WEDNESDAY, Sept 25 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, September 25, 2024
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Free Dinners

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 COMIC BOOK DAY

NATIONAL DAUGHTERS DAY

NATIONAL LOBSTER DAY

WORLD PHARMACISTS DAY

September is:

Baby Safety Month
Better Breakfast Month
Chicken Month
Classical Music Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Honey Month
Little League Month
National Piano Month
Self Improvement Month

THE BUZZCREEPY THINGS KIDS SAY

Reddit asked, “What’s the creepiest thing you have ever heard a child say?” Some of the responses:
– “My four year old daughter says that before she was born she was a ghost, and when she was a ghost she would spy on us because she couldn’t wait to be alive and living with us.”
– “My son was four when he told us we were his second family. I asked what happened to his first family, he said they died in a car crash.”
– “My nephew told me the basement people want my skin.”
– “”Go back to sleep, there isn’t anything under your bed.” “He’s behind you now.”
– “I’m starting to forget the names of the people who live in my head.”
– “My niece, aged 6, told me that her creepily named dolls were made of blood and bones and mud but watch out! Don’t let them touch you because they’ll turn you into a doll! I turn away from the dolls and she says to something behind me, ‘No Ethel, I told you, do not touch her!'”
– “My niece was talking to her imaginary friends in the back of the car. She said it was a boy and girl about her age and they were brother and sister. Then as we came near the end of a road she said this is their home, can we drop them off here? We were laughing about it until we reached the end of the road and it was a cemetery. She gave a little wave and said goodbye as we passed.”
– *A 5-year-old asked me how old I was. I said ‘Actually, my birthday is next week. I’m going to be 34.’ She looked at me with an absolutely blank face and said, ‘Oh wow, another year. maybe.'”
– “‘I’m not scared of the thing under my bed. The thing under the bed is my friend.’ On further questioning, the thing under his bed was our border collie.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Has your kid ever said something that creeped you out?

U.S. NEWS

BURGER KING WHOPPER CONTEST FINALISTS

Burger King is nearing the end of its Million Dollar Whopper Contest. The public was invited to submit ideas for their dream Whopper. The person with the winning Whopper gets $1 million and the burger will be sold in restaurants nationwide for a limited time. The choice is down to three finalists after what Burger King says was more than 1 million submissions (* Which sounds like a whopper itself):
1. Fried Pickle Ranch Whopper: A quarter-pound beef patty topped with pickle ranch, lettuce, fried pickles, bacon and Swiss cheese on a toasted sesame seed bun. Created by Fabian of California.
2. Maple Bourbon BBQ Whopper: A quarter-pound beef patty topped with maple bourbon BBQ sauce, crispy onions and jalapeños, maple bacon seasoning, bacon and American cheese on a toasted sesame seed bun. Created by Calvin of California.
3. Mexican Street Corn Whopper: A quarter-pound beef patty topped with street corn spread, lettuce, tomato, seasoned tortilla crisps and Mexican spicy queso on a toasted sesame seed bun. Created by Kelsie of Nebraska.
You can vote for what sounds like your favorite new Whopper online, but to do that you have to first sign up for a special Burger King account and nobody wants to do that.
* All of these sound delicious. All of these sound like they’ll fall apart into your lap while you’re driving.
* The two burger ideas that don’t win will be appearing soon at McDonald’s.
* Nothing speeds up fast food service like having to hand-sprinkle tortilla crisps and spicy queso on the burger of the guy in line in front of you.
* My Dream Whopper would be a Whopper that’s free.

NAKED CAVERNS

Ever want to walk around in an underground cavern naked? Well, it’s too late now. This Saturday’s “Naked in a Cave” event is sold out at Howe Caverns in upstate New York. The cavern is transformed into a nudist sanctuary for one naked night a year. The self-guided walking tour brings in approximately 350 nude visitors, 21 and over, (* and just the type of people you’d imagine being naked) each paying $85. Guests can take as long as they want to complete the 1½-mile walking tour of the caverns, which includes a quarter-mile boat ride, plus a dinner and entertainment. Guests are warned that Howe Caverns maintain a constant 52-degree temperature below the surface, and frigid water drips from the cave ceiling.
* So don’t expect to see a lot of stalagmites. Those are the ones that go up.
* If this is how you get your rocks off, fine.
* What’s the entertainment? A big naked game of “Twister”?
* Not sure I’d want to pay $85 to poke around in the cracks and crevasses.
* I was offered a chance to go, but I caved.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

TWO SPANISH WOMEN LOSE $362,000 IN FAKE BRAD PITT SCAM

Police in Spain have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of $362,000 (325,000 euros) by pretending to be Hollywood star Brad Pitt online. Both victims were contacted via a Brad Pitt fan site by fraudsters who managed to convince them that the actor wanted to invest in various projects with them. They used instant messaging platforms to exchange messages and emails with the two women until they thought they were chatting on WhatsApp with Brad Pitt himself, who promised them a romantic relationship and a future together. Both women ended up making numerous bank transfers to the person they thought was Pitt, until they realized they had been scammed and went to the police. Authorities said the scammers studied the ladies’ social networks and put together a psychological profile of them, discovering both women were vulnerable people suffering from depression and a lack of affection. Police managed to recover $95,000 of their money.
* Everybody knows Brad Pitt only uses Linked In.
* With those bad reviews for his new movie “Wolfs,” maybe he really does need the money. (* You can tell right off it’s gonna be bad ’cause they don’t even know “Wolfs” should be “Wolves.”
* I bet this was one of George Clooney’s hilarious practical jokes.
* Another year of AI development, and there’ll be a Brad Pitt FaceTime-ing women directly.

FINLAND ZOO RETURNS DEFECTIVE CHINESE PANDAS

The Ähtäri Zoo in Finland has decided to return its two resident giant pandas to China. The zoo’s reasons are a decline in tourist numbers, the cost of keeping them, and the fact that the two have not produced any baby pandas. The male panda Pyry, and the female panda Lumi, came to Ähtäri Zoo in 2018. The zoo tried several times to get the pandas to breed, without success.
* No bork-bork-borking, no free rent, pal.
* Have they tried showing them episodes of “Love Island”?
* “If the panda enclosure’s rockin’, don’t come a- oh never mind. It’s NEVER rockin’.”
* Face it: pandas are like when your brother-in-law and his wife come to visit for a few days and won’t leave.
* If anyone in Finland wants to buy a warehouse full of bamboo, I know where you can get a good deal.

TRENDING

BRAD PAISLEY, MACHINE GUN KELLY ADDED TO PEOPLE’S CHOICE COUNTRY AWARDS

Brad Paisley and Machine Gun Kelly are joining the performers lineup at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards this Thursday night (Sept. 26). They will be joining Miranda Lambert, Kane Brown, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady A, Parker McCollum and the War and Treaty.

OLYMPIC SHARPSHOOTER CAST AS ASSASSIN IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIE

South Korean silver medalist Kim Yeji will play an assassin in upcoming action flick “Crush.” Kim is an air pistol shooter who became famous during the Paris Olympics for her “ice-cold demeanor” and incredibly cool shooting style – head cocked to one side, patch over one lens of her cyborg-style shooting glasses, and a bit of swagger after hitting the target. Kim, a mother of two, has also done a bunch of photo shoots with high-end fashion brands including Louis Vuitton. Now she’ll be in the movies.

BRETT FAVRE HAS PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre revealed he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease while testifying at a congressional hearing on welfare misspending and reform on Tuesday. Favre, 54, was speaking before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing about the need for “guardrails” when it comes to dispersing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds. He was discussing Prevacus, the concussion drug company Favre invested in that’s no longer in use. He said, “Sadly, I also lost an investment in a company that I believed was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others. I’m sure you’ll understand, while it’s too late for me because I’ve recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, this is also a cause dear to my heart.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 14, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Wednesday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween
Nov. 3, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Monday – Veterans Day
Nov. 28, Thursday – Thanksgiving

BIRTHDAYS

Zach Woods (actor, “Silicon Valley”, “The Office”) … 40
Donald Glover (actor, “Atlanta”, “Community”, raps as “Childish Gambino”) … 41
Catherine Zeta Jones (actress, Mrs. Michael Douglas) … 55
Will Smith (slappy actor and rapper) … 56
Heather Locklear (actress) … 63
Michael Madsen (actor, “The Hateful Eight,” “Kill Bill”) … 66
Mark Hamill (actor, Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars”) … 73
Anson Williams (actor, “Happy Days”) … 75
Cheryl Tiegs (model) … 77
Michael Douglas (actor/director/producer, Mr. Catherine Zeta Jones) … 80

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

“There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bull—-. It’s all bull—-. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.”

(A) Lester Holt
(B) Martha Stewart
(C) Michael Douglas

ANSWER: (C) Michael Douglas

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2003 – France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.
* So if you believe in global warming – are you happy, or sad?

1992 – A strange legal precedent was set when a Florida judge ruled it was legal for a child to divorce biological parents.
* And within 48 hours somebody had bought the rights for a TV movie.

1818 – The first blood transfusion using human blood took place. All previous ones had used animal blood.
* Actually, it started as a dare after a couple of six-packs.

1513 – Vasco Balboa became the first European to see the Pacific ocean.
* And to his credit, he DIDN’T name it the Balboa Ocean.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appeared at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California. The concert, which would ultimately be the Heartbreakers’ final show, ended with a performance of “American Girl.” Tom Petty died of an accidental drug overdose a week later on October 2, 2017.

2011 – The New York Post reported that Sly Stone was living in a van, parked in the notoriously rough Los Angeles neighborhood of Crenshaw. The 68-year-old was quoted as saying “I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.”

2000 – Ozzy Osbourne formally requested that Black Sabbath be removed from the nomination list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Calling the inclusion “meaningless,” Osbourne went on to say “Let’s face it. Black Sabbath have never been media darlings. We’re a people’s band and that suits us just fine.”

1995 – Courtney Love was given a one-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, fined $1000 and ordered to attend a anger management course after being found guilty of assaulting Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna.

1992 – Two fans were stabbed and 20 arrests were made after trouble broke out at an Ozzy Osbourne gig in Oklahoma City. The sale of alcohol at the concert was blamed for the incident.

1990 – Drummer Dave Grohl joined Nirvana.

1980 – John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin, died after a heavy drinking session.

1965 – The Beatles’ Saturday morning cartoon show premiered on ABC TV. The first story was titled “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and had the group exploring the ocean floor in a diving bell where they met a love-sick octopus.

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. A survey by TGI Friday’s showed that close to 30% of men find women who do THIS very attractive. What is it?
Eat messy foods

2. According to a recent survey, 38% of men are impressed by a woman who can do THIS. What is it?
Bait a hook

3. 30% of men say the most attractive trait a woman can have is THIS. What is it?
A good sense of humor

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