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The Waters Wake Up Call with Mike Waters · Sun Jan 22, 2023
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How are you Mike waters from the waters wake up call I hope you're having a fantabulous weekend and what a week we had we had all the seasons last week we had summer with the tornado warnings and the touchdowns on Monday and then on Wednesday we had the winter weather and in between it was just kind of a gray hazy I don't know what it was some kind of Midwest purgatory weather purgatory or something something like that I don't know but I do know that
I do know we're gonna remember and reflect back on the week with the Oh, what am I calling this the the not the greatest but the best I could do from last week and I remember coming in on Monday and Monday was called Blue Monday It's the most depressing day of the year and I was extra depressed because I was still bummed about that Minnesota Vikings lost the day before losing the playoffs and out and you know after all the hopes this season they're all just
destroyed.
Well, thanks for having my back and a little sympathy for me.
Is that what that was?
I do have a dedication for you and some of my family members.
Okay.
Purple rain because of your vikings.
It was raining big time yesterday in Minneapolis.
God,
that was
just fine.
I lost a bet yesterday with the Vikings losing and I had to shave my head yesterday because they lost.
No way.
Yeah.
What kind of a bet was that?
Well, an old friend of mine has always had the nicest hair, and he was so sure the Vikings were gonna lose.
If the Vikings lose, you shave your head.
If they win, I'll shave my head.
You're on!
So, Mrs. Waters helped me yesterday.
Yeah,
I long for those days now.
Yes,
the purple rain...
that we had all season as far as you know raining supreme that was gone and it was just raining after that raining purple and I guess blue because it was blue Monday but but after I heard from trucker Ron I didn't feel so blue about my purple people now trucker Ron he has a reason to have the blues on blue
Monday
That sounds awful.
Oh well.
That's your immediate reaction.
Oh Shucks or whatever and then you think about it for a while.
Oh well, and then you just deal with it and move on
over $20,000 worth of dammy.
Oh
I know.
I let down a little bit and it bit me.
Oh, well.
Bye.
Yeah, when life bites you in the rear end like that, say, oh, well, and then you just move on.
Forget about it.
But I think we spent enough time being blue.
I think we should go from blue to loony.
That will lead us to Tuesday.
But before we do that, we're going to get into our hit and run headlines.
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It's going to be something and we'll do our hit and run.
and headlines
next.
The
royal family apparently wants to hold peace talks with Prince Harry and at this point even Russia and Ukraine are like, yeah, good luck with that.
Not much chance.
Missouri lawmakers will require women to cover their arms in the state house.
It's about time, respond in 1952.
So the Russian version of McDonald's is expanding into Kazakhstan, and they're introducing a new sandwich, the McGoat.
I don't think that'll be hitting the US anytime soon.
So food additives in bacon and sausage may cause type 2 diabetes.
In response, millions of Americans are like, totally worth it.
Come on, it's bacon.
A Colorado library was shut down due to meth contamination.
Of course, the easy joke is that this is something you'd expect in Arkansas, not Colorado, but that's not true.
There aren't any libraries in Arkansas.
Regular visits to green spaces are linked to lower use of prescription drugs for depression and anxiety, especially if the green in those spaces is cannabis.
That's right.
That's code word for cannabis, by the way, cannabis.
If a nuclear war breaks out, scientists say the safest place to hide is in the corner of a concrete building.
It's also the safest place to hide if you see Steve Bannon exiting a Taco Bell.
And by the way, the second safest place to go during a nuclear war if it breaks out next to the Corvette in President Biden's garage.
All right.
So today is National Thessaurus Day.
Isn't there a better name for it?
Isn't... can't they... I don't know.
China's population has fallen for the first time in over 60 years.
Their solution?
Offering Nick Cannon a talk show.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to make a very important announcement today.
Let me guess, he just saved 15% on his car insurance, right?
Right?
Putin?
Kim Kardashian met with inmates in California.
It was her chance to meet the worst society has to offer and for the inmates to do the same.
So the season three trailer for the Mandalorian premiered during the Cowboys game.
So like everything else, the Dallas, the Dallas kicker just totally missed it.
Totally missed it.
And finally today,
is National Winnie the Pooh Day.
Hopefully this is the year someone gives him a pair of stinking pants.
Cover up please.
Alright, that's all I got.
And on with toons day and I figured with the crazy week we've been having in the crazy world We're dealing with first of all we had the the tornadoes on Monday the winter weather on Wednesday and right in the middle there on toons day I thought we'd get a little Looney and light in the mood a little bit so we did Looney toons day and talked novelty
records
That
was one of my favorite.
I remember when I saw the commercial for the album Looney Tunes.
Maybe you remember that album when that came out.
I do.
It was the very first time I heard Hello Mudda Hello Fata and I had to have it.
So I asked for a record player and that record and I got them both for Christmas.
Well, I haven't been the same since.
Well, that explains a lot.
It does.
It was the song that made me get my first album and first record player.
That is fantastic.
What a great story.
There's one that hits more directly to Looney Tunes.
Kill the Wabbit.
Boy, if anything is the definition of a Looney Tune, it's gotta be that.
Kill the Wabbit, that's actually Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner, and it's what Robert Duvall is playing in the helicopters in Apocalypse Now when they go in, bomb that town.
Right.
I think Apocalypse Now would have been a lot better if they'd had Elmer Fudd's version while they were flying over and bombing with the helicopters.
We'd have enjoyed it more.
I think there should have at least been an outtake where they tried it, but it didn't quite work.
Yeah.
Well, you have a great day.
Thanks for getting Looney with me.
I guess we had Looney every day, but Toonsday leads to Wandom Wednesday.
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Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 157 KOKZ.
Yes, and sponsored by Wong Collision Center.
Well, there's a South Carolina vet.
He took down a man threatening people with a knife, and this was at a Walmart.
So this very recently Air Force veteran, Demario Davis, he was shopping at a Columbia Walmart with his son when he noticed a man armed with a knife threatening to cut employees and shoppers in the store.
So as this guy was yelling at a customer, Davis calmly walked behind him.
and picked up a stanchion, you know, like the ones used as line dividers, and struck the would-be assailant over the head, knocking him to the ground.
When the man fell, he dropped the knife and another bystander jumped in, grabbed it.
Davis and several other shoppers held the guy until police arrived a few minutes later.
And Davis later told reporters that his military training kicked in when he saw this guy threatening people in the store.
So he also said that as a member of the community, he felt it was his duty to step up and help when, you know, when you see stuff like that, just you should really step up and do what you can.
And Davis says that he's received lots of compliments for his active bravery, but he claims that anyone he knows would have done the same thing if they were in his position.
But still, not everybody would have done what he did.
But here's DeMario talking.
little bit about it.
If you have the heart in you I would suggest that just to try to save lives you know me like I said.
law enforcement can't do it all by themselves all the time.
They're not there.
If you're a concerned citizen and you see something happening, I would suggest you probably try to step up and help.
Those are very wise words.
Big shout out to Air Force veteran DeMario Davis.
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So we are up to Wandom Wednesday, and one of the things we talked about on Wandom Wednesday was National Thesaurus Day, so I thought we'd talk synonyms, and let me just say it was really nice to have Mrs. Waters call in.
What do you want me to say?
Well, it's National Synonym Day, so I was saying a little bit earlier that I'm always nervous when I say synonym on the radio.
I'm afraid I'll say cinnamon, and then I won't realize.
So are you trying to say cinnamon or cinnamon?
You said cinnamon bull-
times.
I did.
It's National Thesaurus Day and then I tried to say synonym cinnamon real fast five times and that's almost impossible.
Cinnamon, cinnamon, nope, I can't.
Cinnamon, cinnamon, nope.
Try, I would like to eat a cinnamon, synonym at the cinema this afternoon.
I would like to eat a cinnamon,
Well, you almost got
it.
It's hard.
Cinnamon, synonym at the cinema.
It is hard to say, especially really fast.
Cinnamon, synonym at the cinema.
Well, I guess I did it okay that time.
Usually I don't, but maybe because I've been practicing.
I don't know.
But anyway, Wanda Wednesday leads the throwback Thursday where we were talking about clicks we were involved in back in the day when we were going to school.
thought before we do that we'll do the five things you didn't know you needed to hear and I'm gonna give you the five best of the week and I'll do that right after this
this portion of the show is brought to you by the tone of voice in your head you know what I'm talking about in your mind when you're talking you sound like this but in reality your voice probably sounds more like this take a breath and think
before you spew.
He'll thank me later.
And I
thought I'd pick what I thought was the best of this past week.
Our first thing that you did not know you needed to hear, there was this animal activist that just totally went nuts on a woman who was legally, that's right, legally fishing, and this was in England, and this activist is going totally nuts on this woman.
And she was showing off a big fish when this lady interrupted her video.
And by the way, it's at a designated fishery and the woman did eventually release what she caught back into the water But again, this this lady is
nuts
Fisher rain!
People go fishing, darling.
I love when she asks,
wait, you're trying to kill it?
Well, she's fishing.
You know, usually you catch a fish and you gut it and you eat it.
That's what you do.
And you know what she should have done?
She should have gutted it and ate it right there in front of the lady.
That's what I think.
All right, that probably wouldn't have done much good.
But it would have been funny.
It would have been funny.
All right, moving on to the number two thing you didn't know you needed to hear.
So everybody knows the mini bars at hotels.
Real good way to burn all.
a whole paycheck on three beers and a bottle of water, right?
But have you seen this policy yet?
I want you to be on the lookout for this.
Somebody on the website Reddit posted a photo after they stayed at a Marriott in Florida, and there was a sign on the mini fridge that said they would be charged $50 if they put any of their own stuff in the fridge.
Here's what the note said, and I'm quoting, the refreshment center is on a sensor.
Use of the refreshment center for personal storage will automatically incur a $50 charge.
So in other words, it looks like they're now charging to make sure you don't buy your own stuff and keep it in there to save money.
So you have to spend 10 times that apparently if you want it at the hotel and to stay cold.
But there's another line at the bottom.
that says guests can call the front desk for quote, refrigerator requests.
So some people think that means you can request an actual fridge for free, but Marriott hasn't commented and I'm sure that's not true.
But if they do charge, a few people mentioned a hack to get around this nonsense.
What you do is you call the front desk and you tell them you need a fridge to store your medication and they'll probably let you use the mini fridge or
at least bring you another fridge for free.
So there's a way to get around that, but hotel's charging 50 bucks just to put a couple of waters in their refrigerator, that little teeny refrigerator you get in the hotel.
It should be coming along with the price of admission, shouldn't it?
What, what, what?
All right, let's just move on to number three thing you didn't know you needed to hear.
And this might even be more insane than the $50 mini fridge hold nonsense thing.
There's a California guy.
He decided to run a dump truck into his own home when his future ex-wife filed a restraining order against him and started the divorce process.
So this is one of the crashes you're going to hear and the neighbors reacting.
And then Patricia Dunn talking about her husband Ronald's destructive behavior.
Yeah, at least destructive.
What is he doing?
I should,
I should think not.
I certainly have never experienced anybody trying to run a dump truck into my home.
That's crazy, Ronald.
I know you're listening online, Ronald.
That's a dumb thing to do.
Okay, moving on to number four thing you didn't know you needed to hear.
And if you want to know
how insane this past week was.
Here's the story.
Guy in Tennessee driving drunk, and he thought, you know what?
He thought, oh, let's be sensible.
I shouldn't be driving.
Let's give the keys to my five-year-old son.
So his five-year-old son takes over the wheel and, guess what happens, crashed their car and right into a neighbor's yard, according to this court affidavit.
But these are his neighbors talking about the damage done to their property and witnessing this stupid incident with his five-year-old son driving his car.
He had drunk
dope.
I'm surprised they didn't kill both of them.
We've seen some crazy things out here, but this is one of the craziest.
It was just really...
Mango, like somebody hit it hard.
Don't let your five-year-olds drive.
There's your lesson.
Don't let your five-year-old drive, or your four-year-old, or your six-year-old, or, well, you get the idea.
That takes us to thing number five you didn't know you needed to hear.
This was a Western New York guy.
He was so surprised after driving home from a Buffalo Bills game, and he finds a random college kid inside the bed of his truck.
So apparently this kid thought it was his dad.
truck when he decided to use the covered truck as shelter but this is video of the guy finding the random guy in his truck bed and this is this is what that sounded
like.
Yes, sir.
Did you just like get too drunk or something?
I had no idea that you were in my trunk.
You had no idea, no idea.
But at least he was a pretty good sport about it.
The owner let him inside his home, helped him charge his phone, and he called his parents to pick him up.
So there, with all the insanity, a happy ending.
And I think that's five things.
What the hell were those things?
Five things you didn't know you needed to hear.
So the water's wake-up call.
Thank you.
I needed to hear that.
Now on to Throwback Thursday.
And I was reading online about...
clicks like the ones you were involved in when you were in school.
And there was a poll.
People were asked which ones they were a part of.
And the most common answer was I wasn't in a click.
And the 10 most common clicks are jocks, popular kids, cheerleaders, nerds, band or choir kids, loners, stoners, geeks, snobs and preppy kids.
So I thought I'd ask you back in the day, did you hang out with a click?
Were you a part of a click at school?
Good morning, Mr. Waters.
Cowboy Jerry here.
Cowboy Jerry,
how are you?
There's snowy day.
Hey, I was kind of a crossover.
I was both a band boy and a gearhead cowboy gearhead Jerry I like that they called us band dorks.
We were the troublemakers.
We did marching band and we
cause so much trouble.
Marching Band, we went on Marching Band trips and we were hellions.
Yes, we were too.
Musicians were all Keith Moon, you know, deep down, wrecking hotel rooms and dropping TVs out the fifth story windows and things like that.
That's what we do, right?
That's what we do.
You preach there, Cowboy Jerry, preach
it.
Good morning, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
Well, holla!
Good day.
Where
are you now?
Are you driving in the area here or are you off-east?
Oh, I'm over in Virginia.
You're probably having no problem with the roads in Virginia.
No,
60 degrees.
Geez.
I should have been a truck driver.
I should have been a truck driver.
I should have been a truck
driver.
I
should have been a truck driver.
What click were you involved in back when you were in high school?
I
was...
on the football team, kind of a nurse slash jock.
We won the state championship in my sophomore year, my senior year.
What school did you go to?
Winmar.
I wouldn't have guessed.
Although I met
you, you're
kind of a big guy, so I guess I can't imagine you playing football.
When I was younger, I weighed about 180 pounds and I could fly down the field.
They called me Will.
I always was jealous of the jocks.
I had coordination of a dead chicken.
Nope, totally true.
I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true.
I mean, you don't say things like that about yourself unless they're true.
That's exactly exactly how I played sports.
All right, on to Friday.
And we were talking about National DJ Day.
I wanted to know what radio station you remember.
Maybe it was your first radio station when you were growing up.
Do you remember what station that was?
We'll get into National DJ Day after we check in with these freaks of nature.
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On with our final topic of the week.
On Friday, we were celebrating National DJ Day and talking about the radio stations we grew up with.
How about you?
Good morning, Mr. Waters.
Good morning.
How are you?
I'm doing good.
This Dave from
Atkins.
Hey, Dave from Atkins.
I don't remember a whole lot of the faces from when I was younger, but one that I did really love was Sirius XM, the 60s.
That doesn't really count as radio.
Oh, come
on.
No, they call it radio.
Gotta hear the
rest of the story though.
Okay.
He was the guy that traveled all over the United States and I just loved his knowledge of that.
Yeah.
And that was my go-to every day until you came on the air and then it was you.
Oh, that's nice.
And then it was you.
I think there's a song.
You should learn that song and then call me again.
And then there was you.
I don't know.
You're the one that turned me over from Sirius.
Oh, well, thank you, because you know, I'm... Congratulations.
I'm rarely Sirius, so maybe you just needed the opposite of what you were having.
That's right.
I listened to a station out of Omaha, and it was called W-O-W.
I remembered I wanted a clock radio in the worst way for Christmas, and so I got one.
I listened to the radio all night long.
which probably wasn't good for me, but
yeah.
I remember getting a clock radio as well, and I loved my clock radio.
I would keep it on all night as well.
And the one time I really remember, I went to sleep, and I think this was KDWB in Minneapolis.
Peter Frampton's Do You Feel Like We Do came on just as I was falling asleep.
And then waking up the next morning, Do You Feel Like We Do was on in the morning.
So, that's the cool thing about radio, remembering when you were a kid and listening to that.
Everything was fun when you were a kid.
Now it's just a drag.
You
know, I gotta say, that week was so much fun.
I think we should do it again.
Let's do it again next week, huh?
Alright, we'll talk about some different stuff.
But we'll play some tunes and do all of that.
And of course, The Water's Wake Up Call, you know when it is, Monday through Friday, 5.30 to 10.
Thanks for listening to the not great but best I could come up with last week podcast.
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
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