THE WATERS WAKE-UP CALL IN A NUTSHELL

Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

Thank you for helping me bring in, uh, oh, uh, uh, what's the name of this month again?

May!

Oh, you may be right, Billy Joel.

Actually, I think you are right.

Yes, May.

And you know, if you're not careful, May 1st on a Monday can turn into- Hey!

Excuse me, I'm in a yellow.

There's something else you get when you have May first on a Monday.

What?

Cinco de Mayo's on Friday.

Oh, you know what?

And this is very much like me.

I didn't do the math on that.

Didn't even think of Cinco de Mayo on Friday.

Maybe if you bought a calendar, you'd see that.

I'm just saying.

Yeah, I know you're just saying, because that's what I heard from you.

That's what I heard from your mouth.

As you were saying it, so Cinco de Mayo on Friday.

Great, now I can plan for that.

It's like the first national holiday of the year.

Hold on, Star Wars Day is the day before Cinco de Mayo.

May the fourth be with you.

Oh, you don't have to be a geek to celebrate Star Wars Day.

I'm not Mexican, and I'll be drinking tequila on Friday.

I gotta find me a Star Wars mariachi band.

That's what I gotta do, you know?

And then we just kind of hung out, and I got into, of course, the Bright Side.

That's how we kick off every morning, 5.50.

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

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So I want to tell you about this 92-year-old lady who had a dream, 92.

I mean, she's probably thinking, well, that's not going to happen.

Well, her name is Mary Silvestri, and when she was much younger than 92, she was dreaming of being a rockette.

She even intended to audition for the dance company once upon a time, but was not able to make the trip into the city from her home in Connecticut.

She explained, I couldn't get to New York alone, and no one could take me.

So Sylvesterie's family shared her story with the Rockettes who decided to fulfill her dream and invited her to Radio City Music Hall for their auditions.

So the nonagenarian received a warm welcome from the dance company and even learned the Rockettes' iconic bevel pose.

She also performed some kicks.

while wearing a bib with the number 813 on it.

That's pretty amazing, huh?

So, Rockette, I'm Marissa Labar, I think is how you pronounce her name.

She was expressing her joy at being part of this special moment.

She said it reminded her of how lucky and grateful she is to be a Rockette.

And Labar also says that the experience meant as much to them as it did to Sylvesterie.

So the Rockette also says Sylvesterie helped remind her of the impact they have on people worldwide and the importance of following your dreams.

You know, I wonder if I send a message to Paul and Ringo.

I wonder if they'll fulfill my dream of, I don't know, playing guitar and doing a little singing with the two on various Beatles songs.

I'll let you know how that goes.

Hey, if Mary can be a rockette, I mean, come on.

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From the bright side, we go to hit and run headlines.

About the headline?

Yeah, that made a hit and run this morning.

Let's start off with the fact that May, the month we just kicked off today, American Cheese Month.

And speaking of American cheese, don't forget to tune in to Jimmy Fallon's monologue tonight, okay?

That's, I think, the strongest cheese in the country.

Today is Phone in Sick Day.

Millennials everywhere are staying home from work because they have a slightly scratchy throat.

No word on whether they know it's Phone in Sick Day or not.

Southern California has about 10,000 earthquakes a year.

But still, the most unstable thing in Southern California?

Kanye West.

A Los Angeles man has been charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Patients first became suspicious when they realized the magazines in his waiting room were totally up to date.

Clothing?

And phones topped Uber's annual list of most commonly forgotten items by riders.

Not to be confused with the top item forgotten by Uber drivers, deodorants.

Don't be one of those.

May is better sleep month.

It is, which is really bad timing because James Corden's last show was Thursday.

SatanCon 2023 was held in Boston over the weekend.

For more about SatanCon, you can go to their website.

But pay attention to the fine print because the devil is in the details, you know.

No, you go to ageing double hockey sticks.

All right, anyway, Lindsay Lohan posted a photo of her cocaine bump.

Oh, sorry, I meant baby bump.

Old habits die hard.

Lily Nelson turned 90.

over the weekend.

These days, most of Willie's conversations about joints involve his arthritis.

But, you know, of course still has to do with the other kind as well.

You know Willie.

Joe Namath says Aaron Rodgers will get the Jets back to the Super Bowl.

Other Jets legends have yet to weigh in because there are none.

The 2023 NFL Draft, history.

as are the hopes and dreams of the players drafted by the Houston Tech team.

And finally, Nike gave Kevin Durant a lifetime contract because that's what shoe brands do when you don't praise Nazi's Kanye.

That's what they do.

That's all I got.

And without any further ado, let's get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

Fountain of Youth.

They may have actually discovered

What could keep us, uh, keep us young?

Stop us from aging?

You wanna know how?

Of course you do!

Would you even wanna live to a hundred?

I don't know, in this day and age, I really don't, but, uh, here's another question.

How about a hundred and eighty?

Eugh, that I really don't know about, but researchers at UC San Diego may have just figured out how to extend our lifespan by over eighty percent, and before you get too excited, they haven't really tried it on people yet, just

yeast.

Yeah, I know.

I know it sounds weird, but there's a reason for it.

We age because our cells start breaking down and a previous study found it happens for two reasons.

Their myocondria gets weaker and our DNA becomes less stable.

And that's true for yeast cells too, but they basically rewired and tricked them so those two things wouldn't happen at the same time.

Instead, they alternate.

Hmm.

So they found that when each one got to take little breaks like that, it slowed down the aging process in general, and the yeast cells lived 82% longer.

The thing is, will it be safe?

So of course, there's still studying it.

Well, I get older and older.

Would you hurry up, please?

There's barely any time left.

Alright, how about cars going back to old school ways of doing things?

Car companies are bringing back buttons and knobs because we're sick of touchscreens.

Actually, there's also another reason for that, but it seems like every new car has a huge touchscreen on the dashboard where you control everything, right?

But according to a new report, car companies are starting to switch back to buttons and knobs instead.

It's because touch screens are way more dangerous.

It's like texting and driving.

One expert said, it's weird that everyone knows texting and driving is bad.

Well, not everybody.

I still see people doing it and stop that.

But no one complains about how everyone's, and I'm quoting, using an iPad while driving.

And that's basically what you're doing.

So companies have started switching back to the buttons and the knobs.

So, be watching for that, because it could happen at any moment in time.

So, Spirit Airlines was caught duct-taping a plane back together?

Okay, not quite.

But there's a video that's gone viral of the Spirit Airlines worker fixing a plane's engine by taping it.

And people were just freaking out, but it's actually a common thing all airlines do.

It's called speed tape.

And it's made of heavy-duty aluminum.

The FAA says it's used for, and I'm quoting, temporary minor repairs to non-structural aircraft components.

So that's what that's all about.

It's not a big deal.

It's also used on race cars, okay?

So there you go.

And, you know, finally, let's talk about this iceberg.

Because this iceberg is shaped like a... Well, let's just say a little phallic-shaped.

iceberg and the the internet is going nuts they go nuts for this kind of thing you know and they they call it a wiener shaped iceberg and it was seen floating off the coast of canada and by the way it was spotted in conception bay that's a that's a real place last week by a photographer and this is this is also very true by a photographer from a nearby town called dildo it's a real town it's a real town i'm telling you

So I wonder what, uh, what, if you're going on, say, a ship, uh, touring this area, I wonder, I wonder what they would say.

Hmm, don't you

wonder?

to her saying, she's seen bigger.

Now we're going to have to speed up to get ahead of it because we don't want the tip to fall off.

That would be bone chilling.

It's just a matter

of

time until it loses its rigidity and experiences shrinkage because of the cold water.

There you go.

And that last one, by the way, shrinkage due to the cold water, you get it?

You get it?

That last story brought to you by a very immature Mike waters and I think that's five things There we go, there's the waters wake-up call in a nutshell catch you back here tomorrow morning toons day and one hit wonders Every Monday through Friday 5 30 to 10 right here