THURSDAY, June 5 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR THURSDAY, June 5, 2025
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TODAY IS …
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HOT AIR BALLOON DAY

NATIONAL GINGERBREAD DAY

NATIONAL MOONSHINE DAY

NATIONAL VEGGIE BURGER DAY
Established for marketing purposes in 2017 by food maker Amy’s Kitchen, Inc.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Established by the United Nations to “stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and action.”

June is:

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

THURSDAY, June 5

“Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose”
Max – New Biographical Series (in Spanish)
Synopsis: Follows the rise to fame of Mexican comic and cultural icon Roberto Gómez Bolaños — also known as Chespirito.

Season Premieres:
Netflix – “Barracuda Queens”
Netflix – “Ginny & Georgia”
Netflix – “Tires”

FRIDAY, June 6

“K.O.”
Netflix – New Movie from France
Synopsis: A former fighter must find the missing son of an opponent he accidentally killed years ago, taking on a brutally violent crime gang in Marseille.

“Mercy for None”
Netflix – New Series from Korea
Synopsis: After severing ties with his gang, a former gangster returns to uncover the truth behind his brother’s death — embarking on a relentless path of revenge.

“Predator: Killer of Killers”
Hulu – New Animated Series
Synopsis: Pits the iconic Predators against great warriors from across history.

“The Survivors”
Netflix – New Series from Australia
Synopsis: Fifteen years ago, Kieran lost his older brother, Finn, and Mia lost her best friend, Gabby in a terrible storm. They ran away, but now they are back and the murder of a young woman forces them to confront the past again with all of its murky secrets.

Season Premieres:
USA/Syfy – “Resident Alien”

SATURDAY, June 7

Season Premieres:
A&E – “Storage Wars”

SUNDAY, June 8

“78th Annual Tony Awards”
CBS, Paramount+

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. “The Difference Between Lump Charcoal And Charcoal Briquettes”
2. “Rise of the Japanese Toilet”
3. “Yawning My Be More Dangerous Than You Think”
And here’s a spare, in case you don’t like one of those three: “Should I Keep Putting Onions In The Meals I Cook For A Family Member Who I Know Hates Onions”

HOUSE RULES

Reddit asked, “What’s a ‘house rule’ you thought was annoying or hated as a child, but you swear by now as an adult?” Some of the responses:
– “My parents always said ‘don’t call before 9 or after 9’ and I think that’s a solid rule.”
– “As a kid I HATED my parents for refusing to let me get a cell phone until I was like 13 or 14, but looking back that was 100% the right call.”
– “Fill the ice tray immediately after emptying it.”
– “Laundry needs to be in the hamper or in the laundry room if you want it done.”
– “Don’t use the ‘sewing scissors’ for cutting anything except fabric. I am so sorry mom. I get it now.”
– “No hollering to me from another room. If you want to speak to me, come and talk at a normal volume.”
– “Silverware doesn’t leave dining areas.”
– “Dessert night is twice a week, Wednesdays and Sundays, and no more (unless it’s a birthday or our anniversary or something). I had that rule as a kid and I thought it was stupid, but my husband and I have been following it again for a couple of years and it just works.”
– “You do not walk into someone’s bedroom without their express permission.”
– “Don’t bother mom. Don’t talk to mom. Don’t ask anything from mom. Don’t need anything from mom. All of these are working much better for me as an adult than they did as a child.”
– “Make sure the house is spotless before a trip! Nothing is worse than coming home to a dirty house!”
* PHONE TOPIC: What “house rule” did you think was stupid until you grew up and had a house of your own?

U.S. NEWS

COPS CALLED ON DISHEVELED DAD

In Huntington Beach, California, Chapman Hamborg was walking around his neighborhood with his new infant daughter Florence, as he had done multiple times before, to give his wife a little break. Next thing he knew, some cops pulled up and started asking him questions – where did he live? Where did he get the baby? They told him that a neighbor had called them about a homeless man she believed had stolen a baby. He was wearing a baggy brown jacket, stained jeans and tattered slippers. He told the cops he was a father of four, an art teacher, very tired, and showed the cops his house. He later joked, “Apparently I need to work on my appearance — I guess being an artist or a tired dad isn’t a valid excuse.”
* Yet Elon Musk, dressed as he is, walks around free and unhassled.
* “Welcome to Huntington Beach – Dress Code Enforced.”
* Baggy brown jacket, stained jeans and tattered slippers. BUT NO TIE. That’s where he went wrong.
* He’s become a hero to college students and people of Walmart everywhere.

AUDIO: MAN ON A HORSE CHASES HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER

A man was visiting a friend in Riverside, New Jersey, to show his horse, Shiny, to his friends. While he was riding there, he saw a gray Honda Accord strike a parked car and take off. The man, who gave his name as “PJ,” took off after the car on his horse and managed to get close enough to get a partial license-plate number. That information helped police identify the suspect, a 22-year-old man, who was charged with careless driving, driving without a license, failure to report an accident, and leaving the scene of an accident.
* Hi-yo Shiny, away!
* Doesn’t say much for the Honda Accord that it was outrun by a one-horsepower conveyance.
* I thought urban cowboys went out with the 70’s.
* Okay, nice job, PJ. Now get off your high horse.
CLIP: We’ve got a lot of animal stories today, so here’s our Animal News music bed.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)com/prep/wp-content/uploads/LetsCheckInWithTheAnimals(dot)mp3

TEXAS BILL WOULD FORCE CHANGE TO DORITOS, M&M’S, MORE

A Texas bill on the verge of becoming law would require labels on packaged food from Skittles to Mountain Dew that warn about ingredients “not recommended for human consumption” by other countries. The bill lists more than 40 ingredients, including synthetic food dyes and bleached flour, that are banned or require warnings in other countries. Foods containing those ingredients would require warning labels on new packaging beginning in 2027 in order to be sold in Texas. If approved, the impact on the packaged-food industry could be far reaching: When companies are forced to comply with state regulations, they often adopt those changes nationwide to streamline production. The bill is now awaiting the signature of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
* Sell all my stock in 7-Eleven and Circle K!
* God forbid they slap a heart attack warning on Texas steaks or fried chicken.
* Will this bill shut down those gross novelty food booths at the Texas State Fair? “Hippy Chips”? “Cotton Candy Bacon on a Stick”? “Sugar Rush Pickles”? “Hot Cheetos Korean Corn Dog”?
* Never mind ingredients – there are some FOODS in other countries that shouldn’t be recommended for human consumption. Scotland – haggis. China – chicken feet. Germany – head cheese. Mexico – beef tongue tacos. Yuck.
* Regulations like this is why people in other countries typically live to be 200.

FRISBEE GOLFER ATTACKED BY HAMMERHEAD SHARK FROM THE SKY

In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last week, Jonathan Marlowe was playing disc golf with friends at the Splinter City Disc Golf Course. (* Great way to meet women, fellas!) On Hole 11, he looked up and saw an osprey carrying something in its claws. Two crows suddenly went after the osprey, and the osprey dropped its prey. It was a baby hammerhead shark. Marlowe and his friends left the hammerhead under a tree in case the osprey came back.
* And to scare the crap out of the rabbits.
* I know what you’re thinking: “Disc golfer? What a weenie.”
* It’s like Sharknado crossed with The Birds. Crossed with Caddyshack.
* He was almost nailed by a hammerhead.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

ELEPHANT ENTERS THAI GROCERY STORE

A hungry wild elephant walked into a grocery store in Thailand on Monday and helped himself to food on the shelves. The huge male elephant, known as Plai Biang Lek, lives in a nearby national park. The elephant stopped in front of a shelf, grabbed and ate snacks, and didn’t flinch as national park workers tried to shoo him away. The store owner said he ate about nine bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich and some dried bananas. He left without hurting anyone, and eventually backed out of the shop still holding a bag of snacks with his trunk.
* At least he didn’t use the restroom.
* They say an elephant never forgets, but I bet he didn’t know his rewards card number.
* One shopper tried to pass it off as his service animal.
* It’s been four days, and they’re still trying to get the elephant smell out of the produce.
* An elephant walks into a grocery store. The bagger says, “Can I help you to your car with your groceries?” And the elephant says, “No, just put them in my trunk.”

TRENDING

SEAN COMBS TRIAL: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4

Here is what happened at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-and-drug trafficking trial on Wednesday:
– Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a friend of Cassie Ventura, took the stand Wednesday, testifying Combs held her over a 17-story apartment balcony in 2016 during an altercation in Ventura’s presence, after which he threw Bongolan on a table, causing her to sustain bruises and neck pain. She said she still suffers “night terrors and paranoia” as a result of the balcony incident.
– Bongolan testified that, at a photoshoot in 2016, Combs came up to her and said, “I’m the devil and I could kill you,” stating she did not know why he said that and theorized he may have been on drugs.
– Bongolan testified she saw multiple violent altercations between Combs and Ventura. Once, when she was asleep at Ventura’s apartment she was awakened by Combs banging at the door, who threw a knife at Ventura after entering.
– Bongolan said she and Ventura mostly spent time together at the singer’s apartment, where they would work on clothing designs, talk and use drugs. Bongolan said they used “a lot of marijuana” as well as some cocaine and ketamine, and that Combs provided the her with drugs on three to four occasions, including ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and GHB. Bongolan said she did drugs weekly with Ventura, and she would often get drugs for the singer including oxycodone. She said there were periods when she and Ventura would try to get sober. “We wanted to do better,” Bongolan said. But those periods didn’t last. “It’s hard to get sober when there’s a lot of drugs around.”
– The prosecution admitted 10 videos that show sexually explicit content. The videos were shot in October 2012, October 2014 and December 2014. While jurors will see the videos, reporters in the courtroom will not be allowed to see the footage.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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)
July 4, Friday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 1, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Thursday – Patriot Day
Sept. 22, Monday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:19 p.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Amanda Crew (actress, “Silicon Valley”) … 39
Chelsey Crisp (actress, “Young Rock,” “Fresh Off The Boat”) … 42
Mark Wahlberg (actor) … 54
Jeff Garlin (actor, “The Goldbergs,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) … 63
Kenny G (saxophonist, full name Kenneth Bruce Gorelick) … 69
Richard Butler (singer with Psychedelic Furs) … 69
Suze Orman (TV host specializing in financial advice) … 74
Don Reid (country singer with the Statler Brothers) … 80

Today’s Birthdays grade: TV stars! Singers! A personal finance guru! A movie star who was just in the stinker “Flight Risk”! And love or hate him, the smooth jazz sax player who’s the best-selling instrumentalist of all time. Grade: B-minus.

[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!

“A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I’m a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.”

(A) William Shatner
(B) Nicolas Cage
(C) Mark Wahlberg

ANSWER: (C) Mark Wahlberg

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden was published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK.
* It was a big deal when we learned the government was spying on us. Then we found out we were being spied on by Facebook, Google, our phones … and now it’s more like – “Meh.”

1968 – Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. He died the following day. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
* Maybe Dick Cheney wasn’t so nuts for living in a bunker.

1952 – The first sporting event was televised nationally – a boxing match.
* And women have been trying to pry their husbands off the couch ever since.

1907 – The automatic washer and dryer were introduced.
* This set the stage for generations of stand-up comics to repeatedly bring out the “Where does the missing sock go?” routine.

1876 – Bananas first became popular in the U.S., upon their introduction at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
* Just in time for the first slapstick movies featuring the banana-peel-pratfall.

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers in France completed the world’s first balloon flight.
* Other people probably STARTED the world’s first balloon flight, but the Montgolfiers are the first who landed alive.

1661 – Scientist Isaac Newton got into Cambridge University.
* He’s the guy who had an apple fall on his head, giving him the idea for something that would change man’s perception of the universe forever. Hard cider.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Forbes magazine announced that Rihanna was the richest female musician in the world, having amassed a fortune of about $600 million, largely through her music and makeup business. Her Fenty Beauty line launched in 2017 reportedly made $100 million in its first 40 days. Rihanna’s wealth put her ahead of Madonna, worth an estimated $563 million, Celine Dion at $440 million, and Beyonce at $394 million.

2016 – The four members of ABBA performed alongside one another for the first time since 1982 at a private gala to mark 50 years since songwriting duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met for the first time in Stockholm. The impromptu performance reportedly began when Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstadon recited their 1980 hit “Me and I” as a tribute to Andersson and Ulvaeus, before the two others joined in and made the reunion official.

1993 – Janet Jackson started a six-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Janet.”

1993 – Mariah Carey married the president of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola, in Manhattan. Guests included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ozzy Osbourne. The couple separated in 1997.

1988 – Eric Clapton’s wife Patti filed for a divorce. The couple had married in 1979.

1977 – Alice Cooper’s boa constrictor, a co-star of his live act, suffered a fatal bite from a rat it was being fed for breakfast. Cooper held auditions for a replacement and a snake named “Angel” got the gig.

1964 – The Rolling Stones played their first-ever live date in the U.S. when they appeared at the Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California.

1964 – Davie Jones with the King-Bees released their first record, “Liza Jane.” The group disbanded, but Davie Jones went on to success as David Bowie.

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. Children who do this five to seven times a week are 67% more likely to get A’s on their report cards. What is it?
Eat dinner with the family

2. 1/4 of families have never done THIS as a family. What is it?
Ordered take out

3. When it comes to a family meal, 1 in 10 families does not do this. What is it?
Save leftovers

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