The Bright Side

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The Bright Side

The Waters Wake Up Call with Mike Waters · Wed Aug 17, 2022

Maybe there'll be something and maybe there won't.

I

hit and run?

Well, what

do you know?

I hit and run is a... It's not a problem.

The cops came.

They said it's fine.

I just got sideswiped by a hit-and-run waitress.

About the headline?

Yeah, that made a hit-and-run this morning.

I want more headlines.

Those are joke headlines.

I am speechless.

I am without speech.

I had no idea that was gonna happen until bang, it just hit me in the head.

All right, it's a good thing I'm ready for anything on a Wendom Wednesday.

So Miller High Life has developed a beer-infused ice cream bar.

It's the perfect treat for families who want their kids to develop an alcohol problem.

So Americans are going to Mexico for cheaper groceries.

Boy, honestly, I'd rather pay more for bread than smuggle it back into the U.S.

up my... I'll say skirt.

Up my skirts.

That's what I was gonna say.

So a study finds the more you exercise, the bigger your brain gets.

I think the study has a margin of error of plus or minus Rob Gronkowski.

So, you know, it's been one year.

No, you know what?

I'm gonna skip that one.

That's right.

I am just gonna randomly skip that one.

I'm gonna erase it off the sheet.

Today is National Thrift Stop Day.

So, you know, if you're interested in stuff that was cast off by someone else, you know, I hear Pete Davidson's available.

And if you're in Hollywood, be sure to stop by your favorite thrift shop and say hi to their new assistant manager, Ricky Schroeder.

Today is also National Massachusetts Day.

As per tradition, locals are celebrating by beating the heck out of an old lady with a Yankees hat.

Why would they do that?

Disney Plus will raise its fee to $10.99.

You know, it's still cheaper than Netflix, which costs like $15.99.

And, you know, interacting with your family, which costs your soul.

Not my family, though.

Some.

Some families.

So the CW series, Leonardo, premiered last night.

It's about the world-renowned artist who, I think, won't sleep with anyone who's not a supermodel under the age of 25.

Maybe I have him confused with another Leonardo.

Madonna made out with two women to celebrate her 64th birthday.

Now, that's how to celebrate.

You know, and, God, you know, thinking about mine, you know, I'm pretty sure we just took my Nana to Olive Garden and called it good.

So the Hemsworth brothers are backing a scientific effort to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

And at first you wonder why they would consider such a dumb idea.

And then you remember one of them once was engaged to Miley Cyrus.

Hey, you know, Sean Penn?

62 today.

So Sean Penn happy birthday.

He's listening online at 1057KOKZ.com, of course.

And proud to say that he can still punch out all of his birthday candles with one punch.

And by the way, Sean Penn 62, that's 434 in out of control.

angerball

years.

And finally, Snoop Dogg.

That's right, Snoop Dogg's new cereal is called Snoop Loops.

What else would it be?

Typical Snoop, only associating with products that can be enjoyed in bowls.

Well,

thank

you.

Thank

you very much.

So Robert De Niro is gonna be in a new movie and it's not one of those dumb movies that he makes, you know, just to make a buck.

It sounds like it's gonna be pretty good.

It's called Wise Guys.

So it's about the gangsters, the rival mob bosses.

So Robert De Nero is going to play two, count them two real-life rival mob bosses, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello.

That's the same old mobster love story.

Genovese tried to have Costello...

killed.

So in other words, you could say that in this movie, De Niro will try to whack himself.

And it's going to be directed by a great director, Barry Levinson.

You know, he directed like Rain Man and The Natural and Good Morning Vietnam, and the list goes on.

And the script, Wise Guys, written by Nicholas Palleggi, who wrote the screenplays, they were originally books, Goodfellas and Casino.

How would you like to hear about Girl Scout cookies?

Oh, I wish I could still eat Girl Scout cookies, but that's another story.

They're called Raspberry Rallys.

It's a brand new Girl Scout cookie and they're billing them as a sister cookie to thin mince.

Thin mince.

They look identical on the outside, but the inside is bright pink.

So you can't get them yet, but they'll be joining the lineup next year and you won't have to wait too long because their site has a countdown ticker.

That says they'll be out in early January and they'll also be the Girl Scouts first online exclusive cookie.

So I may have to have one of those.

I just may.

Alright, so here's a question.

Have you ever sent a text to someone but it was meant for someone else?

It can be a little embarrassing, right?

Well, when this happens in Florida, it usually ends in jail time because in Florida they're not real bright.

So there's a drug dealer.

arrested after sending a random text, that's right, a random text to a county commissioner.

Yeah, 18 years old, Florida, uh-huh, named Jack Fisher.

He was arrested just a couple days ago, Monday after he sent a random text message to this county commissioner offering to sell him an eight ball of cocaine.

So the county commissioner went to the police and they traced the number to this dope and the authorities arranged a little meetup at the shore of a pond near Bird of Paradise Drive and Palm Coast, which sounds romantic.

doesn't it?

Well, it wasn't really romantic.

Fisher arrived busted by police and he was carrying a bag with 3.2 grams of fentanyl enough to potentially kill 1,585 people.

So another dope off the streets, thank goodness.

Alright, I think you should know that the compact disc turns 40 years old today.

Ah, it still seems like the new format, doesn't it?

But now we've gone back to vinyl, even.

It's come full circle.

But the CD...

released 40 years ago and it was produced in a factory in Germany and the very first commercially available CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street.

That was only released in Japan that October but the very first music CD pressed here in America was pressed a couple of years later and it was Springsteen's Born in the USA.

You can't pick a better one for that for first CD.

And you know I should also let you know that

Today is National Baby Boomer Day.

Now, I'm a Gen Xer, but for the Baby Boomer's Happy National Baby Boomer Day, it recognizes those born between 46 and 64.

And for those of you too young to know, you know, pretty much here they are in a nutshell, or maybe I should say in a Beatles nutshell.

All right, sing it.

I watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan many years ago.

I listened to records, A tracks and cassettes.

I still buy CDs and I'm not streaming yet.

I let my grandkids program the phone.

They put Bluetooth in the car.

This I was thinking while the light was still blinking on my VCR.

There you go.

He goes, you know, I think that's five things.

What the hell were those things?

Five things.

You didn't know you needed to hear.

Thanks.

I needed that.

You know everything now.

That's five things no one else knows.

That's five things.

Thanks.

I needed that.

This is the water's wake-up call.

Thank you.

I needed to hear that.

Hey, right now, you know what you gotta do right now.

Look

at the bright

side, okay?

Bright

side.

Bright side?

What's the bright side?

Let me tell you what the bright side is.

Ha!

The bright side.

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

Oh, and of course, sponsored by our good friends over at Wong Collision Center.

So, Trucker Trevor and Willie Ray from Willie Ray's Q-Shack went down to Eastern Kentucky, and you probably heard about all the tough flooding they had.

Boy, just, uh...

like biblical proportions, really.

But Trucker Trevor's been checking in with us and giving us updates on the situation and how they've been doing.

And I think you guys are home now, aren't you, Trucker Trevor?

We made it home.

We had a couple of incidences on the way home.

Our camper lost a tire on the way back.

And then we had a grill come loose off the pitch on a really bad bump in northern Kentucky.

Well, actually, the one I was falling in, it ran into the back of my truck.

that's

ended up the way it did.

Right.

Tough drive home.

How did things end with feeding the flood victims in Kentucky?

How did all that go?

Great.

Every day we were swamped.

We did basically average wealth over 1,000 meals a day.

I think the last day we did 1,200 plus.

But most days we're just under or just over 1,000 meals that we serve.

So how long were you there?

When did you actually make it back home?

or start home, I should say.

We started home Saturday morning, so we served Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday, and we can kind of keep track of the field.

We served by those foam free carpentries, how many would go through, and we contracted, and it was up between 63, 6400 fields, I think, for the week.

so did you guys have enough money to cover costs are you still trying to uh to get some money ven mode so uh maybe you can uh have enough money to go to the the next disaster-ridden area

yeah he uh i talked to willy briefly uh sunday evening and he said all told he might have to come up with a little bit out of his pocket but that's not a big deal i mean that's why he does it um

right

i was making a daily run to get supplies and we were spending 1600 over 2000

just for supplies.

Wow.

Um so

that

we brought enough to get us through like uh first two days was but

yeah

then every day after that we run up to Lexington and I I brought my pick up up there just stacked the guilt of new supplies every day.

That

just makes it extra generous.

The fact you guys are doing this for free and paying yourself, you know, paying for all of this stuff.

I mean, a money.

Well, I know at one time he has over 10,000 in donations and then another, I don't know how many thousand during the week, but it's probably close to $3,000 a day total to get everything done.

Wow.

So, you know, talk about a generous thing to do.

I mean, they're not doing this, you know, for any other reason than to do it and help people.

You know, even spending some of their own money in order to do it.

But I'll tell you what, if you would like to help Willie Ray and Trucker Trevor and the rest of them, you know, donate for the good of all they do.

So you can always Venmo to at Willie Ray's Q Shack.

All one word, of course.

Willie Fairly code hashtag 38

zero six.

So if you can do that, I know they would greatly appreciate it, not that they're asking ever for that.

So there you go, man.

If there is a bright side today, that is the bright side.

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Now everybody sing.