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MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, October 11, 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.)

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD

NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY

NATIONAL SAUSAGE PIZZA DAY

NATIONAL VETERINARY NURSE DAY

SOUTHERN FOOD HERITAGE DAY

October is:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
Car Care Month
Child Health Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Country Music Month
Fire Prevention Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Service Dog Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

RUSSIAN NO-GOODNIKS POST FAKE PICTURES OF A FLOODED DISNEY WORLD

After Hurricane Milton crossed Florida, pictures began spreading on the internet of a flooded-out Disney World. While the park did close for the hurricane, the pictures are all phony – AI-generated and distributed by Russia. RIA – the Russian state-owned domestic news agency – shared the fake images on its Telegram channel Thursday. The pictures made it appear as if Main Street and other areas of the park were under three feet of water. They weren’t – there was no flooding at Disney World.
* We’re sure it was Russia, right? And not, say, Legoland.
* Disney World was built on a slant to send all its runoff water downhill over to Sea World. Which Sea World pays for, of course.
* If Disney World had been flooded, they would have hauled out the log boats from Splash Mountain and charged people 50 bucks to ride around in them.
* Just the same, they’d better check for real alligators on the Jungle Cruise.
* Sure, the flooding story is fake, but Tuesday’s admission price hike story is true. (from $194 to $206 for a day pass)

THE BUZZ

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

Reddit asked, “What food is delicious in small amounts, but gross in big amounts?” Some of the responses:
– “A really good dense cheesecake. It gets to be overwhelming fairly quickly when you have a lot of it but a small slice is great.”
– “Too much frosting and it feels like regret.”
– “The first bowl of cereal makes you want second bowl. The second bowl makes you realize you didn’t want a second bowl, you just wanted that first bowl again.”
– “A5 Waygu steak (the highly-marbled kind). I got some as a gift. Grilled it up and shared with the whole family. My daughter immediately says, “Daddy, this is delicious, but I can’t eat more than three bites. It’s like liquid bacon.” I sat there and ate basically an entire 16 oz ribeye myself, made me feel like I had eaten a can of Crisco for dinner.”
– “Hard boiled eggs.”
– “Eggnog.”
– “Candy corn. One is pretty tasty. Any more than that and they’re awful.”
– “Cotton candy. A few bites and it’s magical, but after too much, you feel like you’ve just inhaled a cloud of pure sugar and regret.”
– “White chocolate. A solid white chocolate Easter bunny did me in.”
* PHONE TOPIC: A taste is good, too much is horrible – What is it for you?

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN WINS LOTTERY, BOYFRIEND WANTED A SHARE FOR HIS DOG

A woman recently posted a story on Reddit’s “Am I the A-hole?” She had just won $50,000 in a lottery. She wrote, “Before I won, my boyfriend and I would always joke about how, if I ever hit it big, I’d ‘split it three ways’ between me, him, and his dog, Baxter. Baxter is a golden retriever, and I love him, but I always thought it was just a joke.” But then she won the money and found out her boyfriend was “dead serious” about Baxter getting a share of the money. He insisted that Baxter deserves $10k in a “dog trust fund’ for future vet bills, toys, and “whatever he needs.” She refused, although she did treat Baxter with a “fancy dog bed and some expensive treats.” But the boyfriend said “that doesn’t count because it wasn’t part of the ‘official’ $10k I supposedly promised.” He mentioned “going to a lawyer to set up the dog trust fund to ‘make it official.'” So, she asked others if they really thought she was in the wrong. The answer, of course, was a resounding no. The woman also said she dumped the boyfriend.
* So she’s a winner, twice.
* This might have turned out different if Baxter was a pit bull.
* Or if Baxter had picked the numbers.
* The sad part of this story is, the dog is stuck with that loser.
* $10,000 to a dog, that’s ridiculous. Now if they had a cat…

CHIPPENDALE’S DANCERS TO UNIONIZE

The Chippendale dancers – the famous troupe of male strippers – now want to unionize. About two dozen dancers with the all-male revue at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas voted to join the Actors Equity Association. The move was made citing a higher cost of living, a better sense of job security, workplace safety, accountability, and benefits.
* You’d think they’d join the union of mail handlers.
* What kind of benefits? Fitness clubs? Bronzer? No-chafe costumes?
* Chippendale’s dancers would fit right in to a union. Talk about a bargaining unit.
* Talk about front loading the contract.
* Talk about a hot cargo clause.
* Talk about the Wobblies.

SEND A TOUCH WITH THE TOUCH BRACELET

Here’s the newest creepy thing: The Bond Touch 4 bracelet. You wear the bracelet, someone else wears the bracelet, you touch the bracelet, the other person gets a little buzz letting you know they touched bracelet while thinking of you. The makers of the Bond Touch 4 says it feels “as if their loved one was tapping them.” They recommend it for couples in long-distance relationships, friends living apart, or even somebody who uses physical intimacy as a tool for calming nerves. They cost $70 a pop.
* $90 if you want one with higher voltage.
* If you’re in one of those Sister Wives situations, can you get a discount for buying multiple bracelets?
* Great idea. You have a busy day, you don’t think of touching the bracelet, and you get an angry text from your partner saying they feel like they’re being ignored.
* The Bond Touch 4: helping to bring back Morse Code: tap… taptaptap… tap tap… tap taptaptap…

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

JAPAN INVENTS BEER GLASS THAT MAKE YOU DRINK SLOWER

In Japan, they’ve invented a glass that makes you drink slower. The glass resembles an hourglass, but it’s open at one end. When it’s filled with liquid – oh, let’s pretend it’s beer – the drinker raises it to their mouth. The top half goes right in, but the bottom half of the glass will slowly release the last half of the beer through the smaller passage in the middle. The creator of the glass says it takes around three times longer to drink from this glass than a regular glass. The idea, apparently, is for the drinker to slow down, to take longer to enjoy a drink, thereby preventing them from drinking as much.
* I don’t understand. Why would anybody not want to drink as much? And not as quickly? Are the Japanese brain damaged? I’m not getting the concept.
* If we were supposed to drink slower, our necks would be straws.
* Maybe this is for cheap people who want to spend less on their dates.
* I can see American bars buying millions of these thing, and then destroying them.
* I can maybe see this as a fix for brain freeze from a Slurpee.

GUY GETS FREEBIES BY SENDING POEMS TO COMPANIES

A Scotsman named Andrew Cunningham, 29, has been getting freebies from companies just by sending them poems. Cunningham, who lives in Glasgow, says he saw a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote short poems for 50 of his favorite household brands, restaurants and shops:
— Andrew’s first poem was to Yorkshire Tea:
“O Yorkshire Tea, your decaf blend / Is a perfect calm, a true godsend.
For in each cup, you bring a grace / A gentle comfort, a warm embrace.
With Yorkshire Tea, my heart finds ease / In every sip, a moment of peace.”
They sent him $13 of free decaf teabags.
— He wrote a poem to Scrub Daddy, maker of scouring pads (* aim high, Andrew!):
“Scrub Daddy, a sponge that’s a gem / Lasting through scrubs, again and again.
Its smiley face grinning through mess / With durability that’s simply the best.
From tough to gentle, it never will fail / A kitchen hero that’s built to prevail.”
Cunningham has also received free movie tickets from Odeon Luxe cinemas, and free food and drinks from KFC, Pringles, Richmond sausages and more valuing in total around $300 worth of free stuff.
* (pause) What rhymes with Disney World? What rhymes with Helzberg?
* “I’ve been real nice, I’ve not been naughty / Whaddya say there, Maserati?”
* “Free stuff for poems / No matter the season / I just can’t figure out / The rhyme or reason.”
* I wonder how much free stuff you could get with a short story?
* That English Lit masters degree finally paid off, eh Andrew?

ALMANACNOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 14, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Wednesday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween
Nov. 3, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
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

Cardi B (rapper) … 32
Michelle Trachtenberg (actress, “Gossip Girl,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) … 39
Emily Deschanel (actress, “Bones”) … 48
Jane Krakowski (actress, “Schmigadoon!,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “30 Rock”) … 56
Joan Cusack (actress, “Shameless”) … 62
Daryl Hall (singer, Hall and Oates) … 78

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

“I love to roller skate.”

(A) Kermit The Frog
(B) Joe Biden
(C) Jane Krakowski

ANSWER: (C) Jane Krakowski

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2018 – The longest airline flight to date took place. The flight, from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey, took 17 hours, 52 minutes.
* Just reading that made my legs cramp up.

1995 – The earliest known mushrooms, dating back over 90 million years, were discovered in New Jersey.
* In a Wendy’s salad bar.

1987 – In England, a huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness failed to find the elusive monster.
* Next time, don’t invite Geraldo Rivera to cover it.

1983 – The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
* And so were immediately able to receive telemarketing phone calls. Hooray!

1975 – Bill Clinton married Hillary.
* Why?

1939 – Albert Einstein warned President Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of the atomic bomb.
* Still, apart from solving some of the lifelong mysteries of time, energy, space and the Universe, what did he know?

1936 – The first radio quiz show, “Professor Quiz,” was broadcast.
* It was a long way from “The $64,000 Question” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” – the winner got two dollars and a fish dinner.

1929 – The first in-flight meal was served aboard an airliner, on a flight from London to New York.
* How bad was the food? All the people who took that flight ARE DEAD!

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – Rod Stewart was knighted by the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace in recognition of his services to music and charity.

2010 – George Michael was released from Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England after serving four weeks of an eight week sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

2009 – 54-year-old Jo Wood, wife of The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, was granted a divorce after 24 years of marriage on the grounds of adultery. The couple split in 2008 after the guitarist, 64, began a relationship with a 20-year-old woman.

2006 – Madonna adopted a one-year-old boy in Malawi, Africa. The boy’s father, Yohane Banda, told reporters “I know he will be very happy in America.” The boy’s mother had died a week after he was born.

1999 – Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was released on $5,000 bail after facing charges relating to a riot at a gig in North Carolina in 1997. Lee allegedly incited the crowd to attack a guard and had also poured a drink over his head. In March 2000, Lee pleaded no contest to simple assault and was sentenced to 18 months probation.

1997 – Elton John went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with his world-wide charity hit “Candle In The Wind 97,” his eighth U.S. No.1 single.

1988 – Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara started treatment for alcohol abuse at a clinic in Tucson, Arizona.

1986 – Janet Jackson started a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “When I Think Of You,” her first U.S. No.1.

1960 – Aretha Franklin made her stage debut at the Village Vanguard, New York.

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 research at Boston University, you can reduce your risk of cold and flu by 30% if you have THIS with your breakfast. What it is?
Peanut butter

2. 38% of people are willing to pay extra for THIS food at a bar or restaurant. What is it?
Guacamole

3. Americans consume about 70 million pounds of THESE each year. What are they?
Tater tots

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