Thrilled to confirm that Nate Longshore -- the last Cal QB to take us to a 10-win season -- will be our featured guest in a coming episode! Hit us up with any questions you'd like us to ask! GO BEARS!!!

Aldous Huxley, author of the novel "Brave New World" and Visiting Professor at Cal, 1962-63, was born July 26, 1894. At Berkeley, Huxley gave his famous "The Ultimate Revolution" lecture, predicting a near future of entire societies living happily brainwashed into subservience.

Here is a link to Aldous Huxley's full "The Ultimate Revolution" lecture, given at Cal on March 20, 1962, in which he discussed his concern that the "fantasy" of the world he created in "Brave New World" would become reality: youtube.com/watch?v=2WaUkZ…

Map of route taken by The Axe on April 15, 1899 (Though I believe this drawing itself it’s from a magazine from 1951)

Cal football commercial, 2025 Made by me #GoBears #Calgorithm

A view of Northside from the Berkeley hills in 1904. The trees at left are on the northern edge of campus.

Did Amy Trask really go toe-to-toe with an enraged Al Davis only two weeks into her job? Watch part two of our conversation with the "Princess of Darkness" here: youtu.be/ek2YjqUu-OI Share us with ALL your Cal friends: TellTheWholeDamnWorld.com⁠ We are the podcast for Golden

Charles H. Townes, Nobel laureate and Professor of Physics 1967-2015, was born July 28, 1915. He pioneered the laser, making possible everything from supermarket scanners to astronomical measurements, and led a team that discovered the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Professor Townes also directed the NASA science advisory committee for the Apollo lunar landing program, among many other achievements. As Professor Emeritus at age 98, he was still coming to his campus office daily to continue his work.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/us/…

Howard P. Grant, Class of 1948, was born July 28, 1925. Grant was the first African-American civil engineering graduate of Cal and first Black member of the Society of Professional Engineers. He devoted his life to increasing opportunities for aspiring Black engineers nationwide.

This photo showed up on my phone this evening. What a treat to talk story with three legends, in Gare Territory, a few years ago.

Sather Gate under construction in 1909. What is now Sproul Plaza was then still part of Telegraph Avenue and Sather Gate was built to be the formal southern entrance to campus.

The Japanese Students Club was founded at Cal on July 30, 1913. Below: the Club's headquarters and residence on Euclid Avenue and photos of the membership from the 1924 Blue & Gold Yearbook.