BIG WEEKLY BLEND PODCAST: SUPERMAN & MONKEYS, BOURBON & BEER, CAKE, KITCHEN KLUTZES & KISSES!
Enjoy Big Blend Radio’s new BIG WEEKLY BLEND podcast with this episode covering June 11-17, 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, celebrate, and honor this week’s holidays & observances, birthdays & birth anniversaries, and more!
MUSIC PLAY LIST
This eclectic playlist features over 40 songs that celebrate week’s holidays, observances, and birth anniversaries as listed below!
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CELEBRATE SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – Sept. 3, 1970)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: John Constable – painter (1776), Richard Strauss – composer and conductor (1864), Jacques-Yves Cousteau – explorer (1910), Vince Lombardi – football coach (1913), William Styron – author (1925), Athol Fugard – playwright (1932), Gene Wilder – actor (1933), Peter Bergman – actor (1953), Joe Montana – Hall of Fame football player (1956), Hugh Laurie – actor (1959).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Children’s Day, National Cancer Thriver Day, National Making Life Beautiful Day, Race Unity Day, National Corn on the Cob Day, and National German Chocolate Cake Day.
PARKS & PLACES: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (June 11, 1940).
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– Elote Corn on the Cob Recipe
– Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
– Kwame Binea – Roots, Rock & Universal Love
– Kelly Skolada – A Way Back to Health
– Theresa Brown – Healing
– Rebecca Whitehead Munn – All of Us Warriors
CELEBRATE MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2023
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank (June 12, 1929)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: David Rockefeller – banker (1915), George H. W. Bush – 41st President of the United States (1924), Vic Damone – singer (1928), Anne Frank – diarist and Holocaust victim (1929), Jim Nabors – actor (1930), Chick Corea – musician (1941).
HOLIDAYS & OBERVANCES: National Red Roses Day, National Superman Day, National Loving Day, Child Labor Day, Pulse Night of Remembrance, Eat Flexitarian Day, National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, International Falafel Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– Singer/Songwriter Nicki Kris
– Donna’s Country-style Peanut Butter Cookies
– School Lunch Peanut Butter Bars
CELEBRATE TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2023
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: William Butler Yeats – writer, Nobel laureate (1865),Red Grange – Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback (1903), Paul Lynde – actor (1926), Malcolm McDowell – actor (1943), Tim Allen – comedian and actor (1953), Ally Sheedy – actress (1962), Mary Kate and Askley Olsen – actresses.
HOLIDAYS & OBERVANCES: National Sewing Machine Day, National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day, National Weed Your Garden Day, Random Acts of Light Day, World Softball Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– Kitchen & Bar Tricks with Bob
– Best & Worst Cookware
– Straw Bale Gardens Complete
CELEBRATE WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 2023
“I want to be notorious rather than famous. Fame has too much responsibility. People forget you are human.” Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia (June 14, 1909 – September 17, 1982)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529), John Bartlett – editor and compiler (1820), Alois Alzheimer – pathologist and psychiatrist (1864), Harriet Beecher Stowe – author (1811), Burl Ives – musician (1909), Ted DeGrazia – artist (1909), Dorothy McGuire – actress (1916), Gene Berry – actor (1921), Eric Arthur Heiden – Olympic gold medal speed skater (1958), Boy George – singer (1961), Yasmine Bleeth – actress (1968), Stephanie Maria Graf – tennis player (1969).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: National Strawberry Shortcake Day, National Bourbon Day, Flag Day, Army Birthday, International Bath Day, Monkey Around Day, National New Mexico Day, National Pop Goes The Weasel Day.
PARKS & PLACES: 2ND California State Parks Week – June 14-18, 2023.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– The Life & Art of Ted DeGrazia
– Celebrate California State Park Week
– New Mexico Bed & Breakfast Destinations
– Karl Raitz – Kentucky’s Bourbon Country
– Military Monday’s with Army Veteran Mike Guardia
CELEBRATE THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2023
“Honesty is something you can’t wear out.” Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Nicolas Poussin – French painter (1594), Edvard Grieg – composer (1843), David Rose – songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (1910); Lash La Rue – actor (1917); Waylon Jennings – singer (1937), Harry Nilsson – singer and composer (1941); James Belushi – actor (1954); Wade Boggs – Hall of Fame baseball player (1958); Helen Hunt – actress (1963); Courteney Cox – actress (1964); Leah Remini – actress (1971); Neil Patrick Harris – actor (1973).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Global Wind Day, Smile Power Day, Nature Photography Day, Sneak A Kiss, National Prune Day, World Tapas Day, Beer Day Britain.
PARKS & PLACES: Arkansas Statehood (June 15, 1836), Great Smoky Mountains National Park (June 15, 1934)
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– US Wind Inc. Offshore Wind Energy
– Hiking the Great Smoky Mountains
– A Visit to Hot Springs National Park
– Beer Me Album – Kevin Fischer
– Beer & Outdoor Adventures in Asheville, NC
– Brewmance Documentary
CELEBRATE FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2023
“You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.” Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Mary Katharine Goddard – printer and publisher (1738), Geronimo – Apache leader (1829), Stan Laurel – actor and comedian (1890), Erich Segal – author (1937), Joan Van Ark – actress (1943), Laurie Metcalf – actress (1955).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Arborist Appreciation Day, International Waterfall Day, World Sea Turtle Day, National Fudge Day, Fresh Veggies Day, National Take Back the Lunch Break Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– What’s Your Tree Equity Score?
– Waterfall Bliss in Columbia River Gorge
– Texas State Aquarium’s Wildlife Rescue Center
– Choosing Fruits & Vegetables
CELEBRATE SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2023
“Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.” Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904– November 29, 1991)
BIRTHDAYS & BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES: Giovanni Paolo Pannini – painter and architect (1691), Charles Gounod – composer (1818); Igor Stravinsky – composer (1882), M. C. Escher – artist (1898), Sammy Fain – popular music composer (1902), Ralph Bellamy – actor (1904), Red Foley – musician (1910), John Hersey – novelist (1914), Barry Manilow – musician (1943), George S. Clinton – composer and musician (1947), Joe Piscopo – actor/comedian (1951), Thomas Haden Church – actor (1960), Greg Kinnear – actor (1963).
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Bunker Hill Day, Global Garbage Man Day, International Surfing Day, National Dog Dad Day, National Mascot Day, World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, World Juggling Day, National Eat Your Vegetables Day.
PODCASTS, ARTICLES, RECIPES & PUZZLES:
– Summer BBQ with Melissa’s Produce
– Mike’s Mighty Mediterranean Chopped Salad
– Summer Harvest Bowls
– Priscilla’s Got Style – Love Your Parks Tour Mascot
