Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 95

We are cruising towards Ep 100 and it would be just so darn awesome to reach 10,000 views on YT by that time. We have close to 14.5k combined on others which means we are nearing 25k overall!

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I will have some other news coming soon.

Now speaking of YT…

The Episode cover images that I’ve scoured the internet for and chosen for each and every episode finally started appearing on YT about 3 months ago. Now, for the last 3 weeks, it returned to what is my standard YT image backdrop. Well, that should be corrected once again this week, but I won’t know until it uploads.

The VoS has offered up a DBG from July 16^th, 1994 aptly titled: “My Desperate Plea for Love.”

Darrell Gould joins Norm and I with some pre-game chatter.

A stealthy Norm begins the conversation…He asks me a question about my weekend away at Hampton Beach, NH where, at a club called The Electric Wave, I saw a beautiful young lass whom I was smitten with.

It’s quite the pathetic tale of squandered chances and lost love.

Amy was the name of the girl I was taken with. I was weak in the knees and couldn’t get up the nerve to talk to her. I did however get some details from her friend Laurie. Finally, at the end of the night, I said to her that I thought she was incredibly beautiful.

I won’t give you any further details but just say that the slobbering, plaintive, tear-soaked plea continues until it sickens us all. 

Thankfully, Norm goes to a commercial where we only get to briefly hear John Wall from Wall’s Lincoln Mercury before it fades out.

Ok, it’s game time!

Our Players:

The breathy Arlene from Philadelphia

Rick in State College PA

Betty from S Portland ME

The stuffy but still adorable Kristen from Dorchester

 I’m on the phone

Emilio Marotta producing and playing in studio and spending his penultimate night with us as he is heading off to San Diego CA. He describes a temporary job he’s lined up in Tijuana where he predicts his Lawrence Welk medley will be a big hit.

Jack Harte in traffic who’s insincere greeting prompts Norm to do an impression of his uncle. Wet, stubby cigar hanging from his lips… 

The Birthdays:

Bess Meyerson

NEXT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE LONGEST TIME SPENT ON A SINGLE BIRTHDAY:

Orville Redenbacher.

The impressions, the jokes, the puns, the losing of one’s mind and the moaning and groaning throughout is FUNtastic.

Ginger Rogers who won an Oscar for ‘Kitty Foyle.’ Oh yes, the foolishness carries on with this one.

The very sharp, Reuben Blades 

Before we skip to Monday the 18^th here’s the list of leftovers that remained on the birthday cake plate: 

Desmond Decker

Raine Pryor

Barnard Hughes

Jim Rathman

Barry Sanders

Dick Thornberg

Margaret Court

Stewart Copeland

And Pincus Zuckerman

Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Baker Eddy and Theodore Vail were also born on the 17^th but were dead.

Monday, 7/18

Red Skelton

Harriet Nelson

We end quickly as news is fast approaching!

So many other highlights:

Norm declares may resign from shtick.

Egotistical hosts who are afraid to say there are open lines but not Norm. He has no qualms about begging.

Norm’s Bob Raleigh impression, “Nothing wrong with that.”

Kristen’s chafed and sore stuffy nose that was an adorable shade of red that matched nicely with her teary, swollen eyes.

You will be treated to hearing my gears turning as I figure out the ages.

Emilio is frightened to death of Norm.

There’s an inadvertent quote from Norm’s HGPG that leads to another and the yet one more!

Norm is working on a compilation of these phrases and reveals that Simon and Schuster will be publishing a five-volume set of them. 

Using a ‘Quilted’ pen for the winter.

Bonus birthday info is let loose.

One of our players, Betty, throughout the game, gives us some wonderful phrases to crochet on our doilies.

I have a letter from Kristen.

Julia Roberts contacts Norm a lot.

Edgar Hoover did not enjoy chiffon. He was more of a silk man.

Being so mad you could spit

My cat makes his voice heard.

And wandering up and down dark alley’s yelling out our bits.

Ep 95, “My Desperate Plea for Love,” starts now.