WEDNESDAY, May 18 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2022
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Zero Zero; THE ONLY MORNING SHOW IN TOWN

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.)

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“This day was established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums. International Museum Day is a good opportunity to visit, appreciate, and support your local museum. The goals of International Museum Day are to give museum professionals the opportunity to meet the public, and to make the public aware of challenges faced by museums. Each year, a different theme is promoted. Ways to celebrate International Museum Day: Visit a museum; If you can’t visit today, learn a little more about your local museum; donate to a museum; volunteer to work at a museum.”

NATIONAL CHEESE SOUFFLE DAY

NO DIRTY DISHES DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“No Dirty Dishes Day is a reprieve from the daily pile of dishes to wash and dry. Day after day, we do the daily chore of washing and drying dishes, then put them away in various cabinets and drawers. We perform this task after each and every meal, and often after snacks. Even putting them in and out of the dishwasher and running it, can be a chore. You deserve a break from this routine. And, today is that day. The objective of this day is to have no dirty dishes. It is not intended to pile them up until tomorrow. We can think of two ways to avoid dirty dishes today: Use disposable plates, cups and silverware for all meals and snacks; Take the family out to eat all three meals. Then for snack, go out for ice cream! We strongly recommend that you do not pile up the dishes to do tomorrow. This defeats the purpose of this very special day.”

VISIT YOUR RELATIVES DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Visit Your Relatives Day encourages us to visit our relatives and loved ones. This day is intended to give us the opportunity to get closer to our relatives, and to build (or re-build) family ties and relationships. It’s easy to get out of touch with loved ones. We lead busy lives. A visit with the relative, is sometimes relegated to Christmas and a few other choice major holidays. If you can not visit your relatives today, we suggest you call them and/or send them a card. Both snail mail and online cards will do.”

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbeque Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
Older Americans Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

HARRISON FORD AND HELEN MIRREN TO STAR IN YET ANOTHER YELLOWSTONE PREQUEL

Well, here’s a big get: Helen Mirren, 76, and Harrison Ford, 79, have been signed to star in the Yellowstone origin story from creator Taylor Sheridan called “1932.” The series will stream exclusively on Paramount+ and debut in December. The story introduces yet another generation of the Dutton family and will explore the early 20th century “when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, the place the Duttons who call home.” Ford and Mirren once starred together, many, many years ago, in a film called “The Mosquito Coast.”
* We’re gonna have a Yellowstone series for every single year from 1883 until the present day, aren’t we?
* This takes the term “Old West” to a whole ‘nother level.
* It’s like a Marvel Universe for men over 60.
* I’m waiting for “Yellowstone: 1969” when the ranch hosts a huge music festival full of hippies.

PEOPLE MAGAZINE ENDING PRINT VERSION

People magazine is rumored to be ending its weekly print edition. The magazine’s new owner wants to slash costs. The magazine – a 48-year-old fixture in pop culture – is now owned by Dotdash Meredith, which has shuttered a slew of print publications, including Entertainment Weekly and InStyle. People has had the largest audience of any American magazine for nearly a decade until 2018, when it surrendered the title to – can you guess? – AARP.
* So now when you’re waiting to get your hair cut, they’ll just hand you an e-reader with a worn out copy of People from 1996.
* I’m sure they’ll take the money saved and apply it toward more of their famous in-depth reporting.
* Well, folks, good luck hunting down any celebrity news.
* They stop People magazine, the next month you’ll see the headline, “Old-Growth Forests Make Unexplained Comeback.”
* Do you get the feeling that, if they stopped publishing these magazines, a thousand B- and C-list celebrities would just disappear into dust, as if Thanos snapped his fingers?

CHRIS MELONI WORKS OUT NAKED

Christopher Meloni says he works out naked when he’s exercising at home. The 61-year-old “Law & Order: Organized Crime” star was in front of reporters at the 2022 NBC upfronts in New York City on Monday. He said, “I work out naked. It’s my gym. And I don’t black out the window. And I’m OK with that. My wife is not.”
* So he’s showing off the ol’ Meloni baloney.
* It can be very dangerous standing too close to the curl machine.
* Is it really this hard for entertainment reporters to think of good questions?
* Fabulous celebrity news like this, and “People” decides to stop printing magazines??? (See story above.)

THE BUZZ

SURVEY: HALF DON’T FEEL LIKE AN ADULT UNTIL THEY HIT 29

A recent survey of 2,000 Americans, from Avocado Green – a mattress company – found half of those surveyed said they didn’t feel like an adult until they hit 29 years old.
– What makes people feel like an adult? Living on your own for the first time (30%); buying a house (28%); getting married (27%); opening their own bank account (27%); and having kids (26%).
* So there are 26% of the people who have a baby and then think, “This would be a good time to go to the skate park.”
* How about when your doctor puts you on anti-depression, blood pressure, or cholesterol medications?
* No one under 29 has been able to afford buying a house since 1978.
* They forgot to list “the first time your hear your mother’s or your father’s words coming out of your mouth”. That’s a frightening moment in everyone’s life.
* In terms of promoting their mattresses, I don’t think Avocado Green got their money’s worth on this survey.

U.S. NEWS

WENDY’S WORKERS GET IN KNIFE FIGHT

In Asheboro, North Carolina, two workers at an Wendy’s restaurant stabbed each other after getting into a fight. Officers responded to a reported stabbing and found one of the victims at the scene. That person was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The suspect’s car was soon located and that person was taken into custody, but first he was also taken to a hospital for treatment of a stab wound.
* Where’s the beef? It’s between these two guys, apparently.
* As employee confrontations go, this one was a Whopper.
* They’re both lucky they chose knives and not sporks.
* Alright, who left ketchup all over the counter? Wait – that’s not ketchup.
* Usually, you get a slice at a pizza shop.

AUDIO: WOMAN DELIVERS BABY BY SIDE OF THE ROAD, WITH HER OTHER FIVE KIDS IN THE CAR

On Sunday, a Kentucky woman gave birth on the side of a road while her five other children sat in the car. Heather Skaats said she was having light contractions, but she figured she had time to run an errand. Nope. The contractions intensified and started coming very close together. She started driving faster to get home where a water birth was planned. But it became clear there wasn’t going to be enough time. She pulled over, assured the kids that everything was OK, got out of the van and squatted on the grass when her water broke. She caught the baby, a 7-pound boy, who came out quick, called her husband, and with the baby still attached to her placenta inside her body, she got back into the van where her children, ages 2 thru 13, were waiting (* playing their video games, probably.) Once home, she delivered her placenta in the shower (* Okay, right there they crossed the line of Too Much Information). Soon after, Skaat’s midwife arrived, and, Mrs. Skaats said, “We had to pick the grass off him.” Skaats and her husband are still working on a name.
* Mac – short for Macadam.
* Dom – short for Domino’s, because he came in 30 minutes or less.
* Good thing she was probably wearing a skirt and not, say, yoga pants.
* Speaking of the husband, who leaves their wife alone to wrangle five kids when a baby is due any moment?
* What was the errand that was so important? Guess the family will just have to go see “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” another time.
CLIP: Stretching sounds, woman screams, baby pops out and laughs.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/baby-popping-out(dot)mp3

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

MAN ROBS GROCERY STORE WITH HAMMER

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Regional Police are searching for a suspect after he robbed a grocery store with a hammer Sunday night. The man demanded money from an employee at the Sobeys store. He left with cash. No one was hurt. Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect.
* By way of description, he’s got a hammer.
* What did he do, threaten to smash the screen that scans the codes?
* The Hammer Man demanded money, and the checker kept telling him, “U can’t touch this.”
* Bystanders described the experience as wrenching.
* If they catch him, he’ll be screwed.

TRENDING

ROBERT DOWNEY JR DOING A CAR REALITY SHOW

Robert Downey Jr. is set to restore classic cars in his second Discovery+ series. The reality TV show, with the working title Downey’s Dream Cars, will launch in late 2022 on Discovery+. Downey and his team of experts will revive his own classic cars, while also looking to restore a battered global environment by creating eco-friendly automobiles for the 21st century.

TOP COLLEGES

Money magazine ranked over 600 colleges based on multiple criteria including acceptance rate, tuition costs for 2022-2023, availability of grants, the percentage of students who get those grants, the graduation rate, and the early career earnings.
The Top Ten Colleges:
1. University of Michigan
2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3. University of Virginia
4. Massachusetts Maritime Academy
5. Virginia Military Institute
6. Georgia Institute of Technology
7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8. University of Florida
9. University of California, Irvine
10. University of California, Davis

The Bottom Five, out of 623 schools:
619. Morehouse College, Atlanta
620. Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama
621. West Virginia State University
622. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
623. Clark Atlanta University

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

May 30, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Tuesday – Flag Day
June 19, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 21, Tuesday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 5:14 A.M. EDT)
July 4, Monday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 5, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Sunday – Patriot Day
Sept. 22, Thursday – Fall begins, Equinox is 9:04 p.m. EDT

BIRTHDAYS

David Nail (country singer) … 43
Tina Fey (comedian, actress, “30 Rock,” “SNL”) … 52
George Strait (country singer) … 70
Rick Wakeman (keyboard player w “Yes”) … 73
Reggie Jackson (Baseball Hall-of-Famer) … 76

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

“I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will.”

(A) Bill Cosby
(B) Kevin Spacey
(C) Tina Fey

ANSWER: (C) Tina Fey

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2021 – India recorded the highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date in the world with 4,529 deaths.

2014 – Russian President Putin signed a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.
* There was also an amendment attached changing Putin’s first name to “Adolph.”

1998 – The U.S. federal government filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., saying the computer software company had a “choke hold” on competitors which denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the software market.
* Then all their computers froze.

1980 – The Mt. St. Helens volcano blew up.
* It made it hard going for mountain climbers because they had to slog through all the ash. On the other hand, it’s much easier getting to the top since the top third of the mountain is no longer there.

1927 – Actress Norma Talmadge became the first celebrity to preserve her prints and signature in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
* Actually, she just slipped and fell in wet cement, and thought of the idea to save face.

1926 – Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time.
* He was the lucky tenth caller.

1910 – Halley’s Comet appeared, and many people panicked thinking the Earth would pass through the tail, killing millions.
* Unbelievable how ignorant some people are. Oh, speaking of space, stay tuned next for the daily horoscope report.

1830 – Edwin Budding of England patented the lawn mower.
* It ruined Saturdays, but it was faster than scissors.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – A sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during the singer’s last photoshoot with Nirvana sold for $75,000 at a New York auction. Also sold for $23,000 was Nirvana’s handwritten set list from an April 1990 concert in Washington, D.C., which Cobain wrote with black marker on a paper plate.

2011 – John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for the 1967 Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” sold for $237,132 at an auction in the US. It was speculated the song was about the drug LSD, however, The Beatles denied this, with Lennon saying the inspiration had come from a picture his son Julian had drawn of a classmate named Lucy Vodden.

2000 – Madonna’s boyfriend Guy Ritchie was arrested after attacking a fan outside the superstar’s London home. Ritchie was said to have kicked and punched a male fan after the couple returned home from a night out.

1997 – Sir Paul McCartney took part in a question and answer session on the Internet. 2.6 million questions were sent in.

1990 – An American photographer filed a complaint against Wham! after claiming the duo “roughed him up” when he tried to take their pictures.

1987 – Religious officials declared that Michael Jackson was no longer a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

1976 – Keith Richards crashed his car in Newton Pagnell, England, but escaped with minor injuries.

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. 70% of women surveyed said if a man doesn’t do THIS on the first date, there won’t be a second date. What is it?
Make her laugh

2. 70% of women surveyed said it’s unforgivable for a man to do THIS on a first date. What is it?
Forget her name

3. 28% of guys ruin a first date by doing THIS. What is it?
Not opening the car door for their date

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