5 8 26 Coke, Comets & No-Sock Nonsense

Show NotesCoke, Comets & No-Sock Nonsense

It’s Friday, May 8th, 2026, and DaWack in da Morning is rolling into the weekend with soda, pie, donkeys, movie disasters, music history, weird facts, questionable footwear, and the official no-bologna DaWack Horriblescopes.

In this episode, Zack Da Wack celebrates a packed holiday lineup, including National Have a Coke Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day, National No Socks Day, World Donkey Day, Victory in Europe Day, World Ovarian Cancer Day, Iris Day, National Knock Out Rose Day, and Free Trade Day. It’s the only holiday list where soda, pie, flowers, donkeys, global commerce, and bare ankles all somehow end up in the same room.

Then it’s time for the May 8 birthday list, featuring David Attenborough turning 100, plus Toni Tennille, Philip Bailey, Alex Van Halen, Melissa Gilbert, Darren Hayes, Enrique Iglesias, Domhnall Gleeson, Olivia Culpo, and shout-outs to Don Rickles and Harry Truman. Expect candles, classic stars, falsettos, Van Halen drums, and enough birthday energy to make the cake file for hazard pay.

The show also remembers notable May 8 deaths, including Dana Plato, Eddy Arnold, Roy Horn, and Fred Ward — with the usual DaWack mix of respect, nostalgia, and just enough edge to keep the room awake.

In movies, May 8 brings Hot Pursuit, Deep Impact, Star Trek, and another Hot Pursuit, proving Hollywood has given this date vacation disasters, giant comets, space reboots, buddy-comedy chaos, and Morgan Freeman as the calmest possible president during the end of the world.

This Day in Music History takes us through The Supremes, Sam Cooke, The Guess Who, The Beatles releasing Let It Be, The Jackson 5 releasing ABC, Carole King, John Sebastian, Steve Miller Band, Vangelis, Aerosmith, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. That’s Motown, soul, rock, pop, TV themes, slow-motion running music, scarf-screaming, and syllables moving faster than your closed captions.

Plus, Zack gets into Shooting the Bull, including Chanel’s barely-there sandals, strange “Goblin Gossip,” animal-inspired dating labels, money-saving tips, a cruise ship with a floating theme park, whack facts, bad reasons to allow drinking at work, and the kind of comedy bits that make Human Resources quietly close their laptop.

And finally, the stars get dragged back into court with the official DaWack in da Morning Horriblescopes for Friday, May 8th, 2026 — where Taurus wants snacks and silence, Gemini turns conversation into a customer-service incident, Scorpio becomes a locked drawer with feelings, Sagittarius risks becoming evidence, and Aries enters the day like a workplace weather event.

Soda, coconut cream pie, no socks, donkeys, birthday candles, Deep Impact, Star Trek, Beatles history, goblin gossip, cruise ship regret, questionable life choices, and Friday horoscopes with absolutely no emotional support from the universe.

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