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MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, May 3, 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.)

GARDEN MEDITATION DAY
The Days Of The Year website says this:
“Garden Meditation Day provides the perfect opportunity to achieve inner peace while honoring the essential ties between people and the environment. Garden and wild plants play a huge role in sustaining life on Earth; they produce food, they make oxygen, they preserve the soil and they beautify the planet. It’s no wonder that mankind has a natural connection to plant life. Garden meditation has been practiced for thousands of years because the natural elements in a garden create a soothing, peaceful environment for retreat, and they enable the necessary focus to bring about calm and stress relief.”

NATIONAL LUMPY RUG DAY

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO DAY

NATIONAL RASPBERRY POPOVER DAY

NATIONAL TWO DIFFERENT COLORED SHOES DAY

PARANORMAL DAY

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

May is:

Chip Your Pet Month / Pet Month
Date Your Mate Month
International Civility Awareness Month
National Barbeque 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

WRITER’S STRIKE ON

The Writers Guild of America, the union that bargains on behalf of Hollywood’s screenwriters, has called a strike after negotiations with major studios failed to produce a favorable contract. The issues include the usual higher pay and better working conditions, but also the use of new technology, such as the writer’s place among streaming services and the role artificial intelligence may play in future screenwriting projects. Nearly 12,000 writers could potentially join picket lines in the coming days, which means major disruptions to TV and streaming franchises.
* Anything that keeps Chuck Lorre from making another sitcom is o.k. by me.
* Here’s how serious the writer’s are about striking: the picketers are carrying blank signs.
* I don’t know how the strike will affect game shows, but last night on “Wheel of Fortune,” contestants kept asking, “Is there a C? Is there an M?” but Vanna just stood there for half an hour.
* They say the strike could cause streaming services to be cut from 78 down to 52.
* No scriptwriters? Oh my god, what will the Kardashians do now?

JONAS BROTHERS TO TOUR, PERFORM FIVE ALBUMS PER SHOW

The Jonas Brothers are going on tour in 2023, beginning Aug. 12 in the Bronx, N.Y., and ending Oct. 14 in Miami. Tickets go on sale May 12. The brothers said they will perform five albums per night on the tour. The group has released five albums thus far, and will release a sixth album, The Album, on May 12.
* Five albums per night. Their own albums? Can we make requests?
* Five albums – how many bathroom breaks?
* Clever naming their new album The Album. It contains ten songs, titled, The Song 1, The Song 2, The Song 3, The Song 4…
* I don’t think I will be spending THE MONEY on THE ALBUM.

MOVIE COMING ABOUT THE FIRST EPISODE OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

Movie director Jason Reitman is working on a film about the lead up to the first episode of Saturday Night Live, back in 1975. The movie will chronicle the backstage drama, writing sessions and other wackiness that went on as Lorne Michaels and a cast of unknowns attempted to change television as we knew it – in 1975, anyway. Jason Reitman is, of course, the nepo baby of director Ivan Reitman, who directed the first Ghostbusters movies starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd, of SNL. Jason also directed the most recent “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” movie. You can read all about the first episode on Wikipedia.
* “We need a young Chevy Chase. Get me the agent of every jerk in Hollywood.”
* They were young, they were green, they were nervous, and they were very, very stoned.
* I dunno. Movies about SNL just aren’t as good as they used to be.
* Not to spoil the ending, but it all works out pretty good.
* Let’s do some imaginary casting:
– Ryan Reynolds as Young Chevy Chase
– Mark Ruffalo as Young John Belushi
– Benedict Cumberbatch as Young Dan Aykroyd. Or maybe Tilda Swinton.
– Daniel Kaluuya as Young Garrett Morris
– Reese Witherspoon as Young Jane Curtin
– Jessica Chastain as Young Larraine Newman
– Meryl Streep as Young Gilda Radnor. She can play anything.

THE BUZZ

CONTEST: KENTUCKY DERBY HORSE OR NICK CANNON’S CHILD

The Kentucky Derby is this weekend. Here’s a contest for your listeners (or just between yourselves): Is it a horse running the the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, or is is one of Nick Cannon’s 11 children?
– Golden Sagon (Nick Cannon kid)
– Tapit Trice (horse)
– Two Phil’s (horse)
– Powerful Queen (Nick Cannon kid)
– Confidence Game (horse)
– Kingsbarns (horse)
– Rise Messiah (Nick Cannon kid)
– Moroccan (Nick Cannon kid)
– Zillion Heir (Nick Cannon kid)
– Reincarnate (horse)
– Mage (horse)
– Monroe (horse)
– Beautiful Zeppelin (Nick Cannon kid)
– Sun Thunder (horse)
– Angel of Empire (horse)
– Halo Marie (Nick Cannon kid)
– Forte (horse)
– Legendary Love (Nick Cannon kid)
– Derma Sotogake (horse)
– Zion Mixolydian (horse)
– Rocket Can (horse)
– Onyx Ice (Cannon Kid)
– Lord Miles (horse)

U.S. NEWS

WOMAN DRIVES OVER SELF, COP GIVES HER TICKET

A New Jersey woman was issued a ticket after she ran over herself with her own car on Monday night. The 61-year-old woman had gotten out of her 2014 Lincoln without realizing that she never put the car into park. She attempted to stop the car as it rolled forward, but she fell and the car ran over the left side of her body. The Lincoln continued rolling and eventually crashed into a 2016 Ford that was parked along the side of the road. The woman suffered “serious” but non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital. She was later issued a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle.
* “Here – take this ticket. Take it! Use the hand that’s not crushed under the tire!”
* “And if you keep screaming in pain like that, lady, I’m gonna cite you for breaking the local noise ordinance, too.”
* On the way home from the hospital she bought a lottery ticket, but it was a loser.
* A Lincoln rolls into a Ford? Are Ford products fighting amongst themselves?
* Coulda been worse. Coulda been Jeremy Renner’s snowplow.

COUNT THE CRASHES IN ALL “FAST & FURIOUS” MOVIES, EARN MONEY

A financial website called FinanceBuzz is offering to pay someone $1,000 to watch all 10 films in “The Fast and the Furious” series and count the number of all the car crashes in the movies, including the upcoming Fast X. You will have to track the damages from all of the car crashes depicted on screen, and FinanceBuzz will use the data “to estimate the insurance impact of the franchise’s reckless driving.” The job posting states the chosen candidate will be asked to “note any car accidents that result in damage, including counting the number of accidents, extent of the damages and what cars are involved.”
* Okay, first of all, does this include all the digital crashes?
* I would counter that all the driving in those movies is not, in fact, reckless, but absolutely necessary. This includes driving over an open drawbridge, driving under a flaming rolling oil tanker, driving out the back of a cargo airplane mid-flight, driving out the window of one skyscraper into an office in another skyscraper, and jumping a car over a submarine. If you see the movies, you know it’s all absolutely necessary.
* What about a half-car/half-spaceship that crashes through a satellite in orbit?
* Estimate the insurance impact? Can’t we have Flo from Progressive do this? Or Doug from Liberty Mutual?
* I would not want to have my car in the parking lot when THAT guy leaves the theater.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

GUEST SMELLED BODY UNDER HOTEL BED, THOUGHT ODOR WAS HIS OWN FEET

In Lhasa, Tibet, a hotel guest at the Guzang Shuhua Inn noticed an overpowering stench in his room – but thought it might be his smelly feet – until he discovered hours later there was a corpse under his bed (* What’s this guy’s problem? Worst toe fungus ever?). The Chinese man had checked into the hotel on April 21 and took a three-hour nap in the room, when he first smelled the odor. He then went out but returned to change for dinner when he was hit by a stronger stench so he requested another room. But later, hotel staff woke him up and asked him to go to his first room, where police told him a body was discovered under the bed. Investigators took his statement, but told him not to be concerned because they had already arrested a suspect on a train headed to Lanzhou city.
* Boy, the things some people leave behind in hotel rooms, ammirite?
* They brought him back to the room because they really wanted to freak him out.
* And you thought dust bunnies under your hotel bed was bad.
* That story doesn’t pass the smell test.
* Febreze doesn’t make a can of air freshener anywhere NEAR big enough for this.

LIVE ON AN ISLAND, STUDY BIRDS

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a British wildlife group, is looking to hire a person willing to spend 13 months on a remote island to study its bird population. They’re looking for a new field officer on Gough Island, a British territory approximately 1,500 miles from Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean. The island has a relatively undisturbed ecosystem, and serves as a haven for nesting seabirds in the South Atlantic. It can only be reached by boat. There is internet. The position pays around £27,000 ($33,750) and requires a science degree or equivalent field experience, as well as a willingness to work “frequent long hours” tracking birds. There are 7 other people on the island.
* Well… four after “the incident.”
* There’s internet, so there is tweeting. A LOT of tweeting, even without the internet.
* You might want to bring a Wilson brand volleyball.
* Here’s an idea: how ’bout the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds protect some birds that British people can actually see every day.
* They’re not telling you that the job is mostly cleaning bird poop off the facilities.
* So – whaddaya think? Are you guano apply?

TRENDING

JELLY ROLL HAS A FOOD TRUCK

Country star Jelly Roll has revealed that he owns a food truck. He’s partners in the business with his childhood friend Jerry. They grew up in Antioch, Tennessee, near Nashville. He says they only hire “second-chance guys. We’re only hiring felons. They run the food truck.” The truck, called Rollin’ w/Jelly, has its own Instagram page and bookings can be made via email.

TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS

The nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards have been announced. Here are the main nominees for all the shows you’ll never see:
Best Musical
– & Juliet
– Kimberly Akimbo
– New York, New York
– Shucked
– Some Like It Hot

Best Play
– Ain’t No Mo’ by Jordan E. Cooper
– Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
– Cost of Living By Martyna Majok
– Fat Ham by James Ijames
– Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard

Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
– Jessica Chastain, A Doll’s House
– Jodie Comer, Prima Facie
– Jessica Hecht, Summer, 1976
– Audra McDonald, Ohio State Murders

Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
– Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog
– Corey Hawkins, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog
– Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar
– Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy
– Wendell Pierce, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
– Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
– Sara Bareilles, Into the Woods
– Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
– Lorna Courtney, & Juliet
– Micaela Diamond, Parade

Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
– Christian Borle, Some Like It Hot
– J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot
– Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
– Brian d’Arcy James, Into the Woods
– Ben Platt, Parade
– Colton Ryan, New York, New York

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

May 14, Sunday – Mother’s Day
May 29, Monday – Memorial Day
June 14, Wednesday – Flag Day
June 18, Sunday – Father’s Day
June 21, Wednesday – Summer begins (The June solstice occurs at 10:58 a.m. EDT)

BIRTHDAYS

Cheryl Burke (dancer, “Dancing with the Stars”) … 39
Eric Church (country singer) … 46
Dule Hill (actor, “Ballers”, “Psych”, “The West Wing”) … 48
Christina Hendricks (actress, “Good Girls”, “Mad Men”) … 48
Shane Minor (country singer) … 55
Christopher Cross (singer, “Sailing”) … 72
Frankie Valli (singer) … 89

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

“I feel like I’m still a work in progress. … I think I now understand everything that’s happened to me in the past. I think now it’s time for me to continue and grow.”

(A) Donald Trump
(B) Clint Eastwood
(C) Cheryl Burke

ANSWER: (C) Cheryl Burke

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2018 – Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii began erupting, forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas.
* “Tonight’s special: Roasted pineapple.”

2005 – Iraq’s first democratically elected government was sworn in.
* They’ll get the hang of it one of these decades.

2003 – New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.
* He’s fallen and he can’t get up.

1988 – The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband’s activities.
* Imagine the scary stuff we NEVER found out about.

1952 – The first landing by an airplane was made at the geographic North Pole.
* That’s one way to make sure Santa gets your list.

1927 – Advertising innovation “the electric sign flasher” was patented.
* I’m guessing a new thing called the “traffic accident” increased at night shortly thereafter.

1494 – Christopher Columbus first spotted Jamaica.
* Later they stopped off and had a really groovy, jammin’ time.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2017 – The Eagles filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Mexico that called itself the Hotel California, after the band’s hit song and album. The rock band claimed the 11-room hotel, in Todos Santos, “actively encourages” guests to believe it is associated with them in order to sell merchandise. They further claimed the hotel played Eagles songs in the lobby and sold t-shirts describing the venue as “legendary.” The lawsuit was dropped after an undisclosed settlement was reached in January of 2018.

2013 – The Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn was renamed after Beastie Boys’ rapper Adam Yauch.

2008 – Mariah Carey was at No.1 on the US album chart with her eleventh studio album “E=MC?”

2004 – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by two musicians who claimed they were owed royalties from Ozzy Osbourne. Bassist Robert Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake had fought a long-running battle since 1997 with the Osbourne family claiming they were entitled to money from the albums “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Diary of a Madman.” Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy’s wife and manager, said that the pair had “harassed” her family and had had their contributions removed from the albums because of their “abusive and unjust behavior.”

1997 – The Notorious B.I.G. started a three-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with his posthumous hit “Hypnotize”.

1986 – “Dollywood,” Dolly Parton’s theme park, opened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

1986 – Robert Palmer went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Addicted To Love.” Palmer originally recorded the song as a duet with Chaka Khan but due to contractual problems her voice was removed.

1980 – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band started a six-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “Against The Wind.”

1976 – Paul McCartney made his first concert appearance in America in almost ten years when Wings kicked off their “Wings Over America” tour in Fort Worth, Texas.

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. Just over 20% of men surveyed said they have one of THESE. What is it?
Lucky underwear

2. Men in their 60’s are 38% more likely to know how to do THIS than men in their 20’s. What is it?
Shine shoes

3. 39% of men surveyed say they regret not learning to do THIS. What is it?
Play an instrument

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