THURSDAY, June 1 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR THURSDAY, June 1, 2023
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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.)

DARE DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Dare Day is a day to challenge someone, and to do a dare yourself. It’s a day that daredevils truly relish. Today is definitely a call to action. It is not a day for procrastinators or for hesitation. Dares take all forms and shapes. The type of dare is almost limitless. Whether it is a prank, a challenge to accomplish something, or a personal action (like asking someone out on a date), this is the day to make the dare. And, its the day to do the dare. We do suggest that dares be safe, and of course, legal. Daring to the max: To dare someone to do something risky or challenging is one thing. Declaring the ‘double dog dare’ heightens the challenge. The highest degree of challenge is to ‘triple dog dare’ someone. It should not be used lightly, or frequently.”

FLIP A COIN DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Flip a Coin Day is day when making decisions is as easy as flipping a coin. This tradition dates back to Julius Caesar. Caesar would take a coin and flip it to make decisions where the right choice was unclear. Do you have any idea how to celebrate this day? You guessed it … Flip a coin. Use this method of decision making for all decisions, and for everything you do today.”

HEIMLICH MANEUVER DAY

NATIONAL GO BAREFOOT DAY

NATIONAL HAZELNUT CAKE DAY

SAY SOMETHING NICE DAY

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

WHAT TO WATCH – New and Returning Shows and Movies
Premiering Thursday through Sunday
Listings sourced from the TV Guide and EW websites.

THURSDAY, June 1

Season Premiere:
Paramount+ – “iCarly”

FRIDAY, June 2

“Searching For Soul Food”
Hulu – New Food Docuseries
Synopsis: Follows rock star celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds as she discovers what soul food looks like around the world.

“Love Allways”
Paramount+ – New Reality Dating Show
Synopsis: Pansexual bachelorette seeks a soulmate with the help of her coaches in a house full of potential suitors.

“Deadloch”
Prime Video – New Series
Synopsis: In Australia, a dead man turns up in a Tasmanian beach town and the local sergeant is forced to team up with an outside senior investigator.

Season Premieres:
Paramount+ – “Queen of the Universe”
Prime Video – “With Love”

SATURDAY, June 3

“TLC Forever”
Lifetime – New Documentary
Synopsis: T-Boz and Chilli of TLC – the revolutionary top-selling American female group of all time – tell their story for the first time.

SUNDAY, June 4

“The Idol”
HBO – New Series
Synopsis: After having a nervous breakdown that caused the cancellation of her last tour, an aspiring pop star begins a complicated relationship with a self-help guru and the head of a contemporary cult.

Season Premieres:
Adult Swim – “The Eric Andre Show”
Paramount+ – “Joe Pickett”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TAKES TUMBLE ON STAGE

Bruce Springsteen took a spill onstage last weekend while performing in the Netherlands. A TikTok video shows The Boss down at audience level. He turns and walks up some stairs back to the stage, misses the top step and goes down, spinning over onto his back. He lies there a moment as members of the E Street Band come over to help him up. Springsteen, 73, laughed it off, shouted “Goodnight, everybody!” but then finished the show.
* You can bet those steps will have a Stairmaster on them by this weekend’s show.
* What song was he singing? “I’m Goin’ Down”?
* At 73, those Born To Run Glory Days are almost over.
* He used to have trouble Growing Up, now he has trouble going up.
* Maybe he was going his Joe Biden impression?
* Bungleland.

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. “The World’s Largest Lakes Are Shrinking Dramatically, And Scientists Say They Have Figured Out Why”
2. “The Best Photos Of Tissue From This Year’s Endocrine Society Contest”
3. “Woman With Big Boobs Reveals Bikini Battle”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Do You Really Need To Rinse And Repeat? The Answer May Surprise You”

WHAT GENERATION ARE YOU?

Do you have trouble figuring out which generation you belong to? Establishing a cutoff point to the various generations helps researchers investigate how a group has been shaped by similar experiences. Here’s how the Pew polling company officially categorizes the generations by birth year:
– Silent Generation: 1928-1945 (the Great Depression, World War years)
– Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 (the post-war economic boom)
– Generation X: 1965-1980 (generally overlooked, born in a time of little drama or social upheaval, except for disco, of course)
– Millennials: 1981-1996 (shaped by the changes after 9/11, including recession of 2008. It’s the first “everybody gets a trophy” generation)
– Generation Z: 1997-2012 (don’t remember 9/11, but live in a world of surveillance and caution)
– Generation Alpha: those born after 2012. (born into a world of technology, social platforms)
* Ha ha, Generation Alpha is going to be known as Generation Nothing Works Right.
* I got news for you, Generation Alpha. The way things are going in Ukraine, you’re about to become Silent Generation 2: Electric Boogaloo.
* Sorry – which of these generations is the cool one again?
* Eventually we’ll just identify ourselves by which generation our first phone was.
* Who do I see about switching my generation? Is there a form, or some kind of fee?
* I don’t care what generation I’m in, as long as I’m part of Generation Krispy Kreme Donuts.

SURVEY: 80% OF MEN HAVE BROUGHT A CONDOM TO A FUNERAL

A new study, from Trojan, revealed that 80% of men have shown up to a funeral with a condom on hand… just in case. 2,000 adults ages 18 to 35 took part in the survey which found that 4 out of 5 men had brought a condom to a funeral.
* So the dead guy isn’t the only stiff in the room.
* I didn’t know that funerals make women horny.
* Actually, I knew a guy who did this. I had to tell him, “C’mon, Grampa Nate, she’s only been gone for a week.”
* Are they saying the men are optimistic? Desperate? Narcissistic? Or a combination of all three?
* I always bring some holy water and a machete, in case the dead guy is a vampire or a zombie.
* Why would you do this? A corpse can’t get pregnant. Sheesh.

U.S. NEWS

FLORIDA MAN SENTENCED FOR WARHOL ART FORGERY

A South Florida art dealer was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in federal prison for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings. Daniel Elie Bouaziz, 69, the owner of Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli in Palm Beach County, sold counterfeit artworks to a customer in October 2021 including pieces purportedly by Warhol. Bouaziz told the customer that the pieces were authentic originals and that some were signed by the artist. Officials said the customer gave Bouaziz a $200,000 down payment on the fraudulent items.
* If only the $200,000 had been counterfeit – that would’ve taught him a lesson.
* You could easily argue that a forged piece of Andy Warhol art is, in fact, art itself.
* Like Any Warhold said, everybody will have 15 minutes of fame, two years of incarceration.
* A picture is worth a thousand words, but a fake picture is worth a thousand days.
* They knew it was a fake Warhol because they forgot the ‘p’ in Campbell’s on the soup can.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

TOOTHPASTE THIEF APPREHENDED

North Vancouver police officers just happened to be near a Superstore supermarket on Friday when they spotted a man running out of the emergency exit being chased by staff. Mounties stopped the man and found him to be carrying $2100 worth of Sensodyne toothpaste, which can run anywhere from $17 to $28 a tube. They returned the toothpaste to the store workers and arrested the man.
* $28 a tube! Who’s the real crook here?
* Guy doesn’t sound like he was ultra-bright.
* During the mug shot, the cops asked if he was ready for his Close Up.
* Sensitive teeth. What a pain.

TRENDING

TAYLOR SWIFT FANS WEARING ADULT DIAPERS SO THEY WON’T MISS CONCERT

Apparently, Taylor Swift fans are wearing adult diapers to avoid having to take a bathroom break during the three-hour show.
– One super fan known as Caylee, 23, captioned a video of herself and a screaming friend at the Swift concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, this month: “The diaper rash and trench foot was worth this moment of Taylor Swift looking right at us.”
– In another clip from a fan, a woman is seen struggling to fashion a pair of large white disposable underpants underneath her gold-fringe mini dress ahead of a May 18 show.
– Another fan named Katherine, 29, in her TikTok, revealed: “For the amount of stress and time it took for me to get Taylor Swift tickets, I will be getting an adult diaper because I’m not missing a minute of it.”

ZACH BRYAN KICKS GUITAR GRABBING FAN OUT OF CONCERT

Country star Zach Bryan kicked a fan out of his May 26 concert in Albany, New York, after she grabbed his guitar and wouldn’t let it go. Bryan was walking down an aisle through the crowd, holding the acoustic guitar in front of him, when a woman grabbed the guitar for a brief moment. Bryant told his security team to “get her out of here.” He often gives away an acoustic Gibson J-45 guitar, which roughly costs $3,000, to a random audience member during his concerts. But, Bryan later said, “The one in my hands when this happened was mine, my sweet ol’ gal, we’ve been everywhere together and written every song in the last few years together. Took it personal, but nothing against whoever wound up getting kicked out.” He added, “I don’t mind people being respectful and trying to touch me or the guitar, but if you try to rip it out of my hands I promise I’ll rip you out of whatever venue we’re at, respectfully, of course,” Bryan added.

SLEEP SURVEY

According to a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. adults from Serta Simmons Bedding:
– The Top Sleep Disruptors From Your Partner are: when your partner steals the covers; wakes you up tossing and turning; sleeps with the television on; snores; sleeps with the lights on.
– 42% go to bed at the same time as their partner.
– 40% will sleep on the same side of the bed when their partner is gone.
– 77% still sleep with a security blanket or stuffed animal.
– Half of Americans are open to sleeping in another bed to sleep better.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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)
July 4, Tuesday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 4, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Monday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Saturday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:50 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Amy Schumer (comedian, actress, writer, producer) … 42
Brandi Carlile (singer/songwriter) … 42
Sarah Wayne Callies (actress, “The Walking Dead) … 46
Alanis Morissette (singer/songwriter) … 49
Heidi Klum (model, TV host, “America’s Got Talent”) … 50
Ronnie Dunn (half of country Music duo Brooks & Dunn) … 70
Ron Wood (guitarist with Rolling Stones) … 76
Jonathan Pryce (actor, “Slow Horses,” “Tales from the Loop,” “The Two Popes,” “Game of Thrones”) … 76
Morgan Freeman (actor) … 86
Pat Boone (singer) … 89

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

“There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.”

(A) Lady Gaga
(B) Justin Bieber
(C) Ron Wood

ANSWER: (C) Ron Wood

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2009 – General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
* They drove it into the ground, and it stalled.

1980 – CNN, the Cable News Network, debuted.
* I wonder if they were their own lead story?

1880 – The first pay telephone was installed.
* It marked a great advance over earlier models, where instead of coins, you fed in a sack of grain.

1869 – Thomas Edison patented a voting machine.
* And it’s still yet to be perfected, obviously.

1831 – Admiral James C. Ross became the first person to reach the magnetic North Pole.
* And his arthritis pain went away!

1638 – The first recorded earthquake in America occurred at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
* The Pilgrims figured either kinetic energy was being discharged by shifting tectonic plates, or that new girl off the boat was a witch.

1495 – The first Scotch whisky was distilled by friar John Cor.
* How good was it? He missed vespers for a week.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – The sale of Jerry Garcia’s favorite guitar, named Wolf, raised millions of dollars for civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center, when an auction of the custom-made guitar fetched a total of $3.2 million.

2013 – “Modern Vampires of the City” by Vampire Weekend went to No.1 on the US album charts. Their sophomore album “Contra” also debuted at No.1 in 2010, making this the first time an independent rock band had entered at No.1 with two consecutive releases.

2005 – White Stripes singer Jack White married his girlfriend, British model Karen Elson, in a canoe on the Amazon in Brazil.

1991 – Sting appeared on the first airing of a new Soviet TV rock show, called “Rock Steady.”

1985 – Prince & The Revolution started a three-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Around The World In A Day.”

1972 – The first day of recording took place at Abbey Road studios, London on what would become Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side Of The Moon.”

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 a recent survey, more than a third of kids say they’ve asked their parents to stop doing THIS at home. What is it?
Stop looking at their phones and checking social media during family time

2. According to a recent study, 25% of people have secretly done THIS to a friend, significant other or family member. What is it?
They used the other person’s computer or phone to access that person’s Facebook account

3. In a recent survey, 1/3 of the respondents said they’d rather lose THIS than the pictures on their phone. What is it?
Their car

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