March 30, 2026 • 01:00:01

Road Warrior Radio with Chris Hinkley, March 30, 2026 Hour 1

Another sunny Monday with Mitzi! Discussion ranges from the sunnier side of current events to Mitzi’s latest whereabouts and whatabouts.

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Thought for the Week: Swallow a live toad in the morning, and the day can’t get any worse.

Final Thought: Kindness is never wasted, even when it’s not returned – the world needs more of it than you realize. Stay generous with your attention, your time, and your heart, and watch it ripple in ways you can’t predict.

Julie’s Addendum: Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations!!

Links Clips Headlines Mentioned / Discussed On This Day Holidays Historical Events
  • 2023 – Key figures in Artificial Intelligence including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak sign an open letter warning the race to develop AI systems is out of control and asking for a suspension of at least six months
  • 2023 – Donald Trump: First fmr. POTUS indicted by a grand jury: A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, the first ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.
  • 2009 – President Obama announces auto industry shakeup: President Barack Obama issues an ultimatum to struggling American automakers General Motors (GM) and Chrysler: In order to receive additional bailout loans from the government, he says, the companies need to make dramatic changes in the way they run their businesses.
  • 1990 – Jack Nicklaus debuts on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain and wins the event by four strokes over Gary Player
  • 1984 – World’s most valuable tip: – New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of a $1 lottery ticket; the next day, they win $6 million, also inspire a popular romantic comedy starring Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda, It Could Happen To You (1994)
  • 1981 – Reagan assassination attempt: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot by CO2 flechette, according to John Judge. Read more here and here specifically.
  • 1981 – “Chariots of Fire” directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross and Ian Charleson premieres at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)
  • 1976 – Land Day: Thousands of Palestinians protest against Israel’s massive land expropriation: In the event, which is annually commemorated on Land Day, 6 protesters were killed and scores injured by Israeli police.
  • 1975 – Vietnam War neared its end, Communist forces occupied the city of Da Nang.
  • 1974 – The Ramones play their first public gig in Manhattan: the Ramones play their first New York City gig, launching a punk-rock revolution. Five months later, on August 16, the four young men from Forest Hills, Queens, would make their more famous “debut” on the New York music scene, at the CBGB bar—often (incorrectly) identified as their first performance.
  • 1974 – John Denver has his first #1 hit with “Sunshine On My Shoulders”: John Denver scores his first #1 song, “Sunshine On My Shoulders,” on March 30, 1974. He would go on to become one of the most popular singer-songwriters of the 1970s. “Sunshine On My Shoulders” was John Denver’s attempt to write a sad song, a big part of Denver’s broad appeal. “I was so down I wanted to write a feeling-blue song,” he told Seventeen magazine in 1974, “[but] this is what came out.”
  • 1972 – Northern Ireland’s government and parliament are dissolved by the British government, and direct rule from Westminster is introduced.
  • 1971 – Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle’s iconic Pike Place market with a single employee. The store sells high-quality roasted coffee beans, freshly brewed hot coffee and not much else. Founders Gerald Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, 20-something coffee lovers who met at the University of San Francisco, named their business “Starbucks” after the first mate from the novel Moby Dick. But, why did they choose the esoteric Melusine for the logo??
  • 1965 – Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon: A bomb explodes in a car parked in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, virtually destroying the building and killing 19 Vietnamese, two Americans, and one Filipino; 183 others were injured. Congress quickly appropriated $1 million to reconstruct the embassy.
  • 1964 – Jeopardy! is aired for the first time: The program, which is still on the air today, is one of the world’s most popular game shows.
  • 1949 – Robert Mitchum released after serving time for marijuana possession: Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there. In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles when detectives burst in and arrested him. Mitchum reportedly said at the time, “Well, this is the bitter end of everything—my career, my marriage, everything.”
  • 1948 – Henry Wallace criticizes Truman’s Cold War policies: Henry Wallace, former vice president and Progressive Party presidential candidate, lashes out at the Cold War policies of President Harry S. Truman. Wallace and his supporters were among the few Americans who actively voiced criticisms of America’s Cold War mindset during the late-1940s and 1950s.
  • 1939 – Batman debuts in comics: Detective Comics No. 27 appears on the nation’s newsstands, introducing the world to a new superhero, the Batman. Dated May 1939, the comic book featured the caped crusader on its cover, swooping through the air on a rope, while holding a bad guy in a headlock.
  • 1923 – Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived back in New York after a 130-day voyage.
  • 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • 1870 – 15th Amendment adopted: Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish.
  • 1867 – Alaska purchase ridiculed as “Seward’s Folly”: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million ($109M in 2018 dollars). Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
  • 1858 – Philadelphia inventor Hyman Lipman gets a patent for the first pencil with an attached eraser. Years later, the US Supreme Court erases the patent, ruling that combining two existing devices made Lipman’s invention unworthy of a patent.
  • 1856 – Treaty of Paris: The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War.
  • 1855 – Violence disrupts first Kansas election: In territorial Kansas’ first election, some 5,000 so-called “Border Ruffians” invade the territory from western Missouri and force the election of a pro-slavery legislature. Although the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters in the territory, Kansas Governor Andrew Reeder reluctantly approved the election to prevent further bloodshed.
  • 1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
  • 1822 – Florida became a United States territory.
  • 1814 – Napoleon’s forces defeated in Paris: European forces allied against Napoleonic France march triumphantly into Paris, formally ending a decade of French domination on the Continent. Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, seized control of the French state in 1800, and in 1804 was crowned emperor. By 1807, he controlled an empire that stretched across Europe.
  • 1775 – King George endorses New England Restraining Act: Hoping to keep the New England colonies dependent on the British, King George III formally endorses the New England Restraining Act on March 30, 1775. The New England Restraining Act required New England colonies to trade exclusively with Great Britain as of July 1.
Births
  • 1988 – Richard Sherman, NFL cornerback and a star player for the Seattle Seahawks 2011-2017. In 2013 he helped them win Super Bowl XLVIII. (38)
  • 1979 – Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter and pianist (47)
  • 1968 – Celine Dion, Canadian vocalist noted for power ballads like “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and the Oscar-winning “My Heart Will Go On.” (58)
  • 1964 – Tracy Chapman, Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter who scored bluesy hits with “Fast Car” and “Give Me One Reason.” (62)
  • 1962 – MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell), American rapper and actor (64)
  • 1956 – Paul Reiser, American actor and comedian (70)
  • 1945 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter (81)
  • 1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (89)
  • 1934 – Paul Crouch, American broadcaster, co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (died 2013)
  • 1930 – John Astin, American actor (96)
  • 1919 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (died 1996)
  • 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-Impressionist painter noted for bold colors and brushwork. Sold only one work before his death by suicide.
  • 1135 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (April 6 also proposed, d. 1204)
Deaths
  • 2020 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
  • 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (born 1968)
  • 2004 – Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist and author (born 1908)
  • 2002 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (born 1900)
  • 1986 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (born 1899)
  • 1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author, founder of Theosophy offshoot, Anthroposophy (born 1861)
  • 1908 – Chester Gillette, A Place in the Sun inspiration
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