TMZ: Britney's Ex Behind Bars...

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One of Britney Spears' former lovers ended up in jail - TMZ's Leslie Harris told Ralphie who and why.

Catch Leslie on TMZ TV - Weekdays at 6 on Channel 38 - The CW.

EXCLUSIVE: Ne-Yo 2-steppin'

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RALPHIE RADIO SHOW EXCLUSIVE: Ne-Yo gets his 2-step on regarding his album, the postponement of its release, and who stood by it despite it being different from his previous works.



Ralphie & Ne-Yo - Syracuse, NY - April 2007.

DAILY DOWNLOAD: David Rush/Kevin Rudolf/Pitbull

12.04.08 : David Rush f. Kevin Rudolf & Pitbull - Shooting Star
Ralphie finds David's track and immediately gets him on the line...


Rush's official site is feeltherush.tv.

RALPHIE REWIND: Starbucks Delivery

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Ralphie calls up A.J. In The Afternoon to discuss an idea that both feel would make the world a much better place.

WINGMAN WEDNESDAY: Inaugural Edition...

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In the first edition of "Wingman Wednesday" - The Wingman fields an e-mail from a concerned, under-confident club-goer.


Check Out The Wingman on MySpace.

DAILY DOWNLOAD: A Holiday Benefit, Vol. II

12.03.08 : A Holiday Benefit, Vol. II - Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)
Ralphie speaks with Singer/Songwriter Benjamin Wagner, who conceived the "A Holiday Benefit" series


Purchase the album on iTunes. All proceeds benefit 826NYC.

Turn Off The TV, Turn On The BHT...

OK, so listening to music is mentioned in this study from Yale University - but it seems the affects of heavy TV and web usage can yield far worse effects on your children.

DAILY DOWNLOAD: Beyonce/R.Kelly

These two make sweet music... of course, I don't mean that as a figure of speech - literally. Afterall, B is married, and too old for Kells' liking.

Check out the dope remix here.

DAILY DOWNLOAD: R-Les...

12.01.08 : Ryan Leslie - How It Was Supposed To Be
R-Les calls up The Ralphie Radio Show
Part 1: Background on "How It Was Supposed To Be"

Part 2: Graduating Harvard at 19, YouTube


Part 3: "How It Was Supposed To Be" video - almost with a Ralphie cameo

Ryan's self-titled LP drops February 10, 2009. Check out his YouTube channel here.

RALPHIE REPORT: T.I., Hinder...

T.I. and Young Jeezy will perform in Northeastern PA before the end of the year, a show officially announced last week and first heard of on The Ralphie Radio Show two weeks ago.

The Wachovia Arena plays host to the big show, scheduled for Monday, December 29. E&R Entertainment, the same promotions group behind the Lil’ Wayne show in October, is responsible for this event.

Apparently the “Rubber Band Man” and Jeezy won’t be the only big names taking the stage that night. In a Ralphie Radio Show exclusive, the promoter of the show revealed that a third name, only described as “another headliner”, is confirmed to appear. However, the artist’s name will not be revealed until the day of the show.

With many big hip-hop artists hailing from New York and Philadelphia – and possibly back in the Northeast for the holidays – the list of names that could show up is near endless.

The promoter did confirm that it will not be Fabolous – who still owes E&R a performance after backing out of the Lil Wayne show on the day of. To the delight of many, Jadakiss replaced him on the bill.

You could argue that what “The Blueprint” did for Jay-Z is what “Paper Trail” is doing for T.I. The LP moved over 1.2 million copies to date – and sports the uber-popular “Whatever You Like” and “Live Your Life” – the latter featuring Rihanna. The tracks are the top songs in the country, respectively one and two.

Fans looking to hear T.I. live might want to jump at this opportunity – the rapper, real name Clifford Harris, will head to jail in early 2009 on convictions stemming from illegal gun possession.

HINDER’S CHRISTMAS WISH

The fellas of Hinder sure live up to the “rock star persona” dubbed on most musicians. Yunno, the same stuff Nickelback sings about.

Some of the band members called up The Ralphie Radio Show just before Thanksgiving to chat about the LP, Take It To The Limit, as well as plans for the holidays. Hinder said it’d be nice to come home for the holiday. The rock group played a show only a few hours from their hometown of Oklahoma City, and did not perform the next day.

While some members of Hinder simply wished for continued success both in the studio and on the road – others were a tad more concise regarding their Christmas list.

“2 girls at the same time,” one band member chimed in.

I suppose you can’t expect anything different from a group that tours with headlining sponsors like Jägermeister. BTW, Hinder receives an unlimited supply of the liquor for the tour bus machine dispenser through the duration of the dates.
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T.I. IN NEPA - WIN TICKETS!

Win tickets to E&R Entertainment's "Jingle Jam 2008" featuring T.I. and Young Jeezy! Another big show in NEPA - and more free tickets from 97 BHT! T.I. and Jeezy take over the Wachovia Arena on Monday, December 29th.

Purchase tickets here.

And don't forget, you heard about this show FIRST on 97 BHT!

RALPHIE REPORT: damon, drescher, dbags speidi...

Looks like the Bourne series will become a tetra logy.

Maybe you read about it this week on Perezhilton.com – but you heard about it first on The Ralphie Radio Show almost three weeks ago, when I exclusively interviewed actor Matt Damon.

“It looks like they’re gonna start writing a script on (Bourne 4),” said Damon. “We’ll shoot it in a couple years… we still have a few years to wait on it.”

The Boston-born star called in to the show on behalf of Senator Barack Obama. Damon, along with fellow actor and buddy Ben Affleck, were avid supporters of the Presidential Candidate from Chicago. The Academy-Award winner voiced a number of concerns about the current state of our country – almost none as adamantly as his gripe with our current education system and its emphasis on standardized testing.

“I personally, was a terrible test taker,” he admits. “But I got in to Harvard because when I looked at my first SAT scores, I went to one of these Stanley Kaplan courses and learned how to take a test better.”

Damon argues that we can’t base the funding of our education programs on standardized scores, because students will only learn how to take tests, and not the material they should be tested on.

I feel like somewhere here, there’s a prequel to the Ocean’s series. Couldn’t you see the gang meeting up in college and figuring out a way to ace some type of big exam, without studying what will be on it?

FRAN DRESCHER DOES FACEBOOK, THE RALPHIE RADIO SHOW

I wrote on Fran Drescher’s Facebook wall last week.

Really, I’m not one to brag about celebrity friends – but The Nanny?! Just too good to pass up.

Anyways, I shared on Fran’s wall a link to our interview from earlier this month on The Ralphie Radio Show. Appropriate that I spoke with her, since just weeks earlier she appeared on my favorite TV series.

“A lot of people watch that show, it’s awesome,” Drescher said of Entourage – which just wrapped up Season 5 on Sunday.

Besides HBO cameos, the actress keeps busy these days as a U.S. ambassador and as a founder of the organization, “Cancer Schmancer.”

Atleast, according to Fran’s Facebook status, updated not too long ago.

SPEIDI ELOPES

Congrats to newlyweds Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag – who eloped over the weekend in Mexico. The “reality TV stars” went hush-hush and low-key with the ceremony. Of course, neither forgot to contact US Weekly, who obtained the official first photographs and will run them as the cover story for the next issue to hit newsstands.

Does anyone else hope the same fate of other MTV couples awaits these two (i.e. Nick/Jessica, Carmen/Dave, Travis/Shanna)?

Lost! or Lost?

I'm not asking for a review or your two cents of the Coldplay tracks that bear the name of this post... but while we're on the subject, let me just quickly mention that I legally downloaded the Prospekt's March EP for a mere .99 through amazon.com. I've never spent a dollar better, ever.

BTW, "Lost+ (f. Jay-Z)" is my favorite of the Lost tracks. Anyways, I've lost two items that are near and dear to me, within' a couple of days. Both are materialistic and could easily be replaced physically - but it still irks me, and rightfully so, that I'd have to spend money on top of the time already lost looking for these items - which, if not for my incompentence, would still be in my possession.

Just my watch and my goofy winter hat. Can't find neither. If you find either, a small reward may be claimed...

That's my hat and I after I had just purchased it... in better times, if you will.

Isn't it equally ridiculous that looking for the aforementioned misplaced items almost made me late to appointments a handful of times this week? Ugh, happy holidays.

RALPHIE REWIND: Safe a life, grab a gift card...

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John Castagna of The American Red Cross's NEPA Chapter phoned in to The Ralphie Radio Show with exciting news about the benefits of donating blood in November and December - from saving lives to scoring gift cards!

Dates of local blood drives are here.

RALPHIE REWIND: Don't work out alone...

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In this edition of The Ralphie Rewind - Ralphie looks to the Wilkes-Barre YMCA's Matt DiBernardo for advice on what exactly he did wrong while working out - causing a soreness in his posterior...


Ralphie is a member of the YMCA - more details here.

OFFICIAL: T.I., Young Jeezy to NEPA on Dec. 29th

You read about it first on this blog, and now it's official - T.I. and Young Jeezy will rock Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza on December 29th. Tickets go on sale this Saturday (11/29) 10:00 AM at the Arena and all Ticketmaster locations.

Scranton's own DJ Woogie - a Shadyville DJ who also spun at the Lil Wayne show - will perform on stage as well.

And you know 97 BHT will be taking care of you like we always do!

AMA Winner Spills About Trip...

AND THE WINNER IS: MEGAN FROM MOUNTAIN TOP!

MEGAN WENT TO THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS. LIVE - IN L-A ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23RD.

SHE TALKED ABOUT HER TRIP WITH RALPHIE AVERSA:

POWERED BY ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP AND 97.1... 97 BHT.

A "Killers" Deal...

Amazon offering The Killers latest LP for a mere $3.99.

BLACK FRIDAY LINKS!!!

Let me share a few secrets with you...

http://www.blackfriday.info - All the Black Friday doorbuster ads you can handle, ads typed up and broken down by category, plus actual ad scans...

http://www.slickdeals.net - Daily visit.

http://www.ejunkie.com - Buy online coupons.

http://www.bradsdeals.com - Brad Wilson does a great job with this, another daily visit - Brad joins the show Wednesday evening.

Happy shopping :)

My weekend jaunt to The Cuse...

Yes, the Facebook album is here.