6/26/62 @ 6:26 a.m.
Jun 28, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Happy Birthday, Mo.
- Speakers
Justin NewmanHost
Melissa Ford ThorntonHost
Jun 28, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Happy Birthday, Mo.
Justin NewmanHostMelissa Ford ThorntonHost
The sun rose at exactly 4:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, although as is typical with the June Gloom known in Southern California, the morning was slightly overcast.
There would be no rain that day, and the temperature would climb no higher than a comfortable 73 degrees.
The date was June 26th, 1962, a Tuesday, and like any other day, it had its stories.
I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles held the number one spot on the Billboard Top 100.
The film Hell Is for Heroes starring Stephen McQueen and Bobby Darin premiered in theaters.
Black residents in Cairo, Illinois, began a campaign of passive resistance and protests against local segregation, and Boston Red Sox pitcher Earl Wilson threw a no-hitter, defeating the Los Angeles Angels two to zero.
And there was one more story I have about that day, the opening chapter of a story rather.
A man named Roy and a woman named Sue, husband and wife, would see the first pages written.
Roy and Sue were not just husband and wife, they were also a mother and father.
With three boys already, they were well-versed in the roles, but on this Tuesday, they would welcome their last child, a girl.
Her birth certificate would list the details of her birth, born on 6/26/62 at 6:26 AM and weighing six pounds and two ounces.
Was this a coincidence, or was it actually, to use a phrase coined by the very child it happened to, an elegant dispute of the accidental? I think it was the latter, but that's because I know where the story that started that day would end up, right here, this moment, this dream, this very podcast.
The sun rose at exactly 4:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, although as is typical with the June Gloom known in Southern California, the morning was slightly overcast.
There would be no rain that day, and the temperature would climb no higher than a comfortable 73 degrees.
The date was June 26th, 1962, a Tuesday, and like any other day, it had its stories.
I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles held the number one spot on the Billboard Top 100.
The film Hell Is for Heroes starring Stephen McQueen and Bobby Darin premiered in theaters.
Black residents in Cairo, Illinois, began a campaign of passive resistance and protests against local segregation, and Boston Red Sox pitcher Earl Wilson threw a no-hitter, defeating the Los Angeles Angels two to zero.
And there was one more story I have about that day, the opening chapter of a story rather.
A man named Roy and a woman named Sue, husband and wife, would see the first pages written.
Roy and Sue were not just husband and wife, they were also a mother and father.
With three boys already, they were well-versed in the roles, but on this Tuesday, they would welcome their last child, a girl.
Her birth certificate would list the details of her birth, born on 6/26/62 at 6:26 AM and weighing six pounds and two ounces.
Was this a coincidence, or was it actually, to use a phrase coined by the very child it happened to, an elegant dispute of the accidental? I think it was the latter, but that's because I know where the story that started that day would end up, right here, this moment, this dream, this very podcast.
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