THURSDAY, June 22 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR THURSDAY, June 22, 2023
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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.)

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ECLAIR DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“National Chocolate Eclair Day is a sugary, sweet way to start your day. It’s a sweet, tasty way to end your day, too. Eclairs are a light, crisp pastry filled with a pastry cream. They are most often eaten as a dessert. They can be eaten at every meal, or as a snack. We hope that you are not on a diet, or watching calories, carbs or sugar. Because participating in this day means consumption of high calorie, high carb, high sugar eclairs. Did you know? Eclairs originated in France.”

NATIONAL ONION RINGS DAY

STUPID GUY THING DAY
The KeepIn Calendar website says this:
“Women talk about it all the time: how guys do stupid things. Now there’s a holiday to celebrate that. Most of the funny home videos shown on TV show men/boys doing stupid things. Since today is Stupid Guy Thing Day make a list of all the things you’ve seen or heard guys do and share it with your friends.”

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
Listings sourced from the TV Guide and EW websites.
Premiering Thursday through Sunday

THURSDAY, June 22

“Downey’s Dream Cars”
Max – New Docuseries
Synopsis: Robert Downey Jr. and a team of experts restore six classic cars from Robert’s own collection to make them more eco-friendly.

“Glamorous”
Netflix – New Drama-comedy
Aspiring influencer Marco Mejia – a young gender nonconforming queer man whose life seems to be stuck in place – lands a dream job with a makeup mogul and begins a dazzling journey of self-discovery amid work chaos and romantic challenges.

“Skull Island”
Netflix – New Animated Fantasy Series
Synopsis: Shipwrecked in the South Pacific, explorers encounter a menagerie of fearsome creatures, including a giant ape known as Kong.

Season Premieres:
FX on Hulu – “The Bear”
Max – “And Just Like That”

FRIDAY, June 23

“I’m a Virgo”
Prime Video – New Series
Synopsis: A limited coming-of-age series about a teenage boy growing up in Oakland who happens to be 13 feet tall.

Season Premieres:
Apple TV+ – “Carpool Karaoke: The Series”
Apple TV+ – “Swagger”

JEOPARDY CONTESTANT ALMOST WENT ON TITANIC SUB, BUT DIDN’T

Speaking of the doomed Titanic submarine, a recent popular Jeopardy! Masters contestant revealed he recently passed on an opportunity to ride on the thing so that he could attend his son’s wedding. The contestant is Sam Buttrey – the college professor who looks just like Steve Martin. He appeared on the recent Jeopardy Masters Tournament. On an episode that aired May 9, during the interview segment, Buttrey told host Ken Jennings that he was going to go on the sub. “I have a friend who operates a company that will take you out to the wreck of the Titanic. You go out in a boat and then you go down in a submersible craft and tour the wreckage.” But, he said, the timing of the dive and his son’s wedding coincided, so he passed up the Titanic tour for his son’s wedding that weekend.
* I’ll take Lucky Bastards for $1000, Alex.
* So this was a trip on the same sub, but would have happened several months ago. HE COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!!! Thanks for that story.
* Ironically, his son’s wedding was attacked by a hailstorm.
* And no, please folks, don’t start sending in your stories about how you turned down going on the sub. HUNDREDS of people have said No over the years.

THE BUZZ

THREE 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. “Mom Divides Internet Over How She Butters Her Bread”
2. “There’s One Huge Mistake People Make When Using Nasal Spray”
3. “If You Sleep On Your Right Side, We Have News For You”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Here’s What Popping A Balloon Sounds Like In The World’s Quietest And Loudest Rooms”

U.S. NEWS

32-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TRIED TO GO BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL

A 32-year-old woman is accused of falsifying documents to enroll in several Boston high schools for the academic year. The unidentified woman attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School, and English High School at various times during the 2022-2023 school year, using multiple pseudonyms. She was caught when a district staff member noticed irregularities in the student’s paperwork and reported it to district leadership. Although unnamed, the woman is a former employee of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. She is currently receiving mental health treatment.
* You’ve got to be a little nuts to want to go back to high school.
* One clue she wasn’t a real high school student: She knew how to add and subtract.
* She was about as believable as the twenty-something high school students on Disney Channel.
* Also, she thought TikTok was the sound a clock makes.
* The only reason to go back to high school would be to sit in trigonometry class and say, “You won’t need any of this stuff in the future. Trust me.”
* I go back to high school all the time. Only, I can never remember my locker combination, the number of my school bus, and I forgot to go to class all year and there’s a test. And I’m naked.

SAFE WASHES UP ON BEACH

Researchers working to document animal life on a stretch of Texas’ Gulf Coast discovered a safe washed up on the beach – a 16-inch square, metal, combination safe that easily weighs over 100 pounds. The find was made by scientists from the Texas Marine Science Institute on the beach at the Mission-Aransas Reserve, just north of Corpus Christie. The group spent about an hour working to break into the safe using crowbars, a sledgehammer and metal grinder. Finally they pried the door off, and inside they found… anybody want to guess?… Geraldo Rivera! No, really, what they found was just a packet of silica gel, what they throw into packaging to absorb moisture.
* Sad. The researchers almost had an interesting day.
* Maybe that was Davy Jones’ locker they found.
* If they can get a billion-ton aircraft carrier to float, they can make a 100-pound safe that floats.
* “This safe could be broken into by a couple people with crowbars, a sledgehammer and a metal grinder! It’s junk! Throw it overboard!”
* Scrap iron is currently going for $87 a ton, so that safe is worth… math math math… about 4 cents. And 4 cents is TWICE the annual funding the Texas Marine Science Institute receives each year, so this was a real find.

OUR CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS A DEAD HEAD

United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was spotted at a Dead & Co. show in Virginia on June 3. He was questioned about it during his report to the House Committee on Financial Services earlier this week. U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) told Powell’ “I was excited to see from public reporting that you were at the most recent Dead & Co. show. … How was the show? Did you like it?” Chairman Powell answered, “It was terrific. What can I say? It was great. I’ve been a Grateful Dead fan for 50 years.” Powell then went on to report that the Fed’s interest-rate hikes would continue until inflation was fully subdued, man.
* Just like the band, Chairman Powell’s report went on for about 6 hours and really didn’t have a point.
* Powell said what America really needs is more LSD: a Long-Sustaining Deflation.
* Then he opened his shirt and showed the committee his chest tattoo of a skull-and-lightning-bolt.
* He told the committee he believed that America’s economy just better watch its speed. Trouble ahead, trouble behind, although that notion had just crossed his mind.
* At least he’s not into death metal, like that Alan Greenspan was.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

FAMILY FINDS RUNAWAY TORTOISE AFTER TWO YEARS

A tortoise has turned up two years after it went missing from its home. Jemima the tortoise, age 50, managed to escape from the home of Charles Waddell in May 2021, leaving the man’s eight-year-old daughter, Beatrice, devastated. The family, of Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, England, spent months looking for Jemima every day, as well as posting about her on social media. Eventually, the family gave up, until a Facebook post surfaced last week about the discovery of a tortoise. Somebody remembered the Waddell’s missing tortoise from two years ago and alerted them. She had been found at an equestrian center around five miles away. A farmer had found her in a field and took her to a vet, who then put word out over social media that he had found a tortoise. The family is thrilled to have Jemima back, saying she will live with her tortoise friend Georgina “in a secure and upgraded pen.”
* Two? You’ve got one boring pet, so you go out and buy another?
* Five miles in two years? It must have hitchhiked.
* Georgina wanted to know all about Jemima’s adventures for two years, so Jemima told her. Took about three minutes.
* Jemima must be so exhausted from her journey, she’s just going to sleep for, oh, the next twenty years or so. And nobody will know the difference.
* I’ve heard of a slow news day, but this is a ‘slow’ news story.

BRITISH ICE CREAM SHOP OFFERS HORRIBLE FLAVORS

Last year British handbag designer Anya Hindmarch launched The Ice Cream Project, where she served up some bizarre flavors of ice cream that match the artistic designs on her purses. For example, one purse has a Heinz Baked Beans label. (* This is high fashion, people. Get over it.) So, she created a Heinz Baked Beans ice cream. This summer, she’s bringing all of last year’s flavors back, and more. Starting June 29, the shop in the Belgravia district in Central London will be serving these ice cream flavors:
– Heinz Baked Beans ice cream
– Heinz Tomato Ketchup
– Heinz Mayonnaise
– Heinz Creamy Salad Dressing
– Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
– Kikkoman Soy Sauce
– HP Sauce (a British brown sauce made from tomatoes and tamarind)
– Quaker Oatmeal
– PG Tips Tea
– Polo Mint Candy (POLOs are like Lifesavers candy)
– Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies
– Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes
* I compliment your condiments, m’lady.
* I don’t get it. Isn’t Heinz making enough money already?
* Baskin Robbins must be shaking in their little frozen booties.
* She must think people are complete idiots. She’s selling this stuff when you can literally take a dish of vanilla ice cream and put any of these on it like a topping.
* Remember: when it comes to ice cream, no one makes better handbags than Anya Hindmarch.
* Hindmarch. Sounds like an exercise you do to firm your butt.

TRENDING

ADELE BUYS SYLVESTER STALLONE’S HOUSE, STATUE INCLUDED

Sylvester Stallone revealed in an interview that Adel bought his $58 million California mansion last year, but only on the condition that his “Rocky” statue stay with the property. Stallone had wanted to take the statue with him. It’s a prop from one of the “Rocky” sequels, and it stands by the pool. But, according to Stallone, “She said, ‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal.’ She wanted the statue.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

July 4, Tuesday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 4, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Monday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Saturday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:50 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Lecy Goranson (actress, Becky on “The Connors,” “Roseanne”) … 49
Carson Daly (TV host) … 50
Mary Lynn Rajskub (actress, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “24”) … 52
Bruce Campbell (actor, “Ash vs Evil Dead”) … 65
Cyndi Lauper (singer, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”) … 70
Meryl Streep (actress) … 74
Lindsay Wagner (actress, “Warehouse 13,” “The Bionic Woman”) … 74
Todd Rundgren (singer, songwriter, record producer) … 75
Kris Kristofferson (actor, singer, songwriter) … 87

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

“You know what topic I’m sick of hearing about or being asked about? Weight loss.”

(A) Oprah Winfrey
(B) Melissa McCarthy
(C) Carson Daly

ANSWER: (C) Carson Daly

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2011 – President Barack Obama announced he would pull home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by the following summer.
* Finally an end to the problems over there!

1992 – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
* And we wonder why other countries look at us and scratch their heads.

1990 – Florida passed a law prohibiting wearing a throng bathing suit.
* Maybe there should just be a weight limit. Why throw the baby out with the bath water?

1970 – The voting age in the U.S. was lowered from 21 to 18.
* It gave politically conscious Americans everywhere a three-year head start on becoming disillusioned, cynical and apathetic.

1962 – The first test flight of a Hovercraft was made.
* Talk about an invention that blows.

1946 – The Post Office introduced jet plane mail transport, when it first used a jet plane to fly a load of mail from New York City to Chicago.
* Of course, the mail was SUPPOSED to go to Houston, but then, that’s the Post Office.

1939 – The first water ski jump competition was held. The winner was the only person to make it over the ramp successfully.
* As a consolation prize, the runners-up got wheelchairs.

1909 – The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
* As cars drove into the ocean.

1894 – The world’s first auto race was run, in France. The winner was a steam-powered car that averaged 17 miles per hour.
* That’s what I average on my morning commute.

1874 – The game of lawn tennis was introduced.
* Finally, an excuse for not talking to relatives at the family reunion.

1847 – The doughnut was created.
* Triggering an unprecedented surge in police force sign-ups.

1846 – Antoine Sax invented the saxophone.
* He got the idea for the sound when he was sitting in a bar and a sultry woman walked in.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Sir Elton John was awarded France’s highest civilian award, the Legion d’Honneur. The British musician was presented with the award by President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony at the Élysée Palace. President Macron’s office praised Sir Elton as a “melodic genius” and as one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT community.

2013 – “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke started a 13 week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart and peaked at No.1 in 14 countries. In 2015, a jury ruled that the song copied the Marvin Gaye track “Got To Give It Up,” and Gaye’s family was eventually awarded $5.3 million and a 50% cut of future earnings from the song.

2003 – American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “This Is The Night.”

2002 – U2 guitarist “The Edge” married his girlfriend of ten years Morleigh Steinberg in the south of France. The couple first met when she was a belly dancer on the band’s Zoo TV tour. Guests included Bono, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and Lenny Kravitz.

2000 – After giving himself various new identities during the 90’s, The Artist Formally Known As Prince announced he wanted to be known as Prince again.

2000 – Mick Jagger was ordered to reveal his financial worth and income to a New York court in his child support battle with the mother of his last child, Brazilian model Luciana Morad.

1996 – Diana Ross’s brother, songwriter Arthur Ross, was murdered by suffocation. He wrote songs for Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Madonna and others.

1992 – Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was rushed to a hospital after a gig in Belfast suffering from acute stomach pains brought on by ulcers.

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. On average, people spend 90% of their time HERE. Where is it?
Indoors

2. 20% of people surveyed say they would not be willing to change THIS. What is it?
The side of the bed they sleep on

3. Statistics show that people born in the Fall are more likely to do THIS. What is it?
Live to age 100

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