FRIDAY, Jan 12 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, January 12, 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.)

NATIONAL CURRIED CHICKEN DAY
The IGN Entertainment website says this:
“Each year on January 12, curried chicken lovers enthusiastically celebrate National Curried Chicken Day. A common delicacy in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, chicken curry is also referred to as curry chicken. Curried chicken typically consists of chicken stewed in an onion and tomato based sauce which is then flavored with ginger, garlic, chilies and a variety of spices, often including turmeric, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom and more. In some areas, these spices are omitted and replaced with a pre-made mixture known as curry powder. In parts of the United States, curried chicken is a popular dish known as Country Captain Chicken, a stewed chicken dish that has been flavored with curry powder.”

NATIONAL MARZIPAN DAY

NATIONAL PHARMACIST DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“National Pharmacist Day honors pharmacists and recognizes their important role in medical care. A pharmacist must be knowledgeable of the chemistry of all medicines. They can inform you of a drug’s side effects, and all aspects of prescription medicine. Very importantly, they understand and recognize the interaction of drugs together … many people take numerous drugs. National Pharmacist Day recognizes this important role. If you are in a pharmacy today, make sure to wish your pharmacist a good day. Gifts and cards are not required.”

NATIONAL WORK HARDER DAY

January is:

Adopt a Rescued Bird Month
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
Get Organized Month
National Candy Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Hobby Month
National Skating Month
National Train Your Dog Month
Walk Your Pet Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

ESPN RAN EMMY FRAUD SCHEME

ESPN has been caught making up fake names for Emmy Awards in order to honor on-air talent who were ineligible to receive awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled the scheme, which started in 2010, where ESPN would submit fake names of people who supposedly worked on episodes that were being considered for an award. If the episode won an award, ESPN would take the Emmys and re-engrave the nameplates with the names of their on-air talent, such as Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard and Samantha Ponde. All of the talent had nothing to do with the scam. This happened more than 30 times, mostly on the “College GameDay” programs. ESPN apologized, saying in a statement. “This was a misguided attempt to recognize on-air individuals who were important members of our production team.”
* This is the the end result of the ‘everybody gets a trophy’ mindset that starts in pre-school.
* ESPN is going to go back to giving out a Certificate of Participation to everybody.
* Isn’t it odd that the network that is devoted to winning and losing has a policy of “there are no losers here.”
* If only they hadn’t used fake names like Seymore Butts, Barb E. Que, Kit N. Caboodle, Chris P. Bacon, Ben Dover, I.P. Dailey …

THE BUZZ

EMOTIONS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU HAD

Author John Koenig has written a book called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” It’s a collection of words and expressions – some from other cultures, some not – describing feelings you never knew there was a name for. For example:
– Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
– Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
– Kuebiko: The exhaustion that comes from consuming or seeing too much violence in the world and really questioning your own conception of the world. (* This actually started with the invventionof CNN.)
– Nodus Tollens: The idea that our own lives aren’t playing out the way we thought they would.
– Monachopsis: The feeling where you’re realizing “Hey I don’t fit into this environment right now, and I feel maybe a little bit awkward.”
– Rückkehrunruhe: How you feel after getting home from vacation and realizing that the memories from the trip are already starting to fade. (* As in “Oh, rückkehrunruhe, I should have taken more selfies.”)
– Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company you generally enjoy. (* And doesn’t it seem right that this is a German word?)
– Anecdoche: When people are having conversations but not listening to each other, just talking around or over each other. (* So, like any episode of The View.)
– Liberosis: Being able to step back from your life and reassess the things that are weighing on your mind, so that you have a sense of proportionality.
– Ellipsism: The feeling you have when you come to terms with the idea that you’re not going to be around forever.
– Exulansis: When you feel it’s useless to explain your worries because you think people just won’t be able to understand.
– Jouska: Replaying a conversation over and over in your head and thought about all of the possible ways it could have gone.
* This bit could have jouskaed better.
* One sorrow that’s not so obscure: The feeling that you wasted your money after buying a copy of “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.”

U.S. NEWS

ASSAULT WITH A SUBWAY SUB

A Subway customer allegedly threw a sub at a store clerk because the sandwich wasn’t cut in half. Alberto De Barros, 54, was arrested for battery following a confrontation Tuesday night at a Subway shop in Stuart, Florida. Subway worker Cassandra Pierre-Louis said De Barros “became upset with her after finding out that his sandwich was not separated,” and became disruptive, throwing the sub, which struck Pierre-Louis in her mid-section.
* Mid-section – so, the part of the body the sub goes to when you eat it.
* It’s lucky he didn’t order the club sandwich.
* The sub had everything on it, including a little topspin.
* There hasn’t been a sub launching this wild since the USS Iowa last summer.
* The alternative would be to say “Excuse me, would you please cut this sandwich in half?” But that would be CRAZY!
* Could have been worse, he could have forced her to eat it.
* Great. Now when he goes to Subway, he’ll take along a butcher knife.

MAN’S FIRST FLIGHT GOES POORLY

An inebriated passenger on Spirit Airlines is facing a federal charges after some drunken behavior on a flight on Tuesday. About an hour into the flight, James Warren Finnister allegedly peppered a flight attendant with questions about the cockpit, including entering it, which alarmed her. Due to his disturbances, flight attendants moved his seat three times. Eventually, Finnister laid down on the floor of the plane. Flight attendants had to physically pick him up. Then he asked the lead flight attendant if she wanted to join the “mile high club.” He grabbed another flight attendant, pulled her into his seat and asked her the same thing. Upon landing, the man told cops that he had downed “multiple alcoholic shots to calm his nerves prior to the flight, which he stated was his first.” It was an 8:11 a.m. flight from Louisville, Kentucky to Orlando.
* ♬ ♪ “What do you do with a drunken Finnister, early in the morning …” ♫ ♩
* Check his pockets for the bolts to the plug door.
* Locking him in a bathroom was not an option?
* You know what? I don’t think this was his first flight.
* Though it might have been his first drink.
* It’s a lot of the same stuff James Bond does, but he’s classier about it.
* Maybe they ought to call it Alcoholic Spirits Airlines.

WIFE MAKES BINGO CARD WITH HUSBAND’S FOOTBALL REACTIONS

A Texas wife has millions of reactions on a TikTok after she ticks off a bingo card made up of her husband’s reactions as he watches Dallas Cowboys games in real time. Makenzie Waters has been watching football games with her husband, Justin, for years, and his reactions have always been the same. So, she made up a bingo card. The squares include Fist Clap, Touchdown Gesture, Aggressively Pets Dog, Slowly Falls Back, Says “Let’s Go Let’s Go”, Knee Slaps, First Down Gesture, Quiet Clap, Flag Gesture, Covers Face, Screams “Whyyyyyy.”
* The Free Square must be if he takes a bathroom break.
* Living with someone for years … repeating the same routines hundreds of times … trying to think of ways to spice it up … This is a warning for you young couples thinking about getting married.
* If you’re watched the Patriots this season, the game would be “Sorry!”
* We’re just lucky she didn’t make a bingo card of his bodily noises.
* This is such a good idea, there’ll be a representative from Parker Brothers at her front door tomorrow morning.

TRENDING

JELLY ROLL TRAINING FOR 5K

Country music star Jelly Roll is training for a 5-kilometer race. On Thursday he Instagrammed, “This message is for Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura (* two comedian friends). Somebody let them know I’m in for the 5k in May. Kyle Forgeard (a YouTuber) gassed me up. I’m ready to go. Anyone wanna join me?” The accompanying video shows Jelly Roll walking with headphones and a hoodie on. “I’ll be there baby!” he says into the camera. “I’m in the woods walking every morning. 5k by May baby!” Jelly Roll has said that in 2015, he weighed over 500 lbs. and was once told that he was “too fat to be relatable.” He lost over 200 lbs. in the years following, and has been open about his weight gains and losses since.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

January 15, Monday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 26, Friday – Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN)
February 2, Friday – Groundhog Day
February 10, Saturday – Chinese New Year (The Year of the Dragon)
February 12, Monday – Lincoln’s Birthday
February 14, Wednesday – Valentine’s Day
February 19, Monday – Presidents Day / Washington’s Birthday
February 13, Tuesday – Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras
March 10, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Begins
March 17, Sunday – St. Patrick’s Day
March 19, Tuesday – Spring begins, Spring Equinox is 11:06 p.m. EDT
March 20, Wednesday – First full day of Spring

BIRTHDAYS

Melanie “Mel C,” “Sporty Spice” Chisholm (singer) … 50
Rob Zombie (musician) … 59
Jeff Bezos (billionaire founder of Amazon, off-and-on richest human of all time) … 60
Oliver Platt (actor, “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Fire”) … 64
Howard Stern (radio shock jock, TV personality) … 70
William Lee Golden (singer w/ the Oak Ridge Boys) … 85

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

“I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.”

(A) Kanye West
(B) Vladimir Putin
(C) Jeff Bezos

ANSWER: (C) Jeff Bezos

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2005 – Britain’s Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform at a costume party.
* “Sorry – my plans for the nation’s future are supposed to be a secret!”

2000 – The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
* So from now on, don’t run – just walk briskly.

1998 – 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.
* Great. Another line of manufacturing the Chinese will take over.

1970 – The Boeing 747, the world’s largest passenger airliner, made its maiden transatlantic voyage.
* It became famous for carrying more passengers, flying farther, and giving us 3 or 4 cheesy air disaster movies.

1935 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific today in 1935.
* Unfortunately, she couldn’t leave well enough alone.

1906 – The professional football rules committee legalized the forward pass.
* This revolutionized football and established an important slang term for trying to get a date with someone.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2023 – Miley Cyrus released “Flowers” as the lead single from her eighth studio album, “Endless Summer Vacation.” The song was a massive commercial success, setting several records and becoming Cyrus’ biggest hit. It broke the record as the most streamed song in a week on Spotify during both its first and second week, and broke the record as the fastest song in Spotify history to surpass one billion streams, doing so in 112 days. It debuted atop the Billboard Global 200 chart and reached number one in 43 countries.

2023 – Lisa Marie Presley, singer, songwriter and the only daughter of Elvis Presley, died at the age of 54 of a bowel obstruction due to adhesions caused by weight-loss surgery she underwent several years earlier.

2013 – The 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow used by Freddie Mercury until his death in November 1991, sold at auction for over $100,000 to a Russian businessman.

2005 – It was announced that the Strawberry Field children’s home immortalized by The Beatles was closing. The home in Liverpool was made famous when John Lennon wrote “Strawberry Fields Forever” after playing there as a child.

2003 – Bee Gee Maurice Gibb died in Miami following a heart attack during abdominal surgery, age 53.

2001 – British Airways staff complained about Oasis singer Liam Gallagher after he had grabbed a stewardess’ bottom, refused to stop smoking, and threw objects around the cabin during a flight from London to Rio De Janeiro.

1995 – Snoop Dogg was charged in Los Angeles with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

1993 – Van Morrison failed to turn up at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction dinner, making him the first living inductee not to attend.

1992 – Bob Geldof was arrested after a disturbance on a Boeing 727, which had been grounded for 5 hours at Stansted Airport, England.

1991 – American soul duo Milli Vanilli had their Grammy Award taken away from them after it transpired they hadn’t sung any of their tracks.

1981 – It was reported that the White House had expanded its record library by including albums by Bob Dylan, Kiss and The Sex Pistols.

1980 – “The Bee Gees Greatest Hits” was at No.1 on the U.S. album charts.

1977 – Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards was fined $1,275 for possession of cocaine found in his car after a car crash.

1977 – The Police had their first rehearsal, held at drummer’s Stewart Copeland’s London flat, with Henri Padovani on guitar.

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. The average person will do THIS 233 times in their lifetime. What is it?
Go bowling

2. On average, a person will do THIS 152 times during their lifetime. What is it?
Go to the dentist

3. The average American will do THIS 11 times in their lifetime. What is it?
Move

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