The Morning Meltdown: Wandom Wednesday

Insulate your home and save big money with Knauf fiberglass insulation at Menards.

From cut to length rolls to pre-cut bats and blown-in insulation, Menards has everything you need to add comfort and energy savings to your home.

Saving money on our great selection of Knauf fiberglass insulation.

Plus, check out our weekly flyer on menards.com for all the great deals happening now.

Mike Waters here from the Waters Wake Up Call.

I hope you're having a fantastic day.

This is the Waters Wake Up Call Morning Meltdown.

That's what I'm calling it now, the Morning Meltdown, because I think we usually have meltdowns in the morning.

Plus, you know, a meltdown is kind of summarizing really what we do in the morning with the Waters Wake Up Call.

It's kind of your cliff's notes for the Waters Wake Up Call.

I do this every single day, so just keep checking back every day.

There will be another Morning Meltdown.

Monday through Friday, right here at 1057KOKZ.com.

I had a fantastic Wandom Wednesday with ya, talkin' all kinds of Wandom things like silly sayings, and since it was National Paranormal Day, we were talking about the celebrity who was past that we would most like to have a beer with.

And some other Wandom things people called about, or maybe a tangent I went off on, or something.

But of course, we also did the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, and the hit and run headlines, and as always,

Kicked it off with the bright side at 5.50.

Look at the bright side, okay?

The bright side.

The bright side?

What's the bright side?

Let me tell you what the bright side is.

Ha!

The bright side.

When you're chewing on last whistle, back rumble, give a whistle, and whistle, help things turn out for the best.

Hey!

Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 105.7 KOKZ.

Sponsored by Walton Collision Center, so I was reading...

about a group of special needs students at Washington High School in Washington, North Carolina, and they experienced this dream come true.

It was very cool.

The community comes together to help send these special needs students to prom.

Pam Smith, who is a proud parent of one of these special needs kids, her son,

expressed her gratitude for the support, saying it was a blessing and a dream come true.

Donations were pouring in to help fund prom attire, a dinner at the Washington Yacht and Country Club, fancy schmancy, photos and a red carpet leading to a stretch limousine.

How cool is that for prom?

So special needs teacher Serena Current

emphasize the importance of giving these students the same opportunities as their peers saying people just don't realize how important things like this are for them because they don't always get the same opportunity as all their peers do.

So parent Ebony Snead echoed that sentiment saying that she just wants her child to feel included and equal to others.

And the students were very excited to hit the dance floor and listen to their favorite songs during the prom night.

And then as they left the Washington Yacht and Country Club in a limo, community members and loved ones cheered them on with signs and sparklers.

And parents report that the students spent the entire night dancing, making for a very unforgettable experience for everyone involved.

And that nice, I think that is just awesome.

There you go.

There is a bright side for a Wandom Wednesday sponsored by Walton Collision Center on Highway 151 in Fairfax.

Walton Collision Center, where quality is their priority.

I love a blindingly bright, bright side.

Hey, and you know, before we get into hit and run headlines, let's just randomly take a, a random call.

I think we got a silly

saying here.

My mother used to always say, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

I've, I've never heard that.

I think it's European.

There are so many silly sayings involving horses.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Yeah.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

horse feathers get off your high horse horsing around it's silly I guess yeah or hey what are you doing that's my horse whisperer you know maybe you got a cold or something so your little horse or maybe you're screaming at the

kids

Well, then you're a pony, sir.

I think you're crazy is what I think.

I think my golden life is just not to be a horse's ass.

Got to go, man.

Hold your horses and don't go too fast.

If you're on a horse, can you have moving violations?

Can you do a hit and run?

I don't know.

Here we can,

though.

There's a Michigan seventh grader stopped a school bus after the driver lost consciousness.

Wow.

You know, when I was in seventh grade, I shoplifted gum.

That's about all I did.

A Florida couple is celebrating 80 years of marriage.

But to be fair, all marriages feel like they've lasted 80 years, you know?

Not me and Mrs. Waters, except that.

That's the exception.

So a crash on a Florida highway released a million bees.

Yes, you have our permission to punch the first person to make a honey boo boo joke.

So there was a new study conducted.

ChatGPT gave out better medical advice than actual doctors.

Although to be fair, the doctors were Phil, Oz, and Drew.

Scientists will soon be able to expand the human lifespan by 80% unless you're vacationing in Mexico.

In that case, they really can't do much for you.

So the number one place people cry is in their car.

Most of them do it because they're driving a Mitsubishi Mirage.

So there's a new movement called No Mo May, where homeowners are asked to deliberately not mow their lawns during May in order to help pollination.

It should be a success, because if Americans can't get behind being lazy, then what can they get behind?

That's, uh, nothing, really.

Bud Light sales are down 21% since the start of the Dylan Mulvaney ad campaign.

However, sales of bullets used to shoot cans of Bud Light are through the roof.

They really are.

So the average American worker in 1890 was putting in a 100 hour work week.

Man, they were real slackers, responded iPhone factory workers in China.

So I don't know if you knew this writer strike all the late night shows have shut down due to that Hollywood writer strike Now where will I get my news asked a bunch of idiots?

So thanks to the Hollywood writer strike Pete Davidson's return to Saturday Night Live is off, but that ladies and gentlemen is called a silver lining

We cover a lot with those hit-and-run headlines.

I think you're set for the day.

But you know, before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, let's once again take a random phone call.

Ah, hello?

I'd like to do a shout-out to my daughter Amanda.

Yeah?

She just started a new job at UNI in Cedar Falls.

And on the four lane coming from Cedar Rapids to the Waterloo area, she passed me going quite fast.

Oh, yeah.

Tell her to slow her up a little bit.

Slow down, Amanda.

Daddy's watching you.

High in the

sky.

High in the sky.

New

job.

That's pretty

cool.

Yeah.

So what's she doing?

Gonna be an advisor at UNI.

That is cool.

What kind of an advisor?

She was the director of student engagement, something like that.

So when somebody would propose, she'd come in with balloons and confetti, right?

Yeah.

Sure.

Congratulations.

hear it for the happy couple.

And thank you for that my friend.

Alright, let's get into the five things that, oh here we

go.

a very frightening story and I'm telling you this AI is disturbing.

She's sharing her frightening story of how someone used AI to mimic her brother's voice in an effort to scam her grandfather.

Listen to this how shameful it

is.

I've been crying for the past two hours because I thought my little brother was dead.

Somebody out there used an AI machine to trick my grandpa into thinking my little brother got in a wreck and died.

He mimicked my brother's voice and said, oh, I'm about to get in a wreck.

And then the phone went off.

My grandpa called me and told me this.

And I immediately thought my brother was dead.

And I come to find out that it was a scammer that was trying to get money from my grandpa by calling and saying that he went to jail and he killed someone.

And he needed bail money.

They're using a freaking AI machine to reenact their voice.

How evil.

Yeah, evil indeed.

So be on the lookout for that.

If you're hearing something that's awful or, or check, just check on things is all I'm asking.

But God, that's just, how do you, how do you get past that?

Let's go from that.

Let's go from that.

And, and by the way, we, we go to now.

This is... Oh.

What is that?

Thing two.

All right.

Thing two.

Here we go.

This is a really nice story.

Okay, there's a 16-year-old graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with two bachelor's degrees and plans on going back for his master's next year at 17.

Boy, you know, when I was 16, I was still, you know, running out in the street naked and doing that kind of thing.

But this kid is graduating from the University of Pittsburgh.

But here is Rajah Krish...

Krishna Swami and his father talking about his big

accomplishments.

I am proud of myself.

It's not every 16-year-old that graduates with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

He has given us a lot of joy, but this is a milestone and he has said high goals for himself.

So sky's the limit.

I went to public school kindergarten and they weren't challenging me.

So my parents put me in a Gora cyber charter school, which allowed me to do two grades in one year.

I'm going to get my

I'm thankful to my mom and dad.

I'm thankful to all the professors who've taught me.

It was just awesome.

Yeah, whatever, Bookworm.

No, I'm kidding.

Congratulations to you, Bookworm.

All right, moving along, let's talk about thing three, shall we?

Today is public radio day.

So you know what I thought?

I just thought I'd play a little preview of what NPR has lined up for tonight.

I think it's stand-up comedy night.

Good evening, and welcome to the stand-up comedy of National Public Radio.

I'm your host Raj Thompson.

Let's begin our program with a joke.

How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?

The answer, the fish.

An attorney and a law professor walk into a bar.

The attorney says, ouch.

The law professor says, if you had done better on your LSATs, perhaps the bar would have been higher.

And finally, who is NPR's favorite president?

It's Grant, like a grant from the Chubb group of companies, or clean-burning environmentally responsible propane.

Well, that's my time.

And speaking of time, coming up at the top of the hour, world news with Larkin Roberts, followed by Nature Sounds, this week featuring the love songs of the Sumatran orangutan during Estrus.

Oh, that just sounds fantastic, doesn't it?

Yeah, I'll be tuning into that, he said, sarcastically.

All right, let's move on to thing four.

Here is an unethical life hack for when the person in front of you on a plane, and I hate this.

I know it's fine, and it's all in the rules and all that, but I still don't like when the person in front of me reclines their seat the whole way.

Now, here is an unethical hack.

Just open your vent full blast.

and aim it directly at their head.

Directly at their head.

So it just blow it in their face and they'll probably say something like, hey, you can't do that.

Sure I can.

It's there and I can use it.

You know, just like you can recline your seat back and whack me in the knees like you did.

All right.

So there you go.

There is the unethical hack for the day.

And finally,

Ah, boy, those royals, those crazy royals, huh?

Well, according to OK Magazine, that's where I get all my news, OK Magazine, Prince Harry will not be seated closely to his family at this weekend's coronation of King Charles.

Oh, no.

So the report says Harry will be a full 10 rows back from the senior royals.

So, you know, I think this song says it all.

So let's, I always like to go out singing.

Harry won't be seated.

with the royal family for his daddy's big Choronee.

because they didn't like him exposing all their secrets in the stupid little book he wrote.

And his wife Megan isn't even going to come because she's fighting with Kate Middleton.

I think Steve Harvey needs to get them all together on an episode of Family Feud.

All you need to know about the Royals, and I think that's five things.

What the hell were those things?

Five things.

You didn't know you

needed to hear.

Magic number is five.

That's all you need to know.

If you get the hit and run headlines, you get the five things, boom, you're set.

You are set for the day.

All right, before we wrap things up, let's take another couple of random phone calls.

G.L.O.

I am about as ready as

I'm gonna be there, Fama Dave.

One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight, back to back, they faced each other, pulled out their knives, shot each other.

A deaf policeman heard the noise.

to kill those two

dead boys.

It almost sounds like that started off as a mad lib.

We were just doing that I think a week ago.

It doesn't make any sense.

it's a counter counterintuitive

I

know well a counterintuitive is contrary to common sense expectations what the hell story

you got the part what the hell right yep

it's a WTH or WTF if you're nasty

There it is.

Well, I deliver for DoorDash.

For, for DoorDash jeans?

No, DoorDash.

Oh, DoorDash.

Yeah.

Okay, I'm glad we got that straightened out.

So you got

any

silly sayings?

Sometimes I get lost in trailer parts.

Yeah.

And my famous silly word or saying is this monkey has got to stop.

Why is it monkey fecal matter and not some other animal?

I don't know.

Okay, well, it's good to have a silly saying that we can define and know the origin of trailer.

parks in eastern Iowa.

This is true.

All right well watch watch out for the monkey today all right and I honestly think that DoorDash should start selling DoorDash jeans and have a special little DoorDash DoorDash.

I'll make it.

like a

race horse so what is it about race horses that they have to pee more than we do right and they don't pee when they're racing well no well maybe that's why maybe they they hold it for that long and once they have to go man that that horse bladder is full yeah that's gotta be it i'm sure that's it that's the only logical choice we figured something out today i knew we could do it now we don't have to do nothing else we made our accomplishment so go back to bed i'll wake you up tomorrow

Good morning.

Exactly.

Yes, well done, my friends.

Well, you know, I think that's about it.

There you go.

There is the morning meltdown for a Wendom Wednesday.

I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning when it will be May the 4th and May the 4th be with you.

That's right, Star Wars Day and Throwback Thursday.

So it's going to get wild.

So plan on it.

Every Monday through Friday, 5.30 to 10, right

here.

Insulate your home and save big money with Knauf fiberglass insulation at Menards.

From cut to length rolls to pre-cut bats and blown-in insulation, Menards has everything you need to add comfort and energy savings to your home.

Save big money on our great selection of Knauf fiberglass insulation.

Plus, check out our weekly flyer on menards.com for all the great deals happening now.