October 1st
Julie Andrews, Emerald Fennell, Zach Galifianakis, Jane Goodall, Brie Larson, Walter Matthau, E.B. White
Good Morning - Hello! It is Wednesday, October 1st (Day 274). Welcome to ExitEnter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and ExitEnter 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.
BORN (ENTER): Julie Andrews, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Katie Aselton, Nicole Atkins, Beck Bennett, Jimmy Carter, Michaela Coel, Albert Collins, Herb Fame, Emerald Fennell, Zach Galifianakis, Marco Tullio Giordana, Kevin Griffin, Richard Harris, Donny Hathaway, Marielle Heller, Howard Hewett, John Krokidas, Brie Larson, Walter Matthau, Michael McFaul, Mark McGwire, Tom Meier, Esai Morales, Youssou N’Dour, Philippe Noiret, Randy Quaid, Earl Slick, Takuma Takashi, Christopher Titus
DEAD (EXIT): Dorothy Arzner, Richard Avedon, Charles Aznavour, Lucien Ballard, Frank Beyer, Tom Clancy, Peggy Sue Gerron, Margaret Hughes, Al Jackson Jr., Polly Klaas, Bruce Palmer, Nick Reynolds, E.B. White
DEEP THOUGHTS: Next time is next time. Now is now.
EAT ME: International Coffee Day, Homemade Cookies, Pumpkin Spice, Vegetarian - Kale (2025), Pumpkin Seeds (2025), Raccoons
FOODIE: I was vegetarian for 6 years, I never cheated and weighed 150 pounds. When I stopped being vegetarian one night, I ate fried chicken. I thought I died and went to heaven.
HOLIDAY: Hair Day, Music Day, Older Persons Day, Raccoon Day - Random Acts of Poetry Day (2025), Yom Kippur (2025)
also, Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Arts and Humanities Month, Blindness Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Cyber Security Awareness Month, Dental Hygiene Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Dwarfism/Little People/Short Stature/Skeletal Dysplasia Awareness Month, Eczema Awareness Month, Filipino American History Month, Health Literacy Month, Healthy Lung Month, Infertility Awareness Month, Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month, Liver Awareness Month, Lupus Erythematosus Awareness Month, Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, Menopause Month, Physical Therapy Month, Pizza Month, Polish American Heritage Month, Popcorn Month, Pork Month, Rocktober!, Seafood Month, Spina Bifida Awareness Month, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month, Vegetarian Awareness Month - Birthstones: Opal, Tourmaline - Flowers: Calendula - Horoscopes: Libra (9/22-10/21), Scorpio (10/22-11/20)
HOROSCOPE: You’ll soon popularize a new dance craze, thanks in large part to the large, feral raccoon clawing at your back.
HOW-TO: Become a Vegetarian, Cut Hair, Make Coffee, Respect Your Elders
JOKE: October is Dwarfism awareness month. This surprised me, because I’d have thought it would have been in February.
PLAYLIST: Apollonia 6: Apollonia 6 (10/1/1984), Babyshambles: Shotter’s Nation (10/1/2007), The Beach Boys: Surfin’ Safari (10/1/1962), Johnny Cougar: Chestnut Street Incident (10/1/1976), The Damned: Strawberries (10/1//1982), Donald Fagen: The Nightfly (10/1/1982), Fountains of Wayne: Fountains of Wayne (10/1/1996), Marvin Gaye: Midnight Love (10/1/1982), Illuminati Hotties: Let Me Do One More (10/1/2021), Chaka Khan: I Feel for You (10/1/1984), The La’s: The La’s (10/1/1990), Barry Manilow: Barry Manilow II (10/1/1974), Barry Manilow: Tryin’ to Get the Feeling (10/1/1975), Matchbox 20: Yourself or Someone Like You (10/1/1996), Midnight Oil: Red Sails in the Sunset (10/1/1984), Prince: Diamonds and Pearls (10/1/1991), Ramones: Too Tough to Die (10/1/1984), Romeo Void: Instincts (10/1/1984), Shout Out Louds: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (10/1/2003), Sloan: Smeared (10/1/1992), Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat (10/1/1971), Styx: Crystal Ball (10/1/1976), U2: The Unforgettable Fire (10/1/1984) - Nicole Atkins: Italian Ice (2020), Booker T. and the MG’s: Soul Dressing (1965)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it!
Check out the October Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
PODCAST: Pivot
READ: E.B. White: Stuart Little (1945) - JoJoFromJerz: If It Walks Like a Fascist…, Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: Christian Nationalism is the American Taliban
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: Crescent Ballroom (10/1/2011)
SHITASS: Stephen Collins, Gina Haspel, Reginald Kray, Theresa May, Mark McGwire, Devin Nunes, Stephen Paddock, Peter Weyland
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Thousands of federal workers face unpaid leave as US government shutdown hits key services
SPORT: The ExitEnter World Series Prediction - Milwaukee Brewers vs. Seattle Mariners
STREAM: Cartoon Network (10/1/1992), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (10/1/1980), Short Cuts (10/1/1993), The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (10/1/1962-1992) - Abbott Elementary: Season 5 (ABC/Hulu), The Krays (MGM), Nightbitch (Hulu), Perfect Days (Hulu/Kanopy), Promising Young Woman (Prime), The Sound of Music (Disney)
TRAVEL: Yosemite National Park
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assembled hundreds of the U.S. military’s top leaders at Quantico to demand they accept his agenda or “do the honorable thing and resign”; Trump followed Hegseth’s address by telling the generals that the U.S. is under attack by an “enemy from within” and urged the military to use “dangerous cities as training grounds”; Trump gave Hamas “three or four days” to accept his Gaza plan or face a “sad end”; a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally targeted noncitizens for pro-Palestinian speech; U.S. consumer confidence fell in September to its lowest level since April; the U.S. government is on track to shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for the first time in nearly seven years with no funding deal in place; 38% of Americans said they would blame Republicans if the government shuts down; and 43% of voters approve of Trump’s job performance, while 54% disapprove.
WELLNESS: Trump announces TrumpRx website for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer
WORD: The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.
WTF?!: ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles.’
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - Another Republican Government Shutdown. 2024 - The Vice Presidential Debate. It’s “Coach” Walz vs. “Couch” Vance. 2017 – 58 people were killed and 851 others injured in a mass shooting on a music festival in Las Vegas. It is America’s deadliest mass shooting after a single gunman positioned on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel window opened fire on thousands of music fans attending a country-music festival. Nothing changed, nothing happened following it. 2017 - O.J. Simpson was released from a Nevada jail after serving nine years behind bars for armed robbery. Simpson, a former NFL star, was found not guilty in 1995 in the murders of his ex-wife and friend. He went to jail in 2008 for trying to steal sports memorabilia that he claimed was his property. 2011 - The Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix opened. 2008 - A $700 billion financial industry bailout won lopsided passage in the Senate, 74-25, after it was loaded with tax breaks and other sweeteners. Republican’s love welfare! 1990 - Peter Weyland, founder and CEO of the Weyland Corporation was born. 1982 - The first commercial compact disc was released on this day in Japan, heralding a quantum shift in the way fans would consume music for the next two decades – and setting off a fresh torrent of profits for the record industry. That compact disc was Billy Joel’s 52nd Street, which had already become a multi platinum hit after its original release in 1978. As Time pointed out, 52nd Street wasn’t technically the first CD; the technology was originally tested on a pressing of Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, and the first batch of discs to be manufactured was a run of ABBA’s The Visitors, but it didn’t arrive in stores until later. 1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. 1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. 1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. 1962 - Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC’s “Tonight” show. Carson is the longest-serving host to date. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno, however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes. 1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 60 set in 1927. Maris’ record would stand for 37 years after Mark McGwire broke it in 1998. 1958 - NASA was born! The space agency officially opened for business. 1939 - Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” during a radio broadcast. 1932 - The 1932 World Series, the legendary Babe Ruth called his shot just before hitting a home run for the Yankees on their way to beating the Cubs. 1890 – Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress.
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.” Jimmy Carter
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.” Jimmy Carter
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.” Zach Galifianakis
“I know who I am. I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant asshole.” Christopher Titus
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B. White
