TBT: IF YOU COULD BRING BACK 1 THING...

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Hey, hey, hey, it's Waters from the Waters Wake Up called Throwback Thursday.

Our topic this morning was, if you could go back to your childhood and bring back one thing, what would it be?

Hi, I was going to say bring back clackers, but I had a different reason.

Why?

It would explain a lot.

It would explain the behavior of most of the kids right now in these days.

Because they'd be getting hit in the head with clackers.

That's probably why they're acting like they're acting.

Uh-huh.

I've got four sons.

I wish I had an excuse.

I

wish I did.

You don't.

I don't.

I don't.

But I love them anyway.

I'm sure there's something to explain the craziness of the kids these days, including yours.

When I got my set of clackers, they didn't even have anything to hold onto in the middle.

So my mom got the brilliant idea of putting a washer in the middle and then pulling the clackers through the string so that I'd have something to hold onto.

My sister got the new and improved version.

She got the one that had the matching plastic.

Lucky.

Well, I had a smart mom, so that helped.

Good.

I did too, by the way.

Wasn't that nice to have?

It was.

It really

was.

That's awesome.

That's probably why we ended up so smart.

You know it is.

I was just telling because you're talking with the ones who like to bring back.

Yeah,

what would you bring back, hollanoats?

Kmart.

Kmart.

But not the Kmart right before it closed.

The Kmart of the 70s and 80s.

Yeah, with the Blue Lights special.

So I missed the Kmart.

I do too.

Even though we used to make fun of it back in the day, what did the birds say?

when it flew over the Kmart?

Uh, K-Fart?

Nope.

Cheap, cheap.

Oh, cheap, cheap.

Yeah.

They must be flying over when they had the blue light special.

Oh, you must not know the true story behind the blue light special, because it was actually a blue light that would roll around the store, and it looked like a flashing light on the car.

It was blue, and I thought the cops were there, and my parents would tell me, yep, they're here to take you away.

And I went, what?

And that's what all the grown-ups were telling their kids at the time, because I heard other parents telling their kids, yep, that means you're being taken away for science experiments.

Apparently that was the price our parents had to pay in order to get those deals of the Blue Light

Special.

Oh, well, no, my mom never told me that.

No.

Go to the deli.

Go to the deli.

Go to the deli.

He'll be fine there.

Good morning.

Good morning, Iron Man.

How are you, sir?

Good, fine.

Glad to hear it.

What can I do for you?

How about freeze frame?

What's the first line of the song?

Freeze frame.

Freeze frame.

Yes.

As far as lost toys, the cool behind toys.

Oh, yeah.

I think I remember those.

I think they were Fisher Price, weren't they?

Yeah.

had like Fisher price for adult things, you know, like power tools, you know, big and easy to operate.

They last longer.

Yeah.

They last longer.

They're this durable plastic.

They're easy to use.

Let's see.

What would be a pull behind for an adult?

I don't even know if I want to go there.

Pull behind car.

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pull behind kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Put a string on them so they don't get away.

Yeah.

Maybe they come with, you know,

Fisher Price would sell these wheels that you could attach to the children and they would have a string and then you could pull the kids behind you.

They'd be on wheels.

Fisher Price wheels.

They would because it's Fisher Price.

They would know, oh well, yeah, it's okay, it's Fisher Price.

Then, yeah, go ahead, wheel them around.

Well, good Morgan, how are

you?

Isn't that a hairspray or something?

Oh

God bless a girl who would have a GI Joe.

That's awesome.

The crushing of the stereotypes.

Oh man, I had all of the planet of the apes man.

I loved

that.

What

posters did you have back

then?

Cory Hart, Duran Duran.

Cory Hart.

You're an 80s kid, aren't you?

I am.

I am.

Yeah, but all that stuff is, it's selling for crazy, crazy prices.

I don't know that I'd get much for the toys because I actually played with them.

Yeah.

See, that's the thing.

I was a weird kid too when I played with the toys.

I didn't leave them in the box.

I didn't think back then, hey, you know, I bet there'll be a website called eBay that I could sell these suckers on and make a fortune.

I never thought of that.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I know what's the matter.

All

right, let's take one more here.

Morning Mike, how are you?

I'm doing pretty good.

How are you?

Good.

Good.

Good to hear your voice.

Well, thank you.

It's good to be heard, sir, with my phony FM radio voice.

The question, I got two of them.

One I'd like to bring back, the Clackers.

The Clackers?

I always hear about Clackers.

Everybody loved the Clackers back then, even though you got hit in the noggin a few times.

Yeah, I gotcha.

I gotcha.

Yeah.

Forky.

Forky.

Okay.

And I've got a spork named Sporky.

But he doesn't like to be talked about.

He's shy.

So

yeah.

Well, hey.

Forky and I thank you for calling.

Hi buddy, have a great day.

Hey Mike.

Hey, how are

you?

I was thinking of your topic of course.

Yeah, and what would you bring back if you can go back and get one thing?

Well, the thing I've noticed lately though is everything from the 80s is coming back.

That's true.

Did you notice?

I have, as a matter of fact.

But the one thing I probably have to say that I haven't seen in years, but when I turned four.

Yeah.

Which is the late 70s.

Okay.

You know all the play tables?

Oh, yeah.

I haven't seen those, so I was like...

That's the only thing I haven't seen come back.

The play table, so you wouldn't go back and get your play table?

Possibly, yeah.

Possibly?

With a tea set in here.

Yeah.

You know oddly enough, I never had one of those play tables with a tea set.

Anyway, let's see what else we got here.

Hello?

Oh my god, that was quick.

Well, I just was wrapping up a call and I went to the next one and there you were.

Lucky me.

I mean, lucky

you.

Well, lucky us.

Let's say that.

Lucky us.

Yay!

So you were.

Will you play

a song that you haven't played for a

while?

Which song?

What's the song we're talking about there, Woodwardness?

The theme for Billy Jack.

One Tin Soldier.

Yeah, let me see what I can do.

Yeah, as for your topic of the day, I was thinking of a flexible flyer for sledding, but that's wintertime.

So, I mean...

I'm not asking for a particular season, but yeah, what would you do for as far as spring and summer, outside stuff maybe?

Oh, freak.

I mean, you don't have to go to school, so you've got all this free time on your ass.

You can go back and bring back free time?

Go play

with your friends.

I'm talking material item here.

Oh, there's so

many of them.

You know, the Hot Wheels you used to play with or

your

favorite bike?

Yeah.

The bike was critical because it got you anywhere you wanted to go.

Yeah, I loved my bike.

I got everywhere on my bike.

Everywhere.

I'd like to go back and get my very first bike that had training wheels.

on it.

Maybe I could finally learn how to ride one of those things.

Yeah, but seriously, that's the bike I learned to ride on, so it's got a special place deep in my heart.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Mine was a hand-me-down from my older sister and brother, and my dad kind of modified it.

He put a banana seed on it, an old Schwinn, and high handlebars make it look cool.

Right.

Yeah, did you have the ape hangers ever?

No.

Oh, man, that is brilliant.

What

was your favorite?

Oh.

Right, right.

You know, setting up getting the Bull C.O.

and just, you know, you don't get that anymore.

No, and we really appreciated it because that was really the only time they played cartoons.

Now it's constant, whether it's the cartoon channel or Disney or any of those, you just, you get cartoons 24-7.

They don't appreciate it like we used to.

Exactly, exactly.

Weekday mornings, 5.30 to

10.

all the Wi-Fi!

Ah, apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?