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[00:00:00] Speaker A: As the heavy rain falls outside of our Norch Studios and Fuzzy Wuzzy Productions. Well, here, let me turn on our parabolic microphone and pick up those sounds.
It's a soaker. Let's wish a very happy birthday to Joan from Tuxbury. Without her foresight in trust fund cassette tape budget, we wouldn't have as many amazing archives of Norm here in the vault of Silliness. Thank you Joan, and hope you had a great day. Oh, and happy birthday to our very own Jack Hart. What a week. Speaking of birthdays, today brings us a Dumb Birthday game from a mere 30 years ago, october 16, 1993. It is titled A Breast of Fresh Air. Before we get to the game, we begin with some Jack Hart traffic report fun, including an appearance by Jack's third cousin on his mother's side, Paul Drake, who gives a rather dramatic report for Wbnw. Next. Joe Franklin from Bloomberg News drops by with some interesting facts about Ed Sullivan. Paul Drake, though, can't stay away as we get report number two, which sounds eerily similar to report number one, but wait for the surprise ending. Then Jack returns on WBZ, and the traffic extravaganza closes with Paul Drake again on Wbnw. Now note that all of these sound like they came from Thanksgiving, but from what year, I don't know. Alrighty, time now for the Dumb Birthday Game with full transistor radio sound.
Our players claudette from Dorchester Greeny in Amsterdam, New York, norma in the North End, I'm playing in studio, jack Hart from traffic, mike Epstein producing and playing in studio, and Sid Whitaker producing and playing in studio. The birthdays? Angela Lansbury suzanne Summers bob Ware. David Zucker charles Colson. And then we move to October 18 with George C. Scott and Pam Dauber postgame. We take calls from Generosa Jim from Detroit and the Slumbering. Ed. There's a bonus traffic report with the birthday boy Jack Hart la Truck de Bread, Alafog, and the show will wrap up with Warren Shepard and Countryside the Last Countryside Show. It's just a partial show, but it's still nice to hear it again. Our commercial content includes a Dunkin Donuts sponsor, osco drug phylene's basement, and Scotch pine farm. Episode 160 a Breast of Fresh Air heaves its way to your ears now.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Short delay at the western tolls, eastbound and westbound on the Mass Pike interstate 90 downtown area. You're in good shape. Ted Williams tunnel still open to all traffic, and that'll be in effect until midnight on Monday. You'll still have to pay the toll, but you can get through light to moderate volume in the expressway northbound and southbound. Still plenty of people heading back in their return trip through the woods and over the bridge from Grandmother's house. Donuts Coffee at home with the same bridge blend we use in the shop. Visit a participating Dunkin Donuts and take home two pounds of our original blend coffee for just 699 plus tags where applicable, with assorted varieties of Queen Anne chocolate covered cherries for just ninety nine cents an eight ounce box. Through Friday at Osco.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: On area roadways, we continue to deal with light to moderate volume. The Ted Williams Tunnel is open this overnight, and it will remain open until Monday.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: No work crews except for any emergency situations that come up until late on Monday. I'm Paul Drake, Boston's Business Station, Wbnw.
[00:04:14] Speaker D: I'm David Letterman. I was among the first to advocate renaming the theater where Mr. Letterman now originates, the Ed Sullivan Theater. It was there at the studio designated CBS Playhouse Number Three, that the late Ed Sullivan hosted a variety show which gripped, indeed held captive and captivated All America every Sunday night from eight to nine. During its peak years, the program was watched by almost two thirds of all television owning families. Telephone calls declined by 50% during that Ed Sullivan hour. Well, I was elated when the suggested name change was granted, and I hope the name always remains on Broadway and 53rd street, the Ed Sullivan Theater. Ed Sullivan retired in 1974 after 23 years of dominating the ratings. Since then, various attempts by all the networks to emulate the Ed Sullivan variety show format have proven what I would call futile. Despite top name hosts, every endeavor expired after a few performances. The copies of Ed Sullivan just don't work. Ed, a newspaper columnist, couldn't sing or dance. What he did was call himself a good pointer. He would introduce the entertainment point at them and get off the stage quickly. So potent was his cachet that numerous unknowns emerged as stars. After one Ed Sullivan appearance, he encouraged impressions of his kind of seemingly ill at ease demeanor, thus becoming TV's most imitated personality to this day. Jackie Mason closes his act with his Ed Sullivan takeoff. Long live the Ed Sullivan Theater. Joe Franklin, Bloomberg News Radio.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Tooth with assorted varieties of Queen Anne chocolate covered cherries for just ninety nine cents an eight ounce box. Through Friday at Ask on area roadways.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: We continue to deal with light to moderate volume.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: The Ted Williams Tunnel is open this overnight, and it will remain open until Monday. No work cruise except for any emergency situations that come up until late on Monday. I'm Paul Drake, Boston's Business Station, Wbnw.
[00:06:21] Speaker C: Oh yeah.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: What we have now on area roadways, many motorists who had earlier succumbed to a turkey induced nap have risen from various couches and easy chairs with a crooked neck, and they're on roadways right now, and many of them somewhat grumpy, drive with extreme care. Watch out for them. Beyond that, no work cruise this overnight, and we won't see any unless there's an emergency until late on Monday, and we will deal with the Ted Williams Tunnel being open as well until late on Monday. You'll still need to pay the tolls, but passenger and commercial vehicles alike are welcome into that structure. I'm Jack Hart, WBZ 24 hours traffic network. Filings basement famous holiday gold sale. Take an extra 550 up to $200 off all 14 and 18 carat gold Italian designs at hot prices at the Jewelers of Phileen's basement on area roadways. Light to moderate volume on the expressway. Northbound to southbound. Lower deck of Route 93 and the Tobin Bridge heading into the city. We are in good shape just about everywhere. Still some motorists on the roadways heading home from their various holiday celebrations. They could be trouble. I'm Paul Drake, Paulstones business station Wbnw.
[00:07:39] Speaker C: Okay, we'll play the Dumb Birthday Game in just two minutes and seven and a half seconds.
Okay? We are going to play the dumb birthday game. And we're just sit down excited about that. And the idea is that I'll tell you who's born on October 16, which is this very day, and you tell me how old you think that person is, and we may actually borrow some birthdays from October 18, which is Monday, because there aren't a whole lot of really well known people were born in October. At least this part of it, anyway. Let me introduce you to members of the panel, like Claudette from Dorchester. Hi, Claudette.
[00:08:25] Speaker E: Good morning, Norm.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: It's nice to have you playing the game with us. I'm just so darn excited. Are you?
[00:08:30] Speaker E: Yeah, I am as well.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: Imagine the adrenaline is beginning to flow as the game is beginning to be played.
[00:08:36] Speaker E: And you know that.
[00:08:38] Speaker C: Okay, we have our friend Greenie back with us.
[00:08:42] Speaker E: Good morning.
[00:08:43] Speaker C: Good morning. Greenie is in Amsterdam, New York, and Norma, who is in far off exotic North End.
[00:08:52] Speaker E: What a pleasant Boise to call to get gossip. Thank you.
[00:08:56] Speaker C: Beautiful.
Well, hello there.
And we have, of course, Tony Nesbitt is with us playing the game this hi, baby.
I feel kind of lusty, you know what I'm saying?
Because I don't know what I'm saying. Feeling lusty. Looking, see?
And Jack Hyde. Hi, Jack. Hello.
Perhaps we can all talk in this tone and drive the listeners just out of their mind with lost hyperventilate by the end of the jack, I understand that October 15, it was your birthday. Oh, yeah.
[00:09:55] Speaker E: Happy birthday.
[00:09:56] Speaker C: Happy birthday to you. Thank you. You know jack. Yeah. That your mom called me tonight. Is that right? Yes. She did? Yeah. What did she call you about? She wanted to remind me that it was your birthday and I was way ahead of her. Oh, I thought I told you. Money.
No, she didn't bring that up. She forgot about that completely.
But I just wanted you to know that your mom called me today. Oh, well, hello. And she'd like you to pick up some bread and milk on the way home.
I see. She called to say we're out of eggs. Yeah. Don't forget that tomorrow we're having a big party at the Pootie Pie Club for you. Oh, I'll certainly be there. I know you will. I just wanted to let you know, Bib and Tucker? Yes. Did you get any gifts or birthday cake or any kind of an official observance of this momentous day? I got coal.
Coal in your stock? Coal, yeah. And then I put my stocking on and I'm walking around with a limp. I see. Obviously, he didn't get a transplant.
He didn't get a book of good jokes. No, he's got the same old cockamamie joke.
I did get some very nice things. Did you get like a bottle of perfume or anything like that? Some roses? No, I got some bread and fruit from a family member.
Were you ill or is it just your breath?
Some bread and fruit is good. I got some flower shaped like a horseshoe.
For the man who has everything.
Good luck.
Congratulations. I don't know what Paul also we have with us Mike Epstein first last producer here at WBS. We got three producers.
[00:11:46] Speaker F: They're just all over the place.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I know, know.
[00:11:51] Speaker F: Coming out of the woodwork, I imagine.
[00:11:53] Speaker C: David Bretne is probably so envious. He's got one producer. I mean, he's got Tony Nez, but who's a good producer.
[00:11:59] Speaker F: But David has two producers.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: Two producers. Kevin Myron.
[00:12:03] Speaker F: He has the services of the lovely Kevin Myron.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: Oh, that's true. During the day he gets all those guests that David occasionally lets speak a few words on occasion when he doesn't feel like speaking himself. Are those the ones?
[00:12:16] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: I'm sorry, but Kevin's job is easy. You can see that's, right. You won't have to say very much because David pretty much carries it himself. But you can sit there and nod. That'll be nice.
Just nod loudly so people know you. That's right, too. Yeah. And tell David I said that about him, too. Okay.
Sid Whitaker is with us. One of our new members. That's right, yes. I only what did you say? Welcome, Sid.
[00:12:45] Speaker E: I thought you said walking.
[00:12:48] Speaker C: It's walking.
Seen those in the jungles of Borneo walking, SIDS.
Well, I see we're all here except David Bretna, who's now talking in his sleep.
Okay, here are some of the people born on this day. This is Saturday, of course, october 16, and it's the birthday of Angela Lansbury. I will give you a little background on her so that there may be a clue in there. Okay. And then you may speak.
Then again, I may pull a bread noise on you and just keep talking through everything. You know how long that takes to heal when that happens?
Was it pulling a bread noise? Yeah, I did that once when I was in high school. No, you lived for a month after that. Worse than colon. You born Angela Brigid Lansbury in London, England. Real name Angela Bridget Lansbury. That's her real name. A three time Oscar nominee. She's been active on Broadway since 1966 and has won three tonys.
That's right. Tony Nesbitt. I didn't know they had a rap.
They did.
I don't know whether she won him three times, or there were three different Tonys, whatever it was she's so grateful for, I have no comments. She stars on CBS TV's in Murder, She Wrote. Of course. And she's been married to Agent Peter Shaw since 1949. What agent? An agent. Peter Shaw. What kind of agent?
[00:14:36] Speaker E: Secret.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
I would think a theatrical agent is my guess.
Since 1940. Insurance agent. Wow. He might be an insurance agent. Or is that his first name?
Agent Peter Shore. Agent Peter Shore, like James Norman Nathan.
I was thinking like Major Bose, the old guy who used to conduct you're all too young to remember that. That's the problem.
He had an amateur radio show.
His show was he was not amateur, although he sounded amateur. He would have guests on the Ted Mack amateur ended when Ted Mack died.
Yeah, I figured. What's the sense?
No, actually, Ted Mack actually worked with Major Bose. That's true, he did. And then he said he established his own amateur show in the early days of television. You know all that. I love the way we get from Angela Lansbury to Major Bows, and we thank you. I know it. Okay. Angela Lansbury, we're going to start with you.
[00:15:49] Speaker E: Claudette, all right.
[00:15:51] Speaker C: That's a beautiful name.
[00:15:52] Speaker E: I love Claudette. Thank you. I'll say she's roughly 76.
[00:15:57] Speaker C: That's the spirit.
Greenie, what do you think?
[00:16:05] Speaker E: I'd say about 72.
[00:16:08] Speaker C: And Norma?
64. Okay. Tony, what do you think?
68. 68, okay. And the birthday boy, Jack?
I'll say 72. 72, okay. And Mike?
[00:16:29] Speaker F: 107.
[00:16:31] Speaker C: Oh, cut that out.
[00:16:36] Speaker F: 72 sounds like a very good age.
[00:16:38] Speaker C: 72 sounds like an excellent age.
[00:16:40] Speaker F: I hope I get there.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: I hope I do, too.
I may get there before you do, and you can take bets on that to be the fact. I don't know what that means at all.
Sid Whitaker, who will be 72 years of age in only something like 68 years from now, how old do you think Angela Lansbury is? I'll say she's 69, Norm. 69. Okay, 69. Yeah, that's the way he said 69, Norm, because he's been going around calling me Sir Mr. Nate, and I said, Call me by my first name, but when he says it, it still sounds like my last name.
She's 69, Norm.
Anyway, she's actually 60 80. And did you know that, Tony? Because you hit it right on the butt. No.
What am I getting? Am I getting the third degree right now?
[00:17:35] Speaker F: Have you noticed that, Tony? Every time you and I get one of these correct?
[00:17:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:40] Speaker F: And God forbid we get two or three of these.
[00:17:45] Speaker C: Immediately. It's the game.
Oh, don't be a bunch of sore heads. Come on.
How about Suzanne Summers?
Okay? She's from San Bruno, California. Of course. From Three's Company. She was Chrissy san Bruno. Was there a Saint Bruno at one time? Apparently there.
I didn't know that he was the saint. I recall of WBZ producers. Oh, really? Yeah, she's the sheriff.
What is that saying? Oh, the TV show. Is that the name of a TV show, she's the Sheriff? Yeah, I think it is, as a matter of fact. Yeah. And step by step TV series. And she's a published poet. I didn't know she was a poet, too. And she does that wacky thing with the leg stretcher, the Thigh mask. Oh, that's right. Yeah. I love those commercials they read. It kind of nice. I've reincarnated. I want to become back as a Thigh Master.
[00:18:54] Speaker E: Oh, wow.
[00:18:56] Speaker C: You, too, Norma?
You want to come back as a Thigh? Well, guys must use that, too, don't they? I mean, guys oh, I changed my mind then. Wait a minute.
You want to come back as what?
[00:19:10] Speaker E: I want to be squeezed in somebody's arms.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: You could do that? Yeah. You hopeless romantic. You devil. You saucy wench.
[00:19:21] Speaker E: They get an arm master.
[00:19:25] Speaker C: Actually, they use the Thigh Master on the arms, too.
[00:19:27] Speaker F: They absolutely do.
[00:19:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:29] Speaker E: Well, then you can use it on me with your that's for people who.
[00:19:32] Speaker C: Walk on their hands.
We're going to start with Sid Whitaker on this. And how old do you think Suzanne Summers is, Sid?
I'll say she's 33. 33?
Well, from where?
He just hopes she's listening.
When you're only about eight years old, anybody over ten seems to be a very old person. Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh. I forgot how young you are.
Mike, how old do you think?
[00:20:10] Speaker F: Suzanne Summers, I think, is no spring chicken, but she's still a very lovely lady.
[00:20:17] Speaker C: Should be at that Topsfield thing. By the way, do you know where the chickens are so rare they're alive?
[00:20:27] Speaker F: In a moment.
I'm going to say she's 39 by now.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: Excuse me. Did he say 39?
[00:20:38] Speaker E: Yeah, he would.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: There was a guy remember the show I was telling you about? The Portland from Boston to Portland? The Fred Allen thing at the Lyric Stage? There's a guy that does a Jack Benny, which he's kind of know, but he's not as good as I would have been, you see. But they didn't ask me. Well, yes.
Well, yes, I am terribly busy doing the dumb birthday. Let me keep you really going because I have to research all these birthdays. You could be coming up for encores right now on stage and no, I want to do right now. That's right. Right now there'd be women hanging around my dressing room. That's right. Who needs that?
[00:21:20] Speaker F: We can't have.
[00:21:23] Speaker C: Peanuts in their hand.
I'm sorry.
I hope so. Even that would be fun.
Jack Hart, what do you say?
How old, you know, is Suzanne Summers? You see, she's going to be 46.
Yeah, 46. Okay. And what do you say, Tony? Sadly enough, and I just couldn't believe this, which I'm admitting to, knowing the answer. So you want to save me for the end?
No.
You know exactly how old she is. That's okay. I was shocked. 47. 47. You can't believe it. You think she's in the kind of the winter of her career. Well, you know what it is? She doesn't look 47.
[00:22:17] Speaker F: Not at all.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: And then when I said, wow, she really is 47.
47. Who is? Goldie Horn? That's right, too. See, there's someone who doesn't look it either. I wonder if they both used to come. Must have been that year.
What year was that? 47 years ago was what? 47 yards.
[00:22:39] Speaker F: Hey, we all got bunch of mathematicians, we producers.
[00:22:44] Speaker C: This is the kind of provocative discussions they ought to have during the daytime when more people could be awake to hear it. This is New England business. Yeah, I can hear Gary La beer. Could be the MC.
Anyway, Norma, what do you say? How old is Suzanne Summers?
[00:23:01] Speaker E: I say 47 isn't so old. My son is that age.
[00:23:07] Speaker C: I thought you were only 47.
[00:23:09] Speaker E: No, lot more than that.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: 49.
[00:23:16] Speaker E: 39.
[00:23:17] Speaker C: You're going to say 39.
[00:23:21] Speaker E: Might be right, but boy, that's hard to believe.
[00:23:23] Speaker C: Okay, but you're going to guess the same as what Mike said.
[00:23:28] Speaker F: I appreciate you're sticking by me, but can I tell you something?
[00:23:33] Speaker C: You are.
[00:23:33] Speaker F: We both are wrong. If I had been after Tony and I had heard him say, I know the answer, I think I would have gone with him. That's just me.
[00:23:47] Speaker E: Sometimes he sounds very sure when he's wrong.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: Well, that could be. No, that's the idea.
You see if you can fake him up all strategy, absolutely greenie. What do you say?
[00:24:00] Speaker E: I'll say 45.
[00:24:04] Speaker F: Tony, I hope you're right on this.
[00:24:06] Speaker C: So do I.
Lodet, what do you say? Come on.
[00:24:12] Speaker E: 48.
[00:24:13] Speaker C: 48. Okay. Many of you said I'm around that same age. No, Tony is right. She is 47.
You had to know that. No, I did. I really did.
Oh, that's right. He said that, didn't he? That's right, he said that. Oh, yeah, he did. And everyone still didn't. That's right. Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker E: Nobody believes anybody in this before Tony.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: Yeah, but see, you figure if he's in the broadcasting business, he's never telling the truth.
[00:24:40] Speaker F: No, true.
[00:24:41] Speaker C: And I've had great mentors.
Well, thanks.
Bob Weir. W-E-I-R he's with the Grateful Dead. My favorite man. Okay. He's guitarist with a Grateful Dead.
[00:24:56] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:24:57] Speaker C: Okay, so we'll start with you in that case. Darma, how old do you see Bob Weir? Well, you know the Grateful Dead.
They were just at the North Station at Boston Garden a few weeks, about a week or two ago.
[00:25:13] Speaker E: I know. I've tried to get through them a couple of times. In the traffic.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: That's right. And all the kids were hanging around outside. Big mobs outside as well as in the Garden. They sold out six nights, early morning.
[00:25:26] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm going to say around 47.
[00:25:30] Speaker C: 47. I know they're old.
[00:25:31] Speaker E: They were around before.
[00:25:33] Speaker C: See, now you're using very good logic. Where you're figuring that out. You're okay.
That's very good.
[00:25:40] Speaker E: Norma probably wrong.
[00:25:43] Speaker C: Well, I must.
I don't have Bob Raleigh's, anything.
[00:25:53] Speaker E: Thank goodness.
[00:25:55] Speaker C: What do you say?
[00:25:56] Speaker E: I'll say 50.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: 50?
[00:25:57] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:25:58] Speaker C: Okay.
And Mike Epstein. What do you say? Yes. Mike Epstein at front and center.
[00:26:07] Speaker F: I'm going to say 50 sounds good.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: 50. Okay. And Jack? 51. 51.
[00:26:17] Speaker F: I think Jack's right and I was going to say 51, but that moment of indecision.
[00:26:26] Speaker C: There can't be no moments of indecision. We're in battle, man. Indecision 1 second and our entire troop gets wiped out.
We still have the I don't even know what's happening here.
Sid Whitaker, what do you think?
I'll say he's 52. 52? 52, okay. And Tony, I wonder where or where do you suppose they buried the treasure? We'll find out right after this commercial message.
Why did I say that?
Thank you. Give me a moment to think about it. Bob Weir.
That's like Weir's Beach up in New Hampshire. Exactly. Spelled the same way, but only you dropped the last desk for savings.
Listen to too many commercials. Have you noticed how many mattresses they're selling these? What is happening to this country? I don't remember. They go through mattresses.
But why suddenly is there a whole big deal about mattresses?
You want me to get the guy?
Maybe so people are in business selling only mattresses.
I suppose there's big money in mattresses.
[00:27:51] Speaker F: It must be. I mean, now there's that 1800 number that we have. There's a whole bunch of discount mattress places that we have. People must need new mattresses.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: Must be the baby boomers. The baby boomers probably wear out the old mattress.
I saw a show where one day this week it's becoming a national obsession. A matter of fact, it was one of the daytime talk shows. They had people who buy lots of mattresses on. Isn't that incredible? One guy sleeps on 18 mattresses so high his nose presses up against the ceiling. It can't be good.
[00:28:26] Speaker F: Well, what I've heard is that these mattress places are now becoming the hotspot for singles. If you want to find that significant other.
[00:28:35] Speaker C: It's true, though. Yeah. Actually, Letterman did a skit one night. He had his car phone and he called up and he ordered a mattress and they had to film the whole thing, put it out there in his car, and he drove off with this. Just like, sure, you get the mattress and a date.
[00:28:56] Speaker E: Yeah, 18 mattresses. I pity the guy who falls out of bed.
[00:29:03] Speaker C: 46. I'll say.
[00:29:04] Speaker G: Norm?
[00:29:06] Speaker C: 46. Okay. The age of we're guessing the age of Bob weird, but I don't think he's into the 50 yet.
What do you think, Grainy?
[00:29:15] Speaker E: I'll say 46, too.
[00:29:17] Speaker C: You'll say 46, too? Because he picked it the last time. You figure he's probably got it again either way.
[00:29:23] Speaker F: Norm.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: Yes?
[00:29:25] Speaker F: We're obviously past the time. I wonder if we're going to go to the network at 330.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: No, we're not. No, I made up my mind a long time ago. Like two days ago, I made up my mind of that. I meant to send you a memo.
[00:29:38] Speaker F: I must have gotten it and I just misplaced it.
[00:29:42] Speaker C: Yeah, okay. Actually, Bob, we're 44.
Oh, wow, another one. Greenie said 46, so she came the closest. Wow. Wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute. You said 44 or 46 also. That's right. So we get two winners. That's right. You got eleven when he started.
Tony's got three out of three and Greenie's got one and the rest of you have nothing. You have nothing.
[00:30:10] Speaker E: I want to be called after Tony.
[00:30:13] Speaker C: Okay, we'll do that. David Zucker, remember from Airplane and all that? The zucker and the Abrams. The Zucker twins. The Zucker. Zucker brothers, yeah, and Abrams and stuff. Let me see what I can tell you about the Zucker. Zucker. Zucker or Zucker could be zucker. Film producer David Zucker from Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. In fact, they had some theater experience in Wisconsin, I think in Milwaukee before they went on to Hollywood, scraped together a few pennies here or there, put out a sample film that is a small part of a film, and then got financing for the entire film. And I think the first one was Kentucky Fried Movie. Kentucky Fried movie. Then they did Airplane was the second one after that, which was one of the really funniest movies, I think ever. Very funny. Anyway. Best known for movies. Or Airplane or Ruthless People and the Naked Gun films. They were responsible for Police Squad, though, too, on TV before Naked Gun went to the movies, didn't they? No, I don't think so. I think they just took the name no, they took the name Police Squad. I think they did a takeoff on Police Squad, but that was not their show.
He started Kentucky Fried Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Not what I said. I thought it was Milwaukee. Madison, Wisconsin. Pardon me.
[00:31:38] Speaker F: It was a good story.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: Anyway, well, I interviewed Zucker and the two brothers, Abrams brothers, when they were just putting out the Kentucky Fried Movie and interesting pair. And as a matter of fact, they had a party at their house one night. I don't know why, I don't do these kind of things anymore, but I talked to them on the phone and they said they just tried to put out Airplane and they said, Robert Stack is here, do you want to talk to him? So he came on the line, too. So I kind of feel like I know the family just so well that I think if they ever have a bar mitzvah, I'm going to go there with my YAML cat. One of the eight you've collected over the years. That's right. Anyway, Kentucky Fried theater was started madison, Wisconsin. Then he moved to Los Angeles. Now, the rest of what I told you is correct. I should explain what I just said about the eight yamakas that you've collected over the years? A little.
Norm admitted to me during one of the breaks that he kind of forgets to return them after. Yeah. When you go to a funeral, I think everyone does. I think they do, yeah. How many do you have, Mike?
[00:32:44] Speaker F: I've got at least 17.
[00:32:48] Speaker C: Well, you got the largest collection in Nando. You can be sure of that. And I sure have the largest collection of middles, and I maybe have the only one.
I may wear them to town meetings from now on, just to kind of give them some wear. Anyway. David Zucker. David Zucker. We're going to start let's see, let's start with Jack Hart and his Kentucky Fry. I should have been doing the math all this time. Yeah.
I don't have any dates for Kentucky Fried Movie, but perhaps you'll remember the year that he's got to be I'd say it came out in 19 I'll tell you when it came out, because I was saying it was back at the other place there in about 80. 1980, 1981. Somewhere around there. That was about airplane. Came out about then, didn't it? Yeah, we're talking more and more like 1971. You're right. Yeah. I was in grammar school. Still. Kentucky fried friend. Must have been the upper seventy s, though, don't you think? Airplane? I think it was the early 70s, like 73.
[00:33:59] Speaker E: Somewhere in there.
[00:34:00] Speaker C: Okay. Now, how old would that how old would you say David Zucker is now that you're really swinging there?
[00:34:10] Speaker H: He's.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: 49. He's 49.
Okay. Greenie, what do you say?
[00:34:19] Speaker E: I'll say 50 50.
[00:34:23] Speaker C: And Mike, what would you say?
[00:34:27] Speaker F: I'd say I was coming.
I'm redoing the math.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: Are you having a seizure or anything of that nature that should we call the WBZ company? The doctor? No, in that case, let's see if you can go live through it. See if you can make let's see.
[00:34:49] Speaker F: I'm going to say 49.
[00:34:52] Speaker C: 49. Same as you came up with the same figure as Jackhead, and only one away from agreed. You said I was looking on his paper. I see.
Okay. Tony, what do you say? I'm going to say 53. 53. And Norma, I said I called on you after tony, what do you think?
[00:35:09] Speaker E: Norm, can I ask a question?
[00:35:11] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:35:14] Speaker F: I hope you can.
[00:35:15] Speaker E: How do you recycle an old bra?
[00:35:19] Speaker C: An old bra?
[00:35:20] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: How do you recycle you probably have a snappy answer for that, so there's no sense of my guessing.
[00:35:27] Speaker E: Two yamikas with chin straps.
[00:35:31] Speaker C: Two yamicas with chin straps.
[00:35:34] Speaker E: I haven't thought about that since I was a kid. But you guys brought it back.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: What, yamakas or bras? With which? Either.
[00:35:41] Speaker E: Two yamakas with chin straps.
[00:35:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
That's very good. The Abrams brothers could wear them, I guess. Right.
[00:35:51] Speaker E: I'm going to say 51.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: I'm sorry, is that the breast size, or is that.
[00:35:59] Speaker E: Almost, like twice?
[00:36:08] Speaker C: I feel so daring because I've been in the radio so long. You couldn't say things that I'm saying now. So it's like I'm getting that all out of my system. After 50 years, I can finally say these things 30 years ago.
I feel just so loose and so wonderful.
Okay, what do you think, Claudette?
[00:36:34] Speaker E: I'll say 54.
[00:36:36] Speaker C: 54? Are you offended by anything I've said, Claudette?
[00:36:40] Speaker E: No, not at all, Norm.
[00:36:44] Speaker C: I appreciate that. You know something, you're all and Sid, what do you say? I'm going to guess he's 52. 52, okay. Actually, he's 46.
46. Let me see. I believe that Jack and Mike came the closest women. 46. They said 49 three years off and nobody said 50?
49. I mean, I'm sorry. 43. Okay. It's funny, you got them all written down and you're still so confused. I am really?
It's pitiful, isn't it?
I'm not proud of what I read.
[00:37:25] Speaker F: About it in Life by the ability to say breath.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Now, see, I think radio columns next week you think we'll read that norm Nathan lost it on the air at 03:45 a.m. By saying breast over and.
[00:37:38] Speaker E: Over loud in 51.
[00:37:42] Speaker C: I could get fired, I could quit today. It wouldn't really matter. I've reached the pinnacle. I've said, Breast on the air.
I remember when we had a farlene's commercial at one station I worked at and they had a Bry and Girdle sale and I couldn't bring myself to read it.
My mother's listening. Boy, she washed my mouth out with soap and I had to give it to another announcer, Jordan's, and buy a and here I am saying breast. Oh, I'm a liberated. I'm a long way baby.
What did they do in the old days? Like, if a butcher was having a sale, would they say they were selling chicken chests?
Yes.
We wouldn't name the individual parts of a chicken. We had some kind of dignity.
We felt a chicken had some dignity, too.
Okay, Bosoms, you remember Charles Colson? No.
[00:38:43] Speaker F: Mr. Watergate.
[00:38:44] Speaker C: The watergate guy. Former president. Yeah. Former presidential advisor. That's the news guy for you. And the news editor, Mike Epstein. Yeah. He knows I have nothing else to.
[00:38:54] Speaker F: Do but pull sound and read about Chuck Coulson.
[00:38:57] Speaker C: That's right. Watergate conspirator the whole library.
He's from Boston. You know that he was born in Boston. He became a born again Christian after serving 18 months in prison for obstructing justice. Well, that's the place to become a born. It's amazing how religion gets to you when you hold up on one of those ugly walls. I don't have any never mind. Is he doing a talk show now? One of them is.
[00:39:22] Speaker F: I think he's taken over the old Jim Baker PTL club. And he's now soliciting funds for his next break in of the Democratic National Party.
[00:39:32] Speaker C: And the rest was history.
Okay, Charles Colson, we're going to start with let's start with you, Grainy.
[00:39:42] Speaker E: I'm going to say 60.
[00:39:47] Speaker C: 60. Okay.
And Tony, what do you say?
Mike, you've seen him have you seen him?
[00:39:59] Speaker F: Yes, I have.
[00:40:01] Speaker C: Lately, yes. What's he look like?
[00:40:04] Speaker E: All my birth.
[00:40:06] Speaker F: He's gotten a little more rotund around the midsection. I'm trying to remember if I still wears his glasses. Never went to contacts, although I told him to. Yeah, he's losing what's left of his hair.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:40:18] Speaker F: And he still is a really bad dresser.
[00:40:21] Speaker C: Wow, what a pretty picture. Sounds like you're describing me.
[00:40:25] Speaker H: 67.
[00:40:26] Speaker C: No, I'm sorry. I was confused with you. Norm waving. I'm sorry.
No, he was what, in the Watergate break in? He was indicted in it.
[00:40:37] Speaker F: He was a religious advisor to all the president.
[00:40:40] Speaker C: Yeah, he served 18 months for 18 months. Obstructing justice. 18 months. But his name was very prominently mentioned during the Watergate trial. 636-361-6261.
[00:40:58] Speaker F: And there were that wheel stopped on that's right.
[00:41:03] Speaker C: 61. 61. Okay. What do you think, Jack?
64. 64, okay.
And, Sid? I'll have to go with 62. You have to? I have to. I have no choice. Put that gun away. Okay.
Claudia, what do you say?
[00:41:25] Speaker E: I'll say 64 as well.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: You'll say 64 as well. Okay. And, Norma, I am old for five.
[00:41:35] Speaker E: So I might as well just go for 60.
[00:41:38] Speaker C: 60. Okay. And what do you think, Mike?
[00:41:42] Speaker F: I think he's 65.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: 65, okay. He is 62.
Sid Whitaker guessed the right of the butt you probably want to run down and actually, Tony's kind of walking away with everything. He's got three correct answers and one.
[00:42:00] Speaker E: Apiece by oh, it is. We know about Tony.
[00:42:05] Speaker C: He's under a cloud again, isn't.
[00:42:12] Speaker E: Tony? I was accused of cheating one night with you. You know I don't accuse you of that.
[00:42:17] Speaker C: I know. Well, you're a cheat.
[00:42:18] Speaker E: No, I'm not.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: It's easy normally to accuse you because you do.
[00:42:24] Speaker E: That's why I wouldn't do that.
[00:42:27] Speaker C: How come I get them all wrong, winning one apiece? Because you don't know the right answers. I would do it.
Oh, shut up, all of you.
Winning one apiece each. A greenie, a jack. Mike and Sid. So that actually the only two who have not wanted I suppose I should single you out, claudette and Norma, but you're both just so darn adorable. What the heck? Let me give you one or two names from people who are born on October 18, which is Monday, who are kind of interesting, like George C. Scott, the actor.
George C. Scott. I'll give you a little background of him. He's from Virginia Wise. Virginia. He's been married five times, twice to Colleen Dewhurst. She just died, I guess, within the past year. She was a fine actress, very good and a nice lady. I interviewed her at the Copley Plaza Hotel in her room. Oh, really? Oh, well, the other guy, they were both in here for a play. The Ben Guzara was also there. So there were the three of us.
That's pretty heavy stuff. Lived a life. No, but I both. Well, Ben is still alive and a fine actor. He's taking it so seriously. And I'm making scandalous references to all three of you in the hotel room.
[00:43:54] Speaker G: Jeez.
[00:43:55] Speaker C: Wow.
Oh, my goodness. Yes, exactly.
Well, Norm's saying oh, it was just wonderful.
So serious.
Ruining your career. Norm. Okay. Anyway, he's been married five times, twice to Colleen Dewhurst. Now tell the story again. It's almost like we've gone through a time war just now, but I'm leading up to the fact that he's been married to Trish Vanderbir since 1972.
He won an Oscar in 1970 for the film Patton. He appeared in the last days of Patton.
I don't remember that movie. The last days of Patton. Did they do a sequel to Patton?
It was such a great movie. How could they dare do that?
[00:44:42] Speaker F: Sequel to The Graduate.
A sequel to Star Wars or something.
[00:44:47] Speaker C: Yeah, the graduate. There was a sequel called a postgraduate, I suppose he alumnus and he was Mussolini on television.
Must be a funny thing you guys can say about that.
Did you know that the patent roll know, you know, turned down that Pat roll before Jersey Scott got it because he seems such a natural to be Pat. Hold on, let me think about that. What do you think? Don Rickles. Dr. Rickles. Bob Hope. That's right.
Don Rickles was going to be the young Pat and Bob Hope, the old Patton.
[00:45:27] Speaker E: No way.
[00:45:28] Speaker C: Instead of him standing in front of the flag shouting obscenities, he'd come out and stand there and tell real short, bad jokes. That's right. Yeah. And yelling everyone you hockey.
Bob Hope would say, this is what a haircut.
He'd say, this is George Army rank petitioning. If you don't brush your teeth with Pepsidant in general, you'll have to take them out. Private, can you see him walking out on stage in front of the flag and sudden you hear, thanks for the Patton walks out on stage.
I'm having a good time, leave me alone. Okay, the patent roll. You haven't told me who you thought turned down the patent. Don Rickles. That's right. You did say it was Lee Marvin. He would have made sense.
John Wayne.
Let's set shop that tanks and get out.
Put them all in a circle and let's go.
[00:46:40] Speaker E: They got the perfect one to do George.
[00:46:44] Speaker C: George has got well, Rod Steiger was another one and Robert Mitchum, but they couldn't get him to keep his eyes open long enough.
I have a feeling like he's doing a flag at half mass invitation.
Robert Mitchell.
No, I don't know about that. That may be.
[00:47:06] Speaker E: He looks it. He looks half he looks it with his eyes half closed.
[00:47:10] Speaker C: Okay. That's okay. I don't think he can sue us for that. That could be a catchphrase of the 90s. What I am. And I'm twitter. You get that from a woman with one lip.
[00:47:22] Speaker E: I meant drunk.
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Okay, George C. Scott, we'll start with you. Claudette, how old do you think George c. Scott will be on Monday the 18 October.
[00:47:36] Speaker E: I'll say 80.
[00:47:39] Speaker C: 80. Sorry. Gasp.
And what do you think, Greeny?
[00:47:45] Speaker E: I'll say 76.
[00:47:47] Speaker C: That's spirit. Elizabeth. Green says 76 and Norma says 72. And Tony, we do an averaging thing. Exactly.
Okay, sid, what do you think?
Did you say 69?
Okay, George C. Scott is actually the exact age Tony and Esbett said if you want to draw any conclusions to Tony and cheating, 66 is correct. I knew he was a lot younger than everyone thinks he is. Yeah, he does look older than this. He looks older than I look. 66 in Patton, for crying out loud. I think so. Yeah. He's younger than I am.
Can you believe that? Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look younger, for God's sakes. Don't I look younger? What is norm, I think my birth certificate is wrong.
I think it is. I think it was a dirty trick my mother played on me. Well, how old do you feel about the age I am, actually. Okay, we're going to get just one more. You've already walked away with everything. What do I have now? Four. Do we have four? Correct answer. What do I have?
Well, we were talking about I guess we do have the movie brass. That's right. Okay, how about, let's see, with the gym strap.
[00:49:24] Speaker E: I can make my own.
[00:49:27] Speaker C: All right, I'm looking with a kind of little propeller on top, please. Yellow. Bright yellow. A bright yellow yellow from a strip keep or maybe some Mickey Mouse ears on it.
As long as you keep your head covered. That covers the religious law. Anyway. Pam Dauber mindy from mark and mindy. That's right. That's right. She's co starred with Pat what's that?
[00:49:58] Speaker E: Please. My sister Sam. She was in that.
[00:50:01] Speaker C: Yes, she was. And also she is married to actor Mark Harmon.
She was born in Detroit, Michigan. But the idea now is to tell how long ago was that? And we'll start with the very lovely Sid Whitaker and his orchestra.
[00:50:19] Speaker E: That was my third grade teacher's name. Miss Whitaker.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: Miss Whitaker. I thought it was Sid.
I'm flattered. That was the name of the Carl Reiner character. The last name, anyways. And the Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. He was Walt Whitaker, remember? The Russians would come in and say, great movie, Luke. Here Whitaker. Walt got the name backwards. It was a funny movie. I like that. Anyway, Sid Whitaker. What do you think? Pam Dauber how old do you think she is? Will be on Monday the 18th?
Say she's 36. 36. 36.
[00:51:01] Speaker F: I think she's closer to 39.
[00:51:04] Speaker C: Closer to 39, but no cigar.
Okay, my imitation is getting worse for the minute. It is really awful. Imitation of who?
You see what I mean, dad?
Jack, what do you say? How old will Pam Dauber be on Monday the 18th? 43.
43. And what do you say, Tony? I don't know.
I don't know. I'll write that down. I don't apostrophe t.
Well, maybe I do. Okay, so we raised that. Okay, I thought she could be 38, but now with Jack saying 43, I'm going to have to say 41. 41, you say.
I don't get the logic to that at all, but what the heck. And what do you say, Norma?
[00:51:59] Speaker E: I'm saying I'm going to say 39.
[00:52:06] Speaker C: I don't want to go through.
Please don't. 39. I'll just forego my go through what? Norm?
Now cut that out.
Greedy. What do you say?
[00:52:19] Speaker E: I'm going to say 38.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: 38 you went, Claudette, a bit unusually quiet this time. Is there anything, any reason for that? Are you just naturally quiet? Or do you enjoy the stimulating talk that all the rest of us have.
[00:52:33] Speaker E: Been laughing at everybody else?
[00:52:36] Speaker C: Oh, what a nice thing to say. You're okay? What about you, Claudette? Because you've been even quieter than Greenie.
Are you speaking?
[00:52:45] Speaker E: Oh, I said I'm tired of fun. Okay, I'm up now.
[00:52:48] Speaker C: Wow, she was honest.
I thought you were going to say, because we just are funny. You figured, what's the point of trying to top those witty folks? You might have been laughing so hard you just couldn't catch your breath. Thought it was going to be a nice comment like that. Yeah, but as I'm so tired, I don't feel like saying anything. So tired.
What do you say, Pam? I mean, I'm sorry, Claudette.
[00:53:16] Speaker E: I'll say 42.
[00:53:18] Speaker C: 42 you'll say. Isn't that interesting? That's right on the button. She will be 42. So I was close in my reasoning until someone well, you said 41 and Jack said 43. You guys were right around that time, you were very close.
[00:53:35] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:53:36] Speaker C: Yeah. But 42 is right, and that means that everybody has one.
[00:53:40] Speaker E: Except I'm going to go hang my head in shape.
[00:53:44] Speaker C: I won't mention any names as to who that person is, even though she is going to hang her head.
[00:53:49] Speaker E: I think I got my yemica on too tight and squishing my brain.
[00:53:55] Speaker C: That can be a tough thing.
Tight yamlka, the gin straps. Too tight is the nature's work basket.
My Hungarian gypsy princess grandmother used to say things about nature.
I said, no, it's the tigamalkia. It's the devil's workshop, Grandmama. And she would say, Show me a grandson who speaks back to his grandmother, and I'll show you a purple scarf.
I said, now you're starting to make sense. Exactly.
That was about a week before the guys in the white coats came for, wasn't it? Yeah, she was as loony as Looney Bird.
Anyway, I want to thank all of you for playing the dumb birthday game. I thought today's game was especially boring.
[00:54:46] Speaker E: And it was fun.
[00:54:50] Speaker C: Hey, Claudette.
At ease. Now you can lie down and get some sleep.
[00:54:55] Speaker E: Thank you. Good night.
[00:54:56] Speaker C: Claudette, hang up the phone before you do that.
[00:55:00] Speaker E: Oh, I most definitely will.
[00:55:01] Speaker C: Take care. Bye. Bye, Claudette.
She was just leaning over to hang it up right there in bed. She might have been in bed ready to drop off to sleep anyway. And Greenie.
Greenie.
[00:55:14] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:55:14] Speaker C: Oh, you are there. Okay. You're tired, too, aren't you?
[00:55:18] Speaker E: No, I'm just sitting here listening.
[00:55:21] Speaker C: Okay, thanks a lot for playing the game with. Appreciate it.
[00:55:24] Speaker E: Yes, and I appreciate being on. Good night, everybody.
[00:55:27] Speaker C: Good night, Greenie. I've got somebody sitting there listening. Okay. And Norma, when do you sleep? Norma? You sleep during the daytime?
[00:55:34] Speaker E: Yeah, sometimes.
There's another name for them, you know. What's that over the shoulder boulder holders.
[00:55:44] Speaker C: I'm missing something here. What is that all about?
Bras. We're back to bras again.
[00:55:50] Speaker E: Over the shoulder boulder holders.
[00:55:54] Speaker C: Hey, Norma, thanks for playing the game and adding some wild ribald humor or a stretch.
[00:56:00] Speaker E: When you're tired, you get silly. Norm, what are you going to do?
[00:56:03] Speaker C: I don't know. Take care.
[00:56:05] Speaker E: I had fun.
[00:56:07] Speaker C: We had fun, too. And jack again. Happy birthday, too.
Happy birthday, Jack.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's get rid of you. You can stand so many thanks, you just can watch.
Before we sign off, Norm, you do have to say breast one more time. I will. I'm saving it up for just the right moment. Okay. I want to thank you, Mike and Sid and Tony. Thank you, Norm.
[00:56:33] Speaker F: Thank you, Norm.
[00:56:34] Speaker C: Thank you, Norm.
Why, I must be Norm. I must be the guy who talked about breast.
The most stupid program I think I've ever been part of. Coming up, the NewsTime, and we'll see in a little bit, so don't go too far away. Sir, would you introduce me, for heaven's sake? For news all day and talk all night, stay with WBZ Radio. Now here's WBZ Norm Nathan.
Yes, hello. Let me check the lottery numbers and I haven't done that for a while. The Massachusetts Daily Lottery, 3825. And the mass millions. Five, 6715, 36, 43.
Bonus number was four.
I'll check in a little bit, see whether there are any winners, in case you care. Okay.
[00:57:49] Speaker E: Generosa, I couldn't be better. Nom, I was thinking to myself, does Norm Nathan need an introduction?
[00:57:58] Speaker C: I think so, yes. Oh, I think he needs a very strong no, no, I get the wrong answer. Eh?
[00:58:08] Speaker E: How's everything going?
[00:58:09] Speaker C: Good.
[00:58:10] Speaker E: I get the biggest kick out of that birthday thing some morning. I'm going to call up and join you.
[00:58:18] Speaker C: Well, that would be nice. We'd love to have you.
[00:58:20] Speaker E: Yeah, if I can stay awake long enough. No, I love it. I get a big kick out of Norma when she gets with Mike and Tony. Was that Tony too? Tonight?
[00:58:29] Speaker C: That was Tony Nesbitt. He had a plan that came with us.
[00:58:32] Speaker E: I forget his voice. Yeah, but anyway, it's a lot of fun. Before I forget it, I was at the Top Field Fair and I met a gentleman from Top Field.
From Middleton? Rather.
And I Mr. Reynolds.
Well, his first name is he served on the board at one time with you in Middleton.
[00:58:58] Speaker C: On the board? Or did he work in the schools? Is he an older man?
[00:59:01] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:59:02] Speaker C: Would that be myron Was that his career? Well, I don't know. I mean, there was a man who was a custodian at the school named Myron Reynolds.
[00:59:12] Speaker E: Myron Reynolds? I don't remember. All I know is that I remember the name Reynolds because I was thinking of the cigarette the and that's how that name stuck with me and I said, I must next time I think, could be, could be Myron.
[00:59:27] Speaker C: And here you are coming back to tell me and you can't even remember.
[00:59:30] Speaker E: Isn't that awful?
[00:59:31] Speaker C: That is really that really stinks. Oh, that's pretty.
[00:59:35] Speaker E: After listening to all those commercials before I get on, I says, oh, heavens to Bet. I'm not going to say that. Heavens to Betsy. You remember one time you said you have to say that, it's so old.
[00:59:46] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I never heard anybody over the age of eight or ten ever say heavens to Betsy. I guess maybe I'd have. Maybe a long time ago.
[00:59:55] Speaker E: Yeah, I know. I can't help it if I date myself. Hey, Non. Today's, bizarre, is St. Adelaide.
[01:00:04] Speaker C: Why did I have a feeling that you were going to lead up to that?
[01:00:07] Speaker E: Never mind.
[01:00:09] Speaker C: Sunny and mild highs in the mid 60s. Mid 60s, can't beat that.
[01:00:16] Speaker E: Oh, no, that's great.
[01:00:18] Speaker C: Sunday, it's cloudy with showers in the mid 60s, but today, so far the weather looks good. We'll have an update on that at 05:00 when the WBZ news staff gets into full swing.
[01:00:30] Speaker E: Oh, my goodness, we mustn't forget that.
[01:00:32] Speaker C: We mustn't get the full swing of.
[01:00:35] Speaker E: The news staff at the end of that promo with you. That lovely little voice. Whose voice is that?
[01:00:42] Speaker C: That's Linda Chase, she's the one who sings the song.
[01:00:47] Speaker E: Oh, is she? I was going to ask you that. The next question would have been that, but I love the way she said the end of it. I said, oh, golly, I have to tell talk about talk. She makes it very nice. I really like that, Norm.
[01:01:00] Speaker C: Yeah, she's very talented. She's very talented. Dave Courier too, will help her out. Oh, Dave Currier, he's part of a group. She has a group called Linda's League, although she's doing a solo over at Ken Steakhouse on Route Nine. And where's that? Framingham or NATIC are right on the line in that area. Wednesday. She's there Wednesday through Saturday. Anybody wants to catch, for heaven's sake.
[01:01:25] Speaker E: That sounds good to me. Well, listen, you have a good day and if you can come down to our bazaar, I would love to have you.
[01:01:32] Speaker C: Okay, thanks very much. Obit. It's very successful at bibbidi Generosa.
[01:01:35] Speaker E: Yeah, listen, darling, my love to the girls.
[01:01:38] Speaker C: Okay, fine, thank you.
[01:01:39] Speaker E: Bye bye.
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[01:02:43] Speaker G: Listen, I talked to you about three weeks ago. I'm the guy in theater business oh, yes, in Detroit.
[01:02:49] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:02:50] Speaker G: And I just want to tell you it's so great to hear you again, and as usual, I missed out on the dumb birthday game.
[01:02:58] Speaker C: Oh, you're going to have to.
[01:02:59] Speaker G: I always get home about 03:00 and I can't ever get through.
[01:03:03] Speaker C: I know, it gets kind of busy about that.
If you could somehow call a bit earlier, we'd love to have you. We'll be looking for some people again overnight tonight. Okay.
[01:03:15] Speaker G: Well, what do you mean? You're talking Sunday, Saturday into Sunday.
[01:03:18] Speaker C: Yes, Saturday and the Sunday. Right.
[01:03:19] Speaker G: Okay, well, I'll look forward to that. But listen, I want to ask you one thing, too. My brother used to live in the Boston area, and God, if I can remember, I think it was an area called Chestnut Hill.
[01:03:32] Speaker C: Yes. There is such a place that's part of well, that's part of Brookline or Newton, I always forget which one. Newton. Newton, that's it. Pretty area. Yes. A nice area. Yeah.
[01:03:42] Speaker G: And we used to have a good time coming out there. And one thing I got to say about people in your area that I used to love when I would come out there is when we would take a trip out along the ocean. You could get the lobster and crab rolls, and I think those are outrageously good. We can't get those in the Midwest.
[01:04:05] Speaker C: That's right.
We have some awfully good seafood places. You do.
[01:04:10] Speaker G: And I'm a seafood addict, and I love it. And also one other thing, and the lady just performed me Beat Me to the Punch. Who is that woman that sings your theme song?
[01:04:23] Speaker C: Oh. Her name is Linda Chase. She's a vocalist from this area. She lives in a suburban one of the communities around Boston, and she's performs in various clubs and that kind of thing, with a group called Linda's Legal.
[01:04:37] Speaker G: Hey, Norm, why is she only known in mean that girl could go nationwide. She's wonderful.
[01:04:44] Speaker C: She is awfully good. I have seen her a few times in public appearances where she really can sing a whole lot of things and she can sing just about anything. And she sings very well.
[01:04:57] Speaker G: Oh god, she does. She's absolutely excellent.
[01:05:01] Speaker C: She is good.
[01:05:02] Speaker G: I listen to the Birthday Game on the way home, but like I say, every time I get out of work about 02:00 in the morning, by the time I get home it's over. And I keep trying to get in on it with you guys and I guess I'll have to try to make better timing.
[01:05:18] Speaker C: The only thing I can suggest is maybe I can turn you over to Sid Whitaker and he can take your name and the phone number.
What if we called you like tomorrow night? I'm not working at oh then you call us earliest just so we don't forget. Okay.
[01:05:34] Speaker G: Can I do that?
[01:05:35] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:05:35] Speaker G: If I call you? Well your time is same as our time.
[01:05:38] Speaker C: Well, I go on. Yeah, we're both in eastern eastern Standard.
[01:05:43] Speaker G: Yeah.
[01:05:43] Speaker C: You can call us sometime after eleven. Just talk with the producer.
[01:05:47] Speaker G: And you'll call me back?
[01:05:49] Speaker C: Yeah, he'll call you back so you don't have to spend the money.
[01:05:52] Speaker G: I just want to let you know again Norm, we love you in Detroit. Thanks a know it's so nice to talk to you. And I love Boston. I've been know three or four times and I think it's a fantastic think.
[01:06:05] Speaker C: I wish I could say the same for Detroit, but no Detroit.
[01:06:09] Speaker G: We've had some hard times.
[01:06:11] Speaker C: Hold on a minute. I've never been there. I'm not insulting there.
[01:06:16] Speaker G: We've had one bad thing happen here. We've had a Rodney King type incident here in Detroit involving two Detroit police officers. That has really put the city on edge. You've probably heard about it in Boston.
I don't know if you have or not, whatever, but other than that we're all trying to get along real well and we can get across. One nice thing is that we can go right across to Windsor, Ontario and have great Chinese food. Windsor. For some reason Canada seems to have the best oriental restaurants.
[01:06:58] Speaker C: No kidding.
[01:06:58] Speaker G: I don't know what it is, but it's great.
[01:07:01] Speaker C: Okay. Because we've met some very good oriental restaurants in the Boston too.
[01:07:04] Speaker G: Yeah, well, when I was in Boston the only thing I can say about Boston when I came there I bought a new car the first time back in 1983. And I got to tell you I didn't know where the heck I was going.
I couldn't find my way around. I wound up in the combat zone. I got the heck out of there.
[01:07:21] Speaker C: As fast as I could. Well no, this is a tough city to find your way around.
[01:07:25] Speaker G: Yeah. And I wound up in an area with a lot of oriental restaurants. I guess you're Chinatown that's Chinatown and had a wonderful meal.
[01:07:34] Speaker C: It was right off the Combat zone. Except the combat Zone hardly exists anymore. Almost. The whole thing has been pretty much turned over to Chinese businesses and stuff. Very little left of it. Okay.
[01:07:49] Speaker G: The time I'm thinking, this is like 1983.
[01:07:54] Speaker C: It was in full swing at that time, but it's no longer like that.
[01:07:57] Speaker G: Yeah, but anyway, all I want to tell you is that I love Boston, and if I could do it, and if I could afford it, I'd move there.
[01:08:05] Speaker C: Well, come visit anyway, anytime.
[01:08:07] Speaker G: I would. And listen, Norm, we love you and you have a great night. And listen, tomorrow night I want to get in on the birthday.
[01:08:14] Speaker E: Okay.
[01:08:15] Speaker C: Call early enough, and you'll do that 29 minutes after 04:00 tonight, I forget. Tony. Tonight we have Ken Davis with don't know much about history and don't know much about geography. Yeah, those great. We'll be giving away the paperback edition of Geography. Geography Book. Yeah. That has just come on paperback. And that will be he'll be in studio. That'll be nice. And he'll be on maybe a couple of hours with us. Eleven to one, something like that. And he'll have questions.
We get a lot of nice response on that. People like to take part in those kind of quizzes. And we'll have geography books by him, as you mentioned. Ken Davis to give away. And then Sunday night sunday night is Peter Gammons, who is sometimes norbert Twitchell. Yeah. This is not the sports writer Peter Gammons. I didn't even know the one. Yeah, there's another Peter Gammons and who's an insurance executive, and he's retired, and now he's telling old Yankee stories. That's right. Some of know, like Bird and I and all those wonderful albums, which I really love a great deal. Anyways, it is time to say goodbye. I think I said that already in behance of Tony.
Oh, I'm getting new instructions. I keep going longer than figured.
Okay, well, I can talk to Ed. Why don't I talk to Ed? As long as he's on the line. Ed, you're on WBZ. I was almost going to ignore you because I thought we had to go off the air now, but I guess we don't. But Ed probably went off the line. He's ignoring you. Are you ignoring me yet?
Is he sleeping? Turn it up real loud. Okay, we'll say I'll turn up his volume real loud here.
Go to sleep. Go to sleep. The wind is in the crooked trees and it's saying, Do I hear him breathing? Okay, I don't think it's terribly interesting so far as Radio Entertainment is concerned, to listen to some guy yellow, considering he wasn't breathing. Yes, I'm glad that he's breathing. I'm not knocking that. But that isn't great radio Entertainment just listening to do that anyway, we could do that. For the next few minutes, we could just breathe and do that. Yes, we could kind. Of relaxing. Kind of relaxing. Kind of relaxing, yes. Anyway, it's been fun this past night. There were a couple other interesting items that were on the wire that I meant to tell you about before I go. Hold on a minute. Let me see if I can find them. I love this part of the show.
Shuffle papers. I know. That is really nice.
Okay.
He wouldn't like that. That wasn't it. That wasn't it. That was really stupid. That was it. Let's see about this. You like letterman. Eleno searching for that last one to get the crowd really cheering right at the end. That last good headline of that last good supermarket find. I have a couple of lists here. Listeral is from the US. Census Bureau.
Named the ten metropolitan areas with the highest ratio of unmarried men to 100 unmarried women. Virginia got that, didn't they? Jacksonville, North Carolina, was on top.
And then colleen Temple, Texas. Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Brazoria. All these funny name places. Texas Lawton, oklahoma State College, pennsylvania.
That's where the AccuWeather goes. That's right. AccuWeather is down there. They're all single. Elliot Abrams, obviously, is a very desirable and Clarksville, Tennessee. Anchorage, Alaska. Salinas, Seaside, Monterey, California. That area. And Bryan College Station, Texas. The areas for women.
Fewest unmarried men per 100 unmarried women.
Sarasota, Florida. They're all like 905 down there, aren't they? No, Sarasota is further north, down around Miami. They're old because I remember standing in line to go into a restaurant and one guy said to me it's worth waiting for, kid, because the food's good here. I thought, anybody calls me kid's got to be 3000 years old. Then Bradenton, Florida. Altoona, Pennsylvania. Springfield, Illinois. Jackson, Tennessee. And the list goes on. Anyway, it's time to say goodbye. We're going to check on traffic.
Oh, I see. Okay. I'm sorry I lost my place here.
I get a chance to talk to the big guy once again, the birthday boy, Jack Hart. Thank you very much. EBC 24 hours traffic network and all of us here in the team canteen want to wish you the very best. And as soon as we go off the air we're going to sing a course of Happy Birthday to you. You won't hear it. Anybody listening hear it, but we'll know who you did it. You did it in spirit. I'll feel the vibration. You will. And you'll feel the kinship the warmth and the vitality and the resonance.
Yes, I will. All the way down here. Exactly.
I wonder if you could tell us about traffic. If it's nothing worth talking about, I don't mind you skipping the whole thing. Oh, there's always something to talk about. You always say that because there are no work cruise, are there? Sure. Absolutely. There are work crews. There's a work cruise someplace. Always a bread truck in the fog. Always a bread truck in the fog. Oh, yes. They're very heavy fog. It's like in the fog that was a French song. I remember Adith PIOP used to sing that.
La truck de bread ala Fog, something like that.
Okay, what is happening is fog really holding things up so terribly that we're all in peril? The fog is so thick, it's creating friction. And cars are having a tough time moving just because of the fog. Just about everywhere. It's moving about 8ft a minute.
Motors do want to be careful there. It's also not doing too much for their visibility. They're having a tough time seeing Drive with Care. As a result of that, we also have some work cruise, believe it or not. Route 128 northbound from Route 20 in Waltham to Route two in Lexington. Left lanes shut down, mass pike east. See it, though, because of the fog. You can't see it because of the fog.
It's just drive right through the barrels. Other than eastbound, we do have some work cruise as you come out of Newton Corner, and there again, you won't be able to see them, nor will you be able to see work cruise inside the Prudential Tunnel. However, work cruise in the Sumner Tunnel, you'll be able to see the lights are on. I'm Jack. Hi.
Take care, Jack. We hear focus. We're late in here. WBZ Boston, 435 kids.
WBZ News Radio 1030, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture, presents PZ's Countryside with tips and facts for the homeowner gardener and farmer.
[01:15:23] Speaker H: Well, good morning, everyone. This is Warren Shepherd, your host and a country gardener here on WBZ.
I have for many, many years, I have for many, many years now, been very excited every single week. And you know why? Not only because I have a family and a family that loves me and et cetera, et cetera, all those good things in life. But one of the things that I have done for the last 24 years on the Department of Food and Agriculture as part of my daily work is put together a Countryside program for you folks. And it's with somewhat of a heavy heart this morning that I have to make an announcement to you that I was really hoping I would never have to make, or at least it would be years down the road, but that years down the road turned into this morning. And I do have to inform those of you who are regular listeners on Countryside this morning that you unfortunately won't be listening to Countryside anymore because of some circumstances in my work and what have you, and here at the studio. And so Countryside, unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, I think for a lot of people, is going to go off the air today. And I guess probably the best thing for me to do is to say thanks. Thank you so much for a zillion and one memories. Because over the years, I think you and I, or those of you who've listened to Countryside for any length of time know whether it's my guest this morning, Hugh Weiberg or whoever it's been over the years, that we've had a lot of fun. We've done everything from make Irish coffee here, to cooking eggs, to pumpkins, horses, bean sprouts, you name it. We've done all kinds of horticultural and some fun things. And I hope that you've learned a lot in the process, because I know I have. I go away from WBZ this morning knowing that I have just 24 and a half years of wonderful memories. And I can only think maybe of one or two occasions when I didn't think things went that well. And I can only think of one or two people over the years of all the guests that I've had since that we've had here on Countryside since July 3 of 1969, we've only had one or two people that I can say, well, I don't think they were very happy with Countryside this morning. I guess maybe I didn't ask the right questions or something, or maybe they expected something different. But I do. And I don't want to get emotional about it. I simply want to let you know as our listeners here on Countryside that I thank you for your loyalty, I thank you for your friendship. And let me tell you, I have received thousands, and I mean thousands, in fact, on more than one occasion, hugh Weiberg's friend and mine and yours, Dave Maynard, has been a little angry with Countryside. And you know why? Because on a few occasions I got more mail than he did. In fact, I can remember on one occasion when Dave Maynard and I were in a floral contest at the New England Spring Flower Show and I beat that pants off of Dave Maynard making a flower arrangement. And I don't think he ever forgave me for it. But anyway, we've had a lot of good years here at Countryside, and I'm hoping that I know that at least what they told me this morning was that your friend and mine, Norm Nathan, is going to be taking over this spot. So don't be shocked next week when you turn into Countryside because it's going to be Norm Nathan and not Warren Shepard. So before I go any further, let me say thank you for a million memories and a million good times. And I just hope that the rest of your life is as good as I'm looking forward to mine. But anyway, we do have a program for Countryside this morning. And as I said earlier, Hugh Weiberg is with us. And I want to talk with you as much as I can. I have a few things to bring to your attention, but I'll just bet for those of you who have listened to Countryside and heard you Weiberg, you just think that we're going to be talking about pumpkins and gardening. But I got a surprise for you because today we're going to talk about something entirely different. And I had no idea until recently that Hugh Weiberg was into this area of expertise, and I had no idea that he could write like this. Well, I knew his other book was going well. In fact, I understand it went into three printing. So I guess people like that book, too, on vegetable gardening. But we're not going to talk about vegetable garden. But I'll keep you in the dark for just a minute or two because I want you to say thanks not only to, I guess to me, if you care to, but you might want to say thanks to some of the cider Taste Off winners. They had a contest back on October 5 at the Copy Square Farmers Market in Boston and here in eastern Massachusetts. I guess as across Massachusetts and probably most of New England, there are cider meals all around. And this is a great time of the year to enjoy one of the fall items that farmers produce for you, among many others. Other than things like cranberries and apples and what have you, but cider? If you're getting sick of milk or you're getting sick of juices or even water, can I tell you that if you haven't had a good glass of Massachusetts cider lately, you're missing something for a delicious treat. We think about it, I guess, at Halloween time. But I know in my house my wife brings home a half a gallon or a gallon every week for weeks on end here in the fall. And Warren Hills, well, I have to fight them for it, but we get to enjoy a lot of Massachusetts cider. And I want to say congratulations to the Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury for winning the first place contest in eastern Massachusetts, phil's Apples in Harvard for central Massachusetts, and Pine Hill Orchard in Colrane up in the Berkshire. So if any of you know about those cider places, go over and get some. It's award winning cider.
I hope you had a chance to take in that Topsfield Fair, because last weekend was the last weekend for the Topsfield Fair. There was a lot of great activities. I had a chance to go up a couple of times and take a look at some of the not only that big giant pumpkin contest, and I got to ask you about that in a minute. But there was a lot of activity. I mean, a lot of activities, and I have tried over the years to convince a lot of you to take in that topsfield Fair. And I guess you have, because I think they had a pretty good attendance this year. Very quickly, don't forget about the old Farmers Almanac we've been talking about that because that's one of those little publications that in my estimation, is a terrific little book. And I don't know any other little Almanac that's got as much information in it as that one does. Don't forget about the pick your own apple list. Or at least go and pick some apples. We're talking about apples and cider this morning. You might want to call the Department of Food and Agriculture because you can't call me here anymore. But you might want to call the Department of Food and Agriculture in Boston at 727617. Of course, 727-30-3018 will do it. 727-3018. I get it right yet. And call them and tell them you want to copy that pick your own apple list. Don't forget about places like the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the Worcester County Horticultural Society. Tower Hill garden. This is a great time to take it in.
[01:23:06] Speaker A: Thanks, Warren. I'll be sure to check them out. As always, thanks for tuning in, and please consider supporting the show on Patreon. The link is below. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. Man the list is long for the Pootie Pie Club, bread and fruit kevin Myron walking SIDS in the jungles of Borneo, pulling a Brudnoy. Major Bose. Ted Mack. St. Bruno, the patron saint of WBZ producers, being reincarnated as a thighmaster saucy wenches everywhere. Spring chickens at the topsfield fair. Jack Benny, John Wayne groupies with subpoenas provocative daytime discussions at night birthday logic, leaving the last s off for savings mattress, singles bars, recycled bras and yamaka collections, doing the math, breasts, breasts, breasts reaching the pinnacle, chicken dignity. Robert Mitchum's eyes being half smooched, booby prizes. Norm's hungarian Gypsy Princess grandmother the yarmica is the nature's work. Basket over the shoulder boulder holders. St. Adelaide's in Peabody. Ken's Steakhouse. The Wee tea shop in Scotch Pine Farm. Tea cozy's, hearty men and scones. Windsor, Ontario. Chinese food, just breathing, shuffling papers, friction filled fog. Joan McCool. Sid Whitaker. Mike Epstein. Paul Drake. Jack Hart in La. Radio Host de nom. Nevon.
I'm Antoine Nesbit.
