We're gonna use a little good news.
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.
When you're chewing on lost gristle, back rumble, give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best.
Hey!
Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 105.7 KOKZ.
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So let's take a look at this.
What could have been a real dark side?
But thank goodness for Good Samaritans, especially this one in Florida.
And police are praising him and rightly so for saving a teen from an armed kidnapping.
So this was on Saturday afternoon, Brianna Hardin's children.
They were taking out the trash from their Hollywood, Florida apartment when the kids were approached by their neighbor, 65-year-old George Rudolph Pratt.
Known to them as Mr. George.
Well Pratt handed water to the two youngest children and after they ran off he grabbed the oldest child a 13 year old boy by the back of his jacket and attempted to drag him into his apartment.
So another neighbor Chris witnessed this whole incident and thankfully intervened asking Pratt for a beer.
So then Pratt released the boy and all three of them.
went inside Pratt's apartment.
So once inside, Chris looked in the fridge, and when he turned around, Pratt had pulled a gun.
So the neighbor grabbed Pratt's hand, giving the boy time to get out of the apartment.
Then he pushed the gun away and ran out behind the boy.
So police responded to the incident and arrested Pratt, charging him with battery and armed kidnapping, and then holding him on a $76,000 bond.
Wow.
So on Monday, Pembroke Park police tweeted about this incident and reminded parents to maintain awareness of your surroundings and keep your children safe.
Words of wisdom there, words to live by.
They then added that the victim was saved by a neighbor who totally disregarded his own safety to save the child.
What a hero!
Neighbor Chris, gotta give a shout out to Neighbor Chris.
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Thank you for making it just a whacked-out, random Wednesday.
And we were talking about food you should never eat in bed.
Pickles?
Absolutely.
So you don't want to eat fast
and bad?
You get pickle juice on those sheets?
You're just going to dream about pickles all night is what'll happen.
Surprise.
Gherkins and Gennies and all kinds of the dills.
Right.
You ever had
a bad dream involving a dill pickle?
No.
Oh, yeah.
I was thinking about writing a horror movie involving a killer dill.
No, that's been
funny.
Maybe it would.
Who knows?
Killer pickle.
Yeah.
All
right.
I'm going to go write that now.
Right there.
Yeah.
Right after you tell me the song you want to
hear.
Oh, it's
a
it's
a good one and you know the pills that they're talking about in white rabbit.
Those will give you weirder dreams than dill pickles will.
Exactly.
And the ones that mother gives you will make you dream of dill pickles.
Yeah, there you
go.
That's it.
Cheetos.
Cheetos.
They get orange all over and candy kisses.
If you fall asleep, they melt really fast.
Just don't fall asleep.
Just don't fall asleep.
I think that's in the trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street.
I watch movies.
And I have to keep watching them because I keep falling asleep before the end.
I changed bedding at least few times a year because penguins have to be off of here.
What?
Penguins?
That's my only superstition.
Are you saying you have penguin bedsheets?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I thought you had actual penguins.
Oh, penguins would make a mess.
They sure would.
You are the poster girl for Wandom Wednesday.
Yeah.
From Cheetos to Mo-
Movies to Sheets to Penguins?
We'll call you Wandom Wendy.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
Good morning.
Well, good morning, Chattie Cathy.
How are you?
I'm fine.
How are
you?
Oh, I'm doing just fine.
Do you have something to add to the list of things you should never eat in bed?
Watermelon.
Watermelon?
Boy, that'll, uh, that all that juice and stuff.
Yep.
Oh, I
can't.
It would be a
mess.
I would think you'd have to have water on the brain to do something like that.
There you go.
Water on the brain to eat watermelon in bed.
Yep,
you have to stay along the head.
Boom.
Yeah, on the head that contains the brain with the water and the stuff.
Here you
go.
All right, watermelon is added to the list.
Thank you there, Chattie Cathy.
Yep, that
was a good
day.
All right, how about another one?
You.
Yeah, another thing.
By the way, good morning, Mr. Waters.
Good morning.
And another thing you don't want to eat in bed, that disgusts your significant other, is liver.
Liver?
Yeah, liver.
And put onions on that, and it's probably even more so frowned upon.
Yes, it is.
Good lord.
Liver, onions, ketchup, and mustard.
Do you get the ketchup and mustard?
All over and the onions fall off.
That is disgusting.
You know what I think that would look like if all of that stuff happened?
Yeah, nasty.
I think it would look like Walt Disney threw up the red and the yellow and the brown and the
Yes, I do.
And by the way, it feels good to be single.
You don't have to listen to your wife or your girlfriend boss around.
All you have to listen to is KOKZ.
Exactly like I got on right now.
No potato chip or popcorn.
of the salty greasy buttery stuff?
Yeah, I
sure wouldn't want to be lying on chip guts would be bad.
But yeah, if you drop a lot of popcorn, it's like, what is this?
And then you're waking up in the middle of the night, you forgot you had popcorn in bed and you start screaming.
That's right.
If it's designed to sleep it or something else, we can't mention that in the radio.
Well, yeah, we can say something else, though.
I think that works.
There you go.
But no popcorn or no potato chips.
No popcorn, no potato chips just for sleeping and something else.
That's it.
That's it.
Exactly.
You got
it
right.
Sugar candies and chicken wings.
Oh, chicken wings, for sure.
Good lord.
Can you imagine getting all that barbecue sauce all over your blankets and your sheets?
Can you imagine aluminum girl coming home and seeing Iron Man in bed eating chicken wings?
What would she say?
Oh, man, have all your face and your fingers.
Well, who cares about you can
wash
that, but what about the bed?
Using your pillowcase, the white gear and the sheets to wipe
your face.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
And
you happen to fall asleep and roll
over into your pillow.
Yep.
And you know, if, if aluminum girl comes home and sees you sleeping with all the, the chicken wing, uh, barbecue sauce and everything, she might think it's blood and that you're, uh, you, you got murdered.
Literally.
Yes.
Oatmeal.
Yeah, what happens with oatmeal if you eat it in bed?
Sticks to everything.
Sticks to everything.
Now do you know this from personal experience or is it just something you're assuming would probably happen?
Assuming something that would happen.
Okay, I was testing you because if you said oatmeal is a terrible food to eat in bed and you're eating it in bed, well, I'd have to call BS on you.
You got that right.
Yeah, man.
Alright, well no oatmeal.
Okay, so we'll add that to my fondue.
Fondue, chicken wings, Debbie Doobie says ribs.
Oh, ribs in the barbecue sauce.
Yeah, that'd be, that'd be bad.
Snake Charmer, it doesn't really matter what you eat in bed as long as you don't fall asleep.
Okay, okay, Snake Charmer.
You weirdo.
But add to the list.
Exactly.
Run on.
Thanks man.
Have a
good day.
Hey, you too.
Thanks.
Bye bye.
Bye.
I got a song request, Paradise City by Guns N' Roses.
It's local.
That song was written
about Waverly.
Was it really?
I did not know that.
You learn a lot of incorrect information.
It's about LA, actually, but it sounded good, Waverly.
What else do you know that I don't know?
Well, I don't know you very well, but I would have to imagine a plethora of things.
No, I got a random fact for you.
Did you know the word bikini comes from a language that is spoken on the Marshall Islands?
and literally Bikini translates to surface of coconuts.
Oh, I love me a lovely bunch of coconuts.
I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
Take us to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are
pretty.
Oh, won't you take me home?
Yeah.
To Waverly, Iowa.
No, LA.
Oh, that's right, LA.
I forgot.
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
10.
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