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🎙️ DAWACK IN DA MORNING Friday, October 2, 2026

It's Payday! It's Bonus Day! YAY!

Friday has finally arrived, and Zack Da Wack is back behind the mic with another professionally questionable edition of DaWack in da Morning.

Today we're celebrating everything from smiles and fried scallops to Charlie Brown's 76-year inability to recognize an obvious football scam.

Then we're digging into birthdays, dead celebrities, history, music, weird news from around the world and another round of Friday Horriblescopes guaranteed to provide absolutely no useful guidance whatsoever.

🎉 HOLIDAY ROUNDUP

It's World Smile Day, National Name Your Car Day, National Custodial Workers Day, National Fried Scallops Day, World Farm Animals Day, International Day of Non-Violence and Audiophile Day.

Plus, Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950.

Charlie Brown has been trying to kick that damn football for 76 years.

At this point, Charlie, it's on you.

🎂 BIRTHDAYS

Birthday cake today for:

Sting • Don McLean • Kelly Ripa • Donna Karan • Tiffany • Jim Root • Phil Oakey • Brittany Howard

Plus legendary October 2 birthdays including Groucho Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Annie Leibovitz and Richard III.

🪦 DEAD PEOPLE OF THE DAY

We remember:

Tom Petty • Rock Hudson • Gene Autry • Samuel Adams • Tom Clancy • Marcel Duchamp

One of them put a urinal in an art gallery and called it art.

Somewhere, a plumber is still pissed off.

📜 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

We're heading back through the time machine for:

1780 — Benedict Arnold's co-conspirator Major John André is executed as a spy.

1835 — The Battle of Gonzales helps kick off the Texas Revolution.

1950 — Peanuts debuts.

1958 — Guinea declares independence from France.

1959 — The Twilight Zone premieres.

1962 — Johnny Carson begins his legendary run on The Tonight Show.

1967 — Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.

🎸 THIS DAY IN MUSIC

October 2 brings us:

🎵 Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs — “Stay”

🎛️ Phil Spector launches Philles Records

❤️ Bonnie Tyler — “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

💰 Robbie Williams signs his massive EMI deal

🎸 Remembering Tom Petty

Meanwhile, DaWack is still waiting for enough streaming royalties to buy a McChicken.

📺 MOVIES & TV

October 2 also brought us:

Scrubs — 2001
The Mighty Ducks — 1992
A Night at the Roxbury — 1998
Emily in Paris — 2020

🤪 STUPID NEWS

Because normal news is depressing.

🐦 An escaped emu leads police on a two-hour chase.

🎮 A 78-year-old grandmother becomes a record-setting Fortnite streamer.

🐻 Fat Bear Week returns.

🐏 Ohio authorities deal with a loose ram.

👩‍🚒 A 4-foot-10 firefighter earns a Guinness World Record.

🦸 And a real-life Spider-Man helps a wheelchair user cross a busy intersection.

Just another perfectly normal week on planet Earth.

🔮 FRIDAY HORRIBLESCOPES

The stars have once again reviewed your weekend plans...

…and they're disappointed.

We've got bad decisions for Libra through Virgo, including Facebook arguments, unanswered texts, Costco adventures, sweatpants, spreadsheets and at least one person pretending everything is “fine.”

Spoiler:

It is absolutely not fine.

☕ FRIDAY DAWACK THOUGHT

Remember:

You didn't waste the entire week.

There are still several hours left.

🎙️ DaWack in da Morning
Hosted by Zack Da Wack
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