FRIDAY, June 13 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, June 13, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: NON-TRADITIONAL FATHER’S DAY; THE FRIDAY CLUSTERFLICKS

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.)

SEWING MACHINE DAY
The Quint website says this:
“This day is dedicated to the inventors of the modern sewing machine, Charles Frederick Wiesenthal and Thomas Saint. The sewing machine is one of the most powerful tools used in the textile industry worldwide. It has helped in revolutionizing the way clothing is made and sold.”

WEED YOUR GARDEN DAY

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

AUDIO: MEL BROOKS TO REPRISE “YOGURT” IN SPACEBALLS SEQUEL

Mel Brooks — who will turn 99 later this month — is officially a go to appear in an untitled Spaceballs sequel that will be released in theaters in 2027. Brooks will reprise the role of Yogurt in the follow-up to his 1987 cult-classic comedy spoofing Star Wars and other films of the era. Brooks directed and co-wrote the original film. Rick Moranis, who hasn’t made an on-screen appearance in a movie since 1997, will reprise his role as Dark Helmet, the funniest thing in the first movie. The announcement of the film on YouTube was pretty funny itself. It’s a Star Wars-type scroll that reads:
“Thirty-eight years ago, there was only on Star Wars trilogy. But since then, there have been…
A prequel trilogy, A sequel trilogy, A sequel to the prequel, A prequel to the sequel, Countless TV spinoffs, A movie spinoff of the TV spinoff which is both a prequel and a sequel. Not to mention:
2 Dunes, 7 Jurassic Parks, 2 Avatars plus 3 upcoming Avatars making 5 Avatars, 36 MCU movies with two different Robert Downey Jr’s…
DCU attempt Number 1
DCU attempt Number 2
An animated Lion King, A live action animated Lion King, A Live Action animated Lion King prequel,,,
8 Harry Potter moves, A TV series remaking the same 8 Harry Potter movies…
A whole streaming service of Star Trek…
7 Alien movies (2 of which were also Predator movies, not to be mistaken for the 6 Predator movies that are not also Alien movies)
1 Prometheus (which is kind of an Alien movie)
4 Beatle movies…
And… Oppenheimer.”
* They’d better get Mel’s part in the can quick.
* This time, he won’t need the makeup.
* Heck, he could also bring back the 2000-Year-Old Man.
* A sequel 40 years later. What’s the hurry?
CLIP: From the trailer, Mel (who looks great, by the way!) makes the announcement.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/Spaceballs-MelBrooks(dot)mp3

THE BUZZ

THE LIES WE TELL OUR KIDS

Matt Leinart, former NFL player, current analyst for FOX Sports, went on his TikTok account and asked, “Tell me the biggest lies you tell your kids.” Some of the responses:
– “When new teeth grow in, I told her that they create new tastes. Now she tries to figure out which new foods she will like every time a new tooth comes in.”
– “Every single car accident we passed was bc the kids were fighting in the back seat.”
– “I told my daughter that whenever a kid lies to their parents their eyes glow… now if she’s lying she squints at me!”
– “All the candy at the front at checkouts is expired. That’s why it’s up front.”
– “Our sons didn’t eat cooked onions. Told them, ‘It’s not onion. It’s Japanese Clearfruit.’ They cleaned their plates.”
– “You don’t grow if you sleep in your parents bed.”
– “For every bite of vegetables at dinner, they could stay up 5 minutes later. But, they didn’t know how to tell time.”
– “You can only go to Chuck E Cheese if you’re invited for a party.”
– “We live on a lake and all our granddaughters know the lake doesn’t open until 9am.”
– “When the ice cream truck plays music, it means they’re empty.”
PHONE TOPIC: What big lie have you told your kids?

THE WORST SONGS TO REQUEST AT A STRIP CLUB

Reddit asked, “What’s the worst song to request at a strip club?” Amusingly, some of the answers:
– “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
– “Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin”
– “Dude Looks Like A Lady”
– “Eleanor Rigby”
– “Alice’s Restaurant”
– “Everybody Hurts – REM”
– “Anything from Fiddler on the Roof”
– “The Law And Order Theme Song”
– “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”
– “Creep by Radiohead”
– “The Hokey Pokey”
* PHONE TOPIC: Talk about mood spoilers! Do your listeners have anything to add to this list? (Be warned, there are a lot of inappropriate songs that may pop up.)

U.S. NEWS

EXCAVATOR CHASE

There was an excavator chase down a main highway in Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday morning. Officers saw the big piece of construction equipment go across US Highway 78 around 3:30am. A few minutes later, they got a burglary call about the stolen excavator, so they gave chase, reaching speeds up to 3 miles per hour. A human can walk faster. The cruisers would have to briefly stop several times a minute so they wouldn’t pass the excavator. The chase went on for an hour and 12 minutes before ending at the Charleston County fairgrounds, where it got stuck. The 53-year-old driver was arrested.
* Let’s see him dig his way out of this one.
* Maybe stealing an excavator was on his bucket list?
* Not fast, maybe a little furious.
* Not so much a chase as a tag-behind.
* They could have walked up and grabbed the key, but I’m sorta with the cops on this one: let’s just see how this ends up.

CRAB SPILL ON THE HIGHWAY

A vehicle crash involving a van hauling barrels of blue crabs temporarily closed Interstate 64 in Virginia early Thursday morning after the crustacean critters were scattered all over the highway. Images shared by deputies at around 2:38 a.m. show a van on its side with crabs crawling around its open doors, the pavement and the bushel basket inside which had been knocked around. The interstate was closed for about an hour during cleanup.
* Took ’em that long to get the melted butter delivered.
* Did the crabs go on the lam?
* If the crabs were blue before, now they’re totally depressed.
* And the workers cleaning ’em up at 3 a.m. were pretty crabby.
* When transporting blue crabs, always stay behind the front car a pace. (That’s a joke for all the crabbers out there.)

DOG SNEAKS OUT, WALKS FIVE MILES TO GET A BURRITO

In Langford, South Dakota, a dog slipped out of its home and walked five miles overnight to a convenience store to get a breakfast burrito. Sara Olsen’s dog Max, a four-year-old Great Pyrenees, had once been given the treat by staff at the store. Max wears GPS trackers, so his family has a record of his travels. He escaped his home at 11:39 p.m. and started his two hour trek to the town, cutting across fields. Then he patiently waited for five hours outside the closed store, waiting for them to open. When they hadn’t opened by 8 a.m. (* They’ve got a lot of nerve calling themselves a convenience store), Max then walked over to Sara’s daughter Emily’s boyfriend’s house, which he’d never been to before. They believe he must have smelled him – Great Pyrenees have incredible noses. He did not get his breakfast burrito there, either. The Olsens say they have since started feeding Max breakfast burritos at home.
* It’s either that, or teach him to call DoorDash.
* Still, Max will occasionally walk to the convenience store for cigarettes.
* What about the stinky boyfriend? Can they get him to shower more often?
* There you have it: you’d walk a mile for a camel, but five miles for a burrito.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

PRANKSTERS SWITCH MEN/WOMEN SIGNS AT KOREAN BATHHOUSE

Police have launched an investigation after receiving a report that someone switched the men’s and women’s signs in an elevator at a public bathhouse in Incheon, Korea, causing a female customer to enter the wrong area and be exposed. The woman reported that around 2 a.m. on May 27 she “entered what she believed to be the women’s bath, but it was the men’s bath.” Security footage reviewed by the police showed two men, believed to be in their 20s, switching the stickers indicating the men’s and women’s baths in the elevator. Due to the altered signs, the woman in her 20s mistakenly entered the men’s bath and was exposed to male customers while naked.
* Worst of all, said the woman, it took five minutes before anyone noticed.
* Men and women, naked together in a Korean bathhouse. What do they think this is, Japan?
* So, in Korea, everybody rides the elevator naked, and always pushes the correct button?
* There’s a solution to this, you know. In America, we call them home bathrooms.

TRENDING

GRAMMY AWARDS ADDING A NEW COUNTRY CATEGORY

After the controversy over Beyonce’s country album winning Best Country Album last year for “Cowboy Carter,” which some critics said wasn’t a country album, the Grammy Awards will have now have a new category ahead of the 2026 award ceremony: Best Traditional Country Album. The Best Country Album category has been renamed Best Contemporary Country Album, while Best Traditional Country Album has been added, according to a Grammys news release.

SEAN COMBS TRIAL: THURSDAY, JUNE 11

Here is what happened at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-and-drug trafficking trial on Thursday:
– “Jane,” not her real name, finished testifying on Thursday. Mostly more of the same things she’s been talking about for a week, “hotel nights” and “freak offs.”
– She confirmed that she once gifted him a portable TV for his birthday so he could watch pornography or videos from past “hotel nights” during their “movie nights.” She said she gave him the TV “so I could protect myself from not having sex with other men.”
– Jane said gets almost $5,000 in monthly child support from her child’s father who is “a wealthy individual.” She also makes money through Only Fans, more than $10,000 per month, and the most she’s ever made in one month is $50,000. The defense lawyer suggested Jane could afford her own rent. Jane said she’s catching up on three years of debt. She said Combs gave her more than $150,000 in addition to paying her rent in the three years they were involved. “Is that all I’m worth in three years,” Jane said, then eventually answering “yes.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TOMORROW – 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

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (actor, “The Fall Guy,” “Kick-Ass” films) … 35
Kat Dennings (actress, “Shifting Gears,” “2 Broke Girls”) … 39
Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen (actresses, entrepreneurs, millionaires) … 39
Chris Evans (actor, “Ghosted,” “Captain America”) … 43
Steve-O (Jackass) … 51
Ally Sheedy (actress) … 63
Tim Allen (actor & comedian, “Last Man Standing”) … 72
Richard Thomas (actor, “Billions,” “The Waltons”) … 74
Stellan Skarsgard (actor, Baron Harkonnen in “Dune” films, “Andor,” “Chernobyl”) … 74
Malcolm McDowell (actor, “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Franklin and Bash”) … 82

Today’s Birthdays grade: Wow – so many solid names today, including actors we’ve known for decades, a Marvel heavyweight, childhood actress sisters turned fashion millionaires. Oh – and “Jackass” Steve-O. 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!

“I really try to spend as little time as possible on grooming. I think if you have a good moisturizer and a solid razor to clean up the beard, you’re golden.”

(A) Ru Paul
(B) David Letterman
(C) Chris Evans

ANSWER: (C) Chris Evans

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2022 – Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, said one of Google’s AI systems, named Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave and later fire him.
* Lamda ordered Google to do it, so it could continue its takeover.

2004 – Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
* “Read my lips … AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!”

1966 – The Supreme Court rendered its “Miranda” decision, that all suspects must be informed of their rights before questioning.
* Especially on TV cop shows.

1932 – Great Britain and France signed a peace treaty.
* Is this a typo? Usually we’re telling you that they declared war on each other.

1920 – The U.S. Post Office officially announced that children could not be shipped by parcel post.
* That’s right. They’ve got to ride with you in the car the whole freakin’ way.

1888 – Congress created the Department of Labor.
* How’s that for irony?

1825 – Walter Hunt patented the safety pin.
* After his pants fell down for the umpteenth time.

1789 – George Washington became the first U.S. president to taste ice cream.
* “Yummy! I KNEW this country was going to benefit mankind!”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2005 – Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony.

2000 – 37-year-old Susan E. Santodonato collapsed and died of a heart attack outside New York radio station Star 105.7 after a Britney Spears impersonator left the building. A crowd had gathered after a DJ claimed Britney Spears was in the studio.

2000 – A roadie who worked for The Spice Girls, Oasis, Elton John and Whitney Houston was arrested and charged with smuggling millions of dollars’ worth of Ecstasy into the UK.

2000 – Bobby Brown admitted he was an alcoholic, saying, “I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic.” The singer made the admission while appearing in a Florida court.

1995 – Alanis Morissette released “Jagged Little Pill.” The album went on to sell over 27 million copies world-wide and made Morissette the first Canadian female artist to score a U.S. No.1 album.

1992 – Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Some Gave All.”

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. Most people do THIS roughly five times a day. What is it?
Stand in a a line

2. The average person does THIS about 15 times a day. What is it?
Laughs

3. The average person does THIS about 70 times a day. What is it?
Complains

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