WICKY WICKY WEDNESDAY NIGHT

I THINK THIS IS GREAT...
The Chops & Hops steakhouse in Watkinsville, Georgia used RIHANNA and CHRIS BROWN to market their "black and bleu sandwich".

They posted a picture of the sandwich on their Twitter page and said, "chrisbrown, @rihanna and us teamed up for a award winning celebrity sandwich.

"Chris Brown won't beat you up for eating this unless your name starts with a R and ends with A." After receiving complaints they removed the post and promised to give money to a domestic violence charity.










THE BAND "JET" HAS BROKEN UP...
The Australian band JET has split up.

Their debut album "Get Born" has sold 1.7 million copies in the U.S., and included the songs "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", "Cold Hard Bitch", "Rollover DJ" and "Look What You've Done".

Jet posted this message on their website: "After many successful years of writing, recording and touring we wish to announce our discontinuation as a group...thank you, and goodnight."









REJOICE: POPCORN IS GOOD FOR YOU
Put down that broccoli and pick up a giant tub of popcorn. After all, we could ALL stand to be a little bit healthier, right?

Scientists in Pennsylvania.....wait, I'm skeptical already. Anyway, they have found that, in some ways, popcorn is HEALTHIER than fruits and vegetables.

While it doesn't have their vitamins, it does have more of an antioxidant called polyphenols that help your heart and fight aging. And popcorn is a good source of unprocessed grain.

VIVA LA ORRVILLE REDENBACHER!!!








FROM YOUR FAST FOOD CONNOISSEUR...
If you glance around a Taco Bell, you might see a lot of people who are kinda down. Depressed, frowning, quietly and angrily destroying a Crunchwrap Supreme. Well...a new study says that's definitely the norm.

A market research company called BIGinsight surveyed 9,000 fast food customers and asked them how happy they are overall...not with the food, just happy in general. Then they figured out which restaurants have the happiest and saddest customers.

Ever wonder what the HELL the point of this is? I just report it.

The fast food chains with the happiest overall customers are Arby's, Chick-Fil-A, and Subway. (HEY! I love all 3!)

The fast food chains with the saddest overall customers are McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Burger King. (FAIL)

The survey also connected people's physical health to their favorite fast food restaurants...and the results were very similar. Subway had the healthiest customers, McDonald's were least healthy.










WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NORTH DAKOTA?
There's oil in the western part of North Dakota, which means there have been more trucks driving the highways in recent years. It's the same fracking deal that's going on here in Ohio.

That's a problem, because there are only THREE rest stops for the hundreds of miles of highway in that half of the state. North Dakota is FLAT and BORING. And it's led to an increase in the number of "trucker bombs".

If you didn't know, trucker bombs are bottles of pee on the side of the road, filled by drivers who were either hurrying too much to stop, or couldn't make it to the next rest stop. So they fill an empty pop bottle, antifreeze jug, or some other container, then toss it out the window.

Obviously, that's a problem. The bottles sometimes break open, which has made the North Dakota roadside incredibly nasty.

But it can also be dangerous. If the bottle heats up in the sun, the pressure can build up and cause it to EXPLODE. Hate to have yer windows down when driving by THAT! #ewwwwwww #NuckinFasty!









BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC NEWS: SMASHING PUMPKINS
We're counting down the days until a BACK IN THE DAY weekend on Q92, so here's a story about a 90's artist that I dig, and you might too.

Three years ago, BILLY CORGAN unveiled his convoluted business model for the modern music industry: The SMASHING PUMPKINS would release 44 new songs, one-by-one for free online.

After every FOUR songs, they'd release an EP...and after all 11 EPs, they'd release everything in one gigantic box set called "Teargarden by Kaleidyscope".

Well, Billy has decided to change course a little...and just put out an actual, normal album. It's called "Oceania", and it's coming out on June 19th.

Last spring, the Pumpkins talked vaguely about releasing songs under the name "Oceania"...but nothing ever came of it, until now.

Billy recently said, "I reached a point where I saw that the one-song-at-a-time idea had maxed itself out. I just saw that we weren't reaching the sort of casual person who still gets their information from traditional sources.

"So I thought, 'What do I need to do?' and then I thought, 'OK, I'll go back to making an album.'"

The band has NOT given up on the "Teargarden by Kaleidyscope" box set. In fact, "Oceania" is considered a part of it...as, quote, "an album within an album." (???)

This is the right move. These are crazy times in the music industry...and God bless Billy for trying a new approach...but that plan was goofy.

Two years and three months in, it's unclear how many of the 44 songs are finished. They released eight songs officially...there were four other "bonus" tracks...and there are 13 separate songs on "Oceania", assuming they count.

So at best we'll have 25 of the 44 songs...and all the while, the Pumpkins have been totally off the radar. And that's a shame. They dominated rock radio in the 90's









BIEBS IN TROUBLE
JUSTIN BIEBER is in a little hot water over what he thought was a silly phone prank. Earlier this month, Justin Tweeted a phone number with the caption, "Call me right now."

The number had a Texas area code, but it was only NINE digits long. Not surprisingly, his followers tried to guess the 10th digit and call the number.

Now, two people who were besieged by THOUSANDS of calls have hired a lawyer, and they want some kind of compensation. No word yet from the Bieber camp, but the offending Tweet has been removed.










7 DAYS...
You may have heard that GREAT SEX can save troubled relationships...but now a new Lifetime reality show will allow you to witness that process firsthand.

It's called "7 Days of Sex"...and Lifetime says it challenges couples to, "have sex for one week straight with the hope of saving their marriage."

Each episode will follow two couples, who are placed on a "diet of daily sex." It's unclear IF and HOW the relations will be depicted onscreen...or if the show is just couples TALKING about their daily romps.

"7 Days of Sex" premieres on April 26th.

It sounds a little intriguing, right? Well, here are some RED FLAGS:

It's unclear how OLD these couples will be. (Call me shallow if you want, but that's a HUGE deciding factor in whether or not I would wanna check out this show.)

And since this thing is on Lifetime, it's going to be focused on women. (That's good. But it's also going to be focused on women's ISSUES, which, for guys, is bad. Very bad.)










WE DON'T VALUE SEX...
This is bad. Very bad. Read on.
Los Angeles gets accused of being a city WITHOUT VALUES all the time. Well that's clearly false. A new survey has found that the people there really, really, really value SEX.

The dating site Chemistry.com surveyed more than 10 MILLION of their members, and one of the questions they asked was "How much do you value sex?" Then they matched up the answers by city to find out which cities value sex the most and least.

EIGHT of the ten 'cities' that value sex the most are in California, and FIVE of them are actually part of Los Angeles. Here's the top 10...


#1.) Venice, California

#2.) Santa Monica, California...which is technically its own city, but surrounded by L.A.

#3.) Newport Beach, California.

#4.) West Hollywood, California...which is a section of L.A.

#5.) West Los Angeles, California

#6.) Woodland Hills, California . . . yep, part of L.A.

#7.) Miami Beach, Florida.

#8.) Redondo Beach, California...part of the South Bay section of L.A. County. You get the picture.

#9.) Hoboken, New Jersey.

#10.) San Francisco, California.


On the other end of things...there's the cities where people value sex the LEAST. And there's several from OHIO! Including.....!!!!!!!

#1.) Lubbock, Texas.

#2.) Schenectady, New York.

#3.) Lincoln, Nebraska.

#4.) Toledo, Ohio.

#5.) Springfield, Missouri.

#6.) Fort Wayne, Indiana.

#7.) Akron/Canton, Ohio. (whaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)

#8.) Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

#9.) Dayton, Ohio.

#10.) Norfolk, Virginia.


Accurate or not so much??










FLUSH 'EM IF YA GOT 'EM
Here's the answer to a hypothetical question you never even realized you were curious about. What would happen if every American flushed the toilet at the exact same time?

According to the website Life's Little Mysteries, the good news is that it wouldn't explode all of the pipes in the country, ruin the water supply, and flood the streets with human stinky.

In fact, all that would happen is...it would probably take a little while for your toilet bowl to refill with water.

It's because every city has its own water supply system. Virtually all of them would be able to handle the simultaneous flushing, although they might not have enough water on hand to refill all the toilets.

A few places with older plumbing structures MIGHT see a pipe explosion...but those would be limited. In other words: If 350 million toilets were simultaneously flushed in this country, it wouldn't really be an issue.









WE HATE OUR OWN LANDMARKS
Wonder why every time you visit a major American landmark it's swarmed with foreign tourists? It's because American tourists don't ever visit.

A new survey by Hotwire.com found the majority of Americans haven't been to five of this country's major, important landmarks.

--72% of Americans have never visited the Alamo.
--65% of Americans have never visited the Grand Canyon.
--62% have never visited the Statue of Liberty.
--61% have never visited the Golden Gate Bridge.
--57% have never visited the White House.

I can honestly say I've never visited ANY of those! But I've been to Cedar Point.