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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! SHOW LINKS: Facebook's Year In Review 2012 Heard In This Week's Open: Happy Gilmore Congo Shark Attack 3: Megalodon Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story ALF (Season 1)

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! SHOW LINKS: Cecilia Gimenez's Art Auction - Not so good with religious fresco paintings. MTV News 24/7 Wall Street: Nine Beers Americans No Longer Drink Beer Marketer's Insights Public Policy Polling Slurpee Maker Fetus Cookie Cutter 3.5" Floppy Table Betty Beauty Color for the Hair Down There ebay: Fence Post with Alien Image Archie McPhee's Inflatable Beard also available as a beard of bees! Clicker 2-in-1 TV Remote and Bottle Opener The last three items we didn't get to on the show: Luminous Bed Cover made from fiber optic fabric Death Star Ice Cube Tray Sex Panther Cologne from "Anchorman"

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. SHOW LINKS: Nickelodeon's "Marvin Marvin" "Conan the Barbarian" on IMDb Schwarzenegger.com - Arnold's Official Website Forbes: List Of The Most Overpaid Actors In Hollywood Ript Apparel: 10 Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time AM New York: Man shoots girlfriend after argument over 'Walking Dead' AMC's "Walking Dead" The Consumerist Heard In This Week's Open: The Gingerdead Man Family Guy (Volume 4) Mr. Wizard's World New DVD Releases for Tuesday, December 11th: The Bourne Legacy Ice Age: Continental Drift Ted Futurama (Volume 7) Dick Tracy (Blu-ray + Digital Copy) Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Year Nine Babes in Toyland [Blu-ray]

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,

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! SHOW LINKS: Grupo Bimbo - Thinking about buying the Twinkie brand. Pabst Blue Ribbon - Their owners may also want to buy Twinkie. Nintendo Wii U Call of Duty: Black Ops II Guinness World Records The Toronto Maple Leafs

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! SHOW LINKS: TopSecretRecipes.com: Hostess Twinkie Recipe Hiffington Post: Mexican Mega Bakery May Save Brands From Hostess Liquidation Nationalize the Twinkie! Petition "Beverly Hills Cop" (The TV Series) on IMDb Follow Brandon T. Jackson on Twitter @brandontjackson "The Amazing Spider-Man" Movie Website Access Hollywood Jamie Foxx's Official Website Shailene Woodley's Official Website Goodies.co - Get snacks delivered to your home! WalmartLabs - Creators of Goodies.co.

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. SHOW LINKS: Star Wars Blog Lucasfilm Ltd. Disney Movies The Hollywood Reporter

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 thos...

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. SHOW LINKS: The only link worth posting this week — the story about the naked teacher pics on Twitter.

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 f...

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! SHOW LINKS: "Taken 2" Official Facebook Page Image Comics 1984 Private Defense Contractors on IMDb Gina Carano on IMDb Katee Sackhoff's Official Website The Punisher: Dirty Laundry - #DIRTYLAUNDRY Hasbro - Selling more of its toys' souls. Monopoly's Official Website G.I. Joe's Official Website Zynga.com - Maker of all those 'Ville' games on Facebook. Next Media Animation's YouTube Channel QSR Magazine: 2012 QSR Drive-Thru Study http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYTtJKoQa9o&hd=1 New Releases for Tuesday, October 9th: Prometheus (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) Rock of Ages (Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy)

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. SHOW LINKS:

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...

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.

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. SHOW LINKS: SEND US AN AUDIO MESSAGE Marvel.com ABC.com Read about Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen on IMDb Buy the original "The Evil Dead" on DVD Steven Seagal's Official Website Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt Energy Drink New Releases for Tuesday, September 4th: Criminal Minds (Season 7) Re-Animator [Blu-ray] Fringe (Season 4) Safe [DVD + Digital Copy] Harry Potter Wizard's Collection (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy) Parks and Recreation (Season 4) The Five-Year Engagement (2-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + UltraViolet) Arachnophobia [Blu-ray] Hocus Pocus [Blu-ray] Piranha DD