Weir stories, pop up Jimeo and the invisible hand in popular culture + this day in history w/Bush’s final presser and our song of the day by Moon Walker on your #MorningMonarchy for January 16, 2026.
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“Everything’s Fine” and the #BestOf2025 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/best-of-2025/
#PumpUpThaVolume: Winter 2026 ♬ These are those new (and classic) songs you’ve heard on Media Monarchy this season ♬
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yvrUIAtKyYnJK7UNBWs7M
#NewWorldNextWeek: US Withdraws From the UN’s Globalist Scam! + Entering Public Domain & Abandoning Digital ID
https://x.com/shartstorm8d8/status/2011981247065493791
Video: Stephen A. Smith: “We saw Charlie Kirk catch 8 receptions for 144 yards…I apologize. Oh my God. Christian Kirk” (Audio)
https://x.com/breaking911/status/2011124064169971747 // https://x.com/AERTIME/status/2011134498264535328
Video: J.T. Sexkik – “how is prangent formed” (Audio)
Digital Single
YouTube – Oct. 20, 2016
*J.T. Sexkik – “how is prangent formed” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg // https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/yahoo-answers-shutting-down-pregnant-video-interview.html // A glimpse into the wonderful world of Yahoo! Answers. Song is Curley Shirley by Otto Sieben.*
Soccer reportedly overtakes baseball as America’s third-most popular sport
https://www.goal.com/en/lists/soccer-reportedly-overtakes-baseball-in-the-u-s-as-america-s-third-favorite-sport/bltb6a9c6c1335c1d85
New Mexico Prosecutors Talk Timothy Busfield Child Sex Abuse Case
https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/15/timothy-busfield-child-sex-abuse-case-updates-new-mexico-prosecutors/
Melissa Gilbert Bought ‘Christmas Gifts’ for Husband Timothy Busfield’s Alleged Child Victims, Arrest Warrant States; Busfield is facing an arrest warrant tied to two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse.
https://x.com/typocatcav2/status/2010080248038338714
Brittany Furlan Files Restraining Order Against Ronnie Radke
https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/12/brittany-furlan-restraining-order-ronnie-radke/
Nick Reiner Believes He’s the Victim of a Conspiracy After Parents’ Murder
https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/09/nick-reiner-doc-victim-of-conspiracy-belief/
TK Carter, ‘The Thing’ & ‘Space Jam’ actor, dies at 69
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/tk-carter-the-thing-space-jam-actor-dies-at-69/ar-AA1TXCOv
Image: The last photo of Bob Weir taken at a mall in Pasadena, CA. mocking John Mayer. The man was a legend. RIP Bob
https://fixupx.com/madhousemag2016/status/2010182329323663872
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78; His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution.
https://archive.is/nkixh
Video: Remembering the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjO7UGHeyCE
The Grateful Dead – “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)” (Vinyl // Audio)
‘The Grateful Dead’
Warner Bros. – Mar. 17, 1967
*The Grateful Dead – “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)” (Vinyl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jIVt-0L_3Y // https://www.discogs.com/release/18965026-The-Grateful-Dead-The-Grateful-Dead // https://genius.com/The-grateful-dead-the-golden-road-to-unlimited-devotion-lyrics // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grateful_Dead_(album) // https://search.brave.com/search?q=The+Grateful+Dead+%E2%80%93+The+Grateful+Dead+1967+best+weir+guitar // https://mediamonarchy.com/20240626morningmonarchy/ // Bob Weir’s primary guitar during the early years of The Grateful Dead, including their 1967 debut album, was a cherry red 1965 Gibson ES-335. Prior to settling on his signature instrument in the 1970s that defined his sound during that era, Weir briefly played a Rickenbacker 365 and a Guild Starfire IV during the band’s formative period. The Gibson ES-335 is prominently featured in footage from ‘The Grateful Dead Movie’ (filmed in October 1974) and was central to his rhythm guitar style on tracks from their 1967 self-titled debut, such as “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)”. Gifted by Satya!*
Tom Cherones, Emmy-Winning ‘Seinfeld’ Director and Producer, Dies at 86; The Alabama native set the visual tone for the “show about nothing” during its first five seasons, then called the shots for ‘Ellen,’ ‘NewsRadio’ and other sitcoms.
https://archive.is/cXUxY
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90; His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”
https://archive.is/a6LFh
Did Anyone Even Notice ‘PBS News Weekend’ Signed Off Permanently…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/did-anyone-actually-notice-pbs-news-weekend-signed-permanently
Video: Due to federal budget cuts, PBS News had to make the difficult decision to rework our staffing and programming. This Sunday, our PBS News Weekend team will sign off the air. (Audio)
https://x.com/NewsHour/status/2009777061783588876
Good news, everyone! If people like your work, they’ll support it. https://mediamonarchy.com/support
https://x.com/mediamonarchy/status/2011999157243035786
New Film Adaptation Of ‘1984’ To Feature Big Brother As The Good Guy (Jan. 12, 2024)
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/2011258001076715693 // https://babylonbee.com/news/new-film-adaptation-of-1984-to-feature-big-brother-as-the-good-guy
Kpop Demon Hunters Wins Best Original Song at 2026 Golden Globes; The chart-topping single beat tracks by Miley Cyrus, Nick Cave, Raphael Saadiq, and Stephen Schwartz
https://pitchfork.com/news/kpop-demon-hunters-golden-wins-best-original-song-at-2026-golden-globes/
Image: Marvin Gaye did not have a single clue what was going on in the world lmaooooo
https://x.com/KiranTheNomad/status/2010800662398058985
‘Bully’ album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_(album)
Pop-Up Video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Up_Video
Video: The History of VH1’s Pop Up Video (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQnaHTyCvXk
Krowe – “Damocles x All Star (Shrek Token)” (Audio)
Digital Single
YouTube – May 8, 2025
*Krowe – “Damocles x All Star (Shrek Token)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js9HAqavpCo // https://mediamonarchy.com/20250523pumpupthavolume/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/best-of-2025/ // “Sounded funny in my head so decided to make it happen lol.” From the remixer that brought us the #BestOf2025 hit remix of Sleep Token x “Careless Whisper”!*
Did anyone else notice? Anybody else notice how mariah avoided talking about her stylist from 1999 tonja twist and the song twister in the book? She talked about glitter as a whole but for those who don’t know tonja twist took her own life. Twister was about Tonja.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MariahCarey/comments/17yzzau/did_anyone_else_notice/?rdt=64766
#BookSmarts/Image: Inscription inside my used copy of ‘The Invisible Hand In Popular Culture’
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/invisiblehand_inscription.jpg
#BookSmarts: ‘The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV’ By Paul A. Cantor
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-invisible-hand-in-popular-culture-liberty-vs-authority-in-american-film-and-tv_paul-a-cantor/10045461/
#BookSmarts/Book Review: ‘The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture,’ Paul Cantor
https://www.independent.org/tir/2013-summer/the-invisible-hand-in-popular-culture/
#BookSmarts/Video: “Have Gun Will Travel” – Official H&I Channel Commercial – WIDESCREEN Version (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSQ_re6h05A
#BookSmarts/Video: 1995 Have Gun Will Travel video collection TV commercial (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXACNXDElUA
#BookSmarts/Video: 80s commercial – “Philadelphia Cream Cheese” (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9-xNUiPhE
#BookSmarts: Elton John – “Philadelphia Freedom” (PNAU Remix // Audio)
‘Sherlock Gnomes’
Mercury – May 4, 2018
*Elton John – “Philadelphia Freedom” (PNAU Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYxBvoziTw // Philadelphia Cream Cheese – SPREAD IT ON!*
#BookSmarts/Cover Image: Invisible Hand’s ‘Core Values’
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20260116_MorningMonarchy.jpg // https://sillylines.art/ // https://ko-fi.com/sillylines
#ThisDayInHistory: Media Monarchy – Episode107: Bush’s Final Press Conference: “Things Didn’t Go According To Plan’ (Jan. 16, 2009 // Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/media-monarchy-episode107/
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: #January16 w/Sleaford Mods, James Hunter Six, Courtney Marie Andrews, Rebecca Bangfield, Madison Beer, HUNNY, Julianna Barwick x Mary Lattimore, Tragic Magic, Eddie Allen’s Rhythm People + Reissues & comps w/’So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967-1973′ & Billy Squier’s 1976 hard rock/power pop underground classic, Piper! ♬
https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20260116
Moon Walker – “The List” (Audio)
Digital Single
Moon Walker – October 3, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Moon Walker – “The List” https://youtu.be/NvxOdGwMe34 // https://www.listentomoonwalker.com // Brooklyn-based indie-rocker, Moon Walker, has generated over 600k views on YouTube with his song concerning a certain list that contains the name of a popular orange-haired politician! Available now as an independent release via the artist.*