FRIDAY, Oct 20 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, October 20, 2023
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: SOUNDS OF HALLOWEEN CD; 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, or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year.)

INTERNATIONAL SLOTH DAY
The Days Of The Year website says this:
“Look at that face. Look at it. Over the centuries, people have derided sloths for being either stupid or lazy or a combination of both, but have you ever thought they might just be onto something? After all, they always kind of look like they’re smiling. Don’t you wish you could have that serene expression on your face every now and then? If you don’t, you should. Everyone deserves to relax every now and then. International Sloth Day is in fact about two things: learning to take a lesson or two in being as cool as a cucumber from the sloths of the world, and raising awareness about the many sloths that get injured, captured to be sold as pets, or even killed by humans. So help keep those sleepy smiles on sloths’ faces and take part in this year’s International Sloth Day!”

NATIONAL BRANDIED FRUIT DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“Sweet fruit that is soaked in brandy and sugar then often used as a topping on pies, cake or ice cream get its own day of celebration each year on National Brandied Fruit Day. Brandy, as it is known today, began to appear in the 12th century and became generally popular in the 14th century.”

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

THE BUZZTEXAS CURSES THE MOST ON THE INTERNET

According to a survey conducted by the BonusFinder website, Texas is the U.S. state with the most frequent users of profanities in their internet postings. The platform reviewed posts from specific state subreddits to come up with the rankings. For example, there were 4,743 curse words within 691 posts reviewed for Texas. Therefore:
1. Texas: 6.9 curse words per post
2. Ohio: 6.7 curse words per post
3. Florida: 6.5 curse words per post
4. Tennessee: 6.2 curse words per post
5. Missouri: 6.1 curse words per post
6. Iowa: 5.2 curse words per post
7. Indiana: 4.8 curse words per post
8. Louisiana: 4.7 curse words per post
9. Oklahoma: 4.3 curse words per post
10. Idaho: 4.2 curse words per post
* My grandma could give Texas a run for their money.
* It’s like Boston and New Jersey don’t even exist in this world.
* What’s “.2” of curse word? Just the letter “s”?
* Now BonusFinder wants all of these people to put a dollar in their swear jar. I KNEW there was an angle!
* And these are just the internet posts of people ordering from GrubHub. “I’d like to order a damn hamburger.”

SCIENCE: SOAKING IN HOT TUB = RUNNING

A team of researchers at Coventry University, a public research university in Coventry, England, claim people who sat in a hot tub for half an hour experienced a major cardiovascular and mental health boost which gave the same benefits as jogging. Don’t believe it? The researchers studied 20 people aged 26 to 60. They measured heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow, anxiety, salivary cortisol, mood, and thermal perception. Participants sat in a hot tub for a half hour on three separate days. Following the soak, blood flow to the legs increased by 345 per cent on average – which is about the same as after a 30-minute jog. Heart rates also shot up by an average of 31 beats per minute, which works out roughly equivalent to a brisk walk. Blood pressure dropped significantly, which also happens when running. Participants also demonstrated a 10 per cent reduction in anxiety levels – similar to a long walk. Therefore, soaking in a hot tub give you the same benefits as jogging. (* Well… unless you want to lose weight. ‘Cause unlike jogging, sitting in a hot tub BURNS NO CALORIES!!!) Science!
* They also found that soaking in a hot tub gives you the same bacterial exposure as licking a gas pump handle.
* Heart rates shot up even more when the participants removed their bathing suits.
* Anxiety rates dropped even more when the participants were given margaritas.
* Let me guess – they got a new hot tub at Coventry University.
* The research was published in the November issue of Jacuzzi Dealers Monthly.
* They studied 20 people. What makes me think there were exactly 20 people on the research team?

INTERNATIONAL NEWSPOLICE SHOOT MAN COMING OUT OF PORTA-POTTY

Police in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shot a man following a brief standoff at a porta-potty. According to a witness, heavily-armed officers abruptly descended on the street and trained their weapons on a porta-potty situated on an empty lot. Officers were shouting at the man to exit the porta-potty. After 20 minutes or so (* which seems about right), he came out and then they shot him, said the witness. The suspect was not killed. He was taken away in an ambulance. Crime scene tape is now set up in the area surrounding the porta-potty. Police are preparing a statement about the incident.
* I’ve been in some porta-potties that are crime scenes.
* “This is the police – come out with your pants up!”
* So Canadian police shoot about as good as Imperial stormtroopers.
* They found him by asking the public for tips on where he “went.”
* The guy was on Canada’s most wanted list. He was Number 1 or Number 2.

MAN POSES AS MANNEQUIN TO ROB STORE

(Note: there are not many details in this story that are verifiable, but it’s a great story if it’s true.)
A Polish man is accused of posing as a mannequin in a Warsaw store window to steal jewelry after closing time. The 22-year-old was pictured standing still and holding a bag in a window of the store. Warsaw Police said that staff and shoppers failed to notice anything unusual as the man stood in the window, and blended in with several mannequins. Police said that he stood still until “he felt it was safe,” then walked through the store after closing time, and took some jewelry from a stand. He was eventually spotted by security staff and apprehended.
* How do they know he’s not there still? Let me rephrase that: How do they know he’s not there, still?
* Are they sure it was a department store and not a stationary store?
* What a poser.
* What a dummy.
* Guess what his favorite Disney movie is. C’mon – guess!
* Doesn’t Poland have a statue of limitations?

MAN FAKED HEART ATTACK 20 TIMES TO DINE-AND-DASH

A Lithuanian man has been arrested and jailed for faking heart attacks at least 20 times, staging “dine-and-dash” episodes to avoid paying at various restaurants along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The unidentified man would always order a “Russian salad” and down several glasses of top-shelf whiskey before “theatrically” pretending to faint and fall on the floor. The man was taking advantage of a loophole in Spanish law, which considers incidents in which only a “small amount” of money is involved to be minor crimes. So, he was fined but then refused to pay, landing him in jail for 42 days. The restaurant owners are reportedly considering filing a joint complaint, which could lead to a longer prison sentence for the man.
* When he heard the news, he dropped to the floor, out cold.
* He also got a charge out of the defibrillation treatments.
* A salad and booze. Sounds more like drink-and-dash.
* A traditional Russian salad is potatoes, carrot, eggs, pickles, peas, ham, dill, and mayonnaise, 260 calories, 12 grams of fat. That’s a lot of fat. It could to a heart attack.

TRENDING

JON STEWART SHOW NOT RETURNING TO APPLE+

Jon Stewart’s issues-oriented talk show, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” has ended prematurely as Apple has abandoned plans for an eight-episode third season. According to the New York Times, there were creative differences between Apple and Stewart over potential topics and guests. The Times reports that Apple – maker of the iPhone – was pushing back on topics relating to China and artificial intelligence. Stewart, sources say, wanted to have full creative control of the series and, after Apple threatened to cancel the series, Stewart said he was walking away from the show rather than have his hands tied.

MORE FROM BRITNEY SPEARS BOOK

Do we need to hear more from Britney Spears’ upcoming book, “The Woman in Me”? Apparently so.
– Britney admits she lost her virginity to her brother Bryan’s childhood best friend when she was a freshman and he was a senior.
– Justin Timberlake famously split up with her via text in 2002, but he traveled to her home in Louisiana to hand her a letter he had written and framed.
– Her first marriage – the one to childhood friend Jason Alexander that lasted 55 hours – came about because she was bored, angry and drunk. She says she was hanging out with friends at her family’s home in Louisiana when her mother Lynne yelled at them for making too much noise. Deciding she had enough money to do whatever she wanted, Britney took her friends to Vegas. Paris Hilton showed up, they got drunk, and Britney wound up in bed with Alexander. On the third night they got plastered together they decided to get married at the Little White Chapel. When they got there another couple was getting married so she and Jason had to wait in line. Britney writes: “People have asked me if I loved him. To be clear: he and I were not in love. I was just honestly very drunk – and probably, in a more general sense at that time in my life, very bored.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 31, Tuesday – Halloween
Nov. 5, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Saturday – Veterans Day
Nov. 23, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Thursday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 10:27 P.M. EST
Dec. 25, Monday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Sunday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Monday – New Year’s Day 2024

BIRTHDAYS

Jennifer Nicole Freeman (actress, “My Wife and Kids”) … 38
John Krasinski (actor, writer, producer, “Quiet Place” movies, “Jack Ryan,” “The Office,” now Marvel’s Mr. Fantastic) … 44
Snoop Dogg (rapper, stoner, actor, real name Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.) … 52
Jim Sonefeld (drummer with Hootie and the Blowfish) … 59
Viggo Mortensen (actor, “Lord of the Rings” movies) … 65

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

“Nah, I ain’t trippin’ man, ’cause I got my head on straight, you know what I’m saying?”

(A) Joe Biden
(B) Donald Trump
(C) Snoop Dogg

ANSWER: (C) Snoop Dogg

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2003 – A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
* Even worse, it was before YouTube.

1984 – The world’s biggest aquarium opened in California.
* It’s called the Pacific Ocean.

1973 – The Sydney Opera House opened to the public for the first time.
* It took a few years for people to stop calling harbor police about the “bunch of sailboats crashed together.”

1864 – President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
* Which is amazing, since football hadn’t been invented yet.

1818 – The 49th parallel boundary separating America and Canada was established.
* Unfortunately, it didn’t keep out Justin Bieber.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2018 – On what would have been Tom Petty’s 68th birthday, the city of Gainesville renamed the former Northeast Park, a park where a young Petty had often visited, as Tom Petty Park.

2014 – The childhood home of former Beatle George Harrison sold at an auction for $250,000. The three-bedroom mid-terrace home was where The Quarrymen held some of their first rehearsals before the band evolved into the The Beatles in 1960.

2006 – George Michael openly smoked a cannabis joint during an interview on a TV show. The singer was filmed backstage in Madrid, Spain where the drug was legal. Michael said “It’s the only drug I’ve ever thought worth taking, this stuff keeps me sane and happy. But it’s not very healthy.”

2000 – Two months after becoming husband and wife, TLC’s T-Boz and Inglewood, Calif, rapper Mack 10 became parents when baby Chase came into the world.

1991 – Country singer Clint Black married “Knot’s Landing” actress Lisa Hartman.

1990 – Three members of 2 Live Crew were acquitted on obscenity charges in Hollywood, FL.

1979 – The Eagles started a nine-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “The Long Run”, the band’s fourth U.S. No.1.

1978 – The Police made their U.S. debut at C.B.G.B.’s, New York. The trio flew in on low cost tickets, carrying their instruments as hand luggage.

1977 – Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve’s sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a swamp in Gillsburg, Missouri. The band was due to play at Louisiana University that evening, the other members from the band were all seriously injured.

1976 – Led Zeppelin’s film “The Song Remains The Same” premiered in New York. The charity night raised $25,000 for the Save The Children fund.

1973 – The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Angie.” the group’s 7th U.S. chart topper.

1962 – Peter Paul and Mary went to No.1 on the U.S. album chart with their self- titled album.

1955 – Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and his Comets appeared at Brooklyn High School auditorium, Cleveland.

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. In a recent survey, 48% of married women say they cannot stand when their husbands do THIS in the kitchen. What is it?
Drink out of a carton

2. When wives were asked “If you could hypnotize your husband and make him do anything, what would it be?” the most popular answer was THIS. What is it?
Give a good back rub

3. Almost 75% of women surveyed said they have made their husbands do THIS before leaving the house. What is it?
Change their shoes

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