WEDNESDAY, June 4 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – No Bull

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 – including “holidays” created by the National Day Calendar and Wellcat websites to drive traffic to their websites – or the hundreds of disease awareness listings which occur each year. We present only those specially designated days we feel your listeners would find most interesting or significant.)

APPLESAUCE CAKE DAY

GLOBAL RUNNING DAY

INTERNATIONAL CORGI DAY
Established by the nonprofit Omaha Corgi Crew which advocates and assists in the purchase, adoption, and responsible re-homing of corgis, and participates in philanthropic and fundraising missions directed toward small, local rescues.

NATIONAL HUG YOUR CAT DAY

NATIONAL CHEESE DAY

NATIONAL COGNAC DAY

NATIONAL SAFE DAY
The National Day Calendar website says this:
“On June 4, 2013, Brooklynn Mae Mohler was the victim of a preventable shooting due to an unsecured firearm in a friend’s home. In 2016, the Brooklynn Mae Mohler Foundation founded National SAFE Day to raise awareness about gun safety. One in every three households in the United States has a gun stored somewhere inside. Secure storage is vital to the safety of children and is the responsibility of the gun owner.
S- Secure all firearms in the home
A- Ask the question about unsecured firearms in the homes your child visits
F- Frequently talk to your children about the dangers of firearms
E- Educate and Empower others to be SAFE

June is:

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

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

SAVANNAH BANANAS COMING TO TV

The viral baseball sensation Savannah Bananas are heading to broadcast TV. The wacky team – basically the Harlem Globetrotters with smaller balls – have been profiled on ESPN, CNN and most recently on “60 Minutes.” They will make their broadcast debut on July 27 at 3 p.m. on the CW, playing their unique brand of “Banana Ball” at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park. The Bananas combine baseball with stunts, fan participation and fast-paced games: players catch balls while doing backflips; one player wears stilts; the pitcher will set the ball on fire; the team occasionally breaks out into a line dance. The Bananas are very popular – they’ve sold out every game on their home field since 2016, and currently they have 2 million subscribers on YouTube and 10 million followers on TikTok.
* But now you’ll be able to watch them with even more commercials! Yayy!
* It’s like regular baseball, only interesting.
* They’re even more hilarious than the Colorado Rockies, who currently stand – or rather, slouch – at 10-50.
* No doubt about it – the Bananas have appeal.
* For a nickname, they should call them the Fruit Bats.

DISNEY ANNOUNCES EXPANSION: NATIONALPARKLAND

Disney announced Tuesday that they are expanding Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom. It will become “Piston Peak National Park,” the “largest expansion in the history of Magic Kingdom.” According to the press release, Piston Peak National Park draws on the history and themes of the American frontier and the Rocky Mountains, and will feature “an awe-inspiring wilderness filled with towering trees, snowcapped mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, roaring rivers and impressive geysers.”
* Because this is what Yellowstone National Park always needed: rides.
* It’s going to be pretty ironic when Disney’s Old Faithful keeps breaking down.
* Wouldn’t it be easier to just put people on a bus to Montana?
* “Piston Peak” because nothing says “the wonder of nature” like the main component of an internal combustion engine.
* Here’s how big it will be: the mining companies are already suing Disney for the rights to dig in the fake mountains they haven’t even built yet.

THE BUZZ

SENIORS INCREASING POT USE

A new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, where researchers – from the San Diego School of Medicine along with NYU Grossman School of Medicine – evaluated nearly 15,700 adults aged 65 and older, finds that cannabis use among the olds climbed from 4.8% in 2021 to 7% in 2023. The study also found cannabis use doubled or more among older adults with chronic illnesses, such as COPD, heart conditions, diabetes, cancer, or two or more chronic diseases. The authors caution that older adults are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects—including increased risk of emergencies and falls—given physiological changes and the more frequent chronic health issues in this population.
* The people that were high in the ’60’s and 70’s and now high in THEIR 60’s and 70’s.
* At least grandma’s apartment doesn’t smell like rose powder and menthol anymore.
* Willie Nelson – ahead of his time. (And a head of his time.)
* Cheech & Chong got started in the 70s. How do they even have any lungs left?

U.S. NEWS

ROLLERBLADING ROBBER

Police in Abington, Pennsylvania, are looking for the man who robbed a gas station and got away on rollerblades. Last May 25, a rollerblading man entered the store, flashed a handgun and a knife in the front of his waistband, demanded all the money from the register, and threatened to shoot the employee. The suspect was last seen skating south on Old York Rd. with the money from the register.
* That’s just how some people roll.
* He’s not worried about being caught and charged – he figures he’ll skate.
* I hope he’s saving up to buy a getaway car.
* He was probably heading for Xanadu.
* I’m shocked – people buy gas with cash???

WOMAN SUES OVER HOT DRAGON BALLS

A San Jose, California doctor is suing a Thai restaurant over its spicy dragon balls. Harjasleen Walia alleges she “incurred permanent injuries and will forever be damaged” by the $11 chicken-meatball dish at Coup de Thai in downtown Los Gatos. The lawsuit claims that the appetizer burned Walia’s vocal cords, esophagus and the inside of her right nostril. (* Now when she blows her nose, fire comes out.) She claims the Dragon Balls were advertised as spicy, and that Walia asked her server to make it with less spice because “she does not tolerate spicy foods.” But almost immediately after she began eating the Dragon Balls, she felt the roof of her mouth, her tongue, her throat and her nose “burn like fire.” She began to lose her voice and was diagnosed with internal chemical burns from the chilis. According to her lawsuit, “A new employee who prepared the dish made an error and added additional peppers, rather than reducing them as requested.” Ms. Walia, a neurologist, has recently fired her lawyer and appears to be ready to represent herself at the trial, which is scheduled for August.
* “As Exhibit A, your honor, I would like to take the jury to lunch at the restaurant to experience Dragon Balls themselves.”
* Dragon Balls doesn’t sound like an appetizer. It sounds like they’d be bigger than your table.
* She might have a case. I checked out the restaurant’s website – right on the first page it says “Fireworks light up your mouth.” (True!)
* I suddenly have the urge to suck on some ice.
* Ordering Dragon Balls and asking them to remove the heat is like ordering a Hershey Bar and asking them to remove the chocolate.

MAN STEALS, GETS OFF ON, POOL FLOATS

A Florida Man has pleaded guilty to a months-long burglary spree. His crime – stealing dozens of inflatable pool floats. The city of Palm Bay had been plagued with reported thefts of pool floats. Christopher Monnin, 41, was the prime suspect. He was arrested after cops spotted him at 1:30 in the morning riding a bicycle and carrying a white garbage bag full of deflated pool floats. Monnin reportedly admitted stealing the floats and told police that he “sexually gratifies himself with them.” Mr. Monnin does not have a pool. Cops found about 75 pool floats in the house, including a lounge chair with cup holders, a duck float, a lobster, a French fries float, a pizza float, a turtle, a whale, a banana, an elephant, a watermelon, and a float shaped like a piece of bacon. (* Sorry, I’m just not finding any of those to be particularly sexy. Which I guess is a good thing.) The court ruled that he “requires specialized treatment for a mental disorder, and was “amenable to treatment.”
* “You folks can come pick up your stolen pool floats any time, y’hear?”
* I imagine this guy has terrific lung capacity.
* What’s the history here? After awhile, regular blow-up dolls just got boring?
* I just hope TLC doesn’t hear about this and gives the guy his own show.
* His biggest concern, like many in America today, is inflation.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

WIND CAUSES CRUISE PASSENGER TO FALL IN WATER

A passenger aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship fell into the water because of strong winds. The cruise ship Norwegian Epic was docked in Sicily when a gust of wind blew the ship away from the dock. The gangway pulled away from the bollard, and a lady who was disembarking went into the drink. Crew members, along with the woman’s husband, were able to immediately rescue her from the water. The unnamed woman sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital for examination.
* Cruise. Rhymes with “sues.”
* Time to put up a “Mind the Gap” sign.
* Isn’t that why they feed cruise passengers so much food? For ballast?
* It’s bad enough that these cruise ships have to look out for pirates, but now they have you walking the plank?

HOLLAND ACCUSES BELGIUM OF STEALING THEIR WIND

A Dutch weather forecaster has accused Belgium of inadvertently stealing wind from their wind turbines in the North Sea. Remco Verzijlbergh, CEO of Dutch weather forecasting service Whiffle, claims wind farms in Belgium are reportedly taking up to 3% of wind energy from Dutch wind turbines. He says, “A wind turbine is designed to extract wind from the air. If you measure behind a wind turbine, the wind blows less hard. Behind a wind farm with many wind turbines together, you really see lower wind speeds.” He notes that Belgian wind farms are located southwest of the Dutch parks and the wind often comes from the southwest, therefore Belgium often steals some of Holland’s wind. He believes there needs to be an international effort to avoid wind theft.
* Well, the science is sound.
* And the Dutch invented wind! Windmills, remember?!
* Thieving wind turbines? What’s Belgium’s spin on this?
* I don’t know from wind, but this guy sounds like a gasbag.
* He’s like those winds from the southwest – a blowhard.

TRENDING

SEAN COMBS TRIAL: TUESDAY, JUNE 3

Here is what happened at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-and-drug trafficking trial on Tuesday:
– A woman was escorted out of the courtroom just before testimony was set to kick off Tuesday morning after she went on a profane rant. She yelled, “Diddy, these MF-ers are laughing at you!” She also railed against the “system” before marshals led her out.
– Eddy Garcia, the security guard working at the Los Angeles hotel where Combs was infamously caught on video brutally beating Cassie Ventura, testified that he accepted $100,000 from Combs in exchange for the surveillance footage. He said Combs called him, saying, “God put you in my life for a reason.” Combs also told him not to make any big purchases with the money. He admitted that he initially lied to federal investigators about his involvement in helping Combs get the video.
– Prosecutors are trying to use some of the phone calls that Combs has made from jail as evidence. That includes audio in which Combs allegedly planned an extensive social media campaign around his birthday in November 2024 to generate publicity and “shift the narrative.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

June 14, Saturday – Flag Day
June 15, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 20, Friday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT)
July 4, Friday – U.S. Independence Day
Sept. 1, Monday – Labor Day
Sept. 11, Thursday – Patriot Day
Sept. 22, Monday – Fall begins (Autumn Equinox is 2:19 p.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Josh McDermitt (actor, “Suits LA,” “The Walking Dead”) … 47
Angelina Jolie (actress) … 50
Russell Brand (comedian, actor, currently accused of rape and sexual assaults) … 50
Noah Wyle (actor, “The Pitt,” “Leverage: Redemption,” “The Librarians”, “Falling Skies”, “E.R.”) … 54
Parker Stevenson (actor, “Baywatch,” “The Hardy Boys”) … 73
Michelle Phillips (singer, actress, “The Mamas and The Papas”) … 81
Bruce Dern (actor, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, “Nebraska”, “Big Love”) … 89

Today’s Birthdays grade: Today’s birthdays include a once-and-again TV doctor, a zombie fighter, an ex-Mrs. Brad Pitt, and a weird, kind of obnoxious needs-to-be-noticed “comedian” or something who’s currently charged with multiple sex crimes. Yuck. Grade: F-minus.

[Want to try something different with the daily birthdays? Try grading them! Some days have “good” celebs, some have “great” celebs, some have “lousy” celebs. For fun, give the group an arbitrary grade: A-plus through F-minus. Sidekick will give you our take on it; you can to take the concept and run with it.]

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

“I’m very much a normal person. I have good days and bad days. I’m awkward; I’m very human; there’s nothing special or different about me.”

(A) Donald Trump
(B) Pope Leo
(C) Angelina Jolie

ANSWER: (C) Angelina Jolie

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1989 – Activists in China staged a pro-democracy rally in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Chinese army troops stormed the Square to crush the demonstration; hundreds – possibly thousands – of people died.
* The Chinese people will mark the anniversary by cowering in their homes.

1939 – The first shopping cart was introduced, in Oklahoma.
* We spoke to the store manager and they’re going to have that wiggly wheel fixed as soon as possible.

1929 – George Eastman demonstrated the first Technicolor movie, in Rochester, New York.
* Because car crashes and slasher films just don’t look that cool in black and white.

1896 – Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
* After he hit the tree, he got the idea for “headlights.”

1784 – The first free flight by a woman happened 217 years ago today when Marie Thible of France ascended in a hot air balloon to 8,500 feet.
* Anything to get away from Frenchmen.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – Ariana Grande headlined a benefit concert for victims of her Manchester concert bombing, also featuring Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry.

2004 – American Idol winner Fantasia was at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “I Believe.” It was the first time in U.S. chart history that a debut single topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

1992 – The U.S. Postal Service announced the American public had chosen the younger and slimmer of two portraits of Elvis Presley for his commemorative stamp.

1967 – The Monkees took home an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.

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. The average woman is only able to do THIS for two days. What is it?
Keep a secret

2. 30% of women surveyed said their favorite one of THESE is about 10 years old. What is it?
A bra

3. 1 in 3 women do not do THIS common daily activity. What is it?
Blow dry their hair

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