WEDNESDAY, June 7 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 7, 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.)

DANIEL BOONE DAY
The Memory Loc Gov website says this:
“It was on this date in 1769 that frontiersman and American folk hero, Daniel Boone, first saw the great land of what would one day become known as Kentucky. In 1775, Boone worked with Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Company to establish a trail through the Cumberland Gap. With some thirty associates, he constructed the Wilderness Road, which soon became white settlers’ primary route to the West. Just months after its completion, Boone’s wife and daughters traveled the new thoroughfare to the new settlement of Boonesborough, becoming the first Anglo-American women to settle in Kentucky.”

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY

NATIONAL VCR DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“National VCR Day is observed annually on June 7th. Do you still own a VCR player or do you know someone who does? Many young people do not know what a VCR player or a VCR tape is. National VCR Day is dedicated to the video cassette recorder (VCR). In their time, they were a marvel of technology! The video cassette recorder is an electro-mechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from television on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette. The images and sound can then be played back at a more convenient time. At the time, the VCR was the main way to watch movies at home, and one could create their own personal movie library. The first video cassette recorder was introduced in 1956. The home video cassette format (VCR) was developed in 1970. The birth of VCR mass market success boomed in the mid-1970s and continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Over 10 billion videotapes remain today with our recorded memories. These memories are keepsakes and people keep the tapes for that reason.”

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 & CELEBRITY

BAR FROM “CHEERS” SELLS FOR $675,000

The bar from the television series Cheers garnered the highest bid among nearly 1,000 props, costumes and sets from classic TV shows offered by Heritage Auctions. The set from the 1980’s sitcom, starring…. who? C’mon, everybody knows their names: the late Kirstie Alley, the late Shelley Long, the late Nick Colasanto, the not-so-late Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt, sold to the highest bidder for $675,000. The bar is said to include the carved initials of the cast members.
* Also a lot of Norm’s forearm sweat, I imagine.
* Imagine THAT thing in your basement along with your ping pong table.

THE BUZZ

ON BEING A GROWN-UP

From Reddit, here are some thoughts from readers on being an adult:
– “A thing I never realized about being an adult is that you will always be cleaning your kitchen. Even if you’re gone all day, you will be cleaning the kitchen.”
– “One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it’s, like, a really good box.”
– “Adulting is putting back the $4.86 pack of chicken and getting the $4.66 pack because that twenty cents adds up.”
– “The reality is that adulthood is mostly just trying to figure out what you’re eating for dinner every night, forever.”
– “Being an adult is so weird. I’m just unsupervised all the time? How unsafe.”
– “Guy detailing my car says, ‘Yeah, your kids had goldfish crackers all under your seats.’ I’m single, 32 years old, childless.”
– “Being an adult really just means you have an upstairs bottle of ibuprofen and a downstairs bottle of ibuprofen.”
– “Nobody talks about Jesus’ miracle of having 12 close friends in his 30s.”
– “When parents say to kids “go to ur room & think about what you’ve done” it’s really good practice for what you’ll do every night as an adult.”
* Stop whining! When you’re an adult, you can have ice cream any time you want! Also liquor.
* And these people are also all responsible for their own personal hygiene. Yuck!
* How grown up can you be if you’re still goofing around on Reddit?
* I expected more complaining about student loans.
* Some people never become adults. Then they visit Yellowstone. (See Yellowstone tourist story.)

U.S. NEWS

POPULAR DOG TAKES LAST WALK THROUGH TOWN

Mellow the dog had walked the streets of Dupont, Pennsylvania, with his owner, Kevin Curry, twice a day since September 2019.
Sadly, the rescue pup was recently diagnosed with a fast-spreading lymphoma. Curry left a heartbreaking flyer in neighbors’ mailboxes, informing them that he was going to be taking Mellow on one final walk through town last Saturday, June 3rd, between 7 and 8pm. He wrote, from the dog’s viewpoint, “I would love to say goodbye face-to-face if you are available. Come out to pat me on the head or rub my belly and I will be forever grateful. Thanks for all the love you have shown me the past four years.” Dozens and dozens of townfolk came out to say goodbye. Mellow was happy to be the center of attention and pranced around. He even got free ice cream at the ice cream shop.
* And then, precisely at 9pm, came the gunshot. NO, JUST KIDDING!!!!!!
* Who’s the unlucky neighbor who was the recipient of Mellow’s final dump?
* This is going to make a sadder movie than “Hachi”, as if that were possible. (look it up! rent it sometime! loads of laughs!)

YELLOWSTONE PARK TOURISTS ARE MORONS

An Instagram account called TouronsOfYellowstone (tourist + moron = touron) has posted a video of a man visiting Yellowstone National Park who runs out of his car, strips off his shirt, and chases one of the park’s bears while making gorilla noises. This is the second video the man has posted this week of himself harassing bears, which is a federal crime punishable by a fine. Many comments on the Instagram account are calling for him to be identified and prosecuted.
– This summer is full of tourists molesting the Park wildlife. Over Memorial Day weekend, a man saw a baby elk all alone. He grabbed it, put it inside his car and drove it all the way to the West Yellowstone Police Department in Montana.
– Back in mid-May, a baby bison, separated from its mother, was attempting to cross the Lamar River. A park visitor dragged the baby bison out of the river. Once out of the water, they petted the calf, which was “shivering and clearly in distress.” When park rangers arrived, the calf was wandering from car to car, the mother bison showed no interest in crossing the river to come get it. The rangers made multiple attempts to reunite the two but were unsuccessful. They decided the best course of action was to euthanize the baby with a gunshot.
* What the hell, people? Were you raised in a petting zoo?
* And let’s not even get into the tourist who tried to grab a selfie with Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. Tragic.
* In Yellowstone, just like Old Faithful, every 75 minutes a tourist does something asinine.
* “Release the cocaine bears!!”
* Bad tourists! You need a time out! For the next six weeks, you can only visit Yellowstone using Zoom.
* Relax. When the Yellowstone Supervolcano explodes, we won’t have any more of this crap.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

RESCUED EVEREST CLIMBER THANKS EVERYONE EXCEPT THE GUY WHO RESCUED HIM

A mountain climber who was dramatically rescued near the summit of Mt. Everest last month is taking heat for not publicly thanking the sherpa who saved his life. Malaysian climber Ravichandran Tharumalingam (* R.T. for short) was spotted clinging to a rope in the mountain’s “death zone,” where the high altitude makes it difficult to breathe and temperatures can dip into negative double-digits. The sherpa, known as Gelje Sherpa, and his client abandoned their trip to the summit and instead carried Mr. Tharumalingam 1,900 feet back down to a base camp in just six hours, using a sleeping bag to keep him warm. He was later flown off the mountain by a high-altitude helicopter team. Once home in Malaysia, Tharumalingam appeared on television to share his story and thanked his commercial sponsors, his expedition partners and helicopter rescuers, but he failed to mention Mr. Gelje. This was his third attempt to summit Everest; in last year’s attempt he lost the tips of eight fingers to frostbite.
* Ravichandran Tharumalingam, the Mt. Everest of jerks.
* Not thanking the guy who saved you from freezing. That’s cold.
* Did he even tip the guy?
* Although, you SHOULD thank your commercial sponsors after you waste all their money.
* I’m sure Mr. Gelje would be more than willing to help this guy make a fourth attempt.

FRENCH FRIES IN SPAAAAAAAAACE

The European Space Agency has been doing their part to get astronauts to Mars by learning how to make French fries in space. Frying food involves complex physics and chemistry; throw in zero gravity and everything becomes more complicated. The European Space Agency built an experimental carousel-type frying apparatus designed to operate in weightlessness. It maintains a constant pressure inside the frying chamber to avoid leaks, to prevent the oil from sloshing around. Experiments were conducted on two parabolic flights, where an aircraft flies in repeated arcs to recreate brief moments of weightlessness. Although more research is needed to fine-tune some parameters, researchers found that say that astronauts will be able to make French fries as they explore new worlds.
* Not every country can land a man on the moon, but some are doing incredibly important research just the same.
* This custom-designed carousel-type frying apparatus – how much does it cost, to the nearest $10 million?
* There’s gonna be grease all over the joystick of the Mars lander, isn’t there?
* So … nobody at the European Space Agency has heard that “air fryers” are the new thing?
* “Here’s an idea: We take the best and brightest of our astronaut candidates, spend millions of dollars training them to the peak of mental and physical ability, and then feed them with the unhealthiest foods possible.”
* Can’t you just see us making first contact with an alien race, and as an opening gesture offering them French fries? We’d have to help them open those little foil packs of ketchup, of course, because of their weird fingers.
* That’s great, fellas. Now do fondue.

TRENDING

NFL PLAYER DAMAR HAMLIN BACK IN TRAINING

Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety who collapsed on the field last January fron a cardiac arrest, is back practicing with his teammates. in January. It was the 25-year-old Hamlin’s first real NFL practice action in five months. Hamlin has been vocal about resuming his football career and once doctors gave him the green light to play again, He says he plans on easing his way back into competition.

DANNY BONADUCE HAS BRAIN SURGERY

Former child actor/current radio DJ Danny Bonaduce had brain surgery on Monday to combat his recently-diagnosed hydrocephalus — a neurological disorder caused by liquid buildup in his brain. The former “Partridge Family” actor had been having balance problems. He is expecting to have a 3-4 week recovery and then back to his radio show on KZOK FM in Seattle.

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

Iggy Azalea (rapper) … 33
Michael Cera (actor, “Arrested Development”) … 35
Anna Torv (actress, “The Last of Us,” “Mindhunter,” “Fringe”) … 44
Bill Hader (actor, comedian, “Barry,” SNL) … 45
Bear Grylls (TV personality, “Man Vs. Wild”) … 49
Karl Urban (actor, “The Boys”) … 51
Liam Neeson (actor) … 71
Tom Jones (60s-70s singer) … 83

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

“Since I was 15 I’ve felt kinda like … an old man.”

(A) Bernie Sanders
(B) Larry David
(C) Michael Cera

ANSWER: (C) Michael Cera

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2006 – The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
* A huge victory for the tuxedo and wedding dress lobby.

2002 – Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when they were 15 in 1975.
* I know every family has black sheep, but this is ridiculous.

1929 – The Vatican became an independent sovereign state and remains the smallest country with the smallest population in the world.
* Amazing, when you consider the Catholic Church’s attitude to birth control.

1912 – The first plane-mounted machine gun was tested by the U.S. Army.
* It worked pretty well – the only drawback was it cost $9.5 million.

1775 – The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
* And they got a spiffy new logo.

1557 – England declared war on France.
* Yes, again.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2010 – Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was granted a restraining order against an elderly neighbor who allegedly threatened to kill him. The man was also ordered to pay more than $1,500 in legal fees.

2002 – Virgin Records announced they had dropped Victoria Beckham after her debut solo album, which cost over $5.1 million to make, had sold only 50,000 copies.

1995 – Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood was hospitalized after his ear was leaking blood. The problem was diagnosed as his arm movement from continuous guitar playing.

1993 – Recording artist Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol.

1983 – Jerry Lee Lewis married wife number five, Shawn Michelle Stevens.

1982 – The mansion of Elvis Presley’s home at Graceland in Memphis was opened to the public.

1975 – Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy” became the first album ever to debut at No.1 on the U.S. album chart.

1963 – The Rolling Stones made their first TV appearance, in England.

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, women spend over $1,000 a year on THIS. What is it?
Coffee from chains

2. According to Cosmopolitan magazine, the average 35-year-old woman has 3 of these, and can’t really use any of them. What are they?
Bridesmaids dresses

3. The average woman will consume four pounds of THIS in her lifetime. What is it?
Lipstick

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