July 6th
Louis Armstrong, James Caan, The Dalai Lama, Eva Green, Kevin Hart, Ennio Morricone, 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, Tay Zonday
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 - Beaky (7/5/2026)
DEEP THOUGHTS: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
EAT ME: Fried Chicken - Louie Armstrong’s Red Beans and Rice
FOODIE: Why Are Champagne and Fried Chicken So Great Together?
HOLIDAY: Kissing Day - Festival of San Fermín (2026)
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.
PLAYLIST: The B-52’s: The B-52’s (7/6/1979), Def Leppard: High ‘n’ Dry (7/6/1981), Echo and the Bunnymen: Echo and the Bunnymen (7/6/1987), 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) - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis (1956), Jet: Shine On (2006)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: July Edition - Louis Armstrong, João Gilberto, Jet, Ennio Morricone, Kate Nash
PODCAST: A Prairie Home Companion
QUESTION: Who was the stupidest U.S. president?, Did George W. Bush go AWOL during his time in the National Guard?
READ: The Nation - The Atlantic: The Alabamafication of National Politics, Heather Cox Richardson: Yesterday Once More - Current: It’s All a BIG Conspiracy
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: The saddest, most glorious ending of a film ever for me (spoiler) - Happy Kissing Day!
RELIGULOUS: Are Mormons “Trans” Christians?
RIDICULOUSNESS: Suspect caught living for 8 years among a half-ton of trash in Arizona national forest - Semitruck spills 40,000 pounds of Frank’s Hot Sauce across highway during brutal heatwave
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store
SHITASS: Shoko Asahara, George W. Bush, Louis Colavecchio, 50 Cent, Gary M. Heidnik, Mary Kay Letourneau, Robert McNamara, Nancy Reagan, Rick Santelli
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Death toll from Venezuelan earthquakes rises to nearly 3,000 People as search and rescue efforts continue.
SPORT: Nobody benefits from FIFA letting Balogun off the hook -- not even the USMNT - Zero Players - Since the introduction of yellow and red cards at the 1970 edition, no player has ever received a red card and gone on to play in his team’s next match at the FIFA World Cup. USA must lose. Trump ruins everything - again.
STREAM: Check out the ExitEnter Films of the Day
TOP 5: People I would like to see less of in my life - John Cena, Walter Goggins, Kevin Hart, James Marsden, Matthew McConaughey, The Rock
TRAVEL: Tibet
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Adbusters, Anne Applebaum: The Beacon of Democracy?, Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The Supreme Court, Partner in Authoritarian Corruption, Civil Discourse: The Week Ahead
WELLNESS: Tibetan Buddhism
WIRECUTTER: The Best Meditation Apps
WORD: Bodhisattva - is a being devoted to achieving spiritual awakening (Buddhahood). In Mahayana Buddhism, it specifically refers to an enlightened individual who compassionately chooses to delay entering Nirvana to remain in the world and help all other beings escape suffering.
WTF?!: During the making of “Rocky,” Sylvester Stallone asked Earnie Shavers, who was widely regarded as the hardest puncher in boxing, to punch him for real. After just one punch, Stallone vomited. Shavers initially refused to hit Stallone with anything stronger than a soft jab, which frustrated Stallone. He asked Shavers, “C’mon Earnie, show me something real.” In response, Earnie delivered a powerful punch near Stallone’s liver, forcing him to retire immediately. Stallone later remarked, “That nearly killed me. I went straight to the men’s room and threw up.”
YOUTUBED: Calm Mind, Happy Life - Chocolate Rain - Criterion Collection in July - What a Wonderful World
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Ziggy Bratwurst! 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.
“George W. Bush has that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.” Marc Maron
