June 24th
Claude Chabrol, Mick Fleetwood, Jackie Gleason, Mindy Kaling, Robert Reich, Hope Sandoval, Curt Smith, Bernie Worrell
Good Morning - Hello! It is Tuesday, June 24th. Welcome to Exit/Enter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and Exit/Enter wants to help you plan for it. But first, you should probably catch up on all the news this morning and check out your sports scores. Also, see what the weather is going to be like wherever you are. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing. To see the complete updated Exit/Enter for today and yesterdays - visit the website. Be awesome today and try not to be a shitass.
BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Nancy Allen, Jeff Beck, 6lack, Colin Blunstone, Arthur Brown, Mads Brugger, Henry Cass, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Danell, Robert Downey, Beanie Feldstein, Mick Fleetwood, Brigitte Fontaine, Siedah Garrett, Dan Gilroy, Scott Hanson, John Illsley, Mindy Kaling, Minka Kelly, Solange Knowles, Joanna Kulig, Emily Kunstler, Alejandro Landes, Andy McCluskey, Glenn Medeiros, Lionel Messi, Ursula Meier, Trisha Meili, Irving Pichel, Ariel Pink, JJ Redick, Robert Reich, Taylor Rice, Hope Sandoval, Shifty Shellshock, Adrienne Shelly, Curt Smith, Vittorio Storaro, Anand Tucker, Peter Weller
DEAD (R.I.P.): Gad Beck, Billy Drago, Jackie Gleason, Puff Johnson, Boris Kaufman, William Keighley, Brian Keith, Shogo Kubo, Alan Myers, Eli Wallach, Paul Winchell, Bernie Worrell - Mick Ralphs (6/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
FOODIE: Food stamps, redefined by red states
HOLIDAY: Dancing Screaming Itching Squealing Fevered Day - Midsummer (2025), NYC Mayor Primary (2025)
FYI: Fuck Andrew Cuomo - Go Zohran Mamdani!
HOROSCOPE: Being a Trojan quality-control tester might be the best job in the world, but you'll soon leave it all behind to spend more time with your 87 children.
HOW-TO: St. John’s Dance
JOKE: What do ghosts dance to? Soul music.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Average White Band: Cut the Cake (6/24/1975), Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow (1975), Jackson Browne: Hold Out (6/24/1980), Devo: Freedom of Choice (1980), Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms (1985), Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (1975), Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly (1990), Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Crush (1985), Parliament: Mothership Connection (1975), Social Distortion: Social Distortion (1990), Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
Automatic: Excess (6/24/2022), Hollie Cook: Happy Hour (6/24/2022), The Replacements: Stink (6/24/1982), Soccer Mommy: Sometimes, Forever (6/24/2022), James Taylor: JT (6/24/1977)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Mazzy Star, Tears for Fears
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
QUESTION: What does “Late-Term Abortion” mean? It never existed - It means giving birth.
READ: John Lennon: A Spaniard in the Works (6/24/1965), Robert Reich - Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Iran War Fever: A Deadly Cure for His Political Collapse?, Chris Hedges: War With Iran
RELIGULOUS: Why Should I Respect Jesus When Christians Don’t?
SCIENCE!: The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe
SHITASS: Patsy Ramsey, Ralph Reed
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Between 2 million and 3 million acres of land across 11 Western states - For sale by the republicans: Our public land — and our shared history
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): Bad Faith (Kanopy), Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey (Netflix), The Count of Monte Cristo (Hoopla/Kanopy), Dressed to Kill (Hoopla/MGM), La cérémonie (Criterion), Midsomer (Cinemax), Paragraph 175 (Criterion/Kanopy), The Rachel Maddow Show, Running Point (Netflix), Shopgirl (Hoopla), Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (Criterion)
New Blu-Ray Releases: Doctor Who: Season 1 (Disney), Eephus, The Featherweight, The Monkey, Pavements, Sorcerer (Criterion Collection), Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Criterion Collection)
Claude Chabrol Film Festival - This Man Must Die, La cérémonie, Story of Women, The Unfaithful Wife, The Butcher, Les cousins, Just Before Nightfall, La rupture, The Good Girls, Le beau Serge, Betty, Nightcap, The Bridesmaid, Madame Bovary, The Flower of Evil, Comedy of Power, A Girl Cut in Two, Inspector Bellamy
Robert Downey Film Festival - Putney Swope, Chafed Elbows, No More Excuses, Greaser’s Palace, Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight, Babo 73, Hugo Pool, Up the Academy - Robert Downey: Moment to Moment, Sr. (Netflix)
TRAVEL: Aachen, Germany, Mount Rainier, West Java - Sweden
WE ARE FUCKED: Yesterday in one sentence: Iran launched a missile strike on the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, retaliating for U.S. airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites two days earlier; Trump called for regime change in Iran, posing on social media, “Why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???”; Pentagon officials can’t confirm whether U.S. strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities despite Trump’s claim the program was “completely and fully obliterated”; Trump’s strike on three Iranian nuclear sites triggered bipartisan backlash in Congress, with lawmakers accusing him of violating the Constitution by bypassing congressional approval; and Trump demanded energy producers keep oil prices low after U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites raised fears of retaliation and supply disruptions.
WELLNESS: The Brigid Alliance
WORD: Pro-Abortion - To be pro-choice is not to be pro-abortion. There is no such thing as pro-abortion. When a husband takes his comatose wife off of life support, that does not mean he wants her to die. When a mother takes care of her sick child, that does not mean she derives pleasure from the vomit of her kin. Every day, people do things that are hard for them, things that they don’t want to have to do, things that make them question their moral codes and their priorities. Every day, people have to make decisions that impinge on their lives not just for that day, but the entirety of their lives. These decisions, within the parameters of the law, are our own prerogatives, as we are the only ones who are equipped to understand our very own unique circumstances. Abortion is not something that anybody enjoys or takes pleasure in, but are a necessary reality nonetheless. Abortions are personal, emotional, and pragmatic. Abortions have to do with quality of life, both for the pregnant women and for the zygotes that are provided with the controversial fate of never being given life, versus being given a life that won’t be able to treat them well, and that might not allow them to thrive. One might say that adoption is a superior and ethically sound alternative to abortion. Is this so? Millions of children around the world are homeless or living in orphanages or foster homes, and the vast majority of them will never be adopted. Are there not enough children in this world to pick from? Is it better to have more neglected children in this world than it is to terminate pregnancies in their first trimesters? There are innumerable circumstances that contribute to women’s or couples’ choices to have abortions, but the take home point is that it is nobodies first choice. Nobody gets pregnant with the intention of having an abortion- the choice to have an abortion is never taken lightly, and is a personal choice that is very difficult to make. Nobody is pro-abortion.
WTF?!: (See Above)
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 – The Supreme Court determined that abortion is not a protected constitutional right, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Fuckers. 2021 - A 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida partially collapsed overnight. 98 people died. 2010 - John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. (Isner won the fifth set 70-68.) 2009 - After going missing for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress. 1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. 1973 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. People were overcome with bouts of uncontrollable, manic dancing. Frothing at the mouth, screaming, and sexual frenzy were other symptoms. Wait… What!?
“Sometimes you just have to put on lipgloss and pretend to be psyched.” Mindy Kaling
