TUESDAY, Oct 8 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, October 8, 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.)

ADA LOVELACE DAY (Second Tuesday in October)
From numerous sources:
Ada Lovelace Day serves to highlight the achievements of women in STEM fields and raise awareness of the existing gender disparities in these industries. Born in London in 1815, she was one of the world’s first programmers. In 1843 she collaborated with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, one of the earliest concepts of a programmable computing machine. Ada Lovelace annotated Babbage’s work, including the famous “A-Text,” considered the world’s first computer program. In this text, she described how the Analytical Engine could be used not only for numerical calculations but also for creating music and graphics—an astonishing vision that extended far beyond her time.

AMERICAN TOUCH TAG DAY

NATIONAL PIEROGI DAY

NATIONAL SALMON DAY

October is:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
Car Care Month
Child Health Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Country Music Month
Fire Prevention Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Service Dog Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

THE BUZZTHE WEIRDEST THING YOUR GIRLFRIEND OR WIFE DOES

Reddit asked, “What’s the weirdest thing your girlfriend or wife does?” Some of the responses:
– “My wife sleeps with one sock on and one sock off. Says it regulates her body temperature.”
– “Once upon a time my wife was a bartender. Whenever she cooks, she leaves every single bottle on the counter uncapped.”
– “She rips open packaging like a coked-up raccoon.”
– “My wife drowns everything in hot sauce. Even things that normally you wouldn’t think of adding hot sauce to – like plums.”
– “She eats a banana like a maniac by peeling the whole thing, then holding the unpeeled banana and braking off pieces of it like it’s a candy bar and eating it.”
– “My girlfriend talks to inanimate objects like they’re her roommates. She’ll say things like ‘Come on, toaster, I know you can do it.'”
– “My wife eats burgers upside-down. I also asked her about it once, she says she doesn’t do it for any particular reason it just ‘happens that way.'”
– “Sleep laughing. It scares the hell out of me sometimes.”
– “She perpetually has the national anthem stuck in her head for some reason, so without warning she’ll just start singing OH SAY CAN YOU SEE.”
– “Takes crackers into the shower with her and eats them once they get all wet and soggy.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Does your partner do any of these things? Do they have a weird habit?

WALLETHUB’S SAFEST CITIES IN THE U.S.

WalletHub has come up with a list of America’s Safest Cities of 2024. They compared 182 cities, including at least two of the most populated cities in each state. The team focused on three key dimensions: Home and community safety, the risk of natural disasters, and financial safety. Here are America’s Top Ten Safest Cities:
(full list here, if you want to check out your city: studyfinds(dot)org/safest-cities-in-america-2024/)
1. South Burlington, Vermont
2. Casper, Wyoming
3. Warwick, Rhode Island
4. Burlington, Vermont
5. Boise, Idaho
6. Yonkers, New York
7. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
8. Columbia, Maryland
9. Portland, Maine
10. Virginia Beach, Virginia
* Sure, it’s easy to have a safe city IF NOBODY LIVES THERE.
* How does South Burlington come out to be the safest city, yet North Burlington is nowhere on the list?
The Five Least Safe Cities:
178. New Orleans, Louisiana
179. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
180. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
181. Detroit, Michigan
182. Memphis, Tennessee
* It doesn’t help Louisiana and Florida that we’re having tropical storms and hurricanes.
* Well, this is certainly one of the most racist lists we’ve seen in awhile. (Seriously, google “racial mix” of any of these cities.)

U.S. NEWS

CONCERT-GOERS GIVEN BAT RABIES WARNING

The Chicago Department of Public Health issued a warning that attendees of a recent outdoor concert at the popular Salt Shed music venue may have been exposed to rabies-carrying bats. The “possible” exposure took place between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sept. 12 during the outdoor Goose concert at the venue. A press release said, “If you attended the concert and were bitten or scratched by a bat, or if you had direct contact with a bat, contact a healthcare provider as soon as possible to discuss rabies shots.” However, bat bites may be hard to detect, the Department of Health said, stressing that bites may not be felt and may leave marks that are not easily seen due to the bat’s small teeth. “If you attended the concert but did not have contact with a bat, then there are no further actions that you need to take,” the release said.
* What the hell happened at that concert?
* According to the internet, Goose is an Indie-Groove band from Connecticut. That plays at frequencies so high it attracts bats, apparently.
* Also, if you were at the concert the next weekend by the bluegrass band Bats, you may have been nibbled by some rabid geese.
* Bats with rabies? Maybe the Salt Shed should hand out baseball bats.
* They used to have to give audience rabies warning whenever Iggy Pop did a stage dive.

LET’S HAVE A MEN’S UNDERWEAR PARTY!

Remember Tupperware parties? A bunch of the gals would get together, wine would come out, a Tupperwear rep would be there showing off their Tupperwear, and ladies would go home with Tupperwear. Well, what if you replaced the ladies with men, and what if you replaced the Tupperwear with men’s underwear? It’s happening. The ALPHX underwear company recently held one such underwear party in a Manhattan condo. A group of about 30 people – women and their boyfriends or husbands – socialized while several men walked around in underwear. Said the party’s host, Heidi Hapanowicz, “I had an apartment full of gay men walking around in underwear (the underwear models), but it was very wholesome. It sounds so much racier than it really was.” She served sugar cookies. Brooklyn-based marketing consultant Stephanie Taylor, 31, brought her boyfriend along to another underwear party last month. The event, she said, removed “the weirdness out of the underwear shopping experience.”
* You know, that’s exactly what I was thinking. It would be so much more normal to have men walking around my house in their underwear than to go to Target and grab a pack off the shelf.
* Heidi Hapanowicz. Heidi and her tighty-whities.
* The difference is, at a Tupperware party, you can see the eggplant inside the bucket.
* Awesome! 30 guests, 15 of whom are men, and let’s say half of the men buy underwear. After the underwear company gets their cut, the host’s commission could easily be one or two dozen dollars!
* Oh, wait. I forgot you have to pay the underwear models. You’d probably be in the hole about 200 bucks.
* File this under “Business Ideas You’ll Never See on Shark Tank.”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

AIR PASSENGERS FORCED TO WATCH RACY MOVIE

Passengers on a recent Qantas flight from Australia to Japan were subjected to an inappropriate movie that, because of a technical issue, played on every seat screen. The movie was the 2023 film “Daddio,” a racy drama starring Dakota Johnson as a young woman in a taxi being driven by Sean Penn. The film is rated R for its explicit sexual material and graphic nudity, including photos of exposed genitals and sexually-charged text messages. The system that would allow for individual programming choice was broken, only one movie could be played at a time, and passengers voted for “Daddio.” But when it became clear the movie was not appropriate for all ages, the film was changed to a children’s movie instead.
* Well, kind of – it was “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
* The passengers voted for “Daddio”? Maybe they need to have a smutty seating section in the rear of the cabin.
* It could have been worse. It could have been “Megalopolis.”
* Actually it was worse. The only alternate entertainment on the plane was the SkyMall catalogue.

INDIA TO TAX TOILET SEATS

Residents of Himachal Pradesh, a state in northern India, will now be taxed based on the number of toilet seats in their homes. The region is having a financial crisis and is looking for new ways to generate additional revenue. The introduction of the Toilet Seat Tax comes at a time when the government has been promoting sanitation initiatives and working to improve hygiene across India. The new tax will impose a monthly fee of 25 rupees (30 cents) for every toilet seat in homes located in urban areas. The money will go to fund water and sanitation services in the state.
* The citizens of Himachal Pradesh will not stand for this!
* And here I thought pay toilets were a thing of the past.
* The general reaction of the residents: “I can’t believe this crap!”
* Boy, the tax man gets you coming and going, huh?
* They’re gonna start seeing a whole lotta toilet seats piling up at garbage dumps.

TRENDING

DISASTER RELIEF: CONCERT FOR CAROLINA

Several of country music’s biggest stars are coming together for a special concert in North Carolina to support Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The Concert for Carolina will take place on October 26 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina; the concert will be headlined by Luke Combs, Eric Church, Billy Strings, and James Taylor. Additional performers are expected to be announced soon.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 14, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Wednesday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween
Nov. 3, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Monday – Veterans Day
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

Bruno Mars (singer, songwriter, producer) … 39
Nick Cannon (producer, writer, actor) … 44
Matt Damon (actor, producer, “Oppenheimer,” “The Martian,” the “Bourne” movies) … 54
Sigourney Weaver (actress, “Avatar”, “Alien” movies) … 75
Chevy Chase (actor-comedian, original SNL cast member, “Community”) … 81
Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist, politician, radio host) … 83
Paul Hogan (actor, “Crocodile Dundee”) … 85

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

“Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to (my) movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing.”

(A) Tom Hanks
(B) Leonardo DiCaprio
(C) Matt Damon

ANSWER: (C) Matt Damon

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2004 – Martha Stewart reported to the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia to begin serving her sentence for lying about a stock sale.
* It was the second-worst thing that ever happened to her, after “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.”

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2004 – Britney Spears split with the manager who had guided her career since she was 13 years old. Larry Rudolph said he and the singer had “mutually agreed not to renew their nine-year management relationship.”

1999 – Deborah Rowe, the wife of Michael Jackson and mother of Prince Jackson and Paris Jackson, filed for divorce after three years of marriage. The couple met when Rowe was working as a nurse at his plastic surgeon’s office.

1992 – The U.S. Postal Service issued a set of commemorative stamps to celebrate pop music legends. The stamps included Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter and Dinah Washington.

1988 – Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” finally left Billboard’s Hot 200 Album Chart after a record-breaking 741 weeks.

1977 – The punk rock group The Clash spent a night in a German prison after their promoters failed to pay a hotel bill.

1976 – The Sex Pistols signed a major recording contract with EMI.

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. One in 6 people do THIS when they go through a fast food drive-thru. What is it?
They buy their pet something

2. 30% of us sleep with THIS every night. What is it?
Our pets

3. 21% of dogs do THIS, while only 7% of cats do. What is it?
Snore

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