Hey, how you doing?
It's Mike Waters.
And this is the Waters Wake Up Call Morning Meltdown.
Just to kind of go over some things we did this morning with the hit and run headlines and the five things.
And we celebrated National Tourism Day by talking about some of the cool things to see around Iowa.
Now, a lot of people don't know all of the cool stuff that Iowa has to offer.
But we do.
I think we consider it a really well kept
secret and we don't want you know any of those other people to know really you know New York and LA they they call us flyover country and that's fine with me they can just fly over and never land here that's cool by me man so we were talking about that and we'll get into some of those calls because you brought up some great things to do in Iowa
But before we get into any calls, let's start off this morning and we start off the morning meltdown like we do.
Every waters wake up call Monday through Friday 5 50.
We kick it off with the bright side.
Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 157 KOKZ.
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So I was telling you about this guy last week and he is a hero for for saving a baby who almost rolled into traffic.
in the in the baby stroller you remember that story well what had happened was mom had gotten out of the car and put the baby in the baby stroller and then tripped and fell and the baby stroller starts rolling towards traffic thank god for this guy lept into action saved the baby
And by the way, this guy, a former truck driver, and down on his lock had become homeless, and boy, was he in the right place at the right time.
This was at Applebee's, and he had just interviewed for a job at this, at this Applebee's, right?
So during a media interview, then Ronald Nessman, our hero, got a call.
saying he got the job.
So thank goodness for that.
And here he is.
He had just answered the call to save a baby.
Well, now here he is answering the call to take the job.
Thank
you very much.
Well, I got the job without the
beach.
All right.
Yeah, baby.
Thank you, people.
I appreciate everything, guys.
There you go.
He was a hero and now he's able to kind of climb his way out of this hole he had gotten himself into.
So I, you know, it may have to do with karma.
It may have to do with the fact that he just, man, he's looking at his life thinking, okay, I got to get something going, you know, pulling himself back up by the bootstraps as some people would say.
So a big shout out to Ronald Nessman, hero, and a big congrats for getting that job and to get himself out of homelessness, wishing him all the luck in the
world.
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All right, so we're gonna get into the hit and run headlines and get you up to date on everything you need for the day.
But let's take a call first.
We were talking about National Tourism Day and the cool things to see in Iowa.
Like, for instance, what do you got?
Good morning, it's from the North Country.
Well, hello there, Mr. North Country IOL.
I bet you got some spice there in the North...
country we should all go and visit.
I
wonder if you go to the Nordic Fest every year.
No, I've
never been to the Nordic
Fest.
Where is that?
Decora, Decora, Iowa.
You know, Nordic Fest, it's the last, I want to say the last weekend of July.
You know, I'll have to make it here to the Iowa one.
I've been to the North Dakota Nordic Fest, but not to the Iowa one.
That's way up North there.
That's all
way up North just right.
Oh
yeah.
near where my family was from from up around Langdon, North Dakota,
you know.
Langdon, I've been there a few times, Langdon, yeah.
Yeah, that's where their family members are up around Langdon.
Well, Fanta, well, I'm gonna have to check out the Iowa Nordic Fest then, there.
Yeah, Nordic Fest would be something for you to try in Decora Island.
Just
to go through a couple of texts.
I don't get to enough texts in the morning There are so many texts and I just don't have time for all of them But here's one in Dubuque the shot tower not the pizza place 4th Street elevator and Eagle Point Park Majestic view of the Mississippi.
I'm gonna have to check that out.
Thanks for that Let's see here Leclerc, Iowa is a great place to visit in Iowa to their home to antique archaeology, which is the
the storefront for American Pickers TV show.
Wow, I didn't know that on the History Channel.
There's also the Mississippi Valley Distillery where they make their own whiskey from Iowa corn from the grain to the glass.
Everything comes from Iowa.
Also, it's home to Buffalo Bill Cody.
There's a museum there and you can go see where his childhood home was.
That's awesome.
I didn't know that about LeClaire, Iowa.
See, we're learning something.
We'll check more text
Take more calls about tourism in Iowa after we hit and run into some headlines.
Yes, the hit and run headlines, as I like to call them, both the coronation of King Charles and the Kentucky Derby were held over the weekend.
So in other words, it was a huge weekend for stupid hats.
Oh, there we go.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
An airline passenger in India had 22 sna-
in her luggage, which means the picketing writer of a Samuel L. Jackson movie got a timely residual check, so good for them.
So the all-you-can-eat restaurants are making a comeback across the country, as are pharmaceutical companies making diabetes meds.
You know, the World Health Organization declared the COVID pandemic over.
Yes!
And Miley Cyrus, if you know who that is, responded to the news with a celebratory pole licking.
So to avoid heavy casualties, a Russian mercenary group threatened to pull out of multiple choice Ukraine, be Belarus or see Philadelphia.
There is a new ranking of the country's most obese states.
So congrats, West Virginia, on being number one in something other than cousin marriage and meth lab explosions.
That's a proud day for them.
In fact, on the list of activities that West Virginia residents avoid, exercise has now surpassed reading.
Scientists have finally determined what's inside the moon.
They say the outer core is a solid ball with a density similar to iron, much like my head.
A UC Berkeley professor who claimed to be Native American for most of her life has admitted she's white.
Ironically, all those years she misrepresented her race, she did so without reservations.
A school district in Michigan has banned backpacks because it's easy to hide weapons in them.
That's sad, since the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a backpack is a good guy with a backpack.
Today is World Donkey Day.
Yes, World Donkey Day.
So here's a shout out to Kanye West.
Oh, sorry, different kind of jackass.
Apologize for that.
Jay Leno recently dropped by a writer's picket line to deliver multiple choice A, donuts, B, coffee, or C, poorly aged jokes about Monica Lewinsky.
Tom Brady made back out of his NFL broadcasting contract, and Joe Buck signed a 30-year extension.
The lesson here, there is no God.
Sorry, but there's not.
Seven horses died in the week-long lead up to the Kentucky Derby, which was sad news for everyone, but area meat suppliers for Taco Bell.
There you go.
Donkeys buffet.
It was all right there in the hit and run headlines.
All right, before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, let's talk more Iowa tourism kinds of places.
Where should I go?
Hey, Mike.
Hey, how are you?
Good.
I got somewhere you could hop on over to.
Well, hop is all I do.
Where should we hop to?
Go
to the Imanic colonies.
You know, I've been there a bunch of times.
That is a really, really cool place.
Yes, it is.
They've got
different shops and their own wine and beer and
chocolate and ice cream and
sauerkraut
sauerkraut yeah it's a real tempting place to go believe me i know i
know
Yes Okay Yeah
and Bubba Sorensen who does such a great job with the art on the rocks as well as having history about the art that's on the rock at all the locations So it's it's a really cool history lesson and the story he's got about being inspired by the movie saving Private Ryan and then thinking about all these great veterans and how can he honor them the idea springing out of that and how big
now it's become I mean it's really rocked into something bigger than he probably ever
imagined.
Yeah.
I've seen a few of them.
I need to see more.
But man, those are so cool.
Yeah, and that's a great way to get a feel for all of Iowa and really get to know the state.
Very cool.
And let's just take a couple more texts here.
Manchester, Iowa, Whitewater Park on the Makoketa River.
Great for kayaking, canoeing, intertubing, legacy skate park, and pizza ranch.
Hey, if it's got a pizza ranch.
boom I'm there uh let's see what else do we have both in cedar rapids check and slovak museums yep those are awesome and museum of art also yes
Little Brown Church in the Vale.
Yes, in Nashua.
Thanks for that.
Let's see.
Clear Lake, Iowa.
Of course, the crash site for Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.
Thanks for that.
All right, let's get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, and then we'll get into the rest of the
calls.
Five things you didn't know you needed to hear with Mike Waters.
I don't know if you've heard about this or not, but all you can eat buffet restaurants are coming back.
You remember when COVID first started and we thought, well, the buffets got to go, right?
Because you have a million people grabbing at the food, hopefully using the utensils set there.
But you know, there are some who are just reaching in with their hands.
I thought they were gone forever, but all you can eat buffets, back from the dead, more popular than even before COVID.
The easing of the pandemic, of course, is part of it, but it's also because people are looking for value.
And that's what you get at a buffet.
I get way too full, because when you go to a buffet, you spend the money and think, well, geez, I could go get another whole meal.
I'm not hungry, but I could actually go get another whole meal.
I think I'm going to do that.
Then you go get another whole meal, and then you get a couple of desserts.
Oh, it's fantastic.
But anyway, moving on to thing number two, let's talk about this poor lady, although she could have been paying better attention.
Oh, she's from New Jersey.
She was heading to Florida from Philadelphia, and she accidentally ended up on a flight to Jamaica.
And she had no passport on her.
And just in case you didn't know, Jamaica, another whole country.
So luckily the Frontier Airlines crew talked to authorities and they allowed her to take another flight back to the states.
That was awfully kind of them.
Before the flight, she went to the restroom and when she got to the boarding gate, they rushed her on the plane.
Totally unaware her real gate got changed.
Yeah, poor Beverly.
This is Beverly.
He bird he bird I think telling her side of this crazy story.
I laughed I said, oh, I would love to be going there, but I have a beach where I live and she said look at me this plane is going to Jamaica you're entering a country without a passport
should never have happened because I do not have a passport the woman at the gate did not do her job
she really
didn't she needed to get her on the right plane and apparently she didn't you know you're in the bathroom what are you gonna do you don't hear the announcement sheesh well at least they were able to get her you know taken care of and all of that how about a love story from a wonderful midwestern state of Minnesota where that's where I'm from but love story I'm talking about is okay on this side you got an emu
And this emu escaped on Thursday and tried to mate with another emu it saw in the next yard over.
But this relationship did not work out.
It was a very sad ending to this love story.
And you know why?
It's because the other emu
was actually a neighbor's frisbee golf goal well i hope they dug that up and and sent that along with the emu because the the golf uh the frisbee golf guy can get another one of those but this is love but uh i'm reading ahead here no no it's a it's a very sad ending so i won't uh pain you with with that uh poor emu
What are you gonna do?
Let's talk about this woman with snakes in her walls.
How would you feel if you found snakes in your walls at home?
First time home buyer in Colorado dealing with this massive snake infestation that has likely been there for a couple of years.
So what's happening is she's constantly seeing these snakes.
and has counted close to a dozen snakes already.
This is Amber Hall talking about the snake infestation she's been dealing with.
Good Lord!
Good guys, here he is, the snake.
Yeah, you could feel like it was warm and squishy in there.
Yeah.
Because they're all right here, when you open the store, you have to be super careful.
My kids and I are afraid to sleep in our beds.
I'm afraid to use the restroom because snakes might come out of the toilets.
The snake hunting, the traps, already over $1,000 I've paid.
Man, my wife would go insane.
All right, let's talk about this guy who unemployed got a promotion.
How does an unemployed guy get a promotion?
King Charles, unemployed, but went from Prince Charles
To King Charles, how does that happen?
So the coronation happened over the weekend, and with it brings the new queen, Camilla Parker Bowles.
She's come a long way since once being known as the most hated woman in Britain.
Ah, royalty, a royal pain in the...
I think that's five things.
What the hell were those things?
Five things.
You didn't know you needed to
heal.
There you go.
Four's too few and six is too many.
So that comes to five.
It's a perfect number.
All right.
So before we wrap this thing up, you know, I think I've got more people on the line here ready to talk about some really cool Iowa tourism places.
I
got an uncle who came from the West Coast and he wanted to see the museum for the Animosa State Tenet Entry.
So what's the selling point of going to see the Animosa State?
penitentiary
the history of it
that there were different sections, built at different times, built by the inmates.
It was very interesting and some of the very high-profile prisoners that have been in and out of there.
Can you name one?
Oh, not right off the top of my head.
I want to say, I think John Wayne Gacy was there for a short time.
Well, yeah, I knew it was a tough question to ask.
It's 6.30ish on a Monday morning, but I thought I'd dry.
And
they had the mental health wing, they had the women's side, and it's just one of the most
beautiful buildings that you'll ever see built out of the stone.
Sounds pretty interesting.
Very interesting.
Well, it has to be a better place to visit than to become a resident.
One of my favorite spots in the state was a canoe trip.
Yeah?
From Kendallville to Decora.
Oh, yeah, that had to be great scenery.
Oh, it's beautiful.
Going to fall and all the leaves are changing.
Absolutely.
It's a two-day trip and there's a campground.
Spend the night, and it's just beautiful up
there.
It sounds like.
So, at any point, it never became...deliverance?
No?
Any weird-looking people playing to Banjo?
No Banjo.
No.
I suppose you have to go down south for that kind of thing.
Matt, Jack Marbles, and Gladbrook,
Iowa.
What?
I didn't quite catch that.
Say that one more time.
Matt!
Okay, now
the second thing all I'm hearing is
Oh,
Wes Ben Grotto.
Yeah, the Wes Ben Grotto is beautiful and mad stick marvels.
Yeah.
And Gladbrook is excellent.
Who's
talking behind you there?
Oh, my husband can't be quiet.
He
wouldn't
call.
Because he's going to tell him about the mad sticks.
Yeah,
that's
right.
He listens to you every single morning.
We'll say hi to your husband for me and thank you guys for calling.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for the calls.
Thanks for the texts and thanks for listening to the waters wake up call morning meltdown I do this every day.
I just take stuff from that morning and I put it all together and I just plop it down in front of you and Thanks for eating it up.
I certainly appreciate it and tomorrow if you're listening to this on Monday the day it's recorded Tunes day and we're gonna talk earworms You know those songs that get in your head and you can't get them
We'll do that tomorrow morning.
So again, thanks for listening and have yourself a
great
day.
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Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Good night.
How are you?
My name is Mike Waters on a Tuesday and this morning.
What a Tuesday did we have?
We were talking earworms.
not actual worms that crawl inside your ears.
We don't even want to think about that.
Why I even brought up that aspect of what an earworm could be, I'm not sure.
So just pretend you didn't hear that and just pretend I started right here.
An earworm is a song that just gets stuck in your head and there's no getting rid of it.
There's, well, there are a few things you can do.
But it's not easy.
It's not easy to remove an earworm.
But we talk earworms and we
talk about maybe how to remove them, maybe you have a certain thing you do to get rid of your earworms, but we'll get into all of that.
That's our Tuesday topic, the earworms.
And what would the waters wake up call be without your hit and run headlines and the five things you didn't know you needed to hear?
And the bright sign.
We do all of that.
I've got it all for you right here.
If you missed any of that, boom, it's all here for you in the next 20 minutes.
Bite size entertainment.
I like to call it the Cliffs Notes.
of the water's wake-up call, I call it the morning meltdown.
So let's, let's start off with...
a little good news.
Look at the bright
side,
okay?
The bright
side.
The bright side?
What's the bright side?
I'm telling you the bright side is... Ha!
The bright side.
When you're chewing on last whistle, back rumble, give a whistle, and whistle, help things turn out
for the best.
Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 105.7 KOKZ.
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Now this is impressive.
This is a good kid.
So this happened last weekend at the Wayne Robb Memorial Rodeo.
This was in Notches, Mississippi.
And you have this 12 year old girl, Kayla Lucas.
She competed in the calf scramble event with this first prize being a new bicycle.
So you can imagine how excited a 12 year old would be of winning a new bicycle.
So during this event, which had these girls,
facing after a calf trying to get the ribbon off its tail, one of Kayla's competitors got so close to getting the ribbon, but then fell, allowing Kayla an opportunity to take the prize.
So in a great show of exceptional sportsmanship, Kayla handed her prize off to the other girl, and then Karen Holland-Hewing, who was the victim's advocate with the Adams County Sheriff's Office, saw this random act of kindness and decided it was worthy of recognition.
So Ewing turned to social media
quickly able to identify Kayla and reached out to Kayla's mom, Glenny Smith, to ask her to bring her to the sheriff's office.
So then later at the Adams County Sheriff's Office, Ewing, along with the sheriff and some deputies, surprised Kayla with a brand new bike.
And as they gave it to her, they were praising this girl for her selfless act of kindness and told her they felt it deserved a reward.
And then Kayla's mom says it was a very proud moment for her.
Her mom says,
She makes me feel good many times like I'm doing something right.
She's such a free spirit and is very lovable.
Oh, she sounds like what a good kid, huh?
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What's your take?
Oh no.
Why isn't the kids songs that always get stuck in your head?
You know, either that
one or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the same movie will get in your head
too.
like Disney movie sticks in your hand.
It does.
You know, we were
talking about a small world earlier and that's definitely a Disney thing.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
When you go on that ride, it's
endless.
Yeah, and it really is.
I mean, people think you're exaggerating, but then they go on the ride and think, oh my God, I thought you were exaggerating.
It was even longer than you made it seem.
That's how bad it was.
Yeah, and it seems like it's always one of the first rides you go on.
Yes, so the
rest of your stay,
it's boom, it's in there.
There's no getting it out.
Let's take a break from the earworms and just hit and run right into these.
So a study finds that living in the country makes people hostile.
Living in the country, which I guess is why the new West Virginia slogan is, what the f you looking at?
Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men.
Now you know why Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson think they're brothers.
The eldest millennials will be turning 43.
Isn't that unbelievable?
Millennials turning 43 this year.
So get ready to see a lot of people complaining about back pain while wearing skinny jeans.
A design firm in Japan redesigned beer cans to give you the perfect beer to foam ratio without tilting your glass.
And Americans will completely waste it by filling those cans with Coors Light.
It's bush light people, it's bush light.
It's a refreshing change to hear news involving beer cans not being shot up by Kid Rock.
So it's national sleepover day.
Tell your mom to keep the bed warm, because I don't know what time I'll be there.
Burger King has a new Spider-Man whopper.
And here's what's different about this particular whopper.
It has a red bun with black seeds.
And here's what's the same.
There's a good chance there will be a spider in it.
A woman who doesn't drink survived for five days on a bottle of wine when she got lost in the Australian wilderness.
That big deal.
You know, with my health issues these days, in order for me to have wine, I need to drink it out and back behind the bushes.
So George Santo said he can barely watch C-Span.
And that's because, and this is a multiple choice, C-Span is boring.
B, he doesn't have a TV.
Or C, he's too busy being Batman.
The writer's strike will delay production on the final season of Stranger Things.
You know, if worse comes to worse, Netflix can just show a marathon of E.T., the Goonies fire starter, the thing, and a nightmare on Elm Street.
pretty much have it covered.
Amber heard quit Hollywood and moved to Spain.
Word is that Amber's exhausted, or in her case, pooped.
Can you believe this?
Honey Boo Boo is about to graduate from high school.
Ah, it seems like only yesterday she was an illiterate hayseed.
Actually, that's, I think that's because it was yesterday.
And finally, Billy Joel turns 74 today.
Happy birthday, Billy Joel.
He's streaming us online at 1057KOKZ.com.
And I got to tell you, Billy looks good after dropping about 50 pounds over the last year.
It's great news because it greatly reduces his chances of having... I know.
I know.
That's all I...
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Hey, before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, let's take some calls.
Oh, you know what?
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And back to the topic of earworms.
And my worst earworm, I think of all time, is the theme from the Waltons.
When that takes root in my brain, it takes a while to get that out of there.
And I have actually taken advantage of this on a couple of occasions.
I think my favorite, though, was this was back when I was in college in the 80s.
Way back in the 80s, kids.
But when we were all working and it was I was working at this roast beef fast food place called racks
and racks was roast beef and they had a good salad bar and it was a really good place to eat.
Terrible place to work, good place to eat.
So when it got really crowded in the back and there were all of us cooking and slicing roast beef and dealing with the fries in the grease and all that other thing, cooking the burgers, I would sometimes go around and just start going...
And then people would just start screaming at me.
Mike, stop it!
They would they would get super annoyed, but the best part the best part you'd wait like five ten minutes and then one by one they start going And then they would just scream at me again and just curse my name curse my name and they'd sign petitions to get me fired and they'd they'd throw roast beef at my face and Actually, they didn't do that, but I wouldn't have blamed them.
That's my worst earworm How about you I told you mine now you tell me yours
a song by a group called The Kings?
Of course.
There could only be one song.
Yeah, unfortunately.
Yeah.
This beat goes on.
Yeah, and on and on and on.
With any year worm goes on and on and on.
But the thing is, there's one particular line that when it gets going in your head over and over, it's just the one line.
Can I guess what it is?
I'll bet you can.
Nothing matters but the weekend from a tunes day point of view.
Exactly.
It has more meaning than most lines in
all of
music.
It really does.
I mean, everybody relates to nothing matters, but the weekend!
From a Tuesday point of view... No, a Tuesday.
They screw it up.
They say Tuesday, but... Well, you know, they didn't know about Tuesday at the time.
We need to go back.
and take care of all of that past stuff now, you see, and light-wash the whole past.
Who said in a satirical kind of way?
Yeah.
Mr. Waters DJ extraordinaire.
Woodhouse, how are you?
Great.
You want to take care of my earworm?
Yes.
Would you like me to pull it?
Yes.
It's a hairy Chapin once,
so... Is it a Chapin or a chafing earworm?
It's a...
Chape and chafing, earworm, I guess.
Okay, it's chapped and chafed.
Yes.
Hey, and before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, I want to read a few earworm texts, and I never get into enough texts, and I'm sorry about that.
Let's see here.
My earworm is...
I usually get that song in my head when I'm going through Menominee, Wisconsin.
And when I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, I'd always be going through Menominee to get to Minnesota.
But just say it, Menominee, and you automatically want to go...
Anyway, good one.
That is one of those that will get in your head and drive you mad.
Angie from Marion, got an earworm for you.
Two, actually.
Crazy train and smoke on the water.
Well, at least they're two good rockin' earworms.
Sometimes they even mash up crazy.
Sometimes they even mash up crazy, right?
Yes.
Crazy, crazy train.
That's what that is.
That's crazy train, Angie from Marion.
Let's see, Farmer Dave.
Let's see what's Farmer Dave texted.
Hey there, Mike.
You have to figure out a different name for a song.
Stuck in your head, earworm is gross.
Sorry, Farmer Dave.
Let's see.
Morning, Mike.
My earworm is the Sesame Street theme song.
Sometimes it gets stuck in my head on a sunny day, of course, because you're singing sunny.
Okay, so there we go.
I'll get to into some more texts.
Let's get into the oh, what is it?
Was it four things six things three things?
I don't know All
right,
we have to give a shout out to teachers because it's teacher appreciation week so a shout out to teachers and I really do think that their job gets tougher and tougher every single year the the population gets
and they've got less and less money.
to deal with and to help the kids learn.
You know, a lot of times they're not giving enough stuff.
So you got to give it up for teachers.
And there was a new survey that shows most teachers want to be appreciated with gift cards and things bought off of their Amazon wish list.
And by the way, the stuff on the not they're not being selfish or greedy.
They want to buy more writing utensils and folders and, you know, whatever books.
That kind of thing because they don't have enough money to do it.
So that's why they want the Amazon gift cards and that kind of thing.
So, man, happy Teacher Appreciation Week teachers.
I think it's a really difficult job to be a teacher.
Teachers don't get enough credit for what they do.
It's nice to have adults that aren't exactly your parents.
It's just energy that makes you want to learn and drives you to learn.
It's probably one of the hardest professions you can have but I think it's probably one of the most worthwhile.
I'd like to say thank you to the teacher who's been there for me.
For always having your door open.
For being supportive and patient.
For actually caring about whether or not I'm doing well in the class.
For believing in me in times that I didn't believe in myself.
self.
Thanks for caring.
Thanks for
genuinely caring
about
it.
If you see a teacher today, just say thanks.
That's all you need to do.
Thanks for what you do.
And I'm saying that as well.
Thanks for what you do.
All right, let's talk about somebody that nobody is thankful for.
There's a pest control worker that was caught urinating in a local family's living room.
So I don't know if that's what he thinks gets rid of the pests.
I don't know, but this guy, thank goodness he's in Pennsylvania, nowhere near Iowa.
But he works in Pennsylvania, he's a pest control worker, and he was charged after being caught on home surveillance video, urinating on a client's furniture in their living room.
Here's one of the tenants of the home talking about initially discovering that this guy had urinated all over their home.
What the?
My cat was sitting at the corner while he was urinating.
and we're pretty sure that it splashed onto the cat.
The main thing that upsets me is that he urinated on my daughter's toys.
It's just- Geez.
It's a little girl, you know, and she played with it
in his pee for two days.
Oh my God, can you imagine?
Can you imagine?
I would love to know that guy's name and fly to Pennsylvania and flick him in the forehead.
Actually, I do more than that, but I won't get into details.
But what was he, challenging the cat to Marcus territory?
I don't understand.
I don't understand at all.
All right, here's something else I have to say that I am not thankful for.
The Real Housewives, any Real Housewives show, Mrs. Waters likes to watch it just because, I don't know, she likes the freak show aspect, I guess, but I wouldn't know any of this if it wasn't for Mrs. Waters.
I just want to make that perfectly clear.
So this is a former real housewife of Atlanta.
Kim Zulciak or something has filed for divorce from her husband of 11 years and she says the marriage is irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation.
Also irretrievably broken her singing voice.
She was actually making a record and this is her voice.
Reel tracks of her before producers hit the auto tune
button.
That's enough of that, I think.
Huh?
Who's worse?
Her or that pest control worker?
I just don't even know.
There is no challenge to this whatsoever.
Gay Mordons in Kansas City, they say they gave out a citation to someone who was fishing with a nine millimeter handgun.
What?
Here's a quick recreation.
I think it might have sounded like with him fishing.
Shoot, forget this.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's how that went, probably.
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So yeah, I think that's gonna make me a million dollars.
And I think that's five
things.
Five
things.
That's all you need.
Five.
You go to six and it's like, ah, it's too much.
It's like you almost overdose on things.
Now before...
So before we wrap up, let's take some more calls first and then we'll get into some texts.
Okay, what's your earworm?
Well, I found a good way to get rid of it.
Okay.
And it was Richard Harris' someone left a cake out in the rain.
MacArthur Park, yes.
Oh my God, I hear that song and I change the station.
Yeah.
I just can't take that song.
I can listen to anybody else sing it, but not him.
Yeah, because Donna Summer had a hit with it in the 70s.
Oh yeah.
Turn to Disco, MacArthur Park Disco, which is
It was a bigger hit than
Richard Harris.
Yeah, on
the whole cake in the rain.
Why?
Where did that come
from?
Yeah, really.
I mean, any picnic with a cake is a pretty good picnic, but you get it all soggy with the rain.
It's like, why even go there?
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
I'm
with
you.
That's my little earworm that I finally was able to get rid of.
Oh, good.
And how did you get rid of
it?
I turned it off.
Oh, you just turned it off?
I turned the station.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
Yeah, one of the earworms that I get stuck with, it actually was a song in the 60s.
Yeah.
I believe it was done by the champs called Tequila.
And it
got adapted by Pee Wee Herman.
Yeah.
And he was doing his Pee Wee dance on the table.
Yeah.
I
still think it's a great tune, you know?
It's just all of that and then... Tequila.
That's all you need to say when you're talking about tequila is... Tequila.
Well, if you drink enough of it, that's all you can say.
That's exactly right.
In fact, you can't even say it properly.
It's really...
or something like that, something around that, you know, I'd have to drink like 10, 10 shots to really do the good imitation.
But sober, that's about as good as I could do.
That stuff's got a rough kick to
it.
That's right, because it's tequila.
All right, another, you got an earworm.
The
earworms, I don't know if it's necessarily, maybe they were made it on the radio, but if you hear it, it is.
Brands called it into your brain.
It's a small world Oh,
yeah, you know that's every parent's nightmare to go to Disney and have your kids go
You hear it over and over for I don't know how long it is like three four hours I think is what it seems like
Yep, it's
a small world, but it's a big problem Thanks a lot Disney All right, see
thank you collars.
It's always great talking to you I always talk about the fact that I'm all alone in this studio just me and my pla-
And by the way, I ordered some new things to be in the studio with me and I will reveal those as soon as they come in.
But I'm gonna have, it's almost gonna be a crowd in here.
But I'll tell you who it is when they get here and I'll take pictures and all of that.
But, you know, since it is me all by myself, it's always great to talk to you.
Let's just take a few more tanks before we wrap things up.
Let's see here.
How about a Toon Cootie?
Instead of an earworm.
Sure toon cootie.
I like that next time we'll do toon cooties Texting from UNI how about manamana from the Muppets and they almost Spelled it like manamani, Wisconsin Manamani anyway, that's a lot of manamanas.
I'm getting Mike Mike Mike newt here.
The worst earworm has to be Barney theme.
Oh, there's nothing worse than that I can tell you that newt nothing
than Barney.
Let's see.
The Worm in the Year.
The Casey and the Sunshine Band Songs.
Ha!
Yeah, yeah, okay, I get that Annoying song is the one for the golden girls.
Thank you for being in it for I can see how that would get stuck in your head Let's see love the Waltons just rewatched all the seasons with the reunion movies I was telling my story about that song theme gets into my head and there's no removing that no way know how To get rid of an earworm somebody says
hum, row, row, row your boat, but just enough to distract you from the earworm, or it will be the new earworm.
And that's the last thing you need.
All right, well, thank you for the texts.
Thank you for the calls.
Thanks for listening to the Water's Wake Up Call morning meltdown.
We'll do it again tomorrow for Wandom Wednesday, and then for Throwback Thursday, and for Friday.
I do it five days a week, and you can always find it on Water's Wake Up Call on demand, because I know you demand this crap.
you do so when you demand crap I give you crap so take this crap and do with it what you will thanks for listening and have a great rest of your tunes day I'll catch you back here Wednesday 5 30 every Monday through Friday 5 30 to 10 right
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