The Morning Meltdown TuNesDay: First Music You Bought.

Hey, Waters here from the Waters Wake Up Call, and this is the Morning Meltdown, Wandom Wednesday edition.

So this morning, I randomly asked you to call me and give me a term that's used in your profession, that people outside your profession would have no idea the meaning of that term.

Oh, and I heard from Aladia, and I think I learned some new words.

You'll find out some of those shortly as we, uh, take calls.

But of course, as well as the Wendham topic for Wendham Wednesday, I also have the hit-and-run headlines, the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, and of course, starting off with...

Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on

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So this morning I was reading about Army Sergeant Major.

His name is Kevin Bittenbendi and I really hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly because this is a hero right here.

Just the fact that he served number one and he served in Afghanistan.

And he saw his buddies die in Afghanistan.

So he recently had his left leg amputated at the knee.

And all this guy has been through.

I'm sure he looked at it and thought, all right, well, I've had worse.

I think I can run a marathon.

You know what?

I lost my left leg.

I think I can run a marathon.

And that's what he did.

He tackled the Pittsburgh Marathon just 444

days after his left leg was amputated at the knee.

So again, here is Army Sergeant Major Kevin Bittenbendi talking about how he felt after running this marathon.

It was overcome with too much emotion.

I cried, we cried.

Everything was worth it.

I thought about the guys I lost in Afghanistan first and foremost because every, I think every, every so often they would come to mind.

I could fully attest that I would be a statistical number of 22 if it

weren't for hope.

And he wouldn't be running a marathon if it hadn't been for hope and his bravery and everything he's got going as a veteran and a human being.

A big shout out to Army Sergeant Major Kevin Bittenbendy.

Thank you for your service and congratulations on completing that Pittsburgh Marathon.

Amazing.

What a hero.

There is the Bright Side sponsored by Walton Collision Center on Highway 151 in Fairfax.

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Pretty cool, huh?

Now that's a bright side, so bright you gotta wear shades.

So let me ask you this, would from the bright side to the hit and run headlines, would that be too extreme a shift for you?

Oh good, I didn't think so.

All right, the Earth probably won't be hit by a killer asteroid for at least 1,000 years.

Phew, I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief, except of course for Keith Richards.

I know he's going to be around.

25% of medical science papers are made up.

Can you believe that?

25% of medical science papers are made up.

A sign that what you're reading is one of them.

If you want a sign of that, the doctor who wrote it is Oz Phil Ordray.

A Florida man who set a record by living underwater for 74 straight days says he's aiming for 100.

Let me guess, married, huh?

Executives from major AI companies testified before a Senate panel yesterday, and I'm not saying the senators on the panel are old, but before yesterday they thought AI stood for advanced incontinence.

Rudy Giuliani has been accused of trying to sell pardons for $2 million each in 2020.

Evidently, Rudy was hurting for money back then.

In fact, I believe he was forced to buy generic brand hair dye.

I think I remember that.

The World Health Organization said that people should not use sugar substitutes to lose weight, but they are free to continue to use them to A, avoid complex carbs,

B, be healthier or C, ruin soda.

Southwest pilots could go on strike.

That'd be bad news for travelers and even worse news news for airport bartenders.

Poker champion Doyle Brunson died at age 89, but you'd never know that by looking at his face.

Well, I don't know, he died either that or he's one hell of a bluffer.

And finally, Tom Brady denies he's dating Kim Kardashian.

He would never put his hands on something so inflated.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's all I...

Oh, you better get Mako.

You know I was thinking, before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, let's go to the phones and learn a new term.

A term that is used in a particular profession.

But if you're outside that profession, you don't know what it is.

So give us a term.

Pernundle.

Okay, I give up.

What's pernundle?

The old car was a column shift.

Yeah,

sure.

Part of reverse neutral.

There was a cable that went from that shift.

That's your pernundle.

How do you spell that?

Old episode of green eggs.

they were trying to teach Lisa how to drive.

She got in the car and said, oh, your car has a Pernumble too.

Well, that's reverse neutral drive and low.

The letters on the shift park reverse neutral drive low pernundle Yeah reminds me of the gazintas on the Beverly hillbillies I don't remember Jed would always say Jethro do your gazintas sure five gazintas ten twice five gazintas fifteen three times five and on and on and on

I like that so

gazintas and pernundles

those are two

great words yeah hey you know what I should do I should have another kid and name the kid pernundle gazintas

into waters.

Whether it's a boy or a girl, it doesn't matter.

Alright, let's go from that nonsense to these five non-senses.

What's that, a

nickel?

Is this cool or scary?

I think the people who came up with this meant it to be cool, but I think it's going to be scary.

Apple has a feature on the way which allows your phone to replicate your voice after only about 15 minutes of training.

So what it's intended for is to help people with disabilities, but it could be another tool for scammers.

In fact, I've already heard and read so many stories about people who are able to duplicate your voice.

and have that voice call a family member and say somebody's been kidnapped or something like that, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Nothing we can do about it.

Oh well, that's really how you end that story.

Oh well.

Second thing.

A guy, and this guy, he had to be more than just drunk, I think.

I think this guy was on stuff.

Mail driver in Colorado, he got pulled over for DUI.

And at the last minute, he tries to switch places with his dog, who was in the passenger seat.

Well, it didn't work, obviously, and he was arrested.

The weird thing is, the dog wasn't the only other passenger.

There were two sober people in the back seat.

So it's unclear why this guy didn't try to switch with them, but obviously he wasn't in the sharpest state of mind.

Yeah, not by a long shot.

Give us this

thing.

The Toronto Blue Jays announcers accusing Aaron Judge of cheating.

Let's listen to what they were saying and see.

What is that?

Where's he looking?

Where's he looking?

And he

did it more than once.

Yeah, it was really, really unusual.

Just did it again.

And he pummeled it.

country mile for his second home run of the night.

And here in Jackson two homers in a game and once again he's looking at something and then the next move is that powerful swing and a blast on the center field.

I've seen that

before with him.

No, maybe he is.

Maybe he's cheating.

I don't know.

They caught him looking toward his dugout, and he blasted his second home run of the game.

So a lot of people, you know, including the announcers, accusing the Yankee of stealing signs.

I hate to tell you this next one, but... Firstly,

fourth fix.

And this happened in Minnesota, by the way, coming out of the sky.

Poop, raining from the sky in Minnesota, drive-through customers at a caribou coffee in Burnsville, Minnesota, they experience what seemed like poop hitting their cars.

So one theory is an airplane released its bathroom waste mid-flight.

You know, there was another theory that it was a large flock of birds flying overhead.

Let's hope it wasn't poop raining from the sky.

Let's hope not.

The fifth thing you should know.

Gotta talk about this mayoral candidate here.

It just goes rogue and crashes a debate.

This guy stormed onto the platform of a mayoral debate in Toronto and just created havoc while being hauled away by security.

Listen!

Girl candidate.

Oh, I'm gonna vote for that guy.

Everybody in Toronto is thinking, right?

I'm voting for that guy.

And I think that's five things.

Five things you didn't know you needed to

hear.

See, five things and everything's right with the world.

Before we come to the end of this morning meltdown, I think we need to learn some more terms.

So let's take a few calls and learn some of these terms used in a particular profession outside the profession.

What?

What does that mean?

So, how about you?

Give us a term.

Go ahead.

M-T-O.

I'll bet that's an acronym.

Means nothing by the mouth.

If it's not for the mouth,

Where would it go?

Okay, I

thought it was one of those suppository would be an NPO I'm still not quite sure why it's NPO, but not by mouth and the letters don't quite match there.

Do they

I was listening to the lady who called in about NPO

Yes,

just remember that everything's medical

stems back to latin

oh so npo is a latin thing so what would that be then nil

per os

that makes sense because nil means nothing but i i don't know what the rest of it means i guess it means uh by mouth

you can say nil per oral

i don't think you want to say that to some people though they'll get the wrong idea

yeah probably

well yeah a

lot of medical terms just doesn't make sense to other people outside the profession

yeah it's all greek to me or

latin

Well, Trucker Trevor, how are you man?

What's happening

today?

especially old boys, like, oh, a cement truck.

And it drives some of us crazy because it's not cement.

Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

It takes cement, water, rock, and plant to

make concrete.

But you see a lot of people use the word cement when they're trying to say concrete,

you

know, that type of stuff.

When we're in the business of concrete, especially as a driver, it's not kind of funny that everybody refers to it as cement.

Well, it's not cement.

Cement is an ingredient within concrete.

I

thought both words I thought they were synonymous with each other cement was concrete concrete was cement well look at that I got I got some good concrete information there from you trucker

Trevor

Right on.

Well, thanks, man.

Now I know.

Now we know.

Now we all know.

Alright, we'll talk to you later, buddy.

So, back when I was in the Marine Corps, we used to ask new recruits, well, they were Marines at that time, but we asked all the new people for a 10-15.

A

10-15?

A 10-15.

Hmm.

Because when you spell out 10-15, it looks a little suggestive, like a suggestive word.

So it'd be T-E-N-15?

No.

D-E-N-1-5.

of course yeah no no wonder I was going I don't get that 1015

of course that's sick you marines you're dirty sometimes sometimes but you know with all that said thank you for your service

i appreciate it thank

you all right you keep your pen 15 safe okay you as well well thank you very much so i think we've learned enough for one day my head's about to explode so i'll just say have a great day and tomorrow throwback thursday and i'll see you on the radio

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Hey, how are you?

It's Mike

Waters, and the Tunes Day edition of the morning meltdown.

So Monday was national relive your past by listening to the first music you ever bought, no matter what it was, no excuses, day.

So I thought we'd take that as a Tunes Day topic, but basically I edited it.

Try and say that ten times fast.

I edited it.

I edited it.

I edited it.

Hey, that's pretty good.

I edited it.

And we were basically talking about the first music we ever bought.

So that's how the edit went when I edited it.

So we'll take calls on that.

And I have a very painful story, by the way, about my first time coming up.

And as always, I'll have the five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

The hit and run headlines and the bright side, which we will get into right after.

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So there's a mother-daughter.

This is in New Mexico.

You have Jackie Rodriguez, the mother, and her daughter, Heaven Chavez.

Talk about having a day on Saturday, crazy day earlier in the day, and this is awful news.

One of their friends was involved in a fatal car crash.

But then just hours after that, they were driving when they heard a distress call from someone.

My window was cracked when I heard somebody yelling for help.

This is the mother talking, and she continues, I told my daughter, I think somebody's yelling for help.

So she said, turn around mom.

So enormous sinkhole is what they found had developed at the base of a bridge crossing the Rio Grande in Las Lunas.

And it had taken a huge chunk of the sidewalk out.

So there's a father biking over the bridge with his son and was swallowed up by the sinkhole and was clinging to a pipe spanning the pit.

The kid is okay.

It's the dad who's clinging for dear life.

So while waiting for emergency services to arrive Chavez risked her own safety to help this man and she says I was holding on to the fence like a spider man trying to help him but trying to save myself as well and Heaven Chavez Continues and ultimately helped pull the man out of the sinkhole likely saving his life and on a day that was a pretty emotional role

the mother and daughter are very thankful to have been there to help this father.

And Rodriguez was, you know, saying I drove home in tears because what if what if I didn't hear him?

His son could have lost his father today.

And here is the daughter, Heaven Chavez, describing what the man in the sinkhole had said to her.

He was holding onto the poles, and he was screaming, saying, I don't want to die.

And if I die, I love you, son.

And I was like, you're not dying.

Nope, thanks to Heaven and Jackie.

So a big shout out to the mother-daughter heroic team, the heroic duo, the dynamic duo, Jackie Rodriguez and Heaven Chavez.

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Now things are always just so much better on that side, aren't they?

But then, as in life, reality does a bit of a hit and run on you.

Today is National Waiters Day.

Did you know that?

There's no better way to celebrate than to recite the names of 14 different salad dressings.

Like I was saying, it's National Barbecue Day, and barbecuing is the second favorite backyard cooking activity of Americans behind meth.

And that's, you know, mainly in the South, you know, we don't do that here.

McDonald's drive-thru in Arkansas broke a world record by processing 356 orders in one hour.

The most amazing part, and you're not gonna believe this, hope you're sitting down.

Six of those orders were correct.

AI predicted what 10 American cities will look like in 2050.

San Francisco is just a picture of the poop emoji.

So President Biden, Biden says the greatest threat to the US is, and it's a multiple choice, A, white supremacy, B, Russia, or C, hard to open pill bottles.

That's one of those.

Robert DeNiro revealed his newborn baby's name is Gia.

I'll use it in a sentence.

Gia can't believe this dope had a kid at 79.

The trailer for my big fat Greek wedding three has come out.

It promises that this one will be fatter and greakier than any of the previous movie.

Greakier.

That's right.

Dior.

is paying Johnny Depp $20 million to be the face of its Sauvage Cologne.

I think that's how you pronounce it.

Sauvage.

Hmm, hiring a man who looks like he smells like a horse barn that hasn't been cleaned in weeks to sell your cologne.

You know, it's a bold strategy.

Let's see if that pays off.

I don't know, man.

I don't know.

Willem Dafoe joined the cast of Beetlejuice 2.

Which means Beale Juice will be the second scariest face in the movie.

They cast him as a dead person so they could save a fortune on makeup.

So Michael J. Fox said he decided to quit acting after seeing Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood lose track of his lines.

So here's to hoping Rob Schneider checks out Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the same thing happens.

So Dolly Parton unveiled a new roller coaster in Dollywood.

Fans gasped at the size of those massive hills.

They also thought the roller coaster was really neat.

That's all I got.

We hit.

We ran.

We had farmers, insurance, I hope.

We will get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear in a minute.

But first, let's take a call on our Toonsday topic.

So what was the first music you ever bought?

All in Oats H2O.

The

album?

Yeah, you know, that's what some people call me for short, H2O.

Well, isn't that just amazing?

Isn't that Nido Torpedo?

Totally.

There's the trucker for the Quaker company.

I call him Hollanoats.

I'm H2O together.

We're the artist in the album.

Oh, you could be.

I'll sweaty him

stuff just like on

the album cover.

Well, I am subject for perspiration and actually it runs in my family.

That's why we're called the sweater family.

But anyway, so what did you do to get the money to buy that Hollanoats album?

I babysat.

Why is it that it was like only girls babysat and guys

did not.

Yeah, I'm not really for sure.

Look how we all turned out.

Well, you know, if you're just looking at us, I mean, that's perfection.

You could have done worse.

Good album, H2O, holla notes.

Perfect.

All right, let's do this.

Five, count them five things.

And now the water's wake up call with this morning's five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

So we got further

ado.

a lot of guys when the sports illustrated swimsuit issue the cover model is announced it's a big deal for some guys and this year a little surprising but I say hey way to go and Martha Stewart 81 years old and really looks great for her age she is gonna be on the cover of the sports illustrated swimsuit issue along with Megan Fox and Kim Petrus I don't know who these people are Brooks and Nader this is Martha talking about why she decided to do this cover and how she

She prepared for it.

And by the way, she's the oldest cover model ever for the sports illustrated swimsuit issue.

To be on the cover at my age was a challenge.

I think I met the challenge.

For me, it is a testament to good living.

And I think that all of us should think about good living, successful living, and not about aging.

The whole aging thing is so boring.

I didn't starve myself, but I didn't eat any bread or pasta for a couple of months.

I went to Pilates every other.

good

living well I guess it depends on your definition of good living I mean I did some good living for a while yeah drinking drinking beer and eating cake a lot and pizza not good living in the long run but at the time it was great living second thing did you hear about this professor and only

Professor in Florida, broken the record for longest time living underwater.

His name is Dr. Joseph Ditturi and he has spent over 70 days underwater and is aiming to make it a full 100 days living in an undersea lodge.

So here he is talking to a middle school class from underwater.

I do biomedical research.

So I did a whole bunch of blood, urine and saliva testing beforehand.

Then I'm doing a whole bunch while I'm down here.

a whole bunch afterwards.

We're looking for lines, trend lines, right?

Are you getting better?

Are you getting worse?

We know that when you stay on the International Space Station for a year, that you get taller.

Why?

There's no gravity compressing you down.

I am under water.

I am being overly compressed.

I will probably be an inch shorter when I come up.

We'll see.

Well, then it'll be worth it, right?

Be an inch shorter.

Good for you.

You know, if anybody was working for me at this particular radio station, they'd be worse.

Working under waters at least.

And moving right along.

Give us this third thing.

I must tell you about this new trend.

Speaking with a British accent because you're nervous.

More and more, and these are young people are speaking in over the top British accents when they're nervous or feel anxious in social situations.

Like, say if you were on a date and there was a long silence, you might say, you know, in a British accent, well, this is awkward, isn't it?

That's kind of over the top, isn't it?

Well, experts think there's definitely a psychological reason behind it.

It can be a way of softening what you're

saying or separating your true personality from a situation.

So in other words, kind of a defense mechanism.

I'll have to remember that from now on.

If I talk like this, I'll be a little bit nervous and feel awkward.

All right, onward!

So do you have a wedding coming up?

Well, I'll tell you what, how would you like to get married up in outer space?

Weddings in space are about to be a thing, you know, for people who can afford it anyway.

A high-altitude balloon company called Space Perspective.

They plan to start sending people up by the end of next year.

Not cheap, though.

125,000...

and dollars per guest.

Well, I certainly don't see anything like that in my future, but it does give a whole new meaning to the whole Ralph and Alice crammed into the moon, Alice.

These days, it would sound more like a marriage proposal than a violent threat against your

wife.

And finally, the moment we've all been waiting for.

And the fifth thing you should

know.

All right.

Well, you know, it is graduation season and not just for high school.

college, but for the little kids, the daycare, kids are moving on out of daycare, maybe moving into kindergarten.

So that's kind of a graduation.

I think they're having some kind of a commencement right now.

We've got somebody over with a microphone at the Little Love Bugs Daycare.

Let's see what's going on there.

I think they're having commencement right now.

Teachers, parents, and of course, students of Little Love Bugs Daycare.

Today,

is a day that some of you won't soon forget.

And a day that most of you won't remember at all because you're only five.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

Kindergarten is going to be hard.

It's a world of raising your hand before you speak.

I still wear my accident pants.

That's five things.

That's

five things.

Five things.

You didn't know you needed to hear.

Okay, and before we wrap up, let's take some more Tuesday calls.

So what was the first music you ever bought?

Okay, I'd gone out and I bought a England Dan John Ford Coley.

Okay.

Brought it home, played it.

Okay, fine.

Talked to my cousin.

He had the same album.

But

his

album had a scratch on the backside.

He'd realized it for a while.

When we traded albums, I took mine back and I picked up a different album of a band that they are still around.

Little band called Ken's.

Oh, sure.

from

Topeka.

A true classic from Kansas.

So from

England

to Topeka.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's

it's it's one man's opinion.

I agree with you.

But, you know, some people may like the England and John Ford Coley.

So what did you do in order to raise money so you could buy this album?

I

answered something, but I grew up on a farm and we were farming chores and stuff.

That's probably how I got it.

Thriller.

That's a good purchase.

I was 15.

I just could not wait to get that album.

And he was just huge after that album came

out.

Oh, it was crazy.

I went home and I

I don't think I left my room for a month.

That's how it is when you're that age.

You can't just put on an album, listen to it, and then go do something else.

You had to do it all day long or until your parents

came in and

said, could you turn that crap off?

And I'd say something like, oh, mom, go back to watching He-Ha, will

you?

Yeah, and then once I got a car,

I had a Kate player, you know, and that was just like major.

I just thought I was really uptown, you know.

Music in the

car.

Oh my God.

I love that.

I've always loved Michael Jackson.

I'll never forget that day.

I went to the music land and bought that

album.

I can still hear

your excitement.

And it wasn't.

You know, I missed those

days.

I bought my first album at that exact store you describe.

Yeah.

Here in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids, it was called Record Realm.

Record

Realm.

incense smell when you walked in yeah, and I bought sticks grand illusion

ah good first purchase So what'd you think of your your first real record store experience?

It was quite bizarre honestly.

Yeah Not only was the music different, but just the environment of where I got it was really different.

Yeah record stores Unlike any other place you'll hear weird music in there and see all these tapestries and posters

and black light posters and smell a little incense, maybe mixed with a little something else.

Oh yeah.

The people who worked there are usually the kind of people who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

My very first record I ever bought was a 45.

On one side it was hot-blooded by foreigner and the other side was double vision.

Well that's a good rockin' purchase.

We had a little five and dime in our hometown and huge

my babysitting money, and that's what I bought.

You know, it's funny, but when we were kids, we didn't go to, like, record stores.

I think the parents were thinking, you know, they've got incense burning in there, and it's real weird.

Let's take them over to the Woolworth or the Montgomery Ward.

It was never a cool record store with all the black light posters, and I think parents were scared of that.

Yeah, ours was called Hegglers.

Hegglers.

That's the story.

Absolutely.

Big chill.

I remember the movie.

It was a great movie.

Oh, yeah.

So do you still have those two albums?

I do.

That's the best.

It's funny how it went out for a while, but records are the big thing again.

That's selling better than CDs, anything else.

I mean, streaming is king at the moment.

And, you know, I like to have hard copies of things, because when your Wi-Fi goes out, what do you do then for music?

Plug in your turntable and put on a record.

Exactly.

These kids today, they don't understand, my friend.

No, they do

not.

No, they do not.

We're kind of the Big Chill generation now.

We're that Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place people now.

We're the Grumpy Old Man.

That's right.

That's right.

They should do a new Big Chill about us and, you

know.

New Big Chill or a new Grumpy Old Man.

Combine the movies and I think we'll have a classic.

There

you go.

That's the proper ever Dark Shadows.

You had an album of Dark Shadows.

Yeah, I love it.

All these years.

So what is it?

Is

it like a story on the record or is it actual music?

It's just the music.

It's the music.

It's all the music.

You know, Quentin's theme.

Yeah.

The official long version of the beginning of it.

I remember that because I haven't played it in a while.

But that, to me, that's my classic first record.

That's pretty cool.

Dark shadows.

I remember that.

I remember my mom watching it.

And I was a kid

at the time.

Yeah, I watched it personally.

I couldn't wait to watch it.

I couldn't wait for summertime to see the whole thing.

Run home and catch up.

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