May The Fourth Be With You! Welcome to May 4, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate epic movies and fancy birds. Male birds tend to be more beautiful than their female companions. And there’s a reason. In the bird world, the female chooses her mate based on how he woos her—and this involves catching her eye. Take, the Costa’s Hummingbird, who puts on an elaborate aerial show in front of the lady he’s courting. Twisting and turning and doing mid-air tricks, he shows off his radiant green body in the hopes that she’ll want him. But then he has to pull off the big finale: puffing out the plumes on his head to look like a big purple dandelion. And even then, she might shrug and fly away. Suddenly, swiping right doesn’t seem like such a big deal, does it? On Bird Day celebrate the eye-catching dance rituals that you thankfully don’t have to pull off yourself. A long time ago, in a decade far, far away…well, a few decades away…1977 to be exact. We all know the story; George Lucas created Star Wars and movie going has never been the same. Wookies and droids, the Empire and the Rebellion, we love the franchise but…where would we be without those iconic sounds? Ben Burtt was Lucas’ sound designer and is responsible for most of the sounds such as blasters and lightsabers but how did he do it in the age before computers? Imagination, trial and error! Burtt tapped a high tension wire with a mallet to get that laser blaster noise. For the lightsaber he waved a microphone in front of a speaker playing electronic noise and recorded the sounds he created. On National Star Wars Day, grab the popcorn and don’t forget to thank Ben Burtt for the most iconic sounds of all time. I’m Anna Devere and I’m John McClain.  Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day.