July 6th
Louis Armstrong, James Caan, The Dalai Lama, William Faulkner, John Frankenheimer, Eva Green, Kevin Hart, Kate Nash, Sylvester Stallone
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Christopher Ashley, Sophie Auster, Nathalie Baye, Nic Cester, Gene Chandler, The Dalai Lama, Raymond Depardon, 50 Cent, Eva Green, Nanci Griffith, Kevin Hart, Peter Hedges, Phyllis Hyman, Inspectah Deck, Frida Kahlo, Kim Jee-woon, Kate Nash, Heather Nova, Joell Ortiz, Brain Posehn, Geoffrey Rush, Jennifer Saunders, Sylvester Stallone, Zion Williamson
DEAD (R.I.P.): Louis Armstrong, James Caan, Philando Castile, Clarence Crane, Charlie Daniels, Buddy Ebsen, William Faulkner, John Frankenheimer, João Gilberto, Kenneth Grahame, Johnny Indrisano, Marsha P. Johnson, Mani Kaul, Van McCoy, Ennio Morricone, Fats Navarro, Gabriel Pascal, Roy Rogers, Wladyslaw Szpolman, Jerry Weintraub, Barry Winchell, Syreeta Wright
DEEP THOUGHTS: If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying.
EAT ME: Fried Chicken - Louie Armstrong’s Red Beans and Rice
FOODIE: Move Over, $100 Lobster Salad. In the Hamptons, These Melons Cost $400 - Fuuuuck you.
HOLIDAY: Kissing Day - Ashura (2025)
HOROSCOPE: The stars were going to predict the beginning of a lifelong romance for you this week, but they couldn't get through it without bursting into laughter.
HOW-TO: Become a Buddhist, Kiss, Play Trumpet
JOKE: Did you hear about the guy who invented Lifesavers? He made a mint.
THE ONION: WNBA To Expand Into 3 More Cities As Caitlin Clark Cloning Experiment Nears Completion
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (1970), Kate Nash: My Best Friend is You (2010)
The B-52’s: The B-52’s (7/6/1979), Pat Benatar: Precious Time (7/6/1981), Def Leppard: High ‘n’ Dry (7/6/1981), Echo and the Bunnymen: Echo and the Bunnymen (7/6/1987), Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Trilogy (7/6/1972), Grateful Dead: In the Dark (7/6/1987), Heart: Heart (7/6/1985), MC5: High Time (7/6/1971), Public Image Ltd: This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (7/6/1984), Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy (7/6/1973)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it - Louis Armstrong, João Gilberto, Jet, Ennio Morricone, Kate Nash
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
Check out the Sunday Morning Jazz Playlist, Check out the Sunday Brunch with the Beatles Playlist
PODCAST: A Prairie Home Companion
QUESTION: Where’s Ted Cruz? There is disaster in his home state. Did he go back to Mexico this weekend? Is he hiding from Texas and staying in Washington D.C.? Rafael, where are you?
READ: William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (1930), The Nation - Adbusters, Mr. Fish
RELIGULOUS: This Sunday, MAGA Christians Will Be Heading Into Churches. They Should Be Repenting.
SHITASS: Shoko Asahara, George W. Bush, Louis Colavecchio, Gary M. Heidnik, Mary Kay Letourneau, Robert McNamara, Nancy Reagan, Rick Santelli
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 90 years old - The Dalai Lama
STREAM: Ennio (Kanopy/Prime), Frida (Prime), Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues (Apple)
John Frankenheimer - The Manchurian Candidate, The Train, Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alcatraz, Seconds, Ronin, Grand Prix, The Iceman Cometh, The Young Savages, Black Sunday, The French Connection II, 52-Pick Up
TRAVEL: Tibet
WELLNESS: Tibetan Buddhism
WORD: Deplorable - Republicans, Right-Wing Christians. We all know who you are now. You’re scum and full of shit. You stand for nothing but yourselves and will never be taken seriously again. You never should have been taken serious on issues but now you have been proven deplorable. You are terrorists and treasonists and the worst of what this country has become at your hands. Go fuck yourselves and eat shit.
WTF?!: This Week in Stupid
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Ziggy! 2024 - Retirement from 5AM’s. 2016 - Philando Castile was killed by a police officer after being pulled over in Minnesota. He was with his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter when he was pulled over. 2003 - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate. 1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell died from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams. 1978 - Eddie Mahoney changed his name to Eddie Money. 1974 - A Prairie Home Companion debuted. 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time - three years before forming the Beatles. 1944 – Jackie Robinson refused to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. He would play Major League Baseball 3 years later. 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. She would be killed 3 years later. 1933 - Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National League squad 4-2. 1931 - Clarence Crane died. He invented the Life Savers mint.
“There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.” Louis Armstrong
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner
“People who raise their hands deserve to be ahead of people who don’t.” 50Cent
“George W. Bush has that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.” Marc Maron
