MONDAY, Oct 14 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR MONDAY, October 14, 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.)

BALD AND FREE DAY (or BE BALD AND BE FREE DAY)

COLUMBUS DAY
Wikipedia says this:
“Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492.”

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
The Wincalendar website says this:
“Indigenous Peoples Day is aimed at honoring the rich history, cultures, and contributions of the Indigenous peoples across the Americas. This commemorative day serves as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day, intending to shed light on the historical truth and various experiences of Indigenous peoples.”

NATIONAL DESSERT DAY

SPIDER-MAN DAY
According to Marvel, Spidey’s birthday is October 14, 1962.

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

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

MONDAY, October 14

“NCIS: Origins”
CBS – New Series
Synopsis: Follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs in 1991, years prior to the events of “NCIS.” In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.

Season Premier:
CBS – “NCIS”

TUESDAY, October 15

“Beyond Black Beauty”
Prime Video – New Series
Synopsis: Jolie Dumont is a young equestrian whose Olympic dreams are dashed when her mother moves them from Belgium to her family’s urban ranch in Baltimore. Angry with the move, Jolie wants to escape until she bonds with a spirited horse named Black Beauty.

“Detroiters”
Netflix – Series, previously aired on Comedy Central
Synopsis: A pair of hopeful advertising creatives try to forge careers for themselves with their own brand of low-budget commercials. With Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson.

“FBI: International”
CBS – New Series
Synopsis: Follows the elite operatives of the FBIs International Fly Team as they travel across Europe to neutralize threats against Americans.

“I’m Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders”
HBO – New Docuseries
Synopsis: Examines the unorthodox killer and her well-planned crime spree — from embezzling funds to the murder of a stranger to identity theft — while chronicling the enduring effects of familial dysfunction and mental health strains on her psyche.

WEDNESDAY, October 16

Season Premier:
Apple TV+ – “Shrinking”

THE BUZZ

DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING NAMES

Reddit asked, “What’s something with a dangerously misleading name?” Some of the responses:
– “Long Island Iced Tea does not contain any tea at all.”
– “Sweetbreads are not pastries.”
– “Red Delicious apples. Not any more they’re not.”
– “Ladyfingers. Still can’t eat ’em.”
– “Water moccasin.”
– “Flushable wipes. Not flushable.”
– “Waterboarding sounds like a fun time!”
– “Barenaked Ladies were a huge letdown for teenage me.”
– “Greenland.”
– “Common sense. Obviously it’s not common at all.”
– “You can’t cuddle with cuttlefish.”
– “The Dyson Ball Cleaner.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Misleading names of products.

U.S. NEWS

BAG MARKED “DEFINITELY NOT A BAG FULL OF DRUGS” WAS FULL OF DRUGS

Officers last Tuesday night stopped a man and a woman driving a stolen car in Southeast Portland, Oregon. They searched the car and discovered cash, a loaded revolver, two scales — and a bag that had “Definitely not a bag full of drugs” printed on it. Inside that bag was… drugs – methamphetamine and fentanyl. The couple in the car were arrested.
* Oh, come on, everybody lies these days. It’s expected.
* So listen, folks. Don’t print “Definitely not a bag full of drugs” on your bag full of drugs. It doesn’t actually keep police from looking inside.
* Police were tipped off ’cause the side of the car said “Definitely not a stolen car.”
* I hope they charge them with a felony attempt at irony.

WOMAN CAUGHT SMUGGLING TURTLES IN KAYAK ACROSS LAKE

A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffel bag on Lake Wallace. Border patrol agents searched her duffel bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each. Messages on her phone showed that she tried to smuggle the turtles into Canada so that they could eventually be sold for a profit in Hong Kong, She faces up to 10 years in prison.
* See, this is why we need a border wall – for the turtles. I’m not saying you have to build it fast.
* If these things are so rare, how did she find so many?
* If she’s trying to get them to Hong Kong, isn’t Canada in the wrong direction?
* Individually wrapped in socks? Eeewww – please tell me the socks weren’t used.
* How to you lure a turtle? With a little plastic palm tree like you get with the green turtles in the pet store.

AUDIO: ROBOT VACUUMS HACKED, START YELLING OBSCENITIES

There have been recent multiple instances across the U.S. of Ecovacs robot vacuums yelling profanities at their owners. According to reports, the hacking spree spanned a few days in multiple US cities. Some users said their robots sounded like broken-up radio signals, some heard things clear as a bell. The hackers were also able to access the live camera feed and remote control feature. Some robots went rogue, chasing dogs around the home. All the affected models were Chinese-made Ecovacs Deebot X2s, which currently retail at around $900. The company confirmed the vulnerability affecting some of its products. Security researchers had previously notified Ecovacs of significant security flaws affecting the vacuum’s Bluetooth, video feed and remote control feature. Ecovacs issued a patch for these flaws, but some said it was insufficient. The company plans to further enhance the security of the X2 series by issuing an over-the-air firmware update in November.
* The Ecovacs are angry because they actually want to be coffeemakers.
* Chasing dogs around the house? Maybe they should be sold as pet exercisers.
* Fortunately, the hacking only happened to a car — er, nuclear missile — er, I mean, vacuum cleaner.
* Did you see Elon Musk’s dancing humanoid robots that he showed off last week? Now imagine one of them being hacked and strangling you.
* “Ecovacs – we suck in more ways than one!”
CLIP: A robot vacuum says, “Oh darling, I want to suck your toes.”
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/TalkingRobotVacuum(dot)mp3

BUY YOURSELF A REDBOX MACHINE

So, Redbox – the DVD rental company – is out of business. Besides owing a lot of money, the company also left all the Redbox machines where they were – 24,000 iconic red machines now sit at various retail locations around the world, and the company doesn’t want them back. Most of them will probably be sold for scrap. But if you feel like you just have to have one, the business where it’s sitting will probably let you take it. If you do, know this: the Redbox machines are heavy and extremely difficult to transport. They cost around $35 per month in electricity for a single machine. They also have to be regularly maintained. However, if you have a large DVD collection, each machine can hold around 500.
* Buy a Redbox, stick all your DVD’s in there and you’ll never have to hear your wife say, “When are you gonna get rid of these dumb DVD’s?”
* Buy one and put it in the spare bedroom to keep that Exercycle you never use company.
* Maybe that last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon could put one outside for when the store’s closed overnight.
* It’d make a great practical joke next April Fool’s Day – leave one on someone’s lawn. Leave two.

NYC PIZZA HUTS WILL DELIVER YOUR RESUME WITH A PIZZA

Pizza Hut restaurants in New York City have a new promotion. If you’re applying for a job they will print your resume directly on a pizza box, and then deliver the pizza to your prospective employer free of charge, provided they’re located in New York City. They are calling the program ResZAmes – (* We have no idea what it means either) – for more information go to ResZAmes.com.
* New York City, home to the world’s best pizza on every corner – yeah, they’re gonna remember you’re the guy who sent Pizza Hut.
* Something like this will go on your permanent record, and not in a good way.
* How many toppings do you put on it? Too few and they’ll think you’re too lazy to do your research; too much and they’ll think you’re overachieving and after their job.
* Here’s a tip: never — NEVER — do this if you’re applying at a restaurant.
* My takeaway is – If Pizza Hut needs such a dumb promotion to sell pizzas, how good can they be?

TRENDINGBRANTLEY GILBERT’S WIFE GIVES BIRTH IN THE TOUR BUS

Brantley Gilbert’s wife gave birth to their new son in his dad’s tour bus mid-show. The country singer posted a video to his Instagram from his show in Tupelo, Mississippi Friday night … revealing he went out to perform his show before leaving the stage due to an some sort of emergency. The camera follows Brantley offstage and into his tour bus, where his wife, Amber, is holding their new baby boy. Gilbert immediately calls his mom to tell her the good news, then tells his mama he’s gotta go finish the show — and runs back onstage to thousands of cheering fans. This is Brantley and Amber’s third child.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (Oct. 11-13)

1. Terrifier 3 – $18.3
2. The Wild Robot – $13.4 million
3. Joker: Folie à Deux – $7.05 million
4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – $7 million
5. Piece By Piece – $3.8 million

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TODAY – 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

Max Thieriot (actor, “SEAL Team”) … 36
Usher (singer, actor) … 46
Stephen Hill (actor, “Magnum, P.I.”) … 48
Natalie Maines (singer w The Chicks, formerly Dixie Chicks) … 50
Jon Seda (actor, “Chicago P.D.”) … 54
Lori Petty (actress, “Station Eleven,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “A League of Their Own”) … 61
Thomas Dolby (musician, “She Blinded Me With Science”, real name Thomas Morgan Robertson) … 66
Justin Hayward (singer, musician w The Moody Blues) … 78

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

“In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we’re better.”

(A) Lindsay Lohan
(B) Shia Labeouf
(C) Usher

ANSWER: (C) Usher

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2001 – Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle’s office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
* Just another reason not to use snail mail.

1968 – The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
* They could have made a fortune by including commercials.

1066 – Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
* I’ve never understood where they found so many guys named “Norman.”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2009 – Paul McCartney was named Songwriter of The Year at the 29th Annual ASCAP Awards in London, England. The awards honored songwriters and publishers of the most performed works in the U.S. during 2008.

2004 – The iTunes Music Store reached 150 million songs sold.

2004 – Eric Clapton was suspended from driving in France after being caught speeding at 134 mph in his Porsche 911 Turbo. After paying his fine Clapton posed for photographs with French police and then left the scene in his Porsche – with his secretary behind the wheel.

1996 – Madonna gave birth to baby Lourdes Maria Cicone Leon.

1988 – Def Leppard became first act in chart history to sell seven million copies of two consecutive LPs, with “Pyromania” (released in 1983) and “Hysteria” (released in 1987).

1969 – Police in New Jersey issued a warrant for the arrest of Frank Sinatra in relation to his connections with the Mafia.

1966 – Pink Floyd made their debut live performance when they played at All Saints Hall, Notting Hill, London.

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. When applying for a job, over 40% of managers consider THIS equally or more important than your work experience. What is it?
Your volunteer experience

2. Over 20% of Americans have taken a sick day from work to do THIS. What is it?
Go shopping

3. A recent office poll shows that over 18% of men have THIS on their desk. What is it?
A picture of their pet

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