Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up call this morning.
It was Tuesday and we were celebrating Earth Day.
So what do you think we did?
Made an Earth Day playlist, hint,
hint.
Good morning, sunshine.
Good morning.
How are
you?
I'm great.
Good.
I figured that'd be a good nickname for you today on Earth Day.
Sunshine, eh?
Since you bring so much sunshine to everybody's life, including mine.
Aw, that's nice.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
You know, I've already got an Earth Day name.
Call me Recyclox.
I could be Sunshine Recyclox.
Maybe that's what I'll be.
Or Sunny Recyclox.
I don't know.
I like Sunshine.
Okay, Sunshine.
Although I'm not that bright, so I don't know
how it fits.
But
anyway...
I appreciate that.
And what can I do for you?
What are you thinking?
Well, now that I'm done sucking up... Yeah,
right.
Now I'll do
anything for you, right?
Typical woman!
How
about...
Southern Crawl.
Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
Yeah, Mother Nature things in that font.
Yes, she does.
She's got a credit on the album.
Yeah,
perfect.
That'll be good.
Although, you know, they had Mother Nature in there and they turned her mic way down so you couldn't hear, you know, she's she's great at certain things, but she's not that great of a singer.
And then and then when she found out that was the very first time she said, it's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
That's
right.
So creative.
You are so creative.
Well, you buttered me up and how could I not think of the butter commercial,
so...
Good morning to you, my friend!
What's happening on this Earth Day?
Well, I had a song from your Earth Day playlist.
Good!
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking about, maybe, what do you wonder land by Earth, Wind, and Fire?
Yes!
Yes!
You know, I used to be in that band.
Is that right?
Yeah.
It used to be Earth, Wind, Fire, and Waters, but then I left, and they changed it to Earth, Wind, and Fire, and for some reason they got more successful after I left.
Because nobody remembers Earth, Wind, and Fire.
fire in waters.
I've seen him twice.
I don't remember seeing you.
Because I think I was in the band for, God, at least two days.
Sky blue water.
Hi.
And just to let you know, I've assessed the waters here on this Earth Day and not quite sky blue, a little murky, I'm sorry to say.
No way.
Yeah,
ma.
So what can I do for you this Earth Day?
Well, I gotta try Bec before you, and I think you already mentioned the one by Joni Mitchell.
Yep.
Which would be the big yellow taxi, but I do have one by Marvin Gaye that I really think is good.
Mercy, mercy, what is that?
Yeah, baby, you got that right.
Yeah, yeah.
And
then I have one more that I just kind of really like over the years, and that's the old, what a wonderful world.
Yes, I was, I was planning on that one.
as well.
And
just so you're aware, because I just transitioned into my Earth Day self, I'm known every April 22nd as recyclops.
Yep, because I have an eye, and my only eye, on ecology and conservation, my friend.
Oh, baby, yes you do.
And
oh, by the way, for conservation, I will go out this afternoon to Marble lawn.
Okay, good, thank you.
And don't forget to
compost!
Absolutely.
Back in the early 80s, when I was in Beirut, Lebanon, every time it rained, they would play It's Raining Again by Super Cramp.
Kind of.
It's raining again, and you know what?
It's raining again tomorrow, the next day, the next day, and the next day.
So what were you doing in Beirut, Lebanon?
We were part of the multinational peacekeeping force after they evacuated the PLO.
We were there before they blew up the barracks.
Wow, I don't even know what to say to that, but that must have been just crazy and chaotic.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
But that's hard to be in a marine, I guess.
I thank you for your service.
I have a really good friend who's a marine, and you guys have to be built.
I don't know some other kind of material.
I don't know what it is, but it's something, boy.
It's something.
Well, thank you.
We are.
Happy Earth Day to you.
Happy Earth Day.
That's the very first...
Earth Day.
Well, where on Earth were you on the first Earth Day?
16, and they put us in the ditches for that day of
school.
They put you in the ditches?
Yeah, we had clean
ditches.
Geez.
And so ever since then, one time, I volunteered for one of those highway roadside ditch cleaning groups.
That's great.
I volunteered to make those milkweed mud balls for a bribe ride to carry for the butterflies.
OK.
So you've been doing all kinds of things throughout
the years.
Yeah, now I just usually go down to a new boat to the Earth Day celebration.
That's good too.
If I had been tossed into a ditch at 16, I probably would never celebrate Earth Day again.
Oh, well, we got out of school.
Well, yeah, but still, you're cleaning ditches.
Usually my rule is keep my britches out of the ditches.
Um, we should play, I just want to celebrate.
Yeah, yeah.
Another day of living, Wandom Wanda.
I think, I don't know what else do they sing, because we went just tasseling and, could it?
Uh, Tama Toledo.
You okay?
It's between Trey and Tama.
Yeah.
And at Pioneer Seed Company.
Oh yes, that always makes me think of Rare
Earth.
In a Volkswagen, we're like five or six people.
Okay.
And then
one girl couldn't even drive, she almost had us in the ditch.
Yes, yes.
We had to have our dads help us because the one manager guy, he got drunk and he wouldn't give us our pay, so...
So where are we going with this?
We
were on a contract for detasling him.
Right.
Our dads had to come in and help us.
But what does that have to do with the the rare earth?
Are you just saying this is something
different?
I just want to celebrate is the big song they've got I know I'm losing you they've got some other stuff too, but that's the biggie
I Think maybe that's it.
I don't
I don't even
know if
I have where Earth or I have to really look for.
I got tons of CDs
and
they're not all in my car,
which
I have a great CD player
in there.
Well, good.
That's good.
Now, I have to confirm, when you say rare Earth, are you talking about 17 metallic elements, a scientific hypothesis about the uniqueness of Earth's life or a musical band?
The musical thing
okay good good because I don't have the other stuff.
So yeah, I just want to celebrate Let's do that another day of living when Damwanda.
I think that's the
one that is the one take it from me a professional That is the
one could have been playing it
BTO could have been playing
too No, if it was called we are earth then I'd say yes,
but
we are the earth
we are the earth we are the planet yeah no we will of course but you have to sing we are earth okay that's the only requirement
okay you ready
yes we
are we are
the earth we
are
we are the global warming or cooling or however it's going now I don't know I can't read a regular thermostat
yeah that's why we're not recording artists
That's right.
You have to tell me every artist that's on the song though, and then I'll play it
I
wasn't serious when I
said
Dan
Akroyd
Billy Joel.
So you
Tina Turner?
Yeah,
I think so.
I think we set them all.
Let's say we set them
all.
Oh, right.
And we have the children.
Did you say Bob
Dylan?
Well,
I'll tell you I think I think the earth just warmed another 10 degrees while we've been listing names and singing so we
should stop Well,
you know
We're absent-minded.
We are forgetful.
So that's our excuse.
Enough of this.
Enough of this, witty banter.
For sure.
Yeah.
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