April 4th
Eric André, David Cross, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Natasha Lyonne, Jill Scott, Hugo Weaving
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BORN (ENTER): Eric André, Maya Angelou, David Blaine, Anthony Clark, David Cross, Clive Davis, Robert Downey Jr., Marguerite Duras, Aki Kaurismäki, David E. Kelley, Christine Lahti, Major Lance, Andrew Lau, Heath Ledger, Natasha Lyonne, Hugh Masekela, MixMaster Mike, Robby Müller, Craig T. Nelson, Sandra Nettelbeck, Graham Norton, Jeff Parker, Barry Pepper, Anthony Perkins, Amanda Righetti, Éric Rohmer, Tatia Rosenthal, Robert Scheer, Jill Scott, Elenna Swanke, Andrei Tarkovsky, Josh Todd, Tom Waller, Muddy Waters, Hugo Weaving
DEAD (EXIT): Lynne Reid Banks, Alfred Mosher Butts, Don Cherry, Bob Clark, Adolphe Dugléré, Roger Ebert, John Flynn, Byron Foulger, Oliver Goldsmith, William Henry Harrison, Besedka Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Claude Miller, Big Daddy Roth, Casey Sheehan, Red Sovine, Gloria Swanson, Vivian Trimble, Chögyam Trungpa - James Gadson (4/2/2026)
DEEP THOUGHTS: The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang onto, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.
EAT ME: Carrots, Cordon Bleu, Ramen - Pommes Anna
FOODIE: If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.
HOLIDAY: Rat Day - Handmade Day (2026), March Madness Men’s Final Four (2026)
HOROSCOPE: They say you have the grace of a dancer and the agility of a world-class gymnast. After that, though, it’s usually just a bunch of mean-spirited laughter.
HOW-TO: Play Scrabble - Make Perfect Boiled Eggs
JOKE: A church has a rat problem. The church doesn’t want to kill the rats so they trap them and release them far away, but the next day they are back. Next they try ask them politely to leave, still they won’t budge. Finally the priest has one last idea, he baptized all the rats. Now they only come at Christmas and Easter.
PLAYLIST: Duran Duran: Thank You (4/4/1995), Craig Finn: Always Been (4/4/2025), Lou Reed: Ecstasy (4/4/2000), Carly Simon: Boys in the Trees (4/4/1978), The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper (4/4/2025), ZZ Top: Rio Grande Mud (4/4/1972) - Jill Scott: To Whom This May Concern (2026)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: April Edition - Jill Scott - Twenty26
PODCAST: The Daily, Today Explained
QUESTION: Was Martin Luther King, Jr. a plagiarist?
READ: Scheerpost - The Borowitz Report: Iran Says It Has Started to Achieve Regime Change in US, The Hard Times: Trump Calls for Boycotting Every Springsteen Song Except the One That Goes “Hey Little Girl Is Your Daddy Home?”, McSweeney’s: I still believe in the inherent goodness of humanity, and the Literal Existence of the Easter Bunny, The Onion: Trump Demands Allies Do Their Fair Share To Fuck Up The World
RELIGULOUS: During this Holy Week in America, Many will sit through services, get tearful at all the injustices that happened to Jesus, thinking “how could they do that to him!” All while supporting those same kind of injustices politically towards others and not see a single contradiction. How we treat others is how we would treat Jesus.
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store
SHITASS: Deborah Birx, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Dan Patrick
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump’s 2027 budget is out, and it’s a disaster for the American people. Here’s what it contains. -Cuts $240 million from the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program. -fully eliminates the Job Corps, which provides free education and vocational training for young Americans. -A $5 BILLION cut to the National Health Institute, which guts our research into curing deadly diseases -fully eliminates the Food for Peace program. -$73 billion cut from housing, education, and climate programs. -Cuts the EPA’s budget by HALF -Guts NASA by 23% -Cuts nearly $5 billion from USA -Cuts $354 million from historically Black colleges and universities. -Cuts $204.5 million for the Community Development Financial Institutions fund, which stimulates growth in economically disadvantaged communities. -Cut $10.7 billion for housing. -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs. -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy. -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water. -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training. -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department. -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment. -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants. -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy. All to pay for $1.5 TRILLION for the military. This is the most regressive, anti-people, pro-war budget ever proposed. It is a horrifying, deeply evil document that hangs the American people out to dry and funnels all our taxpayer dollars into the pockets of arms dealers and blood profiteers.
SPORT: Panicked Dodgers Owner Has No Idea How He’s Going To Come Up With $414 Million Payroll
STREAM: Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, King in the Wilderness (HBO Max), Life Itself, Los Angeles Plays Itself - Fallen Leaves (Mubi), Mostly Martha (Hoopla/Kanopy), Oh, Hi! (Netflix), Saturday Night Live: Jack Black/Jack White (NBC), Shadows in Paradise (Criterion), A Summer’s Tale (Criterion/HBO Max)
TOP 10: Foods Created in Los Angeles - The Cheeseburger, The French Dip, Cobb Salad, Fortune Cookies?, Chili Burger, California Roll, Korean Taco, Chinese Chicken Salad, Moscow Mule, Smoothies
TRAVEL: Finland, The Lorraine Motel, Los Angeles
UNFUCK THE WORLD: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
WELLNESS: “Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.” Maya Angelou
WIRECUTTER: How a Bag of Dead Rats Proved the Terro Garbage Guard Really Works
WORD: Wiseacre
WTF?!: In credit-card industry slang, people who pay their balance in full every month are called “deadbeats.”
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: Yesterday Once More
2025 - Trump skipped the return of the remains of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base and instead spent millions of taxpayer dollars to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. 2023 - Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey became the last member state to accept the membership request of Finland, which Finland submitted after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. 2008 - Beyonce married Jay-Z. 1993 - Alfred Mosher Butts died at the age of 93. He was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938. 1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. 1964 - The Beatles made music history by holding the top five places in the singles charts with: “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout,” “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Please Please Me.” 1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London. 1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1884 - Adolphe Dugléré died at the age of 78. He was a French chef whose most famous dish was Pommes Anna. 1850 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city. 1841 - President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia one month after his inauguration, becoming the first U.S. president to die in office.
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” Martin Luther King Jr.
A real depressing one today with that budget