Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 101

Before we get started I want to thank everyone for listening not just to last week’s Big 100th episode but all the time, every week.

Since I mentioned the 100^th let me quickly explain the weirdness that went on with it. This was only a YT problem. Though displaying the full length, time-wise, it would only play for 2 seconds on desktop computers! Mobile phones worked with the YT app as well as all the other streaming services. We just may end up with a whole row of that broadcast until the issue is resolved. It’s silly but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

I also want to thank Jack Harte again for stopping by.

And another enormous thank you to Joan McCool. Her dedication and time she lovingly put in to recording Norm is really unsurpassed. And I know she’ll be pleased with what I have to say next…

 “Dia huit” to our new listeners in Ireland! We’re ‘lucky’ to have you.

If you recall, last month we had a SMQ and it was mentioned that we were going to be back in August with another. As promised, we are back. This is from August 17^th, 1995. And this one is direct from the Ed Mullen Collection (EMC)!

After approximately 26 years, Ed and I met for lunch and he arrived baring gifts. A lovely box full of SMQ’s and other treasures.

We will meet again and I plan on having Mr. Ed on the show.

These SMQ’s will be titled “The Ed Mullen Collection (EMC)” This being Volume 1 – All-Star Callers. Not only because of the excellent questions but there were a couple who were of some notoriety.

Here we find Uncle Norm filling in for Bob Raleigh. Mike Epstein is producing. BTW, Mike is on that future guest hit list too.

The Esteemed Panel:

Norm

Ed Mullen

Jack Harte

Where’s Tony? Fear not as I do appear after receiving treatment in the trainer’s room for a pulled music muscle.

You know the categories.

As always, before we begin, Ed reads the rules and makes them as clear as ever.

Norm reiterates the rules with even more clarity.

Those rules plague us, well, plague Norm really, throughout.

Let me note here that, for some reason, we were accepting requests for particular decades! And taking questions for fun.

The callers were as follows…

Kevin in RI

Barbara from Brookline

Virginia in Roslindale

Ben from Hudson

Deedee in W. VA

Deborah from Malden

Bill in JP

Ed from Cambridge

Dana in Salem

Jay from Bridgewater

Sal in NH

Chris from Roslindale

Ginny from East Bridgewater

David in Quincy

Jim from Boston

Bruce in NJ

Enos from PA

Bill in NH

Charles in Plymouth

Jerry from Natick – who, at the end of his call, says something we completely missed. Listen closely as it would have generated a bunch of questions from us if we were paying attention.

Phil in Johnstown

Toni from Braintree

Steve in VA – Colonial Beach VA is Norm Nathan Country!

Fred from ME – needs another certificate to finish wallpaper his bathroom.

Linda from Quincy

Joe in Providence RI

Joe from Hazelton, PA – Hazelton PA is NN Country!

Jay in Arlington – sang on the Gleason Show!

Jack from Springfield – with some information

And Mike in Springfield

Some other fun:

Ed makes a reference to a since long closed store.

Certificates have many uses...if you ever receive them.

I contribute a little-known fact about Neil Diamond.

Norm does impressions of Robert Goulet, Zero Mostel and Arthur Godfrey

There’s mic trouble, audio trouble and operator error.

And we get commercials for Regina Gifts and two live reads from Norm!

Episode 101, The SMQ – The EMC – V1: All-Star Callers, begins in 3, 2 annnd 1.

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