June 4th
Russell Brand, Casanova, Bruce Dern, Angelina Jolie, Mikael Jorgensen, Alexi Navalny, Michelle Phillips, Noah Wyle
Good Morning - Hello! It is Wednesday, June 4th. 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): Al B. Sure!, Maria Bakalova, Cecilia Bartoli, Cliff Bennett, Bi Gan, Russell Brand, Kasey Chambers, Oona Chaplin, Nikka Costa, Paquito D'Rivera, Keith David, El DeBarge, Bruce Dern, Robert I. Douglas, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Freddie Fender, Rob Huebel, Mark Illsley, Angelina Jolie, Mikael Jorgensen, Alexi Navalny, Gabriel Pascal, Michelle Phillips, Pif, Horatio Sanz, Shakey Graves, Greg Swanholm, Ruth Westweimer, Noah Wyle
DEAD (R.I.P.): Stiv Bators, Giacomo Casanova, Maurice Garrel, Jack Gilford, Dorothy Gish, John Hartford, Rupert Hine, Ronnie Lane, Nino Manfredi, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Martin Rushent, Freddie Scott, Roger Smith, Massimo Troisi, Charles Vidor, Aloha Wanderwell, Clarence Williams III, George Winston, John Wooden
DEEP THOUGHTS: People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.
FOODIE: Tomato Butter
HOLIDAY: Native American Day, Tiananmen Square Memorial Day - Global Running Day (2025), Stanley Cup (2025), Tribeca Film Festival (2025)
HOROSCOPE: You'll lose your oldest and dearest friend to smoking this week, shortly after running out of cigarettes.
HOW-TO: Drink Cognac, Protest, Smile Naturally (Say Cheese!)
JOKE: What do you call a dinosaur made of cheese? Gorgonzilla.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Nikka Costa: Can'tneverdidnothin' (2005), Faces: First Step (1970), Flathead: New Old Stock (2000), Wilco: Star Wars (2015) - Matt Berninger: Get Sunk
Broncho: Can’t Get Past the Lips (6/4/2011), Johnny Cash: At San Quentin (6/4/1969), Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (6/4/1979), Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee (6/4/2021), Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full (6/4/2007), Liz Phair: Soberish (6/4/2021), Bruce Springsteen: Born in the U.S.A. (6/4/1984), Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hot (6/4/1996)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Shakey Graves, Wilco
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill station
QUESTION: Can Embracing Punk Save Gen Z — and Our Flailing Country?
READ: JoJoFromJerz: Let’s Go Taco, Ezra Klein: Trump’s Foreign Policy, Explained, Paul Krugman: We Are No Longer a Serious Country, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: You Don’t Need Healthcare, You Need Jesus?
SHITASS: Russell Brand, Marvin Heemeyer, Mike Lee, T.J. Miller, Murray Wilson
SPORT: 2025 Stanley Cup - Edmonton Oilers vs. Florida Panthers - Go Canada!
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): Chan is Missing (6/4/1982) - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Prime), Caesar and Cleopatra (Criterion), The Hateful Eight (Netflix), Maria (Netflix), Mr. Loverman (BritBox), Mustang (Kanopy), The Pitt (Max), Stick (Apple), Tread (Hoopla/Kanopy)
Gabriel Pascal Double Feature - Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara
Charles Vidor - Gilda
TRAVEL: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Tiananmen Square
WE ARE FUCKED: Yesterday in one sentence: Elon Musk publicly denounced Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill," calling it a “disgusting abomination” and warning that “Congress is making America bankrupt”; Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to pass his tax and spending bill by July 4, warning that they will face political consequences if they block it; Trump’s tariffs are expected to slow U.S. economic growth to 1.6% this year – down from a previous forecast of 2.2%; Trump blamed Biden for the Boulder firebombing that injured 12 people; the acting head of FEMA – on the second day of hurricane season – told staff he “didn’t realize" the U.S. had a hurricane season; 58% of Americans say the government should do more to solve problems – the highest level in over 30 years; 79% of Republicans say they’re satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. – up from 10% in January; Trump’s approval among Latino voters dropped from 43% in February to 39% in May; and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard is exploring a plan to turn Trump’s daily intelligence briefing into a video resembling a Fox News broadcast to better match Trump’s media habits.
WELLNESS: 100 Practical Life Skills That Every 18-Year-Old Should Have
WORD: A Disgusting Abomination
WTF?!: Marjorie Taylor Greene Admits She Didn’t Read Trump Mega Bill She Voted For
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 1997 - The body of musician Jeff Buckley was found floating in a harbor leading to the Mississippi River after being spotted by a passenger on a tourist riverboat. Buckley had disappeared the previous Thursday while swimming. 1990 - Musician Stiv Bators died in Paris after being hit by a car. He was on his motorbike when a car bumped into him and knocked him off the vehicle. He did not believe he was seriously injured, and returned to his apartment, where he died in his sleep as the result of a traumatic brain injury at the age of 40. 1989 - Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds - possibly thousands of people died. 1979 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac recorded the USC Trojan Marching Band to use in their song Tusk. 1977 – JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium. 1976 - The Sex Pistols played The Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester: It seems millions of people claim to have been at Woodstock when only 500,000 or so were really there, but the biggest pop-culture event of the 1960s has nothing on one of the most pivotal of the 1970s: the Sex Pistols’ appearance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, on June 4, 1976. Proportional to the actual crowd in attendance, perhaps no event in the history of pop music has enjoyed greater retroactive audience growth than the one that’s been called “The gig that changed the world.” By June 1976, the Sex Pistols had been playing together under that name for only seven months, and though their look, their sound and their nihilistic attitude were already in place, they and the entire British punk scene were still a few months away from truly breaking out. They had drawn just enough attention in the British music press, though, to inspire two young men from Manchester named Howard DeVoto and Pete Shelley to go down and see them play in London in February. From this experience, two things happened: DeVoto and Shelley arranged for the Sex Pistols to come up north and play the Lesser Free Trade Hall; and then they formed their own new band, called the Buzzcocks. News of the June 4 gig in Manchester spread mostly by word of mouth, such that on the night of the show, perhaps as few as 40 people showed up in a room that could hold hundreds. In that small crowd, however, were some names that would help shape the course of pop music over the next decade: Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley: Their band, the Buzzcocks, would go on to enjoy enormous popularity and influence in the UK both during and after the punk era. Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook: The very next day, Hook would buy his first guitar, and the three young Mancunians would become a band. That band—originally called the Stiff Kittens and later Warsaw—was Joy Division, one of the best-known and most influential of all the early New Wave bands. Mark E. Smith: Following the Sex Pistols gig, he started The Fall, a post-punk band that never had a true hit record but influenced generations of followers from Nirvana to Franz Ferdinand. Steven Patrick Morrissey, aka Morrissey: The last of these notables to make a name for himself, but one of the most successful, both as leader of The Smiths in the mid-1980s and as a solo artist thereafter. Tony Wilson: Manchester TV news presenter who would be inspired to start the record label Factory Records, which would help create the thriving Manchester scene of the 1980s and early-90s. Just a few days after the Sex Pistols stormed Manchester on this day in 1976, they returned to London for gigs on July 4 and 6 that featured two brand-new bands as opening acts: The Clash and The Damned. Three weeks after that, their return gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall (featuring opening act the Buzzcocks) drew hundreds, as the punk era unofficially opened. 1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway began. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo ordered a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ended: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. 1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps. 1919 - The US Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women. 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded. 1912 - The State of Massachusetts became the first state in the U.S. to set a minimum wage. 1896 - Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
