radio show prep: 9 foods you should never eat; who really decides on the new car; rat bounty

ShowStarters Friday February 1st, 2013

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• Hary Styles from "One Direction" is 19
• Heather Morris from Glee is 26
• Lauren Conrad from The Hills turns 27
• Michael C Hall, Dexter, is 42

Today is National Freedom Day

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New flicks...

Warm Bodies (Nicolas Hoult)

Bullet to the Head (Sylvester Stallone)

A Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (Abigail Spencer)

Stand Up Guys (Al Pacino/Christopher Walkin)

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ABC: Last Man Standing, Malibu Country, and Shark Tank are all new

CBS: Undercover Boss, CSI: NY and Blue Bloods are new

NBC: The 44th NCAAP Image Awards are Live followed by a new Dateline

FOX: Kitchen Nightmares is new

CW: Nikita is new

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In 2008, this British female entered the U.S. chart at number three 3 with her debut hit. She was only the second British female to debut that high on an American chart since Sade. Who is she?

• Leona Lewis
• Adele
• Natasha Bedingfield

Answer: Natasha Bedingfield. "Pocket Full of Sun

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A wife went to the police station with her next-door neighbor to report that her husband was missing. The policeman asked for a description. She said, "He's 35 years old, 6 foot 4, has dark eyes, dark wavy hair, an athletic build, weighs 185 pounds, is soft-spoken, and is good to the children." The next-door neighbor protested, "Your husband is 5 foot 4, chubby, bald, has a big mouth, and is mean to your children." The wife replied, "Yes, but who wants HIM back?"

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Rats!

The folks in St. Clair Shores, Michigan (20 min. north of Detroit), have a problem. It's a pretty big problem. Rats. Rat traps are all over neighborhoods and controlling them is becoming very expensive. The city is getting desperate, so they're going old school. They're considering setting up a program that would pay a bounty for every dead rat turned in. $5 per rat! "We know we were not going to rat trap our way out of rats being in existence," said a city leader.

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Who calls the shots?

Think back to your last car purchase... if you made it with your spouse, who really made the final decision? If you ask him, it was him. Unless you ask her, then it was her. A new survey found 72% of men believing they were the ones with the most influence while 60% of women believe they had the most say.

Facebook/Phones: My mom has a famous story of the time my dad crashed her brand spankin' new car just hours after she bought it. She has no idea how the relationship survived. Has a car issue ever got in the way of your relationship?

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Recall Alert!

Million Dollar Baby is recalling 18-thousand baby dressers -- tipping hazard is the reason. Get more info and order a free kit that will anchor the dresser to the wall here

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9 foods you should never eat... starting the day after Super Bowl Sunday...

Clean Plates found Jared Koch becomes a big wet blanket and maps out 9 foods you should never touch again...

Canned tomatoes The BPA in canned tomatoes is "especially concerning"

Deli meats They're poor quality meats packed with sodium

Margarine It's filled with trans fat

Vegetable oils "Your ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids should be about one-to-one." Because of vegetable oil, "it's closer to 15-to-one."

Microwave popcorn The bag's liner contains PFOA, a toxicant and carcinogen in animals. It clings to popcorn when microwaved. It's linked to infertility, liver and testicular cancer.

Non-organic potatoes They're heavily sprayed and they're root vegetables, so they take up a lot of the pesticides and fungicides

Table salt A little won't kill you, but you'll get more nutrients from sea salt

Soy protein isolate This isn't whole soy. It's the nutrient stripped, highly refined substitute.

Artificial sweeteners If you can't find it in nature; avoid it.

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