Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters wake up call and we were celebrating farmers this morning It's actually Sunday, but any day is good to celebrate farmers So I've talked to many farmers in my five years here I'm gonna put together some calls I had today as well as some really good archived farmer calls jokes Stories and it's all coming up.
So you just so just keep listening and thanks for clicking
I
didn't know if you were alive or dead!
Well, I'm fairly alive still taking in air.
Did you hear I played a call from you earlier today from the archives?
I heard that this morning Farmers day and I think you always used to call with the show in your card Which
I still think is
funny.
So I I don't count on you for calling so I have to go to the archives trucker Todd Yeah, once you retired and and got married and marriage can ruin a lot of things trucker Todd I don't know if you've noticed yet, but
No,
it
doesn't.
Yeah, coming from a separated man.
Well, that's a different story.
But anyway.
Anyway, how are you?
How's life?
How's Rhonda?
We're doing great.
Round is awesome.
I know you're retired, Todd, but I know you're a guy who never stands still.
What have you been doing to keep busy?
Oh, camping, fishing, getting a little work in there once in a while.
You're not
still trucker Todd sometimes, are you?
No, working at the co-op, helping the farmers out.
Well, hey,
we can celebrate you, farmer Todd.
Yes.
Oh, I don't
know.
Well, knowing you, Farmer Todd, it's gotta be a bumper crop of, uh, oh, what would it be?
I don't even know.
Uh, a bumper crop of shh, dung.
Yeah, we pilot pretty deep.
What's brown and sounds like a bell?
Dung!
My grandfather was a farmer.
A farmer of what?
Crops?
Okay, we'll say crops.
How long ago was this?
Your grandfather is still
farming it?
Okay, well
I'm sorry for your loss.
Who's farming it now?
Oh, well that's
all that
matters.
between Hampton and Alexander.
Well, if it's anywhere near Hampton, it's got to be a pig farm.
No, they're-
Because I've got a ton of ham in Hampton.
There's
not- Oh.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Very funny, Mike.
I have a ham massager in it.
You've got a ham massager?
Is that what they farm?
They're ham massagers?
No, but- Can you go ham massagers?
And it usually lasts for three days, but you have to-
Charge it.
Is that what you're doing now?
I hear beeping.
Yeah, that's what the beep
is.
OK, because I didn't know if that was the hand massager or like a combine backing up.
Oh, no.
I'm now nowhere
near the farm.
Special farmers are farmers like me and Ricky Andreessen and Keystone, people that take care of animals all the time, 365 days a year, whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, whatever.
Sure.
Sam Sam.
Yeah, I do.
I
mean, we make a little more sacrifice than just Farmer Dave or the other guys that just crop farm.
Don't say just crop farm.
I mean, they're important too, you know.
I
know, I know.
Okay, Mr. Milker.
So like when I go to my daughter's wedding in a couple weeks, I got people lined up in my chores.
Right.
like any kind of a pet but more important.
Right.
All farmers make big sacrifices and they ignore their families and you know nurses do too and paramedics do too and fire truck guys do too firemen you know.
Well your wife is a nurse right?
Yep.
Yeah the heart center.
Talk about an important household at your farm.
Right.
I appreciate the fact that you take care of
animals and it is that's got to be a huge job instead of just having a season you have all year round to take care of these animals especially
being a dairy farmer well it's 20 below you gotta milk them whether you feel like it or not right
yeah yeah good god man i know you've called me i think in all kinds of weather yeah yeah
you know there's like rich andryson they got like 400 sheep over in keystone
They raise sheep all day long.
Yeah.
He listens to you, too, all the time.
Thanks, Rick Andreessen.
Thank you for what you do.
He's one of my friends.
Yeah.
Farmer is one of the occupations I truly respect.
You know, and I'm sure there's days my wife has put the f***ing patience, too.
We all have it bad sometimes.
I don't really.
I just sit on my butt playing tunes and try and play some good stuff to keep you doing what you do, I guess.
Well, you know what you did last weekend?
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, the unclaimed farmer.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Or the unclaimed vet.
Did I say veteran
or farmer?
He said farmer.
He said farmer.
I wonder if there is an unclaimed farmer program.
My wife would probably not claim me most days.
Well, right,
so you may need it at some
point.
Yeah, I might need
that, yeah.
No, it was really cool to be a part of that last week.
It was one of the highlights of my life.
Well, you do a lot of cool things all the time.
Well,
thank you, man.
Yeah, I got 12 and then five showcals about.
Okay, we're gonna go back to the archive calls, and I really wanted to include this.
One of the first calls from Farmer Dave, he was known at the time as Dave the Farmer, and I think this was the second call I ever took from Farmer Dave, because we refer to one that happened earlier.
But anyway, my topic this particular morning was what did you want to be when you grew up?
So we started with that, and then of course got into the farming Dave, probably from back from 2020.
Hey, this is Dave, the farmer.
Hey, Dave, the farmer, what you doing?
I'll bet you're farming.
Yeah, and my wish to talk about, to begin with, I wanted to be an engineer, drive a train.
Yeah, oh,
that kind of
engineer, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That never happens, so then I want to be a farmer, guess what?
You're a
farmer?
There you go.
Yeah, well, you know, you know, you probably don't drive the tractor.
Are you the one who called me yesterday with all the self-driving
things?
Yes, and I'm doing it again today.
If you get the ground raising, I'm going to switch to the planter and plan it.
Well, I say you made the better decision, because Lord knows we need farmers.
You can have some up here sometime and ride around and you really get the real feel of
it.
I would love to.
And where are you exactly?
Independence Iowa.
Oh, Independence, OK.
Yeah, we should we should arrange for one day, you know come out and and check out your farm So let's plan on it.
Hey you have a good one today.
It's fun listening to the old phone calls But then I got and this is a call from this morning his grandson called and made sure that I acknowledge his grandfather Farmer Dave.
So here's Doug Farmer Dave's grandson.
Is this Mike Waters?
Why, yes, who's this?
This is Doug Lynch, Farmer Dave's grandson.
You know, I just found, and I'm gonna play it a little bit later on, I found one of the first calls ever from Farmer Dave, even before I called him Farmer Dave.
Okay,
I was
just gonna suggest he could be on the list of the farmers.
Well, he's always on my list.
He's the best farmer I know.
I think he's the first farmer I met.
Really?
Yeah, I've been here five
years.
That's pretty
cool.
Yeah, and I've met quite a few at this point, but he's my first.
He'll always be my first Farmer Dave's grandson.
So you just wanted to make sure that Farmer Dave was recognized.
Yep.
Okay, and then meanwhile, Farmer Dave this morning is listening to all of this, calls me.
Hey, get through this.
Dave the farmer.
Yeah, Farmer the day.
Hey, you gotta give me a big favor.
Yeah, what do you need?
Mr.
Farmer Man.
Well, I heard part of the deal this morning, but I was in and out of my seminar.
unloading corn, and I didn't catch it all.
So can you record that or something and send it to me on my phone or not?
Yeah.
I'll send it because I don't know when.
I'm always in and out, you know.
I just missed it.
Who actually called in?
Was it my grandson?
Yeah, Doug.
Who was it?
Okay.
Doug, yeah.
Well,
I thought it was, but I'm just missing in and out, in and out.
Right.
Well, he wanted
to make sure you were on the list today of important farmers,
and that's what I told him.
You were
like the first farmer I met and one of the first farmers who called me.
Yeah.
Well, to
be the farmer and truck driver, that's pretty impressive, Farmer Dave, only you.
That's why I'm celebrating all of you, but thanks for what you do, Farmer Dave.
Hey, no problem, thanks what you do.
It just gets me up every morning to hear Mike
Waters.
play some small part in the important thing you and your brothers and sisters do, I would feel honored.
They play that song working for a living.
That would be a good song for the farmer, wouldn't it?
Yeah,
I'm taking what they're giving because I'm working for a living.
Absolutely.
There you go.
That's what we're doing.
Taking what we're giving.
We don't have any choice.
So thanks for that Farmer Day family.
Okay, let's go on to another National Farmers Day call.
This isn't exactly a farmer's joke, but I grew up on a farm.
My dad's a farmer.
My brother is a farmer.
And I got my dad a sweatshirt and it said without farmers, we'd all be naked, hungry, and sober.
Oh, that sounds like a terrible, terrible way to live life.
Right?
It does.
Exactly.
So we gotta give a shout out to all the farmers.
And this lady was talking about going to the very first farm aid in 1985.
I
still got my ticket, I got my poster, and I actually got a shirt with all of the people that were on there because I see so much I couldn't remember.
That is awesome.
Got it all framed and on the wall.
That had to be a pretty cool day.
Yeah, it was pouring down rain, and I remember when John Cougar Mellon damped come on, I'm like, who the hell is this
guy?
The college kids went nuts.
Wow.
But it turned out to be a beautiful day.
I never think so many buses, so many limos.
I mean, so many people are gone now.
Johnny Cash, Stevie King.
To be at that and cross so many artists off your bucket list would be just amazing anyway.
It sure was.
And it'd be cool if you can to share a picture of the ticket and the poster and the t-shirt.
I'll have to wait till this weekend.
I'm in Cedar Rapids.
I stay up here during the week.
I always listen to you when I'm in Cedar Rapids.
And thanks for that.
I love your bright side and take the grand dot.
for school every morning and we always think, always look on that bright side of
life.
