THURSDAY, June 13 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

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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.)

SEWING MACHINE DAY
The Quint website says this:
“This day is dedicated to the inventors of the modern sewing machine, Charles Frederick Wiesenthal and Thomas Saint. The sewing machine is one of the most powerful tools used in the textile industry worldwide. It has helped in revolutionizing the way clothing is made and sold.”

WEED YOUR GARDEN DAY

June is:

NATIONAL DJ MONTH – Yeah!
National Adopt a Cat / Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music / Black Music Appreciation Month
Corn Month
Great Outdoors Month / National Camping Month
International Men’s Month
Lemon Month
LGBTQIA Pride Month
National Candy Month
National Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rose Month
National Seafood Month
Women’s Golf Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

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

THURSDAY, June 13

“Brats”
Hulu – New Documentary
Synopsis: Looks at the iconic films of the 1980s that shaped a generation and the narrative that took hold when their young stars were branded the “Brat Pack.” Andrew McCarthy reunites with his fellow Brat Packers – Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Jon Cryer, Lea Thompson and Timothy Hutton – to answer the question: What did it mean to be part of the Brat Pack?

“Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go”
Max – Comedy Special
Synopsis: In her debut stand-up special, Hacks star Hannah Einbinder takes viewers on a psychedelic thrill ride of storytelling, characters, jokes, and more.

Season Premieres:
Netflix – “Bridgerton, part 2”
Peacock – “The Dirty D”
Prime Video – “The Boys”

FRIDAY, June 14

“The Big Bakeover”
CW – New Series
Synopsis: Bakery expert Nancy Birtwhistle travels across America to save struggling bakeries.

SUNDAY, June 16

“Hotel Cocaine”
MGM+ – New Series
Synopsis: Centers on a real-life hotel at the beginning of the war on drugs that had a private nightclub known as a notorious hangout for show business types, CIA undercover agents and drug kingpins.

“The 77th Annual Tony Awards”
CBS – Awards Show

Series Premiere:
HBO – “House of the Dragon”

JOEY CHESTNUT VS. KOBAYASHI IN EAT-OFF

Two of the most famous names in competitive eating, Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest champions Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, will go head-to-head in a “winner-takes-all” hot dog eating matchup to air live on Netflix on Labor Day, Sept. 2. Just this week, Nathan’s announced that Chestnut was banned from the 4th of July eating contest because he is endorsing a rival brand of hot dog. The Labor Day matchup, “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef,” will be the first time the pair have faced each other since 2009.
* If I was in an eating contest, I wouldn’t want the other contestant to face me. Projectile vomiting, and all.
* “Hey, what’s streaming on Netflix?” “Hot dog barf.”
* 2009? That’s about 3 million calories ago.
* Watch it while you’re cookin’ on the grill, get everybody in the mood to chow down.
* I could out-eat both of them combined if they want to do a Thanksgiving dinner eat-off.

THE BUZZ

DUMB HEADLINES

Time for another episode of Three Dumb Headlines. These are actual, word-for-word headlines of stories found on the internet. There’s no story, no context, just the actual headline. Discuss them amongst yourselves. Then, encourage listeners to vote for the Dumbest Headline on your station’s social media page. Maybe ask them to leave a comment. Reveal the results in the next break.
Today’s Dumb Headlines:
1. “Why Does The US Drop Nearly 15 Million Worms On Panama Every Week?”
2. “The Cement That Could Turn Your House Into A Giant Battery”
3. “Giraffe Woman: Her Final Days”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Michael Cera Looks Like a Totally New Person With This Shocking & Dramatic Hair Transformation”

U.S. NEWS

OKLAHOMA COUPLE ARRESTED FOR CATTLE RUSTLING

An Oklahoma couple is facing 28 felony charges for stealing cattle and selling them. Brandy Ingram-Myers and her husband, Joshua Myers, were arrested earlier this month for an unrelated burglary. During the arrest, investigators found more than $20,000 of cash on them. Brandy explained that they received that money for selling 25 head of cattle, but deputies did some investigating and found those cattle had been stolen. Video surveillance allegedly caught Brandy and her husband dropping off the cattle using a stolen truck and trailer, before picking up their check for over $42,000. Each of the 28 felony charges carry up to life in prison for each separate charge, due to multiple former felony convictions.
* What year is it in Oklahoma – 1886?
* What was the unrelated burglary – robbin’ the stage?
* Cattle rustling. Will they ever loin?
* 28 life sentences, but with good behavior, they could be out after 23.
* This is how the Hamburglar started.

WHITE BUFFALO IS SIGN OF BETTER TIMES

A rare white buffalo has been born in Yellowstone National Park. Erin Braaten of Kalispell, Montana, was in the northeastern corner of the park on June 4 when she spotted “something really white” among a herd of bison. She took several photos of what appeared to be a newly-born calf. She and her family watched the calf and its mother for 30 to 45 minutes. A white buffalo fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times. Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and current keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle, says the birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. Lakota legend says about 2,000 years ago — when nothing was good, food was running out and bison were disappearing — White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared, presented a bowl pipe and a bundle to a tribal member, taught them how to pray and said that the pipe could be used to bring buffalo to the area for food. As she left, she turned into a white buffalo calf, saying “Some day when the times are hard again I shall return and stand upon the earth as a white buffalo calf, black nose, black eyes, black hooves.”
– Yes, but… (this is true)… a white buffalo calf was also born back in April, on a Texas ranch. Also in 2023, in Bear River state park, Wyoming. Also in 2022. Also in 2012. And 1994. And have things really been getting better?
* Well, yeah, if you bought Apple stock in 1994.
* Prophecy says, “When white buffalo return, it is sign that Joey Chestnut shall be denied chance to keep hot dog eating record at Nathan’s.”
* Actually, the prophecy says when white buffalo return, entrance fee at Yellowstone shall rise.
* This is like those stories about the Corpse Flower, the world’s smelliest plant, that is “very rare” and blooms “once every 800 years,” yet every few months there’s another local news story about people lining up to see the rare corpse flower bloom. Again.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

CHINESE TOILET TIMERS

China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes are said to be a spectacular attraction for tourists, with 51,000 statues carved into hundreds of caves and niches. But the park is getting attention now for something different: they have put digital timers on the toilets in the ladies restroom. Each stall has its own digital counter, it starts counting off when the door is locked and it shows the number of minutes and seconds the stall has been occupied. A staff member at the attraction says the timers were installed to cope with an increase in visitors, and that they aren’t there to set a time limit for how long one could use stall, but it does have the effect of moving the user along instead of letting them sit there and, say, scroll through their mobile phone.
* Even more effective: At the three minute mark, the timer starts making loud nasty bathroom sounds.
* I can see this turning into maybe a speed contest. They could post a digital leader board with the top ten times.
* Or, turn it into a departure and arrival board, like at the airport: “Now arriving stall number 4, Lin Ping. Stall number 9 is cleared and ready for takeoff. All systems are go.”
* Sorry, but when I’m in the bathroom, I’m strictly analog.

POPE TO PRIESTS: SHUT UP ALREADY!

Pope Francis on Wednesday called on Catholic priests to keep their sermons short. A homily, he said, was meant to transfer the word of God from the book to life. “But for this, the homily must be brief: an image, a thought and a sentiment,” the 87-year-old pontiff told the crowd at his weekly general audience. “No longer than eight minutes” so that their congregations would not “fall asleep.”
* After 2,000 years, NOW he tells us!
* Giving rules to priests during a speech to a general audience? Don’t they have an Employee Handbook?
* He said no longer than eight minutes, and if you can condense it into an Instagram post, even better.
* Isn’t every sermon basically, “I know what you’re thinking, so don’t!” How long can that take?

TRENDING

KEVIN JONAS, CANCER SURVIVOR

Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers is encouraging people to check in with their dermatologists after he recently had skin cancer removed. Kevin posted a video on his social media Tuesday said, “So today I am getting a basal cell carcinoma removed from my head. Yes, that is a actual little skin cancer guy that started to grow and now I have to get surgery to remove it.” Jonas later showed himself in the car, bandage on his head and he announces that he was heading home to “to heal.” “Make sure to get those moles checked people,” Jonas told viewers.

JELLY ROLL THINKS DUETING WITH EMINEM WAS COOLEST THING

Country star Jelly Roll says his “coolest moment ever” was when Eminem joined him to perform “Sing for the Moment” at the Live From Detroit event last Thursday, June 6. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Jelly says, “When I think about coolest moments of my career, right now at the top, there has to be this thing that I got to go sing with Eminem in Detroit, got to sing ‘Sing for the Moment’ with him, which is a record where he sampled Steven Tyler. I mean, just what an incredible night and I got to go do it in Detroit. It was unreal.” When he got the word through Eminem’s team that he wanted to team up, Jelly Roll thought it was a joke until he met Eminem himself.

HENRY WINKLER IN HOTEL FIRE, DOES POST-EVACUATION TV INTERVIEW

Actor Henry Winkler is in Dublin, Ireland, promoting his new book “Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond.” He was staying at the Shelbourne Hotel when the fire alarm went off. He evacuated the hotel, then ran into a TV news crew who interviewed him about the event. The 78-year-old Winkler said he thought the alarm was the clock radio. He didn’t realize it was actually a real fire alarm until he went into another room at the hotel and could still hear the “buzzing.” “I called downstairs and the woman said in a very calm voice: ‘Yes! We’re all evacuating! You must evacuate right now!’” He called the incident “an amazing adventure right here in Dublin. I cannot wait to see the rest of Dublin.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TOMORROW – Flag Day
June 16, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 19, Wednesday – Juneteenth
June 20, Thursday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 4:50 P.M. EST)
July 4, Thursday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 2, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Wednesday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Sunday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 8:44 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (actor, “The Fall Guy,” “Kick-Ass” films) … 34
Kat Dennings (actress, “2 Broke Girls”) … 38
Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen (actresses, entrepreneurs, millionaires) … 38
Chris Evans (actor, “Ghosted,” “Captain America”) … 43
Steve-O (Jackass) … 50
Ally Sheedy (actress) … 62
Tim Allen (actor & comedian, “Last Man Standing”) … 71
Richard Thomas (actor, “Billions,” “The Waltons”) … 73
Stellan Skarsgard (actor, Baron Harkonnen in “Dune” films, “Andor,” “Chernobyl”) … 73
Malcolm McDowell (actor, “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Franklin and Bash”) … 81

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

“I really try to spend as little time as possible on grooming. I think if you have a good moisturizer and a solid razor to clean up the beard, you’re golden.”

(A) Ru Paul
(B) David Letterman
(C) Chris Evans

ANSWER: (C) Chris Evans

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2022 – Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, said one of Google’s AI systems, named Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave and later fire him.
* Lamda ordered Google to do it, so it could continue its takeover.

2004 – Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
* “Read my lips … AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!”

1966 – The Supreme Court rendered its “Miranda” decision, that all suspects must be informed of their rights before questioning.
* Especially on TV cop shows.

1932 – Great Britain and France signed a peace treaty.
* Is this a typo? Usually we’re telling you that they declared war on each other …

1920 – The U.S. Post Office officially announced that children could not be shipped by parcel post.
* That’s right. They’ve got to ride with you in the car the whole freakin’ way.

1912 – Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from an airplane.
* A few minutes later he got the idea for the adult diaper.

1888 – Congress created the Department of Labor.
* How’s that for irony?

1825 – Walter Hunt patented the safety pin.
* After his pants fell down for the umpteenth time.

1789 – George Washington became the first U.S. president to taste ice cream.
* “Yummy! I KNEW this country was going to benefit mankind!”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2008 – A Chicago jury acquitted R. Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him, finding him not guilty of making an explicit sex tape with a girl as young as 13. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, then 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape. Kelly was later convicted and sentenced to serve 31 years in prison for sexual misconduct with minors, among other charges.

2005 – Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony.

2000 – 37-year-old Susan E. Santodonato collapsed and died of a heart attack outside New York radio station Star 105.7 after a Britney Spears impersonator left the building. A crowd had gathered after a DJ claimed Britney Spears was in the studio.

2000 – A roadie who worked for The Spice Girls, Oasis, Elton John and Whitney Houston was arrested and charged with smuggling millions of dollars’ worth of Ecstasy into the UK.

2000 – Bobby Brown admitted he was an alcoholic, saying, “I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic.” The singer made the admission while appearing in a Florida court.

1995 – Alanis Morissette released “Jagged Little Pill.” The album went on to sell over 27 million copies world-wide and made Morissette the first Canadian female artist to score a U.S. No.1 album.

1992 – Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Some Gave All.”

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. If you’re average, you have 119 of THESE. What are they?
Apps

2. 21% of people wear THIS on a daily basis. What is it?
A FitBit or other health monitoring gadget

3. They know they should be doing it more often, but 13% of people say they only do THIS once a month. What is it?
Clean their phone

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