MONDAY, May 19 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR MONDAY, May 19, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: LAWN SHAMAN

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 – including “holidays” created by the National Day Calendar and Wellcat websites to drive traffic to their websites – or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year. We present only those specially designated days we feel your listeners would find most interesting or significant.)

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this;
“Boys and Girls Club Day celebrates the invaluable Boy’s Clubs and Girl’s Clubs around the country. There are clubs all over America providing safe recreational activities for our youth, teaching values, morals, citizenship, and a variety of life skills, helping keep kids out of trouble and off of the street. And the clubs’ leaders are the perfect role models that so many children and especially teens are lacking in their life. Today is a day to recognize the importance of these groups for our children and to the community. With more and more parents at work, and broken families, these groups take on added importance.”

NATIONAL DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE DAY

PLANT SOMETHING DAY
The Memorable Day website says this:
“Plant Something Day is celebrated to highlight the importance of trees and plants in sustaining life. Plants play a crucial role in reducing pollution, producing oxygen, and maintaining ecological balance. Additionally, planting promotes mental well-being, as it provides relaxation and a sense of accomplishment. By planting something on this day, individuals contribute to a greener and healthier planet for future generations.”

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbecue Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
Older Americans Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

WHAT TO WATCH – New and Returning Shows and Movies
Premiering Monday through Wednesday
Listings sourced from the TV Guide, EW and other websites

MONDAY, May 19

“Sarah Silverman: Postmortem”
Netflix – Stand-Up Comedy Special
Synopsis: After losing her parents, Sarah Silverman finds laughter and solace in celebrating their lives, from deathbed binge-watching to an ill-timed fart. Comedy gold!

“Tucci in Italy”
Disney+/Hulu – Yet Another Stanley Tucci Italian Food Reality Show
Synopsis: A narrative-driven exploration that delves deep into the heart of Italy’s culinary traditions.

Season Premieres:
FOX – “LEGO Masters”

TUESDAY, May 20

“Motorheads”
Prime Video – New YA Series
Synopsis: A former NASCAR mechanic (Ryan Phillippe) moves back to his Pennsylvania rust belt hometown, which he finds is full of kids who are handy with a wrench and like to drive fast.

“Untold: The Fall of Favre”
Netflix – New Documentary
Synopsis: Delves into Brett Favre’s controversial career, the dark side of sports stardom, and the scandals that marred his legacy.

WEDNESDAY, May 21

“Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service”
Fox – Yet Another Save-Failing-Restaurants Reality Food Show
Synopsis: The world-renowned chef “goes undercover” with a team of culinary experts to transform failing restaurants while also mending broken spirits and reigniting passions.

“Newly Rich, Newly Poor”
Netflix – New Series from Colombia
Synopsis: A wealthy businessman and a working-class dreamer discover they were switched at birth. Now, they must swap lives to learn what truly matters.

“Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark”
Netflix – Yet Another Sex Hookup Reality “Dating” Show
Synopsis: Six singles check into a motel looking for “love,” but there’s a twist: Their situationships are invited too. Can these hookups turn into real romance?

Season Premieres:
Fox – “MasterChef”
Hulu – “Nine Perfect Strangers”

CLIP: EUROVISION SONG WINNER – “WASTED LOVE” BY JJ

The annual Eurovision song contest was held over the weekend in Basel, Switzerland. The winner: Austria’s Johannes Pietsch, a classically trained singer who performs under the name of JJ, with his song “Wasted Love.” This was the 68th year of the contest to find the best song in all the land. In 68 years, the most famous Eurovision winners have been ABBA with “Waterloo” and Celine Dion with the song you just can’t stop humming, “Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi.”
* Which translates to “Don’t Party Without Me, Daddy”, I think.
* This song sounds like Freddie Mercury crossed with Mariah Carey.
* Wow, listen to those high notes. Must have come from all that yodeling in the Alps.
* I thought they stopped making castratos after the Renaissance.
CLIP: A clip of “Wasted Love” by JJ. Yes, that’s a dude.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/Eurovision-WastedLovebyJJ-Clip(dot)mp3

THE BUZZ

WEIRD THOUGHTS THAT STICK WITH YOU

Reddit asked, “What’s the dumbest, most random thing you heard once that somehow stuck with you forever?” Some of the responses:
– “A bridge is just a really brave street.”
– “Cauliflower is the ghost of broccoli.”
– “I had a coworker tell me that she could only drink Dr Pepper because she was allergic to water.”
– “An old CEO told me in our first meeting he wanted the business to be “sexy vanilla”. 12 years later I still laugh at the stupidity of that comment.”
– “My mouth tastes like teeth.”
– “I once heard ducks have regional accents.”
– “What kind of fish are tater tots made out of?”
– “A phone call at the library, where a guy was arguing with his gf. He says, ‘Baby! Of course I still love Sharknado!'”
– “Overheard a a man telling his child that you have to eat Doritos during the Super Bowl because that’s the rule.”
– “Is is what is is.” (not a typo)
– “Why do I always get stuck behind the slow people?”
– “Live and learn, die and forget it all.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Did someone ever say something strange that stuck with you?

U.S. NEWS

NATIONAL GUARDSMEN TRESPASS TO ACQUIRE ELK ANTLERS

Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after they landed a Black Hawk helicopter in a pasture on a private ranch to take several elk antlers before flying away. A witness saw the May 4 landing and contacted the property owner who, in turn, contacted the Montana National Guard. They tracked down the three guard members. The guardsmen had been on a training flight from the city of Billings to Helena when they landed briefly in the pasture located in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains (* Name checks out). They picked up two individual antlers and an old elk skull with antlers still attached. Elk antlers — which grow and drop off male animals annually — are highly prized and can be sold by the pound. They also are collected as keepsakes. The antlers and skull taken by the guardsmen were worth a combined $300 to $400.
* Does that take care of the trespassing fine?
* The other way to tell this story is, three civic-minded National Guardsmen picked up litter from Montana man’s yard at no charge.
* Or another way to tell this story is that three guys got the horns while riding in a helicopter. Sometimes the vibration does that.
* How did they see the antlers from a helicopter? Is this some new antler-detecting technology? Is America winning the antlerscope race against the Russians?
* You realize that, by landing a helicopter in an open field, they caused probably a nickel’s worth of damage.

NUDE 5K RUN

The Carolina Foothills Resort, a nudist resort in South Carolina, says it already has a record 161 people signed up to run in its annual 5k clothing-optional race coming up on June 14. Registration includes a free lunch and a day pass to explore the clothing-optional resort.
* I guarantee you, it’ll be a flop.
* I also guarantee you that the winner will set a record time, barely.
* Winner gets a tub of sunscreen.
* 161 people. That’s a lot of skin in the game.
* More jiggling than a Jell-o buffet in an earthquake.
* If you’re not in the lead for the entire race, that view, man—- more cracks than a mile of bad asphalt.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

PALM TREE FALLS ON MAN AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

A palm tree fell on a man at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. The man, said to be an agent for Japanese actor Kodai Kurosaki (* I LOVE him!), was walking along the Boulevard de la Croisette (* “The Street of the Flaky Pastry”) in the seaside French town when a strong wind came up and blew over the mostly-dead tree. A scream was heard, and a witness said he saw the injured man on the sidewalk bleeding from the head. He was taken to a hospital.
* He wins the Palme d’Ouch award.
* And THAT is how you get your client noticed at a film festival.
* One actor shouted, “Is there anyone playing a doctor in the house?”
* I hope his movie is a bigger hit than the tree.
* “The Cannes Film Festival – Come for the movies, stay for the emergency trauma care.”

COUPLE GETS POTATO CHIP SURPRISE

Johnnie and Rachel Norman, a British couple, were vacationing at a hotel in Blackpool, a seaside town north of Liverpool. The couple went out on the town to celebrate her birthday. Mr. Norman had secretly arranged a surprise for his wife: she loves potato chips, so he asked the hotel staff to put 30 bags of potato chips on the bed while they were out. When they came back to the room, the bed was covered with 30 bags worth of potato chips – poured out of the bags and dumped loosely all over the bed. The staff misunderstood that he wanted CLOSED BAGS OF CHIPS on the bed. When they figured out what had happened, the couple had a good laugh.
* They thought the story was all that and a bag of chips. 30 bags of chips!
* I bet housekeeping had a few not-very-funny things to say about it.
* So the staff just let the chips … fall where they may.
* And then the Normans had the kinkiest sex of their lives.
* Lotsa Lay’s. The potato chips, I mean.
* Alright, who’s the Wise-ass? Mrs. Norman, because she was on the bottom.
* Imagine what would have happened if he’d said, “When we come back, I want to see a dog sitting on our bed.”

TRENDING

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (May 16-18)

1. Final Destination: Bloodlines – $46 million
2. Thunderbolts – $15.5 million
3. Sinners – $15 million
4. A Minecraft Movie – $5.9 million
5. The Accountant 2 – $4.5 million

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

May 26, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Saturday – Flag Day
June 15, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 20, Friday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Sam Smith (singer/songwriter) … 33
Michael Che (comedian, “Saturday Night Live”) … 42
Phil Rudd (drummer with AC/DC) … 71
Grace Jones (singer-actress-model) … 74
Pete Townshend (musician, singer/songwriter, The Who) … 80

Today’s Birthdays grade: The sometimes flamboyant guitarist for one of the biggest English rock bands launched in the 60s, a huge 2010’s UK singer/songwriter, AC/DC’s major drummer, the one-of-a-kind music star Grace Jones, and, just to change things up, A 10-plus-years SNL alum. Solid list! Grade: B-plus.

[Want to try something different with the daily birthdays? Try grading them! Some days have “good” celebs, some have “great” celebs, some have “lousy” celebs. For fun, give the group an arbitrary grade: A-plus through F-minus. Sidekick will give you our take on it; you can to take the concept and run with it.]

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

“I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won’t be classified as just a man.”

(A) Vladimir Putin
(B) Dwayne Johnson
(C) Pete Townshend

ANSWER: (C) Pete Townshend

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2022 – Mercedes confirmed the sale of world’s most expensive car – a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe for the American equivalent of $142 million.
* Good luck finding parts.

1992 – In Massapequa, N.Y., Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey’s 17-year-old lover, Amy Fisher. Fisher was dubbed “the Long Island Lolita” and the case became one of the 90s tabloid media’s biggest stories.
* Unleash the made-for-TV movies!

1962 – Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a rendition of “Happy Birthday” for President Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
* So much for keeping their relationship on the down low.

1928 – The first Calaveras County, California, Frog Jumping Contest was held – the oldest event of its kind in the U.S.
* You’d be amazed what people did for entertainment before there was television.

1911 – The first criminal conviction using fingerprints was obtained in New York City.
* It gave a big boost to the latex glove industry.

1780 – Near total darkness fell on England and part of Canada at about noon – though it sounds like an eclipse, it wasn’t, and no scientifically verifiable cause has ever been determined.
* It was that big mothership from “Independence Day” making a fly-by.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2013 – A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by VOX, was bought by an unidentified U.S. buyer in New York. Harrison played “I Am The Walrus” on the guitar in a scene from Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Lennon used it in a video for “Hello, Goodbye” later that year. After playing the guitar, Lennon gave it as a 25th birthday present to Alexis “Magic Alex” Mardas, a member of The Beatles’ inner circle in the 1960s.

2000 – Folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary celebrated their 40th year together with a U.S. tour that kicked off with a three-night stand in Las Vegas.

2000 – The Allman Brothers announced that founding guitarist Dickey Betts would not be a part of the veteran Southern rockers’ summer tour. In a statement, the band said, “sadly, there are creative differences.”

1990 – Madonna started a three week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Vogue.”

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. 45% of employees surveyed said it is never appropriate to do THIS with a coworker. What is it?
Hug them

2. 1/3 of people will do THIS at work 6 to 8 times each week. What is it?
Sit in a meeting

3. On any given workday, employees are 20% happier when THIS happens at work. What is it?
There’s free food at the office

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