5 Oct 2026
10 5 26 More Monday Mayhem
🎙️ DAWACK IN DA MORNING
Monday, October 5, 2026
Monday has returned, and apparently nobody did anything over the weekend to stop it.
Zack Da Wack fires up the Nut Hut for another overloaded Monday edition featuring teachers who deserve hazard pay, wrestlers you probably shouldn't randomly kiss, rock & roll history, bizarre news, questionable facts, horrible horoscopes and enough stupidity to make you reconsider leaving the house.
🎉 DAWACK HOLIDAY ROUNDUP
Today we're celebrating World Teachers' Day, National Do Something Nice Day, National Apple Betty Day, World Habitat Day, World Architecture Day, Child Health Day, National Kiss a Wrestler Day, National Military Podcast Day and National Get Funky Day.
Still waiting on National Washed-Up Radio Guy Screaming Into an RE320 From a Nut Hut Day.
⚰️ NOTABLE DEATHS
Remembering Dick Butkus, Steve Jobs, Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Kendricks and Tupperware inventor Earl Tupper.
Forty-three years later, we're still trying to figure out which damn lid fits which container.
🎂 BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to Steve Miller, Brian Johnson, Karen Allen, Bob Geldof, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Kate Winslet and Travis Kelce.
Also born October 5: Bernie Mac, Larry Fine, Ray Kroc, Robert Goddard and President Chester A. Arthur.
📜 THIS DAY IN HISTORY
The Dalton Gang's disastrous double-bank robbery, the first World Series radio broadcast, Laura Ingalls' transcontinental flight, Harry Truman's first televised White House address, Earl Warren becoming Chief Justice, the bombing of Clinton High School, Monty Python's Flying Circus premiering, Laurie Skreslet reaching Everest and Marc Garneau becoming the first Canadian in space.
🎸 THIS DAY IN MUSIC
A monster October 5:
The Beatles release “Love Me Do.”Johnny Cash gets busted with pills in his guitar case.The Jimi Hendrix Experience comes together.Led Zeppelin III arrives.Elton John releases Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.Olivia Newton-John hits #1.The original Wailers reunite for their final performance together.Queen begins its controversial Sun City run.Mötley Crüe secretly plays the Whisky as The Foreskins.Guns N' Roses takes Use Your Illusion II to #1.
Plus Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Kelly Clarkson, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter make chart history.
📺 TV & MOVIE ANNIVERSARIES
October 5 brought us Gilmore Girls and Reba, along with Training Day, Serendipity, A Star Is Born, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Ten Commandments.
🐂 SHOOTING THE shit
New movies include Digger, Verity and Rolling Loud.
Plus: methane-tracking satellites, Florida possibly coming after Crocs, AI at the McDonald's drive-thru, questionable AI healthcare, Hollywood unemployment and other reasons civilization may have peaked sometime around 1987.
🚙 ROAD RAGE TO ROAD R&R
The 2026 Lincoln Navigator Reserve can turn itself into a parked mini-spa with massage, scents, sounds and meditation.
Six different relaxation experiences.
My car has one:
“Check Engine.”
🏖️ THE GREAT WORK ESCAPE
A new retirement survey finds 42% of retirees left work earlier than expected, while more than half say they'd retire immediately if they hit the lottery.
Forget counting down the years.
We're counting down the Mondays.
🤪 STUPID NEWS
A fake AI crocodile sends Singapore authorities on a real search.
A Texas driver allegedly crashes into a Kroger because he desperately needs the bathroom.
A monkey reportedly raises hell inside a Spirit Halloween.
Government robot dogs get hellhound-inspired names.
Comedy Wildlife Photography finalists prove animals are just as ridiculous as we are.
And a driver encounters an unexpected parade of foxhounds.
Humanity remains undefeated.
📱 FUNNIEST TWEETS FROM WOMEN
Messy bedrooms, terrible drivers, exhausted aunties, Texas chainsaw massacres, horrifying deep-sea discoveries, accidental one-year-old cat adopters, useless printers, Wilson Phillips and environmentally conscious seagull strangling.
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