October 12th
John Denver, Hugh Jackman, Kristen Johnson, Gillo Pontecorvo, Nancy Spungen, Ricky Wilson
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BORN (ENTER): Iris Apatow, Chris Botti, Jimmy Chin, Pat DiNizio, Deborah Foreman, Dick Gregory, Tomer Heymann, Hu Bo, Hugh Jackman, Kirsten Johnson, Martie Maquire, Robert Mangold, Sam Moore, Luciano Pavarotti, Chris Phelps, Richard Price, Bob Schneider, Lin Shaye, Jane Siberry, David Vanian, Daniel Vigne, Chris Wallace
DEAD (EXIT): Peter Aufschnaiter, Wilt Chamberlain, Bernard S. Cohen, Ray Conniff, John Denver, Conchata Ferrell, Anatole France, Julie L. Green, Sonja Henie, Oscar Hijuelos, Rene Lascoste, Lilly Ledbetter, Tom Mix, Brendan Mullen, Johnny Olson, Dickie Peterson, Gillo Pontecorvo, Howard Sackler, Matthew Shepard, Willie Shoemaker, Nancy Spungen, Arkady Strugatsky, Gene Vincent, Jay Ward, Ricky Wilson - Diane Keaton (10/11/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: I believe that injustice is the normal, unchangeable state of things. I believe trust is foolishness. I think it is not only naive to live as if justice were an attainable ideal; it is self-destructive. I believe they will kill you if they can.
EAT ME: Gumbo, Pulled Pork - Kegger Weekend (2025)
HOLIDAY: Arthritis Day, Farmers Day, Freethought Day - Earth Science Week (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Your emotional stasis, lack of imagination, and inability to tell right from wrong will continue to be valuable assets in the world of high finance.
HOW-TO: Be a Farmer, Be a Free Thinker, Stop Cracking Your Knuckles - Tap a Keg
JOKE: How a bailout works - Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a Donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the Donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad News, the donkey died.’ Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’ The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’ Chuck said, ‘OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.’ The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with him? Chuck said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’ The farmer said You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!’ Chuck said, ‘Sure I can Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.’ A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, ‘What happened with that Dead donkey?’ Chuck said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998.00.’ The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?’ Chuck said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.’ Chuck now leads the US bank bailout team.
PLAYLIST: ABC: Alphabet City (10/12/1987), Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Rattlesnakes (10/12/1984), Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (10/12/1979), Hall and Oates: Big Bam Boom (10/12/1984), INXS: Kick (10/12/1987), Billy Joel: 52nd Street (10/12/1978), Chaka Khan: Chaka (10/12/1978), The Lemonheads: Come on Feel the Lemonheads (10/12/1993), Les Hell on Heels: Les Hell on Heels (10/12/2004), Mavis Staples: Only for the Lonely (10/12/1970), U2: October (10/12/1981) - The B-52’s: Wild Planet (1980), The Damned: Phantasmagoria (1985), John Denver: Windsong (1975), The Smithereens: Girls About Town (1980)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - The B-52’s, The Damned, John Denver, Gene Vincent
Check out the October Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (10/12/1979), Jason Stanley: Erasing History - How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (2024) - Adbusters, Mr. Fish - Cartoonists on the Week in Politics
RELIGULOUS: Welcome To Gilead—The Creeping Threat Of Christian Nationalism
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHITASS: Carlos the Jackal, Robert E. Lee, Lara Trump, Chris Wallace
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump administration says about 4,200 federal employees face layoffs
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST PIG: America’s Little Nazi Coward
STREAM: The Battle of Algiers (Criterion/HBO Max/Kanopy), Carlos (AMC), The Chair Company (HBO Max), Dick Johnson is Dead (Netflix), Meru (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), Who Killed Nancy? (Night Flight/Prime)
Diane Keaton Film Festival - Annie Hall (Hoopla/MGM), Baby Boom (Hoopla/MGM), The First Wives Club (Hoopla/Kanopy), The Godfather (Hoopla), Interiors (Hoopla), Manhattan (Hoopla/MGM), Reds (Hoopla/Kanopy), Unstrung Heroes (Hoopla)
TRAVEL: Hotel Chelsea
TRUMP AGAINST AMERICA: Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.
WORD: Freethought - thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion. Use it, Do it!
WTF?: The Week in Stupid
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2000 – The USS Cole was badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. 1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming. 1994 - DreamWorks was founded by David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg. 1978 - Sid Vicious was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Spungen was killed in Room 100 at the Hotel Chelsea with several knife wounds to her abdominal area. Vicious died of a heroin overdose before his murder trial began. 1974 - Blondie premiered at CBGB’s in New York City. The name is derived from comments made by truck drivers who catcalled “Hey, Blondie” to Harry as they drove by. 1973 - Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. 1969 - Detroit DJ Russ Gibb opened the phone lines for his usual Sunday afternoon “rap” when a Eastern Michigan University student called in asking about the death of Paul McCartney. He said that if you play The Beatles ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ backwards, you hear John Lennon say the words “I buried Paul.” The “Paul is Dead” rumor begins. 1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals won their 8th World Series. They beat the Boston Red Sox in game 7. 1955 - The Chrysler Corporation launched high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars. The unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and was mounted under the instrument panel. The seven inch discs spun at 16 2/3 rpm and required almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP. The players were discontinued in 1961. 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House. 1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat. 1810 - The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. 1773 – America’s first insane asylum opens in Williamsburg, Virginia. 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips. 1492 - Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
“The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.” Dick Gregory
