3.1.1 Causing freezing with Google Mobile Ads 7.5.2

I updated to both 3.1.1. and 7.5.2 and upon launch it causes my app to freeze up, is doing a network call and will not allow anything to happen until that is done.

Seems like it's something to do with fetching a new ad. 

CocopaPods wasnt updated to 3.1.1 so the pod was installed with
pod 'LARSAdController', :git => 'https://github.com/larsacus/LARSAdController.git'

Anthony
