WEDNESDAY, Aug 23 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, August 23, 2023
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YELLOWBELLY REMINDER

Hey, just a reminder about “Yellowbelly,” our Yellowstone parody series. CBS is going to run the whole series, beginning September 17. Paramount will probably run the “final six episodes” sometime in November. If you like our little series and want to air it, we encourage you to find a sponsor for it and run a commercial adjacency. The link to all the content, including promos and an intro you can use for a sponsor, is located on the Morning Sidekick Daily Prep page. Look for the “Yellowbelly” picture.

COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Back To School Sale; THE ONLY MORNING SHOW IN TOWN

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 SPONGE CAKE DAY

RIDE THE WIND DAY
The Cute Calendar website says this:
“Ride the Wind Day is the anniversary of the first human powered flight to win the Kremer prize – a series of monetary awards given to pioneers of human-powered flight. The first Kremer prize was won on August 23, 1977 by Dr. Paul MacCready when his Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft to fly a figure eight around two markers one half mile apart, starting and ending the course at least 10 feet above the ground.”

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

“FRASIER” SETS RETURN DATE, OCTOBER 12

Paramount+ has announced its revival of the classic show “Frasier” will premiere Oct. 12. In this iteration, Kelsey Grammer’s psychiatrist has moved from Seattle back to Boston. Other characters in the show include Frasier’s now-adult son, Freddy, who is a firefighter. Other characters include Freddy’s roommate, Frazier’s nephew, Frasier’s old college buddy and a woman who is the head of a college psychology department. Bebe Neuwirth will also reprise her role as Frasier’s ex-wife, Lilith. Peri Gilpin as Frasier’s producer, Roz, will also be stopping in during the series. David Hyde Pierce, who played Frasier’s brother, Niles, is not returning.
* But there will be a stuffed Eddie on a shelf in the background.
* Some time has passed. Frasier is now using his dad’s cane.
* Because it’s on the Paramount network, the first show has Frasier moving to a Montana cattle ranch to dole out some cowboy justice.
* In episode 4, Frasier takes the family to Cheers, only to find it went out of business during the pandemic.

NFL ROOKIE QUARTERBACK WILL LEVIS PUTS MAYONNAISE IN HIS COFFEE

Tennessee Titans rookie quarterback Will Levis is creating a stir for what he puts in his coffee: instead of cream and sugar, he adds a little splash of mayonnaise. Levis says when he was a kid his parents would put mayonnaise on his sandwiches, and he liked it, and started adding mayo to different things. And, on Tuesday, Levis signed a lifetime contract with Hellmann’s Mayonnaise. Levis says, of mayonnaise, ” It’s a great condiment, and it’s a very versatile condiment, and it’s probably my favorite condiment.”
* Probably? A lifetime contract for “probably”?
* And isn’t it nice when you can make money off something you’d do for free.
* When he goes to a Starbucks, does someone have to run out to 7-Eleven for a jar of mayo?
* Hey, at least he’s not adding ketchup.
* If he eats that much mayonnaise, Hellman’s doesn’t have to worry too much about the length of that lifetime contract.
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you put anything out of the ordinary in your coffee?

THE BUZZ

SURVEY: ONE IN FOUR INTIMIDATED BY THEIR KITCHEN

A poll by Fresh Express of 2,000 U.S. adults who regularly cook finds that one in four Americans admit they’re intimidated by cooking in their own kitchen. In addition:
– One-third are so overwhelmed by some recipes they will ask others in their house to cook the meal instead.
– Six in 10 found themselves intimidated the most by international foods they love, due to recipes that have too many steps or ingredients involved, seem too complicated, or are easy to mess up.
* How do you get intimidated by your kitchen? I know my InstaPot can get a little surly, but come on.
* I’m okay in the kitchen but I have no idea how to work dashboard touchscreens.
* I always go out for foreign food. French fries, English muffins, Swedish meatballs, Brazil nuts, Danish danish…
* I’m not afraid of my kitchen, but most people are afraid to eat what comes out of it.
* It’s nice there’s Fresh Express Salad Kits for people who can’t figure out how to chop up lettuce.

MAN RULES

Reddit asked, “What is an unwritten rule of being a man?” Some of the responses:
– “No matter your age, a stick is a cool sword.”
– “Always click the tongs before use.”
– “Always bring all the grocery bags from the car in one trip.”
– “If you ever tie anything down to a trailer, you must then slap it and say ‘that’ll hold.'”
– “Every sneeze maximum volume.”
– “Swear when you sneeze violently.”
– “Always offer to help move heavy furniture, even if you secretly hope they say no.”
– “Shut up and do your job.”
– “Don’t shut cabinet drawers with your hip.”
– “Never look a man in the eye while he is eating a banana.”
* Well, NOW the rules are all written, aren’t they!
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you got any man rules?

U.S. NEWS

MAN MAROONED ON DESERT ISLAND (FOR THREE DAYS)

A man was rescued by the Coast Guard after he says he spent three days marooned on an uninhabited island after his sailboat broke down in the Bahamas. A Coast Guard cutter spotted the 64-year-old firing flares from his disabled vessel last Friday near Cay Sal, located between Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas, the maritime agency said in a statement. The Coast Guard airdropped supplies, including food, water, and a radio to establish communication. The man said he’d been stranded for three days after his sailboat became disabled. He was later picked up by the Coast Guard cutter and was said to be in good health.
* He wasn’t even there long enough to grow stubble, much less a beard.
* Three days is long enough to ditch the drugs, I suppose.
* Remember Boaty McBoatface? This was Crappy McCrapboat.
* As a joke, the Coast Guard should also airdrop these guys a volleyball.
* “Cast Away 2: Not Really a Big Deal.”

DON’T CRACK AN EGG ON YOUR CHILD’S HEAD FOR A TIKTOK VIDEO

There’s a new TikTok trend where parents film themselves cracking an egg on their toddlers’ head. Usually, the kid looks surprised, or cries. Don’t do that. Medical experts caution that the prank could have unintended short-term effects, including bruising a child’s head or spreading germs from the egg. Says one pediatrician, “We’re literally smacking salmonella on their foreheads. It’s harder to get a toddler to drink fluids when they’ve got a stomach bug or food poisoning, and so they’re more likely to end up in the hospital for IV fluids.”
* Wait a minute – how did we get from humiliating your kid to IV fluids?
* Also, you don’t want their brains to get scrambled.
* And no, it’s not okay if you use a hard-boiled egg.
* Look for the next TikTok trend, kids hitting sleeping mommy with a lamp.
* Oh, well, it’s back to giving them jelly beans with horseradish inside.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

TEEN PUNCHES BEAR IN FACE, SAVES FATHER

On Monday in a rural section of Sweden, a teenager saved his father from a bear attack by punching it in the face. The unnamed father and son were pursuing the animal when it attacked the father, pinning him to the ground. The son, 15, punched the brown bear in the head, causing it to turn on him and bite him on the wrist. The distraction gave the father enough time to shoot the bear. Both were taken to a hospital, the father for facial injuries and his son for a broken wrist.
* Hand-to-hand combat is a little more fair to the animals than guns.
* Wait – they were pursuing the bear? That sounds like entrapment.
* Somebody’s allowance just got increased.
* And give him an extra hour before curfew this Saturday night.

TRENDING

DREW BARRYMORE RUSHED

Drew Barrymore was interviewing singer Reneé Rapp at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City about Rapp’s new album Snow Angel when a man rushed the stage. In footage posted to TikTok from the event, both women visibly jump as a voice yells “Drew Barrymore!” The man then goes on to introduce himself as Chad Michael Busto, yelling “You know who I am. I need to see you at some point while you’re in New York,” as he appears to try to get up on stage. Reneé Rapp jumped up and shielded Barrymore and both walked off stage, as security guards escorted the man out of the room. The two ladies returned to the stage where Barrymore said, “That went full Bodyguard! You are my Kevin Costner!”

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

Scott Caan (actor, “Hawaii Five-0”) … 47
Jay Mohr (comedian/actor, “Suburgatory”) … 53
Dean DeLeo (guitarist, Stone Temple Pilots) … 62
Shelly Long (actress, “Cheers”) … 74
Rick Springfield (singer, actor, “Jessie’s Girl”) … 74
Richard Sanders (actor, “WKRP in Cincinnati”‘s newsman Les Nessman) … 83
Barbara Eden (actress, “I Dream of Jeannie”) … 92

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

“Good, bad, mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.”

(A) Nicolas Cage
(B) Johnny Depp
(C) Scott Caan

ANSWER: (C) Scott Caan

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2010 – No good wife-cheatin’ golfer Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, divorced.
* Sorry, no chance of a Mulligan.

2007 – The hashtag was invented and first used in a tweet by U.S. product designer Chris Messina.
* And he didn’t make a penny. So #dummy.

1990 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as “guests.” He told the group that they were being held “to prevent the scourge of war.”
* And shortly thereafter we pounded his ass with missiles we referred to as “gifts.”

1989 – Pete Rose was banished from baseball for life for gambling.
* “I bet I’ll be back!”

1987 – A 15-year-old boy hijacked a KLM 737 jet and demanded $1 billion.
* Teenagers! “Gimme, gimme, gimme!”

1977 – A transportation record was set as Bryan Allen flew the human-powered aircraft “Gossamer Condor” for a mile under his own power.
* It was the first time a human-powered aircraft flew so far – and this was before the time of performance-enhancing drugs!

1904 – The automobile tire chain was patented.
* Great for keeping people from stealing your tires.

1500 – Eight years after discovering the New World, Christopher Columbus was arrested in Haiti for mistreating the natives, and sent back to Spain in chains.
* Stuff they didn’t tell you in grade school.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Taylor Swift released her seventh studio album, Lover, her first album after parting ways with her former label, Big Machine Records. All of the album’s 18 tracks charted on the Hot 100, breaking the all-time female record for the most simultaneous entries.

2013 – A man found in the pool house at Jennifer Lopez’s mansion in the exclusive Hamptons area of New York was charged with stalking. According to police, the singer had a restraining order against John Dubis, who was a retired firefighter. He , was also charged with burglary, criminal contempt and possessing burglary tools.

2008 – Madonna kicked off her 86-date Sticky & Sweet Tour at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Earning over $280 million, it became the highest grossing tour by a solo artist, breaking the previous record Madonna achieved with her 2006 Confessions Tour.

2007 – Comedy writer Buddy Sheffield sued Disney alleging that he originally came up with the idea for Hannah Montana but was never compensated by Disney. In the lawsuit, Sheffield claimed that in 2001 he pitched an idea for a TV series with the plot of a junior high student who lived a secret double life as a rock star. Disney settled out of court.

2004 – Queen became the first UK rock band to receive official approval in Iran, where Western music was strictly prohibited. Lead singer Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, was of Iranian ancestry and bootlegged albums had been available for years.

1999 – Don Henley sued Paramount Pictures, alleging the studio reneged on a deal to feature the song, “Taking You Home,” which he penned expressly for them for the hit film “Double Jeopardy.”

1995 – Natalie Merchant, one-time lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs, became the first guest in a series of live chats on the Elektra Entertainment Group’s website. Merchant said she wouldn’t make a habit of chatting on-line since it would hurt her eyes and make her feel lonely when her computer was off.

1993 – It was confirmed by Los Angeles police that Michael Jackson was the subject of a criminal investigation.

1968 – Ringo Starr quit The Beatles over a disagreement. He rejoined a few days later.

1969 – Johnny Cash started a four-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Johnny Cash At San Quentin.”

1969 – The Rolling Stones started a four-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Honky Tonk Woman,” the group’s fifth U.S. No.1.

1965 – Security guards at a Manchester, England TV studio hosed down 200 Rolling Stones fans after they broke down barriers while waiting for the band to arrive for a performance.

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. The average American woman has 3 of THESE, but 1 in 5 have none at all. What are they?
Bathing suits

2. In a Yahoo poll, women named THIS the top invention of the last century. What is it?
The birth control pill

3. 60% of women surveyed have one of THESE around the house, but never use it. What is it?
An exercise DVD

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