FRIDAY, Oct 6 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREPTEXT VERSION FOR FRIDAY, October 6, 2023
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: I LOVE LUCIFER; 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.)

AMERICAN LIBRARIES DAY

MAD HATTER DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Mad Hatter Day is a great day to be silly and celebrate silliness. The Mad Hatter is a fictional character depicted in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Mad Hatter is always acting silly. So, on Mad Hatter Day, it is only fair and fitting to act a little silly yourself. Despite being a silly day, the selection of the date was actually quite logical. The Mad Hatter wears a top hat. On the front of the hat is a slip of paper with ’10/6′ written on it. The paper is believed to be an order to make the hat, and that it costs ten shillings sixpence. Grab yourself a top hat, and have a a very silly Mad Hatter’s Day! Did You Know? In the 8th Century, mercury was used in hat making in a process called ‘carroting.’ Mercury poisoning drove some hatters crazy (mad).”

NATIONAL COACHES DAY
The National Today website says this:
“In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation declaring October 6 as National Coaches Day. It states: “Coaches are highly qualified teachers in highly specialized fields. But more than that, they are friends and counselors who help instill in their players important attitudes that will serve them all their lives.”

NATIONAL NOODLE DAY

NATIONAL PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“National Physician’s Assistant Day celebrates and recognizes the importance and skills of this career. The highly trained Physician’s Assistant is an invaluable aide to physicians and general practitioners. The profession of Physician’s Assistant was created in 1965 by Dr. Eugene Stead at Duke Medical Center. The first physician assistants graduated from Duke University on October 6, 1967. Since then, this job has grown to tens of thousands of people. If you see your Physician’s Assistant today, wish him or her a happy day. And, let them know they are appreciated.”

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 BUZZHOME DECOR MISTAKES

Do you have things in your home, like furniture and decorations? Boy, are you a loser. From the LivingALot website, here are Home Decor Mistakes That Make You Look Immature:
– A “Live, Laugh, Love” Sign
– Any “Keep Calm and (Drink Wine, Carry On, Party On, Live Your Dreams, etc.) signs
– Chalkboard Paint on a wall
– Posters
– Neon Colors
– Plastic Drawers
– IKEA furniture
– Plastic dishware
– Oversized floor pillows
– Bare floors
– Photos without frames, stuck on the wall or a corkboard
– Futon
– Particle board furniture
– A cluttered refrigerator door
– Fake plants or trees
– Trophy displays
– Macrame’
– Dream catchers
– Stuffed animals
– Hanging tapestry
– Beer bottle collections
* I was with you right up to “beer bottle collection”. I worked hard on that.
* But I need all those plastic drawers for my Magic: The Gathering cards.
* So basically, you should decorate your home like a prison cell.
* This story brought to you buy the Association to Keep Buying New Stuff.
* Thanks for the advice, LivingALot.com, and we promise we’ll lose the plastic drawers, IKEA furniture, plastic dishware, particle board furniture, and bare floors when we get out from under the 150 grand of student loan debt.

U.S. NEWS

DUI COP HAD WON AWARD FOR MOST DUI ARRESTS

A Sacramento police officer arrested for driving under the influence had previously been given an award for arresting drunk drivers. Raymond Barrantes was arrested last weekend after California Highway Patrol pulled him over. Back in 2015, Barrantes was given an award by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for having the most DUI arrests in 2014.
* To catch the elusive DUI, you have to become the DUI.
* Was he still celebrating winning the award after all these years?
* The teacher has become the pupil.
* Time to pass the baton to the cop who nabbed him.

GRASSHOPPERS EATING MARIJUANA PLANTS

Colorado cannabis farmers are losing their crops to grasshoppers this year. This has been a banner year for grasshoppers, thanks to above-average rainfall in the spring, and entire crops have been wiped out. Jon McIntosh, who runs Humble Farms, says they put 1,000 plants in the ground, and within a few days there were three left. According to Crowley County cannabis business liaison Tobe Allubaugh, the county’s outdoor cannabis output will be cut in half this year because of grasshoppers.
* Now THAT is a buzzkill. Literally.
* Well, grasshopper is sure an appropriate name for them.
* It wouldn’t be so bad, except with pot, the grasshoppers eat some, get the munchies, and then want to eat lots more.
* Don’t bogart that locust, my friend.
* After they eat the pot plants, they don’t hop anymore. More like grassmeanderers.
* “Hey, why are these edibles so crunchy?”

CUSTOMS CONFISCATES GIRAFFE POOP AT AIRPORT

Customs officials at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport seized a box of giraffe manure from a traveler who arrived from Kenya. The passenger declared the giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the droppings in Kenya. She was planning to make a necklace out of it. She also stated in the past she had used moose feces to fashion jewelry. Officials destroyed the contents via steam sterilization.
* A giraffe poop necklace must be quite the conversation… ender.
* The hardest part of making the necklace is following the giraffe around with a bucket.
* Honestly – would her customers really be able to tell if she used her own?
* A giraffe poop necklace? How much would that weigh? 15 pounds?
* Talk about polishing a turd.

GIRL SCOUTS DISCONTINUING VERY POPULAR COOKIE

The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a sales frenzy. Next year, there won’t be any Raspberry Rally. The Rallies are like Thin Mints, but the the chocolate cookie was replaced with a bright pink berry-flavored one. The Rallies were the Girl Scouts’ first-ever cookie to be exclusively sold online, and sales went berserk. Some chapters sold out in less than a day, and resellers offered the Rallies on eBay for as much as $30 per box. The Girl Scouts say they are taking a pause this season “to prioritize” their classic varieties. And in more horrible Girl Scout cookie news, prices are going up, from $5 a box to $6 per box.
* Well, SOMEBODY earned their Planned Shortage To Drive Up Prices badge this year.
* Besides raising prices, don’t forget to make the boxes smaller and the cookies fewer.
* Maybe the Barbie phenomenon used up all the pink, so there’s none left for the cookies.
* So … if everybody who was approached by a Girl Scout this year said, “Oh boy! I’ll take ten boxes of Rallies!!” – would that be funny, or mean?

DEAD COW ON THE ROOF

Stephanie Hull, who specializes in photographing abandoned buildings, travels across the United States to scout locations for a photo shoot. While exploring southwestern Utah, she came across an abandoned lot with a number of cattle carcasses scattered around it, including on the roof of a small house. She alerted the Utah Department of Agriculture, and they don’t seem to have any cattle reported missing or any suspicious activity from nearby ranchers. But the question remains: how did a cow carcass make it onto a roof? The photographer noted that there are no other buildings anywhere near the home, which was empty except for an old couch. The floor is full of holes, so it’s unsafe to walk in. A Department of Agriculture spokesman said the cow would have had to be deceased when placed on the roof of the building, otherwise it would have jumped off.
* A parkour attempt gone bad?
* Little Grogu practicing levitating things?
* The cows formed a pyramid to see if there was any food up there?
* Has nobody else thought of the flying cow scene in “Twister”?
* A dozen dead cows lying in the field, but you get one on the roof and THAT’S the mystery they’re trying to solve.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

RAT, OTTERS, TURTLES, MARMOT, MORE SMUGGLED ONTO PLANE

Mayhem broke out Wednesday on a plane from Bangkok to Taiwan when a white rat and an otter smuggled aboard by a passenger got loose in the main cabin during the flight. It happened aboard a low-cost VietJet Air flight. Air hostesses freaked out upon noticing what passengers described as an albino rat and a nearly 1-foot-long otter scurrying around on the floor. Once the plane landed in Taipei, a police search also located a box containing 28 live turtles, a snake, one marmot, two otters and two other rodents of unknown species among the luggage (* ♫ “…and a partridge in a pear tree … ♪♪”). A female passenger was determined to have smuggled the critters through security at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand. The woman, when caught, then demanded a refund.
* This service animal thing is really getting out of hand.
* It’s the first airline with an in-flight zoo.
* It was an Asian flight. I would have thought the critters escaped from the plane’s galley during food prep.
* Airport security will confiscate your open bottle of Snapple but god forbid they pat you down for otters.

EUROPEANS USED TO EAT THEIR DEAD

A new study, published in the Quaternary Science Review, claims that cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago. They believe people back then ate their dead not out of necessity but rather as part of their culture. Research focused on the Magdalenian period of the late Upper Paleolithic era. The Magdalenians lived some 11,000 to 17,000 years ago. 59 Magdalenian sites, mostly in France, Germany, Spain and Russia, were found to have human remains. Fifteen of them showed evidence of human remains with chewing marks, skull bones with cut marks and bones purposefully broken in a pattern associated with the extraction of bone marrow for nutrients, indicating that cannibalism was practiced.
* Ah – British food finally explained!
* I’m finding this story hard to digest.
* And no, they did not dig up a book called “To Serve Man.”
* Historically, the Magdalenian period predated the Federmesser comma, so first you had “Let’s eat grandma” and then you had “Let’s eat, comma, grandma.”
* Once again, this has been your Media Pre-Halloween Horror Story of the Day.

TRENDING

KEVIN COSTNER WESTERN PROJECT COMING NEXT SUMMER

Kevin Costner‘s next western epic has been scheduled for release next summer. “Horizon: An American Saga” is the project that, in part, caused Costner to bow out of the “Yellowstone” TV show. The new project, which he says he’s been working on since 1988, is a two-parter. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 hits theaters on June 28, 2024. Part 2 comes out two months later on Aug. 16, 2024. A sequel being released such a short period of time after the first film is rare, but not unheard of. Meanwhile, it’s still unclear if Costner will return to Yellowstone to finish John Dutton’s storyline when the show eventually – maybe – returns for the second half of its fifth season.

MADONNA FLIES COACH

Madonna was spotted on a commercial flight to the UK ahead of her Celebration Tour. According to tabloid The Sun, the singer stunned travelers as she boarded a standard red eye British Airways flight from New York to the capital along with her son David Banda. Although, she did fly First Class. Her dancers took up a large section of Premium Economy. Reports from the plane are that no one bothered her. Madonna’s 78-date global tour kicks off in London next weekend at London’s O2 Arena.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 9, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 14, Saturday – Annular Solar Eclipse (ANNULAR*, not ANNUAL)
(* The moon will not completely cover the sun – being farther from Earth it will be slightly smaller, resulting in a “ring of fire” effect)
Oct. 16, Monday – National Boss’s Day
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

Brett Gelman (actor, Murray Bauman on “Stranger Things”) … 47
Jeremy Sisto (actor, “Ice”, “Wicked City,” “Suburgatory,”) … 49
Tim Rushlow (country singer, was lead singer with Little Texas) … 57
Elisabeth Shue (actress, “Greyhound,” “The Boys,” “CSI”) … 60
Kevin Cronin (singer with Reo Speedwagon, “Keep On Loving You”) … 72

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

“I’m pretty mellow. I used to be explosive in my early 20s, but for the last eight or 10 years, I haven’t been as reactive. It gets emotionally exhausting.”

(A) Lewis Black
(B) John Oliver
(C) Jeremy Sisto

ANSWER: (C) Jeremy Sisto

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched Instagram. 18 months later, they sold it to Facebook for $1 billion.
* With the money I made in those same 18 months, you could almost buy a used car.

2004 – The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein’s regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
* Oops!

1956 – Albert Sabin discovered the oral polio vaccine.
* And the sugar cube finally found its true purpose in life.

1927 – The first talking feature film, The Jazz Singer, had its premiere in New York.
* And who can forget those famous immortal opening lines uttered by Al Jolson: “Which microphone do I talk into?”

1908 – Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzogovina.
* Yeah, like messing with a small country like Bosnia is going to lead to any problems.

1883 – The Orient Express completed its first run from Paris to Istanbul in nearly 78 hours.
* It would have been quicker, but they were waiting for Hercule Poirot to solve the murder.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2011 – Starship’s “We Built This City” was named “the worst song of the 1980s” in a poll by Rolling Stone magazine.

2002 – Mick Jagger donated $176,000 to his old Grammar school to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments.

2002 – Elvis Presley started a three-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Elvis’s 30 #1 Hits.”

2000 – Manhattan Supreme Court sentenced rapper Busta Rhymes to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to a gun possession charge.

1990 – The Mayor of Minneapolis declared it “Prince Day,” even though Prince didn’t turn up to the celebrations because he was in Los Angeles.

1980 – The Bee Gees sued their record company Polygram and the band’s manager Robert Stigwood for fraud.

1978 – Abba members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad married.

1976 – “Disco Duck” received a gold record.

1973 – Cher started a two week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Half-Breed,” the singer’s second U.S. No.1.

1964 – The Beatles spent the afternoon recording “Eight Days A Week” at Abbey Road studios in London. Late evening was spent at The Ad Lib Club, London, partying with The Ronettes and Mick Jagger.

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. Three out of 10 people say they’ve used THIS as a way to start talking to a potential date, and it worked 84% of the time. What is it?
Their dog

2. Close to 20% of people have witnessed a dog being part of THIS. What is it?
A wedding ceremony

3. One in four veterinarians say they’ve treated a dog for THIS. What is it?
Being drunk

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