TUESDAY, Nov 29 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, November 29, 2022
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: 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.)

CHOCOLATES DAY

ELECTRONIC GREETINGS DAY

GIVING TUESDAY
The Win Calendar website says this:
“Giving Tuesday aims to celebrate and promote charity and generosity. After two of the largest shopping days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday aims to provide people with a day to give back through donations, volunteering time, or any other form of charitable action. It is celebrated annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving as a reminder of the importance of generosity over consumption.”

NATIONAL LEMON CREME PIE DAY

SQUARE DANCE DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Here’s a chance to get out and ‘Dosey Do’ with your partner. It’s Square Dance Day! English, Irish, and Scottish settlers brought square dancing to the U.S. Couples square dance in circles or square formations. It’s lively and quick, and lots of fun. As it evolved in the U.S., a caller was added, to help dancers stay in step. It remains popular in southern and western rural areas.”

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

WILL SMITH UNDERSTANDS IF NO ONE WANTS TO SEE HIS NEW MOVIE

Actor Will Smith said he would understand if moviegoers are not “ready” to see his new film, “Emancipation,” after he slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars earlier this year. In “Emancipation,” Smith plays a slave who flees a plantation in Louisiana. Smith said in a recent interview with FOX 5 DC news: “I completely understand that, if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready. My deepest concern is director Antoine Fuqua has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career” and that his “deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team.”
* Uh, would that be a soccer team, penalized for illegal use of hands?
* If people go see it, it will just be another hit from Will Smith.
* But if it flops, that will be like a slap in the face from fans.
* Something about this smacks of insincerity.
* I wonder if his movie will win the Palme d’Or? Or maybe the Palme-print d’Or!
* Thank you for allowing me my space to not be ready to see your movie, so I can self-care and further empower my well-being. I’ll go see “Violent Night” with the Die Hard Santa Claus instead.

THE BUZZ

STUDY: MORNING PEOPLE ARE SMARTER

Finally, a study everybody listening right now can agree is true. New research from the University of Ottawa suggests that morning people display more robust verbal intelligence. (* Why, how loquacious!) Stuart Fogel, Director of the University of Ottawa Sleep Research Laboratory, says their research found that morning types tend to have superior verbal ability. (* Not to mention pusillanimous!) To apply this information to the real world, he notes that most younger people tend to be “evening types,” although school start times are early in the morning, so students are fighting their biological clock. Math and science classes are normally scheduled early in the day, even though the morning is not when students are at their best due to their evening type tendencies.
* Then he left to take a nap.
* This study funded by the Council For Teenagers Who Just Want Five More Minutes Of Sleep.
* I’ve always said morning people like us are much more mezzanine than people who sleep late. And tantamount, too.
* If us morning people are so smart, how come we haven’t figured out a way to sleep in?
* I’ve been getting up at 4 a.m. for years, and I’m still in radio. Yeah, I’m a genius.

U.S. NEWS

NAME THE NEW JEEP, WIN A $40,000 VACATION

Jeep has launched a contest to name one of its upcoming electric SUVs. The brand unveiled two concept vehicle in September that will be going on sale in the 2024 model year. It’s currently called the Wagoneer S, an electric street-smart performance SUV with a driving rage of 400 miles between charges. Jeep is asking fans for suggestions on what to replace it with in an online contest, with the winner getting a week-long vacation for four to the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming worth $40,000.
* You know Jeep has a room full of people who do nothing but name cars and they all earn $40,000 a month, right?
* And also notice: they’re not giving you the car.
* How about the JERK – Jeep Electric Road Kar – car spelled with a K.
* The Jeep Heap. Jeep Leap. Jeep Bo-Peep. Dirt Jeep. Jeep Shot. Jeep Skate. Jeep Thrill. I know —- Jeep Trick!

MONOPOLY GAME TURNS VIOLENT, AS THEY DO

The Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Department arrested a man Saturday night after a family game of Monopoly turned violent. Investigators on a 911 call learned the family had been drinking alcohol and playing Monopoly when a fight broke out between John Armstrong and his stepfather. After knocking over the game board and turning over furniture, they were told to take the fight outside, where Armstrong allegedly pulled out a gun, chased his stepfather and stepsister down the street, and fired one shot at the ground. Mr. Armstrong went to jail, went directly to jail for assault with a deadly weapon.
* He shoots, he ladders. I don’t know what that means.
* Everybody was angry because inflation made all the building prices go up so much.
* It almost turned into a game of Clue.
* This family should just watch TV. It’s less violent.
* It doesn’t take a Mastermind to know that when you play Monopoly, you should expect Trouble. That’s the Risk. Doesn’t matter how many times you say, “Sorry!”

FAKE SUPER BOWL RINGS SEIZED

Border officers in St. Louis, Missouri spotted and seized 422 fake Super Bowl championship rings that arrived from China and were headed for a residence in Jerseyville, Illinois. The rings each bore the image of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is awarded annually to each Super Bowl winner. The Customs agency warns that “Counterfeit jewelry continues to flood the e-commerce market, and these rings were focused on a select group of sports collectors and their fans.”
* Well, the rings certainly weren’t headed to Denver, Pittsburgh, Houston, Chicago or Los Angeles this year.
* More Fake news, literally.
* You don’t normally think of border agents operating in St. Louis, Missouri. Must be a lot of illegal crossings…of the Mississippi River.
* I wouldn’t be surprised if the REAL Super Bowl rings were also made in China. Isn’t everything?
* Hey, I’m tellin’ ya, those Chinese got their fingers in everything. My kid got a letter back from Santa – it was postmarked Shanghai.

CAESAR SALAD-FLAVORED CANDY CANES

Every holiday season brings out novelty flavored treats, but here’s a new one: A website called World Of Mirth is selling Caesar Salad Candy Canes. It’s a package of six candy canes that taste like Caesar salad. According to the description: “A little creamy, a little lettuce-y, and a tiny bit anchovy.” $7.99 for a pack of six.
* You had me right up until “anchovy.”
* How does this work? Take a bite of salad, lick the cane… Take a bite of salad, lick the cane …?
* I bet you could get 100 if you offered them five dollars. Ten bucks would clean out the warehouse.
* So good, you’ll be tempted to eat it with a salad fork.
* Lettuce hope this is the last year we hear about these.

MERRIAM-WEBSTER WORD OF THE YEAR: GASLIGHTING

Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s word of the year is “Gaslighting.” It means behavior that’s mind-manipulating, grossly misleading, or deceitful. Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, says lookups for the word on their website increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before. He added that it was unusual because there wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in curiosity, as it usually goes with the chosen word of the year. “It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year,” he said.
* Whoops – just kidding! The real word of the year is Fakeout!
* It’s the word most people don’t know the meaning of, so that makes it the word of the year. What’s wrong with this picture?
* We used to do gas lighting in college, but I don’t think this is the same thing.
* Merriam-Webster Dictionary: doing anything we can to stay relevant in the digital age.
* By the way – Daniel Webster I know. But who is this Merriam person?

TRENDINGDWAYNE JOHNSON ATONES FOR SHOPLIFTING

Dwayne Johnson over the weekend shared a video on social media documenting a recent visit to a 7-Eleven in Hawaii during which he bought out the store’s supply of Snickers bars and left them for any hungry customers to take for free. Johnson, 50, said he was doing as an act of redemption. He said when he was 14-years-old he used to go to that very 7-Eleven daily and steal a King-sized Snickers on his way to the gym because he was broke and couldn’t afford to buy one. He recalled that “the same clerk was there every day and always just turned her head and never busted me.” As he later found massive success in the years following, his shoplifting weighed on him, so he decided to settle up with that same 7-Eleven. “Had to ‘right the wrong’ back home in Hawaii after all these years.” He also picked up the tab for others waiting to pay and posed for selfies with his fellow 7-Eleven shoppers.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Dec. 21, Wednesday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 4:48 p.m. EST
Dec. 25, Sunday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Saturday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Sunday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

Lucas Black (actor, “NCIS: New Orleans”) … 40
Anna Faris (actress, “Mom”) … 46
Brian Baumgartner (actor, “The Office”) … 50
Don Cheadle (actor) … 58
Kim Delaney (actress, “General Hospital,” “Army Wives”) … 61
Howie Mandel (comedian, TV personality “America’s Got Talent,” “Deal Or No Deal”) … 67
Joel Coen (producer, director, “Fargo”) … 68
Barry Goudreau (guitarist with Boston) … 71

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

“I’ve been chased … I’ve been pushed. I’ve been screamed at. I’ve been verbally abused. I’ve been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.”

(A) Kanye West
(B) Justin Beiber
(C) Howie Mandel

ANSWER: (C) Howie Mandel

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1998 – Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics.
* Drastically cutting down on visits by Keith Richards.

1963 – President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of JFK.
* Oliver Stone was too young to take the position.

1963 – McDonald’s sold its one-billionth hamburger.
* It ought to be digested any day now.

1961 – An Atlas spacecraft was launched by NASA with Enos the chimp on board. After two orbits he landed safely.
* Then went bananas.

1953 – “Playboy” was first published – the December 1953 issue featured Marilyn Monroe.
* That week saw a record number of sprained wrists.

1929 – American Admiral Richard Byrd became the first man to fly over the South Pole.
* I knew birds fly south in winter, but that was a little nuts.

1775 – A new development in espionage was invented when Sir James Jay invented invisible ink.
* He actually invented it many years before, but the formula disappeared off the page and he had to start over.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2007 – Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to properly register a new permanent address. The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty in 1993 to charges of attempted capital sexual battery by an adult on a victim younger than 12 and being principal to lewd and lascivious behavior on a child younger than 16. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.

2003 – A five-hour charity show, to boost the fight against AIDS, was held at the Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Acts who appeared included Bono, Queen, Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics, and Beyonce. The show was also broadcast live on the internet.

2001 – Former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer at age 58. Tributes to George were made worldwide by The Queen, George Bush, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher.

2000 – U2’s Larry Mullen came to the rescue of motorcyclist who had been involved in a crash. Larry was driving home when he saw the motorcyclist who had crashed. He stopped and called for help on his phone and waited for the ambulance to arrive.

1996 – American singer and 60s curiosity Tiny Tim died.

1995 – Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar married model Kari Karte in San Francisco.

1986 – “Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band Live / 1975-85” started a seven-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart.

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. THIS activity in American homes has dropped 80% since 1960. What is it?
Reading bedtime stories to kids

2. THIS was way more popular with kids 20 years ago than it is today. What is it?
Cereal

1. 44% of parents say their kids have become more rude since they started doing THIS. What is it?
Playing video games

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