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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 CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION DAY

NATIONAL PEACH COBBLER DAY

PLANT APPRECIATION DAY

SCRABBLE DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Scrabble Day celebrates the popular board game. Sold by Hasbro, Inc., it’s been popular around the world ever since it was created in 1938 by Alfred Mosher Butts. People young and old enjoy this game. It’s very easy to celebrate Scrabble Day. Just get out the old board game, dust it off, and play a few rounds with family or friends.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON DAY (Has this president been canceled yet?)
National Thomas Jefferson Day each year on April 13th honors the birth of the third President of The United States, Thomas Jefferson, who was born April 13, 1743.

April is:

Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
D.E.A.R Drop Everything and Read Month
International Guitar Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Garden Month
National Greyhound Adoption Month
National Humor Month
National Poetry Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

WHAT TO WATCH – New and Returning Shows and Movies

Premiering Thursday through Sunday
Listings sourced from the TV Guide and EW websites.

THURSDAY, Apr 13

“Florida Man”
Netflix – New Series
Synopsis: A disgraced cop in debt is forced to return to his home state of Florida for a shady mission only to get swept up in a wild — and deadly — treasure hunt.

FRIDAY, Apr 14

“Jane”
Apple TV+ – New Series
Synopsis: Jane is a 9-year-old budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals. Using her powerful imagination, Jane takes her best friends David and Greybeard the chimpanzee on epic adventures to help protect wild animals all around the world.

“The Last Thing He Told Me”
Apple TV+ – New Series
Synopsis: Hannah must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter, Bailey, to find the truth behind why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

Season Premieres:
Amazon Prime Video – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Starz – “Blindspotting”

SUNDAY, Apr 16

“Waco: The Aftermath
Showtime – New Series
Synopsis: Five-part drama series portraying the searing aftermath of the disastrous FBI 1993 standoff at the Branch Davidian compound – an event that galvanized American militia movements and helped radicalize Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and many others.

Season Premiere:
HBO – “Barry”

AUDIO: “HARRY POTTER” REBOOT ON HBO MAX

HBO Max has announced they are going to re-film all the Harry Potter books. They will begin casting new actors for the roles. Each season of the series will cover one of the books and promises to include more details from the books. Even though there are seven books, the series will run for 10 years on the streaming service.
* This is exactly the kind of fresh idea viewers are screaming for, HBO!
* I guarantee you, HBO Max won’t even be a thing by Season 3.
* A new cast? Are there any British actors left who weren’t in the original eight movies?
* Remember – actors from the original films must appear in new roles or cameos. It’s Reboot Law!
* Ten years! Sure, destroy the childhoods of another three child actors. Four, if you count Malfoy.
CLIP: Oh boy! Another round of Harry Potter mania!
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/12-08-HarryPotterCan-Can(dot)mp3

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR’S NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY

The Library of Congress announced that 25 recordings representing some of the “defining sounds of the nation’s history and culture” will be added to its National Recording Registry.
First, these are the ones you probably never heard of:
– “The Very First Mariachi Recordings” — Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
– “St. Louis Blues” — Handy’s Memphis Blues Band (1922)
– “Sugar Foot Stomp” — Fletcher Henderson (1926)
– Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio (Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939)
– “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around” — The Fairfield Four (1947)
– “Pale Blue Dot” — Carl Sagan (1994)
– “Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra” — Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer (2012)

Here are the recordings you will be familiar with:
– “Sherry” — The Four Seasons (1962)
– “What the World Needs Now is Love” — Jackie DeShannon (1965)
– “Wang Dang Doodle” — Koko Taylor (1966)
– “Ode to Billie Joe” — Bobbie Gentry (1967)
– “Déjà Vu” (the full album) — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
– “Imagine” — John Lennon (1971)
– “Stairway to Heaven” — Led Zeppelin (1971)
– “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — John Denver (1971)
– “Margaritaville” — Jimmy Buffett (1977)
– “Flashdance…What a Feeling” — Irene Cara (1983)
– “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” — Eurythmics (1983)
– “Synchronicity” — The Police (1983)
– “Like a Virgin” — Madonna (1984)
– “Black Codes (From the Underground)” — Wynton Marsalis (1985)
– Super Mario Bros. theme — Koji Kondo, composer (1985)
– “All Hail the Queen” — Queen Latifah (1989)
– “All I Want for Christmas is You” — Mariah Carey (1994)
– “Gasolina” — Daddy Yankee (2004)
* Hello, and welcome to “That’s My Playlist!!!”
* I don’t believe I’m familiar with that Mariah Carey song. How does it go?
* I can’t help but think “Flashdance…What a Feeling” set the nation’s “history and culture” back a couple of years.
* A lot of these songs – you hear what it is, and the response is, “Okay, Boomer.”
* Good things they put these songs in a library, because you’d never hear them otherwise.

THE BUZZ

THREE DUMB HEADLINES

Time for another episode of Three Dumb Headlines. These are actual, word-for-word headlines of stories found on the internet. There’s no story, no context, just the actual headline. Discuss them amongst yourselves. Then, encourage listeners to vote for the Dumbest Headline on your station’s social media page. Maybe ask them to leave a comment. Reveal the results in the next break.
Today’s Dumb Headlines:
1. “Why F1 Drivers All Have Thick Necks”
2. “Brain Study Finds Not All Itches Are The Same”
3. “Watch This Elephant’s Unique Way Of Peeling A Banana”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Drinking Milk Needs to Become Cool Again, Fast”

U.S. NEWS

MAN STEALS 33 VACUUM CLEANERS

In Boardman, Ohio, police are investigating the theft of 33 vacuum cleaners from a Bed Bath & Beyond store early Saturday morning. A burglar alarm activated at 4:00 a.m. Saturday. Police arrived to find a store window smashed with a rock. Surveillance camera footage showed a male suspect breaking through the window, heading for the storage room in the back of the store, and loading four shopping carts with 33 Dyson vacuum cleaners. A total of $17,000 worth of merchandise was stolen.
* I bet that guy made a REALLY clean getaway, huh?
* Dyson vacuums, huh? I bet the police are going in circles.
* I didn’t think any Bed Bath & Beyond store even had $17,000 worth of merchandise in the store anymore.
* Now Bed Bath & Beyond won’t suck as much?

WIFE HIT WITH FLYING CHICKEN WINGS

There’s been another food assault in Florida: A Florida man has been arrested after police say he threw chicken wings at his wife during an argument. Police responded to a disturbance call at a home in Wildwood on Sunday night and learned the husband and wife had been arguing over the husband’s affair. Officers at the scene said they saw chicken wing sauce on the victim’s chin, neck and shoulder. The husband, Robert Francis Audette, 39, admitted getting mad and throwing the wings, but said he did not intend to hit the victim.
* He just wanted to wing her.
* The aerodynamics of chicken wings must be like a boomerang – they fly in a curved path. Depending on the spin you give it, of course. It’s all in the wrist action.
* “We need to talk about your cheating. Hang on while I get a bucket of wings with DoorDash.
* Honey, throw his chicken ass out the door. Then enjoy your wings, the ones that are left, anyway.
* She’s lucky it wasn’t a Boston Chicken Whole Roaster night.

RESTAURANT OFFERS TARANTULA BURGER

This is not a joke. Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina is selling hamburgers topped with a hairy, giant tarantula. The promotion is part of their sixth annual Exotic Meat Month, featuring burgers made with alligator, iguana, python, bison, and turtle. This is the second year that Bull City Burger has offered the tarantula challenge. The burger costs $30. It’s made with 100 percent North Carolina pasture-raised beef, gruyere cheese, oven-roasted tarantula, and spicy chili sauce, with a side of dirty fries. The tarantula will be “lightly salted and oven-baked (* These people put SALT on their baked tarantulas? Eeewwww!).” Customers who clean their plates get a tarantula challenge T-shirt – and bragging rights. There are a limited number of tarantulas available, so customers have to sign up for the “Tarantula Raffle.” A ticket a day is drawn until tarantulas run out (* not literally, they’re dead!), and winners get the chance to come in and enjoy the burger.
* I think they’re misusing the word “winners” here. Also “enjoy.”
* You mean, a spider in a hamburger… on purpose? Just being clear.
* It got 5 stars from Renfield.
* Aye-yi-yi. Or, more accurately, Eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-yi yi.
* We found this story about tarantula-topped burgers on the web.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

MUSHROOM TRIPPERS RESCUED FROM MOUNTAIN

Last Saturday, rescuers had to aid a group of men on a UK mountain top who were tripping on magic mushrooms. Passers-by reported the group of young men acting strangely at the Stonycroft Beck, Newlands area of the Lake District National Park, roughly 75 miles north of Liverpool. Two of the men had become ill after ingesting the psychedelics. Rescuers had to convince the men to let them guide them to safety at the bottom of the mountain before it got dark. The rescue mission involved 11 rescuers and took a total of two hours.
* They had to talk them down before they talked them down.
* “Please follow us down the mountain.” “But, you’re giant lizard people!”
* They couldn’t call for help ’cause their phones kept turning into Silly Putty.
* How come the mushrooms had such an effect on these guys? Weren’t they raised on British food?
* And another thing – when did Britain get mountains? I thought the highest point was Solsbury Hill. You know, where you can see the city lights. Wind blowing, time stands still.

BORDER OFFICIALS FIND BOX OF COOKED BATS

German officials seized cooked bats and nearly a ton of unrefrigerated fish after police stopped a van that had entered the country from Belgium. The vehicle was stopped at the border city of Aachen. Agents found the bats under the fish. A vet from the local consumer protection office was sent to the scene and ordered the bats and fish confiscated. The 31-year-old driver faces violations of food hygiene rules, and local authorities were looking into whether he violated conservation laws relating to the bats.
* Cooked bats from Belgium. They go great with Belgian waffles.
* The promotional campaign for that new Nicolas Cage/Dracula movie is really running full tilt. (The film is “Renfield.”)
* This is where China went wrong with their wetmarket COVID bats. They need to be properly stored, in a van under unrefrigerated fish. That’s what kills the COVID.
* Fried bat: tastes great when paired with a tarantula burger. (See story in National news section)

TRENDING

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER FILLS POTHOLE

Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video to his 5.1 million Twitter followers of himself filling in a large pothole near his Brentwood, California, home. He wrote, “Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it. I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it.” However, after the work was complete, a spokesman for SoCal Gas reported that the actor had not actually filled in a pothole, but a service trench for work being performed by the utility company. The work was expected to be completed by the end of May, but now the company will need to re-dig out the concrete poured by Arnold.

NYC SUBWAY SINGER JOINED BY ED SHEERAN

In an event that was in NO WAY planned, never mind there were at least two video camera covering this, New York City singer Mike Yung was belting out Ed Sheeran’s new hit “Eyes Closed” at the Church Avenue station in Brooklyn. Moments later, Ed Sheeran himself appeared from behind and joins in. “Oh wow,” Yung says, embracing Sheeran. “You just made my day.” After finishing the song together, Sheeran offered Yung two tickets to his show.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

April 18, Tuesday – U.S. Tax Day
May 14, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 29, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Wednesday – Flag Day
June 18, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 21, Wednesday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:58 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Glenn Howerton (actor, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) … 47
Rick Schroder (actor, “24,” “NYPD Blue”) … 53
Max Weinberg (drummer, E Street Band) … 72
Ron Perlman (actor, “Poker Face,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “Hellboy”) … 73

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

“I take my work very seriously, and that’s the only way for it to be fun for me.”

(A) Vladimir Putin
(B) Chinese President Xi Jinping
(C) Glenn Howerton

ANSWER: (C) Glenn Howerton

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2011 – A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball player Barry Bonds of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on allegations that he’d used steroids and lied to a grand jury about it.
* One strike, one foul.

1999 – Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk, whose assisted suicide in 1998 was videotaped and shown on “60 Minutes.”
* So much for hiding the evidence.

1997 – Tiger Woods, 21, became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first person of African heritage to claim a major golf title.
* His success was very inspiring to young people everywhere. Unfortunately, it was also inspiring to the writers of that lousy “Legend of Bagger Vance” movie.

1992 – Crystal Pepsi began test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas.
* It was Pepsi’s version of the “New Coke” disaster.

1963 – Pete Rose got his first major-league hit for the Cincinnati Reds.
* He would have been happier about it, but he dropped a bundle on the game.

1960 – France became the fourth nuclear nation, exploding an A-Bomb in the Sahara.
* Just to prove they could do something other than cook food with sauce.

1956 – Ampex Corporation demonstrated the world’s first commercial videotape recorder.
* Hastening a revolution in the porn industry.

1954 – Hank Aaron debuted for the Milwaukee Braves. He would go on to break Babe Ruth’s home run record.
* But not basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain’s home run record, if you know what I mean.

1894 – Thomas Edison showed the public his latest invention – the kinetoscope, the first motion picture machine.
* Hastening an even earlier revolution in the porn industry.

1828 – Noah Webster published his first edition of the ‘American Dictionary’ of the English language.
* The part that always confused me is, if you have to put out the first dictionary without using a dictionary, how do you know you’ve got all the words?

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2012 – Five of Tom Petty’s guitars were stolen from a soundstage in Culver City, California, where Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, were rehearsing for their upcoming worldwide tour. The stolen gear included a 1967 Blonde Rickenbacker, a 1967 Epiphone Sheridan, a 1965 Gibson SG TV Jr., a Fender Broadcaster and a Dusenberg Mike Campbell Model, which belonged to Campbell himself. Petty was offering a “no questions asked” reward bounty of $7,500 to anyone with information leading to the guitars’ recovery. Within days, the guitars were recovered and 51-year-old private security guard Daryl Washington of Los Angeles was arrested and booked for grand theft.

2011 – A portrait of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett was returned to the London art gallery it had been stolen from the previous week. The late singer’s former girlfriend, Libby Gausden, pleaded for its safe return and offered a reward. The portrait was returned undamaged and intact to the gallery by mail.

2009 – 68-year-old US music producer Phil Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, after a five-month retrial.

2003 – The Beatles Apple Corp company was listed as Britain’s fastest profit-growth firm with an annual profit growth of 194%.

1997 – The Notorious B.I.G. was at No.1 on the U.S. album charts with “Life After Death.”

1993 – The first “Aerosmith Day” was observed in Massachusetts after the band was given their very own holiday.

1985 – USA for Africa started a four-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “We Are The World.”

1982 – David Crosby was arrested when police found him preparing cocaine backstage in his dressing room before a show in Dallas.

1980 – The musical Grease closed after 3883 performances in New York, having grossed over $8 million.

1979 – Five days into a Van Halen tour, David Lee Roth collapsed from exhaustion on stage in Spokane, Washington.

1974 – Elton John went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Bennie And The Jets,” his second U.S. No.1.

1974 – Paul McCartney’s “Band On The Run” went to No.1 on the U.S. album charts, McCartney’s third U.S. No.1.

1971 – The Rolling Stones released “Brown Sugar,” the first record on their own label, Rolling Stones Records, which introduced the infamous licking-tongue and lips logo.

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. When it comes to our appearance, more than a quarter of us do THIS. What is it?
We part our hair on the left

2. When it comes to our appearance, 7 out of 10 people who were asked said they don’t like THIS. What is it?
Beards

3. When it comes to our appearance, about every 20 minutes, someone in the U.S. does THIS. What is it?
Gets lip implants

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