WEDNESDAY, Oct 18 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 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.)

HARD-BOILED GUY / B-GIRL DAY
The Hard Nosed Sleuth blog says this:
“Celebrate the golden days of pulp fiction and film noir … on October 18 – the anniversary of the release date for the cinematic masterpiece “The Maltese Falcon.”

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE DAY

NO BEARD DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“Whether you have had your beard for years or it is relatively new for you, this is the day to shave it off and go smooth. Perhaps your partner doesn’t like your beard, or you just haven’t shaved it off for years. No Beard Day is the day to see what you look like without it.”

October is:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
Car Care Month
Child Health Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Country Music Month
Fire Prevention Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Service Dog Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

AUDIO: PREVIEW OF BRITNEY SPEARS’ BOOK

Bombshells are starting to drop from the upcoming Britney Spears tell-all. The memoir, The Woman in Me, hits shelves next Tuesday, October 24. Meanwhile, here are some of the revelations, so you won’t have to buy it:
– The Abortion: Spears writes that she became pregnant with Justin Timberlake’s child while they were dating. She got an abortion at Timberlake’s urging, she writes, “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father. To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
– The Snake Dance: At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards Britney danced with a boa snake around her. “All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me. What nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around to my face, right up to me, and started hissing.”
– The Head Shaving: “I’d been eyeballed so much growing up, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”
– Body Shaming By Her Father: She also disclosed that her father would body shame her under the conservatorship. “If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.”
-The Conservatorship: “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me. If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick.”
* “And the only way to feel better is TO TAKE MY SHIRT OFF FOR THE CAMERA!!!”
* Those are the big stories right there. I wonder what she fills the rest of the book with. Recipes?
* Sorry, Britney. This month is all about Taylor Swift.
CLIP: Our Britney song, In Heaven There Is No Spears.”
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/01-04-InHvnNoSpears(dot)mp3

TOM CRUISE GAVE TIMOTHEE CHALOMET TIPS

Tom Cruise once gave Timothée Chalamet tips on what he would need to succeed in Hollywood. In an interview in the November GQ, Chalamet revealed that Cruise sent him “the most wonderfully inspiring email” after Chalamet finished the first “Dune” movie. The email said, “In Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training,” but nobody does that today, so he would have to go out and get his own training. The note even included names of experts he might need for stunt training, including motorcycle and helicopter coaches.
* And hanging off of airplane coaches, and holding your breath for three minutes coaches.
* “I also have some great names for facelifts, but that’s a ways off.”
* That reminds me – I really wanna see the next Dune mov- oh, wait. 2024. Never mind.
* Looks like Cruise is prepping him for a Mission Impossible Babies movie.

THE BUZZ

PARENTAL PUNISHMENT

From HuffPost Parents Facebook community, here are some of the crazy things parents will do to to kids as punishment:
– “I took all the cords for electronics away, worst I’ve done. The things they would do for chargers and HDMI cords!”
– “I saw that my son left his bike unlocked at school. To teach him a lesson, I rode it home. I thought he’d come home humbled. Instead he called the cops. An officer found me walking and said, ‘We have you on camera taking a bike.’”
– “My parents punished me by taking away my iPhone & giving me a Nokia for a month.”
– “I was misbehaving as a child on Christmas Eve, my Italian grandma punished me by feeding me Chef Boyardee.”
– “My dad one time came home and was mad that everyone was watching TV and no one even acknowledged him — so he walked over to the TV and cut the cord.”
– “My dad got tired of my sister slamming doors so he took the door off the hinges and burned it in the front yard. Years later, he admitted he only made a spectacle about burning it since he already planned on buying upgraded doors for the house.”
– “When I was 7, I wanted to go as Mario for Halloween. I ended up getting in trouble in school, and my Mom punished me by getting me a Luigi costume.”
– “I had a coworker who was having trouble with her teenage son. She took all his favorite things and plastic wrapped them to the dining room table — where he could see them every time he walked through to his bedroom. She said it worked — he gradually earned it all back.”
– “My mom taught me a lesson when I was a kid about opening the door for people I don’t know. One time a Jehovah witness came knocking & I opened the door & went and got my mom. A week later the Jehovah’s Witness lady came back & my mom let her in the house & made me talk with her at our kitchen table.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Did your parents ever punish you in a weird way?

LITTLE-USED BABY BOY NAMES

Steph Coffield, a baby name consultant based in Minnesota, has come up with a list of 10 boy names from 2022 that are so unique, less than 10 babies have been given these names. Most of them are kinda cool, actually:
– Breckett (* Sounds like a curse word: “Ow! Breckett, Timmy, I told you to not leave your Legos on the floor!”)
– Cline
– Delfino (* Does it rhyme with “Hell if I know”?)
– Frey (Rhymes with fray.)
– Guthrie (* Great choice for hillbillies.)
– Ludo (* I love that song – “Ludo Shuffle” by Boz Scaggs!)
– Novian (* Ask your doctor if Novian is right for you.)
– Pacen (* “I was Pacen and Pacen, trying to think of a baby name.”)
– Rennick (* Good name for an 80’s cop: “RENNICK!!! Your badge and gun on my desk – now!”)
– Ulrik (* The name that sounds like you’re about to hurl: ULL-rik!)
* Is is too late to change my son’s name to Ludo? He’s 28.
* “Baby Name Consultant.” Another job that’s going to be replaced by AI.

U.S. NEWS

THE BARBIE BOTOX

The newest Barbie-inspired trend comes to us from the world of cosmetic surgery. It’s called the “Barbie Botox,” medically known as “trapezius Botox” (* Trapezius was Barbie’s name before she changed it for show biz). A shot of Botox stops the trapezius muscle – a triangle which runs from the back of your neck to the shoulders – from contracting, which slenderizes the neck and mimics the long, smooth neck of a Barbie doll. It also has also been proven to relieve neck pain and headaches. The procedure, which costs around $2,000, is said to be trending now.
* Get it now, you can go Trick-or-Treating as a flamingo.
* I can’t think of a better reason to medically alter your body than, “I want to look like a plastic toy.”
* When the Botox wears off, does your neck collapse and you end up looking lie Jabba the Hut?
* Everyone wants the Barbie Botox, but no one’s talking about the Ken Crotch Conversion.
* $2,000. Of course, before the Barbie hoopla, it was 600 bucks.

WANTED MAN TRIES TO THROW OFF COPS WITH CLEVER SIGNAGE

A man in Florida attempted to evade arrest by putting up a sign in front of his home saying he did not live there. Deputies went to a home in Lakeland on Saturday after receiving a tip that Johnny Yates, who was wanted on aggravated battery and tampering charges, lived there. The deputies found a big white dry-erase board by the front door that read: “Johnny Yates does NOT live here!!” When the deputies spotted someone leaving the house, they questioned them about Yates. The individual told deputies that, yes, Yates was inside the home. The deputies surrounded the house and began calling out to Yates on a speaker, but he didn’t respond. After an hour, deputies tried smoking him out. Four more people left the home, but Yates didn’t. Deputies went in and discovered Yates hiding inside a chest of drawers.
* Well…………. he always was a snappy dresser.
* On the outside was a Post-It note saying “Johnny Yates is NOT in this dresser!!”
* You can’t put much past a Florida deputy, can you?
* Johnny Yates was right. You call that livin’?

CURSIVE RETURNING TO CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill last Friday that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade. Cursive instruction has been dropped by many schools in America, under the premise that kids write everything on their computers these days. Research shows there are benefits to learning cursive letters – it activates different parts of the brain that do not get activated when printing block letters or typing. California dropped it 13 years ago. Now, they’ve found high school students who cannot read and write in cursive and have difficulty reading historical documents.
* They’ll be able to read the Declaration of Independence and wonder why they called it the Pur-fuit of Happiness?
* Without cursive, how will today’s student recognize the Coca-Cola logo? Or Campbell’s Soup? Or Instagram, or Vimeo?
* I wonder what’ll be worse – the kids’ hand pain or the teachers’ eyestrain?
* California – proudly leading the way back to 1950.
* As Matthew McConaughey would say, “All write, all write, all write.”

TRENDINGPROSECUTORS TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT “RUST” SHOOTING

New Mexico prosecutors will convene a grand jury to weigh recharging Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of the cinematographer on the set of the movie “Rust.” The decision comes after a five-month investigation that culminated with a forensic expert issuing a report clashing with an account of the incident from Baldwin, who maintained that he did not pull the trigger on the firearm when it discharged. New Mexico prosecutors in April dropped charges against the actor to review new evidence suggesting that the gun he was holding had been modified. They reserved the ability to refile charges. In a statement, special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said that “additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability.” Baldwin’s lawyers, said in a statement, “It is unfortunate that a terrible tragedy has been turned into this misguided prosecution. We will answer any charges in court.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 31, Tuesday – Halloween
Nov. 5, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Saturday – Veterans Day
Nov. 23, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Thursday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 10:27 P.M. EST
Dec. 25, Monday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Sunday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Monday – New Year’s Day 2024

BIRTHDAYS

Joy Lauren (actress, “Desperate Housewives”) … 34
Zac Efron (actor, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”) … 36
Josh Gracin (Country singer and “American Idol” contestant) … 43
Jean Claude Van Damme (actor, more or less) … 63
Pam Dawber (actress, “Mork and Mindy”) … 73

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

“I’ve got a talent to act. No matter what any newspapers say about me I’m one of the most sensitive human beings on earth.”

(A) Lindsay Lohan
(B) Steven Seagal
(C) Jean Claude Van Damme

ANSWER: (C) Jean Claude Van Damme

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1996 – New York scientists announced they’d found an “absolute” link between smoking and lung cancer.
* And a year later announced they’d discovered the Earth was round.

1887 – Russia sold Alaska to the USA for $7.2 million.
* What a deal! A few more years of global warming, and that’s gonna be some sweet beachfront property.

1878 – Thomas Edison made electricity available for household use.
* Of course, since no electrical appliances had been invented yet, for the first couple years it wasn’t good for much besides practical jokes involving chair cushions and bare wires.

1842 – Samuel Morse laid his first telegraph cable.
* “I just laid some cable,” he announced, and everyone giggled.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2008 – Adele appeared on Saturday Night Live along with then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The show earned its highest ratings in 14 years with a total of 17 million viewers. Adele, who performed “Chasing Pavements” and “Cold Shoulder,” topped the iTunes charts the following day and the singer’s debut album jumped thirty-five places to No.11 on the US chart the following week.

2000 – Internet firm DNA Visual Business Solutions filed a lawsuit against Britney Spears and her marketing company for failing to pay for the redesign of her website britneyspears(dot)(com).

1998 – Jay-Z started a five-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Vol 2 … Hard Knock Life.”

1989 – During a gig at The Los Angeles Coliseum, Guns N’ Roses front man Axl Rose announced to the crowd that he was quitting the band.

1986 – Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac married Portuguese composer Eduardo Quintela.

1979 – Fifteen youths were arrested at an Earth, Wind and Fire concert and accused of mugging audience members.

1968 – The Jackson Five made their national TV debut on ABC TV’s Hollywood Palace.

1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience played their first gig as a band at the Paris Olympia.

1957 – Paul McCartney made his live debut with the Quarry Men at New Clubmoor Hall Conservative Club, Liverpool.

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. Surprisingly, a new survey found that 60% of kids have never experienced THIS. What is it?
Marshmallows toasted over a fire

2. 29% of adults surveyed said they use their kids as an excuse to buy THIS for themselves. What is it?
Chocolate milk

3. According to statistics, 7% of kids will lose a tooth eating THIS. What is it?
A popcorn ball

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