WEDNESDAY, Oct 19 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 19, 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.)

EVALUATE YOUR LIFE DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“Evaluate Your Life Day is a bit scary. It sounds just a little bit too serious for my liking. And, what if I evaluate my life, and find out that I don’t like it? Well, for starters, you can then make positive changes. Evaluate Your Life Day gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect upon our life, where it’s been, and where its going. C’mon, be honest with yourself. Are things going well? What is bothering you? What do you need, or want, to change? How’s your appearance? Are you gaining too much weight? With a self evaluation, you can then make big changes to improve the quality of your life, as necessary. Or, if things are going well, just tinker with small adjustments. We believe that Evaluate Your Life Day is the beginning of a happier and healthier you!”

NATIONAL SEAFOOD BISQUE DAY

October is:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
Car Care Month
Child Health Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Country Music Month
Fire Prevention Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Service Dog Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month

ENTERTAINMENT & CELEBRITIES

WHOOPS! JAMES CORDEN NOT SUCH A JERK AFTER ALL

James Corden has “apologized profusely” after a New York City restaurant owner called him out for allegedly being a rude customer. “Famed” Balthazar restaurant owner Keith McNally had put out a nasty post about Corden on Monday, calling him a “cretin” and describing how the star became angry with the restaurant’s waitstaff on two occasions after they messed up his orders. McNally on Tuesday now says he received a gracious phone call from Corden. “James Corden just called me and apologized profusely,” McNally wrote on Instagram Monday. “Having [messed] up myself more than most people, I strongly believe in second chances. Anyone magnanimous enough to apologize to a deadbeat layabout like me (and my staff) doesn’t deserve to be banned from anywhere. Especially Balthazar.” James Corden has not commented publicly on the matter.
* But I bet his lawyer will.
* After comiing from England, I’m can’t believe James Corden would complain about any non-British food.
* James Corden is such a nice guy, he sent Mr. McNally and all of his staff DVD’s of his movie “Cats.”
* Oh, by the way Mr. McNally, thanks for letting us know your staff messes up orders so often. We’ll go somewhere else.

THE BUZZ

TIMES I HAVE APOLOGIZED TO MY WIFE

A man from Maine, who has a TikTok feed called The Leighton Show, has gone viral after posting videos of himself pointing out a lot of the small, funny things about family life. One of the more popular things he does is list the reasons why he apologizes to his wife. While he does these as a joke, all men know there’s a lot of underlying truth to this. Here are the things Mr. Leighton has apologized to his wife for:
– Standing in front of a drawer she wanted to open.
– I ruined the couch by sitting on it.
– I said “What” when I didn’t hear her, from two rooms away while I was frying bacon.
– I didn’t know a closer parking space was going to open up.
– My steak knife touched the plate for a fraction of a second.
– I applied the brakes.
– I suggested she use turn signals.
– I didn’t want to sell our house and buy one we can’t afford.
– I was limping too loudly after spraining my ankle.
– I went upstairs for the night without announcing it.
– A guy on TV cheated on his wife.
– I couldn’t stop the wind.
– Mosquitos were biting her.
– I used the kitchen the same day it had been cleaned.
– I moved in the same direction as her in the kitchen.
– I interrupted her story to let her know her hand gestures were dragging her sleeves through her soup.
– I wanted to watch something other than a house hunting show.
– I sneezed more than three times in a row.
– The missing TV remote was found closest to me.
– I didn’t like a show that she recommended.
– I couldn’t smell something that she could.
– I didn’t sound excited enough in my text message.
– I didn’t make the bed right.
– I touched her foot while she was sleeping
– The Christmas tree was crooked.
– I inserted the knife into the butter without noticing that there were four toast crumbs on it.
– I made a noise while tripping.
* And this was just in the first week of October.
* How long did he date her to get to know her? One afternoon?
* This is a sorry excuse for a man.
* Honestly, though, this guy has the whole marriage thing completely figured out, doesn’t he?

WEIRD REGIONAL DISHES

A Twitter account called @RegionalUSFood compiles strange localized favorites. Here, according to Twitter, are some of America’s most unusual regional meals.
– The Slopper (Pueblo/Colorado Springs, Colorado): a burger covered in green chili sauce and typically eaten with a knife and fork.
– The Slinger (St. Louis): two eggs, hash browns, and a hamburger or sausage patty topped with chili, cheese, and onions.
– The Cannibal Sandwich (Wisconsin): raw beef with onions on rye. Every year the health department begs people not to eat these.
– Snickers Salad (Upper Midwest): Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, whipped cream and pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl.
– Chop Suey Sandwich (Salem, MA): bean sprouts, roast pork or chicken, onions and celery in a thick soy gravy in a hamburger bun.
– Frogmore Stew (South Carolina): shrimp, corn on the cob, new potatoes, and smoked sausage.
– Livermush (Western North Carolina): pig liver, parts of pig heads, cornmeal and spices.
* If you see any of these dishes locally in our city, please call the authorities.
* A few of these sound like somebody came home drunk and just threw some crap together.
* These still don’t come CLOSE to the foods at the Texas State Fair.
* How has Burger King not picked up The Slopper? It’s a perfect compliment to The Whopper.
* There’s not one of these that doesn’t sound like a sex act that could be in that new movie “Bros.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you come from a place that has a weird regional dish?

U.S. NEWS

PENNSYLVANIA MAN CAUGHT WITH ILLEGAL KANGAROO

The Pennsylvania Game Commission seized a kangaroo last month from a man in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. The Commission received a tip that someone was selling a kangaroo online. They contacted Cole Williams, 19, who denied having the 6-month-old kangaroo in his possession, but they later found the animal hidden in a bedroom closet. (* They got the jump on him!) The kangaroo was seized and taken to a facility where it will be cared for. Williams pleaded guilty earlier this month to unlawful importation of wildlife.
* He wants to file an appeal in – what else? – a kangaroo court.
* One clue was when he and the kangaroo were spotted at Outback Steakhouse.
* Then when police arrived at his house, he appeared jumpy.
* His mistake was not claiming the kangaroo was his emotional support animal.
* Now how is he supposed to impress his dates? Back to raising snakes, I guess.

AUDIO: HOUSE HAUNTED BY SEX GHOSTS

A Gainesville, Texas woman believes her house is haunted by sexual ghosts. In an interview with news station WFAA-TV, Linda Hill and her husband learned that their property was home to spirits after being unable to rent it to tenants for any longer than six months. Hill didn’t believe stories that the tenants were leaving so quickly because the house was haunted until she experienced the problem for herself. While taking a shower at the home one day, she witnessed “a dark figure” on the other side of the curtain, which whispered, “Lookin’ good!” Hill thought it was her husband paying her the compliment, but he soon entered the bathroom to ask who she was talking to. Hill has believed the house is haunted by ghosts that are, in her words, “sexual.” She claims that people have recorded EVPs (“electronic voice phenomena”) “where the ghosts can be heard talking dirty in the house.” The specters have called out from beyond the grave to say things like, “Oh baby, oh baby, yeah” and, “Yeah, I like it like that.” The Hills have stopped renting the house to tenants and now rent it out to ghost investigators. They’ve renamed the home, “Hill House Manor.”
* They should have called it Make-a-Buck Mansion.”
* It’s The Haunting Of Horny House.
* Ghost hunters says one of the spirits has a nice set of orbs: “BOOOOOOOOOOO….BS”
* It’s Casper, the overly-friendly ghost.
CLIP: Casper says, “I’m Casper, the friendly ghost.”
CLIP URL: morningsidekick(dot)(com)/prep/wp-content/uploads/ImCasperTheFriendlyGhost(dot)mp3

GIRL SCOUTS GET $85 MILLION DONATION

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Jeff Bezos, gifted nearly $85 million to the Girl Scouts of the USA and some of its local branches in an effort to help advance the 110-year-old organization’s mission. It marked the largest donation from an individual since its founding in 1912. The Girl Scouts plan to use the funds to support volunteers and staff, make improvements to camp properties, and develop diversity and inclusion programming.
* The Girl Scouts also are now planning to build and launch their own rocket ship.
* $85 million! That woman is going to have Thin Mints any darn time of the year she wants.
* With that kind of money, every troop will now be holding their weekly meetings at their local Four Seasons Hotel.
* Meanwhile, the head of the Boy Scouts just sits and looks at his phone, sighing.

TRENDINGCARRIE UNDERWOOD: YOU GOTTA HIT THE HIGH NOTES

Country superstar Carrie Underwood is not a fan of singers who can’t deliver the goods when they perform live. Underwood, 39, told Rolling Stone, “Growing up and going to concerts or seeing my favorite artists on TV, if they didn’t sound like they were supposed to sound, it was always so deflating. I’d lose respect for them. Or when I’d go to a concert and hear them drop keys (sing in a lower key), I was like, ‘You can’t hit the notes! Why’d you record them if you can’t sing them?’ That stuff is important to me.”

ROLLING STONES RECORDING NEW ALBUM

The Rolling Stones are reportedly set to release their first new album of music in 18 years next summer. The news follows the death of longtime band drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. A source close to the band says Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood “have been in New York over the past fortnight for recording sessions, alongside a raft of world-class session musicians to complete the initial recordings for their first output of original material in 18 years.” The source added, “After Charlie’s passing there was some uncertainty about what to do next. They had stadium dates scheduled so pressed ahead, but afterwards it wasn’t clear what the future looked like. But now they’ve had time to reflect; they all feel it’s the right thing to keep doing what they’ve always done as a band, make new music and hopefully hit the road again to perform it to their fans.”

“THE DAILY SHOW” CONSIDERING ROTATING HOSTS

With Trevor Noah leaving “The Daily Show” on December 8, Comedy Central is reportedly considering a rotation of hosts to fill his seat. (* Because it worked so well for Jeopardy.) Variety reports that Comedy Central plans to relaunch a “reinvention” of the show with rotating hosts beginning on Jan. 17, with current contributors Roy Wood Jr. or Jordan Klepper as the most likely replacements. Other featured performers, Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng, could also be tapped.

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 31, Monday – Halloween
Nov. 6, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Friday – Veterans Day
Nov. 24, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Wednesday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 4:48 p.m. EST
Dec. 25, Sunday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Saturday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Sunday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

Rebecca Ferguson (actress, “Dune,” “Mission Impossible” movies) … 39
Gillian Jacobs (actress, “Love”, “Community”) … 40
Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park) … 53
Jon Favreau (director, actor) … 56
Evander Holyfield (boxer, ear bitten by Mike Tyson) … 60
Patrick Simmons (singer with The Doobie Brothers) … 74
John Lithgow (actor, “The Old Man,” “The Crown,” “3rd Rock from the Sun”) … 77
Michael Gambon (actor, the second Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films) … 82
Peter Max (1960s psychedelic artist, born Peter Max Finkelstein) … 85

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

“I gave up shame a long time ago.”

(A) Kim Kardashian
(B) Kanye West
(C) John Lithgow

ANSWER: (C) John Lithgow

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

COVID-19 in History:
2021 – Moscow’s mayor ordered unvaccinated people over 60 to stay home for four months amid a worsening COVID-19 crisis.
2020 – Belgium officials said their country was facing a “tsunami” of COVID-19 cases amid new restrictions, and calculated it had the third-highest number of Covid-related deaths per 100,000 people globally.

2015 – U.S. scientists from University of California found evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought.
* No wonder I’m so tired.

1998 – Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear during a fight.
* Happy Birthday, Evander!

1998 – It was revealed that American nuclear missiles operated on the same frequency as baby monitors, meaning that it was possible for a baby crying to set off World War Three.
* For a lot of new parents, World War Three would be a piece of cake.

1987 – The stock market had a huge drop on “Black Monday.”
* These days it just loses a hundred points a day.

1951 – U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
* The fighting then moved to the car factories.

1914 – The U.S. Post Office used an automobile to deliver the mail for the first time.
* That enabled them to deliver the mail to the wrong people faster.

1872 – The largest gold-bearing nugget ever mined was dug up. The Holterman nugget weighed 630 lbs.
* Then in the 1970s, it was made into a medallion for Mr. T.

1860 – The first company to make internal combustion engines was started up in Florence, Italy.
* Although it didn’t start up on the first try.

1781 – Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, marking the end of the American War of Independence.
* We bravely threw off the shackles of British taxation, to make room for our own.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2011 – Coldplay released their fifth studio album, “Mylo Xyloto,” which charted at No.1 in thirty-four countries.

2011 – At the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, Dr. Steven Shafer testified that it would have been impossible for Michael Jackson to have self-administered a lethal dose of the sedative propofol. He later said of Dr. Murray’s delay in calling 911: “I almost don’t know what to say. That is so completely and utterly inexcusable.”

2009 – A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley’s head when he joined the U.S. Army in 1958 sold for $15,000 at an auction in Chicago. Other items sold belonging to Presley included a shirt which sold for $52,000, a set of concert-used handkerchiefs, $732, and photos from the reception of Presley’s 1967 wedding to Priscilla sold for nearly $6,000.

1998 – Mark Nieto filed a lawsuit against Aerosmith for alleged hearing loss after he attended an Aerosmith concert.

1997 – Alice Cooper Band guitarist Glen Buxton died from pneumonia aged 49.

1995 – Nirvana was at No.1 on the U.S. album chart with “The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah.”

1985 – A-Ha went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Take On Me,” making them the first Norwegian group to score a U.S. No.1.

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. People who do THIS live 5 years longer on average than people who don’t. What is it?
Play golf

2. People who do THIS live about 2 years longer than people who don’t. What is it?
Read

3. According to research, people who regularly eat THIS live longer than people who don’t. What is it?
Candy

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