BIG WEEKLY BLEND: COMEDIANS, COWBOYS, OUTLAWS & SPACEMEN
Enjoy Big Blend Radio’s BIG WEEKLY BLEND podcast with this episode covering the holiday’s, birth anniversaries and pop culture history that spans July 17-23, 2023. Airing every Sunday, this show is a companion production of the new Big Weekly Blend digital magazine. Listen to the podcast and check out the links below to the music playlist, articles, recipes, and puzzles that connect with and celebrate this week!
MUSIC PLAYLIST
This eclectic playlist features over 50 songs that complement the podcast conversation, and celebrate this week’s holidays, observances, and birth anniversaries as listed below!
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CELEBRATE MONDAY, JULY 17, 2023
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” Art Linkletter Jr. (July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Erle Stanley Gardner – lawyer and author, Perry Mason (1889), James Cagney – actor (1899), Art Linkletter – television host (1912), Phyllis Diller – comedian (1917), Diahann Carroll – actor (1935), Donald Sutherland – actor (1935), David Hasselhoff – actor and musician (1952), Mark Burnett – television producer (1960).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Lottery Day, World Emoji Day, Global Hug Your Kids Day, National Peach Ice Cream Day, National “Get Out of the Dog House” Day, National Tattoo Day, Wrong Way Corrigan Day, World Day for International Justice, Yellow Pig Day.
PARKS & PLACES: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park (1916)
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Hollywood History of Women in Comedy
Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park
CELEBRATE TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2023
“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.” William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: William Makepeace Thackeray – author (1811), George Machine Gun Kelly – gangster (1895), Red Skelton – actor and comedian (1913), Nelson Mandela – President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1918), John Glenn – astronaut and politician (1921), Dion DiMucci – singer (1939), James Brolin – actor (1940), Martha Reeves – singer (1941), Steve Forbes – publisher (1947), Vin Diesel – actor (1967).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: World Listening Day, Islamic New Year, Insurance Nerd Day, National Caviar Day, National Sour Candy Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Kathryn Kelly – The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly
Captivating Cape Town
CELEBRATE WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2023
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J. R. R. Tolkien
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Samuel Colt – firearms inventor (1814), Edgar Degas – painter (1834), Charles Horace Mayo – surgeon/founder of the Mayo Clinic (1865), Pat Hingle – actor (1924), George Hamilton IV – country singer (1937), Brian May – musician, Queen (1947), Keith Godchaux – musician, Grateful Dead (1948), Allen Collins – musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd (1952), Lisa Lampanelli – comedian (1961), Anthony Edwards – actor (1962).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Daiquiri Day, National Hot Dog Day, National Flitch Day, National Urban Beekeeping Day, National Football Day, Stick Your Tongue Out Day, Take Your Poet to Work Day, National Words with Friends Day
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Culinary Adventure in Natchitoches, Louisiana
Hawt Diggity Dawgs!
Pro Football Hall of Fame
CELEBRATE THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2023
“Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.” Sir Edmund Hillary (July 20, 1919 – January 11, 2008)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Alexander the Great – Macedonian king and conqueror of Persia (356 BC), Sir Edmund Hillary – mountaineer and explorer (1919), Natalie Wood – actress (1938), Carlos Santana – guitarist (1947), Billy Mays – pitchman (1958).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Moon Day, National Fortune Cookie Day, National Lollipop Day, National Ugly Truck Contest Day, Space Exploration Day, World Jump Day, Women’s Union Establishment Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Dessert by the Light of the Moon
Billy Yfantis – Birds in Space Album
CELEBRATE FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Jean Picard – astronomer (1620), Sam Bass – train robber and outlaw (1851), Johnny Evers – baseball player (1881), Ernest Hemingway – writer, Nobel laureate (1899), Kay Starr – singer (1922), Don Knotts – actor (1924), Robin Williams – comedian/actor (1951), Jon Lovitz – comedian (1957).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Junk Food Day, Comic Con, National Be Someone Day, Invite an Alien to Live with You Day, Legal Drinking Age Day, National Craft for Local Shelters Day, No Pet Stores Puppy Day, National Lamington Day, Racial Harmony Day, Take a Monkey to Lunch Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Hemingway’s Havanna
Welcome to the Conch Republic!
Finding Hemingway
CELEBRATE SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2023
“Be the best designer of your own destiny.” Oscar De La Renta (July 22, 1932 – October 20, 2014)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Karl Menninger – psychiatrist (1893), Amy Vanderbilt – author (1908), Orson Bean – film actor (1928), Oscar De La Renta – fashion designer (1932), Terence Stamp – actor (1939), Alex Trebek – game show host (1940), George Clinton – musician (1941), Bobby Sherman – singer and actor (1943), Danny Glover – actor (1946), Don Henley – musician, Eagles (1947), Willem Dafoe – actor (1955), Rob Estes – actor (1964), David Spade – actor and comedian (1964).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Hammock Day, National Day of the Cowboy, Mango Day, National Penuche Fudge Day, Pi Approximation Day, Spoonerism Day, Toss Away the “Could Haves” & “Should Haves” Day, World Brain Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Rex Allen the Arizona Cowboy of Willcox
Cowboy Wisdom
DeGrazia’s Cowboys
Cowboy Quesadillas
Mango Jalapeno Jam Day
Summer BBQ Season
CELEBRATE SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2023
“You either get life or you don’t, and if you don’t – life gets you.” (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Georges V. Matchabelli – perfumer (1885), Bert Convy – game show host and performer (1933), Don Drysdale – baseball player (1936), Ronny Cox – actor (1938), Woody Harrelson – actor (1961) Eriq La Salle – actor (1962), Philip Seymour Hoffman – actor (1967), Marlon Wayans – actor (1972), Monica Lewinsky – White House intern (1973).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Gorgeous Grandma Day, Hot Enough For Ya Day, National Parents’ Day, International Yada Yada Yada Day, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Day, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, Sprinkles Day.
PARKS & PLACES: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Indiana (1966)
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
Spicy Grilled Pineapple Over Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Chocolate Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie
