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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.

SHOW LINKS:
Wal-Mart – The epicenter of Black Friday madness.
Twilight: Breaking Dawn – WARNING: May cause seizures! No, really!
Apple iPhone 4S
Speaktoit – Unlike Siri, it knows where abortion clinics are.
HTC
Ben & Jerry’s
Hooters

New Releases for Tuesday, December 6th:
The Help (2-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Cowboys & Aliens
The Hangover Part II (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
The Simpsons (Season 14)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXII
Big Love (Season 5)
Sarah Jane Adventures (Season 4)
Spongebob Squarepants (Season 7)

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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!

The Soap Box

SHOW LINKS:
Iron Man 2
Buy Spun (Unrated Version)
Slap Wrap Bracelets
Teddy Ruxpin
Garbage Pail Kids
Pogs
Twilight Bullshit
Buy The Dark Crystal (25th Anniversary Edition)
The Jim Hensen Company

New Releases for Tuesday, May 11th:
Life
True Blood (Season 2)
Burn Notice (Season 3)
Dear John
The Closer (Season 5)
Daria (Complete Animated Series)
The Road
Legion
Entourage (Season 6)
Daybreakers

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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.

The Bowel Movement with Dennis Wright

SHOW LINKS:
Thor
The Hobbit
Stephen King
Monk
Dreamworks Studios
Read the Top 10 Best Box Office Bombs – From the Examiner.com: Seattle
Shit My Dad Says
CBS
BrewDog
iRobot Roomba

New Releases for Tuesday, December 1st:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Three-Disc Edition + Digital Copy + DVD) [Blu-ray]
Terminator Salvation
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVI [Limited Edition]
Snatch [Blu-ray]
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels [Blu-ray]
Ben 10 Alien Swarm
Saturday Night Live (Season 5)
The Mask of Zorro [Blu-ray]
Better Off Ted (Season 1)
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
Paper Heart
Secondhand Lions [Blu-ray]
Silent Night, Deadly Night (III, IV, & V Box Set)
Gremlins [Blu-ray]
Hunter X Hunter (Volume 4)

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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.

The Bowel Movement with Dennis Wright

SHOW LINKS:
Star Trek: Online
Cryptic Studios
Oprah Winfrey
OWN
Twilight: New Moon – Yeah, we gave ‘em a link.

New Releases for Tuesday, November 24th:
Angels & Demons
Four Christmases
Santa Buddies
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Beverly Hills 90210 (Season 8)
Funny People
Shorts
Melrose Place (Season 5, Volume 2)
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 [Blu-ray]
Imagine That
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Season 4)
The Monster Squad (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
Angel Heart [Blu-ray]
Cujo (25th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
The Way of the Gun [Blu-ray]