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MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 2, 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.)

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE
* Good luck with that.

NAME YOUR CAR DAY

NATIONAL CUSTODIAL WORKERS RECOGNITION DAY

NATIONAL FRIED SCALLOPS DAY

WALK TO SCHOOL DAY (First Wednesday in October)

WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY
The Days Of The Year website says this:
“Farm animals are cute, and they also play an important role in modern society. Take some time to appreciate them this World Farm Animals Day, created in memory of Mahatma Ghandi (born on this date in 1869), who believed in treating all living beings with respect.”

October is:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
Car Care Month
Child Health Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Country Music Month
Fire Prevention Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Service Dog Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

THE BUZZPARENTING SURVEY

A survey by Mixbook, an Internet-based photo design tool, asked questions of 2,000 parents of school-age children. Some of the results:
– Parents say age 8 is the most difficult age to parent.
– The top 3 parenting milestones: first day of kindergarten; first time they walk somewhere alone; and starting first grade.
– Top embarrassing moments for a parent: Shouting something inappropriate; Undressing in public; Accidentally taking something without paying for it; Getting lost in a store; Having a tantrum.
* And THAT’S just your husband.
* The people who took this survey seem to have forgotten the years of endless diapers. Obviously blocked it out of their minds.
* The hardest time to be a parent is when they come up to you for the first time and say, “I want a cell phone.” That’s usually around age 3.
* When they come back in their 20s, broke, and want to move back in – that’s no picnic, either.
* PHONE TOPIC: Is 8 the most difficult age? Not 2, or 3? Not teenagers?

ALL ABOUT CANDY CORN

What do you want to know about Candy Corn?
– It was originally created by George Renninger in the 1880s of the Wunderlee Candy Company. The decision to make the confection look like corn kernels was due to the fact that a large percentage of Americans were involved in the farming industry, so the corn shape would have been appealing to the masses.
– In 1898, the Goelitz Candy Company (which eventually became the Jelly Belly Candy Company) began making its own candy corn, and it was responsible for heavily marketing and popularizing the candy.
– Jelly Belly’s candy corn is made with sugar, corn syrup, soy protein, artificial flavor, added colors, sorbitol, two types of edible wax, confectioner’s glaze, and salt.
– The flavor is a blend of creamy fondant (fancy bakery cake icing), marshmallow, and vanilla.
* Candy corn is also made by the Bleccchhhs company. I mean, the Brach’s company.
* If they were selling it to farmers, we’re lucky it’s candy corn, and not candy sorghum.
* Here are some more Candy Corn facts:
– You can fit about three up each nostril, if you push.
– America is still eating from that first batch made in the 1880s.
– How to Eat Candy Corn:
1. Eat one piece.
2. Remember how much candy corn sucks.
3. Leave the rest.

U.S. NEWS

BEAR KILLS BEAR ON FAT BEAR CAMERA

This week we are learning the identities of the Alaskan bears taking part in Fat Bear Week, the annual bracket where viewers of the fat bear cam in Alaska’s Katmai National Park get to vote on the fattest of them all. This year’s announcement was postponed for a day because one of the bears murdered another. The National Park Service reports that Bear 402 was killed live on webcam Monday while hunting salmon. The suspect: a younger male, number 469. Said park ranger Sarah Bruce, “We do know at this time of year that bears are eating anything and everything they can to prepare for hibernation. I don’t know why a bear would want to expend so much energy trying to kill another bear as a food source. It’s an uncommon thing to see a bear predating on another bear, but it’s not completely out of the question.”
* That… is bad news, bears.
* Hasbro could make this another version of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
* It’s not for food, dummy, it’s for the prize money. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from all those streaming murder mysteries, it’s always about the money.
* With this kind of action, that national park could bring in a lot of money if they put the Fat Bear competition on betting apps.
* Did he do the deed bare-handed? Well, obviously.

LOUISIANA GOVERNOR WANTS LIVE TIGER BACK AT FOOTBALL GAMES

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is supporting the idea of bringing back Louisiana State University’s live tiger mascot onto the football field ahead of home games. For years, a live tiger would ride through the stadium in a travel trailer “topped by the LSU cheerleaders” before home games. Before entering the stadium, the cage, with the tiger nicknamed Mike in it, would be parked next to the opponent’s locker room – forcing the visiting team to pass it. The tradition was stopped when Mike VI died in 2016. The university still has a live tiger – Mike VII – that was donated to the school from a sanctuary in 2017, but it is not brought onto the field for games, it lives in a 15,000-square-foot enclosure next to the stadium. Governor Landry wants to bring Mike back onto the field, saying, “I think the opportunity to bring our mascot back onto that field is an unbelievable opportunity.” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has, of course, vehemently objected to the idea, describing it as cruel and dangerous to the mascot’s welfare and adding that tigers are “naturally solitary animals who don’t belong in rowdy football stadiums.”
* And they’re right. What they love are soccer games.
* You know what’s cruel and dangerous? Making a human sweat in a tiger mascot costume for three and a half hours.
* Would you settle for a big box of Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger on the front?
* I promise you, that tiger has a better room than any student at LSU.
* Why don’t they switch mascots to a Frisbee dog? Frisbee dogs love running around in front of people.
* Governor Landry thinks the opportunity to bring the mascot back is an unbelievable opportunity. It’s also unbelievable that he hasn’t hired a speechwriter.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

SNAKE ON AN UZBEKI PLANE

Customs officers at Tashkent airport in Uzbekistan were checking a passenger’s carry-on luggage last Saturday and discovered a 10-foot albino Burmese python. It was discovered during the scan through the X-ray machine. The large snake was handed over to the Tashkent Zoo, where specialists have assessed its condition as healthy. The man was promptly arrested.
* Uhhh….service animal? Emotional Support Animal?
* He should have shouted, “Hey – who switched my bag?”
* Give the guy a break. How’s a python supposed to afford a plane ticket?
* Especially since it spent all its money getting from Burma to Uzbekistan.
* All part of the in-fright entertainment.

TRENDING

RASCAL FLATTS BACK TOGETHER AFTER 4-YEAR HIATUS

Rascal Flatts is getting back together for a 25th Anniversary tour after taking a four-year hiatus from music. The band did a farewell tour in 2020 after being on the road for 20 years. Now, they say, they’re ready to get out on the road again next year the 25th anniversary. Tickets for the Life Is A Highway Tour featuring Lauren Alaina go on sale this Friday, October 4.

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS UN-RETIRES FROM ACTING

Daniel Day-Lewis was spotted back on a film set this week. Seven years ago, he announced that he was quitting the business after his film “Phantom Thread.” But this week he was spotted driving a motorbike through the streets of Manchester, England, with actor Sean Bean behind him, for a new movie called “Avelyn.” The movie was written by Day-Lewis and his son, Ronan, and Ronan is directing. In the movie, Sean Bean plays the role of an ex-soldier. Not much information is known about Day-Lewis’ part.

JOHN AMOS DIES AT 84

The great character actor John Amos, best known for his Emmy-nominated role as the older Kunta Kinte in the 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died at 84. According to his son, he passed away on August 21. He was also known for playing the dad James Evans Sr. on the CBS sitcom “Good Times.” Amos was born on Dec. 27, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey where he attended East Orange High School in 1958. He graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in sociology. However, he had a brief NFL career when he signed on as a free agent with the Denver Broncos in 1964. His acting career began in 1970 when he landed a role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” playing Gordy the weatherman for three years. But his biggest role came with his “Good Times” character James Evans Sr. At the time, he was only 34 playing the father of Jimmie Walker, who was only eight years his junior. Amos was removed from the show after expressing issues with the predominately white writers’ room’s inauthentic portrayal of Black Americans. He worked regularly up until last year, 2023.

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
Dec. 21, Saturday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 4:21 a.m. (EST)
Dec. 25, Wednesday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Tuesday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Wednesday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

Kelly Ripa (actress, talk show host, TV producer) … 54
Philip Oakey (singer with The Human League) … 69
Lorraine Bracco (actress, “Blue Bloods”, “Rizzoli & Isles”, “The Sopranos”) … 70
Sting (singer/songwriter, off and on with The Police, real name Gordon Sumner) … 73
Mike Rutherford (guitarist with Genesis, Mike and the Mechanics) … 74
Don McLean (singer/songwriter, “American Pie”) … 79
Rex Reed (movie critic) … 86

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

“I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.”

(A) Snoop Dogg
(B) The Dalai Lama
(C) Sting

ANSWER: (C) Sting

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2016 – Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris.
* That robbery took a lot of stones. Literally.

2000 – The International Space Station got its first residents as an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule for a four-month stay.
* The ISS is still going strong … and I still have absolutely no idea what they do up there.

1998 – Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
* That’s one state down, 49 to go.

1961 – The pre-moistened hand towel was introduced.
* And yes, it’s a very slow day in history today.

1956 – The first atomic powered clock was demonstrated.
* Soon followed by the atomic powered toaster, the atomic powered blender, and the atomic powered can opener.

1915 – John Gruelle patented the Raggedy Ann doll.
* It’s considered to be the earliest appearance of “grunge” in America.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer Tom Petty was found unconscious in the early morning hours at his home, not breathing and in cardiac arrest, and was taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died at 8:40 pm. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner later announced that Petty had died accidentally from mixed drug toxicity from opiods, sedatives, and anti-depressants including fentanyl, oxycodone, acetylfentanyl, despropionyl fentanyl, temazepam, alprazolam, and citalopram.

2007 – Britney Spears was ordered to hand over her two young children to her former husband Kevin Federline by a judge in Los Angeles. The court ruled that Federline would be given custody of Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James, until further notice. The previous month, Judge Scott Gordon had said Ms. Spears showed “a habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol.” The singer was ordered to undergo random drug and alcohol tests twice a week as part of her child custody dispute with Mr Federline.

2004 – Billy Joel, 55, married 23-year-old Kate Lee at his Centre Island, New York mansion. It was the third marriage for Joel. They announced their separation on June 17, 2009.

2003 – Police were called to a suspected burglary at the Los Angeles house of Courtney Love’s former boyfriend and ex-manager Jim Barber in the early hours. Love was picked up in the street outside and detained – with officers noting “Miss Love’s behavior was consistent with being under the influence of a controlled substance.” Shortly after her arrest, Love was hospitalized with a suspected drug overdose.

2002 – Adam Ant escaped a prison sentence after a judge ruled that an incident in which he threatened drinkers with a replica pistol in a London pub was a result of mental illness. The 1980’s pop star had been voluntarily having psychiatric treatment since the incident.

1998 – America’s singing cowboy Gene Autry died, age 91. During his career he scored 25 successive Top 10 Country hits.

1996 – A Pearl Jam show in Hartford, Connecticut ended in a riot when mass fighting broke out among the crowd of 30,000.

1994 – John Mellencamp announced that it was true that he had suffered a mild heart attack.

1977 – The bodies of Elvis Presley and his mother Gladys were moved from the cemetery where they were buried to Graceland’s after an unsuccessful attempt was made to snatch Elvis’s coffin.

1967 – The Grateful Dead, all six members, were arrested for possession of marijuana. They were released six hours later on bail.

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. On average, men spend 140 days doing THIS in their lifetime. What is it?
Shaving

2. About 1 in 7 men say THIS is the main reason they got a gym membership. What is it?
To pick up women

3. Bachelors are 25% more likely to have THIS for breakfast than married men. What is it?
A candy bar

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