WEDNESDAY, July 17 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2024
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Minutes From Anywhere

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 HOT DOG DAY – Third Wednesday in July

NATIONAL TATTOO DAY

NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“An Irish-American stunt pilot from Galveston, Texas, gained notoriety for an unplanned transatlantic flight to Ireland on July 17, 1938. Growing up as a boy, Douglas Corrigan’s (January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) fascination with flight was not uncommon. Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight may have been the most impressionable moment in his young life. In 1938 the young stunt pilot flew from his home in California to New York and requested permission to duplicate his hero’s historic flight. They quickly denied his request due to the age of Corrigan’s 1929 Curtiss Robin. With only a magnetic compass, Corrigan advised officials he was returning to California. According to the story, after takeoff, cloud cover prevented Corrigan from accurate navigation. It wasn’t until he dropped below the clouds hours later and saw water surrounded him that Corrigan realized his navigation was off, and 28 hours later he landed in Ireland. Or so he said. Reporters suggested Corrigan made secret plans to repeat his hero’s flight anyway, but years later Corrigan held to his original explanation. Corrigan received a movie deal and soon played himself in The Flying Irishman. During World War II, he tested bombers and after the war toured the country with other familiar war heroes in parades. As the notoriety died down, Corrigan settled into a quiet life with his wife and family occasionally running into a reporter who wanted question the veracity of his story.”

PEACH ICE CREAM DAY

WORLD EMOJI DAY

July is:

Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month
Air Conditioning Appreciation Month
Baked Bean Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Reunion Month
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
Melon Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

AUDIO: COUNTRY STAR INGRID ANDRESS WAS DRUNK WHILE MASSACRING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

At Monday night’s Home Run Derby in Arlington, Texas, ahead of the Tuesday All-Star Game, there was another massacre of the Star-Spangled Banner. Country singer Ingrid Andress, 32, a four-time Grammy Award nominee, gave a rendition of the national anthem that left them cringing in the aisles. Then on Tuesday (yesterday), Andress wrote on social media that she was drunk during her performance. She wrote, “I’m not gonna B.S. y’all, I was drunk last night. I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need. That was not me last night. I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I’ll let y’all know how rehab is I hear it’s super fun.”
* She certainly threw out the first pitch. Her pitch was all over the place.
* It’s a cross between Whitney Houston and Billie Eilish and a wobbling piece of sheet metal.
* It’s a whole new genre: emo-country.
* I didn’t know Yoko was still working.
* Is she going in for alcohol rehab or voice rehab? If it’s voice, can we get the guy from Nickelback in there?
* CLIP: Ingrid Andress assaults the National Anthem.
* CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/IngridAndress-NationalAnthem(dot)mp3

AUDIO: CATNADO!

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “They should make a Sharknado movie about cats,” it’s your lucky day. A film company has just dropped a trailer for ‘Catnado.’ (* Honestly, it looks like it was shot on a cellphone in somebody’s backyard last weekend.) According to the film’s synopsis: “The world faces a horrific onslaught of tornadoes, each unleashing hordes of enraged and deadly cats upon humanity! As chaos reigns, a disparate group of individuals have one mission: to stop this feline fury. But with only one life to spare per person, their battle becomes a cat-astrophic struggle for survival. And when the fur flies it will be a meow-ssacre!” Catnado is slated for release on October 22 straight to VOD and DVD.
* You mean I have to wait three months to be disappointed?
* If I told you this looked good, I’d be fe-lyin’.
* Hey – somebody finally figured out how to herd cats! With a funnel of wind!
* Let me guess – they divert the catnadoes with the sound of a giant can opener.
* I’ll hold out for the litterboxed edition.
CLIP: I don’t know from Catnados, but here’s the Sharknado movie we want to see: Hurriquake.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/08-08-HurriQuake(dot)mp3

THE BUZZ

GETTING ATTENTION

Reddit asked, “What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done, to get someone’s attention?” Some of the replies:
– “I once climbed a tree during a camping trip just to impress a crush with my ‘outdoorsy’ skills, only to break my arm in the process.”
– “I liked a neighborhood girl when i was about 8 and straight up lied that my father was working on a time travel machine. I even gave her a full tour of some old engines in the garage, and she believed it.”
– “Got a tattoo of their name. It worked.”
– “I once dyed my hair bright blue and wore neon clothes for a week.”
– “My now-husband back in college he never looked at me, so I walked up to him in the middle of the crowd, grab his face and kiss him.”
– “I accidentally sent them a message meant for my mom, asking if they wanted lasagna for dinner. They replied, ‘Sure, but only if you make garlic bread too.’ Now we’re married.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What wild thing did you do to get someone’s attention?

U.S. NEWS

BEEF BANDITS OF PHILADELPHIA!

(Note: On Tuesday, we had a story about some Arby’s roast beef thieves in Williamsport, PA. What’s the deal, Pennsylvania?)
Police in Pennsylvania are investigating after 400 cases of beef were stolen from a cargo truck in Southwest Philadelphia. Police say the beef bandits made off with 12 pallets of meat from the back of the refrigerated tractor-trailer around 4:50 a.m. on Tuesday, nearly emptying it. These types of heifer heists have been happening more frequently in Northeast Philadelphia. There’s no word yet if this Southwest Philly crime is connected.
* Wait – we just got the word in. And that word is: probably.
* When it comes to hijacking beef shipments, Southwest Philly just raised the steaks.
* Grocery stores are stepping up their security around the Worcestershire sauce.
* Beef bandits. Heifer heisters. Meat marauders. Steak stealers. Rib rustlers. Brisket burglars. T-bone takers. Shank smugglers. Patty poachers.
* Meat thieves – will they never loin?

UPSCALE RESTAURANTS NOW SERVING EXPENSIVE POPSICLES

The new trend in fine-dining in New York City is popsicles. Chefs at trendy restaurants across the city are serving frozen water on a stick. The popsicles are flavored with expensive ingredients. Such as:
– At Nōksu, you can get a popsicle flavored with shiso mint and kaffir lime, and placed in a small pool of Asian yogurt drink.
– Korean restaurant NARO is selling sweet corn ice cream with a savory corn-jam swirl that’s molded into the shape of an ear of corn, topped with chocolate ganache. $11
– Junoon, an Indian restaurant, has a $16 sampler of the frozen Indian dessert known as kulfi. Four flavors: mango, rose petal, purple yam and saffron-cardamon.
– Jazba has a $14 dessert made from finely shaved ice pressed into a popsicle form, served with four small squeeze bottles of syrups — in flavors ranging from black plum to rose — that diners get to apply themselves.
– The Press Club Grill is selling what is basically a strawberry shortcake Good Humor bar – ice cream with a crumbly coating – for $16.
* This sounds like a plot point from the next season of The Bear.
* “Our profits are tanking! Quick – how can we really mark up water and syrup?”
* I scream, you scream, we all scream at these ridiculous prices.
* Scamming the public with dressed-up popsicles. That’s cold.
* “Here comes the ice cream man! Mom, can I have twenty dollars?”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

MAN ARRESTED FOR THROWING DORITOS AT BIKE RIDERS

A Tour de France fan was arrested for throwing corn chips at two riders in the race. As racers Tadej Pogacar from Slovenia and Jonas Vingegaard from Denmark were pedaling wheel-to-wheel up the fearsome Pla d’Adet, one fan along the route threw a handful of Doritos in the face of Pogacar, who went on to win the leg of the race. The man was arrested for “aggravated violence” before being released.
* So he was Frito go?
* Well, you do need lots of carbs for a bike race.
* He should have been charged with improper use of a Dorito. There aren’t enough chips in a bag as it is, what kind of idiot wastes them?
* Like they say in the snack business, Cheetos never prosper.

TRENDING

ADELE TAKING A BREAK

Following her current Las Vegas residency, Adele is ready for a break. The singer was interviewed by German broadcaster ZDF. When asked if she had plans to make a new album to follow up her 2021 record, 30, Adele shared that her “tank is quite empty” after her lengthy run of performances – an emotional experience that, while profound, has depleted her energy. “I don’t have any plans for new music at all. I want a big break after all this and I think I want to do other creative things just for a little while.” Adele then remarked, “You know, I don’t even sing at home at all. How strange is that?”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 2, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Wednesday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Sunday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 8:44 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Luke Bryan (country singer) … 48
Craig Morgan (country singer) … 60
David Hasselhoff (actor/singer, “Baywatch,” “Knight Rider”) … 72
Terence “Geezer” Butler (bassist with Black Sabbath) … 77
Camilla Parker-Bowles (UK nobility, “Queen Camilla,” wife of King Charles) … 76

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

“Everything I’ve got in my life, I’ve had to work for.”

(A) Kim Kardashian
(B) King Charles
(C) David Hasselhoff

ANSWER: (C) David Hasselhoff

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2004 – Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators.
* It gave her the street cred to start hangin’ with Snoop Dogg.

1997 – The world’s email system crashed for the first time and tens of millions of messages all around the world failed to reach their destinations.
* They included about 5 important messages, and the rest were email discussions about who was the best Star Trek captain.

1989 – America’s Stealth Bomber – a revolutionary warplane invisible to radar – made its maiden flight.
* We think.

1955 – Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.
* And the master plan for global conquest began.

1955 – The town of Arco in Idaho became the first community to get all its light and power from atomic energy.
* If it’s so safe, why’d they do it out in the middle of Idaho?

1938 – Pilot Douglas Corrigan got the moniker “Wrong Way Corrigan” when he landed at the Dublin, Ireland airport instead of Los Angeles where he thought he was headed. Corrigan said his 6,000-mile mistake was due to following the wrong end of his compass needle.
* So – he didn’t even know the U.S. is only 3,000 miles wide?

1861 – America’s first paper money was circulated.
* Gee … remember when a dollar bill could actually BUY something?

1850 – The Harvard Observatory took the first photograph of a star.
* I think it was Cher.

1821 – Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
* And then the U.S. ceded Florida to retirees and theme park operators.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2013 – U2 singer Bono received France’s highest cultural honor for his contribution to music and commitment to humanitarian causes when he was presented with the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti in Paris.

2004 – Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walked out of Linda Ronstadt’s show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicated an encore of “Desperado” to filmmaker Michael Moore and urged the crowd to see his film “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

1987 – The Ozzy Osbourne Band started a 16-week tour of U.S. prisons.

1974 – The Moody Blues opened what they claimed was the first “Quadraphonic” recording studio in the world.

1972 – A bomb exploded under The Rolling Stones’ equipment van in Montreal, believed to be the work of French separatists. Angry fans rioted throwing bottles and rocks after 3,000 tickets for the show turned out to be fake.

1968 – The animated film “Yellow Submarine” premiered at The London Pavilion. The Beatles made a cameo appearance in the film but didn’t supply their own voices for the characters.

1967 – The Monkees performed at Forest Hills, NY, with opening act Jimi Hendrix.

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. Surveys reveal that in the average household, it’s the woman who does THIS 78% of the time. What is it?
Make the bed

2. Surveys show THIS is the #1 thing a woman can say that will start a fight with her husband. What is it?
Accuse them of flirting with or looking at another woman

3. According to research, THIS is the #1 occupation for a woman who is married to a millionaire. What is it?
Teacher

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