WEDNESDAY, Aug 17 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, August 17, 2022
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A&M AUTOLAND – The Valve Store; 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.)

NATIONAL BLACK CAT APPRECIATION DAY

NATIONAL I LOVE MY FEET DAY
The Podiatrists website says this (and more):
“National I LOVE My Feet Day … is a day to appreciate how valuable our feet are, and a reminder to practice good foot care.”

NATIONAL NONPROFIT DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“The Tariff Act of 1894, signed into law on August 17, imposed the first federal income tax on corporations, which included exemptions for nonprofit corporations and charitable institutions. With a few modifications, nonprofit exemptions remain a solid part of the law and have served significant benefits, both for communities and the economy.”

NATIONAL THRIFT SHOP DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“National Thriftshop Day is a day for a real bargain. ‘Thriftshops’ is an old term for stores that sell deeply discounted merchandise. It’s not always the highest quality, but the price is right. You know these stores better today as discount department stores and dollar stores. Watch for sales and specials today at thriftshops in celebration of National Thriftshop Day. If you are a store owner, create a sale around this special day, and watch your August sales sizzle!”

NATIONAL VANILLA CUSTARD 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

SNOOP DOGG CEREAL: SNOOP LOOPZ

In his never-ending quest to attach his goofy name to as many products as possible, Snoop Dogg is releasing a new cereal called Snoop Loopz: a mixture of Froot Loops and marshmallows. The cereal boasts “MORE Corn, MORE Flavor & MORE Marshmallows.” A portion of the sales will go to charities such as Door of Hope. Snoop Loopz doesn’t have a release date yet.
* How about releasing it in Doggtober? Snooptember? Or better yet: Doggust.
* Snoop Loopz: a part of this nutritious post-high munchies.
* Instead Toucan Sam, the cereal’s mascot is Tokin’ Joe.
* You’d think he would have gone with:
– Coco-Puff Puff Passes
– Honey Bunches of Dopes
– Cheeebios
– Righteous Bran
– Rice Krippy
– Weed-ies
* So Snoop Dogg is now an appropriate figurehead for the 9-years-old-and-under sugary cereal demographic? Ah, kids today grow up so fast!

THE BUZZ

SURVEY: LYING

According to a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults by Online Betting Guide, a study about lying has found:
– 53 percent of Americans believe they’re good at spotting when others are lying to them.
– The top 3 best times to lie are (1) playing poker; (2) when someone asks if you like what they’re wearing and you don’t; (3) and when someone makes you a horrible meal.
Here are some tell-tale signs when somebody’s lying:
– They cover their eyes.
– Their eyes dart around from one direction to the other.
– They do a micro smirk, where one side of the mouth rises slightly.
– A dismissive eyebrow shrug.
– Asymetric facial expressions: one side of face goes into a smile, the other side stays neutral or goes down.
– They stick their tongue out.
– There are a lot of hand-to-face gestures, like hands touching the face or nose; or rubbing the face constantly as though tired in a bid to hide the expression of guilt.
– Metronomic body gestures, like leg-swinging, foot tapping, finger-drumming.
Finally, according to the survey, Americans lie four times a day on average.
* Interesting. And we’ll be back after this very… brief… message.
* Lying while playing poker? I’m shocked! Shocked and appalled at the very idea!
* Looking at this list of lying signals, I just realized that there isn’t a moment of the day I’m not lying.
* The takeaway here is, if you find yourself needing to lie, first put a bag over your head.

U.S. NEWS

MCDONALD’S FRIES HELP NAB MURDER SUSPECT

In Kennesaw, Georgia, police apprehended a murder suspect thanks to some McDonald’s French fries. Antoine Sims, 24, got into an argument last Friday with a McDonald’s manager over cold fries. The manager claimed the food was hot – ‘burning his hand’ in fact – and offered Sims a refund and told him to leave the store. Sims declined the refund and demanded fresh fries. Both Sims and the manager called the police. Cops ran a check on Sims, who was wearing an ankle monitor, and found he had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court for a 2018 homicide.
* Even the Hamburglar thought this was funny.
* Murder is bad, but cold McDonald’s fries are a capital offense.
* “Would you like a court-appointed attorney with that?”
* The fries might get HIM fried.
* Time to review the whole “keeping a low profile” thing again.
* While they were there, the cops busted the McDonald’s manager for having a non-functioning ice cream machine.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS PULL WOMAN FROM CAR CRASH

A group of high school football players from Georgia is being praised for their heroic actions after saving the life of a woman involved in a car crash. Six members of the Rome High School football team witnessed a serious collision between two cars that left a 50-year-old woman trapped inside. With smoke pouring from the car, fluid spilling everywhere and the doors jammed, the athletes used their strength to pry the door open and help the woman get out of the car. According to mathematics teacher Luis Goya, “She was shaking and still in panic, but our boys gave her comfort and were able to help her. The Rome High School football players really showed up today. They went above and beyond to help this lady without hesitation.”
* In appreciation, he then excused them from homework for a week.
* Those hurry-up offense drills paid off.
* If only they hadn’t spiked her in the crossing zone.
* In a show of gratitude, police did not screen them for steroid use.

ZOO MONKEY CALLS 911

A monkey at a zoo in California called police Saturday evening after it found the zoo’s cellphone and somehow managed to dial 911. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call that disconnected. When dispatchers attempted to call the number back, nobody picked up. Deputies were then sent to the cellphone’s location to determine if assistance was required. They arrived at the address of the Zoo to You offices near Paso Robles, but nobody there had made the call. No…human. Officials determined that the zoo’s Capuchin monkey, named Route, had apparently picked up the cell phone in the zoo’s golf cart that is used to travel around the site and started pushing buttons, and along the line managed to press 911.
* This is how you get Planet of the Apes, people.
* Now the monkey keeps dialing people and asking if their refrigerator is running.
* He’s also been ordering pizzas with banana topping.
* Eight telemarketing firms have called the zoo to ask if Route the monkey wants a job.
* I feel sorry for the owner of the phone if he’s got it locked with facial recognition.

NEW GIRL SCOUT COOKIE ANNOUNCED

The Girl Scouts on Tuesday announced a new cookie as part of its nationwide 2023 lineup: The Raspberry Rally. It’s a thin, crispy cookie – a ‘sister’ cookie to the beloved Thin Mints – infused with raspberry flavor instead of mint and dipped in the same delicious chocolaty coating. They will be available for public order starting with the 2023 Girl Scout season.
* They tell you this now so you can start dieting before cookie season.
* People who don’t like raspberry are making a noise with their mouth and tongue. Guess what it is. C’mon – guess.
* The Thin Mint has a sister? Oh, baby, I am so turned on right now.
* If you knew what I was thinking right now, they would never let me in the Girl Scouts.
* The ball’s in your court, Boy Scout popcorn.

TRENDINGNBA WON’T PLAY ON ELECTION DAY

The NBA announced Tuesday that it won’t host any basketball games this upcoming Election Day to encourage voter turnout. This year’s midterm election, which historically has a much lower turnout than presidential ones, is scheduled for Nov. 8. All 30 teams in the NBA will play games the day before the election where they will encourage attendees and viewers to vote. James Cadogan, the executive director of the NBA’s Social Justice Coalition, says the reason is because a handful of states have laws ordering citizens to vote in person, the day of the election ― a policy that voting rights groups have found makes it disproportionately difficult for low-income voters, people of color and other historically oppressed demographics to cast their ballots. So, the league is giving people less of a reason not to vote.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN WON’T SAY WHEN HE’LL FINISH THE YOU-KNOW-WHAT

Author George R.R. Martin says he has “given up” predicting when he’ll finish the long-awaited ‘A Song of Ice and Fire.’ In an interview with Vanity Fair – when he should have been writing – the 73-year-old said, “I’m making progress, but I’ve given up on any hope of predicting the end. Every time I do, I don’t make it and everybody gets mad at me, and there’s no sense. It’ll be done when it’s done.”

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

Taissa Farmiga (actress, “The Gilded Age,” “American Horror Story”) … 28
Austin Butler (actor, “Elvis”) … 31
Donnie Wahlberg (singer, New Kids on the Block, actor, producer) … 53
Gilby Clarke (one-time guitarist with Guns N’ Roses) … 60
Sean Penn (actor) … 62
Belinda Carlisle (singer, The Go-Go’s) … 64
Kevin Welch (country singer-songwriter) … 67
Robert De Niro (actor) … 79

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

“There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.”

(A) Elon Musk
(B) Ozzy Osbourne
(C) Robert De Niro

ANSWER: (C) Robert de Niro

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2021 – 2021 One in five US hospital ICUs were at or over 95% capacity due to the Delta surge of COVID-19, with 1,800 children hospitalized.
2020 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first U.S. college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases were detected.

1998 – President Bill Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
* And the whole world went, “Yuck!!!”

1992 – Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s longtime companion.
* And the whole world went, “Yuck!!!”

1978 – Three Americans completed the first hot-air balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
* Anything beats flying coach.

1897 – W. B. Purvis patented the electric railway switch.
* And any day now, the people at Amtrak will figure out how to use it right.

1891 – The electric automobile self-starter was patented.
* No more getting cranky over the crank.

1859 – A hot air balloon was used in America to carry mail for the first time.
* It only worked if you were sending mail to people downwind.

1835 – Solyman Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts patented the wrench.
* Which came first – the wrench or the nuts and bolts?

1807 – Robert Fulton launched the first commercially successful steamboat – ridiculed as “Fulton’s Folly” – in the Hudson River.
* He’d have his revenge when his ridiculers lost fortunes on gambling riverboats.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2012 – Three members of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years imprisonment after they staged a performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior in a protest directed at the Orthodox Church leader’s support for President Putin during his election campaign.

2009 – An arrest warrant was issued for singer Bobby Brown after he failed to appear at a court hearing involving child support payments. Judge Christina Harms ordered Mr. Brown to be arrested next time he was in the state of Massachusetts. The singer had allegedly fallen $45,000 behind in payments for two teenage children he had with former girlfriend Kim Ward.

2008 – Jackson Browne sued U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. Browne claimed the use of his song Running on Empty was an infringement of copyright and would lead people to conclude he endorsed McCain.

2007 – “High School Musical 2” premiered on the Disney Channel and Family Channel. Watched by a total of 17.2 million viewers in the United States, it was the highest rated basic cable broadcast in U.S. history.

1998 – Carlos Santana’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled.

1995 – Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.

1989 – Pete Townshend, guitarist with The Who, smashed his hand up during a solo.

1986 – A riot between rival gangs erupted at a Run DMC concert in Long Beach, Calif., seriously injuring 42 people.

1985 – Elton John announced he was retiring from touring. He was back on stage with his “Leather Jackets Tour” by August 31, 1986.

1970 – Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac on keyboards.

1960 – A promising new group called the Beatles gave their first public performance.

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. On average, most of us do THIS more than 18,000 times in a lifetime. What is it?
Break the speed limit

2. THIS percent of people who go to court for speeding are found not guilty or have their case dismissed. What percent?
25%

3. Members of THIS profession receive more speeding tickets than any other. What’s the profession?
Doctors

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