WEDNESDAY, June 22 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022
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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 CHOCOLATE ECLAIR DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“National Chocolate Eclair Day is a sugary, sweet way to start your day. It’s a sweet, tasty way to end your day, too. Eclairs are a light, crisp pastry filled with a pastry cream. They are most often eaten as a dessert. They can be eaten at every meal, or as a snack. We hope that you are not on a diet, or watching calories, carbs or sugar. Because participating in this day means consumption of high calorie, high carb, high sugar eclairs. Did you know? Eclairs originated in France.”

NATIONAL ONION RINGS DAY

STUPID GUY THING DAY
The KeepIn Calendar website says this:
“Women talk about it all the time: how guys do stupid things. Now there’s a holiday to celebrate that. Most of the funny home videos shown on TV show men/boys doing stupid things. Since today is Stupid Guy Thing Day make a list of all the things you’ve seen or heard guys do and share it with your friends.”

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

THE BUZZ

WE HATE WHEN OTHER PEOPLE DRIVE

A survey of 2,000 adults sponsored by Cobra, a maker of automotive and consumer electronics, found that most people don’t enjoy being in a car when someone else is driving:
53% – “always” or “often” feel anxious about other drivers’ behavior
61% – agree that the pandemic has made people drive more unsafely
60% – keep their eye on the speedometer when someone else is driving
63% – admit they get nervous when their partner is driving
52% – said that they often find themselves wishing the driver would slow down, BUT
65% – admitted they drive faster than usual on both short and long road trips
* ‘Cause we know how to drive fast safely – not like these other idiots.
* And could you put some better music on, for Pete’s sake???
* Does this mean driverless cars would be better, or worse? Let’s open the phones.
* Relax. Pretty soon it’s gonna be too expensive to drive anyway.

IF YOU CAN’T STAND ON ONE LEG FOR 10 SECONDS, YOU’RE GONNA DIE

Scientists in Brazil say if you can’t stand on one leg for 10 seconds, you’re twice as likely to die within 10 years. A team from Clinimex Medicina do Exercicio asked participants to stand on one leg for 10 seconds without any additional support. One in five (20%) failed to pass the balance test, and the numbers of failures increased with the ages of the participants. During a monitoring period of seven years after the balance test, the proportion of deaths among those who failed the test was significantly higher: 17.5 percent of those who failed, compared to just 4.5 percent of those that passed. However… it should be noted that those who failed the balance test had poorer health – many were obese, had heart disease, or high blood pressure and too much fat in the blood.
* Maybe you should have led with that last bit of information.
* Too much fat in the blood, or as doctors call it, “gravy blood.”
* But if you CAN stand on one leg for 10 seconds, you’re also going to die, eventually. So, good study, guys!
* Following this stand-on-one-leg-and-live-longer logic, flamingos should live forever.

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN RUINS NEIGHBOR’S WEDDING WITH LAWNMOWER

A TikTokker posted a video of a wedding, being held at someone’s home, and as the bride walked down the aisle the lady who lived next door deliberately fired up her lawnmower. The neighbor kept the noise up through the entire wedding, and guests could not hear the vows. People commenting on the video were not kind toward the unnamed woman for ruining the celebration, while others offered revenge ideas. “Now I’d be committed to randomly ringing her doorbell at 3 am at least once a week for eternity,” one person joked. “Hope you had a huge celebration and blasted the tunes to the wee hours,” said another.
* Hmm. Good start. Then there’s ordering them two dozen pizzas, having SWAT teams sent to the house, posting info online about a midnight rave being held at the house … It’s gonna be a fun summer!
* She likes to take care of her lawn? Dandelion seeds!
* Oh, and update that TikTok video to show her address.
* The lesson here is, if you’re having a backyard wedding, invite the darn neighbor.

HIKER SINKS IN QUICKSAND

Every 8-year-old boy’s nightmare came true: Earlier this month at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, quicksand sucked a hiker into chest-deep mud. Officials say the person was stuck in quicksand up to their chest near a pond in the park. In a June 9 Facebook post, officials wrote, “They would have been unable to extract themselves from the sand if alone.” How do you get out of it? According to National Geographic, if you get stuck, “wriggle your legs around. This creates a space between the legs and the quicksand through which water can flow down to loosen the sand. You can get out using this technique, if you do it slowly and progressively.”
* Put that information in your phone, so you can retrieve it next time you get stuck in quicksand.
* And after you get out, make sure someone hasn’t poisoned the waterhole or put a snake in your boot.
* “How was the hike?” “I got caught in quicksand.” “That sucks.”
* “How did you feel when the quicksand grabbed you?” “I got a sinking feeling.”
* There are people who would pay good money for a mud treatment like that.

DOG ESCAPES FROM PET HOTEL, FINDS WAY BACK TO EMPTY HOME

Jeremy and Sarah Hensen, who live in Lenexa, Kansas, were vacationing in Las Vegas, believing their dog Dexter was safe and sound in a puppy hotel. But when their Ring camera notified them someone was at their door, they were shocked to see Dexter pawing at the front door of their home, whining to be let in. Of course, Dexter didn’t realize his owners were hundreds of miles away, and so Jeremy attempted to calm him down via the Ring speaker while he waited to be rescued by the puppy hotel staff. According to Jeremy, Dexter would have had to scale a 6-foot fence to pull off such an escape, then travel some 2 miles home. “He takes his job protecting us very seriously,” Jeremy said, calling his pup “determined” and adding that he’s a “very smart” pooch. “That intelligence can get him into trouble sometimes,” Jeremy added.
* Doggone it.
* How smart can he be? He didn’t even go after the key under the flower pot.
* Make sure the doggie hotel people take away Dexter’s lock-picking tools.
* Dexter’s pretty angry they didn’t take him to Vegas. He loves the craps tables.
* So, does the doggy hotel charge more because they had to go retrieve their dog, or does it charge less because they let it get away?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

YUMM! FREE KETCHUP POPSICLES!

If you’re hankering for a cool and tasty ketchup popsicle for those hot afternoons, get to Canada immediately. Starting today (Wednesday), the Canadian branch of French’s Ketchup is debuting the “Frenchsicle,” a limited-edition ketchup-flavored popsicle, to celebrate the first week of summer. The frozen treats will be handed out free of charge at popup locations in Canada until June 24. Said a spokesperson: “This year we’re bringing the fun back to summer with the Frenchsicle,” noting the Frenchsicle is made with 100 per cent Canadian tomatoes, adding: “It’s exciting to celebrate local food and flavor.”
* Wow! And for a minute there it looked as though nobody was bothering to bring the fun back to summer! Thanks, French’s!
* Melt one on your hot dog today!
* Will they have any of the ketchup popsicles with the creamy Worcestershire sauce centers?
* What’s next? Heinz Mustard Ice Cream Sandwiches? Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Cones?

TRENDING

MAYIM BIALIK HAS THE COVID

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik announced on her Instagram that she has tested positive for COVID-19. Bialik wrote in her caption that she is both vaccinated and boosted. “It’s very, very exhausting,” she said of having COVID. “The exhaustion is very special. I had mononucleosis in college, and the exhaustion hits like that, where you cannot be awake. You can try to be awake, but all of a sudden, you need to sleep.” Bialik added that she is immunocompromised, as she suffers from asthma and a thyroid condition. “It’s no joke,” she said about the symptoms. In a followup post, she said still doesn’t “have a ton of energy” but that her condition had improved. “I’m feeling a little bit better,” Bialik said. “Still some congestion. A little less exhausted yesterday which was a nice treat to not have to sleep as much as I felt like sleeping.”

SPECIAL OSCAR AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Songwriter Diane Warren, actor Michael J. Fox, and directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy will receive honorary Oscars this November, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday. Warren, Weir and Palcy will receive Academy Honorary Awards, while Michael J. Fox will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Dianne Warren is a prolific songwriter who has been nominated in the Best Original Song category 13 times since 1988, including a seven times in the last eight years. But she has never won, making her the most-nominated woman to never win an Oscar.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

July 4, Monday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 5, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Sunday – Patriot Day
Sept. 22, Thursday – Fall begins, Equinox is 9:04 p.m. EDT

BIRTHDAYS

Lecy Goranson (actress, Becky on “The Connors,” “Roseanne”) … 48
Carson Daly (TV host) … 49
Mary Lynn Rajskub (actress, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “24”) … 51
Bruce Campbell (actor, “Ash vs Evil Dead”) … 64
Cyndi Lauper (singer, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”) … 69
Meryl Streep (actress) … 73
Lindsay Wagner (actress, “Warehouse 13,” “The Bionic Woman”) … 73
Todd Rundgren (singer, songwriter, record producer) … 74
Kris Kristofferson (actor, singer, songwriter) … 86

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

“You know what topic I’m sick of hearing about or being asked about? Weight loss.”

(A) Oprah Winfrey
(B) Melissa McCarthy
(C) Carson Daly

ANSWER: (C) Carson Daly

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2020 – Brazil became the second country to pass 50,000 Covid-19 deaths.

2011 – President Barack Obama announced he would pull home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by the following summer.
* Finally an end to the problems over there!

1992 – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
* And we wonder why other countries look at us and scratch their heads.

1990 – Florida passed a law prohibiting wearing a throng bathing suit.
* Maybe there should just be a weight limit. Why throw the baby out with the bath water?

1970 – The voting age in the U.S. was lowered from 21 to 18.
* It gave politically conscious Americans everywhere a three-year head start on becoming disillusioned, cynical and apathetic.

1962 – The first test flight of a Hovercraft was made.
* Talk about an invention that blows.

1946 – The Post Office introduced jet plane mail transport, when it first used a jet plane to fly a load of mail from New York City to Chicago.
* Of course, the mail was SUPPOSED to go to Houston, but then, that’s the Post Office.

1939 – The first water ski jump competition was held. The winner was the only person to make it over the ramp successfully.
* As a consolation prize, the runners-up got wheelchairs.

1909 – The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
* As cars drove into the ocean.

1894 – The world’s first auto race was run, in France. The winner was a steam-powered car that averaged 17 miles per hour.
* That’s what I average on my morning commute.

1874 – The game of lawn tennis was introduced.
* Finally, an excuse for not talking to relatives at the family reunion.

1847 – The doughnut was created.
* Triggering an unprecedented surge in police force sign-ups.

1846 – Antoine Sax invented the saxophone.
* He got the idea for the sound when he was sitting in a bar and a sultry woman walked in.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2019 – Sir Elton John was awarded France’s highest civilian award, the Legion d’Honneur. The British musician was presented with the award by President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony at the Élysée Palace. President Macron’s office praised Sir Elton as a “melodic genius” and as one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT community.

2013 – “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke started a 13 week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart and peaked at No.1 in 14 countries. In 2015, a jury ruled that the song copied the Marvin Gaye track “Got To Give It Up,” and Gaye’s family was eventually awarded $5.3 million and a 50% cut of future earnings from the song.

2003 – American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “This Is The Night.”

2002 – U2 guitarist “The Edge” married his girlfriend of ten years Morleigh Steinberg in the south of France. The couple first met when she was a belly dancer on the band’s Zoo TV tour. Guests included Bono, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and Lenny Kravitz.

2000 – After giving himself various new identities during the 90’s, The Artist Formally Known As Prince announced he wanted to be known as Prince again.

2000 – Mick Jagger was ordered to reveal his financial worth and income to a New York court in his child support battle with the mother of his last child, Brazilian model Luciana Morad.

1996 – Diana Ross’s brother, songwriter Arthur Ross, was murdered by suffocation. He wrote songs for Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Madonna and others.

1992 – Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was rushed to a hospital after a gig in Belfast suffering from acute stomach pains brought on by ulcers.

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-in-10 married couples won’t do THIS even once this year. What is it?
Say “I love you.”

2. You are more likely to experience THIS if you’re married than if you’re single. What is it?
Heartburn

3. Experts say the secret to a happy relationship is to do THIS at least 6 times a week; 10-to-12 would be even better. What is it?
Say “Thank you.”

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