The Not So Great, But Best of What He Had From Last Week

Well, hey, how you doing?

It's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call, and I hope you have a great weekend.

Well, if it's still the weekend, maybe you're listening to this on a Wednesday or something, or a random Wednesday, as we say on the Waters Wake Up Call.

Every single week, my favorite part of this show is talking to you.

So I like to come up with topics where you call and we talk about something.

So this past Monday, November 13th, 2022, I was still on a high from the Vikings beating the Buffalo Bills, and it was

is such a crazy game back and forth.

The last two minutes of this game were insane.

I almost got scoliosis yesterday.

It was just so crazy.

What'd you think?

I'm sure you were watching yesterday, weren't you?

Unfortunately, I wasn't watching because I was driving somebody up to so they could watch the Green Bay game.

Oh.

I

didn't go to it, but listened to

it.

God, up and down and up and down.

Felt like I was on some kind of a weird NFL trampoline.

You know, I think you did.

They gotta not do that to us.

You and I both have had heart issues.

We don't

have

heart issues.

Yeah.

We don't

need that.

Thank goodness I've got a machine in my chest and also the paddles that are in the living room for, you know, the wife to use as backup.

I didn't get one of those.

No?

Oh, those are... You need them during Vikings games.

The interior and the exterior.

So, yeah, I'm gonna have those panels out and ready for the rest of the season.

Please, Vikings, don't screw it up.

Anyway, moving right along, you know, every Tuesday, and we don't call it Tuesday, you know, it's kind of a boring name.

It's the second day of the work week, and, you know, it's kind of indescribable, really.

It's just kind of there.

It's not Monday, but it's...

the long week ahead of you.

But if you add an N in there, call it Tunes Day, then it's about music and listening and talking tunes.

And after a word from our Tunes Day sponsor, we will revisit our Tunes Day topic from this week, Who Is On, Your Mount Rushmore of Music.

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All right, Tuesday topic.

Good morning,

Mr. Waters.

Good morning to you.

How are you?

Oh, I've been better.

Yeah?

No.

Hey, I got a mouth.

I suddenly get a mouth there for a minute.

See, there

you go again.

How about a mushroom?

How about that?

Okay.

Yes.

Okay, go ahead.

I'm sorry.

I'll shut up.

Okay.

All right.

Mama Cass, Karen Carpenter, Olivia Newton-John,

and

Linda

Ronstadt.

Oh, Linda Ronstadt especially.

Those are some good, good, fine ladies.

That

would be an angelic mountain there.

That would, wouldn't

it?

Yeah.

Such a sound would come from there.

That's cool.

I think, you know, if I was to put a female Mount Rushmore, just exclusively ladies, I'd probably have Stevie Nicks, Janice Joplin, Pat Benatar, and boy, who else?

Grace Slick, maybe.

That would be a good mountain, too.

Yeah.

Those are two fine lady mountains.

That's right.

Could you say that on the radio?

I don't know.

Well, you just did.

Yeah, I did.

So what are you gonna do?

It's out there.

Good morning, Mike.

It's Carrie from Dysart.

That's the home of that vacuum cleaner, right?

The Dysart vacuum cleaner?

Oh, no, that's Dyson.

That's Dyson.

Yeah.

Oh, I feel like a dope Carrie from Dyson.

What is your Mount Rushmore of music, Carrie?

Molly Hatchet.

That surprises me a little.

No, this is your Mount Rushmore.

That doesn't matter.

Yes, it is my Mount Rushmore.

Yeah, sorry, Carrie.

Who else?

ZZ Talk.

How, how, how?

Van Halen.

But do you put Dave or Sammy up there?

We'll just put Eddie up there and be done with

it, right?

Okay, yeah.

You know what?

No matter what, you're hearing Eddie play guitar.

I think that's the best answer.

And my last one might shock you.

Okay.

Van Morrison.

Van is cool.

Van the Man.

Favorite song he does is Into the

Mystic.

Is it a mystical, strange place?

And next week, since it's Thanksgiving,

on Tuesday, we're gonna have a Turkey Tunes playlist.

So be thinking about that.

But moving right along with the week, you know, every Wednesday is Wandom Wednesday.

It's just Wandom.

You know, anything that might hit us in the head, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna do, we're gonna talk about, no matter how insane, it's just, you never know what's gonna happen.

It's always an adventure on Wandom Wednesday.

And that is coming up right after our Wandom Wednesday sponsor.

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How did they get on?

What, what are we, do we need the money that bad?

Sorry, let's, let's just pretend that never happened, huh?

But what do you say?

Let's get random.

So I believe somebody called with a tongue twister.

The awfulest siffl of a successful siffl sifter.

While sifting a siffl of unsifted siffl, cross three thousand siffl through the thick of its top.

See that thou, while ditching a successful one, did it this all?

Thou art not three thousand sisters through the thickest I thought.

Success to the successful sister.

Good

lord!

I

learned that when I was seven years old.

Did it beautifully.

You learn all these passwords and forget them.

but I can remember that food

thing.

I know the memory is a weird, complicated thing, but I'm sure it had to do with the fact that you wanted to learn it and you were really paying attention when you first heard it.

So it's easier to recall, but, and I was probably five or six, and I had a Sesame Street record.

Big Bird did the song about the ABCs.

Ab Kadevki, Jekyll, Monop, or Student Voxes.

Hi, there was a song, yeah.

Yeah, Ab Kadevki, Jekyll, Monop, or Student Voxes, and

I can- Is

there a reduce?

Yeah, I can

probably-

And

from that random tongue twister came a text from another random listener of a tongue twisting challenge Well, I had to try a big black bug bit the big black bear and the big black bear bled blood I've never heard that one before all right now.

There's now.

There's a dangerous one here that somebody is challenging me so Okay, okay, let me I'm warming up here Okay

Sit upon the fitted sheet upon the feet I sit all right hang on let me try that again I sit upon the feet up.

Let me let me start that over.

I should upon oh hold on a second.

Let me let me start again I Sit upon the fitted sheet upon the feet.

Oh come on come on Mike you can do this.

I know you can all right.

Let's pump it up I Sit upon the fitted sheet upon the fitted I said oh come on son of this

tongue twister oh if I don't get it this crazy sorry about that all right one more time I'm giving it one more try I sit upon the fitted sheet upon the fitted sheet I sit yes all right and that's it I'm never saying feet

Fitted shit.

Oh never mind.

Let's just move on Seriously, that was pretty frustrating.

Oh, sorry.

Sorry.

Okay.

I got to get off that Let's just move on to throwback Thursday and every throwback Thursday I go back to the 70s at seven 80s at eight and this last throwback Thursday I learned a little history about Iowa But first a word from our sponsor and throwback Thursday is

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Too many pillows that's for sure and too many blankets they're like 30 blankets on my bed forget about pillow blanket fort we could build a pillow blanket mansion with

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I'll have to talk to Mrs. Waters about that one.

And you know, come to think of it, Thanksgiving is next week, so where are we gonna put the coats of all the people coming to the house?

They have no room with the pillows in the blankets.

Anyway, here's that Iowa history lesson I was telling you about.

What

happened in September of 1985 that was important here in

Iowa?

Huh, yeah, I don't know.

High Street 80 was opened up between Waterloo and Peter Rapids.

Really?

I had no idea.

Yes.

380 in 85.

They should have called it 385.

That would have been my suggestion if I'd been at the meeting.

That's interesting though, I had no idea.

I'm on 380 all the time and now I know a little something

about it.

Yeah, so it probably took, what, eight hours to get from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo?

And you know, this past Thursday, with the holidays coming up and gift giving and all of that, we have to watch what we say to the gift giver, especially if we don't like what they've given us.

You know, things like, wow, you really shouldn't have.

And that basically means you really shouldn't have.

Or, oh, I just have to know where you got this, meaning they want to know where to return it and get money.

Give us an example, Carrie from Dicert.

My mother was famous for saying, well, isn't that different?

That's different from anything I ever thought anybody would make and sell.

This is awful.

It's like a backhanded compliment.

It's in that same category.

Yep.

Hey, you know what?

You're not as fat as you look on television, you know, like that.

That's one of those.

Actually, you look like, oh, look at me.

Piggy over there, isn't she just adorable?

Yeah.

The outfit's so

cute.

Yeah, you know, that's not Miss Piggy.

That's my sister.

But I'm glad you think she's cute And then to top off the week on Friday I took confessions gave forgiveness Which by the way was an idea from a listener that we tried and speaking of ideas of listeners I also got this idea which I kind of like oh and hold on I have word we have another sponsor for this segment Okay Well, let's let's hear from them

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You know, at first she sounded like she was talking about me because according to Mrs. Waters, I don't load the dishwasher correctly.

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Yeah, you'll be grouchy when you call because you're grouchy about what you're dealing with.

So we'll call it trash talking with Oscar.

And there you go, the not so great, but best of what I had of last week on the Waters Wake Up call.

Hey, you know, next week, Thanksgiving week, you know, maybe at the end of next week, I should, I'll have some leftovers, huh?

Yeah, you thought that was bad.

Wait until you hear the leftovers.

Anyway, have a great rest of your weekend and we'll chat with you.

Thanksgiving week, and Sayonara, bye-bye, until next time.

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