FRIDAY, June 7 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, June 7, 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.)

DANIEL BOONE DAY
The Memory Loc Gov website says this:
“It was on this date in 1769 that frontiersman and American folk hero, Daniel Boone, first saw the great land of what would one day become known as Kentucky. In 1775, Boone worked with Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Company to establish a trail through the Cumberland Gap. With some thirty associates, he constructed the Wilderness Road, which soon became white settlers’ primary route to the West. Just months after its completion, Boone’s wife and daughters traveled the new thoroughfare to the new settlement of Boonesborough, becoming the first Anglo-American women to settle in Kentucky.”

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY

NATIONAL VCR DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“National VCR Day is observed annually on June 7th. Do you still own a VCR player or do you know someone who does? Many young people do not know what a VCR player or a VCR tape is. National VCR Day is dedicated to the video cassette recorder (VCR). In their time, they were a marvel of technology! The video cassette recorder is an electro-mechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from television on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette. The images and sound can then be played back at a more convenient time. At the time, the VCR was the main way to watch movies at home, and one could create their own personal movie library. The first video cassette recorder was introduced in 1956. The home video cassette format (VCR) was developed in 1970. The birth of VCR mass market success boomed in the mid-1970s and continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Over 10 billion videotapes remain today with our recorded memories. These memories are keepsakes and people keep the tapes for that reason.”

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

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

UNIVERSAL HAUNTED HOUSE BASED ON “A QUIET PLACE”

This year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios theme parks will feature a haunted house based on the movie “A Quiet Place.” As you remember, the entire movie is based on not making noise because the aliens can’t see anything but they can hear everything, so as the tag line goes, “If they hear you, they hunt you.”
* So, if you walk through and don’t make any noise, no one will pop out at you?
* Wouldn’t the aliens in the haunted house go out into the park where all the noise is?
* It’s the theme park ride for people willing to pay for a few minutes of blessed peace and quiet.
* Shoot – I was hoping for a haunted house based on “Bird Box.”

PAT SAJAK NOW AN ACTOR

Pat Sajak, ending his 41 years of hosting “Wheel of Fortune” today (Friday) – has already lined up his next job. Sajak will reunite with longtime friend Joe Moore, a newscaster on KHON-TV Hawaii, and both will perform in the play “Prescription: Murder” next summer in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 1962 mystery-thriller “Prescription: Murder” was written by William Link and Richard Levinson, who turned the play into the TV series “Columbo.” The plot to “Prescription: Murder” was adapted for the “Columbo” pilot. In the Hawaii Theatre version, Sajak will play “brilliant psychiatrist Roy Flemming, who hatches a plot with a perfect alibi to murder his neurotic and possessive wife.” Moore will play Lt. Columbo, as “the two engage in a cat-and-mouse battle of wits right up to the play’s surprising climax.” Sajak and Moore have performed plays before, usually to benefit a charity. This one will be a fundraiser for the non-profit Hawaii Theatre.
* Look who thinks they’re Brad Pitt, acting and everything.
* Columbo? Pat Sajak’s 77. Isn’t he more in the “Matlock” demographic?
* Next year, they’re going to discover a Hawaiian Vacation missing from the Wheel of Fortune prize closet.
* They asked him to do the play “Love Letters” but Pat said, “No more letters!”

DOLLY ON BROADWAY

Dolly Parton will bring a musical about her life and career to Broadway in 2026. The musical is called “Hello, I’m Dolly.” Parton will not be appearing in the show. It will feature a score of Parton’s well-known songs as well as new songs she has written specifically for the musical. Dolly announced the news from the stage of the CMA Fest in Nashville on Thursday, and said in a press release, “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll clap, you’ll stomp, it truly is a Grand Ol’ Opera. Pun and fun intended. Don’t miss it!”
* How did they not call it “Hello, Dolly 2: Electric Boogaloo”?
* I hope it’s not a big bust, but then how can it not be?
* Why not a movie? A 3-D movie.
* People in the front row will need to wear protective eyewear.
* 2026? Aw, dang, sorry – I’m booked up.

THE BUZZ

HOW TO LOOK STUPID

Reddit asked: “What’s one thing everyone looks ridiculous doing?” Some of the responses:
– Chasing a piece of paper in the wind.
– Getting denied a high five.
– When you’re walking in the opposite way you’re supposed to go and have to do a sudden 180 turn.
– Waving back to someone who isn’t waving at you.
– Say goodbye to someone, then walk together in the same direction.
– Accidentally getting off the elevator at the wrong floor and having to turn around and come back in.
– Carrying a large poster board when it’s windy outside.
– Running with a backpack on.
– Chasing a ping pong ball.
– Walking through an unexpected spider’s web.
– Talking to the dentist while he cleans your teeth.
– Speed walking.
– Waiting in line for a water slide.
– Wearing a neck pillow on a plane.
– Wearing a hospital gown with an open back.
– Pretty much anything to do with pants other than just wearing them.
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s another thing that everybody looks ridiculous doing?

U.S. NEWS

AUDIO: SHARK BITES WOMAN ON HAND

A 19-year-old Oklahoma woman fought off a shark attack while swimming with her family in Galveston, Texas. Damiana Humphrey was on vacation with her family last week and swimming in waist-deep water when a shark – about four or five feet long – latched on to her hand. She started punching it. Damiana said the shark released its grip and swam away after she punched it, and she and her siblings quickly got out of the water. Damiana went to a local hospital where doctors operated on her hand. She suffered four severed tendons, and will take several weeks to heal. Galveston Beach Patrol Chief Peter Davis said he’s seen a few shark incidents and the ones he’s seen were shark bites, not attacks, where it’s a case of mistaken identity where they latched onto a human and swam away. Says Chief Davis, “It sounds like this may have been similar to that.”
* “But we won’t know until we actually talk to the shark.”
* No, honey, you weren’t ATTACKED, you were just BITTEN. Big difference.
* Good thing it didn’t latch on to her PUNCHING hand.
* Mistaken identity? Are we supposed to go swimming with a photo ID?
* Probably just a boating accident.
CLIP: “This is not a boat accident!
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/ThisIsNotABoatAccident(dot)mp3

AUDIO: YOU CAN NOW BUY A 180-PACK OF BEER

It’s Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer’s 180th anniversary in 2024, so as a promotional stunt they are now selling a 180-pack of beer for around $100. You can walk into a store and walk out with a 180-pack of PBR. If you plan on buying one, bring a friend, and a dolly.
* Before you rent the dolly, rent a second fridge for the garage.
* And then after you taste one, ask yourself, what am I gonna do with 179 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon?
* 180 cans of beer. Or, as Dad used to call it, 5 o’clock Friday afternoon.
* I’m picturing the guy who’s gonna buy one of these standing outside the store with his buddy saying, “I’m gonna go do it. Here – hold my beer.”
* The best part? Take those 180 cans to a recycling center and you can get about $2.50.
CLIP: You want a GOOD beer? Try Wicked Whizz Golden Ale!
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/WickedWhizzGoldenAle-Beer(dot)mp3

GUY BUYS TESLA CYBERTRUCK, TOO BIG FOR HIS PARKING SPACE

The new Tesla Cybertruck has been the subject of, almost daily, stories about how awful they are. The latest: Blaine Raddon of Salt Lake City reserved a Cybertruck years ago after watching the vehicle’s launch online, but since then he and his wife separated and he moved from a home with a garage into an apartment complex with tight parking slots. The Cybertruck – which starts at over $100,000 – is over 18 feet long, nearly 8 feet wide, and will not fit into his assigned parking spot. He reached out to the Tesla dealer to see if he could return it. He was told “no,” and then reminded that he signed a Tesla Vehicle Order Agreement which states if a Cybertruck owner sells it during the first year, they can be fined $50,000 and are banned from buying future Teslas. Raddon says he’ll stick with his agreement – he isn’t planning to hire a lawyer to dispute the decision, and his apartment manager is okay with him parking there, but they won’t be held liable if the truck gets damaged by another car from sticking out so far from the parking spot.
* Being banned from buying future Teslas sounds like a feature, not a bug.
* Any connection between ordering a Cybertruck and his wife walking out?
* Let me guess – the Tesla Vehicle Order Agreement also has you promise not to join a class-action suit?
* America: one nation, under tech gods, with restrictions and trade restraint for all.

96-YEAR-OLD SWIMSUIT MODEL

Making the news this week is Gloria Mantell Pallot of Coral Gables, Florida. She was a model at the Sunday night bathing suit show for Miami Swim Week at a nightclub in South Beach. Gloria is 96 years old. Dressed in a blue one-piece bathing suit, Pallot walked the catwalk accompanied by a muscle man on each arm for support. The audience cheered and clapped and there was at least one catcall. Back in the 1940s, the grandmother of four was a Hurricane Honey, a sideline beauty for the University of Miami football games. The key to her longevity? “Maintaining a positive attitude, eating healthy — lots of soups and salads — and working out seven days a week.”
* Of course, at 96, a good workout is getting out of bed.
* Also in her younger days, she was Miss February on a calendar. It was the Mayan calendar, but still…
* She once appeared in the Swimsuit Issue of Poor Richard’s Almanac.
* I don’t want to say she’s old, but she was the first runner-up in the “Miss Why-Don’t-We-Call-It-America?” pageant.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

THE BEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD IS IN SPAIN

The annual awards for top restaurants in the world have been announced. The list is compiled based on the votes of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy (* Academy? How’s their basketball team?), which is made up of 1,080 international restaurant industry experts. The Best Restaurant in the World is one called Disfrutar in Barcelona, Spain. Described as having “imaginative and playful dishes executed with technical mastery,” diners can order food such as the Panchino doughnut filled with caviar; a frozen gazpacho sandwich; and squab with kombu spaghetti, almond and grape.
– The U.S. had two restaurants in the Top 50: New York City’s Atomix came in 6th. SingleThread, in the town of Healdsburg in California’s Sonoma Valley, was in 47th place.
* Disfrutar, as in “Dis fruit are great in a pie à la mode.”
* Y’know, I like Krispy Kreme, but I’ve always thought there was something missing. Now I know: caviar filling.
* And where can I find some spaghetti sauce with almonds and grapes?
* In my book, the best restaurants are the ones with the ketchup bottle already on the table, you don’t have to ask for it.
* (old joke) I went to a really fancy restaurant one time. They had a waiter for everything. The water waiter came over and gave us some water. The wine waiter came over and gave us wine. (pause) Then the head waiter came over.

TRENDING

DRAKE BETS $500,000 ON THE MAVS TO WIN NBA TITLE

The rapper Drake took to Instagram on Thursday to announce that he bet $500,000 on the Dallas Mavericks taking the NBC championship. “Dallas cause I’m a Texan,” he explained in the caption. Drake last month bought a 313-acre Washington County ranch. However… there is a Drake Curse: any team he throws his support behind is doomed to lose:
– University of Alabama lost their 2019 playoffs 44–16 with his support.
– Drake’s presence at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in 2019 is said to have cost them the Stanley Cup.
– Serena Williams was knocked out of the semifinals of the 2015 U.S. Open amidst rumors of her being romantically involved with Drake.
– Jake Paul lost a high-profile match in 2023 after Drake bet $1.2 million on him.
– The only exception is exception to the Drake curse was this year, when he bet $1.15 million on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII, and they won.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

June 14, Friday – Flag Day
June 16, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 19, Wednesday – Juneteenth
June 20, Thursday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 4:50 P.M. EST)
July 4, Thursday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 2, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Wednesday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Sunday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 8:44 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Iggy Azalea (rapper) … 34
Michael Cera (actor, “Arrested Development”) … 36
Anna Torv (actress, “The Last of Us,” “Mindhunter,” “Fringe”) … 45
Bill Hader (actor, comedian, “Barry,” SNL) … 46
Bear Grylls (TV personality, “Man Vs. Wild”) … 50
Karl Urban (actor, “The Boys”) … 52
Liam Neeson (actor) … 72
Tom Jones (60s-70s singer) … 84

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

“Since I was 15 I’ve felt kinda like … an old man.”

(A) Larry David
(B) Bernie Sanders
(C) Michael Cera

ANSWER: (C) Michael Cera

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2006 – The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
* A huge victory for the tuxedo and wedding dress lobby.

2002 – Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when they were 15 in 1975.
* I know every family has black sheep, but this is ridiculous.

1912 – The first plane-mounted machine gun was tested by the U.S. Army.
* It worked pretty well – the only drawback was it cost $9.5 million.

1775 – The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
* And they got a spiffy new logo.

1557 – England declared war on France.
* Yes, again.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2010 – Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was granted a restraining order against an elderly neighbor who allegedly threatened to kill him. The man was also ordered to pay more than $1,500 in legal fees.

2002 – Virgin Records announced they had dropped Victoria Beckham after her debut solo album, which cost over $5.1 million to make, had sold only 50,000 copies.

1995 – Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood was hospitalized after his ear was leaking blood. The problem was diagnosed as his arm movement from continuous guitar playing.

1993 – Recording artist Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol.

1983 – Jerry Lee Lewis married wife number five, Shawn Michelle Stevens.

1982 – The mansion of Elvis Presley’s home at Graceland in Memphis was opened to the public.

1975 – Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy” became the first album ever to debut at No.1 on the U.S. album chart.

1963 – The Rolling Stones made their first TV appearance, in 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. THESE are red, but their original color was yellow. What are they?
Stop signs

2. According to a recent survey, 65 percent of drivers do not know THIS piece of information about their car. What is it?
The license plate number

3. A recent study claims THIS is the most dangerous food to eat while driving. What is it?
Potato chips

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