radio show prep: best overall diets, watching porn on your smartphone is NOT good idea, and jokes jokes jokes!

ShowStarters February 12th, 2013

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• Christina Ricci turns 33
• Josh Brolin is 45
• Chynna Phillips is 45
• Arsenio Hall is 58

Chynna Phillips is 45 today, and, of course, she's best known for her days in Wilson Phillips. Who were her two bandmates?  Answer: Carnie and Wendy Wilson.

True or false: Chynna is still married to Stephen Baldwin? Answer: Trick question, it's William Baldwin, and yes, the two are still married (1995).

Today is Abraham Lincoln's Birthday and it's Plum Pudding Day.

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New DVD's...

The Man with the Iron Fists (Russell Crowe)
Skyfall (Daniel Craig)
Billy (documentary)
The Sessions (John Hawkes/Helen Hunt)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Emma Watson)

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TV theme Tuesday... name the show just by the theme song: PLAY

Answer: Community! It just kicked off its 4th season without its creator, Dan Harmon. "The show has been dumbed down," according to this review.

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Everyone is carrying the State Of the Union at 9pm (except CW. They're showing a movie)

ABC: The Taste is new

CBS: NCIS: LA is a rerun

NBC: two new episodes of Betty White's Off Their Rockers

FOX: reruns

CW: When in Rome (2010)

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Little Johnny “why is your homework in your Dads writing?” the teacher asks.

“I used his pen,” he replied.

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Porn on your smartphone ain't smart

Watch porn on your smartphone? Not a good idea... nearly one-quarter of malware on cell phones comes from porn websites. Not that it's a big problem - less than 1% of mobile traffic is pornography, but still, it poses a bigger threat than if you watch it on your PC at work at home.

Be careful, security firms agree that this will be the year mobile devices become a major target for cyber criminals. Up until now, most criminals made a good living from attacking PC's, but now that we're migrating to mobile platforms, the criminals will follow.

What can you do? The first thing is to lock your phone with a password, something a majority of us don't do.  Oh, and don't watch porn on your iPhone...perv.

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Stereotypes in the workplace survive. Most construction workers are men, and most teachers are women. There is one profession, though, that's split pretty much 50/50, and the salaries are in the six-figure range... pharmacists!

50 years ago, only 8% of pharmacists were women; today it's 55%. The salaries are almost identical, too, with men getting a slight edge only because they work longer hours. The research shows that "women with children earn less largely because they work fewer hours."

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Best Overall Diet...

And the winner for the very best overall diet goes to... the Dash Diet. Dash stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. US News and World Report put the diet on top because its nutritional completeness, safety, ability to prevent and control diabetes, and promote heart health.

Here are the best OVERALL diets:

1) DASH Diet
2) TLC Diet (Therapeutic Lifestyle diet)

Tie for #3 between the Mayo Clinic Diet, the Mediterranean Diet, and Weight Watchers.

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Funnies...

From the Jokes by Jim blog

A mystery disease in Philadelphia has left young women feeling “possessed” and catatonic. Which is the same thing that happens to men during football season.


A bank is reportedly trying to foreclose on Lindsay Lohan’s house on Long Island. Apparently it’s just a mixup. She didn’t have time to send in her payments between court appearances in New York City and Los Angeles.


Steven Seagal has been hired to train posses in Arizona to defend schools. He will also help the drama departments turn out a brand new crop of bad actors.


Taylor Swift told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show about her plans for Valentine’s Day. Apparently she will sit down to write several new songs about future ex-boyfriends.


Computer scientists at UC Irvine have developed an app that can perform paternity tests. The app comes complete with a recording of Maury Povich saying “You are the father!”