FRIDAY, Aug 18 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, August 18, 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.)

NATIONAL ICE CREAM PIE DAY

NATIONAL SOFT ICE CREAM DAY

August is:

Black Business Month
Family Fun Month
International Peace Month
National Back to School Month
National Catfish Month
National Crayon Collection Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Panini Month
National Peach Month
National Sandwich Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

TENNIS STAR STEFANOS TSITSIPAS WANTED FAN EJECTED FOR MAKING BEE NOISE

On Wednesday, the #4 ranked tennis player in the world, Stefanos Tsitsipas (* And you’re on your own about how to pronounce it. Sorry.), asked an umpire to toss a fan from the Western & Southern Open for apparently making a buzzing sound when he attempted to serve against American Ben Shelton. The Greek athlete told the umpire at the Ohio tournament, “There’s a person imitating a bee behind me. It’s a buzz right before I serve.” Tsitsipas then walked over to the stands and asked who was making the sound, with one spectator narcing out a woman in the first row. Tsitsipas told the umpire, “I want her out. She needs to go.” The umpire instructed him to return to play, but to let him know if the fan buzzed again. Tsitsipas ended up winning the match.
* So, a white woman from Ohio? A WASP?
* I bet when he walked over to her, that lady – to put it in tennis terms – dropped a deuce
* She could have just been trying to pronounce his name: Tsitsipas …Tsitsipas …Tsitsipas …. sounds like a bee.
* Sometimes, people in the audience do this to Sting.
* Anyway, that’s the latest buzz from the world of tennis.

THE BUZZ

WHAT SIDE OF THE BED DO YOU SLEEP ON? HOW ABOUT BOTH?

A California woman caused a stir on TikTok where she revealed that she and her husband regularly switch which side of the bed they sleep on. Angelina Murphy says, “Okay I really need to know if we are alone in this — do you randomly pick which side of the bed you are going to? We do not have a regular side of the bed that we sleep on. It’s never discussed, we just randomly pick a side where we sleep.” She says that whenever she broaches the subject, people call it the “craziest thing they’ve ever heard.”
* Burn in hell, witch!
* Hey, sometimes I like to be spontaneous and unpredictable too, but I don’t go overboard like these two.
* So, how exactly does this come up in the average conversation, Angelina?
* I bet this couple sits on the same side of the table at a restaurant, instead of across from each other.
* Well, it’s better than listening to people argue about whether vaccines are bad for you.
* PHONE TOPIC: Could you alternate sides of the bed? How would that make you feel?

U.S. NEWS

PENNIES FOUND INSIDE MCNUGGETS

In Wintersville, Ohio, a woman found pennies in her Chicken McNuggets order from a local McDonald’s. Beth Rupert Warren reported finding three pennies in three different McNuggets. She reported it to the restaurant which, according to police, showed great concern. The health department has been in contact with McDonald’s regional management, which removed the contaminated chicken nuggets by lot number from stock. Additionally, McDonald’s have been in contact with their manufacturer about the product.
* What are the odds that she’d get all three Penny McNuggets in her order?
* Did it come off the chicken that way?
* Is copper good for you, like iron?
* Of course, McDonald’s also asked for their three cents back. Times are tough in the restaurant business, man.
* Pennies in McNuggets – it’s the not-quite-happy meal.
* Well, that’s MY two cents.

NURSING MOTHER OUTRAGED SHE WAS ASKED TO GET OUT OF THE POOL

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a mother says she was asked to get out of the water at Drake Springs Family Aquatic Center after being told she couldn’t breastfeed her baby at a city pool. Abigail Gukeisen says she was in the lazy river at the facility when she was approached by employees who told her she is not allowed to breastfeed her baby inside the pool. Gukeisen has spoken out, saying what she was doing was “the way women were naturally made to be to feed their babies. This is the natural way so it shouldn’t be sexualized in the way that it is.” Under South Dakota state law, breastfeeding in public is allowed as long as the mother is not breaking any other laws.
* … like bank robbery, or tax dodging.
* “No food or drink in the pool.” It’s right there on the sign, lady. No cannonballing, either.
* She wasn’t being sexual, she was just hangin’ out.
* I’m sure burped-up breast milk is the least of the things you have to worry about in a public pool.
* It might not have been an issue except that the kid was four.

MINK(S) ON THE LOOSE

Authorities in Independence, Wisconsin are looking for whoever is responsible for releasing thousands of mink from a mink farm. It happened in the early morning hours of Aug. 12. According to the sheriff, the culprit gained entry into an enclosure by cutting a hole in a chain link fence surrounding the area housing the mink. The activist group Animal Liberation Front shared a message from the culprit admitting they had freed the animals from the Olsen Fur Farm. Approximately 3,000 mink escaped. While mink don’t pose a threat to humans, they can bite, and they tend to hunt prey bigger than themselves, going after chickens, small pets and koi fish in ornamental ponds.
* Bring in your small animals, folks, the mink are heading for the buffet.
* You might also want to break out the heavy boots.
* Whoever did it otter know better.
* I’m sure the police will be able to ferret out the culprits.
* And out the monkeys. Doesn’t the monkey chase the weasel?
* Didn’t wearing real animal fur stop being a thing, like, in the 80s?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

SUNFLOWER FARM URGES PEOPLE TO KEEP THEIR CLOTHES ON

A British sunflower farm is asking visitors to stop stripping for photos among the flowers. The Stoke Fruit Farm Shop, located near Portsmouth, England, posted on Facebook last Friday, “We are having an increase of reports of naked photography taking place and this must not happen during our public sessions please.” This comes after several incidents of individuals trying to engage in naked photography among the massive field of giant yellow sunflowers. The location was used in the 2003 film “Calendar Girls,” in which the main characters – older women – strip for a nude calendar.
* Now THAT’S how you increase business: “Please leave your clothes on” translates to “Come see the naked people in our sunflower field!”
* If they really meant it, they’d have a sign that says “No flash photography.”
* If you want to pose topless, get your gourds over to the pumpkin patch.
* “They’re at it again! Release the angry bees!!”

TRENDING

SUMMER MOVIE TOYS: WINNERS AND LOSERS

Every summer brings blockbuster movies and the merchandising that goes with them. This summer is no exception. According to the Hollywood Reporter, here are some of the winners and losers of this year’s movie toy market:
– Kip’s Toyland in L.A. says that Barbie sales in general have been up dramatically thanks to the movie. But the surprise is, Ken is currently outselling Barbie. And sales of Allan, Ken’s best friend, have risen dramatically, thanks to his portrayal in the film by Micael Cera.
– Jordan Hembrough, from toy retail site Hollywood Heroes, said of the toys associated with the movie “The Flash”, the toys that outsold everything Flash was Batman and the Batmobile. He pins this to having Michael Keaton in the Flash film, as people remember him from the 1989 version of “Batman.”

SAM ASGHARI ASKING FOR SPOUSAL SUPPORT FROM BRITNEY

Sam Asghari cited “irreconcilable differences” in his petition for divorce from singer Britney Spears. The petition, filed in the Superior Court of Los Angeles on Wednesday, also states the Asghari will seek spousal support from his estranged wife. It states that Asghari is requesting that Spears pay for his attorneys fees. A source familiar with the couple’s situation says that Asghari has moved out of the home the couple shared and is living in his own place.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 4, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Monday – Patriot Day
Sept. 15, Friday – National POW/MIA Recognition Day (The third Friday of September)
Sept. 23, Saturday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:50 a.m. EDT)
Oct. 9, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Monday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Tuesday – Halloween

BIRTHDAYS

Andy Samberg (comedian, actor, “Palm Springs,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) … 45
Kaitlin Olson (actress, “Hacks,” “The Mick,” ″It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) … 48
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (actor, “The Cosby Show”) … 53
Edward Norton (actor) … 54
Christian Slater (actor, “Dr. Death,” “Dirty John”) … 54
Denis Leary (comedian, actor, “Rescue Me”) … 66
Martin Mull (comic actor) … 80
Robert Redford (actor) … 87
Rosalynn Carter (former U.S. First Lady) … 96

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

“I don’t have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”

(A) Jeff Bezos
(B) Paul McCartney
(C) Edward Norton

ANSWER: (C) Edward Norton

1998 – Mrs. Field’s Original Cookies announced that they would acquire the Great American Cookie Co.
* Together with a gigantically huge glass of milk.

1960 – The first oral contraceptive was issued.
* It was called: “Talking about yourself when you’re drunk.”

1926 – A weather map was televised for the first time.
* Now you could actually SEE how wrong the forecast would be.

1919 – The “Anti-Cigarette League of America” was formed in Chicago.
* Their first official action was to join forces to buy chewing gum at bulk rates.

1840 – The American Society of Dental Surgeons was founded in New York City.
* They HAD to start there own club. Everybody else HATED them.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2005 – Kanye West called for an end to homophobia in the hip-hop community during an MTV interview saying “hip-hop was always about speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates, I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, ‘Yo, stop it.'”

1992 – A daughter was born to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

1984 – Motley Crue gave its performance debut at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England.

1969 – Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of “Ned Kelly” in Australia.

1962 – Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the Horticultural Society Dance in Birkenhead, 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. A third of all Americans ate THIS in the last 24 hours. What is it?
Ground beef

2. According to a recent survey, the average American eats 17 pounds of THIS per year. What is it?
Potato chips

3. The average person will consume about 350 pounds of THIS each year. What is it?
Soft drinks

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