FRIDAY, June 20 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, June 20, 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 SURFING DAY

NATIONAL AMERICAN EAGLE DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“Observed each year on June 20th is National American Eagle Day. This day is set aside to honor our national symbol, raise awareness for protecting the Bald Eagle, assist in the recovery of their natural environments and take part in educational outreach.”

NATIONAL ICE CREAM SODA DAY

NATIONAL VANILLA MILKSHAKE DAY

SUMMER BEGINS – The June solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT

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

THE BUZZSHOCK POLL: EVERYBODY’S TIRED

A new survey of 2,000 Americans by Zipfizz energy powder finds, not surprisingly, that one in three Americans wake up already exhausted. By 11:54 a.m. the average person starts to fade completely. The things taking most of our energies, according to the survey:
– Being interrupted or talked over
– Awkward small talk
– Customer service interactions
– Talking to strangers
– Receiving unsolicited advice
– Office gossip
– Group video calls
– Coworkers showing you something on their phone
– Overly personal conversations with colleagues
* Geeze, we do eight out of nine of those things every single morning here.
* Are these one in three Americans working at places with no coffee machine?
* So I guess you’re supposed to take the Zipfizz energy powder and throw it in their eyes while you run away?
* You could discourage people from doing a lot of these to you by never brushing your teeth.
* Stay tuned next hour, we have a survey showing that everybody gets hungry.

THE LIE THAT SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL

Reddit asked, “What’s a small lie you told as a kid that somehow spiraled way out of control?” Some of the responses:
– “I once told my cousin that eating watermelon seeds would grow a watermelon in her stomach. She didn’t eat watermelon for 4 years.”
– “I once told a kid named Gus that his name was short for Snuffleupagus. He cried.”
– “I was playing with a punching bag in the basement of the house. It was bedtime, and being 6 years old, I was protesting. I told my parents that a kid had threatened to beat me up and I had to learn how to protect myself. The next day, my parents called off work and met with the principal. The other kid got detention, they re-arranged the classroom seating arrangement, and instituted a buddy system for me for recess and lunchtime. All because I wanted to stay up an extra fifteen minutes.”
– “In second grade I bragged that my uncle invented the Post it note. It snowballed until the PTA tried to invite him for career day, so I claimed he’d moved to Antarctica to test glue in the cold.”
– “I so adamantly pretended I thought my doll was real and could hear her telling me to do things that I had to be evaluated by a therapist.”
– “In elementary school, I told one of my friends that I had a dog and would hold the phone away from my face and make barking noises in the background to keep the lie up. It was awfully awkward the day our teacher asked me about my dog in class.
– “When I was a kid I found this burnt out car in the woods and in school the next day I told my friend about this car I found, somehow in just that one day it spiraled into me being the one that stole the car and set it on fire, ended up having police visit the house to interview me a few days later.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you ever told a lie that spiraled out of control?

U.S. NEWS

TWO ROBBERS STEAL QUARTERS

Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, are searching for the people who stole $3,000 in quarters from a homeowner. The victim returned to his home on June 12 and noticed his back door was open. $200 worth of cash was missing from his dresser, along with $3,000 in quarters, which were being saved to pay for a vacation. A security camera captured two people in a gray Scion pulling into an alley behind the home. One person from the car entered the home and deactivated the security cameras, while the other person waited in the car with a dog.
* So, a couple of two-bit criminals, eh?
* The guy got shortchanged.
* $3,000 in quarters? Was he saving up for a vacation at Dave & Busters?
* If only he had spent a few quarters on a lock for the back door.
* $3,000 in quarters weighs 150 pounds. The thieves are described as armed and herniated.

JUDGE SCOLDS DEFENDANT WEARING “WORLD’S BEST FARTER” T-SHIRT

A Texas judge scolded a man who brazenly wore a t-shirt that said “World’s Best Farter” to his felony court appearance. The word “farter” was scribbled out and underneath it said ‘father.’ Judge Raquel West’s comment to defendant Sammy Morris was, “What made you think that was a good shirt to wear to court this morning?” Mr. Morris mumbled that it was the only one he could find to wear. She told him, “You’re in felony court. You need to dress appropriately for felony court, and that’s not appropriate,” she said. It’s unclear for what felony charge Morris was appearing in court.
* It was a Crime of Fashion, obviously.
* “Sir, your choice in courtroom apparel stinks.”
* Something under the statute of Gaseous Corpus.
* Disturbing the Peace? Breaking the Noise Ordinance? Violating the Clean Air Act?
* Just his luck to get the ONE JUDGE without a sense of humor.
* Just to be safe, she ordered the bailiff to crack a window.

THOUSANDS OF NINTENDO SWITCH 2 CONSOLES STOLEN OUT OF SEMI TRUCK

Thousands – yes, thousands – of new Nintendo Switch 2 gaming consoles were stolen out of a tractor-trailer at a Colorado truck stop this past Sunday. The truck driver discovered the theft during a pre-trip inspection at a truck stop in Bennett, Colorado, just after 8 a.m. It’s unknown if the heist happened while the driver was stopped in Bennett or if it happened in another city along his route. The driver found that several pallets of the newly released Nintendo Switch 2 were missing. Sheriff’s officials said 2,810 consoles, valued at $500 each, were stolen. The driver told deputies he was headed to a GameStop store in Texas from Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington. He claimed he didn’t know what was in the trailer, only that it was games or toys.
* 2,810 Nintendo consoles X $500, times Nintendo hype, equals, let’s see… 8 billion dollars. (actually $1.4 million in retail cost)
* That’s 2,810 kids that will just have to go play outside this summer.
* The only clue – the truck’s roof was dented with reindeer hoofmarks.
* And, yeah – the truck driver’s story sounds fishier than the Santa Monica Pier.
* The next Nintendo switch will be them switching trucking companies.

ALMANACNOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TODAY – 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

Nicole Kidman (actress) … 58
John Taylor (bassist with Duran Duran) … 65
Michael Anthony (bassist, formerly with Van Halen) … 71
John Goodman (actor, “The Conners”) … 73
Lionel Richie (singer) … 76
Bob Vila (fix-up guru) … 79
Anne Murray (singer) … 80

Today’s Birthdays grade: Happy Birthday to the Queen of Streaming who’s only slightly less overexposed than Pedro Pascal, also an almost 40-year castmember of “Roseanne” and “The Conners,” one of the world’s best-selling music artists of all time, and more. Impressive! Grade: B.

[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’m not worried about people thinking I’m a bimbo.”

(A) Kim Kardashian
(B) Britney Spears
(C) Nicole Kidman

ANSWER: (C) Nicole Kidman

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2017 – U.S. toymaker Mattel released 15 new body types for their Ken doll, including one with a man bun.
* Didn’t they want to sell any?

1994 – O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
* Did they EVER find the real killer?

1966 – The U.S. Open golf tournament was broadcast in color for the first time.
* Now you could see just how ugly those golf pants really were.

1944 – Congress chartered the Central Intelligence Agency.
* It’s not very often that Congress has anything to do with intelligence.

1782 – The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
* Oh, it’s not that great of a seal. I mean, can it jump through hoops, or honk horns, or perform silly tricks?

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2020 – Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar that he used during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show and subsequent live album sold at auction for $6,010,000, a new world record for a guitar.

2019 – David Gilmour’s guitar collection set several auction records when nearly 130 instruments went up for bid at Christie’s in New York. The former Pink Floyd frontman’s most iconic instrument, the so-called Black Strat, fetched $3,975,000.

2008 – Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett announced that his Margaritaville Holdings had partnered with New York gambling company Coastal Marina to buy the Trump Marina Hotel Casino for $316 million. His vast business empire also included tequila, beer, frozen food, footwear, restaurants, a resort, a record label and a recording studio. In 2006, Rolling Stone magazine estimated Buffett’s earnings at $44 million.

1973 – Neil Diamond appeared on the 20th anniversary show of American Bandstand. The show also featured Little Richard, Cheech and Chong, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Three Dog Night.

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. In a recent survey, 25% of the people said they only have two favorites when it comes to THESE. What are they?
Restaurants

2. THIS food item is offered by 17% of restaurants worldwide. What is it?
Pizza

3. THIS is the most asked for item at American restaurants. What is it?
Napkins

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