Morning Meltdown: Wandom Wednesday Junk Drawers

Hey waters here from the waters wake-up call.

Thank you for tuning in this morning for Wandom Wednesday This is the waters wake-up call morning meltdown this morning I thought we could talk about one of the most random things I could think of the junk drawer now It seems like nobody talks about the junk drawer everybody has one But nobody talks about it which is strange because it's kind of a weird thing Everybody's got that one drawer usually in the kitchen where it's just who knows what's in there crap or you put something in there that oh

I'll probably use it someday and you never do and it just keeps piling and and eventually you'll clean it out But still leaves some crap in there because there's never any other use for this drawer It's always gonna be a junk drawer and that's all there is to it.

So yeah, everybody's got a junk drawer Not everybody has junk in the trunk, but everybody's got a junk drawer So we'll talk more about the junk drawers coming up But you know, we also have to get to the five things you didn't know you needed to hear and the hit-and-run headlines and like we kick off every

every single morning as well as every single morning meltdown.

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His survival required kidney dialysis treatment three times a week, but that was unsustainable and his friends and family started the search for a kidney donor.

Barrett's wife, she posted to the neighborhood app next door to get the word out about their kidney search and the post was seen by their neighbor Benny Hooper.

For years, Hooper had been thinking about becoming a living organ donor and was inspired to take the leap after reading Barrett's story.

So the two guys, they contacted one another and they realized they had a lot in common.

So they both drove the same make and color car.

Both had dogs named Lulu.

Weird, right?

And both lived in the same neighborhood.

And as it turns out, they were a perfect match for a kidney transplant.

The neighbors under...

went successful transplant surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital.

Hooper has completely healed and is back to his normal routine while Barrett is feeling better than he has in so many years.

So through this process, Barrett and Hooper have become really close friends, as you would think.

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Hey, here's something not quite as bright, more like a hit and run.

Elon Musk won't leave his companies to his children.

After all, they may do dumb things that irreversibly stain the brand, and we all know that's his job, right?

Target experienced a surge in retail theft.

You know, if people are taking corporate names that literally God knows what's happening at Dix.

I just don't even want to know.

Half of U.S.

kids don't know how to swim.

So if you see one flailing at the pool this summer, post it on YouTube because it's hilarious.

It's a little satire for you.

It takes the average American 19 minutes to decide if they want a second date.

Less if he's wearing an anime t-shirt.

But, you know, if that first date is at a Taylor Swift concert, then it's as long as it takes for the guy to start dancing like Aaron Rodgers.

And then they're out!

China wants to put astronauts on the moon before 2030.

They will be joined by a Chinese toddler to see if an iPhone can be assembled in zero gravity.

of Americans 65 or older grew by more than a third from 2010 to 2020.

That is the fastest rate of any decade in 130 years.

Population experts say this will put a strain on both our medical system and NCIS spinoffs.

The average bra size in the U.S.

is 34 double D.

And, you know, while we're on the subject of big boobs, what a deal on Musk Tweet today.

Anybody see?

102-year-old Joyce Jackman says, good sex.

Good sex is the key to a long life.

Here's something else I learned from Joyce.

Listening to a 102-year-old woman talk about sex is the key to curbing your appetite and losing some weight, so...

No, I'm just kidding you, Joyce.

The Brady Bunch Home is for sale.

The Brady Bunch Home.

It has five bedrooms, four baths, and a closet where Alice the Housekeeper spent a lot of time.

Flint Eastwood turns 93 today.

And lately, every day is a struggle to remember, did he take six multivitamins or only five?

Ask yourself one question.

Do you feel lucky?

Martin the Scorsese is making a new movie about Jesus and the three wise men will be played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.

That's right.

That's all I got.

Hey, you know what looks like a hit and run?

My junk drawer.

Do you

have a junk drawer?

I was raised that we had one catch all drawer.

And the next one to it was the junk drawer.

So what's the difference between a catch-all drawer and a junk drawer in your house?

Catch-all drawers that's in the counter.

Everything on the counter, you just open the drawer, slide it over and throw it in, shut the drawer.

Okay, I got that.

The junk drawer was...

Any time you find a fuse for the house or parts left over from like, you know, Menards, you put something together, you have a screw, the hinge is left over, went in the junk drawer.

And I think most people have all kinds of things.

The tape measure, maybe a picture from long ago, a match book from a place you went to 20 years ago.

I mean, all kinds of stuff like that.

But everybody's junk drawer is different.

Everyone's is different.

I

hope somebody has a better drawer than I had.

Hey.

No one has better drawers than you have, okay?

And don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

Keep it down.

I want your wife after me.

Sorry, sorry, Apple Salad.

Goodbye.

Yes, yes, fine drawers, my friend.

And let's go from that into... It's five particular things that I've got for

you.

And now, the water's wake-up call with this morning's five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

So without further ado, thing one!

That's always the problem with this, you know, where to start, where to start?

Well, let's start at the beginning.

My very first story involves, and this is something you really, by the way, have to pay attention to, okay?

Pay attention to this because I'd never heard this before, but this is a very big summer safety tip.

Do not leave sunglasses on your dashboard or they could turn the sun into a death ray and burn up your car.

Sounds extreme doesn't it especially the way I guess I delivered it but a fire department in England posted this video or a photo Excuse me not a video of photo after it happened to somebody's car this weekend and it melted their dash

and burned a big hole in their windshield.

You know, it's kind of like, you know, those awful kids, you know, back in the day would take the magnifying glass and would use the reflection of the sun to burn bugs, ants and things.

Same concept.

but with sunglasses, so don't leave them on your dash.

How about this?

You know, with the script spelling bee, oh, I should do this first.

Sometimes I just get way too fast for my brain.

But with the script spelling bee going on, Google Trends have revealed these top trending how to spell search in all 50 states.

And there are a few easy words we struggle with, including sugar, quarter, science,

Daughter?

And Nevada even has a problem with the word problem.

I mean, a few of them are kind of tough, like shenanigans in Michigan or miscellaneous in New Mexico or embarrassed in Kentucky.

And Iowa, according to Google Trends, cannot spell Thursday.

I think the people I'm talking to know how to spell Thursday.

I'll bet they even know how to spell throwback.

So practice Thursday, Iowa.

Give us this third

thing.

So there's a new term called bed rotting, aka just being lazy.

So this is Gen Z. By the way, their newest self-care trend is called bed rotting, where you just stay in bed all day.

And the only rule is you're not allowed to feel guilty.

I mean, come on, Gen Z's obsession with this whole self-care thing has gone far enough, and maybe the next trend should be get up and actually do something, y'all lousy.

This is in New Zealand, and what they're talking about doing, the airlines weigh your luggage, well now, they're gonna be weighing people.

That would be awkward, wouldn't it?

You have to stand on a scale before you could get on a plane?

I mean, how would that go, you think?

Hello, sir.

Welcome to Air New Zealand.

Thanks.

Before you can board the plane, please step on the scale.

Okay.

Sorry, one at a time, please.

Huh?

Just kidding.

However, you may want to consider eating more salads.

Have a nice flight, Tubby.

What?

Thank you for flying Air New Zealand.

Next.

See, I don't think I'd like that.

It might give me a complex or something.

We've all been waiting for.

And the fifth thing.

This

is a Canadian bakery owner.

There is a thief.

Very friendly Canadian thief.

This Canadian bakery owner finds herself laughing after watching the security camera footage of a thief breaking into her business.

And this is the owner of Something Sweet, Emma Irvine.

She's laughing as she gives a play-by-play of this ridiculous break-in.

Kicked the door in, walked around, sat down for, you know, quite a long time.

He realized, I guess, that he had made a mess and he grabs a mop and a mop bucket and goes to try to, like, clean up all of the glass from the door that he kicked in.

After he's cleaned up as much as he can, he walks out with six cupcakes and goes on his way.

And, you know, it turned it from this, like, kind of not-so-great experience to some of the best laughs I've ever had.

I mean, you just can't make this stuff

up.

No, you really can't.

You really can't.

Only in Canada, people.

Only in Canada.

And I think that's five things.

That's five things.

Five things.

You didn't know you needed to hear.

Hey, and let's take one more phone call as far as the junk drawer.

Now, you think it's more of a Midwestern thing and not so much a national thing,

right?

We have a junk drawer.

Nobody else does.

No?

No, not that I'm aware

of.

I never thought of that as an exclusive Midwest thing, the junk drawer.

Yeah, because I'll talk to people from other places, you know, if you're talking to somebody on the Uber there, don't you know?

Yeah, oh

yeah.

They don't know what a junk drawer is, they have no idea.

Well, I wonder where these non-Midwesterners keep their crap, you know, like half a deck of cards or their useless Bed Bath and Beyond coupons.

Where do they keep them?

Everything I'll never

that's why they call it the junk

draw

All right.

Well, I'll end on that.

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