Waters Wake-Up Call presents, Mother's Day 2025

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

Hope you're having a great Mother's Day weekend.

And since I'm such a good son, I started celebrating mom a little early, like on Wandom Wednesday.

We were discussing momisms.

Sure, I think I might have even called last year and told you.

Maybe.

But I'm not

for sure.

If she didn't like something, she would...

Be so kind and so sweet and she would think, well, isn't that different?

I think I do remember you calling with that.

She was always so kind and sweet when she said it.

Right.

Anybody that knew her knew.

Yeah, she doesn't like it.

Even if you didn't know her, you'd at least be confused.

Isn't that?

Did she mean good different?

Bad different?

Did she mean weird?

Did she mean mentally insane?

What did she mean?

What did she mean?

Yeah, I don't know.

That's different.

Oh my God.

That's the last thing I want to be is different.

I

was trying to be polite about it and just set a flat out saying that's ugly.

Yeah, right.

Did you grow up to now use that phrase?

Well, isn't that different?

No.

I knew what it meant, and I just thought it was not very nice.

Okay, okay, so that was something that your mother gave you that you threw away in the garbage.

Exactly.

The one hour daddy kicked out of when the little kids before they went to school, the mother started counting.

When I get to 10, you're in trouble, so I can imagine when they got to school and they started to learn to count.

Yeah.

You know, keep your guard counting and they freaked out.

Right.

Yeah, PTSD.

Uh-oh, what's he gonna do?

I don't even know this lady.

That, yeah, that's great.

That's great.

Good stuff, man.

Good stuff.

Good call.

Good call.

I try, I try not to, I try to come with the quality and not quantity.

Well,

God bless your right to heck.

And thanks for making everyone smile in the morning, Michael Waters.

Well,

that's the goal, whether it happens or not, I don't know, but it's the goal.

We'll have to call

you Smiley Waters.

Well, my son was his only child, so when he was very good, I always said, Gary, you're my favorite.

Well, of course, did he figure that out?

Yeah, well, I'm your only kid, Ma.

He did, and I said all the more reason that you should be the favorite.

If you weren't, you'd be really screwing

up.

Sorry, son, you may be my only kid, but you're not my favorite.

My favorite is the one I haven't had yet.

You're bad.

I never did the, I'll give you some to cry about.

I always said, I brought you into this world.

I'll take you out, and I know how to make another one, but just like you, you won't be

missed.

Now see I I've never heard that second part of course I've heard the I put you into this world I can take you out, but what was that second part again?

I

Love that I love I wish my kids were still young now

My mom

I love you, but sometimes I just don't like

you.

Yes, I remember hearing that too.

And the I love you part kind of cushioned that because it just went ahead and said, you know what?

I don't like you.

You're like, oh my God, I really went

overboard

this time.

Yeah, it was only when I did something I really wasn't supposed to do.

Yes, that brings up the I'm not mad at you.

I'm disappointed.

And that was worse than being mad.

Disappointed.

The one I really heard a lot was, you just wait till your dad gets home.

And when it was just her, we thought, hey, we can do anything and we'd start doing whatever.

And then when she brought up, wait till your dad gets home.

It's like, oh no, she's going to tell dad.

We didn't think of that.

Yep.

Yep.

And

we're going to get a blanket

too.

Yeah.

Throwback Thursday, we were talking iconic TV moms.

always loved from all in the family to think that.

I loved her

because people would say she was fluttery, but she was no dummy.

And

that's

what I

love about her.

Even though she looked confused and that, she would come out with wonderful things about being good to people.

And I always liked that.

It made me smile.

Well, and she would stand up to Archie.

When she'd had enough, you knew

it.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, she stood her ground.

I love that.

She knew what was right and what was wrong, and she made a good, good point of it.

WWED.

What would Edith do?

Perfect!

Oh, I

need to get that bumper sticker.

Yeah,

yeah.

WWED.

What would Edith do?

That's

a good one.

There we go.

That's a

good one.

Yeah.

Oh, maybe you'll make a fortune, Celadon.

That 70's show.

I thought she was great too.

Oh my gosh, I see Kitty.

Check me out.

Oh, she did.

The dad as well, red.

Yep.

He was a little furious.

Yeah.

Red, he just said it.

Like the 70s were kind of like that.

Yeah.

People just said things and it was, everything was just cool, you know?

Right.

Yeah.

Nobody got

offended.

Exactly.

I was born in the 70s.

That's why I love the 70s.

So,

yeah.

I was born in the 60s, so I pretty much remember most of the 70s.

That's why I love the 70s.

Well,

that is good.

Yeah, there you go.

That's a blessing.

Yes, it is.

See what I'm saying.

I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Good, because I can't lift it.

I can put it down.

but I, my back.

Yeah, this age thing is really kicking me in the behind.

Hey, I'm older than you.

I was born in the 60s, remember.

I know.

I know.

You're doing well.

You're doing real well.

Thank you.

Thank you, youngster.

I appreciate

it.

All right.

Hello, Michael.

Well, Sharpie, what say you about TV moms?

It was funny.

My sister, mid-70s, she came down with a quiz and she's like, who would be your TV mom that you would most like to have?

And they gave us more.

Or kinda cute,

I'm trying to be respectful here, but she was.

She was one hot partridge.

Yes.

With a nice pair of trees.

He was a nice partridge with a nice pair of trees.

Yeah.

I love the way you convince things make them socially acceptable.

Oh, well, thank you.

You have to roll with the media that you're in.

And that's why you're a master of what you do.

Yes.

So I

said yes very quickly after master.

Good morning, Mike.

It's the Weiner.

How are you?

Hello there, Weiner Diner.

How are you?

My favorite TV mom,

and that

is Shirley Jones from Partridge Family.

You know, that's the big one so far.

Everybody's saying Shirley Partridge.

I have a story for you.

Oh, good.

I love stories.

One of the reasons that she is my favorite...

is because of her son, Shawn,

who was

a teenage art throb.

Yeah.

All of us girls were gaga over him.

Yeah.

Well, I

got the Teen Tiger Beat star and TV and all those magazines

that I

posted on my wall and all that fun stuff.

But I actually got to meet Shirley Jones.

When?

Where?

How?

Why?

I

was living in Southern California

and I

belong to a little Lutheran church.

over in Orange County, and they were having a new amphitheater opening.

And she was the headliner, Shirley Jones Christmas.

And they asked all the local choirs to send representatives to sing with Shirley

Jones.

So myself and another choir member volunteered.

And we wore choir robes.

And we practiced with her all day.

And at the end, when we were ready to go on stage, she came out.

and introduced herself, and she was still in a robe and getting her makeup done, and she thanked us very graciously for singing with her.

That's cool.

It was amazing.

That's cool.

It

was so cool.

I mean, I was probably about 20 feet from her.

Yeah.

And I didn't really actually shake her hand or touch her or anything.

Well,

of course not.

That's surely Jones for God's sakes.

She's royalty, right?

Yeah.

It was really cool living in Southern California.

I didn't meet too many celebrities, but I did have a great time.

You're no longer a whiner.

You're the OC.

That is a Hawaiian.

What is

that?

Hawaiian.

Hawaiian.

I'm the Kalawian.

Yeah, the Kalawian.

The Kalawianer?

There we go.

Kalawianer, I think that's

it.

I want to be in the Partridge family.

You want Shirley to be your mom?

Yeah, and I want to be really close to my sister, Susan Day.

She's not only attractive, she also gets the radio on her teeth.

Yes.

Do you remember that

episode?

I do.

I pause for a second, yes.

I can

hear music in

my mouth.

I think it's Rolling Stones.

Shirley Partridge as your mother.

She was David Cassidy's stepmother, and when he auditioned, he didn't know that she was in it.

I vaguely remember that.

I had David Cassidy hair when I was, it must have been six years old, had a shag haircut.

I had them the morning when I wake up.

Yeah, I have that every once in a while, but I had it on purpose then.

Well, yeah, the girls loved

it.

Should have seen me at recess.

Yeah, you probably had a crowd of them around you.

Oh, mobbed.

Just wanting to run their fingers through your hair.

Yes, and at home, they'd just be pounding on my door, pounding and patting.

And I finally had to let them out.

Sticks was the big one in our house.

So you're a big sticks fan now?

I've seen them probably five or six times.

Oh, you are?

You mean five or six times?

Yes, five

or six times.

So how exactly did your mom turn you on to

sticks?

the set tape.

So one of the first ones we had was the greatest hits album on cassette tape.

And then the second one that followed up was their live performance from the 96 return to paradise tour.

Oh, it was a double cassette.

I saw that tour.

That was the last tour with Dennis DeYoung.

I unfortunately was never old enough to see Dennis DeYoung with them, but was able to see him with Lawrence Gowan in 99 when they came out.

I remember I was working a radio station when I when I saw them and we had these backstage passes and I just asked, Hey, is Dennis DeYoung

coming down?

I think it was Panazzo who said no.

Dennis will not be down.

So they were having none of Dennis's crap even then.

Did

you ever see him with your mom and

dad?

Oh, your kids are lonesome

losers.

That's the problem.

And

it's funny that they got you into Little River Band and you're talking about a boat on the Chesapeake Bay.

No wonder that stuff is considered Yacht Rock these

days.

from my childhood.

Yes, your childhood, but your kid's childhood, mom don't even go there.

The more Yacht Rocks, they want to go grow up.

They don't get it.

Can you play Snoopy versus the Red Baron?

Snoopy versus the Red Baron, eh?

Yes, my mom played it, I played it, my grandkids love

it.

Yeah, so it's been passed down through the generations.

Oh, yeah.

That's cool.

Do you remember first hearing it?

Oh, geez, I had to be just six or seven.

Funny, that's kind of when my parents started influencing my taste, too, was about six or seven.

That's funny.

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