FRIDAY, Nov 1 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, November 1, 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.)

GIVE UP YOUR SHOULDS DAY
The Every Day Is Special blog says this:
“Today we are urged to give up the word ‘should’ – at least for the day. That word, especially if it isn’t tied to action, can keep us down-in-the-dumps about ourselves or our lives. The family therapist who invented the day said that ‘people generally live more calm and fulfilled lives if they give up the word should.'”

NATIONAL AUTHORS’ DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“Every year on November 1, millions of people celebrate authors and the books that they write on National Author’s Day. In 1928, Nellie Verne Burt McPherson, president of the Bement, Illinois Women’s Club, submitted the idea of setting aside a day to celebrate American authors to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. They passed a resolution declaring November 1 as a day to honor American writers. The United States Department of Commerce recognized this day in 1949.”

NATIONAL CALZONE DAY

NATIONAL COOK FOR YOUR PETS DAY

NATIONAL DEEP FRIED CLAMS DAY

NATIONAL VINEGAR DAY

WORLD VEGAN DAY

November is:

Adopt a Senior Pet Month
Great American Smoke Out Month
National Adoption Month
National Military Family Month
National Native American Heritage Month
Raisin Bread Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Vegan Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

SCENTED CANDLE SMELLS LIKE ODELL BECKHAM’S JOCKSTRAP

Online gambling company BetUS has released a scented candle that claims to capture the essence of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s jockstrap. The candle, molded to resemble Beckham’s torso if it were wearing a jockstrap – is said to mix signature notes of amber, green lavender, and neroli with a dash of the musk the Odell brings to the field. New Times newspaper describes the candle as emitting a scent that brings “sweat, worn leather, and adrenaline to life.” The company says the Jockstrap Candle, with its bold design and unforgettable scent, is like bringing a piece of the locker room right into your living room. And it only costs $50.
* (long sniff inhale)…..mmmm….crotchety.
* This is about as classy as I’d expect from an online gambling company.
* All the defensive linemen love to tackle Odell Beckham because he smells so damn good.
* Imagine the poor guy at the candle factory assigned to identify THOSE smells.
* Why not pair it with one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Vagina Goop candles?

THE BUZZ

KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS, STILL

Huffington Post asked people for unusual words families use that were coined by their kids. Some of the responses:
– “Fried eggs are ‘hoop’ or ‘circle eggs’ for my current 4-year-old.”
– “‘Findlight’ is a flashlight.”
– “Our 5-year-old daughter always called restaurants ‘resternots’ and now we all do.”
– “Young daughter used to say ‘be fearful’ instead of ‘be careful,’ and it stuck.”
– “My daughter was brushing her teeth one night, and she said, ‘The toothpaste just floomed out of the tube.’ So now when too much of anything (ketchup, lotion, etc.) comes out, it ‘flooms.'”
– “We say ‘dinner deserved’ because my son couldn’t say ‘dinner is served.’”
– “My son is bilingual, and when he was little he invented ‘Graciou’ (Gracias and thank you).”
– “‘Hanitizer’ will always be our name for ‘hand sanitizer’”.
– “My youngest says ‘monkey troll,’ for the remote control, and now we all do.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you have a weird word in your family? Where did it come from?

U.S. NEWS

GAMBLING WOMAN COVERED IN SEWAGE

Rita Romagnoli, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was playing slots with her husband at Live! Casino at the Westmoreland Mall in Pittsburgh back on July 28 when an overhead pipe in the ceiling burst, drenching her in fecal matter. Romagnoli’s attorney said, “She didn’t know what had fallen on her, but it didn’t take her long to figure out it smelled pretty bad. A couple days later, she ended up in the hospital with bacterial pneumonia.” Romagnoli and her husband are suing the casino, seeking $30,000 in damages.
* She hit the jackplop.
* Crap rolls downhill, and sometimes it takes a shortcut.
* Someone on the upper floor poker room must have had a flush.
* Only $30,000? Did that attorney accidentally leave off two zeroes?
* If that’s what happens at the slot machines, what happens over at the craps table?
* Just another reason to do your gambling online.

WAWA TUMBLERS RECALLED

Some 60,000 Wawa-branded beverage tumblers are under recall due to a laceration hazard posed by the products’ metal straw. The drink cups were sold at Wawa convenience stores in the eastern U.S. According to a Thursday notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the metal straw inside the tumblers can RIP YOUR LIPS TO SHREDS, although they may have used less inflammatory language. Four injuries have been reported to date. The Commission is urging consumers to immediately stop using these metal straws — and contact Halo Branding Solutions, the products’ distributor, for a silicone replacement straw.
* Here’s a silicone straw, never mind the cancer.
* Wawa? OW! OW!
* Is this more or less dangerous than their first idea – GLASS straws?
* If you’ve ever been in a Wawa, you know it’s good to have a weapon of some sort, and a razor straw will do in a pinch.
* A straw is actually one of the LEAST lethal things you can get in a Wawa.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

CHEESE THIEF CAUGHT

Gouda news, everyone! A 63-year-old man has been arrested in the theft of more than 24 tons of artisanal cheese from one of Britain’s most famous dairy companies last month (as we reported on Monday). The man was detained on suspicion of fraud by false representation and handling stolen goods. He was taken to a south London police station where he was questioned and has since been released on bail. The cheese, worth over $390,000, was taken from London cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy on Oct. 21, and only after it had been loaded and taken away did the dairy realize the buyer was a scammer. The whereabouts of the stolen cheese have yet to be determined.
* Did this guy plan the robbery? Was he the Big Cheese?
* Stealing 24 tons of cheese! How dair-y! (How dare he)
* Caught like a rat.
* The suspect was described as ammoniated and dangerous.
* With that smell, where do you hide 24 tons of cheese? Did they look in northern New Jersey?

RUSSIA FINES GOOGLE AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF MONEY

A Russian court has ordered Google to pay a fine for blocking 17 Russian television channels and other media outlets from YouTube because they support President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its invasion of Ukraine. That fine: $20 decillion dollars. That’s 20 followed by 33 zeros. That amount is larger than the size of the entire global economy, which the International Monetary Fund puts at around $110 trillion, or 110 followed by 12 zeroes. (* It’s also larger than a googol , which is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes.) Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said about the ridiculous number: “The company should not restrict our broadcasters on their platform.”
* $20 decillion dollars is almost as much as I’ve spent on cable and streaming this year.
* Will they accept an I.O.U.?
* Go make your own Google, you Ruskies!
* Seriously, if Russia wants a TV audience, they need to make it own TV shows. Here are some suggestions:
– Band of Comrades
– Slow Horskies
– Only Murders in the Kremlin
– Gorbachev All Along
– The Russian Bear
– Yeltsinstone
– The HollyRed Squares
– Tol-stoy-ry (Toy Story)
– The Fall Out The Window Of The House Of Usher
– Tsar Wars

MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA, NEEDS TO NAME THE PLOWS

The city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, has 11 road sanders and 4 road graders all ready to clear the snow this winter, and they want the public to name all of them. Here are the names the public can vote on:
Road Graders:
– Blades of Glory
– Grade Eh
– Ice Ice Grady
– Snowbi Gone Kenobi
– Graderator
– Taylor Drift
– Tom Grady
– Scrape Dogg
– Slim Gradey
– Clearopathra
– Connor McGrader
Snow Plows:
– Betty Whiteout
– Spread Zeppelin
– Plowzilla
– Darth Blader
– Sander Bullock
– Fast and the Flurryous
– Plowabunga
– Sandosaurus Rex
– Sir Sand-a-lot
– Brrr-ito
– Snowba Fett
– KaPlow
– Gritney Spears
– Flake Shelton
– Ctrl-Salt-Delete
– Better Call Salt
– Adam Sander
– Colonel Sanders
– Luke Snowalker

ALMANACNOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Nov. 11, Monday – Veterans Day
Nov. 28, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Saturday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 4:21 a.m. (EST)
Dec. 25, Wednesday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Tuesday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Wednesday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

David Berman (actor, “CSI”) … 51
Jenny McCarthy (Playboy model, TV personality, “actress”) … 52
Big Kenny (country singer with “Big and Rich”) … 61
Rick Allen (one-armed drummer with Def Leppard) … 61
Anthony Kiedis (singer with the Red Hot Chili Peppers) … 62
Lyle Lovett (country singer, ex-husband of Julia Roberts) … 67

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

“There’s nothing more important than doing a job well.”

(A) Former Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun
(B) Co-writer and director of “Joker: Folie à Deux” Todd Phillips
(C) Lyle Lovett

ANSWER: (C) Lyle Lovett

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2012 – Google’s Gmail became the world’s most popular email service.
* Global domination is your friend!

1958 – NASA was founded.
* After a couple of early versions crashed.

1952 – The U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
* That news shook the world – literally!

1939 – The first animal conceived through artificial insemination was displayed – a rabbit.
* AS IF RABBITS NEED HELP PROCREATING!

1914 – Mark Jacobs invented the bra.
* Boy, he must have really been out of shape.

1879 – Thomas Edison got the patent for the electric light bulb.
* When he thought of it, I wonder what appeared over his head?

1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau recorded its first meteorological observations.
* Writing down what the weather was was easy. They’d get in trouble later when they tried PREDICTING it.

1869 – The first ever postcards were issued in Vienna.
* They were the perfect invention – something that you didn’t have to write much on, and you could send them to people you hated to make them really jealous.

1755 – Lisbon in Portugal was destroyed by an earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
* It was a nightmare – You try making insurance claims for those three things all at once.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Taylor Swift was being sued for $42m for allegedly stealing the lyrics to her hit 2014 song “Shake It Off,” which topped music charts around the world. R&B singer Jesse Braham claimed in legal papers Swift stole the words from a song he wrote in 2013 called “Haters Gone Hate.” A judge dismissed the lawsuit.

2004 – A man who allegedly stalked Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia was deemed too mentally ill to be interviewed by police. The 44-year-old fan was arrested after turning up on the doorstep of the singer’s home in England after flying from Australia.

2002 – To celebrate his 33rd birthday party in Morocco, P Diddy hired two private jets to fly 300 guests from New York to Marrakech.

2000 – Ben Folds Five announced they were breaking up.

1996 – U2 set up a video link to an internet site from their recording studio in Dublin so fans could watch them record their new album.

1994 – Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” performance was released as the album “MTV Unplugged in New York.” Two tracks not aired on the MTV Broadcast appeared on the album.

1993 – Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) was arrested for allegedly trying to shoot another man in a dispute over a woman. William Drayton was charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

1969 – Elvis Presley recorded what would be his last #1 Billboard Top 100 hit, “Suspicious Minds.”

1967 – Rolling Stone music magazine was first published.

1894 – “Billboard Advertising” was published for the first time. It later became known as “Billboard.”

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. 18 percent of all restaurant meals served in America today will have THIS in common. What is it?
They’ll be served with French fries

2. According to statistics, THIS will happen about 100,000 times today in the United States. What is it?
A speeding ticket will be issued

3. Americans will throw away about 30,000 of THESE today. What are they?
TV sets

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