Supernatural Connection with Mama Mary

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

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So this is about my mother who passed away over the 4th of July in 2021.

And really, first of all, before hearing this whole story, you need to know that my mother passed away in July of 2021 over the 4th of July weekend.

And then second of all,

I was a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz as a kid and I asked Mama Mary to tell me the story every night before bed when I was a kid.

Alright, so I found out about my mom's death the second I got to the radio station to prepare for the show.

It was July 5th or 6th, I think, but the nurse called me

said your mom passed away, and I was devastated of course, but I had to stick around and do the show.

Everyone else was still out of town for the fourth, so it was me or nobody, so I had to stick around and do my show.

Well, it just so happened, it was a tunes day, and I thought, well, I need some cheering up, so I had the brilliant idea for the topic, and we just did this yesterday.

Happy tunes!

So it was that tunes day that a crazy thing started happening, and it started happening that morning when I got a call from a listener, something I thought that was pretty cool.

He said this for a happy tune.

That was the day after my mom died, and it was really our big connection, the whole Wizard of Oz thing.

Okay, so then...

It was, I think, the second time, yeah, it was the second time, driving to her funeral.

The news was on and there was a story about Dorothy's ruby red slippers being stolen or found.

I was just focused on the ruby red slippers.

I'm on my way to my mom's funeral and this story comes on and I'm freaking.

This is the second thing and it's right on the way to the funeral.

So I'm going crazy thinking, oh well, she's got to be here, right?

And then, and this is really what sealed the deal for me, was the day after I had my heart attack.

This would have been December 20th, 2021, just a couple of few months after she had passed away.

The day after I'm in the hospital, I go on my phone and I have this Photoshop app that shares pictures and images, let you play around and practice your Photoshop pictures from movies and TV.

Well, the picture for that day that they shared was the Tin Man with Dorothy and the caption, if I only had a heart.

I mean, come on!

That's crazy.

That's nuts.

It was the morning I had heard that she had passed away, got the request for Wizard of Oz on the way to the funeral, ruby-red slippers, and then the heart, if I only had a heart, with the Tin Man.

That was really the last time I had seen anything about the Wizard of Oz and the connection with my mother.

Until yesterday, we were playing Happy Tunes for Tunes Day, and I thought, oh, I gotta play that Wizard of Oz call.

So I played that, and then when I was driving home, I was chatting with Mrs. Waters, telling her the story.

I had heard the call from the day after my mom died about the wonderful Wizard of Oz being a happy tune.

Okay, so we're talking about that, and boom, I get home, and I pull up my phone, and this is probably an hour after we were talking about the Wizard of Oz and my mom, I saw another story in the Associated Press

about Dorothy's ruby red slippers are up for auction.

So I hadn't heard anything for probably a couple of years and we started talking about it because of the Happy Tunes Wizard of Oz reference and all of a sudden there's a news story about the ruby red slippers.

I think that's crazy, especially the specific things if I only had a heart and on the way to the funeral and it's crazy how things like that have happened.

Maybe you've had similar things or even crazier things happen but that's

It feels like my mom is there, and we're still kind of having that Wizard of Oz connection.

It's pretty cool, pretty cool.

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Now, everybody sing.