Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 155

[00:00:00] Speaker A: All right, people, let's get into this right away. Today's offering is a Norm Nathan Show from September 16 and 17th, 1994. I will call this one the funny Farm stand Brian McKinley was producing. It all begins with a Jack traffic sponsor read for exxon. Then it's on to the Norm and Tony show, talking about all sorts of fun stuff. And the callers join in. Ruth pumping up the farm in tickets to Michael Bolton. Coffee and coffee cake, grilled meats, a python, and Norm just wants to pedal. Llama Fred's on the line. And then we jump right to a fun call with Robert from Everett, including classic heckling comebacks. Then we hear from a caller, lynn, I believe was the name, talking about Sarge, a former Boston police horse with Manowar lineage. Linda, who's been laughing for the past hour, an out of state caller who has been picking up the show for about a week and boy, are his arms tired. Clarence talking about the farm stand. Jack in Ottawa, dan in New York, fred in New Jersey, who's always in trouble and looking for some grandfatherly advice from Norm. Oh boy, what a subject. Norm's adopted son Raj from MIT, sarah, Nathan and some guy named Jay stops by live. Jim from Indiana, marianne, who's working at another radio station while calling us. And now I'm on the phone and ranting about a speeding ticket my girlfriend received while we were on vacation together in New Hampshire. Addie from Everett, wearing her gingham apron, suggests a legal defense fund for me. Dottie, who loves the dumb birthday game. B in braintree. She saw Norm's 2 seconds on TV and asks a pointed question. Eric in Boston, bill from Chelsea, betty in Sudbury, helene from Belmont, who's trying to give up coffee. And Joan other farm fresh comedy adopt a talk show host. Norm talked right through the Bottom Hour news at 1230, but will not accept the blame. I do an impression of Andy Jordan of CNN. Norm grills Jack as to why he didn't stay for the entire Comedy Connection event Norm was part of. Norm also explains his nightclub outfit. Norm pouring his guts out about dancing close. I, however, do not dance. But when I'm home alone tombstone Epitaphs rob Floyd or Ken Newman And a quick insert of Josh Binswanger interwing Jack Hart. Episode 155 the Funny Farm Stand stacks its way to your ears in three, two and one. [00:02:32] Speaker B: Credit prices are now the same. Stop by a participating station, apply for an Exxon credit card and you'll get a free six pack of Coca Cola. Exxon. Rely on the tiger. [00:02:45] Speaker C: He's my kind of man. [00:02:48] Speaker D: I listen to no Nathan every time I can. [00:02:58] Speaker C: Boston. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Show. Oh, that's that's not what it's called. Shriner's Auditorium. That's right up on exit 39 off Route 93. A lot of people ask, where is it? Just think of 93 and then reverse the number. And that's the exit number 39. What if someone did it the other way around. We go up exit Route 39. Yeah. Get off at Exit 93. Yeah. You know where they'd end up? In rehoboth or seaconk. I made that up. I have no idea where they I don't even know if there is. Well, anyway, Saturday and a Saturday evening increasingly windy and warm with variable cloudiness and a couple of showers there could be a thunderstorm in let's see, thunderstorm. Let's see. Where are you? Where I was Sunday or Sunday? Did I say breezy? Noticeably for about seven years now. Yeah, that'd be Ruth. I guess so. Okay, do your pitch and get out of here. So sick of this whole thing. It hasn't even taken place yet. [00:04:06] Speaker C: Sound like robert, you took so long with the weather. I'm already here in my little hotel bed and I'm almost asleep. [00:04:14] Speaker B: But I said, what do you mean, hotel bed? Where are you? [00:04:17] Speaker C: I'm out here at the Shriners. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Is there a hotel near the Shriners in Wilmington? [00:04:22] Speaker C: Actually, back in Wolverine area, but it's only about five minutes away. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Do you have any Shriners in your room? Those guys with the funny hats. Is there anybody in your room that looks like that? [00:04:33] Speaker C: Actually, there's one of your radio fans here. It's a lady. We're sharing a room. We have to be up by, you know, it's not a lot of time to sleep. [00:04:42] Speaker B: But listen who's in your room? Because Tony's getting through soon and if it's somebody worthwhile, he can go and he says you can watch this eye being disgusting. That's great. [00:04:54] Speaker C: Listen, serious, serious. I'd be like, Robert, I don't have a lot of time. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Okay, I'll sit back here and you go do your project. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Everything is set up beautifully. But this afternoon, because a very nice guy named Don Law gave me this tony, 500 pairs of tickets. Tell you 500 give me a break. Wait a second. I'm very tired. We've been doing this all morning and day and night. I have, yes, 500 pairs. The first 500 people who come in and give me $10 can have two tickets to the Michael Bolton concert for. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Tonight at Great Woods for Saturday night at Great Woods. Really? [00:05:36] Speaker C: Correct. 03:00 this afternoon for $10. [00:05:40] Speaker B: They get two tickets. $5 apiece. [00:05:42] Speaker D: That's right. [00:05:43] Speaker C: And they're lawn seats. But 1st, 500 people. So Tony will be there five or six, right? [00:05:50] Speaker B: Oh, the lawn seats. No, never mind. You don't know because that's not a bet. [00:05:53] Speaker C: No, they're certainly worth that for Children's Hospital. [00:05:58] Speaker B: This is Great Woods, but I have. [00:05:59] Speaker C: The tickets right in my yeah, well. [00:06:01] Speaker B: No, that's very nice of Don Law to do that. And a loaf of bread would be a great buy just to go there for those. And you can probably buy burgers, maybe. Yeah, you can bring a lot of food with you that you can get cheap at the farm stand and sit there in the lawn, watch Mark Michael bolton have little sandwiches. [00:06:19] Speaker C: That's right, Daddy. Like. My voice getting lower by the minute here. But anyhow, everything is set up. It's beautiful. We got lots of everything. And the Christmas tree shop really outdid themselves this year more than ever, and they always do with the most beautiful baskets of everything you'd ever want to see. We've got all kinds of produce, and we're all ready for the pancakes and blueberry breakfast and the coffee. And we've got the best looking coffee cakes. I'm getting hungry talking to you. [00:06:49] Speaker B: You can even buy a basket and put everything in the basket to the show. [00:06:52] Speaker C: And we have turkey sandwiches and we have grilled chicken and we have hot dogs and hamburgers. And we have two bands, no waiting. And we have Norm Nathan. [00:07:03] Speaker B: I don't care about any of that. I just want to pet a llama. [00:07:07] Speaker C: You can. And we have the python. [00:07:10] Speaker B: You have the what? [00:07:11] Speaker C: A python. [00:07:11] Speaker B: A python. That would be nice. Oh, a norm arrives. [00:07:15] Speaker C: We have Mr. Josh Binswange that he's coming over. And we also have Mr. Peter Mead coming over. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Well, that is really a treat. [00:07:24] Speaker C: I beg your pardon? [00:07:25] Speaker B: That's really a treat. [00:07:26] Speaker C: I have my finger in my ear because I have the radio on on the other side of this room. But it really is all set up. It really looks good. And we have all kinds of good stuff. [00:07:37] Speaker B: Let's go down and trash it up right now. Let's go down the trash. When everybody starts coming at six or 07:00 A.m., they'll find everything in shambles. [00:07:46] Speaker C: Actually have security guards there standing. [00:07:49] Speaker B: We'll trash them, too. We don't mind them. The paper bzers overpower security guards trash farms. [00:07:56] Speaker C: Nice going, Tony. [00:07:59] Speaker B: Like the Green Day show. [00:08:00] Speaker C: But I really just wanted to say that earlier because I figured more people who are interested in Michael Bolton be listening earlier than they would at 04:00 A.m.. We have the alarm set to call you up at four. Remember, I did that last year? 04:00 A.m.. I mean, when do we sleep here? Never, but we're going to raise a lot of money for the hospital. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Is that a busy woman who's with you? [00:08:20] Speaker C: No, but our lady that we met from all night radio was a big fan. And she listened to you all the time. [00:08:27] Speaker B: You don't want to mention her name? [00:08:28] Speaker C: Her name is Laura Me. She sounds asleep. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [00:08:32] Speaker C: Not hearing a word of this. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Okay, that's good. I hope a lot of people show up. Yes, I think they you know what I just did? [00:08:38] Speaker D: What? [00:08:39] Speaker B: I went right past the news time. [00:08:41] Speaker D: Did you? [00:08:41] Speaker B: You screwed me up really badly. No, we're going to skip the 1230 news in order that we might finish this conversation. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I just kind of lost up on that's my fault. That's my fault. Just here. However, if I'm questioning the front office by management, I'll have to blame it on you and Tony. [00:08:59] Speaker C: Oh, that's all right. [00:09:00] Speaker B: And Brian McKinley, because I'm not taking blame myself for anything they said. [00:09:04] Speaker C: They never listen. [00:09:06] Speaker B: I don't think they do. No. I don't think they even know I work here. Hold on there's. [00:09:10] Speaker C: The phone will be here tomorrow, so watch it. [00:09:13] Speaker B: He will be there. [00:09:14] Speaker E: He was here last year. [00:09:16] Speaker B: What is he? He's the general manager of radio? Something like that, yes. Manager or something. [00:09:20] Speaker C: I really get truthfully, I get mixed up myself. Me and Deb Zion, I don't know quite well. [00:09:26] Speaker B: She's general manager of the whole thing. Radio, television. She's the really big shot. He's an underlink general manager of radio and station manager of television. Something like that. [00:09:35] Speaker C: Something like that. [00:09:36] Speaker B: And also fried clams in season. Something of that nature. Well, I'll get a chance to meet him because he's only been here for about 73 years. No, I never met either one of them. No, I understand. He is a swell guy, a really good guy, and recognizes older talent really nicely. [00:09:51] Speaker C: And actually, we weren't getting too much publicity until somebody I know spoke to him a couple of days ago. And I've seen more ads on this. [00:09:59] Speaker B: I see Dave Maynard's ads on television all the time. [00:10:03] Speaker C: Yes, I mean, this week it's been very I mean, we hope we have a good crowd. Let's pray for a really nice I. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Hope it's a nice day. We always get good crowds. [00:10:12] Speaker C: Yeah, we get that's. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Not a problem. It's just that they don't flee home quickly when the heavens open up. [00:10:17] Speaker C: I mentioned one more time, we do have bus service leaving in front of the building at 739 o'clock and 11:00. [00:10:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Shuttle bus. You can get a ride to WBZ. They'll take you right here, and then they will return 1012 and two. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Okay, very good. [00:10:35] Speaker E: Okay, so I'll see you very soon. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Yes, I will be there. Okay. [00:10:38] Speaker C: I'll have the eggs ready. [00:10:40] Speaker B: Okay, bye bye. Bye. I do my imitation of Andy Jordan for seeing it. I figured we could fake it and maybe get us I'll tell you what, let's go right on to the traffic, and I'll introduce Jack Hart and his RCA Bluebird Recording Orchestra with the WBZ 24 Hours Traffic Network. How are you doing, Jack? I'm well. How are you doing, Norm? I'm doing fine. How come the other night well, do your traffic report first and I'll talk to you afterwards. Because people are in their cars and they want to know and actually we're doing traffic on the threes. Oh, you betcha. Boy, what a sellout I become. Holy smoke. This is the first time I've done traffic on the threes and I don't know how long fire away. And then I want to talk to you afterwards. All right? The other night you were at the Comedy Connection, remember? We had that thing? Oh, sure, okay. And I saw you before with two other traffic people. Yes. I didn't see you after I did my stick. That's an ominous sign because there was Paul Elwell, who's a comic who pretty much closed the show. He was there later at night, and he came over and I said, Boy, you did okay, Paul. I thought he had a funny routine and he didn't say anything either. I see. Did I really stink know you started and I just got so sick of it by that point that I just up and left when I was talking. You mean when I was doing my bit? [00:12:06] Speaker C: Sure. [00:12:06] Speaker B: I figured that the light will be in your eyes so you'll never see me leaving. I see. Well, that's fair enough. Actually, I left about 915 or so because I had to get to my traffic post and prepare all my charts and graphs and computer generation what baloney this is. Is this pitiful stuff or not? Yeah. Listen, I tell you what. Let me talk to you later on, okay? Because I'm sick of this kind of dodging a question because I don't have a good feeling about that at all. I wasn't even there. And the jokes you tried out on me I thought were pretty funny. Then again, I was nice. He might have been really nice, too. Oh, no, that's a wonderful joke. Oh, God. He's wrong. Let me see if fred, were you there? Fred? [00:12:50] Speaker C: No, I was not. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Name? I think his name is hold on, hold on a minute. He did a shtick and then he was the host, the emcee for the whole thing. He was very sharp. Not only did he have a good routine at the beginning, his opening routine, but also he was very clever and very sharp. And he came back with some good lines later know, tying it in with the people who had done their bits. So he was very clever. He was good. Paul Elwell, who we talked to on this program, he did fine. And there was one other guy it's awful for me not to remember his name but the professionals, they all did well. They did well. [00:13:34] Speaker C: They're professionals. But you are a professional and you're great at what you do. Now, first of all, you have a talent, what you do. They came to see you, not to see the professional entertainers. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Honestly. [00:13:50] Speaker C: God, people in there. Honestly benefit money. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah. You believe that? [00:13:55] Speaker C: You put yourself down. [00:13:57] Speaker B: No, I think some of my lines were kind of funny. [00:14:00] Speaker C: I think you funny and hilarious. [00:14:03] Speaker B: Can I tell you my opening? Should I tell you the opening? Tell me the truth. How you came on stage? No. When I came to roller skates and the clown nose. [00:14:11] Speaker C: You didn't do that? [00:14:12] Speaker B: No, I didn't do that. [00:14:13] Speaker C: That's garbage. That's garbage. [00:14:15] Speaker B: But there were a lot of people, a lot of people there who'd heard us talk about it on BZ, who showed up, a lot of listeners. I was so pleased. That's why most of the crowd was there. Not because of what you said on the air. It had to be. Can I tell my opening my line passed after the throw up. After the throw up line? No, I said, do your routine right now for the people who I was wondering if they would have taped it. I don't mean play me, but I play a lot of the others who had some funny lines. No, my opening line. Oh, no, this is too fat head. Go ahead. Anyway. Sure. When your head gets too fat, I'll just open the door. It can leak out into the hallway and widen the whole studio so my head will fit in here. No, I said I do a light hearted kind of program. I don't usually get involved with very serious issues. But I said last night, a guy called me. This was Monday, so this would have been Sunday night. It was kind of nice. They called me last night, so that's fresh in my mind. I can tell you about it today. Which was kind of hilarious right there. Anyway, she called me and said, hey, Nathan, this is a first time caller, longtime listener, and I hate your guts because I don't like your political philosophy you're a leftist leaning, liberal, do gooder bleeding heart and I wish you die a slow, agonizing death and that your body would rot in your own blood for years. But that's not really why I called. I really called because two weeks ago you had a woman on your program who had a recipe for deep dish apple pie and it sounded delicious. Could I have a copy of it? Oh, that is the weakest laugh coming back. [00:15:54] Speaker C: Come on. [00:15:55] Speaker B: I thought that was funny. I've only heard this eight times, but. [00:15:58] Speaker C: I thought that was my best friend. Please, let me just talk for 1 second, okay? [00:16:04] Speaker B: You are my best friend. You're my best friend. Go ahead. [00:16:06] Speaker C: You walked out there with a tuxedo and they only give you about 30 seconds on television. I'm ashamed of BZ that only give you 30. And you walked out. I wasn't wearing you're beautiful. You are. [00:16:20] Speaker B: I wasn't wearing why you've got all. [00:16:22] Speaker C: The girls after you? [00:16:23] Speaker B: You're watching Bruce wagler. You weren't watching me? [00:16:26] Speaker C: No, I was watching you. [00:16:28] Speaker B: You're watching Shelby Scott? She had a tuxedo on. No, I didn't have a tuxedo. I never wear a tuxedo. [00:16:35] Speaker C: I saw you. Did you put makeup on? [00:16:38] Speaker B: No, just a woman's dress. That's all. It was a mini skirt. [00:16:42] Speaker C: You didn't do that. I didn't see that. [00:16:47] Speaker B: And the spike heels? That was me with the wig. I always wear a wig. You know what I'm saying? [00:16:55] Speaker C: No, man. [00:16:56] Speaker B: Yes. [00:16:58] Speaker C: You still did a benefit, and it was good. You give your. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Time. [00:17:05] Speaker C: You went down, you showed up from then on with honest, you did it like a performer would do. [00:17:14] Speaker B: It died along with it. [00:17:17] Speaker C: No, you did very nice. [00:17:20] Speaker B: The audience was really nice. They were nice for everybody. I mean, for everybody. Milking this whole thing. Pardon me. [00:17:27] Speaker C: Nobody heckled you. [00:17:29] Speaker B: No, they didn't. It's too bad, because I had some really heckle lines. [00:17:32] Speaker C: No, that's what I tell you. [00:17:33] Speaker B: No, that I would have said I was kind of hoping you'd be there heckling me. Then I would say, Excuse me, sir, you're heckling me while I'm doing my job here. How would you like if I came to where your job is, I heckled you and then slammed the toilets right on your fingers? I was all set with a whole bunch of heckle lines. [00:17:49] Speaker C: I got a funnier line. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:51] Speaker C: Please, sir, let me do my job. Would I come down to your place where you're working? That's another line. That's a lady's joke. Why don't you go home, sir? Your cage is clean. [00:18:04] Speaker B: You're my best. [00:18:07] Speaker C: Now, wait a minute. Here's another one. I was going to do my impersonation of a jackass, but you beat me to it. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Give us one more, Robert. One more. [00:18:17] Speaker C: You're on a roll. One more. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Sure. He's a joke machine. [00:18:21] Speaker C: Do this for a living. Remember the old joke? I don't have to do this for a living. I can't do it no more. I can't think no more. Norman. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Okay, listen, I appreciate the call. [00:18:31] Speaker C: Right? [00:18:32] Speaker B: First time I've ever appreciated a call from you. Okay, I must be no, no. [00:18:37] Speaker C: The only reason I didn't show up because I do not go where they serve alcohol. [00:18:41] Speaker B: No. Okay. [00:18:44] Speaker C: Will you believe me now? [00:18:46] Speaker B: No, you're okay, I believe I promise you I'd come. Okay, just stop whimpering and whining. Just stop doing that whimpering. [00:18:54] Speaker C: Apologize. I wanted to go, but the minute you told me they serve alcohol in there, I said, no way. [00:19:00] Speaker B: You're going to repeat that nine more times, aren't you? Your timing is usually impeccable, Robert, and now it's really rotten. [00:19:06] Speaker C: Well, I'm just happy to talk to you, and I know you did well and everybody else did well, and they give their time for free. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Yes, they did. It was very admirable, and it was good to raise that kind of money. Thank you, Robert. [00:19:20] Speaker C: Take care, buddy. [00:19:21] Speaker B: Okay, pal. You're my best friend. I think I flipped him off while I was saying that. We'll take a break and then we'll take when you dance I don't dance. I'll dance to a slow song, whether it's pop, rock or something like that. Okay, so you sound like me. I'm the same way. I never learned how to dance. I'll hold her close and we'll just kind of just move her. It's actually just moving slowly and dancing the whole point. I'm alone, though. Boy, can I tango. I don't want to be watching. But that's quite true. I mean, when there's a slow dance, you don't have to know how to dance. Just hold in your sway a little bit. But the idea come closer because otherwise I don't want everybody to hear this because I'm pouring my guts out. Okay. To hold a woman, assuming you're a man, if you're a woman, I guess holding a man anyway, or whatever. But holding somebody that you really like close to you while the orchestra is playing nice, romantic, soft, slow song, I think is just so lovely. And a lot of us old guys will say, what about the young kids? They dance, but they don't ever hold each other. I can't see that. That's the only reason I'll dance is just to do that. It's just to hold the person close. So even though you were a young guy, the idea of a big band which may sound hokey to you in a way, but it is a good use, but it doesn't well, that's really nice. I'm just glad. Yeah. Wonderland just suddenly put the lock on the door without informing people who were there and they have dancing every week. So it now has shifted to Caruso's Diplomat up on Route One in Saugas, which is not too far from the Wonderland Ballroom in Revere. They close one down, they open up the Roseland. And yet you can still dance at Caruso. It's like, well, if the people going up there, why weren't they going? I don't know. Is there something behind this Wonderland thing? There may be some people who have because they were going to close it a few years ago and they had a tremendous amount of people petitioning to keep it open and it stayed open. They're talking about selling it to the tea and maybe the tea tear down and use it as an additional parking area. Mosley's on the Charles still has dancing. So there's still some ballrooms that do still have not full orchestras. I think even Wonderland had maybe a five or six piece orchestra, something like that. No, that's still nice. With five or six good musicians, you still get the feeling of a big band and that's kind of nice. A lot of people get a kick out of that and like that. That's my whole story. We were together at that where was it? What was that place? Lombardo's in Randolph we went to. Oh, yes, yes. That was excellent. And Bob Batchelder. Oh, yeah. And then the Hugo Baron. Hugo Baron. Hugo Baron Hugo Bands. It was kind of a battle of the or was it Bo Whitaker? He's been there too. That's a big fundraiser for the musicians union, I think was Baron Hugo. That was excellent. Anyway, that was a nice time. It was a nice time. You know, another nice time is I can hardly wait for the Miss America pageant. Why? I don't know why. It seemed like it would be funny if I said that because I think that's going to be one of the most boring things. [00:22:50] Speaker C: He's beyond compare. And so Devon there, he shines so bright. You're on BZ 103. Oh, please, don't turn that dial don't do it. He makes me smile who's that? Who's that? Lord Nathan Show everybody do that. [00:23:28] Speaker D: Nathan. [00:23:28] Speaker C: Show your Nathan Show. [00:23:39] Speaker B: That'S nice. Thank you. I don't know. That guy was singing in the background, but, boy, did he really suck, didn't he? Oh, my. What a silly way to make a living. Especially at my age. I should be a distinguished, like, grandfather type, sitting there stroking my beard and reading old books or something. Seven minutes after 01:00. Let's take some call. Was he sired by yes, he was from Manowar. [00:24:09] Speaker D: Right. And the reason I'm calling is because if anybody in the Boston area that was familiar with Sarge, he was retired, I think, about four years ago. My granddaughter my daughter and granddaughter acquired Sarge a year ago, and they've nursed him back to health. He's doing great. He's riding in pony shows. He's got a couple of second ribbons working towards his birth. [00:24:44] Speaker B: Really? How old is he now? [00:24:46] Speaker D: He's 1516 years. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Oh, that isn't too old. He's got a lot of years ahead. [00:24:52] Speaker D: I guess he was kind of worn down. [00:24:56] Speaker B: Well, his activities as a horse with the Boston Mounted Police, that's pretty exhausting kind of stuff. But as a pet and as one entering horse shows 15 is a good age, right? [00:25:09] Speaker D: Well, she wrote in they have this Uncle Harry's Swap shop book, and she wrote as a 14 year old that she was interested in the 15 hand high horse and if anybody had one that she could buy or work out a deal with, because they didn't have much money. And this lovely lady from New Hampshire brought the horse over here to Maine and leased him for a year. And after six months, they started paying double and to buy the horse, and she agreed. [00:25:53] Speaker B: So she sold the horse, in other words? [00:25:55] Speaker D: Well, yeah, she just sold it. Yeah, but, I mean, now, 15 year old, the hospital just joined. [00:26:07] Speaker B: She's about 15 hands. [00:26:08] Speaker D: 15? [00:26:09] Speaker B: She's a small horse, then? [00:26:11] Speaker D: No, 15 hands is not a very I'm sorry. 16. [00:26:14] Speaker B: Oh, 16. Okay. [00:26:16] Speaker D: No, he's tall. He's a big horse, and she spoils him to death, and they take care of each other. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Well, that's nice. That's very nice. [00:26:23] Speaker D: And I just wanted people in Boston to know that. [00:26:26] Speaker B: Well, the people know that, and they're just so pleased to find out. [00:26:29] Speaker D: Well, and I'm so pleased to listen to you when you're on. I wish you were on more often, but I said that before. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Thanks a lot, Lauren. I appreciate that very much. [00:26:38] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:26:38] Speaker B: What's the name of the horse? [00:26:40] Speaker D: Sarge. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Oh, Sarge, you said. I don't know his official no, that's okay. Just my best to Sarge. If you want to kiss him on the snout, that's okay with me, too. [00:26:49] Speaker D: All right. Do. He's so affectionate and he shakes hands when he wants something and you give him an apple or something he raises his hoof and he shakes your hand and if you don't give him quite enough, he'll kind of shake his hand again, like, More, please. [00:27:08] Speaker B: That's very cute. That's sweet. That's sweet. [00:27:12] Speaker D: He's great. [00:27:13] Speaker B: Thank you very much, friend. Thanks for calling. I appreciate hearing from you. I've never shaken hands or hooves with a horse before. Then it's hard to imagine a horse lifting up his hoof to shake hands with you. Anyway, let's go to Linda in Halifax. How old are you? A sergeant. He paused the ground. It must be a funny joke. There. Homeless place for homeless people in Dorchester area. Anyway, she spoke and there were a couple of comedians, including the MC, and then the first non professional, that is, the first broadcaster was me. And I was really scared to death. I've talked before groups a lot, but I've never done stand up comedy in a comedy club. And I was really frightened. I had my daughter and a friend and a couple of friends and stuff with me and they were lovely, so they helped, but you just don't know how you're going to go over. And so when they called me up, I probably expressed the thoughts that everybody had. I know all the others were uptight about and nervous, and I said, I think I'm going to throw up. But then I went on from there, I thought, with hilarious material, but the only thing they ever quoted me on was that opening line. But I think that in a way, that sort of set the pace again for the way a lot of people thought, well, there you are. You have a club. I think it holds about 500 people. It's quite a big club. They've had some great names in just the comedy connection to Fandel Hall. And then suddenly there you are on stage, hoping to make people laugh. And anyway, I'd love to try it again. I'd be more relaxed next time. But I had never done anything quite like that before. [00:29:04] Speaker D: It's always hard to be for us. [00:29:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So I really admire everybody who said they would do it. I mean, not only because they were helping a charitable situation, but also because it takes a lot of guts to do know. And a lot of them were really quite good and I really admire them for trying. They were okay. [00:29:25] Speaker D: Did Shelby Scott do a weather report. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Or some I think they had a shot of her on television. Josh been swaying, pouring confetti on her, like when she's out there covering these big snowstorms out on the highway and stuff. And there were some very funny lines by a lot of the people who were there. [00:29:46] Speaker D: I'm glad it went over well. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Bruce Wrigley had one funny line in which he said something about when there's a tornado approaching, he always has, from the National Weather Services, there's a tornado approaching. He's always wanted to come on camera and say, run for your life or we'll all be killed. Something like that that required a little acting. His acting was better than mine, but everybody had some line pertaining to what it was they did on camera, and they were good anyway. I'm starting to mumble, but I admire everybody there because they didn't have to be there. They said, okay, we'll do it then. They must have been scared out of their minds like I was. The rest of them all carry syndicated or network stuff. So you hear the same people cross the dial no matter what station you pick up. And it's always I think, you know what I do, Hillary, and I think she ought to be drowned and he ought to be people start screaming and yelling, and I thought, especially this time of the night, maybe just giggle a little bit and take know, lighten up a little bit. And that's the whole idea of what I do anyway. [00:31:02] Speaker C: Well, it's been coming in for a week or so, and I've heard you cut off a couple of people that called up and wanted to be kind of intense and bash President Clinton and all that, kind of know these other stations. There's always all these gun fanatics and neo Nazis and stuff. [00:31:21] Speaker B: You sound like you have the same political philosophy I do, because that's the way they sound to me. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Also, I have to ask you something else. Obviously you have some kind of following, and I don't know anything about you other than I just picked you up on the radio, but are you from Brooklyn? [00:31:37] Speaker B: No, I'm not. I'm from Massachusetts. I was born in Boston and grew up in the suburbs of Boston, and I still live in this area. I live about 25 miles north of Boston, where I've lived for many years. No, my folks both were born in Massachusetts also, so we're kind of natives of Massachusetts. Why Brooklyn? Do I have an accent with that? [00:31:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I had a professor I went to graduate school in Berkeley, and I had a professor from Berkeley that was from Brooklyn. And you sound oh, kidding. And I never had seen anything like it. I called Dave, and when they got there, my son, of course, and his wife takes care of it. I told them he had to get plenty of help to unload it, and they said they have never seen anything like it in their life. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Isn't that something? Apparently it's going to be a really great one. [00:32:33] Speaker C: This year is going to be a great thing. And I wanted the listeners to know it because they can get their Christmas gifts and showers, and there's some of them that absolutely be the first time they've been seen. [00:32:49] Speaker B: Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. And I'll remind people again, the farm stand is in Wilmington at the Shriners Auditorium, and it's off of Route 93. Just take 93 to Route 39. Just remember those numbers and reverse them for the exit number. And there you are. And we had a big gang of people last year and the last couple of years the weather wasn't too great. But this year there is a threat of a possibility of showers and stuff. But I just have this great feeling it's going to hold off, maybe at least till afternoon. But it all begins around 06:00 in the morning, runs till whenever we're out of stuff, which could be one 203:00 in the afternoon. So would you be down there, too, Clarence? [00:33:33] Speaker C: No, I won't be able to go. I'm 91 years old. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Oh, my. That's right. I remember you telling me that you sound a whole lot younger than that. And you don't have any trouble with your hearing or anything? [00:33:45] Speaker C: Oh, no, but I am legally blind. [00:33:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Because even then, usually when you get to be 91, I'd have to talk to you like this. But obviously you don't have to. You're okay. [00:33:56] Speaker C: I wasn't legally blind. I'd be up there helping them. They work until darkness tonight, getting it ready, and my son and my daughter in law, they're going to be there at 05:00 in the morning. But I thought that this was so important that they know it because it's very hard to get some nice looking punch and you want to look at it later today, give it another punch to let people know because this could be the best thing that ever happened for the hospital. [00:34:35] Speaker B: I will bring it up again later in the morning, too, because I'll be on till 05:00. A.m. The hell are you going to put a wolf I got the land for it. I wouldn't put a wolf there. No, that's Joe from Quincy, the intense guy with the chickens and stuff. Remember we had someone on from this is the right one. Yeah. From Wolf Hollow in Ipswich. [00:34:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:34:55] Speaker B: But, I mean, this guy isn't in the business with that kind of stuff. He handles all kinds of exotic animals. No, but he's talking about our listeners, many of whom, he figures some of whom might want to adopt a wolf the way you would backyard. It's about 14 x twelve. That's a lot of running room for a wolf. Could jump up and down if it I don't know what my cat would think. I could just see your cat with his back all humped up, making these vicious noises with its claws extended 19ft beyond normal. That'd be nice, though, on a hot winter night I'll be all right on a cold winter night well, I'd rather have a woman but if the wolf was there, that'd be okay, too, to snuggle up, too. No, actually it's dogs. You know, like in Three Dog Night. Yeah, I know, but isn't that saying if I don't have a dog, I'll settle for the wolf at the foot of the bed? That's even better. You think if it gets a full moon, it'd make a lot of noise that bang at the moon. You're as nutty as Joe is. No, but he mentioned the wolf last week, and I told him I didn't want to talk about know, it didn't make any sense looking for people who want to adopt wolves. I didn't think they were that. Although I got a call or two afterwards, I guess, from people who said, what about those wolves? But I just hung up on him again. So that's the end of that till next week. He'll bring it back up again. I know he will. All right, well, I'll wait until then, if he still has it. Maybe I'll look into it a little further. In the meantime, you know, we'll do we'll go to Jack in Ottawa, Canada. Oh, Jack. Hi, Jack. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Hi. How's it going? [00:36:33] Speaker B: It's going okay, Jack. I was hoping you tell me that. I was hoping you say, I'm listening to you up in Ottawa because it's gone so great. I wanted to get in on it. [00:36:41] Speaker C: Yeah. About the he was last week, I think he said something to say about the wolf kill in British Columbia. I think that's terrible and cruel, but I think it's even more cruel what he was suggesting. Adopting wolves. [00:36:55] Speaker B: Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. Adopt the talk show host. That's right. And they'll build a little corral, a little paddock for me. I can run around. They'll build a little studio for you. I can yell at the walls without anybody ever hearing me. I'll put a cardboard microphone up there for you, make you feel at home in your waning ears, and that's all. And I'd probably be so dense by that point, I won't even know I'm not on the air. You had mentioned about tombstones one time. Yes. And gravestones, whatever. What about if you die? And you said, oh, he did. Well, we can't say exactly what you said. That was a routine I was going to use the other night. I didn't use that. No, I didn't use that. I don't know. Because it had to use a bad word, see? Yeah. And I still find myself unable to do that because I work come close. I don't want everybody to I work terribly clean, unfunny, but clean, unshaven, but clean, unshaven. Because I was thinking if you had something on your tombstone that was X rated, that was kind of a tough word. Like, this guy spent his entire 40 years, 50 years in broadcasting and never slung bull bleep. Okay. Then I thought, would there be a problem with that, with the cemetery? Would they say, we don't take those kind of words. I mean, we're dignified. We don't allow obscene words on tombstones. And then my heirs could then fight it and bring it up to the Supreme Court. And I could be even while dead, see, after I'm dead, I could be the subject of a whole Supreme Court decision. I could live a little bit longer, in a sense that way and your name probably wouldn't be mentioned in the decision. It would come down and others. But did you see the other story? There was a story out of I can't remember where it was, england or someplace. Now, this is not an obscene word, but a woman buried, I think, her husband. And she called him Tom. And she wanted the name Tom whatever his last name was on the tombstone. And there was a religious cemetery. I forget what the sect was, but the man who ran the cemetery would not allow Tom. He said, it's a dignified cemetery and he should be his full name thomas. Thomas the middle name and the last name. And she said, I've been married to this guy for years. I never once called him Thomas. Everybody knew him as Tom and so on. So he recast the whole stone so that it would come out Thomas and not know. I thought, Isn't that kind of funny? Because I was just thinking about that in a different level. That's ridiculous. I thought that was kind of stupid. I think there's a petition out now to get rid of this clergyman who's in charge of the cemetery. They have nothing better to I mean, you can't use a name that people call you by because it's not your formal name. So therefore, get that tombstone out and have yours as a couple. For you we can put Norm, Lance, Nathan what would you like on your tombstone? I know this sounds grizzly, but it's not. I think a lot of people talk about this. And we were talking about was it WC. Fields who on his tombstone had said, was it a Robert Benchley? He said, on the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. Or somebody else said, See, I told you I was sick. So I think those are real epitaphs. I think, considering how the career would progress and if I was on the air, I'd like my tombstone to say off the air when I'm dead. Off the air. Off the air. He's off the air for good. [00:40:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:39] Speaker B: Okay. I would like that to say that. Yeah. I would like on mine to say he saved the world for democracy. Okay. It doesn't have to be true, does it? You're right. Now that would be a problem. Yeah. Not only now, fine. You don't have any swears written on there. But now it's a lie. We saw you. Don't accept lies on maybe that same guy will be there. Yes. I'm trying to think of something even more profound. But something along those lines would be kind of nice. Could carry the whole world will never be the same because of his courage. As a result of his courage or something like that. And everyone would laugh when they went up. That's nice. You'd leave you'd leave with the smile. Leave this world a little sillier than you found it and you'd still be doing it with this tombstone. Yeah. Maybe we could use that because we still know you're so full of crap. It's funny. Maybe that could be the tombstone. He left this world sillier than he found it. I wonder if I could talk my daughters into putting that on the tombstone. If not, I'll go up there and spray paint it on there. Would they consider that some kind of hate climb if I did that to your tombstone? Only I said something nice about you? No. They'd probably lend you the paint. I know those folks up there at the Oakdale Cemetery in Middleton. I know what they're all about. They'll lend me the paint. He lived his life as a woman. Somebody will spray paint that out there. I don't know where that came from. That would be pretty good. How about this? I'll go up every week and change it. Yeah. Why does it have to be what is it, carved in stone? Exactly. Let me talk with dad in New York. See if he's as silly as we are. [00:42:27] Speaker C: Going away, connecting whatever it was turned out to be dead air. I don't know who that was. [00:42:32] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay. Arlene's, our former sex phone operator. That's right. [00:42:38] Speaker C: Well, I knew her. I had an Insatiable crush on her. [00:42:42] Speaker B: You had an account? Come on. [00:42:44] Speaker C: No, 22 years ago at a summer camp. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Wow. [00:42:48] Speaker C: And I lost contact with her. She went on to college and I went on wasting time and doing everything. I just recently got back in touch with her this July and I promised her that at some point I would call the show. And I said I would either mention her name or if I was in the mood and if Norm was silly enough, I'd rave uncontrollably. But I've decided to just sort of mention her name. [00:43:11] Speaker B: Okay. Yes. Now, what does she look like? Because she worked for Sex Line. Did she not one of those yeah. [00:43:20] Speaker C: She did work that kind of but unfortunately I'm blind as well so I don't know what she looks like. [00:43:25] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe she lets you run your hands along her face. Can you pretty much picture somebody doing that? [00:43:32] Speaker C: No, I wouldn't. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Have you been blind long? [00:43:36] Speaker C: Well, you've been blind all my life. [00:43:37] Speaker B: Okay. And there's no way you can would there be some blind people who could do that? Just run their fingers along a woman's face or a man's face and sort of get a rough idea if they. [00:43:49] Speaker C: Felt that feeling of the face was going to give them additional insight? I don't do that myself. People have asked me, for example, you want to feel my face? I'd rather not. [00:44:04] Speaker B: I thought it was an attractive lady like Arlene. You said you had a crush on her. [00:44:08] Speaker C: Well, yeah. Well, now that's a little different. If you're intimate, then you might kind of do that. You're both fooling around. [00:44:14] Speaker B: And let me ask you this. Now you say you've been blind since birth? [00:44:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:17] Speaker B: So you've never seen? [00:44:19] Speaker C: Nope. [00:44:21] Speaker B: Because I asked. George Sheeran. You know that name? [00:44:25] Speaker C: I know of him, and I saw him at an assembly hall at Perkins School years ago. [00:44:29] Speaker B: Okay. Jazz pianist who's also been blind since birth. [00:44:33] Speaker C: Right. [00:44:34] Speaker B: I asked him once the same question about how you describe color. I said, can you know it when somebody says red or green or yellow? [00:44:42] Speaker C: I haven't come up with an adequate way to describe or even understand them. The only thing I can liken colors to is the quality of sound. [00:44:56] Speaker B: Like, in what way? For example, if I said red, how would you describe that? By sound. [00:45:02] Speaker C: I guess that red might be kind of like a sort of a loud, forceful kind of sound. But I'm not really sure. [00:45:10] Speaker B: No, you're right. Actually, that's pretty much the way George Shearing described. He said, like, fiery. Although you would know what fiery meant, right? [00:45:19] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Yeah. But he said it kind of bursts out at you and yellow is more subdued, although somewhat loud. But green was very gentle along with blue. Would you describe colors in those ways? [00:45:33] Speaker C: I would say so, yeah. [00:45:36] Speaker B: That's kind of interesting. Can you tell a room the size or shape of a room by, say, clapping your hands to get the feedback from the wall? [00:45:46] Speaker C: Sometimes when I walk into a room there's a tendency that some blind people have that the professional heavies have chosen to call facial visions. And the way it works is your auditory senses pick up the echoes and various things about a room. Or if someone walks right by you fairly close you might sense that something went by. Mobility people and all this refer to it as facial vision. Okay. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Did you have a seeing eye dog or anything? [00:46:17] Speaker C: No, I don't. I use a cane. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Okay. Is there any reason you don't use a dog? [00:46:23] Speaker C: I have some very close friends who have a dog. Perhaps later in my life I might possibly consider it. But right now I'm still rather enjoying banging around with it with a cane. I don't even know quite why. I'm not a wild animal lover or anything but I do like animals well enough, but I've never had one of my own. [00:46:44] Speaker B: How about a wolf? We got a wolf. [00:46:46] Speaker C: Well, a guide wolf would be an interesting concept. [00:46:51] Speaker B: A seeing eye wolf in a mall. What about a lion? Wouldn't that be great? Are you walking along with a lion? [00:46:59] Speaker C: Well, actually, we were working on several ideas. One of the ones we came up with was a guide hyena. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Now we're doing our imitation of a hyena with our laugh. Now, that's interesting because just one note on George Shearing again, because at one time he would not have he mentioned this because I did a view to him. I did a Joshua quite a lot. And he said he didn't want a guide dog at that point because he said people would notice he was blind. And I said, what do you think they're thinking when you're going around with a cane or when you got your arm and somebody else's arm and they're guiding you? And later on, he got a dog. He said it was kind of silly, that kind of stuff. [00:47:41] Speaker C: Well, it's funny. I mean, a friend of mine who had recently lost her sight several years ago was apprehensive about carrying around her cane until a friend of ours pointed out, look it, the cane doesn't solve all the problems, but it clears the path. People see a cane come and they. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Split and they run through the hills. You sound like you're a fascinating guy, Dan. I appreciate talking with you. [00:48:06] Speaker C: Well, it's been fun and it's been interesting. It was neat, kind of listening on, because I called up and I was like, oh, you just hit the news break. Oh, boy. [00:48:13] Speaker B: Well, you hung in there and I appreciate that, too. [00:48:16] Speaker C: Okay, great. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Take care of yourself. Thanks for the call. Okay, bye bye. That's kind of interesting. This is our friend Fred in New Jersey who gets himself into all kinds of scrapes and things. Hello, Fred. What is it this week? [00:48:29] Speaker C: Hi. I'm trying to avoid getting into a scrape. That's why I called you, for some grandfatherly advice. [00:48:36] Speaker B: Oh, you couldn't be fatherly advice. It has to be grandfatherly. Are you going to go the whole route, you devil? That's okay, go right ahead. [00:48:44] Speaker C: I'm going to be 31 in November. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Well, that's a problem right there. [00:48:52] Speaker C: I have a friend who is 77 years old. She looks a lot younger than that. I would say you would probably take her for being in her 50s. I've known her for a couple of years. We never have done anything sexual. [00:49:15] Speaker B: You better hurry up. [00:49:17] Speaker C: Well, she now wants to, and I declined, and she offered me money. Is there something wrong with anybody accepting money from an older woman? [00:49:35] Speaker B: A man accepting money from an older woman? Are you making this up, Fred? I always have a feeling of making up. He has a story every week. [00:49:42] Speaker C: How could I make this up? [00:49:44] Speaker B: Okay, listen. Do you want to have sex? I don't know that there's any difference. In a way, if you turned her down and said, you can't take money from her, you like her too much, she's a nice lady, but you just don't want to do that. I think you would at least be honest with her. But if you're going to take the money, what does that make you? And what does that make her? She's willing to pay? No, that's my guess. I don't know. Not being a 77 year old woman, I don't know what will go through her mind. But I would think just be honest with her and say you don't feel like it unless you really need the money that badly, do you? [00:50:23] Speaker C: If I told her I loved her and took money from her, I think that would be sinful. Yeah, but if it's just an agreement for tossing the hay, I don't think. [00:50:36] Speaker B: It'S well, does that make you less of a hooker? Because you would be a hooker, would you not? How can you rationalize that? [00:50:47] Speaker C: I'm not looking for this. I didn't go out looking for this. I didn't solicit her. [00:50:51] Speaker B: No, but you want to take money. What's the difference? [00:50:53] Speaker C: I'm not necessarily I wanted to know what your viewpoint was. Does it make me a bad person if I take the money or does it make me a worse person if I turn her down? [00:51:03] Speaker B: No, I think if you turn her down, I think you're being honest with yourself. [00:51:07] Speaker C: But I really like her, and if. [00:51:09] Speaker B: She'S a decent lady and reasonably attractive she looks like she's in her 50s, you say? [00:51:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:15] Speaker B: I can't imagine why she can't find a man who'd be willing to have sex with her without being paid for. [00:51:20] Speaker C: What stops you? I don't think she wants another man. I think she wants me. [00:51:24] Speaker B: What stops you now? [00:51:26] Speaker C: What stops me from what? [00:51:28] Speaker B: From having sex with her now. [00:51:30] Speaker C: Because I really consider myself a friend. [00:51:33] Speaker B: And I like her as a friend. [00:51:34] Speaker C: And I really don't want to have sex with her. [00:51:36] Speaker B: Well, then just tell her that you just consider her a friend. Just be honest. [00:51:43] Speaker C: I think I might hurt her more. I'm wondering. Really, there's an easy way out. [00:51:47] Speaker B: Yeah, you could leave the country and never leave a forwarding address. No, I would tell her. I'd be straight out and honest about it. I would. And I don't think you're going to soothe her feelings by taking money. Exactly how much money would you take? How much money is she offering? [00:52:06] Speaker C: She offered quite a bit. [00:52:09] Speaker B: I would not take money for that. [00:52:13] Speaker C: Her money is no problem with her. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Does that make you think that it's possible that because she's asking this of you, that maybe she's asked it of. [00:52:21] Speaker C: Someone else, that maybe she's after what? [00:52:24] Speaker B: That she's asked it of somebody else? That she pays for it anyway? [00:52:27] Speaker C: Sometimes I don't know if she pays. [00:52:28] Speaker B: For anybody else, but mainly she wants you. [00:52:32] Speaker C: But do you think there's something wrong with an older man who takes a younger girl out and buys her dinner and buys her clothes, maybe gives her an apartment or something? I mean, this happens all the time. Yeah. [00:52:46] Speaker B: I mean, if if that's why she's having sex with him, because he buys her dinner, because he buys her clothes? No, I mean, I don't look upon that too favorably, either. [00:52:58] Speaker C: Charlie Chaplin got married when he was, what, 81, to somebody who was something like that, 32 or something like that. Is this really wrong? [00:53:09] Speaker B: No. I don't know. Why did she marry him? Remember there was a story in the news that long ago about a 30 year old lady Smith, the Playboy 20 something, and she married a guy, 90 or 80 something, way up in the think. There's something kind of disgusting about that, Norman. [00:53:28] Speaker C: This woman might think that if we do have sex, even if I took the money, that then I would maybe fall in love with her and be her lover. So when I say I might hurt her no matter what I do yeah. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Well, I would not take the money, and I would be upfront with her about that. And I don't know whether you can even perform the sex act, can you? If you don't feel any great sexual arousal, how are you going to do that? [00:53:54] Speaker C: I could fantasize. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Okay. Hey, listen, I told you what I think. I got to go because there's news coming along. Fred, let me know what you finally decide. And I still think he made the whole thing up. Even if he made it up, it's fodder for conversation, that's for sure. I would feel that there are going to be people going to call, and this is going to be one of the topics for a little while. I've seen your checkbook, so who are you to talk? Get out of here. I sound like I'm going to do a whole stand up routine here. No, I mean, if he's really a friend of hers, the best thing he could do would be to have sex with her and not charge her and pretend he really is enjoying himself while he's fantasizing. Would that make sense? Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that. If my mother could hear me talking now, she'd wash my mouth out with soap. You said sex. No, she said you said sex on the radio. What has happened to you now, man? Okay, we have some open lines, plus we have a couple of spots, I guess. Anyway, we can use some people for the dumb birthday gift who has a. [00:55:09] Speaker C: Lot of courage and who stands up for people that don't have as much strength as he does and really fights for the American way. And I'll show you some naval lint. [00:55:28] Speaker B: When you start talking like me, you're in very bad trouble. [00:55:33] Speaker C: I always thought that was a pretty bad sign. But I got to tell you what we did tonight, though. My entry here at the dorm here, we're organized into, like, five or six entries, and we went on a Spirit of Boston cruise. [00:55:47] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:55:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:48] Speaker B: Oh, that's a beautiful ship, a boat, whatever they call that's a lovely vessel. [00:55:53] Speaker C: But I have to tell you, we went on a cruise, and actually, what happened was, odly, enough. We got the same waiter that we did last year because it was kind of an annual event. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:56:02] Speaker C: But the thing that really we like the cruise. We like the dinner. It's nice. And they have dancing at the end and whatever, but they do some really cheesy show tunes in the middle. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Like what? [00:56:17] Speaker C: They're not show tunes. They're just kind of like one of those random medleys that often see on kind of stage shows. And it's really extraordinarily bad. It disheartens us. [00:56:31] Speaker B: What kind of a group do they have? A little five, six piece or a smaller group? [00:56:35] Speaker C: No, they have, I guess, a three piece band a drummer keyboard and a bass bass guitar. And then they have all the waiters and waitresses are also supposedly sort of actors kind of actors, singer wannabes or whatever. And so they all do all the singing too in addition to doing the wait staff kind of duties. And so in the middle of, they'll finish one course of dinner or something then boom, they'll go up and do a whole medley or something. [00:57:09] Speaker B: Did you have a date? [00:57:10] Speaker C: Yeah. In fact, we have what's called a blind date. We call it a blind date semiformal. [00:57:16] Speaker B: A blind date semi formal which we. [00:57:18] Speaker C: Take whoever's signed up and we kind of draw out of a hat. [00:57:22] Speaker B: Oh, really? And that's how you get your date? [00:57:24] Speaker C: That's right. [00:57:25] Speaker B: You did tell me how you made out. I don't mean made out. You know what I mean. So far as what a choice of words. I mean the young woman that you got. [00:57:34] Speaker C: Oh, it's fun. But I think she already has a boyfriend after dinner, kind of scooted away or whatever. [00:57:42] Speaker B: But I had a good time anyway. Oh, that's good, because I can't imagine anybody scooting away from. [00:57:52] Speaker C: This read. I have to get some advice from Fred there. [00:57:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I still think he makes up those stories. He just comes up with one of those every week. Which gets to be a little kind of crazy. [00:58:04] Speaker C: Either he's making them up or he's really busy. [00:58:07] Speaker B: That's true. I mean, if it's really happening, these things are really happening to him. What an exciting life that'd be. I hope one day he's thinking about publishing his memoirs. [00:58:16] Speaker C: That reminds me. You had the stripper on, right? Your friend? [00:58:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, my friend, the stripper. As a matter of fact, that was her name. [00:58:27] Speaker C: My friend the stripper. That kind of reminds me of that. I thought I'd drop in and say. [00:58:35] Speaker B: Now, what reminded you that? Fred's story. Oh, no. The stripper was a lovely young lady. Very attractive, very well built. Lovely lady. [00:58:46] Speaker C: That's all nice for us, Norm. We can't see her. [00:58:48] Speaker B: No, I know that, but I expose that. But you could tell by her voice that she was young. And also she's been you and Tony Nesbitt. I don't know. No, she's been a friend for a lot of years. She's a great girl. And she's married also. [00:59:03] Speaker C: Oh, she's married? [00:59:04] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:59:05] Speaker C: I did not know. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, she is. Oh, yes. Otherwise, I don't know what I do. I don't know what that means. I have no idea what that means. Put on some her. I've known her for a long time. [00:59:19] Speaker C: In fact, just don't let Jackhard in, that's all. [00:59:24] Speaker B: Okay. Well, do you think he'll go nuts there? [00:59:28] Speaker C: I don't know about you. [00:59:31] Speaker B: Anyway, it's good to talk with you. [00:59:33] Speaker C: I thought I'd say hi. [00:59:35] Speaker B: I appreciate you doing that. Okay. [00:59:37] Speaker C: The tuition bill for next term is in the mail. [00:59:40] Speaker B: I'll take care of it. Because you are my adopted son. [00:59:43] Speaker C: Thanks a lot, north. [00:59:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:59:44] Speaker C: Talk to you later. [00:59:44] Speaker B: Thank you. Bye bye. And this is your friend? Jay. Jay. Jay, that's right. You guys just coming from a party, I understand. Was it fun? [00:59:54] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:59:55] Speaker B: You didn't meet Raj there, did you? The guy was the fellow was just talking to goes to MIT. [01:00:00] Speaker F: No, he wasn't at the party. [01:00:01] Speaker B: He wasn't at the party? No. That's right. He was on the Spirit of Boston of Massachusetts, with the boat. Well, it's good to see you both. [01:00:10] Speaker F: You, too. [01:00:12] Speaker B: Is that the end of our conversation? [01:00:14] Speaker F: We just came to say hi. We heard Tony on the radio, but he went home. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Did you miss him? Did he leave the building before he got here? [01:00:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:21] Speaker B: Well, I guess it's his loss. For heaven's sakes, let me talk with this guy. Here's a man in Indiana. Jim. [01:00:28] Speaker C: How you doing, Norm? [01:00:30] Speaker B: I'm doing pretty good, Jim. Depends on how high your standards. [01:00:34] Speaker C: Oh, I'm doing just fine. Hey, Norm, got an honest question for you. I'd like your opinion. [01:00:41] Speaker B: Okay. And also, I was wanting to sign. [01:00:42] Speaker C: Up for the dumb birthday. [01:00:46] Speaker B: Have. I don't know whether we have a full slate. I'll turn you over to Brian anyway. He can tell you that. I don't know. I kind of have a feeling we've already reached the peak on that. But if you want to ask me an honest question, that's good. I can answer dishonest questions a lot more easily. [01:01:01] Speaker C: No, honest question, actually. I'd like your opinion. You know that guy Mark Russell, the political top tires, who does the specials there on WGBH? [01:01:11] Speaker B: That's right. Yes. He broadcasts he films his stuff up in Buffalo, New York, for some reason. Yes, I do know who you I've seen I've seen his show a lot, and I saw him live one time. [01:01:23] Speaker C: What do you think of his political humor? Do you think it's kind of offbeat or right on the nose? [01:01:30] Speaker B: I think a lot of it's kind of interesting because he sets a lot of his stuff to music and stands up playing the piano as he accompanies himself. I think he's sharp. Yeah, I haven't seen him for a little while, now that you mention it. [01:01:42] Speaker C: Well, the reason I asked is I just taped his most recent special that aired a couple of weeks ago, and he did a pretty good job talking about things like OJ. Simpson and Haiti and the Clintons, healthcare, gun control, the works. I mean, the guy really knows his stuff. [01:02:06] Speaker B: He's really up to works out he usually works out of a hotel in Washington. DC. And I guess he's been there for years and years, and he's the guy to see if he wants political satire. Cambridge? The one in Cambridge? What would that be? No, is that the one at what, the 710 on the dial or something like that? [01:02:30] Speaker D: Around there? [01:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, 740. [01:02:33] Speaker E: It's right in the middle, around 13 something. I don't think we're just supposed to mention the names on the air, are we? [01:02:41] Speaker B: You can mention it on this program. Because I don't mind if they don't mind over there. [01:02:45] Speaker E: That's why I want to do it. I don't know if they mind here or not. [01:02:48] Speaker B: They might not like you calling another radio station while you're working there. See, from my viewpoint, it'd be kind of nice. I say even people who work at other radio stations listen to us. [01:02:57] Speaker E: Plus, I'm working at a cable station, too. [01:02:59] Speaker B: Are you? [01:02:59] Speaker E: Yeah, I work Delaware at Arlington Cable now. [01:03:02] Speaker B: Well, that's great. You sound like you're keeping yourself very. [01:03:04] Speaker E: Busy, Marianne, broadcasting full time. I'm still working at Children's full time, but I want to get into broadcasting full time. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Well, it's a high paying glamour field, I want to tell you. Make the big bucks here, and you meet all kinds of wondrous people who love you because you're in the big time. [01:03:18] Speaker E: Well, I want to be sportscaster. That's my dream. [01:03:21] Speaker B: That's not as much fun as being, like, a weekend all night talk host, but it's the second best thing, probably. [01:03:28] Speaker E: Well, I'm going to do the all night. I'll do anything. I'm putting 26 hours in here every day. [01:03:34] Speaker B: Well, I wish you good luck with that kind of determination. Is my Hungarian ship no, never mind. Hey, I got to get going, but thank you, Marianne. [01:03:42] Speaker E: Okay. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Does Tony want to talk to me on the air? Okay. Tony's on the no, I've been just. [01:03:49] Speaker C: Hanging here for hours on end. [01:03:51] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I thought you were just waiting for the dumb birthday game to begin. Yeah. [01:03:55] Speaker C: No, no, I heard Sarah on the. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Air, and I missed Sarah's on the air with her friend Jay. Yeah, they're both here. [01:04:01] Speaker C: Never mind Jay. I wanted to talk to you. [01:04:04] Speaker F: Cody, you didn't call me back. [01:04:06] Speaker C: Because I've been working on it. I've been working on it. [01:04:09] Speaker F: All right? [01:04:12] Speaker B: Is that the end of the conversation? Thank you very much. Is that the whole thing? [01:04:16] Speaker C: I don't know. How are you, Sarah? [01:04:17] Speaker F: I'm doing okay. [01:04:18] Speaker C: How was your oh, my vacation was fantastic. Which leads me to ask you this question. [01:04:22] Speaker F: What? [01:04:23] Speaker C: You didn't come, though I know you have problems and scrapes with the law up in New Hampshire. You probably can be no help to me. I got a ticket up there that I'm going to fight. But do you have any connections? And just wipe it out for me. [01:04:34] Speaker F: What town? [01:04:35] Speaker C: It was Plymouth District. [01:04:36] Speaker F: Oh, Tony, I don't know anyone in Plymouth. [01:04:39] Speaker B: It was also state police stuff, wasn't you know. Do you have a big in with. [01:04:43] Speaker F: The if I did, I probably wouldn't be smart to say, yeah, Tony, I know this guy named so and so and so and so. [01:04:48] Speaker E: Right. [01:04:49] Speaker C: It just saved me the time of going up there and fighting it. But it certainly is a very how. [01:04:54] Speaker F: Much is the ticket for? [01:04:55] Speaker C: Oh, it was a speeding ticket, and it was like, 86 something, and we weren't speeding, and we weren't doing anything else wrong. Also, I'm just very determined about this because he was wrong. But of course, they probably won't see it that way. As the usual, the judges say, well, why would he lie to us? Because it was a Labor Day weekend, Your Honor. That's why. And they were trying to make their quota. [01:05:17] Speaker F: Maybe that's it. No. A lot of times, though, you can go to court and if the cop doesn't show up, you automatically win. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Right. [01:05:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Also, there was maybe a mistake or two on the ticket I hopefully can get, but other than that you're going. [01:05:29] Speaker B: To frighten, aren't you? [01:05:30] Speaker C: I certainly am. [01:05:31] Speaker F: I think if you just make good arguments, you'll be in. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Okay. [01:05:36] Speaker C: I'm getting the poster board out and drawing up charts. In fact, I may even call the company GM that manufactured the car and get some kind of acceleration information on this car and say it was impossible to accelerate to that speed in that amount of time. I'll bedazzle them sick of me. They'll hold me in contempt and you won't see me for a long time. [01:05:56] Speaker B: There's this guy Perot, who does great with charts and stuff. You might get him to help you out, get some pie charts. [01:06:02] Speaker F: He's coming to UNH, too, a couple of weeks. [01:06:04] Speaker C: Is he? [01:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:04] Speaker F: Maybe he can help next Saturday night. [01:06:06] Speaker C: I think maybe I can ask him just to pay it off. He's got a few billion. [01:06:10] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:06:11] Speaker B: I can't believe this program is being used in this matter. Isn't this Norm Nathan looking at the united we stand? [01:06:21] Speaker C: Well, that's what I just called and said. Sorry I missed you, Tony. [01:06:24] Speaker F: I'm happy to talk to you. Will you call me someday? [01:06:26] Speaker C: I certainly will. [01:06:27] Speaker F: We can just talk? Just to talk. Not even about that. [01:06:30] Speaker C: You bet. Of course. [01:06:31] Speaker F: That sounds good. [01:06:32] Speaker C: I will. Why don't you come up and cover my case? [01:06:34] Speaker F: Well, it's a little far. If you guys go to New Hampshire again, you should stop and try to get a ticket. [01:06:41] Speaker B: Try to get slower. Yeah, try to get a ticket at Portsmouth. That's right. Or Newcastle. [01:06:47] Speaker F: It's because you drive that car. [01:06:49] Speaker C: I was in a rent a boat. [01:06:51] Speaker F: Oh, you weren't even in your car. [01:06:52] Speaker C: No, I was in this big Chevy Caprice. [01:06:55] Speaker F: Can I tell everyone what kind of car you drive? [01:06:57] Speaker C: Yeah, you can. [01:06:58] Speaker F: I'm not sure I'm right. I think it's a camaro. [01:07:01] Speaker C: Yes, it is. [01:07:02] Speaker F: And it has license plates that say Heavy Metal. [01:07:05] Speaker B: Stop me right. [01:07:07] Speaker C: Heavy metal. [01:07:08] Speaker F: No wonder you get bagged all the time, man. I bag you, too. [01:07:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but he wasn't in the car. [01:07:14] Speaker F: He was driving a different yeah, they knew, though. They could just tell. [01:07:17] Speaker C: I wasn't even driving when it happened. [01:07:19] Speaker B: When? You guys stop this. [01:07:21] Speaker F: We got news coming up in 30 seconds. [01:07:24] Speaker C: Well, normally missed one before. [01:07:26] Speaker B: No, it's actually only 26 after two. Addie. Remember Addie from Everett? She's on the line. [01:07:32] Speaker C: I hope she's got her gingham apron on. [01:07:34] Speaker F: Tony, I'm going to call you at 330. [01:07:35] Speaker C: No, please don't. I'm going to sleep. [01:07:37] Speaker F: Okay, goodbye. [01:07:38] Speaker B: Okay, bye bye. Tony and Addie. [01:07:41] Speaker D: Good morning, Norm. I really think we ought to set up a legal defense fund. [01:07:46] Speaker B: That's right. [01:07:47] Speaker D: Maybe we could call OJ and ask him to share some of his funds for it. [01:07:51] Speaker B: That's right. I think OJ has been doing something to raise additional funds. Wasn't he just signing autographs and doing something? Yeah, maybe Tony could sign autographs. You think they'd bring any kind of money in? [01:08:04] Speaker D: I don't think so. Not in Tony's signature. They probably think it was a forge. [01:08:09] Speaker B: Hey, tell me what you're doing now. [01:08:11] Speaker D: Well, right now I am resting from a full day of labor, and also all week I've been canning peaches. [01:08:19] Speaker B: Oh, Addie, I would have expected somebody like you and your gingham apron to do something like Cannon peaches. [01:08:27] Speaker D: My daughter has this beautiful peach tree right outside her back door, and they were all ripe, and she brought me basket after basket. So I have been canning peaches till I can't stand the sight of the dang thing. [01:08:40] Speaker B: Are these nice and soft peaches? [01:08:42] Speaker D: Fully ripe. My granddaughter took a bite of one and the juice went right across the room and spread it. Her friend. [01:08:48] Speaker B: Oh, that's so romantic. [01:08:50] Speaker D: Yeah, it's the kind when the juice just runs down your chin. [01:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah, because I have a peach tree that the peaches are hard all the time. I guess it's a different brand. Anyway, you can't see the peach tree right now because I haven't mowed the lawn in about three years. So everything is undergrowth. [01:09:06] Speaker D: Next spring, take a pitchfork, loosen all the dirt around the base. [01:09:10] Speaker F: Every year we have to get a boyfriend. That'll do it for us. That's what we do. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Yeah, we haven't had a boyfriend do that for about three years now. I've had guys who talk about lawn maintenance come up and they look at it and they can't wait to get away from us fast enough. That's the truth. [01:09:26] Speaker D: They have no farmer in them. [01:09:28] Speaker B: There's no farmer at all. [01:09:29] Speaker D: No farmer in them. But if next spring you loosen all. [01:09:34] Speaker B: The dirt around the root okay. [01:09:37] Speaker D: It sweetens the peaches, too. [01:09:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:09:40] Speaker D: Also, my daughter planted a lot of marigolds around the tree to help keep. [01:09:44] Speaker C: The bugs away this year. [01:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:46] Speaker D: And there wasn't one that had not one blemish on any of them. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Well, that is just so darn interesting. [01:09:52] Speaker D: I know, isn't it? But I'm so sick of canning peaches. [01:09:55] Speaker C: No, I know it it is an. [01:09:57] Speaker D: All day process once you start because you can't just say oh, I've had enough today, and quit. [01:10:02] Speaker B: Can't do that. No, you can't. Got all those Mason jars there. Got to fill them up. And you can't waste no peaches bubbles. [01:10:13] Speaker D: Out and all that other good stuff. [01:10:15] Speaker B: That's right, because once the peaches are canned, once they're gone, they don't come around again until next year. [01:10:25] Speaker D: Canned some made peach butter and some peach jam. [01:10:28] Speaker B: Peach jam is awful. Sure. [01:10:32] Speaker D: I've come to the conclusion that Fred must lead an awfully dull life because every weekend he calls with some sexual problem. [01:10:41] Speaker B: That's right. Most of his problems have it either been accused of stealing women's underwear off their lines or the guy who turned out this beautiful woman he took out turned out to be a guy. That's right. I never thought of that. [01:10:57] Speaker E: Every weekend. [01:10:57] Speaker B: That's right. [01:10:58] Speaker D: Problem with this. [01:10:59] Speaker B: That's right. I'd forgotten about that. [01:11:02] Speaker D: Maybe you are the outlet of his fantasies. [01:11:06] Speaker B: I don't like the way that sounded at all. I got to get going. We have news coming up, but good to talk to you and happy Peach Tree Pick in. [01:11:14] Speaker D: Thank you kindly. [01:11:15] Speaker B: Bye bye. [01:11:16] Speaker C: Sure. [01:11:16] Speaker D: Because I remember you down through the know with different things and I used to read your column in the Herald. [01:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that was my wife's column and. [01:11:27] Speaker D: Your wife's column both. [01:11:28] Speaker C: You had a column? [01:11:29] Speaker B: No, I didn't. Occasionally I write a little freaky thing. Now she's the column. She was the one who had the I column in the Herald. That was not me. [01:11:41] Speaker D: I enjoyed it, but I don't read papers much anymore. I really don't know. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Really? What did you do? Kind of turn the world off. Did you? [01:11:51] Speaker D: Well, no. I retired and I have glaucoma, so I don't read. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [01:11:57] Speaker D: I listen to the radio and I watch television and do that well. [01:12:00] Speaker B: But it's kind of hard to I see, I see. [01:12:03] Speaker D: Yeah. But I do enjoy and I enjoy Bob, too. I called him this week. I've been listening to you people all summer. [01:12:11] Speaker B: Well, we thank you very much for dottie and I thank you for the call. You're okay? [01:12:15] Speaker D: I'll call you again. [01:12:16] Speaker B: I hope you will. [01:12:17] Speaker D: I love your game you have on. It's just going to laugh. [01:12:20] Speaker B: Okay. That's good. [01:12:21] Speaker D: That dumb birthday. [01:12:22] Speaker B: That dumb birthday. It is a dumb birthday game. Thanks a lot, Dottie. [01:12:25] Speaker D: All right. [01:12:26] Speaker B: Take care. Bye bye. Bye bye. Okay, we'll go to B in Braintree. That rhymes. That's kind of a nice rhyme. B? [01:12:34] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:12:34] Speaker B: B in braintree. B-E-A. Yeah. How are you doing, b. [01:12:40] Speaker E: Pretty good. [01:12:41] Speaker C: Just got out of the hospital. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:43] Speaker D: Listen, I'm sorry I missed you on TV the other night. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Well, I wasn't on for more than 2 seconds. I think you didn't miss much. [01:12:54] Speaker D: Well, I just happened to get a glimpse. Are you kind of stalking? [01:12:58] Speaker B: Yes, I am. I'm a big fat guy. Big fat old guy. [01:13:01] Speaker D: But you know what my husband says? [01:13:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:03] Speaker D: He says, well, don't they have to have two chairs for Bob Raleigh? [01:13:08] Speaker B: No, he's built much better than I am. No, he's not fat. [01:13:11] Speaker D: I thought he wasn't. My husband's never talked to him, so I don't know where we got that idea. Listen, tell me. I'd love to go to the farm, sand, even though I just got out of the hospital Thursday. I'm handicapped. I'm an amputee and I'm in a wheelchair now. Is there any way we can park special? [01:13:39] Speaker B: Boy, I don't know. I suppose if you get there early enough, you can. I would think so, but I can't really promise because I don't know. [01:13:46] Speaker D: I have the HP plate. [01:13:51] Speaker B: What's that again? [01:13:51] Speaker D: I have the HP plate. [01:13:54] Speaker C: The handicapped. [01:13:56] Speaker B: I see. [01:13:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:13:57] Speaker B: Well, there may be I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. See, I don't arrange those things, so I don't really know. But I would think that they would certainly take good care of you as a result of that. I would think so. [01:14:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:12] Speaker B: I can't promise because I don't really know, but I would think so. [01:14:15] Speaker D: I really want to go, see, because this is Dave Maynard's last stand. [01:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Of course, last year he said the same thing, but this may very well be the last time. [01:14:29] Speaker D: Yeah, because he's going to Florida. [01:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, that's right. That's true. Yeah, you're right. [01:14:33] Speaker D: What's the directions to there? I come from Braintree. Where would I go? [01:14:38] Speaker B: Well, you get onto Route 93. [01:14:40] Speaker D: 93? [01:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah. In other words, when you're coming up from Braintree, you're on the expressway and you're crossing over the Central Artery, and then you take Route 93, splits off of there, and just follow that all the way up to Exit 39. Exit 39, yeah. Just remember, for 93, it's 39. Just that's 93 backwards, as you know. And then when you get off 93, you'll see lots of signs. It's the Wilmington Shriners Auditorium. Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington. And it's well marked at that point, you won't have any trouble finding it. [01:15:22] Speaker E: How long of a ride would it be up? [01:15:25] Speaker B: Oh, let's see, from Braintree, maybe about depends on how much traffic. You shouldn't be running into much traffic today, so I'd say 40 minutes, maybe, something like that. [01:15:40] Speaker D: That's fine. [01:15:41] Speaker B: Yeah, 45 at the very most. I wouldn't take more than that. [01:15:44] Speaker E: I could go around in my wheelchair. [01:15:48] Speaker B: Yes, everything is outside. Well, there are some things inside, but I think that's wheelchair accessible. I'm not sure, but most of the way you get the breakfast and where you can get the foods and the petting zoos, all of that, that's all outside and it's all level. [01:16:08] Speaker D: I listen to you every weekend. [01:16:11] Speaker B: Well, thank you. [01:16:12] Speaker D: And I love your program. [01:16:14] Speaker C: You have a great wisdom. [01:16:16] Speaker B: Thank you. Maybe we'll see a little bit later at the farm stand then. [01:16:19] Speaker D: Yeah, I'll go up and introduce myself. [01:16:21] Speaker B: I wish you would. I'd like that. [01:16:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:16:23] Speaker E: I'm a little redhead. [01:16:24] Speaker B: I'll look for the little redhead in the wheelchair. [01:16:27] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm no young chicken. I'm 76. [01:16:31] Speaker B: Okay, I'll look for an old chicken, then. [01:16:34] Speaker D: Okay. [01:16:34] Speaker B: Take care. You're welcome. Bye bye. Okay. Eric in Boston. Hello, Eric. [01:16:40] Speaker C: Hello. [01:16:41] Speaker B: Good morning. [01:16:42] Speaker C: Good morning. Hi. I was just listening to you earlier, talking about the Haiti incident there, and I have a question. [01:16:53] Speaker B: Don't get too heavy on us. You won't do that, will you, Eric? Because we're sort of steering away from really serious stuff, because they do so much of that during the daytime, and a lot of other stations do it all night long so that we kind of take things a little bit lighter. [01:17:07] Speaker C: Oh, I see. Okay. Well, I just want to say that they should find some other way how to get around the situation besides sending our fleets over there and just figure out some type of idea how to prevent sending the fleets, know? Just find another way how to do it. [01:17:29] Speaker B: I would hope, huh? I would hope so. I would hope we wouldn't send troops. [01:17:34] Speaker C: Because, you know, what's going to happen is that we're going to get the same thing that we had with the Persian Gulf thing, all our soldiers, some of them coming back a little sick from the incidents. [01:17:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's true. That's true. No, I would hope. I was really not terribly enthusiastic about the Persian Gulf War or the Grenada thing, and I'm not at all enthusiastic about this one either. I hope they can work their way out of it. Anyway, Eric, thank you very much. Sometimes you go so far, it's kind of hard to back down after you go this far. I just don't see this whole thing. But anyway, that's a whole lot of stuff. We'll stay away from that for now because everybody's been talking about it, and it gets a little rough after a while. Bill and Chelsea, how you doing? Good morning, Bill. [01:18:23] Speaker D: Good. [01:18:24] Speaker C: How you doing, Norm? I only can speak for a minute because I'm at work. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Okay, I'll take a minute from you. That'll be just great. [01:18:31] Speaker C: Okay. Because you were mentioning a story about the lottery just before 04:00 and the guy burnt down his house. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Yes. [01:18:38] Speaker C: I was a guy in South Boston a couple of years ago. I don't know if you remember. He won the mega bucks and one week went by and he got calls from financial advisors and banks and people begging for money because they're out of work. It was so bad, he took a heart attack and died after one week. [01:18:57] Speaker B: Oh, isn't that awful? [01:18:58] Speaker C: Yeah, unbelievable. [01:18:59] Speaker B: It's funny, you don't hear too many stories about people after they win these huge sums of money. And there have been a lot of winners through the years here in Massachusetts. Whatever happens to them, some of them seem not to be too terribly happy. Things like that happen. [01:19:18] Speaker C: A lot of people go bankrupt, too, before they even collect all their winnings. [01:19:22] Speaker B: Yeah, we're looking at it this way. Now, here's this guy. This is a guy in Ohio. He gets $300,000 a year. In the past, on his regular job, he made 14,000. Now suddenly he's making 300,000 a year. Unless you know how to handle your money, it gets kind of nutty because there are certain taxes are taken out, all that, and then you want to invest it. And how do you know how to invest it if you've never, ever experienced that kind of money before? So it can be kind of rough. Somebody always says, Boy, if I had a million dollars, boy, I just retire and I do this and I would do that. But what if you really did have a million dollars? Would you know how to handle that much money? [01:20:07] Speaker C: No. In fact, a kid that works down the street from where I live in Maldon, he works for one of them convenience stores. He sent in his losing tickets to the Channel Seven, and they drew one of his losing tickets out and they had one of them Wild win 20 shows, and he won the grand prize, which was $250,000 a year for life. [01:20:26] Speaker B: No kidding. [01:20:27] Speaker C: He was only 22 years old. [01:20:29] Speaker B: And this was for life? [01:20:30] Speaker C: This was for life. It was the grand prize they had not this summer, but last summer. And they just had another show this. [01:20:37] Speaker B: Past summer with a lower yeah, you wonder whatever happened to him and is he handling it okay, or is he going nutty or what's happening? [01:20:47] Speaker C: I've only seen him once at the Superstar and Shop, and he was dressed to the nines and everything, wearing nice clothes and full card of food and everything like that. But before that, he was just working at the convenience store. In fact, he even actually worked the last two weeks. Gave his guy two weeks notice before he left. [01:21:06] Speaker B: Oh, really? Well, that was very decent of him to do that. But you just wonder, with that kind of an inflow, all that money coming to you on a regular basis, I don't know that I can handle it. It'd be kind of fun to find out, I suppose. Or maybe it wouldn't be fun. It isn't fun for some people. I wish you good luck, Bill. If you win big sums of money, let me know how you're doing with it. [01:21:32] Speaker C: In fact, friends of mine live up in Middleton. They see you all the time at the supermarket up there. [01:21:36] Speaker B: Oh, do they? [01:21:38] Speaker C: Yeah. In fact, their kids went to school. [01:21:40] Speaker B: With your well, can you tell me their names? [01:21:43] Speaker C: Yeah, Ronsky. [01:21:44] Speaker B: Ronsky. Ronsky. I think I do know that they. [01:21:47] Speaker C: Only live a couple of streets over from you. [01:21:49] Speaker B: Okay. [01:21:50] Speaker C: And she always sees you at Shaw's. [01:21:51] Speaker E: I guess it is. [01:21:52] Speaker B: Do you shop at Shaws? No, not demulas. Yeah, the market basket. That's the only big supermarket we have in town. [01:22:00] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what it yeah. [01:22:03] Speaker B: Tell her next time you see her to come over and say hello. She apparently has not done that, or maybe she has, without mentioning her name. [01:22:09] Speaker C: But they always go to the town meetings. They know you're from there, too. [01:22:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay. Great. Enough. [01:22:14] Speaker C: Okay. Good talking to you. [01:22:16] Speaker B: Nice talking to you, Bill. [01:22:17] Speaker C: Bye bye. [01:22:17] Speaker B: Bye bye. Okay, we have some open lines. At two 5410, 30, we'll go to Betty in Sudbury. Hello, Betty in Sudbury. [01:22:25] Speaker E: Hi. I'm the one that you came to my kids at Kennedy and Wal FAM. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Oh, yes, of course. [01:22:33] Speaker E: You survived that ordeal, didn't you? [01:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that was another thing I was nervous about because I had never talked to high school kids. We talked about jazz. But the kids were great, and you guys were great. It was lovely to see you and the other members of the faculty who dropped into the library that day to talk. That was nice. [01:22:51] Speaker E: I'm telling you, you were the greatest thing, I think that your biggest fans, of course, were the faculty age level. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Well, they were very nice. I'm glad to hear that because I enjoy that. It was a lovely school. [01:23:07] Speaker E: Well, yes, it is a very nice school. [01:23:10] Speaker B: Now, are you still there? [01:23:12] Speaker E: Yes, I go there first thing every morning and I teach one or two classes, and then I go to an elementary level. [01:23:23] Speaker B: Yes, that's right. Because I remember you did that the morning that I was there, you were taken off for another school. [01:23:30] Speaker E: I'm still running I'm still teaching over 900 kids a week. [01:23:34] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Now, did you have a good summer? Do you have a chance to have a real vacation during summertime? [01:23:42] Speaker E: Actually, I had a very busy summer. My daughter in law's two nephews were here from Mexico for eight weeks, and I took some of the kids up to the darts program at Tanglewood for one week. And then I also went to Williams College, which is the MTA. That's the association, you know, Summer Institute, which was beautiful. Williams College is such a gorgeous campus. [01:24:14] Speaker B: Oh, it is lovely there. [01:24:15] Speaker E: I don't know why I never went before. [01:24:18] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it is nice. I have a friend, I guess he's sort of a nephew, in a way, through marriage and stuff. Anyway, he lives in Williamstown, so I used to go out more often to see him out there. But that part of Massachusetts, anyway, is a delightful part of the state, that whole western part. [01:24:38] Speaker E: Well, I drove out when I went out, I went out in the morning and went out the Mohawk Trail. And that is just spectacular. I hadn't been driven that for many years. [01:24:52] Speaker B: I would imagine in about two or three weeks, when the foliage is a. [01:24:55] Speaker E: Blow, they always keep talking about the foliage and the Mohawk Trail, but it was pretty in the summertime with the Gallagher Green. And then when there's like a horseshoe turn you look down on I know. [01:25:10] Speaker B: Just the turn you're talking yes, yes. [01:25:13] Speaker E: It really is like something out of another world. [01:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it is beautiful. Through that whole section. Through that. Now, what did you do at Williams? [01:25:24] Speaker E: Well, this was the MTA, you said teachers association. [01:25:29] Speaker B: That's right. [01:25:29] Speaker E: You just said it's like a leadership training conference. For example. If a person's going to be a new president or treasurer of their local organization, there's so many laws and new things coming up, they need to have some intensive training before they go into a new job. And then I went out just as a teacher, and what I liked about it was even just sitting down at the dining room table and talking to other teachers from all around the state was a learning experience. Plus, there was something going on all the time. I took some of the pre retirement seminars for obvious reasons, but I also am very interested and took the seminars on all this privatization thing, which really scares me. I'm a real believer in public education, and I'm afraid that monies are going to be siphoned off. $5,500 goes out of every local town school budget. When a kid goes to another town right now and starting in fall of 95, the charter schools, every kid that goes to a charter school that comes out of the local school budget. [01:27:02] Speaker B: You're talking about the program where a child can what do they call that program? They go to another public it's still. [01:27:10] Speaker E: A public school to go to, say, in a neighboring town. For example, if they lived in a poor town that didn't have a good. [01:27:21] Speaker B: School system, I know they could pick. [01:27:25] Speaker E: And the money goes with them. [01:27:27] Speaker B: Yeah, but I was trying to think of what that's called. [01:27:35] Speaker E: It's not the voucher system. The voucher system, no. To go to a private school. [01:27:40] Speaker B: No, I understand. This is just another public I've kind. [01:27:43] Speaker E: Of forgotten the terminology. Well used. [01:27:47] Speaker B: The word choice is somewhere in there. No. In any event, I understand what you're saying, and I appreciate the fact that when kids are taken out of their own school, if it's a poorer school, the school loses the money because the money then goes to the wealthier school. If they go into a wealthier school. And usually the wealthier ones are the ones that kids go to, want to go to. [01:28:11] Speaker E: I was very proud of Sudbury, where I live. The school committee opted not to accept out of towners because we could mean, like the Maynard kids could have opted to come here and that would have done a job on Maynard. [01:28:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I can understand. I got to get going. Suddenly it's almost 05:00 and I got to get off the air. Betty. [01:28:33] Speaker E: Okay. Nice to talk. [01:28:34] Speaker B: To you. Nice to talk to you too. Thanks. Okay. It is time to say goodbye on behalf of Brian McKinley, our producer, and the lovely Marilyn Gorellic and myself, the almost good looking Norm Nathan Person News. Fly you from Boston to Halifax nonstop twice daily and you get mileage plus or one pass miles. Air Canada. A welcome departure. The WBZ 24 hours traffic network bunker with his bare hands. Ladies and gentlemen, traffic guru Sensei Jack Hart. Tell him. Guess. About 11:00. It was a lovely spot and there was kind of a sadness in a sense, because I think this will be the last one. I'm not sure, but last one certainly headed by Dave Maynard. I can't imagine anybody else doing the kind of great job that he has done. But it had usually petting zoos and all the food that was on display. And some great musicians were playing lovely things. One band especially was playing Count Basie things and just on and on. And it was good to meet so many people who dropped by. I appreciate also Gary LaPierre was there, peter Mead, of course, Dave Maynard and just a whole lot of people. And all those of you who had a chance to say hello to I, thank you very much. Come close. I don't want everybody to hear this, but you were just so darn nice. Thank you. Okay. [01:30:07] Speaker E: Hey, let's you know I turn you on and I have been falling asleep, but I want to explain quickly, that is not because you bore me. It's because I've been trying to get off coffee. [01:30:23] Speaker B: I'm sorry, you've been trying to get off what? [01:30:25] Speaker D: Coffee. [01:30:26] Speaker E: I've been trying to reduce my caffeine addiction and as a result I can't stay awake and I miss most of your program. [01:30:36] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness, what a nasty thing. But that's kind of nice. Do they have a group, like a caffeine anonymous group or anything? You can hold somebody's hand when you want to reach for caffeine. [01:30:47] Speaker E: I've done it alone. I've tapered off. There was a time I was drinking about ten cups a day and now I'm down to one in the morning. But the result is I miss most of you, which I miss, but even if I'm semi conscious, of course now all the lines are lit up. But in that state, when I hear that rather plenty of note in your voices, you announce that there are a lot of open lines. [01:31:19] Speaker B: I know you're really great. We got to put up a little star in your forehead because you always come to my rescue and I really appreciate that, especially now that you're giving up coffee and all that too. [01:31:30] Speaker E: Well, I have coffee in the morning and about late afternoon, between four and five, I have tea. And once in a great while, just for the sake of my image, I'll have some cucumber sandwiches with it. [01:31:44] Speaker B: Do you have a great image in Belmont as the lady who eats cucumber sandwiches? [01:31:48] Speaker E: No, but I do. Among a couple of your listeners. [01:31:53] Speaker B: That's kind of funny. I remember we used to think, when I was growing up in Everett, we used to think that the height of civility was when the crust was cut off. Not even the kind of the European style bread, which has very heavy crust, but the white bread, the kind of nothing kind of bread. If you cut off the crust and you cut the sandwiches diagonal, we thought, oh, that was somebody who didn't even belong in Everett. They should be up on Beacon Hill somewhere with that kind of and cucumber sandwiches on top of that. [01:32:34] Speaker E: Well, my main experience with cucumber sandwiches was once when I was in The Importance of Being Earnest, playing Lady Bracknell. And the lovely, lovely woman who was doing props was a method prop woman, because when we had to have cucumber sandwiches, she had cucumber in them. They couldn't be seen from the audience, but that was the way she operated. [01:33:05] Speaker B: That's kind of funny. And when you had, like, you were drinking, like a vodka cocktail or a Skies, was there real booze there? She didn't go that far. [01:33:14] Speaker E: There were rules against that. But I remember I also was in the Royal she did props when I was in the Royal family playing the legal part. And I had to drink an eggnog in the first act and she made a real eggnog. And I told her later that it was delicious, but fat thing, and would she please just give me skim milk after that. She did, but it hurt her. [01:33:44] Speaker B: That's kind of funny. I had never heard of that. You know something? You've lived, and I'm still living a full life, an exciting life, and I really respect that. [01:33:54] Speaker E: When I stay awake, I do. Good night, love. [01:33:58] Speaker B: Good night, Helen. Nice to talk to you, as always. He's been here for a long time. I never met him. [01:34:03] Speaker C: Is that right? [01:34:04] Speaker B: Yeah. A man named Ed Goldman turned out to be a nice guy, and I thought, how come you're liking a manager of a radio station? What's happening to you, Nathan? You're falling apart. But he seemed like a very decent guy. But I met a lot of other listeners to the station and stuff would come by, and it was a great pleasure to see them. I'm sorry that you weren't among. [01:34:23] Speaker D: I wanted so much, but I really just couldn't make it. And I knew that I was going to have a difficult time in making it. But anyhow, I saw a little bit on the Channel Four, and I caught a glimpse of Dave Maynard, and I thought, now, what does Norman look like? Maybe he's there. [01:34:42] Speaker B: Okay. Well, actually, compared to Dave, I'm kind of an OD looking duck. And also Gary LaPierre was there, and Peter Mead, who just works here occasionally now, but he used to work here on a regular basis. They were there, too, and a lot of good people. I left about 11:00, and the rain had held off at that point. I think it started to rain later on. I don't know whether that affected the farm stand or not. The rain might have held off long enough, but they had a lot of really nice things. [01:35:12] Speaker D: Did you get back there again? [01:35:14] Speaker B: No, because I left from here and went right to the farm stand. [01:35:20] Speaker D: You were tired. [01:35:22] Speaker B: I was a tired little baby. [01:35:24] Speaker D: Yeah, I would say so. Okay, listen, Norm, how did the comedy night go? [01:35:29] Speaker B: Okay. Can you hold on and we'll talk after the headlines? Nice night. They had a good crowd there at the Comedy Connection to Fandel Hall. There were about five, I think about 500 people, 600. They made a fair amount of money for Lifehouse, which was the home for the homeless and stuff in Dorchester and things. And it was good there. Just about I mean, gangs of people were there from broadcasting who gave their talks and stuff, and it went well, I thought. It was an interesting night. [01:36:03] Speaker C: Good. [01:36:03] Speaker D: What was one? [01:36:04] Speaker B: Five. Because they would say, boy, this is the worst night of the year. And she said, Meanwhile, they're in the warm studio and she's out there. This is the worst night of the year. Let's go to Susan Warnick out at maybe 128 also. [01:36:19] Speaker E: Yeah, right in front of the studio. [01:36:21] Speaker B: And Bruce rage. There was a lot of weather stuff. Harvey Leonard was kidding about his kids poking fun at him for losing his hair. Have you noticed that? His hairline seems to be going back more and more each year? But I'm not one to speak. Anyway, it was a fun night, and I think for a gang of people who were not used to standing up on stage in a very interesting place like The Comedy Connection, which was one of the best comedy clubs around, and trying to entertain people and making them laugh, it's a tough thing to do. And I really admire the people who did that. I special admire me because I thought I was just wonderful. [01:37:00] Speaker D: I know you were. [01:37:01] Speaker B: No. [01:37:01] Speaker D: Yeah, I bet you were. And I'm sure you wrote your own lines, right? [01:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I did write everything I used. I did do that. They may not have been funny, but they were original with me. [01:37:13] Speaker D: Good. That's wonderful. That's great. [01:37:16] Speaker B: Okay. What an audience you are, Jude. Thanks for calling. [01:37:19] Speaker D: OK, you have a good weekend now, and listen for you next week. [01:37:23] Speaker B: Okay, thanks. [01:37:23] Speaker D: All right. Bye bye. [01:37:24] Speaker B: Bye bye. Jude Floyd. Well, you're going to be surprised. It's Ken Newman. Hold on just a let me make changes to the marquee. Ken Newman. You're going to be with us all through the night. I am indeed. Oh, that's good. And you'll be playing the dumb birthday game. And we'll have just a darn much fun. I'm really looking forward. I'm looking forward to it just is such a splendid night. Anyway, what's doing so far? Notice the lead in? It's just so clever the way I say this. Just like daytime news people say, what's the traffic? [01:37:59] Speaker A: Norm was right. What a silly way to make a living. And there's nothing wrong with that. Okay, let me go and start working on the next episode and see if I can get back on track. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for the Shriners in Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington, Mass. The Comedy Connection fanuel Hall Exxon Sarge the former Boston Police Department Horse Gingham Aprons the New Hampshire State Police Plymouth County Courthouse the excellent charity known as Adopt a Talk Show Host pythons llamas Shelby Scott Bruce Schweigler Arlene the sex phone Operator Peter Mead Gravestones. Raj from MIT. Fred from New Jersey. Fred from Medford. Robert from Everett paul Elwell, Queen of the Farm Stand ruth Clennet josh Binswanger brian McKinley jack Hart. Sarah Nathan and the Dr. Ruth of WBZ. Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt, Esquire.