Transcript
Mike and the Mechanic (as Played by Jen from Milex Complete Auto Care)
The Waters Wake Up Call with Mike Waters · Fri Jun 27, 2025
What I really want to talk about right now is who's in the studio with me, Jen.
Now, I like to call this Mike and the Mechanic.
Jen taking the part of a mechanic.
And before you say anything, Jen.
Hi, this is Elton with a small disclaimer.
Jen from Milex Complete Auto Care is not technically a mechanic.
She does know a bunch about cars, though.
And Mike and the mechanics have some good tunes, but they aren't technically mechanics either.
Thank you and welcome, Jen.
OK, so
now
we've explained the whole situation.
That's awesome.
What are we talking about today?
Cars?
Cars.
Yeah.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Yeah.
It's nice and cool this morning.
I like that.
I do too, man.
It's humid.
It's been the last how many days it's felt like walking out into some kind of disgusting swampy soup.
Have you ever ordered disgusting swampy soup at a diner?
Well, not on purpose,
but
sometimes it shows up that way, you
know.
Yeah, and it doesn't taste very good.
No.
And it doesn't feel very good either.
Right.
So you don't want that, but yet sometimes you go out and there it is.
Yes.
Thanks
a lot, Mother Nature.
All of us baseball parents, softball parents out there
sitting
in this at night.
Oh, it's been miserable.
Good.
Jen from Milex Complete Auto Care, Sylvia Avenue.
here in Cedar Rapids.
And just tell me real quick, you've got the new place opening shortly after the 4th, was it the 7th?
The 7th, July 7th, so the...
Weekend after the fourth, we will be open at our new location at 3108 Mount Vernon Road.
Hot dog.
Two locations to choose from.
Two locations.
To serve you better.
That's
what we're
about.
There will be the new place and then there will be Mile X Classic.
Classic, yes.
The one on Sylvia is the classic.
Yes, 2010 Sylvia Avenue will be the classic location.
Right, that's the one where Jen will be.
Just so you know.
I'll be at that one, yep.
Just so you know.
Yep.
Okay.
So people who know us now,
Um, Jeff will be moving over to the new location on Mount Burner
Road.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, they'll be glad to get them and you'll be glad to get rid- Get rid- Oh, did we say that on there?
Hold on a second.
I, uh, uh, just came out.
I have no idea why.
Just kidding, Jeff.
Alternate names for cars and car parts, Jen.
All right.
So, uh, like Stang for the Mustang.
Yeah.
You know.
That's a, that's a biggie.
Vet for the Corvette.
Yeah.
We like to call it Escape for an escape.
Escape.
Escape.
Is that French?
I don't know.
Is that what they call it in France?
Maybe.
I mean,
that's just kind of a fun one.
Okay.
A clunker.
A clunker, yep.
You're
referring to your car.
AKA POS.
Yes, POS.
Yeah.
Or Jalopy.
Jalopy.
Jalopy.
That's kind of an old car that's really a pile of crap, is it?
Right, yes,
yes.
I think old cars, one
of that.
Or the beamer.
The beamer, the BMW.
Caddy.
I got one of each at home.
Yes.
The Yoda.
The Yoda.
Clunker.
Yeah.
Beater with a heater.
Yeah.
You know, as I was looking, I found what car parts would make a good baby name, like axle.
Oh.
You know, little axle or a...
I think probably my kids would be named, I wouldn't name them this, but other people would assume that they should be named something like dipstick.
Dipstick.
Or coolant and dipstick.
Because I'd have, if I ever have kids, I'd have two because I don't have any kids.
You don't?
And it's pretty much kind of a fork on conclusion that I won't be having any kids.
Come on, you're
still young enough.
You can still have kids.
Yeah, you think so?
Yeah.
I'd have to find a much younger woman.
There's people out there in their 50s, 60s still having
kids.
There we go.
I wouldn't
want to, but I mean, there's people out there doing
it.
Well, yeah, there are some people.
Maybe there is.
I don't know.
Somebody in their thirties who hasn't had kids yet.
People talk about the, you know, the younger, the baby stage and toddler stage
being
rough.
I'm telling you, the teens are the
worst.
I have no doubt.
See, I see teens now and I think, oh, what jerks?
And then I remember, what a jerk I was as a teen.
It's like, I shouldn't be judging.
Right.
But I still don't want one.
No, but if you think back,
it's
like they took it tenfold to what we were.
And the things that they say and think, you just wanna be like, where did you come up with that?
Yeah, some of the things.
And what
are you thinking?
Some of these things that Gen Z.
Yeah, and as a parent, you're the dumbest person on the face of the earth.
Yeah, according to them.
Yes,
according to
them, you know nothing.
Like
you've never done that.
Yeah, no, I was never a teen or a young adult.
Yeah.
Are they, are they,
From what I've heard, they don't drive as young as they used to.
They just don't.
That is a thing.
They don't take the lessons.
They don't take the driving course.
They don't take the test.
There is kids in high
school who are seniors and stuff that don't even want to drive.
Why?
They're
just riding the bus and happy with it.
We know what it is to drive a car and the freedom that's involved and that when it breaks down, it's the worst thing in the world.
It's like you got clubbed in the knees and you can't move.
You're stuck where you are.
But that's when you bring it to my legs.
Hey, I'll take
care of
it for you.
It's right.
I don't even think of that.
Right?
We'll get
you back on the road, getting your road ready.
Right on.
Road ready at My Legs Complete Auto Care over there on Sylvia, soon to be a new location.
On Mount Vernon Road.
Right on.
Celebrate, Jen.
Celebrate.
Celebrate.
I'm so excited.
It's Friday.
It's Friday.
Are you excited?
What are you doing this weekend?
Are you excited about what you're doing this weekend or just the fact that it's a weekend?
I'm just excited because I just thought of a really cool thing we're going to do.
What?
So with the celebrate song and just giving away tickets today.
Yeah.
Next week when I'm here.
Yeah.
I'm going to bring a year's worth of oil changes to give away.
A year's worth?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So how many oil
changes?
Five oil changes.
So for the
average driver, that's a year's worth of oil changes.
Yeah.
Well, I guess so.
What is it, every three months or 30,000 miles or something like that?
Well, it depends how many miles you drive.
And since it'll be a full synthetic, think of 5,000 miles.
So every 5,000 miles.
OK.
So it depends on how much you drive.
Like me, it's about every four to five weeks.
You're getting oil changes.
So
it's not
enough for me.
But the average driver, it'll be awesome and it'll cover the whole year for you.
Absolutely.
So I said I just go in the party mood.
Let's give away some
stuff next week.
Well, and here's what we're going to do because Friday is the fourth.
Yes.
So Jen is coming in a day early.
Thursday.
On Thursday.
And we're going to give away during the nine o'clock hour, Jen will be on.
And we'll give away a year's worth of oil changes.
Not sure how we'll do it.
Yeah, we still
gotta come up with that.
Yeah, but we will come up with a fun way to do it.
Yeah, this is just something I just like, hey, let's do it.
The day before the 4th of July, you get five free oil changes.
That'll be awesome.
We'll celebrate the new location open in that Monday.
We'll
give away some
oil changes.
That's
right.
It'll be that following Monday on the 7th.
Yeah, new location.
Here's that again.
3801 Mount Vernon Road, and the classic location at 2010 Sylvia Avenue.
Yeah, there'll be my legs complete auto care.
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That's going to
stick now.
It's going to be the classic Mile X.
Yeah.
So when you come in and say, I'm at the classic Mile
X. The classic Mile X. Hey, I have some local alternative names and nicknames for some of the places around here that I was thinking of.
If I can find it, here it is.
OK.
Like, for instance, the Corridor Club, the Iowa River Landing Corridor Club, Mount Trash Mart.
Judge me the Walmart on Blair's
Ferry.
I agree with that one.
There you go.
You
can see some
stuff there.
The Hiawatha Hope Cuisine.
Okay.
That's any convenience store.
And if you get the gas station hot dog, that is Hiawatha Hope Cuisine.
It doesn't matter where you get it, but it's Hiawatha Hope Cuisine.
Is that a gamble to get those hot dogs though?
Yeah, absolutely.
It's wiener roulette, I like to
call
it.
If the first one doesn't kill you, the second one might.
Yeah, very well might.
But six, somewhere within, if you eat six hot dogs, you'll go.
So don't eat six hot dogs at one time.
Good thing
I don't like
hot
dogs.
Yeah.
I like hot dogs, but I don't really eat them.
I don't eat them at all.
I don't like
them.
I don't eat them.
I don't like, I don't like cowlips and other things are tossed in there that I don't even want to talk about.
The things you can't use for real meat.
Right.
That are mixed in.
Exactly.
Exactly.
There's a Mount Pothole.
That's a city.
Well, there's also an exit ramp onto I-380 or off I-380.
That's called that.
Okay.
Let's see, what else do I have?
Merle's Midwestern Makeover Barn.
No, that's actually a nickname I made up for a business yet to open.
Okay,
that's a long one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like Randy's recycled jeans and fireworks.
It wouldn't be called that.
Be called something else.
That would be the nickname.
Yeah, because they go together.
Yeah, yeah.
And any car wash could be the honk and go auto spa.
That's awesome.
You know?
Yeah, okay.
So that ties that up very nicely.
Yeah.
Thank you for listening to Mike and the mechanic.
Hi, this is Elton with a small disclaimer.
Jen from Milex Complete Auto Care is not technically a mechanic.
She does know a bunch about cars, though.
And Mike and the mechanics have some good tunes, but they aren't technically mechanics either.
Thank you and welcome, Jen.
Thank you, Elton.
Isn't
it nice?
Isn't it nice
just to do that?
And that was a great surprise today.
I've never heard that before till today.
I didn't put it together until today.
I love it.
Yeah.
Or sorry, I didn't call him before today.
I've never met Elton until today or had him even talk about me before.
He's a very nice person.
Yeah.
Very
nice very special.
Yeah, well you should well Jen.
Thank you.
It's always a pleasure to have you in here I can't wait till next Thursday when we give away a year of free oil changes from my legs complete auto care