WEDNESDAY, June 8 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP EMAIL AND TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Legalese; THE ONLY MORNING SOW 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.)

BEST FRIENDS DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Best Friends Day is a time to enjoy and appreciate your best friend. It’s a day to honor and cherish the relationship. If you’re lucky, you have a best friend. If you are real lucky, you have a number of best friends. Best friends are very, very special people. You spend countless hours with your best friend going to events and activities, or just hanging out. You share secrets, hopes, dreams, aspirations, and disappointments with your best friend. Some folks say you can only have one best friend. This author disagrees. You can have a couple at the same time, or several over time. Friends come and go for a variety of reasons. It’s the result of many things, including moving, changing schools or jobs, and more. We hope that you are lucky enough to have a number of best friends over the years. Celebrate Best Friend Day by: Spending time with your best friend; Making efforts to find a best friend (if you don’t currently have one); Giving a small gift or card to your best friend; Calling an old best friend that you’ve lost touch with.”

JELLY-FILLED DOUGHNUT DAY

NAME YOUR POISON DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Name Your Poison Day is a day to make a choice. The term ‘Name Your Poison’ is commonly used to suggest that you select among a number of options. This term has a negative connotation. The origin of this term is unknown. But, at the time, it probably referred to some unhappy choice. It is commonly used when asking someone what type of alcoholic drink they want. But, it is also used to refer to any choice of options, good or bad. For example, Name Your Poison may refer to selecting an ice cream flavor, a dessert choice, etc. Celebrate today by making a decision … Name Your Poison.”

UPSY DAISY DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“Each year on June 8, National Upsy Daisy Day is set aside to encourage you to face the day positively and to get up ‘gloriously, gratefully and gleefully’ each morning. Every day is a gift and if we remember that as we rise each morning, it will help us carry a good attitude throughout the day, whatever the day may bring us. Life is full of challenges and bumps in the road, and it is our attitude that helps us over the bumps and through the challenges to move onward with a smile. Give it a try. Be grateful and thankful for what you do have such as a bed to sleep in, food to eat, friends and family. Try a smile and see how it feels. It may surprise you that it feels good on the inside also and how other people will smile back. You may just brighten up their day! Upsy Daisy!”

June is:

NATIONAL DJ MONTH – Yeah!
National Adopt a Cat / Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music / Black Music Appreciation Month
Corn Month
Great Outdoors Month / National Camping Month
International Men’s Month
Lemon Month
LGBTQIA Pride Month
National Candy Month
National Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rose Month
National Seafood Month
Women’s Golf Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

AUDIO: “SAMANTHA” STATUE IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS VANDALIZED

The “Bewitched” statue in Salem, Massachusetts was vandalized with red paint. Witnesses called police at about 5 p.m. Monday to report someone spray painting the bronze statue, which depicts the show’s star Elizabeth Montgomery sitting on a broomstick in front of a crescent moon. Police located and arrested the vandal – a 32-year-old city resident who said he has been living in a shelter for two weeks since his marriage ended, looking for a new job, and was “going through a rough time and wanted to do something to get arrested.” He was. The paint was quickly cleaned off.
* Like magic!
* Sounds like he was under some kind of… spell.
* Somebody Darrin-ed him to do it.
* He better hope Endora doesn’t find out.
CLIP: The “Bewitched” magic sound effect.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/BewtichedMagicSoundEffect-1(dot)mp3

THE BUZZ

THE BEST MIDNIGHT SNACKS

Are you one of those people who get up in the middle of the night for a midnight snack? Here are some tips from dieticians on the best things to eat that won’t keep you up the rest of the night and won’t make you feel guilty the next morning for pigging out:
– Sliced turkey breast
– Cheese and crackers
– Vegetables and hummus
– Tart cherries and pistachios
– Banana and nut butter
– Cereal and milk
– Protein or snack bars
* If these are your only choices, what’s the point of even being an adult?
* Hummus? I think dieticians have completely missed the point of a midnight snack.
* These suggestions MIGHT possibly work if they were included in a list of pizza toppings.
* Sure, chow down at 1 a.m. on some tart cherries and pistachios. But make sure to reserve the bathroom for ninety minutes the next morning.
* Not even a monkey would wake up in the middle of the night and think, “You know, I could really go for a banana right now.”

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN FINDS $36,000 IN FREE COUCH

A California woman brought home some furniture she got for free on Craigslist and discovered more than $36,000 in cash hidden in the cushions. Vicky Umodu spotted two couches and a matching chair being given away for free on Craigslist. She called the person who made the listing and found out the furniture had belonged to a recently deceased relative and the family was trying to get rid of everything on the property. When she got the furniture home, she noticed something unusual about one of the sofa cushions, so she unzipped it and felt a bunch of paper. The cushion contained multiple envelopes that turned out to contain more than $36,000 cash. She called the person who had made the Craigslist posting and they said the family had discovered other envelopes of cash hidden around the home. She gave the cash back, although the family gave Umodu a $2,200 reward for returning the cash. She said she plans to spend the money on a new refrigerator.
* Good luck getting that refrigerator delivered before 2024.
* The cash was nice, but it smelled like butts.
* I really need my staff to stop bringing me these stories about people who find money that no one ever needs to know about, but then they give it back. It totally ruins my day and makes me crabby for the rest of the week.
* Would it be so bad to just call your best friend who’s on hard times and say, “I don’t feel good about keeping this money. Would you take it off my hands?”
* When the next California mudslide does $30,000 worth of damage to the first floor of your house, I hope you still feel good about how noble you were.
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you ever find any treasures while cleaning out a deceased relative’s house?

MAN MISTAKES ALLIGATOR FOR DOG

Just after midnight Tuesday, at the Warm Mineral Springs Motel in North Port, Florida, a hotel guest was walking around the outside area of the motel when he noticed a dark figure moving along the bushes. He thought it was a dog and kept walking. It wasn’t a dog. It was a 7-foot alligator, and it grabbed onto the 49-year-old man’s leg. As he pulled away, the gator took a healthy chunk out of the man’s leg (* when an alligator takes a chunk out of our leg, is it really healthy?). He was treated at a hospital. Florida Fish and Wildlife removed from the animal from the property.
* And to make things worse, the air conditioner rattled all night.
* Yeah, alligators are kinda the OPPOSITE of man’s best friend.
* When they play “fetch,” it’s with your limbs.
* You never think that you could be the complimentary continental breakfast for some motel alligator.
* That motel might consider reviewing its landscape lighting plan.

AUDIO: COLORADO TOWN WANTS TO CHANGE NAME TO “KUSH”

The tiny town of Moffat, in southern Colorado — population 120 – is thinking about changing its name to Kush, a slang word for marijuana. Five years ago, Mike Biggio and his business partner founded Area 420, a collection of 70 grow operations. Now Biggio wants the town’s name to showcase its economic engine. Many residents, including the town’s mayor, are all for it. The cannabis industry has reinvigorated the town. Tax revenue went from $80,000 pre-marijuana to $400,000 last year. The cash has been used to fund a new water and sewer system, school upgrades, fresh paving and housing development. Town officials say they’re still figuring out how a change could even happen — whether it would take a ballot measure or a petition.
* They’re all too stoned to make any sense out of the old town founding documents.
* So they’re just going to mellow on that for awhile and see what eventually happens.
* 70 grow operations in a town of 120. There are 50 people in that town that just need to chill out, man.
* The only drug problem in that town is where to store all of it.
* This wouldn’t be the first town to name itself after marijuana. There’s Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Hays (Haze), Kansas. Weed, California. Roach, Missouri. Bud, West Virginia. I could go on, but I’m starting to get a contact high from this story.
CLIP: Our classic “Colorado Tourism Board” parody spot.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/11-11-ColoradoTourismBoard.mp3

TRENDING

JIMMY SEALS OF “SEALS AND CROFTS” DIES AT 80

Jim Seals, one half of the Seals and Crofts soft-rock duo has died. He was 80. Seals & Crofts were known for their hits “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl,” “I’ll Play for You,” “Get Closer,” and the high school prom standard “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” Jimmy Seals’ younger brother, the late Dan Seals, was the “England Dan” in another 70’s duo, England Dan and John Ford Coley. Dan Seals passed away in 2009. Darrell “Dash” Crofts is still alive and kickin’ at 81 years old.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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

Kanye West (rapper, narcissist) … 44
Sturgill Simpson (country music singer-songwriter, actor) … 44
Julianna Margulies (actress, “The Morning Show,” “Billions,” “The Good Wife”) … 55
Nick Rhodes (keyboard player with Duran Duran) … 60
Keenan Ivory Wayans (comedy actor/producer) … 64
Scott Adams (cartoonist, “Dilbert”) … 65
Bonnie Tyler (singer, “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”) … 71
Boz Scaggs (singer & guitarist) … 78
Nancy Sinatra (singer) … 82

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

“My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”

(A) Ed Sheeran
(B) Carrot Top
(C) Kanye West

ANSWER: (C) Kanye West

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2020 – A study by London’s Imperial College concluded that lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives.

1936 – The first parking meter was invented.
* Followed quickly by the invention of the metal slug.

1896 – For the first time ever, an automobile was stolen.
* Up until then there was only “Grand Theft Horse.”

1889 – Cable cars began service in Los Angeles.
* Wow! A car that gets cable!

1869 – Ives McGaffney of Chicago obtained a patent for his ‘sweeping machine,’ the first vacuum cleaner.
* As invention go, it really sucked – but that was a GOOD thing.

1824 – The washing machine was patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
* He really cleaned up on his invention.

1786 – Commercially made ice cream was first sold.
* Beginning the westward expansion of America’s waistlines.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – Two musicians, Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, sued Ed Sheeran for $20m over his single “Photograph,” claiming much of the song was copied note-for-note from their song, “Amazing,” which was released by former X Factor winner Matt Cardle in 2012. The two produced sheet music showing “This copying is, in many instances, verbatim, note-for-note copying, makes up nearly one half of Photograph, and raises this case to the unusual level of strikingly similar copying,” and that Sheeran and his songwriting partner Johnny McDaid, from Snow Patrol, had “copied and exploited, without authorization or credit, the work of other active, professional songwriters on a breathtaking scale.” On April 7, 2017, Sheeran settled the case, granting shared songwriting credits to Harrington and Leonard as co-authors, and assigning them a significant share of the song’s royalties.

2012 – Lauryn Hill was charged with willfully failing to file income tax returns in the US. The total owed was roughly $2.3 million. She pled guilty and was sentenced to three months in a minimum security prison.

2007 – George Michael was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and banned from driving for two years. Michael had been found slumped at the steering wheel of his car, and pled guilty to driving while unfit, blaming “tiredness and prescribed drugs” for the offense.

2002 – Jennifer Lopez separated from her second husband, dancer Cris Judd, after nine months of marriage.

1991 – Paula Abdul started a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Spellbound.”

1991 – Bruce Springsteen married Patti Scialfa at their Beverley Hills home.

1989 – Pretenders lead singer and animal activist Chrissie Hynde admitted that she once firebombed a branch of McDonald’s.

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. The average woman is only able to do THIS for two days. What is it?
Keep a secret

2. 30% of women surveyed said their favorite one of THESE is about 10 years old. What is it?
A bra

3. 1 in 3 women do not do THIS common daily activity. What is it?
Blow dry their hair

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