TUESDAY, Sept 10 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR TUESDAY, September 10, 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.)

NATIONAL TV DINNER DAY
From various sources:
In 1953, Swanson foods forever changed the prepackaged meal business, introducing the TV Dinner which revolutionized frozen food. The boxes had an image of a TV on the cover and they fit perfectly on a “TV Tray,” allowing consumers to enjoy them while watching TV. The first Swanson TV Dinner consisted of a Thanksgiving-style meal of turkey, cornbread dressing, peas and sweet potatoes, with each item in its own separate compartment of an aluminum tray, which was heated in the oven and took about 25 minutes to cook. The original product sold for 98 cents and the production estimate for the first year was 5,000 dinners. To their surprise, Swanson far exceeded that amount and in the first year sold more than 10 million of them.

SWAP IDEAS DAY
The Days of the Year website says this:
“The idea behind National Swap Ideas Day is that everybody gets together to do just what the day says: exchange ideas. People celebrate this occasion by connecting with other people to share thoughts and concepts, whether at work, in the political realm, in friend groups or other places where think tanks are welcomed.”

September is:

Baby Safety Month
Better Breakfast Month
Chicken Month
Classical Music Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Honey Month
Little League Month
National Piano Month
Self Improvement Month

THE BUZZTHE COST OF A BEER AT NFL GAMES

USA Today has done a breakdown of the cost of a 16-ounce beer at every NFL stadium:
– Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons: $6.26
– Cincinnati Bengals: $6.59
– Denver Broncos: $7.50
– Houston Texans, Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts: $8
– Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns: $8.13
– New England Patriots: $8.40
– Kansas City: $8.50
– Tampa Bay Buccaneers: $8.63
– Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears: $8.80
– Pittsburgh Steelers: $9.29
– Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys: $9.50
– Tennessee Titans, Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers: $10.50
– Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, New York Jets, Washington Commanders: $11
– San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars: $11.50
– Las Vegas Raiders: $12
– Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams: $13.75
– Philadelphia Eagles: $14.67
* It seems like a lot, but remember – the NFL owners are only making $10 million per game from ticket sales.
* Hey, be glad the stadium urinals aren’t 3 bucks per use.
* I think Americans are fighting the wrong enemy when it comes to inflation.
* Beer is cheap in Detroit and Atlanta so you can drink more and forget you’re watching Detroit and Atlanta.

STRANGE QUIRKS

Reddit asked, “What’s a habit or quirk that you have that other people find strange but you think is completely normal?” Some of the responses:
– “I have this habit of whispering ‘thank you’ to inanimate objects when I’m done using them—like when I put my phone down or close a book. It just feels rude to leave them hanging without some kind of acknowledgment. ”
– “I apologize to my car all the time when I make it brake too suddenly.”
– “I always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to Siri and Echo.”
– “My wife is an only child and she talks to herself a lot. It gets annoying at times when I didn’t hear what she said and ask her to repeat it, she says, ‘I wasn’t talking to you.'”
– “I like to have two beverages with my meals, one of them has to be water. ”
– “I eat my meals in reverse order of desire-ability, so worst thing on the plate gets eaten first, and the best is saved for last.”
– “I discovered a while ago that I sneeze in G#. Was tuning a guitar at the time.”
– “When I smash a spider and flush it down the toilet, I always say, ‘Sorry little guy’ because it’s such an undignified way to go.”
– “I brush my teeth in the kitchen because the thought of doing it where bathrooming happens makes me crazy.”
– “I say bless you to the people who sneeze on TV.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Not necessarily an OCD behavior, but what strange little habit do you have?

U.S. NEWS

GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SAVES CHOKING MAN AT FOOD CONTEST

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Sunday saved a man who began choking during a lobster roll eating contest. Governor Sununu was attending the Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating Competition in New Hampshire, when one contestant on the end of the stage began pounding his chest. The contestant, Christian Moreno, said the governor was the first person to notice he was choking. Sununu jumped into action and performed the Heimlich Maneuver on stage while the contest continued. After clearing his windpipe, the contestant went right back to the contest, eating another seven lobster rolls, even though he didn’t win the contest.
* You don’t want to come off as a wuss in those kinds of contests.
* “Inhaling your food” is supposed to just be an expression.
* He didn’t win ’cause the next seven lobster rolls … he made sure to chew them real, real good.
* He did win the lobster hocking contest, where you go for distance.
* That’s the kind of squeeze you want politicians to put on taxpayers.
* The things you do for a vote, huh?
* Christian really wanted to give the contest his all, but unfortunately, he choked.

MAN SPEEDS THROUGH NATIONAL PARK

A man was taken into custody Monday after speeding through Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Late Sunday afternoon, a driver sped through the west entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, past the entry gate. He continued to drive recklessly on the park’s famous Trail Ridge Road, a heavily-traveled, very narrow scenic two-lane highway, passing vehicles at a fast speed for the entire 48-mile stretch. Once the man reached the east side of the park, police attempted to slow him down using stop sticks. He sped past them, but hit another car. Three people were taken to a hospital following the crash, one with critical injuries. After crashing, rangers said the suspect got out of the car and ran on foot northeast towards homes in the east side town of Estes Park. A search continued into the night, and on Monday morning the National Park Service announced they had caught the suspect, 23-year-old Wayde Thyfault.
* Wayde Thyfault, this is thy fault.
* They charged him with Insufficient Oohing and Ahhing as he raced through the park.
* In his mind, he was competing on The Amazing Race?
* Hopefully he wasn’t rushing home to see the second half of the Broncos at the Seahawks. (Denver lost to Seattle 20 – 26.)
* They do a different kind of breathalyzer test at national parks. They test to see if your breath was taken away by the scenery.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

NORWAY GOLDEN EAGLE ATTACKS FOUR

A golden eagle is being accused of at least four attacks on humans last week in Norway. Among the attacks:
– An older woman was outside last Wednesday when she felt “something big and heavy” land on her shoulders and she went down on her knees. The eagle’s claws went deep into her flesh. Her husband drove it away with a branch.
– Francis Sture, 31, was hiking on a steep Norwegian mountainside Thursday when he suddenly felt like somebody was trying to push him down the mountain. It was a golden eagle. The bird then attacked Sture five more times as he sprinted down the mountain.
– On Saturday, a 20-month old girl was playing outside on a farm when the eagle came “out of the blue” and clawed her. The girl’s mother and a neighbor raced over to fight the eagle, which attacked three times before they hit it with a piece of wood and killed it.
The golden eagle typically eats smaller animals, as well as foxes and sheep. A local eagle expert said what happened is “radically different from normal,” and that the golden eagle “likely had a behavioral disorder.”
* Or, it was just a jerk.
* Maybe if you Norwegians stopped smelling like fish all the time…
* Was anybody in this story wearing a fur hat?
* The majestic golden eagle. Still no match for a guy with a wooden stick. “Audabon THIS, you son of a bitch! Pow!!”
* Then the seagulls attacked.

THE CHONGQING UNDERWEAR STORM

It has been very hot and dry in Chongqing, China. In an effort to bring down the temperatures and ease drought conditions, last week authorities tried cloud-seeding, sending almost 200 rockets into the sky. The authorities claimed success, as rain soon arrived. But then, last Monday, a sudden windstorm, believed to be a result of the cloud seeding, hit without warning. The 75-mile-per-hour wind carried large amounts of laundry off of clotheslines and balconies and rooftops. Video showed bras and panties and men’s briefs sailing through air, landing in the street and snagging on trees. The event has become known as “the September 2nd Chongqing underwear crisis.”
* And September 3rd became known as “Commando Tuesday.”
* It’s lingerie-ning!
* Luckily, it was just a brief storm.
* Still, the whole town got their knickers in a twist.
* I suppose a bra and panty windstorm is better than an underwear brownout.

TRENDING

PATTY SCIALFA REVEALS CANCER

Patti Scialfa, wife of the rock star Bruce Springsteen and a longtime member of his E Street Band, revealed in a new documentary that she was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer in 2018, which has led to her curtailing her public appearances and band performances in the years since. Scialfa’s diagnosis of multiple myeloma was revealed in “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” a behind-the-scenes documentary about Bruce and the band. The film premiered this weekend at the Toronto Film Festival. In the film, she says, “This affects my immune system, so I have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go.” Patti joined the E Street Band on the 1984 “Born to Run” tour, and she and Bruce married in 1991. The news of her diagnosis answered a question that has lingered around the band’s current worldwide stadium tour, which is in its second year: why Ms. Scialfa has been largely absent from the stage, on the band’s first tour since 2016. “Every once in a while, I come to a show or two and I can sing a few songs onstage, and that’s been a treat,” Ms. Scialfa said in the film. “That’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m OK with that.”

JAMES EARL JONES DIES AT 93

Actor James Earl Jones, the voice of ‘Star Wars’ villain Darth Vader, passed away at his New York home on Monday at the age of 93. He had a long career on the stage and screen. Besides Darth Vader, he voiced the character of Mufasa in 1994’s Disney-animated “The Lion King.” For many years, he was the voice who said “This… is CNN.” He starred in 1993 film “The Sandlot” as Mr. Mertle, a former baseball player who was the owner of the famed Hercules and Goliath. He played the role of King Jaffe Joffer in the 1998 hit, “Coming to America,” and reclusive writer Terance Mann in “Field of Dreams.” He won Tony awards for the plays “The Great White Hope” and “Fences.” Jones even scored the rare EGOT honor with an asterisk — he won Emmy, Grammy, Tony Awards and earned an honorary Oscar in 2011.

CMA AWARD NOMINATIONS

The nominations for the 2024 CMA Awards were announced Monday. The show is November 20. Here are the major categories;
– Entertainer of the Year: Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson
– Single of the Year: “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey; “Dirt Cheap” – Cody Johnson; “I Had Some Help” – Post Malone; “Watermelon Moonshine” – Lainey Wilson; “White Horse” – Chris Stapleton
– Album of the Year: Deeper Well/Kacey Musgraves; Fathers & Sons/Luke Combs; Higher/Chris Stapleton; Leather/Cody Johnson; Whitsitt Chapel/Jelly Roll
– Song of the Year: “Burn It Down”, “Dirt Cheap”; “I Had Some Help”; “The Painter”; “White Horse”
– Female Vocalist: Kelsea Ballerini; Ashley McBryde; Megan Moroney; Kacey Musgraves; Lainey Wilson
– Male Vocalist: Luke Combs; Jelly Roll; Cody Johnson; Chris Stapleton; Morgan Wallen
– Vocal Group: Lady A; Little Big Town; Old Dominion; The Red Clay Strays; Zac Brown Band
– Vocal Duo: Brooks & Dunn; Brothers Osborne; Dan + Shay; Maddie & Tae; The War And Treaty
It also should be noted that Beyonce, whose album “Cowboy Carter” topped Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for four weeks, and whose lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em” topped the Hot Country Songs chart for 10 weeks, and had eight songs from the album that cracked the top 10 — didn’t receive any nominations at all.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

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)
Oct. 14, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Wednesday – National Boss’s Day
Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween

BIRTHDAYS

Ryan Phillippe (actor) … 50
Guy Ritchie (director, ex-husband of Madonna) … 56
Chris Columbus (director) … 66
Amy Irving (actress, “Zero Hour”) … 71
Joe Perry (guitarist with Aerosmith) … 74
Jose Feliciano (singer, guitarist “Light My Fire”) … 79

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

“We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we’re being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?”

(A) Donald Trump
(B) Kamala Harris
(C) Guy Ritchie

ANSWER: (C) Guy Ritchie

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1998 – President Bill Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
* Not for the adultery – most politicians do that. He apologized for getting CAUGHT.

1989 – Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.
* Don’t tell the Republicans – they think Reagan brought down the Wall.

1897 – London taxi driver George Smith became the world’s first person to be convicted of drunk-driving.
* He was pulled over for driving on the RIGHT side of the road.

1869 – The rickshaw was invented in Yokohama, Japan.
* It might have caught on here but the big oil companies squashed it.

1858 – John Holden hit the first home run ever recorded.
* So Holden broke the record that previously stretched back to INFINITY.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2009 – A harmonica owned by Bob Dylan sold for over $3,300 at auction in Norfolk, England, more than four times the expected price. The singer-songwriter had presented the chromonica harmonica, made by Hohner, to a member of his wardrobe department in 1974, and the inside of the harmonica case was signed and dedicated by Dylan. Lifetime Dylan fan John Fellas, of Gorleston, Norfolk, who wore Dylan-style sunglasses while bidding, outbid fans from across the world for the instrument.

2007 – Pamela Anderson’s ex-husband Kid Rock was involved in an alleged assault on drummer Tommy Lee, (who was also married to the actress up until 1998). Police interviewed witnesses to a tussle involving the pair at the MTV Music Video Awards in Las Vegas. Lee was removed from the ceremony while Rock was allowed to stay.

1996 – Rondor Music International sent a letter to the campaign officials of Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole. The letter asked that Dole discontinue his use of the Rondor-published song, “Soul Man” as a campaign jingle. Dole’s campaign violated copyright laws when, without permission, it changed the words to “Dole Man” and used the song to promote ideas not necessarily held by the original authors, David Porter and Isaac Hayes.

1991, Nirvana’s single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released in the US. The unexpected success of the song in late 1991 propelled Nevermind to the top of the charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point where alternative rock entered the mainstream.

1964 – Rod Stewart recorded his first song at the Decca Studios, “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.”

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. You’ll find 18% more bacteria on THIS, than on your toilet seat. What is it?
Your cell phone

2. According to a recent survey, people who own one of THESE replace them every 2 1/2 years because they get lost, stolen or broken. What are they?
Umbrellas

3. The average American uses 3 times as much of THIS than people in any other country. What is it?
Toilet paper

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