FRIDAY, Apr 5 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, April 5, 2024
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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, or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year.)

GO FOR BROKE DAY
The Cute Calendar website says this:
“Go for Broke Day is observed on April 5. The phrase ‘Go for broke’ means to risk it all, even if it means losing everything. It was adopted from the 442nd Infantry Regiment’s unit motto ‘Go for Broke,’ which was derived from the Hawaiian pidgin phrase used by craps shooters risking all their money in one roll of the dice. On April 5, 1945, Sadao S. Munemori, a member of the 442d Regimental Combat Team, ‘saved two of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company’s victorious advance’ near Seravezza, Italy.”

NATIONAL GOLD STAR WIVES DAY
Gold Star Wives is a service, support and advocacy organization made up of:
– The widows/widowers whose spouses died while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, or as result of service-connected disabilities.
– The widows/widowers of service personnel of all armed conflicts involving the United States of America.
– The mothers and fathers of children whose parents gave their life in the service of the country.
– The widows/widowers of service personnel of all ranks, races, and creeds.

NATIONAL CARAMEL DAY

NATIONAL DEEP DISH PIZZA DAY

NATIONAL RAISIN AND SPICE BAR DAY

April is:

Adopt a Greyhound Month
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
D.E.A.R Drop Everything and Read Month
International Guitar Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Garden Month
National Humor Month
National Poetry Month

THE BUZZYOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU

Reddit asked, “What’s one thing you will always carry with you no matter what, even if it’s not a necessity?” Some of the responses:
– “Lip balm.”
– “I have a four leaf cover in my wallet, it keeps me lucky.”
– “A towel.”
– “Socks.”
– “Spork.”
– “My can opener from Army Basic in 1983.”
– “Button and a sewing kit.”
– “Nail clippers.”
– “A guitar pick is always in my pocket. ”
– “A rubber band. You’d be surprised how often it comes in handy.”
– “I always wear a wristwatch.”
– “Packets of salt.”
– “Tape measure. I always need one for some odd thing or another.”
– “A lucky poker chip.”
– “Altoids.”
PHONE TOPIC: Do you have something you always carry with you?

U.S. NEWS

THIEVES STEAL $30 MILLION CASH

Thieves stole about $30 million in cash from a Los Angeles-area vault on Easter Sunday. The burglary took place Sunday night at the ironically-named GardaWorld facility in Sylmar, which stores cash for several businesses in the area. The thieves apparently accessed the facility through the roof and managed to avoid setting off any alarms when they got into the money storage area. They were so stealthy that the safe showed no signs of a break-in from the outside. The employees of GardaWorld had no idea anything was wrong until they opened it on Monday.
* Oh, I bet you at least one employee knew something was gonna be wrong. This sounds like an inside job.
* They used to have a night security guard, but California’s minimum wage went up to $16 an hour January 1st, and GardaWorld just thought that was outrageous.
* I’ll bet the owners of GardaWorld have more security at their houses than this place.
* The plan is to use the money to buy 30 million lottey tickets in that $1.3 billion Powerball.

BURGER KING CUSTOMER ANGRY BECAUSE HE GOT A DISCOUNT

Police in Ohio are looking for the man who pulled a gun on a Burger King employee over the weekend because he was angry about receiving a discount. The incident took place in the Cleveland suburb of Willowick on Easter morning. According to the employee, the customer got mad after learning his order was cheaper than he expected it to be. He complained that his order should have been around $11, and the employee explained that Burger King had a promotion going on, and it gave him a couple of bucks off. The customer started cursing, and the employee said, “I don’t know what to tell you, I don’t know why you want to pay more money.” The man sped away before returning to the drive-thru window, pulling out a gun, and threatening him.
* Don’t you hate it when you’re crazy mad then you realize you left your gun at home?
* Imagine if it was Taco Bell on Burrito Day yesterday, with buy-one-get-one-half-price. There would have been wholesale carnage.
* Maybe it’s one of those “Brewster’s Millions” things, where he had to spend a million dollars by midnight in order to receive a $20 million inheritance.
* Jeeze, if you want to spend money, go to Wendy’s.

AI IN ACTION: TURNS WOMAN’S LOTTERY HEADSHOT INTO SOFTCORE PHOTO

You know how people keep warning us about AI but are never specific about the dangers? Here’s one way: The Washington State Lottery has a website operated by AI. A woman named Megan, a 50-year-old mother from Tumwater, Washington, visited the site on March 30 to buy a ticket. One of the gimmicks on the website was called “Test Drive A Win” – users can ‘digitally’ throw a dart at a dartboard featuring dream vacations you can afford with the money you win in the lottery. The system lets you upload a headshot and the AI superimposes your image into the vacation spot. Megan uploaded a photo, and the AI went to work. The photo it created was Megan’s face on a sexy woman’s body in a bathing suit bottom – topless – sitting on a bed. Her AI bare breasts are exposed. The background of the image appears to show the bedroom in an aquarium, with fish swimming around her. There is a Washington’s Lottery logo in the bottom right corner. She contacted Lottery officials, and they took the site down. Officials are unclear how or why the AI created this particular image, given the rules governing the content.
* Well, it’s better than AI unleashing a nuclear attack on the world, but it’s still not right.
* AI turns everything into porn. These things are closer to humans than you thought.
* Not sure what it would do with a man’s photo, but I think I can guess.
* Mostly she was upset because the picture also showed a goat in the room.
* You know the saying, “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”? With AI, everybody will be naked on the internet for 15 minutes.

ECLIPSE PATH SHIFTING SLIGHTLY

A new calculation by John Irwin, a master in eclipse computations (* a MASTER!), now suggests that the solar eclipse’s path of totality — where the moon will completely blot out the sun — is actually 600 yards narrower than the official NASA projections. Based on this new data, locales that were expected to see the total eclipse for a few seconds — like Rome, New York; Effingham, Illinois; and Montreal — are now just out of the zone. This means that if you were planning to watch the eclipse from a place on the edge of the path of totality, you might have an even shorter window to see it. The zone of totality could be impacted by a couple of factors, including the size of the sun at that moment, and uncertainty in the Earth’s rotation.
* Yes, as you know, the sun changes size from moment to moment, like a puffer fish.
* I think what happened is, Elon Musk paid to have the eclipse moved to where he can see it.
* You people in Effingham, Illinois, are… well… effed.
* If this guy is such a master, why didn’t he nail it in the first calculation?
* I hope NASA is measuring better when it’s time for the moon trip.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEY – FREE GOATS

The mayor of an Italian island is giving away free goats. The small island of Alicudi, near Sicily, has a human population of about 100 people. Recently, their small population of goats has exploded, and now there are around 600 goats on the island, and they need to get rid of them. Rather than killing them, Riccardo Gullo, the island’s mayor, is offering free goats for anyone who can catch them. Anyone who emails a request to the local government and pays a $17 “stamp fee” can take as many goats as they wish, as long as they transport them off the island with their own boat.
* A goat boat. Tote your goat in boat, and it better float.
* An explosion of goats. Well, they are horny.
* They realized it was out of control when the noticed each person doing goat yoga had 14 goats.
* This actually sounds like a ploy to get fresh blood onto the island, for a ritual like in that movie Midsommar.
* Said the mayor: “This situation really gets my goat! And now YOU can, too!”

TRENDING

SUPERMAN COMIC #1 SELLS FOR $6 MILLION

An issue of Action Comic No. 1, which introduced the world to Superman in 1939, sold at auction Thursday for a record $6 million, making it the most valuable comic book in the world. It tops another Superman No. 1, which sold for $5.3 million in 2022. Action Comics No.1 is exceedingly rare, with just 78 copies tracked by CGC, the service that authenticates and grades the condition of comic books. The service believes there are around 100 in existence total out of 200,000 initially printed. The copy sold on Thursday has a grade of 8.5 out of 10, meaning it’s in excellent condition for a comic of its age. Only two other unrestored versions have ever graded higher.

VALERIE BERTINELLI’S THREE WEEK RULE

Valerie Bertinelli has a new boyfriend. During a recent interview with People magazine, the 63-year-old actress revealed the “three-week rule” that she has established with him. “We never go longer than that without seeing each other,” she says. Bertinelli, who lives in Los Angeles, says her “mature, kind, thoughtful, patient” man is an East Coast-based writer 10 years her junior. She says that their relationship is “unlike any connection I’ve ever felt.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

April 8, Monday – Total Solar Eclipse
April 15, Monday – U.S. Tax Day
May 12, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 27, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Friday – Flag Day
June 16, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 20, Thursday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 4:50 P.M. EST)

BIRTHDAYS

Hayley Atwell (actress, Peggy Carter in Marvel movies) … 42
Mike Eli (country singer with Eli Young band) … 43
Sterling K. Brown (actor, “Black Panther,” “This Is Us”) … 48
Pharrell Williams (singer, songwriter, producer) … 51
Pat Green (country singer) … 52
Mike McCready (guitarist w/ Pearl Jam) … 58
Mitch Pileggi (actor, “Walker,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “The X-Files”) … 72
Agnetha Fältskog (singer with ABBA) … 74

BIRTHDAY QUOTE QUIZ – Ask your listeners “Who said it?” HINT: Today’s their birthday!

“When I’m in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.”

(A) Gordon Ramsay
(B) Joe Biden
(C) Pharrell Williams

ANSWER: (C) Pharrell Williams

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1987 – Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut.
* Ah, yes. Who can forget that Fox debut season classic “The New Adventures of Beans Baxter”?

1984 – LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the all-time NBA scoring leader as he reached a career total of 31,421 points.
* Wilt Chamberlain still claimed he scored more. If you know what I mean.

1943 – The world’s record for survival in a life raft was set when Poom Lim, a steward from a sunken Brazilian fishing boat, walked ashore after drifting at sea for 133 days.
* There would have been more than one survivor but – well, don’t ask.

1910 – Kissing was banned on French trains after claims it would cause delays.
* It was much quicker to just pay the conductor money for your ticket.

1902 – 25 people died in a soccer match riot between Scotland and England.
* Soccer fans used to be so crazy!

1895 – Oscar Wilde lost a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices.
* As it turns out, Mr. Wilde had quite a bit of practice.

1768 – The first Chamber of Commerce in the United States was formed, in New York City.
* It was such a new idea, they didn’t even have a word for “schmooze.”

1621 – The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, Massachusetts, on its return trip to England.
* Somebody forgot their umbrella.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – The song “One Dance” by hip hop artist Drake reached No.1 in ten countries including the U.S., and became the most played song on Spotify, with over 950 million individual streams.

2011 – An eight-and-a-half-feet tall concrete statue of Kurt Cobain’s signature Fender Jag-Stang guitar was unveiled in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, on the 17th anniversary of his 1994 death.

2008 – Apple’s iTunes overtook supermarket group Wal-Mart to become the largest music retailer in the U.S. Market research firm NPD said iTunes surpassed Wal-Mart in January and February if 12 downloads are considered equal to the sale of one CD album. iTunes had sold more than four billion songs since its launch in 2003.

1995 – Jimi Hendrix’s one-time girlfriend Monika Dannerman committed suicide, two days after losing a court battle with another of the guitarist’s ex-lovers.

1994 – Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle. Gary Smith, who was working at Kurt Cobain’s house, discovered his body three days later lying on the floor in the greenhouse.

1985 – At 3:50pm GMT, over 5,000 radio stations worldwide aired the charity single “We Are The World” by USA for Africa. The single went on to be a No.1 in the U.S., UK, and most western territories. Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, the all-star cast included Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry and Bob Geldof.

1984 – Marvin Gaye’s funeral took place at The Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles; Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy and other Motown singers, writers and producers, attended the service.

1980 – R.E.M. played their first ever gig when they appeared at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Athens, Georgia.

1978 – Duran Duran made their live debut at The Lecture Theatre, Birmingham Polytechnic, England.

1975 – Minnie Riperton went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Loving You.” It was the singer’s only U.S. chart hit.

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, THIS is people’s THIRD biggest pet peeve about what others do in the bathroom. What is it?
Leaving toothpaste globs in the sink

2. According to a recent survey, THIS is people’s SECOND biggest pet peeve about what others do in the bathroom. What is it?
Leaving the seat up

3. According to a recent survey, THIS is people’s FIRST biggest pet peeve about what others do in the bathroom. What is it?
Not replacing the empty toilet paper roll

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