June 2nd
Peabo Bryson, Bo Diddley, Lou Gehrig, Lasse Hallstrom, Rex Harrison, Fabrizio Moretti, Charlie Watts, Cornel West
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Lisandro Alonso, Awkwafina, B-Real, Morena Baccarin, Merril Bainbridge, Juan Antonio Bardem, Wayne Brady, Dana Carvey, Andy Cohen, Dominic Cooper, Donkey Kong, Jason Falkner, Jon Favreau, Joanna Gleason, Tony Hadley, Lasse Hallström, Marvin Hamlish, Thomas Hardy, Jeremy O. Harris, Dennis Haysbert, Leela James, Jordan, Stacy Keach, Sally Kellerman, Jo Koy, Caroline Link, Justin Long, Lydia Lunch, Jerry Mathers, Fabrizio Moretti, Juan Bustillo Oro, Jon Peters, Zachary Quinto, Brian Regan, Frank Rich, Marques de Sade, Jonathan Stack, Michael Steele, Charlie Watts, Cornel West
DEAD (R.I.P.): Alain, John Alton, Junior Braithwaite, Ray Bryant, Doc Cheatham, Imogene Coca, Ray Combs, Dick Cusack, Richard Dawson, Bo Diddley, Mel Ferrer, Lou Gehrig, Sara Gómez, Leo Gorcey, Rex Harrison, Jean Hersholt, George S. Kaufman, Albert Lamorisse, Benno Ohnesorg
DEEP THOUGHTS: Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
EAT ME: Rocky Road, Rotisserie Chicken Day
FOODIE: This Rotisserie Chicken Purse Might Be The Summer’s Weirdest It Bag
HOLIDAY: Sex Worker Day - Stanley Cup (2026)
HOROSCOPE: Your willingness to die for what you believe in may seem naïve, but someone has to stand up to people who think Ray Combs was the best host of Family Feud.
HOW-TO: Be a Sex Worker, Hire a Sex Worker, Play Donkey Kong - Start a Revolution #37 - Singing
JOKE: How do you make a hormone? Don’t pay her - The post office is about to issue a stamp commemorating prostitution in the United States. It’s a 10-cent stamp. If you want to lick it, it’s a quarter - What did the sign on the whore house say? Beat it! We’re closed.
PLAYLIST: Beach Fossils: Bunny (6/2/2023), Beach Fossils: Somersault (6/2/2017), The Boomtown Rats: The Fine Art of Surfacing (6/2/1979), Bully: Lucky For You (6/2/2023), Baxter Dury: I Thought I Was Better Than You (6/2/2023), Foo Fighters: But Here We Are (6/2/2023), Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Scratch) (6/2/1978), Whitney Houston: Whitney (6/2/1987), The Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About Ray (6/2/1992), Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds (6/2/1972), Protomartyr: Formal Growth In The Desert (6/2/2023), The Smashing Pumpkins: Adore (6/2/1998), Bruce Springsteen: Darkness On the Edge of Town (6/2/1978) - Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill (1991), Bo Diddley: A Man Amongst Men (1996), Jason Falkner: Presents Author Unknown (1996), The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (1966), Strokes: First Impression of Earth (2006)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: June Edition - Cypress Hill, Bo Diddley, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes
PODCAST: Pod Save America
QUESTION: Why is prostitution illegal?, Is there a case for legalizing prostitution?
READ: Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West: The Future of Race (1996) - The Atlantic: Fold Laundry With Me!, Heather Cox Richardson: Yesterday
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: Nobody Taught Them to Adult — So They’re Teaching Each Other
RELIGULOUS: Why Christians Hate Gay People
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store - Resist and Unsubscribe
SHITASS (AKA THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD): Jeannie Pirro
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: $7,388 — That’s how much a woman spent for a business class seat on a 14-hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing. It was meant to recline into a lie-flat position, but the buttons didn’t work. A flight attendant wrenched the seat down but could not bring it back up, so the passenger remained recumbent for almost all the rest of the flight.
SPORT: Play Donkey Kong - NBA Finals preview: Everything that will decide Knicks-Spurs
STREAM: The Baader Meinhof Complex, The King of Kong, Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over, The Pride of the Yankees, The Wire (6/2/2002-2008) - The Hoax (Hoopla), Not Suitable for Work (Hulu), The Red Balloon (Criterion/HBO Max), Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba (Criterion) - The Daily Show, The Lincoln Project
New Blu-Ray/Streaming Releases: Amrum (PPV), Charade (Criterion Collection/Hoopla/Kanopy), Erupcja (PPV), Five Easy Pieces (Criterion Collection), Hokum (PPV), Hoppers (PPV), I Swear (PPV)
TOP 5: Sex Worker Films - Anora, Belle de Jour, Klute, Midnight Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho
TRAVEL: Delavan
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Scott Galloway: Magnanimity, Thom Hartmann: Trump Has Rewritten America’s 250th Birthday Around One Person: Himself, Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution, The Independent Ink: I Think There Might Be a Way Out of this Shitshow
WIRECUTTER: The Best Outdoor Speakers
WORD: Prostitution
WTF?!: The game show Family Feud premiered in 1976. Richard Dawson hosted the show until 1985. The show returned in 1988 with Ray Combs as the host until 1994. On this day in 1996, Ray Combs killed himself. On this day in 2012, Richard Dawson died from cancer. Somebody better keep on a eye on Steve Harvey today.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidential election, becoming the first female Mexican president. 1981 - The video game Donkey Kong made its U.S. debut. 1975 - The occupation of Saint - Nizier church by Lyon prostitutes refers to the ten day occupation of the Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon by more than a hundred prostitutes to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions. The occupation lasted eight days until the women were removed by the police days later. Sympathetic occupations of churches by prostitutes followed in Paris, Marseille, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne and Montpellier. 1967 - Benno Ohnesorg is killed. A police officer shot the unarmed German student at a demonstration against the state visit of the controversial Shah of Iran. It later ruled that the shooting was not an act of self-defense. The event was pivotal for the foundation of the terrorist organization “Movement 2 June”. 1952 – Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. 1941 - Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Today he probably didn’t feel like the luckiest man alive. 1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. Geez, thanks America! 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” He was responding to the rumors that he had died. 1835 – P.T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. It started and was based in Delavan, Wisconsin (My hometown).
“The country is in deep trouble. We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that’s the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” Cornel West
