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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.

SHOW LINKS:
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
RunPee.com – Helping your bladder enjoy going to the movies as much as you do.
Good Vibrations sex toy company – Creators of National Masturbation Month.
Buy “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy” (Extended Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
CBS’s “Two and a Half Men”
Skype – Now a Microsoft product!
Microsoft – Has extra-wide checks for all those zeroes!
IAmMarkZuckerberg.com
WillSmith.com

New Releases for Tuesday, May 17th:
The Mechanic
The Rite
The Bionic Woman (Season 2)
The Other Woman
All in the Family (Season 9)
The Roommate
The Twilight Zone (Season 4) [Blu-ray]
Flashpoint (Season 3)
Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-ray]
Money Train [Blu-ray]

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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.

SHOW LINKS:
Beavis and Butthead
MTV
Two and a Half Men
Read about “Highlander” on IMDb
Buy “Highlander (Director’s Cut)” on DVD
Read about “Logan’s Run” on IMDb
Buy “Logan’s Run” on DVD
Read about “Dark Shadows” on IMDb
Buy “Dark Shadows” on DVD
Buy Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” on DVD
Read about “Snow White and the Huntsman” on IMDb
Buy Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” on DVD
Buy “Snow White: A Tale of Terror” on DVD
Hacienda Mexican Restaurant – They have better Kool-Aid.

New Releases for Tuesday, March 1st:
Burlesque
Bambi (2-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)
Faster
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (7-Disc Blu-ray)
Scooby Doo: Curse of the Lake Monster (Extended Edition)
Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice
The Cable Guy [Blu-ray]
Cake Boss (Season 3)
Road Trip Unrated Trilogy
The Canterville Ghost

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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.”

The Soap Box

SHOW LINKS:
Baja Fresh
Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Buy it here
Green Hornet Movie
Seth Rogan on IMDb.com
The PTC – A group of moronic fuddy-duddies with nothing better to do than ruin everyone’s good time.
Shit My Dad Says Twitter Feed
Buy Cop and a Half
MichaelBay.com
Megan Fox
Paramount
Transformers Official Movie Site
New Fall Shows/Schedules For: ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC

New Releases for Tuesday, May 25th:
True Blood (Season 2)
Dear John
The Road
Leverage (Season 2)
Spartacus (50th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
Seven Swords [Blu-ray]
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 1
Mystery Team
Bigger and Blackerer
Tupac: Live at the House of Blues [Blu-ray]

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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?.

SHOW LINKS:
Small Wonder, Tiffany Brissette on IMDb.com
NBC
CBS
Reno 911
Buy Weekend at Bernie’s
Own Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)
Australian Classification Board
Australian Sex Party
Original Nintendo that sold for $13,105.00

New Releases for Tuesday, February 16th:
Law Abiding Citizen
Coco Before Chanel
Halo Legends (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Black Dynamite
Scooby Doo: Abracadabra-Doo
Barnaby Jones (Season 1)
Claymore (Complete Series Box Set) [Blu-ray]
Good Hair
Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros.
Dirty Harry Collection
Small Wonder (Season 1)
Goodfellas (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street Movie
Zombie Apocalypse with FREE comic book (Special Edition)