October 14th
Hannah Arendt, Leonard Bernstein, Steve Coogan, D'Angelo, Freddy Fender, Errol Flynn, Piper Laurie, Laura Lee, Lydia Tár, Usher
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BORN (ENTER): Arca, Hannah Arendt, Jack Arnold, Carroll Ballard, Pavel Chukhrai, Steve Coogan, Robert Costa, E.E. Cummings, John Dean, Thomas Dolby, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jared Goff, Serif Goren, Justin Hayward, Thomas Keller, Radio Kennedy, Udo Kier, Owen Kline, Ralph Lauren, Laura Lee, Natalie Maines, Roger Moore, Lori Petty, Jay Pharoah, Cliff Richard, Stephen A. Smith, Lydia Tár, Max Thieriot, Usher, Ben Whishaw, Karyn White, Rose Wylie, Benh Zeitlin
DEAD (EXIT): Lou Albano, Cleveland Amory, Marcel Aymé, Leonard Bernstein, Robbie Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Pierre Étaix, Edith Evans, Freddy Fender, Errol Flynn, Piper Laurie, Elizabeth Peña, Harold Robbins, Amy Ross, Derrick Ross, Keenan Wynn, Frankie Yankovic - Speedy Sparks (10/7/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
EAT ME: Chocolate Covered Insects, Dessert - The French Laundry
FOODIE: To make a reservation at The French Laundry, you must purchase a non-refundable prepaid ticket on the Tock website, which becomes available on the first of each month at 10:00 AM PST for reservations a month out and sells out in minutes. You must be logged in and ready to book immediately as tables are highly competitive, and joining the waitlist is a good alternative for securing a spot if a cancellation occurs. Tickets range from $425 per person to $5,000 a person. The French Laundry is considered one of (if not) the finest restaurants in the world.
HOLIDAY: Standards Day
HOROSCOPE: You’re getting to the point where you’d kill for a cigarette, despite never having smoked in your life.
HOW-TO: Eat Bugs, Conduct an Orchestra
JOKE: Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says: ‘Catch up!’
PLAYLIST: David Bowie: Heroes (10/14/1977), Art Garfunkel: Breakaway (10/14/1975), INXS: Listen Like Thieves (10/14/1985), The Jam: Snap! (10/14/1983), Jethro Tull: War Child (10/14/1974), Kiss: Alive II (10/14/1977), Cyndi Lauper: She’s So Unusual (10/14/1983), Plains: I Walked With You a Ways (10/14/2022), Prince: Controversy (10/14/1981), Lucinda Williams: Little Honey (10/14/2008) - Arca: Mutant (2015), Khruangbin: The Universe Smiles Upon You (2015), Texas Tornados: Texas Tornados (1990) - Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Khruangbin
Check out the October Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: R.I.P. WTF
QUESTIONS (PULP FICTION EDITION): What does Pumpkin call his girlfriend in the restaurant, before they rob it? Honey Bunny - What is a quarter pounder called in Europe? A Royale with Cheese - What passage of the Bible does Jules “preach” to his victims before he kills them? Ezekiel 25:17 - What is the brand of cigarettes smoked in the film? Red Apples - How long did Butch’s father keep the watch up his ass? 4 years - What was the name of Vincent Vega’s drug dealer? Lance - Who was barefoot through the whole movie? Uma Thurman - What did Jules wallet say on it? Bad Mother Fucker - How many times was the word “fuck” used in the film? 265 times - Who are brothers in the Tarantino universe of films? Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction) - In which restaurant did Vincent and Mia win the Twist contest in “Pulp Fiction”? Jack Rabbit Slim’s - What is the combination for the film “Pulp Fiction’ mystery brief case? 666 - What is the first thing Mia says after she wakes up from her overdose? “Something” - What are the definitions of the Fox Force 5? The Black One, The Blonde, The Brunette, The French One, The Japanese One - What round is Butch supposed to take the dive? The fifth wound - Who was offered the Bruce Willis role? Matt Dillon - How much did it cost to make Pulp Fiction? The movie cost $8 million to make, $5 million of which went to pay the actors’ salaries.
READ: A.A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh (10/14/1926) - Thom Hartmann: The Last President, Chris Hedges: Trump’s Sham Peace Plan, Independent Ink: Blurred Vision
New Book Releases: Tim Curry: Vagabond, Stefan Fatsis: Unabridged, Susan Orlean: Joyride, Andrew Ross Sorkin: 1929
RELIGULOUS: One of the most effective things you can do to dismantle Christianity is to stand before the world, with a crucifix around your neck, and lie.
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHITASS: Bing Crosby, Charlie Kirk, Floyd Landis, Jim Rome, Stephen A. Smith
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump is sending $20 Billion to Argentina - It’s money this country will never get back. Air Traffic Controllers, the military and TSA aren’t getting paychecks but we just send $20B to Trump’s bestie in Argentina.
SPORT: 8-6-2 Double Play
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST PIG: Stephen Miller says 3000 people must be arrested each day. Let’s start with Stephen Miller.
STREAM: The Bear: Omelette (Hulu), Catching Hell, Maestro (Netflix), Mean Streets (10/14/1973), Pulp Fiction (10/14/1994), Saturday Night Live: 2010-2016 (Peacock), Tár - Brain and Maggie (PBS), Duma (Hoopla), Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (PBS), The Lobster (HBO Max), The Penguin Lessons (Netflix), The Squid and the Whale (Hoopla/Kanopy), Tank Girl (Hoopla/Prime), Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (Hoopla/Kanopy), Yoyo (Criterion)
New Blu-Ray Releases: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series (HBO Max), Eyes Without a Face (Criterion Collection), The Fantastic 4: First Steps, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Motel Destino, She Rides Shotgun, Sketch, Weapons
TRAVEL: Saguaro National Park (10/14/1994)
TRUMP AGAINST AMERICA: The Last 4 Days in one sentence: The Trump administration fired more than 4,000 employees across at least seven agencies on Friday as the government shutdown entered its second week; House Speaker Mike Johnson called the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies a “boondoggle” and warned the U.S. is “barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history”; 41% of Americans blame Republicans for the government shutdown, while 30% blame Democrats and 23–31% blame both parties; on Friday, Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese goods, erasing about $2 trillion in U.S. market value; two days later, Trump tried to calm investors, saying “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine!”; and Trump declared “the war is over” after Hamas freed all 20 surviving hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, calling the U.S.-brokered ceasefire “a new beginning for the Middle East.”
WELLNESS: Misophonia - Nearly one in five people suffer from misophonia, an aversion to specific sounds like chewing or sniffing. Those who experience it may be ridiculed—but their experience can be debilitating.
WORD: Words you didn’t know were named after sounds
WTF?!: Baby Edition - Mom gives birth to a whopping 13-pound baby boy, smashing hospital record - This 33-pound baby is so big he’s accused of being AI-generated
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - 2013 - Amy Ross died from illness and Derrick Ross killed himself because of it. 2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. It was a pretty shameful evening for Cub fans - so bad that there should have been an additional “curse” put on them because of it. (Read more below) 1987 - A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center. Worst. Day care center. Ever! 1985 - I bought INXS “Listen Like Thieves” album and got a job running a record store. 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a War on Drugs. It will fail like the rest of them. America doesn’t win wars anymore. 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws approximately 100,000 people. 1977 – Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary. Ha! 1977 - Singer Bing Crosby died at age 73. 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis began when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba. 1960 - Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested the formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan. 1947 - Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California. 1943 – World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans. 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
2003: May I share with you a story of complete and utter failure? Yes. I’ve been waiting. Cicero: Wonderful. Do you remember Alex Gonzalez? Shortstop for the Cubs? Um... no. No, I don’t think so. Right. And it’s a shame you don’t think so, but I’m gonna explain why you don’t think so. He was a good player. Solid player. Moved around a lot. Cubs had him, like, two years. One of those years, they’re playing the Marlins. Huh. Cicero: Right? Cubbies up three-one. Top of the eighth. Game six. National League Championship fսck¡n’ Series. Carmy: Hmm. Okay? They win, they go to the World Series, which at this point they hadn’t been in, like, I don’t know, 45 years, okay? Runner on first, runner on second. There’s one out. Miguel Cabrera hits a choppy, shitty little thing to Gonzalez. Right? And I mean an easy grab, no-fuckin’-brainer kinda thing. But for whatever reason, Gonzalez is like, oh, maybe I’ll catch it with my hand and then, oh, maybe I’ll catch it with my glove and, oh, maybe I’ll catch it with both. He bobbled the fսck¡n’ ball, didn’t make the double play, couldn’t send the Cubs to the ninth. Unforced error, right? The result of that, the bases are loaded. And the result of that, all fսck¡n’ hell breaks loose. Error after error after error. Oh, man. The Cubs fall apart at the seams. Marlins score five runs, Cubs lose. So why don’t we remember him? Because that very same inning, several plays earlier, Luis Castillo hits a foul ball to left outfield. Right? And, oh, my God, it looks like... ( sighs ) it feels like, it smells like Moisés Alou gonna grab that fսck¡n’ thing and the Cubs are gonna be four outs from the pennant. But instead, just as Moisés is jumping for the ball, a fan in the stands inches from Moisés does what any goddamn fսck¡n’ person would do with a goddamn fսck¡n’ ball flying towards him in a major league sporting venue. He tries to catch it. But his glove bumps into Moisés’ glove, the fսck¡ng ball drops, and end of play. fսck you, Cubbies. Bartman. Bartman. Carmy: Yeah. And everyone wants to kill little Stevie Bartman. But Alex Gonzalez’s fuckup, trust me, it’s the real fuckup, right? Led to eight other fuckups. But then all of a sudden, all those fuckups are a wash ‘cause of Steven Bartman, ‘cause everybody and their mother wants to blame this fսck¡ng guy instead of the actual fսck¡n’ mοtherfսck¡n’ fuckups who fսckеd it up. Just a normal guy, right? You know, with normal fսck¡n’ headphones just reaching for a foul ball... on a lovely night at Wrigley, and he ends up taking the blame for an entire squad who literally took their eye off the ball. Okay. So we don’t wanna be Bartman, right? No, dumbass. You don’t wanna be Gonzalez. You don’t wanna be unfocused.
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” Hannah Arendt
“Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.” Steve Coogan
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Hey kids! Bad news! I died this morning and Derrick didn’t know how to tell you. I love you all and hope you go out and be nice to someone. Funerals are a bore so hopefully I don’t have one. Give Derrick some space... He stinks at this stuff so leave him be for now. Thanks for all the kindness... Please spread it around. - Sorry to bring more bad news but Derrick decided to join me at some point in the night last night. I thought it best you heard it from me. Enjoy every sandwich. We love and will miss you all. Go be nice to someone for us.” Amy and Derrick Ross
“The architect of your soul appears to be social media.” Lydia Tár
