TUESDAY, Mar 25 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, March 25, 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. We present only those specially designated days we feel your listeners would find most interesting or significant.)

INTERNATIONAL WAFFLE DAY (not to be confused with National Waffle Day – August 24th)
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“This holiday originated in Sweden. It is called Våffeldagen. The holiday coincides with the Feast of the Annunciation. This day was also considered the start of spring in Sweden and Europe. It became a custom for Swedish families to celebrate the two events by making waffles on this day. The origin of the waffle: The waffle dates back to the 1300s in Greece. Greeks cooked flat cakes between two metal pans. At the time, they topped it with cheeses and herbs.”

NATIONAL LOBSTER NEWBERG DAY

NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“National Medal of Honor day is a day that is dedicated to all Medal of Honor recipients. It was on March 25, 1863 when the first Medals of Honor were presented. Created in 1861, the Medal of Honor is the United States of America’s highest military honor. It is awarded only to US military personnel, by the President of the United States in the name of Congress, for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. There are three versions of the Medal of Honor; one for the Army, one for the Navy and one for the Air Force, with personnel of the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard receiving the Navy version.”

NATIONAL PECAN DAY

TOLKIEN READING DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist and university professor. He was best known as the author of the classic works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarrillion as well as Roverandom and Farmer Giles of Ham. This day was started in 2003 by the Tolkien Society to encourage the readings of J.R.R. Tolkien. March 25th was chosen as the date to honor the fall of Sauron in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”

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

THE BUZZWHAT MAKES MEN HAPPY?

Reddit asked, “What makes men happy?” Here are some of the responses. Ladies, pay attention:
– “Being useful.”
– “Catching a fish.”
– “When one of those old cables I keep in The Drawer finally comes in useful.”
– “When I have a day off, leave me alone. I don’t need ‘activities’.”
– “Do not disturb us when we’re sitting somewhere doing nothing.”
– “A perfectly round rock. A wooden stick that looks like sword. A cat that comes to sleep on you.” (* Note: a LOT of men said ‘a stick.’ Ladies, we’re idiots.)
– “Someone coming to visit me just to hang out.”
– “When things work as they are supposed to.”
– “An apology. Just a simple ‘I’m sorry. I can see why what I did upset you.'”
– “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
– “Just lots of naps.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Men, what one thing makes you happy? (No sex stuff!)

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN HITS CYCLIST, CONTINUES ON, TAKES A GOLF LESSON

A Palm Beach, Florida, woman struck a bicyclist with her car, then continued on to a country club where she turned over her Mercedes to a valet and took a golf lesson. Police say that on March 18, 76-year-old Ellen Richman struck the cyclist, dragging him and the bicycle down the road for a ways. When she got to the country club, she handed her car off to the valet and went off to her golf lesson. When questioned, Richman claimed she knew she hit something but thought it was just a piece of debris on the road. The cyclist suffered a broken leg and other abrasions.
* It’s Palm Beach. Anything on the road that’s not an expensive car IS a piece of debris.
* What a drag.
* The golf pro thought it was strange because she wasn’t hitting anything that day.
* He recommended she get a new driver.
* This story brought to you by Peloton.

THE FINGER GUN BANDIT

The Colorado Springs Police Department arrested a man for a robbery where he allegedly used a “finger gun” to rob a 7-Eleven store. The crime happened Sunday evening. Police say they were called to the convenience store where the suspect, now identified as Antonio Taylor, allegedly pointed a “finger gun” at the clerk and began to take items. He took off and police caught him at a gas station. Officers say Taylor’s teenage daughter was in the passenger seat.
* Are they sure he wasn’t just pointing out the different things he wanted?
* As they were closing in, he got into a “pew pew pew” fight with the cops.
* “Look out, he’s got a hangnail!”
* Just a finger? Not even a rubber band pulled back and hooked around his thumb?
* They start with a finger gun, but cops say it almost always escalates to patty cake and shadow puppets.

MAN SMASHES WALMART

In Grand Haven, Michigan, a 25-year-old man went on a rampage inside a Walmart last Friday evening. The unnamed suspect started pulling TVs from the shelves and destroying them. Then he got a metal pole and started striking merchandise off of the shelves until he made his way over to glass display cases, coolers, and glass doors. All told, he destroyed six flatscreen TVs and at least 17 glass doors. (* Must have been those locked glass case doors where Walmart keeps the really expensive stuff, like razor cartridges and baby food.) The damage is still being totaled up from all of the other products knocked from shelves, but law enforcement believes it could be thousands of dollars. Numerous shoppers, including children, were inside the store at the time, but no one was hurt.
* Your NCAA brackets go bust early, some people go a little crazy.
* You’ve heard of “breaking and entering”? This was “entering and breaking.”
* I thought The Hulk turned green before he does this stuff.
* His lawyer could make a pretty good case that this was free artistic expression against rampant corporate commercialism. Or maybe the guy’s just a dick.
* Time to bring back “You break it, you bought it.”

KID ACCEPTED TO 60+ COLLEGES

A 17-year-old student has been accepted into more than 60 colleges and awarded over $1 million in scholarships. Mantavius “Lebron” Presley, a senior at Douglas County High School in Georgia, began applying to colleges on Aug. 1, 2024, the first day of his senior year. He eventually wants to attend medical school and become an anesthesiologist. Lebron’s first college acceptance came in October from the University of Alabama, and the offers kept pouring in. As of last Thursday, he had received 61 acceptances and over $1.1 million in scholarships.
* It probably cost him over a million just in college application fees. Good thing he’s not majoring in math.
* An anesthesiologist? All that education just to become a gas passer. I did that in junior high.
* It’s the end of March, so he’ll only be getting dirty looks from the other students for about 8 more weeks.
* Wasn’t Mantavius Presley the Roman emperor who could sing good?

WORLD’S OLDEST CAT: 30

What is possibly the world’s oldest cat has just celebrated her 30th birthday. Leslie Greenhough, 70, believes his tortoiseshell kitty, Millie, who was born in 1995, is currently the oldest living feline. Mr. Greenhough said the cat’s long life is due to “lots of treats” and “cuddles on the sofa.” Leslie’s late wife, Paula, who would be 55, first got Millie in 1995 – when the kitten was three months old. Now, three decades later, Greenhough decided to a get a cake made with Millie’s face on it to celebrate. She licked all the cream off.
* 30 years – and she still has eight more lives to go.
* Mr. Greenhough estimates he’s cleaned up 3400 hairballs.
* And bought 14 tractor-trailer loads of cat litter.
* If she’s anything like my cat, my cat, she’s 30 years old and hasn’t eaten a damned thing in all those years.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

GIRLFRIEND’S HAND STUCK IN MAN’S MOUTH

In Jilin, China, a woman got her hand stuck in her boyfriend’s mouth while trying to film a funny video. Videos and photos show the couple in an emergency room with the woman’s hand fully in the man’s mouth. They were trying to see if the woman’s hand was small enough to fit. She managed to stuff it in just fine, but when she tried to pull it out, his mouth muscles stiffened and her hand became stuck. The more she pulled, the tighter his jaw became. Doctors played soothing music to calm the patients, and then used a special mouth opener to expand his jaw enough to inject a muscle relaxant. After about 20 minutes, the doctor gently rotated the girl’s wrist, and it came out.
* And 30 minutes later, he was hungry for another hand.
* Lucky they didn’t have to do a C-section, where the C stands for cheek.
* “Thanks, doc, but where’s the ring I was wearing?”
* If only she hadn’t offered to lend a hand.
* At least they got their funny video.

TRENDING

JASON ALDEAN’S ANNIVERSARY PRESENT: TICKETS TO OASIS IN BRITAIN

Country star Jason Aldean and his wife Brittany celebrated their 10th anniversary last Friday. As a present, Brittany got her husband tickets to see one of his favorite bands — Oasis — in London for their reunion tour. Aldean’s reaction? Well, a lot of cursing, but in a good way. And then: “That is so awesome. Let’s go!”

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NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

April 1, Tuesday – April Fools Day
April 15, Tuesday – U.S. Tax Day
May 11, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 26, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Saturday – Flag Day
June 15, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 20, Friday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Katharine McPhee (singer, actress “Scorpion,” “Smash”) … 41
Laz Alonso (actor, “The Boys,” “L.A.’s Finest”) … 54
Sarah Jessica Parker (actress, “And Just Like That,” “Sex and the City”) … 60
Marcia Cross (actress, “Desperate Housewives,” “Melrose Place”) … 63
Sir Elton John (singer/songwriter) … 78
Paul Michael Glaser (actor, “Starsky and Hutch”) … 82

Today’s Birthdays grade: When you have an international megastar on your birthday list, you almost don’t have to worry about the other names beyond checking for celebs in jail, or trainwrecks. But we’re good. And although he’s had his diva outbursts, check out Elton John’s down-to-earth quote below (spoiler). Grade: A.

[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!

“Who really needs a new album from me?”

(A) Paul McCartney
(B) Rod Stewart
(C) Elton John

ANSWER: (C) Elton John

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2019 – NASA canceled a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it didn’t have enough spacesuits to fit women.
* Is there NO place to escape body shaming?

1996 – The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
* Personally, I’ve never seen one. I work in radio, so the largest bill I ever manage to handle is a ten.

1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to earth after 10 months in the “Mir” space station. While he was away, the Soviet Union fell and a new Russian government was established.
* “I KNEW I was the guy holding the country together!”

1954 – RCA began the first commercial production of color television sets – they were priced at a thousand dollars.
* Can you believe that? We used to make TVs in the United States!

1944 – During World War Two, British flier Nicholas Alkemade jumped out of a burning bomber over Germany with no parachute. He fell 18,000 feet into a snow bank and suffered only a bruised knee.
* A stunt done twenty years later by a Mr. Bond … James Bond.

1916 – On this date, women were allowed to attend boxing matches for the first time.
* Great move – from that day on, women knew how to fight dirty.

1913 – The Palace Theatre opened in New York City, and soon became known as the home of vaudeville.
* Vaudeville was a form of on-stage entertainment that often featured scantily-clad women and bawdy language – it was the cable TV of its day.

1882 – Pancake-making was first demonstrated, in New York.
* “Hey, these would taste great with some syrup.” “Oh yeah? What’s ‘syrup’?”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Radiohead’s seminal album “OK Computer” became one of 25 recordings to be preserved by the U.S. Library of Congress. It was joined by Ben E King’s ‘Stand By Me’ and recordings by Joan Baez, The Doors, The Righteous Brothers and Steve Martin.

2010 – The manager of pop star Justin Bieber was arrested after police claimed he failed to warn fans on Twitter about overcrowding at a shopping center event. Police said they asked Scott Braun to tell fans through Twitter that Bieber would not be appearing because of fears over safety after hundreds turned up – resulting in five people being hospitalized with minor injuries. Police said Mr. Braun refused to send the message until 90 minutes later. He pleaded not guilty to charges including reckless endangerment related to the event in Roosevelt Field Mall in a New York suburb.

2005 – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were forced to flee their Buckinghamshire mansion after a blaze broke out as they slept. Ozzy and his wife were roused by a fire alarm and ran to safety in the garden, rescuing their pets as they escaped.

2000 – *NSYNC set a new world record after selling a million tickets in one day for the group’s forthcoming tour, netting them over $42.5 million.

1990 – Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee was arrested for mooning the audience during a gig in Augusta. Lee was charged with indecent exposure.

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. According to a recent survey, 90% of parents say they have one of THESE, but they will never admit it. What is it?
A favorite child

2. In a survey of parents THIS was the #1 thing they thought you should give your child. What is it?
A good name

3. By the time a child gets to 6th grade they can already recognize a couple hundred of THESE. What are they?
Corporate logos

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