THURSDAY, May 9 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR THURSDAY, May 9, 2024
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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.)

MOSCATO DAY
The Days Of The Year website says this:
Moscato is a wine originating from the Piedmont region of north-west Italy and the beverage has become a popular choice due to its sweetness, lightness and affordability. Moscato’s popularity among hip-hop artists like Nelly and Drake created hype as well as soaring sales, so in celebration of both new and old fans of the wine, Gallo Family Vineyards introduced Moscato Day in 2012.

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbeque Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
Older Americans Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

WHAT TO WATCH – New and Returning Shows and Movies
Premiering Thursday through Sunday
Listings sourced from the TV Guide and EW websites

THURSDAY, May 9

“Black Twitter: A People’s History”
Hulu – New Docuseries
Synopsis: Three-part docuseries charting the rise, the movements, the voices and the memes that made Black Twitter an influential and dominant force in nearly every aspect of American political and cultural life.

“Bodkin”
Netflix – New Series
Synopsis: Dark comedy following a trio of podcasters who take it upon themselves to investigate a series of disappearances in a small town in Ireland.

“Love Undercover”
Peacock – Yet Another Sex Hookup Reality Show
Synopsis: An elite group of international soccer stars come to the United States on a secret quest for “true love.”

“Maxton Hall – The World Between Us”
Prime Video – New Series
Synopsis: Quick-witted scholarship student Ruby unwittingly witnesses a secret at Maxton Hall. Arrogant millionaire heir James is determined to silence her, but their clash ignites an unexpected spark between them.

“Mother of the Bride”
Netflix – New Movie
Synopsis: A doting mom jets off to a tropical island resort for her daughter’s wedding — only to discover the groom’s father is the ex she hasn’t seen in decades.

“The GOAT”
Freevee – New Reality Competition Show
Synopsis: 14 reality superstars – from Bachelorettes to Housewives to Survivors to Drag Racers and everyone in between – move into GOAT Manor to compete in over 20 challenges to win $200,000.

Season Premiere:
Max – “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”

FRIDAY, May 10

“The Iron Claw”
Max – New Movie
Synopsis: Chronicles the uniquely tragic true story of the Von Erich family and their efforts to make it in the cutthroat world of professional wrestling in the 1980s.

“The Ultimatum: South Africa”
Netflix – Yet Another Sex Hookup Reality Show
Synopsis: A six-way partner-swap sparks wild attractions and tearful betrayals.

Season Premieres:
Disney+ – “Doctor Who”
Paramount+ With Showtime – “The Chi”

SUNDAY, May 12

Season Premiere:
AMC – “Interview With the Vampire”

DID MISS USA WRITE A SECRET MESSAGE IN HER FAREWELL EMAIL?

Yesterday came the news that current Miss USA Noelia Voigt decided to relinquish her Miss USA crown. She spelled out her reasons in a lengthy email. Then, the weird part: “Fans” noticed a strange detail about her statement. Taking the first letter in each sentence of her statement reveals the phrase “I AM SILENCED.” Although the first letters of the last three sentences spell “HIP.” Here are the words that begin each of the sentences; In, Am, My, Sadly, I, Lifelong, Every, Never, Constant, Eternal, Deep. It was not immediately clear whether the message was intentional.
(see the statement here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6oIKIYLDGG/)
* It’s only intentional if Miss USA herself pointed it out in the comments section under a pseudonym.
* Who spends their day looking for secret codes in a Miss USA resignation letter? That guy from “A Beautiful Mind”?
* Oh, that’s right – her talent in the pageant was developing codes for the NSA.
* Even weirder: The SECOND letter in each sentence spells out “Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo.”
* Dont’cha hate it when people get their 15 minutes of fame and then wanna stretch it to 16?

AND NOW, MISS TEEN USA RESIGNS

Miss Teen USA on Wednesday announced she’s stepping down, only two days after Miss USA said she is resigning and relinquishing her crown. UmaSofia Srivastava, 17, posted on Instagram: “After careful consideration, I’ve decided to resign as I find that my personal values no longer fully align with the direction of the organization. I am grateful for all the support from my family, my state directors, my sister queens, and the fans who have cheered me on since I won my state title. I will always look back on my time as Miss NJ Teen USA fondly, and the experience of representing my state as a first generation, Mexican-Indian American at the national level was fulfilling in itself.” Representatives for the Miss Teen USA Pageant could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
* Well, SOMETHING’S going on at Miss USA headquarters.
* Crimeny. I just want to see some girls in bathing suits, not decipher The DaVinci Code.
* We ran her resignation email through AI to see if there’s a hidden message, and it came back “Paul Is Dead.”
* First Miss USA, then Miss Teen USA … has anybody checked in with Miss Little Kid USA?

THE BUZZ

DUMB HEADLINES

Time for another episode of Three Dumb Headlines. These are actual, word-for-word headlines of stories found on the internet. There’s no story, no context, just the actual headline. Discuss them amongst yourselves. Then, encourage listeners to vote for the Dumbest Headline on your station’s social media page. Maybe ask them to leave a comment. Reveal the results in the next break.
Today’s Dumb Headlines:
1. “This Army Of Cyborg Cockroaches Is Actually Coming To Help You”
2. “Why Are Some People Faster Than Others?”
3. “Welcome To The Age Of The High-End Pineapple”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis — Until Now”

THINGS FOUND IN GUYS’ ROOMS

BuzzFeed asked women to report on “things they’ve seen in a guy’s room that was either a red or green flag.” Some of the responses:
– “Beauty products and make-up lying around in the bathroom, obviously not used in a long time. The amount of dust and dirt on them made me realize they must have been from his ex-girlfriend, with whom he broke up TWO years ago.”
– “He proceeded to play a piano that I couldn’t even see because of all the trash around it. I RAN the hell out of there.”
– “Green flag: He had a picture of his dog on his nightstand.”
– “He had bookshelves filled with nonfiction books, organized by topic, with one small section: ‘books I haven’t read yet.’ Omg! My clothes couldn’t come off fast enough.”
– “He had a hunting knife above his bed. I’ve made some dumb decisions, but I even NOPED out of there quickly.”
– “He was luring me to the bedroom, and I started to give in. I wasn’t that into him, though. The door opened, and his room was neat and tidy, but he had a hammer on the nightstand. I noped out of that apartment immediately.”
– “Swords. Two of my exes had real swords on display.”
– “Hanging on the wall in his bedroom was a life-sized black and white portrait of his own nude physique.”
– “He shared a small studio with another guy. We sat on his cot when he reached over to the microwave, opened it, and pulled out a bowl of what I can only assume was three-day-old Spaghetti-os. Nastiest thing I’ve ever seen. And then he proceeded to chow down on it. I couldn’t leave fast enough.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Ladies, what strange thing have you found in a guy’s bedroom?

U.S. NEWS

FLORIDA MAN FLUSHES EX’S FISH DOWN THE TOILET

In Cape Coral, Florida, a man was arrested after he reportedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home early Saturday morning, smashed the woman’s betta fish tank and flushed her pet fish “Bean” down the toilet during a spree of destruction. The victim told officers that she was sleeping at around 2:30 a.m. when Bret Dahl, 28, her former boyfriend, broke into her home through a back window looking for his gun. She tried to get Dahl to leave. He refused, then began to damage everything in sight on the kitchen counter and reportedly shattered the woman’s beta fish tank. Then she heard Dahl flush the toilet, and never saw her pet fish “Bean” ever again.
* Bean was. Now he’s a has-been.
* For a Siamese fighting fish, it didn’t put up much of a fight.
* On the bright side, Bret never did find his gun. That probably wouldn’t have been too good.
* She lost a boyfriend but, as they say, there are plenty of other fish in the sea. Or maybe the toilet.
* First, there was Finding Nemo. Then Finding Dory. Now there’s Finding Be– ah, never mind, never gonna happen.

THIEVES STEAL 140 SHOPPING CARTS

Two men arrested in Newark, New Jersey were charged with stealing shopping carts – at least 140 carts – worth nearly $28,000. Police arrested 77-year-old Alfredo Rodriguez and 54-year-old Hector Cortes, calling them the “Shopping Cart Bandits.” (* Police spent a lot of time coming up with that name.) The carts were stolen from a ShopRite supermarket, who noticed the number of carts dwindling during a few weeks in March and April. They checked security footage and noticed a red van repeatedly coming and going. The men from the van were even wearing lime yellow vests, just like cart wranglers. Police believe the men were selling them to smaller stores, or selling them for scrap metal. New shopping carts run about $200 apiece.
* Or $180 if you don’t mind if it has a wobbly wheel. Guess which ones most stores buy.
* Maybe it was an insurance scam. ShopRite only wanted them to steal the carts that pull to the right.
* They start with shopping carts and work their way up to stealing the motorized scooters.
* The disappearing carts were driving the store management buggy.
* Shopping cart thieves. That’s just how they roll.

THE FISH ARE SHRINKING

So now, the fish are shrinking. A recent study has found that the average body weight of nearly three-quarters of marine fish populations sampled between 1960 and 2020 have shrunk in size. Scientists are unsure of the reason. Overfishing is known to reduce fish sizes – it’s proven that fish are larger in protected marine areas – but scientists suspect climate change is playing a part as well. Researchers found that trout raised in warm water tanks were on average less than half the size of those raised in colder ones. a world with smaller fish is bad because it threatens the food supply of the more than 3 billion people who rely on seafood as a source of protein.
* Hope y’all like anchovies.
* I Googled it. Since 1901 – 123 years – the average global sea surface temperature has increased about 1.5° F. These fish need to toughen up.
* Are they sure it’s warm water? Speaking as a guy, I don’t have to tell you what happens in cold water.
* Ozempic runoff?
* The large-mouth bass will soon have to be called the small-mouth bass.

TRENDING

LADY GAGA CONCERT COMING TO HBO

HBO will be premiering Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball concert special May 25. The concert follows singer and actress Lady Gaga as she delivers a career-defining performance at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles during her 2022 Chromatica Ball tour. Gaga performs some of her biggest hits live, including “Stupid Love,” “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “Shallow” and “Rain on Me,” in front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 people.

TRAVIS KELCE GETS ACTING JOB

Travis “Mr. Taylor Swift” Kelce has landed his first major acting role with a part in a new Ryan Murphy horror drama show “Grotesquerie,” which will premiere on FX in the fall. In addition to still playing football, Kelce has hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 2023, and will host the game show “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity” for Amazon’s Prime Video.

STEVE ALBINI DIES, 61

Steve Albini, the legendarily exacting producer/engineer and frontman of the indie rock bands Shellac and Big Black has died at 61. He died of a heart attack on Tuesday night (May 7). Albini said in a 2018 interview that worked on more than 2,000 albums, mostly for underground or indie bands, including – hang on – The Pixies, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Bush, Urge Overkill, The Jesus Lizard, Surfer Rosa, The Breeders, Low, Superchunk, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Ty Segall, Cloud Nothings, Joanna Newsom, Jason Molina, and many more. He never took royalties from records on which he worked—including Nirvana’s In Utero, which has sold over 15 million copies—despite that being customary in the industry, and he kept his day rates for artists comparatively low. Albini was famous for handing artists a yellow legal pad on the first day and instructing them to map out a written description of every song they were going to record. This was his way of avoiding future miscommunications and guaranteeing that artists maximized the in-studio time for which they paid.

SPINOFF FROM “THE OFFICE” IS A GO

“The Office” spinoff is officially happening. Peacock streaming said the untitled new comedy will be produced by Greg Daniels, who adapted the original NBC show, and “Nathan for You” co-creator Michael Koman. Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson and Italian actress Sabrina Impacciatore will lead an ensemble cast in show about a dying newspaper in a small Midwestern city. The show will be filmed documentary-style, like “The Office.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

May 12, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 27, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Friday – Flag Day
June 16, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 20, Thursday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 4:50 P.M. EST)

BIRTHDAYS

Rosario Dawson (actress, “Jane the Virgin,” plays Claire Temple in various Marvel TV shows) … 45
Tom Petersson (bass player with Cheap Trick) … 74
Billy Joel (singer/songwriter) … 75
Candice Bergen (actress, “Murphy Brown”) … 78
James L. Brooks (director, producer, major force behind “The Simpsons”) … 87

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

“I realized when I was just a little boy, when I played the piano, little girls would come over and listen. And I thought, ‘Hmm – this might come in handy in the future.'”

(A) Elton John
(B) Beethoven
(C) Billy Joel

ANSWER: (C) Billy Joel

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2019 – 46 million new Australian $50 bank notes were released with the word responsibility misspelled as “responsibilty.
* I wonder who was responsabull?

1994 – Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.
* Dang! Beat us by 14 years!

1962 – A laser beam was successfully bounced off the Moon for the first time.
* I wouldn’t brag. How could they miss?

1961 – In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow condemned television programming as a “vast wasteland.”
* Oh, he had NO IDEA.

1960 – The FDA approved the Birth Control Pill, setting the stage for the unbridled promiscuity of the 1960s’ “Sexual Revolution.”
* So THAT’S why all the aging Baby Boomers look so smug.

1944 – The world’s first Eye-Bank opened in New York.
* It was set up by people with a great vision.

1899 – The push lawn mower was patented.
* It was a goat on a skateboard.

1785 – British inventor Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.
* An important invention, the beer-pump handle allowed people to drink beer long past the point where they could hold the keg over their head to drink from it.

1754 – The first newspaper cartoon in America ran. A jab at the government’s pressure on territories to join the Union, it featured a divided snake with the words “Join or Die.”
* A motto later adopted by ISIS.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2013 – David Bowie’s video for “The Next Day,” starring Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard, was pulled from YouTube over its graphic content. YouTube later admitted making the “wrong call” in removing the video, and reinstated it with an adult content warning.

2005 – Country singer Kenny Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger in the Caribbean.

1992 – Bruce Springsteen made his North American network television debut on Saturday Night Live with host Tom Hanks.

1988 – Prince’s 10th album, “Lovesexy,” was released, which some stores refused to sell due to the nude portrait on the cover.

1974 – Bruce Springsteen played at Boston’s Harvard Square Theater, inspiring Rolling Stone critic John Landau to write “I have seen rock & roll’s future and his name is Bruce Springsteen.”

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 German study, THIS raises your risk of a heart attack. What is it?
Being stuck in traffic

2. THIS cuts your chance of having a heart attack by nearly a half. What is it?
Owning a cat

3. A study out of University of Maryland says doing THIS can be hard on your heart. What is it?
Listening to music you don’t like (or that makes you anxious)

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