TUESDAY, Nov 26 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, November 26, 2019
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: TRUMP THANKSGIVING STORY; CONTEST – MIXED-UP MOVIE

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.)

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
America Recycles Month
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Families Stories Month
Great American Smoke Out Month
National Adoption Month
National Candle Month
National Fragrance Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Military Family Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Peanut Butter Lover’s Month
National Pepper Month
National Pomegranate Month
National Roasting Month
Plum Month
Raisin Bread Month
Spinach Month
Squash Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Vegan Month
World Communication Month

ENTERTAINMENT

SECRET “RISE OF SKYWALKER” SCRIPT WAS ACTUALLY FOR SALE ON EBAY

As you can guess, security for “Star Wars” movies is famously strict. Mark Hamill said that he would have to read the script in a locked room and couldn’t even take it home with him overnight, and that every page is printed on dark paper that makes it impossible to copy. But then this happened: a real script for the upcoming “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” accidentally leaked onto eBay because one of the actors left a copy under their bed, and it was found by someone who was cleaning the place. Director J.J. Abrams confirms the story, but said that Disney bought back the script before it was sold and any real damage was done.
* And that’s why Disneyland tickets are so expensive.
* Somebody got a Lifetime Universal FastPass.
* The head of script security is now shoveling poop at the Disney Animal Kingdom Theme Park in Africa.
* You’ll know who the actor was by whoever gets killed off in the first five minutes of the movie.
* Who could it have been (cough)carriefisher(cough)? Sad, yes, but come on – she fits the profile.

U.S. NEWS

AUDIO: MAN WANTS TO MEET 10,000 PEOPLE

Philadelphian Rob Lawless, 28, is on a mission to meet 10,000 strangers, spend an hour with each, and hear about their lives. The Penn State grad started his project in 2015, when he was working as a finance consultant and missed his college socializing. His initial goal was to meet 10,000 people in one year — 10 minutes at a time. In his first year, he met 500 people, reaching out to people in creative fields he found interesting. Later, he started spending more time with people, and managed to convince businesses to pay him in exchange for plugs on Instagram. He finds his subjects through word of mouth and doesn’t reject anyone who reaches out, typically via Instagram (@Robs10kFriends) or Robs10kFriends.com. After each meeting, Lawless posts a photo of himself and the stranger he’s just met, along with a summary of their story. He is averaging about 800 people a year and expects the project to last another decade. Lawless just met his 3,026th person last Thursday.
* And that, my friends, is why you get the flu.
* It sounds nice, but everyone he meets he tries to recruit into Amway.
* He could knock this off real quick just by spending the next five days at the airport.
* Eventually, there will be 10,000 people who say, “Hey – where’s my wallet?”
* He’ll never make it to 10,000. People he met will die or get killed and he’ll have to keep replacing them with new people.
* You want to meet 10,000 people real fast? Just say something mean about Taylor Swift on the internet.
CLIP: Jon Lovitz on SNL says, “Get to know me!”
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THE LAST MT RUSHMORE CARVER HAS DIED

The last remaining member of the team that carved the Mount Rushmore National Memorial died on Saturday at the age of 98. “Nick” Clifford worked on Mount Rushmore from 1938 to 1940, according to his self-published book about working on the project. He was one of the almost 400 workers between 1927 and 1941 who used jackhammers and dynamite to carve the 60-foot-tall heads of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln into the side of the mountain. He says he worked mostly on Washington. Clifford got the job as a teenager because he knew how to use a jackhammer from his time working in mines. Clifford spent a lot of time at Mount Rushmore in the summers, chatting with visitors and signing copies of his book.
* Yeah, he wrote a book, I get that.
* How many time a year was he ejected from the park for pestering the visitors?
* “Jackhammers and Dynamite” would have been a great name for his book, but he went with “Mt. Rushmore Q&A, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.”
* He worked mostly on Washington? Nice job. That’s the head where nobody bothered to do the left side of his hair. Thanks, “Nick”.
* It was also his job to go into Washington’s nose and drill out all the boulders that looked like boogers.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

THIEF STEALS TRUCKFUL OF CHOCOLATE

Austrian police are searching for a man who drove off from a factory with a truck full of chocolate. The thief drove up in a vehicle from a Czech trucking company, showed some falsified documents, then they loaded the truck, and off he went. The factory had been expecting a driver from Czechoslovakia, so suspicions were not aroused. The thief made off with an estimated $55,000 worth of chocolate.
* Now he needs a truckload of marshmallows and graham crackers.
* $55,000, or around 30 airport souvenir Toblerones.
* The loss was bittersweet for the company.
* They should have Czech’d his documents better.
* Augustus Gloop is wanted for questioning.

MAN DIES FROM DOG LICK

A 63-year-old man in Germany has died from a dog lick. The case, published in the European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, says the previously healthy man’s infection was caused by a bacterium (capnocytophaga canimorsus) that is commonly found in the mouths of dogs and cats, according to the report. It is transmitted to humans only in rare cases. The bacteria can be transmitted through an animal bite, but the man had not been bitten, just licked. At first the man reported flu-like symptoms and later developed severe sepsis and blood spots, bruising and discoloration of the skin as well as necrosis. The man was treated in intensive care but his health continued to deteriorate and he died from multiple organ failure.
* But I’m sure your dog is okay.
* Oddly, the dog’s tongue also rotted and fell off.
* Was he at least able to locate the dog and give it a good kick in the rear before he croaked?
* Too cheap to spring for a bottle of Purell?
* This is a fun story for all you dog groomers out there.
* Takes a licking and doesn’t keep on ticking.

HELP WANTED: YEAR-ROUND DOG SITTER

A British couple are offering $40,000 a year for a full-time dog-sitter to take care of their two golden retrievers. The job posting seeks a full-time, live-in caretaker for golden retrievers Milo and Oscar at the London home of the canines’ owners. The owners wrote they are both business executives who often have to travel internationally for business. The posting said the dog sitter would also be asked to perform some housekeeping duties such as cleaning, occasional laundry and light cooking. The position, which requires work Monday through Friday and some weekends, pays between $38,000 – $41,000 a year, plus room and board.
* If you need a full-time dog sitter, why do you even own a dog?
* Take the job, then leave a mannequin dressed like you in the house three days a week.
* The job sounds great, but that’ll be the end of the upholstery in your car.
* Nice timing – same day as the dog-lick-death story. (See MAN DIES FROM DOG LICK above.)
* Soon to be a comedy film starring Zach Galifianakis.

TRENDING

ARIANA GRANDE FALLS OFF STAGE

Ariana Grande took a tumble during a concert on Sunday. During a performance of “Bad Idea,” the 27-year-old strutted down the stage at the Amalie Arena in Tampa before losing her footing. She was ultimately saved by a backup dancer, who lifted Ariana back onto the stage. One fan shared a video of the incident, writing, “SHE FELL ON THE BEAT / I HAVE TEARS.”

CHAINSMOKERS WORKING ON TV SHOW

The Chainsmokers are working on a TV show for Freeform. Titled “Demo,” the series follows a 20-something musician who “dares to leave behind her struggling indie rock band and her working class family to try writing pop songs in Los Angeles,” according to the network. “Though at first she’s eager to shed her past, she soon discovers that the best songs tell the deepest truths – if only she can find the strength to tell hers.”

BILL COSBY INTERVIEW: “IT WAS A SET UP”

Bill Cosby, who is serving out a three to 10-year prison sentence for three counts of sexual assault, says he has no “remorse” about his actions and believes his trial was a “set up” with “imposters” for jurors. In wide-ranging interviews with Black Press USA from a maximum-security penitentiary in Pennsylvania and conversations spanning several prison phone calls, Cosby continued to assert he was not guilty of wrongdoing and that the trial was somehow a “set up.” “It’s all a set up. That whole jury thing. They were imposters,” Cosby said. “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”

TV TONIGHT

ABC – “The Conners” – Jackie is faced with a difficult decision that brings the family together. THAT never happens – it must turn out to just be a dream.

ABC – “Bless This Mess” – Basically what we’ll all be saying on Thanksgiving.

CBS – “NCIS” – Gibbs watches his 11-year-old neighbor when his mom must leave on a last-minute trip. Mark Harmon gets to use his “exasperated” face.

CBS – “FBI” – After an altercation with a student, teacher Patrick Miller goes missing. That is one tough school.

NBC – “The Voice” – The contestants were hoping to wrap this up in time to get home for Thanksgiving, but … nope.

NBC – “Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry” – Wow, she has got one fantastic set of … vocal cords.

FOX – “The Resident” – An A-list celebrity enters the hospital after swallowing a wishbone. Sounds like it’s either Shaggy or Scooby-Doo.

FOX – “Empire” – Cookie discovers an artist with raw talent whom Lucious dismissed years ago. Why didn’t they try “America’s Got Talent”?

CW – “The Flash” – A mysterious, hallucinogenic contagion tests Barry’s convictions. Okay, who made the turkey stuffing with magic mushrooms?

CW – “Arrow” – Oliver greases up his archery equipment and goes turkey hunting.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Nov. 28, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Nov. 29, Friday – Black Friday
Dec. 2, Monday – Cyber Monday
Dec. 7, Saturday – Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec. 21, Saturday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 11:19 pm 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”) … 37
Kristin Bauer (actress, “Once Upon A Time”, “True Blood”) … 53
Scott Adsit (actor, “Veep”, “30 Rock”) … 54
John McVie (bass player with Fleetwood Mac) … 74
Tina Turner (singer, born Annie Mae Bullock) … 80
Rich Little (impressionist) … 81

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 President of the United States. 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 the story 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 US 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 US 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. Most Americans surveyed say THIS is the #1 thing they have too many of in their house. What is it?
Clothes hangers

2. 20% of people surveyed have at least one of THESE in their house right now. What is it?
A broken appliance

3. The average American has about $90 worth of THIS in their home. What is it?
Loose change

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