FRIDAY, Aug 8 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, August 8, 2025

COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: 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.)

INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY
Established in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare as a day to celebrate cats and raise awareness about feline welfare issues worldwide. The day was created to highlight the important bond between humans and cats, promote responsible cat ownership, and draw attention to the millions of cats in shelters and on the streets that need homes.

NATIONAL CBD DAY
Created for marketing purposes in 2018 by North Carolina commercial CBD retailer cbdMD.

NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY
Commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786.

NATIONAL FROZEN CUSTARD DAY

NATIONAL PICKLEBALL DAY
Created in 2021 by pickleball instructor Deirdre Morris to increase awareness, encourage participation, and celebrate the unique culture that surrounds pickleball, and to encourage people to learn to play.

August is:

Black Business Month
Family Fun Month
International Peace Month
National Back to School Month
National Catfish Month
National Crayon Collection Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Panini Month
National Peach Month
National Sandwich Month

THE BUZZ

THE PETTIEST REASON YOU DUMPED SOMEONE

Reddit asked, “What’s the pettiest reason you dumped someone?” Some of the responses:
– “I couldn’t get over how he constantly kissed his dog more than the average person.”
– “She would refer to herself in the third person. She’d be like ‘Well, Shelly doesn’t like that.'”
– “He spent the night in my apartment. I was horrified to find that he both did not wash his hands and did not brush his teeth more than three times a week. I dumped him later that day.
– “She would always put on lip gloss before we would make out.”
– “I did not know what to get him for Christmas so I dumped him.”
– “We had been dating for a few months. We put on a movie for the kids, and I looked over and he was crying. It was Chicken Run. That was it for me.”
– “This man would text me with no punctuation. One of his literal texts he sent was: ‘okay sounds good I’ll be there at 7 maybe idk it depends traffic…’ and on and on.”
– “He told me his nickname at work was ‘Hollywood.’ As a professional career woman, I just…couldn’t, and never saw him again.”
– “I hated the way he swallowed water from his water bottle. He’d throw his head back as far as it would go and hold the water bottle straight up. But the angle of his neck from being that far back made the water have to SQUUUIIIISSHHH through his esophagus, and it was always the loudest, squishiest gulping noise. I couldn’t stand the sound anymore.”
– “She said she didn’t like cheesecake. I was looking forward to the last slice in the fridge. She ate it because she said there was nothing to eat. The house was full of food, she just didn’t want to cook.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What the pettiest reason you dumped someone?

THE MOST STOLEN CARS

According to new research from the Highway Loss Data Institute, America’s most-stolen car is now the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. The high-performance model, which retails for about $75,400, is being swiped at a rate 39 times above the average for 2022-2024 vehicles. Here are the Top 20:
1. Chevrolet Camaro
2. Acura TLX
3. Chevrolet Camaro
4. GMC Sierra 2500 crew cab
5. Acura TLX
6. GMC Sierra 3500 crew cab
7. Chevrolet Silverado 3500 crew cab
8. Dodge Durango
9. Land Rover Range Rover
10. Ram 1500 crew cab short-wheelbase
11. Chevrolet Silverado 2500 crew cab
12. Ram 3500 crew cab long-wheelbase
13. Honda CR-V hybrid
14. GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab
15. Dodge Durango
16. GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab
17. BMW X7
18. Mercedes-Benz S-Class long-wheelbase
19. Jeep Gladiator crew cab convertible
20. Cadillac Escalade

U.S. NEWS

FAKE NURSE ARRESTED

A Florida woman has been arrested for posing as a registered nurse. Investigators found 29-year-old Autumn Bardisa had provided medical services to 4,486 patients between June 2024 and January 2025. She made it into the job by submitting false documentation and providing a license number belonging to a nurse with the same first name. She had explained the discrepancy by claiming she had recently got married and had changed her surname. The way they caught her: Bardisa was offered a promotion. That’s when they found her – or rather the other nurse’s – license had expired. She is charged with practicing a health care profession without a license.
* Well, that’s one way to avoid student debt.
* She provided care and comfort for 4,486 people, and we can’t have that, can we.
* For 8 months she was a nurse. 4,486 people divided by 245 days is 18 patients a day. [If she worked a five-day week, it’s 4,486/181 = 24 patients a day.] And she was good enough to get a promotion. The woman is a monster.
* Here’s a thought: HELP THE WOMAN GET A DAMN LICENSE. I’m tired of sitting in a doctor’s office waiting for someone to be available.
* At least she wasn’t, like, a fake cardiac surgeon.

REVEREND RIGS RAFFLE

A pastor in Erie, Pennsylvania, is accused of rigging a church raffle. The plan was for St. Jude the Apostle Church to sell 9,999 tickets at $50 a pop to raise about $500,000. The grand prize was a C8 Corvette Convertible, with additional $500 prizes to other winners. The Corvette winner was a man named Martin Anderson of Detroit. However, the church’s pastor, Reverend Ross Miceli, said that Mr. Anderson decided to take a $50,000 cash prize rather than the car. The problem: there was no Mr. Anderson of Detroit. He doesn’t exist, and the $50,000 disappeared. Reverend Micelli is being investigated for fabricating the name of the raffle winner. He also reportedly admitted to choosing the $500 winners, who were all family friends or his favorite parishioners. A search of the church office uncovered high-end electronics, a new Tesla, expensive sneakers, and Disney collectibles, all owned by Father Miceli, in addition to high-end resort and casino membership cards.
* When it comes to raffles, it looks like the Devil has HIS number.
* Father Miceli, I am so disappointed in you. A Tesla?
* Disney collectibles. Well, that explains where most of the money went.
* Anybody think to check the collection box lately?
* This could be the end of Reverend Miceli. Or the beginning of a successful career in televangelism.

MAN HUMPS TRADER JOE’S REFRIGERATOR

Seattle police officers on Tuesday responded to a report of a man in a Trader Joe’s store who was humping a refrigerator and making threats. They arrived to find a 33-year-old man with a knife who, besides the Public Display of Affection with the refrigerator, had threatened workers with a knife, made racial slurs, kicked a flower display and threw apples. The man was arrested for… well, take your pick.
* Police are calling the humping incident a cold case.
* Some people really love Trader Joe’s, and they have their own way of expressing that love.
* The spark was gone with his kitchen fridge?
* Let me guess – he was in the Two Buck Chuck aisle?
* Trader Joe’s might want to pull the Vanilla Cold Foam Creamer for awhile.

TRENDING

KELLY CLARKSON’S EX-HUSBAND DIES

Brandon Blackstock, a talent manager and the ex-husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, died Thursday after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 48. Thursday morning, Kelly had announced the cancellation of her remaining August performance dates of her residency at at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, writing, “My children’s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for them.” The two married in 2013 and divorced in 2020. Clarkson had two children — daughter River, 10, and son Remy, 8 — with Blackstock. Blackstock had two more children, Savannah and Seth, from a previous marriage.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 1, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Thursday – Patriot Day
Sept. 19, Friday – National POW/MIA Recognition Day (The third Friday of September)
Sept. 22, Monday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:19 p.m. EDT)
Oct. 13, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Thursday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Friday – Halloween

BIRTHDAYS

J. C. Chasez (singer with ‘N Sync) … 49
Mark Wills (country singer) … 52
Patricia Arquette (actress, “Severance”) … 58
David “The Edge” Evans (guitarist with U2) … 64
Don “Donny” Most (actor, “Glee,” “Happy Days”) … 72
Keith Carradine (actor) … 76
Dustin Hoffman (actor) … 88

Today’s Birthdays grade: We’ve got a smorgasbord from music, TV and movies including the guitarist of an Irish rock band that became a global success, a “Happy Days” cast-member, an iconic actor who exploded on the film scene in 1967, and a singer from one of the top 90s multi-platinum boy bands. Not bad at all. Grade: A.

[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!

“Life stinks, but that doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy it.”

(A) Larry David
(B) Buddha
(C) Dustin Hoffman

ANSWER: (C) Dustin Hoffman

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2020 – While trying out an electric bike with family in the courtyard of his Malibu, California home, British music mogul and television personality Simon Cowell had an accident and broke his back in several places. He would later break an arm in another electric bike accident in 2022.
* Maybe switch to an electric TRIcycle?

2008 – Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards admitted having had an extramarital affair.
* He didn’t want to have an affair, but it’s mandatory for politicians.

1996 – Portuguese people protested against the popularity of English words being used in their country.
* Personally, I think using foreign words is so passé.

1981 – The world’s largest kite was flown. It measured just less than 6000 square feet.
* The guy holding the string was last seen over the Arctic Circle three years ago.

1963 – The Great Train Robbery took place in England, with a total “haul” of $7.3 million.
* Of course, we have our own American Great Train Robbery every time someone buys a ticket on Amtrak.

1899 – The first household refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall of Brockton, Massachusetts.
* He put the patent certificate on the door with magnets.

1876 – Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph.
* So nobody would copy it.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2020 – Taylor Swift became the first artist to debut at No.1 on both the Hot 100 single and U.S. album charst when her album “Folklore” and its lead single “Cardigan” both went to the top. “Folklore” also became her seventh consecutive No.1 album.

2019 – Thousands of Beatles fans made a pilgrimage to London’s Abbey Road for the 50th anniversary of the day the group walked over its “zebra crossing” stripes for the cover of “Abbey Road,” the last album the band recorded. Transport for London said two bus routes were briefly diverted as queues to cross the road blocked access.

2007 – The U.S. National Musical Publishers’ Association joined other businesses in seeking to sue YouTube claiming songwriters were not being properly compensated when their music appeared on the site.

1996 – Kiss appeared at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio on their 192-date Alive World Tour. During this show a fan threw his fake leg on stage, which all the members signed and handed back to him.

1992 – A riot broke out during a Guns N’ Roses and Metallica gig at Montreal stadium when Metallica’s show was cut short after singer James Hetfield was injured by pyrotechnics.

1983 – Harold Melvin and members from The Bluenotes were arrested in Atlantic City on charges of cocaine possession.

1969 – The photo session for the cover of The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album took place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios. Six shots were taken and it was over in less than ten minutes.

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 us don t do THIS anymore. What is it?
Write checks

2. 1 in 6 Americans under the age of 20 have never done THIS. What is it?
Ridden a bicycle

3. According to a USA Today poll, only 3% of Americans have never done THIS. What is it?
Move

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