TUESDAY, June 18 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, June 18, 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.)

GO FISHING DAY

INTERNATIONAL PICNIC DAY

INTERNATIONAL SUSHI DAY

NATIONAL CHERRY TART DAY

NATIONAL SPLURGE DAY

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

THE MOST POPULAR DISNEY-INSPIRED BABY NAMES

A new study from BeenVerified, an online background check service, looked up the most Disney-influenced baby names. Here are the most popular Disney-inspired baby names across the US:
1. Merida, “Brave”
2. Koda, “Brother Bear”
3. Moana, “Moana”
4. Finnick, “Zootopia”
4. Mirabel, “Encanto”
6. Ariel, “The Little Mermaid”
7. Flynn, “Tangled”
8. Raya, “Raya and the Last Dragon”
9. Camilo, “Encanto”
10. Elsa, “Frozen”
* Nobody went with ‘Cruella,’ huh?
* If you’re going to name your baby, you might as well go with a name you can trust has been market-tested and focus-grouped to death.
* My wife and I went with a Disney name for our daughter. But everyone looks at us weird when we say, “And this our little girl, Jiminy.”
* Oh, well, we’ve got to have SOME choices besides Taylor, Bruno, Adele, Drake, Ariana …

SCOOTER BRAUN RETIRING

Infamous music manager Scooter Braun announced on Monday he is retiring after 23 years of guiding young talent to superstardom. Braun, 42, called himself “blessed to have had a ‘Forrest Gump’-like life while witnessing and taking part in the journeys of some of the most extraordinarily talented people the world has ever seen.” (* And Justin Bieber.) Braun got his start as a manager at age 19 with an artist named Cato in Atlanta, Georgia. He has since worked with such artists as Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Lil Dicky, Tori Kelly, Zac Brown Band, Carly Rae Jepsen, Kanye West and Usher. (* Hey – who’s missing from that list? I know! See below.) He said, “Every client I have had the privilege of working with has changed my life, and I know many of them are just beginning to see the success they deserve. I will cheer for every single one of them.”
– But how can we leave out the Taylor Swift incident? In June 2019, Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group for $300 million. Through the deal, Braun became the new owner of Taylor Swift’s first six albums with Big Machine Records. Taylor claimed that she had never been given the opportunity to buy back her song rights in the sale, and she’d faced “incessant, manipulative bullying” from Braun for years. At one point during the feud, Braun told her she wasn’t allowed to perform any music from her first six albums during a planned performance on the American Music Awards. Braun eventually sold Swift’s master rights to Shamrock Holdings for over $300 million. That’s when Swift announced her plans to re-record her first six albums so that those versions would become the popular versions, and she would regain the rights to those masters.
* What I’m getting from this is, Scooter Braun didn’t get comp tickets to the Eras tour.
* On the bright side, with Scooter retiring, it leaves only honest, reputable managers in the music business.
* At 42, it’s time to drop the name “Scooter”. He will now be known as Moped Braun.
* Did somebody really choose the stage name “Lil Dicky”?

THE BUZZ

ADULTS ARE A BIGGER MARKET THAN KIDS IN THE TOY INDUSTRY

According to consumer trend company Circana, for the first time ever, toy demand from preschoolers was surpassed by demand from adults over the age of 18. Grownups accounted for $1.5 billion in toy sales from January to April of this year. And that is not adults buying toys for their kids; this is adults buying toys for themselves. For example: Jay Glatfelter, a 39-year-old grown-up man – a professional tech sales rep who moonlights as a “toy influencer,” says he spends about $4,800 a year on toys – $2,400 for himself and $2,400 combined on his six- and 10-year-old sons’ birthday and Christmas presents. The biggest sellers among adults: action figures, trading cards and Lego sets. A recent survey showed that 43% of adults purchased a toy for themselves during the past year.
* How do adults have any money left for toys with all the gambling apps?
* If beer is a toy, include me in that group.
* Lego sets are the new jigsaw puzzles for adult de-stressing. I mean, this guy has a six- and 10-year-old.
* Good to know that when the Chinese eventually invade us, we’ll be able to repel them with our GI Joe action figures. Which the Chinese made.
* Kids don’t need toys, they have imaginations. They can imagine their entire college fund going to dad’s toy collection.
* PHONE TOPIC: Ladies is your husband or boyfriend a toy collector? Does that bother you?

SIT DOWN, DRINK COFFEE, LIVE LONGER

According to a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health, sedentary coffee drinkers had a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with those who sat for more than six hours and didn’t drink coffee. Got that? Non-coffee drinkers who sat six hours or more per day were 58 percent more likely to die – of all causes – than coffee drinkers who sit for less than six hours a day. This, according to the researchers, indicates both the risk of sedentary behavior and the benefit of coffee drinking. The study used data from 10,639 subjects, collected from 2007 to 2018 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
* As we like to say, you can’t argue with the science.
* I need to know more: are you sitting in a hard chair, like at a coffee shop, on in a recliner?
* I’m sorry, but if I sit and drink coffee for six hours, my head will explode.
* What if it’s bad coffee, does that affect your lifespan?
* If you sit in another room so you have to walk more than 30 feet to refill your cup, you’ll be fine.

SURVIVING CHILDHOOD

Buzzfeed asked about things people used to do as a child that no one would ever let you do today. Some of the responses:
– “There was a swimming hole near our Alabama home in a creek. In order to use the hole, you had to throw a couple of large rocks into it, which caused the water moccasins to run out of the water and into the woods. We would then swim there.”
– “Tricks off the high dive at the local swimming pool. These days, public pools don’t even have diving boards, let alone high dives.”
– “Parents sent me on foot to kindergarten alone. The trail started behind the barrier of a dead-end street, wound past a cornfield, and then passed an apartment complex before it took me to school.”
– “Delivering newspapers and collecting the money; 11–15 year-olds waking up at 4:30 a.m.–5 a.m. daily, sitting on a corner alone waiting for the papers, riding a bike around the neighborhood trying to throw newspapers onto people’s porches. Then, we went to every house every two weeks to collect the money, sometimes carrying around $50–$100 in a pouch. To top it off, it was considered okay to be welcomed into the houses during winter when collecting the money.”
– “I lived in Guam about 10 years after WWII, and in certain areas, ammunition had been dumped, and other places where the soldiers had left it in the heat of battle. We used to go looking for the ammunition, and then we disarmed it, cleared it up, and added it to my collection. I knew how to completely unload Japanese and American hand grenades, knee mortars, and shells below 40mm.”
– “There was a medical clinic near our house. They would dump the test tubes full of blood into the big trashcan. We liked the glass tubes with stoppers, so we pulled them out and washed out the tubes to play with them.”
– “My sister and I rode home from vacation one time sitting on lawn chairs in the back of our dad’s truck, for hours.”
– “In northwestern Pennsylvania on the shores of Lake Erie. Think ‘lake effect’ snow. We would go out at night and wait for a car to come by, run to the back, grab the bumper, and get pulled as far as we could without falling off.”
– “My sister and I regularly crawled through the storm drain tunnel in our town. At the halfway point, there was a road with a bus stop overhead and a drainage hole. We’d stand under it and use vulgar language at people waiting for the bus. Then we’d continue to the end of the tunnel, where we’d sit and smoke cigarettes.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Was there a particularly dangerous activity you used to do as a kid?

U.S. NEWS

FOUND: LIST OF PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE FACE

A person on Reddit posted a picture of a strange list they found in the parking lot of an ALDI supermarket. They thought it was a shopping list but, upon closer inspection, it was a compilation of names under the heading “People I want to punch in the face.” Listed was “Sam, Hunt, Sofia, Donna, Sam, Hunt.” (* Poor Sam & Hunt, they’re gonna get punched twice!) Below that were three more names, with appointment times: “Emma/12pm; Hunt/3pm; Joe/4pm.” The note-finder wasn’t sure what the note was really all about.
* Well, he still has 1 and 2pm slots open for a punchin’. Maybe he can squeeze in Sam and Sofia, and still make it home in time for dinner at 5.
* A hand-written list? Why isn’t this person using the Punch-’em app?
* Sam, Hunt, Sofia, Donna, Emma, Joe. Imagine a world where there’s only six people you want to punch in the face.
* Maybe the list was actually a coded shopping list: Sam was short for ‘Sammiches.’ Hunt is ‘Hunt’s tomato paste.’ Joe is obviously ‘coffee.’ And if he doesn’t get some ‘joe’ he’s gonna punch Sam in the face.

TRENDINGKANE BROWN KICKS OUT FAN WHO FLIPPED HIM OFF

Country star Kane Brown was performing at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena when he saw a member of the audience flip him the bird. He stopped and called the guy up to the stage. He said, “Come here, I wanna show you what flipping me off will do.” The guy walked up. Brown knelt down to a security officer and said into his microphone, “Kick his a** outta here.” Kane continued singing while the security officer walked the guy out.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD’S GARAGE CATCHES FIRE

Carrie Underwood and her family were unhurt following a fire that was extinguished at her Tennessee home Sunday night. Responders reported a “fully-involved fire” in the garage that began around 9:40 p.m. Firefighters were able to douse the fire fast thanks to a 10,000-gallon water tank on the premises. Underwood, her family — including her husband Mike Fisher and their two sons, Michael, 9, and Jacob, 5 — and their pets were all safe following the fire, which did no damage to the primary residence.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TOMORROW – 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

Josh Dun (drummer with Twenty One Pilots) … 36
Blake Shelton (country singer) … 48
Alana de la Garza (actress, “Law and Order”) … 48
Darren ‘Dizzy’ Reed (keyboardist with Guns & Roses) … 61
Sir Paul McCartney (music legend, ex-Beatle) … 82

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

“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity, to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.”

(A) Marilyn Manson
(B) Kim Jong-un
(C) Paul McCartney

ANSWER: (C) Paul McCartney

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1983 – Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
* The on-board swearing dropped considerably.

1959 – The first telecast was transmitted from England to America.
* The tradition started off great, then degenerated into us getting old “Benny Hill” reruns.

1873 – In an important event in the history of women’s rights, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for president.
* She had the last laugh by paying the fine with annoying dollar coins.

1815 – French emperor Napoleon suffered his famous defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
* Thank goodness, or we’d be eating McNuggets made from frog’s legs.

1812 – The War of 1812 began when the U.S. declared war on Britain.
* Clearly we didn’t waste a lot of time thinking of a creative NAME for the war.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper and Toby Keith were among the inductees into the Song Writers Hall Of Fame at a star-studded gala in New York City. The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia was also inducted posthumously alongside the band’s lyricist Robert Hunter.

2011 – Saxophone player Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band died at age 69.

2010 – Eminem’s 7th studio album, “Recovery,” was released. It would become the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide.

2010 – John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to The Beatles song “A Day In The Life” sold for $1.2 million at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York.

2008 – A Lost Angeles hotel filed a lawsuit against Phil Spector for failing to pay more than $100,000 in outstanding bills for lawyers and expert witnesses in his murder trial. The Westin Bonaventure Hotel claimed that by the time Spector’s trial ended with a hung jury, the defendants owed the hotel more than $104,000.

1977 – Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols were beaten and robbed in London.

1975 – Elvis Presley got a facelift in Memphis.

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. 12% of women pulled over for reckless driving were doing THIS. What is it?
Feeding their kids

2. On average, women spend about 39 minutes a week worrying about THIS. What is it?
Which underwear to wear

3. One-third of women surveyed say they have done THIS while getting ready to go out. What is it?
Looked at their butt in the mirror

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