FRIDAY, June 16 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, June 16, 2023
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: THE FRIDAY CLUSTERFLICKS

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.)

BLOOMSDAY
The InfoPlease website and other sources say this:
“Irish writer James Joyce’s celebrated novel Ulysses recounts the hour-by-hour events as Dublin resident Leopold Bloom makes his way through the city on June 16, 1904. Joyce chose the date as it was the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle; they walked to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. Bloomsday – June 16th – is an annual celebration among Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin. There the events of Leopold Bloom’s day are reenacted by anyone who cares to participate, and his itinerary is followed all across Dublin.”

FRESH VEGGIES DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Today is Fresh Veggies Day. Take a vow to eat healthy today (and everyday), with fresh veggies for every meal, and for snack, too. Better still, be a vegetarian for a day. Your body will like it. Fresh vegetables are tasty, far better tasting than canned or frozen vegetables. They are also healthy and highly nutritious. This makes it easy to add fresh vegetables to the menu at every meal, and for snacking. This time of year, there are plenty of fresh vegetables at your local grocery store, or in your backyard vegetable garden. So relish Fresh Veggies Day with a bountiful supply of fresh picked veggies.”

NATIONAL CAREER NURSE ASSISTANTS DAY

NATIONAL FUDGE 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

THE BUZZ

WORST BREAKUP STORIES

A Twitter user asked, “What’s the worst way you ever got dumped?” Some of the responses:
– “Years ago, the guy I’d been spending 4-5 nights a week for 4.5 months, going on dinner & movie dates he paid for, and sleeping with… he told me we were never DATING, we were just HANGING OUT that whole time.”
– “I got dumped through Facebook because I had my belly button pierced.”
– “I totaled my car on my way home from a really bad day at work. My girlfriend met me at the accident site. Then I got a call from my work firing me and my girlfriend broke up with me right there on the side of the 101.”
– “While at a movie, my girlfriend excused herself and never came back. No call, no note, no nothing.”
– “She invited me to her place and showed me a bunch of baby stuff and said ‘I’m pregnant’, then laughed and said ‘Oh its not yours, though.’”
– “Girlfriend said her mom was ill, she needed to fly home to see her … we were in Los Angeles, her Mom in Connecticut. Her Mom’s illness was a ruse, she never returned to LA.”
– “I gifted him a session with a psychic and the psychic told him that his ex was his soul mate so he moved back in with her.”
– “When I was 19, I got diagnosed with a heart defect and had a traumatic visit to the ER over a weekend where I had to be defibrillated to save my life. When I was discharged a week later, my girlfriend dumped me because she ‘didn’t miss me that much’ after not seeing me for a week.”
– “I put a handwritten poem in the mail to her that expressed that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. Later that day I got a call where she broke up with me. 2 days later she received the poem.”
– “My ex-wife broke up with me on Thanksgiving, after the dinner, and in my childhood bedroom by telling me she was having an affair with one of her students.”
– “She broke up with me at the zoo. I still had to drive her, her best friend, and the best friend’s boyfriend home.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What is your Worst Breakup story?

U.S. NEWS

BURGLAR APOLOGIZES

Philadelphia woman Paige Tauscher was robbed. Someone went into her house on June 7 while she was walking her dogs. She says she was gone for six minutes, and when she came back things were missing. Security video shows a suspect taking two designer purses filled with cash and credit cards. After Tauscher posted the video of the break-in on Facebook, someone commented on the post claiming he was the criminal, and he apologized, asked for forgiveness, and said he went into the wrong house but still grabbed some things on the way out. Police are asking for help identifying the intruder.
* Forgiveness? Forgive us for bustin’ your ass.
* Still, he’s not returning the stuff ’cause, hey – when you hit a piece of luck like that …
* Burglarized the wrong house. What is this, America’s Funniest Home Burglaries?
* I guess the lesson here is, when you reach a certain level of wealth – like with designer purses filled with cash and credit cards – hire a dogwalking service.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

DOCTORS REMOVE 5-INCH KIDNEY STONE

Surgeons at a hospital in Sri Lanka said a patient underwent surgery to remove a massive kidney stone that measured 5.26 inches long and weighed 1.76 pounds. The urological team at Army Hospital in Colombo performed surgery on Canistus Coonghe, 62, to remove the colossal stone from his right kidney. The doctors have determined Mr. Coonghe’s kidney is still performing its normal functions and he is now recovering well from the operation.
* And this is why you need to sign those medical privacy documents, right, Mr. Coonghe, 62, with the giant stone in your right kidney?
* Make a great bocce ball.

MONOPOLY THEME PARK OPENING IN AUSTRALIA – TELL THE KIDS!

Ooo boy! A huge, multimillion-dollar Monopoly theme park is about to open in Australia. A $20 million Monopoly-themed indoor park – the second of its kind in the world – will open in Melbourne on September 1st. In the park – described as a “fully immersive experience” – guests will be invited to tour Mr Monopoly’s glitzy mansion before proceeding into the city, where they can earn Monopoly dollars playing a slew of interactive games. Or, you can simply steal it from the Monopoly bank. Monopoly bucks can be spent at the theme park’s cafe and retail store. You can take a 4D ride on the Monopoly Railway (whatever that means), or take a mugshot in a life-size version of the Monopoly jail.
* Well, that’ll take care of the first hour. Then what?
* Tell your kids! And then, stand back as they all yell, “What’s Monopoly?”
* Could they not get the rights to Parcheesi?
* Just like the Monopoly game, it goes on forever and nobody ends up winning.
* Personally, I think you’d have more fun in a park full of Chutes and Ladders.
* What Aussie lad or lass wouldn’t want to run free in a theme park version of America’s Atlantic City, monument to failed casinos and shattered lives.

HOW TO BE FINNISH

Finland, ranked the world’s happiest country for six years in a row by the World Happiness Report, recently handpicked 14 students out of some 150,000 applicants in 190 countries to come to the country and learn how to be happy like a Finn. Participants were flown to the country for the four-day seminar at Kuru Resort as part of a tourism stunt to learn how to “find their inner Finn.” Coaches were covering four themes essential to “Finnish happiness” — nature and lifestyle; health and balance; design; and food and wellbeing. In between classes, guests enjoy private villas that come equipped with a spa and sauna, surrounded by fragrant pine forests and breath-taking views.
* Gee, 14 whole people. Don’t spend too much of that $316 billion gross domestic product, Finland.
* A big part of being happy in Finland is forcing yourself to forget that you share a border with Russia.
* Finland is famous for saunas, reindeer, and I think there’s a lighthouse somewhere. Are you sure four days is enough to see it all?
* The trip is free, but you know they’ll be exiting them through the gift shop when they leave, try to recoup some of that cost.
* There’s probably also a World Misery Report, but that seems like more of a Monday story.

ALMANACNOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

June 18, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 19, Monday – Juneteenth
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

Diana DeGarmo (actress, singer, “American Idol” runner-up) … 36
Missy Peregrym (actress, “FBI”) … 41
Daniel Brühl (actor, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”) … 45
Eddie Cibrian (actor, “Country Comfort,” “Take Two”) … 50
John Cho (actor, “Star Trek” movies, “Cowboy Bebop”) … 51
Laurie Metcalf (actress, “The Conners”, “The Big Bang Theory,” “Roseanne”) … 68
Stewart Copeland (musician, formerly with The Police) … 71

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

“I almost never give interviews. It’s not because I want to play hard to get. It’s just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.”

(A) Oprah Winfrey
(B) Sean Penn
(C) Laurie Metcalf

ANSWER: (C) Laurie Metcalf

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2022 – Ninety-year-old U.S. cosmetics company Revlon filed for bankruptcy, blaming supply issues and rising costs.
* Boy, was their face red! No, wait – that was too much blush.

2017 – Amazon announced it would buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
* They gobbled them up!

2011 – Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.
* Weiner was a real hot dog.

2004 – Rebuffing Bush administration claims, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said no evidence existed that al-Qaida had strong ties to Saddam Hussein.
* Oh yeah? What about the weapons of mass … oh, never mind.

1980 – The U.S. Supreme Court made a high-tech ruling when it declared that new forms of life created in the laboratory can be patented.
* And right there you have the reason for Carrot Top.

1963 – A former cotton mill worker, Valentina Tereshkova, became the first woman in space. She piloted Russia’s five-ton “Vostok 6” manually for forty-eight orbits.
* Sure, it was scary – but a hell of a lot better than working in a Russian cotton mill.

1929 – Otto Funk arrived in New York after walking across the country from San Francisco – playing a violin all the way.
* Well, after all, there was no such thing as Walkmans back then.

1910 – The first official Father’s Day was celebrated in the U.S.
* From then on, the economy would experience an annual summer spike in tie sales.

1890 – Madison Square Garden opened in New York City.
* “Two cents for a glass of sarsaparilla? Outrageous!”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – Singer Meat Loaf, 68, was rushed to a hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in in Edmonton, Canada. The singer was performing his hit, ‘I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),’ when he dropped his microphone and fell to the floor. The issue was determined to be dehydration.

2007 – Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino. The 62-year-old singer was previously married to models Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter.

2000 – On the first night of his “Up in Smoke” tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg’s tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.

1990 – Roxette started a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “It Must Have Been Love,” taken from the film “Pretty Woman.” It was the duo’s third U.S. No.1.

1988 – Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell.

1982 – Donny Vanzant of 38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place.

1982 – Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.

1980 – “The Blues Brothers” film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago.

1979 – Donna Summer scored her second U.S. No.1 album with “Bad Girls.”

1976 – The Jackson Five four-week summer variety show premiered on CBS-TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya, Rebbie and Janet.

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. In a recent survey, THIS was voted the #1 most hated household chore. What is it?
Cleaning the toilet

2. THIS household chore burns more calories than any other. What is it?
Mopping floors

3. Women do THIS household chore 80% of the time. What is it?
Making the bed

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