Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Thursday.
Well, for some of you, you've been
waiting for this day
all year because it's Major League
Baseball's opening day.
And apparently one of the
long standing opening day rituals
is performed by the
fans of the Boston Red Sox.
And they sing the song "Sweet Caroline"
before the first pitch.
And even though the first
day of spring was last week
while we were off, the
start of the baseball season
definitely feels like spring is here.
Well, it's also
International Whiskey Day.
So, you know, I like that one.
And it's also National Scribble Day too.
Well, apparently Scribble
Day is all about celebrating
the creativity in the art
associated with scribbling.
So no matter your artistic abilities,
you can participate fully
in this stress
releasing act of scribbling.
Well, today's quote is
from Julia Roberts who said,
"I'm better for all the
things that have happened to me,
the good and the bad."
And that's a good outlook, right?
We are all the sum of our experiences.
And hopefully we're
just learning and growing
from all those experiences along the way.
Thanks, Julia.
Well, today's news facts and
birthdays are for March 27th.
And we're gonna start back in 1939.
And it's very
appropriate for this time of year.
On this day in 1939,
March Madness crowned
its very first men's NCAA champion.
Give you one second.
Do you have any idea who it is?
I had no clue.
It's the University of Oregon.
They defeated Ohio State,
the Ohio State University,
46 to 33.
Then on this day in 1952,
the musical "Singing in the Rain"
starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds,
it premiered at Radio City
Music Hall in New York City.
And then finally in 1975,
construction began on this day
on the Trans Alaska Pipeline.
Now that pipeline spans 800 miles
and it cost $8 billion to build.
But it only took two years to complete.
Well, happy birthday if
today is your birthday.
You share a birthday
with singer Jessie J.
She's 37 today.
Singer Fergie, she's 50 today.
Singer Mariah Carey, she's 56 today.
And lastly, director
Quentin Tarantino, he's 62.
And the number one movie
on this date back in 2001
was "The Mexican."
And this movie has an all-star cast
with James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt,
Gene Hackman, Julia Roberts,
all starring in this romantic comedy
about a guy traveling to Mexico
to retrieve a cursed
priceless pistol for his mob boss.
While his girlfriend tries to get him
to give up his criminal ways.
And interestingly, Julia Roberts,
she met her husband on
the set of this movie.
And it was not Brad Pitt.
She and Daniel Motor
are still married today.
Well, the number one song
on this date back in 1992
was "Save the Best for
Last" by Vanessa Williams.
And this love song
from my high school years
is about two lovers who
finally start a relationship
that one of them
always knew was meant to be.
Ah, "Young Love."
Well, this song had
two Grammy nominations,
but it lost out to Eric
Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"
for song of the year.
And I definitely saved my best for last,
but I had to wait
another 13 years for that one.
Anyways, let's move on
to some personal growth
in our book review segment here
before I send you on
your way for this Thursday.
We are in part four of Dale Carnegie's
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
And in this chapter,
which is chapter seven,
it's entitled, "Give a Dog a Good Name."
Carnegie is giving us insights
in how to get someone
to level up, if you will.
Or if their performance has backslidden,
how do we get them to step it up?
Well, Carnegie suggests we remind them
or give them a reputation to live up to.
Carnegie quotes
Samuel Vauclain, who said,
"The average person can be led readily
if you have his or her respect
and if you show that
you respect that person
for some kind of ability."
And Carnegie sums that up by saying,
if you want to improve a
person in a certain respect,
act as though that particular trait
were already one of his or her
outstanding characteristics.
End quote.
Shakespeare said it too.
He said, quote, "Assume a
virtue if you have it not."
End quote.
I could have said that in a Yoda voice
and said that Yoda said that and you
would have believed me.
But look, if you give
someone something respectable
about themselves that
they need to live up to,
more often than not, most people will
make a valiant effort
to hit those high marks rather than
to see you disappointed in them.
Well, join us again tomorrow
as we finish chapter seven,
give a dog a good name,
and we'll also learn
Carnegie's principle number seven.
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