TUESDAY, Nov 23 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, November 23, 2021
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: HONEYBAKED ROADKILL; CONTEST – MIXED-UP MOVIE

TODAY IS …
(All days repeat annually on today’s date unless otherwise noted; days may or may not be called “National”/”International”/”World” depending on source; sources listed often have additional info. We generally do not list special days which were created by commercial companies for the purpose of marketing, or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year.)

EAT A CRANBERRY DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Eat a Cranberry Day is today. Cranberries are good for you. How many cranberries will you eat today? Native to North America, cranberries are grown in bogs, primarily in New England. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, they found Native Americans harvesting them, and eating them. Native Americans also used them as dyes for clothing, and for medicinal purposes. Have a wonderful Eat a Cranberry Day!”

FIBONACCI DAY
The Time And Date website says this:
“Leonardo of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci, is responsible for the Fibonacci Sequence (or Fibonacci numbers) – a pattern of counting where each number is the sum of the previous two. As well as being prevalent in nature, this kind of system is used widely in computer data storage and processing, and Fibonacci Day recognizes the importance and value of Fibonacci’s contributions to mathematics. Born in 1170 in Pisa, Italy, Fibonacci was also responsible for making the Hindu-Arabic numerals popular in Europe. In ‘Liber Acaci’ he advocated the use of these numerals, explained the use of zero, provided ways to convert between currencies and different measurements, and described how to calculate interest. November 23 is celebrated as Fibonacci day because when the date is written in the mm/dd format (11/23), the digits in the date form a Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3.”

NATIONAL ESPRESSO DAY
The National Espresso Day website this:
“Espresso – that thick, bold Italian-style coffee – got its name thanks to the technology used to make the dark, rich brew, which is ‘pressed out’ and tailor made ‘pronto’ for its consumer. Espresso, which is also the base ingredient for other popular coffee beverages such as cappuccino, café latte and macchiato, has come a long way since its invention in Italy sometime around the 1900s. So let’s toast the rise of this complex and concentrated concoction with – what else? – a shot of espresso as we mark National Espresso Day.”

November is:

Adopt a Senior Pet Month
Great American Smoke Out Month
National Adoption Month
National Military Family Month
National Native American Heritage Month
Raisin Bread Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Vegan Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

INTERVIEWER DIDN’T BOTHER LISTENING TO ADELE ALBUM BEFORE INTERVIEW

Australian TV host Matt Doran flew 10,000 miles to England to interview Adele as part of a $725,000 deal where he would get the only interview with the singer for all of Australia, plus rights to Adele’s Oprah Winfrey special and two-hour comeback concert. During the interview, Adele asked what the “Weekend Sunrise” host thought of her new album, “30.” He replied, “I haven’t listened to it.” Adele walked out on the interview — and her label, Sony, refused to allow the channel to use it. Doran apologized and said was unaware that he’d been emailed a preview of the album as an ‘e card’ link, which he missed upon landing in London.
* Beyond that, you’ve just flown 23 hours, and the last thing you want to do is listen to some lady sing an hour’s worth of whiny songs about her marriage.
* Sometimes telling a little white lie is not such a bad way to go.
* Hey, when you throw $725,000 at a project, little details are going to fall through the cracks.
* You could fake it pretty good with Adele. A question like, “Which sad song is your favorite?” and “I especially like the song where you really belt it out” pretty much covers her whole catalogue.
* In the guy’s defense, what the hell is an “e card link”? When did this new format come out, last Thursday?
* Tough luck. It’s been pretty hard to find any information about Adele, this new album or her comeback anywhere on the internet or any magazine, newspaper, TV show, podcast or any other media.

BART THE BEAR II HAS DIED

Famous movie bear Bart the Bear II has died. He was 21. After a decline in his health this year, Bart died peacefully at home over the weekend in Heber City, Utah, at the Vital Ground Foundation. Bart was a grizzly bear who served as an ambassador for Vital Ground, a land trust focused on conserving grizzly bear habitat and preventing conflicts between bears and people. Beyond working as a Vital Ground ambassador, Bart II appeared in the movies Without a Paddle, An Unfinished Life, Evan Almighty, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Zookeeper, and Pete’s Dragon, and on television in the 2005 TNT miniseries Into the West, on HBO’s Game of Thrones and in commercials. Bart and his sister, Honey Bump, were orphaned in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska after their mother was killed by a hunter. The cubs eventually wound up with Vital Ground just as the original Big Bart was dying of cancer. Big Bart the Bear, a male Alaskan Kodiak, was best known for his numerous appearances in films, including The Bear, White Fang, Legends of the Fall, and The Edge.
* Jeeze, he’s got a filmography most actors would envy.
* This is not the bear that humped Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, so Leo can’t fully relax just yet.
* Fear not – Bart the Bear II has been preserved as a hologram and will be opening for ABBA on their new hologram tour.
* He’s now in bear heaven, which is basically just a big woods for him to poop in.

THE BUZZ

WEIRD THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS

Note: Here’s a story from 2017 we thought you might like to revisit with your listeners.
From Twitter hashtag #WeirdThanksgivingTraditions, here are some of the contributions:
– Using an Ouija board at the holiday table to keep your deceased family members in the loop & part of the festivities.
– Light a Yankee Candle that smells like the stench of the Mayflower.
– Musical chairs to determine who has to sit at the Kiddie Table.
– Mom does her own commentary during the Macy’s parade.
– Popcorn, jelly beans and toast (the food Charlie Brown serves in “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”).
– Voting your least favorite relative out of the house.
– My Dad always carves the turkey with a mini chainshaw… in the garage… not even kidding.
– I dated a guy who put champagne in his mashed potatoes.
* That’s odd … I haven’t seen those Stinky Mayflower Yankee Candles in the stores.
* Sometimes the Ouija board backfires, like when dead relatives say things like “I never liked you” and “Howard’s been getting into your GOOD booze.”
* When Dad finishes carving the turkey with a chainsaw in the garage, he fires portions into the house using a potato cannon.
* We always use the time before the turkey’s cooked to ceremoniously finish all the Halloween candy.
* PHONE TOPIC: What is your Weird Thanksgiving Tradition?

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN RUNS OVER HUSBAND, TWICE

A Kansas City, Missouri man was critically hurt Saturday afternoon when his wife drove over him twice as he tried to dislodge a bowling ball that had been thrown in front of their car on Saturday. The couple drove over the bowling ball and the ball became lodged under their car. After the couple stopped, the 25-year-old man crawled under the vehicle to try to remove the ball. Meanwhile, a man approached the car and tried to grab the 25-year-old woman’s purse while the man was under the car. During a struggle over the purse, the woman pressed her foot on the gas pedal and heard a yell from under the car, which had rolled over her husband. The woman put the car in reverse to undo what she thought had happened under the car, and rolled over her husband a second time. The suspect ran away without the purse. The husband was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but he was in stable condition Saturday night. The other man later went to a police station and admitted that he threw the bowling ball in front of the car.
* Worst episode of Bowling For Dollars ever.
* It’s like they say: the only way to stop a bad guy with a bowling ball is a good guy with a… gun, and a bowling ball.
* Did the husband under the car yell, “Spare me!”?
* And now he has a handicap. And he doesn’t even bowl!
* Coulda been worse. Coulda been a Ford F-150.
* I’m sorry, but if you crawl under a car while it’s still running, that’s just Darwin at work.

GRANDMA KICKED OUT OF HOTEL OVER BAD REVIEW

A grandmother says she was kicked out of a Georgia hotel by police in the middle of the night after she left a bad review online, forcing her and her six year-old granddaughter to walk to a nearby hotel in their pajamas. Back in September, Susan Leger, 63, was on the first of her three-night stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites in the mountain town of Helen, Georgia, when she got a call from the hotel manager telling her she had to leave. Booking site Hotels.com had asked her to leave a review just after check-in. Leger did – she gave it three out of five stars, called the hotel “run down.” She also complained that her room’s toilet did not flush properly and that the pool was closed. She did not know that reviews are forwarded to management during a guest’s stay. At 8:40 p.m. she got a phone call from the hotel manager, who yelled at her, “You get out now. I call the police. You lie, you lie. You gave me bad review.” Police then showed up to remove her and her 6-year-old grandchild, saying that management wanted her out because she “had given the hotel a bad review.” Leger says she and her granddaughter had to walk a third of a mile (* 1500 feet!) down the street to the Fairfield Hotel in their pajamas. Also, she was promised a full refund, but has not received it.
* Boy, that sounds like Helen, Georgia, (Hell in Georgia) all right.
* The internet is such a blessing, isn’t it?
* They hadn’t even had time to rip the “sanitized for your protection” banner off the toilet.
* Not sure why she’s complaining. It sounds like it all worked out for the best for her.
* Now it’s time for her to leave a review of Hotels.com.

TARGET TO STAY CLOSED ON THANKSGIVING

Target said Monday that it will close all of its stores on Thanksgiving every year from this year on. Last year, Target stayed closed on Thanksgiving Day because of COVID. Target CEO Brian Cornell said he decided to make the policy permanent after visiting Target stores last week in New York and New Jersey, where workers told him they were glad they could stay home on Thanksgiving. Many retailers in recent years have opened their doors on the holiday to get a jump on Black Friday. Critics have argued that workers should be at home with their families on Thanksgiving instead.
* It’s all part of Target’s new, “For the love of God, please don’t quit before the holidays” program.
* Have you ever met some of these families? Who wants to be home on Thanksgiving?
* Target closed on Thanksgiving. This could be the break the Dollar Store has been waiting for.
* Being that Target has already had about five “special Black Friday savings days” this month, this is awfully big of them.
* Sure, stay home with your families on Thanksgiving. But doors open at midnight Friday, so get your ass to the store and your work station by 11:30 pm.

TRENDINGOLD COMEDIAN YOU FORGOT ABOUT TO PLAY GUY BEFORE YOUR TIME IN MOVIE ABOUT MAN YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT

Jay Leno, comedian and former Tonight Show host, is going to act in a movie, something he rarely does. Leno is going to play legendary television personality Ed Sullivan in the movie “Midas Man,” an upcoming drama about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

BOBBY FLAY IS NOW STAYING WITH THE FOOD NETWORK

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is now NOT leaving the Food Network. Variety reports Flay has signed a new 3-year deal. Multiple media outlets reported last month that Flay planned to leave the network at the end of this year because they couldn’t come to terms that were satisfactory for both sides. Last month, it was reported that Flay was seeking a deal that would go above and beyond Guy Fieri’s recent $80 million contract with the Food Network.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Nov. 25, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Tuesday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 10:59 am EST
Dec. 25, Saturday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Friday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Saturday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

Miley Cyrus (singer, songwriter, actress) … 29
Lucas Grabeel (actor, “Switched at Birth”) … 37
Page Kennedy (actor, “Rush Hour”, “Backstrom,” “Desperate Housewives”) … 45
Robin Roberts (TV host, “Good Morning America”) … 61
Bruce Hornsby (rock singer, musician) … 67

BIRTHDAY QUOTE QUIZ – Ask your listeners “Who said it?” HINT: Today’s their birthday!

“Life is all about having a good time.”

(A) Dr. Anthony Faucci
(B) Pope Francis
(C) Miley Cyrus

ANSWER: (C) Miley Cyrus

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID 19 – ONE YEAR AGO:
– 2020 AstraZeneca is the third drugmaker to report an effective vaccine for COVID-19 (62% or 90% effective depending on how it is given) and easy to make and distribute. However it has not been approved for use in the U.S. due to sloppy and contradictory testing procedures.

2000 – In a setback for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade County to resume counting ballots by hand.
* Well, yeah – Didn’t he realize what that would have cost in overtime?

1945 – Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.
* And our long road forward to national obesity began.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Accounts showed that the Guns N’ Roses “Not In This Lifetime” tour had raked in more than half a billion dollars during it’s three-year run grossing $584.2 million. The tour, which kicked off in 2016, sold 5,371,891 tickets, making it the third highest-grossing tour, according to Billboard Boxscore.

2008 – 15 years after their last album, Guns N’ Roses released “Chinese Democracy” in the U.S., exclusively via the electronics retailer Best Buy. Nine years previously, Geffen Records had reportedly paid Axl Rose $1 million to finish the album, with a further $1 million if he handed it in to them by March 1, 1999.

1976 – Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested after brandishing a pistol outside Elvis Presley’s Graceland’s home in Memphis, demanding to see Elvis.

1962 – The Beatles auditioned for a possible appearance on BBC television. After the audition, the BBC passed.

1889 – The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

X-TREME TRIVIA CHALLENGE

Every installment of X-Treme Trivia Challenge includes three mystery factoids. Create your own “Impossible Question” contest – great for listener giveaways and phone interaction starters! Also a perfect sponsorship opportunity!

1. Shockingly, 40% of the American population has never done THIS. What is it?
Gone to a dentist

2. Most people consider THIS essential, but 12% of people don’t have one in their home. What is it?
An alarm clock

3. The average person has about 53 of THESE. What are they?
Articles of clothing in their closet

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