WEDNESDAY, Oct 16 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 16, 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.)

BOSS’S DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“The origin of Boss’s Day dates back to 1958. Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee at State Farm Insurance Company in Illinois, registered it with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Haroski chose the date because it was her father’s birthday. Who was her boss? Her father.”

DICTIONARY DAY (How is this still a thing?)
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Dictionary Day is in honor of Noah Webster, considered the Father of the American Dictionary. Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758. Webster began to write his dictionary at the age of 43. It took him 27 years to finish.”

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

RUSSELL BRAND IS SELLING $240 MAGIC BEADS

Comedian Russell Brand, having been accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse – which he denies – has now undergone some major life changes, becoming a Christian influencer and making money by advertising bizarre products. The latest thing he is selling is a “magical amulet” to protect against “evil energies.” It’s a little blue stone on a string. It costs $240. In a TikTok video, Brand humorously but seriously pitches an amulet that claims to offer “protection against 5G technology.” Brand says in the clip: “As you know, airports are places full of Wi-Fi and all sorts of evil energies. Think of all the phones out there, all of the signals – corruptible and corrupting. Luckily, I wear this magical amulet from Aires Tech that keeps me safe from all of the various signals out there. You should get one as well, particularly if you’re planning to go to an airport any time soon because the bloody things are full of lethal signals.”
* It’s too late to save the 2.9 million people that fly every day, but it’s not to late to save yourself.
* Protection against 5G technology, Wi-Fi, evil energies and lethal signals? I thought that’s what tinfoil hats were for?
* I don’t know. Compared to some of the stuff in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop catalog, this isn’t so bad.
* I’m selling a $100 stone that will save you from exposure to con man TikTok videos like this. The way it works it, you pick up the stone and smash your phone so you can’t see the TikTok.

JIMMY CARTER VOTES AT 100 YEARS OF AGE

Two months ago, Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy Carter, reported that grandpa had told his family he wanted to live long enough to cast his vote for Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. Carter turned 100 on October 1st, making him the oldest former U.S. president in American history. Early voting began Tuesday in Carter’s home state of Georgia. Carter has achieved his goal and made it long enough to vote for Vice President Harris. Carter has been in hospice care since February of 2023 after receiving treatment for metastatic brain cancer. Carter’s wife of 77 years, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, passed away last November.
* The former president sat up, steadied his ballot, and made a tapioca smear over the box next to the name “Kamala Harris.”
* Then it was right back to work, tuckpointing the brick on a chimney in one of those Habitat houses.
* Ordinarily, you’d think one person’s vote doesn’t mean much, but in 2020 Georgia voted 49.5% Democratic and 49.3% Republican, so he kinda has a good point!
* His new goal is to live long enough to find out who killed Sazz Pattaki on “Only Murders in the Building.”

THE BUZZ

30 IS TOO OLD FOR THIS

Reddit asked, “What are you too old for at the age of thirty?” Some of the responses:
– “Wearing team jerseys.”
– “Turning your hat backwards.”
– “Asking friends to help you move. Go hire movers.”
– “Throwing a temper tantrum in public.”
– “Anything past 10 pm.”
– “Clubbing”
– “My Little Pony. It’s embarrassing that that has to even be said.”
– “The statute of limitations for things you can blame on your parents runs out at thirty.”
– “Trampolines – but you only find out the hard way.”
– “At 30 you’re too old for Leo DiCaprio.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What are you too old for at 30?

U.S. NEWS

BEER-WASHED JEANS

Wrangler jeans has teamed up with Coors beer to create a new type of pants: beer-wash jeans. How did they come up with the combo? According to the press release, “Wrangler and Coors Banquet are both enduring symbols of the passion and ingenuity of the West.” Therefore: beer pants. They look like a pair of factory-faded dungarees, with a bit of a yellow tint. The jeans are limited-edition, and they even come with a tag that features a working bottle opener. If you want to enter a sweepstakes to win a pair go to beerwashjeans.com now through Oct. 21.They aren’t saying how many beer pants are being given away.
* But they’re going to keep at it until enough knuckleheads enter to get rid of them.
* I knew Coors beer was useful for something.
* Pants with a yellow tint, so of course the first thing people think of isn’t “beer,” it’s “urine.”
* My pants already smell like a frat house on a Sunday morning.
* I prefer my pants rinsed in red wine, or as I call them, my Pinot Chinos.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

RUSSIAN MAN FOUND ALIVE AFTER TWO MONTHS ON A DINGHY

A Russian man was found alive after drifting for two months on an inflatable boat. The bodies of the man’s brother and 15-year-old nephew were also on the boat. The three were sailing 150 kilometers to the Island of Sakhalin from the far eastern Khabarovsk region (* Ah, yes – I know it well!) on August 9 when their engine failed. Family members alerted authorities, who mounted a search using helicopters and a plane for a few days but failed to find them. But on Monday, October 14 around 10:00 pm, the dinghy was discovered as it passed a fishing boat in the Sea of Okhotsk, around 1,000 kilometres (670 miles) from its starting point. A video shows the bearded survivor, Mikhail Pichugin, in a life jacket shouting at the fishermen: “I don’t have much strength” but managing to catch a rope. The men had taken enough food to last two weeks and about five gallons of water, as well as warm clothes, life jackets and flares. Mr. Pichugin weighed only about 110 pounds when he was found, having lost half of his body weight. He didn’t immediately say how he’d managed to survive in the Sea of Okhotsk, the coldest sea in East Asia and known for its gales, or how his brother and nephew had died. Russia, being Russia, has opened an investigation against him for violating water safety rules.
* Was he running on the pool deck? Doing backflips off the diving board? Was he cannonballing?
* On the bright side, his brother and nephew were found intact.
* Food, water, warm clothes, life jackets and flares. So they were pretty well prepared, except for the part where they should have checked the engine.
* As a reward for having survived the ordeal, Russia will honor him with a military position in the Ukranian war front.
* At least he had eight weeks of not having to listen to American election news.

TRENDING

SCOTTY MCCREERY, AVETTS, CHASE RICE JOIN CONCERT FOR CAROLINA

Four more acts are joining Luke Combs’ benefit show, the Concert for Carolina. Scotty McCreery, the Avett Brothers, Parmalee and Chase Rice have all signed on for the show, taking place later October 26 in Charlotte, N.C., and all proceeds will directly benefit those impacted by Hurricane Helene. Combs and Eric Church are headlining the bill. James Taylor and Billy Strings are named as headliners of the benefit, too. Other acts appearing: Keith Urban, Sheryl Crow and Bailey Zimmerman.

MARIAH CAREY HATES OVERHEAD LIGHTING

Mariah Carey, in her guest appearance on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas podcast, goes on a hilarious tirade against overhead lighting. She says, “I’m the one that gets the most tortured by the hideous lighting in every elevator, doorway, gyms — not that I go to the gym, but I’m just saying. The sun is OK, if it’s at sunset. Then I will gladly go outside and put a hat on.” But, she adds, “Every place I go: Shut the lights. Turn them out. I don’t want to see them. No more … Overhead lighting, it makes me sick.”

JELLY ROLL WANTS TO TALK TO PEOPLE HE ROBBED 24 YEARS AGO

In an in-depth interview on the “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast, Jelly Roll opened up about wanting to reach out to the people he robbed over weed when he was a teenager. Jelly served over a year for the crime, followed by more than seven years of probation. He now says he’s thought about reaching out: “This has been 24 years ago now. I just don’t know how that would even start, or, you know, how I would go about it because sometimes I wonder if they might have even seen me in passing or are aware of my success. I mean, I’ve obviously dramatically changed. I was 15… I hardly hit puberty…I still had my high voice when I did that robbery.”
– He said, “I had no business taking from anybody. Just the entitlement that I had, that the world owed me enough that I could come take your stuff. It’s a horrible, horrible way to look at life and people.”
– Jelly says he would look for forgiveness, saying, “I hope that they would see that I’ve made it my life’s mission to change and to change people because that’s what I’m representing the most in what I do. I think people cheer for me because they see a little bit of me in them, or they see their cousin — I’m a family member, they relate, and I speak for an unspoken group of people, and I hope they would know that. […] I’m trying to diligently prove myself that I’ve not only changed but also I took the platform serious and that it’s making me change more every day. I hope they would forgive me.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TODAY – 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

Caterina Scorsone (actress, “Grey’s Anatomy”) … 44
John Mayer (singer/songwriter) … 47
Wendy Wilson (singer with Wilson Phillips, daughter of Beach Boy Brian) … 55
Flea (bassist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers) … 62
Christian Stolte (actor, “Chicago Fire”) … 62
Tim Robbins (actor/director) … 66
Bob Weir (rhythm guitarist for The Grateful Dead) … 77

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

“I really don’t want to be a hunk.”

(A) John Goodman
(B) Drew Carey
(C) John Mayer

ANSWER: (C) John Mayer

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2023 – A model of a Star Wars X-wing Starfighter from collection of Hollywood model maker Greg Jein sold for over $3 million.
* Then Disney asked for it back.

2008 – The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.
* Two-thirds of them were some version of “Law and Order.”

2002 – President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
* Son of a gun! You CAN fool all of the people some of the time!

1932 – Albert Einstein estimated the earth’s age as ten billion years.
* He did it using a carbon-dating process on one of the Rolling Stones’ first albums.

1923 – The Disney Corporation was founded.
* But it wasn’t until 1928 that they learned to build a better mouse.

1916 – The world’s first birth control clinic opened in New York.
* It can’t have been very good – there’s a LOT more New Yorkers now!

1846 – The first public surgical operation using ether as an anesthetic was performed at a hospital in Boston.
* A big improvement over that big wacky clown hammer.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – Ed Sheeran broke his wrist and elbow in a biking accident, forcing him to cancel dates on his tour of Asia. He called his time off “the most depressing six weeks of my life.”

2010 – Auburn University graduate student Justin Havird named a new species of fish Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini due to the fish’s unique pectoral fin. “I’m a big Led Zeppelin fan, and I was listening to them while I was working on the fish,” Havird said. “The structure that makes this species unique just reminded me of the (double-neck) guitar that Jimmy Page played.”

2007 – Madonna signed a ground-breaking recording and touring contract with concert promoter Live Nation, becoming the first major star to choose an all-in-one agreement with a tour company instead of a traditional record contract. The deal was reported to be worth $120 million over 10 years, and would give Live Nation rights to all her music-related projects – including new albums, tours, merchandise, websites, DVDs, sponsorship, TV shows and films.

1992 – Sinead O’Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.

1968 – The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.

1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut on “The Louisiana Hayride,” a program broadcast out of Shreveport, LA.

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. The average college student admits to doing THIS at least once every day. What is it?
Telling a lie

2. More than half of current college students surveyed said they are afraid of THIS. What is it?
Parents visiting

3. The average college student does THIS about 25 times a day. What is it?
Walks through a door

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