WEDNESDAY, June 14 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 14, 2023
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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.)

FAMILY HISTORY DAY

FLAG DAY
The On This Day website says this:
“(On this day in 1777) The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the ‘Stars and Stripes’ as the national flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution stated ‘Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.’ On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed June 14 ‘Flag Day’ as a commemoration of the ‘Stars and Stripes.'”

NATIONAL BOURBON DAY

NATIONAL STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE DAY

US ARMY BIRTHDAY
The U.S. Army Center of Military History website says this:
“The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year.”

WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY

WORLD SEA TURTLE DAY

June is:

NATIONAL DJ MONTH – Yeah!
National Adopt a Cat / Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music / Black Music Appreciation Month
Corn Month
Great Outdoors Month / National Camping Month
International Men’s Month
Lemon Month
LGBTQIA Pride Month
National Candy Month
National Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rose Month
National Seafood Month
Women’s Golf Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

AVATAR 3, 4, 5 COMING LATER THAN EXPECTED

Sorry, both of you fans of Avatar, but Disney has announced that Avatar 3 will not be coming in December 2024 but a year later, December 2025. Additionally, Avatar 4 will now hit theaters in December 2029, followed by Avatar 5 in December 2031 three years later than previously announced.
* Now, now, settle down! That’s the way Disney wants it, and that’s the way it’s going to be. You’ll just have to live with it.
* This gives us all an extra year to work on our sitting muscles and bladder control.
* Dang, you know what else? This will push the remakes way father off to about 2058.
* At this rate, we could actually GET to Pandora before the movies come out.
* Well, it’s like that famous quote from Avatar says… wait – there is no famous quote from Avatar.
* I want to see an Avatar where they all get jaundice, and instead of turning yellow they all turn green.

YET ANOTHER FINAL BEATLES SONG

Paul McCartney says there is yet another Beatles song coming later this year. The project appears to be a product of the new A.I. technology, the same process that director Peter Jackson used to clean up the audio track for the “Beatles: Get Back” documentary. It’s a John Lennon song from 1978 called “Now and Then” recorded as a demo on a cassette. McCartney said in an interview with the BBC that A.I. was used to “extricate” and clean up Lennon’s vocals. He says, “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI, so that then we could mix the record as you would normally do. It gives you some sort of leeway.” McCartney has long expressed a desire to finish the song. It had been considered for the Beatles “Anthology” project in 1995, but George Harrison vetoed the song, so they recorded Lennon’s “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” instead. When asked about A.I., McCartney said, “It’s a very interesting thing, you know. It’s something we’re all sort of tackling at the moment and trying to deal with. There’s a good side to it and then a scary side, and we’ll just have to see where that leads.”
* Oh, we already know where it leads. To scary movies about evil AIs.
* Paul, aren’t you rich enough?
* The project could completely collapse if the John Lennon AI decides it still hates Paul.
* Whether he was supportive of the project, George Harrison had no response because, of course, he’s dead.
* I kid, but Paul is really a very gracious man. If you remember, after the Beatles broke up, he started another band called Wings. And when he found out they weren’t very good songwriters, he was kind enough and gracious enough to write all of their songs for them so they wouldn’t look stupid on stage.

THE BUZZ

JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES

Reddit asked, “What is your ‘This Is Just Like In The Movies’ moment?” Some of the responses:
– “Found a parking spot right in front of the building I needed to visit downtown.”
– “Saw a dog running down the street with a chain of sausages in its mouth.”
– “Pulled into my driveway as the song was ending.”
– “I was brooding on my deck this morning and it started raining.”
– “I watched a log truck overturn in front of me, just like ‘Final Destination.'”
– “One of my neighbors won a 6-figure sum from the lottery about a week after their house burned down.”
– “Had a abrupt knocking on my apartment door. I looked out the peep hole and there were a handful of cops dressed in full SWAT gear. They said we had less than 3 minutes to dress and meet them back at the door. We were lead out the door, told to ‘hug the wall,’ and lead out to an armored vehicle, filled with my neighbors. And it took off super fast.”
– “We caught every single green light to the hospital.”
– “I finally got a chipmunk to grab a peanut from my hand only for him to run away and get swooped up by a hawk. Sorry bro.”
– “I lost all my money playing slots in Vegas and played one last slot and won all my money back but also doubled it!”
– “Slipped on a banana peel. Genuinely didn’t think it was possible.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What is your “Just like in the movies” moment?

STUDY: PICTURES OF FOOD MAKE YOU LESS HUNGRY, OBVIOUSLY

Does looking at a picture of food make you less hungry? Experiments at Aarhus University in Denmark say yes. Researchers showed over 1,000 participants the same food picture. Some saw it three times, others saw it 30 times. Those who saw the image more frequently reported feeling more satisfied and felt their craving reduced. The participants who were shown the picture many times also chose a smaller portion than those who had only seen the picture three times.
* Or, maybe – just maybe – in the time it takes to watch 30 pictures of food your hunger has passed. Where’s my honorary degree, Aarhus University of Denmark?
* The craving was reduced even more in people who ate the pictures.
* Obviously this theory is true, and hundreds of food makers and millions of commercials over the past 70 years have been wrong.
* You know what kind of pictures make people completely stop being hungry? Pictures of food with bugs crawling all over it.
* That’s great. Now try the experiment with pictures of the Kardashians, see if people lose interest in them.

U.S. NEWS

SOMEONE STEALS BANK ROBBER’S GETAWAY CAR

A Minnesota man traveled to Chicago twice last year to rob banks, but then lost the money when someone stole his car with the cash inside. Alan Duncan allegedly robbed a Chicago credit union on November 20, and then came back to Chicago ten days later to rob another bank. Police were able to track Duncan’s car as it ran through several toll plazas between Chicago and Minnesota. On December 2, police in Minneapolis found the car abandoned. It had red dye stains on the interior from an exploded dye pack. They tracked down and arrested Mr. Duncan. Investigators later discovered that Duncan told his brother that he lost the money – about $8,000 total – when someone stole his car with the cash inside.
* It’s the Circle of Theft.
* You know a safe place to keep your money? No, not a bank, because people rob them. Obviously. Duh.
* He should have stayed in Minnesota and robbed banks there, where people are nice and don’t steal cars.
* $8,000 barely covers gas and tolls from Minneapolis to Chicago and back, twice.
* Guess which donut shop Mr. Duncan likes. C’mon – guess.

CANNON STOLEN FROM FORT

A cannon was stolen from historic Fort Mifflin, located along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. The 300-pound replica signal cannon was taken from its spot on the wall surrounding the fort sometime in early June. The working replica was about four feet long and sat on top of a 14-foot-tall wall. Beth Beatty, the executive director of Fort Mifflin, noted that it had to be removed from its wooden cannon stand, then lowered down from the top of the 14-foot wall, and then moved across the parade ground and loaded into a truck. The cannon doesn’t sit in a visible area, and the first person to notice it missing thought it had been taken down for maintenance. The artillery piece is valued at around $3,000 intact, but they don’t believe the piece is worth much as scrap because it’s made out of cast iron. Beatty noted, “We’re a small nonprofit and this is sort of a sentimental cannon for us.”
* Now don’t go getting all sentimental about Revolutionary War replica cannons. Daddy will get you another one. A better one.
* Anybody checked on the Hessians lately?
* A cannon missing from an area that’s not visible? How will we cope?
* Maybe it was feeling unappreciated and just left.
* All they know is, whoever stole that cannon must have balls.
* The suspects are described as armed. Very heavily armed. And herniated.
* Maybe this is why you don’t hear much about Fort Mifflin. They can’t even defend their flippin’ cannons.

TRENDINGTAYLOR SWIFT TOUR UPENDING BATHROOM NORMS

The bathrooms have become a bizarre battleground on Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour. Because the audience is overwhelmingly female, and because we all know how women get shortchanged in the bathroom department at stadiums and arenas, the women have also taken over the men’s rooms, which largely sit vacant during the show. Some men who find themselves standing in a line of women to use the men’s room have realized that women don’t use the urinals. So, they cut through the line, get into the bathroom, excuse themselves to the ladies, and have a go.

STEPHEN COLBERT EXTENDS TO 2026

Stephen Colbert has signed on for another three years of hosting “Late Show.” He first took over hosting duties in September 2015 from David Letterman. New episodes of the show haven’t aired since May 2, because of the writer’s strike. CBS has been airing repeats.

AUTHOR CORMAC MCCARTHY DIES

Cormac McCarthy, the novelist known for his Southern Gothic stories, died in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday at 89. McCarthy was one of the most celebrated novelists of his generation, considered by literary critic Harold Bloom to be as influential as Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth. His hilarious, inspirational and downright uplifting novels include No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian and The Road.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

TODAY – Flag Day
June 18, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 21, Wednesday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:58 a.m. EDT)
July 4, Tuesday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 4, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Monday – Patriot Day
Sept. 23, Saturday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:50 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Steffi Graf (retired German tennis star) … 54
Stephen Wallem (actor, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Nurse Jackie”) … 55
Boy George (80s singer with Culture Club, real name George O’Dowd) … 62
Donald Trump (former President of the United States, business tycoon, TV personality) … 77

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

“The point is that you can’t be too greedy.”

(A) Jeff Bezos
(B) Mark Zuckerberg
(C) Donald Trump

ANSWER: (C) Donald Trump

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2002 – American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners, but keep them in the priesthood.
* Go ahead, keep them in the priesthood – but also keep them locked in the basement.

1951 – The first commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, entered service at the Census Bureau.
* It took up a whole room and could only store about 100 photos of naked celebrities.

1894 – Thomas Edison filmed a boxing match in New Jersey today in 1894. It was the first sporting event to be recorded on celluloid.
* Followed quickly by the first “Instant Replay” rules.

1881 – The player piano was patented.
* Finally you could hear something besides “Chopsticks.”

1847 – Robert von Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner.
* When asked what gave him the idea, Robert replied, “It’s cool to melt stuff.”

1834 – Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper.
* I still don’t understand how something scratchy makes other things smooth.

1777 – The Continental Congress adopted the Stars & Stripes as the official U.S. Flag.
* The runner-up was a cartoon of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes whizzing on the Union Jack.

1775 – The US Army was founded.
* Just in time too, what with the revolution about to start …

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Britney Spears was granted a restraining order against her former manager, Sam Lutfi, who looked after her career from 2007 to 2008. A judge granted the five-year order forbidding Lutfi from contacting Spears and her relatives and from making disparaging comments about them online. The singer’s father, Jamie Spears, told the court how Lutfi had been a “predator” on his family for over 10 years and he was “worried” about his potential influence.

2007 – Bob Dylan won Spain’s Prince of Asturias Arts Award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors. Jury chairman Jose Llado called Dylan a “living legend of popular music and the guiding star of a generation that dreamed of changing the world.” Previous winners of the annual prize include U.S. film-maker Woody Allen.

2002 – Mick Jagger became a Sir when he was knighted by the Queen of England.

1997 – Puff Daddy and Faith Evans started an 11-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “I’ll Be Missing You,” a tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G.

1986 – Bob Geldof received an honorary Knighthood in recognition of his humanitarian activities.

1986 – Three fans died during an Ozzy Osbourne gig at Long Beach Arena, California after falling from a balcony.

1980 – Billy Joel started a six-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Glass Houses,” his second U.S. No.1 album.

1923 – The first country music hit was recorded – “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane.”

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. Almost half of all men say they’ve made a fool of themselves doing THIS. What is it?
Opening a bottle of wine or champagne

2. 56% of men surveyed admit they do THIS at home when their partner is not around. What is it?
Eat on the couch

3. Men do THIS, on average, every 18 days. What is it?
Wash their bath towel

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