WHAT WAS SO GREAT ABOUT GROWING UP IN THE 70S AND 80S?

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Water's here for the water's wake-up call this morning for throwback Thursday We were talking about what made it so great growing up in the 70s and the 80s no smartphones No social media all kinds of Saturday morning cartoons Oh and the freedom you remember the freedom all the naughty things we'd get into and I just like to reiterate I'm glad no one had a smartphone camera

back

was flooding.

A friend of mine was snagging.

Snagging?

Snagging for fish.

A couple hook and you pass it out and you jerk it in.

Well, I'm standing there talking to him and he jerks and he goes, oh my god, I got took a big and he's really dead and he's really dead and all of a sudden his hand comes up out of the water and I just took off running.

Are you the

kids they wrote stand by me about?

Is that it?

Did Rob Reiner come and see you at some point?

Think what made it so great was what we didn't have.

Cell phone, social media.

What we had as far as technology, usually we got at the radio shack and that was it.

It was simple stuff.

Simple.

Yeah.

And it didn't take you away from interacting with other people.

That's the big thing.

You could actually interact with other people.

I've seen kids in the same room and their friends, they're not talking to each other, they're texting back and forth.

It's like, come on, have a conversation.

Oh, true.

Yeah.

Ah, kids

today.

Kids.

I know.

No, me

neither.

Hey,

good

morning.

How are you

doing today, boss?

I'm doing pretty good.

I'm doing pretty good.

Are you working?

If I'm your boss, you better be working.

Yeah,

I

am working.

I'm on my butt driving down the interstate

here.

All right.

All right.

OK, glad to hear

that.

In reference to your last comment that you were talking about, you know, back in the 70s and 80s.

Yeah.

Everything was simple.

Kids nowadays, you know, they're in the same group, Texan.

In that idiotic, like he was, get up and talk to the person.

I know.

You

know, actually communicate, communicate, look at them.

Yeah.

Think what their facial expression is.

Yeah.

You know, like,

yeah, if the guy said, hey, console them.

Give them a hug, you know, or something like that.

No text back, of course.

Right, right.

Oh,

yeah, we had to, yeah.

Yeah, we went out.

We played kick the can.

We made our own amusement, you know.

Exactly.

You were creative.

You could use your brain a little bit.

You don't do that anymore.

Yeah.

And I saw just yesterday or today before a picture on Facebook had a bunch of bicycles all laying over this front yard.

Hey, the parents knew where their kids were.

Yeah.

All

in the house there.

Yeah.

Nowadays, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, and you know what if you wanted to go off and ride your bike for hours and hours like say start off at 10 a.m.. And come back at 6 o'clock for dinner.

You can do that.

Yep.

Yep.

And back in my day if dad or mom yelled you better be with the hearing dentist.

Yes.

Yeah.

Otherwise

you didn't eat.

You didn't eat dinner.

We all hated that first parent that we would hear call their kids like oh come on!

You know, ruin the fun and then it's like, I guess we should break it up and go home and eat.

Yeah.

And

how old were you when you were climbing for pears?

Did

you get in trouble for

that?

didn't but they always had to go get my mom to talk me down out of the tree.

So you're like the cat you get stuck in the tree well I'm glad it was just your mom and nobody had to call the fire department.

Correct.

Although make a better story tell it again with the fire department.

So I get stuck in the tree and they have to call the fire department to get me down.

Oh no and I'll bet they came with sirens blaring and your mom was screaming at you.

There was crying.

There was they had to get out the big hose to get you down they sprayed

with all that water pressure to knock you out of the tree.

Right.

See isn't that a better

story?

That is a better story.

The last part is Saturday morning cartoons.

Yeah, yeah.

Probably terrible cartoons, but I loved them then.

But it was great.

Yeah, you actually woke up on Saturday morning because you watched your shows before your sisters and brothers woke

up.

Saturday morning cartoons were huge.

I remember before the season started, they'd have a preview on Friday night, all of the new cartoons coming the next morning.

Yep, I would watch that all the time too.

Yeah, and it was like you'd get excited.

It was almost like Christmas, you know, instead of opening presents, you'd see the new cartoons and it'd be very

It's very exciting.

It's very exciting.

And then you get your bullet cereal and you hunt for the toy inside.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

You pour the whole box out just to find the toy and then you wouldn't need any of the cereal.

Exactly.

Ah, those were the days, weren't they?

They were the best.

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And now the waters wake up call.

Five things you didn't know you needed to hear with Mike Waters.

Let's see what's really going on in the world.

The important things going on in the world, like a football player retiring for the second time.

It's kind of like share or kiss or a few of them have done it, you know, said, hey, we're done.

This is it.

And Tom Brady did it last year, but he did it again this year.

Good morning, guys.

I'll get to the point right away.

I'm retiring for good.

I know the process was a pretty big deal last time.

So when I woke up this morning, I figured I'd just press record, let you guys know first.

So it won't be long-winded.

You only get one super emotional retirement essay.

And I used mine up last year.

So really thank you guys so much to every single one of you.

for supporting me, my family, my friends, my teammates, my competitors.

I could go on forever.

There's too many.

Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream.

I wouldn't change a thing.

And of course, love you all.

Thank you, Tom.

And you know, I think Tom would have mentioned me.

He said there were too many to mention.

So I'm sure he was gonna, oh, never mind, never mind.

So let's see here.

I think we should talk about this kid.

You know...

If you have kids, if you're around kids, whether they're your kids, or your neighbor's kids, or your grandkids, or nieces and nephews, whatever, kids of any kind, make sure they can't do anything crazy with your phone, like order $6,000, no $1,000.

I'm kind of set on the six weeks thing, but no, it was $1,000 on Grubhub.

So you want to hear the dad talking about it here?

Here you go.

It's

piles and bags of food, and they're dropping them off of the door, so I'm not communicating with the drivers.

And I said, what is going on?

Why are you bringing me food?

He said, I don't know.

You ordered from the shortlist.

I said, no.

Oh, I think I left the app open.

And he saw that when he was playing with my phone and just started going to towns He ordered multiple orders chili cheese fries the chicken pita wraps He ordered multiple orders of that multiple orders of ice cream pizza

Yeah, so I mean it was just all kinds of stuff so and what are you gonna do?

You know, I'm sure he had to pay for it And it was his own fault because he left the app up and he let his kid play with it So the kid didn't know what he's doing

So Netflix is going to start cracking down on passwords sharing next month.

We've been hearing about it for a long time and now it's going to start.

But in an updated FAQ, they said, and I'm quoting, to ensure uninterrupted access to Netflix, connect to the Wi-Fi at your primary location, open the Netflix app or website and watch something at least once.

every 31 days so no matter what you have to watch something once a month boy if you're paying for Netflix I hope it's more than that but

that they they go on to say this creates a trusted device so you can watch Netflix even when you're away from your primary location so I know what you're asking what if someone outside your household tries to use your account on say a non-trusted device quote Netflix will prompt users who try to sign into your account elsewhere to sign up for their own account get your own buddy instead of instead and block their access until they do but again here's another question

What if that someone is you?

You know, maybe you're traveling and you want to open your account on a hotel TV, for instance, or I don't know, in a relative's place.

In that case, you have to request a temporary code when you sign in, and then it gives you access for seven consecutive days.

So do not be away from your television at home for more than a week.

Alright, Netflix has spoken.

Thanks, Netflix.

That's awesome.

You know, people are dropping off Netflix like crazy, so maybe they'll just keep doing it.

I don't know.

I don't know.

So how would you like to be this guy?

Came home to his neighbor wearing his clothes and eating his food with a fire raging in the background.

So a guy comes home, there's his neighbor in his house, and he's eating his food, wearing his clothes, and there's a fire.

So, you know, the neighbor got in apparently by kicking his door down and just made himself right at home.

Sounds like the fire was in the living room and police say it was intentional.

So he didn't start it by mistake while he was cooking.

Now, luckily the whole building didn't go up, but the fire did burn a hole through the ceiling before firefighters showed up and put it out.

The guy and another person had to hold the neighbor down until first responders got there.

He's facing charges for arson, burglary, and criminal mischief.

His neighbor!

Yeah, so...

There's that.

And finally, you know, since Tom Brady has retired, I think what we need is we need a little song for Mr. Brady.

And I thought I thought I would write a little tune for him and sing along if you know the words.

You probably don't because you've never heard them before.

But here goes.

I'll get to the point right away.

I'm

retiring for good.

Thank you guys so much.

Thank you

for allowing

me to live my absolute dream.

I know.

I know.

I've got tears in my eyes.

You've got tears in your eyes.

Oh, no.

But I think that's five things.

What the hell were those things?

Five things.