June 25th
Anthony Bourdain, Jacques Cousteau, Farrah Fawcett, Ricky Gervais, Michael Jackson, Sidney Lumet, George Michael, Carly Simon
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Rick Alverson, Denys Arcand, Timur Bekmambetov, Anthony Bourdain, Linda Cardellini, Tricia Cooke, Jerry Decker, Ernest Dickerson, Tim Finn, Eddie Floyd, Nisha Ganatra, Antonio Gaudi, Ricky Gervais, Nicholas Jarecki, Angela Kinsey, Larry Kramer, June Lockhart, Sidney Lumet, John McRea, George Michael, Dikembe Mutombo, George Orwell, Busy Phillips, Carly Simon, George Sluizer, Sonia Sotomayor, Jimmie Walker, Chloe Webb
DEAD (R.I.P.): Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant, Colin Clive, Jacques Cousteau, Bill Cunningham, George Armstrong Custer, Farrah Fawcett, John Fielder, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Michael Jackson, Patrick MacNee, Arif Mardin, Johnny Mercer, Sky Saxon, Hillel Slovak, Mary Tudor - Bobby Sherman (6/24/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Dearly beloved. We R gathered here 2day 2 get thru this thing called life. Electric word - "life" It means 4ever and that's a mighty long time, But 'm here 2 tell U - There's something else, The afterworld. A world of never-ending happiness U can always C the sun, Day or night. So when U call up That shrink N Beverly Hills - U know the 1 Dr. Everything'll-B-Alright. Instead of asking him How much of ur time is left, Ask him how much of ur mind, baby Cuz N this life Things R much harder Than N the afterworld N this life U'r on ur own and if de-elevator tries 2 bring U down - Go crazy. Punch a higher floor! Whoo!
EAT ME: Catfish, Strawberry Parfait - Anthony Bourdain, Copycat Recipes, Korean
FOODIE: Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits - Anthony Bourdain
HOLIDAY: Global Beatles Day, Bourdain Day, Copycat Day, Halfway to Christmas, World Vitiligo Day
Global Beatles Day (also known as World Beatles Day) is an annual holiday occurring 25 June each year that honors and celebrates the ideals of the Beatles. The date, 25 June, was chosen to commemorate the date that the Beatles participated in the BBC show Our World in 1967, performing "All You Need Is Love" broadcast to an international audience. it is a thank you or love letter to The Beatles.
HOROSCOPE: Millions will be rescued this week when the Red Cross deploys thousands of desperately needed words to the site of an unspeakable tragedy.
HOW-TO: Big Dick Energy, Catch a Catfish, Spot a Catfish
JOKE: Whats the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson ? Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and Michael Jackson had sex with children.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): The Beatles: Help/Rubber Soul (1965), Finn Brothers: Finn (1995), Huey Lewis and the News: Huey Lewis and the News (6/25/1980), George Michael: Listen Without Prejudice (1990), Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (1985), Split Enz: True Colours (6/25/1980), Spokane: Leisure and Other Songs (2000), Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All (6/25/1975) - U.S. Girls: Scratch It
Chicago: Chicago VI (6/25/1973), Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (6/25/1976), Lucy Dacus: Home Video (6/25/2021), French Girls: French Girls (6/25/2021), Andrew Hill: Andrew!!! (6/25/1964), Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt (6/25/1996), Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (6/25/1984), Bonnie Raitt: Luck of the Draw (6/25/1991), Screaming Trees: Dust (6/25/1996), David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (6/25/1984)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Carly Simon
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: George Orwell: Animal Farm (1945) - JoJoFromJerz: Donnie Two Weeks Go Boom Boom, Paul Krugman: MAGA Will Devastate Rural America, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: Hetero Fest
SCIENCE!: New Moon Today
SHAMELESS PLUG: Zohran Mamdani - Fuck Yeah!
SHITASS: Axis Sally, Michael Jackson, Ronald Gene Simmons, Charles Starkweather, Fred Trump, Curtis Yarvin
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 15 Minutes Early - Anthony Bourdain was a 15-minute early, kinda guy. “Show up on time. I learned this from the mentor who I call Bigfoot in Kitchen Confidential. If you didn’t show up 15 minutes exactly before your shift — if you were 13 minutes early — you lost the shift, you were sent home. The second time you were fired. It is the basis of everything. I make all my major decisions on other people based on that. Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you were going to. And by that I mean, every day, always, and forever.
SPORT: NBA Draft (ABC/ESPN)
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): Blade Runner (6/25/1982), The Notebook (6/25/2004), The Thing (6/25/1982) - The Bear: Season 4 (Hulu), Bill Cunningham New York (Hoopla/Kanopy), Dr. T and the Women (Hoopla/Kanopy/Peacock), Dog Day Afternoon (Paramount), Entertainment (Hoopla/Kanopy/HBO Max), The Fugitive Kind (Prime)
Sidney Lumet Film Festival - 12 Angry Men, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Fail-Safe, The Hill, Serpico, The Verdict, Running on Empty, The Pawnbroker, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Prince of the City, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Murder on the Orient Express, The Fugitive Kind, Equus, Find Me Guilty, Deathtrap, A View from the Bridge, The Offense, Q&A, Night Falls on Manhattan, Daniel, The Sea Gull, The Group, The Anderson Tapes, Garbo Talks, The Morning After, Family Business, Power, The Wiz, A Stranger Among Us, Gloria - By Sidney Lumet
TRAVEL: Virginia
WE ARE FUCKED: Yesterday in one sentence: A classified U.S. intelligence report found that Trump’s airstrikes on Iran failed to destroy the country’s underground nuclear facilities or enriched uranium stockpile; Israel and Iran agreed to a tentative ceasefire despite both sides violating the agreement almost immediately after Trump announced "a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE"; Trump questioned the U.S. commitment to NATO’s mutual defense pledge hours before arriving at the alliance summit in the Netherlands; Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the ceasefire between Israel and Iran hours after a Ukrainian lawmaker withdrew a separate nomination over Trump’s failure to deliver on his promise to end the war with Russia; the House voted 344–79 to kill an impeachment resolution against Trump over his strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, with 128 Democrats joining all Republicans to block the effort; Sen. Bill Cassidy called for a delay of the CDC vaccine panel meeting, saying Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new appointees “lack experience” and could undermine trust in federal vaccine policy; the Trump administration will repeal the 2001 “roadless rule,” which blocked logging and road construction on 58 million acres of national forest land since 2001; a fired Justice Department lawyer accused top officials of planning to ignore federal court orders to carry out Trump’s deportation plan; and ICE is detaining 59,000 immigrants nationwide – the highest number ever recorded.
WELLNESS: Should you let pets sleep next to you? (Does it even matter what the experts say?)
WORD: Fuck
WTF?!: ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby - A landscaper who raised 3 US Marines is the latest detainee in ICE’s workplace raids
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from prison as part of a U.S. plea bargain. 2021 - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. Awesome. 2009 - Child molester/pop star Michael Jackson died at age 50 from a drug overdose. Actress and icon Farrah Fawcett died the very same day - sadly, nobody paid any attention to her death. 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 U.S. servicemen. 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. 1967 - 200 million people saw The Beatles perform 'All You Need Is Love', live via satellite as part of the TV global link-up, 'Our World', Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash and Keith Moon provided backing vocals. 1950 - North Korea invades South Korea for the start of the Korean War. 1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were slaughtered by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. 1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” Ricky Gervais
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not wanted printed. Everything else is public relations.” George Orwell
“I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.” Sonia Sotomayor
