TUESDAY, July 30 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, July 30, 2024
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: SONG – ITSY-BITSY OLYMPIC SPEEDO

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.)

MEDICARE ANNIVERSARY
The History website says this:
“On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law as an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935. At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become the first president to propose national health insurance, an initiative that was opposed at the time by Congress. Medicare is funded entirely by the federal government and paid for in part through payroll taxes. Medicare is currently a source of controversy due to the strain it puts on the federal budget. Throughout its history, the program has also been plagued by fraud – committed by patients, doctors and hospitals – that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Medicaid, a state and federally funded program that offers health coverage to certain low-income people, was also signed into law by President Johnson on July 30, 1965.

NATIONAL CHEESECAKE DAY

NATIONAL FATHER-IN-LAW DAY

NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“July 30 commemorates the day our Founding Fathers recognized the need to protect the courageous whistleblowers, those who take notice and step forward to report corruption when they see it. National Whistleblower Day reminds us to honor and support the people who speak up when they witness fraud, abuse or waste. On July 30th, 1778, the Continental Congress passed a historic and unanimous resolution honoring ten sailors and marines who spoke out against their commander’s abuses of his office. In doing so, the Founding Fathers declared that it was the duty of all Americans, ‘to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds, or misdemeanors.’ The United States Senate first recognized National Whistleblower Day in 2013.”

PAPERBACK BOOK DAY
The Days Of The Year website says this:
Paperback Book Day commemorates the publication of the first ten paperback Penguin Books on July 30th, 1935 in London. The Penguin paperback books helped to start a paperback book revolution, making novels and classic books available to anyone for a small price.

July is:

Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month
Air Conditioning Appreciation Month
Baked Bean Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Reunion Month
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
Melon Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

OLYMPIC NOTES: MONDAY, JULY 29

(Note: Just to remind you that we have daily funny Olympic Updates in the MP3 column on the Main Prep Page. If you have trouble getting to it, contact us and we’ll help you.)
– Sexy Olympians Join OnlyFans To Make Extra Sexy Bucks: A number of high-profile Olympic athletes are joining OnlyFans as an easy way to rake in extra cash. New Zealand rower Robbie Manson created an account with “exclusive content that tastefully explores the boundaries, including artistic portrayals of nudity.” British diver Jack Laugher is charging $10 per month for access to his diver’s body and amorous content. He says, “Obviously, I’ve got what people want. I’ll happily cash in on that. I’m a bit of a hustler and I want a bit more money if I can.” He says, “I’m top three in the world, and only earning £28,000 [USD $36,000] a year.” He says he doesn’t do full frontal, but poses in “speedos, briefs, boxer and more!”
* Or less, as the case may be.
* Sounds like you can see more skin just watching Olympic Beach Volleyball.
(note: check out our song parody in the mp3 column, “Itsy Bitsy Olympic Speedo.”
– How Olympic Gymnasts Avoid Wedgies: Here’s how. GK Elite, the exclusive provider of American gymnasts’ leotards, has spent decades developing and innovating proprietary designs, patterns, and specialty fabrics to ensure a perfect fit and performance. The material is usually ​​nylon or polyester-spandex. Some might have a mesh. Each leotard is tailored to a gymnast’s specific measurements. There are trial wears and testing to make sure they don’t ride up. And then there are body adhesives. or “butt glue” as the athletes call it, and special underwear for anti-wedgie reinforcement.
* Sounds like GK Elite has their crack team working on it.
* The butt glue is also handy for not sliding out of those skinny little cardboard beds back at the Olympic village.
– Olympic Surfers Housed On A Cruise Ship: You may have heard that the Olympic surfing competition isn’t being held in Paris due to lack of surfing waves, but instead it’s being held on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. And instead of dorm-style housing with cardboard beds, all of the competitors are staying on a luxury cruise ship, anchored just offshore, which features 100 cabins and eight guest decks. It also features a 24-hour dining hall, a play area with ping pong and foosball, a tattoo parlor, a spa and a gym and, of course, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with waterslide.
* So even the losers are winners.

FLASH FLOODS AT DOLLYWOOD

Tennessee’s famous Dollywood amusement park was hit by flash flooding on Sunday after a powerful thunderstorm moved across the area and produced torrential rain. Water covered walkways and parking lots as people, some with strollers, had to wade through the rushing water to try and get indoors. Videos showed flooding creeping into several shops within the amusement park, and a parking lot was surrounded by floodwaters, trapping numerous vehicles that were inundated by the rising water. The park was expected to reopen for business on Monday afternoon.
* Instant water park! Two-for-one!
* You couldn’t go on the rides but the fishing was excellent.
* Does it rain cats and dogs in Tennessee, or raccoons and squirrels?
* It got so bad, they started handing out Dolly Parton inflatable life vests, and that was something to see.
* Did everybody head for the islands in the stream?

THE BUZZ

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE I LIKE IT

Reddit asked, “What are you liking the older you get?” Some of the responses:
– “Lego, again. Haven’t been into Lego for decades, now suddenly I’m like hell yeah Lego!”
– “Plans that get canceled by others or circumstances.”
– “Being left out. Please for the love of God don’t invite me.”
– “Feeding the birds.”
– “Documentaries.”
– “Food travel shows. I’ve been binge watching Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix.”
– “Reading the actual newspaper.”
– “Oatmeal!”
– “I started taking daily walks because my doctor said I was a fatass. So I forced myself. That was 3 months ago and -25lbs later. Now, I can’t wait to do it each day. I walk 2 miles in the morning, 2.5 at lunch time, and 2 in the evening. I even carry a trash pick up stick to tidy up the parks I walk in because why not? I’m already there.”
– “I’m 70+ and suddenly like K-Pop.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What are you liking the older you get?

U.S. NEWS

VAN FULL OF MARIJUANA PULLED OVER IN TOWN OF WEED

A man was arrested around 3:30 a.m. last Friday for illegally transporting over 1,000 marijuana plants as he traveled on I-5 near the town of Weed, California. The van was observed weaving over the road. During the traffic stop, the officer found 1,021 marijuana plants in the rear of the van.
* He should have said, “Officer, dude, I work for the city. Duh.”
* Weed. What a dopey name for a town.
* It’s high time we stop these types of crimes. High time.
* Weed, California? This must explain all the police cars in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and Hempsted, New York and Stone Mountain, Georgia.

TACO BELL CUSTOMER FINDS NOSE RING IN FOOD

A Taco Bell diner claims he found a nose ring in his meal. The customer took to Reddit to share a photo of his lunch, showing the nose ring lodged in a piece of diced onion. He posted: “Found a nose ring in my taco bell today!” He said he called the restaurant and was told “Nobody here has a nose stud.” He replied, “Well not anymore!” The customer claimed the incident did cause him dental damage, breaking part of a filling.
* It’s the new value menu Boogarito!
* Sounds like it was jalapeño nose.
* It’s like a disgusting version of a McDonalds Happy Meal toy.
* Anyway, it’snot my problem.

THE $150 CHEESEBURGER

The latest “ridiculously expensive food item” is a $150 cheeseburger. A New York restaurant called Sip & Guzzle is selling what they call the “Royale with Cheese.” It was created by chef Mike Bagale, who used to run Chicago’s three-Michelin star restaurant Alinea. For your $150 smackers, you get:
– A5 Miyazaki wagyu tenderloin, the highest-graded beef in the world known for its snowflake-like veins of marbling in each cut.
– Aged white cheddar.
– Seasoned with minced onions, a special wasabi-based barbecue sauce, smoked soy sauce, brown sugar, tomato and rice vinegar, and shio koji (a Japanese condiment with a special fungus.)
– The bun is made from shokupan milk bread flown fresh from the Ginza Nishikawa bakery in Los Angeles. The burger is served in a golden bento box.
* I bet you have to ask for a couple of little ketchup packs, don’t you?
* Don’t bother asking if there’s fries with that, you can’t afford them.
* We called to ask how many Michelin stars Sip & Guzzle has, but they hung up.
* I prefer my $150 cheeseburgers from middle-of-Montana McDonald’s, thank you very much.

TRENDING

INVENTOR OF TIRAMISU DIES

The Italian pastry chef widely regarded as the inventor of tiramisu, the world’s greatest dessert, has died aged 81. Roberto Linguanotto passed away Sunday after a long illness. The decadent coffee-flavored dessert first emerged in the 1980s. Linguanotto was a pastry chef at the renowned restaurant Le Beccherie in Treviso, Italy, when he invented it: mascarpone and sugar and eggs. Later, the wife of the restaurant owner suggested layering the mixture in espresso-soaked ladyfinger cakes. That dessert became a staple at Le Beccherie. A few years later, in 1983, the tiramisu recipe was published in a cooking magazine and it soon spread around the world.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 2, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Wednesday – Patriot Day
Sept. 20, Friday – National POW/MIA Recognition Day (The third Friday of September)
Sept. 23, Sunday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 8:44 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Gina Rodriguez (actress, “Not Dead Yet,” “Jane the Virgin”) … 40
Hillary Swank (actress) … 50
Terry Crews (actor, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) … 56
Christopher Nolan (writer, director) … 54
Lisa Kudrow (actress, “Web Therapy,” “Friends”) … 61
Laurence Fishburne (actor, “blackish”, Morpheus in the “Matrix” trilogy) … 63
Arnold Schwarzenegger (action actor, former California governor) … 77

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

“I was very uptight, and really nervous about my sexuality. I decided pretty early on that I should stay a virgin until I got married. My virginity was something I had decided was very precious, something that I owned, to give away. It was an honor I was bestowing on a young man, and he had to be worthy of it.”

(A) Madonna
(B) Taylor Swift
(C) Lisa Kudrow

ANSWER: (C) Lisa Kudrow

2017 – Hackers revealed they had stolen data from HBO, including episodes and scripts of “Games of Thrones.”
* “Off with their heads!”

1956 – The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as America’s national motto.
* The motto continues: “because we sure as hell can’t trust our government.”

1908 – The Around the World Automobile Race ended in Paris.
* Many of the contestants were quite soggy.

1898 – “The Scientific American” carried the first magazine automobile ad, from the Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH.
* That’s how much you can trust car advertising – they’re not even around any more.

1898 – William Kellogg invented cornflakes.
* His first remark: “Got milk?”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Country music singer Lynn Anderson died at the age of 67. The multi-award-winning singer charted 12 No.1, 18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hits. Anderson was the first female country artist to win the American Music Award (in 1974), as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden that same year.

2009 – Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher won his long battle to be recognized as co-writer of the band’s hit “Whiter Shade of Pale.” Judges ruled that Fisher, who claimed he wrote the song’s organ melody, was entitled to a share of future royalties.

2005 – A book published to mark the 35th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix claimed the guitarist pretended to be gay so he would be discharged from the army. “Room Full of Mirrors” by Charles Cross said army records showed Hendrix was discharged from the 101st Airborne Division in 1962 at age 19 for “homosexual tendencies.”

1997 – A judge in Los Angeles ruled that Michael Jackson and members of his family were not liable for losses incurred by the producers of the failed 1994 “Jackson Family Honors” TV special. The show was delayed for several weeks because Jackson was ill and could not perform solo as expected.

1996 – Tim Collins, manager of Aerosmith since 1984, was fired after a brief meeting with the band in Boston. The band claimed that they were tired of being urged to represent Collins’ many social causes.

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. Only about 3% of Americans have ever gone to see THIS. What is it?
An opera

2. Less than 15% of people surveyed say they’ve done THIS on purpose. What is it?
Gain weight

3. About 68% of Americans have THIS in common. What is it?
They’re on prescription meds

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