn’t pay for this ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING rip off.
But the harsh words don’t stop there. We need to get something off our chests and it involves ABC getting something off their air. You may have seen the commercial already… the American Broadcasting Company, in its infinite wisdom is bringing us a sitcom in January called, WORK IT. It’s from the brilliant minds behind FRIENDS and is about 2 guys who end up cross dressing as women in order to get jobs. Yeah, this joke should be sustainable for several seasons without getting old. Not since the Geico Caveman sitcom have we seen a premise for a show so damned awful we almost couldn’t believe our eyes. Is this real? Is this an actual show that people got paid to write and produce and edit?
The words keep-a-flowin’ as we move along to our commentary on THE THREE STOOGES movie. If you see this film you’ll be poking your own eyes out, you won’t need Moe to do it. From the teaser trailer that premiered online this week we can surmise a few played out, overused and down right insulting elements from this film. All of which run the length of the entire trailer and will most likely do the same in the actual film too. First, the fish out of water gag. The 3 seem lost in time or at least, completely out of their element (please see the iPhone scene in the trailer below). Second, the only truly convincing Stooge of the 3 is Will Sasso as Curly. Larry is… umm… not working for me and Moe is borderline. Then we have Snooki. Yeah, you read that correctly, Snooki is in this movie….. case rested.
A very entertaining listener E-Mail precedes our first main story of the day. You won’t want to miss this rant about holiday shopping. And speaking of shopping; one STAR WARS fan picked up the ultimate memorabilia at a Hollywood auction this past week. The original 35mm movie camera used to shoot A NEW HOPE. Fully restored, with lens, accessories and even the dolly! Apparently there is an entire community of collectors who specialize in accumulating movie cameras used to shoot iconic films. Not as easy as it may sound. Movie cameras are expensive. Plus, a majority of features are shot with Panavision cameras and lenses, available for renting only. Older units collecting dust do get sold off. But you gotta know when and where. And you gotta have the cash. Especially if you’re buying the one used on STAR WARS. Wait ’till you hear total for the winning bid!
In order to meet the monthly guidelines of educational content within a podcast, we must bring you another round of ‘Who Fact You?’. This one is a bit more brisk compared to past lists. Perhaps it’s because Charlie is absent. Or maybe because Dennis is hungover. In any case, you’ll get 10 more facts to wow your pals with at the next kegger.
Getting back to our ‘words’ theme… there’s one grouping of letters that is immediately recognizable when it comes to pornography and that’s “XXX”. And now, websites specializing in the naughty content can end in .xxx instead of com or net or whatever. A registry company here in the US has started selling domains with the triple-letter extension. This could be good and bad. You may have heard the organization that oversees the web and domain registration is looking to expand extensions to include anything; .me, .horse, .car, .fart… whatever you can think of. This means though that companies trying to protect their image will have to spend more money to do so. Take ErrorFM for example. They’d have to pay the registrar X-amount of dollars to keep someone from registering ErrorFM.xxx. We’d have to do the same thing with whoaskedyoushow. We’re not going to though because the .xxx extension is $200 a year! And honestly, what kind of porn site would ‘whoaskedyoushow.xxx’ be? I can tell you what it won’t be: ours. I can tell you what it might be: select images from our hosts’ sextings.
And we end the show with a story about another modified mobility scooter. It was about a year ago we first told you about a plumber who managed to get his Tom Kruse invention Kruse-ing into the fast lane, now an Britain-based 24 year-old has done it too. His is a bit beefier though. It was taken by police after they caught him scootin’ along at 60 mph on the thing. He got it back, but not before some strong words from the town’s council. It’s tough to sound stern though when you’re quoted using the word ‘whilst’ don’t you think? Very proper, elegant, and still used in the UK it seems. Hmm, you decide whilst listening to this week’s program.

Who Asked You? – ‘Seize’ The Moment
December 5, 2011
It’s that time once again folks. Time for another technically imperfect episode of our show. Every once in awhile a glitch occurs in an otherwise flawless system. When that happens it can throw us off a bit. Luckily it’s not too major this time around. Due to unforeseen circumstances, our live feed was a no-go on ErrorFM.com. But lucky for you, our show is a podcast and can be downloaded at your discretion. This is a perfect opportunity to plug our numerous feeds! If ever this happens again and you’re unable to listen live… or just don’t want to, subscribe to our RSS Feeds and never miss an episode! Or subscribe via iTunes, the Stitcher app or the Blubrry app and Roku Channel. We should be back live next week for sure.
Aside from the loss of live netcasting and the momentary confusion involving the sound effects board and its mute button, we need to inform you of Charlie’s absence this week. Jabari, Mike, Dennis and yours truly remain at our posts and carry on dutifully with the program however.
It’s been nearly 2-weeks since Black Thursday/Friday. That means all the police reports have been filed and we’re able to recap — at the behest of Dennis — the foolishness of those who pile-drived the elderly, head-butted a small child or assaulted his/her fellow man in some other way for no other reason than 15% off of some product they could’ve gotten cheaper online somewhere, any day of the year. As I read aloud the criminal behavior that took place on these 2 shameful days, you’ll probably notice a commonality among them. I won’t spoil it hear. Tune in to find out what it is.
As if husbands, boyfriends, brothers and other male companions didn’t have it bad enough having to endure the subpar acting and over-abundance of bed head in the TWILIGHT films. Now they have to gamble on whether or not they’ll seizure while watching them. Since it’s premier, TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN has apparently caused seizures in at least 2 people in 2 different states. Apparently, during a scene in which the chick is giving birth, there are several bright flashes of light that trigger the response. As if you didn’t need anymore reasons NOT to watch these awful movies.
Since we’re on the subject of ‘birthing’, did you hear Siri won’t tell you where abortion clinics are? That’s right, the iPhone digital assistant comes up empty handed when queried on the subject. Many have already concluded Apple is imposing some sort of pro-life agenda via the app. The company says, however, it’s a glitch because Siri is still in beta. They say as the final version nears, these locations will be included and it was simply an oversight on their part. What do you think? Cast your vote on this week’s poll and tell us!
If you’re on an Android phone, you’ve got nothing to worry about. I put the Speaktoit Virtual Assistant I introduced you to a couple of weeks ago to the test and she passed with flying colors! You’ll hear it happen live on today’s episode. This launches me into a bit of a ‘Chase Rant’. I own an HTC Droid Incredible. The phone, in my opinion, is incredible. I’m a huge HTC fan, however, I must say they dropped the ball big time on their Gingerbread update. You’ll hear the rest of my thoughts and my journey of aggravation when updating my phone.
Somehow, we end up on the subject of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in another classic, but very random, Who Asked You? segue. You’ll hear my recommendations for their best flavors. I may have even convinced Dennis to try a few of them.
And we end this Cheese-less edition with another story of a school choosing someone with an unconventional profession to speak to their students. Just last week we told you about Sasha Grey, a former porn star, reading to children at an elementary school on Compton to the dismay of their parents and flat out denial by the school’s administrators. Now comes news that a Hooters waitress spoke at a special needs school in Florida regarding her career. Now hold off on your insta-judgement. She didn’t tell the children she worked at Hooters and was not in the restaurant’s iconic skimpy uniform. She was there to talk about being a waitress and how working in the service industry while going to college to better yourself was a great thing to do. Still, despite the ambiguity of exactly WHERE she worked, parents were still pissed off over the whole thing. You’d think in this day and age where grown adults fist fight over a video game, teeny bopper movies cause seizures and smartphones will tell you just about anything you wanna know, there’d be bigger concerns on parents’ minds than some pretty lady showing up at school to talk about going to college, or reading for story time… I guess not.

Who Asked You? – Bursss
November 28, 2011
What could the title of today’s show possibly mean? It’s not even a word. It’s a…. ummm… Ebonic version of a word I suppose. It comes to us care of a YouTube link one of our faithful listeners forwarded to us. You can watch the video for yourself in the Show Links below. It appears to be a homemade rap video in which a man on parole for something raps some rather simple lyrics to a beat created using machine guns. As he states in the video, he’s about to “make deez rifles bursss.” This is just one more example of the boundless and typically questionable entertainment found on the world’s most popular video sharing site.
As we get into the new DVD’s the Rifle Burs song continues, only this time we’re making up the lyrics. After the show we were joking around and found out it is surprisingly easy to do so.
On our show we love to talk about products with whimsical names. And we’ve got 2 for you today. The first is mentioned at the top of the show. It’s a book called “Stuck Up!”. And has a rather literal meaning in terms of describing the book’s content. The other is a couple of energy drinks from a new Las Vegas-based beverage company. Don’t expect these cans to show up anytime soon in places like Utah. So far the company has 2 flavors, “Big Cock” and “Little Pussies”. Although the drinks don’t actually taste like their namesakes, you can’t help but wonder how open retailers are going to be to items named like this. Just look at the tantrum that was briefly thrown over Ben & Jerry’s “Schweddy Balls” ice cream. And that wasn’t even spelled as precise. The company says they’ll probably have some ‘toned down’ versions of the names for those conservative retailers.
If you’ve ever wondered how many explosions Michael Bay has set off in his career, wonder no more. The website, MovieLine.com managed to sit through all of his flicks and counted every last mushroom cloud, fireball and flash of flames. The numbers are staggering. About half of his explosions are contained in the TRANSFORMERS trilogy alone. And of those, over a third of them were in THE DARK OF THE MOON. Lets play a game for a moment. Lets say, given man power, supplies, union wages and so on, each explosion costed $10,000… and that’s probably a conservative estimate. If that was the case, he would’ve spent $6,220,000 on explosions alone for the 3 TRANSFORMERS films. Keep in mind, this was just a hypothetical to illustrate the ridiculousness of Bay’s cinema prowess.
Meanwhile across the pond in the UK, the founders of a fashion label and magazine there are attempting to push legislation through that would regulate digitally altered photographs in magazines. Pictures of movie stars, models or other celebrities that were Photoshopped in some fashion would be required to include a disclaimer announcing it. The married couple who started this campaign say they were inspired by young women who feel inferior to celebrities when they see them in magazines and on posters. I pose the question to the guys, is this a good idea? What do you think? Maybe it’s up to the parents of kids to tell them these images are fake. These people have bags under their eyes, enlarged pores and zits on their cheeks just like us common folk do.
And while on the subject of beauty… in our Breaking News segment we head to Compton, where the school district there is blatantly denying that a former porn star, one Miss Sasha Grey, visited an elementary school and read to a group of students. Not only did Grey twat that she spent her morning at the school reading to the students, but TMZ also obtained a photo of her reading to the students. The school still denies she was there. This is the topic of our We Ask You Poll this week. The parents of these kids were pretty ticked off over this. But it’s not like she was doing it naked, or announced to the kids that she used to work in porn. Would you be mad if a porn star read to your kids at school? Keep in mind, these were elementary school students. They probably had no idea who she was. As a chatter in the ErrorFM chat room pointed out, they couldn’t have done this at a high school!

Who Asked You? – Blackout
November 21, 2011
How punctual of us to devote nearly an entire episode to the phenomenon known as “Black Friday” the same week that it occurs. Like many things on the show, it’s a happy accident. The story was scrubbed last week because we ran out of time… so it got bumped to this week. Stand by for Black Friday rage…..
Before we engulf ourselves in that, there are a few other things we need to get through first on the show. For example, Jenna. I do enjoy offering alternatives to Apple stuff. And I do enjoy talking about technological advances that fascinate me. Case in point, Siri on the iPhone 4S. It’s so incredible that voice recognition is advancing to the point where we can carry on a conversation with a computer without having to sound like a computer ourselves. Siri is impressive… but you don’t need an iPhone to get a piece of ass-istant. On Android we have Speaktoit. Like Siri, this virtual assistant can do your bidding and offers witty replies to your juvenile requests. I named mine Jenna. And customized her outfit, hair color, eye brows, skin tone and lips. Lets see you do that on Siri… oh wait, Siri is just a silver button. Of course, the avatar is useless. Her lips don’t move and you can turn her off if you want to. But it’s something fun to mess with none-the-less. Hear my demonstration of the Speaktoit Personal Assistant on this show.
The somewhat robotic voice behind my phone-flunky reminds me of Waffle Bot from the new A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS. We spew a few spoilers during the show, so I won’t mention too much of it here. But, we highly recommend this movie. If you go back far enough in our archive when I first read off the premise, you’ll hear our apprehension. We are thankful to say, it wasn’t necessary. The film delivered what you’d expect from these 2 potheads, plus more. Not the best of the films, but certainly a worthy addition. We would love to see a 4th!
We also have an update to the news of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’s return for another season. We first told you about this a few shows back. It was announced that the series would return for a 10-eppy run leading up to a feature film. What wasn’t known was where it would air. Well, we have that information now… and it’s awesome! The 4th season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT will run exclusively on Netflix. This is just one more step forward for the company in its attempt to become a content superpower outside of just streaming already-made movies and TV shows. They’ve said before their goal is to ultimately provide original content as well. Sort of like a streaming HBO or FX network. This is good news for us all!
Okay, now onto the bulk of the program… Black Friday… or in this case, “Black Midnight”. Stores are caught in a never ending attempt to outdo one another and as a result, many will be opening late Thanksgiving night. Some will be open Thanksgiving Day. Just when you thought it couldn’t get anymore outrageous after that poor man was trampled to death at a Wal-Mart last year; here we are now on the cusp of Thanksgiving becoming “Black Thursday”. Where do we draw the line? The retailers won with Christmas. They’ve turned that into nothing more than a card-swiping extravaganza. Now they’re working on doing the same with Thanksgiving. The 2 holidays in the USA that are meant for family, togetherness and reflection are gone. They’re nothing more than a representation of EVERYTHING that’s wrong with our consumerist-driven economy that is NOT sustainable. You may have heard of something called “Respect the Turkey”. It’s a new movement in which people and businesses are being asked to hold off on Christmas related activities until Thanksgiving is over with. What a concept! Celebrate that holiday AFTER you’re done celebrating the current one. Some small businesses are taking the idea seriously. I heard on the radio last night while driving home from recording this episode that some stores in a local mall here are refusing to put up Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving has passed. Now if we could just get K-Mart, Sears, Kohl’s, JCPenney, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Fry’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, any shopping mall in America, Barnes & Noble, Old Navy, GAP, Toys ‘R’ Us, Target and the rest to follow suit, we may actually be able to enjoy the holidays. And yes, I know, the consumer is just as much to blame for this Black Friday bullshit as the stores are. They should be ashamed as well.
My soap box is getting a little rickety. I wonder if Home Depot has any Black Friday deals on a new one?

Who Asked You? – Occupy Nickelback
November 14, 2011
We are fresh from our Anime Vegas panel this week. What a blast that was. Everyone was so nice and the crowd seemed to enjoy themselves… I hope they did anyway. We should have taken more pictures. Dropped the ball on that one. Next time we’ll have a photographer for sure! We talked for a bit about our show and what it is we do here in our creepy little corner of the web. Then we did our world-famous half-assed costume contest. That’s it’s official name now, by the way. And we wrapped things up with a quiz show. Dennis, Charlie and Mike all chose 2 audience members to team up with. The 3 teams then had to give answers to multiple choice questions Jabari and I read to them. This is where a surprising event occurred.
One of the questions asked what Warner Brothers’ first animated character was. If you’re a longtime listener, you know Who in the Asked You? Crew should’ve known this… that’s right, Mike. But unfortunately, Mike’s team answered incorrectly. We were all stunned to say the least. That’s why, on today’s program, I’m giving Mike a chance to redeem himself. Will he do so? You’ll find out.
After that matter is cleared up, it’s onto our newest bit, the “Who Asked You? Calendar”. A brief, but informative look at the vague and obscure holidays in the week ahead. After doing a few of these already, it’s become clear Charlie is not a fan of most “Something Something Days”. For example, Sunday, the day we netcasted this episode live on ErrorFM.com, it was “World Kindness Day”. A pretty self explanatory celebration. Charlie’s response is classic… classic Charlie that is.
Eddie Murphy is out of the Oscars. He was scheduled to host the upcoming event. But his director buddy, Brett Ratner, who was also planning to co-produce the Oscars telecast, made an insulting gay slur on Howard Stern’s radio show and consiquently backed out of the gig. Eddie soon followed. Now hosting duties will once again fall on Oscar-veteran Billy Crystal. There was that Eddie Murphy news as well as some regarding BEVERLY HILLS COP 4. I will tell you, the film is NOT happening according to Murphy. However, he is developing another project within the franchise. We’ve got those details and our thoughts on them.
Nickelback… They were the 2nd and 3rd out of 6 stories on the rundown. But these 2 bits of Nickel-news consumed the remained of this week’s show. First up, the musical taste dating site, TasteBuds.fm, conducted a poll to see which musical groups or artists were the biggest turn-offs. And Nickelback won the day. Nearly 1 in 8 people said they would end a date without sex if they found out their date liked the pop-rock band. And what’s worse for them are the bands they beat out for the spot. That’s where the gasoline is thrown upon the flame and another classic Who Asked You? argument errupts. This one so heated it forced an on-the-fly change of the “We Ask You Poll”. Originally the question was: Do you like Nickelback? But we decided we needed additional opinions other than ours to settle who’s worse, Nickelback or Creed. Be sure to cast your vote on the poll to the right! If there’s someone you think is worse than those 2, send us an E-Mail!
Another bruise to the Canadian band’s ego is discoloring nicely. They’re scheduled to play the Detroit Lions’ halftime show this Thanksgiving, but Lions fans aren’t having it. Many are so upset over it, they’ve started a petition over at Change.org. And they’re pretty damn close to getting the 70,000 signatures they need to formerly request a change of performers. The petition sites the fact that Detroit has a large number of talented musicians (more talented than Nickelback in their opinion) and that they didn’t want the nationally televised game to give off the impression that Nickelback is somehow closely associated with Detroit. I read the entire impassioned plea on the show, it’s pretty funny and frank. If you feel the same as many do about Nickelback, you too can sign the petition using the link in the Show Links below. Charlie did it on-air! No doubt this argument will pick up again on next week’s episode when we reveal the poll results. Until then, take a cue from the protesters on Wall Street… pitch a tent, don’t shower and Occupy Nickelback.

Who Asked You? – She Pedophied Him
November 7, 2011
Now that Halloween has passed, you’ve probably already dug through your kid’s candy collection. Or for those of you without children, you’ve been mining the leftovers in the bowl. Like the variety of trick-or-treat goodies we’ve all been munching on, this week’s show is a collage of flavors. Lots of little things like those “fun size” Snickers and Milky Ways that have gotten so small these days, they’re not much fun anymore.
But I digress. We get things rolling with SEMA news. The Specialty Equipment Market Association convention took place here in Las Vegas last week. Dennis and I got a chance to go and see all the latest in after market goodies for car enthusiasts. While wondering around being humbled by the 100-plus thousand dollar cars, I was on the lookout for Who Asked You? fodder. And boy did I find some! I don’t wanna ruin the surprise here, tune in to hear what amazing cost savings are available to those who don’t want to spend as much on a car as they did on a house. Keep in mind, it requires a lot of elbow grease and you’ll be living a lie.
Fox is bringing back IN LIVING COLOR for a small test run this coming Spring. It’ll be once again produced by Keenan Ivory Wayans and feature an all-new cast. If all goes well, Fox will bring it back for an entire season starting next Fall.
Plus, his A&E TV show might be over, but his career as a lawman is certainly not. Steven Seagal was just sworn in to a small sheriff’s department in Texas. According to a spokesman there, he’ll be a regular deputy chief on patrol and will train his fellow officers in martial arts. As kids who grew up watching his films, you can imagine we’ve got a few thoughts on this.
Harold Camping, that crazy-ass evangelist who’s incorrectly predicted the end of days several times already has announced he’s retiring and is no longer able to run his radio company or his church after being wrong, again, with his latest prediction. Not surprisingly, he doesn’t want to speak to the press about his latest flub. No one likes to be called wrong, crazy, moron, etc. Now that he’s retired he’ll have even more time to think up more bad predictions that won’t come true.
In our “According To A New Study” segment, we examine the results of a study in which scientists examined semen. For several months, the male participants logged the foods they ate and then researchers looked closely at the effects that food had on their spooge. We’ll tell you the results on this episode!
By now you’ve probably heard Justin Bieber is being accused of fathering a child by a crazy bitch who didn’t finish high school. Clearly Mariah Yeater didn’t think her lie through. In filing the suit, she basically admitted to being a pedophile since Bieber was 16 at the time of the apparent conception. The boy pop star says he’ll take a DNA test to prove he isn’t the pop and then sue her for his trouble.
And lastly, while on the subject of pedophilia… again… the editor of TLC’s JON AND KATE PLUS 8 got arrested for possessing child pornography. Here’s a guy who stares at video of children all day, then goes home and stares at more video of children while probably doing something that’s frowned upon in an office setting.
So there you have it… our bag of treats for a post-Halloween crowd full of chocolate and still trying to get the last of the grease paint off of their faces.

Who Asked You? – ‘Ghoul’ Asked You?
October 24, 2011
It’s that time again boys and girls… time for the Who Asked You? Halloween show. This year’s pun on our name continues a 4-year tradition of play-on-words fun. Someday, I feel I may run out of rhymes and whimsical word replacements, lets prey that day never comes. Speaking of 4-years… it’s our 4th Anniversary!!! Nothing special was planned for this episode since it was already our Halloween edition. But I’m thinking we’ll do something extra fun for our 5th. Suggestions always welcomed!
Our ghost story of a program starts with the usuals. Our Calendar segment seems to be settling in nicely and there’s even a few Halloween-related celebrations mentioned. And an E-Mail from a self-proclaimed “Dickhead Dentist” warns us and our listeners of the perils of brushing one’s teef with abrasive materials like baking soda. You may remember last week’s show when another listener signed of his E-Mail to us with a reminder of good oral care. The subsequent conversation included other options for cleaning your choppers outside of boring ol’ tooth paste.
In honor of our Halloween show we suddenly become possessed — because we can do that on-command you know — and the entire New Releases are discussed in demonic voices that’ll creep you out and that cost us $40,000. So be creeped out damn it!
You know what else our haunted hilarity brings forth? The terrifying news that Fred Durst is getting a sitcom. Cue woman screaming effect. It appears Durst will play an aging rock star who has to balance his fame and family. And get this, the working title for this “Limp” Bizkit is DOUCHEBAG. Fred Durst… starring… and co-producing a show… called DOUCHEBAG? You can’t tell me he doesn’t realize peoples’ view of him. This is marketing genius?
And if you’re still undecided about what you wanna dress up as this year. Maybe we can help. We’ve got a list of the most popular costumes for 2011 as well as one of those you should avoid. In anycase, you probably don’t want to dress up as any of these, because they’ll either be so popular someone else at the party is wearing it too or it’ll be lame and/or in bad taste. One of the costumes, Anthony Weiner, made both lists!
Our ghost story-of-a-show doesn’t end there. This is no trick, it’s a treat for all of us. TRANSFORMERS star, Shia LaBeouf got beat up outside of a bar in Vancouver after drinking heavily and being an asshole. Not to say the other guy wasn’t an asshole too… but as we look back at some of Shia’s previous offenses, it’s clear he’s ‘transforms” into a mean drunk.
On Halloween you can’t just be scared… you have to be grossed out too. That’s why we bring you another edition of Jenkem Watch! This time around, an Irish guy tries to get stinkin’ rich by performing a little alchemy. And a study out of England found something gross on British cell phones. You know the segment, you know what they found on them. We pinch off the numbers and tell you how many shitty phones there are in Great Britain.
And lastly, an old man knocking on doors was ‘tricking’ ladies and getting a ‘treat’ out of it. You’ll have to tune in to hear this, the conclusion to our hour-long ghoulish tale.

Who Asked You? – A Mouth Full Of Tumors
October 17, 2011
The first half of this week’s episode is probably one of the more random half-hours we’ve had in awhile. It starts off with the “Who Asked You? Calendar,” our newest segment. This is where we look at some of the more obscure holidays you may not know are coming in the week ahead. As well as some famous birthdays. As you might imagine, we have a hard time containing our excitement over “Dictionary Day.” Then a popular sci-fi actress’s birthday spawns a brief random, “Who Fact You?” moment brought to us by Jabari.
Then it’s onto E-Mails. A loyal listener tells us a few episodes back, while talking about Steve Jobs stepping down at Apple, we kinda sounded like assholes. In particular, I made the comment that people were eulogizing him and he wasn’t dead yet. My comment was somewhat prophetic given the following week, he was.
At the end of the E-Mail, we’re reminded to take care of our teeth. And in true Who Asked You? style, this sends us spiraling into a conversation about oral care. And is the inspiration behind this program’s title.
And if all this wasn’t random enough, the new DVD releases conjures up even more! THE GOONIES is coming out on Blu-ray. Being the 80′s flick fiends that we are, we can’t help but quote a few lines from the film. But then the real conversation… Dennis wonders if the guy who played Sloth, John Matuszak, was actually deformed like the character was in the movie. A quick image search of the actor revealed what the rest of us already knew… no, he wasn’t. In fact, he was featured in a magazine posing all sexy and nude. This launches a few more jokes, and wouldn’t you know it… come to find out, he’s dead too. I guess we really are assholes.
Another big story today is the salary dispute of THE SIMPSONS voice actors. In this day and age, where TV and movie companies are fighting an uphill battle for revenue against the Internet, jobs of any kind are hard to come by, let alone in the entertainment industry and voice actors are being systematically replaced by on-camera ones that use their regular voices, it astounds me that these people would bitch over a pay cut that would keep them working for years to come and would still have them raking in a quarter of a million per episode. Are you kidding me?!?! Be thankful you’ve steadily worked in Hollywood for 23 years and take the god damned cut. You’ll hear more Chase rant like this on the actual show.
With all the superhero movies out there, it’s no surprise that someone “tried this at home.” In Seattle, Washington a vigilante calling himself “Phoenix Jones” has been fighting crime for about a year. And like most heroes, he’s kept his identity secret… don’t want any of those evil Seattle super villains going after his family after all. Well, reality punched him in the face last week and he was forced to reveal himself on the steps of the courthouse after he was charged with assaulting 4 people he claims were fighting. We discuss and make fun of this guy too. At least he’s not dead… yet.
And in “Breaking News” we make fun of another guy, Saddam Hussein… okay, it’s not actually Saddam, it’s an Egyptian resident who bears a striking resemblance to the former Iraq leader. Sure, he gets harrassed for his looks and doesn’t deserve it. But that’s not the whole story. Tune in to hear about the job offer he turned down and what happened after.

Who Asked You? – The Nug And Tug
October 3, 2011
Carrying your weight on Who Asked You? is not terribly difficult. After all, there are 5 hosts to distribute it evenly. Think of this episode as 5 roommates trying to squeeze a big-ass couch through a doorway at the top of some steep stairs. Jabari and Dennis are at the top while Charlie, Mike and myself are fighting gravity at the bottom. Suffice it to say, the amount of weight pulled on any given episode varies. Even during this episode it fluctuates a bit.
During the New Releases, everyone is fighting to get the couch through the door. This is when Danielle Fishel, once again, comes up in the conversation. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know we often refer to the actress who portrayed ‘Topanga’ in BOY MEETS WORLD as, ‘To-bang-ya’… a phrase Jabari and Dennis coined, for obvious reasons, years before we started this show.
At this point, the couch is nearly through the opening as we move along to news that Universal plans to remake SCARFACE. It’s their goal to bring the crime-filled cult classic into the 21st century. In their words, make it darker and grittier. Is it necessary? We offer up our thoughts on this, and as always, you’re welcome to also. Just send us an E-Mail.
We’ve waited quite awhile for another ‘dirty’ adventure from our friend, Dirty Potter. And today that wait is over. However, this is the point in the ‘couch moving’ where Dennis and Jabari decide to take a break and it falls on the remaining 3 of us to keep it from tumbling down the stairs. As producer of the show, I look for cues from my co-hosts that a segment just doesn’t work anymore. Perhaps it’s run its course and needs to be removed. As much as I still love the Dirty Potter adventures, I can’t ignore comments like, “Wake me up when it’s over.” Therefore, this will be the final airing of a Dirty Potter clip on the Who Asked You? show… As master of the program, I’ve got to get the couch through the doorway as smoothly as possible.
After Jabari naps and Dennis Nooks, we’re able to slide the sofa through as the show winds down with some, Best Worst Most Least and Who Fact You? fun.
By the way, my inspiration behind the couch-moving analogy came from a post-show conversation following this episode. I asked who invented the couch and that turned into a 15-minute conversation about the difference between a couch and a sofa. How cool are we? Maybe what we learned will appear in a future Who Fact You? segment.

Who Asked You? – That’s Titty Milk, Jabari
September 26, 2011
A story I didn’t think we’d have time to get to actually becomes the theme behind our title! You’ll have to tune in and listen all the way to the end to find out what that story is about. Don’t cheat by fast forwarding… oh who am I kidding? Go ahead, skip to the end, we don’t mind. Just be aware that if you do, you’re gonna miss out on some awesome content!
For example, we debut 2 new sound effects on the soundboard this week. If you listened to our last show, you probably know what they are. They’re from STAR WARS and 1 of them we’ll be getting lots-o-use from.
First on the agenda is a recap of our panel at Anime St. George. What a blast that was. Everyone was so kind and happy to see us. They all really enjoyed — or seemed to enjoy at least — our crazy little hour. We did a costume contest, a Q&A, which Jabari and Charlie dominated, and we gave away some gag gifts as we’re known to do.
Then it’s onto another recap; this one of some noteworthy events that occurred while we were away. Things like the debut of the new Sheen-less TWO AND A HALF MEN. The apology letter and announcement from Netflix’s CEO that the company would be splitting its service into 2 divisions. And then the news that R.E.M. has decided to call it quits after 30-years. You’ll hear our thoughts on all these stories and more.
After getting caught up on last week’s stories, we dive into this week’s news. News Corp, you know, the company that has no morals, actually pays Bill O’Reilly to talk and owns FOX? Yeah, they seem to think THE SIMPSONS can be milked for a few more bucks and are pondering a network themed around the longest running prime time series.
Another coalition of parents with nothing better to do is up in arms. Surprisingly, they aren’t mad over something they saw on TV but rather an ice cream inspired by something from TV! ‘One Million Moms’ are pissed at Ben & Jerry’s over the name of their latest limited edition flavor. It’s called “Schweddy Balls” and is inspired by a well-known SNL skit starring Alec Baldwin. They don’t want kids asking mommy for some “Schweddy Balls” in the grocery store. But since the ice cream is clearly labeled as rum-flavored, mom would probably keep Junior from it anyway.
Every once in awhile our Breaking News segment features the folks who make the news. In this week’s instance, a weatherman from Arkansas who was found sleeping in a hot tub next to a… you know what, like the story that inspired our episode title, you’ll have to wait until the end to hear this one.

Who Asked You? – AKA Ron Weasley
September 12, 2011
A couple of birthdays to tell you about this week. Our beloved STAR TREK turned 45 years-old last Thursday… too bad it died 2 years ago on May 8th, 2009.
Another birthday on the radar is Rupert Grint’s! The only reason he really comes up is because of the ridiculous flyer circulating for it. Like many celebrities, Rupert has chosen to celebrate his day of birth right here in Who Asked You? country… Las Vegas, Nevada. The nightclubs here love their flyers and full-page glossy ads in local magazines and newspapers. On the way out of the Zia Record store Dennis frequents, the flyer for Rupert’s birthday caught his eye. And for good reason. Just look at the way it’s laid out; with “Harry Potter” scrolled across the top. The name of a character he didn’t play! And why are they using a shot of a burning Hogwarts? Is that supposed to be the party’s aftermath? The real question here is when do we stop tying these actors to these roles. If Rupert comes back to Vegas for his 40th birthday, are we still gonna put his head inside the Harry Potter castle? By then, crow’s feet won’t be an ingredient in some magic potion.
As we eagerly await the next piece of auditory-art from Dirty Potter, a Twitter follower sent us a link to a ‘dirty’ version of “The Catcher In The Rye” that someone on YouTube whipped up. It certainly has some Dirty Potter-esk elements to it. We play a short snippet. You can hear the entire clip in the Show Links.
There are few things in this world that can bring the entire Who Asked You? Crew to tears. One of those things is on today’s show. TNT, a network we all admire and trust has canceled…….. HAWTHORNE! Just 3 seasons in, ol’ Hawthy saved a lot of patients, but she couldn’t save TNT’s ‘patience’. We discuss the ramifications and our feelings about this cancellation on today’s program.
Here’s something you may not have known… Tim Burton nearly directed a BEETLEJUICE sequel in the early 90′s. The script was nearly in final draft form but everything fell apart at the last minute. Now, 20-some years later, he may just get the chance again. Warner Brothers has made a deal with a couple of writers that will include, among other projects, a sequel for our favorite bio-exorcist. Very little info is available right now. There’s no director, no casting, no script. We can only hope that at the very least, Michael Keaton will reprise his role.
If you were approached in a fast food restaurant parking lot and propositioned to buy an iPad from a couple of questionable looking fellows for a to-good-to-be-true price, would you? A South Carolina woman did. And she was so trusting of the gold-toothed man who handed her a taped-up FedEx box, that she waited until she got home to open it! Needless to say, the tablet she got was made of wood. This and a KickStarter project for a Super Bowl ad round out today’s Breaking News segment and the show.

Who Asked You? – Refurbished
September 5, 2011
It’s another one of ‘those’ shows. Quite frankly, not our best work. Dennis and Jabari are a little hung over. That doesn’t excuse the rest of us, however, we work as a well oiled machine. If one of the cogs gets jammed, we all slow down. We might not be the most interesting part of this show, but our topics are sure worth a listen.
Set a course for STAR TREK: ONLINE, maximum warp! The MMO game from Cryptic Studios plans to go free-to-play before the end of this year. That works out great for those of us too cheap to pay a monthly or lifetime subscription fee. But how will it work out for those who already have? That’s one question we wonder about.
And we didn’t leave you STAR WARS folks out. More news is emerging about the Blu-ray release of the 6 films. Mainly that George Lucas is ‘refurbishing’ them once again. He’s decided to add more CGI whether it be rocks, characters or eyelids. And he’s added the same line of dialogue to the same character he did in EPISODE 3 in EPISODE 6. It was made fun of and not well received then and is already getting the same reaction again.
Once we return from a green screen far far away, it’s time for the second part of our Texas “It’s The Law” segment. We learn which town Dennis can’t move to because of his secret huffing problem, so you won’t want to miss this.
And our show ends with broken news starting with new words being added and old ones taken away from the various dictionaries we use. Words like “tweet”… yeah… I know. That dumb-ass website has had that much of an impact on our culture. I shudder at the thought… or is it shutter? I’d better look that up.
You thought HP’s Touchpads were expensive before? You should see them now. Since the computer giant decided to liquidate the failure that was WebOS they’ve been selling like crazy. So much so, on eBay they’re going for twice what they did before the price drop. One entrepreneurial fellow thought he could take advantage of some of these stupid people too by offering a crude drawing of the tablet and to his surprise, the bids — real and fake — poured in. But why wouldn’t they, after all, he does mention in his auction you get an Android version free. That’s a pretty good deal. Oh, and the drawings are done in blue pen. I hear the market for that kind of work is very strong right now.

Who Asked You? – Abersnobby & Bitch
August 29, 2011
I feel compelled to explain the parody logo pictured at left. It doesn’t come up until the end of the show, but I’ll explain it now. Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing company fond of photographing hairless young men with their pants unbuttoned is either pulling off an ingenious PR stunt or are genuinely concerned about their brand’s image. Here’s the deal, we’ve all heard of MTV’s JERSEY SHORE right? Well, it turns out “The Situation,” one of the show’s most popular characters — question mark — has been seen frequently sporting their form-fitting fabrics. And given that he’s a douche-bag of indescribable preparations, it’s only natural that Abercrombie wants to distance themselves from him. They’re willing to pay him and his cast mates lots-o-money to NOT wear their clothing. A reverse endorsement deal if you will. This raises a few questions… is A&F being too pretentious? Is this just the risk you run when you’re a clothing company? Are they justified in their concerns? It’s our question to you this week. You can vote on the poll and/or send us your thoughts via E-Mail. We’d love to have ‘em.
Before that though we have a few other stories of interest. At first, we ponder the Apple situation. Unless you live on another planet, you’ve probably heard by now that Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of his company. The Intertubes are all a flutter with the news. And we are too, for a few minutes.
Then it’s onto GHOSTBUSTERS news. The day we’ve all been dreading has arrived. Dan Aykroyd has confirmed the film will begin production next spring. He also said it’s moving ahead with or without Bill Murray. It’s no secret Murray hasn’t exactly been ecstatic about the project. He even said the script has been sitting on his desk for months and that he’d read it, eventually. We’ll tell you about a few plot elements and casting possibilities. But to be honest, we’re already feeling a lot less excited about it that Bill Murray.
Then we move along to “It’s The Law.” It’s been awhile since we did this segment and it’s back with a vengeance! The state-of-choice this time has so many moronic-mandates we have to break it up into 2-parts! Be sure to tune in next week for the other half.
And something else to look forward to next week, hopefully, is the arrival of my Roku T-Shirt!!! Hopefully they don’t listen to the crude-fest that is our little show, otherwise they may be paying me to NOT wear their clothes too… who am I kidding, I’ll probably just get a cease and desist order, if not for that, then probably for the logo above!

Who Asked You? – Entitled Americans
August 22, 2011
Are you “Livin De Life?” That’s the question posed by casino mogul and freshman rapper, A. Samuels. If you live in the United States of America… you should be. After all we’re entitled to it! Right? What about a job? Are we Americans entitled to that? Or… how about just a decent warranty on a product not made here? What starts out as a small, brief rant about the crappy warranty offered by Roku on their products, quickly escalates into one of those Charlie vs. Dennis debates about a comment I make. I get my 2-cents in as well. Charlie thinks companies that outsource to India should. Dennis and I think if the company is based in America, they should look here first to fill those call center positions. Jabari and Mike remain a bit quiet on this one. What does this have to do with the Roku’s warranty? Nothing! Absolutely nothing… it’s just one of our standard-issue tangents. We’d love your feedback on any of this. Listen to today’s show and shoot us an E-Mail with your thoughts. Oh yeah, I eventually get to my warranty rant, which brings up the question, should companies be responsible for all financial obligations associated with their product’s warranty? In other words… if the damn thing breaks or is defective, shouldn’t they cover shipping costs to send it back?
After all of that burns up half the show as it has half of this posting, it’s on to more important news. For example, Mike Myers is going to make a 4th AUSTIN POWERS feature. That’s important, right? Okay, how ’bout this… Ridley Scott is going to remak-imagi-sequel-ize BLADE RUNNER. Even after the sell of its license stated that such an act was not allowed. He made the first one, he’s ‘entitled’ to redo it, right?
TBS felt Conan O’Brien was ‘entitled’ to George Lopez’s timeslot and he got it. Nearly a year later, Lopez has been canceled and Coco’s ratings are caca. But the network that’s not shy to rerun OVERBOARD on a weekly basis isn’t giving up just yet. Aside from the $12-mill they’ve stuffed into O’Brien’s blazer pockets, they’ll be doing the same with Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and Penny. In an attempt to bolster Conan’s numbers, TBS will start playing reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY as a lead-in twice a week to CONAN. And you may remember on a previous show, we told you BANG is costing them $2-million per episode! I’m a fan of the geek-centered show. They’re entitled to it.
And in our Breaking News segment we find Starbucks pondering whether a dwarf employee of theirs is ‘entitled’ to a step stool. In El Paso, Texas… she is NOT. On her behalf, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the coffee company claiming they discriminated against the woman after she requested the height-enhancing instrument. Now they’re facing a $75,000 pay out to her and all their managers in El Paso are facing additional Americans With Disabilities Act training. Don’t worry, they’ll make up that $75-grand on the next cup of coffee sold.
And lastly, lesbians are women. And they’re ‘entitled’ to a wedding dress for their wedding day. Bridal shops that don’t agree with gay marriage are ‘entitled’ to refuse service to them, right? Wrong-oh buddy… at least, not in New Jersey. State law there prohibits businesses from refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation or lifestyle. We know this because it appeared on the bridal shop’s Yelp.com page after nearly 900 people read about the case in a Philadelphia newspaper. Pissed off, they took to the Yelp site and berated the bridal gown business, knocking it’s rating down to just 2-stars. And to make matters even more unfortunate, Yelp began removing many of the reviews. Ummm… isn’t that what Yelp is for? To review businesses on their practices and conduct so others can be informed and/or shop accordingly? Apparently Yelp forgot their own mission statement… they’re ‘entitled’ to though, right?

Who Asked You? – Poopy Pope
August 8, 2011
Ladies and gents, we have another first on this week’s show. In the nearly 4 years we’ve been doing this show, for the first time ever, one of our microphones (Dennis’ to be precise) died on-air. Well, it may have died right before we started. There’s no way to know for sure. Let this be a lesson to all podcasters… pro and amateur alike, mic check before every show. Being the consummate professional I am, the one time I don’t do a mic check (verifying all our audio levels are good and working) is the one time it bites me in the ass. Luckily for us, we had a backup microphone, which although labeled also as a bad mic, served us well. Perhaps it’s not so bad after all. So for the first 10 minutes of this week’s episode, I vanish to troubleshoot cables and connections while the guys stretch with stories of Comic-Con. Aside from Dennis and Jabari’s adventures, you’ll also hear some random popping as I mess with cables and buttons. Please disregard them.
Once I return to the show and all 5 microphones are working, it’s down to business. we start things off with a story out of Dennis’ homeland of Detroit, Michigan. It seems some city officials there spent some money they shouldn’t have on some things they probably didn’t need. No, not the Robocop statue… that’s been privately funded, remember?
From there we celebrate the 20th birthday of what I believe is the greatest invention man has ever come up with. I’ll give you a hint… you’re using it right now. You’ll get a kick out of how this immensely powerful resource got its very tiny, very humble start. And we’ll tell you who was responsible for getting the ball rolling down this “Superhighway.”
The Pope is making a visit to Spain and a company there that specializes in colored toilet paper… yes, there apparently is a company that does that… has come up with a couple-a-rolls of special edition tissue just for the occasion. This story as well as one involving a lawsuit over excessive flatulence is part of “Jenkem Watch” today. That’s our segment where we take an in-depth look at all things fart, pee and poop related. As if a lawsuit regarding over-farting is not crazy enough, you won’t believe which “former” pop star is the one being sued!
Things wrap up with a brief summary of a story we don’t have time to get into fully. And that is a town that’s up for sale in South Dakota. The elderly woman who runs the community of less than 10 residents has fallen ill and is now selling the 46-acres and buildings contained within them. For under a million bucks you can have your own zip code! Kim Basinger once did it! Now you can too. I put the question to the guys, what would you do with your own town? And as always, we encourage you to answer these questions as well. Send an E-Mail if you’d like and let us know how you’d run yours.

Who Asked You? – The Lion’s Share
August 1, 2011
Apparently there are some things we won’t talk about on our show. There is a line. You’ll have to stay tuned to the end of the show to find out what is forbidden to joke about. You know who doesn’t have a line? Yep… Hollywood. They blew it out of the water with their latest ‘adaption’ of something, BATTLESHIP. The trailer is out and the reviews are already in. All you have to do is Google it and you’ll see the perplexed tone of bloggers and reviewers alike. One of our listeners E-Mailed us this week and wanted our take on it. Official Who Asked You? stance: Hollywood dropped more than anchor on this one.
Over at Apple, they’re no longer offering CD versions of their software. Everything lives in the digital cloud now. Upsides… less waste, faster delivery, lower overhead which leads to lower cost, etc. Downsides… lets ask one, John Christman. He bought his download of Apple’s latest OS, Lion. And after downloading the latest iTunes’ beta, he proceeded to re-download all of the apps he already owned. The problem is, a glitch in either Apple or PayPal’s system charged Christman the price of Lion for the over 100 apps he’d already paid for. Christman is now totally broke and isn’t getting much help from PayPal. Apple says they’ll work with him to return the thousands of dollars he was wrongly charged. Just think, this probably wouldn’t have happened if Apple hadn’t banished hard copies of their software. It’s bad enough pleading with them to let you re-download iTunes music after your computer crashes… now you gotta do it with programs too?
On the flip side, maybe Apple is onto something… Maybe CD’s are obsolete. Ford has just announced that they’re going to stop putting CD players in their Focus models and instead ‘focus’ on connectivity options for today’s smart phones and MP3 players. It’s not surprising they’re starting this with the Focus. It’s a cheaper car aimed at the younger driver. And kids today barely know what those shiny plastic circles are. Eventually Ford says they’ll probably stop equipping all of their models with disc players making CD’s this generation’s cassette tapes.
My favorite segment returns this week. “Who Fact You?” is back with 10 more randomly chosen factoids to tickle your skull’s innards. One of the facts even includes a video! You’ll learn things like which character is missing from The Flintstones Vitamins, which planet rotates the wrong way and in the aforementioned video, how loud is the world’s loudest burp.
And one guy ‘butters’ himself up in our Breaking News segment. A somewhat bland play on words for the events that transpired in this story. Don’t wanna spoil it, so I’ll just say it involves a butter knife and do-it-yourself healthcare. This also leads to what I discover is ‘crossing the line’ with jokes. On a personal note, I’d like to take this moment to call my 4 co-hosts hypocrites.

Who Asked You? – VAG-Con ’11
July 25, 2011
There’s vagina in the house this week… in more ways than one. Yes, in a rare occurrence only known to happen on our show twice before, we’re joined by a female! Stephanie Payne runs a local social club here in Las Vegas, NV called V.A.G.I.N.A. which is an acronym for Very Awesome Girls Into Nerdy Activities. We get the low down on her club and what they do and then it’s off and running we go with the show.
First, a recap of events that took place during our week-long absence. Everyone knows Comic-Con was in full swing this week. Dennis and Jabari headed down to check things out. That’s why Stephanie, sad she didn’t get to go herself, is filling in for them. We chat about the convention, what we’ve heard and share some thoughts on the CAPTAIN AMERICA movie and brief AVENGERS teaser at the end of the credits. Other news that happened… Netflix raised their prices and took a lot of flack for it. In an attempt to do their customers a favor, the company got bitched at by those who feel they’re entitled. If you look into why they raised the price ONLY for customers who also receive DVD’s, you’ll realize the ones you should be pissed at are the movie studios. If you’re a streaming only customer with Netflix, your price didn’t change.
Another story on the our radar is one of our own! Not only did we hit 800 ‘Likes’ on Facebook, but this episode also marked Charlie’s 3rd anniversary as a host.
Our first big story of the day is quite a catch. The man who caught Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit will likely get hit with some hefty taxes even though he gave the $300,000 ball back to Jeter. As a thank you for doing so, the Yankees awarded the guy with luxury box tickets and signed merch worth over $30,000. And the Internal Rape Service says that stuff counts as income! So they’re taxing him between 5 and 13-grand, but get this, he says he’ll pay it! It’s the subject of this week’s “We Ask You Poll.” Should he have to pay taxes on it? Cast your vote!
It’s no secret the Who Asked You? Crew grew up in the 90′s. That’s why when we heard Nickelodeon was bringing back a bunch of shows from that decade in a midnight block called THE 90′s ARE ALL THAT, we were jumping up and down on the proverbial Snick couch. The trip down adolescent-memory lane begins tonight at midnight!
Also in the news, director Joe Johnston wants to make a STAR WARS spin-off movie. He says he’s been bugging George Lucas to let him make it, but so far no decision has been made. It would center on a character we’ve already met in the original trilogy. In fact, it’s one Johnston helped design when he was an art director for Lucas on the films.
Sometimes an apple a day is not the best course. Rumors are flying! Now that Hulu is up-for-sale, it’s believed that Apple may put in a bid. After all, the company is sitting on over $65-billion. It’s the second most valuable company in the world… god knows why… but I fear if this is true and Apple ends up buying Hulu, it could be absorbed into iTunes somehow. And iTunes sucks… there’s a Facebook Page that says so. I’m getting way ahead of myself here. Most likely Apple will not buy Hulu. They’re not known for making large acquisitions. Then again, they have made a few in the past.
Something Apple hasn’t invested in is a retail store in Kunming, China. Yet, a blogger who returned home from a worldwide excursion discovered one that just popped up in her neighborhood. It seemed legit… but she blogged that upon closer inspection, something wasn’t right. Despite that, she says the store was a pretty good rip off. Even the employees are fooled. As far as they know, they actually work for the black turtleneck.
We end the show with Breaking News… perhaps one of the craziest stories we’ve heard in a while. It comes courtesy of Russia and a gal, appropriately named, Olga. Such a powerful female presence that name commands, doesn’t it? Olga lives up to her name too. She’s a black belt in karate. That’s why when a guy entered her salon and tried to rob it, she dropped him to the floor with one kick. But getting beat up by a girl wasn’t the end of this guy’s adventure. Olga had other plans… tune in to hear all about them.

Who Asked You? – The Bone Clause
July 11, 2011
Once again, and totally unintentional I might add, we bring you a strange show. What I mean by that is every so often, cosmic phenoms align and we have one of those episodes that’s just a little off. The stories are not quite the caliber we’re accustomed to, little technical issues go awry, we talk over each other only to stop so the other can speak, but then they don’t resulting in awkward silence, jokes fall flat, but become funny for that reason… the list goes on. And as the show goes on, we get sucked further and further into this bizarre vortex of perplexed-podcasting. Who knows, you may not even be able to tell. If that’s the case… what does that say about our show? I’ll philosophize on that later.
First up on this slightly off eppy, a reason why you should always rehearse stuff before going on-air. All I wanted to do was show the fellas a funny little game I downloaded on my phone. My goal was to include you listeners in on the fun by letting you hear the sound from the game. Easy enough… all I had to do was plug in a cable to the headphone jack on my phone. What I didn’t anticipate was that the silicone case on said phone had a slightly smaller diameter hole for the headphone port than the cable. So it wouldn’t quite plug all the way into the jack. Without going too in-depth, you don’t get to hear very much of the game and it throws off my entire presentation.
After that debacle comes a Dennis-derailment involving a YouTube comments argument he got into with some kid over the origin story of Wolverine and the makeup of his claws. As you can imagine, this spawns another 15-minute conversation revolving around Marvel’s uncanny ability to F-up one story line after another.
Once the show actually reaches the meat portion, things remain a little iffy. The first story of the day is Daniel Radcliffe’s admission that he started to develop an alcohol problem during the last 3 Harry Potter films. Luckily, he says he nipped it in the butt before it got out of hand and now prefers to spend his off hours watching basic cable.
You know us… we love penises……… wait, that didn’t sound right at all. We love ‘STORIES’ involving penises. Usually funny ones where someone does something awful to their member or in this case, a non-sensical study is released containing information that some would debate is not scientifically valid despite said study. Scientists in South Korea have apparently found a correlation between finger length and phallic length. Apparently curing cancer or AIDS is further down the checklist these days than finding out why your dick doesn’t measure up to a porn star’s. These Korean scientists say that the bigger the difference in length between your index and ring finger, the shorter your schlong is likely to be. Who in the Asked You Crew is packin’? Tune in to find out!
Justin Bieber, Mike’s favorite person ever, has blipped on our radar this week. He made the cover of February’s VANITY FAIR magazine. And in doing so, made their records as one of the worst selling issues. He came in 3rd on the list. You’ll want to hear who made the top-2 spots.
We wind down the weirdness over the new technique networks are using to make even more money. They’re digitally altering sitcom reruns like, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, by inserting ads in the backgrounds. An audio bit I came up with last minute gets Jabari rolling with laughter only second so far to the great HOME ALONE banter from the episode called “Heez-Its.” And we debate whether this is a harmless, additional revenue stream for the show owners or a corruption of a program’s story and continuity. Listen to the story and if you have any thoughts on it. By all means, send us an E-Mail.

Who Asked You? – Drop Kick A Mexican Kid
July 4, 2011
You learn so much listening to our high decibel chatter every week. And this week’s program doesn’t disappoint. For example, somewhere in the middle of the show we learn that Mike and Dennis shared an interesting evening together that Mike would rather not talk about on-air. It’s not quite what it sounds like though. It was a movie night. The questionable element to the evening’s activities though was the movie itself. Not exactly something you’d expect 2 bros to watch.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not even sure how we got onto that topic. This show is much less ‘in order’ than most others. We start off with an update to a “Jenkem Watch” story last week. The homeless man that fled the scene after he was caught hiding in a Porta-Potty’s receptacle tank was caught by police. And yes, as you might expect from someone who doesn’t mind rolling around in poo, he is completely insane. Due to his comments to a Denver news station, we deviate to playing the sound an American Bald Eagle makes.
Since the first Saturday of the month just passed, another free screening of a corny movie took place at the Rave Theaters here in Las Vegas. This month’s selection… the 1990 version of CAPTAIN AMERICA. We were an hour early and the line for this was wrapped around the building! Charlie cut in line, the rest of us did not. After estimating the people-to-seat ratio, Jabari, Mike, Dennis and I decided to hit the bar instead. Since Charlie did make it inside, he fills us in on the film’s hilarity as well as some that took place in the theater crowd. Apparently many of the folks in that ginormous line we didn’t stand in didn’t realize these midnight movie showings get riffed on heavily. As Charlie explains, there were some walkouts. So in hindsight, there probably was enough seats for everyone.
One of our loyal-listeners who hasn’t been in touch with us for some time finally does get back in contact via E-Mail. He blasts his way through various topics we’ve addressed in recent weeks before ending with an assessment of Charlie’s Marty McFly impression.
Just before “New Releases,” which we don’t get to until halfway through the show, the chat room asks us about the debacle in San Franscisco that was MoviePass. Basically, a subscription based service offering low movie ticket prices to customers launched a beta test in San Fran, but failed to tell the local theater chains about it. As you might have guessed, the whole test imploded in on itself and is now in limbo.
Because we run short on time, we jump right into “Breaking News” with the story of the band P.M.E.R. These fellas had what one might describe as a rough night in their new Brooklyn apartment. An understatement to say the least. They got robbed. And it’s really no surprise why given their location. There were also several red flags they chose to ignore, including a 15-minute gun battle in the street below shortly after they moved there. Tune into the show for all the details on this one.
Working backwards, stories meant for the start of the show actually end it. Those include another movie based on a classic Disney ride, a movie based on a non-fiction pregnancy manual and an awesome idea for fast food joints that we hope will quickly sweep the nation.

Who Asked You? – What’s That Smell?
June 27, 2011
We are out of practice when it comes to not talking over each other. That’s according to Charlie on this week’s show. And I have to kind of agree with him. When we first started Who Asked You? and placed some clips on YouTube, the comments weren’t kind. One that stood out above all others was that we talked over each other too much. We worked on it, got better at it and now once again, suck at it. We’ll work on it some more.
There’s good reason this week though that we’re stepping all over each other. There’s a lot to talk about! After Charlie gives us his short and sweet review of the Electric Daisy Carnival and how he stood in line for 3-hours to get in on the first night, we review Jabari’s policies on seeing awful films, then dive into the show with a story from the people who usually bring us the headlines, a local news station in Salt Lake City, Utah. A new series from NBC based on the Playboy Club of the 1960′s in Chicago has got KSL-TV’s garments in a twist. The station is owned by the Mormon Church and as a result, they want nothing to do with the Playboy brand. They refuse to air the new show called, THE PLAYBOY CLUB when it debuts this Fall. Oddly, NBC isn’t pressuring them. Perhaps because they don’t want a PR wrath of Biblical proportions to come down on them from religious groups. The Peacock Network assures us though they’ll look to other broadcast outlets in the Salt Lake market to air the program for them… there’s always The CW! They’ll air anything! As you can imagine before even pressing play, we (more accurately Mike and Charlie) launch into another deep convo about perceptions of religion and so forth. I think some of you may be getting tired of such debates. If the ErrorFM chat room is any indication, you are. While the back and forth was going on, at least 6 people left the room without warning. Server timeout? Perhaps, or at least, I’d like to think so. Rest assured, we’ve made note of this phenomenon and will try and limit these discussions in the future even if the chat room rapture had nothing to do with show events… just to be on the safe side. If you are or aren’t fond of these types of discussions, you’re more than welcome to tell us in a listener E-Mail.
Enough of that. The next item on the agenda stinks… literally. It reeks worse than that bland, overused pun I just made. In an attempt to keep the stupid gimmicks-a-flowin’ in theaters, Dimension Films is planning to roll out what they’re calling “Aromascope” with the premier of Robert Rodriguez’s, SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD. The idea is simple, yet incredibly dumb. With your movie ticket you’ll receive a scratch and sniff card. During the film a number will flash on the screen prompting you to scratch the corresponding box and smell the scent, putting you in the movie’s environment! Yeah right… I’ll find it difficult to immerse myself in a film’s smelly scene when that card is competing with the theater’s standard aromas of burnt popcorn and the fat guy one row back who just blew ass. The only saving grace of this gimmick is that it won’t cost any extra. Really??? Gee, thanks Hollywood! Paying $11 for a substandard comic book rip off written by an asshole in the writer’s guild who doesn’t deserve to be there has me on the fence every time… but a card I can sniff all through a movie at no additional cost? I’m sold! I’ll be there, first in line, front row, for every new release from this day onward. Don’t be surprised though if I’m huffing a Sharpie marker and not your retarded piece of paper.
It seemed only appropriate while on the subject of stimulating one’s nose that our newest, favorite-ist segment pinches one off to round out the show. Ladies and gentlemen, this week returns, “Jenkem Watch.” The segment that’s quite literally, full of shit. Whenever there’s a story that involves feces or flatulence, we’re on it, remaining anything but silent and deadly. This edition brings us 2 turds. First, a poopy-person on the loose in Boulder, Colorado! He was spotted at a yoga festival… inside a Porta-Potty tank. That’s right. He went where the poo goes. A woman noticed something moving inside and summoned security. When the man finally emerged, he was covered in dooky. There was little security could do to subdue him until police arrived, after all, who wants to touch a guy covered in crap? So he got away but was eventually caught… and hopefully hosed off.
The other doody-ditty comes to us from New Hampshire. An apartment complex there is making Gil Grissom jealous with there crime scene “clean up” or lack there of. Residents of the complex are having a hard time picking up after their pooches. So in an attempt to get them to, the property manager has enlisted the help of a doggy DNA company. Whenever there’s an unclaimed pile, she takes a sample and sends it to the lab for testing. It’s compared to samples residents were required to submit and bingo, like bullet striations, things line up and the culprit is caught. Is this going a little too far? That’s the question posed to the guys. Lets just hope this doesn’t show up in a scene of CSI in “Aromascope.”

Who Asked You? – Bulimi-O’s
June 20, 2011
“Leroy’s Hot Chocolate,” “Beef Stew,” “Heez-Its,” these are all past episode titles having to do with food. Someday we’ll have at least 1 show named for every type of food and perhaps every food group. Today’s selection… cereal. It seems the RTE or ready-to-eat cereal industry is nearing the bottom of the box with all the flake crumbs and cinnamon seasoning. Kellogg, one of the leaders in cold cereal is seeing a steep drop in sales. Today, we spoon up our thoughts on why cereal hasn’t been as recession proof as so many thought it would be. And for about the 9th time in Who Asked You? history we run down the list of cereals we could eat on a ‘cereal’ basis and those we can’t stand for reasons ranging from tasting like styrofoam to bodily injury to the roof of one’s mouth.
Before the frosted-flake-frivolity begins we have a few brief announcements including news of a new online show Dave Chappelle is working on and Rebecca Black’s horrid music video being offered now as a rental on YouTube. Plus, for weeks now a listener and friend of the show has been trying to send an E-Mail comment. Oddly it wouldn’t go through. He contacted the Who Asked You? tech support and even they were puzzled. Eventually he was forced to send it via a Facebook message. Why would this one listener E-Mail not make it to our website’s inbox? Tune in and it’ll all become clear. Turns out, he really just wanted to hear me read it in my silky Emmy-quality voice.
As you’ll hear me warn before reading it, the cereal story takes up a good portion of the show. As a result when we reach the bottom of the bowl on that one there’s really only time for one more headline. In the Show Links you’ll find an image of a sign that ‘appears’ to be posted on the entrance to a McDonald’s restaurant. This picture has been around the Twitter block thousands of times already and still continues to forward on. Read it and you’ll quickly figure out why it’s so popular and why McDonald’s public relations department isn’t laughing.
On rare occasion we find ourselves filling the last few minutes of the show with bullshit. Granted, that could be said about the entire show, but sometimes there’s not quite enough time to get into another segment and our steam on the previous bit has run out. In the broadcast biz it’s called “stretching.” You’ve probably heard the term. Luckily we have Arnold to help us do it. Sometimes this can be the most entertaining part of our program. Will it be this time? You’ll have to wait and see. Or you could do the podcast equivalent of ravaging the cereal box right after opening it to get the toy by skipping to the last 5-minutes of the show… your choice.

Who Asked You? – Wii Would Like To SUe
June 13, 2011
I dribbled peanut butter on my nice clean shirt this morning… I hate it when I spill shit on fresh clothes before the day is even started. Sometimes it’s a prelude to what the day is going to be like. I can only speculate what Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata spilled on his shirt the day he unveiled at E3, his company’s next console?… Question mark? The Wii U is, simply put, an HD version of the existing Wii with a tablet controller. On this week’s episode we spend nearly half the show going over what we think Nintendo’s logic is on this one. Are they being innovative? Are they just trying to survive? Is it all just too gimmicky? These questions aren’t just being posed by us… but by Nintendo’s share holders as well. Their stock nose-dived after the announcement and Iwata is puzzled as to why. I’ve always defended the Wii. I think it’s a great little console. I also think, however, Nintendo didn’t do enough with it to be competitive. For example, they never utilized the USB ports. They never developed the online gameplay very much and so on. The Wii U, as you’ll hear on the show, is best described as a giant DS. Which by the way, was supposed to save the company with its 3D version. Yeeeaaahhh… that never happened. People didn’t want to pay $250 for a handheld they already owned. Come on Nintendo. Now you expect them to pay for a console that’s almost the same as the previous one, just now with a touch screen controller? And lets not forget, if that controller gets dropped or busted it’s not going to be a simply 20-bucks to replace like the normal Wii Remote. No prices were announced by Nintendo, much to the annoyance of E3 attendees, but this controller alone is probably gonna cost $100 or more. The Wii U is due out sometime in the second half of next year. We’ll see then if Nintendo has a continue left or if it’s game over.
We throw in some 3D news that’s not surprising and nobody is thrilled about like Hollywood expects you to be. And MTV reveals it’s canceled a rather revealing show.
Then it’s onto our next spirited discussion. This one revolves around Best Buy throwing a tantrum like a 4 year-old in Wal-Mart because NewEgg.com called them dumb and stole their black and orange crayons to do a new logo. Best Buy, sending a cease and desist order, claims the “Geek On” logo NewEgg is using violates their copyright. The big-box retailer says they had the term “geek” first with their after-school employment program for teens called “Geek Squad.” They also say NewEgg’s commercial is mean spirited and doesn’t convey the truth concerning how knowledgeable Best Buy’s staff is about their products. We say, the commercial is absolutely true. Watch it below in the Show Links and judge for yourself. Dennis worked for Best Buy as a youth, so he has insider info as to the goings-on behind those blue polos. And yes, it’s as bad as you’d expect.
Now comes the even louder part of the show. In our “Breaking News” segment we introduce you to a woman who’s suing Dunkin’ Donuts because they put sugar in her coffee sending her into diabetic shock. We raise some questions though. The most obvious of which is, why in the hell are you in Dunkin’ Donuts if you’re diabetic? That’s just the first of many as we rebuke this woman’s claim. If you’re that sensitive to sugar, you shouldn’t leave it up to a donut shop employee to insure your drink is properly sweetened. What do you think? Feel free to comment below, or send us an E-Mail. And that goes for any of the topics we discuss. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to remove all traces of Nintendo from my stock portfolio and then try and get that last green star on Mario Galaxy 2.

Who Asked You? – Assisted Who-icide
June 6, 2011
Nowadays studios are making comic book movies so fast we can all barely keep up. They can’t seem to release them fast enough, a stark contrast to the mid-90s when one studio in particular, New Horizons, made a FANTASTIC 4 film for the sole purpose of retaining the rights to it and they never even released the movie to the public. It was simply made so that they would be able, in the future, to make a real FANTASTIC 4 movie if they wanted to. I think that sentence should’ve ended with a question mark. Anyway, a local comic book store in conjunction with our local Rave Theaters cineplex offer free, B-movie showings the first Saturday of every month at midnight. We were there this time and they showed this rare, unreleased fantastic flick. Fantastically bad that is. Produced by Roger Corman, whose portfolio seems to fill SyFy’s airtime these days, these 4 were a violation to the 5 senses. Yes, even taste and smell. Candy soured in the mouth and the theater stunk of disbelief at what we were seeing. Luckily the masterminds behind these screenings encourage loud commentary and there was no shortage of it to say the least. Even if they didn’t, I think people still would’ve added their own riffing anyway. A review of this 1994 epic tops our show today.
From a bad movie to bad TV we go with news of pirate-themed dramas coming to Fox and FX. Capitalizing on the 4th Pirates movie? Or just trying to get a pirate fad going like the zombie one that’s currently — excuse the pun — dying out… Maybe both? We can expect the series on Fox un-cleverly titled/spelled, PYRATES, to set sail next summer. PORT ROYAL, the series FX is working on, has no air date as of yet. Too bad we couldn’t keep it that way, yahrrrr!
Dennis then launches an impromptu discussion of X-MEN FIRST CLASS. Out of the group, Charlie is the only one who has seen it. Although its ticket sales didn’t reach those of the X-MEN trilogy, the reviews have been fairly kind. Charlie enjoyed the movie, although he admits he’s not really a fan of Professor X and friends. A word of caution as you listen the show, the thought arises that although this movie doesn’t follow official cannon either, it could be viewed as an alternate timeline like the many versions found in the actual comic books. This leads to another conversation about JJ Abrams’ STAR TREK. You’ll be happy to know, it is kept brief. After an entire episode on the film, as well as it coming up randomly on several others, we’re trying not to subject you folks to anymore of what you already know.
The next bit on this episode is bad. You win some, you lose some. What I thought would be a fun little exercise of ‘guess what’ turns out to be a bigger bomb than a segment we used to have called, “Who Fucked You?”. I won’t waste anymore blog space here explaining. It’s pretty dull and only takes up a few minutes of the show, so bare with us.
Ironically, things liven up during our next story about Dr. Death. If you weren’t one of his patients, that means you lived through the 90s and are probably familiar with his real name, Jack Kevorkian. He died this past week at 83. He was best known for assisting terminally ill patients end their own lives. He went to court for the practice and stirred up a lot of debate on the subject of assisted suicide. He certainly stirs it up on our show as well. But, not so much for the practice itself. You see, we all agree, assisted suicide shouldn’t be illegal, although their should be strict guidelines in place to keep it civil. What we don’t agree on is the difference in rights between humans and animals when it comes to euthanasia. Unlike the ‘guess what’ segment mentioned above, I knew this one would generate dialogue. Who believes what when it comes to the difference between animals, people and suicide? You might be surprised. One thing is for sure… it would have been handy to have Dr. Kevorkian nearby during Roger Corman’s FANTASTIC 4.

Who Asked You? – Are You Rap-sure?
May 23, 2011
Alright, so you’re reading this which means God didn’t suck you up into the sky in a blaze of golden light and rich choir ahhhs. It also means that somewhere, Harold Camping is crawling under a rock and plans to remain there for eternity. While one biblical event slipped by, another was taking place. A woman on our show! Now the way I said that sounds like we are vag-deprived and creepy. The truth is, it’s tough getting a female on who enjoys our brand of humor and whose schedule compliments ours. But the stars aligned, timing worked out, Dennis and Jabari couldn’t make it and so their seats were filled with our friends Wendy and once again, Chad. And finally Chad opens up and actually talks on the show. He was on twice before and said a grand total of 5 sentences. If someone out there goes back and actually counts that, I’d be impressed, because I just guessed and am too lazy to actually check myself.
It took no time at all for the Rapture jokes to hit the web and even more so, Facebook. In an instantaneous Photoshop frenzy there were even depictions of the late Macho Man Randy Savage — who had died the day before — coupled with Jesus in various WWE poses. No time was wasted posting the Jesus-jabs from leaving empty clothing in a public place, to a Dominos Pizza deal good only for Rapture Day. The Intertubes had it all!
From the Rapture to racism we float with another edition of “What Is Michael Bay Up To?” A nerd-rant E-Mail came in this week going off on those who sacked the visceral sack birth idea shown in TRANSFORMERS-2. The point made by our listener was that these ‘sacks’ weren’t conjured up by the Bay-inator as many fans believed, but instead were first mentioned in one of the older cartoon series. To which this E-Mailer argued, you aren’t aloud to complain about them unless you know the franchise yourself. Before you go off on something that isn’t cannon… make sure that it isn’t actually cannon.
But it’s not just jelly-covered embryonic robots people were pissed about in the second film. They weren’t too fond of Bay’s blatant racist robot duo, Skids and Mudflap. Both of which could reference something brown. Well Mr. Bay heard your fist shaking and vowed that these Transformers wouldn’t be in the next movie. And if you can find them in it, he’ll pay you a hefty cash reward. More on this during today’s show.
While we’re on the subject of large sums of money… let us talk now about Seth MacFarlane. Fox has dumped an enormous amount of money into this funny fellow. In return he’s given them 3 television shows, with just 1 of those actually being any good. But that could change in a couple of years. MacFarlane could have 2 hits come 2013 when he revives our Bedrock buddies Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. A long time coming, MacFarlane will finally get his chance to put his twisted twist on the 60′s Hanna-Barbera animation. We ponder the possibilities of what this show will be like. Good, clean, family fun like the original? Probably not. Funny-ass toilet humor run amok? Probably. Will it do the franchise justice? That’s the 900-pound Stegosaurus in the room. As clever and as funny as FAMILY GUY is, we can’t help but think Seth is going to ‘dirty it up’ with his crude humor. Not that it won’t be funny. But is THE FLINTSTONES really an appropriate platform for it? They make vitamins for kids! A million strong and growing for Christ sake… oops, please don’t take me! The 21st has past! It’s too early to judge and in all honesty we’ll be watching, curious to see what he does with it.
Did I mention we have a FEMALE sitting in today? Wendy is from Hawaii… so what better way to honor her presence than with some hilarious Hawaiian laws. Not the strangest we’ve heard, there are a few though that are worth a couple-a-coconuts. Some Wendy doesn’t even believe are real. “It’s The Law” winds up this episode. With all this Rapture-talk the last few days we need some time to repent so we’re taking next week off. You can come back though June 5th and we’ll have several more new reasons to guarantee our spot in hell.

Who Asked You? – Two And A Half Men In Black
May 16, 2011
Did you know that May is National Masturbation Month? Well now you do. That little tidbit is just a taste of what’s on the show today. We start things off with an ‘observational’ E-Mail from a listen. Not quite hate, not quite a suggestion… just something they’ve noticed about Charlie. This spawns one of those quarter-show conversations about what is and isn’t taboo on Who Asked You?. As hard as it is to believe, there are just 2 topics we try and steer clear of on our quaint little podcast. The keyword there is try. If you’re a longtime listener, you probably know what they are. And if you’re not, tune in to find out. Of course, they’ve come up on the show. And we’re not trying to avoid them completely. They’re just things we know a lot of folks are passionate about and we don’t want to blow a whole show on them. Believe me, we easily could. But in moderation, they’re okay.
Speaking of moderation… at the end of today’s eppy we break some news on Will Smith. It appears Big Willie has a big trailer on the set of MIB III and those living in the surrounding neighborhood where they’re shooting the film aren’t climbing aboard. The monstrosity has more square feet than the average apartment. And speaking of apartments… while Smith has this 22-wheeled luxury wagon blocking the road, he’s renting an apartment just a few blocks away. So you can see why residents aren’t pulling for his gigantor trailer. The New York City Mayor’s Office has already made him move it.
Other stories of intrigue include a re-screener of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy next month. You thought your bladder was safe didn’t you? You thought, I made it through all 3, I’ll never have to again. Well you were wrong! Peter Jackson has decided to pull a George Lucas and return his biggest hits to theaters for 1 night only each. And they’ll be the extended cut versions averaging around 4 hours long each! For the love of god don’t order the large soda!
Then Mr. Pesci elegantly tells a certain actor to vacate the premises in a segment we call, “Get The Fuck Outta Here”. CBS just can’t let it go. They’re determined to drag the rotting carcass that is TWO AND A HALF MEN on even longer without its principal player. Instead, he’ll be replaced by someone incredibly annoying. I’m not going to type out his name here and he won’t appear in this posting’s keywords either. You’ll have to tune in to hear why.
NBC is probably ‘wondering’ about now why they footed the bill for a WONDER WOMAN pilot. The David E. Kelly-produced show was just too branded with his style. At least, that’s according to some close to it. It’s amazing the show went to pilot to begin with. NONE of the networks were interested, well, except for the peacock. And when it came down to it, even they were like, mmmm…. yeaaahhh… ummm… nooooo. So we’ll have to look for Adrianne Palicki’s gorgeous face somewhere else. I wonder if she gets to keep the hot pants costume? Is she married? Damn, her husband is a lucky son of a bitch.

Who Asked You? – Heez-Its
May 9, 2011
What defines a douche bag? How does one know he is, in fact, a douche? These are questions we work to solve at the start of today’s show. Spawned from a comment in the ErrorFM chat room, Charlie runs down a checklist of what constitutes someone as the feminine hygiene device’s namesake.
Because of Mother’s Day, both Mike and Dennis were absent… spending time with their mommies… getting their nails and hair done. So holding down the Who Asked You? HQ blanket fort is myself, Jabari, Charlie and the man-of-few-words, Chad. Concerns of filling the hour while down a man are quickly put to rest as we’re barely chipping away at new DVDs halfway through the show.
Other topics of interest this week are those we didn’t get to last week… which was pretty much the entire rundown. Starting things off is a roughly translated hate mail aimed at Jabari. Charlie opens his box of Cheez-Its while I implore you all to take our PodTrac survey to help us get advertising. Then we roll through the new releases for the week and we’re off and running with the meat of the show. The first slice is all about BILL AND TED. You may remember the 2 bonehead teenagers who traveled to the past in a time machine phone booth with George Carlin? Boy, that logline just screeches 80s doesn’t it? Anyway, it’s being reported — and even tweeted by the stars themselves — that a script for a 3rd trip through time is in the works. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter would reprise their roles as the bodacious duo. Little is known about the plot. Although both actors have said it would be a continuation of the franchise, not a reboot. Whew! That’s nice to hear. Besides, they’re both in their 40s. Only the CW can pass off middle-aged actors as teenagers. So it’d have to be a ‘where are they now’ spin.
Of course, age doesn’t stop every actor from taking a role. For example, there’s a packaged deal making its way around the studios in Hollywood that would reboot the TERMINATOR franchise, and Arnold WOULD return as our favorite cyborg! According to the deal made when the rights were auctioned to the highest bidder, the current owners, Pacificor, have to make another movie or else they lose the rights. And guess who those rights will default to if they don’t?
We’re finally hearing from Nintendo that a new console will succeed the Wii sometime next year. The question I posed to the fellas is what features they’d like to see in it. The consensus was… fun games. The thing can have all the bells and whistles imaginable. It can create eye-catching high def graphics at super fast frame rates, it can have the most ergonomic controller ever held… hell, it can do you laundry… but if the games aren’t worth a shit, then the console isn’t either. That’s what we think. What about you? Look to the right and tell us what features you’d like to see in the next Nintendo. Or you can send us an E-Mail. One thing is certain, with revenues falling over 50% and so many more gaming choices these days, Nintendo is certainly going to have to ‘up their game’ to stay competitive.
And the show ends with the hardest laughter ever recorded on our program. These eppies don’t come around too often. It’s a story about the house used in the HOME ALONE movies. It’s up for sale. From there, we do our usual Who Asked You? improvisation regarding how the real HOME ALONE story would’ve gone. Think what they did with THE DARK KNIGHT. It got very gritty, dark and realistic compared to the previous Batman films. So too does out interpretation of Kevin McCallister’s booby-trap antics. In our scenario the little squirt falls victim to some hellacious beatings and torture by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. Even his mother is raped when she bursts through the front door. All caught on tape with Kevin’s Talkboy. It’s official, we’ve never laughed so hard on the show before. This one goes in the record book. You’ll have to stay tuned to the end for all the fun!

Who Asked You? – Osama Bin Laden Is Dead
May 2, 2011
It’s strange how things can change in the blink of an eye. In terms of news and events that we would talk about on our show, this past week was pretty bad. In fact, it was probably the worst on record. Luckily, to help fill time our Australian bureau chief, Marshall Davis joined us via Skype. We really felt like CNN. We had someone talking to us from another country and there was even that 2-second delay between question and answer. And then, halfway through the show, the news comes in that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. We broke the story LIVE on-the-air! Now we were really gettin’ into the cable news net groove. Minus all the R-Rated jokes and cussing. Like all things on the Internet, you have to take them with a grain of salt. And that’s what we did. Coincidentally, one of our listeners in the chat room is also an employee of a local news station in California and was able to confirm the news during the show.
That’s probably the only real news spoken of on this insanely random edition. You’ll hear me tease some stories at the top of the show… yeah… just ignore that, because we don’t get to any of it. I’m not even sure how to continue this post. Usually I lay out the stories and such in order, but our conversation is all over the place. Not that that is a bad thing. It’s fun to let loose and go off the beaten path on occasion.
The Show Links below pretty much sum up what gets airtime this week. A brief discussion about Pandora’s functionality with cell phones, the Royal Wedding, Brent Spiner’s new web series on YouTube called FRESH HELL plus Charlie’s shout out for a new Sherlock Holmes series Marshall had recommended to him.
The conversation drifts from topic to topic never really settling too long on one subject. So get ready. Osama Bin Laden is dead but that’s not stopping us from bombarding you with more random bullshit than he was bullets. So you see… what started out as — for us — the slowest news week ever, turned into our most random show ever.

Who Asked You? – Happy Easter Bidet
April 25, 2011
I thought about starting this post with some overused Easter pun like, “We’ve got an ‘egg’cellent show today!” But that would just be lame. Plus, although this show falls around Easter, it’s not really an ‘Easter show’ per say. Mike, being the spiritual fellow he is, is out this week. So our good pal Chad sits in. And we can not shut him up. Chad takes over the entire show and doesn’t stop talking. He’s the most boisterous guest host we’ve ever had… once again, sarcasm fails to convey via text. Chad says like 3 things the entire show. What does he comment on? Here’s what’s in the lineup.
Kohler has unveiled a technological marvel of human waste disposal. It’s called the NUMI, and it is perhaps the most advanced toilet ever conceived. I would say it does everything but wipe your ass… but it actually does. To be accurate, there’s no robo-arm that reaches up to clear the spackle. But there is a robo-bidet that washes it away. For you uncultured folks out there, a bidet is a water jet that spritzes your butthole after you lay your Easter eggs in their watery basket. It leaves you feeling refreshed and mildly violated. Anywho, Kohler’s toilet does it all… transforms, heats your feet and cheeks, plays music, lights up and more! Just make sure you’re ready to drop some major bones on this throne.
From a place to shit, to a night out that went to shit; our next story tells the tale of 2 college students charged with theft after leaving a bar in Pennsylvania without leaving a tip. All the details are in this week’s show. But simply put, they felt the ‘required’ gratuity on the receipt was not earned by their crappy waitress. As a result the police became involved. This leads to a lengthy discussion about whether or not tipping should be mandatory and shampoo. Yeah, tune in to hear that segue.
Bugs Bunny definitely took a wrong turn at Albuquerque. He and several of his Looney Tunes pals are getting a facelift, relocation and reboot thanks to CARTOON NETWORK. The show finds Bugs and Daffy as roommates. With its sitcom feel, the program’s goal is to bring these classic characters into the 21st century. Unfortunately, I don’t think their plan is going to work. And the guys agree. The show starts airing next month and I’ll tune in to see the end result of 2 years worth of development. But I’m not holding out hope. This show, going off the promo clips on their website, reeks of DRAWN TOGETHER, only more slapstick. Fifty years ago, whodda thought perhaps the greatest cartoon characters ever created would eventually end up living in a neighborhood dealing with current-day issues in a sitcom/reality show spoof?
And in a move that could devastate the motion picture industry — and we’re not talking about the next X-Men movie — the studios are in talks with cable companies to start offering theatrically released films on-demand, at home, just 2-months after they premiere on the big screen. That’s 2-months shy of the normal wait period. As you might have guessed, directors aren’t happy. They weren’t consulted and are afraid this move could kill ticket sales and promote piracy. What do you think? Feel free to send us your thoughts. Michael Bay, James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez and several others have written an open letter to the studios begging them to not move forward. But as box office numbers continue to decline, as do DVD sales and more folks would rather see stuff for free online, because lets face it, movies these days aren’t worth the $10, the studios are basically panicking. They, along with the directors don’t seem to realize, shit in, shit out. This whole plan could and probably will decimate the industry’s revenues. But then again, it could just be the proverbial bidet to clean up the shit.

Who Asked You? – Kind Koncerned Konservatives
April 18, 2011
A stark contrast to last week’s unusual, somewhat quite show, this week is loud, constant and full of awesome! There’s a number of things that have our levels peaking on the board; a 21 JUMP STREET movie, our dream plastic surgeries, blatant racism… it’s all here.
First is that movie based on the TV series that ran in the late 80s to early 90s and starred Johnny Depp. This may have come up on a past episode when it was still being developed. I honestly don’t remember. I think we all (including you) may have blocked such horridness from our memories. In any case, the project is ‘jumping’ forward. They’ve pretty much rounded out the cast and will probably start shooting soon. I won’t list the cast here, I want you to tune in for that. Suffice it to say, it’s an interesting group of people they’ve signed up. Here’s a little teaser clue for ya… one of them once burned their penis on the set of another movie.
A scorched trouser snake probably could use some reconstructive plastic surgery. And “According To A New Study” there’s no reason for the fellas to feel embarrassed about getting a little nip and tuck done these days. In fact, the number of guys going under the knife has increased dramatically. And the reasons why are sad and worrying.
Our big story of the day comes to us from Orange County, courtesy of one, Marilyn Davenport. It’s also the inspiration for this show’s title. Notice the spelling? It appears the lovely Davenport is coming under political fire for a “joke” E-Mail image she sent to a few friends. The image portrays President Obama as a monkey….. yep… a monkey. And Miss Davenport claims the racial context of the image never entered her mind… yet in a written apology states she only sent it to a few friends who she thought wouldn’t be offended… umm… yeah… that means you knew it would be perceived as offensive to some and you didn’t want to send it to them, just your other racist pals does it not? There’s been a call from the Orange County GOP leader for Davenport to step down from her position. And as you might imagine, there’s a lot of regular folks who are asking her to stop ‘monkeying around’ and hit the road as well. What makes matters even worse in this case is that just 2 years ago an Orange County mayor resigned after sending a Photoshopped picture of the White House with a watermelon patch in front of it to all of his E-Mail buddies. And Davenport defended him!
These kinds of stories are the best fodder for our show. They generate not only discussion, laughter and thought, but also decibels. If you’re a regular listener you know that Mike is the first to call “racism” on any given story. Hell, we’ve now got him saying it on the sound board! He doesn’t let us down this time either. Don’t get me wrong, he’s absolutely on point and so the flame of good show is fueled.
As always we wrap things up with the unusual happenings around the world in “Breaking News.” First a man who may need some of that aforementioned plastic surgery. He didn’t burn his junk like the 21 JUMP STREET star, no no… he lost it! Details are in this week’s show. And then Clear Channel, who owns a shit-ton of billboards around the world, creates a little unintentional irony with an ad for a certain TV show on the side of a funeral home.

Who Asked You? – Baby Puncher
April 11, 2011
Every so often we have an episode with a messed up rhythm. The stories of the day spark odd conversation, there are long pauses where we take in what was just heard or said and a Dennis speech rambles on just a few seconds too long… yeah, all of that is in this week’s show. The ErrorFM chat room even queries as to when the dick jokes will start. Luckily they don’t have to wait long.
One listener E-Mail spawns the aforementioned odd conversation about products made from hemp. Are they comfortable? Do they irritate one’s skin? Of course, the idea of a hemp made condom comes up… from someone in the chat room! Not us this time! And this show’s first penis-pun is ‘inserted’.
Our flow continues to stumble along in uneven bursts as we talk about THE GOVERNATOR, a new project from recently departed Cal-ee-fornia head-honcho, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s on a whirlwind merchandising stunt that’ll place him in a comic book, cartoon series, some video games and a potential movie. And guess what his character is… a governor who just left office!!! What a stretch. This could be Arnold’s toughest acting gig yet. As much as we love the big guy, this just seems pathetic somehow. You’re better than this Arnold. Come on! A cartoon show with a weak character/story line? Video games, comics? Granted, he’s getting older. His days of jumping out of helicopters and punching people’s faces through the backs of their skulls are quickly coming to an end, so a cartoon would be one way for him to continue his legacy without breaking a hip. But we can’t shake the feeling that he could do sooooo much better than this deal.
Over at NBC they’re catchin’ hell from comic book fans as they make bad wardrobe decisions regarding our beloved Amazonian. Gone are the days of Ms. Carter’s hot pants. The Peacock replaced them with something they thought would be equally tantalizing, but instead came off as trashy. For future reference… please don’t put Wonder Woman in blue vinyl pants and boots. She doesn’t need to look anymore like a porn star than she already does. Not that looking like that is a bad thing, especially for Adrianne Palicki… mmmmm. Oh sorry, but there needs to be a line. Luckily, NBC took all the bashing-blogs into consideration and changed her uniform in time for the pilot episode.
And it’s official! BLACK DYNAMITE is getting an animated series. It is going to be on CARTOON NETWORK’s ADULT SWIM and the actors from the film will voice their respective characters. So far so good… not so fast says Dennis. A bit surprising. I thought for sure he’d be the most excited out of all of us. Listen in to hear his thoughts on the whole thing.
The country’s school systems are failing, budgets are getting slashed, children ARE being left behind. We here at Who Asked You? try and pick up some of that slack with a little segment we call “Who Fact You?”. It’s 10 random bits of information you can use to better your life, or start a conversation with at a party. The off pacing of the show continues here as well. One fact garners no conversation, while another spirals out of control and off topic.
The program ends, not a moment too soon, with news of the world’s first official 3D porno! Surprisingly it’s not made in America… Damn it! I was hoping the NAILIN’ PALIN sequel would be 3D… instead the film, a remake of one made in 1991, comes from Asia! It’s in Cantonese and has Chinese residents flocking to Hong Kong to see the uncut version of the movie. I know what you’re thinking… Hollywood isn’t the only country doing remakes now. No no, just kidding. What you’re probably thinking is what we tackle on this story, do we really need to see porn in 3D? The pros and cons of this, as well as a literal “cock blocker” for baby boys and so much more straight ahead on Episode 159: Baby Puncher.

Who Asked You? – Sta-dick-stics
April 4, 2011
It’s only his second show back and already Jabari is pulling his weight. He came up with this episode’s title. Towards the end of the show we tell you about a new doll being introduced here in the US that teaches your little girl an interesting lesson… how to breast feed. That’s right, “The Breast Milk Baby” as it’s called, features a mouth that moves and makes a suckling sound effect. All little Suzy has to do is put on an apron that features sensors in the form of cute little flowers where her nipples should be. Not listed on the site, but seen in this YouTube video, is an accessory breast pump — sold separately — to add to little Suzy’s inappropriate playtime. You’ll have to listen to hear how we derail from this doll to the average penis sizes around the world again, but that’s what sparks Jabari’s play-on-words. As we’ve noted before, Dennis has yet to receive hate mail. And as he noted about 2 shows ago, there seems to be an unfortunate number out of the Asian community when it comes to the average length of their junk. This seems like the best working model right now to get Dennis some hate mail. However, during the course of this program we all say some things that could qualify for an angry letter. E-Mail addresses are given out several times during the laughter, so get typin’.
Before we offend a good portion of the international population, we talk MTV and their new series TEEN WOLF. This isn’t Michael J. Fox’s TEEN WOLF though. This one is a drama. We’re calling it TWOLF-LIGHT. As 80s babies we take special offense to this broadcasted atrocity. But in this day and age, we’re starting to take things like this with a grain of salt since they’re happening everywhere, in every medium. The most we can do, is sit in the bleachers and laugh at it.
Charlie Sheen is suffering from Rebecca Black syndrome. He’s popular… but for the wrong reasons. That became overwhelmingly apparent during his first stop on his 20-city tour this past week. People have been fans of him on Twitter and on his incomprehensible webcast, but they weren’t too keen on Sheen when he took the stage for his live show. He wasn’t funny, he wasn’t entertaining and before the show even ended hoards of people were getting up and leaving, demanding refunds. Many of them came right out and said the only reason they bought tickets was to see him fail horribly… and that he did. It’s over Charlie, people don’t like you, they like to make fun of you. Move on. Oh, and CBS? Please cancel TWO AND A HALF MEN. It too is over. Leave it be.
Maybe people will sue Charlie to get their money back. Suing seems to be the American way. It always has been. You can sue for something absurd, pull a dollar amount out of your ass and you’ll likely get it. There were 2 lawsuits that blipped on our radar this week. One of them from a man named Larry Klayman. He’s suing Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg for a billion dollars because they didn’t take down an anti-Semitic Facebook page as quickly as he would’ve liked. Wait until you hear his argument for why Zuckerberg should be held accountable. He sights a certain movie that tells the untrue story of how Facebook came to be. And wait until you hear who else this Klayman fellow has sued in the past! The other lawsuit comes by way of the RIAA. Yeah, they’re still around. They’ve filed a claim that you’ll find hard to believe. I don’t want to give too much away here, but I will say this, the ass they pulled this number from must be sorer than shit right now!
Once again, cue the lens flares and D.C. wide shots… Michael Bay is back. This time he’s courting the deity of sci-fi fanboys the world over to voice a seldom heard about Transformer in the next film. Bay says he was scared to ask this guy, but given his wife is Bay’s cousin, that made it easier. Have you figured out who I’m talking about? Open your ‘ears’ and listen to the show, it’ll ‘point’ you in the right direction.

Who Asked You? – The Beck-ening
March 28, 2011
Like most of 7th HEAVEN’s shows, this is a ‘very special’ episode. Not only is it our annual April Fools’ Day edition, but we’re also welcoming back former co-host, current degenerate, Jabari Tiffith. As you’ll hear on today’s program, Jabari’s sabbatical was quite eventful in many ways. But after awhile he longed for that certain overwhelming explosion of useless jibberish and pop-culture hogwash, he just couldn’t stay away. So we dusted off his mic, used one of those sticky roller things to remove all the hair from his windscreen and cleared a spot for him at the Who Asked You? table of champions.
As we like to do with the April Fools’ show, we’ve compiled a series of stories that may, or may not be true. This is really easy to do nowadays. If you’re a regular listener you know that all of our stories are true, but outrageous enough you’d think we made them up… I mean, come on! Channing Tatum burning his penis? Jenkem? You can’t make this stuff up. But on our April Fools’ show, it just might be… or maybe not. Will you be an April Fool? Or will you be calling Jonathan Frakes wondering what’s fact or fiction? And no Googling… that’s cheating! We’ll reveal the foolings, if there are any, at the end of the program.
Today’s ‘possible’ foolery… or not, includes news from NBC that they’re rebooting CHEERS, one of their most successful sitcoms. The series based in a Boston bar ran for 11 years and spawned 2 spin-offs. Not bad for a show that was nearly canceled after it’s first season. The story of the reboot goes like this. It’s been 18 years and Cheers is under new ownership. The idea is to bring the show into the 21st century by telling a story about how the bar’s new owner is doing the same with the aging establishment. It’s set to premier in the fall with possibly old cast members guest starring on select episodes… or is it?
Is Glenn Beck getting his own TV network? I know, I know he pretty much has one already. It’s called FOX NEWS CHANNEL. It’s being rumored… or is it? That when his contract expires at the end of this year, he may abandon the right-wing cable net for his own 24/7 channel. We just saw Oprah do it… so why not Mr. Beck? He already has a highly successful radio show and website with tons of media content. Oh yeah, he also has that awesome “dry-erase board of truth” he utilizes in his high-decibel ranting. That’s it’s own show right there… an entire hour of him and his cohorts sketching caricatures of their favorite least-favorite democrats. Is America ready for a Beck-work? Then again, this could be an April Fools prank. We’ll report, you decide.
And we’ve got news of another fool — no April required — dumping on his own movie. Michael Bay took some potshots at TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN… or maybe he didn’t? You may recall Megan Fox made her own derogatory comments about Bay’s directing style and the film. She promptly transformed out of the gig right afterwards too. Michael Bay says her dismissal had nothing to do with her comments, but we beg to differ. Remember that letter his staff wrote about her? And Shia LeBeouf also stated the film wasn’t up-to-par and his performance could’ve been better. All during this last year Bay stuck up for his ‘number 2′. But now it appears he’s switching gears. Is it true? You’ll find out!
Just about as quickly as that baby shaking app vanished in the Apple store, so too has another. A Christian group in Florida launched an application for Steve Jobs-based mobile devices that they claimed could cure someone of homosexuality. Of course this sparked outrage… or did it? And an e-petition was promptly circulated by gay rights activists to get the app removed. But this sparked another debate. Would removing it violate the religious group’s free speech rights? That is the question. A bigger question though is whether or not this story is even true! Could we be fooling you?
Play along won’t you? See if you can guess what stories on this episode are of merit or mockery. Filled with the return of an old friend, out of place audio cues and inappropriate candor, it’s the Beck-ening, it’s our April Fools’ joke on all of you……… or is it?

Who Asked You? – Rubber Robbers
March 21, 2011
It’s Monday, Monday, gettin’ down on Monday! Gotta make a bowl of cereal, then I gotta decide whether or not to sit in the front seat, or the back seat of my friends car. These are tough choices to be made. I wish I was in the 8th grade again to make it easier. Rebecca Black, a singer — question mark — is also having a hard time deciding what to do. Luckily she has her daily planner to chart her activities. In fact, she sings about it almost in a Twitter update style. You can see her music video for this now, infamous song in the Show Links. Granted, the song blows. It’s annoying and is poorly written. And although Rebecca CAN carry a tune (ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA has it on tape) in this particular song, she sounds like the Enterprise computer from the original series. This is no reason however for those on YouTube to go off on her and basically tell her to die. We’ve had our fair share of mean comments both for this show and for our KRAP 69 News videos we made some years ago. So we know how it feels. Luckily, like us, Rebecca realizes the little cock-suckers posting such comments are just jealous. They have miserable little lives. Sad that their balls haven’t dropped yet and that their parents won’t let them watch FAMILY GUY like the rest of the kids at their school. Starved for attention, they post asshole remarks in total anonymity to fill some twisted satisfaction that only they care about. To which viral-folk like Rebecca Black can call out a collective ‘fuck you’ to.
You know who else deserves a unanimous F-bomb? That would be AT&T. The announcement was made Sunday that they plan to buy T-Mobile USA. This would do a number of things. First and foremost, it would piss off T-Mobile customers. And secondly, it would put AT&T ahead of Verizon in total number of customers. Still, more subscribers doesn’t mean better service. Dennis, a T-Mobile user takes this news rather hard. He’s devastated for a good 10-minutes. He’s able to pull through though at the mere thought of jumping ship and going to Sprint, which allows us to carry the show onward with all the hosts undistracted.
Sad news on the Microsoft front this week as the company decided to discontinue making Zune hardware. Dennis makes an excellent point that now is the time to get a Zune HD on clearance! The iPod/iTunes competitor isn’t completely going away though. The Zune player will still appear on other Microsoft mobile devices and the music software for your PC will still be around. Zune is also heavily entrenched in the Xbox 360. The war between the iPod and the Zune might be described as being similar to that of the Mac vs the PC. I think the simple fact that the Zune is a Microsoft product is was scared everyone away. They probably assumed it was Windows-based and would crash or get viruses. This is not the case though. Feature-wise, the Zune is superior. The Zune’s computer software is also better than iTunes, in my opinion. But being first has its advantages. Apple was long established in the MP3 player market before the Zune was even off the drawing board. So all that’s left to say at this point to my good friend, the Microsoft Zune is, “So long and thanks for all the fish.” Thankfully, my Gen-1 Zune is still going strong so suck it Apple!
While competition in the cell phone and music player markets dwindle, it’s heating up when it comes to America’s top soda-pop. Coca-Cola continues to reign supreme at the number-uno spot for most guzzled. However, the second place drink, Pepsi, seems to be slipping. It’s now third! Tune in for the new number-2 and all of the top-10 pops.
Movie news on this edition of the show includes a reunion of the gang from the AMERICAN PIE movies. Universal is in the mood for more frat guy toilet humor, pie fornication and Eugene Levy’s eyebrows. Also, it seems one of the advantages to working on a Christopher Nolan movie is that it just might secure you a role in another of his projects. Just ask Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He’s secured a part in the next Batman flick. No… he’s not playing the Riddler. Charlie had hoped he’d be the Clock King, but that character may be a bit too obscure for a gritty-Gotham take. You’ll hear all about Gordon-Levitt’s part on today’s show.
A segment of “It’s The Law” follows movie news and then it’s time to close things out with the case of a condom caper in Malaysia. Now… this is Who Asked You?, so I think you already know where this conversation is headed. “Breaking News” turns into “Who Fact You?” as Dennis spouts off some intriguing statistics involving the average penis length of Japan compared to the US. Can’t wait to see how this one skews our site’s traffic statistics.

Who Asked You? – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
March 14, 2011
I’ve said it before, we podcasters have to stick together. And a good way to do that is host exchanges! On today’s illustrious edition of Who Asked You? we’re joined by Paul Mattingly of THE UGLY COUCH SHOW. He, a few pals and a furry puppet, produce a podcast as well as a vidcast. A majority of their topics pretty much match ours, so Paul fit right in on our couch.
He picked a helluva show to sit in on too. First we get some quasi-hate mail targeted at myself and Mike. If you’re keeping score at home, Dennis is now the only member of the Who Asked You? Crew to not be hated in the electronic communication realm. The message offers up some suggestions of how we might improve our quaint little netcast. Listen in and see if you agree with the suggested changes. Whether you do or don’t, please feel free to let us know in your own E-Mail!
For the first time in our show’s history, we’ve done a little bit of “over-producing” it. By that I mean, our new “Jenkem Watch” segment conjured up 2 different opens. Unable to decide which one to use, I decided to play them both and then have the guys, as well as the ErrorFM Chat Room decide which was better. You’ll hear their choice later in the show!
It was only a matter of time before a Sarah Palin movie — of the non-pornographic variety — got the green light. This one, for HBO, takes its cues from a book that doesn’t exactly shed the best light on the quitter with a shitty reality show. In other words… it tells the truth. What’s interesting is that an actress who supports Obama will take the role. I suppose playing Palin as an ill-informed, unprepared nincompoop is just one more way she can stick it to Palin better than that guy did in NAILIN’ PALIN.
Apple is attempting to trademark the now popular phrase, “App Store.” However, Microsoft is blocking them any way they possibly can including complaining about the font size used in the filed documents. As desperate as they look, I have to agree with Microsoft on this one… Apple is overstepping here. They’ve since filed new papers that comply with Microsoft’s demands, but a court decision on the rights to “App Store” has yet to be made.
Just a few months ago we talked about the controversy surrounding a contest to be a spokesperson for a horribly unhealthy eatery in Arizona. Those in the health field felt promoting the consumption of greasy, fat-filled burgers and fries was not the right message to send. The winner of the contest, Blair River, only added to the concern given he weighed over 500 pounds. Notice I used the past-tense of weigh? You’ll hear why on this episode… although you’ve probably already figured out the ironic conclusion to his spokesperson career for a restaurant that serves an 8,000 calorie burger.
And there’s a gal named Gabi (pictured) who’s not too far behind Blair. She has her own adult website where she stuffs her pie hole with things like pie, pizza, cake and so forth. What’s so sexy about that? Well, nothing in my opinion. But everybody’s trigger gets tripped over different things so we shouldn’t judge. Gabi has a rather interesting condition that causes something to happen when she’s eating. And she makes a living triggering this “O” so rare syndrome by running a website where you can watch her do it!
Perhaps Blair and Gabi should try a diet of strictly beer. That’s what one Iowa man is doing to celebrate the holy time of Lent. He’ll be drinking 4 glasses of beer a day along with water just like monks did thousands of years ago. His now 1,200 calorie diet is being monitored by his doctor and pastor. And he’s blogging about it.
And call Pedo-Bear, we’ve got a story about the youngest grandmother in the world. She lives in Romania and is just 23 years-old. Yes… she’s a 23 year-old granny! The math doesn’t seem to add up. Or does it? Tune in to hear how this is possible as we explore a variety of things that are good, bad and ugly… including Paul’s couch.

Who Asked You? – Yeah-huh
March 7, 2011
What an eclectic mix of topics we’ve got for you today. Some, in fact, we don’t even get to. You’ll hear me tease another edition of “Jenkem Watch” and “Breaking News” at the top of the show… but we don’t make it that far. So those will be stashed in the reserve for next week extending the meaning to that broadcast term, ‘tease’. What did take up the show’s time you ponder? My answer, Zac Efron. Nooo, just yankin’ yer chain. He does come up though at the start of the show. Having contracted dermatitis while on a recent camping trip, he’s prime Who Asked You? fodder for a comment he made about treating the condition. And it sounds to us like he’s been yankin’ his own chain. You’ll hear all about it when you tune in.
Finally, there’s a lawsuit the movie studios have filed that we are on board with. It seems another one of those “censored” DVD companies has been cutting up blockbuster films, burning them to DVDs and reselling them to parents who are incompetent and lazy. Copyright violation and piracy? Ummm… shit YEAH! You can’t take someone else’s work, manipulate it and then resell it for your own financial gain without telling them. There have been several of these companies over the years that have all met their demise. The latest one, FAMILY EDITED DVDs, is no different. So the studios went after the moron who runs it and shut him down. He also has to pay a fat chunk of green too.
And speaking of stealing from people and large sums of money. Michael Bay explodes onto our show again in our segment devoted just to him. This time the almighty director’s offices are the scene of a real life crime. Bay has stated many-a-time that he has friends in “high places” and according to a short, vague announcement on his site regarding the instance, he’s called in some of those pals. We’re talkin’ at the federal level. At this point I think Michael Bay is the only person who could call in the National Guard or FBI to investigate a missing lap top or leaked page of some flick he’s working on.
One of the countless things you’ve probably learned over the years on this show is Dennis’ favorite movie being BLADE RUNNER, a 1982 sci-fi movie starring Harrison Ford. Unlike so many of our cult science fiction darlings, BLADE RUNNER has managed to evade the dreaded re-imaging. And it appears it’ll stay that way for the foreseeable future. The owners of the movie did it right! As they get ready to hand the off the licensing and rights to it to another production company, they made sure it was stated, on paper, that the film could not be remade. However, our Replicant pals could appear in a sequel film, a comic book or even a TV show. And one of these is already in the works. Find out which by tuning in!
The eclecticity — yeah I know that’s not a word — continues. You could say it flies right into your face, because it’s 3D news from here on out! First up, George Lucas. Yep… I don’t even think I need to finish this sentence for you to know what he’s doing but for the sake of search engine optimization, I will. George and his ILM company are hard at work converting all 6 Star Wars films into 3D. Given these movies weren’t shot in 3D, we may have a CLASH OF THE TITANS lackluster transfer here. But then again… it is ILM working on it… but then again, they’re starting with Lucas’ own EPISODE I. For 30 years this guy has been riding his space-based fairy tale. Is it time he move on? We’ll wonder about that on this episode.
And we’re not finished with news of crap breaching the 3rd dimension. Perhaps the thought of your Wii remote being accidentally hurled at the $5,000 3D-TV you just bought was too much for Nintendo to bare. The company probably shuddered at the prospect of making dozens of YouTube playlists of kids and adults smashing holes in their 3D plasma screens while playing some newfangled 3D title. So the company went a safer, smaller, Apple iPad 2-like route. Introducing the new-but-yet-old 3D Nintendo DS… the 3DS. That’s right, the 250-clams you just dropped on a DS Lite could’ve gone to this 3DS and you would have had Netflix support. Would that have made it worth the wait? Or the price? Charlie and Dennis wrap today’s show with one of their famous lengthy debates on this conundrum. You can weigh in as well; send us an E-Mail with your thoughts and let us know if you plan to buy a 3DS in this week’s “We Ask You Online Poll.”

Who Asked You? – Too Soon?
February 28, 2011
Standard-issue Who Asked You? this week as things happen, we tell you about them and then comment on them. One of those things is the announcement that Apple is going to announce the iPad 2………… yeah, who gives a rats ass on that one. Next, is an E-Mail from a longtime listener that pertains to last week’s poll question. You may remember (since it was just 7 days ago) we asked you whether or not guys should wear skinny jeans. There are a lot of ‘issues’ to take into account when deciding the hug factor of denim on the extremities. The main one of course is the compression of your junk. Our poll results reveal that not everyone is as concerned with actually wearing them as they are with how a person is able to put them on in the first place.
Meanwhile, MTV, fresh off of their child porn scare with that new show called SKINS used the cast of it to announce another show’s return this summer. Seemed fitting perhaps. After all, SKINS showed some kids butt and the returning show has ‘butt’ in the title. Yep, BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD are coming back. And yes, Mike Judge is involved. And yes, it will be animated. And yes, they will still make fun of music videos among other things. Other things you ask? Tune in to find out what clips will join the comical commentary of the couple from their couch.
You’ve most likely heard by now that Charlie Sheen has been drinking and perhaps doing drugs. You may have heard on the radio his approval of doing cocaine if you can manage it socially. And you may have heard his boss-bashing of TWO AND A HALF MEN co-creator Chuck Lorre. Due to all of the above, Sheen, his co-stars and about 200 production staff are now out of work. CBS pulled the plug on the remainder of this season. And in a late-breaking development today, Sheen says he wants $3-million per episode to return next year. That’s about double his current salary.
We take a break from the Hollywood drama to play a quick round of “Best Worst Most Least.” We haven’t done one of these in awhile, it seemed like a good time. Sort of playing off the Charlie Sheen thing, one of the questions ponders the most money each of us has ever held in our hand. We’re talkin’ cold hard cash here… not checks or money orders. Charlie has us beat due to a previous managerial position he held. But outside of the workplace, Dennis wins. But by how much? You’ll have to listen to find out.
We head back to Hollywood in a lightning round of movie news. Find out what the TWILIGHT writer may be working on next. Here’s a hint, she’s moving from vampires that live forever, to some other people that do too. A remake of a 70s movie based on a novel may have you on the ‘run.’ Also, it’s not really news if you pretty much knew it was going to happen. Casting choices for Tim Burton’s take on DARK SHADOWS is what we’re talking about here. Give you hint on this one too, she’s bangin’ him. And Julia Roberts is evil… oh yeah, she’s also playing an evil queen in a live-action take on an old story involving a woman and her 7 vertically challenged friends.
As always, we end with some “Breaking News.” This time we’re headed to Indiana where an obscure reference on a billboard of an event in the 70s has us wondering how soon is too soon? Personally, in this instance, I’m not sure ‘too soon’ applies given the circumstances. You’ll hear all about it on this, our 153rd episode.

Who Asked You? – Mike Is Missing
February 21, 2011
Mike is missing this week. An unfortunate series of unanswered phone calls and being located too far away for Dennis to want to turn around and pick him up led to his absence. He’ll be sorry he missed this show. That pretty little lady to the left is one, Adrianne Palicki. You may have seen her on a short lived show called FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. You’ll soon be seeing her as the new Wonder Woman! She’s been cast to portray the Amazon in a new series pilot for NBC. She’s no Lynda Carter, but she looks like Wonder Woman. So we’ll hold out hope… oh, wait… almost forgot this is on NBC. Nevermind.
I’m not sure how to tie Mike into this next story. I guess I could say Mike saw TRON: LEGACY… uhh… yeah. If you’ve ever wanted to own a Light Cycle from the film, now you can. At least, from the second one. Hammacher Schlemmer has created a real life, street legal version of the movie motorcycle that you can cruise around on to impress the ladies. The bike is not the most powerful crotch-rocket. The company says it’s just for casual riding. So I wouldn’t take this thing on the freeway. But it looks god damn cool if you ask me. Rimless wheels, electroluminescence lighting; you even lay on your stomach just like they do in the movie! The bikes are made-to-order and won’t cost as much as you might think. At this point in the show we’re light on time — being down a man and all — so I pose a question I know will get Dennis going. Why didn’t people like TRON: LEGACY? You’ll hear his and Charlie’s thoughts on this. And you’re more than welcome to send us yours! We’re your soap box.
Mike will really be bummed he missed the second ever edition of our “Jenkem Watch” segment. This time around we go back to where it all started. Who new what one little news report from a local station in Florida would create. And it’s that actual news story that is the center of attention this week. One of those clever remixes has been created and posted on YouTube. We pop open the mp3 jar, play it and inhale it’s gassy beats for a quick laugh.
And as Charlie so eloquently puts it this week, I ‘fact’ you in the ass 10 times with a little segment we call, “Who Fact You?.” Of course, that answer is the same every time… I do! One of the facts today tells us the percentage of Americans who claim God has spoken to them. This number, to us, seems rather low. You may think it’s pretty high… or low yourself. Being a religious fellow, it’s too bad Mike wasn’t here.

Who Asked You? – Love Is In The… Yogurt
February 14, 2011
Love is in the air… err… rather, yogurt on today’s Valentine’s edition of the show. This particular story is Breaking News at the end of the show. A classic Who Asked You? story with all the elements we look for. Stay tuned for that.
Before we serve up that creamy goodness, we’ve got an abundance of other ‘love’ stories to put you in the mood… or at least ‘a’ mood of some sort. First, just for the ladies. Hunky Hunkerson, James Franco is being eyed not just in Google image searches by lonely ladies late at night, but also by Sam Raimi to play the part of the wizard in his upcoming WIZARD OF OZ prequel. Nothing is official yet, but there’s a good chance Franco may be strolling down the Yellow Brick Road.
And for the guys in our fan base, RED SONJA is getting a reboot treatment directly following the CONAN one. If you’re unfamiliar with Ms. Sonja, she’s a Marvel character that often appeared in the CONAN THE BARBARIAN comics. She also got a movie treatment in 1985 following Arnold’s CONAN. And he also played in her film too! Sonja is best known probably for her fiery-red hair and chain mail bikini. Not to mention her skills with a sword. Insert penis joke here.
Next, you could be living in one of America’s most romantic cities and not even know it! But that’s cool… because Amazon looked at towns that order a lot of romance books and movies as well as Barry White albums and was able to determine which communities foster the most passion. Is your hometown on the list? You’ll find out on this episode.
And since we’re all about ‘love’ this Valentine’s Day, we might as well bring up one of the world’s most iconic couples, Barbie and Ken. It seems back in 2004 — I missed the memo, did you? — Barbie and her boy-toy went splitsville. It was a marketing ploy by Barbie’s maker, Mattel in an attempt to drum up sagging sales for the blonde gal. It worked. And now, nearly 7 years later, Ken wants his arm candy back. He’s taken out billboards in LA and NY proclaiming his love. Apparently Barbie will give him her answer today!
And you’ll “love” this company’s justification for making a video game about illegal immigration. Boston game developer, OWLCHEMY is working on an iPhone and iPad app called, SMUGGLE TRUCK. It’s a simple little game where you try and smuggle a truck load of immigrants across the border without spilling them from the bed of your truck. The company says they’re rational for making the game is to create a dialogue about the absurd immigration policies of the US. Critics think it’s just racist and makes fun of a difficult and often deadly situation on our borders. The game will probably create more backlash when it’s released next month. The argument will rage on for sure. Gotta “love” controversy.

Who Asked You? – Where’s The Beef?
February 7, 2011
It’s an offbeat episode of the Who Asking Of today. First off, the show is LIVE Sunday nights at 8pm/PT on ErrorFM.com. It gets recorded and posted here Mondays at 3pm/PT. And as you’re probably aware, yesterday was the Super Bowl. Due to this momentous event, half of our hosts were missing for the first part of the show. People have often made the comment, 4 hosts is too many. To them I say, HA!!! Even when half our guys are stuck in traffic, or in this case, sobering up at the bar, we still have 2 hosts at their mics! And thanks to the wonderful world of Skype, we were able to bring in a good friend at the last second incase the fellas didn’t make it in time.
William T. Lane, who we interviewed not to long ago, was paged via Skype and was gracious enough to join us. Even after I F-ed up his name at the start of the show, which I’ve typed out on this site and have said aloud many times before, he didn’t hang up. For reasons I can’t explain, I wanted to call Will, Chris. And for those same unexplainable reasons, his last name eluded me. So I got his first name wrong and completely forgot his last name. Veteran broadcast extraordinaire, I am not…
Mike and Dennis arrive just in time for our first story of the program. A, shall we say, highly highly highly anticipated video game has finally gotten a release date. Mr. Nukem of DUKE NUKEM FOREVER is finally going to be back in action vaporizing aliens, punching aliens, running over aliens, oh yeah… and hanging out at the strip club. After years of various delays and complications the game is done and ready for store shelves to the delight of gamers the world over.
And if it’s not a video game resurrecting those feelings of nostalgia, it’s Warner Brothers and Studio4°C drumming them up with a reboot to a classic cartoon. They’re feelin’ frisky with our old feline friends of the planet Thundera. The 2 companies are hard at work on a new, what they call, “anime” style series featuring Lion-O and his pals. They’re telling everyone it’ll appeal to both new and old fans, but the official artwork they’ve released just isn’t working for us. The characters definitely do have that “anime” look to them. At first glance, their look screams FOX BOX or WB KIDS to me. You know, all that shitty American wannabe anime? The picture is in the Show Links below. Have a look and judge for yourself. And if you want to chime in on it, or anything, shoot us a message.
Also on the show, news that Morgan Freeman is being replaced in an upcoming film by… Tyler Perry?!?!? Freeman has portrayed this character in 2 previous films. Do you think you know which role we’re talking about? Are you getting worried it’s a certain super hero flick with a third installment on the way? It may or may not be… tune in to find out.
Forbes seems to think it has the power to predict which major corporations could go out of business each year. So far that power has proved to be less than spot on. Case in point, last year they predicted Blockbuster Video would be “rolling credits” as it’s subscriber-base has been largely decimated by companies like Netflix and Redbox. Yet, it’s still here. Even after a bankruptcy and mass closing of hundreds of stores… it’s still here. There’s another retailer we “judge by it’s cover” that made Forbes’ list last year too. And it’s still around as well. See what we mean? Forbes announcing possible impending doom for a company could actually send it into such chaos where it otherwise might not end up. There are several others on this bucket list you’ll wanna hear about.
Meanwhile TACO BELL is fighting criticisms that its ground beef isn’t all that “beefy”. Really? Folks are just now starting to question “where’s the beef?” Ironically it was a commercial for WENDY’S back in 1984 when actress Clara Peller first uttered the inquiry. Now it’s being posed to TACO BELL… I smell a clever ad campaign TACO BELL P.R. Department! This launches us into a total break down of beef and ingredients across many other fast food favorites. Yeah, it was only a few months ago we talked about the non-decomposing burger and fries from the golden arches… now it’s the not so bovine beef in the purple bell. The CEO of TACO BELL claims their “taco filling” as they call it, and as Mike, a former employee of the company has pointed out many times, is 88% USDA inspected beef. And that the rest of the ingredients are oats and seasonings to enhance the flavor. Still, some aren’t convinced. Listen in to find out the surprising results one apparent lab test found. Experts say will be a tough sell to courts, because many don’t seem to mind the faux-filling, but it’ll certainly have one little old lady from 1984 asking, “where’s the beef?”

Who Asked You? – Monkeys Hate Nazis
January 24, 2011
Normally we go and eat and/or drink after the show each week. But as many of you were probably aware, it was an important Sunday in NFL as the final 4 teams were whittled down to the 2 headed for the Super Bowl. Because of this, we ate, drank, screamed and laughed for nearly 6-hours straight. We’d also said we’d do another drunk show someday… and this is the closest we’ve come to that since the last drunk show. Which was also the first.
Dennis, myself and former co-host Jabari were all pretty loopy by the time we got back to Who Asked You? HQ. You may or may not pick up on it, but our voices are a touch hoarse from the aforementioned screaming and laughing. There’s also a ton of veering off topic. More so than usual… just a warning.
With that said, here’s the gist of this week’s program. We fumble our way into it with news from Levar Burton that he may be trying to launch a new version of READING RAINBOW on his own that would be publicly funded. He made the quasi-announcement via his Twitter feed last week. This shows the beauty and power of the Interwebs. You can personally tell all your fans what you’re working on and use websites like Kickstarter.com to solicit donations to make it happen!
Meanwhile over at the FCC and DOJ, they’ve approved the merger of media giants NBC Universal and Comcast. What a prosperous company this will be… the least liked network teaming with the most hated cable operator… how could this NOT work?!? The government assures us rules are in place to keep the 2 companies from literally taking over all that is media and broadband. But come on? Comcast has already been in trouble for throttling its broadband customers without their knowledge. I’m sure they’re cooking up skeems to screw us all already. Thank goodness that here in Las Vegas we have Cocks Communications.
Is it child pornography for a TV series to show a 17 year-old’s ass? How young is too young to show simulated sex or masturbation on cable TV? These are questions MTV is grappling with over their new BBC copycat, SKINS. The show, aimed at MTV’s standard issue tween demo seems to be a bit too racy for the tastes of the networks brass. They’ve ordered the producers to “tone it down a bit.” Or in other words, make it less interesting than it already is. Lets face it, MTV hasn’t had an interesting TV show since Beavis and Butthead. And this one is no exception. The main character is a cookie cutter smart-ass teenager whose always got something witty to say. His parents are clueless as to his activities outside the house etc. etc. Do what you think is best MTV, nobody is watching anyway.
We also talk about the big news of this past week, which was the announcement of the next villain(s) to grace Gotham. Chris Nolan says THE DARK KNIGHT RISES will feature Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and Tom Hardy as… Bane??? This one sparks a debate between Jabari and Dennis, which actually started earlier in the day at the bar. But they still had some left for the show.
And last but not least, with the absence of Four Loko in stores, binge-drinking college kids and lonely, depressed 40-somethings are in need of a replacement beverage to get that hot chick drunk enough to blow them in the bathroom and to fry their organs respectively. We may have found it! It’s canned whisky and it comes from Panama. It’s not available in the USA… yet. But even if it never comes here, the beauty of the Interwebs I mentioned early will have some on your doorstep via 2-Day FedEx no questions asked.
And if you’ve already found your hard liquor and just need the overdose of caffeine to compliment it, we’ve found that too. It’s the “Trenta,” a new cup size at Starbucks. You can call it the Big Gulp of coffee drinks. And given Starbucks’ prices for normal sized coffees, you’ll probably need a second mortgage for this one. Plus, it’s only available for iced drinks, which usually have added sugar, so while you’re taking out that second mortgage to pay for it, you might as well put yourself on an organ transplant list for a new pancreas. And read up on diabetes while you’re at it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that “It’s The Law” gets bumped from this show too due to our drunken rambling. Yeesh… I need a shot, crack open that can of whisky would ya?

Who Asked You? – Plantation Mentality
January 17, 2011
Charlie is ‘green’ with…. annoyance after seeing Seth Rogan’s THE GREEN HORNET. Going in not expecting much, which is how we all treat movies these days, Charlie was not impressed with the story or the comedy. But he did take a liking to the action and would recommend seeing the film at least once for as little money as possible. On a related note, we received a friend request on MySpace from THE GREEN HORNET movie folks. I accepted it. They didn’t, however, publicly post the comment I left for reasons which I’m sure you can figure out.
From one green thing to another… GODZILLA! Okay, so ‘Zilla isn’t really green. He’s more of a charcoal, rubber suit black, but lets just leave my segue as is. What’s important here is that he’s getting a reboot. And god knows after Rolland Emmerich got ahold of him, he desperately needs it. Or does he? The Japanese rights holders, the Toho Company, seem to be farming out the copyrights to us USA-folk. You’d think after what Rolly did to him in ’98 they wouldn’t let us anywhere near their most treasured franchise. Yet, here we are. Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are gearing up for a re-imagining with a virtually unknown actor. The guy they chose has done a monster movie already. And he did it pretty much by himself. So maybe there’s hope for this model-masher after all.
And then we go from a radioactive reptile to a guy named Reuben… Paul Reuben, you remember him don’t you? He’s best known as Pee-Wee Herman. The goofy, pasty skinned, man child in the red bow tie. The lights in his playhouse have been off for many-a-year, but the lights on his broadway stage haven’t. You read that right, Pee-Wee has been playing on Broadway! And his show wrapped up with a taping that will air on HBO later this year.
Then it’s onto a disappearing act even Jambi the Genie wouldn’t want to wish for as we introduce to the revolutionary product known as “The Cuchini”. Without cheating by looking in the Show Links, try to visualize what this product might be using the clue I just gave you and perhaps a breakdown of its name. This is a “Chase’s Challenge” on today’s program. Will the guys guess what this item is and what it does? Tune in and find out.
Absolute panic has gripped the countryside as the Earth has wobbled and the skies have changed! That was the gist of a nonchalant comment made by an astronomer in a local newspaper while talking about Zodiac signs. Because the Earth’s equinox and poles have shifted, so to have the astrological dates associated with your “sign”… that is, if you go by the Sidereal Zodiac, which also includes a 13th sign around December. Most western cultures use the tropical version that never changes. And this is all a mute argument anyhow, because the constellation overhead at the time of your birth dictates your sign. And you don’t need an expert in this biz to tell you that you are who you are. Just because the Earth has shifted on its axis doesn’t mean your personality has too.
And finally some Toledo residents and school district staff wish they could send a certain radio host to the stars after he made a few remarks that could be construed as racist. Fresh off our lengthy discussion of removing the N-word from HUCKLEBERRY FINN, we’re onto what you might call, the M-word. Conservative radio host, Brian Wilson used the term ‘monkeys’ in a comment he was making about poor education in Ohio. The quote was originally taken out of context and was interoperated as derogatory by some. He later posted a transcript of his entire comment on his website and it, in our opinions, with the exception of Mike, was determined not to be racist. Wilson was doing fine by us until another comment he made later in that same broadcast that was vague, but pretty damn racist. This topic dominates the remainder of the program. If it weren’t for time constraints, we’d probably still be talking about it until next Serpentarius!

Who Asked You? – Chase’s Folly
January 10, 2011
It’s long overdue… but finally happens on this week’s show. Radio personality extraordinaire, Barry Funkhouser, aka Funk, sits in with us this week. If you’ve been a longtime listener you’ve heard us mention him from time to time. He’s one of the head-honchos over at Internet radio station, ErrorFM. As you know we’ve been providing our show to them for a couple of years now and recently we went live giving us the chance to interact with all of you in realtime through the ErrorFM chat room. It also gives ErrorFM a tent pole show on Sunday nights… yeah, we’re conceited. We think of ourselves as the ratings mecca for that evening. Is it true? We don’t know. But we tell people it is.
Anywho, it was super fun FINALLY having Funk sit in with us. He got the ultimate Who Asked-experience, which is being overwhelmed with 4 obnoxious guys. And in Funk’s case, surrounded too. We should really rethink seating arrangements in our studio so guests aren’t so intimidated. The Ikea couch offers little comfort with us around.
Mr. Funkhouser, a radio professional, picked the perfect show to guest host on too. Our first story of the day involves a radio personality complaining about how a new deal with Sirius Satellite Radio would have him taking a “Sirius” pay cut. The proposal dropped his pay from $1-million to just $200,000. Yep, you read that correctly. This fairly well-known talent named Bubba The Love Sponge is bitching because he’d ONLY be making $200-grand a year? To make jokes into a microphone all day? Really? Why don’t you come on over to the podcasting world pal where 6-months of Google ads will reign in a staggering $3.11! Then you’ll be aloud to complain. His point about having to take a pay cut while others — primarily Hollywood celebrities — are getting multi-million dollar deals with the satellite radio service is well taken. But the Love Sponge seems to be forgetting the nature of the very business he works in. The bigger the audience, the more you can demand and the more you make. Bottom line… you’re getting paid a really nice salary to do what you love. Be thankful.
From $200,000 a year paychecks, to a $200-million blockbuster we go as Rolland Emmerich’s disaster “disaster,” 2012 gets voted the most inaccurate sci-fi film ever, by a panel of really smart scientists. NASA says the movie misinterpreters the Mayan calendar and is riddled with factual inaccuracies that have caused quite a panic amongst those who have seen it. So much so there’s an entire website, in our Show Links by the way, put up by the space agency that tries to set the record straight.
A record not getting set straight, but rather trampled on and changed is that of Mark Twain’s literary classic, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. By now you’ve probably heard that the N-word, used over 200 times in the book, is being systematically removed and replaced with “slave”. Worst of all, it’s a Twain scholar who is doing it! You’d think this guy and the publishers of the book would respect Mr. Clemen’s work. But soccer mom school boards win out on this one and a story taking an honest, blunt look at 19th-century racism will be dulled down to a G-Rated, censored travesty to shield our kids from a truth they DESERVE to read and learn about for themselves and who, in most cases I think, are mature enough to handle it. As you can imagine this is a biggy on today’s program.
As we leave 2010 behind, and apparently every written instance of the N-word, we can look back at some of that year’s various records and top events. One of which is the 10 most downloaded TV shows via BitTorrent. Shows like FAMILY GUY, GLEE and HEROES make the list. But interestingly enough there are a few programs from premium movie channels that reaffirm the cold hard fact to the industry that people don’t want to pay for an entire channel just to watch one show, so they’ll just get it from the web. In fact, 2 of the shows on this list had more downloads than TV viewers!
And lastly, we’ll look at the “words of the year” for 2010 according to the American Dialect Society. Who would know better than them right? From verbage made up by Sarah Palin, to phrases made up by our government in an attempt to fix what’s left of our economy or that oil spewing atrocity in the Gulf of Mexico, the list covers several words made popular by people, places and events in ’10. If this list had been compiled just a few weeks later, one of those words might have started with a ‘N’.

Who Asked You? – Green-Lit Garbage
January 3, 2011
In a rush to get to his spot moments before we went on-air Dennis’ knee had a rather displeasing encounter with the edge of a table. He’d find no comfort in a sip of all-natural Mountain Dew either. The pain in his knee and disdain on his taste buds was nothing compared to the ambient attitude of today’s show. A disagreement over TRON: LEGACY leads the program when a listener expresses their polar-opposite to ours opinion of the Disney sequel. From there things head south even more… month by month. You see, this week’s show is our annual look ahead at the theatrical releases Hollywood has planned for the entire year. Last year we called it “A Glance At The Gloom”, which hinted at the quality of films we were dealing with. Now that 2010 is over, it’s safe to say it was a pretty “gloomy” year at the box office. Films absent of any story or redeeming qualities reined at the box office. A strange paradox persists at ticket counters everywhere. The movies coming out of southern CA are crap, shit, garbage, manure, junk, crud and so on… yet people continue to flock to theaters and shell out $10 — $13 if it’s 3D — as though they all have a “I’ll give ‘em 1 more chance” mentality that never seems to run out. Comic book movies are bombing left and right, but when the next one comes out, the line to see it is out the door and around the corner.
This year will be no exception. There are a lot of sequels making their way to your local cineplex. So many of them undeserving of that “1 more chance”. The first film being so god-awful you wonder how a sequel got approved. Then you look at the numbers. Hollywood knows they’re shoveling silver-screen shit. But those 1 more chance-ers are making it easy to make bank.
So this year will bring us another SCREAM, another BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE, another X-MEN spin-off/sequel/prequel, another PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, another…. you get the idea. An eerie silence falls over the Who Asked You? Crew the further into this hole… err.. I mean, list we go. By about mid June, early July, we’re speechless and the folks in the chat room are committing suicide. The puke button on the sound board is worn out and the taste left in our mouths is that of a little vomit. Better though, than all-natural Mountain Dew.

Who Asked You? – Christmas Special 2010
December 20, 2010
It’s Christmas time… once again we’re looking back at the year gone by. I gotta be honest. Being so close to our Christmas break, I’m phonin’ this one in. I could go through and add links to everything we mention on this episode, but that would take 5 days at least and the Show Links would be an hour’s worth of scrolling. We bring up a lot of shit today.
For the first time in our show’s 3-episode Christmas Special history, we’ve got a guest host sitting in. His name is Kevin LePine and he’s a hypnotist and comedian here in Las Vegas, Nevada. Earlier in the day we recorded an interview with Kevin and realized he’s as big of a dork as we are and was on the same level as us when it came to movies, TV shows, comics, music and what not, so he stuck around for the Who Asked You? show and helped spread the holiday cheer.
On this program we’ll take a look at the best and worst 2010 chucked at us in motion pictures, televised programming, musical arrangements, paper based fantasy periodicals and more!
It was a hell of a year. The bad outweighed the good by about 3-to-1. So bad in fact, most of the pop culture crap deserved a nice switch across the ass from Père Fouettard himself. Look him up… he’s an evil Santa in France. We’re taking next week off to sip the hot cocoa, fill up on pie and open presents. As I said, this entry is lacking in the effort department. The only Show Link you’ll find is one where you can share your best/worst picks for this 10th year of the 21st century. Send them to us and we’ll read ‘em on the next show. Have a safe holiday and New Year folks… get black out drunk of course, but don’t drive. We need you back here, alive, January 2nd for brand new shows in a brand new year. Merry Christmas from the Who Asked You? Crew, we’ll see you in 2011!

Who Asked You? – Sex Trough
December 13, 2010
Dennis couldn’t make this week’s show, but sitting in for him was comedian/magician, Justin Flom. We had just finished recording an interview with Justin and it was already time to do the show. And probably like most folks who listen to the show, Justin just had some time to kill, so he sat in for all but the last 10 minutes of it. He’d had enough of us by then.
Mr. Flom was treated to a whole host of Who Asked You? classics like E-Mails from our quirky listeners, new movie releases, the “According To A New Study” segment, “It’s The Law” and more!
First up are those E-Mails. We learn of an alternative to the anal sex act called the “Donkey Punch”. Followed by a question regarding a story from the show titled “Malfunctioning Bladder Sphincter”. Just with these 2 items I’m sure Justin was already wondering what he’d gotten himself into. And this was only 5 minutes in!
Things returned to fairly G-Rated though as we got into news of ABC’s new comedy coming early next year featuring an old “friend”. Followed by word that Liam Neeson will reprise his role as Zeus in a CLASH OF THE TITANS sequel. And also, Neill Blomkamp, the DISTRICT 9 director, is hard at work on his next motion picture. And no, it’s not a sequel to our little cat food-eating aliens. It does take place on another planet though, so it must involve aliens.
And then it was onto lots-o-comic news. With the recent onslaught of casting announcements for Spider-Crap, the next Batman and CW’s replacement for SMALLVILLE, we’ve been flying around the topic forever it seems. Perhaps if the news was good, it wouldn’t seem so eternal. It’s not much better today either. There’s another addition to Emo-Spider’s cast and some odds-and-ends announcements from the Marvel Studios President. There are lots more characters with projects being developed. Is one of them your favorite? Tune in to see.
Are you living in one of the most obscene cities in the USA? We break down the top-10 cities in a study, compiled rather unscientifically, by the guys at BUSINESSINSIDER.COM. Their method of determining these places was to input some choice words into Google from the late, great George Carlin.
And Justin sticks around long enough to get a taste of “It’s The Law.” This time we’re heading out to the East coast to a state shamed weekly on national TV by orange sluts and dumb muscle heads. New Jersey has a law celebrating credit unions, a law banning DUI offenders from customizing their license plates and many more!
As odd and surprising as some of those laws probably are to us, they’re nothing compared to what Germany residents are dealing with. In our BREAKING NEWS segment we tell you about the way police are dealing with prostitution. It’s totally legal there, so the best they can do is block your view.

Who Asked You? – Loose Meat Sandwich
December 6, 2010
It’s a momentous occasion here on the Who Asked You? show today. One of our oldest and favorit-est stories returns after 140 episodes! And it returns with a bang in it’s own new segment. This has been 3-years in the making I suppose. So be sure and tune in for that this week.
Before we get to it though, there are some other things happening on this lil’ planet of ours that deserves talking about. Christopher Nolan is considering using footage of Heath Ledger that didn’t make the final cut of THE DARK KNIGHT in his next film, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. The idea would be to use unseen footage of Ledger and possibly digital compositing to place him in a scene for continuity from the last film. Those close to the film say Nolan would only do it if it’s cool with Ledger’s family. And we’re wondering what you think about it? It’s the question in this week’s “We Ask You Online Poll”. That’s not the only revelation coming from the Nolan camp regarding his 3rd Bat-flick. We’ve got them all today!
But there’s even more DC news coming at ya! Since SMALLVILLE is in its final season — thank god — the CW is looking for its pretty little Abercrombie replacement. And they may have already found it in a somewhat obscure heroine. The DC character, Raven is being looked at closely for a TV treatment on the worst broadcast network. It’s still very early so there are no casting rumors. But we posed the question to the ErrorFM chat room and they came up with Thora Birch. What do you think? Feel free to send us your casting suggestions or thoughts on a “Raven” show in general and we’ll read ‘em next week.
From DC’s mission to annihilate their stories’ and characters’ integrity to Marvel’s we go. Either Sony is paying Marvel horrendously enormous amounts of money, or Marvel just doesn’t give a fuck. Because the new Spider-Man reboot is looking more and more awful all the time. With each new casting announcement to tiny little plot elements that are a given when taking into account the characters that will appear in the film, it’s shaping up to be a steaming corn-peppered pile of Spidey-poo all the time. Sony should have a couple of marketing people sit online for an entire day and just read the comments posted on movie news sites and forums. They aren’t good Marvel and Sony. People are NOT looking forward to this terrible re-imagining.
Barbie has done it all… she’s been a flight attendant, a teacher, a veterinarian, driver of cute pink cars with flower decals, receiver of Ken’s shiny plastic tool… now she’s been turned into a cybernetic organism. The scientists over at Mattel have implanted our favorite toy blonde with a video camera where her heart should be and a giant LCD screen covering her back. She even has a USB tramp stamp! Barbie can hold 30-minutes of video footage and the FBI says she could be a potential pedophile tool-of-the-trade. We’ll talk about their warning to police departments and to parents.
We end today’s show with a story that’ll have you asking yourself, what are the freakin’ odds? I won’t spoil too much of it here. But suffice it to say this story has it all. Current events, their ramifications, a dude’s name that fits perfectly with what happens and lots more! Somehow I think this will come up again on a future episode. Who knows, maybe it’ll get its own segment like the other famous story on today’s program.

Who Asked You? – Shuttlecraft Berman
November 29, 2010
With Thanksgiving happening last week the preparation of the show got a little behind. Friday rolled around and there was virtually nothing on the rundown. So imagine my delight when I decided to throw in an edition of IT’S THE LAW and it turned out to be a rather lengthy one. Anything to fill time… that’s our motto here at the Who Asked You? show. Well, that’s one of them. More specifically, one of the G-Rated ones.
You’ve probably noticed that we’ve slowed down on the frequency of giving you strange laws from our United States. That’s because we’re running out of them! As this segment inches closer to retirement, we’re trying to make it last for as long as possible. As a result, I’ve reduced it to just once a month. We’ve received millions of E-Mails asking why the segment hasn’t been heard in such a long time? This will hopefully make up for its recent absence… half a freakin’ show of IT’S THE LAW. Almost 2 whole pages of bonkers bureaucracy for your audible ingestion.
And speaking of retirement and making things last as long as possible. Before we dive into our longest law bit to date, we bring you the second edition of our newest segment, GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE! One of the topics for this bit involves an expensive penis pump. What qualifies it for Mr. Pesci’s classic order to leave is how you may be able to pay for it. We’re ‘pumped up’ for this one, so tune in for the details.
Does TRANSFORMERS 3: THE DARK OF THE MOON have a budget that nearly reaches astronomical levels? “Not so” says our beloved lens flare-er. He’s setting the record straight on that and supposed issues with shooting the film in 3D. Bay has a choice name for the online media covering the production of his latest robotic romp.
And how many people in the world can say they’ve run over themselves with their own car? And how many of those do you think can say they’ve done it twice in the same day? We know of at least 1 woman in Australia who can. Her story and more is on today’s BREAKING NEWS.
Thanks to Charlie for providing me with a shuttlecraft toy from Star Trek during yet another rant about Abrams’ film. It soothed my emotional rash spurred by JJ’s interpretation of Klingons in a deleted scene from the film’s DVD. The shuttle’s mission is now to maintain orbit around planet Behringer and make sure nobody fiddles with the knobs.
And a big good bye to one of my favorite actors of all time, Leslie Nielson. He died from pneumonia complications in a hospital; a big building with patients. But that’s not important right now. Thanks for all the laughs Leslie! You will ‘Shirley’ be missed.

Who Asked You? – It’s All Gravy
November 22, 2010
One of the most beloved holidays amongst our Who Asked You? Crew, it’s our Thanksgiving show… and by that I mean it’s the show before Thanksgiving Day. Less perpetration went into this episode than a white family’s stuffing recipe. Thank goodness for Stove-Top, am I right?
Briefly, a friend and listener of the show E-Mails us again this week with what is clearly a body-double for Dennis. We can all see the resemblance. Can you? What’s more, the look-alike, whose name is Mauricio is also one of our Facebook Fans! How awesome is that? A big thanks to Mauricio for hitting that Like button and for looking like Dennis.
Our Poll this week poses the question to you, what’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish? That same question then goes to our panel and I’m sorry I asked it. A half-show argument erupts after Dennis brings up ‘gravy’. For him, gravy is nature’s food moisturizer. It apparently belongs drizzled over everything on your Thanksgiving plate. But there’s some differing of opinion on this. So much so that Russ, a friend who occasionally sits in on the show had to join in the conversation. He couldn’t sit quietly in the peanut gallery and let Dennis run amuck on his gravy gallivant. The spirited chat drifts from whose mom has the best recipe to what dishes you should cover in gravy. Some feel only the turkey gets the brown bath. Others *cough* Dennis, think everything should be painted in the stuff, even your dressing, err… stuffing… whatever. Eventually everyone kind of agrees to disagree and “it’s all gravy”.
What’s not all gravy is Tony Scott’s upcoming sequel to TOP GUN. It may not seem like this story will ever get told on the show. I skipped it last week by accident and this week we don’t even get to the New Releases until 30 minutes in, but I promise, I read it this time. Will Tom Cruise reprise his role? Tune in and find out.
And the gravy is tainted over at Warner Bros. as someone — most likely an employee — leaked the first 36 minutes of the latest Harry Potter movie online. The company has launched an investigation. And there were concerns it might hurt the film’s opening weekend. Really? Who was worried about that? It’s Harry Potter for Christ’s sake. It could be 30 minutes of Daniel Radcliffe with explosive diarrhea and people would pay to see it. As you’ll hear on the show, the box office suffered no ill effects from the roughly 1/5 of the film finding its way to the web.
Quiter Palin, err, I mean Sarah Palin and her family continue to show up in the news. Whether it’s Sarah herself blowing useless verbage out of her pie hole on Fox News and her new reality show on TLC, her daughter Bristol ‘mysteriously’ making it to the finals of ABC’s DANCING WITH THE STARS or her other daughter Willow doing a little gay bashing on Facebook… there’s something for everyone to point and laugh at in the Palin clan. I wonder if Quiter, I mean, Sarah makes good gravy for Thanksgiving?
A little boy at a Tennessee restaurant probably wishes he’d ordered something with gravy on it instead of the chili. After his meal arrived the server told the boy to try some rather exclusive hot sauce on it. Unfortunately that sauce was so hot the kid had to be taken to the ER.
If that family had been in Arizona, they could’ve gone to the HEART ATTACK GRILL and medical attention in sexy little nurse outfits would’ve been right there on-hand. The world-famous hospital-themed burger joint has always caught flack for its high-calorie concoctions and now it’s worse than ever with a new promotion they’re ‘heavily’ advertising. We’ll tell you all about it.
Whether you pour gravy on your turkey, mashed potatoes or pumpkin pie… whether you’re spending Thanksgiving in Alaska or at the world’s most unhealthy grill… make it a good one! Enjoy your friends, family and all the food. Happy Thanksgiving!

Who Asked You? – Lemme Getta Plug
November 15, 2010
Today’s program is all about movies. You could say we’re sort of getting back to the show’s roots this week. When it started, it was heavily skewed towards movie news and talk. That got dimmed down a bit and mixed in with even more entertaining topics. But this week we spend pretty much the whole show talking about the moving picture industry.
One exception is a short mention of Conan O’Brien and his first week back on the air. It kind of felt like a movie premier in a way. There were tons of trailers, tons of Internet discussions and postings, followed by more trailers and commercials, then some skit/commercials until finally the big debut. And what a debut it was. Conan had a very strong opening week beating out Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and Stewart. Those numbers won’t last, but hopefully our favorite bearded Twitter-army commander will hold his own against these network drones.
It’s then onto the movie news of the week which includes aliens and zombies! I mean, come on! It’s not a movie without an alien or zombie…. or both right? Rolland Emmerich decided to take a break from his cookie cutter natural disaster flicks and get back to alien invasions instead with his latest project, THE ZONE. Hey, as long as he stays away from a certain giant lizard I think we’ll be okay. This may all be a mute point though given what was supposed to be a micro-budget found-footage film has been unexplainably canceled. No word from Rolland’s camp on why he pulled out of the project and his crew is dumbfounded.
Perhaps Rolland Emmerich couldn’t get THE ZONE copyrighted. That didn’t stop George A. Romero though with his NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD movie. Did you know that a clerical goof put the film in the public domain since its release? The Internet has opened the doors to freely distributing the black and white zombie classic, but YouTube has taken it a stumbled-step further. The 60s zombies are now fumbling their way through a “choose-your-own-adventure” movie created out of clips from Romero’s film. You can try it out for yourself in the Show Links.
And the bulk of our show is taken up by one of those occasional in-depth debates between either Charlie and Dennis, Charlie and Mike or Dennis and Mike. This time around it’s Charlie and Dennis. After comments Dennis made on a previous show about people blowing box office totals out of proportion these days and not taking inflation into account, we received an E-Mail from our Arnold-Button maker and show fan, Jason. He included a link to a site where you can examine the top-20 grossing films from the last 3 decades as well as other ticket sales numbers. The page calculated the box office revenues of many big films and tweaked those numbers for inflation. It’s quite fascinating to see how the list changes when you make those adjustments.
Be sure to tell us how you’re liking Conan’s new show by casting your vote on this week’s poll question. And if you’ve got something to say, do so in an E-Mail to the show. We’ll be your soap box and megaphone. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m jonesing for a plug. Damn! My Zune battery is almost dead…

Who Asked You? – White Noise
November 8, 2010
This week we try a first for Internet radio and podcasting… well, maybe a first. Someone else might have already tried this before us. If not, we’re proud to say that we try to get everyone who listens to this show high. We’re always promoting the cunsumption of alcolohol on the show. And our uniterrupted ranting on anything and everything could drive anyone to do drugs, but this is the first time we ever directly tried to get you, our listeners, blitzed. Will we succeed? It’s tough to say. During the live show the only thing we succeeded at with the experiment is scaring ErrorFM into thinking their servers had exploded. But as you’ll hear in the story regarding this little test, it doesn’t work for everyone. What exactly am I talking about? How could we possibly get you high over the Internet? Tune in to find out! Now that’s a freakin’ tease!
Before that though we feel it necessary to bring you up to speed on some events that occurred over the Halloween break. First and foremost, Charlie Sheen has expensive taste in watches and not just pay-to-play women. According to reports that little tantrum he threw at that fancy New York hotel was because he thought his whore had stolen his crazy-valuable time piece. That’s why she locked herself in the bathroom. His attempt to play frisbee with hotel furniture scared her and she didn’t want to get a chair across the back world wrestling style.
And if you’re one of only 16 people still using MySpace you may have noticed it looks a little different. That’s because the News Corp-owned social website has launched their new redesign in hopes of bringing in at least some of the crowd they lost to Facebook the last couple of years. Sadly, MySpace’s interface continues to be cluttered, confusing and buggy. We’ll admit, it is in “beta”. But the site was terribly bug-ridden before on the old design too. And we know, Facebook is flakey too. But at least you can navigate Facebook without bleeding from your ears.
We also talk about Superman’s hip new emo-appearance. He’s getting the Twilight refresh for a new origins graphic novel retelling the story of his, uhhh… origins. Some say he’s full on hipster. Others think he looks too douchey. This seems to be the demand though in this day and age. The brightly colored tights of super heroes past are getting traded in for skinny jeans and hoodies. We’ll just have to get used to that.
We may also have to get used to playing video games with our bodies! Unless you’re black. Then the thing doesn’t work and you can’t play at all. I’m talking about the newly released MICROSOFT KINECT. The device that hooks up to your XBox360 allows you, using motion capture, to play a select group of games using bodily movements to control the guy on the screen. It’s the next step in kinetic game play from what the Wii started. Unfortunately the technology is a little racist some say. Due to contrast issues, which is what facial recognition software runs off of, it’s being reported that the device has trouble working with people who have dark skin tones. One test lab says it’s true, the other says they can’t duplicate the problem. Still, you can’t ignore the fact that there could be a flaw with the software’s processing. A new webcam technology on the latest HP computers released a few months back seem to suffer from a very similar issue. Look below in the Show Links for a YouTube video demonstrating that phenomenon.
Also on the rundown is another phenomenon of sorts. This one being stupidity amongst our college-aged kids and energy drink manufacturers. Somewhere along the line these drink concocters thought it’d be a good idea to mix tons of caffeine with tons of alcohol and sell it. And somewhere along that same wobbly line, college kids didn’t see any harm in downing them like a Mountain Dew or mixing them with even more alcohol and/or drugs. Clearly you can see the problem here right? The beverage makers don’t seem to. Perhaps it all comes down to moderation. Energy drinks are gross anyway. You should moderately drink them. And given they’re full of caffeine, and now alcohol, it’s best for your safety and health.
If you want an altered state of mind, just not from a can. Then we’re here to help. Who Asked You? has discovered a website selling audio that they claim will give you a simulated high. It’s totally legal and safe. However, the big question is does it work? Or are you just buying white noise? We put it to the test on today’s show. Listen in and see if it works on you. Disclaimer: Who Asked You? is not responsible for any act you commit under the influence of this episode. So if you wake up naked in a dumpster with your iPod shoved up your ass and your headphones wrapped around your bruised neck, don’t come crying to us.

Who Asked You? – WHO-lloween Special
October 25, 2010
This show is a stretch. It seems like the more you plan something, the worse it gets executed. Such is the case with our Halloween episode. We had pimped it for about 2 or 3 weeks prior, sending out notices on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Putting up a special header graphic on the site and so on… then when the night actually comes for the live broadcast, we aren’t broadcasting at all! If you were there at the beginning of the show last night you may, or rather may not have, heard us. The live stream was skipping something terrible for the first several minutes. You won’t hear it on the recorded version but we do mention it a few times throughout the show. The fellas did get their first lesson in what we in the broadcast industry call “stretching” while I troubleshooted the issue. That stretching practice would come in handy later in the show as well!
After the fumbling awkward start of the show passes and the stream returns to normal the show officially gets going. There are 2 E-Mails from our loyal listeners this week. The first, what we wish was a trick, informs us, or rather Charlie, of the newly released photos of the Green Lantern’s Power Battery. The link to see it is in the Show Links. It looks stupid. But sadly, it is not a trick. The other E-Mail is a real treat, I have it on good authority that it’s author was inebriated when he wrote it. Spelling errors aside, he poses some good Halloween questions to us including what costumes we came dressed in for the show.
And on that costume note, we’ve got some dress up-suggestions and advice for you! Continuing to cash in on his instant fame, Antoine Dodson, the flamboyant sound byte-giver on rapists breaking into apartments, now has his own Halloween costume. It’s called the “Bed Intruder Costume” and you can pick it up for around $25.
That would be an awesome costume to wear to a party, or dress your kid up in. But there are some disguises that are just plain wrong. Even for small children too young to know they’re being humiliated by the folks. The list-masters over at TopTenz.net came up with the top-10 most embarrassing costumes for kids. We rundown 5 of them as a caution to all you parents out there. Have some respect for your kids. The entire list is in the Show Links.
We also attempt to gross you out by telling you about a dude who sticks a needle in his eye. A guy named Matt Gone could be the most tattooed person on Earth. And just when we think he’s run out of space, he proves us wrong by inking his eyeballs, himself! Using a pretty gnarly needle Gone has injected blue colored ink into the white areas of his eyes. Again… he did this himself, looking into a mirror. Apparently the ink is moving around in the eye and could turn the who thing blue! He’s got pictures of all of his tattoos… from head to toe, including the latest ones he’s been ‘eyeing’ on his website.
And since “Boo Fact You?” went away with “Boo Asked You?” our round of 10 terrifying factoids had to be mediocrely renamed to “Who Spooked You?”. And this year it’s not just facts about the Halloween holiday, it’s eerie, creepy, strange and gross facts that should have you more uncomfortable than the Pedobear episode.
This show seems to be full of lists. We’ve also got 5 of the most obscure phobias out there. They include a fear of string and specific relatives. In the Show Links we have a site that contains an enormous list of just about every phobia out there. If you decide to read any of it and come across one even more strange than these, by all means, E-Mail it to us with your thoughts on it.
Finally the last half-hour of the show is a stretch. Literally… we’re once again stretching just like at the start. This time though, it’s because we run out of planned material. It happens. Sometimes we make it all the way through the show’s rundown. And in cases like this, it’s not nearly as satisfying as you’d think. At least, not when you still have 30 minutes to fill! But, if there is one thing we have proven time and time again on this program, it’s that we can talk uninterrupted about nonsense and still make it entertaining. It’s the backbone of our show for Christ sake! We better be good at it. The filler is filled with talk of the now defunct relationship between Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff. And since it is the Halloween show, gets back into that mode with — here comes more lists — our top 5 scary movie favorites and some random scary video game classics we enjoy as well. Happy Halloween!

Who Asked You? – Take Out
October 18, 2010
Chinese take out arrives just a few minutes before we go on the air. The freshly cooked chicken, vegetables, rice and noodles are a far cry from other food options out there these days. Take for example, McDonald’s. They’ve decided to bring back a world-famous sandwich that, like a lot of their food, probably isn’t made out of what it actually tastes like. The McRib is on its way to a Mickey-D’s near you for a 6-week run. The company has pulled the rib-shaped food molds out of storage and has begun pumping pork flavored scrap paste into them just in time for the holiday season.
It’d be interesting to see what happens to a McRib sandwich if left out for several weeks. We know what happens to the burgers and fries… absolutely nothing. Just ask Sally Davies. She’s an artist from New York who bought a Happy Meal and let it sit out for 180 days to document its decomp demise. Strangely though, nothing happened. No mold, no fungus, no discoloration… just an acrylic sheen across the food making it rock hard. McDonald’s could easily get into the fake plastic food business for model homes don’t you think? They wouldn’t even have to make the stuff. Just use unsold burgers and fries. Word has it they last for 12 plus years!
Also on the McDonald’s news front, couples in Hong Kong are going crazy over getting hitched in the restaurant. For some unexplainable reason there’s been an increase in demand for this service to the point that McDonald’s has actually started offering it for a flat fee. Now you can not only get fat at McDonald’s, you can also ruin your life there too!
After we fill up on all that non-decomposable news, it’s time to catch up with Michael Bay. The possible title of TRANSFORMERS-3 was potentially leaked online by accident. It seems Amazon.com offered up some books for pre-order, written by the official movie novel author, that contained the rumored title. The name as of this posting hasn’t been confirmed by Michael Bay, but Amazon has removed all traces of the books from their site, soooo you kinda have to wonder.
Also on today’s program, “It’s The Law” returns! The state of choice this go-round? Alaska. It seems our 49th state is very concerned with moose safety. There are several state laws involved the antlered-animal as well as some at the city level. Remember that moose in the opening credits for NORTHERN EXPOSURE? Yeeaah, he was breaking like 10 laws.
And speaking of breaking stuff, the news continues to shatter around us. This week rapper T.I. helped talk down a suicidal man, a teenager parallel parks… in the DMV lobby and we talk about the world’s fastest mobility scooter.

Who Asked You? – Himalayan Stranger
October 11, 2010
Today’s episode lacks our bearded dairy counter-part. But we try and make-up for his absence by having Who Asked You? alumni, Jabari Tiffith on the show. Also hanging out for this hour is another friend of Dennis’ named Russ. People show up, they put headphones on and before they know it… they’re guest hosting.
Multiple E-Mails from you fine listeners out there start us off. One in particular brings up the story from last week involving the artwork in Colorado that had residents there upset because it showed Jesus engaged in a sex act. Turns out a Montana woman took matters into her own hands and created some really sloppy Origami out of the lithography.
And now for something that reeks. Warner Brothers has announced they’re making a live-action film based on the smelliest of Looney Toons, Pepe Le Pew. Of course, you can expect Pepe and his female feline love interest to be computer generated. That’s a contractual obligation in all films now, even romantic comedies… something has to be CG. And you can expect his voice to sound very much like a certain horny British spy. Yeah baby! You read right.
Disappointing news for Harry Potter fans this week as Warner Brothers also announced that seeing the boy wizard for the 7th time won’t cause you to go blind. The production company won’t be able to finish the 3D conversion and meet the deadline for the film’s release. So part 1, just 2D and part 2, all 3D. Both will still go out in IMAX, so they’ll rip you off even without the extra dimension.
The Parents Television Council is in the news once more. It’s becoming so regular we may have to give them their own segment. They’re taking a short breather from trying to get Seth MacFarlane tarred and feathered and turning their attention to a Britney Spears-themed episode of another Fox show.
It’s a pleasure to have a PTC story on an episode titled after something they would most certainly not approve of talking about on-air. During a quick round of “Best Worst Most Least” the topic of masturbation rises… pun intended. As you longtime listeners can probably imagine, Jabari takes the reins on this one as was common when he was part of the show and one of his rather unusual techniques blindsides us and we’re compelled to name it.
Before that though we have “Breaking News” of another dick related story. A certain dick TV anchor in New Zealand goes off on a laughing fit over the name of a government official in India. That name, Dikshit. Now yes… we can see how it’s spelled too. It’s funny. But it’s also not pronounced quite the way it’s spelled. What makes the clip — which you can hear on the show and in the Show Links — so obnoxious is that he’s corrected by his co-hosts, but continues to call her “Dick Shit” anyway. He also makes a rather tasteless joke about her name and how it, in his mind anyway, makes perfect sense because she’s Indian.
We’ve already talked about Jesus getting oral sex, the PTC, Britney Spears, masturbation and dick shit… we might as well mention NAMBLA. No this is not the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARLON BRANDO LOOK-ALIKES as seen in SOUTH PARK. This is the real NAMBLA. It came up 2 shows ago when we covered a story about the Internet meme known as “Pedobear.” Well this time the group for men who love boys gained 3 new members no thanks to the new privacy-violating feature of Facebook Groups that allows you to add your friends to any group without their knowledge. What’s awesome is, the guy who made Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, along with 2 of his tech-savvy pals got added to NAMBLA to prove a point that the feature is awful and should be removed. Whether or not it will remains to be seen. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an appointment with a stranger from the Himalayas.

Who Asked You? – Solar Convergence Phenomenon
October 4, 2010
We LOVE getting E-Mails! Keep ‘em coming! If you’ve never sent us one, or have been thinking about it… don’t think! Just do! We have 3 great ones today on varying subject matter. The first brings up the new Thor movie hammering theaters next summer. A lengthy-ass bootlegged trailer has made its way onto YouTube. You can check it out below in the Show Links… if it’s still up. We throw in our thoughts on it. Dennis and I were the only 2 who had seen the preview. Charlie couldn’t care less, as always and Mike was also indifferent.
Another E-Mail we got was from our good pal Marshall in Australia! He brought us more detailed intel on Paul Hogan’s tax evasion. Apparently Crocodile Dundee owes waaay more than originally reported here in the US… and on our little show. That’s why we’ve come up with a solution. Hogan should throw a benefit concert to raise the money to pay his tax debt. Tune in to hear some of the names he should call it.
Aside from getting updated on that story, we also have an update to one we told you about back in May. You may remember that Archie comics planned to introduce a gay character to the town of Riverdale. Well, that issue went on sell recently and sold out completely! The publishers of Archie say that’s the first time they’ve ever sold out of an issue in the comic book’s history! Mike thinks Kevin will eventually go the route of Poochie on the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons. Do you agree? Send us an E-Mail and let us know.
Has reality TV crossed the line? The cable network, TLC has a new reality series based on a man who is committing bigamy. He and his 4 wives star in the program, which has sparked a police investigation in their home state of…. yep, Utah. Bigamy, just like Polygamy, is illegal in all 50 states. Is it appropriate to glamorize or promote such illegal behavior for commercial profit? Send us an E-Mail and let us know.
And while we’re on the subject of reality TV crossing the line… The Hard Rock brand thinks one of their hotels has done just that. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is being sued by the parent company to be de-affiliated with the brand name. Why? Because of a mindless bullshit reality show of course. The TruTV show “Rehab” seems to be, according to the lawsuit, associating the Hard Rock brand with sexual exploitation and obnoxious behavior. The owners of Hard Rock want the name removed from the property and no longer want to be involved with it.
But an even better story than that is also beaming from sin city. The new mega-resort, City Center is apparently cooking their pool guests with an unintentional death ray. We don’t want to spoil the fun by laying it all out here. Listen to today’s show to get the details. We can’t make this up. It’s a “Solar Convergence Phenomenon.”

Who Asked You? – Partly Cloudy
September 27, 2010
We often have 2 types of guests in our studio’s peanut gallery. We have those that just show up randomly and hang out in the background while we do the show. And we have folks who sit in with headphones on and just listen to the show as we do it occasionally chiming in, most notably our friend John who has randomly popped up on the show from time to time. Whatever type of guest in may be, our show generates dialogue like a mofo and most of them can’t resist chiming in. Case in point, Dennis’ close friend, Ron Cloud. When Ron slipped on some headphones he knew nothing about our show. He didn’t even know we do it every week. And like many, his plan was to just listen-in and get a feel for the flow and maybe contribute on a later program. But as you’ll hear that didn’t last long. Getting in on a Who Asked You? conversation is a lot like jumping into a cold pool. Ron waited partway through the show so as not to get a cramp, then he canon balled in and never got out to towel off. And we’re happy to report Ron fit right in and picked up on our show’s rhythm rather quickly. He comes in during the New Releases segment to explain the British show coming out on DVD called, “Legend of the Seeker,” which none of us had seen or heard about.
Before that, we go through listener E-Mails, the first of which introduces us to a strange phenomenon moving through the web called the “Pedobear.” Apparently this cartoon image of a bear that originated on a Japanese art forum has quickly become synonymous with pedophilia. We don’t know how this happened. All we can say is it started back in 2004 and has been growing at a steady rate. The most recent notable appearance of the naughty bear was at this year’s Comic-Con where a man was kicked out for wearing the bear costume and handing out candy to children. People who recognized it complained and the San Diego police promptly removed him. We give you our take on this odd Internet meme.
Another story we bring you this week is a TV series James Cameron is working on based on his 1994 movie, “True Lies.” The show is apparently nearing completion and will be shown to various networks in the near future. This is Cameron’s second venture into the TV series world. He once had a show on Fox called “Dark Angle” that starred Jessica Alba. No word on who will star in the True Lies series, but can you imagine if Arnold and Jamie Lee Curtis were to do it? It would be the most watched show on television… and our Arnold Button would have thousands of Arnoldisms!
The new CBS show, “$#*! My Dad Says” premiered this past week. Aside from giving DVRs trouble with finding a show whose title begins with a dollar sign, the PTC is back at it again. This time they’re going after local advertisers of the show. If these people would put as much time into V-Chipping their TVs and parenting their children as they do bitching about network decency we’d all be a lot happier and less annoyed. PTC… get the fuck outta here!
And speaking of which, we’ve got another edition of that Joe Pesci-inspired segment. This time the “get the fuck outta here” was mumbled under my breath after seeing a commercial for Vivitar’s latest technological achievement. First of all, does anyone really buy Vivitar electronics? One thing is for sure, most tech savvy folks who live in the 21st century won’t be buying this one. Tune in to find out what it is!
This extended month-ender show comes to a close with another round of “Who Fact You?” followed by breaking news involving… Elmo? Lets just say the mean streets of Sesame have conditioned our fury friend for fighting. And he seems to attract women in skimpy clothing… Elmo’s a pimp!

Who Asked You? – Cobbing
September 13, 2010
It’s a special 2-hour episode of our program in honor of the day Charlie “The Cheese” DeLong arrived as a bearded bundle of joy. We asked Charlie what he wanted to do for his birthday. He replied, ” A long show.” And we obliged. If you’re a regular listener to our show you know we’re not one to complain… HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I almost made it through that with a straight face! We love to complain! As long as it’s something that deserves to be complained about. Well, this may fit into that category. We were all set to do a full episode of our show from this year’s Anime Vegas convention. We got all set up and started our recording. Just as we were getting warmed up we were told we had to wrap up. The previous panel spilled over into our time slot, which we weren’t upset about. What we were pissed about is that we didn’t get our full hour because the staff person in charge wanted to go drink. What an unprofessional loser!
As you might imagine, the post-Anime Vegas posting I made with our short 15 minutes of audio is just the tip of the complaining iceberg. We’ve got plenty more where that came from on today’s show. And so does one of our longtime listeners who used to work on Anime Vegas. You won’t want to miss it!
Do you collect movie and TV memorabilia? Do you have a shelf where you keep cool little props from some of your favorite flicks? If so, then we’ve got quite the story about one such collectable for you today. We’ve all seen brief glimpses of them — especially on Skinamax — those skin tone-colored modesty pouches actors wear to cover their twig and berries during nude scenes. One of the actors from the hit HBO series True Blood sold his on eBay to benefit charity. It sold for a pretty decent amount too… not Elvis snot wrag prices, but a pretty penny for a sweat-soaked crotch cover.
If you live in a cave without electricity, or on another planet, this may be news to you. Google has unveiled its new instant search technology. Basically, as soon as you start typing in the search box your results will appear and update in real-time with each new character you pound out on your keyboard. New innovation from Google? Halfhearted attempt to drive up their stock prices? Awesome new way to get porno suggestions you may not have seen if you just typed “tranny train” instead of “tranny train with midgets?” You decide. While on this subject we also add a new definition to the word “cobbing.”
And as mentioned at the beginning of these shows notes, we didn’t get through all of our Anime Vegas material, so we’ll try and do so on this episode. It includes a few silly stories from Japan as well as a “Who Fact You?” containing Japanese, manga and anime fun facts. We figured we took the time to write it up, might as well use it. Nothing goes to waste here at Who Asked You? except for everyone’s time… but that’s all consensual.
Duke Nukem is making his valiant and long overdue return to the video game universe. The sequel to the ever-popular “Duke Nukem 3D” is finally going to wrap development and should be out next year. We’ll ‘blow you away’ with our thoughts on this and another gaming related story. This one, not so much about a game as the console you play them on. Imagine a police officer being told by his wife he couldn’t play his PS3 anymore. Being a trained policeman who passed psychological testing and deals with domestic violence crimes all the time, how do you think he would react? We’ll tell you.
Rippin’ on incompetent convention staff, cock socks, cobbing, Duke Nukem, potentially racist soybeans… yep, this is adding up to a crazy-ass random show befitting Charlie’s birthday. That’s the way we like it.

Who Asked You? – Malfunctioning Bladder Sphincter
September 6, 2010
Bladder sphincters aren’t the only thing malfunctioning on today’s show. There must be some sort of celestial energy, or perhaps the planets have aligned just right. Whatever it might be, the last few shows have been plagued with technical issues. There was the time our audio levels vanished just as we were going live and it took 10 minutes to get them back. Then there were a few occasions I had channels muted and sounds were not playing. I take full responsibility for that. Then there was just last week I forgot to hit the record button and again this week! Don’t worry, you only miss about a minute of the show this time. And on top of that, the sound effects board this week decided to not function. This is due to a “dump” that computer took over the last week which required a Windows XP repair. Long story short, there were a lot of missing drivers. Luckily Charlie gets the board up and running during the program so we don’t have to go too long without our precious sounds.
Arnold however is absent this week, for reasons yet unexplained, the Arnold button is not functioning. I’m sure this is related to the dump the computer had. I will strive to have our show back to its flawless production value by next week. Longtime listeners will know there was a time when our show went off without a hitch. Maybe when the cosmic rays, or in our case, skeet move out of our direction all will be well again. The awkward fumbling about at the start of the show is entertaining in itself, so enjoy!
As for this episode’s content. Just before the recording started, I had read off some details about a new sandwich Denny’s is offering up. As if Denny’s food isn’t bad enough for you, they go and stuff fried cheese inside of cheese on bread that you can dip in sauce with a side of fat french fries.
Listener E-Mails come in today with news that our show is heard in the UK!!! Technically it’s always been available worldwide via the Interwebs. But we have confirmation that someone on the other side of our planet is listening to us! Thanks Lewis in the United Kingdom by the way for giving us the time of day. We also have a lengthy thesis from Commander Vonfrogstein, who clearly let too many shows build up before venting his opinions because his E-Mail is a long one. But that’s cool. We read it all.
Craigslist has closed down the adult section of the site after pressure from various states and law enforcement. Some claim the classifieds website doesn’t filter adds posted on it very well *cough* employment section. And that in the adult area there are postings promoting prostitution and other illegal sex activities. Perhaps shutting the section down was a little extreme. Maybe better monitoring was the solution. Forcing a company to shut down an open online community like this could be seen as a free speech violation. But there’s a lot of gray area that we’d rather not ponder right now. We would like to know, however, what you think about them closing the naughty section of Craigslist. Vote on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll or send us an E-Mail for next Sunday’s show.
We also have tons of Avatar news that’ll make you blue in the face. Whether it’s an extended version in theaters, the two sequels, the extended extended DVD or the costly 3D Blu-ray coming in December, we’ll break it all down.
Also on the docket, Taylor Lautner is suing an RV dealership for a botched dressing room-RV he was supposed to receive for his new movie. This filthy rich teeny-bopper wants $40,000 for emotional distress. The RV dealer has a better idea for that $40,000 and Lautner would be a spoiled dick if he doesn’t except.
Foursquare, that app that tells your friends where you’re at via GPS in your phone, also wants to tell your friends if you’ve got anything nasty going on in your downstairs business. They’ve teamed with MTV for the “Get Yourself Tested” campaign and are offering a special limited badge that tells your friends you’re getting tested for STDs when you check into your local clinic. There’s something you don’t want to be mayor of!
If STD talk isn’t enough, we’ve got a few items from a list of the 11 strangest sexual conditions in the world. These are actual conditions and disorders that afflict people in the sack… no pun intended.
And hopefully, the providers of ingredients for our final story don’t have any STDs. A man in London is using the urine of diabetic patients, like his own grandmother, to make whiskey. Apparently the tinkle is high in sugars and ferments quite nicely. He doesn’t sell it and has no plans to, but still… drinking your granny’s piss?

Who Asked You? – Dinner With The Guys
August 30, 2010
For the first time in the history of our show, I forgot to hit the record button. It was bound to happen and these things do to even the best of us. Luckily I realized my most important duty had been neglected at about 5 minutes into the show. So really all you’ll miss, if you’re listening to the recorded version, is the rundown of what’s coming up on the show. But you can find that out here by continuing to read this. I’ve cleaned up my flub as best I can. The show starts right off with a listener E-Mail. It’s all smooth sailing from there on out. This is good incentive for you to tune in live on Sunday evenings. You never know what you’re going to miss because one little red button didn’t get pressed.
Another first we can chalk up in our show history is that we ordered pizza moments before going on the air and it was delivered while we were doing the show. In fact, Dennis was paying the delivery guy moments after I remembered to start recording. Unprofessional? Maybe. Delicious pizza that fueled us for a good show? Absolutely! And what a mixed bag of awesome this episode is. We finally give you our brief thoughts on “The Expendables” as asked for by the before mentioned E-Mailer.
Nike is on the verge of bringing back the 80s by creating a shoe from the year 2015. Whaaaaaa? You just thought to yourself. Let me explain. Nike’s Test Kitchen crew recently filed patent papers for shoes that look stunningly similar to the “Air Mag” auto-lacing shoes Marty McFly wore in the year 2015 on Back to the Future II. If you remember the scene, the shoes had a light up logo and a small button that when pressed sucked the laces down and conformed to you foot. The clip is below in the show links if you want to have a look. And take a look at the images of the patent papers too. As you’ll see it appears Nike’s real-life version of the sneaker may work the same way.
Meanwhile down unda, Paul Hogan of the Crocodile Dundee fame is being held in his native country until he pays all taxes due to the government there. Hogan lives here in the US, but had flown back to Australia to attend his mother’s funeral. Not sure what or how it happened, but he was caught and told he couldn’t leave until paying millions in back taxes. Good luck to him on that.
We also talk about whining on Facebook. I’m sure you all have a friend or 2 who does it on their wall and maybe even yours. Well imagine if the guy who came up with the damned wall was doing it… oh, actually, you don’t. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, is apparently moaning and groaning about the way he is portrayed in the new Facebook movie called “The Social Network.” Should Mark suck it up if he wants to collect the big bucks? Are his gripes justified? We discuss this. And we’d like your opinion on the matter as well.
A new study has some shocking results when it comes to what ladies would give up in order to stay thin. Over half of them would do it too! Any ideas what they’d leave behind for a slimmer waist? I’ll give you a clue, only a quarter of the men polled would do the same. Okay, that was pretty much a dead give away.
And while we’re on the subject of staying thin, one way to do that might be to stay away from a few choice fast food options. We have a list of 10 of those items you should NOT order if you value good cardiovascular health. The number 1 thing on this list is a sandwich that Dennis eats regularly. We may have saved his life after he heard his caloric intake from this bad boy.
Because it’s the end of the month, this show is an extended episode with music! Charlie and I met one of the bands we play on today while at the Classic Gaming Expo here in Las Vegas. They’re called “Decendants of Erdrick” and they specialize in old-school video game music. We also play some tunes from our good pal Jinnai who DJs at anime conventions. Links to him and the Decendants are listed below if you want to check out more of their music.
Now I’m gonna warm up some left over pizza and practice hitting the record button a few thousand times before next week’s show.

Who Asked You? – Silence Of The Lambs
August 23, 2010
This episode gets off to a silent start with the sound effects being muted for a few moments. The silence continues after that with the segment cues being muted. Although I do figure out which button to press during the “New Releases” and do get around to playing it during the segment. And Mike’s friend Glen sits in once again and the show randomly gets taken over by the black folk on the panel leaving Charlie and Chase a bit… well… silent. But that’s okay! Last time Glen was with us — the episode called Ghetto Pirate — it was our least productive show ever. I think I made it through about 1 and a half stories on that one. This time I do manage to get through the entire rundown, but forget to read off the Poll Question for this week. And right off the bat with our first story, we don’t even talk about the story.
What was supposed to be a short discussion about how awesome “The Expendables” was turned into sports shop talk between Dennis and Glen about the last few Madden games from EA Sports. At least this way you don’t have to worry about any spoilers. While sort of quasi on the topic of Sylvester Stallone, we have news of his replacement in a reboot to one of his films as well.
And the story that involves the unmentioned Poll Question this week is that of George Lucas’ decision NOT to include the original theatrical versions of the first Star Wars films on the Blu-ray box set that comes out next Fall. The fans have begged and pleaded to offer the originals in every incarnation that the “Special Editions” were in. But for whatever reasons known only to him, Lucas wants the classic versions to disappear. Not to mention, according to LucasFilm, they permanently altered the original negatives when they digitally mastered them for the “Special Editions.” So there you go. Han will still step on Jabba’s tail and Sabastian Shaw’s ghostly presence in Jedi is still replaced with that Canadian kid that can’t act worth a damn.
We go from a galaxy far far away to the lovely state of Vermont for a fun-filled round of “It’s The Law”. Vermont has some very strict margarine laws. As a dairy state, they take their milk products very seriously… they also require you to bathe at least once a week. And they don’t allow you to strip down in public, only in private. There’s more to this law you’ll want to hear!
And speaking of ‘private.’ Facebook has released a new app that allows your friends to violate your privacy without your knowledge, while you’re sitting next to them. It’s called “Facebook Places” and anyone who uses the Foursquare app on their mobile phone will feel right at home with this one. Using GPS the program allows you to “check-in” at locations that you visit (i.e. the movies, a club or store). But Facebook’s version allows a user to check their friends into those locations as well with a simple drag and drop. This could lead to awkward hilarity, especially if you told one friend you were staying in to fold laundry and then pop up a short time later on Facebook as being at your favorite bar with a few other friends. This would also work — in horrible ways — with stalkers, vengeful ex-lovers or co-workers/bosses you called in sick to that day.
The show winds down with a new burger joint that serves not-so-new burgers, a Swedish dude that may need to mortgage his home to pay a speeding ticket and a BBQ that can cook up to 7 whole lambs… Ahh, see what I did there. I brought the title of the episode full circle. I started with the ‘silence’ thing and ended with ‘lambs.’ I’m awesome!

Who Asked You? – They All Look Alike
August 9, 2010
Hide your kids, hide your wife, Who Asked You? is chockfull of verbage on race, sex, beer, illegal downloading and plenty of curses… so… pretty much a run-of-the-mill show. We’ll tell you today about the newest record holder for the world’s strongest beer. No longer does it belong to the guys at BrewDogs who created “Tactical Nuclear Penguin”. Now it goes to another company whose mission statement must say that it’s out to develop a customer base of liver failure-patients. Anytime a beer has more alcohol in it than a fine whiskey, perhaps it’s not really beer anymore. When the brewing industry itself is against brewing the beer, perhaps it’s not really a beer anymore. Or when the company advises you drink it like a cocktail and not like a beer… I’m thinking it’s not really a beer anymore.
Now onto something you can finger. Oh yeah… it’s that alright! Call it the latest in geek chic. A computer mouse elegantly sculpted into the shape of a woman’s genitalia. Complete with a perfectly positioned scroll wheel and a hidden ‘spot’ that rewards you by launching your favorite website or E-Mail when you press it. The mouse is a conceptual design right now. It doesn’t seem to be for sale anywhere. But I’m sure so me company in the techno-porn industry will be happy to develop it into a real product. You can have a look at it for yourself below in the Show Links. I can’t help but wonder, if this was for sale, how long it would be before some lonely guy surfing an adult webcam site late one night looked down at his “G Spot Mouse” and then tried to have sex with it. It would probably happen faster than the time it’d take him to get to the ER to have the stuck gadget removed.
Our big story of the show goes to a brother and sister in Alabama. The Dodson’s were victimized by an attempted rapist who broke into the sister’s bedroom and tried to assault her. When she screamed for help, her brother Antoine quickly raced to her aide. The perp got away, but when interviewed by the local news, Antoine Dodson sounded off about the event and has since become an Internet sensation for his comments. Some feel people like this shouldn’t be put on the news. But isn’t it worse to not let them have their say. Why should one victim get favored for a sound byte just because they’re better spoken or dressed over the one who isn’t? It was said that those like Antoine (i.e. those who have an Ebonics vernacular) reflect poorly on their community. Really? Seems to me like the guy that broke into their house and tried to rape an innocent young woman is the one doing that poor reflecting. In any case, the interview aired, people liked it and now Antoine is being heard by folks all over the world not just on the news, but on T-Shirts, ringtones and YouTube remixes. If only that rapist had a vagina-shaped mouse, perhaps this wouldn’t have happened.
If he did have that mouse, perhaps he’d be using it to acquire movies from the Bureau. We’ve got a list for you today of the current most downloaded movies from it. We’ll run down the top-10 then quiz you with a “Chase’s Challenge” on what flick is getting the most torrent attention. Tune in and play along… don’t cheat and Google it before though!
Perhaps that rapist that broke into the Dodson household is working for the National Weather Service now. The robotic voice that interrupts the TV and radio warning us all of impending weather related doom is part of a brand new segment we’re introducing today inspired by Mr. Joe Pesci. This bit is an invention of Dennis’ and will pop up from time to time on the show. And we encourage your participation too. Listen to the show, find out what the segment is about and if one of these moments happens to you, E-MAIL US and we’ll include it in the next edition!
We’re off next week, but brand-new episodes of the show return on August 23rd. And you can hear us the night before, live on ErrorFM as well. So run and tell dat home boy!

Who Asked You? – Beef Stew
August 2, 2010
Today’s show is full of what one might think are ‘bad jokes’. These are true stories that are so outrageous, weird or down right funny that you can’t help but wonder if they’re real. We can tell you, they are. And that’s what makes them all the more funny or just plain unfortunate. All of today’s topics fall under one of these two categories.
First up is a recap of the now almost daily rantings of Mel Gibson via phone to his ex-baby mamma Oksana Gragoriblah something something. When you hear Mel’s colorful metaphors for the Russian gal or when he calls her pre-teen son a pussy you immediately wonder if this is a bad joke. It’s not. If there’s one thing Mel has shown us these past couple of years, it’s that he’s insane. These phone calls are just the last crazy nail in his nuthouse coffin. This one falls under the ‘funny’ category for sure.
Besides Mel Gibson’s evident boo boos, there’s another Boo Boo in the spotlight. This one comes in the form of a computer generated bear cub wearing a purple bowtie. The trailer for the live-action Yogi Bear movie debuted on the net last week. The film will feature CGI versions of the ol’ Hanna-Barbera staples. With 2 well known actors portraying the bears you might think this too is a bad joke. Alas, it’s real. The movie is due out this Christmas. Tune into the show to find out which of these actors actually tries to put some effort into his voice-over gig. Surprisingly, he’s not too shabby at it either… still, the simple fact that this is yet another cartoon to movie adaptation after such gems as Space Jam, George of the Jungle and Alvin and the Chipmunks 1 and 2, it comes out as just plain unfortunate.
Another story on this week’s show is no so much a bad joke as it is bad math. The National Association of Theater Owners wants you to believe you’re paying less for that movie ticket than you were just 9 weeks ago. And less than what you were 40 years ago! How do they make the math work. It would seem they’re using matinee prices. Hmmm… Why would they shy away from telling us the “normal” admission price of a movie? And why was that not used in this breakdown instead? Oh year, that’s right… because it’s freakin’ $10 to go to the movies nowadays! It’s a rip-off in my opinion. And NATO is trying to fool us. I buy this “lower ticket prices than 40 years ago” less than I actually buy movie tickets. Maybe theaters should have control over admission prices? Get a Best Buy/Circuit City-style war going between them?
Stan Lee continues to keep busy with his comic/TV/movie development company called “Pow! Entertainment”. In fact, he’s got 3 new comic book super heroes set to premier in October. We’ve got the brief stories of each on the show. We know it’s Stan Lee, but the general Who Asked You? consensus on these is, unfortunate. It’s unfortunate that we just aren’t feelin’ these new characters. But if they do turn out to be cool, we’ll gladly accept our mistake. Someone will have to tell us though, because none of us plan on reading these comics.
If you’re a resident in Tennessee and will be heading to the polls soon to vote for your state’s governor, you’ve got 5 to choose from. Actually, it’s more like 4. One of them, Basil Marceaux dot com — not sure if he’s legally changed his name to include the dot com, but that’s how he introduces himself — clearly stands no chance what so ever. Still, he may not win over the voters, but his odd incoherent pitch on a local Nashville news station has won over YouTube. Basil has some interesting ideas for the Volunteer State. Not sure if he’ll ever be able to put them into complete sentences if elected, but interesting ideas nonetheless. This is both funny and unfortunate.
Finally, if you’re ever in Hakone, Japan and have a hankering for Ramen, be careful where you get it from. There’s a spa there now offering a jacuzzi tub full of pork broth for you to simmer in. They even come by and dump in a batch of fake noodles. The health department won’t let them use real Ramen. Visitors basically get to pretend their tiny people in a giant bowl of noodle soup. Bad joke? We wish. The only bad joke in this story one made by me.

Who Asked You? – Comic Sans
July 26, 2010
It’s the first of what we hope will be many month-ending extended episodes of Who Asked You?. As you’ve probably heard when we started doing the show live on July 11th, the last Sunday of each month we’ll do a super cool 2-hour extended show with music and random awesomeness on ErrorFM Live. You’ll probably notice the running time on this episode is a bit odd. Well, do to copyright issues I want to avoid at all costs, I’ve decided not to include the music in the on-demand version of the show here on the site. If you want to hear the tunes we play be sure to listen to the show live on ErrorFM.com the last Sunday of the month at 8pm/PT. ErrorFM’s operations are overseas… so we can play what we want without repercussions.
With that said, we do have some music on this episode. A very good DJ friend of Charlie’s named William T. Lane lent him a track of his music to play on this week’s show. You can hear this awesome mix on this episode and you can check out William’s site below in the Show Links. In the future, if we’re given music to play on these extended shows you’ll hear them in the recorded version. But for now, music distribution is still a tender spot on the Interwebs. So, the stuff we don’t necessarily have permission to include will only be heard on the live Sunday night show. That’s what we call an incentive. It should entice you to tune into the live show.
What’s on this live show you might be wondering by now? Well for starters, Evan Pederson from FancyPantsGangsters.com is sitting in studio!!! Not via Skype, he actually used some of his Fancy Pants travel budget to fly out to Las Vegas and hang out with us. He also brought us delicious salsa from a local Minnesotan micro-brewery.
We start the show off with several E-Mails from listeners. One brings up the recent reveal of the Green Lantern costume for the new movie starring Ryan Reynolds. If you’re a regular listener you know that Charlie is a HUGE Green Lantern fan, so it was imperative that we get his views on the digital threads. Does he like it? Tune in to find out.
We also talk about the recent decision by Lucasfilm Ltd. to ban former Darth Vader body actor, David Prowse from all future company-sponsored events. Apparently David’s been running his mouth a little too much regarding decisions Lucas made 30 years ago about Darth Vader’s voice. David should’ve tuned into our last show when we aired a word of caution after the story about the guy who got fired for posting negative comments about his employers on his Facebook page. You gotta be careful what you say about your boss these days.
Another big story this week is Sylvester Stallone’s revelation about which movie from the late 80s he thinks killed the good ol’ shoot-em-up action flicks we all cherish today. His choice may surprise you. Be sure to tune in for that. Then afterward visit the “We Ask You Online Poll” and tell us if you agree or not with Sly’s assessment. You’re also welcome to send us your thoughts in an E-Mail. We’ll read it on the show!
And the Hansel and Gretel poster above is no joke. Our favorite least favorite director has tasked one of his production companies with developing a live-action 3D version of this Grimm fairy tale. Wait until you hear what they plan to do with it. By the way, that teaser poster is real. We didn’t make it. You have to love the text logo and its coloring. What was that? A total of 5 minutes in Photoshop? They can make a photo-realistic Transformer for millions of dollars, but when it comes to font choices…

Who Asked You? – I Don’t Care
July 12, 2010
This week’s show marks a milestone for Who Asked You?, our first live broadcast on Internet radio! As we’ve mentioned before you’ll be able to now hear the show a whole day earlier if you don’t want to wait until 3pm/PT Monday to hear our soothing voices. Our show went live last night at 8pm/PT on “ErrorFM Live.” The station recently rebranded itself and is putting more emphasis on live content. So not only can you hit their site and hear us Sunday evenings live, but you can log into their chat room and interact with us… sort of… when Chase reaches for the keyboard anyway.
What’s in store for you on the first live, but 126th regular show? The answer to that is as follows. You all know us… we enjoy a good tirade, especially when it’s not our own. And we’ve got a doozy for you this week. It was recently in the news that Mel Gibson split from Oksana Grigorieva after a short romance, oh yeah… and a child! Well Mel must’ve been drunk, according to some reports and he called up Oksana to let her have it over the way she dresses and her breast implants. Little did Mel know she was taping the conversation for everyone’s entertainment. You’ll hear the uncensored bashing on today’s show. And Mel even makes a reference to the Who Asked You? hometown, Las Vegas! Of course he adds whores in there with it, but hey! It’s Vegas! We’re used to that.
The main focus on today’s show is a couple of stories involving some regular guys who put their jobs in jeopardy over something they posted online. The first story revolves around a young man who was a mascot for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He vented his frustration on Facebook regarding the contract extension of some folks (his bosses) he felt weren’t doing their job. A 12 game losing streak? Yeah… they aren’t too good at what they do. Nevertheless, the truth hurts. And when the powers that be got wind of this guy’s Facebook posting, he got fired.
A similar case out of Missouri has pitted a YouTube poster against his employer, Best Buy. In this case he created some funny-ass videos (one of which is the inspiration for this episode’s title) illustrating the idiocy of people when it comes to smart phones and how none of them do their research and just flock to one particular brand because it’s “what’s cool” *cough* iPhone *cough*. Because Best Buy doesn’t want its employees badmouthing its customers, they’ve given this guy an ultimatum regarding his part-time job there. This launches one of those half-an-episode conversations about where the line should be drawn in this new online world. Should employers have the right to fire their employees for stuff they post online outside of work? We dive into this topic and we want you to give us your opinion too. You can vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and if you have something else to say about it, send us an E-Mail.
Sometimes you don’t need to post bad things online to get fired. Sometimes you just need to steal over a million dollars from your employer. And you get bonus firing points if your boss is a church! Meet Reverend Kevin J. Gray. He feels as though his church owes him a little somethin’ for all the trouble they’ve put him through over the years. You will not believe the “sins” this guy committed against his own parish. There’s a list of them! And we’ll tell you all about it.
Because we spend so much time talking about employers and their firing power we don’t get to some of our other content on this week’s show. You can look it up for yourself, E-Mail me for it or just wait and maybe we’ll have it when we return with new shows on July 25th… I don’t care.

Who Asked You? – Rogue Enablers Of Content Theft
July 5, 2010
This week’s show is a lot about change. It’s rather fitting too since Who Asked You? will be changing next Sunday. It’s perhaps our biggest change to date as we start broadcasting our show live on ErrorFM Sundays at 8pm/PT. But that’s not the only change we’re talkin’ about today.
You’ve heard us time and time again mention a secret web society everyone uses but nobody acknowledges exists. We refer to it as the “Bureau Of Acquisitions”. Whatever you might call it, one thing is for sure, we promote it regularly on our show. Hence today’s title, which actually a quote from an E-Mail Viacom presented to a US District Court, it’s a name Google called YouTube in this E-Mail shortly before buying them. Simply put, Google was being sued by Viacom for numerous copyright violations on YouTube. Viacom was showing the judge that even before Google’s acquisition of YouTube they thought too, the site was promoting copyright infringement. But luckily, our lawmakers did at least one thing right 12 years ago by passing a little Interweb law protecting sites like YouTube from copyright lawsuits if they remove the content in question when asked by its owners. The judge heard Viacom’s case, but sited this law and threw the lawsuit out. A victory for those of us and those companies that realize things are different now. The business models television has worked with all these years no longer applies. Cast, crews and production budgets are just going to have to be cheaper. You’ll hear much more about this on today’s show and we invite your opinions too! a Send us your thoughts to be read on the air.
Before all that jazz we conjure up some magical news from the new “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” attraction at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. It seems American theme parks these days are facing a ‘growing’ dilemma… pun — which will become apparent momentarily — intended. We park-goers are no longer faced with just the “you must be this tall to ride the ride” signs, but also tests that measure our girth. Or in a sense, “you can’t be this wide to ride” signs. At the Harry Potter park there are test seats that some of our more inflated muggles must try out to make sure they can safely go on the rides. Humiliating? Possibly, but the parks do this for visitor safety. And this goes far beyond theme parks. Remember Kevin Smith and the airplane fiasco? Here comes that pun… it’s a growing problem in America for businesses who emphasize something as simple as a chair or bench. Not just growing as in more and more… but also as in literally getting bigger. They’re having to increase weight limits, widen seats or in Disney’s case, deepen pools to accommodate this country’s growing waist line. Once again, it’s a different time. Things are changing.
And it doesn’t stop there. A whole new era is on the way for one of DC Comic’s most iconic heroines. After almost 70 years Wonder Woman is getting a makeover. She’s ditching the patriotic Daisy Dukes in favor of a more modern, tough look. Her story is also going through a reboot. Something we at Who Asked You? all agree is NOT a good idea. Anytime you start messing with backstories and the continuity of established characters and worlds it’s not only confusing to readers both new and old, but it’s a disservice to all the writers before you who worked so hard to maintain that story and build up a rich interesting character you could really enjoy. But like so many, the comic book industry is having to, here comes that word again, change to keep up with today’s society. Will this new Wonder Woman usher in a whole new generation of readers? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I’m betting though, they may be a bit heavier and many of them will be far more adroit at finding comics and their favorite TV shows using the Bureau. And if they listen to our show, we’ll just enable them.

Who Asked You? – Ron’s Ass Exploded
June 28, 2010
Amanda Bynes… what I like about you, hmmm, let me tell you… huh? Oh, umm… sorry! I was having a moment with Amanda. Devastating news out of Hollywood this hour as Ms. Bynes announced in a Tweet that she is leaving acting. Okay, it’s not that big of a deal really. And she won’t be terribly missed, but she’s a little hottie nevertheless.
We are back! After a week off, the Who Asked You? Crew has returned with a couple of more new episodes before our big live debut on ErrorFM. On our last interaction with you, we brought to your attention via a listener E-Mail a new dance sweeping YouTube called the “Dick Slang”. If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. We’ve got listener reaction to it as well as a few other things like Pop-Tart instructions and the decade of the 80s.
From there, the details on Amanda Bynes aforementioned early retirement. Followed by a whirlwind of movie crap that’s not very important, but we talk about it anyway. For starters, the Addams Family is getting a brand new remake in the form of classic stop-motion animation. Somewhere out there Christina Ricci perked up for a moment and slumped back into her seat after I said stop-motion. This new Addams Family won’t take after the old TV series or films, but rather the original 1938 comic strip that ran in The New Yorker. It’s possible they’ll do it in black and white and it’s possible Tim Burton will direct… at least that’s the hope. He is involved in the project, but nothing official yet.
Also not official when it comes to whose sitting in the director’s chair is Peter Jackson with his Hobbit films. Back in May, Guillermo del Toro decided to not direct the Lord of the Rings prequels. So now Jackson is considering the job for himself. He’s already a co-writer and the executive producer. Might as well put on one more hat… or… ring?
And NPH is alive! He’s confirmed he will appear in Harold and Kumar’s third pot peppered picture. This one called “A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas” will co-star Patton Oswalt along with the usuals, John Cho and Kal Penn… thankfully.
If at anytime you’re ever listening to our show while we’re listening to Dirty Potter tracks and wonder if anything ever gets left on the cutting room floor, we have an answer for you on today’s show. It turns out there are bits and pieces that don’t make it into Jim Dale’s romps through profanity and pornography. And we’ll play some of them for you courtesy of Dirty Potter himself. Listen for a special cameo from some of our old Dirty Potter faves!
And there’s a very “Charlie” story on this week’s show. It involves, as Dennis has come to realize a lot of things do with the Cheese, blood and mayhem. We’ll take you to the great state of Utah where they don’t waste electricity or deadly intravenous chemicals on their death row prisoners, but rather bullets! Yep… like a super-twisted It’s The Law, we’ve found out that Utah still uses firing squads for its death penalties. One such bullet barrage took place just last week!
And after that, condoms… it’s the closest story we could find to genitalia in the news this week. The creepy factor on this one has us going off for over 10 minutes. In Massachusetts a school district, starting this fall, will start giving out condoms to its students no questions asked, and no phone calls to parents. As if that’s not upsetting enough to some, there’s really no age limit on who can request them. The school district says that students in as low as the first grade can ask the nurse for a rubber and may very well get it! Does this seem a little inappropriate to you? After the show make your voice heard! Vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and tell us if you think the schools there should be doing this. And send us an E-Mail with your thoughts on it, or anything.

Who Asked You? – Under Siege 3D: Jaws You Are NOT The Father
June 14, 2010
Our show starts off today with a letter from the Las Vegas Asian Community Against Racial Oppression. We quickly discovered it’s chaired by Who Asked You? fan, Jinnai. Apparently he runs this… “club” all by himself and never mentioned it to us when he was on the show. Between this and being an Anime convention DJ, he’s a pretty busy guy! Not too busy though to ask us about our thoughts on 3D TV coming soon to your living room. Or at least those of you stupid enough to fork over the cash for it.
We start things off with a rousing round of Who Fact You?. There’s never a shortage of miscellaneous non-sensical factoids you can store in your brain and share with your friends. And it’s all curteousy of our show. If you’ve ever wondered how many taste buds a catfish has or what public school system banned hypnotism, this is the segment for you!
Those aren’t the only facts we have for you this week. We felt it necessary to bring you up-to-date on the cold hard facts surrounding Steven Seagal’s legal troubles. As many of you are quite aware, we have an unusual infatuation with 80′s movie stars and the films they did. We grew up watching guys like Seagal, so when there’s trouble abound we like to monitor the situation. It would be totally awesome if Seagal reenacted the bar scene from “Out For Justice” in the courtroom. He could start with the bitch who’s filed a lawsuit against him. Claiming the actor expected her to become his personal sex toy. Then he could move onto the judge, maybe clock him with the gavel a few times until he dismisses the charges. But then again, Steven Seagal is a little sleazy looking. He may very well be guilty of the accusations. It’s tough to say. What do you think? Vote on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll and tell us what you believe.
And it’s the third time in a row that we’re forced to find out what Michael Bay is up to. My god… at this rate we may have to turn it into its own show. This week’s update is pretty short though. He takes a moment to pass the “Revenge of the Fallen-sucking” blame off onto the writers and then lets us all in on the not at all exciting news of who the villain will be in the third feature. It should be Megan Fox, but it’s not.
Then we’ll tell you where they found Bruce. That’s all I can really say. Listen to the show and you’ll learn who Bruce is and where he’s been for the past 35 years.
A large chunk of chicks that are of child bearing age in this country don’t seem to mind if they bear a child. That’s according to a new study recently released. It seems about 1 in every 4 women polled wouldn’t care one way or another if they got preggers. This is cause for some alarm, as well as an endless supply of Maury episodes.
And lastly on episode 123 we take a moment to bash McDonald’s and its BP-like incompetence when it comes to the promotional junk they shove in kids faces. It seems collectible cups for the new Shrek movie aren’t up to American standards, which these days is becoming a gray area. If you drink from these cups designed for drinking from, you may develop cancer, or floppy bones. We know, your child just recovered from floppy bones after wearing Miley Cyrus jewelry a couple of months ago. She’s as incompetent as the clown. Shame on all of them!
I know one thing, cancer causer or not, if McDonald’s releases some collector’s cups for Under Siege 3, we’ll be first in line!

Who Asked You? – Leroy’s Hot Chocolate
June 7, 2010
In the Show Links this week you’ll find several YouTube videos of various things we reference on today’s episode. The first video is something you may or may not have seen yet. It’s a clip of several adult men demonstrating a new dance called the “Dick Slang”. With over 900,000 hits and counting, a lot of folks have watch the phalluses fly. An E-Mail from listener Jinnai turned us onto the craze… that may be a bad choice of words. Let me rephrase that. An E-Mail from listener Jinnai brought this craze to our attention. And I’m not even sure craze is a good way to describe this. Thumbing through a lot of the comments left for the video, people aren’t exactly excited to jump out onto the dance floor and whip their willy around, or watch someone else do it for that matter. One can only speculate what was going through the minds of these guys when they made this video. If hits and buzz was their goal, they’ve certainly succeeded. After all, they made it onto the Who Asked You? show didn’t they?
Besides flapping frankfurters, we’ve got boobs! Both male and female! First a story out of Delaware regarding men with women’s breasts. Some transgendered friends decided to remove their tops at a local beach while catching some sun. Some of the other beach-goers weren’t to fond of the bare breasts hanging out and complained. Unfortunately, the ladies who were, by law, technically men weren’t committing any crime because they were men. We debate the issue in true Who Asked style. And we want you to get in on it too! Give us your vote on the subject in this week’s We Ask You Online Poll. We’ll have the totals come next Monday. You’re also more than welcome to send us a E-Mail with your thoughts.
We’re not done with boobs yet. It seems in Colorado a coffee shop is serving cups of a different variety than those your latte comes in. The owner of the shop has hired some sexy chicks to hang out on the corner in bikinis holding signs to advertise his shop. A local councilwoman says she fears for the ladies’ lives, but we’re not convinced that’s her only motive. Somewhere along the line our twisted imaginations brew up our own barbaric baristas and what they do to your coffee. It’s story time for the demented. You won’t want to miss it! You will however want to avoid the hot chocolate at our creepy cafe.
And lastly from boobs, to just… a boob. In Italy a newlywed couple rents a Ferrari for a day so they can drive it to their reception and wow everyone there. They end up wowing them beforehand instead. Lets just hope the groom can steer his marriage better than he can an expensive sports car.

Who Asked You? – Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!
May 31, 2010
In the brave and knowledgeable words of Alpha 5, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!” This show is jam-packed full of awesomeness! Perhaps our biggest fan to date, Patrick Yoder, sits in with us today via Skype. First off we bring you up-to-date, as promised last week, on what the original 6 Power Rangers actors are doing nowadays. From green to pink to blue, we’re not yellow about telling you what the black Ranger was arrested for and why Austin St. John is seeing red over rumors that have circled cyberspace for sometime. Given the nature of those rumors and… our show in general this eventually leads into making sexually slanted jokes and puns. With such, you’ll find out what really goes on between Zordon and Alpha 5 when the Rangers are away followed shortly by whose the top in the R2-D2/C-3PO relationship courtesy of us.
Then we head into new releases. One of the DVDs coming out this week is Wolfman. Instead of watching this film, Dennis elected to view another feature called “The Human Centiped”. You can read up on this movie and what it’s about in the Show Links. Dennis enjoyed it immensely! There goes that sarcasm that’s hard to convey in text form again. Read the description of this movie at IMDb and you’ll understand all.
Patrick asked if we could do an edition of It’s The Law today since it’s his favorite segment. And since Patrick attends school in Montana, that’s the state we’re headed to. Listen at the end of the segment for perhaps the most random and obscure law we’ve ever had. Maybe you can think of a better one? If so, let us know! It’ll be hard to top this one though.
And for the second week in row we revisit the schedule of events in Michael Bay’s iPhone. Normally we wouldn’t see what he’s up to twice in a row… too emotionally draining. But this was too good, or bad rather to pass up.
We wanted Patrick to get the real Who Asked You? experience. The full-on immersive environment that is our obnoxious little program. So naturally, we had to include a story about genitals. You think a sac tap is all fun and games? You think back handing your buddy’s balls in clever? Then you need to hear this story. This goes for all parties involved. If you’re often the recipient of these playful attacks you’ll want to guard the family jewels a little more closely. And if you’re often the attacker, first you’ll want to ask yourself why you enjoy touching other dude’s crouches so much, but then, you may want to rethink your ball-bustin’ all together, or you may end up in a place where bigger dudes like touching your crouch. Imagine that? Slap a guy’s nut sack and Bubba could be slappin’ your ass and making you scream, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!”

Who Asked You? – It’s A Risk I’ll Have To Take
May 24, 2010
Okay… so you’re probably immediately wondering why there’s a homo-erotic depiction of Luigi to the left. It’s very simple. We talk about Luigi on today’s show. More specifically, the fact that he’s gotten a pretty raw deal over the years when it comes to having his own game. This was all spawned from me bringing up the newly-released “Super Mario Galaxy 2″ for the Nintendo Wii. In that game you’ll have the chance to play as Luigi on several levels. Besides the “New Super Mario Brothers Wii” video game, this is the first time Luigi has gotten to really stretch his legs legitimately in a Mario game for some time. Why then the gay-ish Luigi picture? Well no real reason I guess. Although, we do start and end this week’s episode with some varying Broke Trek memories. If you’ve never seen this Brokeback Mountain/Star Trek parody, you can watch it in the Show Links. And we do go into a tangent about Luigi being a slave. But not the kind of slave the picture is suggesting. So I guess that angle doesn’t really work… look, it’s a funny fuckin’ picture okay. Just look at it, chuckle and move on.
Besides the homosexual trek and Luigi getting the shaft we do have a few items of interest on the show. Apparently it is now against FCC regulations to even elude to a dirty word. Just ask the Parent’s Television Council. They know what’s best for us. And what’s best for us is NOT watching the new CBS comedy due out this fall called “Bleep My Dad Says” or “&$#% My Dad Says or, our preferred version, “Shit My Dad Says”. The Television Council for those who choose not to parent says it’ll bring lawsuits against any CBS affiliate who airs the show, or promotions for it too early in the evening. Looks like this Fall’s season is already shaping up to be “the shit”.
And we once again check back in on the master of giant fighting robots, pointless explosions and seizure-inducing lens flares to find out just what he’s been keeping busy with. And the answer is so shocking, so revolutionary and just so god-damned funny we can’t tell you here… you’ll have to tune in for it!
After the Bay banter it comes time to review the broadcast networks cancellation choices and to reflect on those new shows green lit and headed our way come September. It’s tough to judge how good a show will be from a single sentence description, but we do our best. I even manage to throw in a few fakes to spice things up, because to be honest, this new stew of network episodics is pretty bland. Many of their ingredients we’ve seen before and others we just don’t even want to taste.
Being the eternal optimists we are, Charlie not so much… Mike more than any other… we’d like to believe there’ll be something halfway decent to watch next season. Even if it means trudging through the monotonous. I guess Captain Kirk says it best when confronted with the complications of loving Mr. Spock in Broke Trek, “It’s a risk I’ll have to take.”

Who Asked You? – Ghetto Pirate
May 10, 2010
As you’ll hear in this week’s show, I dub it the most unproductive episode to date. If you’re hoping to hear the stories, forget it. I think we make it about 1 or 2 sentences in on 2 different stories and the conversation goes elsewhere both times. It takes us 30 minutes just to get through the E-Mails and the New Releases.
Mike’s friend Glen has been asking him for months to sit in with us. And today we made that dream come true! Glen brings his perspective to this episode’s topics. Which as I mentioned, are few and far between.
We’ve got a few words on Iron Man 2, hence the Nick Fury image at the left. We saw it on Saturday. I’m going to warn you now this conversation has what some might consider SPOILERS. Just be aware. If you don’t want to hear them fast forward to about 8 minutes in.
It’s at that point where we actually get to the E-Mails for this week and start to roll into the show. Both E-Mails, from 2 of our usual E-Mailers are quite entertaining in their own respects. First, a rant regarding Mistress Rowynn on last week’s show. Then we’re given a list, which we make it through very little of, containing various things, places, sayings and shows that those of us who grew up in the late 80′s to early 90′s will know all about. Some of the items we remember, some we don’t. And a few we’d be happy to forget.
Our first big story for today begs the question, what’s happening to society? Of course, we kinda ask that question every week. The Social Security Administration says that the name Isabella has become the most popular baby name for girls this year do solely to the Twilight movies. For boys, the most popular is Jacob. Now this name was near the top of the list long before Twilight came out. But since one of the characters in that story shares this name, I don’t think it’ll be dropping down too many spots anytime soon. Former popular names like Miley and Jonas saw significant drops in status thanks to that awkward chick who can’t act in Twilight and her douchey sparkling blood sucker pals. We’re wondering if you’d name your baby after one of these characters? Or any character for that matter from TV or film. Tell us in this week’s We Ask You Online Poll. I had to put that here because as you might have guessed, I don’t get a chance to read the poll question on the actual show.
The only other story we semi get to this week is the one regarding a new sequel for “The Dark Crystal”. This one hits close to home for Mike and Dennis. Mike, because he’s a fanboy of traditional animation, puppetry and movie making. Dennis because of David Bowie’s enormous package being flaunted across the frame in Labyrinth. To give you an idea of how quickly things go off topic to subjects like “skinny jeans” through this whole episode, the Dark Crystal sequel story was around 13 sentences long. I make it through about 4 of them. I don’t do this often, but if you’re curious about the other 9 or so, here it is, exactly as it appeared on the rundown:
18 years after the original film debuted The Jim Hensen Company has announced a sequel to “The Dark Crystal”. This next film called, “The Power of the Dark Crystal” will be produced entirely in Australia. Some of the more complex visual effects are already being worked on there. The producers say this film will be a mix of live-action and traditional puppetry, but will also feature CGI effects and environments. Best of all… the movie will be in 3D!!! Peter and Michael Spierig, the writers and directors of Undead and Daybreakers will direct “The Power of the Dark Crystal”. The script is being written by Craig Pearce who previously wrote Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom and Romeo and Juliet. Michael Spierig says quote, “We feel a tremendous amount of responsibility in telling this story with the same meticulous care that Jim Henson and Frank Oz gave the 1982 original.” Peter Spierig added, “This is a chance to take the world of puppetry into the modern age by using modern techniques (like motion capture CGI) and the tried and true methods (like puppetry and animatronics) to create a one hundred percent real world that is unique to The Dark Crystal.” End quote. The sequel takes place hundreds of years after the original. The world has fallen back into darkness. A mysterious girl made of fire, with the help of a Gelfling outcast, goes on an adventure with a piece of the legendary crystal in an attempt to reignite the dying sun at the center of the planet. The Power of the Dark Crystal is set to hit theaters sometime next year.
A big thanks to Glen for assisting us in staying OFF-topic this week. It was a blast. Sometimes these are the best shows of all!

Who Asked You? – Explosion, Explosion, Rachel McAdams’ Tit
May 3, 2010
Today’s program features 2 special guests. Mikey VPCP, who has been on the program before. And Mistress Rowynn, a professional Dominatrix. Now you’re probably like, whaaaaaaa!?!? As you should be. Mistress Rowynn has been dominated for many years. And ‘whips’ out her own opinions on today’s topics. Come back Thursday for the premier episode of our “Who Asked You? Interview” podcast. We sit down with Rowynn for 2-hours in a free for all conversation slash interview slash Rowynn-monologue. If you’ve ever wondered how someone winds up in this line of work, you’ll want to tune in to that!
Alright, on today’s roster, a listener E-Mail from Commander Vonfrogstein. He sums up several shorter E-Mails he inexplicably didn’t send in one long message. He covers several issues from the bastardization of his youth to where he thinks 3D technology is heading. Rowynn and Mikey V throw him a few critical observations and await his reply. Mistress Rowynn’s website is in the show links and she says she answers all of her E-Mails herself!
A moment of confusion follows on the show. They happen an awful lot don’t they? As always we’ve got the new releases on DVD for this week. One of them is “Leap Year” which stars Amy Adams… not to be confused with Rachel McAdams, which the Mistress and Charlie do. Rachel McAdams had nothing to do with this movie. She did have a lot to do with Sherlock Holmes. And according to Charlie, they didn’t DO with her what they should’ve. Dennis storyboards what the detective movie should have been for Charlie who feels, like Mistress Rowynn, that Rachel was wearing far too much clothing. Charlie agrees with Dennis’ sequence of events and Rowynn has moment to herself imagining Rachel naked.
A fabulous new friend is getting drawn into a nostalgic comic book. The kids in it live in a town called Riverdale. Chase teases this story at the top of the show in a similar manner, who do you think immediately knew what he was talking about? Tune in to see if you’re right! The company who prints this mystery comic series says they’re bringing in a gay character to stay current and reflect the changing times.
Comics aren’t the only ones trying to stay current though. Sega, the once mighty video game console company is continuing its rejuvenation by laying off a ton of employees. They’re consolidating their US and London offices and are getting into the downloadable game business. It’s unclear exactly what their downloadable video games will be. Are we talking something along the lines of World of Warcraft or… Farmville? Don’t worry, their London office will take over console and PC game development. It’s the US office in California that will work on this new digital venture.
Tired of hearing about people who are richer than you? I know… me too. So why not hear about people that are richer than you that aren’t even real. Forbes has come out with their updated 2010 list of the richest fictional people. There are 15 in all, 6 of which are new to the list this year. Did your favorite fake fat-cat make the list. Dennis’ did!
AMC, still on their high-horse over Mad Men and Breaking Bad thinks they may be able to do it again; having a smash hit series. Only this one will make TV history for its subject matter. It’ll most likely be a one-hour action/drama and will be based on a wildly popular ongoing comic book series involving some folks that are living-challenged. Yep, you guessed it… the Z word.
We’ll also talk about a new Godzilla remake that is NOT a sequel to Roland Emmerich’s New York-stomping turd. And we have news of Seth McFarlane and a couple of his Family Guy writing buddies doing up a script for a movie about a man and his teddy bear. McFarlane would direct the movie and voice the bear, which apparently comes to life. It’ll be interesting to hear Brian’s voice coming out of a bear instead of a dog.
We travel to Rhode Island for a long overdue edition of It’s The Law. This state has some of the most dated sounding laws on their books that we’ve come across. The more antiquated the ordinance… the better! One of the laws actually has the word “trolly” in it. Yeesss!!!
Finally, a story of mystery and intrigue. It could easily be an episode of Law and Order: WGIABGDFC or white guy in a black guy disguise fools cops. And he spared no expense on the get up.

Who Asked You? – Cosmic Skeet
March 26, 2010
Today’s show launches into the cosmos of Internet audio with E-Mails from our loyal listeners. One of them, a “random guy” named Marshall… no relation to our fan down under also named Marshall, sent us a link to a blog from the UK featuring a list of some of the funniest porno-parody film titles of all time. You can see the complete list in the Show Links.
He then asks us to come up with a few of these titles ourselves. It’s a tough one. But we’re able to spew a few. And we want you to have the same chance! Goto the We Ask You Online Poll and send us your favorite porn parody. Maybe it’s a real porno flick, or maybe it’s one you made up off the top of your head. We want to see ‘em.
And speaking of the We Ask You Online Poll; last week we wanted to know what you’d do if you were a billionaire for just 5-hours. Several of you went the standard route buying expensive cars, jets and other toys. And many of you said you’d squander it all on whores and drugs. Well incase you’re drawing a blank on what you’d spend your imaginary billions on, we have a few suggestions. The world’s most expensive TV, motorcycle and cell phone are just a few things we can all add to our “never gonna happen” lists.
Joe Pesci is returning to film after being a no-show for 12 years. Can you believe his last major role was Lethal Weapon 4? Where have you been Joe? Hurry back. We would’ve seen Mr. Pesci 2 years ago when he finished his latest film if it wasn’t for the stupid economy. He and Helen Mirren are starring together in a film about the founding of Nevada’s first legal brothel. It comes out in June.
And the wait is over! We finally get to hear the exciting conclusion to Dirty the Pooh and the Hundred-Acre Shitpile. We don’t want to spoil it for you, so all we’ll say is this one is like no other! Definitely near the top of our favorites list.
And lastly we do a round of Best Worst Most Least. As always, these questions are meant to capture an untold story from the fellas. Something we haven’t heard from them before. And boy do we hit the jack pot this time! From a tale about Dennis’ old teacher with split personalities to a comparison of what Charlie’s colon looks like, there’s definitely some new and/or too much information here.

Who Asked You? – How To Shit Then Piss In The Woods
March 19, 2010
Helping to solve our listener’s dilemmas is part of the Who Asked You? charter. As evident with so many of our family-friendly conversations, racially related remarks, jokes and other slander, we make only the best decisions. In one listener’s E-Mail this week we help him decide what to do with a Predator 2 movie poster. It’s life’s big problems, like this one, that we can help you with. Just let us know and we’ll decide for you.
We have other E-Mails as well. Ranging from the conversation 2-weeks ago about using the “N” word, to stupid inconsiderate people and their douchey Blue Tooth devices, and even a self-promotion from a couple of podcasters just starting their show. We’ve done the self-plug thing too, so we’ve got a link to their show in the Show Links.
After new releases, one of which is delayed by 2 days to coincide with Earth Day on Thursday, we jump right in to a rapid-fire of events taking place these past couple of weeks. Last week you may remember we featured Las Vegas comedian, Joe Lowers on the show and spent the whole episode talking to him about random stuff. So this week we’re able to catch up on crap that happened the week we were off and last week.
Conan O’Brien is returning to television in November. That’s one of our little stories. Of course, most folks probably know that by now. He’ll be heading to cable where he’ll own all of the rights to his show. Something he couldn’t do at NBC. He’ll air at 11pm on TBS just before Lopez Tonight… and we’ll be watching. Well, Charlie probably won’t.
And in other George Lopez news, he and his wife are working on a current day adaptation of the old Speedy Gonzales cartoon. You’ve got to tune into this show to hear his wife’s description of the screenplay she’s writing. It’s vague and leaves you wondering if we’ll even recognize Speedy.
Also on the list, the winner for 2009′s oddest book title. We talked about the nominees a long time ago on the show, and now we have the winner! If your curiosity is getting the best of you and you want to pick up a copy of the book, the link is in our Show Links. And Chase also mentions a few winners from past years, one of which partially inspired this week’s episode title. You’ll have to listen all the way to the end of the program to hear the other half of the inspiration.
Then we have exciting casting news for the next Harold and Kumar, followed by both non-human and puzzling human casting news for Transformers 3 in another edition of What Is “Michael Bay Up To?” He’s gathered a few actors that you wouldn’t necessarily picture in a Transformers flick. Then again, one of them is an actor who has recently been showing up in everything! But don’t panic, it’s not Ryan Reynolds.
We close out the show with a story about a Florida bank who needs to really make sure none of their tellers lean on the key boards. Most likely it was a stapler or other office supply that landed on it. But we like to think a couple of tellers were getting busy and the female participant was plopped onto the desk in a moment of animalistic passion and her ass punched the correct sequence of keys making one of the banks customers a very rich man. This got us thinking, if your bank made a mistake and gave you a ton of money, what would you do with it? Cast your vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and/or send us an E-Mail telling us what you’d buy or do.

Who Asked You? – Some Real Stand-Up Guys
March 12, 2010
Every once in a while we have one of those Who Asked You? episodes where we let our hair down and just talk for the entire show. Now you may be thinking, isn’t that what you do anyway? And you’d be right… it is. But we’ve usually got a rundown of things to talk about. Chase will read something off and then everyone will jump in and go to town.
Well this week the script sat on the table and wasn’t touched as we welcomed Las Vegas comedian, Joe Lowers to the Who Asked You? couch. Charlie is taking a stand-up comic class that Joe is teaching and asked if he’d like to stop by and hang out with us. Joe said yeah, and here we are.
We first get the lowdown on Joe and how he got into comedy. He tells us about his career and all the places he’s gone doing stand-up. Joe has one particular story about a gig he did in Elko, Nevada that led to some physical violence after the show. You’ll enjoy this story.
Besides that we drift from one topic to another leaving no stone unturned. From hookers in Hawaii and how much they probably cost, to Tiger Woods’ press conference, hush money, morbid Nike commercial and ball cleaning on the course, it all gets a once over by us.
The randomness rolls on with Nick Cage having to sell his castle, movies that he was in that were actually good, Terry Fator using his puppets as sex toys and how fat the dude is that does Elmo’s voice. Sprinkle in some dead jokes about Corey Haim, Danny Gans, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett and you soon realize this is one of the most awesome conversations ever! Just like Joe’s show, we’re not happy until we’ve offended and pissed off at least one person.
We round out the show with Joe’s take on Jay Leno. We won’t tell you what it is here. We gotta at least try and make you listen to the program.
So no E-Mails, new releases or poll results this week. We’ll get back on all of that next week. For now, pull up a chair, crack open your favorite brew and enjoy the show. If you like this one, we know you’ll like Joe’s. You can find out more information about his “Las Vegas Comedy Show” in our Show Links.

Who Asked You? – Stop Foolin’ Around!
March 29, 2010
It’s another April Fool’s Day edition of Who Asked You?, only this one is not up to par with last year’s. We’re just being honest here… little effort was put into this show from all fronts. There seemed to be a lot of fooling around leading up to the All Fool’s Day show. So here it is in all of its randomness. Just look at the various Show Links, that’ll give you a clue as to how scattered today’s program is.
We’ve got mail… from our friend down in Australia, Marshall. You remember him right? He sat in with us on episode 92. He got a little behind on his Who Asked episodes, but finally got the chance to catch up and decided to E-Mail us afterward with an update about a story we did involving the ban on underaged-looking women in porn. He’s got some detail in a lengthy E-Mail!
Some of our new releases are real and some are not. It’s too easy these days to make up a faulty movie title and mix it in with the real deals. So many legitimate titles seem like someone is playing a trick on you nowadays. One release, it’s authenticity not being disclosed here, brings up some old TV blunder memories all thanks to the moronic programmers of the once mighty UPN network. “The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer” (the P is NOT silent) is no April Fool’s prank. It’s not made up. This was a real show that aired on network television albeit for an embarrassing four episodes. But nevertheless… if you’ve never heard of this show, Google it. And prepare to be amazed that it was ever green lit.
There’s news of two classic sitcoms going the way of the big screen adaptation. Details of these have been “altered” for the sake of the whole April Fool’s Day thing we’re claiming to be doing this week, blah blah… and so on. And along with those stories are a couple that, in whole, may or may not be true. Will you be fooled?
There’s a special edition of Who Facted You? on today’s show as well. These facts are extra true and you should learn them and remember them for all time. For the knowledge we expel today during this bit could change your very understanding of the universe. What kind of knowledge you ask? Well, knowledge like how many times Bill O’Reilly farts during his show. Now that Fox News link in the Show Links is starting to make sense isn’t it?
Because of the lack of full-assed effort put into this week’s presentation, we end up with time to kill at the end of the show and talk about a recent racial conundrum Dennis, Mike and Chase witnessed while out with former host Jabari and his pals.

Who Asked You? – Attention Wal-Mart Customers…
March 22, 2010
Attention Wal-Mart customers… we’d like to welcome you to the store today as we have new specials and rolled-back prices on items to add to your shopping list. First we’d like to remind you that we value customer participation. If you feel you’re paying too much for chicken at restaurants or you overhear other douche bag customers bad mouthing classic 80′s films, we want to hear about it. We encourage all of our patrons to give us feedback. We’d also like to remind our emo customers that all girl’s jeans are now on sale through the weekend.
Wal-Mart takes a strong moral stance against what we feel constitutes profane, immoral or pornographic language, suggestion and behavior. If you’re looking for content that features such things, we suggest you look elsewhere. Perhaps Time Warner’s Preschool On Demand video service. Or the Who Asked You? segment called Who Screwed You?. Be advised we edited that segment’s title just now for our primary demographic, stick-in-the-mud soccer moms.
Electronics, you have a call on line 2… electronics, call on line 2. It’s Blockbuster Video. They say they may be filing for bankruptcy and will need to liquidate their DVD and video game inventory and are wondering if we’re interested. They also want to put one of their lame kiosks out in front next to the Redbox one.
We also want to tell you all about our 90% off sale in the world’s most popular Internet domain bin located near sporting goods. In the bin you’ll find “sex.com” for roughly a tenth of it’s retail value. You won’t see rolled-back prices like these again. If you’re a major company interested in buying this popular web address, you may have your chance since the current owners blew it.
Over in toys we have small children ages 4 and under for the fantastic Wal-Mart price of $4,995. That’s cheaper than what they’re currently going for on Craigslist. If you’re looking for a new kid, or need to replace the one you spanked to death over on isle 6, this is the deal for you!
And we’ve still got free samples of facts from around the globe! Just make your way over to isle 5 and sample 8 facts to see which is your favorite. Normally there’s 10 to choose from, but as we’re about to close, we simply don’t have time to offer you all of them today.
We’d like to thank you for choosing Wal-Mart for all your shopping needs and ask that all black people please leave the store now.

Who Asked You? – Potato Pimpin’
March 15, 2010
If you wanna be on the show just E-Mail us! It’s true… ask Warren, aka Katsuhiko Jinnai. As you’ve probably heard the last several shows, Warren has been E-Mailing us weekly. He was on the show once before, Episode 96 to be exact. And we thought, he’s paid his dues via electronic mailing… lets get him back in the Who Asked You? Fortress of Doom. So he sits in with us this week as yet another special guest host. We’ve been having a lot of those lately haven’t we? Strangely enough, we never really planned on it. Folks just came available, so they stopped by. Or in Evan Pederson’s case, Skyped by.
But Warren is in studio with us for another fun-filled edition of our show. First off, we read an E-Mail, from Warren! We told you he’s a faithful comment sender. Even the sending something the week he stops by to be on.
One of his questions is whether or not any of us can cook. We posed this same question to all of you in last week’s We Ask You Online Poll. Come to find out, the Who Asked You? Crew all have their own rudimentary recipes they’re capable of conjuring up. As with all of our conversations on the show, this one latches onto one thing and derails with it into a less related discussion. At least this time it’s still food… if you can call Pop-Tarts food. Yes, we get into an analysis of Pop-Tarts, Kellogg’s depressing attempt at a morning pastry. That again, veers off into spaghetti and hot dogs from Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food restaurant. Somewhere in all of this Mike brings up a product for the ladies called “Shake Weight”. It’s a small weight that uses centrifugal force to burn fat off of a chick’s arms. The unfortunate part is that it looks like the female using the device is jerking it off. One can’t help but wonder if the designers of this thing weren’t cracking up and high-fiving each other as it went to the manufacturer. You can have a look at the thing for yourself in our Show Links.
A second E-Mail is from another fellow who has dropped us a line from time to time. Patrick in Missoula, Montana asks us if we saw Alice In Wonderland yet. The answer is yes. He then gives us a very Who Asked You? review of the film that gets us laughing pretty hard. He also wonders if we’d watched the new trailer for the Tron Legacy movie. The film looks visually stunning! Lets hope the story is just as enticing. You can check out the trailer yourself by following the link in the Show Links.
After E-Mails it’s onto new DVD releases. And from there it’s onto Chapter 2 of Dirty The Pooh and the Hundred-Acre Shit Pile. Dirty Potter is keeping busy with the tale of Pooh and friends as they masturbate uncontrollably on each other. Poop everywhere and cuss each other out. All told by that prince of British entertainment, Jim Dale. Warren’s a fan, as he has stated in previous E-Mails, of the Dirty Potter clips so this is a special treat for him.
We also finally get to Idaho’s edition of It’s The Law so that we may finally tell you which two animal’s backs you may not fish from in the state. There’s actually three animals, but one is only illegal in Boise. There’s also a law forbidding one to walk down the street with a red-tipped cane. What profession comes to your mind where a person would have a cane and is one we would immediately go to on our show? It’s in the title….
We end the show with a story of a sixth-grade teacher trying to identify with his students by calling them names on their graded papers. One mother gets pretty pissed when he writes “loser” on her daughters homework. We weigh in on this one. And you’re more than welcome to also. And if you weigh enough, you might just find yourself on the show!

Who Asked You? – Hooray For Whores!
March 8, 2010
Today’s show has replaced the Cloverfield episode as our loudest ever! For good reason too. Two of the hosts from Spankwagon Radio, what we’ll call our show’s evil twin from right here in Vegas, join us at Who Asked You? HQ. Of course, they might call our show their evil twin. In any case, it’s incredibly strange how similar our shows are not just in decibels, but also topics being discussed and the people discussing them. Chase and Charlie paid their show a visit a few week’s back, so they returned the favor. Chase has an uncanny similarity to Spankwagon’s Trencher. Meanwhile his co-host Murphy is like a hybrid of Charlie and Dennis.
Trencher and Murphy told us they never got invited onto other shows before, so they were excited to stop by ours and even brought us some gifts. There was something for everyone on our panel. The gifts arrived in a Disney Princess bag and inside were two cans of drink, Steel Reserve and Olde English Brand… Mmmm. To go with our new beverages was a large assortment of porn and some free minutes cards for a porn VOD website. Come on, it’s Spankwagon and Who Asked You? conversing in the same room with one another. Porn is not an “if” topic, it’s a “must”.
At some point we put the porno down and after rambling about Ninja Turtles, how racist Smurfs were and the fact that Snorks had big dicks on their heads, get into some sort of… umm… show… ish thing.
Irreverent banter plagues your ears as we go through this week’s list of new DVD releases. From there it’s onto a new clip fresh from the dirty presses of Dirty Potter. We introduce the Spankwagon fellas to Dirty Potter’s work with his newest masterpiece, Dirty the Pooh and the Hundred-Acre Shit Pile, Chapter 1. That means there’s more on the way!
We get Trencher and Murphy in on a quick segment of Best Worst Most Least. And that’s really all we have time for on the show. But in the final moments the Best Worst Most Least bit leads, as you’d probably guess, into more pornographic prattle. So in a way, we also had time for Who Fucked You?. Thanks again to Trencher and Murphy of Spankwagon Radio for coming by and being inducted into the Who Asked You? Wall Of… Shame, Blame, Fame, Lame… whatever you feel fits best. I’m sure these guys will come by again, and likewise, you can probably expect the Who Asked You? Crew to invade their studio sometime soon as well. They’re a blast, we hope you enjoy the show; ours and theirs!

Who Asked You? – The Secret Ingredient
March 1, 2010
It’s a fun mixed-bag show we have for you this week. We’re joined by our good-gangster pal, Evan Pederson. You can find him on FancyPantsGangsters.com. He Skypes in all the way from Minnesota to add his two cents to the chaos of our show. After getting the low down on Evan’s site we receive a question from a listener regarding comics and/or super heroes we feel need a movie reboot or just need a movie in general. The list is short to say the least. Mike goes with nothing. Charlie goes with Green Hornet, which isn’t even out yet, but needs it already. Chase agrees with him. Dennis chooses Moon Knight while Evan considers a reboot of the Crow as well as an indie comic called Battle Pope. You can read more about Battle Pope in the Show Links. And we’ve also got an image of one of the comic’s covers there too.
This warms us up to the body of the show starting out with Dennis’ adventure at the dentist’s office. You see, Evan was originally going to fill in for Dennis because he wasn’t sure he’d be able to talk after having ALL of his wisdom teeth yanked out Friday. But thankfully, they’re healing fast enough Dennis was able to join us and regale us on the dental-details.
From there we bring you last week’s poll results. You may remember we talked about the semen-based cook book found at lulu.com. Well we asked you the listeners if you’d ever try a recipe that had semen in it and the answers were quite interesting. We posed the question to Evan, and his answer was too.
And as we mentioned last week Charlie had the chance to interview a couple of voice-actors, Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt from Hollywood about working in the field of voice over. He met up with them at their book signing here in Las Vegas and chatted for about 30 minutes. We’ve got a small chunk of that discussion on today’s show and you can hear the entire interview below!
We round out today’s program with the nominations for this year’s Razzie Awards. They’ll be announced this weekend, the night before the Oscars. And since we’re considered haters by many who listen to our show, what better awards to talk about than those that reward flagrant incompetence. The fellas chime in with their thoughts on each of the nominees. And as you’ll hear, several of the films and their casts and crews are nominated in several categories. It’s easy to figure out by the 5 noms you’ll hear over and over which 5 flicks could be considered the worst of 2009. And since we’re rounding out another decade the Razzies are considering the worst actors, actresses and movies of the past ten years in 3 special “of the decade” categories. We’ve got those too. Clearly the films that make the Razzie roster aren’t palatable to most, perhaps like semen-based recipes they just need that “secret ingredient” to make them good.

Who Asked You? – It’s The Wood That Makes It Good
February 22, 2010
Today we received an E-Mail from fan and recent guest-host Katsuhiko Jinnai regarding the new remake of “We Are The World”. He felt he needed to rant about how awful it was. And that’s cool with us. We welcome rants to our E-Mail form. God knows we do enough of it on the show and we want you to have that chance too. We’ve got the music video in the Show Links. Watch it and judge for yourself.
A bit later in the show we get some career advice from a random vote on the We Ask You Online Poll. That’s what we get when there’s an “other” field. People sending their negative feedback about our show through the poll system. The question from last week asked what the most was you had ever spent on an eBay auction. A good portion of the voters said more than $50. This led us into a Best Worst Most Least segment. The first question being what the most was any of us had ever spent on eBay. Needless to say, we had all at some point spent more than $50 as well. The last question being the “worst” one… err… being the “worst” question in the segment, ahh… umm… you know what I mean. Not the worst question, but the “worst” question. Anyway, it somehow leads into a reminisce about one of Dennis’ favorite eateries, Kenny Rogers Roasters, hence the title of today’s show. Plus with all the talk of sexual positions and semen, it seemed only appropriate that the episode title have the word “wood” in it.
We didn’t have time to get to Who Fucked You? last week so we put it at the top of the to-do list this week. You know, because it’s such an invaluable segment. As this segment usually does, it drops our show into an even cruder black hole. Usually we can climb out of it rather quickly with a segment of It’s The Law or something, but not this week. Once in the hole, we grab some shovels and dig a little deeper with a story about a cook book published a few years back featuring only recipes that call for human semen. You can imagine the conversation on this one.
The caliber of the show is raised, if only slightly, by the segment that follows, What Is Michael Bay Up To? Sometimes we have to check in with our good pal Michael Bay to see what explosion he’s unleashing upon the world next. Turns out, it’s an explosion of cash. And a good portion of it was probably yours at one time. You know, that brief time before you went to see Transformers 2?
Plus, the folks who brought us Black Dynamite is bringing us… well… Black Dynamite again. This time in the form of an Adult Swim animated series on Cartoon Network. The company that animated the credit sequence at the start of the film will also be charged with animated this new series. According to Black Dynamite’s director they’re going to use many of the ideas in the cartoon that they couldn’t practically execute in the live-action movie. If the ideas for the cartoon are wilder than those in the movie this show is going to be nuts!
And Bill Shatner will have to write a sequel to his autobiography, “Up Till Now” because he’s landed another role on television! This time it’s saying crazy shit as someone’s dad. We brought you some news a few shows back about a guy who scored a TV pilot deal from posting random one-liners his dad would say to him on Twitter. Well it appears Captain Kirk has warped into the lead role for that pilot. This could be good… but we’re still apprehensive. A show based on a Twitter account? A dirty one at that. Most of the shit this guy’s dad says can’t be said on network TV. But here’s hoping the Price Line Negotiator can make it work.

Who Asked You? – Build-A-Bitch
February 15, 2010
It’s no secret that the Who Asked You? headquarters are based in sin city. Could they really be at home anywhere else? So whenever a concept for a new TV show or movie comes along that takes place in our beloved Mohave-based abode we look on it with much speculation. Will it be a proper representation of our community? Shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation would have those of you who don’t live here believe there’s a tropical forest west of town and that CSI headquarters is on the corner of two major streets that don’t even cross each other. So when it came up this week that two new Vegas series have received pilot orders from NBC and CBS we thought we’d discuss the possibilities. Both series, of course, feature tired cliche gambling and Strip related names, but only one of the shows may potentially be entertaining enough to watch. We say this because the two guys writing and starring in it were quite successful already on another series on Comedy Central. However, Dennis’ disgust is shown with the second series, this one for CBS, because its description uses the term “buddy cop”… and given this poorly executed ploy in recent movies, that’s an automatic deal-killer. We’ve got some details for both shows these two networks may be rolling the dice on soon.
Also on today’s program is more reboot news. I’m not sure if you can tell or not, but I’m running out of ways to phrase that. It seems this kind of unfortunate info crops up at regular intervals now. This time the remake is a bit surprising given today’s soccer-mom filled pamper-fest of a world we live in. It’s actually a bit refreshing to see this particular movie being reintroduced given its morbid plot.
And other remake is on its way… only this one comes from the mid 70′s. Our favorite great white is coming back to the silver screen. Only this time he’ll most likely be virtual as apposed to a giant foam rubber puppet. And for the SECOND time, although Universal would have you believe it’s the first, the man-eating fish will be in 3D! Of course by now you have probably figured out we’re talking about Jaws. What you may not know is whose been circling the Matt Hooper role. This is where I’d end the paragraph with “you’ll want to hear this”… but, I’m not sure you do.
Did you know that in Monroe, Utah the law states that daylight must be visible between dance partners on the dance floor? That’s just one of the many oddball laws that come to us from the beehive state. And speaking of balls… did you know you could be fined as much as $50 for throwing snowballs in Provo? Man… what is there to do in Utah? As you might imagine, we get what some might consider a bit offensive with this It’s The Law. But hey, if you listen to our show regularly, then like us, you can take a joke and are not easily offended.
That also goes for another story on the script today. It seems in Australia there’s starting to be a shortage of small-breasted women on porn there. A movement by some politicians would remove pornography featuring these less blessed ladies for a really stupid reason. You’ve got to hear this one. You’ll also want to hear what female bodily function they want removed along with the tiny tits. It’s all on today’s Who Asked You?.

Who Asked You? – A Glance At The Gloom (Part 2)
February 8, 2010
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.

Who Asked You? – A Glance At The Gloom (Part 1)
January 25, 2010
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”.

Who Asked You? – It Looks Angry
January 18, 2010
Because of his absence last week Dennis didn’t get the chance to go off about the whole Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien debockle. And then as things heated up this past week and threats were made by NBC toward Conan if he didn’t comply this just added fuel to Dennis’ flame. It was hard for him this week… waiting until Monday’s show to let out the pure venom toward the chinned late-night dumb ass. But finally the day arrived and without missing a beat our co-host ranted like never before. It’s a rare occasion on our show that any one of us talks without being interrupted or spoken over for more than a few sentences, but today, Dennis sets a Who Asked You? record for NOT being interrupted. A record we’ll never break. He lets Jeff Zucker, Jay Leno and NBC have it for nearly sixteen minutes. We jump in for a moment or two here and there. But for most of this quarter hour, Dennis is solely responsible. We’ll note this day in the Who Asked You? logs and maybe someday we’ll break the record. Probably when a new Star Wars trilogy comes out and Mike loses his mind. Or when JJ Abrams’ next Star Trek releases and Chase starts mailing death threats. We’ll see what the future of unabridged rants holds for the crew.
Once all that is out of Dennis’ system we move along to the latest news regarding Spider-Man 4 and how this will be the last news regarding it from this day on. Why is that you ask? Well, it’s not because we’re boycotting the film out of some specific anger. Or because all the news for it is done and now it’s ready to start shooting… in fact, it’s quite the opposite of that. Tune in to hear why.
And we’ve received trillions of E-Mails asking us to update you on the purchase of the Terminator franchise since we last talked about it. Clearly there is a huge amount of interest in the film’s future… and clearly, text on a webpage has once again ineffectively conveyed sarcasm. Whether it’s important or not, we mull over the facts, prices and future home possibility of our favorite T-101.
And we’ve also got a story today that’s just too funny to spoil here. We want you to tune into the show to hear this one. All we’ll say is it involves a pretty well known actor and an unfortunate event that occurs during shooting. And the title of today’s episode is a reference to part of this story. Now we know your interest is peeked!
This episode of the show also features another round of Who Fact You?. We haven’t done it in a while so we thought we’d fill time with non-sensical data. Wait… that’s pretty much every episode… let me try that again. We’re doing Who Fact You? on today’s show so get ready to learn some fun factoids.
Finally, someone has taken the time to learn whether or not fish actually do remember things for more than three-seconds. The results are startling and can heard in a segment we introduced a few weeks back called According To A New Study. Dennis however, has a Who Fact You? moment of his own and fills us in on the dangers of Asian Carp and what state governments are doing to stop them. Riveting!

Who Asked You? – The Replacement
January 11, 2010
Notice anything different above? After two years of doing this show we’ve finally made a change that should’ve been made two years ago when we started it. We’re now naming our Who Asked You? episodes. Big deal! That’s what you’re thinking right? Well it is a big deal to us. All the other podcasts are doing it… why can’t we?!?! So from now on you can get an even briefer glimpse at what’s coming up on the show than those cryptic little sentences we’ve been using. This week’s show is called “The Replacement” because that’s what we’ve done with Dennis. We’ve replaced him. After last week’s show there was this huge argument over which Bowel Movement topic to do. Fists were thrown, as were microphones and even cables were used to choke unnamed participants. It was an ugly scene… and now Dennis is out.
If you want to know the real reason Dennis isn’t on this week’s show you’ll have to tune in and find out. Sadly, it’s far less exciting than the fib above. But he’ll be back next week to chime in. And in fact, you can still hear him this week in The Bowel Movement. As for the main show, we’ve had a rather peculiar event take place. We have two E-Mails this week, which is unusual in itself, but both E-Mails are from guys named Marshall… Oooo, weird I know. The first is from Canadian Marshall who brings us a commercial for the Booty Pop. It’s a pair of panties for women featuring pads on the ass cheeks that are supposed to fool us fellows into thinking baby got back. First jeans with eyes that wink as you walk, then Chia Obama, now fake ass-enlarging underwear for women? The financial experts say we need a new industry to stimulate our economy… this is not what they meant.
Our second E-Mail is from Australian Marshall… you remember him right? He co-hosted a show with us a few months back. He heard our Ghostbusters screenplay story last week and thought he’d fill us in on the missing piece… Dan Aykroid’s early script. All we can say is yikes! It was leaked online and IGN read it and wrote about it. Marshall sent us the links, which you can find in the Show Links.
From there we play videos of racist fried chicken commercials from around the world. This enrages Mike, which is automatic entertainment for us all. A KFC spot in Australia was yanked from the airwaves after numerous complaints about its stereotypical nature regarding black folks and their apparent love of fried chicken. You can see the commercial for yourself in the Show Links as well as another unrelated on from Korea that depicts the same stereotype. Racist? Decide for yourself.
We also take a few minutes to talk about what everyone else is talking about this week… Jay Leno’s move back to his previous time slot. NBC feels he’s better off at the old Tonight Show time following your late local news, but the reality is the network has bee flooded with complaints from local stations claiming his prime time show is killing the ratings of those late newscasts. People don’t want to watch Jay at 10:30, but they do at 11:30? That’s NBC’s logic. Not sure about it though.
And later in the show we’ve got the Best Worst Most Least segment. As well as another arousing edition of Who Fucked You?. But before all that we get down and dirty with Dirty Peter Pan and the Black Penis of Evil. This is the latest work from the guys who previously brought us Dirty Potter and Dirty Barack. They’re at it again with this latest porn-ridden production. We’ve got some excerpts we hope you’ll enjoy.

Who Asked You? – Episode 103
January 4, 2010
Who Asked You? has entered the new year! We can’t believe it’s already ought-ten… or O-ten, err… umm… ten. However the hell you’re supposed to say it, lets hope this one is better than the last.
First up on the rundown is the Oxford American Dictionary word of the year. Who knew that lexicographers like to hold their own little competitions for favorite words. This years is, of course, tech related. It seems that’s where all the new words are coming from. Sadly, the winner beat out a certain verb used by Halo players the world over. Had they chose it, the dictionary would have had even more fun words to look up other than fart, shit and the like.
And there’s new coming from the talk show world that another female host is leaving the daytime line up to focus on producing movies about women. Unlike Oprah though, me thinks many will be glad to see this one go.
And one British actor is going from a captain to a knight. He’ll join the ranks of other distinguished thespians like Ian Holm and Ian McKellen, only his name isn’t Ian. If you’re not sure who we’re talking about, lets just say you may find this story “engaging”.
We’ve also got a story today about an upcoming movie being kept hush hush… at least, by the writers, because two of the people involved in previous features are talkin’. Harold Ramis drops a few tidbits about the third Ghostbusters film while interviewing with Heeb Magazine. But his juice isn’t anything compared to what Sigourney Weaver blurts out during an Avatar press tour regarding the script. She lets us in on a few plot points that probably shouldn’t have left the firehouse.
From there it’s onto a Comedy Central show that won’t be showing anymore. It only got one season and barely deserved that. If you’re a fan of Sesame Street you may enjoy what was his show. I’m sure you’ll be able to pick it up on DVD in the bargain bin soon.
After that, we introduce another new segment on the show. It’s an X-rated take on our “Who Facted You?” bit. I know what you’re thinking, like we need more adult content on this show. Well we do… and we have it. Tune in for “Who Fucked You?” a short lesson on various moves and positions you can try and home with your lover. Some may involve props… and others may involve domestic abuse charges later.
And then it’s onto “It’s The Law”. We’re headed to Arizona this week where apparently you’re only aloud a certain number of dildos per household. How many you ask? You’ll just have to tune in to find out.

Who Asked You? – Episode 102
December 28, 2009
On Christmas day Charlie and Chase had the pleasure of participating in a long-running tradition that Dennis has with his sister. And that tradition is attending a Christmas Day movie. This year’s film just happened to be released on Christmas Day. And that motion picture was Sherlock Holmes. But before we get into a critique of this latest incarnation of the world’s greatest detective we have to talk about something else more disastrous than the script for the movie. Charlie, being a former projectionist, informed us that Christmas is the biggest box office day of the year and therefore those who run the theater projectors are instructed to play every trailer available before the feature presentation. This makes sense, because we sat through seven movie trailers before Sherlock Holmes started. And they all looked awful!
Now we know you’re probably thinking, oh here goes the Who Asked You? bitterness once again, but seriously, these flicks looked f**ked. They were so bad, Dennis felt compelled to make a list of them and we go through it one by one on the show in hopes that you can avoid the displeasure of viewing them on your next trip to the cinema. If, during the show, you want to check out any of the films for yourself, first, you should stop drinking… and second, you can find their official websites in the Show Links.
Once we get passed those painful memories we get into news of possible villains for Spider-Man 4. Once again Raimi is taking the multi-enemy route like he did in the last installment and we all know how that turned out. This time around it may even get worse. None of what’s on today’s show has been confirmed yet, but several sites are reporting the same thing, so it’s probably got some truth in it. One of those truths is that the Vulture will be Spidey’s main adversary for the fourth web spin. And Falicia Harding, a long-running charater in the comic will make her debut, but not as the villain you fanboys are thinking of. Tune in and hear this one!
As bad is the Spider-Man 4 news may be to some of you. It won’t set a record for poor box office performance. At least, not like Transylmania did… Transyl-what, you’re probably asking. Transylmania is a sequel to the Dorm Daze movies. And it’s set a rather distinctive record in theatrical releases that hasn’t been broken since the early nineties. And given movies have done better than ever this year, during a recession… well that’s just an even worse black eye to the folks who made Transylmania. We’ll break it down for you.
Then it’s onto a father’s experiment on his own son. No needles or evil laboratories involved here… more like a galactic cultural exposure. Yeah, that sounds really official and probably is what kept social services off the guys back.
Plus, Nielson released a list of songs that they believe qualify for “most popular” because of their total plays on the radio. There’s a most-played song in each music genre leading up to the most played song of all in the last decade. Listen in and see if your favorite artist or song made it onto this list. If you’re not into mainstream music, then probably not.
And the show winds down with some odd laws from Colorado like being prohibited from letting your neighbor borrow your vacuum cleaner. I guess Colorado was tired of its residents embarressing the state on Judge Judy for unreturned property suits.
Besides that, the final moments of our final 2009 show are filled with the final turning of a soap opera legend. CBS has canceled As The World Turns after a nearly sixty-year run. Bad ratings and revenue differentials are to blame here. Maybe CBS will replace it with another boring game show revival hosted by another Whose Line player. I’m thinking Brad Sherwood could host Super Market Sweep. Yeah, that wasn’t a CBS show, but I guarantee it’d be far more entertaining than Wayne Brady’s Lets Make A Deal… what’s behind door number one? The god-damned TV remote I’m changing channels with, that’s what.

Who Asked You? – Christmas Special 2009
December 21, 2009
It’s that time of year… time for the Who Asked You? Christmas Special. Not as special as previous years though… then again, we are in a recession. So suck it!
As the universal time continuum dictates, there must always be problems and headaches that pop up at the holidays. And this year is no exception. The guys discuss the fact that there is something at the quantum level of existence that requires bad things to always happen at Christmas. Maybe money is tight, which this year it is for everyone, or maybe your tree caught fire or in this case maybe the driver side door on your car no longer closes and the dealership is going full steam with their scamming and run-arounds. But we do get a little Christmas cheer going with new releases on DVD which make great gifts by the way. And that gets us into talking about a couple of holiday season movies we’ve screened.
First up is a brief review of Ninja Assassin. It’s brief because there’s not much to be said about a crappy movie. Dennis, Charlie and Mike say this gem. And apparently most of the movie consists of Rain, a Korean actor and singer running around with his shirt off and only a fraction of actual ninja fighting.
Then there’s Avatar, which Chase and Dennis went and saw in 3D IMAX. Don’t listen to the reviews from some. The story in this movie is not bland. It’s really engrossing and you feel for the aliens. It’s one movie where you’re actually rooting for them, not us. James Cameron has really outdone himself on this one. We definitely recommend seeing it. And see it in 3D for sure. It makes the experience that much more fun.
In this week’s Show Links you’ll find a bunch of random links to what we think are some of the best and worst items of 2009. This was tough. But we try and do a recap every year on the Christmas show of stuff we liked and hated. Obviously there was more to hate in 2009 than like. But we have our picks. And we tell you all about them on the show.
From all of us at Who Asked You?, have a good holiday. Don’t fret if you can’t buy your kids PS3′s and tons of toys this year. Be wise, save your dough and put away the plastic. There will be other Christmases. Kids should learn what a recession is and how to handle it. Now excuse me. I bought this soap box at Wal-Mart and I’m going to return it now.

Who Asked You? – Episode 100
December 7, 2009
So here we are… the big one-hundred. It seems like only yesterday… yadda yadda. We won’t go into one of those reminiscent schpeels about the show here. We’ve already got one that starts off this week’s episode. It is a little surreal though. When we started the show we all agreed we’d give it six months and see what happens. If nobody was listening by then we’d move on to the next thing. But somehow we did get a few of you tuning in. And one week led to the next, and here we are.
Since we blew the entire Who Asked You? budget flying back east to screen Black Dynamite, we were unable to cater this event and therefore are not drunk for the recording. But we promise, we’ll do another drunk show one of these days. It’ll most likely be the last show because Chase will go into a drunken tirade about the new Star Trek and spill beer all over the mixer. We’ll then have no way to continue.
Anyway, we thought for this show we’d try and do each of our special segments. So there’s a long overdue “Why, Will Farrell?”. But this time it’s not some dumb new project he’s working on, but rather a Forbes Magazie article explaining that he is no longer a good investment for movie makers. He’s not the only one though, we’ve got more on this list. Some we agree with, others… not so much.
And then, of course, a special segment show must include “What Is Michael Bay Up To?”. This time though, there’s not a lot to be said about what he’s doing that hasn’t already been said. He is quite busy though with many-a-task. We’ll run through his activities for you.
After that it’s the first of two all-new segments we’re introducing. This first one is called “According To A New Study” and features some ridiculous scientific studies that were not needed in the first place, because we already knew the answer. Or is just plain retarded and is absent of a reason on how they received funding for such a thing. With this segment we’ll ponder all this more than the scientists did on these studies.
We’ll then move along to our second awesome new segment called “Best Worst Most Least”. During this segment we feature four randomized questions that involve something, someone or even somewhere that is the Best Worst Most or Least of… um… something. For example, the question might be, best podcast you’ve ever heard? And the no-brainer answer would be…….. This Week In Tech with Leo Laporte. What? Oh you thought we would say…. hey, we’re just keepin’ it real.
Once we clear the noobs, it’s onto a more classic segment, “Who Facted You?”. And what a treat this one is. All of the facts are one-hundred themed in celebration of our centum episode.
“It’s The Law” is next on the rundown. And this week we travel to Illinois. If you’re from Illinois and are reading this. You have two of the most random laws we’ve ever had on this segment. Perfect for episode 100! Listen to this, because the last law on the list comes from Champaign, Illinois and is Chase’s favorite to date. If you’re from the prairie state and want to comment on any of these laws, by all means, E-Mail us!
Finally, we end this special show with a “Chase’s Chance-Upon”. As you know, we have a rather unhealthy obsession with Arnold Schwarzenegger. And besides having new Arnoldisms in our sound effects we’ve got what we’ll call a dance mix of Arnold proportions.

Who Asked You? – Episode 99
December 7, 2009
Who Asked You? is down a man this week. Mike is out so Charlie, Dennis and Chase are left to hold down the fort. They do a pretty good job. With one less mouth all the others have more time to flatter. And flatter they do over some new releases for this Tuesday. Some of them may make good Chirstmas gifts. So why don’t you pick one or two of them up in the Show Links below.
Before the real meat of the show we discuss what we’ll deem “Tiger-gate”. The developments on Tiger Wood’s allege affairs with multiple women peeks Dennis’ interest because of Tiger’s preppiness and usual private lifestyle. To have someone so proper be involved in something so naughty is rather humorous to us. And there’s no shortage of golf-sex puns. Sadly though, we blow all of them in one wad instead of spreading them evenly throughout the show. But there are just too many and they’re all just too easy. We got overexcited… couldn’t help ourselves. Our nine course romp also includes a rather pathetic voicemail Tiger leaves for one of his female par-ty pals.
Once we let the “Tiger out of the cage” and are fairly satisfied we covered all the bases of Wood’s nationwide bedroom frolic we move onto our first big story of the day. Mattel, the toy maker behind such playful icons as Matchbox cars, is wheelin’ and dealin’ in the movie industry just like its rival, Hasbro. Toy to movie deals that’ll fill their pocket with cash rather than Polly and her friends.
Later in the show we get f**kin’ distracted with news that McG still thinks he’ll be directing the next two Terminator films. Since the company that currently owns the franchise has been forced to sell it do to bankruptcy, why on Earth does he think the next company who takes it over will choose him to make the sequels? Perhaps his plan is to do them pro bono? But since that means “for the public good” that’s probably the wrong phrase… let us try again… he knows he sucks, so he’s probably going to tell them he’ll do it free. That’s about what his abilities are worth anyway.
We’ve also got a very entertaining list for today’s show. It’s similar to one we had last week regarding films that didn’t do so well at the theater. This time though, all but one of these movies deserved to flop horribly. And they all pretty much did just that. Studios took major hits on these babies. Tune in and see if you know which ten bombed the worst over the last decade… should be fun!
And the show closes shop for the day with It’s The Law. On today’s edition we’re heading to middle America where oral sex is a misdemeanor and you can’t hump buffalos in a bar… yup… you read that right. God we love this segment.

Who Asked You? – Episode 98
November 30, 2009
It’s another day at the office here at Who Asked You? with cameo news on both the Thor movie and The Hobbit. We’ll let you know who is briefly appearing in each of the movies.
Then we’ve got the results to our We Ask You Online Poll from last week. It’s a bit of insight into how many of the Who Asked You? listeners are borderline cannibals.
The real meat of the show starts with news that Stephen King is working on a sequel to his hit book The Shining. At least, that’s what he told a crowd in Canada. He also said it in front of a horror film director, could there be some dealing for a movie already in the works here? Probably not, King’s not even sure he’ll finish the book.
Hugh Jackman is changing careers… well, in an upcoming role anyway. He’ll play a boxer turned promoter who gets into the lucrative industry of robot fighting. Now the first thing that comes to mind when you hear this is Battle Bots, from Comedy Central. But apparently these robots will be human sized. It’s unclear whether they’ll be shaped like humans or if they’ll be refrigerators rolling around in a computer generated arena… given that it’s directed by the guy who brought us Night at the Museum, watching refrigerators play bumper cars will probably be more entertaining than this movie.
We have a bit more Twilight news. But really the more interesting part of this story is a list of the biggest box office blunders of the past ten years. Thanks to one of those Examiner.com guys in Seattle, Dennis ran across his list and decided to share it on the show. All this talk of how much Twilight made it’s first weekend got Dennis thinking about movies that didn’t make anything that should have. That’s when he found this list. We’ll break it down on the show. And if you want to read it for yourself, just click the link in the Show Links.
Our It’s The Law segment takes us to Tennessee this week. As you’re probably guessing right now, Charlie has a field day with the banjo sound effect. And rightfully so. Anytime people start having so many junk cars on their property that the state has to pass law limiting how many you can have, you might be one of those red neck people Jeff Foxworthy is always talking about.
And have you heard of “Shit My Dad Says”? Well, it’s a Twitter account that’s pretty damn funny. It involves a guy tweeting all the random liners his dad says to him throughout the day. It’s become so popular that there’s a book on the way and a sitcom on CBS. Now we hate Twitter, you all know that, but this guy’s dad is pretty funny. The account is quite entertaining. With that said, we’re not sure if it’s worthy of a sitcom, but then again, they’re turning everything into a show these days.
In technology news, a pub in Scotland is being sued by someone whose content was illegally downloaded via the pubs free wi-fi access. This is total BS obviously. The pub can’t be held responsible for what its patrons do on their wireless hotspot. And a lot of law experts in the U.K. agree. We add our two cents as always.
We love beer. And beer that’s almost as strong as whisky sounds awesome. And a brewery in England has concocted just such a drink. Unfortunately, there’s only 250 bottles of what they call “Tactical Nuclear Penguin” and as a result it’s $50 for a single bottle plus shipping! Not sure if we like beer that much. If it were cheaper we would get one and try it on the show. But times are tough. We’ll stick with Heineken and Sam Adams for now. Maybe we’ll be able to try the next one they make that’s even stronger… I’m sure they’re already working on it.
The final story of the day involves a Roomba vacuum and a deadly animal. That’s all we’re going to say. You’ll want to hear all about this one.

Who Asked You? – Episode 97
November 23, 2009
It’s a mixed bag today on Who Asked You?. We start things off with release date news for the new Star Trek: Online game from Cryptic Studios. Never thought we’d see the day when there’d be a release date for this MMORPG back when Cryptic took over. Many were hoping for a late 2009 release, but they were only a couple months off.
We also put in our two cents on Oprah’s departure from daytime television. The pandemonium has already started and she still has two whole seasons to go. Not to mention she’s got her own Discovery network coming to cable called “OWN” or the “Oprah Winfrey Network”… Needless to say, she’ll definitely show up somewhere on this network in the future. Maybe not regularly, but you’ll see her… the network is named after her for god sakes!
Plus, there is no end for our detestation toward the Twilight movies. Talk about totally undeserved hype. We’ve heard numerous times from people who read the books that said the first one wasn’t that good. Yet, here we are with the second breaking the opening day record for box office revenue. WHY? Why do people enjoy watching assholes run around and pout on screen for ninety minutes? Anyway, we lay into this soulless garbage for a few.
And then it’s onto a story we didn’t bring you two weeks ago. We had run out of time on that episode and didn’t get into the story about a wife’s allergy that the newly married couple discovered on their wedding night. The tease Chase did for the story peaked the interest of a listener, so he E-Mailed us asking what it was. We’ve got the story for you pal!
And in Japan the government is urging companies to urge their employees to stay in shape. Apparently the appearance of McDonalds and other American eateries are enlarging the waist lines of Japanese folk. This is unacceptable to their government. We’ll chew the fat on this one.
After that it’s more food related news, only this time it’ll leave you wondering just where that kebab meat came from. As long as you don’t visit Perm, Russia you should be okay. But if you ever take a trip there, you’ll want to hear this story first. Don’t eat the meat pies!
And in Delaware you can’t live in your car. There’s a lot of other things you can’t do either that are pretty much hold overs from the olden days. You’ll hear them in this week’s It’s The Law segment.

Who Asked You? – Episode 96
November 16, 2009
For this week’s show we decided to take a little trip across the Pacific to Japan and talk about anime! Charlie, Dennis and Mike are all fans. Charlie is probably the biggest fan of all, so why not geek out on something they enjoy for an episode. Listen in as Chase fumbles and flubs his way through the intricacies of Japanese titles. And helping us this week with all the fun is our friend from MySpace, Katsuhiko Jinnai. He’s a DJ who specializes in remixing anime music for conventions and other events relating to it. You can sample his work by downloading an MP3 in our Show Links. It’s called AnonyMIXED. It’s an extended mix he created using random and funny audio clips found all over the Internet. You’ll probably recognize many of the samples he uses! Some of them we use on our show! He and Charlie starting talking through official MySpace channels, and we thought he’d be perfect to compliment this show.
It’s all anime all day! First on our scroll of events is news of a company whose mission statement is to turn anime into live-action movies. A producer from the Cowboy Beebop live-action flick is the one who came up with the bright idea. It seems like they have a hard enough time turning video games into movies and anime is often times far more complex than a video game plot. So this idea sounds very bad to us.
And then we move onto Susan Boyle, the Plain Jane Scottish woman who astonished audiences on Britain’s Got Talent with her amazing singing voice. What could she possibly have to do with anime? Listen in and find out!
And if you’re a fan of video games you’ve probably played, or at least heard of a little fighting game called Tekken? Well it seems plans to turn this into a movie came out of nowhere and were kept more secret than villains in any given Marvel movie, because Tekken is already made!!! The film is done apparently and is now seeking a distributor. We’re not excited about this movie, and neither is our guest-host. When you hear what movies it’s been described as a cross between, you’ll know why.
Plus, we couldn’t talk about anime without Hentai coming up… no pun intended…. actually, yes… pun intended. And we’re heading back in time for probably some of the earliest Hentai on record. And you won’t believe which world-renowned artist had a bunch of it in his attic! Yep… another tease here, listen to today’s show and find out!
Finally we wrap our anime adventure with a segment of It’s The Law. Naturally, we chose Japan, which surprisingly has very few strange laws posted on the Interwebs. I’m sure they’ve got them, but they few we scrounged up were hard to come by. That makes them all the sweeter.

Who Asked You? – Episode 95
November 9, 2009
Five shows and counting until we hit the big one-hundred. We still have no idea what we’ll do for the show. We may just do a regular show to tribute our form, function and style. We’ll just have to see. In the meantime we’ve got Sesame Street 40th anniversary news, Roland Emmerich exploding everything tidal wave earthquake news as well as a bit of info on what Johnny Depp will be doing next movie-wise.
The beef of the show starts with a review of sorts of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Now you’re probably thinking, that movie has already been out on DVD for three weeks… why are you reviewing it now? Well, if you’re a regular listener you’ll know we, excluding Mike, despise the Transformers movies and their director, Michael Bay. It was through some convincing by our friend JJ that Charlie, Dennis and Chase decided to sit down and watch a Cliffs Notes version. With the remote firmly gripped in his hand, JJ fast forwarded through the useless parts of the film (roughly four-fifths of it) to the parts that actually had Transformers doing Transformers things. And as you’ll hear on today’s show, we were right to hate the film before even seeing it. We called it… way back before it hit theaters. And we were right. The movie is terrible.
From that we go into the exact opposite, a movie that was really entertaining. Black Dynamite, starring Michael Jai White is a current day spoof of all those over-the-top 70′s cop and detective movies. It pays special attention to the dialogue and behavior of black men and women in films of that decade and has some fun with it. The movie kept us laughing the entire time. It’s currently on a very limited release in select theaters, but you can check their site in our Show Links for times and locations. Maybe it’s playing near you. We had to “fly across the country” to see it. Notice the quotations… yeah… we’ll leave it right there.
And we round up the show with another one of those god damned reboots. As with The Incredible Hulk and most recently ABC’s new version of “V” they’re not even waiting at least thirty years to remake stuff. They’re already dipping into the 80′s pot. And this one rubs Mike and Chase the wrong way… actually, it does so to Charlie and Dennis too. But at least there’s a little bit of the original involved today as we play “Name That Tune” with the movie’s theme music. See if you can guess what movie is getting this re-imagining before the guys do.

Who Asked You? – Episode 94
November 2, 2009
This week’s episode of Who Asked You? is another first… we had a lot of those in October. Our first guest-host via Skype, our first international guest-host and now our first on location episode!
This week we’re coming to you from Comic Oasis in Las Vegas. We decided to do the show at Comic Oasis because it gave us the chance to talk to Scott Allie and Kevin McGovern from Dark Horse Comics. They’re on a tour to promote their graphic novel thirteen years in the making! It’s called Exurbia. Scott, who has also written issues of other Dark Horse comics like Hell Boy and Solomon Kane wrote Exurbia and Kevin McGovern was the artist. We spend this episode talking with the two of them about working on Exurbia, their influences, what Scott looks for in an artist as a comic book editor and we even talk Star Wars!
A big thanks to both Scott and Kevin for letting us bug them during their signing session and another huge thanks to Derrick Taylor, the owner of Comic Oasis, who you also get to hear on today’s show. He randomly pops in with a few questions of his own. Be sure to check out the Show Links for more information on Dark Horse Comics, Exurbia and Comic Oasis. We’ve also got a few pictures we snapped in the flickr gallery.

Who Asked You? – Episode 93
October 26, 2009
This is a special episode of the show this week for a couple of reasons. First, as we mentioned in the last few shows, it’s our Halloween special we’re cleverly calling Booo Asked You?. And the other specialness of this show is that it marks our TWO-YEAR anniversary! You could rush out and stimulate the economy by getting us the traditional cotton gift. Or the more modern one, fine china… but that would imply we’re married. Maybe we are… married to our fans… awwww… and the mush is over.
It’s a creepy show we have today. We’ve got an E-Mail from Dr. Frankestein’s assistant, Igor. He wonders about our favorite Halloween candy and costumes when we were kids. Did you know Halloween accounts for roughly two-thirds of candy sales each year? And given that we’re all bottomless pits you can bet we rattle off a nice list of our favorite goodies. Feel free to buy them as well and send them to us. It’ll be a Halloween and anniversary gift in one… that we can eat! Can’t get any better than that.
After the E-Mail we head into spooky new releases. Many of them this week seem like older horror films being released on DVD for the first time. Or cheesy horror films being released straight to DVD. Take a look at the list in the Show Links, maybe there’s one in there you’d like to buy. The further into the list we get, the more horrifying the film.
And since it’s Halloween time why not scare you Star Wars fans with a little rumor about the space adventure franchise. Tune in to hear the frightening details. After the last three, could it get any worse? Decide for yourself after hearing it on the show, then tell us in this week’s “We Ask You” Online Poll.
We continue running the Halloween thing into the ground with Booo Facted You?. Ten glorious factoids about our scary little holiday. Including the various colors pumpkins are available in, when Igor first appeared on film and what’s the most popular Halloween candy.
And it wouldn’t be an All Hallows Eve show without some costume news. One of the costumes is a sign of the times and is getting blown way out of proportion. While the other is a sign of how lame cable news networks have become, but is funny as shit! It’s the ultimate current events costume since someone showing up in a prison jumpsuit with a stuffed dog in a fishing net claiming to be Michael Vick.
Why not end the show with what could end humanity… a zombie attack. It seems a university in Florida had a contingency plan for the staff in the event the undead walked the Earth and attacked their campus. It was all in good fun. But the sticks in the mud, also known as management, weren’t having it and the documents have since been removed and have vanished into the unknown.
We cover it all today from more on creepy crawly spiders giving you a boner to Dennis’ ninja costume he wore too many times and it stopped fitting. Turn out the lights, crank up your volume and… surf the web while you play us in the background. Happy Halloween!!!

Who Asked You? – Episode 92
October 19, 2009
For the second show in a row we’ve got a special guest host sitting in with us. He flew in all the way from Australia just to be on our show! Okay… he actually didn’t come here to just be on our show, but we like to think he did… it makes us feel special.
Marshall Davis of The Rocket Show, a radio program once aired in Australia, befriended us some time ago when we first launched our MySpace page. Who’d-a-thought a year or so later he’d be sitting in our cozy little studio shootin’ the shit with us on the show. Marshall brought us a few gifts from his native land. The coolest being a special region 4 version of Mad Max (pictured left). Marshall says this is the best film to come out of Australia since, well, ever. We’re not sure if we’ll be able to play it in our American player, but we’ll give it a try and see what starts smoking.
Marshall also brought us a few snack foods you can’t get outside of Australia. You can see pictures of them in our Flickr gallery. One of them is called Vegemite; a spread for crackers or toast that Marshall says is quite popular down under. Australians buy around 20 million jars of it a year. It’s tangy flavor comes from its ingredients which are primarily the left over yeast and other goodies from brewing beer. It may not sound good, but it actually has an interesting flavor.
A more universal food he also brought for the Who Asked You? Crew are some cookies… err, rather… biscuits called “TimTam”. They’re composed of two layers of chocolate malted biscuit, separated by a light chocolate cream filling, and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. And they are AWESOME! Unfortunately, they’re also not available here in the USA. So we’ll hoard the two packages he brought us!
Alright, on with today’s show. Since Marshall is joining us we thought we’d go international with today’s edition of It’s The Law. We bring you some of the crazy laws from Australia and Marshall fills us in on the details regarding many of them. Before all that though we’ve got the secret origin of the Who Asked You? title in answer to a listener E-Mail.
From there it’s onto comic book movie news… because god knows we don’t have enough of that these days. Robert De Niro and Jude Law have signed on to work on the Thor movie. And along with that, Jackie Earle Haley is apparently in the running to play Sinestro, the Green Lantern’s archenemy.
And if you take a look in the Show Links section you’ll notice some creepy spider pictures. Nooo, it’s not our Halloween show yet. But rather images of spiders we mention on today’s show. Why are we talking about spiders? We knew you’d ask that… well it turns out scientists in South America could be on the brink of developing an erectile dysfunction medication that should get your spidey-senses tingling. You’ll want to hear this!
After that we talk briefly about the incredible news that Fox is canceling… or as Marshall puts it, ‘axing’ the Fox Reality Channel. It’ll most likely be turned into some other cable network. But its at least that much less reality garbage we have to put up with.
And finally we end the show with the before-mentioned Australian edition of It’s The Law and then Marshall gives us an incredibly entertaining review of his experience watching our favorite show to poke fun at, HawthoRNe… see, I even typed it the way they do on TNT. What could be better… the origins of our show’s title, penis drugs from spiders and confirmation that HawthoRNe’s ridiculousness is not just us! It’s international!

Who Asked You? – Episode 91
October 19, 2009
This is another milestone for Who Asked You?. For the first time ever we’ve got a guest host joining us via Skype! Yes it’s quite the technological triumph for us. Something that other padcasters have been doing for years we’re just now getting around to! And our special guest host is Evan Pederson from FancyPantsGangsters.com.
And on this week’s show we barely get through any of our stories. That’s not terribly different than a normal show. But since Evan is joining us we feel less guilty about not getting to anything we had planned. Oh well… sometimes the off topic shows are better. If you’re listening to get the usual new release list, you’ll probably want to fast forward about thirty minutes into the show. Told you we were off topic this week.
First up we get a little history on FancyPantsGangsters.com and exactly what it is Evan and his posse do. And from there we get into a brief review of Where The Wild Things Are. We all saw it, including Evan so we discuss for a moment. Then we move onto a few announcements, the first of which is who has been cast as the hero mercenaries in the Predator movie reboot. One of the actors who is playing in Predators also played in the last Spider-Man movie. I think it’s safe to say he won’t be showing up in Spider-Man 4, which starts shooting next March by the way. We talk a little about this too and what Sam Raimi is planning for his next Spidey outing.
Saw VI is barely out and they’re already working on the seventh… which will be in 3D! That’s not really helping their overplayed repetitive cause though. And Evan tells us they’re signed on for up to nine of these turds!
After all of the above we get to a listener E-Mail asking us about the new Legion movie from Sony Pictures. Chase dug up a little info on the film and everyone was sorry he did.
And of all the classic fighting games to turn into a movie someone had to go and do it to The King of Fighters. And like Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, this film will most certainly be disappointing to say the least. The characters look visually awful and the story strays from that of the game to the point of pure annoyance! But, that’s Hollywood, they’ve always done that and will continue to. But judging from how terrible the promotional photos for this movie look, we’re not really sure if this movie is even being made in Hollywood, but rather, in someone’s basement with a couple of flood lights they got at The Home Depot.
Later in the show we talk about the new 120 GB version of the Playstation 3 Slim. Despite the console’s slimmer size and larger hard drive, it still just doesn’t feel right coughing up the amount of money Sony wants for it. With that being said, at least there aren’t three red lights to worry about with the PS3. And the release of this console is apparently coinciding with the release of Final Fantasy XIII, which was coming out next spring, but there will reportedly be a bundle of the game with the 120 GB PS3 Slim come Christmas of this year.
This show ends with discussion of the new Susan Storm statue from the Rockin’ Jelly Bean in Japan. This expertly crafted rendition of the Invisible Woman could quite frankly be spank material. Naturally, we go in depth on our revue of her view. Be sure to check out her panty line for yourself in the Show Links.

Who Asked You? – Episode 90
October 5, 2009
We’ve got a special bonus clip for you this week! It’s a new mini-cast called “The Bowel Movement” and no, there’s no clever word play here… no double meaning or hidden definition to this title… the show is literally about pooping. Aren’t you glad you came to our site? This week’s Bowel Movement is titled “Cold Justice”. Dennis takes us on a bit of a fishing trip through his digestive system and his cat comes along for the ride and seems to have hit some rough waters himself.
But now, on with today’s episode of Who Asked You?. First we report an incident of Hugh Jackman breaking character. Too bad that doesn’t happen more often. And we’ve got the winner of this year’s Ig-Nobel Prize for Public Health. Next time you see someone sniffing a woman’s undergarments you may want to check for poisonous gases near by.
For the second week in a row we’re paid a visit by some of our favorite copy that falls under the Michael Bay category. Along with his chosen release date for Transformers 3 is a bunch of release dates for movies coming in 2011. We know, it’s a little early to be rambling those off, but when you hear what’s coming in the summer and winter of the year after next, you’ll be glad you had time to prepare.
And the 35th season premier of Saturday Night Live got a little raunchy this past week… at least, for the east coast it did, when newcomer Jenny Slate let fly a flub beginning with F. We’ve got the clip on today’s program. And it brings up a question that’s this week’s “We Ask You” Online Poll.
And since we told you two states last week for It’s The Law and didn’t have time, we’re making up for that broken promise this week. We’re headed to Kentucky and Iowa for some odd ball laws, some we may have heard before in other states. There seems to be a growing issue with ice cream and its placement on a person’s garments.
Finally, what better way to get your pot…. err… I mean, point across when it comes to Marijuana laws than to march through your state capitol with one such plant in your arms. Is there any harm really in owning the plant? Maybe you’re a Horticulturist who appreciates all forms of plant life. You should be able to carry it around with you as long as it’s not in a baggy. In fact, the woman in this story was instructed by a policeman to put her pot plant in a plastic bag when carrying it around!
Smoke through this episode of Who Asked You? with us for some fun filled Wolverine rambling, new movie releases not worth buying, SNL F-word usage, wacky state laws and more!

Who Asked You? – Episode 89
September 28, 2009
As we say goodbye to September we also say goodbye to a really crappy show on a really crappy network. It had only two episodes shown and was canned. It’ll go down in history as the first show to be cancelled in the 2009 TV season. We’ll tell you which program has been pummeled.
But first, we start the show off with Who Facted You? our quirky little factoid filled romp through random info you didn’t know, and probably don’t need to know. We ran out of time last week and didn’t get to it, so it’s first on the schedule today.
Then, we’ll tell you about a couple of new movies from a new director in the fairly new style of filmmaking where the story is told through a single camera perspective, like Cloverfield. The director, Oren Peli, has one of the films out in limited release right now. While the other, which takes place here in Nevada where the Who Asked You? Crew is based, will begin shooting soon. And surprisingly it’s subject matter hasn’t really had a lot of movie treatments despite having an infinite number of rumors and stories to tell. Tune in to find out what these flicks are all about. And scroll down to the Show Links to visit the currently released film’s website.
And it’s been a while, so it’s time to check in on our favorite least favorite director to see what he’s spewing out next. It’s a tougher decision than you might think. He’s got three projects on the table, all of which are not very appealing… to us anyway… which will he choose? And what are the projects? We can tell you some of this on today’s show.
Buying an electric or hybrid vehicle to save the planet is just not a legitimate reason anymore. We’ve got a much better one. And it involves movies and their sound effects. In fact, it may just convince you to invest in a green-machine… assuming you haven’t already. The new feature coming to the Nissan Leaf and other electric cars is the focus of this week’s “We Ask You” Online Poll.
And we end the end of September’s show with our It’s The Law segment. Originally there were two states scheduled! But we just didn’t have the time. So, like Who Facted You?, it’ll be ready to go first thing next week! This edition we’re heading to Cal-ee-forn-ya. And since the Governator is in studio with us each week, he’ll belt out many of his favorite movie lines as we go down the list of off-the-wall laws from the sunshine state.

Who Asked You? – Episode 88
September 21, 2009
We’ve got a story on today’s show about a news anchor in New York who flubbed up a line about plucking a chicken and has since become a YouTube sensation and has already gotten a dance mix. That reminded us of another dance mix we’re quite fond of involving a certain actor who plays a Terminator hunting future general guy. So we start the show with the Bale Out! Why not right? And we also play the remix from the news anchor’s F-up too! How awesome are we!
Besides that we start the show with some news of who will be directing Battleship. As well as the Stretch Armstrong, Clue, Monopoly, Candyland and Ouija movies… are you noticing the same theme we are? The sad thing is, some of these directors are really good. So why are they taking such bullshit projects? Oh yeah…. Hasbro’s enormous check book. That explains it.
From there we chop up a news story out of Baltimore that has some folks on edge. A college student there is a cut above the rest as he takes the law into his own sword-wielding hands. We’ll slice up the facts for you and try not to get stabbed from all these dumb sword puns.
And in this week’s edition of It’s The Law, find out which animal is required by state law to wear pants before entering an Inn.
Plus, it’s 10pm… do you know where your criminally insane murderer is? Don’t ask that question of Eastern State Hospital in Spokane, Washington. They felt it necessary to take their patients on a field trip to the county fair where one of them, a deranged killer who has attempted escape before, walked off without being noticed and is currently on the run!
And it wouldn’t be a Who Asked You? without a story involving poop and one involving pee. You’ll love these!

Who Asked You? – Episode 87
September 14, 2009
As summer winds down we thought we’d spend a few minutes of the show talking about the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2009 summer movies. One of the worst he’s seen, as Dennis has put it. This summer has brought us many things when heading to the moving picture house. This summer didn’t bring a Michael Bay transformation. He’s still up to his same repetitive tricks. As a result it brought us the continued raping of 80’s childhoods while Hasbro stood back and allowed it. Destracted only by the counting of their stacks of cash. This summer showed us that you don’t need big named actors, huge budgets or even famous directors to make a great film. It brought us a Vegas-based movie that was actually good. While it also brought us the death of a science fiction franchise which incredibly lasted 40 years without getting anally penetrated by Hollywood’s blunderous idiocy.
And speaking of dumb things… little over-looked laws that sometimes are out of touch or don’t make any sense at all are the main topic of our It’s The Law segment, which we have another edition of this week. And since it’s in a southern state it’s only appropriate we upgrade the sound board with a banjo to compliment it.
From there we move onto giving people STD’s. Or more accurately, a way you can tell someone you may have given them one. Do it electronically. No personal interaction is needed thanks to a website from the Brazilian Health Ministry or one here in the states called “inSPOT”. Now you can just send an e-greeting telling that special someone you shared an evening of love with that you may have infected them with more than just your charm. This little web feature brings us to our We Ask You Online Poll.
And then we school you on random factoids with a segment we haven’t done in a while called, Who Facted You?. Here’s a bit of a preview… if you’ve ever wondered where the saying, “Rule of thumb” comes from, we’ll tell you!
We also throw in two Question of the Ages in a row! Don’t miss it!

Who Asked You? – Episode 86
September 7, 2009
This week’s show is a prime example of how listener E-Mails can influence what we talk about. After receiving an E-Mail from listener Charlie we decided to do a show about music. Dennis was charged with producing this episode. And sitting in this week is Charlie’s girlfriend… host Charlie, not listener Charlie. We spend some time at first talking about why we like the music we like and what it means to us. We get all brooding and deep which doesn’t happen very often and doesn’t really last too long. Arnold inserts his occasional comment, and like most Who Asked You? episodes eventually we trail off into talking about sex.
In our Show Links you’ll find some of the bands and artists we mention during the show. And if you like this episode you can look forward to a sequel in the near future. An hour just isn’t enough time to really get into it with music so we’ll be doing this again on a future show. After you listen to the show, please vote on this week’s “We Ask You” Online Poll and tell us what you thought about the music episode.

Who Asked You? – Episode 85
August 31, 2009
For our final show of August 2009 we start things off with a little Apple bashing because the new OS they just released, “Snow Leopard”, isn’t really an OS at all, but more of an over-marketed service pack. Being a Mac user, Dennis gets a little berating from Charlie and Chase. It’s all in good fun though….. or is it?
From that we tell you about the latest aquisition of NBC Universal, Hearst Corporation and Walt Disney. No not Marvel, although Disney did just purchase them for $4 billion bone claws, but rather the Lifetime family of cable networks. The “This hurts me more than it does you” channel will now be owned by A&E who also owns networks like Bio and History.
But, it’s only a matter of time before we get to a pretty critical, yet very vague E-Mail about our show. We love getting them from all you haters out there.
We then move onto news of the delayed release of the Green Hornet movie starring Seth Rogan. It now shares a release date with a couple of Hanna-Barbera cartoon turned movies. Dennis, who remembers very little from previous episodes, is once again reminded of The Smurfs Movie, which we’ve talked about on the show. He relives his disgust all over again.
Then we run down a pretty good list of top-ten best horror movies of all time compiled by the New York Daily News. Mainy of them we agree with, some we don’t, and a few we think should be in there get thrown into the mix as well.
Dennis, who is an 80’s movies encyclopedia, perks up with a story about a cult 80’s film getting turned into a TV series. He perked up because he wanted to talk about the movie, not because it’s being turned into a TV show. Just wanted to clarify that. He literally has nothing to say about the TV treatment it’s getting.
And John Mayer has lost a bet TMZ.com over whether they could dig up an old mug shot of him. The money he forked over did go to a good charity though.
And speaking of money well spent. A new study has just been released which found that people who play video games are fatter and more depressed than those of us who don’t… did we really need a study to tell us this?
And a good note for us to go out on is a penis enlargement story!!! This leads to a bit of TMI with Charlie and his girlfriend Toni who was in studio with us. You won’t want to miss this.

Who Asked You? – Episode 84
August 24, 2009
We start off this week’s show with an E-Mail from Charlie. But not our Charlie. And during the ritual reading of new DVD releases we get two revelations from Dennis! One he’s a Degrassi fan and two he’s got the hots for Chel from The Road To Eldorado. There’s something new and surprising every week on our show!
It would seem that John Connor has more to worry about than just SkyNet… like getting his next residuals check. The two guys who currently own the Transformers franchise say they don’t have the money to pay the bills. Their bank account has been terminated it would seem. They filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. As you can imagine, Arnold, in our studio has a lot to say about this.
There are four kinds of alien sightings, the fourth of which is abduction. The fourth of which is also a movie coming out November 2nd. Milla Jovovich stars in. The Fourth Kind, an eerie film which claims to be based on actual events that take place in Nome, Alaska, a small town on the eastern tip of the state finds Dr. Abygail Tyler interviewing residents about strange events and disappearances that take place in the community in October of 2000. The trailer, which you can view in the Show Links intercuts what’s being claimed to be actual footage of the case studies. Once under hypnosis the various residents realize they’ve been unwillingly taken and party to some rather sinister events. And at the end of the movie they realize they were just listening to our show… spoiler!!! sorry.
And did you know that there’s a lot more on our paper currency than just germs and green ink? Did you know our money is actually not made of paper, but rather linen and cotton? To find out exactly what’s on our cash tune in to today’s show. It’s interesting and frightening at the same time.
If you’ve been longing to play some computer games but don’t have the three-grand to spend on a gaming machine then you’re in luck come this winter! OnLive is a new server based gaming program you can subscribe to and play all sorts of games on. They take care of all the computing on their end so even a basic laptop will be able to play your games. We’ve got all the details on this.
Plus, if you ever thought someone’s ass was staring at you… maybe it was. Enter, Winkers, a new style of mostly women’s jeans that feature eyes painted on the butt folds of the pants so as she walks it looks like they wink at you. Ugly and creepy both come to mind when you see them in action. We’ve got a video of just that in the Show Links. After you watch the video tell us which pair you want to get in the We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Episode 83
August 17, 2009
District 9, a new film from first-time director Neill Blomkamp knocked a very undeserving G.I. Joe from the first place spot at the box office this weekend. We saw an advanced screening of the movie last week and all really enjoyed it. We talk about it at the top of this week’s show.
We also talk about some other aliens coming to the big screen…. again, with news of Robert Rodriguez’s production company starting production of Predators next month. That film involves a group of stranded people on one of the Predator planets. Now they must escape the horrors they see there! Just like movie-goers did at the G.I. Joe premier.
We’ve also got the price points for Microsoft’s next incarnation of the Zune media player, the Zune HD. And the MSRP blows Apple’s iPod Touch away in affordability. Of course, that’s not really difficult to do with Apple products.
Then we’ve got another fun edition of It’s The Law. This week we’re going to the great state of North Carolina where you’re taxed for illegal substances in your possession and oral sex is considered a crime against nature!
And we don’t know about you… but we’re not much for the Euro-bathing suit known as a speedo. And apparently an English theme park isn’t either. They’re telling the fellows they must cover those man-baskets with a more traditional short or trunk. Meanwhile the ladies don’t have to cover up so much. Our We Ask You Poll Question this week asks you about the whole speedo thing. Be sure to cast your vote!
And if you’ve ever watched any of SyFy’s many “gems” of the made for TV movie genre you may have asked yourself in this exact way, where in the hell do they find these? Well good news, we’ve got an answer for you on today’s show. The source of many-a-knock off film. And there’s a link to their store in our Show Links.
And in our show-wrapping world news segment a man IDs himself before robbing a bank in Alaska, some missing cucumbers have Australian police in a pickle and a man offers coffee to police as an apology for his 1997 antics only to be arrested the next day for the same misdoings.

Who Asked You? – Episode 82
August 10, 2009
When gathering up today’s stories we kept Jabari in mind because this is his last show for a while. Jabari is headed out on a quest of mystery and intrigue and will return at a later date. So what better way to send him off than to skew as many of the stories as we could into “Jabari Country”, which if you’re a regular listener of the show, you know is typically R-Rated or above.
Anyone who has watched TV in the past month, been to a movie theater and looked at the posters or has no expectations for a good script knows that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra opened Friday. And the reviews are mixed. For every person who loved it there was someone who hated it. And the critics for the most part, hated it. In any case we’ve got the box office numbers for its opening weekend on today’s show.
And a certain Hollywood big-wig is taking the reins of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson officially let go just a couple of weeks back. And this new streamlined script hints at sequels…. of course it does…. movies MUST be franchises these days. It’s in some sort of Hollywood Law Book somewhere.
There’s a new TV commercial airing in South America that is encouraging residents there to do a certain something in the shower to help conserve water. Listen to today’s episode to find out what and check the Show Links to see the commercial for yourself. Then vote on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll. Remember, your votes are totally confidential. When you read this week’s question you’ll know why I said that.
And trouble is brewing in Austria over one town’s rather… well… prurient name. But another town near by with a similarly suggestive name is telling them not to complain, but cash-in on their unwanted fame. You’ll wanna hear this one!
Plus the Dirty Potter guys are working on something new. If you haven’t heard Dirty Potter, go listen to Episode 66 of the show. We’ve also got a little reminder clip on today’s program as well as a teaser of what they’re working on for later this year. You can find a link to their YouTube channel in the Show Links.
You see… Halo, towns with innapropriate-adjective names and more sultry Dirty Potter excerpts… told you this show was geared toward Jabari!

Who Asked You? – Episode 81
August 3, 2009
Tim Burton recently rocked the Comic-Con convention… not really he didn’t… but we’ll pretend he did, with the announcement that he will be making a Dark Shadows movie. If you’re not familiar with Dark Shadows we’ve got a Wikipedia link in the Show Links that tells you all you’ll ever want to know about the 60’s gothic soap opera. And the lead has already been cast! Can you guess who it is?
Then, wait until you hear the pure disbelief from the guys of how many women wish they were having more sex. Redbook recently polled its readers and determined that a majority of the ladies want more! Dennis and Jabari do not believe it.
Then Charlie brings us up-to-date on Konomi’s video game title switcheroo involving Castlevania. And then we let you know what nifty little feature the next edition of Guitar Hero will have.
Would you like a digitally sculpted urn shaped like your dead relatives head? Neither would we. Just look at the picture on our site and you’ll see why. This is beyong creepy. But for under $3,000 you can have one!
We’ll also travel to Mississippi for, It’s The Law, then to Colorado for a donation to Goodwill like no other before we round out our crazy trip of wacky news with a stop in South Carolina for a real life version of Equus.

Who Asked You? – Episode 80
July 26, 2009
Like our open says, “do not panic”…. what you’re seeing is an all-new Who Asked You? website. It’s a last-stitch effort to try and draw in a few more listeners… god knows we need ‘em. Take a moment to look around. The layout is basically the same as the old site. Just fancier more modern looking buttons. The addresses for each page are different, so if you have any individual pages bookmarked, you may want to update them.
And speaking of updating something… if you subscribe to our RSS feed (the little orange button) you will need to update that as well. Remove, or unsubscribe from the old feed and subscribe to the new one. You can do that by clicking here.
If you’re subscribed to our show through iTunes, good news, you don’t have to do a thing. The iTunes feed is remaining intact!
Alright, now onto this week’s show. Besides this awesome new website we’re occupying, we’ve got two other HUGE announcements you’ll wanna hear. They could change your life forever!
Plus a listener E-Mail from Comic-Con! It’s like we have our own correspondent down there! He brings us a brief sentence of Batman movie news.
We go through another rousing round of Who Fact You? which in turn generates conversations relating to saliva and then food poisoning from In-N-Out Burger and more.
Harry Potter’s pot-o-money is a bit smaller this week. He was beat out in the box office by another kids film which is less than half as entertaining and not at all creative.
Then we round out this new show on our new website with It’s The Law, followed by a couple of random stories involving showering in the car, parking on the lawn of the police station and naked time! Oh yeah, and I think there’s a Question of the Ages thrown in there somewhere too!
Don’t forget to tell us what you think about the new site by voting on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Episode 79
July 20, 2009
Today on our show the Cobra Commander himself drops us an E-Mail with a few comments on the new G.I. Joe flick. Before that though we get brought up-to-date on Dennis’ HDTV shopping adventures.
And celebrities are just like you and me… except for Ryan Reynolds… he’s superior to all mankind. But for the most part celebs are normal, and we have proof on today’s episode with a few phobias that certain movie stars possess. Tune in and find out who’s afraid of house plants and who doesn’t like tunnels.
Plus, Nasa should’ve removed that little record inhibitor tab on their tapes of the moon landing, because they most likely taped over it with something else. The digitally restored video that was just released last week is probably the only copy left.
We also discuss the new $150 Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that Activision is releasing. Unlike other over priced plastic toy-filled collector’s packs, the price tag on this one may be justified, we’ll tell you why.
And if you have inner demons, you may need to create some exit portals for them….. in your crotch. You’ll wanna hear this story.

Who Asked You? – Episode 78
July 13, 2009
Up first on our slate-o-terror is GM’s coming out of bankruptcy. The auto giant says they’re committed to building more Earth-friendly cars, so much so they’re considering changing their logo to green. You know what else is green GM? Our tax payer dollars you have. You owe us one… big time you f***ers.
And Charlie laments, then tries to reason it in his head, then laments some more over the news of who has been cast for the Green Lantern movie due out in 2012.
Plus Brock Lesnar got his revenge in the UFC 100 Championship fight against Frank Mir on July 11th. But what really made the headlines was his odd and unsportsman-like, yet very WWE behavior after he won. We talk a little about that on this week’s show.
Then it’s another edition of It’s The Law! This week we’re headed to the east coast. Connecticut has some rather interesting ol’ laws on the books that are both humorous and a little perplexing such as this one from the community of Rocky Hill: An arcade may not have more than a total of four amusement devices such as ping-pong tables, pinball machines, or shuffleboard tables. There’s more where that came from on the show.
And Google is building its own OS to compete with Microsoft Windows. Chase botches his reading of this story about halfway through and doesn’t quite recover. But you’ll get the gist of it.
But a story we didn’t get to on this week’s show is the new world record holder for the most people simultaneously skinny dipping. That record was set in Virginia at that state’s only nudist camp, White Tail Resort. The number of mostly old fat white guys that made the record books was 249.

Who Asked You? – Episode 77
July 6, 2009
Marvel movie news once again kicks off this week’s show. Stan Lee is making another cameo in an upcoming film, which is not really that big of a deal given he does it in every Marvel movie pretty much. But we’re going to treat it like it is just like all the other news sites! Tune in to find out which film.
And Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that Deadpool will speak to the audience in the Deadpool movie. He fails to understand that Deadpool already spoke to the audience in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He said, “Look what we’re doing to your childhood favorites… no, I’m not Baraka from Mortal Kombat silly.” And then Ryan removed his shirt for no reason.
The destroyers of Star Trek have another project. It too involves a childhood favorite. And the fact that they can make a movie out of it is simply stunning, and not a good stunning. You gotta hear this!
Universal won a bidding war over the rights to make a movie out of a very old video game… really? Seriously this is getting out of hand!
We’ve got the price of Best Buy’s new PS3 bundle as well as news of the new PS3-Slim? If the Internet rumors are right, which we all know is always the case, we could see this skinny system on store shelves next month! A leaked photo is available in the Show Links.
Plus if you’re a poor judge of when to go take a leak during a movie, we may be able to help. There’s a website out there called RunPee.com that will tell you exactly when to go do your business during a movie. And they’ve just launched an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, cuz lets face it, the theater frowns upon folks bringing their laptops to the movies.
And Vibe Magazine has closed its doors after 16 years. But Dennis has another, and in his opinion, better option for your hip-hop magazine needs.

Who Asked You? – Episode 76
June 29, 2009
Perhaps the big story this week, that doesn’t involve the untimely death of a celebrity, is that the Best Picture Oscar will now feature 10 nominees instead of the traditional 5. We go in depth as to why the Academy is doing this. And as you might guess, it’s a pretty lame reason. This leads into a lengthy debate over how Dennis chooses movies he likes and dislikes using the recent Watchmen as an example.
Once that dust settles we move along to news of yet another video game to movie rendition.
That’s followed by another edition of “What Is Michael Bay Up To?” which brings you the box office record breaking numbers of Transformers 2 and news of what Bay might be doing next. It’s a book to movie rendition that holds such a small interest to the group that Chase only makes it one sentence deep before they ask to move on.
And the R and D department over at Trojan never rests! They’ve got a new condom out that is the most technologically advanced ever! We’ve got the specs.
And if you ever wanted to hunt pirates, nows your chance. It’ll just take a trip to Russia and about $6,000.

Who Asked You? – Episode 75
June 22, 2009
We’re going a little off our beaten track today as we have very little movie news in this episode. What cinema scoop we do have comes in the form of, What Is Michael Bay Up To? our most favorite segment ever!
But before that, the votes are in! You voted unanimously for us to continue bringing you Scar Trek news… so we will with a whole new segment! More on that in a future episode.
We’ve got a story out of New York about a man who crossed dressed his way into several hundred-thousand dollars.
As for what Michael Bay is doing, among other things he’s inventing the way Transformers are born. Hasbro didn’t know, so he decided he’d take care of it… no stone unturned huh Michael?
Chase has once again chanced upon something interesting. This time it’s the longest word in the English language. Tune in to hear what it is and how it’s spelled. And if chemical names are your game and considered legit words we’ve got the longest one of those too!
And then, a cop in Denver is relieved of duty after pointing his gun at some slow McDonald’s employees. We all know what cooks do to your food when you send something back, so imagine what they do to it when you point a gun at them!
There’s much more on today’s show including a presidential slap, It’s The Law and a lady who has a restraining order against her. But you’ll be surprised with what she’s not allowed to come within 100 feet of…. okay, yes Jabari… but she can’t come close to something else either!

Who Asked You? – Episode 74
June 15, 2009
The debate continues this week on whether or not vampires can contract aids. We’ve got the poll results from last week on this question, plus a listener E-Mail that relates to it.
But it’s a story on today’s show that brings us this week’s We Ask You Poll Question. Another devastating development in the rumors and news of the next Star Trek film. It appears, right now, that JJ Abrams is talking to Jack Black about playing in the sequel. The awful news just doesn’t seem to stop spewing from the Bad Robot company. We’re not sure how much more we can handle.
And for those who can’t wait for the reboot of Conan, though I can’t imagine who that would be, you’ll be happy to know that the film once again has a director.
Ryan Reynolds is assuring Marvel fans that the Deadpool spin-off will be very cannon. We’ll tell you about that.
The Incredible Mr. Limpet won’t be incredible anymore after he gets a Hollywood re-imagining.
And later in the show we give “Who Facted You?” another try. And this leads into making fun of the way Giada De Laurentiis from the Food Network talks. If you ever watch one of her shows you’ll notice she over-pronunciates Italian words to the point of it being humorous. So we all take turns imitating her and having a good laugh over that.
And we round out the show with a comic book story that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is working on and a guy really “kneading” an arm.

Who Asked You? – Episode 73
June 8, 2009
Spinal Tap sent us a friend request on MySpace!!! How awesome is that? Imagine… Spinal Tap making friends with us, the Who Asked You? Crew.
Besides that totally radical news, we bring you up-to-date on the Polka crisis, the age of Tetris and how cabbage can cure erectile dysfunction. The pure randomness of those topics could only make up our show. You will never see that sentence anywhere else ever again in the world.
Our big story of the day, as illustrated at the left, is the enormous flop that Will Ferrell’s new movie was. Land of the Lost didn’t even bring in a quarter of what it cost to make its opening weekend. Are people finally realizing the Ferrell hasn’t been funny since he left SNL? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
And we knew it would happen.. as soon as Star Trek came out Hollywood would go ape shit over Zack Quinto and Chris Pine. And right on schedule too, at least, for Chris Pine. He’ll co-star with Denzel Washington in a train movie about a runaway train with… you guessed it… explosives and chemicals that could spell destruction for…… yep, you guessed it again, an unsuspecting rural town!
Then we move onto a top-ten list presented by CinemaBlend which counts off the most used movie character clichés and how they’re used well and not so well in movies. We discuss which ones we agree with and which we don’t.
And we end the show with yet another strip club related injury. There seems to be an awful trend in the stripper industry related to stilettos connecting with bystander’s faces. We’ve got the scoop. And the end of this story includes a little surprise for Dennis which he hints at during the start of the show. It’s a sound byte that comes from one of his favorite movies, Robocop.

Who Asked You? – Episode 72
June 1, 2009
We received a few responses on our “perfect donut” poll last week. And one of the more interesting ones would have to be the Luther Burger. This melding of sweet and salty seems to be quite the hit in many bar and grills across the USA. It’s also quite a hit to your cholesterol level!
We’ve got another Cloverfield-ish movie on the way to theaters come August. This one courtesy of Peter Jackson. It’s called District 9. It doesn’t have a giant monster terrorising New York as told by a camcorder video. But it does have similar viral websites and a water cooler material trailer that in our opinion, puts it up there with ol’ Clovey. We’ve got tons of details about this movie so tune in!
And it’s no surprise that a certain 80′s cartoon series is getting the movie treatment from Columbia Pictures. They’ve just released the logo for the film which you can check out in our Show Links section. After you listen to the show of course.
Plus 20th Century Fox is going to need a new Ripley… yeah, for that…
And we’ve got some tech news! First up, there’s a new version of HDMI on the way and nothing on the market now or in the near future will be compatible with it… or even fit in the port. And LG is the inventor of the Universal Translator. And here we thought it was the Vulcans. And last in this show’s techno-babble is a little info on the new Zune HD from Microsoft. Make sure you vote on this week’s We Ask You Poll after hearing the details on this little gizmo.

Who Asked You? – Episode 71
May 25, 2009
An E-Mail from a listener this week prompts us all to list our top five movies. For some, like Dennis this was a no brainer. For others, like Chase, this was a task and a half. But as Jabari notes, the list is ever changing which is probably true with anyone… except Dennis, whose list never changes.
Okay, so we’ve also got the latest shows coming this Fall to network TV. Sadly, most have already been done, in many cases to death, while others just plain to don’t sound interesting. And to make matters worse reality TV shows are still in the loop and shows that were GOOD from last season are being canceled! Then they wonder why the Internet is stealing the TV audience.
It would seem Marvel is preparing to reboot yet another of their comic movies that is less than ten years old…. ooorrrr they’re getting ready to do a spin-off of one that just came out. Either way, we can expect it to disappoint. Listen in on today’s show to hear which films are in question. We will note here that it will involve actress Katee Sackhoff.
Once again our long-winded babbling cuts short our list of stories. The two we don’t get to can be found as always in the Forums. However Chase does slip in a report out of Croatia where a bakery has enlisted the help of Chuck Norris’ likeness. Like Norris himself, this story kicks ass… you won’t want to miss it!

Who Asked You? – Episode 70
May 18, 2009
Just when you thought we were done talking about the new Star Trek movie after spending an entire episode on it… the sci-fi blunder comes up again. But this time it’s YOUR thoughts. We received some E-Mails after that show and wanted to get your comments on-the-air. That is, after all, what the Ask The Show A Question page is for.
We also like to be fair and balanced on our show, just like Fox News……. HA! Who are we kidding, we’re more skewed then they are. And that’s pretty damn skewed! But in our attempt to present the other side of the Trek debate we had our friend John on this week. He’s been on before a couple of times, you can hear those shows in the Show Archive. John liked Star Trek and presents his views on why. If you’ve got one, by all means, let us know and we’ll read it on the show!
Don’t worry though, Star Trek doesn’t take up this entire episode. Soon we move onto other Hollywood blunders like Gerard Butlers next film called Gamer. You’ll need an extra life after hearing this one.
Plus Guitar Hero is one step closer to becoming a reality show. Brought to you by Mountain Dew and socially awkward teens without skin pigment.
And where does your name stand on the Social Security Administration’s popularity list? Well tune in and you might just hear yours!

Who Asked You? – Episode 69
May 11, 2009
It’s a hell of a thing for us to spend an entire show on one subject. When it happens, you know there’s good reason. This week’s episode is all about Star Trek. Consider this the most IN-DEPTH review and discussion of the new Star Trek on the Internet. We cover it all from the characters being imitated, to the look and feel of the Enterprise, to the music, the sound effects and more!
We warm up though with a random, thanks to Dennis, out of nowhere rant over the last three Star Wars and which one Hayden Christensen sucked in more!
Once that’s over with the real discussion begins. You’ll want to tune in for sure as we reveal one of the reasons UPN cancelled Enterprise that nobody really acknowledges and the REAL TRUTH BEHIND WHAT HAPPENED TO STAR TREK. Fans weren’t tired of Picard and friends. They weren’t tired of the Klingons and they certainly weren’t tired of the kick-ass Enterprise E that we only got to see for three movies! And the franchise wasn’t tired… well… it was tired of something. We’ll tell you what as Chase explains it all; and it may very well be what you thought it was too all along!
Welcome aboard as we review JJ Abram’s, Star Trek!

Who Asked You? – Episode 68
May 4, 2009
The big news this week is the appearance of the G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra trailer online. It gives us a glimpse into this CG extravaganza and reminds us for the six-billionth time why Hollywood just… doesn’t… get… it. In the trailer the Joes, after a very Team America attack on Paris, France race to stop the evil Cobra organization run by an extremely unfamiliar Desto. To help them in their Yo-Joe crusade, beside Channing Tatum’s heart-throby-ness and Marlin Wayans comic relief are the Delta-6 Accelerator suits. Tune in for more on this. Trust us… you’ll wanna hear it!
And Disney is remaking an old movie based on an old novel. Yeah it’s a remake, but at least they’re remaking one of their own films… hmmm… yeah that doesn’t help. It’s a water related movie. That’s all we’ll say.
And we’ve got some video game news regarding the sequel to Overlord. Just head to the Show Links section after listening to the show and check out the newest trailer for Overlord II.
Do you remember all the crazy stuff you did as a kid? Was one of those things walking down the street naked because your cousin bet you wouldn’t do it? Well there’s a little boy in Pennsylvania who will have quite the story to tell at school.
And the last story of the day involves a Nintendo DS purchase… minus the Nintendo DS. Afterward we have about eight minutes to kill and sometimes those are the best minutes of the show!

Who Asked You? – Episode 67
April 27, 2009
It’s a momentous occasion here on Who Asked You? as we introduce to you the latest feature on our sound board. We’re calling them, Arnoldisms.
We’ve compiled a list (that’s still growing) of around 200 one liners from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vast movie library. Some are our favorites, some are not lines, but rather noises and others are just regular things that he says that are awesome because he said them!
So those are peppered all throughout today’s episode which starts off with an E-Mail from a listener regarding JJ Abram’s Star Trek. This leads to an announcement from Charlie that he will see the reboot. But only because he got two free movie passes and won’t have to pay for it.
After we warp out of that subject we bring you the latest on a casting replacement in Iron Man 2… no it’s not Mickey Rourke! So don’t panic.
Plus Bioshock the movie is getting some Halo the movie cold feet from the studio. But shooting it in another country may be the solution…… or how about not shooting it at all?
Microsoft says you’ll be able to run Windows XP inside of Virtual PC on certain editions of Windows 7. How about we not run Windows 7 at all and just stick with XP? Or, dare I say it… switch to Mac?
Would you pay $40 to attend a fully clothed G-Rated orgy? If there is such a thing, it would probably be called a Cuddle Party and you have to be pretty comfortable with strangers touching you to enjoy this little shindig. Somehow for $40 I think you should get a little more than just “cuddling” out of it.

Who Asked You? – Episode 66
April 20, 2009
What is happening with the world when Ashton Kutcher has more Twitter subscribers, or Twats as we like to call them, than CNN? Maybe that should be one of our Question Of The Ages. We’ll spend no more time on this topic. Moving on….
How does a screenwriter go from writing Winnie the Pooh cartoons to a big budget comic to movie flick? Just ask Evan Spiliotopoulos. He’s been charged with doing just that. Tune in to hear which comic to movie we’re talking about. A few clues though: it’s a sequel, the first one was awful and it doesn’t follow the comic story line AT ALL! Boy that narrows it down doesn’t it?
Then it’s time for another edition of “Chase’s Chance Upons” where we talk about something that Chase stumbled across during the week. And this one is awesome! It’s an audio book like no other! And it stars the wizards and witches or Hogwarts.
And it looks like Jay Leno is back on again for this Fall in Boston. Channel 7 clearly has no balls. They aren’t alone though in their concern for low ratings leading into their late news. A lot of NBC stations are telling the network they’re going to need a little somin’ somin’ for running the shitty show in prime time.
What’s the first thing you would do after getting shot in the head? No!!! Not go to the hospital. You’d make a cup of tea and relax until the police arrived. That’s what one Mississippi woman did.
Meanwhile a dad near our nation’s capital has plotted a scheme to rid his children of their dog. In this tough economy an actor has to take what he/she can get. So why not play the part of a hired dog walker who “loses” the canine. The man does warn though, his girls may cuss you out and throw things at you. It pays $500 and it’s something for your reel!

Who Asked You? – Episode 65
April 13, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked, it’s no secret. What is secret, at least right now, is who leaked it. What’s also not a secret is that you shouldn’t review a leaked movie when you work for the company that made it. But perhaps one of Fox’s movie columnists should’ve read this first.
You know what else is not a secret? That Billy Bob Thornton is a freakin’ actor. But apparently he and his reps want to think that it is. Billy Bob has become a YouTube must this past week after a little rant on a Canadian talk show on-the-air over the fact that the host mentioned he was an actor even though he wasn’t supposed to. The Boxmasters, Thornton’s new band has been touring in Canada and was on the show to talk about their music.
But not the fact that Billy Bob started out as an actor? But now he’s a musician? It’s very confusing. Nobody has ever heard his music anyway, so what’s the big deal. And after his little tantrum we certainly don’t want to hear it now!
Music you do want to hear though is Chromeo. Check out the Show Links section for another of our little pre-show chats featuring some samples of this duos awesome beats!
Also on today’s episode we’ve got news of a very Spidey spin-off. I think Sony Pictures will say yes to anything these days.
And rumors abound of which network shows may be getting the boot next season. Some of them might surprise you.
Plus Nick Cage has been forced to sell his German castle because of the economy. Oh dear me! He sold it to his German advisor… why the FUCK does Nicolas Cage need a German advisor… what is he being advised on… apparently who to sell his castles to.
Have you ever wanted to slap someone for farting at the table? How about stab? That’s pretty much what happened in Waco, Texas.
And the Polish sure do like their penis! You’ll wanna hear this one!

Who Asked You? – Episode 64
April 6, 2009
The timing couldn’t be worse this week for Dennis. He lost his voice the day before the show and couldn’t participate this week as much as he would’ve liked. It’s unfortunate too because we have his favorite segment on today’s show. He is able to strain a few words in, but not many.
Sony Pictures has announced two big name movies along side Spider-Man 4 in their 2010-2011 line up. We certainly won’t be lining up for them.
The Dragonball movie already has a sequel written? It hasn’t even come out yet? What happens if it’s a flop? Maybe the studio can use the Dragonball and make a wish that everyone will love the movie. Yeah, and maybe I can use the slingshot effect, go back in time and prevent JJ Abrams from ever going near Star Trek.
If you live in Boston you probably won’t be seeing Jay Leno’s new prime time show this fall on Channel 7. You see, for those who don’t live in Beantown, channel 7 is the local NBC station there and they’ve decided to not air Jay’s show in exchange for a 10pm local newscast. Although we agree with them that Jay doesn’t belong in prime time, or on television for that matter, they may have shot themselves in the ratings foot on this one given that Boston is Jay’s old stomping grounds and he’s got a lot of fans there. From the overall buzz on the Internet it sounds like channel 7 wasn’t very popular to begin with. There’s always the CW channel 7!
Netflix has delivered its two-billionth movie. The guys weren’t that impressed with this, so that’s all we’ll say about it here.
And also on the show Quebec is showing us once again why the French just really aren’t that popular.
A coughed up nail, teen girls taking shots with their moms and sex line cereal close up this Ask-fest.

Who Asked You? – Episode 63
March 23, 2009
YouTube: The Movie will be making it’s way to the big screen come 2014. One-hundred of the viral video site’s greatest original clips are compiled into an extraordinary action film.
That’s just one of the new movies we’ve got news about. The Cheese found out the latest on the Flaming Carrot movie. If you’re not sure who that is, just visit the Show Links page for a link to the official Flaming Carrot website.
News of another video game to movie can be heard on today’s show as well. This one dating back to the original Nintendo. Tune in to hear which one!
Does the name Vince Shlomi seem kinda sleazy to you too? Well if you’ve ever seen that ridiculous ShamWow commercial that’s the guy we’re talking about. It seems he doesn’t like his hookers to play rough. He as well as her, were arrested for assaulting one another. We’ve got the details.
Plus, did you ever ride the school bus when you were a kid? You ever cut one on the bus and blame it on someone else? Did said flatulence stink soooo bad that you were banned from the bus for three days? Well it happened to a Florida eighth-grader. The bigger question here though is what in the hell is he eating?
And what if you had a giant penis on the roof of your house and the only reason you put it there was to see if it would show up on Google Earth? Well it’s happened and we’ll tell you where.
By the way, I feel I should mention that today’s show is our April Fool’s Edition. Some of the topics on this episode are REAL and some are FAKE… will you know which is which?

Who Asked You? – Episode 62
March 23, 2009
This week we bring back one of our old gags from the early days of Who Asked You? when we were all in diapers. A sponsor for the show! We learned of a new food product that is so outrageous we just had to have them sponsor our show. Baconnaise takes the unhealthiness of mayo and combines it with the salty grease flavors of bacon! What could be better. As a result of this we let the cat out of the bag so to speak. All these many of months we’ve had one inside joke after another regarding our former co-host and his significant other. We’ve attempted to spare his feelings by not announcing “officially” who we were making fun of. But it’s a little difficult this time. His girlfriend, Aubri. We’re not too fond of her and she has an uncanny love of two-parts mayonnaise and one-part ketchup which she calls her secret fry sauce. And due to a past incident involving a plate of bacon as a midday snack we felt it necessary to involve her likeness in our little skit. If you want to hear an extended blooper slash uncut version of our Baconnaise commercial visit the Show Links section of our site.
As for topics of discussion on today’s show. We start out with the Terrafugia Transition. I know, it sounds like some scientific term for a plant’s metamorphosis or something, but it’s much cooler than that. It’s a plane that transitions into a car and gets 30 mpg! This is either brilliant or horribly dumb, we’ll leave it up to you to decide.
Plus, how would you like to own your own portable classroom for just a buck! Now you can, just fly to Pennsylvania and have Berta, the old lady receptionist at the school district’s main office put one up on eBay for you with no reserve price.
Something you won’t find on eBay without a reserve price… the first ever comic book Superman appears in. Action Comics Number one just sold for over $300,000. Maybe the economy is finally coming around. Wall Street should be rallying at any moment now.
We round out this show with Saw VI movie news, Green Lantern movie news and a Swedish Countess.

Who Asked You? – Episode 61
March 16, 2009
On today’s edition of Who Asked You? our in-depth discussion about censoring TV shows takes up about half of our show. What could cause so much verbage spouting you ask. Well it turns out the Parental Television Council, or whatever it’s called, wants Family Guy on Fox to have a more mature rating and later time slot. Hmmm, that’s all fine and dandy, but kids will probably still see the show in syndication on TBS, Cartoon Network and local stations all across the country even earlier than it comes on Fox. You’ll hear more on this as you listen to the show.
Other stuff you’ll hear is our continued usage of “bye bye”; Jonas Brothers style… if you watched last week’s South Park you’ll know what we’re talking about.
You’ll also hear release dates for all of Sony and Marvel’s individual Avenger hero movies and the final Avengers movie.
Are you suffering from Playstation Palmar Hydradenitis? Then you should first get a life because that means you’re playing waaaay too many video games, second stop playing the video games and third see your doctor for perhaps, an analgesic cream.
And as the picture above shows a reciprocating saw we’ll tell a tale of horror and utter stupidity of why this IS NOT a sex toy.

Who Asked You? – Episode 60
March 9, 2009
Today’s show is a little lactose deficient as The Cheese is on holiday in Rhode Island. Sha, our Who Asked You? Fan Club President bravely fills Charlie’s seat until his return next week.
The show carries on though as we give you our take on the new Watchmen movie. Both from people who have read the original graphic novel and those who haven’t.
Clue isn’t the only board game getting a movie deal, or in its case a remake deal. Wait until you hear what they’re turning into a film now. We’ll give you a clue, they’re really taking a “chance” on this one, and it makes us want to take a flying leap of a “boardwalk” somewhere.
The director of the movie just mentioned, Ridley Scott, is also working on a reboot of Robin Hood. At least the guy playing him this time has an accent. Still not British though. Is it really that hard to get an English guy to play Robin Hood, who is in fact English? Tune in and find out who’s dawning the green tights this time around.
The fourth Mad Max film, minus the Jewish loving Mel Gibson, is in the works once again. This one is set to be CG-animated in the style of Japanese anime. Could be interesting.
What’s not interesting is Mark Wahlberg’s next project. And in typical Who Asked You? show fashion the guys swoop in and steal Chase’s joke about this film. But that’s only because like most of his jokes they’re so painfully obvious you can’t help but make them. In this case Mark’s next flick sounds an awful lot like Liam Neeson’s last flick.
And if you had to choose between making your car payment or treating yourself to a PS3 which would you choose? Choose wisely because you could go to jail for making the wrong choice as one Sacramento man finds out in a story on today’s episode.
And lastly, we get countless E-Mails asking what it’s like in the studio just before we start the show. Folks are curious if we have as much fun off-air as we do on. Well, we’re pleased to offer a little bonus clip this week of just such an occasion. This took place a couple of weeks ago and is titled “Dennis Hears A Blow Job”. Click the title to download the roughly five minute fun! And look for more of these possibly in the future.

Who Asked You? – Episode 59
March 2, 2009
It seems like we always have firsts on our shows. First time one of us took a dump during the show (cough… Dennis), first time we ran out of stuff to talk about and had time to kill, first time a cell phone went off during the show and so on. These are all important firsts. And we’ve got another one this week. The first time one of us has gotten a nose bleed while recording. Can you guess who? Listen in to find out who.
As for the stuff we talk about today. Oh… it’s all the usual. Continued resentment for the new Star Trek movie, this time because of another person appearing in it that shouldn’t.
There’s already another Friday The 13th movie on the way and we haven’t even finished despising the first one!
Did you know that Eddie Murphy is set to play Richard Pryor in a new biopic about the comedian called “Richard Pryor: Was It Something I Said?” Well now you do. The real question here is whether or not Eddie is the right man for the job. You’ll hear our thoughts on this during today’s show, but we want to know yours. It’s the subject of this week’s We Ask You Online Poll.
And a movie based on a comic book? We’ve never heard such blasphemy. Well there is, and it might be quite stimulating. Especially for all the pimply fanboys out there because it’s Aphrodite IX! A sexy cyborg assassin chick!
Plus we end the show with a 12-hour orgy, you don’t want to miss it!

Who Asked You? – Episode 58
February 23, 2009
This week on the show we start with the sad news from Hollywood that everyone is talking about…… what’s that? Oh… no, not Chris Brown and Rihanna, although we do mention that first, we don’t really consider that as sad as the news of Mickey Rourke possibly NOT playing the villain in Iron Man 2. I know, we’re as shocked as you are… it’s like a “slap to the face” for us comic movie fans. Oooooo…. too soon?
And if you only knew what we know about Nick Cage’s new movie, Knowing. You do know? Oh, who knew it wasn’t a secret to know about Knowing.
Enough of that. The Simpsons are in HD now! A sign of the times? Perhaps, but the Who Asked You? panel is made up of former Simpsons fans and we’re all more confused as to how the show is still on with the writing and direction it’s taken over the past several years.
Resident Evil 5 is coming to XBox 360 and PS3 next month. Co-op play makes it awesomer, we’ll have some of the story details on today’s show.
And never doubt the power of a black woman’s weave!

Who Asked You? – Episode 57
February 16, 2009
It was Chase’s birthday on the 15th; what a fun little bash there was to celebrate the event. The guys ended up at Red Robin for some tasty grub and then back to Jabari’s place to watch Terror Firmer from the Troma Team.
And now here we are with a new episode of our show. On today’s show we’ve got news of Johnny Depp’s next project. Looks like he’ll get to drink on the job.
Plus a little info on Seth Rogan’s new movie, “Observe and Report”. Somehow the conversation turns kinda ugly as Dennis and Jabari go head to head in a debate over who is funnier, Jack Black or Ben Stiller. This is what Who Asked You? is all about.
We move on to other news as well as rumors that Apple may get into the TV business. They’ve filed for a patent on a DVR technology so only time will tell.
Chase’s Chance Upons returns with a website that literally tells you how much you’re worth. Tune in and see what kind of cash Chase could bring in at auction.
And Jabari tries to justify his purchase of an XBox 360 with a story regarding more software and hardware problems for the gaming console. Tune in to see if he’s successful.
And in true/typical Who Asked You? subject matter we’ll round out this show with monkey poop, sex dolls, 38KKK boobs and the reason why there aren’t convenience stores on the Klingon home world… won’t you join us?

Who Asked You? – Episode 56
February 9, 2009
If you’re an avid YouTuber, or just watch TV on a regular basis then you’re probably aware of the Christian Bale rant that has surfaced online. Well it’s surfacing on our show as well. If you haven’t heard it yet, or haven’t heard the uncensored version then you’ll definitely want to listen to today’s show because we’ve got the entire three and a half minutes of the caped crusader cursing the shit out of the Terminator cameraman. And because we have an hour to fill we also have the “Bale-Out” dance mix of the tirade. It seems like they can make a song out of anyone’s tantrum these days. Just ask Bill O’Reilly.
Also on our show today, a woman who has failed her written driving test one too many times. How many times has she taken it? Well it wouldn’t be a tease if I told you here. Just take a guess, and then think higher.
And if you watched the Super Bowl this year you may have seen the Doritos commercial involving the crystal ball. That commercial was produced by just two brothers and two thousand dollars, yet it was one of the better spots during the big game. We’ll have the details about it.
And we round out this edition with a story from Mike about a chick who “leaves her mark” so to speak on her one night stands.

Who Asked You? – Episode 55
February 2, 2009
So the Steelers won the Super Bowl! Dennis, our resident Pittsburgh fan was quite elated. Shown through the erratic waving of his Terrible Towel and the strange chicken dance like movement he performed in front of the entire party. It was quite an evening.
Of course, the second highest rated show next to the Super Bowl is ours! A listener E-Mail clues us in on a future Guy Ritchie project. Another one of those cartoon to live action deals. There’s still plenty of animated series from our childhoods to choose from… I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a terrible one.
And cartoons of yesterday aren’t the only movie treatments headed out way. Live action TV shows of the past will be leaving their skid marks on the silver screen before you know it. Case in point, our first story of the show, The A-Team movie. We almost instantly decide this movie will bomb if they don’t get Mr. T to come back. But being the Hollywood that Hollywood is…… you know the rest.
Cox Communications is limiting the Internet speed of its customers in Kansas and Arkansas. This just oozes test market. They’ll be doing it everywhere before too long. All we can say is our bills better be prorated. We’re not going to pay for bandwidth we aren’t getting you Cox suckers.
Then, probably the first ever contempt of court charge involving dooky.
Followed by a story that takes us ONCE AGAIN down the road of rape and lottery. You’ll enjoy this one, but for right now… RUN!!! ZOMBIES AHEAD!!!!

Who Asked You? – Episode 54
January 26, 2009
If you’re a fan of comic movies then it ‘may’ be a sad day for you. Paramount has let its film rights to “Torso” run out. If you don’t know which graphic novel this is… you’re not alone. So not only are we NOT effected by this development, but we’re even less effected/interested because it would’ve been a comic movie based on a comic we never heard of. But it’s certain to work out as many of these things in Hollywood do.
Ron Perlman and John Malkovich have a new CG demo reel on the way called Mutant Chronicles. There’s a red band trailer for it over on the super site IGN.com, but we’ve got it in the Show Links section of our site if you’re not into typing web addresses at this moment. The movie is based on a pen and paper roll playing game which was later turned into a comic series. See… those of you sad about that Torso deal have another comic movie to make up for it already!
If you own a PT Cruiser, you’re in idiot first off… but also, you may want to trade it in. Or at least check on what happens with parts and warranties for it because Chrysler is canceling production of the Neon knock off. The same goes for the Dodge Viper and several other models. Is your car being discontinued? Tune into the show and find out.
And with the economy in shambles as it is, the most important thing to know is which of America’s cities is the fittest and which is the fattest! We’ll let you know.
And we want you, our listeners, to be safe. That’s why we have a must-hear report on strip club safety. How can you avoid injury at the tittie bar? We’ll let you know that too!

Who Asked You? – Episode 53
January 19, 2009
One of the major national electronics stores is calling it quits. Tune into the show today and find out which one… I’ll give you a clue, it’s not any that SHOULD be going out of business (i.e. Radio Shack, Ultimate Electronics and so forth). Usually these going out of business deals mean great liquidation prices for us consumers!
Charlie lets out quite a long scream today when he hears which of his beloved animes is going to the big screen, in live action. His scream is then muted by his heart suddenly seizing when he hears who will star in this flick. Again, you gotta tune in to hear which one. And to hear his scream!
We also have zombie movie news with a certain leading lady from Superbad, can’t go wrong there…. question mark.
Apple has reached another one of their milestones. The Apple App Store hit their half-a-billion download mark. Which isn’t that impressive given that in true Apple fashion they pretty much force you to use their applications through their store on their devices. Sure there’s third party apps, but as the Cheese learned every time you update you iPhone’s software or firmware it wipes them out, so you’re forced to redownload them or go with a lesser Apple version. No wonder they’ve hit that many downloads already. Hmmmm, something to think about… question mark.
And of course it wouldn’t be a Who Asked You? without kicker stories involving someone getting run over AND a pervert winning a lottery!

Who Asked You? – Episode 52
January 12, 2009
Can it be?… is it true?… iTunes is lowering their song prices? Well it’s sorta true. It seems our MP3 conglomerate is letting the record labels set their own prices now. And removing DRMs from all the music. WOW!!! Way to go Apple… most other online music stores have already been doing this for quite a while… you’re the best! Oh yeah, and now your music the YOU purchased and OWN can now be MOVED from iTunes to NON-APPLE products.
Where am I? Some sort of twisted alternate universe? I’m scared! Yeah, lots-o-sarcasm in this paragraph. If you wanna hear how much your favorite songs are going up or down in price tune in to this week’s show. And yes, I did say “up” or down.
Also on the Ask-fest we’ve got new DVD releases as usual including season 6 of our favorite glorified highway patrolman slash FBI slash vice detective person, Walker: Texas Ranger… Did you know Chuck Norris can blow bubbles with beef jerky?
Plus we’ll fill you in on the type of crap GM is blowing our tax dollar bail out on, which relates to our favorite segment, What Is Michael Bay Up To.
This week’s episode also has the release date for the Ghostbusters video game.
And rounding out the show is a crusty old baseball card, chicks and drugs in the form of cops, a Taco Bell wedding and listener E-Mails! What a line-up… five whole pages!

Who Asked You? – Episode 51
January 5, 2009
Welcome to 2009! And the first Who Asked You? of 2009. What better way to ring in this new Earth cycle around the sun than to talk about blow jobs, underwear, shitty movies, beer and crummy movies! A typical show I guess.
First up on our news list is the apparent 2K9 bug that ravaged Microsoft Zune owners for the better part of New Years Eve. This hits especially close to home because Chase owns one that was effected!
If you want to check out an image of the M.A.R.S. Troopers from the new GI Joe movie then you’ll want to look inside the Show Links page for that.
And then we preview… in a very half-assed true to Asked You fashion, the 2009 movie line up. There truly is nothing to look forward to this year in movies.
Charles Barkley once again, is in trouble with the law. He ran a stop sign while under the influence of alcohol on his way to get oral sex! You can’t make this up. We delve deep into the intricacies of this piece of news, so you’ll want to tune in for that and then vote on the We Ask You Poll regarding this story.
Our hate mail scared off all you E-Mailers this week… where’d you go? Send us your thoughts. Good, bad, ugly… we don’t care.

Who Asked You? – Episode 50
December 29, 2008
It’s our last show of the year. And what better way to round out this crummy trip around the sun than with our show’s first official hate mail!!! It took fifty episodes, but it’s here. And it’s not just one, it’s two E-Mails, from two different folks… at least we think it’s two different people. In fact, it could be someone we know playing a trick on us. But that’s unlikely because we’re certain there are people out there who hate us.
On today’s show we’ll school you on what 20th Century Fox is claiming copyrights on. We’ll give you a hint… The Watchmen. Oh… err, that wasn’t really a hint, but rather a dead give away.
Plus, did you know that Microsoft is already releasing Windows Vista’s replacement? And did you know it’s already on torrent sites? Sorry… Windows is bad enough as is. I’m not chancing my computer on a freakin’ beta version.
And find out who Dennis’ favorite B-Movie actor is in a story about Sylvester Stallone’s new flick that he’s writing, directing and starring in.
And lastly, you may want to think twice before talking during a movie… your life may depend on it, we’ll explain.

Who Asked You? – Christmas Special 2008
December 22, 2008
It’s our second annual Christmas show!!! For those who don’t celebrate Christmas… perhaps there’s a Hanukkah Who Asked You? out there somewhere. If such things don’t bug you, and you do consider it a “Christmas Tree” and not a “Holiday Tree” then this episode is for you.
It’s actually not that much different than our usual shows. Except we review all the good and bad cinema, TV and everything else of the year. Oh yeah, and it’s an hour long… which won’t be a bonus starting next year when we expand the show to 60 minutes anyway.
Our X-Mas gift to you this year is the assurance that Eddie Murphy will not be The Riddler in the new Batman movie due out in 2010. Although the source is credited with breaking the Daniel Craig casting of 007 back in 2005, it’s highly unlikely they’re correct this time around.
We’ll also deck your halls with news of Frank Miller’s next project. Here’s a clue, we probably won’t see it because we don’t give a “Buck”… see what I did there?
And the holiday spirit is dampened even further as a new Judge Dredd movie drops down our chimneys. No, we’re not blowing smoke on this one. After these two gems come out we can only hope our eyes will be made out of coal.
Grab your So-Co and egg nog, try Jabari’s Yule Log and snuggle up with us by the open fire for our one-hour Christmas Extravaganza!

Who Asked You? – Episode 48
December 15, 2008
For people who appreciate “real” comedy it was quite an exciting prospect that Conan O’Brien would be getting the coveted Tonight Show seat after Jay Leno steps down in 2009. Well it seems we still have to put up with him before we get to watch Conan. NBC is putting Leno in a 10pm slot before your late local news. That’s right… NBC is basically giving Conan a giant middle finger. And to add insult to the comedy injury, they’re doing it with someone who is as un-entertaining as David Letterman. We’ll discuss this further on the show.
And since we all pledged to not see the encrusted Keanu vomit that is The Day The Earth Stood Still remake, we read someone else’s review of the movie. Someone who was far braver and more tolerant than us to sit through it. He hits the nail on the Klaatu head though. Funny stuff… you’ll want to hear the excerpts we read.
And then our newest segment debuts on the show. It’s called “According to a New Study”. Can you guess what it’s about? You can… okay, can you guess what the study is about?……. trust me on this one, you won’t believe it. But you gotta listen to the show to find out.

Who Asked You? – Episode 47
December 8, 2008
The big news this week is of course, The Dark Knight hitting DVD. Aside from that, there really wasn’t a lot happening worth talking about on our show… that says a lot doesn’t it? No… seriously, it does.
However, the show must go on, and it does. We have a quote from Will Smith regarding the planned prequel for I Am Legend. Hmmm. There was no “prequel” to the comic version for which this movie is based so it’s clear this “pre-sequel” will be pulled from ass. But we’re used to that from Hollywood these days.
Charlie has an update for us on the Ghostbusters video game which Dan Akroyd IS involved in. The game, although only single player, looks remarkably good according to his Cheesiness.
And if you’re an iPod Touch owner and are longing for a ghetto iPhone, then you want to hear today’s show because we have a way to turn that over-priced MP3 player of yours into that over-priced cell phone you want.
And the show winds down with a karaoke death, and a Question Of The Ages that, like most of them, may never be answered!

Who Asked You? – Episode 46
December 1, 2008
We start this week’s show with an E-Mail directed at Jabari. It’s rather negative and his feelings may be hurt… but we don’t care. It just goes to show you, no matter the tone, we read our listener E-Mails on the air! Keep ‘em coming!
Since it’s Cyber Monday we thought we’d bring you a bevy of DVD’s to stuff your stocking… although some of these titles should be stuffed somewhere else, there are a few gems to be had.
Grand Theft Auto IV will hit PC’s tomorrow. So if you love driving on sidewalks, taking head shots, throwing coffee cups at people, being in a gang, being from Europe and pissing off the police but don’t have a console system you’re in luck. The Show Links section has a link where you can pre-order a download version RIGHT NOW!!! Check it out, you get GTA: Vice City FREE if you do.
We also have a story before the above about the whole stink Guns n’ Roses is having over the Dr. Pepper fiasco. Listen to the show to hear all about it.
This story, or none of today’s topics though come close to the important-ness of the Institute Of Condom Consultancy. See the Show Links section for a link to their site.

Who Asked You? – Episode 45
November 24, 2008
So what’s the most annoying phrase to you? That’s what takes up a good portion of today’s show. We belt out a number of them that annoy us. As always you’re welcome to send us yours! Just go to the Ask The Show A Question page and tell us your least favorite verbiage.
Those annoying phrases are peppered throughout the show as we delve into other topics such as a certain magicians new sitcom deal with NBC. Chalk another one up on the reasons why Chase no longer watches that network. This is where we would ordinarily make your a-typical magic joke like: I hope this show disappears… or maybe the wave of a magic wand will make it good… but those have been done to death in regards to this particular magic man. I guess you could add them to our annoying phrases list as well.
We’ve also got a reason why you should never leave your cell phone at a McDonalds. And why you should never photograph your genitalia using said cell phone.
Plus a woman gettin’ down at a New York bar gets burned. And not the verbal kind. Oh yeah, and a couple of listener E-Mails… Have a Happy Thanksgiving and we’ll see you next week!!!

Who Asked You? – Episode 44
November 17, 2008
And you thought our Star Trek bashing ended with the pictures in Entertainment Weekly… how silly you are. We’ve got more fodder!!! As expected the trailer for Star Trek debuted before Quantum of Solace (more on that shortly) and we must say it….. well… you know what… we’ll let the show tell you because there isn’t enough space on this page to spell it out.
On a “GOOD” note though Quantum of Solace was great! It met our expectations and more. Not as good as Casino Royale… but damn close! Daniel Craig is made of steel. The human body can not take the type of abuse 007 does in this flick. Go see it and you’ll know what we’re talking about. Don’t worry, there are no chairs with holes in the bottom in this one… I know that’s what you were thinking. After our mission on that ends Charlie informs of a new DC universe massively multiplayer online role playing game. City of Heroes rip off? Attempt to make up for shitty DC vs. Mortal Kombat game?
Another way to cash in on The Dark Knight’s success? These are all valid questions to which we want the answers too as much as the next guy. I don’t know how much that is so we’ll leave it there.
And this show is rounded out with news of Vanilla Ice’s new yet old album. Filled with songs you hate, songs you’ve heard before, and four versions on one particular song… this one is a winner!

Who Asked You? – Episode 43
November 10, 2008
Dennis is absent theis week, so sitting in for him is another female co-host; our good friend Wendy. You remember us mention her right? The gal that is working on a super cool web project with us? No? You haven’t the foggiest idea of what I’m talking about? That’s okay. Story of my life…
Anyway, Charlie brings us a list he found of video games being turned into or already have been made into movies. This list is unpleasant to say the least. And it’s also FIVE pages long!
Besides that we hear of Brett Ratner’s next project which results in probably our most over-modulated reaction of all-time. Too bad Dennis missed it.
And lastly on the show we’ve got Oxford Universities ten most annoying phrases in the english language. Naturally, we’re not impressed by them so we pledge to have our own on next week’s show.

Who Asked You? – Episode 42
November 3, 2008
This week on the show we bring you news of many-a-things. For starters George Lucas is re-re-re-releasing the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. This isn’t a story per say, but it is on this week’s DVD release list so it does come up. And we do ask the question, Why? To which Jabari answers with the correct response on our sound effects board. You’ll have to listen to hear what the right answer is!
We start off a review of “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, and like most of our reviews it trails off into another conversation about something either unrelated or related, just not what we set out to review. This review is extra special though because I don’t think we’ve ever trailed off topic so quickly.
What did we veer off with so rapidly you probably aren’t asking right now… well you’ll just have to listen to find out. We call that a tease in the biz… I’ll give you a hint though, a very cryptic code word… here it is: “downstairs”.
After that we talk about a Forbidden Planet remake. That discussion is almost as brief as the review for Zack and Miri.
We also have a couple more Questions Of The Ages… which no one really answers or cares about.
And then… of course… our favorite segment of all time…. you know what it is….. that’s right, What Is Michael Bay Up To? You know you don’t want to miss this.
Before all of the above though we talk a little about Halloween and our adventures in collecting candies on this most joyous of holidays.

Who Asked You? – Episode 41
October 27, 2008
Every once in a while we have one of those Who Asked You? shows where our conversation deviates into other topics not on the agenda. Take for example the great half-a-episode Star Wars discussion of Episode 32. Well it happens again this week. But not for half of the show; So that’s good. And the topic isn’t Star Wars… it’s South Park.
Once we do get back on topic though we give you a follow up to our Trek tangent last week. A series of comic books telling you of the origins of the villain in the new Star Trek movie will debut January of next year. Four issues in all called, Star Trek: Countdown, will lead us up to the Star Trek movie’s premier.
Plus we tell you of additional casting for the live-action, Tim Burton directed, Johnny Depp starred, Alice In Wonderland from Walt Disney Pictures. We “wonder” if it’ll be any good…
Army of Two is getting its own movie. And word of this news prompts Jabari to give the quintessential Who Asked You? response… you’ll have to tune in to hear it.

Who Asked You? – Episode 40
October 20, 2008
It’s a one-hour edition of Who Asked You? to celebrate our first anniversary. It was this time last October that we decided that our constant babbling and talking over each other must be heard by the world. It’s hard to believe that we’ve already been doing this show for a year! And we have a special surprise on this episode to help celebrate the occasion. Our first ever FEMALE guest host. We’ve received billions of requests to get a chick on our show. The sausage fest is just too much for some folks I guess. Well we got one… a chick that is. Stephanie Dougherty is our guest host this week. She’s the lead singer of a band called the Deadly Sins. They’re getting ready to go on tour and they have an album available for online purchase. We’ve got links to the stores it’s available at in the Show Links.
Also in the show links are several new images taken from the new Star Wreck… err… I mean Trek movie being directed by JJ Abrams. We’ve got a hell of a lot to talk about on this show about this film. We launched Who Asked You? with a story about the cast when it was first announced for Star Trek, so it’s only fitting that we bring you up-to-date on the movie a year later.
After that we talk Sherlock Holmes… the good one that is, starring Robert Downey Jr. You can see him and Jude Law as Dr. Watson on the set, in costume in the Show Links section.
And then Google has done it… they’ve developed an android. But not a cool one. Listen to the show to hear how they’re now tapping the cell phone market with the help of T-Mobile.

Who Asked You? – Episode 39
October 13, 2008
While most folks take Columbus Day off the Who Asked You? Crew is hard at work. It takes a lot to sit in a semi-circle and bullshit into microphones for a half-hour. And this week’s bullshit is no different than any other.
We have our review of Quarantine. A good little scary movie to get you into the Halloween spirit. It’s like a cross between Blair Witch Project and any zombie movie known to man.
Also in the news, if you purchased music from Wal-Mart’s online music store you may not be able to play it someday. It’s all thanks to a little piece of technology called DRM.
We’re also hearing that YouTube has made a deal with CBS, and is working on deals with other entities to provide full length episodes of TV shows on the YouTube site. Commercial supported of course. Could this be the beginning of the end for videos of backyard pile-drives and fat chicks in red sweat pants farting into the camera? YouTube seems to be taking the route of other video sharing sites by going commercial. Sure they need to pay for the bandwidth they annihilate, but lets just hope they don’t slowly edge out the user created stuff. Not that a majority of it is worth watching… but we gotta have that forum available online somewhere don’t we?
We also talk StarCraft 2. Apparently Blizzard is making a StarCraft trilogy that should keep fans, like our resident Cheese, busy and full of pizza rolls and Dr. Pepper for months and months to come. If Charlie is “on assignment” in coming shows, you’ll know why.

Who Asked You? – Episode 38
October 6, 2008
If you have cable then you most likely receive the FX network. And if you receive said network you MUST watch It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Thursdays at 10pm/PST. It’s hands-down the funniest show on TV right now.
It seems like only last week we were talking about Best Buy purchasing Napster and potentially moving its 700,000 subscribers over to the Rhapsody service which Best Buy currently has a relationship with… oh, yeah… that’s because it was last week. Well anyway, it comes up again this week with news of Kid Rock striking a deal with Rhapsody to distribute a majority of his music library online. Apparently there is no love from the Kid for iTunes… actually, it seems that way with a lot of people and Apple in general. So he’s decided to go with “the other guys”. Good thinking Kid Rock, because this online music business is brand new and you’re ahead of the game by doing this.
We have some other little stories in between too, but they’re not nearly as interesting as the casting and leaked trailer discussion regarding the new Dragonball movie. And that’s not even as interesting as the story about Sarah Palin porn!!! Yes that’s right, she’s already got her own porn category. We’ll call it VP-orn. Listen in to hear the scoop.

Who Asked You? – Episode 37
September 29, 2008
So this week’s show marks our debut broadcast… or intercast, webcast… stream…errr…. whatever on Errorfm.com. Make sure you pay them a visit.
They’ve got 2 channels both bursting with indie music goodness, as well as other cool shows like ours. Like the top of our site says, Monday’s show can be heard Tuesdays at 3pm/PST on Errorfm.com, channel 1.
So what’s on this week’s show you might be asking right now to yourself? Well we’ll bring you up-to-date on the casting for the non-existent Justice League movie that may or may not get made. And I’ll give you a little preview, the actor’s are way too young, don’t fit the parts and can be found at a Gap or Hollister photo shoot near you.
Also, if you go to the Show Links page you can check out the artwork for the Dark Knight Blu-Ray case. And there’s also one of those collectible statue thingies of the Bat-cycle that will hold your Blu-Rays as well.
We make brief mention of a Hasbro board game video game that’s being released by Electronic Arts. We read off a few of the three-words you submitted in the We Ask You Poll. And to round the show out, we discuss breast milk and its impact on your favorite frozen dairy treats. This show definitely isn’t a “bust”!

Who Asked You? – Episode 36
September 22, 2008
Major super happy exciting sparkly dippity doo news!!!!! The Random Stuff Section is now called Show Links… That is all…
This week’s show takes a well deserved break from the horrendous movie news to talk about other worldly events worthy of our scrutiny. Stories like that of a man in prison suing the prison because he got moldy cookies from their vending machine. Maybe he could carve one of them into shiv.
We’ve also got a story about a father of a teenage girl hitting her teenage boyfriend in the head with a metal pipe after finding the kids nude in the bedroom about to have sex. I guess his daughter wasn’t the only one that got a shaft that night! I’ll be here all week…. sadly.
Have you ever wondered what KFC would do if they had to move their precious secret recipe of 11 herbs and salt. Well worry no more… we’ve got the scoop. It involves handcuffs a police escort, and much more. You’ll have to tune in to find out what.
Plus, we intro our newest segment on the show, as well as a very expensive echo effect called “Questions of the Ages” where I pose a question that mankind has struggled with since the dawn of time. Questions like, “who asked you?”….. Again, I’ll be here all week.

Who Asked You? – Episode 35
September 15, 2008
Superman has two weaknesses, kryptonite and magic. Midway is taking that and running with it in their new fighter game, Mortal Kombat vs. DC
Universe. As you’ll hear in this week’s show Superman is just one of several DC heroes destined to fight the blood thirsty MK characters we’ve all come
to know and love over the years. It’s clear if you watch any of the E3 videos previewing the game that Midway knows they’ve sort of F-ed up putting
Superman in because they immediately explain, first thing, on the video why he’s able to be hurt by Scorpion or whoever. They go with the
magic/sorcery bit. Yeah… that’ll work.
Nick Cage has another comic book movie coming out… we didn’t spend any time on it on the show, so we’re not going to here either.
Terror Train, a little flick from the 80′s with Jamie Lee Curtis is getting not one, but two remakes. Both of which have the scent of remake smeared all
over them. In fact, one of the remakers felt it wasn’t even necessary to include Terror in the title… his is simply called “Train”. It takes place in
Europe… maybe will see some boobs.
And lastly on this week’s show we’ve got the story of a man and his eating of 23,000 Big Macs. He loves ‘em… and he’s obsessive compulsive. You’d
have to be to keep going back to McDonalds. I mean, lets face it, the Big Mac isn’t that big anymore. It probably weighs less than the quarter-pounder.
Not to mention they always look like someone sat on it. More goodies in the show, including listener E-Mails!

Who Asked You? – Episode 34
September 8, 2008
Spider-Man 4 and 5 are going to be shot simultaneously??? Well, that’s the rumors anyway. That’s worrying given that they couldn’t even shoot the
third one right by itself. Thank you, I’ll be here all week. The fact of the matter is that it’s going to be tough for Sam Raimi to re-establish the lets call it,
tarnished, reputation he’s given himself over this whole debacle. We still think he purposely botched Spidey 3 because the studio wanted Venom in it
and he didn’t. That’s sort of a mute point though because Sony is giving Venom his own movie! It’s properly named though since it will probably be
poison to both your eyes and ears.
Brett Ratner wants to make a Guitar Hero movie. And Activision doesn’t. Lets hope we can dodge the bullet, or in this case, whipping guitar string, on
this one. His plot for it is just as retarded as the one for X-Men 3… which by the way, he directed.
The only good news this week is that a Ghostbusters 3 is in the works. However, this is only good news IF they’re bringing back the original Ghostbusters.
Bill Murray has expressed interest, lets cross our fingers. Come back guys… we need you! If they do end up recasting the four fellas we’ve got a few
casting suggestions. Oh, they aren’t good suggestions… they’re realistic ones, as in, who Hollywood will likely cast. Tune in to hear them and much
more on this week’s Who Asked You?.

Who Asked You? – Episode 33
September 1, 2008
Robert DeNiro joins us by phone from his home in New York this week to talk about his new movie Righteous Kill. But in true Who Asked You? fashion that topic lasts only a moment before we void off into other random discussions regarding his previous roles. It actually is more of an interrogation rather than an interview.
Then we move on to other pressing matters like…. the Max Payne movie. Now we could provide you with endless pain puns about seeing this movie,
but who cares really? We’ve all seen what happens when you take a video game and turn it into a movie.
Did you know there’s another giant robot movie that just got the green light? Did you know it won’t be directed by Michael Bay? Does that mean it has a glimmer of hope? The long and short answer to that question is…… NO. You’ll have to tune in and listen to the show to find out which robot is going to the big screen. We call that a tease. We also call Jabari a tease, but that’s another show all together.
GM says it’s putting USB ports in the radios of many of its 2009 model year vehicles. That means you’ll be able to charge your MP3 player while listening to your music. And apparently the car maker is taking it a step further and you’ll be able to control your player using the radio knobs and digital display on the dash. That’s cool. But perhaps they should put more energy into an engine that gets 40 mpg’s??? Or if it’s up to Charlie, a vintage series in-dash MP3 interface for the Pontiac Parisienne.

Who Asked You? – Episode 32
August 25, 2008
Somehow on this week’s show we go from talking about the re-imagining of Superman to Star Wars and the shitty casting for Episodes I and II. This shouldn’t surprise you since things like this usually happen on the show. What doesn’t usually happen is that we blow half a show on the unrelated topic. Eventually we do get back on track. And that track is Warner Brothers plans to retool Superman. Yes… you heard correctly. The studios of WB are going to redo Superman like Marvel just did with the Incredible Hulk. But it gets even better… listen to the show to hear how. And when you’re done go vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and tell us if you think they should revamp Superman like Marvel did with the Hulk. We’ll have those results next week. And if you have something to say about this, by all means send us your thoughts by going to the Ask The Show A Question page.
Did you know Hollywood is giving the World of Warcraft the movie treatment? Well now you do. Not much is known at present, but we can tell you it’ll be live-action with significant CG. Hell, Hollywood manages to do that nowadays with romantic comedies!
Plus the launch of our newest segment “Why Will Farrell?” is a hit… in the groinal region. Hear what stink bomb he’s working on now and why January will be a dark, dark month for all.

Who Asked You? – Episode 31
August 18, 2008
We’re back! We took last week off to celebrate Mike’s birthday and now we’re at it again! We’re continuing to upgrade the show and this week’s is no exception. We’ve now got our sound board installed! Yes, now along with us making our own sounds with our mouths, we’ve got pre-recorded ones to help. From gagging to chuckling to the world famous Grape Lady; we’ve got ‘em all! So by now in your reading of this episode’s description you’re probably wondering why there’s a picture of a bald Britney Spears to the left. Well apparently she’s slated to star in a new Tarantino film as a crazy lesbo stripper. Just how we like ‘em… and what says crazy Britney than an image of her, bald and going after a photographer with an umbrella. That’s not seen in this image… but trust us, or Entertainment Tonight, it’s there. Brits not the only big name working with Tarantino. Oh no, Mike Myers is too! He’ll be playing a British general in Quent’s next WWII drama. It’s going to be hard taking him seriously because you know he’s going to sound like Austin Powers or Shrek.
But if you’re not into Tarantino’s next two projects than maybe you shouldn’t pay a visit to the Luxor here in Las Vegas… no that wasn’t a typo, I did say “shouldn’t”. The reason why is that Criss Angel, that gothy illusionist guy that pulls notes and cards outta people’s asses has his own clothing line now available at his own store in the Luxor to coincide with the opening of his own Cirque du Soleil show.
It’s not all bad though cuz we have Michael Bay news! Oh, yeah… I guess it is all bad. Anyway, Bay is growing his Hasbro empire with another toy movie. I’ll give you a clue, you’ll probably be “board” with this movie. So listen to the show to hear all the details and to find out what a dick dice is.

Who Asked You? – Episode 30
August 4, 2008
We’ve reached another one of those mediocre milestones here at Who Asked You?. It’s our 30th show! And what better way to kick it off than with our new sound! A retro fitted audio system, couple dozen splinters, a prostitute, burnt bag of popcorn and some mild disappointment later and we’re sounding much better. No more will various members of the Who Asked You? Crew sound like they’re 50 feet away. No sir… we’re not radio quality… just not radio safe! And we prove that with viewer E-Mails! One E-Mail asks about the last time we puked… obviously this question spawns a horribly graphic and inappropriate conversation you’ll just have to hear to believe. But before that fun we bring you news of Nick Cages next movie. It’s called Scared Straight. That’s what we’ll be to see this movie. Why is Cage always playing the prisoner?
Plus, could their be a live-action Ninja Scroll movie in the works? We’ve got the synopsis on today’s show. Listen up and you be the judge.
And speaking of ninjas, did you know that Playmates is planning another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? Did you know they said it would be live action on their website but later removed said words? Well now you do know… so be prepared come 2010.
LG has a new Blu-Ray player that also streams Netflix movies. Awesome for us! Not so awesome for USPS’s metered mail rates on Netflix.
And of course, our kicker stories for this week involve painful penis events… listen to find out.
There is no show next week (Monday, August 11th). We’re back with tons of new shows the Monday after (August 18th), so check back then!

Who Asked You? – Episode 29
July 28, 2008
It’s Charlie’s first show as our new permanent co-host!!! So if the Google Ads on our site all skew to cheese of the month clubs or discount Limburger… you’ll know why. What an action packed show we have for you this week. Pretty much the entire show is nothing but The Dark Knight and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Two movies that came out and were viewed by us as we took a week off to gear up for Charlie’s debut. And what awesome movies they were. Mixed reviews on Hellboy 2 can be found all over the Internet, but not here. We all loved the movie! As for The Dark Knight… well… do we really need to tell you our thoughts on that? Listen to the “all-new” Who Asked You? to hear our Batman banter. As always E-Mail us your thoughts and questions by visiting the “Ask the Show a Question” section. And don’t forget to vote on the We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Episode 28
July 14, 2008
Episode 28 marks Keith Fearnow’s last show. Sadly Keith couldn’t make it do to other commitments which have kept him off the last three shows. We wish him well in his new endeavors as we continue to push forward with our quirky little show. To all those out there wondering as you read this… yes, we are filling Keith’s seat with someone else, but no… we can’t tell you who it is yet. We’re still finalizing his multi-million dollar contract with us and can’t discuss it yet. But the show returns on July 28th with new episodes and this new co-host.
As for this week’s rave… we’ve got news on Robert Downy Jr. taking the roll of Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, over at Columbia pictures Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Farrell are taking a dump on it. They will assume the rolls of Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson in a new comedy version sure to have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle rolling…… in his grave, not in laughter. Plus Footloose gets the remake treatment and will star Zac Efron (copyright Walt Disney). I wonder if Zac Efron (copyright Walt Disney) has an iPhone… or if he went and got the new iPhone; if so, I wonder if he was able to access iTunes and activate the damn thing because their apparently were a lot of people who couldn’t. And if Zac Efron (copyright Walt Disney) movie news doesn’t bug you, then this will. The third Starship Poopers will be out IN STORES August 5th. We emphasize that it’ll be in stores and not theaters because this thing barely qualifies for the Sci-Fi Channel. But the ladies should love the return of Casper Van Dean, and the gents the return of their favorite voluptuous Vulcan, Jolene Blalock. She can nerve pinch me anytime!

Who Asked You? – Episode 27
July 7, 2008
Sad news this week on the show as we announce that one of the Who Asked You? Crew is leaving. Our good friend Keith will be heading out onto other adventures where he’ll face dragons and evil ogres and stuff. He will be missed. But not just yet! He is out again this week and filling in for him is our friend John. Keith is reportedly returning next week for his final show so be sure to tune in for that! And we’ll have an announcement of who is replacing him.
Alright… now onto this week’s content. We start the show off with our first ever celebrity interview on Who Asked You?!!!! And it’s none other than Rosie O’Donnell. She joins us live from her California home via some amazing technology that makes it sound as though she’s actually in the studio with us!
After catching up with Rosie we move onto our review of Hancock starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron. Mmmmm…. Charliiiiiiize. She’s purdy!
We also catch you up on Viacom’s lawsuit against people watching Viacom videos.
Then Octopus porn. Plus lions, ponies and tigers, oh my!
And then the never ending debate of whether its cute when girls fart and burp is spawned by a listener E-Mail. If nothing else, at least listen to what
Rosie has to say… we owe her that much don’t we?

Who Asked You? – Episode 26
June 30, 2008
Congratulations… you survived two-weeks without us! That is quite a feat! Episode 26 of Who Asked You? is especially cheesy this week because the Cheese, who you may remember from episode 16 is back filling in for Keith! A lot happened in the two-weeks we were of the air, none of which we talk about on this week’s weeks show!
What we do talk about is first off the new full theatrical trailer for Quantum of Solace, the next James Bond film. It’s being released by Columbia Pictures in front of Will Smith’s Hancock this week. Somehow, in true Who Asked You? fashion this topic steers its way into Pierce Brosnan being wooden, and not in the way you might think.
After that we dive into the next Punisher movie. And given that their are infinite “punish” jokes we can go off with in regards to this movie, we’ll just save ourselves the typing and you the reading and say, listen to the show to hear a few of them.
Sony is going to start offering movie downloads on the PS3. Will they be HD downloads? Nobody knows. But what is a sure bet is that this will have some sort of impact on XBox 360, which is already offering various video downloads. The only thing lacking on Microsoft’s game machine is the correct HD disc drive. HD-DVD’s are on blow out sale at Zia Records all you 360 HD drive owners!
Chrysler is putting Internet access into their cars. This has bad idea written all over it! And we share multiple examples of this on the show.
There’s also a 300 sequel or prequel in the works, plus the same guys doing that flick are gearing up for one next year called War of Gods. We’ll be looking for that. All this and more on episode 26 of Who Asked You?.

Who Asked You? – Episode 25
June 9, 2008
It’s our last show for the next two weeks. All the guys, except Chase are moving into some new digs. And since we get to make our own schedules, we’re going to take two shows off to let them get settled and refreshed back to their right states of mind for the show. Wait…. I’m not convinced they have a right state of mind to begin with.
Anyway, on today’s show we bring you up-to-date on our favorite director with the only done twice, but already a classic segment: What Is Michael Bay Up To? I can tell you right now he’s accepting awards he doesn’t deserve. But then again, MTV Movie Awards aren’t real awards anyway. And of course he’s on the Transformers 2 kick, and of course we go off on that as Keith and Mike defend their liking the film.
But before that fun little moment of the show we tell you all about DiCaprio’s next role. Think The Aviator only with video games. Is all he’s going to do now is biopics?
Also on the show we talk Spidey-4, or at least about Sam Raimi wanting to direct it. I mean, he did such an awesome job on the last one… why not give him another go? I know… I know, the crappiness of number three wasn’t his fault. I’ll play nice.
The guys grieve over a few more network pilots. And last but certainly not least we’ve got a story about a dude that gets his jewels stuck between the wooden slats of a beach chair. Theirs no clever way to right that one. It’s entertaining enough just saying it plainly. Do enjoy, this week’s Who Asked You?.
We return with all-new episodes June 30th. Don’t miss out or forget; subscribe to the RSS feed, or through iTunes and the show will be waiting for ya come the end of the month!

Who Asked You? – Episode 24
June 2, 2008
WE ARE DRUNK this week… there’s no getting around it. As you’ll hear with our loud and unusually more crude behavior, we fumble our way through this drunken edition of Who Asked You?. We had planned to do a drunk show at some point, “planned” being the key word. We were going to think it through and strategically select our “drunken” topics for the intoxicated episode… but that didn’t happen. Fresh from stuffing our orifices with hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, margaritas and beer we decided on a whim to just go for it! Do the show drunk and see how it turns out… not bad if we say so ourselves. The only member of the group not drunk was Mike. Perhaps he kept the show slightly grounded?
In any case, our stories this week include an alien caught on tape! What was he doing. What did he want? We don’t know. But he got a documentary deal.
And if you’ve ever wondered if there is someone in your closet watching you… there just might be. Just ask the Japanese fellow in our story of a homeless woman livin’ it up in this guys pad for over a year undetected!
We’ve also got news of a couple panty pilfers… and when we say that, we don’t mean they stole panties… we mean they used panties as disguises while committing a robbery.
And what Who Asked You? show wouldn’t be complete without a story about nanotube technology being used to sculpt a microscopic bowl of noodles? Well… this episode obviously. So pull out a beer, and join us for a drink on this edition of Who Asked You?.

Who Asked You? – Episode 23
May 26, 2008
We review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this week. We weren’t disappointed. But we also weren’t astonished. The sci-fi lean the movie takes as apposed to the usual ghosts and spirits is a little off-putting, but at the same time it’s refreshing to see Indy solving a different kind of mystery. There aren’t really any major surprises in this installment that internet rumors and spoilers haven’t already given away, but we definitely recommend going and seeing it for yourself. You will be entertained at some point during the movie if not during the whole show.
Gamestop has “stopped” selling the Microsoft Zune due to zilch demand. Chase, being a Zune owner, hopes this is not the beginning of the end to a product that really does have potential, and unlike the iPod, is reasonably priced.
We’ve also got some wacky news like the guy with poisonous puke. And the drug addict teen ordered by a judge to write an essay on the harmful effects of the drugs he used.
Plus a listener E-Mail opens up the Pandora’s Box of which TV and movie stars the Who Asked You? Crew looks like. All that and the usual loud inappropriateness on this week’s episode!

Who Asked You? – Episode 22
May 19, 2008
So CBS has announced their new Fall line-up and for the most part it stinks worse than your cup of cat poop coffee. Speaking of which… in Australia and other coffee shops around the world they’re serving a new… uh…….. gourmet, with a question mark, coffee made from kitty-cat doo doo. Apparently there’s only 660 pounds of it harvested a year so it’s rather spendy… get your order in now!
This is one product NOT available in the Who Asked You? Store. Aside from crappy TV shows and coffee made from crap we dive into the issue of racism in Mickey-D’s commercials. Dennis and Mike tackle this topic. And you can tell us your opinion on it by voting on the We Ask You Poll.
Plus some boys are in a bit of trouble after hiring hookers to play video games with them. No, not us. Please join us on this special episode of Who Asked You? with our special guest host, cockroach from outside! He scurries his way across the studio floor during the show; a testament to Las Vegas’s seasonal change. Even the Orkin man can’t keep these little buggers out! Once it warms up, they’re looking for a dark place with plenty of AC. But then again, aren’t we all?

Who Asked You? – Episode 21
May 5, 2008
Happy Cinco De Mayo!!!! Yo quero Taco Bell… and all that jazz. This week’s show is action packed with talking. It’s a roller coaster ride of news and Iron Man reviews. What better way to celebrate Mexican Independence Day except to inform you that Mexican Independence Day is in September and Cinco De Mayo is the celebration of the kicking of the French and traitor Mexican armies asses back in 1962! But that’s a whole different show. On this week’s program we come in randomly while Keith is reenacting the Wienerschnitzel commercial involving wiener grab-age. We couldn’t think of a good bit to intro with so we decided to be mean to Keith and tape his most intimate portrayal of wieners.
Anywho… aside from that, we discuss the phenom known as Vagina Dentata and how it relates to… well…. you know.
And then we go in-depth on the state of costumer service these days. That wasn’t one of the show’s topics… but it is where we ended up.
We also reveal what’s on our DVR’s thanks to a listener E-Mail. Will there be Dancing with the Stars? Rock of Love? Axe Men?… You’ll just have to listen and find out. Speaking of listening, a quick technical note. The last third or so of this episode has some “glitches” in it due to a hardware issue in our studio. So don’t panic… it’s not your computer… it’s our quality of production.

Who Asked You? – Episode 21.5
May 12, 2008
Hope you all spent quality time with your mommies! Now the weekly grind returns. As mentioned last week, there’s no show this week. So per our new policy we’ve got another point five show. Less entertaining because it takes twenty minutes less time to produce it. On this week’s point fiver we’ve got the new DVD releases, slim pickin’s if you ask me.
The WB is returning, on the Internet though… so don’t panic. They plan on spewing their teenybopper propaganda across the web with on demand video of all their hit shows. Scratch that…. just all their shows.
We’ve also got a story about some kids in Texas who are really using their ‘head’ when it comes to smoking the pot. The head belongs to someone else… these idiots just had it in their possession.
Also, if you enjoy naked people wearing gas masks for no reason you may be interested in moving to Newton, Mass; apparently they’ve got at least one you can gawk at.
Who Asked You? rambles back to a full 30-minutes next Monday the 19th right here on whoaskedyoushow.com at 3pm/PT.

Who Asked You? – Episode 20
April 28, 2008
On this week’s show we discuss a senior prank gone horrible… good!!! Which then leads us into the topic of when, where and what kind of condoms to buy. Dennis openly admits his come from the 99 Cent Store, which worries me a little. He does argue that they are name brand though!
After that riveting dialog we get back on track with news of the new Wolverine movie and its cast. We want to know what you think of the actors playing in the movie so be sure to vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and tell us who is best cast for their part.
The gang also gives their usual short, sporadic, spoiler-filled review of Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Besides this, which is actually at the end of the show… they talk about Wesley Snipes and his tax blues. Plus the latest director news on “The Hobbit”. And Chase forgets to type in the name of the listener E-Mail, so he saves it for next week! Sorry to that listener. All that, plus Tuesday’s DVD releases and more!

Who Asked You? – Episode 19
April 21, 2008
Cloverfield comes out on DVD this week. Are you gonna buy it? You better! If you want to be our friend, you better! Because as you know four out of the five Who Asked You? hosts loved it! Speaking of which, if you click the image at the left it’ll take you directly to our store page for Cloverfield where you can quickly purchase it for a modest amount of money. Be sure to check out all the extras on the DVD. Apparently there’s some hidden Easter Eggs too!
Aside from the C-Field madness, Blockbuster has put in an offer to buy Circuit City! Our expert panel will discuss the varying possibilities resulting from this purchase. Blockbuster wants to basically become the Google of electronics? Plus, we go all Entertainment Tonight on your ass with Ashlee Simpson prego news. And it’s been so long I can’t remember the last strike in Hollywood can you? Oh wait…. nevermind. Demanding nearly the same as the WGA, the actor’s that make up both SAG and AFTRA will head to the bargaining table in hopes of cutting a deal with studio executives. We’ve got details about this. And when we say details, we mean a Transformer joke that will certainly have Keith retaliating with one of Cloverfield. By the way, he’s the ONE host who did not like it.
Finally, Dennis and Jabari will have their review of ’88 Minutes’ starring Al Pacino. And Dennis will offer his thoughts on ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’.
Mike is on assignment this week, so it’ll be just four of the Asked Crew.

Who Asked You? – Episode 18
April 14, 2008
If ever there were a type of car driver Chase hates more than any other… it’s a Lexus owner. What is it about these people, especially those who live here in Las Vegas that makes them think they own the road and have the right of way like an ambulance with its sirens blaring??? If you’ve ever been wronged by an a-hole Lexus driver, or any other (economy luxury car) go to the We Ask You Poll and tell us your experience and/or why you think they’re so proud of themselves.
Alright… now that we’ve wasted an entire paragraph on that, lets tell you about this week’s show. A new segment called “Chase’s Chance Upons” is introduced with the find of some old Atari 2600 games that make Grand Theft Auto look like Mario Paint. We’ve also got news of fines being shelled out to all the major retailers of electronics… that narrows it down. There’s only like five of ‘em. The FCC is not happy with their lack of information regarding the DTV transition next year.
And you know who else isn’t happy. Those who have to pore out their Samuel Adams due to possible glass from the bottles floating around in the beer! Yikes! Sam’s tears can never refill all those emptied out bottles.
And an in-depth discussion of the various types of whoopins’ we all got as children dominate the second half of the show. What led to this is the apparent blame parents put on the Internet for the various violent acts their kids do. Just like how it was TV’s fault for kid violence, then movies, followed by video games, Ryan Seacrest and now YouTube and other social networking sites. This tired argument never seems to end does it? But me talking about it does. Listen to the show, it’s good. Then buy stuff in our store and join the forums.

Who Asked You? – Episode 17.5
April 7, 2008
Our first (point five) show! We’re so proud! These half shows come along on weeks when we don’t have a full blown show for you. So now you can get a little bit of your W.A.Y? fix when there’s no show. Seriously though, we think you have an addiction. You should talk to someone.
Before we briefly describe what awaits you in this five minute roller coaster of emotion let us plug, once again, our brand new store. Oh yeah… we’re movin’ on up folks. We got our very own online store with movies, TV show DVD sets, electronics, video games and other cool stuff we talk about on the show and you should buy. When you buy something from our Who Asked You? Store it helps us out by making us money. So if you hear a movie during one of Jabari’s rants that you wanna pick up you don’t even have to leave our site. Just click on the Store link, look it up and buy it. We’re pretty sure it’ll be in stock.
If you’re looking for some bitching threads, and when we say that we mean people will bitch at you for wearing them. You can check out the cool shirt shops we’re in cahoots with. When you visit their site THROUGH OURS we get a portion of the profits. Which again, helps us out monetarily. You may be wondering, ” What kind of shirts do they have Mr. Typing-words-man?” Well just click on the image above to buy that shirt, or others like it! That’s the kinda ha ha’s you can expect to find at one of our partner sites, Foul Mouth Shirts. All our shirt buddies’ links are also available in the Store… so go there now!
Oh yeah, almost forgot… there’s a mini show this week. On Episode 17.5 Chase tells a TSA tale of titties that Gloria Allred is cupping in her hands of justice as we speak. Plus, Ubisoft has a really shitty quality control department. Just ask those who bought Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. They’re so mad they’re running around like their heads are cut off… coincidentally, that’s one of the bugs in the game. All that, plus MySpace Shout Outs on our first ever point five filler show deal thingy.

Who Asked You? – Episode 17
March 31, 2008
This week’s show brings you the latest on what Will Farrell is up to. Give you a hint, it’s a movie set in the 70′s. Got it? No? Well you’ll just have to listen then.
Our movie news extravaganza continues with Friends: The Movie; starring all your friends, except the annoying one that can’t act. Do you know which one? No? Well you’ll just have to listen then. And if movies have taught us anything, it’s that making them based on video games NEVER makes for a good film. But making them from board games hasn’t taught us that, because it hasn’t been done yet. What’s that? What about Clue starring Tim Curry and Christopher Lloyd? Just shut your cake hole and keep reading. Russell Crowe will star in a movie version of Milton Bradley’s The Omega Virus. Help me…. we are running out of time! Anyone who grew up in the early 90′s and is totally awesome will know that phrase.
Meanwhile Jabari informs us of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest entry into broadway with, Malcolm X The Musical. He even sings a few bars for us.
Dennis has news of Robocop 4 and its premise. As you might have guessed, it’s horrible in every way. And so is the casting.
Besides all these tasty bits we give out a couple more Myspace Shoutouts… we’re full of ‘em. And we read more listener E-Mails. Some not so pleasant.

Who Asked You? – Episode 16
March 17, 2008
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! What a cool show we have this week. So cool that we decided to put it up early!!! Charlie Delong… or as he’s known in radio, “The Cheese”, stops by and hangs out with us as our special guest host. But the fun doesn’t stop there. We also have breaking news of new Lego games coming to every console ever made very soon.
Our discussion continues with Flava Flav’s new sitcom coming to My Network TV. Questions like, why is Flava Flav getting his own sitcom? And, what is My Network TV’s logic with this decision? spring forth.
Besides the demise of TV sitcoms as we know it our attention then turns to the new “The Incredible Hulk” movie trailer. We’re excited that the Hulk doesn’t look like Shrek, however we’re skeptical of the story because of the Marvel movie track records.
We also have more listener E-Mails which we’re now reading at the top of the show! Hope you can keep up with the changes. And this week’s We Ask You Online Poll could be the last, unless you get on the page and vote… actually, depending on what you vote for, it still could be the last Poll. Just go there and read the question, you’ll understand then.
Don’t forget to add us as your friend on Myspace.

Who Asked You? – Episode 15
March 10, 2008
FORUMS FORUMS FORUMS!!! We got ‘em… and you’re more than welcome to use ‘em. In fact we insist that you do. Maybe you want to rant about a suck-ass Sci-Fi channel movie you just saw, perhaps you just remembered your favorite Bruce Willis quote and want to share it with everyone… whatever you want to say you can say in the forums. We’ve got a forum for each of the general topics we talk about as well as a Random Forum for all the randomness your heart desires. We hope you have a cool avatar too, cuz that’s half the fun of a forum.
On this week’s show… besides the forums, we discuss Google’s continued attempt at world domination by talking about privacy issues with their high resolution satellite images on Google Maps and Google Earth. Google can see you… and your privates!
Plus we finish up our special segment, “What Is Michael Bay Up To” with news on a movie named after a date (See image above for a clue). We’ll bring back this very special, very informative segment on a future episode of the show so stay tuned.
We’re not done yet though, we also read a few more listener E-Mails. Find out who of us are single and who are whipped…. err, taken. And along with the E-Mails are some shout outs to local Vegas bands, The F.M. and Stalemate, plus The Peanut Gallery, an Australian radio show and podcast similar to ours.
What a fun show this week, be sure to lis…… GO TO THE FORUMS NOW.

Who Asked You? – Episode 14
March 3, 2008
So we’re FINALLY back!!! Man, what a two weeks it has been! We’re really excited to be back. This week’s show brings you up-to-date on what happened the last two weeks… with us anyway. I think everyone knows what happened in movies and what not over the past half month’s time. Blu-Ray won the format war, The Hottie and the Nottie came out in theaters, Britney did something embarrassing and China purged their countries Internet of anything indecent, so Chinese people can’t log onto the new Big Brother website or ParisHilton.com, oh yeah, and porn.
As for the show… this week we introduce our new special segment called, “What Is Michael Bay Up To?”. Trademark pending… our least favorite Hollywood crap maker deserves is own occasional special segment don’t you think? His projects are usually so horrid that they warrant an in-depth analysis by the fantastic five of Who Asked You?.
But it’s not all fun and Michael “Bays”. We also tell you about the failure that is, err… was Star Trek: Online. And the failure that is the Christmas release date for the new Star Trek movie. Plus more on how Activision is mining their Guitar Hero franchise like those megabytes of tunes are gold! Well… I guess in a metaphorical way they are.
And we finally give out a long overdue plug to our own little video projects KRAP 69 News and its hit sequel, 69 In The Morning. Both of which we recommend you watch if you’re interested in seeing us in full motion video.
And lastly, the MySpace page is up and running. So make sure you check that out if you’re into the MySpace thing and become our friend. If you’re one of those chicks that just links to a XXX webcam site, don’t bother though… we all already are happy with our current cam-site memberships.

Who Asked You? – Episode 13
February 11, 2008
We’ve got news of Activision’s latest projects… most of which are movie games. All of which will probably be as lame as their movie counterparts. I don’t know though… maybe running around as an overweight Panda who knows Kung Fu could be entertaining… then again, that’s what I told myself when Epic Movie came on yesterday. Yeesh!!!!
We’ve also got DISTURBING news of Jerry Bruckheimer’s next project which involves Nicholas Cage of all people… we would’ve never guessed those two would work together! Sarcasm is so hard to convey in HTML isn’t it? The movie is from Disney and is for kids… but even I wouldn’t subject my offspring to such garbage as what Disney considers movies today.
Also, this is kind of old news, but Keith felt compelled to talk about it on the show. Tivo has the ability to see what you’re watching. And it reports back to Tivo HQ with this classified data. Invasion of Privacy? Perhaps. Grounds for Keith to make a nasty porn ridden example to get his point out? Definitely! Join us for all this and more, plus listener E-Mails! Don’t forget to vote on the “We Ask You” Online Poll. Nobody has been doing that. Come on people!!!

Who Asked You? – Episode 12
February 4, 2008
This week we tell you about a couple new file sharing music deals in the works, and the best part is they’re free!!! Well… one of them is anyway.
News of a Saw video game fills our hearts with sadness and dissapointment, but the Patriots losing the Super Bowl remedies that. Dennis brings us his Fuck You list regarding the Patriots and their loss. It includes himself, Tom Brady of course, ESPN and many more! By the way, the Patriots lost the Super Bowl… did we mention that? Their perfect season is gone. I’m sure Tom cried a little. And Coach Belicheat pouted during his post game interview.
We also have list of what barely qualify as movies coming soon to a torcher chamber… er… uh… we mean theater near you.

Who Asked You? – Episode 11
January 28, 2008
On this week’s show we discuss Tom Brady’s new equipment… and no it’s not that boot on his freakin’ leg! Plus info on where you can follow the construction of the USS Enterprise. And our official review of Rambo, if you can call it that. We start out talking about the movie and its awesomeness, but somehow we end up on a discussion about baby urine and its benefits to your skin. Don’t ask… just listen.
And now for a public service announcement: We here at Who Asked You? would like to thank the asian community for all that they’ve contributed to our global society. Without them we wouldn’t have Godzilla or Jackie Chan. Sony and Toshiba wouldn’t be warring over disc based movie formats, we wouldn’t have the delicacy known as Crispy Panda Beef or half the characters of Mortal Kombat. So here’s to you Asia. We appreciate your huge ass wall, lead based toys and Harold of Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Thank you… and again… don’t ask, just listen.
Don’t forget to vote on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Episode 10
January 21, 2008
On this week’s show we bring you our official review of Cloverfield… Grrr!!! –SPOILER ALERT– Unlike the Sweeney Todd episode which was censored for such instances, this show contains references to events in the movie that some may consider spoilers. There were too many of them, and we were too lazy to censore them. We do our best not to spoil films during our reviews… but sometimes we’re too into it. Listen at your own risk.
Plus a look at some of the head-turning autos at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show most of which don’t currently, and probably never will exist. Has anyone ever heard of a guy named Ethan Haas? No! you say? Well that’s strange because he rode the success of the viral marketing campaign for Cloverfield like Jabari does Dennis’ mom. Anywho… he’s the official spokesman for a new RPG game called Alpha-Omega. It takes place on a gridded sheet of paper atop Mount Dining Room Table. It’s hard to believe that in this day of World of Warcrack, PSPs, XBoxs and other gaming euphoria that a company would invest time and money in a classic dice rolling RPG that involves none of the above. But that’s just what the fellas over at MindStorm Labs have done… a game that requires writing with a pencil and doing math in your head unless you can find the calculator in the junk drawer? Yeah… good luck with that guys.
As much as we hate Blu-Ray we sure do talk about it a lot. But this time it’s good talk, because we have some stats that show iTunes is better than Blu-Ray. You can’t argue with the facts folks. It could be the most worthless factoid known to man, we wouldn’t care as long as it shows Blu-Ray in a bad light we’ll report it.
It’s our loudest show to date. You may want to turn your volume down at about twenty minutes in.

Who Asked You? – Episode 9
January 14, 2008
NBC has started the new year off with a bang in its programming line up… The new and horribly unimproved American Gladiators premiered last week and besides the suspiciously amazing “come back from behinds” that are taking place on it, there are also promos running during the breaks for another “come back” of sorts in the form of a Ford Mustang. Listen to the show to find out what we’re talking about here. Lets just say the writer’s strike has definitely started to rear its ugly ass head.
We’ve also got news of new coffee treats at McDonalds and the world’s cheapest and most likely unsafest car. Plus a very special treat… E-Mails!!! and REAL results to our We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Episode 8
January 7, 2008
Happy New Year!!!! We are back after a nice two-week holiday. On our first show of the new season we give our official review of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. Plus a rather brief discussion about the meaning of the word Requiem and how it pertains to AVPR, if at all. We also get into an unofficial list of movies that have bad endings, reminisce about the invention of the “fuck cup” by a couple of sickos who we no longer associate with. And, almost forgot… Mike blows the ending to Sweeney Todd… but don’t worry we censored it. In fact, this marks the first time we’ve ever had to censor something on our show. What’s that say about our standards?!?!
Don’t forget to vote on this week’s We Ask You Online Poll.

Who Asked You? – Christmas Special 2007
December 17, 2007
It’s that time of year… Time for the Who Asked You? Christmas Extravaganza Special. And what better way to spend our Christmas Special than wrapping up the years best and worst in both movies and TV. Join us for this special one-hour show featuring Dennis’ picks for best movies including, The Bourne Ultimatum, Knocked Up and Superbad. Also on the show, Jabari’s best and worst. Hear why films like Beowulf, 1408 and Hot Fuzz made his “naughty” list… actually it would’ve made more sense to say “bad or worst” list, but then it wouldn’t have that Santa Claus tie in. Chase’s favorite TV show of the year is It’s Always Sunny In Philedelphia, his least favorite? Well just tune and find out.
So please join us for a cup of cocoa and sit on Santa Mike’s lap or warm yourself by the fire with Keith. We’ll return January 6th with all new shows.
Make sure you go to the We Ask You Online Poll and tell us what you want for Christmas!

Who Asked You? – Episode 6
December 10, 2007
This week’s jammed pack show covers a whole gamut of interesting topics. We talk about a new, and rather disturbing film from MGM called, The Poughkeepsie Tapes. It’s a frightening tale of how a Cirque Du Soleil looking weirdo in tights and a mask chases ladies through their house and… well… kills them while video taping it.
Plus, on a lighter note, we review The Golden Compass now in theaters and all its awesomeness. Yes, occasionally Hollywood can successfully convert a novel into a movie that does the story justice. But sometimes Hollywood takes a cartoon and makes it live action, and that so far has been EXTREMELY unsuccessful. Speed Racer however may break that record and be one of the first cartoon-to-movie adaptations that is good. “May” being the key word here for two reasons… one, Speed Racer hits theaters in May… and two, although it looks good in the trailer form, the actual film may be the usual steamy pile pinched out by Hollywood to take advantage of that little magic thing they call “merchandising”.
“It’ll make us lots of money… hah hah!!!” That was our impression of how the characters talked on the cartoon. Really fast… but that’s hard to convey in html.

Who Asked You? – Episode 5
December 3, 2007
This week we run down the list of Yahoo Games top 10 video game picks of the season. No it wasn’t a slow news day… just a lazy producer one. That list includes happy fun-fun games like Gears Of War, Mass Effect and Super Mario Galaxy. Also we confirm that Fox’s stock will drop like Paris Hilton’s panties (yeah… made a Paris joke) come January when they roll out their new, (cough) hit, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. We saw an advanced screening of the pilot and it is hilarious… but wait… it’s not supposed to be a sitcom? How odd, it’s awkward campiness, shitty Terminator movie re-quotes and terrible casting made for the kind of laughter that leaves you with a sore face and head-ache when the credits roll.
Be sure to vote on the “We Ask You” Online Poll on whether or not you’ll watch this Emmy-magnet in January. And let us know what you think about it. We’ll read your comments on the air!

Who Asked You? – Episode 4
November 19, 2007
This week’s show brings you useful information. Like Jet Li’s next paycheck for karate kicking random extras, the price of playing old XBox games and a few more references to jenkem. For some reason NBC thinks it’ll be clever to play old episodes of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno while the strike continues in Hollywood. I’m sure somewhere in the background that Kevin guy is laughing annoyingly with glee about this idea.
Meanwhile Jabari fills us in on casting choices for the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Among those chosen to butcher this classic are Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. And Sylvester Stallone will most likely remake Death Wish. After hearing this… we all have one.
Vote on this week’s “We Ask You” Online Poll. And send us your questions and comments.

Who Asked You? – Episode 3
November 19, 2007
The shit storm has come. We take a short break from the usual conversations to discuss the all important topic of…. poo. Dennis recently saw a news story about a little thing the kids are calling “jenkem”. It’s disgusting and offensive, perfect fodder for our show. Talking about poop for a half an hour is a lot easier than we thought it would be. After all… we are the KRAP 69 News guys. There’s also talk of two girls and one cup. And if you are any sort of internet web surfer you already know what we’re talking about.
I guess the entire show isn’t about poop. We do talk briefly about Will Smith’s new film, I Am Legend, due out in theaters December 14th. Wait… I guess the whole show is about poo! Don’t forget to vote on the We Ask You Online “Poo” Poll this week!

Who Asked You? – Episode 2
November 12, 2007
We’re back!!! We made it to a second episode. Dennis has mysteriously vanished and now the rest of the gang must embark on a deadly mission of mystery, treasure hunting and fornication involving barbed wire to find him……. Just kidding. Dennis is out, but the show continues with talk of the new Cloverfield movie, including links to its official website, a roar from the monster and other goodies contributing to its viral vitality in our Show Links section.
Also on this show we discuss the Writer’s Guild of America strike and whether or not they deserve the 2% they’re asking for since it seems like that’s also the percentage of effort they’ve been putting into movie scripts lately.
And we believe in Harvey Dent!!! Do you???

Who Asked You? – Episode 1
October 22, 2007
It’s our premier episode!!! We thank you all in advance for giving the show a chance and listening to us. As always your questions and comments are more than welcome. In fact, we’ll probably read some of them on the show. Just click on Ask The Show A Question and type away.
On this week’s show we go in depth on the cast of the new Star Trek film being directed by J.J. Abrams. To see pictures of the new guys compared to the old ones go to the Show Links section. We also take a moment to talk about Drew Carey’s first week on The Price Is Right, Dumbledore’s gayness and find out why Head On will never ever sponsor our show!