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The Jackie Collins interview begins at approximately the 45:05 mark
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Jackie Collins has authored 27 sexy, juicy, scandalous and gossipy novels, all of which have been on the New York Times bestsellers list and have sold over 400 million copies worldwide.

Her latest, Poor Little Bitch Girl,  is classic Jakie Collins: a sex-starved politician, a rich girl gone up-scale Madame, a murdered movie star and lots of East-West coast of bed-hopping.

http://jackiecollins.com

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The Anya Monzikova interview begins at approximately the 18:45 mark
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Russian born model/actress Anya Monzikova just finished work on the upcoming blockbuster “Iron Man 2” (due out May 7th), appearing in a climactic scene with Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Scarlett Johansson.

Previously, she was the model standing next to briefcase #10 on the popular game show “Deal or No Deal,” where her striking features and playful attitude resulted in a number of high-profile modeling gigs, including magazines like Stuff and Maxim and an appearance with her fellow “Deal” models in People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People” issue. She’s also memorable for her role as “The Face” of the beautiful women in Jonathan Mostow’s thriller “Surrogates” starring Bruce Willis.

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Also this week:

• Live from a hospital in Sydney, Australia, Christiaan Van Vuuren: The Fully Sick Rapper

• Collette McLafferty, lead singer of edibleRed, cohosts
  

• Co-host Vinny Bond sits on his Big Leather Couch to chat live with the listeners

• The Burl of Annie and Burl Live works behind the scenes as pro-doucher

• Shawn Amos tests our Pop Culture IQ
  

• and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

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Do YOU want to be a contestant on a future edition of Pop Culture IQ with host Shawn Amos?  There are plenty of great prizes just waiting to be won!  

Click here to send an email signing up to be a future contestant on the Pop Culture IQ ONLY on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour. 

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Here is this week’s Pop Culture IQ brought to you by Shout! Factory as heard exclusively on this week’s  Radio Happy Hour:

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Q: Name John Belushi’s first live action movie in which he played a member of the Delta Tau Chi Fraternity.
A: Animal House

Q: Which future “E.R.” and “Top Gun” star played Gilbert Lowell in “Revenge of the Nerds?”
A: Anthony Edwards

Q: Name the “Van Wilder” star who married Scarlett Johansson in 2008.
A: Ryan Reynolds

Allie Sakowicz , 15-year-old writing prodigy, answered the first and third questions correctly thus becoming the youngest ever to play and win the Pop Culture IQ.

That achievement is just another success added to the already impressive portfolio being built by the Illinois teen.  She has published over twenty articles in several national magazines including Odyssey Magazine and Chicago Parent, has attended President Barack Obama’s Election Night and Super Tuesday Election Night parties and the premiere of High School Musical 3 in Los Angeles for the Scholastic Kids Press Corps and now can say she’s appeared on the #1 most listened to and downloaded comedy on all of BlogTalkRadio.

In addition to the pride she must feel for winning Pop Cluture IQ, Allie also won the DVD of  Sex Pistols – The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle courtesy of Shout! Factory.

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Scott Michael Foster comes on at about the 45:30 mark
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Scott Michael Foster stars as “Cappie” on the ABC Family hit series “Greek“.

He is also lead singer of the band Siren’s Eye

http://www.scottmichaelfoster.com
http://www.abcfamily.go.com/greek
http://www.myspace.com/sirenseye

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Hasan Minhaj comes on at about the 12:15 mark
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Hasan Minhaj is a comedian, actor, and writer based in Los Angeles, California.  His life is like a rap video; cigars, expensive cars, and explosions – at least that’s how it’s depicted on the cover of his new comedy album, “Leaning on Expensive Cars and Getting Paid to Do it“.  The album showcases his love for pop culture, the internet, American athletes, and hip-hop.

http://www.hasanminhaj.com

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Also this week:

• Collette McLafferty, lead singer of edibleRed, cohosts
  

• Co-host Vinny Bond sits on his Big Leather Couch to chat live with the listeners

• The Burl of Annie and Burl Live works behind the scenes as pro-doucher

• Shawn Amos tests our Pop Culture IQ
  

• and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

Press Play–>
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Become a Radio Happy Hour subscriber

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Do YOU want to be a contestant on a future edition of Pop Culture IQ with host Shawn Amos?  There are plenty of great prizes just waiting to be won!  

Click here to send an email signing up to be a future contestant on the Pop Culture IQ ONLY on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour. 

Click here to see all past Pop Culture IQ quizzes to see how you would have fared.

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Here is this week’s Pop Culture IQ brought to you by Shout! Factory as heard exclusively on this week’s  Radio Happy Hour:

Game starts at approximately the 7:00 mark. Just hit play below!

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Q: Name the MTV franchise now in it’s 22nd season that introduced reality stars like Pedro Zamora, Puck Rainey, Eric Nies, and Jacinda Barrett.
A: “The Real World”

Q: Name the singer, and now “Dancing with the Stars” alum, that got her start as on her parents reality show, “The Osbournes.”
A: Kelly Osbourne

Q: Name the MTV game show from 1987 that featured up-and-coming comics, Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, and Colin Quinn.
A: “Remote Control”

Josh, this week’s Pop Culture IQ contestant, answered two of the three questions correctly which is all it too to take home the prize!   Josh won the DVD of The Weird Al Show – The Complete Series courtesy of Shout! Factory.

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The long awaited new theme song for the Radio Happy Hour was unveiled on this week’s show.

When lead singer of edibleRed Collette McLafferty joined the show as a co-host, Vinny Bond suggested she record a new theme song for the show.  Dr. Blogstein thought that was a great idea and a perfect way to welcome in the new era of the Radio Happy Hour with Collette and The Burl, the other “newish kid on the block.”

The original Dr. Blogstein theme song was recorded by a Beatles tribute band Mostly Moptop. It had been in use since July 17, 2007.

The new theme song, recorded by Collette McLafferty, lead singer of edibleRed and featuring rapper Hassahn Phenomenon has a more up to date feel and more closely captures the vibe on the #1 most downloaded comedy.  The song was producer by Loor Ambient.

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BEHIND THE MUSIC
The story behind the new Radio Happy Hour theme song, as told by Collette McLafferty:

The new Dr. Blogstein theme song started as a email conversation between me and Hassahn Phenomenon… I initially wrote a hook and composed a standard rock and roll theme song from my Garageband… it was super rough! Hasahn wrote a rap over it and emailed back to me about 6 weeks later… I also combed through a bunch of mp3’s from the Dr. Blogstein show so I could pick out some key samples of Doc’s voice ( I especially wanted to get one of him yelling at Vinny, since that is a staple of the show:)   As I was going through the episodes, I stumbled upon The Mouthinator.  I wasn’t initially planning to use him, but Mouthinator is to Dr. Blogstein what Cartman is to Southpark..Rolling Stone once said that Cartman’s voice is worth the price of basic cable.   Mouthinator’s voice is worth the price of high speed internet!

During that time, I started working with a kick ass electronic producer by the name of Loor Ambient… I liked the track I came up with, but since it consisted of Garageband samples that anyone could use, I thought it would be cool to get him on the track so he could spice it up with something original. Loor took it in a totally new direction and gave it more of a urban, futuristic feel. We produced it together, but he came up with the overall sound.

Interesting side note… just as we were about to bounce the track…we noticed that Hassahn said “6′oclock is the hour”… with specifying the time zone! So we had to lose that and I changed it to “9 PM eastern is the Hour”…. I’m glad we caught that!

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