Well, it was fun while it lasted. I wish this was an April Fool’s joke for our April Fool’s episode, but it’s not. Net Neutrality (an open and free Internet for all) is DEAD. Hopefully you’re able to download this show in a timely manner. Federal judges struck down proposals from the FCC that would ensure our Internet Service Providers COULDN’T choke or otherwise slow down connections to services of their choosing like Netflix or Hulu. Instead, they want to “double dip” by charging these companies astronomical amounts of money to use their networks to deliver content to us, the customers. And at the same time, charge us astronomical amounts of money for mediocre broadband speed (especially compared to other countries). And here we thought we were already paying them for broadband service. For the moment, Verizon, Comcast and others are now free to bottleneck your connection speed and extort more money from you IF you want your speed (or, the service you were originally paying for) back to normal.

But according to AT&T, Net Neutrality isn’t even necessary. That’s the subject of a story we have toward the end of today’s show. You’ll wanna hear their reasons why. Here’s a hint: the reasons are complete bullshit.

Before that though we have a discussion about THE BOONDOCKS returning after four years for a final season on Adult Swim, minus the series’ creator, Aaron McGruder. Sony Pictures claimed in a statement that the studio couldn’t reach a production schedule agreement with him and that’s why he’s not involved anymore. Get ready for a quote-fest and listing of favorite episodes from that show!

THE BOONDOCKS is a favorite show of Mike’s. He’s not here this week so we take a few moments earlier in the show to poke fun at him. His fill-in is our pal wonkknow who asks about our fucking with Mike and that leads into an explanation of Mike’s “Fuckery Alert Scale”.

To make a short story long, Dennis asks Charlie about his thoughts on Dane Cook. Charlie breaks it down in great detail which is then summed up in a final one-sentence statement Charlie could’ve just gone with.

The fellas from RiffTrax are going to be riffin’ it up on National Geography Channel, of all places. Mike J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy will be poking fun MST3K-style at some of National Geographic’s more memorable footage on April Fool’s Day. Be sure to set the DVR for the three episode bash.

After over 30-years Cheech & Chong are likely returning to the big screen in a new pot-picture being written and probably directed by Jay Chandrasekhar of Broken Lizard. Tommy Chong says they could be shooting the marijuana-movie as early as this summer.

And on that note, you have to wonder if North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un isn’t high on something. Oh wait, he is high… on himself. He’s ordered the entire male population of North Korea to get his haircut. Unfortunately, not everyone there has a marshmallow for a head like he does, so those folks are going to look the worst. But since it’s kind of a dumb haircut anyway, at least everyone else will look just as bad. Before only having this one style to choose from, men in North Korea had their choice of just 10 state-approved hairdos.

Kim Jong-un isn’t the only one making new rules this year. The NFL has passed a few themselves for next season. The biggest, which is still in the pre-season testing stages would extend the distance of kicking extra points 18-yards. The goal being to make extra point attempts a more substantial part of the outcome of a close game. Or, if you ask Dennis, the goal being that the NFL is bored and just meddling with shit. They also raised the goal posts five feet to make it easier for refs to determine whether a kick was good or not. But really, they raised them to prevent players from breaking the third new rule which is no dunking the ball after a touchdown over the goal posts.

GameStop’s slogan is “Power to the Players”, but it seems they’re giving less of that to players as their competitors are giving more. Enter Walmart: the world’s largest retailer ran by the world’s richest family. They’re amending their current gadget trade-in program to include used video games. We here at Who Asked You? are no fans of either GameStop or Walmart, but competition is good for the customer, so this is welcomed! Here’s how it works: you bring in your used game in its retail packaging (sounds like that’s a requirement) and it’s evaluated by an employee. If you accept their offer you get a store credit you can use immediately at any Walmart or Sam’s Club as well as the stores’ websites. The games Walmart buys will be factory refurbished and later this year, will be available for sale in-store and online at discounted prices. So long GameStop! We wish we could say it’s been a pleasure, but it absolutely has NOT.

And we close with the aforementioned Net Neutrality pitch AT&T made to the FCC. Short story long… the only way to really get Net Neutrality back is to tell the FCC to fight for it. We talk some shit about them on today’s show, but in all fairness, they are pushing for it. And we need to write our reps and senators in congress and tell them to fight for it also. Long story short… we’re all screwed.