FREAKIN' FRIDAY...FREAKIN' WEEKEND, BABY!

Hangin' on Q92 3-7pm today - ALL REQUEST BACK IN THE DAY WEEKEND! 90's and 2000's hits, as chosen by you!

THE WAR ON...GLEE?
For some reason, DAVE GROHL of the FOO FIGHTERS is just now commenting on the back-and-forth between "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy and KINGS OF LEON. And he's ridin' with Kings of Leon.

Earlier this year, Murphy UNLOADED on Kings of Leon...seemingly out of the blue...because they refused to allow "Glee" to use their music.

Dave really went off on Murphy, saying, "It's every band's right, you shouldn't have to do (effing) 'Glee'. And then the guy who created 'Glee' is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his (effing) show...

"(Eff) that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do 'Glee'."

He then offered this recap, "The 'Glee' guy, what a (effing) jerk. Slash was the first one. [Murphy] wanted to do Guns N' Roses, and Slash is like 'I (effing) hate musicals. It's worse than "Grease".'

"Then [Murphy's] like, 'Well of course he'd say that, he's a washed up ol' rock star, that's what they (effing) do.' And then Kings of Leon say, 'No, we don't want to be on your show.' And then he's like, 'Snotty little (A-holes)...'

"And it's just like, 'Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee'.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes [of an episode]. It's not my thing."

Ryan Murphy DOES seem to have a sense of entitlement about being able to use any song he wants on "Glee". He needs to learn that it doesn't work that way.

MAJOR props from me to Dave Grohl!







THE KEY TO GETTING AHEAD AT WORK?
You should probably think about this the next time you work yourself to the bone and pull an all-nighter to finish something at the office. When it's all said and done...it's not going to get you a promotion.

According to a new survey by the consulting firm Accenture, the majority of Americans believe that HARD WORK and LONG HOURS are the keys to moving up in the workplace.

Women are especially likely to believe that...68% believe that hard work is the key to a promotion.

Well...your boss disagrees. When executives were asked to name the main things they look for from their employees, NONE (!!) of them said "hard work."

The two most popular answers were employees who share their ideas and intelligent perspectives...and employees who show their bosses how their unique skills can help the company out.

Basically, a hard worker is less likely to be promoted than someone who has the mind of a leader and shows they're valuable to the company.







WAS THIS YOU, MOUNT UNION KIDS?
Pretty sure half the student population at MUC went to Florida for Spring Break this year. Hopefully the girls in the back weren't Mount students. Wait, girls in the back?

See, it's hard to tell from this story if the car thief is REALLY smooth...or if drunken Spring Break naps are REALLY intense. We're guessing it's some of both.

Last week in Steel City, Florida, a man stole a Chevy Equinox from the parking lot of a convenience store while two 24-year-old spring breakers were still in the backseat, sleeping. Or, more likely, passed out.

Nothing like going on spring break at age 24. Never grow up!!!
The driver had pulled over to run into the store. While he was inside, the thief quickly broke into the car and drove off.

Eventually, the two people in the backseat woke up and realized they didn't know the guy driving the car. They threatened him, and eventually he pulled over and hopped into a car with some of his friends.

Well police tracked down the thief...he's 26-year-old Kevin Tyrone Moore of Dothan, Alabama.
He's been charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and two counts of kidnapping.








QUOTEABLE...
"I'm not gonna preach that I'm a role model. I'm a (effing) musician!"
That would be Bruno Mars in an interview with "GQ"

He adds, "But I've learned people are watching...so don't do nothing stupid."
We'll assume he didn't mean to use a double-negative there. English teachers are watching too, Bruno!







WORLD'S TOP BRANDS...
You probably buy a lot of stuff from Amazon.com. Amazon.com is so big now that I bet almost no one goes there anymore thinking it's a porno site featuring gigantic women.

Wait, did that happen? Anyway...

According to a new study, Amazon.com is now the number one brand in the world.

The study was done by a communications research firm called Millward Brown. They found that Amazon had the best mix of people believing it was both a solid, reputable brand...and the place to find the best value and prices.

Worldwide, the rest of the top 10 goes: Colgate . . . Nokia . . . Pampers . . . VISA . . . Coca-Cola . . . Microsoft . . . McDonald's . . . Nescafe . . . and a European supermarket chain called Lidl.


Amazon was also number one in the U.S. The rest of our list looks a little different than the global one. It goes Amazon . . . Crest . . . Coca-Cola . . . Folgers . . . Bud Light . . . Walmart . . . Microsoft . . . Colgate . . . Dell . . . and HP.

Notice that Bud Light and Walmart made our list...while McDonald's made the international list but not the U.S. one.







BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: JA RULE
Every once in a great while...a rapper is stricken with such an incredible hardship that you would NOT want to switch places with them, even with all their money, fame, talent, cars, women and perceived street cred.

Today's Rapper You Don't Want to Be is: JA RULE.

For starters, Ja Rule will never again have the all the money, fame, cred and whatnot that he had 9 or 10 years ago. It isn't coming back. No one cares about him anymore.

Then there's his legal rabbit-hole. Earlier this month, Ja Rule had an impending two-year prison sentence on a gun charge delayed by a judge. Why? To give him time to take care of a federal tax issue. And that didn't go well either.

Tuesday, Ja Rule pleaded guilty to not filing tax returns with the IRS for five years, from 2004 to 2008. He owes more than $1.1 million. Ja Rule has agreed to pay that money back, but he may also be looking at more prison time.

In all, he pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion, with each one carrying a maximum one-year prison sentence. However, it's unclear how much time this will add to his existing sentence, if any.







YOU...COULD PLAY TUPAC IN A MOVIE...
There's a movie in development called "Tupac", which is about...DUH... TUPAC'S life...specifically the latter part of it, up until his murder. This has nothing at all to do with the fact that they made a movie about BIGGIE's life, I'm sure (sarcasm)

If you think YOU could play Tupac, well you're in luck: Because the production company has opened up an online casting call, asking for actors to send in audition reels. And you don't have to look EXACTLY like Tupac.

One of the producers says, "We're looking for someone with the right mix of raw charm and charisma for the role.

"At this point, we're more concerned about finding someone with the ability to give their entire heart into the performance than just looks and personality."

That being said, if you're a little white dude like me, don't bother.
The site is InSearchOfTupac.com.

You'll need to send them your performance of a scene that they provide...and perform a Tupac rap. They're accepting submissions up through April 30th.








I CAN THINK OF MANY WORSE WAYS TO DIE...
According to a new study out of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, if you're in bad shape, your chance of having a heart attack significantly goes up during relations.

During sex or right after, when your heart rate is all elevated, you have a 270% higher chance of a heart attack than normal. Of course, that assumes you're really being ACTIVE during sex...if you're boring and just kinda lay there, it's not quite so high.

The study also found that you're 350% more likely to have a heart attack when you're exercising versus when you're not.

Of course, even with those increased percentages, your chance of a heart attack still isn't that great. For every 10,000 people, sex or exercise MIGHT trigger one to two heart attacks per year.

The message here is that it's better for you to be in shape than be out of shape...because if you're out of shape, even sex can put your heart at risk.








LIVING WITH REGRETS?
According to a new study, almost half of women still have deep, deep regrets about the 'One Who Got Away.' The study also found that men regret the one that got away...but their "one" is a high-paying job. I'm not gonna lie, I have some regrets about my career.

The study was done at Northwestern University. Researchers surveyed 370 adults, ranging from 20 years old to 80, and asked them to list their biggest regrets.

The number one answer for women was ROMANCE. 44% of them said the biggest regret of their life was, "the one who got away, a missed opportunity, or someone you knew [once] with whom it didn't quite work out."

That was more than double the amount of men who had a romantic regret...only 19% gave that as their number one answer. Can't say that one really matters to me.

Men were FAR more likely to regret something in their career. 35% of men said something work-related was their biggest regret, making it the number one answer. Less than a quarter of the women surveyed said that.

Family issues were the second-biggest regret for both genders.

The main family regrets were generally from people who were estranged from a family member...and in some cases didn't get to apologize before that person passed away.

They haven't released the specific order of the other regrets that got big chunks of votes, but they said those include not going to college, not getting divorced sooner, or choosing money over passion.







FORGET 'WHITE FLIGHT'...'BLACK FLIGHT' IS HERE...
Oh, how things come full circle. Over the past several decades, people have talked about "white flight"...if you don't know, that's white people fleeing to the suburbs to get away from the black people living in the city.

Well, now it's reversed. "White flight" is dead, and "black flight" is on.

Younger white people are planting themselves in the city...and black families are fleeing to the suburbs to get away from them and their hipster bars, ironic sports leagues, and restaurants with names like "Eat" and "Food."

Twenty of the 25 largest cities in the country saw declines in the number of black residents in the 2010 census. The suburbs around those cities all saw gains, as did smaller cities in the south.







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