WEDNESDAY, Aug 10 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, August 10, 2022
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Novelty Horns; THE ONLY MORNING SHOW IN TOWN

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.)

LAZY DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Lazy Day is your chance to goof off, and definitely not work. And, it definitely comes at a good time. Hot, muggy weather makes it easy to kick back and be lazy for a day. If summer chores are not done by now, they can just wait one more day. It is best spent on a hammock, along with your favorite summer beverage. Whoever said ‘There’s no lazy days…just lazy people,’ well, we respectfully disagree. Today is proof positive. It is indeed a Lazy Day. And, we consider that a good thing.”

NATIONAL S’MORES DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“S’mores are a favorite campsite treat for young and old kids. If you’re at a campfire, chances are, there’s S’mores. Sticky and gooey, and loaded with sugar and carbs, S’mores are nothing short of delicious. Who was the first person to create S’mores? We don’t know. But, we’re all sure glad they did! National S’mores Day celebrates this tasty summer treat. It’s appropriately observed in August…campfire prime time. Don’t limit your consumption of S’mores to the campfire. They are popular with kids year round, and can be baked in the oven, or microwave. The origin of S’mores dates back to the 1920’s. It’s believed the recipe was created by the Campfire Girls. Girl Scouts soon discovered it, and found it to be chocolatey delicious. Before long, S’mores became a campfire staple for everyone. S’more folklore suggests that S’mores got its name right by the campfire. After eating one, young kids chanted ‘Gimme some more!'”

NATIONAL SPOIL YOUR DOG DAY

August is:

Black Business Month
Family Fun Month
International Peace Month
National Back to School Month
National Catfish Month
National Crayon Collection Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Panini Month
National Peach Month
National Sandwich Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

GARTH BROOKS TO NARRATE “NATIONAL PARKS” SERIES

National Geographic’s upcoming docuseries America’s National Parks will be narrated by Garth Brooks. Brooks is also executive producing the nature show, which will air over the course of five consecutive nights in celebration of a new annual National Geographic tradition dubbed America’s National Parks Week. The shows will air the week of August 29 on NatGeo. Each installment will spotlight a different park: The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Big Bend, Badlands and Hawaii Volcanoes.
* No love for Yellowstone. OK. Just like the Emmy Awards – no love for Yellowstone.
* Never heard of Big Bend, so I googled it. Here’s what’s happening:
– Due to increased bear activity, the trailheads for the Window Trail in the Basin Campground and Basin Group Campground are CLOSED until further notice.
– Trail to Hot Springs Closed due to flood damage.
– EXTREME HEAT WARNING May-Sept temps over most of the park reach 100+ degrees by late morning, and reach exceedingly dangerous levels until long after sunset.
… so you can pretty much skip that episode.
* The shows hope to highlight the wonder and beauty of our national parks, and pass along the message to stay the hell away from them, there are too many people visiting and it’s destroying the ecology.
* I love how Garth has suddenly been named “Executive Producer” for a series that obviously has been in the works for probably 8 years. He must have friends in high places.

THE BUZZ

A new survey from RTA Outdoor Living polled over 3,400 Americans about party guests. Some of the findings:
– 27% of Americans have found damage to their home after a party that nobody told them about.
– 12% of the Americans surveyed said they have had expensive items broken in their home during a party.
– 33% of Americans have snooped through something they shouldn’t have at a party. (* If you’re not snooping at a party, why even bother going?)
– Only 38% of people say they clean up after themselves at someone else’s party.
– 25% have kicked out a guest over bad behavior.
* But it sounds like you don’t catch much of the bad behavior.
* First rule of any party: rent furniture.
* Second rule: have it outside.
* Remember when the worst we used to worry about was double-dipping?
* How ’bout if, when each guest arrives at the front door, you collect a damage deposit?
* PHONE TOPIC: My outrageous party story.

U.S. NEWS

WIFE ASSAULTS PARTNER WITH STEAK

A Tarpon Springs, Florida woman is facing a domestic assault charge for allegedly throwing a raw steak at her partner during an argument Sunday night. Police say Rochelle Wright, 42, and her partner of 20 years were intoxicated when the meat went flying. (* The steaks were high!) The steak missed its mark and struck her partner’s chair and a nearby wall. When questioned by police, Wright said she was “tired of his behavior and their arguing.” She was arrested for domestic assault.
* Jail time for this kind of thing is rare.
* Maybe it was a chuck steak and she, you know, chucked it.
* They’ll get the details when they grill her.
* He needs to sweet talk ‘er and try to tenderize ‘er.
* With the price of meat these days, they could charge her with felony destruction of property.

WATER PARK CLOSES DUE TO FLOODING

The Aquaport water park in St. Louis, Missouri announced they are closed for the rest of the season following damage they sustained from severe flooding back on July 26. The outdoor water park said that the cleanup and repairs needed to safely operate the facility will not be able to be completed this season.
* Apparently you can waterslide right to your car in the parking lot, which is not a bad thing.
* You know it’s bad when the lazy river is flooding local farmland.
* You can’t use the attractions but the fishing is excellent.
* What if they just asked all the guests to bring an empty milk jug and take a gallon of water with them when they leave?
* How does a water park close because of too much water? Does a haunted house close because it has “too many scares”? Does the Alamo close because there’s “too much history”? No! Does a library close because there are “too many drag queen story hours”? No!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

AUDIO: POLICE ARREST SINGER FOR AWFUL VOICE

A Bangladeshi singer with a huge internet following was hauled in by police and told to stop singing the country’s beloved songs. The singer, who calls himself Hero Alom, told his followers – he has two million Facebook followers and almost 1.5 million views on YouTube – that on Wednesday in the city of Dhaka he was taken in by police who told him to stop performing classical songs, that he was too ugly to be a singer, and to sign an “apology” bond. He claimed the police picked him up at 6 am and held him for eight hours. Chief detective Harun ur Rashid told reporters that Alom had apologized for singing the cherished songs and for wearing police uniforms without permission in his videos. “We received many complaints against him,” Chief Harun said.
AUDIO: How bad can it be? Here’s Hero Adam singing— well, see if you can guess.
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/08-10-HeroAlom-MyHeartWillGoOn(dot)mp3
* I was wondering whatever happened to William Hung.
* It’s like listening to a Bangladeshi Bob Dylan doppleganger!
* One thing’s obvious: Bangladesh is light years behind the rest of the world in pitch correction technology.
* Even Neil Young is going, “Ouch!”
* He promises he sounds better in the shower.
* Quick – someone give those cops Justin Bieber’s address.

DOMINO’S PIZZA FAILS IN ITALY, FOR SOME REASON

American pizza restaurant chain Domino’s is closing the last of its 29 stores in Italy after – incredibly – failing to capture the Italian market for pizza. They launched the expansion in 2015, with plans to open 880 stores and bring what was then a new concept of home delivery service to the nation. At the time, the company said, “Domino’s is a global brand. We will be using a recipe created by us, using locally-sourced wheat. Everything else is purely Italian.” But even when the pandemic expanded the Italian’s desire for food delivery, Domino’s pizza is not what they wanted delivered.
* There’s just no getting through to some people.
* Did they try everything? Did they try Mac ‘N’ Cheese Stuffed Crust pizza? Cheesburger pizza? Meat Crust pizza? Unlimited breadsticks?
* After making the announcement, the Domino’s CEO went out and got sauced. I’m talking pie-eyed.
* Their plans fell flat, like a row of those black rectangles with white dots on them.
* The company says they will now try opening some Panda Express restaurants in Hong Kong, see how that goes over.

TRENDING

SERENA WILLIAMS RETIRING FROM TENNIS AFTER U.S. OPEN

Serena Williams, after seven Wimbledon and seven Australian Open titles, six US Open trophies and three French Open crowns, is officially retiring from the sport, she announced Tuesday. However, she was reluctant to use the word “retirement,” a term she finds outdated. Rather, the hard-hitting heroine said she will be “evolving” into a new, more personally enriched version of herself after playing in what will be her final US Open later this month. “I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” said Williams in the September issue of Vogue. Williams plans to grow her family with her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The couple already has 4-year-old daughter. “I definitely don’t want to be pregnant again as an athlete,” she confessed. “I need to be two feet into tennis or two feet out.”

KENAN THOMPSON TO HOST EMMY AWARDS

Kenan Thompson was announced as the host the 2022 Emmy Awards, airing on NBC on Monday, Sept. 12. Kenan says, “Being a part of this incredible evening where we honor the best of the television community is ridiculously exciting, and to do it on NBC — my longtime network family — makes it even more special. Like all TV fans, I can’t wait to see the stars from my favorite shows.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Sept. 5, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Sunday – Patriot Day
Sept. 16, Friday – National POW/MIA Recognition Day (The third Friday of September)
Sept. 22, Thursday – Fall begins, Equinox is 9:04 p.m. EDT
Oct. 10, Monday – Columbus Day
Oct. 16, Sunday – National Boss Day
Oct. 31, Monday – Halloween

BIRTHDAYS

Jennifer Hanson (country singer) … 49
Angie Harmon (actress, “Rizzoli & Isles”) … 50
Justin Theroux (actor) … 51
Antonio Banderas (actor) … 62
Rosanna Arquette (actress) … 63
Ian Anderson (rock singer, flutist w Jethro Tull) … 75

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

“I have buckteeth, I hate my thighs … I don’t think I’m pretty at all.”

(A) Hillary Swank
(B) Sarah Jessica Parker
(C) Rosanna Arquette

ANSWER (C) Rosanna Arquette

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2020 – According to Reuters, global COVID-19 cases passed 20 million and were accelerating; the 1st 10 million took almost 6 months, the 2nd 10 million took just 43 days.

2017 – A 100 year-old fruit cake discovered in a hut used by Captain Scott’s expedition in Antarctica was deemed “almost eatable”.
* Which is also how you’d describe a fruitcake made last week.

2003 – Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
* A match made – well, half of it, anyway – in heaven.

1994 – President Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
* He didn’t get the message from the Nixon days that just ’cause you’re president doesn’t mean you can do anything you want.

1962 – Marvel Comics’ superhero Spider-Man made his debut in issue 15 of “Amazing Fantasy.”
* Fans were immediately stuck on him!

1885 – Leo Daft started running America’s first electric streetcar in Baltimore, Maryland.
* People thought he was daft – and he was!

1869 – The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.
* But he made his BIG money selling a penny’s worth of popped corn for 50 cents.

1846 – Congress established the Smithsonian Institution.
* They needed a place to stick all the country’s weird bug collections.

1833 – The city of Chicago was incorporated.
* “You want to put the city HERE? But it BLOWS here!

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2016 – Ed Sheeran was being sued over claims that his track “Thinking Out Loud” ripped off a Marvin Gaye song. The family of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On,” said it copied key parts of the track. The suit was dismissed, but another was filed in June, 2018.

2002 – Lisa Marie Presley married actor Nicolas Cage at a resort in Hawaii. The marriage was Presley’s third. She was married previously to musician Danny Keough and pop star Michael Jackson. Cage filed for divorce four months later.

1985 – Michael Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles music for $47 million.

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. 1/4 of all men surveyed said they would not date someone if they had one of THESE. What is it?
A twin

2. In a recent survey, men named THIS as the last thing they want to do on a first date. What is it?
Dance

3. In a recent dating survey, 70% of guys said they would kiss an attractive woman even if she had THIS. What is it?
The flu

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