TUESDAY, Nov 26 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, November 26, 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.)

ANTI OBESITY DAY
* Sure, on the same day as National Cake Day. Great.

GOOD GRIEF DAY
The Checkiday Website says this:
“‘Good grief!’ is a phrase often used by Charlie Brown, the main character from Charles Schulz’s comic strip, Peanuts. Schulz was born on this day in 1922, and today is dedicated to both him and his enduring comic strip. Peanuts ran almost fifty years — from October 2, 1950, until February 13, 2000, which was one day after Schulz’s death. Schulz created all aspects of the comic, from the script to the art and lettering. By the time of its height in the 1960’s, it was being printed in over 2,600 newspapers. Today, reprints of Schulz’s comic appear in many U.S. newspapers.”

NATIONAL CAKE DAY

November is:

Adopt a Senior Pet Month
Great American Smoke Out Month
National Adoption Month
National Military Family Month
National Native American Heritage Month
Raisin Bread Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Vegan Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

RYAN REYNOLDS TO BRING MIGHTY MOUSE TO THE BIG SCREEN

If you’re looking for the exact moment Ryan Reynolds tanked what seemed like his unstoppable career, this will be it: The actor/writer/soccer team owner/booze seller/cellphone pitchman wants to bring the character of Mighty Mouse to the big screen. Mighty Mouse first appeared in the 1940s, and since then appeared on Saturday morning TV cartoon shows in the 60’s and 70’s. He was last on TV in 1988. Paramount is behind the project, and they have hired Reynolds’ production company to develop it.
* 36 years ago. Now is the PERFECT time to capitalize on that momentum!
* “Dad, who’s Mighty Mouse?” “Go ask your grampa. Oh, wait – he’s dead.”
* And you think Disney is going to let another mouse muscle its way into the pop culture?
* This could work. Back in 2021, David Arquette bought the rights to Bozo the Clown, and look what a juggernaut THAT’S turned into.
* Or what’s really happening is: Ryan Reynolds’ production company is too profitable and he needs some losses for a tax write-off.

THE BUZZ

GUYS LOVE THIS ONE NEAT TRICK

Reddit asked, “Guys, what’s your favorite thing to be called by your girlfriend?” Some of the responses:
– “‘My love’ always melts my heart when it’s genuine.”
– “‘Good boy.’ There’s something about being babied that makes me completely melt.”
– “My wife calls me ‘Bunny.’ I love that.”
– “I had an ex who used to call me ‘prince.’ I liked it”
– “My wife calls me ‘Muchacho’ and I love it.”
– “My full name. When she uses my full name instead of the nickname most people have called me my whole life it’s just kind of intimate.”
– “My girlfriend calls me bug and I really like that.”
– “‘Dumb ass.’ Makes my heart flutter.”
– “My wife calls me ‘Husbeast’ and I love it.”
– “My wife calls me ‘bubs,’ as in bubbles.”
– “‘Yes chef'”
– “‘Handsome’ is my favorite but I don’t remember the last time she called me it.”
– “‘Chimpy'”
* PHONE TOPIC: Does your wife/girlfriend have a name for you that melts your heart?

U.S. NEWS

MAN SHOOTS ARROWS AT PEOPLE IN WALMART

Last Thursday in Denton, Texas, police arrested a 47-year-old man who barricaded himself in a Walmart store and shot arrows at people. Police say the man took a bow, arrows, arrowheads and a hatchet from the store, barricaded himself with nearby items into a little fort, and started shooting arrows at employees and customers. Employees ran him out of the store, and he left the area before officers arrived. He was found about two hours later, about a mile from the Walmart.
* So he left Walmart and became a Target?
* Wait – Walmart keep batteries locked up in glass cases but not bows and arrows???
* The Case of the Stupid Cupid.
* On the other hand, more than a few Walmart employees have found love.
* “I shot an arrow into the air / It fell to earth / I knew not where … but I did hear someone scream over in the shoe aisle.”
* Where’s the Sheriff of Nottingham when you need him?

NEW ORLEANS LIQUOR STORE HAS A WEDDING CHAPEL

The world’s first liquor store with a wedding chapel has opened in New Orleans. Chuck’s on the Avenue – every girl’s dream location for her wedding day – is located at 205 St. Charles Ave. The first couple to exchange vows there was a Louisiana couple who said “I do” next to the beer cooler. Owner Charles Loescher walked the bride down the aisle for the ceremony, which was officiated by Saints superfan and ordained minister Randy “Elvis” Bonnaval. The couple’s first dance was to an Elvis Presley song. Chuck’s wedding packages start at $500 and offer options such as the beer truck driver as your witness, local musicians as entertainment and bourbon tastings for your reception. Said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. “Smaller, quirky wedding chapels have long been a quintessential part of Las Vegas and venues like this allow us to compete for that piece of the economic pie.”
* Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy “Mr. Romance” Nungesser.
* What about the bride? Who gets to Johnny Walk ‘er down the aisle?
* This time, the store owner walked the bride down the aisle. Was it the tequila aisle? The whiskey aisle?
* Imagine writing your own wedding vows, and they begin with, “Here – hold my beer.”
* When somebody thinks of an idea for “the world’s first” something, there’s usually a reason why nobody’s done it.

$195 CRANBERRY SAUCE

A New York restaurant is serving a special cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving. The Old Homestead Steakhouse in Manhattan is offering “the world’s most expensive” cranberry sauce at $195 per dollop. The sauce is laced with gold, truffles and Manuka honey from New Zealand. It is then infused with a $4,400 bottle of Taylor Fladgate Scion Vintage Port. Greg Sherry, who runs the 150-year-old steakhouse with his brother Marc, says the ridiculousness of it is the point: “Every year we try to do something different, a little more extravagant. The palates of the American people are changing. There is a large percentage of people now that like to go extraordinaire, and we try to provide that.”
* And what a good job you do!
* And they put that cranberry sauce on the Stove Top stuffing, not the cheaper store-brand stuffing.
* America has more billionaires than ever – 813 as of April – and dammit, The Old Homestead Steakhouse is gonna get on the gravy train one way or another!
* Just calling up to make a reservation costs 100 bucks.
* By the way – it’s Manhattan. There hasn’t been an “old homestead” on that land in 250 years.
* If you want to take the unfinished portion of your meal home, it will be packed into a locked courier pouch and you’ll receive an armed escort home.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

KOREAN MAN TRIES TO DODGE DRAFT BY OVEREATING

A court in South Korea has sentenced a man to a year in prison after he was found guilty of evading mandatory military service by deliberately gaining weight. The 26-year-old man had doubled his daily food intake and consumed large amounts of water before his physical examination for the military draft in 2023. At the exam, he was classified as obese. He was 5’5″ and weighed 225 pounds, which would have allowed him to serve in a non-combat role at a government agency. The man acknowledged his wrongdoing in court and said he would eventually fulfill his military duty.
* …right after lunch.
* To really seal the deal, right before the physical, he ate an entire Korean boy band.
* Maybe the military should order a few cases of Ozempic.
* At that size, he’d be welcomed in the U.S. military with open arms. Wide open arms, given his size.
* Klinger tried this on M*A*S*H, and it didn’t work for him, either.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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

Jessica Camacho (actress, “All Rise”) … 42
Joe Nichols (Country singer) … 48
Kristin Bauer (actress, “Once Upon A Time,” “True Blood”) … 58
Scott Adsit (actor, “Veep”, “30 Rock”) … 59
John McVie (bass player with Fleetwood Mac) … 79
Rich Little (impressionist) … 86
Today’s Birthdays grade: Nothing super-exciting here. C-minus…maybe a C. You can do better, celebrities!
[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!

“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!”

(A) Betty White
(B) Keith Richards
(C) Tina Turner

ANSWER: (C) Tina Turner

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2000 – Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin, making him the winner of the state’s electoral votes, and as such, the winner of the presidential election. The Florida voting was so close, the votes were subjected to several partial recounts, while other recounts were prohibited by Florida courts. Some people claim that if all the votes cast by Floridians had been recounted, Al Gore could have been the winner.
* Okay, look, we’ve really got to change over to a more dependable presidential election system … like mud wrestling.

1885 – The first photograph of a meteor was taken.
* Huh? How did the photographer know it was going to fall just then?

1864 – Lewis Carroll finished a short story for 12-year-old Alice Liddel. It would become the classic “Alice in Wonderland,” which Carroll’s diary indicates he wrote under the influence of morphine.
* I NEVER would have guessed drugs were involved.

1832 – Public streetcar service began in New York City. The fare: 12 1/2 cents.
* The hard part was cutting those pennies in half.

1789 – The first official U.S. holiday took place as President George Washington declared a day of thanksgiving to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
* “Now if only we had such a thing as a football game to watch on our day off.”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2010 – Willie Nelson was arrested for possession of six ounces of marijuana found in his tour bus while traveling from Los Angeles to Texas. He was released after paying bail of $2,500. Prosecutor Kit Bramblett supported not sentencing Nelson to jail due to the amount of marijuana being small, but suggested instead a $100 fine and told Nelson that he would have him sing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” for the court.

2000 – The Beatles went to No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Beatles 1.” The album features virtually every number-one single released from 1962 to 1970. Issued on the 30th anniversary of the band’s break-up, it was their first compilation available on one CD.

1994 – The Eagles started a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Hell Freezes Over.” The album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the band’s breakup in 1980; he commented that the band would play together again “when Hell freezes over.”

1988 – Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette copy of the latest Pink Floyd album “Delicate Sound Of Thunder” and played it in orbit, making Pink Floyd the first rock band to be played in space. David Gilmour and Nick Mason both attended the launch of the spacecraft.

1984 – A show in Chicago by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood was stopped because the stage collapsed under the weight of the audience.

1976 – A Baptist youth group burned huge piles of rock’n’roll records, claiming, “Of 1,000 girls who become pregnant out of wedlock, 984 commit fornication while rock music is being played.”

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. 7% of people surveyed said they plan on doing THIS before having people over for Thanksgiving. What is it?
They’re going to hide their valuables.

2. 23% of people surveyed said they do THIS in preparation for their Thanksgiving dinner. What is it?
They wear stretchy pants

3. According to a survey by the Pepperidge Farm Corporation, of those people who will cook the Thanksgiving meal, 50% will do THIS. What is it?
They will enjoy doing it

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