What would you "Sarcastically" bring back?

Hey, Mike Waters here from the Waters Wake Up Call.

I've been reading about Gen Z wanting to bring back all this old crap that we were glad to get rid of when it was gone, like the VCR and rotary phones.

Oh, wouldn't those be great to have back?

So I asked you, what else would you sarcastically want back?

Yeah, ringer, water.

A ringer washer.

Okay, so you'd wash your ringers?

No.

No, I know.

And wring out your clothes with the, it'd have the two rollers and you'd put it through the two rollers and it would bring out all the wet.

And then you'd have the washer.

Wouldn't you, you'd do the washer first and then the ringer.

I

think we should bring that back too.

Let's all throw away our washer dryers and get a ring.

Well, then let's all do it that way.

We don't want convenience.

We want cleaner.

I say that's sarcastically, of course.

Oh, thanks a lot, sweetheart.

Something I like to see come back.

The phone book.

The phone book.

Remember, they always say, well, you know, whose number is this?

Don't know.

Well, you're looking for who, and you go through the phone book to find out who they are, where they live, and their number.

I remember that.

So do I.

And I know Steve Martin would really love to have

the phone book

back.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, you bet.

He'd get so excited.

Yep.

I really, really miss out houses.

Yes.

Especially in subzero

weather.

in total agreement with you.

There's nothing better in this free world than going out in 30 below weather, pulling down your pants, and sitting down for a good 10, 15 minutes.

That's

great.

Yeah.

That's the way to use up your magazines,

too.

It really is.

It really is.

For reading, and then if you run out of toilet paper.

Right?

Of

course it is.

Outhouse is OK.

I'm writing that down.

Out houses number one and number two on

the list.

First one's going to be common sense, intelligence.

Oh, great.

Exactly what we need.

Common courtesy respect.

Yeah.

None of that's around anymore.

customer service?

Oh that'd be fantastic to bring all that back and then you know then we'd have to say hi to people and we'd have to make way for them and and try and be smart all the time and take time out of our day to be nice to these people.

Oh that'd be fantastic if you work retail and then it's oh yes sir no sir customers always right.

Yeah sign me up for a little of that.

You know somebody said cassettes earlier, but I think eight track tapes would be even better They can be eaten by your machine and I love how they They'll play half a song and then switch tracks and play the other half of the song.

I That's not distracting at all.

I think that's fantastic.

Oh eight

tracks Okay, I'll call Detroit see what I can get done for

you

Oh good, let's hear it Farmer Dave.

When you were used to have checkout people, you didn't have to check yourself

out.

Yeah, we should bring them back.

We should bring more of them back because usually there's maybe one or two checkers and the rest

of them are

just monitoring you at the at the self checkout.

So you don't steal nothing.

They've got cameras on you.

They've got five checkers just surrounding you and just eyeballing you at all times, making sure you ain't stealing nothing.

You know, in the olden days when they used to be in the

right

now you have to forage it's like foraging for food now that's what we do because there aren't as many people

out there to

help us you know there are

no

yeah there are no guides we have to forage on our own hopefully we'll come out of there with everything there's nobody also at the end to say you find everything and you

could

say no I didn't find this this this and this and they'd say oh

Well, I'm sorry about that and there would be nothing they could do because they're stuck there checking you and there's nobody they can call to go and get this stuff So you're screwed Farmer Dave

Yeah,

it'll be a big thrift store, but way

more

expensive

We

should get an automatic discount Farmer Dave for performing these particular jobs

Good morning, Mike Waters.

Well, good morning to you.

How are you?

Well, I was wondering if we could bring back party lines so I could listen in and breathe heavy.

Oh, you're that guy, huh?

Yeah.

I talked to you a lot back in the day.

You didn't say anything to me, but I talked to you a lot back in the day.

I know.

I made you mad a lot, too, because I wouldn't get off the line.

Right.

Right.

Exactly.

You're the last person I wanted to invite to my party line, Mr. Heavy Breather.

But

no, you're

right.

You're right.

Let's bring back the

party line.

Then

every call can be a party.

And you don't you never know is gonna show up.

That's good.

That's pretty fantastic And meanwhile you're planning

a

murder and somebody jumps in on your conversation And you don't have to worry about the CIA listening because they can do it for free That's right You don't have to be paranoid about it because there's no mystery of course.

They're listening in

Well, good morning, Mike.

Well, good morning.

What's happening?

I thought of something I would love to bring back.

Okay.

It's the games I used to play with the kids back in the 90s.

Yeah?

And it had that cassette that you had to put in and it frees up and you have to pull it out and blow into it to get it to work again.

Right.

I

think it was the old PlayStation.

Yeah, those were fantastic, huh?

And the graphics were so much better.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

It was unbelievable.

Oh, those old

Playstations that are or the old Atari's with even better graphics

Yeah, I don't

even know why they needed to go past that I mean that was everything I mean everything since then has

been ripping off pong That's right.

Yeah, they just made it so difficult now.

Yeah, easy

stuff You know you got to hook up to the internet and and you know play with all these other people

It's like, I don't know these people.

When it's Pong, it's just me and my brother.

Yeah.

Or just by yourself.

Yeah, or by yourself.

That was even better.

That was a no win then.

Yes, good point.

Let's bring back that stuff.

All right.

You have a good

day, buddy.

Bring back that cassette tape.

Oh.

Oh, the cassette tapes.

Weren't those great?

Oh, they were the best.

You could see the music turning while you're sitting there jamming out.

Oh,

yeah.

Oh, man.

And then you know what I loved?

I loved when the tape player got wonky and started pulling tape out of the cassette, and then you'd have to open the cassette player, take out the tape, and be very careful that you're not pulling or stretching the tape.

And then the only way you could rewind, you'd have to get that pencil out of your drawer and then put it through one of the holes.

in the cassette.

And you could like, oh, what do you call it?

Like a noisemaker, a New Year's Eve, you know, you'd spin it around on this pencil until it was all rewound.

That was fun.

And it was always kind of exciting because you never knew when you were listening to a tape cassette of your favorite album, when on what song it was your tape recorder was going to start eating your tape.

You can have like a drinking game with it or yeah, it was exciting.

It was

And

that's how you taped off the radio.

You had to have that cassette tape because nothing else would work.

You'd hear it on the radio and then you could hit.

play in record and it just would work.

It would work.

And you'd get the song for free.

You'd probably start a little late and you'd for you know, you wouldn't have the beginning of the song or maybe the annoying DJ talking over the top of the first part of it.

But hey, you'd have the song and it would sound great because it was on tape cassette.

Exactly.

They get no better quality

than

that.

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