Thursday, August 20, 2026, brings us National Bacon Lovers Day.

Today’s journey includes a composer unimpressed by his own future blockbuster, a message that outraced expectations, and a professional sports empire born between automobiles.

Today we explore the wonderfully excessive 1812 Overture, a telegram that circled Earth in sixteen and a half minutes, and the humble car-showroom beginnings of the NFL.

Along the way, we meet H.P. Lovecraft and explore both the cosmic horror he unleashed and the disturbing prejudice embedded in his complicated legacy.

Once people embrace a creation, even its creator can’t control what it eventually becomes.