Wake-Up Call In a Nutshell - TuNesDay - Parents Playlist

Hey, it's waters from the waters wake-up call and welcome to the tunes day edition of the waters wake-up call in a nutshell Basically, we took a four-hour show and just we chopped this thing up.

I'm telling you it was brutal It was it was brutal, but I think we got it down to about 20 minutes But you get everything in there you get the bright side you get the five things you get the hit-and-run headlines and a lot of the calls that I got this morning for our tunes day topic and what we were doing is we were making a my parents

influence this playlist playlist.

Basically talking about the tunes that our parents turned us on to.

So all of that is coming up and I think we should start off like we start every Waters Wake Up call at 5.50 a.m.

with the Bright Side.

Let's look on the Bright Side with Mike Waters on 105.7 KOKZ.

And sponsored by Walton Collision Center.

So this happened just this past Saturday in Indiana.

There's a sheriff's deputy, Josh Cochard, I think it's how you pronounce it, I'm not quite sure.

But he responded to a report of a woman driving an electric scooter down a rural highway with no shoulder or sidewalk.

And you know, my first thought would be, well, I'm sure he just pulled her over, told her not to do that anymore and gave her a ticket.

Nope.

He was talking to the lady.

And Deputy Josh learned that she was new to the area and was living in a nearby campground.

So she's got no other transportation options, and the woman was forced to drive her scooter the five miles into town to get groceries.

So this deputy was concerned for this lady's safety and just couldn't let her continue on the highway.

Instead, what he did was he made the trip to the store himself.

And then his colleague, Deputy Scott Chapman, paid for the woman's groceries.

And then Deputy Josh personally delivered them to her.

And he also gave the woman a list of county transportation resources that she could use for future grocery trips.

So the Hancock County Sheriff's Department shared this story of the deputy's act of kindness on social media where local residents

We're heaping praise on these two.

And one commenter, really, I think just said it best, writing, sometimes a little help can go a long way.

Thank you for evaluating the situation and acting accordingly.

Basically, you know, instead of just pulling her over, giving her a ticket and say, don't do that anymore, helped her out so she wouldn't have to do that.

anymore and really took care of the situation in just the best way possible.

So got to give a shout out to those deputies in Indiana.

That is a bright side for you.

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There you go, brighter, happier, most joyous.

And from the bright side, let's go to a couple of Toonsday calls with, again, our topic is, what would be your first song on your My Parents Influence This Playlist?

Playlist.

Toons, your parents turned you on, too.

I think I had more influence on my parents since the music, than the other way around.

How so?

My mom and dad were really into swing bands and Frank Sinatra.

And as they got older, I started catching my mom, playing the Rolling Stones.

My proud

moment

was when I turned my mom on to Highway to Hell by ACDC and she just loved it.

The best part was when she turned her friend on to it and they were talking on the phone one day and her friend was just this straight laced demurrer kind of a lady with this kind of voice and at one point the friend says to my mom

Mary that song highway to hell.

I can't stop listening to it over and

and I got worried so I drove over there and she had this huge Culp thing set up with the candles and the goat heads Okay, some parts of the story aren't true, but most of it

is

And we listened to a lot of little river band and I still love that stuff today.

My kids, they roll their eyes 13 years and they're like, oh mom, are you kidding me?

Your kids

are lonesome losers.

That's the problem.

You

got it.

And it's funny that they got you into little river band and you're talking about a boat on the Chesapeake Bay.

No wonder that stuff is considered yacht rock these

days.

That's my jam from my childhood.

Yes, your childhood, but your kid's childhood mom don't even go there.

The more yacht rock that they want to go throw up.

They don't get it.

I got some stories to tell you about my left hand.

I cut half of my left thumb off.

So how many stories do you have about your left hand?

I worked for a carnival.

Oh, a carny eh?

And there's one right the octopus.

Yeah?

I don't know

why you're laughing, man.

It's a very sad story.

No, that's fine because I get a discount when I have a manicure done.

I suppose you would.

You don't sound like a guy who would get a lot of

manicures.

That's a left-handed story if I ever heard one.

I think I think later he gives us the song that his parents influenced him into listening So we'll we'll take care of that later.

I don't think we could listen to two parts of that all in one foul swoop So let's how about right now we go into hit-and-run headlines I give it to you every weekday morning at 6 50 and 9 10 But here they are right here on the waters wake up calling a nutshell do it

Oh, where do we start?

Let's start.

Oh, at the beginning.

Let's let's do that.

So people are now asking chat GPT, you know, the AI thing for medical advice, which sounds dumb.

But remember, they do the same thing with Dr. Phil.

That's not the exact thing.

Wal-Mart says it will be employing mostly robots by 2027.

But don't worry that Matthew By in their bathroom will remain 100% man-made.

Oh, thank goodness.

So the Stranger Things creators, new show, is about old people battling aliens.

So they've gone from ripping off the goonies to ripping off cocoon.

Is that what I'm reading here?

So ESPN announcer Joe Buck.

I can't stand Joe Buck.

He turns 54 today.

That's, by the way, 378 in smug pompous tool years.

Gail King and Charles Barkley are gonna be hosting a new primetime show on CNN.

Don't worry though, it won't interfere with Barkley's other job, making fun of Shaquille O'Neal.

The CEO of NBC Universal has been ousted after he had an inappropriate relationship.

So it turns out he was having an affair with an NBC employee who is, A, an intern, B, his secretary, or C, Alf.

Or maybe it's all in the above.

Good jerk.

Scarlett Johansson says she is done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

So that's two reasons to stop watching those movies.

So there are 1,227 people played Dungeons and Dragons at a Utah mall to set a record and that record largest gathering of guys without girlfriends So the Green Bay Packers Finalized a deal to send Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets No comment yet from Packer fans.

They were they were all way too busy devouring their body weight and brought worse

A study named Portland, the best city to get high.

It's by the same researchers who shockingly concluded Chicago is the best city to get shot.

There you go, that's all I got.

After that, I always feel like I've been hit and run, but you know, I think it fixed my back.

I think it cracked my back.

That feels a lot better.

Are we ready now for part two of the Carney's story?

I'll call him Art Carney, or Carney Wilson.

That's it.

Carney Wilson.

He had told us a story about his left hand, but I think you also had a story about your parents and a song, right, with our Toon's Day

topic.

That and left-hand stories, yes.

When I was a kid, my dad always bought Nash Ramblers.

Well, there's only one song I can think of with Nash Ramblers, so I think I know what you're going to be saying here.

Beat, beat.

The car went beat, beat, beat.

The little Nash Rambler was right behind that whole thing.

While riding in my ghetto, last...

What to my surprise?

Little

Ash Randler.

Right behind.

What to my surprise?

Why, what a lovely singing voice you have.

More guts as it kept on tooting his horn.

I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a card of corn.

Well, you have a wonderful singing voice.

I do remember that song, though.

It's a cute little ditty, ain't it?

I'll tell you what, we'll get into the rest of our Tuesday calls after we check in with the five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

So I

referenced

this a little bit earlier.

There's some football guy who's been with this team forever and he's moving to a whole different team.

Yeah, Aaron Rodgers.

He's played how many seasons with the Green Bay Packers and moving to the New York Jets?

I don't know, man.

He's expected to wear number eight.

like he did in college, and the Packers will most likely replace him with their twenty-twenty first-round draft pick, Jordan Love.

So, how about the perfect nap?

What do you think?

According to a study by NASA, the perfect length of a nap is twenty-six minutes.

Twenty-six minutes.

When you nap for twenty-six minutes, you'll be...

54% more alert and 34% better at whatever you do next.

And here's why.

At 26 minutes, you're only going through the first two stages of sleep.

You're not entering the others, the deeper.

sleep, which can make you feel groggy or feel even worse when you wake up.

Let's talk about this guy's chili powder.

Oh, people were really loving this stuff, and they didn't know why.

Oh, and by the way, the guy is from Florida, so you know what kind of a story this is going to be.

This guy in Florida was pulled over last week.

He was driving with a revoked license, and the cop saw a bag of powder in his car.

So the guy said, well, it's just chili powder.

And his family sent it to him from Guatemala.

Yeah, that's it.

But it tested positive.

for heroin.

The guy had a heroin chili powder, 29.7 grams of it.

It's unclear what color it was, but that could have been a tip-off right there.

Heroin is usually white, brown, or gray, while the chili powder at the grocery store is bright red.

So he was charged with driving with a revoked license, narcotics trafficking, and this could trigger a probation violation from a previous DUI.

conviction.

Oh no!

Alright, let's talk about this whole Twitter thing.

Are you a, are you a Twitter twit?

Apparently the blue check.

It's all about the blue check.

If you have the blue check, then you are the real you.

You know, like, like say Steve Martin.

And I know Steve Martin has tweeted some jokes about this that you can just call yourself Steve Martin and be Steve Martin.

But if you have that blue check, you're Steve Martin, like the famous Steve Martin.

Well, apparently now you have to pay

for these checks.

That's what Elon Musk is talking about now.

And nobody's going to pay for that.

You're not gonna pay, it's like eight bucks a month, but still, it's the Twitter Blue subscription service, which Musk is counting on to become a key revenue source.

But certain celebrities, including dead ones, by the way, have their blue check restored without approving or paying for it.

So the question is now, to blue check or not to blue check, I'm

confused.

Congratulations, Mr. Blue Check.

By subscribing to Twitter Blue, all of your 27 followers will be quite impressed.

Plus, with your low monthly donation, you're allowing a billionaire to billionaire, like building rockets that explode upon takeoff and self-driving cars that also explode and run over small children.

Sure, Mr. Blue Check, you'll be ridiculed regularly, but that's what we call engagement.

And with Twitter Blue, you can overuse the American flag emoji as much as you want, all for the low cost of your self-respect.

Oh, and $96 a year.

But that's okay, Mr. Bluecheck, because you are a verified winner.

He's Mr. Bluecheck.

Twitter Blue, because free speech isn't free.

No,

no, but sure isn't.

Just ask Elon Musk.

But you know, I think that's five things.

What the hell were those things?

Five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

five things is never enough is it all right so let's let's get the rest of our calls in for our tuesday topic making the my parents influence this playlist

Playlist.

Mike

Waters, Happy Tunes Day.

Happy Tunes Day to you as well, my friends.

I just heard you talking about playlists that your parents got you into and I got one from my childhood.

Yeah, what did your parents turn you on to?

Dix was the big one in our house.

So you're a big Stix fan now?

I've seen them probably five or six times.

Oh, you are?

You mean five or six times?

Yes, five or six times.

How did they turn you on to it?

Was it just they had the records and you got into it?

We had the cassette tape.

So one of the first ones we had was the greatest hit.

six album on cassette tape.

And then the second one that followed up was their live performance from the 96 return to paradise tour.

Oh, it was a double cassette.

I saw that tour.

That was the last tour with Dennis DeYoung.

I

think the last tour for Dennis DeYoung.

So I unfortunately was never old enough to see Dennis DeYoung with them, but was able to see him with Lawrence Gowan in 99 when they came out.

I remember I was working a radio station when I when I saw them and we had these backstage passes and I just asked, Hey, is Dennis DeYoung coming down?

think it was Panazzo who said no.

Dennis will not be down.

So they were having none of Dennis's crap even then.

He

was a great songwriter and great keyboard.

It's a shame that he had to be a double-edged sword for that band.

Did you ever see him with your dad?

First concert I ever went to was a rock concert in 1999 at the Hippodrome in Waterloo was a local band opening for Kansas who opened for sticks.

And that was my first concert that my parents took me to was 1999.

Yes,

can you play Snoopy versus the Red Baron?

Snoopy versus the Red Baron, eh?

my

mom played it.

I played it.

My grandkids love it.

Yeah, so it's been passed down through the generations.

Oh, yeah.

That's cool.

Do you remember first hearing it?

Oh, gee, that had to be just six or seven.

Funny, that's kind of when my parents started influencing my taste, too, was about six or seven.

That's funny.

But yeah, that makes sense.

I'll put it on the My Parents Influence This Playlist Playlist, and I got to play it, right?

Yes, please.

All right, there you have it, the Toonsday edition of The Water's Wake Up Call in a Nutshell.

Thanks for listening, and I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.

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