WEDNESDAY, Aug 28 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, August 28, 2024
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Echo

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 BOW TIE DAY

NATIONAL CHERRY TURNOVER DAY

NATIONAL RED WINE DAY

RAINBOW BRIDGE REMEMBRANCE DAY
The American Kennel Club website says this:
“Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day … is a time to celebrate the life of the dogs that have brought us joy, unconditional love, comfort, and laughter through the years. Whether you lost your canine companions last week, last year, or even years ago, their memory is surely still alive. While people in your life without pets may not always understand, you know that the grief over a pet that’s passed away can be as deep and as acute as that for a human loved one.”

August is:

Black Business Month
Family Fun Month
International Peace Month
National Back to School Month
National Catfish Month
National Crayon Collection Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Panini Month
National Peach Month
National Sandwich Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

KELCE BROTHERS SIGN PODCAST DEAL FOR $100 MILLION

Football bros Jason and Travis Kelce have signed a $100 million deal with Amazon for their popular podcast. The show, called “New Heights” features a mix of sports—mainly NFL—talk, interviews, personal and professional chatter, and has recently taken on a pop-culture bent. The show has, or course, gained a lot of new listeners since Travis Kelce started dating Taylor Swift last year. (* Because we all know 14-year-old girls love LOVE LOVE!! NFL football.) The deal also gives the Kelces an opportunity to work on live events, in addition to a first-look option for new consumer-product lines either brother may want to develop.
* Beard cleaner, for example.
* $100 million sounds like a lot, but they do have to split it.
* At least the Kelce Brothers becoming a brand is better than, say, more Kardashians.
* Hard to believe we used to think The Property Brothers were doing well for themselves.
* Imagine getting paid just for talking behind a microphone. I should investigate that.
* Two things about the 2020s I don’t understand: Who are these people who have so many hours to listen to podcasts and watch streaming TV? And who are these people who have so much money to spend on sports betting?

THE BUZZ

SIMPLE ADVICE THAT IMPROVES YOUR LIFE

Reddit asked, “What simple piece of advice has significantly improved your life?” Some of the responses:
– “It’s better to ask stupid than to do stupid.”
– “Never accept criticism from someone who you wouldn’t accept advice from.”
– “A WW2 vet told me, ‘I spent 89 years worrying about things that might happen that never did.'”
– “It happened. Move on.”
– “An actress I know said she talked herself into things by saying ‘just do it as a joke'”
– “You don’t have to like everything about yourself.”
– “Don’t light yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
– “Don’t believe everything you think.”
– “You did what you did with the knowledge you had at the time.”
– “Try to be the person you needed when you were younger.”
– “The world is run by those who show up.”
– “Put your keys in the same place every time.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you have a simple piece of advice that has helped you?

U.S. NEWS

MAN IS RUN OVER BY TRAIN, LIVES

A freight train ran over a 20-year-old man in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Monday night. Amazingly, the man survived, suffering a severe hand injury. The collision happened because the man was sleeping on the tracks. He survived because train was going slowly enough to brake quickly, so he was dragged for the half-mile it took for the train to stop. The man’s left hand ended up entangled in the lead locomotive’s rear axle, pinned between the wheel and the axle. It took nearly two hours for emergency personnel to extricate the man from underneath the train.
* Dragged for a half mile. I bet he had a sore caboose.
* What’s with people falling asleep on train tracks? That must be why they call it a track bed.
* How does this work: “Gee, I need a nap. Is there a train track around here?”
* Maybe it was a suicide attempt but he was just too lazy to stay awake for it.
* What does he use for an alarm clock? A box of dynamite?

OFFICE RETREAT LEAVES WORKER STRANDED ON MOUNTAIN

A group of 15 hikers on an office team-building retreat left one of their own on a mountain overnight. The group was hiking Mount Shavano in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The group had reached the mountain ridge – except for one man, who was behind but decided to continue to the ridge on his own while the others returned down the trail. During his descent – which began around 11:30 a.m. – he became disoriented. When he looked for trail markers that had been left in a boulder field, they were gone. The group had picked up the markers on their way down, so as not to litter. He eventually realized he was far off the trail, so he messaged his co-workers who told him to climb back up and start again from the top. By 4 p.m. he sent another message to his co-workers saying he was near the trail, but a strong storm with freezing rain and high winds moved in, causing him to lose cell service, and he became disoriented again. A search and rescue team was called. Teams searched the mountain all night to no avail, but finally, at 10 the next morning, the hiker regained cell service and was able to give rescuers his location.
* Usually if you’re fired they just tell you to go clean out your locker, but this is brutal.
* Who designed this team building exercise – Charles Darwin?
* They removed the trail markers on the way down, so as not to litter. Plus, they hated the guy.
* When he got back to work Monday morning they heard him shout, “Who parked in my spot? Hey, where’s my desk calendar? Who took my stapler?!”
* Maybe it’s time for their office manager to explain the concept of “team” again.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

13-YEAR-OLD GIRL ALLOWED TO DRILL HOLE IN PATIENT’S HEAD DURING SURGERY

In Austria, the 13-year-old daughter of a brain surgeon was allowed to drill a hole in a patient’s skull. The patient, a 33-year-old man, had arrived at Graz University Hospital with serious head injuries. The neurosurgeon, who has not been named, and depending on the news source has been identified as either a man or a woman – allegedly let his – or her – 13-year-old daughter take part in operating by drilling a hole in the patient’s skull. The surgery happened in January. It wasn’t until April that a complaint was logged to the public prosecutor’s office about the allegations. It then took until July for the patient to learn that it had happened. The surgeon and one other specialist who was present during the operation are said to have been let go by the hospital.
* Leaving a hole in their staff.
* There are some jobs that should avoid Take Your Daughter To Work Day: Pole dancer. Skyscraper window washer. Mini-sub to the Titanic tester. And brain surgeon.
* “Honey, clean out that dura matter while Daddy goes and gets a cup of coffee, will ya?”
* Drilling the hole wasn’t so bad, but then the kid stuck in a meat thermometer.
* That neurosurgeon needs their head examined.

SIGNS OF COCAINE DISCOVERED IN 17TH CENTURY EUROPEAN BRAINS

Scientific study of preserved human brains from 17th century Milan, Italy, reveal they’ve tested positive for cocaine, centuries before it was previously believed to have come into popular use in Europe. The mummified brain matter was found in a burial site near a major hospital of the time. Researchers from the University of Milan were seeking to determine what the medical treatments of the day may have looked like. They ran toxicology tests on brain matter scraped from skulls. In two of the nine samples tested, the researchers found active components from Erythroxylum coca, the formal name for the plant from which cocaine is derived. Until now, it was widely thought that cocaine hadn’t been introduced to Europe until the 1800s. It probably was brought back to Europe from the explorers of South America.
* They could have saved a lot of time and just asked Keith Richards.
* This explains how Michelangelo was able to paint the Sistine Chapel in about a week.
* You can see how cocaine affected the explorers: Cortés takes a snort, “I’m gonna conquer Mexico!” Magellan takes a toot, “I’m gonna sail AROUND THE WORLD, BABY!!!”
* While Ponce de Leon was stomping around Florida, the real Fountain of Youth was being snorted off a tea tray back in Florence.
* Bodies in a burial site near a major hospital? So they had cocaine AND they had cocaine overdoses.

TRENDING

“YELLOWSTONE” MAY NOT BE ENDING

It was announced that “Yellowstone” was going to end after the upcoming second half of Season 5, but according to a new report, that may not be true now. Several of its biggest stars are negotiating to return for a sixth season. TVLine reports that Yellowstone will return for Season 6 with Cole Hauser (Rip Wheeler) and Kelly Reilly (Beth Dutton) stepping up to replace the show’s departing star, Kevin Costner (John Dutton). Hauser and Reilly are working on deals to extend their participation in the show, which was previously slated to come to an end after the second half of Season 5 airs late in this year.

OASIS REUNITING FOR BRITISH TOUR

The British rock band Oasis is finally reuniting after a 15-year hiatus. Band members and brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher revealed the news on Tuesday, August 27 and announced a big UK tour for 2025. The brothers have had a notoriously acrimonious relationship over the years. In 2009 when Noel announced he was leaving the band, he wrote, “It is with some sadness and great relief I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 2, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Wednesday – Patriot Day
Sept. 20, Friday – National POW/MIA Recognition Day (The third Friday of September)
Sept. 23, Sunday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 8:44 a.m. EDT)
Oct. 14, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Wednesday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween

BIRTHDAYS

Shalita Grant (actress, “NCIS: New Orleans”) … 36
LeAnn Rimes (country singer) … 42
Jake Owen (country singer) … 43
Jack Black (actor) … 55
Jason Priestley (actor, “BH90210”, “Beverly Hills, 90210”) … 55
Shania Twain (country singer) … 59
Jennifer Coolidge (actress) … 63
Daniel Stern (actor, “City Slickers”, “Home Alone”) … 67

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

“I don’t want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.”

(A) Kim Kardashian
(B) Fed Chairman Jerome Powell
(C) Shania Twain

ANSWER: (C) Shania Twain

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1996 – A divorce decree was issued for Britain’s Charles and Princess Diana. This was the official end to the 15-year marriage.
* They were awarded joint custody of the paparazzi.

1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC.
* It went down in history as “inspirational and uplifting” and it went down in his FBI file as “provocative rabble-rousing.”

1922 – The first-ever radio commercial aired in the U.S. on WEAF in New York City. The Queensboro Realty Company bought 10 minutes of time for $100.
* A realty commercial for $100? In 1922, you could buy a HOUSE for $100!

1907 – “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company’s name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”
* I just want to know who’s responsible for choosing that ugly brown color.

1884 – The first known photograph of a tornado was taken near Howard, South Dakota.
* And the guy who was having his picture taken when the tornado came along was later found in Bismarck, NORTH Dakota.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2021 – Billie Eilish was at No.1 on the US album chart with her second album Happier Than Ever. It became her second No.1 album in the United States, and topped the album charts in 27 other countries.

2005 – Green Day cleaned up at the MTV awards held in Miami, winning seven awards.

1984 – The Jacksons’ Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket sales. The group surpassed the 1.1 million mark in only two months.

1972 – David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars made their debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.

1964 – The Beatles met Bob Dylan for the first time at The Delmonico Hotel, following their show at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium. After being introduced by a mutual friend, writer Al Aronowitz, the band offered their guests drinks, but Dylan and Aronowitz expressed interest in smoking weed instead. This marked the Fab Four’s first taste of marijuana – an experience that would prove to be transformative in their career.

1960 – Barry White was released from jail after a three month term for stealing car tires.

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. 15% of married people say THIS happened on their first date. What is it?
They fell in love

2. 45% of married people secretly spend money without telling their spouse, and almost 20% of those are spending it on THIS. What is it?
Lottery tickets

3. According to USA Today, 29% of married couples share THIS personal item. What is it?
A toothbrush

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