Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I just want to remind everybody that a majority of these shows are dumb birthday games. With the occasional Norm Nathan show mixed in, the vault generously offers up what it feels like, and we go from there. Speaking of dumb birthday games, this one is from February 495. The title romancing the phone our players Joan from Tooksbury, who wrote on the cassette that she couldn't believe she didn't say hi to Jack Stacey from Rochester, New Hampshire, but working in Tooksbury. Irene from Enfield, Connecticut, on the world's worst phone. Mark and Hyde Park Jim Cormier producing and playing in studio and Jack hard in traffic. The birthdays Ida Lupino, Dan Quail, Alice Cooper, Clint Black, Lisa Ikehorn, Betty Friedan, Conrad Bain, Eric Leinsdorf and Rosa Parks. Episode 174 romancing the phone rings its way to your ears now, Julia, just.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Hang in there and I'll do the best I can to take care of you. Probably this weekend. And won't that be just so nice? Okay, let's see who we got on the panel today. We get Joan, who's up in Tooksbury. Nice to talk with you again, Joan.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: Hi, Norm.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:01:14] Speaker C: How do you feel?
[00:01:15] Speaker D: Better.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: I feel much better.
[00:01:17] Speaker C: Much better.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah? No, I really feel a great deal better. Thank you. Do you know Stacey from Tuksbury?
[00:01:22] Speaker C: No.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: Stacey, how you doing?
[00:01:25] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: You don't know Joan either. You both live in the same.
[00:01:28] Speaker F: No, no, I'm not from here.
[00:01:29] Speaker G: I just work here.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Oh, I see. You don't live in.
[00:01:32] Speaker F: No, I'm from Rochester, New Hampshire.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Oh, that's right, too. That's right. You mentioned that. That you were going to stay there over the next day or so.
[00:01:39] Speaker F: Oh, I'm going to be here right through Monday morning.
[00:01:41] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Maybe, Joan, you can bring him a cup or something.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: Maybe I'll be snowed in.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's the problem. Why? Stacey's not going back to Rochester.
[00:01:50] Speaker C: Yeah, that's all right. I enjoy a day of being snowed in.
[00:01:56] Speaker F: Me, too.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we have Irene. Is this Irene from Enfield, Connecticut?
[00:02:01] Speaker D: That's the one.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: The way you been? I haven't talked to you.
[00:02:04] Speaker D: I've been on the coast. I came back last weekend and found that things haven't changed any. And I'm so happy about it.
[00:02:10] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Your phone hasn't gotten any better either.
No, I mean, your phone always says. You've always had this crackly line that is really totally distorted. And you're back all this time later and the phone still sounds rotten. Why is that?
[00:02:30] Speaker D: I don't know. Somebody in bed doesn't like me?
[00:02:34] Speaker B: No, I'm not trying to pick on you. It's just that it becomes very irritable for people trying to listen and hearing this terrible quality.
[00:02:43] Speaker D: I won't say much.
[00:02:45] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: I can't believe how bad it is. Anyway, here's Mark, who is in Hyde park. Hi, Mark.
[00:02:53] Speaker G: How you doing?
[00:02:54] Speaker B: See how much clearer that is? Isn't that nice? Yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker G: Last time that we had a discussion, a friend of mine talked to you from the same town, and hers was all static, too, so I can understand why it's here.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: From the same town of Enfield?
[00:03:08] Speaker G: No, from High park. Yes. And hers was all static, too.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah, well, sometimes people have chency phones or something.
Yeah, I don't know what that is. No, I don't think Irene has that kind of a phone. It's just that every time she calls, it's really hard to understand. Anyway, Jim Cormier is here and he's with the WBZ producer. He's a Bz producer. I'm trying to say that like it's a terribly important position.
How you doing, Jim?
Hold on just a minute. I feel.
[00:03:42] Speaker E: Have.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:03:43] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:03:44] Speaker H: There I am.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Okay, good. And we also have.
Let's see, we have. Jack. Jack Hart is with us. Hi, Jack.
[00:03:52] Speaker I: How are you?
[00:03:53] Speaker B: I'm okay, thank you. How are you doing, big guy?
[00:03:56] Speaker I: I'm doing pretty know. Last Saturday night I got out of work and I was heading out to look for out with a delightful young woman, and I was looking for something different and interesting and fun to do. I went to see Linda Chase and had more fun than you can shake a stick at.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Where were you? At the Kent house, the Kent steakhouse up on route nine. Oh, good. Tell me about that.
[00:04:19] Speaker I: Oh, we had a lot of fun. Linda does a great show, a little cabaret kind of a thing, and people were getting up and singing and so forth. I got up and played the piano and sang.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: I didn't know you played piano, too. No kidding.
[00:04:32] Speaker I: Yeah, and just had more laughs and had more fun. And the night out with this particular young lady, it just made it all the more delightful.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: She must have been terribly impressed. You knew the featured entertainer of the night and everything.
[00:04:46] Speaker I: Well, everything.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Of course, you were the featured person here, so there you go. Yeah. Now, Linda's very talented for people who are wondering who we're talking about, although I can't imagine why you would, because Linda's the one who does all our theme music, Nathan, all that kind of stuff.
[00:05:04] Speaker I: She does a very fun thing out there.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I think she's extremely talented. Anyway, it's good to have you back with us, Big Jack. And playing the dumb birthday game. A lot of interesting people born today, including Ida Lupino. I don't know how many young people remember Ida Lupino. She's done a lot of movies in the past.
What's that?
[00:05:26] Speaker D: She was an english girl, came over here to go into the movies.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: That's right. She was born in England. She appeared in many movies. She was married to actor Howard Duff at one time.
[00:05:36] Speaker I: I think she directed later in her life, didn't she?
[00:05:39] Speaker B: I don't know. This little sketch about her is really very thin.
[00:05:44] Speaker D: I think she died.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: No, she did not. I don't believe so.
[00:05:48] Speaker D: I think so. Maybe wrong now, but I believe she died. Howard Duff is still living. Maybe she went into directing.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah, she could have died within because this book came out and was probably gone oppressed. Probably around last September or something. She could have died between then and now, I suppose. I'm not aware of that, but that's possible. Anyway, let's guess her age anyhow, and we'll eliminate her next year. I don't mean to be that casual about it. Joan, what do you think? You know who? Idolopina.
[00:06:21] Speaker C: Okay, let me see. She's got to be in her 80s anyway.
Why not 81?
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Why not?
[00:06:33] Speaker C: Why not?
[00:06:34] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: And what do you think, Stacy?
[00:06:39] Speaker F: 83.
[00:06:41] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: What do you think, Irene?
[00:06:44] Speaker D: Make her rolling 80.
[00:06:47] Speaker E: Mark?
[00:06:48] Speaker G: I'd say 81.
[00:06:51] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Jim?
[00:06:52] Speaker H: I'll say 78.
[00:06:54] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: And Jack?
[00:06:56] Speaker I: 79.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: 79, okay. Actually, she's 77. Well, at least she would be 77 years old today. And that means that Jim Carmeer, who said 78, came the closest.
Okay, how about David Brenner? David shows up on a lot of tv shows. He's with his tape recorder because he's got a radio show. I don't know that we carry that in this area that I'm aware of.
[00:07:22] Speaker I: He took over what's his name? Larry King show, didn't he?
[00:07:25] Speaker E: Who did he.
[00:07:26] Speaker I: The radio show.
[00:07:27] Speaker H: I thought that was Jim Bohannon.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Well, jimbo henna took over the overnight show. He's got a show, I think, that runs in the afternoon for about 3 hours, three to six, and is syndicated also.
And he goes on other shows and tape records, interviews with the people who are interviewing him, among other things. Sounds like an interesting program, but we don't get a chance to see it. He's made over 150 appearances on the Tonight show as host and as a guest.
And anyway, David Brennan have been around for a while and we'll start with Hugh. Jack. How old?
53.
[00:08:10] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: 53.
[00:08:12] Speaker E: Jim?
[00:08:14] Speaker H: 65.
[00:08:15] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: Mark, what do you say?
[00:08:17] Speaker G: I'd say 49.
[00:08:21] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Irene?
[00:08:22] Speaker D: 52.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: Irene says 52. Stacy?
[00:08:26] Speaker F: I'm going to say 53.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: You're going to say 50. That sounded like your imitation of John Wayne.
Let's get all the David Brenners in our circle and hitch up the horses and get out of here. Anyway, Joan, what do you think about 60?
60.
[00:08:49] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: He's actually 50.
He's just a big 50. And Mark said fifth. 49.
So Mark is the.
Okay, Dan. Today is Dan Quail's birthday. Also, you perhaps remember Dan. He used to be the vice president of a large western country who still can't spell potato. That's the fellow from Indianapolis, Indiana. At least born there. The 44th us vice president wrote standing firm, a book, I imagine that is well worth reading and could change your life.
[00:09:34] Speaker I: A book on the footwear industry.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: I don't see standing firm could be that, or it could be kind of a sexual thing, depending on how you want to look at it.
Now he's talking about the possibility of running for president. Oh, God, it's amazing.
[00:09:49] Speaker I: A man from Indianapolis, Indiana.
You almost have to be a good speller to live in that.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Have to. You only have to spell, like, once, like Indiana, and then just add.
[00:10:08] Speaker I: Suppose.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it sees you then, like if he were born in.
Trying to think of someplace else in Indiana.
[00:10:16] Speaker I: Saskatchewan.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Saskatchewan.
[00:10:19] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: I mean, that would be different.
[00:10:21] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Anyway, Dan Quail, now that we've taken him through the Colts and people say he's going to run for president, isn't we kind of think of him as used merchandise from another era.
I don't know how much of a chance he has.
[00:10:36] Speaker I: But, you know that Quail is a game fella.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Quail is a game fella. That's just a good.
[00:10:41] Speaker H: That's it.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Okay. Irene, how old do you think Dan Quail is today?
[00:10:46] Speaker D: Comes from Apple. That works. Haven't been.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: I didn't quite follow that.
[00:10:56] Speaker D: 49.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: 49.
[00:10:58] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Is there anything you could do with that phone, really?
Because it's really maddening.
[00:11:04] Speaker D: Hangs on my wall.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Does anybody else say that when they talk to you on the phone?
[00:11:09] Speaker D: No. Nobody else objects. The truth?
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
Maybe there's something. I don't know. You can hear all the other lines here, and they're all razor sharp, clear. And yours has always been like that. It's been maddening. Anyway, Joan, what do you think?
[00:11:26] Speaker C: 48.
[00:11:27] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: And Jack?
[00:11:30] Speaker I: 51.
[00:11:32] Speaker E: Mark?
[00:11:34] Speaker G: I'd say 52.
[00:11:36] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: What do you think, Stacy?
[00:11:39] Speaker F: I'm going to say 49.
[00:11:42] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: What do you think, Jim?
[00:11:44] Speaker H: 47.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Okay, he's 48 is correct. And that means Joan in Tuxbury has that run. So we have Jim, Mark and Joan all have won one apiece. And it's also Alice Cooper's birthday today. Alice Cooper was born February 4.
The rock performer. Born Vincent Damon furnier in Detroit, Michigan. His biggest hit was schools out in 1972. I didn't realize he'd been around that long.
He appeared in Wayne's World.
His name is derived from a 16th century witch.
And the 16th century witch was named, well, you know, because the rest is history anyway. Alice Cooper.
How much of a gimmick can you have where you take a name like Alice Cooper? I suppose the same know, taking a name like Sting.
Do you think we've gotten past that really cutesy era in music where you have to have cutesy names like that?
No.
[00:12:53] Speaker H: Look at prince. He doesn't have a name anymore.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: No, I mean, isn't it a symbol? I know that. Isn't that a little much, though, really? Isn't that a little too cutesy, really? I mean, come on, give me a break. Absolutely.
We're past that. That's okay for twelve year old kids, but for grown up singers, enough is enough.
[00:13:12] Speaker F: Whoever said Prince got past puberty?
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Well, I mean, a lot of people respect the kind of stuff he's written. I hear people say, boy, the stuff he's done. He's such a great. All that kind of stuff. Does he have to be that cutesy? He's got a symbol for a name that nobody can say. So everybody says. He used to be prince.
So be prince. Even Prince is a little too cutesy, isn't.
[00:13:33] Speaker I: Prince is his real name.
Is it really something? Nelson.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Prince. Something Nelson parents named him. Is that right?
I'm looking that up right this moment. Because you can tell I don't trust you very far, Jack. You're probably quite correct.
Let me see if I have information. This is totally going off the wrong end.
Prince. Okay, he was born January 7.
Let's see what his name is.
[00:14:07] Speaker H: Celebrating her birthday.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Yeah, prince. Prince.
I think I looked up the wrong date. Well, I won't look it. I'll look it up later.
I think I was wrong on that. Anyway, let's go to Alice Cooper, which is the fellow we were talking about originally. And we'll start with you, Jim. How old do you think Alice Cooper is? 45. 45.
[00:14:32] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: And Stacy?
[00:14:36] Speaker G: 43.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: What do you think, Joan?
[00:14:41] Speaker C: 46.
[00:14:42] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: And Mark?
[00:14:44] Speaker G: I'd say 47.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: 47. And Jack?
[00:14:50] Speaker I: 52.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Jack says 52. And Irene?
[00:14:54] Speaker D: 52.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: 52.
[00:14:57] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Anna's Cooper is 47. That's what Mark said. So Mark has sprung out into the lead, all right. And now has two correct answers, while Jim and Joan have won a place. What did you say? Did I miss something hilarious, then?
I guess I did.
[00:15:18] Speaker F: I was just thinking about. I'm in the sewer on the score level.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Okay. June 7, actually is when Prince was born. Let me look that up now.
[00:15:28] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Prince was born. His real name is Prince. Prince Rogers Nelson.
He's five foot three.
[00:15:37] Speaker E: Did you know that?
[00:15:39] Speaker B: He's about the same size as our secretary of labor, Robert Rice, who's a little tiny guy. Did you see him? Well, we won't go into that either.
[00:15:50] Speaker F: He weighs about 50 pounds.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: Which one are we talking about, prince or the secretary? Prince. Prince. Five foot three. Yeah.
[00:15:59] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: Anyway, he's changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. I think that's so childish. That's the kind of stuff you're doing about the fifth grade to impress Anna Flood, who has the desk across from yours.
And, God, I loved Anna Flood so desperately. I wonder whatever happened to her. Do you realize Anna Flood today, that cute little sweetheart who played violin?
It was the George D. Hamilton school orchestra in Everett right next to me. She and I both played the violin. Do you realize that today that little sweetheart would be about 68 years old?
[00:16:38] Speaker I: What sort of an unpronounceable symbol did you use to oppress her?
[00:16:43] Speaker B: A g clef and then a rest symbol later on when I wanted to change my name so she wouldn't recognize Clint Black, whose real name was Kevin White.
[00:17:01] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Anyway, his country and western singer from Katy, Texas, his 1989 debut album, Killing Time, turned out a record five consecutive number one songs on the country and western charts. He married actress Lisa Hartman on October 20, 1991. Why is it I don't care about any of these people we're talking about?
But that's Clint blank. Let me start with you, Joan. What do you think Joan said?
[00:17:39] Speaker C: What did you say about him?
[00:17:42] Speaker B: Let's see. I was trying to think of. The only date I have is the fact that he married actress Lisa Hartman. October 20, 1991.
Is that you talking, Stacy, or Mark?
[00:18:01] Speaker G: Me. Mark.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Are you kind of getting briefed by somebody there?
[00:18:05] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Okay.
That's okay. I just was curious.
Nothing wrong with that. That's okay. Nothing wrong with that. Okay, Joan, what do you think?
[00:18:18] Speaker C: 30.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: 30.
[00:18:20] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: What do you think, Stacy?
[00:18:22] Speaker F: I'm going to say 35.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: You're giggling, aren't you? That's really.
[00:18:27] Speaker F: Whatever gave you that idea?
[00:18:30] Speaker D: I don't know.
Cut it up.
[00:18:36] Speaker F: Cut it out.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: I'm sorry. It's all right. Okay, Irene, tell us through your distorted Telephone how old?
[00:18:45] Speaker D: You know, the three ages of man.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: Oh, she's going to talk a lot, too, through the distorted fault.
[00:18:53] Speaker D: Three ages of man.
Yeah, it's youth, middle age. And you look marvelous.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: Okay, so how old is Clint Black?
40.
Okay, Mark, what do you think? And what is the person with you think?
[00:19:18] Speaker G: Well, let's see.
[00:19:19] Speaker H: She's been caught now.
[00:19:20] Speaker G: Yeah, I know.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Who is the person? Is that your wife, or is this some person you're living with illicitly?
[00:19:26] Speaker H: Do you have kids?
[00:19:27] Speaker G: My wife.
[00:19:28] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:19:29] Speaker G: We both think 36.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: How much? 36.
[00:19:32] Speaker G: Yes.
[00:19:32] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:19:33] Speaker H: Jim, 34.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: And Jack? 37. 37. Okay. He's actually 33 years old today, so I think we have a couple of winners. Or maybe not a couple. We have, let's see, 34 was. Jim, Mark's a winner. No, Mark is not a winner.
[00:19:54] Speaker G: Oh, come on.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Mark said 36. No, actually, Stacy said 35, and she was close. He was closer.
[00:20:01] Speaker F: Thanks, Norm.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: No, Jim said 34. He was just a year off. How about Lisa Icorn?
Let me tell you who Lisa Icorn is.
[00:20:09] Speaker H: She's a forester.
I guess she had to be there.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: Lisa, icon growing into a mighty old.
She's not even young actress.
Pardon me?
[00:20:22] Speaker D: She's a young actress.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Yes, she is. She is an actress. Let me just see. I don't have any sketch on her at all, except the fact that she is an actress.
[00:20:34] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Lisa Eichorn. Yeah. Nothing won't be on that. And the fact she's born February 4. So, Mark, what do you think?
[00:20:45] Speaker G: Let me see. I'd say 27.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: 27.
[00:20:52] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: And Joan.
[00:21:02] Speaker C: About 35.
[00:21:06] Speaker H: Jim, I can honestly say I've never heard of her.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a feeling you're not alone.
[00:21:12] Speaker H: Never heard of her. I'm going to say 24.
[00:21:16] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Irene, 26, Stacey, 22, and Jack.
[00:21:27] Speaker E: Can'T.
[00:21:27] Speaker I: Even do the math on this one.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: No, because I don't have any dates or anything to tell you about with Lisa.
I feel just so bad about that.
[00:21:40] Speaker I: Well, there's nothing written about her. Maybe she hasn't done anything.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Could be.
[00:21:44] Speaker H: Yeah, it could be maybe the most famous unknown actress.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: Maybe she's a tiny little child and is waiting for a first break. No, she's not in the big book at all. She hasn't made the regular book. That birthday I got was off from the Associated Press wire, but it's not backed up by my swell book called Daily Celebrity Almanac.
Anyway, Jack, do you have any idea.
I'll say 1919 okay. Actually, for somebody we never heard of, she serves pushing along. She's 43, actually.
[00:22:28] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: It's kind of tough to be an unknown at 43. You wonder what kind of a future there is there if you're not known by that age.
I'm laughing while she's probably just right now sitting there looking at a bottle of aspirin or something like that.
[00:22:48] Speaker H: See, this is her big break here.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: That's right. This is probably the first time maybe.
[00:22:53] Speaker H: She hacked her way into the AP system knowing that you would be on.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Tonight and that I would read her.
[00:23:01] Speaker H: Name across 38 states.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: That's probably it. This is probably the most publicity she's ever gotten. That's true. Anyway, Joan says 35, so that means Joan and Jim are tie for two apiece as we go to Betty Friedan.
Betty Friedan, who's author, feminist, founder and first president of the national Organization for Women, the organization known as now. She wrote the bestseller the feminine mystique in 1963.
Why do just the way you were.
[00:23:38] Speaker I: Building up that in 1963?
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Okay, here's another big build up. I want to hear another.
And the fountain of age in 1994.
Okay, that's Betty Friedan.
And let's see who we start with. We'll start with you, Irene, what do you think? How old is Betty Freedan and her orchestra?
[00:24:05] Speaker D: She's about 64.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: 64. Okay, 64. 64.
[00:24:12] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Let'S see. Mark, what do you think?
[00:24:18] Speaker G: I say round 66.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Round 66.
And Stacy?
[00:24:29] Speaker F: 60.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: And Joan?
[00:24:35] Speaker C: 67.
[00:24:37] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: And Jack?
[00:24:42] Speaker I: 68.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: Jack says 68. And Jim says 61. 61.
[00:24:49] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Betty Friedan is actually today is 74 years old. 74 years young, as we say.
So that means that Jack comes the closest. Who said 68? Okay, so Jack is now on the scoreboard. Here's the last one. Let's see if we can break the tie with this. This is another one I don't have any information on except that it is his birthday. Conrad Bain. Do you know the actor?
[00:25:20] Speaker G: Oh, sure.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: He's been on a number of television programs through the years.
[00:25:24] Speaker I: Maude is the annoying neighbor.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:25:28] Speaker I: Give me a stroke or whatever it was as the Annoying.
[00:25:30] Speaker H: Different stroke.
[00:25:31] Speaker I: Stepfather.
[00:25:33] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: That's Conrad Bain.
Okay, Jack, what do you think? How old is he?
[00:25:39] Speaker I: Conrad Bain is an annoying 72.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Do you find him an annoying character? Just sort of. Sort of.
[00:25:48] Speaker I: Sort of like the poor man's Don Knotts, if you can believe that.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Yeah, Don Knotts is sort of funny. And Conrad Bain is sort of bland. Yeah, but nervous. I suppose the nervous part does apply to both of them.
[00:26:03] Speaker G: Yes.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Jim Cormier, what do you think?
[00:26:09] Speaker H: Well, I'll say 64.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: 64. And, Mark, how old do you think Conrad Bain is?
[00:26:18] Speaker G: This is a toughie for me.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: He's a toughie for a lot of people, probably.
[00:26:22] Speaker G: Yeah, I'd say around 70.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: 70. You know, I've been drinking wine when we had the two chefs who came in earlier. No, it's not affecting me so far as my drunken state. It's making me so sleepy, I want to lie down. Wine always affects me that way. I just get so tired.
Either that or it's you guys who are making me tired.
[00:26:47] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: It may not be the wine at all. I don't know.
[00:26:50] Speaker F: It could just be you, Norm.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Maybe I'm boring myself. That could be. Irene, what do you think?
[00:26:59] Speaker D: I think he's about 70.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: 70, okay.
That's right. That's what you said, Mark. That's exactly right. Stacey, what do you think?
[00:27:09] Speaker F: 68.
[00:27:10] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: You realize it's an important round because we have a three way tie, and it could be broken here on this round, so I'm just not excited. Joan, what do you say?
[00:27:25] Speaker C: 70.
[00:27:26] Speaker B: 70.
[00:27:27] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Jack. Actually, Jack, hard hit it right on the button.
72. 72. So that means we have a four way tie now.
So I suppose we should do one more.
[00:27:40] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: To break the time. Maybe I can give you an event.
Let's see. Let me give you an event, and you can tell me the year that it happened, because I don't see too many other people born on this date still alive today. It would be fun to guess.
Although, yeah, I do have one or two other names, but.
Oh, come on. Would you rather have the names then, instead of the event? Okay, we'll do a name. Okay. Eric Leinsdorf. Now, you'll be thrilled with that.
[00:28:18] Speaker H: Maybe an event sounds.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: He's a classical music conductor from Vienna. He was with the Boston Symphony for about seven years, from 1962 to 1969, and the New York Mets. I know what you're going to say about baseball, but it's a New York Metropolitan opera.
Before that, 57 to 62.
And how old would you say Eric Leinsdorf is today? If this were WGBH, you'd probably know right off.
Okay, Joan, how old do you think he is?
[00:28:55] Speaker C: Most of those conductors are pretty old.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: That's not a bad start and not a bad bit of reasoning.
And again, he was with the Metropolitan Opera 57 to 62, and then 62 to 69 with the Boston Symphony. And I don't know that what he's done in recent years or whether he's still. I don't believe he's still conducting.
[00:29:22] Speaker I: And, of course, he played so well because he had those Vienna fingers.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: He had those Vienna fingers. It's very good. Very excellent.
[00:29:29] Speaker C: How about 80?
[00:29:31] Speaker B: 80 would be good.
[00:29:33] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Stacy?
[00:29:34] Speaker F: 82.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: 80 would be good. Irene.
[00:29:40] Speaker D: Wonderful picture called Sophie's choice. Catch up with it when you turn on.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: I think the sound is getting worse.
I heard you say, Sophie's choice, but I lost everything else. Why did you say Sophie? No, don't tell. Don't, please.
No, I know what Sophie's choice is, but why did. You didn't know?
What has that got to do with Eric Leinsdorf?
[00:30:09] Speaker D: Nothing. Except I hand you that information.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Give us an age, because you're starting to fade out. Really something.
Okay. Because you're going under a bridge. Are you talking from under a bridge?
[00:30:20] Speaker D: No, from under my bridge table.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: It's probably a funny joke, but I didn't quite get that, either. Anyway, Mark, what do you think?
[00:30:28] Speaker G: I'd say 76.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: Okay, Jim.
[00:30:33] Speaker I: That's the spirit.
[00:30:34] Speaker H: By the way, 78.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: See, the way you said. That's the spirit. Even you have become kind of down. I can tell.
[00:30:41] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: Jack.
[00:30:46] Speaker G: Jack.
[00:30:47] Speaker I: Say, have you seen that movie, 2001? It's a great movie.
Let's see.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: As you pick up this ad, Libby, from Irene. I have a feeling the only thing is, you have to get her close and talk like this. Can understand why lady. Lady goes away, comes back a year or two later. And I'm excited about her coming back, because I'm glad she's in good health. And the Sound is even worse than before she went away.
Somebody broke into the house and ruined the phone even more.
[00:31:31] Speaker I: Let's see.
He's going to be.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Maybe that's your voice. I never thought of that.
May not be the phone at all.
No, I wouldn't listen, Irene, because I couldn't understand what you were saying.
I heard. Love it.
[00:31:52] Speaker G: He's in good health, but a phone ain't.
Phone needs a doctor. I think.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: I think you're missing the point of what we're talking about, Mark.
[00:32:01] Speaker G: I know it.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: Okay, Jack, what do you think?
[00:32:04] Speaker I: Let me see.
[00:32:07] Speaker H: A lot at stake here.
[00:32:09] Speaker I: Let's see.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: We're trying to break a tie here.
[00:32:14] Speaker H: He's got a bee flips through his frosting glove.
[00:32:18] Speaker I: 73.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: 73.
[00:32:25] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Actually, he's 83.
So I think we haven't solved anything with that. Because Stacy said 82 and came the closest.
[00:32:36] Speaker F: But then again, I'm on the board at last.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah, you are on the board at last.
And I'm sick of this whole game. Do I have to give another tiebreaker.
[00:32:46] Speaker G: Yes.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: This thing is never going to end, is it?
[00:32:50] Speaker F: It's the never ending game, Norm.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Okay, I tell you what. Rosa Parks. Remember the civil rights activist who became the symbol of the civil rights movement in 1955? Get these dates down so you can move in on her age by refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white man, which triggered the year long Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. And resulted in desegregation of the bus system. She was a remarkable woman and did really begin. That whole kind of. Her actions really began that whole civil rights movement, or at least was the symbol of it, and she was a very strong part of it. Rosa Parks.
Okay, let's see if we can guess her age now and again, the year was 1955, when it began, when she refused to give her seat up to a white man.
Did we begin with you last time, Jack?
No. Okay, we'll try that this time, then.
[00:33:55] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:33:55] Speaker I: How old is Rosa Parks? Rosa Parks, let's see, that's 40 years ago.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: 80. 80.
[00:34:06] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: And Jim?
[00:34:11] Speaker H: 68.
[00:34:13] Speaker E: Mark.
[00:34:16] Speaker G: That'S a toughie. 81.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: 80.
I'm sorry, how much? 6767.
[00:34:30] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Stacy?
[00:34:32] Speaker G: 75.
[00:34:35] Speaker E: Joan.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: This is breathtaking right here, because Joan, if she hits it right on the button, could just win the whole thing.
[00:34:45] Speaker C: Somebody said 81.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: Somebody also said 82. Stacey? Oh, no, that was for the last one. I forget. That was Eric's line story. I'm looking at the wrong column. Mark said 81. That's right. And Jack said 80. And Jim said 68. And Irene said 79. 79.
[00:35:10] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:35:11] Speaker B: Actually, the answer is 82.
I guess that means Mark. Who said 81?
Mark walks away with all the marbles. All right.
[00:35:23] Speaker D: Congratulations, Mark.
[00:35:24] Speaker G: Thank you very much, dear.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: It was a good battle, and I'm glad you finally got your marble.
Do we have Mark's address and stuff? Okay, we'll get it now, so hang in there, and Mark. And we'll get your name and address and stuff and send you something really junkie within the next six to eight weeks. If it doesn't come by three months, call your local office of the FBI.
Call the law.
Irene, thank you very much.
I hope you're well, and I'm glad to hear you again. I wish you'd get a better phone, though.
But it's good.
It's good to talk with you. And Stacey and Joan, thank you very much, both of you, from Jace. I know Stacey's from Rochester, New Hampshire, and Joan is from Tooksbury. Nice to talk to you both, and I hope you'll both stay warm today. And dry.
[00:36:17] Speaker F: Have a good one.
[00:36:18] Speaker C: You, too.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: You, too. Take care of both of you. And Jackhart, do you work later today, too, during the daytime?
[00:36:27] Speaker I: Oh, yeah. I'll be back.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: What time do you start reporting traffic again? Oh, 01:00 okay, so that ought to be. Maybe you could do it from your home.
[00:36:36] Speaker I: That would be nice.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: Or David Brednoy's home, something like that. So he wouldn't have know. Have to travel through the streets of Boston, come all the way in here.
[00:36:44] Speaker I: Yeah, it'd be nice if I could just sort of stay at home and do it like from a kitchen table.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: That would be just a darn nice. But there'll be a lot of people depending on you today because of the bad weather. I suppose we're kind of lucky that we're talking storm on a day off for most people.
[00:37:00] Speaker I: Well, I suppose most of those people would rather have the day off during the week.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: You know, you're a wise young person. Hey, I'll talk to you soon, big guy.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: The communication from the astronauts on the moon was clearer than Irene's phone. Thank you to our new subscribers on YouTube and other platforms as well. Support the show by visiting Patreon and unlock some exclusive stuff for your convenience. The link is below. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for. Chintzy phones. Linda Chase, Ken's steakhouse, shaking a stick, Anna flood and the George D. Hamilton School Orchestra in Everett. Nothing wrong with that. Looking marvelous. Give me a stroke. The poor man's dawn knots. Drinking wine and getting sleepy. WGBH. Old conductors, the Metropolitan Opera, the BSO, Vienna Finger, Jim Cormier, jackhart. And the man who, though hacking and coughing, was feeling better. Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
