WEDNESDAY, May 28 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2025
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COMEDY MP3s POSTED ON OUR PREP SITE FOR TODAY: A & M AUTOLAND – Report Card

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.)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Amnesty International Day recognizes the need to protect human rights around the world. The Amnesty International organization works to publicize local and regional problems, and to arouse citizens, governments and politicians to action.”

NATIONAL BRISKET DAY

NATIONAL HAMBURGER DAY

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbecue Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
Older Americans Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

CEILING COLLAPSES DURING SCREENING OF “FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES”

At a screening of the latest ‘Final Destination’ movie in Argentina, the movie theater’s roof collapsed on the audience. The incident occurred on May 19 at a cinema in Buenos Aires. The movie franchise follows a group of people who narrowly escape death after surviving a mass casualty event, but are then chased down by death and receive bizarre, horrific fates. One audience member, Fiamma Villaverde, told local news, “At first, we thought it was part of the movie because we were so absorbed, but then a huge piece fell on me.” There were several people injured, but no casualties.
* Well, not until Mr. Death catches up to them in a few weeks. I wouldn’t stand near them if I were you.
* The entire audience will never leave their houses again.
* The theater owner should print up “I survived watching ‘Final Destination'” T-shirts and give them to all the people in the audience at that screening.
* People watching that new Disney “Snow White” movie are going, “Why couldn’t that have happened in our theater?”
* So what’s the deal with Buenos Aires? No building codes?

INDY RACE CAR DRIVER CONOR DALY PEED IN HIS CAR

Race car driver Conor Daly was faced with a 45-minute delay at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. After the race, he admitted to a banquet hall full of people that he peed in his race car as he waited for the race to start. He told the group, “I was sitting on the grid and I was like this is the best car I’ve ever been in in my whole life. I’m gonna have to pee in this thing. I literally did the entire race sitting in my own pee.” Daly led the race for several laps at one point, but finished eighth.
* So, not number one.
* No room under the seat for an empty Pepsi bottle?
* You know, those drivers really go in those things.
* Instead of a fire suit, next time he should wear a wetsuit.
* Conor’s nickname is now “Puddles.”
* Remember the days when we didn’t know the bathroom habits of our heroes? Wasn’t that nice?

THE BUZZ

MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME

Did you ever have an event in your life that gave you a brief burst of fame, no matter how insignificant? Reddit asked, “What was your 15 minutes of fame moment?” Some of the responses:
– “When I was about ten I was the hula hoop champ of the summer school.”
– “I had a starring role on the corner of 15th and K St. in Washington, DC on Google Street View.”
– “I was on the FBIs missing persons list for half a day, while also simultaneously being on their list as a suspected domestic terrorist.”
– “I accidentally cut the power to an entire town in New Jersey for an hour.”
– “I’m one degree from Kevin Bacon, having been a paid extra in a movie scene with him.”
– “I once tweeted ‘Danny DeVito was the worst thing to happen to ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ and I won’t take it back because it’s the truth’ and he retweeted it.”
– “David Spade liked my TikTok comment.”
– “I went into a home daycare that was on fire. Helped carry the kids to a neighbor’s house, I was written up in a couple newspapers and got a citation from the mayor.”
– “I was in LA for the Super Bowl a few years ago and got interviewed by the local news. I was drunk out of my mind for the interview.”
* PHONE TOPIC: You get the idea. What was your 15 minutes of fame moment? And you CAN’T say, “I’m on your radio show right now.”

U.S. NEWS

GUY TAKES OFF POOL COVER, FINDS BODY OF MURDER SUSPECT

On Sunday, a homeowner in Long Island, New York took the cover off his pool for the season and found a dead body. Police believe it is the body of a fugitive murder suspect named Matthew Zoll. Zoll disappeared after he allegedly stabbed his father to death in November. After fleeing police, he crashed his car on the William Floyd Parkway, which is bordered by a wooded lot directly behind the man’s pool. Authorities say the body had apparently been there for some time.
* I’m gonna take a wild guess and say it was there since November.
* Well, the homeowner’s Memorial Day pool party was ruined.
* I’d fill in the pool and just get a membership at the Y. No way that’s getting used again.
* There’s not enough chlorine in the state of New York to sanitize that pool.
* At least the barbecue came off without a hitch.

ESCAPED PRISONER FOUND IN 80-FOOT TREE

In Port Townsend, Washington state, a man wanted on an escape warrant was safely taken into custody Monday after he was found 80 feet up a tree. After finding the man’s vehicle hidden in the woods, deputies used a drone to track the man as he climbed a large cedar tree, climbing approximately 80 feet in an attempt to avoid arrest (* because anything higher than 65 feet, the cops let you go?). For nearly eight hours, authorities worked to deescalate the situation, eventually persuading the man to descend from the tree safely.
* Oh, look at the jailbird up in the tree.
* Up a tree and out on a limb.
* He thought he could hide up in a tree? What – was he high?
* He came down when they threatened to send up Cocaine Bear.
* A neighbor lady came over and hollered, “Hey, can you bring down my cat when you come?”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

PARASAILER SUCKED IN TO THE SKY

Last Saturday (May 24), in the Qilian Mountains of China, a paraglider was sucked up into the sky by a powerful updraft and reached an altitude of around 8,500 meters (28,000 feet). Paragliding standards usually keep fliers at an altitude below 5,000 meters, but even reaching 3,000 meters is considered impressive. At over 8,000 meters, the temperature drops to around -40°F, and oxygen is extremely scarce. The entire event was caught on a video camera the man had trained on himself. Despite much of his body being covered in ice, he remained conscious and in control of his paraglider, and ultimately landed safely. He has said he doesn’t want to talk about the incident and bring more attention to himself.
* Oh, listen to him all high and mighty.
* He went so high he got covered in ice? It sounds pretty damn cool – like when Iron Man flew too high testing his suit and got covered in ice and his motors froze and he plummeted powerless back to earth and got his foot rockets started at just the last second and … okay, it’s nowhere as cool as that.
* This explains the expression “hailstones as big as paragliders.”
* The worst of it was when he bonked his head on the bottom of a passing airplane.

SO YOU’VE CAUGHT THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

What happens if somebody actually catches the fictitious Loch Ness Monster? Turns out, there’s a plan. The Nessie Contingency Plan is a set of guidelines written by Scotland’s nature agency, NatureScot. (* Pine Needles: Nature’s Cot.) It was developed back in 2001, at a time when there was a lot of Nessie-hunting activity on the loch. The code, which was partly serious and partly in fun, was drawn up to offer protection not just to the elusive monster, but to any new species found in the loch. The plan stipulates that a DNA sample should be taken from any new creature, and then it should be released back into the loch. The animal would also be afforded the same legal protection as Scotland’s other native wildlife, such as wildcats and golden eagles, meaning it would be illegal to kill, injure or capture the monster.
* It sounds like they spent more time typing up the plan than thinking it up.
* Actually, step one if you catch the Loch Ness Monster is Scottish authorities give you a full psyche evaluation.
* Just curious – are they ever gonna let us call Scottish lochs “lakes,” like “Lake Ness Monster” – or is it gonna be “Loch Ness” for the next 10,000 years? I mean, Italy doesn’t make us call Lake Como “Lago di Como.” So annoying.
* In America, when they find Bigfoot, the plan is to let it do a People magazine cover, the morning news show circuit, then give it a podcast.

TRENDING

RICK DERRINGER DIES AT 77

Rock and roller Rick Derringer has died. He was 77. Derringer had a part in many famous songs over his career. Born Richard Dean Zehringer in Ohio in 1947, the young Derringer received a guitar for his ninth birthday and began playing local gigs with his uncle, a country musician, before he was in high school. As a teen he formed a band called the McCoys with his brother Randy. They had a #1 song with “Hang on Sloopy.” He produced the Edgar Winter Group’s hit “Frankenstein.” He had his own hit with “Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo.” He played on the Steely Dan albums “Countdown to Ecstasy,” “Katy Lied” and “Gaucho,” and played the guitar solo on Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. He produced “Weird” Al Yankovic’s first album. He produced three Cyndi Lauper albums, and co-wrote pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan’s theme song “Real American.” The one thing he did NOT do was play on the Archies’ song “Sugar, Sugar.” That is an Urban Myth.

P. DIDDY TRIAL: TUESDAY, MAY 27

Here is what happened at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-and-drug trafficking trial on Tuesday:
– Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark testified that he repeatedly threatened her life. At one point, Clark was accused by Combs of stealing jewelry and was given a lie detector test by members of Combs’s security team in a vacant office building. If she failed, she was told they “would throw me in the East River.”
– She recalled an instance in 2006 in his Miami home, where she said an enraged Combs shoved her after telling her she could not leave the house while working for him.
– Clark said that after Combs found out that Cassie Ventura was dating Kid Cudi, he showed up at Clark’s house on Dec. 22, 2011, with a gun in his hand and told her, “Get dressed, we’re going to go kill [him].” When she said she did not want to go, Combs said, “I don’t give a (bleep) what you want to do, go get dressed.” Clark testified that she drove with Combs and a security guard to Kid Cudi’s house in Los Angeles. While Combs and the security guard went inside the house, she stayed in the SUV and used a burner phone to call Ventura, who was with Kid Cudi at a nearby hotel.

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)

BIRTHDAYS

Jake Johnson (actor, “New Girl”) … 47
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (TV personality, “Fox & Friends”, “The View” … 48
Kylie Minogue (Aussie singer) … 57
Gladys Knight (U.S. singer) … 81

Today’s Birthdays grade: An authentic actor from “New Girl” who sadly hasn’t clicked with audiences since, a one-time talk show co-host, the highest-selling Australian female artist of all time, and an R&B singer hot in the 60s-through-80s called the Empress of Soul. Still, nobody who quite reaches the “I’d set my DVR to record them” benchmark. Grade: C.

[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’ve had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.”

(A) Katy Perry
(B) Lady Gaga
(C) Kylie Minogue

ANSWER: (C) Kylie Minogue

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1987 – Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
* “Wait a minute – something tells me this isn’t Paris …”

1959 – Two monkeys survived a trip into space after being launched from Cape Canaveral.
* After their successful space mission, the monkeys started a precedent by serving several terms in Congress.

1915 – John B. Gruelle was issued a patent for his “Raggedy Ann” doll.
* Over 100 years and she still hasn’t gotten a nice dress.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Michael Jackson’s former home, Neverland Ranch, was listed for sale for one hundred million dollars. The 2,700-acre ranch in Santa Ynez Valley, California included a train station, a six-bedroom house, a 50-seat movie theater and two lakes. After failing to sell, it was renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, and relisted in 2019 at $31 million.

2000 – Britney Spears’ second album, “Oops!… I Did It Again,” debuted at No.1 on the U.S. album chart and quickly became the fastest-selling LP by a female solo artist in chart history. It also reached No.1 in thirteen other countries.

1988 – Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler married his second wife, clothing designer Teresa Barrick. The couple announced they were separating due to personal problems in February 2005.

1977 – Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers played together for the first time when they performed as part of Mike Howlett’s band, Strontium 90, in Paris, France.

1973 – Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” was on both the UK and U.S. album charts. It remained in the U.S. charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. (After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006.)

1969 – Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were arrested at their London home and charged with possession of cannabis. They were both later released on $85 bail.

1966 – All four Beatles spent the day with Bob Dylan in his room at the Mayfair hotel in London, England, watching rushes of D.A. Pennebakers’s forthcoming documentary film, “Don’t Look Back,” which covered Dylan’s 1965 concert tour of the United Kingdom.

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 American has 13 of THESE. What are they?
Vacation days

2. When it comes to vacations, 1 in 3 of us admit to doing THIS. What is it?
Visiting the same place each year

3. 38% of people say THIS is the most stressful part of going on vacation. What is it?
Swimsuit shopping

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