WEDNESDAY, Oct 9 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 9, 2024
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Stop Thinking

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.)

EMERGENCY NURSES DAY (Second Wednesday of October)

FIRE PREVENTION DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“According to legend, on October 8, 1871, Mrs. O’Leary was in her barn, milking her cow. The cow kicked over a lamp, which started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The fire burned for over 27 hours. When it was over, more than 300 people were killed, 100,000 people were left homeless, and over 17,000 structures were destroyed. The Great Chicago fire sparked major efforts in fire prevention. Forty years later, the Fire Marshall’s Association of North America (FMANA) held the first Fire Prevention Day. In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Fire Prevention Week. The Saturday during Fire Prevention Week is Fire Service Recognition Day. Did You Know? Dalmatians became fire dogs because they were often kept around the horses at fire houses to guard them. Remember “EDITH”, which stand for “Exit Drills In The Home”. Today is a good day to have a practice drill.”

INTERNATIONAL BEER AND PIZZA DAY

LEIF ERIKSON DAY
From various sources:
“Around 1002 A.D., Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed to North America from his home in Greenland. He went in search of a land seen (but not visited) by a Norse sea captain. He landed at a place he called “Vinland,” in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Erikson and his crew didn’t stay long – only a few years – before returning to Greenland. Relations with native North Americans were described as hostile. In 1960, Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, unearthed an ancient Norse settlement. During the next seven years, the Ingstads and an international team of archaeologists exposed the foundations of eight separate buildings. In 1969, Congress designated Oct. 9 as ‘Leif Erikson Day.’ October 9 is not associated with any particular event in Leif Erikson’s life. The date was chosen because the ship Restauration coming from Stavanger, Norway, arrived in New York Harbor on October 9, 1825, at the start of the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.”

NATIONAL PET OBESITY AWARENESS DAY

SUBMARINE / HOGIE / HERO / GRINDER DAY

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

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

LISA MARIE PRESLEY KEPT HER SON’S BODY AT HOME FOR TWO MONTHS

Lisa Marie Presley was so heartbroken by the loss of her son Benjamin Keough that she kept his body in her Malibu, California, home for two months after his death. The revelation comes from Presley’s new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which was finished by her actress daughter Riley Keough. Lisa Marie died in January 2023 at the age of 54. In the book, Lisa Marie reveals she couldn’t decide whether to bury Benjamin in Hawaii or at Graceland, where Elvis died and is buried. So, she wrote, “My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.” The body was embalmed, and the room was kept at 55 degrees to preserve his body, she writes, adding that she “got used to him, caring for him and keeping him there.” Eventually, Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley Keough decided to get a tattoo like the one ‘Ben Ben’ had. After the tattooing, everyone “got the vibe” that Benjamin wanted to be laid to rest. He was buried at Graceland, alongside Elvis; Lisa Marie would later be buried there as well.
* After she had a heart attack when she got the air conditioning bill.
* And then they increased the cost of the Graceland tour 5 bucks because, you know, added value.
* Once again proving the rich and famous are just like you and me.
* She was married to Michael Jackson. It’s Six Degrees of Weirdness.

THE BUZZ

MOST AMERICANS WOULD RATHER DIET AND EXERCISE THAN TAKE OZEMPIC

A new survey released this week suggests that a majority of Americans would rather NOT take Ozempic or other diet drugs to lose weight. They would rather exercise and diet. Despite a high demand for the drugs, which has led to shortages, these new findings indicate that Americans overall are still wary about these drugs. The survey, commissioned by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, asked 2,205 adults if they agreed or disagreed with this statement: “If I wanted to lose weight, I would rather take an injectable weight–loss drug, rather than make a diet change.” Overall, 23% agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, compared to 62% who disagreed or strongly disagreed. When only including the people who wanted to lose weight, 73% disagreed with taking these drugs over making a change in diet.
* What kind of Bizarro World are we living in?”
* This just tells me most Americans are afraid of shots.
* The main problem: Who wants to feel full after only half a Big Mac? That’s no fun!
* Wait – there’s such a high demand there are shortages? So how many people lied in the survey?
* Don’t kid yourself. When they drop the cost and find just the right price point, Americans will jump all over it.

BAD HABITS

Reddit asked, “What’s a bad habit you aren’t willing to change?” Some of the responses:
– “Binge watching entire seasons of shows in one go.”
– “Eating cereal at a midnight like it’s a full course meal. There’s something magical about a bowl of a cereal in the middle of a night.”
– “Ordering takeout when I have a fridge full of groceries.”
– “Refusing to delete old emails. They serve to me as a checkpoint, reminding me of the timeframe in between.”
– “Unless I’m expecting guests I’m not using my dressers: One basket = clean clothes. One basket = dirty clothes.”
– “Staying up way too late reading books are worth the lost sleep.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Can you relate to any of these habits? Do you have a habit you’re never going to change?

U.S. NEWS

SEMI FULL OF HONEYBEES OVERTURNS, DRIVER TRAPPED IN CAB

An 18-wheeler transporting honeybees overturned early Monday morning on Interstate 55 in Mississippi. Not only were all the hives in a pile, but the truck driver was trapped inside the cab as thousands of bees swarmed the scene. The Holmes County Volunteer Fire Department eventually rescued the driver, who was later transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A beekeeper was called to assist, but efforts to manage the bees were hampered by the chaotic state of the overturned hives, which had fallen into a pile.
* What a disaster. Like a bad B-movie.
* That driver, upside-down in a cab full of swarming bees. He had to be going, “Ooo, I hate Mondays!”
* The nightmares should start to fade around Christmas.
* It’s been pointed out that this is pretty much the plot of the premier episode of “9-1-1” on Fox a few weeks ago, where Los Angeles was attacked by a Beenado. On the show, the bee swarm led to Angela Bassett having to land an airliner. Not making this up.

10-YEAR OLD DRIVES STOLEN CAR THROUGH PLAYGROUND

A 10-year-old boy was arrested for driving a stolen car through a playground in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The incident happened on September 20th at a crowded playground. No children were struck by the car. Police say the boy has been arrested twice before for auto-theft related crimes, and also is suspected in a dozen other cases, including robbery and assault with a weapon. The boy was arrested and booked into a juvenile detention center. His parents are co-operating and asking for help for their son before anyone is injured. Police Chief Brian O’Hara said, “The system doesn’t have an answer for what to do with someone this young.”
* Tell the system there are lots of tiny uninhabited islands real far away.
* I’ve seen really big dog cages you can put a padlock on.
* Do they teach hotwiring in 5th grade?
* They’ve tried the very stern lecture?
* I’ve heard of juvenile delinquents, but this is almost toddler delinquents.

TROUBLE IN FRENCH FRY LAND

There’s big trouble in America, and you probably know what I’m talking about: French fries. Fast food sales are dropping, and that means fewer fries are being sold, and that’s hurting french fry suppliers like Lamb Weston, the largest producer of french fries in North America and a major supplier to fast-food chains, restaurants and grocery stores. Demand is so low, the company is closing a production plant in Washington state, laying off nearly 400 employees. It turns out, people are less likely to cook french fries at home, so around 80% of french fries consumed in the United States are purchased from fast-food chains. McDonald’s, its largest customer, accounts for 13% of Lamb Weston’s sales. As McDonald’s goes, so goes Lamb Weston.
* And the fallout from this… My god, won’t anybody think of the ketchup producers?!!
* Five years ago, if Lamb Weston had switched over to frying kale chips, today they’d be sittin’ pretty.
* What Lamb Weston needs is another market for their potatoes. Ireland maybe? No, that wouldn’t work.
* Maybe Lamb Weston should switch to selling lamb meat to Weston hotel restaurants.
* It’s true – As of March 2024, fast food prices were 33% higher than in 2019, while grocery prices rose 26%. Thanks, Brandon!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

PLANE TAKES OFF THREE HOURS EARLY

A Pakistan International Airlines flight from Toronto to Karachi on Sunday took off three hours ahead of schedule, leaving all the passengers behind. The was no warning, no luggage check-in, no boarding announcement – just the passengers arriving at the Toronto airport to find the plane gone. On the bright side, the plane arrived in Karachi two and a half hours early. There has not yet been any comment from Pakistan Airlines.
* “Best flight ever,” said the crew.
* What’s the opposite of “procrastination”?
* We know what happened. The pilot had a hook-up in Karachi planned and she had a deadline.
* This does NOT make up for 78 years of late service, Pakistan Airlines.

MUSEUM WORKER TOSSES ARTWORK IN THE TRASH

A mechanic at the the LAM Art Museum in Holland saw two crumpled, dirt-covered beer cans on the floor of an elevator and tossed them in the trash. Turns out the beer cans were a piece of art by French artist Alexandre Lavet. Titled “All The Good Times We Spent Together,” the dirt and grime was actually “meticulous” artwork painted on by hand. Lavet “intended the piece as a tribute to memories of good times spent with friends.” After a curator realized the cans were missing he retrieved them from the garbage, and the piece was displayed in a more typical fashion. The museum director said they often put artwork where it’s least expected.
* At this museum, the least expected place to find art is hanging on the wall.
* In some circles, that mechanic would be hailed as a hero in the art world.
* But, sadly, his work is garbage.
* Was the mechanic … canned?
* Be sure to look for Alexandre Lavet’s other masterpieces, Half-Smoked Joint and Wendy’s Hamburger Wrapper.

TRENDING

KEITH URBAN HOSTING CBS’ NEW YEAR’S SHOW

Country music star Keith Urban will headline and co-host New Year’s Eve Life: Nashville’s Big Bash, which airs Dec. 31 on CBS. Urban and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Rachel Smith will co-host the five-hour entertainment special at the Bicentennial Mall stage in Nashville. Kane Brown and Jelly Roll were previously announced to perform. Additional performers will be announced at a later date.

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

Brandon Routh (actor, The Atom on “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) … 45
Sean Lennon (singer/songwriter, son of John and Yoko) … 49
Guillermo del Toro (director, “The Shape of Water”) … 60
Scott Bakula (actor, “NCIS: New Orleans”, “Men Of A Certain Age”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “Quantum Leap”) … 70
Tony Shalhoub (actor, “Monk”) … 71
Sharon Osbourne (talk show personality, Mrs. Ozzy Osbourne) … 72
Jackson Browne (singer/songwriter) … 76

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

“The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age.”

(A) Clint Eastwood
(B) Madonna
(C) Scott Bakula

ANSWER: (C) Scott Bakula

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2010 – Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other as a drill punched into their underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days.
* “Last one to make a movie deal is a rotten egg.”

2006 – Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. in a stock deal for $1.65 billion.
* Or, as Google calls it, “chump change.”

1989 – The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report also said a trio of tall aliens had visited the city of Voronzh.
* Coincidentally, it was “Voronzh Vodka Appreciation Day.”

1946 – The first electric blanket went on sale on this day in 1946 – for $39.50 – in Petersburg, VA.
* It was a great improvement on regular blankets, which you had to set on fire in order to heat them up.

1888 – The Washington Monument opened.
* It was the dawn of a new age of phallic symbol jokes.

1855 – The sewing machine motor was invented by Isaac Singer.
* Previously, the motor driving the sewing machine was MRS. Singer.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – Foo Fighters were at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with their ninth studio album “Concrete and Gold,” their second album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Dave Grohl had ended a self-imposed six-month hiatus from music to record the album while recovering from an injury sustained on the Sonic Highways World Tour.

2003 – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

1985 – A 2-1/2 acre garden memorial was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow Yoko Ono. The memorial in New York City’s Central Park is called Strawberry Fields and includes a circular mosaic featuring the word “Imagine,” the title of his iconic hit.

1981 – The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The opening act was Prince, who dressed in his controversial bikini briefs and trench coat. He ran off stage after 15 minutes due to the crowd booing and throwing beer cans at him.

1973 – Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorced after six years of marriage.

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. In 1950, 7% of people did THIS. Today, 75% of us have. What is it?
Dyed/colored our hair

2. 20% of the people in a recent survey couldn’t name even one of THESE. What is it?
They couldn’t name a single author

2. In a recent survey, almost 30% of the people said they have done THIS while cleaning. What is it?
Eaten something they found in their couch

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