WEDNESDAY, May 7 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Second To Nunn

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 ROAST LEG OF LAMB DAY

NATIONAL SCHOOL NURSE DAY (The Wednesday of National Nurse Week)

NATIONAL TOURISM DAY

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbecue Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
Older Americans Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

THE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE POPCORN BUCKET

The Mission: Impossible franchise is getting into the popcorn bucket racket. Big blockbuster movies are now being released with novelty popcorn buckets that sell for mucho bucks. Dune had one, Deadpool & Wolverine had one, and now the next Mission Impossible movie will have one. You need a key to open it and get the popcorn. But not just any key – the popcorn bucket features a two-part key that combines into a larger key that opens up the top of the bucket. They are already selling on eBay for $80, which includes the 3-cents worth of popcorn inside. The bucket is designed to look like the object at the center of Cruise’s last Mission: Impossible movie, 2023’s Dead Reckoning – the “cruciform key” Ethan needed in order to control an advanced and dangerous artificial intelligence known as the Entity.
* Oh, great, you just spoiled the movie for me. I haven’t seen it. I’m waiting for it to come up on TNT in another eight years.
* Mission ImPOPible!
* 80 bucks! That’s almost as much as it costs to see the movie!
* By the way, the bad guy in the new movie is the evil genius who came up with novelty popcorn buckets.
* Your impossible mission: affording a popcorn bucket for each member of your family.
* Save $10 and just buy the Milk Duds in the regular box.

SOVEREIGNTY TO MISS THE PREAKNESS

The Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not be running in the Preakness Stakes on May 17, forgoing the chance to win a Triple Crown. Trainer Bill Mott said they will skip the Preakness and work toward running in the Belmont Stakes on June 7. He did not elaborate on why Sovereignty would be skipping the Preakness.
* Maybe he’s sick. He’s sounding a little hoarse.
* He’s got a Charley horse?
* I guess you don’t want to go overboard on winning races when you’ve got a horse on a hot streak.
* He probably knows that his next stop is out to pasture to work as a stud. Who needs all that pressure of racing again?

THE BUZZ

THE 20 TOUGHEST JOBS IN AMERICA

A Talker Research poll surveyed 2,000 Americans asking what are the most difficult jobs in America. Here are the Top 20 Most Demanding Jobs:
1. Firefighter
2. Construction worker
3. Military
4. Doctor
5. Police officer
6. EMT or paramedic
7. Astronaut
8. Farmer
9. Air traffic controller
10. Oil worker
11. Nurse
12. Roofer
13. Electrician
14. Home builder
15. Engineer
16. Pilot
17. Teacher
18. Lawyer
19. Carpenter, woodworker or cabinet maker
20. Drywall/plaster installer
* I’m disappointed that radio host didn’t make the top 20. Probably didn’t even make the top 200.
* If you think putting “Lawyer” on the list is going to make me feel sorry for them, you’re crazy.
* Something tells me working for Talker Research isn’t a ton of fun either.
* I’m sorry, but harder than any of those jobs is finding something to watch on streaming.
* And yet we keep giving awards to actors and singers.

THE MOST VISITED WEBSITES IN THE WORLD

Here are the most visited websites in the world in November 2024, according to the VisualCapitalist website, which doesn’t get enough visits itself to make the top 20.
1. Google
2. YouTube
3. Facebook
4. Wikipedia
5. Instagram
6. Reddit
7. PornHub
8. Bing
9. ChatGPT
10. X
11. Yandex
12. WhatsApp
13. Amazon
14. Yahoo!
15. XVideos
16. DuckDuckGo
17. Twitter (which redirects you to X.com)
18. MSN
19. Netflix
20. TikTok

U.S. NEWS

CAR THIEF HAD A GRENADE

In Oakland, California, a suspected car thief tossed a live grenade out of the car during a chase last Friday. California Highway Patrol officers tried to pull over the stolen car when the driver took off. During the pursuit the suspect tossed a bag from the driver’s side window. Searching the bag, officers found a live hand grenade – the ‘pineapple’ kind – with the pin half-pulled. It was described as a “live device capable of explosion.” (* Yeah, well so is a Taco Bell order.) Eventually, the suspect abandoned the stolen vehicle and tried to make his getaway on foot. Officers cornered him on a dead-end street. Arrested was Carlos Kuceja, 28. The bomb squad was called in to remove the grenade.
* That’s one way to deal with the California traffic.
* Yet they did nothing about the six exploding airbags inside the car.
* Catching car thieves can be a real blast.
* Next time somebody throws a bag out of a car, I bet they draw straws to see who searches it.
* Wait – I’m sorry, this was a scene from Grand Theft Auto IV.

NAKED MAN AT ST. LOUIS AIRPORT

A man was found sitting naked inside St. Louis Lambert International Airport last week. The incident occurred on April 25. Police said a person approached the naked man, who then attempted to cover himself. When airport authorities approached and asked for identification, the man stormed off and ran from the terminal. When an officer attempted to stop the man outside, he balled up his fists, threatened to harm the officers, and then knocked the glasses from that officer’s face. The man, later identified as Darrius Walker, was taken into custody.
* You’re heard of a landing strip? Here’s a landing stripper.
* “A little early for taking off, isn’t it, sir?”
* On the positive side, he made it through the TSA checkpoint (snap fingers) like that!
* And he only had one bag.
* It’s AIRport, not BAREport.
* Still better than flying through Newark these days.

BURGER KING LAWSUIT OVER MISLEADING ADVERTISING

Burger King will be facing a class action lawsuit claiming it misleads customers with advertisements that make its Whopper burgers appear larger than they are. In a decision on Monday, a US District Court judge found it plausible that reasonable consumers could be deceived by Burger King’s ads. Nineteen customers from 13 states accused Burger King of overstating the size of nearly all menu items in its in-store and online ads. They cited its pictures of burgers that “overflow” the buns, with the Whopper appearing 35% larger than the actual burger and containing more than double the meat. The judge noted a similar lawsuit against McDonald’s and Wendy’s that was dismissed in September 2023 but, the judge said, in this case Burger King overstated the size of its products “to a much greater degree.” Burger King claims the patties they use in the photos are the same as customers get, but a food stylist has made them appear more desirable.
* Burger King not only sells Whoppers, it also tells whoppers.
* In any case, the food stylist is really earning their money making that food look appetizing.
* I guess their point is, the food stylist should be sued too.
* A US District Court judge had to decide if it’s plausible? You send a bailiff out to buy a Whopper, you unwrap it in the courtroom, then you compare it to a picture of a Whopper from their website. Case closed – you’re welcome! Do I have to do EVERYBODY’S job for them???
* I just checked out a picture of a Whopper on the Burger King website. Yep, it’s true – you order a Whopper, what you get is a Whimper.
* What constitutes a win here? A slightly bigger hamburger, that will inevitably cost more? Good move, citizens.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

AIR FLIGHT DIVERTED OVER CLOGGED TOILETS

An Air India flight from Toronto to Delhi, India, was diverted to Frankfurt, Germany for around six hours last Saturday because at least five of the twelve bathrooms were clogged. The airline, in a statement, attributed it to a “technical issue” with the Boeing (* There’s that word again!) the Boeing 777 aircraft. It was reportedly the second such incident in less than two months on a flight operated by the airline.
* Good lord, what was the in-flight snack? Burrito Grandes?
* Too cheap to keep a plunger in the potty?
* A technical issue? Try buckets – no moving parts!
* They never go with my suggestion of unclogging airplane toilets by going into a steep dive and then pulling up just as the flight attendants flush.
* Of course the other method of unclogging airplane toilets is to fly the plane upside down, like Denzel Washington did in that movie.

TRENDING

GUY WHO SMASHED INTO JENNIFER ANISTON’S GATE HAS AN OBSESSION

The motorist who crashed his car into the gates outside Jennifer Aniston’s home had repeatedly posted about the “Friends” star on social media. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, has been booked on suspicion of felony vandalism after allegedly driving his grey PT Cruiser into gate outside her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles early Monday afternoon. Carwyle has been obsessing over Aniston for awhile.
– Police say he wrote on Facebook on March 26, “I’ve been writing, since the Beginning Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, with you,” correctly citing the star’s middle name and adding his own at the end.
– In October, he posted an advertisement Aniston did for Lolavie Haircare products and added: “I LOVE YOU Emanuel Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle!”
– A few days before that, he wrote: “If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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

Dylan Gelula (actress, “Hacks,” “Shameless”, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) … 31
Alexander Ludwig (actor, “Vikings,” “The Hunger Games”) … 33
Aidy Bryant (comedian, “Saturday Night Live”) … 38
Traci Lords (U.S. porn star turned legitimate “actress”) … 57
Bill Kreutzmann (drummer, Grateful Dead) … 79

Today’s Birthdays grade: A Grateful Dead bandmember, a comic actress who spent a decade on Saturday Night Live, an actress in a porn scandal in the 80s … Not earth-shaking. Maybe tomorrow? 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 hate the phrase ‘former porn queen.’ That part of my life was a long time ago. Think of something else to call me … I’m successful in spite of my past, not because of it.”

(A) Kim Kardashian
(B) Oprah Winfrey
(C) Traci Lords

ANSWER: (C) Traci Lords

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2019 – Denver, Colorado became the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms.”
* To celebrate, a parade was held by leprechauns and unicorns.

2012 – Paeleoclimatological researchers claimed dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the prehistoric earth.
* Tyrannosaurus reeks!

1994 – The tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France officially opened.
* The digging part was boring.

1945 – Germany officially surrendered to the Allies in World War Two.
* Once John Wayne got involved, it was all over.

1851 – Dr. John Gorrie, sometimes called “the father of air conditioning,” patented an ice-making “refrigeration machine.”
* The public thought it was pretty cool.

1789 – The first Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in New York City, in George Washington’s honor.
* This was the night, according to legend, that George Washington threw a beer bottle across the Hudson River.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – Following his unexpected death, Prince had the top two spots on the Billboard albums chart with “The Very Best of Prince” at No.1 and “Purple Rain” at No.2. With his music unavailable on most streaming services and download distributors, physical albums were in many cases the only way to buy his music.

2003 – A Los Angeles federal jury recommended a $1.5 million award to a British record company that sued rapper-producer Dr. Dre for song plagiarism. The suit was settled while awaiting an appeal.

2003 – A U.S. surgeon sued 50 Cent over an unpaid medical bill. The doctor claimed 50 Cent and his friend turned up at a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds in 2000, but said the rapper never paid the $20,000 he owed for treatment despite being asked several times.

1991 – A judge in Macon, Georgia dismissed a wrongful death suit against Ozzy Osbourne. A local couple failed to prove their son was inspired to attempt suicide by Ozzy’s music.

1971 – The Rolling Stones released “Brown Sugar” in the U.S. It was the first record on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.

1968 – Reginald Dwight decided to change his name to Elton John.

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. 38% of women in a recent survey said they do THIS at the movies. What is it?
Take off their shoes

2. In a Women’s Health magazine survey, 1 out of 4 women admitted they haven’t been truthful about THIS. What is it?
The price they paid for something. They’ll say it was on sale when it wasn’t.

3. 58% of women in a recent survey say they d prefer THIS over an expensive piece of jewelry. What is it?
A walk-in closet

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