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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.

SHOW LINKS:
Bangs’ YouTube Channel
MTV’s “Teen Wolf”
Buy CATFISH on DVD
Maximum Comics Las Vegas
Rave Motion Pictures
Buy MEGA SHARK vs CROCOSAURUS on DVD
JaleelWhite.com – Sweet Irony Productions
“The Expendables” Official Site
Facebook
RIAA
Jamendo.com – Discover the true value of FREE music!
MichaelBay.com
Entertainment Weekly
The Breast Milk Baby

New Releases for Tuesday, April 5th:
Tron: Legacy and Tron: The Original Classic (5-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy) also available in Identity Disc Collectible Packaging
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2-Disc Edition)
Friday Night Lights (Season 5)
Little Fockers
I Love You Phillip Morris
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Part 4)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence [Blu-ray]
Batman Beyond: Return of Joker [Blu-ray]
Dirty Jobs Collection 7
Roger Corman’s Action-Packed Collection [Georgia Peaches, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, Smokey Bites The Dust]

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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?”

SHOW LINKS:
William T. Lane’s Website – Check out his music!
“Duke Nukem Forever” Official Website
Warner Bros. Website
Studio4°C Website
Buy Thundercats (Season 1, Volume 1), (Season 1, Volume 2), (Season 2, Volume 1) and (Season 2, Volume 2)
Morgan Freeman on IMDb
TylerPerry.com
JamesPatterson.com
Forbes.com
Taco BellThink outside the beef… err, uh… bun.
The Law Offices of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles

New Releases for Tuesday, February 8th:
Life as We Know It
You Again
For Colored Girls
I Spit on Your Grave
Doctor Who: The Movie (Special Edition)
Paranormal Activity 2
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
The Guardian (Final Season)
Beauty & the Briefcase
Space Jam

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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.”

SHOW LINKS:
Extended trailer for “Thor”
Archie Comics
TLC’s Sister Wives
Read about Bigamy
Read about Polygamy
UPDATED LINK: “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals” Artwork
10 Fascinating Flirting Facts
OkCupid.com – If you don’t have one, lie on your profile that you use an iPhone.
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino

New Releases for Tuesday, October 5th:
Beauty and the Beast (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo w/ DVD Packaging)
Bones (Season 5)
The Karate Kid
Grindhouse (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
The Last of the Mohicans: Director’s Definitive Cut [Blu-ray]
The Exorcist (Extended Director’s Cut & Original Theatrical Edition) [Blu-ray]
Splice (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Caprica (Season 1.0)
The Human Centipede

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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?

SHOW LINKS:
Denny’s
Craigslist – No more dirty ads.
Avatar Movie Website
Taylor Lautner on IMDb
Foursquare
MTV’s Get Yourself Tested Campaign
11 Strangest Sexual Conditions

New Releases for Tuesday, September 7th:
Supernatural (Season 5)
The Office (Season 6)
Smallville (Season 9)
Chuck (Season 3)
Killers
Solitary Man
Forbidden Planet [Blu-ray]
MacGruber
Boy Meets World (Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3
The Phantom

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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! 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.

SHOW LINKS:
CNN’s Larry King Live
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Universal Studios Theme Park
Three Clicks: My Journey To Fit On An Enchanted Bench
Google
YouTube
Viacom
Apple iPhone 4
Wonder Woman

New Releases for Tuesday, July 6th:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Brooklyn’s Finest
ER (Season 13)
Jason and the Argonauts [Blu-ray]
Squidbillies (Volume 3)
The Game (Season 3)
Last Man Standing/The Last Boy Scout (Action Double Feature) [Blu-ray]
Practical Magic/The Witches of Eastwick (Comedy Double Feature) [Blu-ray]
Ladybugs [Blu-ray]
Eyeborgs