MONDAY, Mar 10 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR MONDAY, March 10, 2025
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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 – including “holidays” created by the National Day Calendar and Wellcat websites to drive traffic to their websites – or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year.)

HARRIET TUBMAN DAY
The National Today website says this:
“Harriet Tubman Day was enacted as a national holiday in 1990 by the United States Congress as a way to celebrate the heroic work of Tubman towards the abolishment of slavery and freedom of slaves. In 1849, she became a free woman after escaping from the plantation. After her escape, she spent most of her life fighting for others and strategizing ways to help more slaves secure their freedom. She worked odd jobs and saved money to help free other slaves. Over the years, she helped about 70 slaves escape.

INTERNATIONAL BAGPIPE DAY

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF AWESOMENESS
The National Today website says this:
“International Day of Awesomeness, celebrated on March 10 every year, is a day where anybody, no matter who they are, may celebrate their awesomeness. Yes, we all possess qualities that make us awesome in some way. So today, let go of any insecurities and prepare to give yourself the praise you deserve. No one is perfect, to be sure. Everyone, on the other hand, is amazing in their way. The date was chosen because it falls on Chuck Norris’s birthday — a man who is renowned for his awesomeness! So, regardless of who you are or what you do, use this day to pat yourself on the back for simply existing and being awesome!”

LAND LINE TELEPHONE DAY

NATIONAL BLUEBERRY POPOVER DAY

NATIONAL MARIO DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“National Mario Day is observed each year on March 10th and honors Mario from the popular Nintendo games. This is a gamer holiday that is celebrated on March 10th because of the way the date appears – when abbreviated (Mar 10), it looks like the name Mario.”

NATIONAL PACK YOUR LUNCH DAY

SALVATION ARMY DAY
An official group from The Salvation Army in England arrived in New York on March 10, 1880 to pioneer their volunteer work in America.

U.S. PAPER MONEY DAY
The U.S. issued its first paper money on this date in 1862.

March is:

Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month
Employee Spirit Month
Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
Gender Equality Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
National Craft Month
National Women Inventors Month
National Women’s History Month
Read an E-Book Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

WHAT TO WATCH – New and Returning Shows and Movies
Premiering Monday through Wednesday
Listings sourced from the TV Guide, EW and other websites

MONDAY, March 10

“American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden”
Netflix – New Docuseries
Synopsis: Traces the epic hunt for Osama bin Laden with rare footage and interviews with CIA insiders.

Season Premieres:
Lifetime – “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up”

TUESDAY, March 11

“Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna”
Hulu – New Documentary
Synopsis: Takes viewers inside the day Alec Baldwin’s prop gun fired a live bullet on the set of “Rust,” killing its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, told first-hand by the people who lived it.

WEDNESDAY, March 12

SERIES PREMIERE: Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney
Netflix – New Talk Show
Synopsis: Every Wednesday, the Emmy Award-winning comedian hosts a live talk show with special guests and musical performances.

Season Premieres:
Hulu – “Am I Being Unreasonable?”
Netflix – “Temptation Island”

“AVATAR 3” TO BE VERY, VERY LONG

In a recent talk with Empire magazine, director James Cameron said that “Avatar: Fire And Ash,” the third part in his Avatar saga, will be the longest entry yet because they had so many good ideas left over from the last one, “The Way Of Water.” Cameron says, “In a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of movie 2. The film was moving like a bullet train, (* Really? A bullet train?) and we weren’t drilling down enough on character. So I said, ‘Guys, we’ve got to split it.’ Movie 3 will actually be a little bit longer than movie 2.” The Way Of Water clocked in at three hours and 12 minutes.
* “The heck with it, then, I’ll wait and see it at home,” said America.
* Three hours, four hours, whatever. We’ll all have plenty of time on our hands once Elon gets done with us.
* In the second one, you could have gone out for popcorn and not missed anything. You could have gone out to dinner, come back, and not missed anything.
* He keeps inventing new technology for these movies. Maybe he can invent a movie chair that you can sit in for three-and-a-half hours without moving.

THE BUZZ

COCKROACH MILK

Scientists say cockroach milk is an up-and-coming superfood. Cockroach milk is a milk-like fluid that is produced by female Pacific beetle cockroaches to feed their young. Nutritionists say that cockroach milk has some amazing benefits and may even be one of the most nutrient-dense substances on our planet. A study finds it’s three times more nutritious than cow’s milk. It contains three times the calories of buffalo milk – a very calorie-rich mammalian milk – and it contains a ton of proteins, amino acids and healthy sugars to help will cell growth and repair. Sadly, cockroach milk is not yet available for human consumption, with the biggest barrier being the production.
* I question the use of the word “sadly.”
* The first problem with production – you gotta find a source for tiny little milking stools.
* Second, who is the guy who squashed a cockroach, saw white stuff and said, “Hey, that looks tasty.”
* Thirdly… those better have been Milk Duds I was eating at the movies the other night.
* If cockroaches give milk, my apartment is a dairy farm.

U.S. NEWS

DENTIST USED HOME PLIERS ON PATIENT

Arizona state regulators voted Friday to revoke the license of a Flagstaff dentist who used regular pliers on a patient during surgery. Dr. Robert Janisse was having difficulty removing a patient’s implant during a November 2023 dental surgery. He left the room while the patient was sedated to grab non-sterile pliers from a toolbox, and used the pliers to pull out the implant. Despite the revocation, Dr. Janisse says the patient is “very happy with the treatment I gave.”
* After all, he could have used a crowbar.
* Don’t ask how he sedates his patients. It involves a rubber mallet.
* What’ll he do for a living now? Handyman?
* When he’s done with you, he takes you out back and hoses you off, and you’re free to go.
* Why, Dr. Janisse does the work of three men: Moe, Larry and Curly.

FLORIDA: ASSAULT WITH A PRINGLES CAN

An Orlando woman was arrested after attacking a man on Thursday with a Pringles chip can. Police responded to a fight at a 7-Eleven and found the victim with a significant bleeding cut on his right eyebrow and below his eye. He said that the assailant, Shanika Serdahl, struck him in the eye with a Pringles chip can and took off running. Serdahl was located nearby with the Pringles can. She faces a charge of aggravated battery.
* Then isn’t it the guy’s fault for getting her aggravated?
* Was the can empty or full when she hit him? The weight difference could be as much as 3 ounces.
* Coulda been worse. They coulda been in the beer aisle.
* Pringles – once you pop somebody, you can’t stop somebody.

FLORIDA DOCTOR DUMPED GALLONS OF URINE AT DOOR OF HIS FORMER MEDICAL PRACTICE

A Florida doctor has admitted to dumping gallons of urine on the front door of a rival’s medical practice. Dr. Giovanni Baula, a 59-year-old internist, was arrested last year for criminal mischief. Dr. Baula was busted last August for twice dousing a St. Petersburg doctor’s office with gallons of urine. The office was previously the place of Baula’s medical practice, but he sold it to another doctor in 2022. No details were given as to what Baula had against the current occupant, all the court will say is that they has a business dispute. (* Yeah – they guy was doing his business on their front porch.) Baula remains licensed in Florida to practice medicine.
* If he sold it in 2022, that’s three years worth of urine he saved up. I hope. Because I’d hate to think of where else he would have gotten that much.
* Did he run around to drug testing labs and say, “Hey – you done with that?”
* You’ve heard of Doctor Who, this is Doctor What-the hell?
* As acts of vandalism go, this was a pisser.
* Gallons of urine at your front door. Better or worse than a flaming paper bag of poo? Let’s open the phones.

MAN CAUSES $50,000 IN DAMAGE TO BURGER KING

In Alamosa, Colorado, a man caused more than $50,000 in damages at a Burger King on Friday morning. The man, identified as 22-year-old Dare Mezidor, locked himself in the bathroom of the Burger King about 8:30 a.m. and would not come out. Then employees noticed water coming from under the door. First responders attempted to communicate with the man for more than 30 minutes before he climbed into the ceiling where he caused extensive damage. He began kicking the outer wall and he created a large hole. He was in the ceiling for more than an hour. When they finally nabbed him, he bit a police officer in the left arm causing serious injury, and caused significant damage to a patrol car by kicking the door and window while he was being transported.
* How’s he doing against concrete walls and iron bars?
* I’m a little cranky, too, before my first cup of coffee.
* Burger King is like Chinese food – an hour in the ceiling, and you’re hungry again.
* I was in a Burger King bathroom once, I could barely stand 3 minutes much less an hour.
* You damage a McDonald’s, you’ll fry for that. You damage a Burger King, they take you down to the station and grill you.

HUMAN CANNONBALL MISFIRES

A human cannonball went off course during his act last week at the Riverside County Fair in Indio, California. Chachi “The Rocketman” Valencia, who had shot himself out of a cannon hundreds of times before, caught a strong crosswind on the way to the net. He hit the edge of the net – barely, but then bounced out and fell about 20 feet to the ground. He got knocked out cold, and woke up in an ambulance 20 minutes later. Valencia suffered a broken wrist, a few broken ribs, and a bleeding liver. He said it might be months before he can go flying again. Valencia said, “You know, this is what I do for a living. It’s not like I can stop this tomorrow and get some other job or something. This is what I do.”
* Get another job? And give up show business?
* Perfect example of a bad career trajectory.
* Don’t tell Elon. he’ll fire him, and not out of cannon.
* Well, I would say the crowd got their money’s worth.
* Maybe he can take up something safer, like underwater shark photography, or roofing.

MAN IN MUD UP TO HIS NECK RESCUED

Police and firefighters in Virginia rescued a man stuck in the mud near Roosevelt Island Friday morning. The man, in his 70s, became stuck in the mud while trying to retrieve a walking stick between the Mount Vernon Trail and the Potomac River. He sank in the mud until he was nearly neck-deep, prompting a large rescue response. U.S. Park Police and firefighters rushed to the scene shortly before 9:30 a.m. By 9:45 a.m., the man was safely on shore. The man was not injured, according to the Arlington County Fire Department.
* But thanks to the mudpack, his skin was fantastic!
* Boy, it’s a good thing it wasn’t THOSE park rangers who got DOGED.
* Ironically, his wife always referred to him as a real stick in the mud.
* Mount Vernon? So this could have happened to George Washington and we’d never even bother with the chopping-down-the-cherry-tree story.
* This story brought to you by Tide Laundry Detergent.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT TURNS AROUND 300 MILES FROM U.S.

Last Thursday, a Virgin Atlantic flight across the Atlantic turned back to the UK despite being only 300 miles from America. The aircraft, which had already been in the air for 4 hours traveling from London’s Heathrow to New York’s JFK Airport, turned around and landed in Manchester, England due to what the airline described as a “technical issue.” The plane spent a total of eight hours in the air before finally touching down in Manchester.
* “Technical issue.” The pilot thought he left the oven on.
* “Extra airline miles! Yay!”
* “An extra airline meal! Boo!”
* The real story: the plane noticed a problem with its landing gear door hydraulics (* true!), and no way was America gonna let another plane crash in our country after the last six weeks. (* maybe true)

AUDIO: JOE CANADA IS BACK

(Warning: this story is political, in a weird Canadian way.)
The culture clash between the United States and Canada has brought back a blast from the past. Twenty-five years ago, Molson Canadian beer put out an ad called “I Am Canadian: The Rant,” featuring a fictional character named Joe Canada smashing stereotypes about Canada and running down a list of what makes the country so great. Now, that same guy is back with a YouTube video that takes on the current administration’s not-a-joke push to absorb Canada into the US and make it the 51st state. The original actor, Jeff Douglas, says the new ad was put together by an unidentified group of Canadian ad pros and other creatives. “The client for this one is Canada,” he says. “We humbly hope it may be something that can help boost Canadian spirits.”
* Look, Canada, know that no American citizen wants you as our 51st state. Where would we put the star on our flag? It would throw everything off-kilter. And besides, no one educated in America can spell Saskatchewan.
* Grab a bottle of maple syrup and let’s listen:
AUDIO: The full “We Are Canadian” rant. It’s about 1:40 long.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/WeAreCanadianRant(dot)mp3

TRENDING

GENE HACKMAN’S SAD DEATH

On Friday, New Mexico’s chief medical examiner released a report on what they think happened in the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. Arakawa, age 65, was believed to have died first on February 11. Her cause of death was hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is caused by contact with rodents like rats and mice. Hackman, 95, is believed to have died around February 18, the last day his pacemaker reported heart data. Hackman’s cause of death was due to hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiac disease. The autopsy revealed that Hackman, 95, also had advanced Alzheimer’s, which “significantly contributed” to his death. The medical examiner said that because of Hackman’s advanced Alzheimer’s, it is possible he did not know his wife was dead, and lived in the house not realizing she was dead. The couple’s dog, Zinna, was also found dead in a crate in the bathroom near Arakawa’s body. Zinna’s cause of death was still pending necropsy results, but officials said on Friday that hantavirus is not a possible reason.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (March 7-9)

1. Mickey 17 – $19 million
2. Captain America: Brave New World – $8.5 million
3. Last Breath – $4 million
4. The Monkey – $3.9 million
5. Paddington In Peru – $3.8 million

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

March 17, Monday – St. Patrick’s Day
March 20, Thursday – Spring begins, Spring Equinox is 5:01 a.m. EDT
April 1, Tuesday – April Fools Day
April 15, Tuesday – U.S. Tax Day
May 11, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 26, Monday – Memorial Day

BIRTHDAYS

Olivia Wilde (actress, “Don’t Worry Darling,” “House MD”) … 41
Carrie Underwood (singer, winner of American Idol 4th season) … 42
Robin Thicke (singer) … 48
Jon Hamm (actor, “Landman,” “Fargo,” “Mad Men”) … 54
Paget Brewster (actress, “Criminal Minds”) … 56
Jeff Ament (bassist with Pearl Jam) … 62
Sharon Stone (actress) … 67
Barbara Corcoran (businesswoman/TV personality “Shark Tank”) … 76
Tom Scholz (guitarist with Boston) … 78
Chuck Norris (actor) … 85

Today’s Birthdays grade: A solid list with stars for people of all ages from movies, music and TV … and best of all, nobody yucky! Grade: B-minus.

[Want to try something different with the daily birthdays? Try grading them! Some days have “good” celebs, some have “great” celebs, some have “lousy” celebs. For fun, give the group an arbitrary grade: A-plus through F-minus. Sidekick will give you our take on it; you can to take the concept and run with it.]

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

“Violence is my last option.”

(A) Vladimir Putin
(B) Kim Jong-un
(C) Chuck Norris

ANSWER: (C) Chuck Norris

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2008 – New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized after allegations surfaced that he had paid over $80,000 for high-end call girls, a scandal which eventually led to his resignation.
* Voters wanted a governor who could handle money better.

1943 – The first movie was shown on television. It was “The Crooked Circle” and aired on experimental TV station WGXOA in Los Angeles.
* Unfortunately, Jiffy Pop wouldn’t come along until 1959, so you still had to run over to the movie theater for popcorn.

1941 – Professional baseball players wore batting helmets for the first time.
* The players liked ’em ’cause they protected against head injuries. The owners liked ’em ’cause they protected against lawsuits.

1940 – The first opera was shown on television in America, in New York City.
* I guess opera on TV was classy and stuff, but it can’t compare to today’s shows like “Dr. Pimple Popper.”

1876 – The first telephone call was placed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant in an adjoining room heard Bell’s voice over his experimental device speak, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.”
* Just as he was about to take his lunch break.

1410 – The first metal wire was produced.
* “Gee, nice wire. Now if only someone would discover electricity.”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2021 – Mariah Carey filed for a trademark application for the phrase “Queen Of Christmas.” The application was denied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office the following year.

2015 – A jury ruled that the writers of “Blurred Lines” copied a Marvin Gaye track. Jurors in Los Angeles decided that the 2013 single by Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke breached the copyright of Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got To Give It Up.” The family of the late soul singer was awarded $7.3M in damages. Thicke and Williams denied copying the hit, and their lawyer said the ruling set a “horrible precedent.”

2010 – Pink Floyd won a court battle with EMI that prevented the record company from selling single downloads and ringtones on the Internet from the group’s albums. Pink Floyd’s back catalog was second only in sales to the Beatles.

2005 – Michael Jackson, appearing in Santa Moria, California court for his child abuse trial, arrived an hour late dressed in his pajamas after being treated for a back injury.

2003 – During a concert in London, England, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that the band was “ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas” (referring to Maines’ hometown of Lubbock and President Bush hailing from the same state). This was during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq; the comment sparked intense controversy and outrage among Americans, including a large share of country music fans.

2002 – Alanis Morissette went to No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Under Rug Swept.”

2000 – Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest in Manhattan against the clothing firm Gap, which was accused of using leather from cows slaughtered “illegally and cruelly.”

1988 – Younger brother of The Bee Gees Andy Gibb died in a hospital, five days after his 30th birthday. His death from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) followed a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart.

1984 – Van Halen held the No.1 position on the U.S. singles chart with “Jump.”

1979 – Gloria Gaynor started a three-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “I Will Survive.”

1973 – Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side Of The Moon” was released in the U.S. It spent over 740 weeks on the chart, over a 14-year period.

1967 – The Monkees held the No.1 position on the U.S. album chart with “More Of The Monkees.”

1956 – RCA Records placed a half page ad in Billboard Magazine proclaiming Elvis Presley was “the new singing rage.”

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. One-third of us say we’ve had someone at work steal THIS. What is it?
An idea

2. 1 in 4 of us have used a sick day to do THIS. What is it?
Care for a pet

3. If THIS happened to you at work it would more than likely be on a Monday, and in September. What is it?
Get murdered

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