Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.
Oh, what a blast this morning for Toon's Day, and how could we not?
We were talking TV themes.
Gooby-Doo and The Greatest American Hero.
Both great.
This is Karen Karen, isn't it?
Yes,
it is.
All right.
Looking forward to Giving Tuesday today.
You're always taking donations, right?
Yes.
Yes, and you know they talk about giving till it hurts, but here's what you do.
Here's what you do.
You give till it hurts, then you give a little bit more, and it starts feeling good again.
Exactly.
That's my advice.
I
can do a shout out to...
to Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity.
Yes.
If you feel like giving, we're willing to take your money and help people out with it.
Right on.
Just go hold it, Karen.
Karen, she'll take care of you and take care of your donation.
Always give local.
Don't do the national one.
Indeed.
Yes.
Let's help Eastern Iowans first.
Exactly.
Well, Karen, Karen, thanks for bringing up Giving Tuesday and thank you for what you do.
Thank you.
And you keep on rockin'.
Good morning, Mr. Waters.
This is Vicki.
Well, Vicki, how are you?
You always sound very upbeat in the morning.
I love that
Yeah,
yeah, you've got the energy now so might as well use it for good, right?
That's
it.
That's it.
So what's your favorite theme Vicki?
That's paint it black, right?
Yeah, it's hard to go wrong with the stones Well, you go and you paint this town black because it's already gray.
So it's a good
start
Yeah, I don't... anyway.
On that cheerful note, Vicky, you have a great day.
You too, Vicky.
Thanks.
How about the theme song Star Trek?
Absolute classic.
And it's a very spacey theme for a very spacey show.
And I was just thinking, if they could figure out how to do Star Trek and Gears and Violin.
A TV show mashup.
I guess your spaceship wrecked they could have been spaceship wrecked yeah Gilligan's Island and Star Trek like Shatner's Planet or something You know what I'm gonna start writing that and I'm gonna send the screenplays or the teleplays off and see how that goes
Yeah,
you write the theme
song
Yeah, when your kids at the age of three and four say, mommy, don't sing it, her's my ears.
Yeah,
that totally excuses you, Ida.
Maybe we could do Gilligan's Island and substitute Shatner in there and Spock.
Or Kirk, I should say, Kirk's Island.
That's what it would be.
So Kirk and Spock and O'Hara and...
Um, McCoy?
McCoy?
Absolutely.
Instead of Gilligan and Skipper and Professor and Marianne and Ginger and the millionaire and his wife.
And he'll be the singer of
a new
song.
That would be
awesome.
Good morning, Mr. Water.
Good morning, good
morning,
good
morning.
How are you?
Oh, I'm doing great.
This is Dave and Epkins.
Dave!
Dave, how's Atkins this morning?
A little misty, a little foggy, not bad.
Hiawatha as well.
Hey, I've got some theme songs for you.
How many themes are we talking about?
Three.
Okay.
For whistling, it's gotta be the Antigrip of the show.
Can you name another whistling song?
No.
Yeah, I can't either.
I think, have you ever seen its Gary Shandling's show?
That's the name of the show, it's Gary Shandling's show.
No, I haven't.
It's a great theme, it's got words, and then I think they whistle in the middle of it.
But I mean Andy Griffin is the one you think of.
But
for my next one, I've got, for a singing song, it's got to be the Beverly Hill Village.
Yes.
What a great little diddy.
And everybody knows the words.
Even if you don't realize, you know the words, you do.
That's right.
You do.
Yep.
And for instrumental, it's got to be the Rockford
Files.
Oh yeah, that's a great one.
That's a great one.
That's,
that's pretty.
For those of my three.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think Rockford, Rockford Files is definitely one of my favorites.
It kind of is tied to Sanford and Sun.
I love the Sanford and Sun theme too.
Yeah.
That's a great trifecta of themes whistling, singing, and instrumentaling.
Thank you, sir.
No, thank you, sir, and have a great day.
You too.
How about happy days?
Happy days.
The old Haley's Comet.
Oh, so the Rock Around The Clock, because that was early happy days.
So Rock Around The Clock was your favorite of the theme songs that happy days had.
Yeah, that'd be right up there.
It started rock and roll, really.
Yeah.
So how can you not love that?
I liked the original one they came up with later.
I mean, it was no Rock Around The Clock, but Sunday, Monday, happy days.
Oh, yeah.
Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days.
Thursday, Friday, happy days.
Saturday.
What a day.
Well, I guess I kind of forgot about that.
Oh, yeah, you got to sing that every week because then you'll have a happy week if you Yeah
Howdy, howdy, howdy ho!
How are ya?
How are ya?
I'm doing really, really, really good and I'll give you one word because I call you this all the time.
I'll tip off my TV show, which is you are the professor.
Gilligan's Island.
Oh my gosh.
I grew up with that show.
I love that show and I love the theme song.
Yeah, it is a great one.
I mean, you know all of the words.
All the words.
Yeah, and they just did a study about the Gilligan's Island theme that there are a lot of
songs where you can sing those lyrics to.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, Stairway to Heaven, we'll Stairway to Heaven sung to the Gilligan's Island theme.
Yes, I think you played it one time.
Yeah, I did.
And that's how I heard it.
Otherwise, I'd have never heard it.
Okay.
That's why you are the professor.
Well...
You know, it's funny you say the professor because, and I've been thinking about this as I wash, my wife had waffles last night and poured, you know, had syrup on them and all that.
So, and when she was done, she put her glass on top of the plate and the glass was stuck to the plate.
Do you remember when they found syrup on the island and the professor puts together a raft glued together with this syrup?
Yes, I do.
I don't understand why he couldn't foresee that as soon as that got wet, that it would fall apart.
And it did.
Why is that?
Because, you know, I knew, well, in order to get this glass unstuck from the plate, I had to rinse the plate, run a little water on it, and boom, off.
So was he that smart if he couldn't tell that?
Absolutely.
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