July 9th
Pamela Adlon, Isaac Brock, Chris Cooper, Tom Hanks, Jim Kerr, Adrianne Lenker, Courtney Love, Bon Scott, Jack White
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Pamela Adlon, Marc Almond, David Beach, Isaac Brock, Louie Chironis, Chris Cooper, Nana Ekvtimishcili, Kate Garner, Gloria, Tom Hanks, Lee Hazelwood, David Hockney, Judith Mary, Toby Kebbell, Jim Kerr, Elem Klimov, Amanda Knox, Adrianne Lenker, Timothy Levitch, Courtney Love, Mario, Hiroki Matsuno, Kelly McGillis, Fred Norris, Rex Pickett, Fred Savage, Bon Scott, Serpentwithfeet, Jimmy Smits, Damián Szifron, John Tesh, Scott Van Pelt, Jack White
DEAD (R.I.P.): Carlo Di Palma, Freddie Jones, L.Q. Jones, Vonetta McGee, Alice Paul, Ross Perot, Isabel Sanford, Toshi Seeger, John Spinks, Rod Steiger, Zachary Taylor, Rip Torn, Earl Warren
DEEP THOUGHTS: The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
FOODIE: RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed.
GAMER: Donkey Kong
HOLIDAY: My Mother’s Day - Happy 80th Ma!
HOROSCOPE: Clear and direct communication is key to a successful marriage. Try ending all of your domestic exchanges with "Roger that, good buddy."
HOW-TO: Donkey Kong, Make Pop Art, Send Flowers to Someone in Another State
JOKE: My mom is so slow, it took her 9 months to make a joke.
THE ONION: Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Adrianne Lenker: Songs/Instrumentals (2020), Modest Mouse: Strangers to Ourselves (2015), Mount Eerie: Sauna (2015), Simple Minds: Once Upon a Time (1985), Jack White: No Name (2024), The White Stripes: De Stijl (2000) - Smut: Tomorrow Comes Crashing
Bob Dylan “Blowin’ in the Wind” (7/9/1962), Vince Staples: Vince Staples (7/9/2021), Wham!: Fantastic (7/9/1983)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Big Thief, Hole, Adrienne Lenker, Modest Mouse, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, Jack White, The White Stripes - Yacht Rock (for my mother)
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
QUESTION: Hey Retards - Did you call your mother and wish her Happy Birthday?
READ: JoJoFromJerz: The Rot at the Top, Paul Krugman: Real Men Burn Stuff, Mother Jones: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz Stripped Weather Forecasting Funds From Trump’s Megabill. Then the Floods Came.
RELIGULOUS: The Gospel of Suffering
SCIENCE!: Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change
SHITASS: Steven Avery, Jordan Belfort, Lindsay Graham, Jim Inhofe, O.J. Simpson, Jesse Watters
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 170 People Missing in Texas Floods Much Higher Than Initially Thought - Oops, maybe 169 People Missing. They found Ted Cruz. He was hiding again.
STREAM: Come and See (Criterion/Kanopy), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 17 (FXX/Hulu), Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix)
American Pie (7/9/1999)
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: The Supreme Court allowed Trump to proceed with firing tens of thousands of federal workers across 21 agencies as part of his plan to restructure or dismantle government offices; Trump said his new tariffs will take effect August 1 and “no extensions will be granted,” reversing comments hours earlier that the deadline was “firm, but not 100% firm”; Trump resumed weapons shipments to Ukraine after a weeklong pause he claimed he hadn’t authorized and then accused Putin of stalling peace efforts and escalating the war; an impostor used AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s voice to contact at least five officials; the IRS said churches can endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status; and House Democrats demanded the release of all the Epstein-related files that mention Trump, accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of protecting Trump.
WELLNESS: It’s time to quit vaping. Seriously.
WTF?!: Barbie Launches First Doll With Type 1 Diabetes
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2021 - An airplane carrying skydivers crashed in Örebro, Sweden, killing all nine people on board. Why didn’t they just jump out of the plane? 1995 - The Grateful Dead played their last concert ever, at Soldier Field in Chicago, after a 30-year run. 1981 – Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo's future mascot, Mario. 1977 - Elvis Costello quit his day job as a computer operator at a cosmetic factory. 1962 - Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans made their debut. The Soup Cans were first displayed at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and were instrumental in popularizing Pop Art in the United States. 1948 - James Baskett was an American actor who portrayed Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South. In recognition of his portrayal of Remus, he was given an Honorary Academy Award in 1948, making him the first Black male performer to receive an Oscar. 1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by fire.
“If you have a choice between killing yourself and doing something you're scared of doing, why not take the leap and do the thing you're scared of doing?” Joe Banks
