WEDNESDAY, Oct 23 – DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION

MORNING SIDEKICK DAILY PREP TEXT VERSION FOR WEDNESDAY, October 23, 2024
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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.)

iPOD DAY
Apple introduced the iPod on October 23, 2001. The first iPod was sold on November 10, 2001, for $399.

NATIONAL BOSTON CREAM PIE DAY

NATIONAL MOLE DAY
From various sources:
October 23 between 6.02 am and 6:02 pm is Mole Day. It commemorates chemistry’s measuring unit of the “mole” which is also called “Avogadro’s Number” (6.02 x 10^23) – a unit of measurement to reflect an amount of a chemical substance. The day is celebrated as a means to bring awareness and create interest in the study of Chemistry.

TV TALK SHOW HOST DAY
The Holiday Insights website says this:
“TV Talk Show Host Day celebrates and honors all TV Talk Show hosts. This very special day is celebrated on the birth date of legendary night time talk show host Johnny Carson. Carson is considered the ‘King of late night Television.’ He hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. His reign lasted a record 29 years, 7 months, 21 days. There were 1,859 episodes.”

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

THE BUZZIT FEELS ILLEGAL, BUT IT’S NOT

Reddit asked, “What’s legal that feels illegal?” Some of the responses:
– “Walking out of a store without buying anything.”
– “Driving the speed limit with a cop behind you.”
– “Pulling up to the light right as it turns green and getting a generous head start while fellow drivers are left in the dust.”
– “Turning the overhead dome light on while driving at night.”
– “Taking a sick day.”
– “Reading a lady’s shirt.”
– “Taking your first newborn home from the hospital with no prior training or experience.”
– “Playing Christmas songs when it’s not Christmas.”
– “Walking in public while using a cup from your home.
– “Going through TSA.”
– “Buying weed at a weed store.”
– “Eating ice cream for breakfast, there’s no law against eating ice cream for breakfast no matter how strange it might seem.”
– “Putting ketchup on a steak.”
– “Not answering the phone when you know it’s your mother.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you do something that feels illegal but isn’t?

U.S. NEWS

INTOXICATED AMERICAN DRIVER DIDN’T REALIZE HE WAS IN CANADA

Police in Ontario, Canada, found a drunk Vermont man behind the wheel of his truck who didn’t realize he had crossed into Canada. At 5 a.m. last Thursday, cops responded to reports of a truck with flat tires and a Vermont license plate being stuck at a drive-thru in Cobden, Ontario. The 52-year-old driver told officers he thought he was still in the United States. Police learned the driver had allegedly failed to stop at the border. He was also found to be impaired. No details were provided on how the man crossed the border into Canada.
* Well… pretty poorly, I’d say.
* And let’s commend the excellent work from the border guards. We can only assume the American guards took one look and said, “Canada, he’s all yours.”
* Are flat tires cheaper to fix in Canada?
* Maybe he went to Canada looking for fall weather, ’cause it sure as hell isn’t happening in the U.S.

AMERICAN AIRLINES TO PUBLICLY HUMILIATE PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BOARD PLANE EARLY

Did you know: Airline employees often refer to people who crowd the boarding gate and try to board early as “gate lice.” American Airlines is testing out a new boarding system designed to insure people board when they are supposed to, and not a moment earlier. A buzzer will sound when passengers who try to board early scan their boarding pass and the gate agent will ask the passenger to “please step aside” while the correct group boards. Not only do you get buzzed, but you have to stand there in purgatory while the others look at you in disgust, and pity, because they are boarding properly (* What, no dunce cap?). The new system is currently being tested at Albuquerque and Tucson Airports. So far, American Airlines said they have been pleased with the outcome of the test.
* If this is how we can start re-introducing the concept of shame back into the culture, so be it.
* If you don’t like the passengers giving you nasty looks, you can go stand in the corner facing the walls.
* “Gate lice.” And that is all you need to know about the attitude of airlines toward their passengers.
* The takeaway here is: Be sure to have a twenty-dollar bill ready to slip to the gate agent at the buzzer.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

WOMAN DROPS PHONE, GETS STUCK IN ROCK CREVICE

A woman taking pictures in Australia’s Hunter Valley region dropped her phone and then got stuck upside-down in a rock crevice trying to retrieve it. This happened on Oct. 12. By the time emergency responders arrived, she was hanging by her feet for over an hour. It took seven hours to rescue her. A photo taken during the rescue shows the soles of her feet wedged in a narrow space between two boulders. Workers had to remove several heavy boulders to create a safe access point to reach her. The woman, 23-year-old Matilda Campbell, described herself as highly accident-prone and vowed “no more rock exploration for me for a while.”
* Then she tripped on the trail and broke her arm.
* It’s Australia. Aren’t people there used to being upside-down?
* Literally, between a rock and a hard place.
* If only there was some kind of cord you could use to hang your phone around your neck.
* If you’re not going to bring a buddy when you go exploring around rocks, bring a jackhammer.

MONKEY COFFEE

Many years ago, the wonders of cat poop coffee were unleashed upon the world (* And it sure became a hit, didn’t it?). Cat poop coffee is made from coffee beans that have been eaten by Indonesian civet cats, pooped out, and then brewed into a hot, savory cup of coffee that’s been passed through a cat’s butt. Well now, there’s monkey coffee. Monkey coffee mostly comes from Taiwan and India. While not entirely as gross as cat poop coffee, monkey coffee is made from beans that have been chewed and spit out by rock macaques and rhesus monkeys. (* The Rock Macaques – great band name!) The monkeys get into coffee bean crops, chew on the coffee beans and then spit them out. The monkey saliva has an enzyme which partially breaks down the coffee bean and changes the taste. Coffee bean farmers use the chewed and discarded coffee beans to create a delicacy of the coffee world. Monkey coffee is described as having a sweeter and more elaborate flavor than the average roast with notes of vanilla, citrus, and chocolate all at once. The coffee is also known to be heavy bodied, but not very bitter at all.
* No hint of banana?
* Instead of a cup of joe, you say, “Giimme a cup of Jojo the monkey.”
* I would think the flavor had a tang. An orangu-tang, so to speak.
* You’re a coffee farmer in India. Not a bad living. Then you wake up and find you’ve now got to start collecting chewed-up saliva-soaked coffee beans spit out by monkeys.
* Are there any other animal orifices from which we can get our food? Are there elephants that sniff up coffee beans and let them mellow in their trunks?
* And I thought wine connoisseurs were kinda crazy.

TRENDING

DREW BARRYMORE, PAMELA ANDERSON, VALERIE BERTINELLI GO MAKEUP-FREE

Pamela Anderson and Valerie Bertinelli went makeup-free on the Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday. Drew also went without makeup, and then dramatically took off her hair extensions as well, saying, “If we’re really going to be honest here, another really awesome symptom of perimenopause is you start to lose your hair.” Pamela Anderson explained why she began her makeup-free movement: “I was at Paris Fashion Week and decided if I was just going to a fashion show, I didn’t need to compete with anybody. Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I have these beautiful Vivian Westwood clothes on? (* Humble brag!) “And I didn’t realize anyone would even notice. So then, when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, ‘Well, this is a great message.’ You know, to really peel it back and find out who I was again. I wanted to remember who I was.”

JELLY ROLL LOST 100 POUNDS

Jelly Roll revealed he has lost 100 pounds. In a video update shared with fans on Instagram Monday, Jelly said, “Next year when y’all see me, you won’t recognize me,” then the video cuts to the singer’s personal chef, nutrition coach Ian Larios, who says, “Jelly’s been crushing it” while the video show clips of Jelly working out and performing on stage. “Walking the arenas, playing basketball, boxing. He just surpassed his 100-pound weight loss.”

FRANKIE MUNIZ BECOMING A FULL-TIME NASCAR DRIVER

Frankie Muniz, whom you should remember from “Malcolm in the Middle”, is going all in on race car driving. Muniz announced on Tuesday that he will be racing full time next season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He’ll be riding the No. 33 car for Reaume Brothers Racing in a Ford F-150 truck. Muniz says, “It’s a dream come true. It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do.”

ALMANAC

NOTABLE DATES, UPCOMING U.S. OBSERVANCES

Oct. 31, Thursday – Halloween
Nov. 3, Sunday – Daylight Saving Time Ends, turn clocks back 1 hour
Nov. 11, Monday – Veterans Day
Nov. 28, Thursday – Thanksgiving
Dec. 21, Saturday – Winter begins, winter solstice occurs at 4:21 a.m. (EST)
Dec. 25, Wednesday – Christmas
Dec. 31, Tuesday – New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, Wednesday – New Year’s Day

BIRTHDAYS

Emilia Clarke (actress, Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones”) … 38
Ryan Reynolds (actor, “Free Guy”, “Deadpool”) … 48
Cat Deeley (TV host, “So You Think You Can Dance”) … 48
Robert Trujillo (bassist with Metallica) … 60
Weird Al Yankovic (parody songster) … 65
Sam Raimi (director, producer, writer, actor, directed original Spider-Man trilogy) … 65
Dwight Yoakam (country singer, actor) … 68

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

“I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.”

(A) Donald Trump
(B) Kanye West
(C) Weird Al Yankovic

ANSWER: (C) Weird Al Yankovic

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

2001 – Apple released the first iPod.
* Don’t buy it! You can’t replace the battery! It’ll be dead in 18 months! Don’t … ah, never mind. Resistance is futile.

1945 – The first “Slinky” spring toy went on sale.
* No batteries, no electronics … it doesn’t even seem like a real toy, does it?

1941 – The Walt Disney film “Dumbo” premiered in New York.
* Now you could see a flying elephant with giant ears without the aid of illegal substances.

1915 – The first American horse-shoe throwing championships were held in Iowa.
* It got easier later on when someone suggested they take the horse-shoes off the horses.

1814 – Plastic surgery was performed for the first time.
* Gee, I didn’t know Cher was that old.

THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY

2015 – Adele released “Hello” as the lead track from her third studio album, “25”. The music video for the song broke the Vevo Record by achieving over 27.7 million views within 24 hours.

2002 – Kanye West was involved in a car crash after he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from a recording studio in West Hollywood. No other cars were involved in the incident which left West with his jaw fractured in three places.

1995 – In Houston, TX, a jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena.

1995 – Heavy Metal band Def Leppard played in three different continents on the same day: In the city of Tangiers at 5 am, in London at midday, and in Vancouver at 9 pm.

1978 – CBS Records raised the price of vinyl records by one dollar to $8.98.

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 size of THIS commonly purchased item has tripled since the 1950’s. What is it?
A hamburger

2. You may have never noticed, but THESE come in 4 specific shapes. What are they?
Chicken McNuggets

3. Surprisingly, THESE have only been sold in grocery stores since the 1990’s. What are they?
Seedless watermelons

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