WEDNESDAY, June 11 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Bend Over Backwards

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.)

NATIONAL CORN ON THE COB DAY

NATIONAL GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY

WORLD POPULATION DAY
Wikipedia says this:
“World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987 approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.”

June is:

NATIONAL DJ MONTH – Yeah!
National Adopt a Cat / Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music / Black Music Appreciation Month
Great Outdoors Month / National Camping Month
International Men’s Month
Lemon Month
National Candy Month
National Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rose Month
National Seafood Month
Pride Month
Women’s Golf Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

KANYE WEST CHANGES NAME FOR A SECOND TIME: YE YE

Kanye West, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021, has apparently changed his name for a second time. West’s previous paperwork listed his name as “Ye West.” According to new business documents in California, where it says “manager or member name,” is written the new name: “Ye Ye.”
* Or, for short, just say, “Yeesh.”
* Ye Ye? Ay-yi-yi!
* Yo-Yo Ma did it better.
* It’s dumb. That’s why we never had a Cher Cher, or a Sting Sting, or a Beck Beck, or a Drake Drake.
* Given his mental state, I’m concerned that maybe “Ye” is the only word he’s capable of speaking these days.
* Who cares cares? No one one.

THE BUZZ

WHAT WAS YOUR MOM RIGHT ABOUT?

Reddit asked, “What was that thing your mom was right about?” Responders speak from experience:
– “Which of my friends are red flags. Every time she was correct.”
– “My mom knew which friends I had that were up to no good. Also, my ex-wife.”
– “It IS the damn phone.”
– “That we didn’t own the electric company.”
– “Don’t play ball in the house.”
– “Spinach did, in fact, put hair on my chest.”
– “The more rings a person wears the more issues they have.”
– “My face stayed this way.”
– “That I’ll miss her when she’s gone.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What was your mom right about?

U.S. NEWS

CAR CRASH DRIVER TAKES OFF WITH COP INSIDE THE CAR

In Denver, Colorado on Sunday afternoon, police were responding to a car crash. They found an unresponsive driver inside a white GMC Yukon. An officer got into the car to turn it off and render aid to the driver, when the driver suddenly regained consciousness and tried to flee the scene with the officer still inside. A few blocks away, police used a “precision immobilization technique” and forced the Yukon into a light pole, bringing it to a stop. Officers then took the suspect into custody. No one was injured in the crash.
* But the cop had managed to change all the radio station presets.
* Cop: “I’m sitting right here, you know.”
* So did they add a kidnapping charge?
* “Precision immobilization technique” sounds like fancy words for “the cop grabbed the steering wheel.”
* So when regular people cause a car crash it’s wrong, but cops can do it whenever they want? That’s not fair!

MAN RELEASES RACCOON INTO BUSINESS

In Murray, Kentucky, police responded to a report of a raccoon being released into a business last Friday evening. Police said the suspect, Jonathan Mason, 40, tossed the animal into the store – from which he had been banned – and drove off. The raccoon reportedly bit someone inside the business. Mason was later pulled over and refused to cooperate with officers by not exiting his vehicle. He was removed from the car and arrested on charges of second-degree assault, third-degree criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and failure to maintain required car insurance. Mason has a history with animals: back in December, he was arrested for public intoxication and attempting to evade police officers on a mule.
* And yet, the President REFUSES to send the National Guard into Murray, Kentucky!
* Has anybody checked the local petting zoo for missing critters?
* Did they arrest the raccoon for being bitey?
* I bet that town has one busy SPCA.

FUNERAL LIMOUSINE HIT BY TRAIN

A limousine carrying a family to a funeral was struck by a train last Thursday in Bartlett, Tennessee. According to a number of witnesses, the light was red and the railroad warnings were active when two motorcycle escorts leading the procession entered the intersection and crossed over the tracks, signaling to the limo to cross. The train hit the front of the limo. There were seven people inside the limo, including a baby. The child suffered two cuts to her head. Other passengers were treated for broken wrists, a shattered pelvis, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Police are citing the escort drivers and the limo driver for failure to obey a railroad signal.
* Oh, good. THAT’LL teach ’em!
* What was the rush to the funeral? The guest of honor wasn’t going anywhere.
* These promotional stunts for that new “Final Destination” movie are getting out of control.
* Where did they bury the survivors?
* Time to paint another little car on the side of the train.
* Worst Tik-Tok challenge ever.

FLORIDA’S PYTHON-KILLING PROGRAM IS WORKING

Florida has issued an update in its war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and humanely killed 20 tons of the snakes since 2013, including a record 6,300 pounds of pythons killed this past breeding season. That’s a mound of snakes the size of a fire truck, or a fully loaded city bus. All of those snakes came from a 200-square-mile area in southwestern Florida. It’s estimated tens of thousands of pythons are roaming the region, devouring the native wildlife. The program has prevented more than 20,000 python eggs from hatching, the Conservancy says. The annual snake roundup has shown signs of positive effectiveness of these efforts, as male snakes increasingly struggle to locate mates.
* That’s why Floridians are encouraged to keep their garden hoses rolled up.
* They’ve gotten pretty good at finding the pythons. Now they have to go find about three dozen snake hunters that are unaccounted for.
* In order to hunt snakes in Florida, you have to be current in your vaccinations against the willies.
* If only we could do this with rabbits. (Or pigeons, or prairie dogs, or Canadian geese, or whatever animal is a pest in your area.)

TRENDINGPOLICE FIND STOLEN HEART GUITAR

One of two instruments recently stolen from the band Heart has been recovered. On Tuesday, police in Atlantic City announced that they recovered a Fender Telecaster that belonged to the band after officers followed the man charged with stealing the instruments, Garfield Bennett, 57, of Pleasantville, New Jersey, after the theft. Bennett “was observed giving the guitar to a woman who put the guitar in a vehicle.” Investigators tracked the vehicle using automated license readers after this incident and pulled it over shortly afterwards. The woman voluntarily turned over the instrument and, police said, she told officers that she had bought the guitar from Bennett. The location of a stolen mandolin is still being investigated.

SEAN COMBS TRIAL: TUESDAY, JUNE 10

Here is what happened at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-and-drug trafficking trial on Tuesday. Gosh, it’s depressing:
– “Jane” – not her real name – was cross-examined by Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos on Tuesday. They tried to show the jury the alleged benefits she received from her relationship with Combs, noting “Jane’s” swimwear brand and line of dresses in which Combs invested $20,000. The defense lawyer asked, “Have you profited?” Jane replied, “A little bit.”
– Geragos showed “Jane” a series of erotic messages that she and Combs exchanged after a “hotel night” sexual encounter, highlighting what the defense asserts was her enthusiasm. Jane testified that she gave Combs options on things he wanted to hear. She told the court that these were things that wouldn’t have occurred to her to do, but she knew Combs would like to do them.
– Geragos also asked about the Los Angeles home in which she lives with her child. “Jane” testified that the home is 5,300 square feet, significantly larger than the 1,400-square-foot apartment she previously occupied before Combs started paying her rent.
– According to a text message shown in court, “Jane” and Combs had just returned from the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2023 when Combs reflected on their fun trip. In a 2023 voice mail played in court, he said, “Get your rest, you are the crack pipe, that’s my name for you, ‘Crack Pipe,’ I’m going to call you ‘Crack Pipe,’ a very good time together.”
– Geragos insinuated that “Jane” was consensually having sex with other men and gladly accepting designer bags, in particular a Bottega bag. The defense lawyer asked her if she knew what a Bottega bag was, and Jane responded: “I’m sure you have one.” Geragos asked how much a Bottega bag costs, to which Jane responded, “How much does my body cost?”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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)
July 4, Friday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 1, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Thursday – Patriot Day
Sept. 22, Monday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:19 p.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Shia LaBeouf (actor) … 39
Joshua Jackson (actor, “Fatal Attraction,” “Dr. Death,” “The Affair,” “Fringe,” “Dawson’s Creek”) … 47
Peter Dinklage (actor, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” “Game of Thrones,” “Elf”) … 56
Dr. Mehmet Oz (questionable TV doctor, talk show host, now administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) … 65
Hugh Laurie (actor, “All the Light We Cannot See,” “House”) … 66
Joe Montana (legendary pro football quarterback) … 69
Frank Beard (drummer with ZZ Top) … 76

Today’s Birthdays grade: Everyone in today’s lineup is recognizable, depending on your demographic, including a Brit who was the highest paid actor on American TV, a key “Game of Thrones” castmember, and the first quarterback to be named Super Bowl MVP three times. But also sometimes goofy Shia LaBeouf and Dr. Oz, who many have mixed feelings about. Grade: C.

[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!

“I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That’s about as exciting as my life gets.”

(A) Leonardo DiCaprio
(B) Ryan Seacrest
(C) Peter Dinklage

ANSWER: (C) Peter Dinklage

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2001 – Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
* Unfortunately, we couldn’t kill him 168 times.

1994 – The largest popcorn container was created – 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn.
* If you bought that at a movie theater it would cost over 20 billion dollars.

1993 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit “hate crimes” motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment; the court also ruled religious groups had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services.
* Don’t treat people badly. Animals? Knock yourself out.

1992 – Baseball owners approved the sale of the Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group.
* The new owners promised to provide safe, reliable baseball with incredible gas mileage.

1990 – The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
* That explains Stars-n-Stripes Brand condoms.

1972 – The first “mainstream” porn movie – the X-rated “Deep Throat” – opened and caused a lot of talk.
* And it opened very, very wide.

1912 – Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.
* The height and distance records were later broken by James Bond.

1895 – Charles E. Duryea patented a gas-driven automobile.
* Which got him a great big kiss on the mouth from Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller.

1742 – Benjamin Franklin invented his Franklin stove.
* He could have attached a kite and invented the electric stove.

1644 – A Florentine scientist described the invention of the barometer.
* Over three centuries later and we still have this delusion that we can predict the weather.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2022 – Justin Bieber was forced to cancel his current tour after he revealed he was suffering from facial paralysis. The 28-year-old said in an Instagram video that the condition was due to a diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

2020 – American country music group Lady Antebellum abbreviated their name to “Lady A” during the George Floyd protests in an attempt to blunt the name’s associations with slavery and the Antebellum South, causing a dispute with black blues and gospel singer Anita White, who had been using the name Lady A for more than 20 years. Mutual lawsuits were withdrawn after a confidential settlement.

2011 – Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon, re-entered the Billboard Album chart at No. 47, and reached the milestone of 1,000 weeks on Billboard’s charts. The album, which was released in 1973, has done consistently well reaching No.1 on more than one occasion.

2002 – The singing competition “American Idol” debuted on Fox.

2002 – Sir Paul McCartney married Heather Mills at St. Salvator Church, Ireland. Mills and McCartney separated on May 17, 2006 and when divorced, Mills was eventually awarded a lump sum of approx. $20 million, together with assets of approx. $10 million.

1998 – After much fanfare, Amazon expanded its operation from books only to music as well. Amazon’s online CD seller opened for business with a list of titles numbered at 120,000 divided among 14 genres.

1995 – Courtney Love was hospitalized after having a reaction to a prescription medicine.

1971 – Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys put his right hand through a window.

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. A recent survey found that over 70% of cheating women have THIS in common. What is it?
They had a mother who strayed

2. On average, women spend about 63 hours of their life doing THIS. What is it?
Shaving their legs

3. 50% of women surveyed said they are embarrassed about how often they do THIS. What is it?
Snack

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