WEDNESDAY, Feb 8 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2023
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Valentine’s Day Kissing Booth; 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.)

BOY SCOUT ANNIVERSARY DAY – Incorporated in 1910.

LAUGH AND GET RICH DAY
The Time And Date website says this:
“While being happy won’t make you laugh all the way to the bank, it will certainly help improve your mood and your health. Studies have shown that people who are happy and laugh often tend to have less stress, lower blood pressure and a better immune response. Laughing and sharing jokes can also have social benefits. Happy people tend to have more friends and are easily accepted by social groups. Being happy can also help a person professionally. Joyful workers are more productive and liked by their co-workers compared to cranky and unhappy professionals.”

MOLASSES BAR DAY

OPERA DAY

February is:

Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month
African American History Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
International Boost Self Esteem Month
International Friendship Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Snack Food Month
National Sweet Potato Month
Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

STRANGEST SUPER BOWL PROP BETS

With the Super Bowl this Sunday, it’s time for the annual Prop Bets story. These are the side bets that bookies make on the game, things like “Who will score first?” and “How many field goals will be attempted?” But there are also weird prop bets with every Super Bowl. Here are some of them:
– How Long Will It Take Chris Stapleton To Sing The US National Anthem? Under 2:05; Over 2:05
– Who Will Be Shown First During The National Anthem, Patrick Mahomes or Jalen Hurts
– Halftime Show – Color of Rihanna’s First Outfit: Black; Gold; Silver; White; Green
– Halftime Show – Color of Rihanna’s Hair: Black/Brown; Bright Red; Blonde
– Halftime Show First Song: Diamonds; Don’t Stop the Music; Lift Me Up; What’s My Name; This Is What You Came For; Umbrella; Stay; We Found Love; Where Have You Been
– Number of Hotdogs Sold at State Farm Stadium: 17,000 or Under; Over 17,000
– Number Of Beers Sold: 120,000 or Under; Over 120,000
– What Color Gatorade Will Be Poured on the Winning Coach: Blue is the favorite, followed by Lime/Green/Yellow; Orange; Red; Clear/Water; Purple
– What Commercial Will Air First: Avocados from Mexico vs. Hellmann’s Mayonnaise? Doritos vs. M&Ms? Heineken vs. Budweiser?
– How Many Times Will Tom Brady Be Mentioned During The Super Bowl? Over 1.5 times; Under 1.5 times?
* Uhh, is that just one-point-five or 1.5 thousand mentions of Tom Brady?
* If you’re in charge of the Gatorade, you could make some big money this Sunday.
* State Farm Stadium has a capacity of 63,400. 120,000 beers. Is there a prop bet on visits to the restrooms?
* Within 5, how many puppies will pee on the field during the Puppy Bowl?

AARON RODGERS TO DO “DARKNESS RETREAT” BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISIONS

Detroit Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he plans to spend four days in a “darkness retreat” to help him decide on his NFL future. Appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Rodgers said, “It’s a darkness retreat, and I’ve had a number of friends who have done it, and had some profound experiences and it’s something that’s been on my radar for a few years now and I felt like it would be awesome to do.” He explained what a darkness retreat is: “Four nights of complete darkness.” Food will be dropped off in “a little slot” in the blacked-out space. “It’s just sitting in isolation, meditation, being with your thoughts. It stimulates DMTs, so there can be some hallucinations in there, but it’s just kind of sitting in silence.”
* So, it’s like going to your in-laws.
* And then you come out, after four days, and the first thing you say is, “Hey – where’s my wallet?”
* I just hope there’s a nightlight in the john.
* Imagine slipping some magic mushrooms into his food. But that would be so wrong. But just imagine. But don’t actually do it.
* Too much of a scaredy cat to do the “vision quest” from Yellowstone?

BARBRA STREISAND WRITES 1,000-PAGE BIOGRAPHY

Barbra Streisand – actress, writer, singer, director, and producer – has a memoir coming out this November, called “My Name is Barbra.” It is 1,040 pages long.
* So much for saving the planet.
* Should we pause while 2/3 of our listeners google who Barbra Streisand is?
* I mean, she appeared on SNL with Mike Myers in “Coffee Talk,” but that was THIRTY YEARS AGO. (Season 17, 1992)
* She sang on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show (you’ll have to google THAT, also) in 1969! Brad Pitt was six years old!
* The weird part? Her real name is just plain old “Barbara” Joan Streisand.
* A thousand forty pages! So this is just Volume 1, right?
* Well, she’s finally won the EGO Award. Not the EGOT award; the EEEEGGGGOOOOO award.

THE BUZZ

STRESS SURVEY

(Note: for full effect, do this story at 7:23 am)
A new survey of 2,000 adults by stress reducer Rescue Remedy finds the most stressful time of day is… [an-ti-ci-pa-tion]… 7:23 a.m.!!! In addition:
– The first case of “drama” – something that you have to “deal” with – typically happens by 8:18 a.m.
– Individuals experience an average of three dramas a day, with women having their first case of morning drama around 7:50 a.m., while men typically make it to 8:43 a.m.
The survey also ranks the top everyday stressors. Here are some of them:
– Stuck in traffic
– Spilling something down clothing
– Breaking something accidentally
– Waking up late
– Spilling something on the carpet
– Burning food
– Tripping in public (* Far out, man!)
– Struggling to find a parking space
– Being late for work
– Forgetting bags at the supermarket
– Being locked out
– Car engine not starting
– Being late
– Sending a text message to the wrong person
– Deciding what to have for dinner
– Deciding what to wear
* Oh, boo-hoo. Who are you, the King of England to not have any stress? “Good morning, your highness! Here’s your breakfast, your highness! Here’s what you’re going to wear today, your highness! Your brother is a pervert, your highness!” Everyone’s got problems, you’re not special.
* Every human being on this planet wakes up with stress every day. What is it? Your bladder. And the day just goes downhill from there.
* Just think – if you’d been in a horrible accident and you were in the hospital in a body cast, none of these could happen to you. Weird, huh?
* To paraphrase George Carlin, this morning I definitely heard my Rice Krispies say, “Snap, Crackle and Up Yours!”
* A good way to deal with all this is, when you wake up, immediately have three Bloody Marys – BANG! BANG! BANG!

U.S. NEWS

NAKED MAN WITH PLUNGER ARRESTED

A 21-year-old man was arrested for running naked through a hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, wielding a toilet plunger and pulling fire alarms. Back on January 28, Trevyn Wayne Hill was approached by police in the 18th-floor stairwell at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown. He was naked, waving a toilet plunger and yelling, “I’m going to get you” as he chased another person. Witnesses saw Hill allegedly pull several fire alarms around the hotel. He was arrested and charged with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon.
* The toilet plunger, or HIS plunger?
* First time in the big city of Des Moines, son?
* Ha ha – I remember my first beer, too.
* Usually the only time you see a naked guy with a plunger yelling “I’m going to get you,” it’s a maintenance guy trying to unclog a nudist colony restroom.
* I guess a toilet plunger could be considered a deadly weapon. Y’know… cooties.

HOSPITAL SEES FIVE SETS OF TWINS IN TWO-AND-A-HALF WEEKS

Five sets of twins were born within two-and-a-half weeks of each other at a New York hospital. The babies arrived at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, Long Island, between Dec. 29, 2022 to mid-January 2023. Four sets of twins were born within two weeks, and another set a few days later. Two sets were identical twins, and the other three were fraternal twins.
* But then there was a mixup in the maternity ward, so every mother was given two at random and told they were fraternal twins.
* When the fathers heard they’d had twins, they went to the bar next door and ordered doubles.
* Might want to start saving for those two college tuitions like, next week.
* It’s Long Island. How many more days before they announce that there, literally, is something in the water?
* It was a special event for the hospital, too. It’s not every month you get a chance to double bill like that.

EGGS ARE DROPPING!

National Public Radio is reporting that wholesale egg prices are finally starting to come back down. Citing data from the USDA, NPR says that in the Midwest, the wholesale price for a dozen eggs dropped 58 cents to a total of $3.29 per dozen at the end of January.They note that these are wholesale prices, which means it still might be a couple weeks before we see any relief in retail prices. The initial cause of the jump in egg prices was due to a 2022 avian flu outbreak, causing entire flocks to be culled and supplies to drop drastically. Unfortunately, the outbreak is still in progress, with no clear end in sight. But egg farmers have replenished their chicken, uh, herds, and the hens are starting to lay.
* Or is it lie?
* Great, eggs are back and I’ve got 8 boxes of Cap’n Crunch in my pantry.
* Wow. Maybe we can finally get rid of our backyard chicken. I’m gonna need to go online and get some recipes.
* All those chickens getting the flu? Gee, it’s almost as if they were all packed together in a teeny tiny room.
* If they had to kill all those diseased chickens, where are all the chicken wings coming from for this weekend?

TRENDINGHARRY STYLES’ GRAMMY PERFORMANCE; THE STAGE WAS SUPPOSED TO SPIN THE OTHER WAY

If you watched the Grammys the other night, you saw Harry Styles perform his hit single “As It Was,” with a major reference to the video where Harry and his dancers perform on a revolving stage. One of the dancers at the Grammys revealed there was a big problem with the number: the stage was spinning in the opposite direction than the way they rehearsed. Dancer Brandon Mathis said in an Instagram post: “What you don’t know is that the moment the curtained opened and it was time to perform, our turntable starting spinning in reverse, backward, freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it.” The choreographer, Dexter Da Rocha, said, “We rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the table in a roll-off and just making this incredible, morphing, cool artistic moves and Harry did such a good job integrating into it. At dress rehearsal, it was gorgeous, it was amazing. We get on stage for the performance, the performance starts and the turntable starts going the wrong way.” Da Rocha explained that Styles “did his best to be able to walk and reverse everything while he was singing and reverse his entire duet.”

FLORIDA: SHARK BITE CITY

Florida led the world in “unprovoked” shark bites in 2022 — accounting for 28% of all global attacks, according to a new study from the University of Florida. The school’s International Shark File logged 57 total chomps last worldwide last year — with the Sunshine State accounting for 16 of them. The study states, proudly, strangely, “For decades, Florida has topped global charts in the number of shark bites, and this trend continued in 2022.” None of Florida’s attacks were fatal last year — although two bull shark assaults required amputations.

JOHN CLEESE TO DESTROY LEGACY WITH REBOOT OF “FAWLTY TOWERS”

British comedy legend John Cleese is going to revive his classic 1970s comedy “Fawlty Towers.” The show originally ran for two seasons of six episodes each. Those 12 episodes were considered Britain’s Greatest Sitcom Ever. ( * Warning: time changes everything.) The plan now is that Cleese will write and star in the show alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese. One of the executive producers is famous comedy director Rob Reiner ( * Warning again: time changes everything.) Cleese says the new Fawlty Towers will explore how Cleese’s misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world, and explore the relationship between Basil and a daughter he has just discovered he had, as the two run a boutique hotel.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

February 12, Sunday – Lincoln’s Birthday
February 14, Tuesday – Valentine’s Day
February 20, Monday – Presidents Day / Washington’s Birthday
February 21, Tuesday – Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras
March 12, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Begins
March 17, Friday – St. Patrick’s Day
March 20, Sunday – Spring begins, Spring Equinox is 5:24 p.m. EDT
March 21, Monday – First full day of Spring

BIRTHDAYS

Seth Green (actor, played Dr. Evil’s son in “Austin Powers” movies) … 49
Vince Neil (singer with Motley Crue) … 62
John Grisham (author) … 68
Mary Steenburgen (actress, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” “The Last Man on Earth”) … 70
Robert Klein (comedian) … 81
Nick Nolte (actor) … 81
Ted Koppell (TV journalist, former “Nightline” host) … 83
John Williams (film score composer, “Star Wars”) … 91

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

“I’ve always said that I had substance problems … but it’s something you deal with and you do deal with it, take care of it, and you can keep it under control, but every once in a while, you lose control.”

(A) Charlie Sheen
(B) Mel Gibson
(C) Nick Nolte

ANSWER: (C) Nick Nolte

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2007 – Model and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose.
* Thereby ushering in the Charlie Sheen / Lindsay Lohan Era.

2000 – Computer hackers shut down the eBay, Amazon and CNN websites.
* If only they had done it a few weeks earlier before Christmas – then I wouldn’t have spent 20 bucks on eBay for that stupid James Dean coffee mug for my stupid brother-in-law.

1994 – Jack Nicholson used a golf club to attack a car.
* The car won.

1969 – A meteorite weighing over a ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico, nearly hitting a house.
* Instead, the house now has a one-ton lawn ornament.

1928 – The first transatlantic TV image was received in Hartsdale, NY.
* From this humble beginning, Americans would one day be able to see topless game shows from Europe.

1924 – The gas chamber was used for the first time in America.
* Insert your own “bean burrito” joke here.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2013 – LA Superior Court Judge Charles Palmer threw out a claim by Axl Rose of fraud and misrepresentation against Guitar Hero III. Rose claimed that his deal with the company to license the song “Welcome to the Jungle” for use in the game included a promise from Activision that no images of Slash would be used in the game. Later, both Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine and Gwen Stefani’s band No Doubt sued the company over their own portrayals in Band Hero, a Guitar Hero series spin-off.

2010 – Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop superstar in Los Angeles Superior Court. (Murray was convicted and sentenced to four years in jail.)

2005 – Keith Knudson, drummer with The Doobie Brothers, died of pneumonia at the age of 56.

1992 – UK act Right Said Fred started a three-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “I’m Too Sexy.”

1990 – U.S. singer Del Shannon died of self inflicted gunshot wounds. (1961 U.S. No.1 single “Runaway” plus 9 other U.S. Top 40 singles.)

1981 – R.E.M. made their first ever-recording sessions at Bombay Studios Smyrna, Georgia. Tracks included “Gardening At Night,” “Radio Free Europe” and “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.”

1980 – The divorce between David and Angie Bowie became final. He won custody of their son Zowie, now known as Joe. Angie received a $51,000 settlement.

1975 – Bob Dylan went to No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Blood On The Tracks.”

1975 – The Ohio Players went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Fire,” the group’s first of two U.S. No.1’s.

1973 – Max Yasgur, the owner of the Woodstock farm where the 1969 festival was held, died of a heart attack at the age of 53.

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. According to research, the #1 reason men get into fist fights is over a woman. THIS is the second most common reason. What is it?
Parking spaces

2. In a recent survey, men were asked to name the oldest thing they have, and THIS was the #1 answer. What is it?
A baseball glove

3. Italian men tend to do THIS the longest. What is it?
Live with their mothers

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