The Morning Meltdown Throwback Star Wars Day!

Hey

there,

it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call, and this is the Waters Wake Up Call Morning Meltdown.

If you missed anything this morning, well, we got it right here.

I'm telling you, this is the daily podcast for the Waters Wake Up Call, where we feature all the stuff we were talking about, whether it's the bright side or hit and run headlines or the five things.

And today for Throwback Thursday, we were talking about Star Wars, because it is Star Wars Day, you know, may the fourth be with you and all.

of that kind of Star Wars nerdy stuff.

And we were also talking about the brands that most brought us back to our childhood.

And it all had to do with this town in Nebraska where this guy back, I think it was in the 30s, he discovered Kool-Aid.

He was just doing stuff in his mother's kitchen and discovered Kool-Aid.

Well anyway, they made this gigantic statue.

I don't know I think it's probably in the town square in this some some town in Nebraska and it's a statue of the Kool-Aid man which I I would love to go and travel and see this Kool-Aid man I that's really one of those that brings me back I mean immediately you know you think about that that Kool-Aid guy just

crashing through the wall going, oh yeah!

I mean, that is a perfect thing for a kid.

So we were talking brands, we were talking Star Wars, and by the way, before we really get started, I had an idea for a new Star Wars movie, the next Star Wars movie.

Now, I know there have been a ton of these that have come out, but this one, I think we should mix it up a little bit.

So I was thinking of maybe a baseball movie, you know, like Little League, focusing on two teams and be a Star Wars Little League baseball movie.

So you'd have these two teams, the Tatooine Rebels, which would be Luke, Leia, Obi-Wan, Han, Yoda as kids, taking on the Imperial Stormtroopers, so it'd be Stormtroopers as kids.

And then you've got this umpire, this really big guy with a black cape and a black mask and the more he's heckled.

by the parents you know he's making all these calls and the parents are just yelling at him and and hey that's uh because you have Han's parents in there and and Leia's and and uh Luke's although although the umpire uh seems a little bit like Luke and Leia's father but uh that's uh i'm not gonna i'm not gonna let logic get in the way of all of this so what happens is the more these parents

are heckling the umpire the umpire just gets angrier and angrier and then you see and then you see him looking into the stands and then the the parents just somehow and and the umpire is doing this with his powers with the force lifting them

up off the bleachers and without even going up there just choking them out choking the parents out and and then once they start playing and you know it ends with the big championship game you've got the Tatooine Rebels you know Luke and Leia and those people taking on the stormtroopers so and and it's really easy to beat the stormtroopers because when when they when they're pitching when they're in the outfield and they're pitching they can never hit the strike zone and they walk everybody so

eventually the tattooing rebels just win the game because as we all know the stormtroopers have terrible aim and if they do get up

Well, they strike out because they can't hit any baseballs.

Then maybe we have a little trouble with the umpire and how he's siding with the stormtroopers because, you know, they're they're both evil.

So anyway, I'm thinking about something like that.

So I'm going to call George Lucas, see what he says.

But I'll let you know.

I'll let you know how all of that goes.

But right now, you know what we got to do right now?

We have to start this off like we start off every weekday at five fifty with the bright side.

Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 105-7 KOKZ.

Sponsored by Walton Collision Center, so this could have been a real dark side.

A dark side Darth Vader would have loved, but thankfully it didn't end up that way.

Austin Broadhead, he's been working hard to bring Little League Baseball back to the small town of Kiefer, Oklahoma.

So sometimes he's a coach, other times he's the maintenance crew or an umpire, I almost said empire.

Uh, the umpire strikes back.

No, or an umpire, but last Thursday night, he was a lifesaver.

Check this out, middle of a game.

Three-year-old boy in the stands was somehow shocked by some faulty electrical equipment and was found unresponsive.

So Broadhead, who, by the way, as a nurse, jumped in, started CPR on the toddler, reviving him.

And according to Broadhead, it was still very, you know, a tense situation, but we were able to hear him start making noise.

He was making sounds.

He was responding to his parents' voice.

And at that time, the EMS service had shown up, thankfully.

So paramedics took the boy to a nearby hospital, and then officials and an electrical crew came in and made repairs to the park's power equipment.

Good deal there.

So Broadhead is very thankful for the outcome and the horrific incident and that there were good people around to help out.

But I'm sure the parents and everyone else was just glad that Mr. Austin Broadhead, nurse and Little League Baseball umpire coach, everything else was there to save.

this three-year-old.

So there you go.

Thankfully, that turned out to be a Bright Side, sponsored by Walton Collision Center on Highway 151 in Fairfax.

Walton Collision Center, where quality is their priority.

Ah, it's good to get the Bright Side on this Star Wars day, because nobody wants the dark side.

You know what I mean?

Nobody wants to join the dark side.

But before we get into hit-and-run headlines, let's have a little Star Wars fun first, okay?

Today's Star Wars Day may the fourth be with you.

Make it great with the top tips for celebrating Star Wars Day.

Number five, give your favorite action figure a good polish, if you know what I mean.

Number four, infuriate Star Wars nerds by telling them your favorite character is Spock.

Number three, go to Walmart and try to spot someone smaller than Jabba the Hunt.

Number two, if your lightsaber lasts longer than four hours, seek immediate medical attention.

And number one, just accept that you'll be celebrating it alone.

Yes, and Happy Star Wars Day, may the fourth be with you.

Alright, let's crash on into the hit and run headlines.

So

today is also National Weather Observer's Day.

Time to pull out my homemade barometer, replied creepy weirdos who will never, never, ever, ever have sex.

So the gap laid off 1,800 employees.

Today I saw someone in an intersection with a sign that said, we'll fold sweater vests for food.

I believe that story is true.

15 minutes of solitude can improve mental health.

Unless you're Kanye, then make it 20 years at least.

Experts say people benefit from having completely empty minds.

So in other words, our afternoon guy Jeff Winfield will live forever.

I hope he's still sleeping.

National test scores for eighth graders have hit an all-time low in their understanding of history.

Yeah, you know, it's bad when half of all eighth graders think the first president was George Santos.

Four years after getting married, a woman is demanding a full refund from her wedding photographer because she's now divorced.

Does that mean I can return my son's glove to Walmart because he stunk at baseball?

Yeah, May is clean air month.

Chinese toddlers are celebrating by hacking up a long wall building your new iPhone in China.

Kevin Costner's wife filed for divorce.

She gets half of everything he owns.

I wonder what she'll do with 8,000 cowboy hats.

That's a question.

And, you know, speaking of which, Kevin Costner is leaving Yellowstone.

It's the worst thing to happen to Dad since cargo shorts went out of style.

So today is May the 4th, as in May the 4th be with you, Star Wars Day, and perhaps the only holiday designed to be celebrated alone.

Yeah.

And if you haven't already, hug your nearest virgin.

They're the ones, by the way, with all the action figures in their basements, so you can't miss them.

So the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2023 was announced yesterday and all I can say is had better luck next year flock of seagulls So John Bon Jovi said he supports his 20 year old son getting engaged to Millie Bobby Brown and doesn't think it's too young Bon Jovi added that given his estate his son and daughter-in-law to be won't be living on a prayer In fact, they'll be living on a yacht

And lucky rich kids.

I think I have a Bon Jovi Star Wars joke for you.

What Jedi likes to sing living on a prayer?

What Jedi likes to sing living on a prayer?

Bon Jovi one Kenobi.

Oh, come on.

See, I forgot the rim shot.

That was my problem there.

Okay moving on.

Let's let's do a couple a couple more here How are you good Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3 opens this weekend in this install installment the Guardians take on their biggest challenge yet.

They try to settle the Hollywood writers strike All right one more

One more Star Wars dad joke for you Luke and Obi-Wan walk into a Chinese restaurant 10 minutes into the meal Luke's still having trouble with the chopsticks dropping food everywhere and Obi-Wan finally snaps use the forks Luke All right, there you go.

That's all I got That was a bigger accident than usual.

Hey, you know what before we before we get into the five things

Why don't we take a call?

We're talking about the brand that really brings you back to your childhood, whether it's a gaming brand or a beverage brand or that Kool-Aid brand I was talking about earlier.

What is the brand that takes you back to your childhood?

I'd like to know.

Yes.

I'd like to know why people keep chocolate in their medicine cabinets.

You were talking about things.

Yeah, I don't know I've I've never heard of chocolate being kept in your medicine cabinet

Oh Okay,

well that makes sense then the

hard way

yeah So to speak Do they even make that stuff anymore?

I never

took the chocolate x-lax never took it

Yeah, you

were those

kids

Yeah,

yeah, and then you just watch the fun as the the school day goes on I guess I should have just assumed

that

There is something that I did not need to hear today Okay, moving right along right now.

What say we get into these five things right

here?

All right,

so I was asking you about your brand, whether it's a beverage brand or a gaming brand, a toy brand, because Hastings, Nebraska, they just installed a six foot statue of the Kool-Aid man.

A guy from Hastings named Edwin Perkins came up with the Kool-Aid guy in 1927 after messing around in his mom's kitchen.

He came up with Kool-Aid and of course that Kool-Aid guy,

crashing through the wall.

I mean, that's pretty memorable, but it is not number one on this survey.

It's like number seven.

You'd be thinking about the brand that really reminds you of your childhood, and we'll start talking about that with Throwback Thursday.

And this always makes me mad.

You know, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they announced their class of 2023 yesterday.

Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, Cheryl Crowe, The Spinners, George Michael, Missy Elliott.

and rage against the machine.

Sure, some of it's rock and roll, but some of it, I don't think so, but you know, people like Missy Elliott and Willie Nelson, I mean, I don't know, rock and roll?

I don't think so.

You know that and you have bands and artists like the Scorpions, Tommy James, then Lizzie, Foreigner, Styx, Cool and the Gang, Jay Giles, R.E.O., Grand Funk, Jim Croci, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tall, Emerson Lincoln Palmer, Bad Company, Warren Zavon, Super Tramp, Guess Who, Boston, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Billy Idol, Brian Adams, not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Haven't even been nominated a lot of those.

So come on, let the Rock and Roll...

roll in before we start letting other genres.

It just makes sense to me.

I don't know.

The world's crazy.

Now a question for you.

And it's only $29.99.

For that price, would you buy a Charmin toilet paper hoodie?

that features one of the Charmin Bears and says own the throne across it.

Anybody, would anybody buy that for 30 bucks?

The hood features cute little bear ears on top.

Isn't that sweet?

Charmin's for the down below, not the up top.

This is pretty much

it.

My honey's clean.

Oh yeah, I'm Charmin clean.

That's how I know they're clean.

My Sherman Hineys clean.

I think that's five things.

What the hell were those

things?

Five things.

You didn't know you needed

to hear.

I think that's five.

Sometimes I don't know how to count, but I think that's five.

All right, let's continue our discussion of the brands that bring you back to your childhood.

What do you got?

Mine is the AJAX.

commercial with the white horse because I actually learned to ride on that horse.

You learned to ride on the actual Ajax horse?

Yeah, the actual Ajax horse.

How did you have access to the Ajax horse?

Well, I think

By the time I started taking writing lessons, he was already retired from the commercials.

Okay.

And I lived in California

and he

lived near lots of farms and ranches and things.

And when I took writing lessons, they had Ajax and he was a perfect horse.

He's from the commercial and it's a commercial about being clean.

So you had to be perfect.

Yeah.

That's really cool.

Yeah, it was pretty fun.

My mom at one point divorced my dad and married Mr. Clean with the bald head and stuff.

And all the

white clothes.

That was my connection to commercial fame.

The actual Mr. Clean is my stepdad.

Well, the one I remember is Blue Bonnet.

Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on

it.

I remember the jingle well.

I

think that's

when

the makers started having artificial leather.

Was that?

No, Parquet is what I'm thinking of.

Remember Parquet when Parquet would go...

butter yeah that's the other one I remember but yeah I still say if somebody's asking me to do something I say I'm on it like blue bonnet

then you've got it spread around

weevils

wobble but they don't fall down yes yes so that's that's what reminds you of your childhood

Yes.

Yeah, well, that's really what it's all about.

It's the first thing to come to your mind and it brings you back to your childhood, so that certainly works.

And that's where I'm on the roll.

Well, there it is then.

Well, we gotta find the commercial trucker, little John.

I use a YouTube search when I'm looking

for something.

Hey, hey, look at me and Weevils.

The Weevils wobble, but they don't fall down.

Awesome memories in there, boy.

Thanks for all of those calls.

Thanks for listening to the morning meltdown with the water's wake-up call.

I do this every day, by the way, so I'll have another one for you tomorrow, but thanks for listening.

And by the way, I think I've come up with a title for my Star Wars baseball movie, either The Empire Strikes Back

or may the forced run be with you.

One of those, again, I'll discuss with George Lucas and we'll find out.

But anyway, thanks for listening and we'll catch you back here tomorrow morning at every weekday 5.30 to 10 with the Water's Wake Up Call.

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