Morning Meltdown: Wandom Wednesday

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That's all you need to do So random Wednesday this morning what we were doing was first of all talking about filler words Those words you don't really need when you're talking, you know, especially if you're doing public speaking or if you're on the radio or the television or In writing in professional writing you should never use these filler words and I'm talking about things like like like

like um that's filler you don't need like um or you know I do that one a lot that is totally mine or right or alright hmm oh uh that one uh or um or oh

Or so, all of those are filler words.

We'll talk more filler words coming up, as well as the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, the hit-and-run headlines, and now...

Let's look on the bright side with Mike Waters on 105.7 KOKZ.

Sponsored by Wildland Collision Center, this kid in Pennsylvania.

He saved a family from a house fire.

Bennett Campbell from Elkland, Pennsylvania, was walking home from the park with his family when they noticed that the back of their neighbor's house was on fire.

So Bennett immediately ran around the home to the front door to alert the homeowners.

And he says, I ran to the house and started pounding first and then started kicking at the door.

And then the fire started working its way to the front of the house and started up towards the roof.

They were soundly sleeping inside this house, the family, their neighbors.

And it was Kyle Herman and his two kids.

So when Kyle learned the back of his home was on fire, he ran to investigate and was blasted in the face by this raging fire.

And thanks to Bennett's alerts, his neighbor was able to get his two young kids safely out of this house before they were injured.

Unfortunately, the father did sustain some burns that required to stay in the hospital, but he's expected to fully recover.

Can you imagine if it hadn't been for that young 12-year-old Bennett Campbell, who knows what would have happened?

So way to go, way to go, Bennett Campbell.

There is a bright side for a Wanda Wednesday sponsored by Walton Collision Center on Highway 151 in Fairfax, Walton Collision Center, where quality is their priority.

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

It's so bright it's blinding and I may hit the car in front of me.

Stop the presses.

Imagine the headlines.

What headlines are we talking about?

Hit and run.

What kind of headline is that?

Hit and run and hit and run and be gone before

they know what hit

down.

A family in Los Angeles found 10 grand worth of pennies that belonged to their late father.

They couldn't be reached for comment because they were way too busy at the coin star machine.

A million pennies.

Cars using Tesla's autopilot feature have been involved in far more crashes than previously reported.

Apparently, Elon Musk is more concerned with his version of free speech than he is the freedom to cross the street in one piece.

Archeologists have found evidence that ancient Romans wore perfume.

They recently unearthed a print ad campaign that Julius Caesar did for Old Spice.

June is Celebesi Awareness Month.

I'm actually observing it for the entire year because my New Year's resolution was to not disappoint women.

Here's a multiple choice for you.

Kim Kardashian likes the lights off when she, A, has sex, B, gets changed, or C, looks at pictures of herself that haven't been photoshopped or filtered.

Panda Express started selling an orange chicken sandwich at a few locations.

In response, Subway now sells lukewarm brown noodles.

Experts say drinking alcohol increases your risk of 60 diseases.

And the worst of those diseases is, I think I can sing karaoke-osis.

Try and say that 10 times fast.

Psychedelic drug use with young adults has doubled.

In other words, today's kids don't need a book to see Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Inflation has fallen to its lowest level since March of 2021.

You can tell because gas only costs a forearm and a leg now.

Half of Americans believe that tossing a banana peel on the ground is multiple choice.

A, littering, B, no big deal, or C, the best way to escape from an old-timey police officer.

And finally, 76-year-old Pat Sajak

retiring.

He's at that weird age where he's too old to host Wheel of Fortune but way too young to watch it.

And now, of course, they've got to find a new host and they've narrowed it down to those it feels can handle the job.

So everyone, I guess.

That's all I've got.

Hey, before we get into the five things you didn't know you needed to hear, I think we have a very special anniversary this

morning.

Is that

what you call her when you're at home?

Mrs. Bremer County Big Man?

Oh, I

got you dirty pet names.

Me and Mrs. Waters have the same thing going on.

Okay.

So 20 years

today

Well, I

want to wish you a happy anniversary

What do

you got planned for tonight TV and

yes,

I believe 20 is the TV and leftovers

anniversary

Congratulations Mr. Brimmer County Big Man and of course Mrs. Brimmer County Big Man.

Now that we've appropriately wished them a happy 20th anniversary, let's get into the five

things.

Now this is a weird prank right here.

Missouri homeowners are being sent fake notices saying the land, and I'm quoting here by the way, the land surrounding your home has been selected as a game preserve and that the first shipment of 550 buffalo, that's right 550 buffalo will arrive at your home at 3.45 a.m.

on June 29th.

So there are some people in Missouri believing this and freaking out just a little bit, but the Missouri Department of Conservation wants to make it clear no one is being sent hundreds of buffalo in the middle of the night.

It's not even feasible.

It's unclear what the point of that is.

I don't know.

Maybe it's just a prank, but if so, it's kind of funny.

Don't you think it's kind of funny?

550 buffalo are gonna be shipped to your home.

Oh, I bet they would be bum-fuzzled.

That's right, Morgan Freeman's word of the day, I just use it bum-fuzzled.

Second

thing.

All right, I hate to say this, because I don't like it, and you probably don't like it, but apparently it's working out for Netflix.

Their crackdown on password sharing is working for them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It led to a boom, just a big boom in new subscriptions.

They also saw an increase in cancellations, but the new sign-ups more than made up for that.

Gosh darn it.

It's such a pain in the butt like when we were out of town over the weekend.

And we had to deal with that whole rigamarole.

Thanks a lot, Netflix.

All right, so Paul McCartney is now working on what he calls the final Beatles song.

And it's an old John Lennon demo called Now and Then, and it should be out later this year, but here's John's demo.

Here you

go.

I love you, John, but that song is a yonor.

Sorry, maybe you liked it better than I did, but I just didn't think much of that at all.

All right, so I was, you know, as I randomly surf the net on a Wandom Wednesday, I came upon a website that posted 23 side hustles.

that you would never consider that can make more than your nine to five jobs.

Some are things like wedding DJ.

You could probably make more being a wedding DJ than a regular DJ.

Yeah, that's sad.

Online teaching, another good way to make money.

Cleaning house.

Or you can do what this person did and just advertise, you know, right here on the radio station.

Hey, Python.

Get a side hustle that pays more than your normal nine to five job with the Capello family.

Can you swing a bat at knee level?

How about lift the weight of a body over a bridge guard rail?

How about hitting someone over the head with a butt of a gun?

Then come work for us and get a little cash on the side.

And it's a job with great longevity.

Ain't that right, Paulie?

That's right.

Because once you're in with the Capello family, you're in to stay.

Right, Paulie?

Mm-hmm.

Beautiful.

Yeah, that's right.

That's how that is.

And finally?

Oh, finally.

The most we've all been waiting for.

And the fifth thing you

should know.

How would you feel about, let's say, you're cleaning your parents' basement?

And if you're lucky enough, you'll find some really cool things in your parents' basement that's worth a little something.

Well, this was a couple in LA, and they were cleaning out their parents' basement.

This is last year, and they found at least

A million pennies in a crawl space.

A million pennies.

And if you're trying to do the math really quick in your head, it's $10,000.

But they can't find any takers, including banks.

Yeah, so they, you know, their first thought was actually Coinstar.

but they didn't want to lose 8% and logistically it wouldn't work since it'd be a pain to get the pennies there and just a bag or two would probably jam up the machines and they called around to banks none of them were interested one bank manager even warned them not to bring them in saying they did not have room in the vault to accept bulk pennies let alone a million but

A million pennies would be about 10 grand, but the couple thinks that's more value in the uniqueness of the collection.

And they said that it's possible that there are rare pennies in there somewhere.

But how are they going to cash them?

How are they going to do that?

I don't even know.

But I think that's five things.

That's five things.

Five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

Five quick, easy, informative things.

There they are.

Here's what I think we should do now.

Before we wrap things up, let's get some more examples of some filler words.

Good morning, Mike.

How are you?

Well, I'm good.

Carrie from Dicert.

How are you?

Oh, again, I'm doing good.

Do you have any crutch words, Carrie?

Yes, I do, actually.

And I did not realize it.

So I'm a trainer and I did not realize that I had to go back and watch one of my training videos as I was training in class.

And I say so.

So, are we ready to go?

So, how would you like to do?

And I'm like, eh, no.

I use that one too.

I think a lot of people use so.

And I try to minimize it, but I'll still use it.

When I'm doing hit and run headlines, a lot of times I'll start one of my new headlines with, so, so this

guy in Vermont.

I started watching my training videos, you know, to get better so you don't use those kind of words.

they call them pillar words.

I always

heard them

as crutch words because you lean on that word and especially in communications like you're if you're a trainer I mean that's all about communications obviously so

when you're trying to

communicate you're trying to communicate as well as possible and efficiently as possible so you try not to but you do you know and

you realize

Yeah, so, you know, we just need to get going here.

Yeah.

All righty.

Yeah.

All right, are we ready?

We got this.

Well, I suppose... There's a big Midwestern one.

Yeah,

I suppose.

Yeah, well, I suppose... Yeah,

you're talking about crutch

words.

Yes.

It's like, you know, when people are always, you know, it's like, you know...

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

I think I see what you're saying.

Like, you know?

You know what I mean?

Right?

Yeah.

Right?

Exactly.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Yeah.

Whatever.

So, so... We're just

about a dozen of them, okay?

Right.

You know, I've noticed that a lot of people around here end sentences with, and everything.

Nah, you don't think?

I think.

You know?

Okay, please.

Mine's, my big ones, you know?

You know?

Yeah, yeah,

yeah, it's like.

Yeah, like, you know, like that's like how it goes.

Usually those crutch words are used when you're trying to think of your next word to say and it kind of gives you a little extra time.

You're one of those extremely intelligent men.

That's me.

Don't try to spell it, though.

Spell check doesn't work unless you can spell

it.

At least get

close.

No, you gotta

be able to spell it.

This woman I used to work with, she worked on my team when I was in corporate.

And she would end every sentence when she ran out of things to say.

She would always say, and whatnot.

I've heard people use that as well.

What

does the word mean?

There's something we should find out.

A nondescript person or thing?

That's definition number one.

Number two, a light open set of shelves for a bric-a-brack.

Isn't bric-a-brack also whatnot?

the the

Yes.

Like, what's it?

Thingamajig, dingus is a synonym of what not.

Well, there you go.

That's it.

That's what I got.

That's, uh, that's all there is.

There ain't no more, so I gotta go and get ready for, uh, throwback Thursday.

I almost said way back Thursday.

Why?

Cause I'm a dope.

So I'm gonna go get ready for throwback Thursday.

Little time traveling.

Tomorrow, 70s at 7, 80s at 8.

We will catch you then.

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great one.

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