Morning Meltdown: Throwback Games

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and howdy, and good morning, and good afternoon, and good evening, and good night.

I don't know when you're listening to this, but thank you for listening to the Morning Meltdown Throwback Thursday Edition.

And I always have a blast on Throwback Thursday.

You know, I love the 70s, and I love the 80s, and I grew up really in both decades.

So both the decades hold a very special spot in my heart.

I'm sorry, I'm starting to get a little misty here, just thinking about it, but with the 70s and the 80s, I like to

other than, you know, get into the great tunes and talk about pop culture, I like to ask you a question and we start talking about certain things.

This morning we were talking about classic games and our favorites.

We were talking about some of those classic games, whether it was the board games or the outdoor games or video games or games you made up.

Doesn't matter.

Whatever your favorite game was back in the day while you were growing up, that's what we were talking about.

So I got some great calls.

Thank you for that.

We'll get into those as well as do the five things you didn't know you needed to hear.

The hit and run headlines and as always, like any other day, we kick off with

this.

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

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So here's a very bright story from Colonial Heights, Virginia.

Very, very brave man.

His name is Bradley Stuller.

He risked his life earlier this week to rescue a grandmother and her two young grandchildren from a burning house.

So he's driving by and then notices a massive amount of smoke from the home.

So he stops to see what's happening.

And as soon as he heard that the family's grandmother was still inside,

he being the hero that he is rushed into the smoke the smoke filled home and remembered later that it was pitch black you couldn't see anything but after guiding the grandmother to safety he went back into the burning home in a desperate attempt to reach the crying children now unfortunately the fires intensity forced him to retreat but but but but thankfully

Firefighters arrived and rescued these two little kids, one and two year old.

Thank goodness for that.

So these three family members are currently in critical condition in the hospital, but their relatives are so thankful that this hero was able to save their grandmother.

And here's the granddaughter just talking about how thankful she

is.

Thank him so much.

He's the reason that my grandmother is alive because if not, she would have been in that house trying to put that fire out.

Yeah, just imagine.

So a big shout out to.

hero Bradley Stuller for turning what could have been a very dark side into a bright one.

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Can't blame her.

So there's a discussion on the internet about when the Fast and Furious franchise first abandoned reality.

You know, I believe it was when they gave Vin Diesel a role that required him to act.

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Yeah, I think it's C, too.

That's all I got.

We hit, we ran, we kicked, it's butt.

That's kind of a Ghostbusters line, but not really.

I think we can go back for a call or two and talk about the classic games we loved playing as kids.

So what do you got?

Give me a classic game you

love.

Centipede.

I remember Centipede very well.

That just kicked my butt.

I was never good at Centipede, you know.

I can't remember what that thing was that used to drop from the bottom.

That dropped all those mushrooms behind

it.

Right.

I don't know.

I have to go look that up.

I used to, I'm sure.

Well sure.

Right now the old brain doesn't really work,

you know.

No, I know what you're talking about.

And my mother says it's like, you know, a shelf.

You put something on the front, stuff falls off the back.

yeah my

brain has probably two three cats I think very playful cats so they're not gonna all kinds of things over

Even the front of my shelf they're pushing things off Centipedes and cats can't beat that can we so I'll tell you what we're gonna wait and take some more calls in a little bit but before we do that I've got five things and before the five things I've got one thing that I want to do first so we're gonna do the one thing then the five things total of six things and then more calls okay did you did you keep up with that I certainly hope so just

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Okay, that's

the one thing I was talking about, and now the five

things.

I'm devastated.

Have you heard Oscar Meyer is changing the name of the Wiener Mobile?

It's iconic.

How can they do something like this?

The Wieners, they're changing it to the Frank Mobile.

I don't like that.

I don't like that one bit.

I don't like it one bit, I'm telling you.

They're teasing that it could be permanent.

But it's probably just a stunt to promote a new recipe that they're rolling out for their Franks.

And like I said earlier, I'm sure it's because Mr. Wienermobile is being teased about his name.

But how is, how is Frank, how is Frankmobile going to be any better than Wiener when you have, I think people are going to be yelling this at the Frankmobile.

It's not gonna be pretty and I'm just telling you now and I'm warning you Second thing there is another scam a Facebook scam going around It's something like the old is this you in this video and it gets you to click on the video and then you know You've been had and I think this is one of the worst making the rounds on Facebook where a friend sends you a message that says

Look who died in an accident.

I think you know him.

So sorry.

If you get it, don't click the link.

It's a fishing scam to steal your information.

You're not getting my information, you pirates.

Give us this third

thing.

All right, so there's a new bachelor coming.

It's called the Golden Bachelor.

So it's going to be the bachelor with older folks.

And ABC says, and I'm quoting, one hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life.

The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience living through love, loss, and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future

full of endless possibilities.

I don't know when it's gonna be premiering, no other

details.

So I find this hilarious.

There is a realtor, and this is a viral video.

This realtor was so frightened by a homeowner's hairless Sphinx cat that she hurried out of the house.

This video is from the security cam at the front of the house, but the audio is so funny.

You hear her on the phone telling someone about this funny looking cat, and oh, just

listen.

Holy Son of a Gun Batman!

And finally... And the fifth thing

you should

know...

So I love these kids shows that bring back some of the old stuff and turn the kids on to the good stuff, I guess we should call them.

So you love the Muppets, I love the Muppets, and one of my favorite fake bands of all time, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, they've accomplished now something very few fake bands ever do.

They have hit the billboard charts.

So I don't know if you know of their show, it's on Disney Plus, it's called Muppets Mayhem and the soundtrack debuted at

Number 13 on the Kid Albums Chart.

It's called the Muppets Mayhem Music from the Disney Plus Original Series.

And it features 17 songs credited to the band and some were written for the show.

But there are also some really good covers.

I wish I could play you the Kiss cover, but internet and copyright.

So you'll just have to go out and check it out.

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I think that's five things.

I'm

counting five.

Five?

things you didn't know you needed

to hear.

Five is the perfect number.

I don't care who you ask.

It's not too many.

It's not too few.

Hey, you know what?

I was thinking before we wrap up, let's take some more phone calls and talk classic games.

Hello?

I

started out on Atari as well.

Yeah?

It was on a 400, 800, and a 130.

And then one of my favorite games, and I think it was after the Atari, it was called Load Runner.

Load?

And I played that quite a bit.

Yeah.

It was a fun game.

I don't remember that one.

I think it actually came on a floppy I know that I had a five and a quarter floppy with my Atari

Yeah, I don't know if you ever got into Castle Wolfenstein, but I had a floppy of that that me and my brother played constantly

Yeah

Oh

man,

not season it's

like good lord

He's like, Mom, you can push dirt anytime.

I

said, you cast me up, and I was just like, oh my god, I don't even have a clue what I'm doing.

Yeah.

Yeah, you felt like you had an IQ of about 12 at the time.

No,

not even that long.

It was so funny, though.

That is funny.

That's great.

But he said, you can push dirt anytime, Mom.

How about Twister?

Now are we talking as a child or as a young adult say teens early twenties?

Hey, why not both?

Why not?

It becomes a whole different game a little later in life though.

So it is

kind of two different

games, really.

Well, you

don't have to comment on that.

I mean, you're not required.

Hey, I gave you a well.

You did.

You did.

I appreciate that, too, by the way.

I think that's where yoga came from, was from Twister.

An ancient, ancient game.

Yeah, it might have.

I think downward dog, though, came from left hand on blue, right foot on red.

Okay, now you're just thinking about it too much.

I am.

I know.

I know.

I think

my brain has gone downward dog.

Yeah.

I can go see.

Oh, there we go.

A nice, cheap game.

Did you get that for Christmas one year?

Yep.

Good, good.

Yeah, your parents scammed you with that one, but at least you liked it.

They told me to go hide and go see it.

I've never seen no presents after that.

Yeah, you go hide.

We'll look for you.

Oh, sure.

And after three days, you thought, hey, so you went out and tried to find them.

And they were the ones hiding.

They flipped it on you.

Exactly.

Good morning, Mike.

How

are you?

I am good.

You, my friend.

I am really good.

Why?

Why really good?

I'm glad, but why?

Because

I'm a bus man, and I'm on the interstate running.

Right on, man.

Well, you keep on running.

Run, Forrest, run.

Run,

baby, run.

Keep going,

they're catching up to you.

Keep going.

Hey, my favorite game was the boob tube

game.

What?

The boob.

Tube.

Game.

I am a tad scared to ask you what that was all about,

but... It's a round silo that had five layers in it with a hole in the center and you had five marbles that you had to move from the top to the bottom.

Huh.

Look it up.

It's a really cool game.

I got two of them.

Two?

Really?

Tube move, tube game.

I guess that makes sense.

I think as far as calls and texts, I think Twister was the winner of the most popular of the throwback Thursday games.

I've talked about this before.

I'm going to talk about it again because I think it's a million dollar idea.

You know how you get into elevators and it's always so awkward if someone else is in there.

You're at this close quarters and you don't know what to say so you don't say anything and you can't look at them because they might be crazy and hey, what do you look at?

You never know.

right?

So it's always awkward.

So I think all elevators should be equipped with twister.

So you put twister on the floor and then maybe have a spinner on the floor with it and then you get in there and you can spin the spinner with the people you're in and you can just do all this twister stuff and I think it'll be a lot less awkward.

So million dollar idea.

If you have the power go and sell that to somebody and then keep me in there.

for 80%, okay?

Thanks in advance.

I think on that note, that's all I have for you.

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