Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: It here's another episode for all to enjoy. Episode 175, to be exact. I can't believe that, can you? And there are so many more tapes in the vault. The silliness may outlive me, but then I would have fulfilled the goal of leaving this world a little sillier than I found it. Today is an excellent dumb birthday game from February 8, 1992. This one is titled Radio Pinheads. It all begins with the Bleach Boys, which was Daryl Gould and company with their very own version of a dumb birthday game theme. The players, Mike and Marshfield, Dave from Chelmsford Rich and Medford, Mary Ellen from Braintree. I'm on the phone from master control and playing the game, Jack Hart, of course, from traffic, the birthdays with all the sound effects, Jack Lemon, Gary Coleman, Ted Coppell, Lana Turner, John Williams, Robert Klein, Nick Nolte and Brooke Adams. Now, post game, we've got a little bit of time left. We get a musical weather forecast with Norm, Rory Gallant and Ben Webster. We're entertained by a couple of commercials as well. Tom Bergeron for constitution tax services. It is getting to be that time of year. Dave Maynard with a promo for first day live from the north american home show at the Bayside Expo center. And to close it all out, a super entertaining call from Marion, New Hampshire, who loved the game. And she and Norm reminisce about some great old time radio fun. Episode 175. Radio pinheads needles its way to your ears in three, two and one.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Yo, do.
[00:01:55] Speaker C: The dumb birthday cake.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: What was that?
Did he say the dumb birthday game.
[00:02:04] Speaker C: And all of that?
Oh, help me play the dumb birthday game. Mr. That is the bleach boys, led by newsman Darryl Gould.
He was around here forever. I thought he was really doing news. I didn't know that. Anyway, it is time for the dumb birthday game. And let's introduce members of our panel, because that would be the polite thing to do so they don't all stand around there wondering who everybody is. Let me introduce to you to Mike, in case you cannot see his name tag, Mike from Marshfield. How are you doing, Mike?
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Hi, old sport.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: We have some awful lot of people, interesting people, well known people were born on this day, February eigth. Anybody who was born February eigth has a whole lot of company of well known people.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: I wanted to mention something to you.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: Is this your birthday?
[00:02:53] Speaker B: No, it's not. But you know the show that comes on at 05:00 this morning?
[00:03:00] Speaker C: Oh, the countryside with Warren Shepard.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Right. Have you ever heard of his theme song? You've heard his theme song that he plays.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Okay. That's the same theme song as the pup.
[00:03:11] Speaker C: As the who?
[00:03:12] Speaker B: The pup with Beanie and Houdini there.
[00:03:15] Speaker C: Oh, lucky pup, lucky pup.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: That was the same theme song. They were brought by Ipana toothpaste.
Brought on by Ipana. I believe it was Ipana toothpaste.
[00:03:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I think you're right.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: And I don't think they make that anymore.
[00:03:28] Speaker C: No. Ipana for the smile of beauty and salapatica for the smile of health.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Right.
[00:03:34] Speaker C: Okay. No, they don't make either one of them. I don't believe.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: But it was the same theme song that he uses.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: Okay. And the reason you're mentioning that, obviously, is because I mentioned the early television show called Lucky Pup with Fudini and Pinhead and the lovely Doris. The first two were puppets, but she was not. She was a real person.
That's interesting. I didn't know that. And also the theme song.
Is that.
Is that the theme song for countryside?
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:09] Speaker C: Can we play a little bit of that? Because I think it's different than what you're singing. WBZ Radio 1030, in cooperation with the Massachusetts department of Food and Agriculture, presents BZ's countryside with tips and facts for the homeowner, consumer, farmer. Yeah, no, that's different than what you were singing. It's.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: I couldn't carry a tune in a satchel.
[00:04:36] Speaker C: Okay. That's called. See, the thing that's significant about that is that's country gardens. And that used to be the theme song also of let's pretend, where they used to act out kids fairy tales. Oh, maybe that's with Nyla Mack. Yeah. And they'd be Uncle Bill. And among other things, they would have another song. Cream Weed is so good that we eat it every day. But the main theme was the one we just heard, which is country guards, which is the same theme as countryside. Okay.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: And I think the song that I humped was the song for that lucky pup.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Okay, so there were two different themes, but kind of close.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: Not bad.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: No, that isn't bad, Mike. That's okay. It gave me a chance to talk about Doris. And I still have a crush on her and her wonderful smile. Oh, God, where is she now? Probably in some nursing home somewhere. I don't want to think about it. Hey, Dave in Chelmsford. How you doing?
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Good morning, Norman.
[00:05:36] Speaker C: Good morning to you, sir. You all set to play the big game and all excited about it, I would think.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Well, I think I'm prepared enough. I've been preparing. I think I'll be able to handle it, okay.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: Because if you look closely at enough newspapers and things, you probably can find out the ages of a lot of these people. We got just a whole bunch of them born on this on February eigth. That was a very. Well, I was going to say a very rich day for having birthdays. And it sort of leads into rich in Medford. Hi, Rich.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: Hey, my friend, how are you?
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Listen, I've got the perfect recipe for you now, okay? It's a can opener.
[00:06:14] Speaker C: I know I have that.
I know that. I'm ready to open a can of soup. And a friend of mine says this guy, who also lives alone now, although I don't live totally alone because I have a daughter, he says, watch out for that soup. They put a whole lot of salt in there and it's not good for you. See, no matter what I open, it.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Says add water, don't add any gold bond.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: Maybe that's not a bad idea.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Save that for your dessert.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Yeah, gold bond with milk or cream and some kind of fruit, I bet you is the breakfast of champions. I'll put it in my sneaker and probably run like the wind.
Okay, here's Mary Ellen. Hey, we have a woman on the panel, at least one today. I'm glad. Mary Ellen and Marsh in braintree. Hi, Mary Ellen.
[00:07:06] Speaker D: Hi, Norm. You can call me pinhead.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: Do you remember that show? Oh, no, nobody remembers that show except Mike Marshfield. Mike from Marshfield and me.
[00:07:16] Speaker D: Oh, dear.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:17] Speaker D: Maybe that's why it's not on anymore.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: Well, that's true, but the last time it was on was.
Oh, it's hard to even remember that. It's about 40 years ago. Can you imagine that?
[00:07:29] Speaker D: I can't imagine, no.
[00:07:31] Speaker C: Yeah, because I can introduce Fudini. He would say, hello, pinhead. Maybe he didn't talk quite like that. I guess maybe he didn't. Hey, Tony's with us, too. Hi, Tony.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Hey, Norm.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: This is Tony Nesbitt, the producer of this big show, and certainly a feather in his cap.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: I've got something to tell you.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: Yes?
[00:07:51] Speaker B: If you put gold balm with a little cream and sugar on your soup, you won't be running like the wind. You may be breaking like the wind.
And there are low sodium soups that you can buy.
On a more serious note.
[00:08:09] Speaker C: Actually, I always wear a condom when I'm having shoots.
I believe in safe.
Somebody got asthma? Have we got somebody with asthma?
Okay. And also we have. With us, of course, jackhart. Hi, Jack. Hello, Norm. Speaking of those gold bond powder are those anti fungal powder commercials getting more disgusting? What was the woman saying? I scratched and I scratched until I hit bone.
Yeah, they are getting more.
And if you accept them and you don't protest, they'll get even more disgusting than that. So call your local congressman or senator, for God's sakes, and get them off the air.
[00:08:57] Speaker D: I have a question about your gold bond commercials.
[00:09:00] Speaker C: What's that, please?
[00:09:01] Speaker D: I have a question about the gold bond commercial.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: Okay, fire away.
[00:09:03] Speaker D: Okay. Lawrence Lanzilli, the bricklayer.
[00:09:07] Speaker C: Oh, yes.
[00:09:08] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:09:08] Speaker C: He had it on his legs, as I recall, under his.
[00:09:13] Speaker D: Oh, but he says, if I'm wearing pants, and if it gets itchy, I have to use the gold bond. Now, what does he mean, if I wear pants?
[00:09:23] Speaker C: Maybe he can lay more bricks with no pants on.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:09:28] Speaker C: Okay, maybe it's not bricks he's laying.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: I don't know.
What the heck.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: It's 20 after three in the morning.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: When you listen to that commercial.
[00:09:42] Speaker C: From now on, if we can't get racist laying bricks, if we can't get racy at this time of the morning, when can we get racy? I say. Okay, I think it's about time we cut out the fun part and cut down to business, eh?
Okay, here's something. The first birthday.
Born on this date. His real name. I didn't realize that his real name was actually John Euler. U-H-L-E-R II.
Born in Boston. Born in Brooklyn, I think.
Grew up in Brooklyn. Do you know who I'm talking about? John Eula II. No, that's the real name. Or the original name of Jack Lemon, who has a son, Chris Lemon. Have you seen him on television? He looks a lot like a young version of Jack Lemon. Not as talented. A little taller. Kind of like.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: I think he made up in height, but he missed some talent.
[00:10:37] Speaker C: I think you hit it right on the butt.
If Jack Lemon had less talent and was taller and funny looking, he'd be Chris Lemon, his son.
But anyway, today is Jack Lemon's birthday, so let's all wish him a happy birthday. Guess his age. How old do you think he is, Mike?
[00:10:56] Speaker B: 73.
[00:10:58] Speaker C: 73, okay. And rich, what do you say?
[00:11:01] Speaker B: 79.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: 79.
Okay. And Mary Ellen?
[00:11:06] Speaker D: Jack Lemon.
[00:11:08] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:11:08] Speaker D: Okay.
65.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: 65.
Tony?
[00:11:13] Speaker B: 76.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: That's the spirit. Thank you very much.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: Somebody was going to say, that's the spirit.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: I know you knew that was going to happen, and I just dread that.
Jack Hart, what do you say? And I say this with Zest about Jack Lemon. He's 68. 68. Lemon. Zest. Lemon. Zest. Yeah. What about if Jack.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: That was really lime.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: I know it was the pits, but if Jack Lemon went into business with Daryl Strawberry and Jim Rice and Don Cherry and Fred Tapioca, that's really pushing it, isn't it? Anyway, their law firm could be lemon, strawberry, rice and cherry. Let's knock out rice. That doesn't quite fit there. Unless you're talking about puddings.
Hey, then it fits. Okay, let's find out. Meantime, how old Jack Lemon actually is on February.
Are we back to your guess of 76? For 76 troubles, the actual age of Jack Lemon is 67.
A lot of you guessed way over his age. So the closest.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: I'm dyslexic. I'm sorry.
[00:12:54] Speaker C: Jack Hart said 68, so he was close. And, Mary Ellen, you were very close. You're just a little bit further away than Jack was. But Jack Hart, the winner there.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:13:06] Speaker C: I see you thought he was 86.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: No, I said 76 and he was 67.
Jack, when you didn't laugh the first time, I said. What did I say wrong?
[00:13:19] Speaker C: Okay, how about Gary Coleman? Gary Coleman, who is another guy along with Webster.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: I always wanted to punt through a couple.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: What show was he on?
[00:13:32] Speaker B: Different strokes.
[00:13:33] Speaker C: Different strokes. Okay. Little Gary Coleman.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: All the drug people came.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: Okay. He's only about 2ft tall. Let's start with you, Jack. How old do you think Jerry Coleman is?
[00:13:46] Speaker B: What's his name?
[00:13:47] Speaker C: Who knows?
He's actually probably about 47, but he's so short that they still have him as a little kid.
24. 24. Okay. And, Tony, what do you think?
[00:14:03] Speaker B: He's about 26 now.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: About 26.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: That's not his height. That's his age.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: Okay.
Because he's not really that toy, that tall. 26 inches.
In fact, I'm holding him right on. Right at this moment, in the palm of my hand. There'll be no tap dancing. Yeah.
Mary Ellen, what do you think?
[00:14:23] Speaker D: 22.
[00:14:23] Speaker C: 22. Okay.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: And, rich, I'm going to say 25.
[00:14:28] Speaker C: 25. And, Mike.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: I'll have to fit a 23 in there.
[00:14:35] Speaker C: 23 in there. Fitting a 23 in there. Okay, let's check the actual age.
That is the voice of a very young man, a very small man.
[00:14:49] Speaker D: And.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: He sang.
Never mind. I can't think of anything that he might be saying.
Let's the actuary.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: That said munchkins on it. And I thought it was going to be something like this.
Okay.
[00:15:16] Speaker C: That'S very good. That's very good, Tony. Nice producing.
Now get out of here and shut up.
Gary Coleman is actually 24. Just with the way Jack said it. Son of a gun.
But you all were very close.
Yeah, nobody really was far away on that one, but Jack was right on the button. Okay, today is also the birthday of Ted Coppell of ABC's Night live. Very intelligent human being, and I'm probably one of the few people he can talk to that's on his level.
And if I wanted, he'd be on the dumb birthday game himself right now, guessing his own age.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: Maybe we can line that up someday. Tom Broka, Ted Coppell, Dan rather and Peter Jennings. Wouldn't that be something?
[00:16:09] Speaker C: Throw in Connie Chunkers. I think she's awfully cute.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: All right.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: Okay. Ted cop, do you realize he was born at Lancashire, England? I didn't know that.
February eigth. Anyway, how old is Ted copper? Let's start with rich. You rich in Medford? You rich in Medford? I don't know what kind of a.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Sentence poor Richard in Medford says. 53.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: 53. Okay. What do you think, Mary Allen?
[00:16:37] Speaker D: I believe he's 56.
[00:16:40] Speaker C: I like the way you said, say that again. That was so cute.
[00:16:42] Speaker D: I believe he's 56.
[00:16:44] Speaker C: Oh, that's so adorable.
Okay, and what do you think? Let's see. Mike, what do you say?
[00:16:50] Speaker B: 51.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: Okay. What do you say, Jack? 47. 47. Okay. And Tony?
[00:16:58] Speaker D: 50.
[00:17:01] Speaker C: Okay. Let's check the actual age of Ted Coppell. Let's see what kind of. I see. This is a teletype, an old fashioned teletype, and it's saying actual age of Ted copo is 52 years old. Okay, so we have Mike who said 51 and rich at 53. So those are the two winners. Yeah.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Rich from Medford.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: Rich from Edford and Paul from Marshfield.
Okay, how about. Yes, I was trying to think. Yeah, I know. A trumpet player and a family on the north shore named poor and then his budy rich. That would be a pairing. Yeah, sure.
Thank you very much.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: You're welcome.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: I don't know why I brought that up. It seemed terribly significant at the time until I said it, and suddenly it lost total meaning. Lana Turner. Okay, let's find out her actual name.
We'll find out her actual age in just a moment, too.
Her name. Her real name was Julia Jean Mildred Francis.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: I can see what she got out.
[00:18:17] Speaker C: Of all those first names that she had the problem. Right.
So she became Lana Turner. Otherwise she'd be Julia Francis. That's not a bad. No, no, it's not a bad name at all. Not a bad name. Okay, just think.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Why don't you change your name to that?
[00:18:35] Speaker C: Now, I could be rid of Norm.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Nathan and go to Julia Francis.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Who's coughing? Is that you?
No, that's Jack. Is it? Yeah, a little congestion. Could you. A traffic reporter. We always have congestion.
If you could turn away from the microphone when you cough. Oh, I did? Oh, you did? Oh, I see.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Because the acoustics in the studio.
[00:19:05] Speaker C: Oh, I see. Let me just pass you a tissue in case I got anything on you. Oh, man, I had such a great lust for Lana. Turner said that he's switching away from the coughing thing.
But that was long ago, when the world was young. Thank you. Okay, let's start with you, Tony. How old is Lana Turner on this very day?
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Oh, she's old.
I don't know, 60? No, she can't be twitchy. Guys, any help?
[00:19:37] Speaker C: No help. Just make a guess.
Why would anybody help you? They're all guessing.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: What did she do?
[00:19:45] Speaker C: I'll tell you. First of all, she's a lousy actress.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: And always has been.
[00:19:49] Speaker C: But she was discovered in a drugs. Schwabs, you're always thinking of food, aren't you? And fish. No, supposedly she was discovered in a drugstore, sitting in a stool there. Schwabs. You see, that's where I got it mixed up. I figured maybe if you were sitting at the county, you could be sitting on a stool pigeon.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: But I wasn't going to touch.
[00:20:17] Speaker C: Okay. Anyway, Tony, how old is Lannister?
[00:20:21] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:20:24] Speaker C: What are you saying?
[00:20:25] Speaker B: 64.
[00:20:26] Speaker C: 64. And Mary Ellen, what do you say?
[00:20:30] Speaker D: I say 77.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: 77. I can change my answer now.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:20:37] Speaker C: Mike, what do you say?
[00:20:39] Speaker B: 72.
[00:20:40] Speaker C: 72.
And, rich?
[00:20:44] Speaker B: 67.
[00:20:46] Speaker C: 67, Jack.
71.
71. Okay, let us check the actual age now as we check the birth records to find out how old Julia Jean Mildred Francis planet Turner is.
Why she's 72.
Also, I must tell you, I have two sources. One says 71 and the other says 72. The one that says 72 actually said she was born in Wallace, Idaho, February, 1920. So that sounds more authentic, but we'll give it to both. Okay, just to be fair. So we have Mike as a winner. And we also have Jack. Jack said 71, and Mike said 72.
Thank you. And she's either one or the other. I'm just doing that case. There's nobody close to 39.
How about John Williams, head of the conducting the Boston Pops, and has written movie music for a number of movies. All of these songs sounding exactly alike. And has also written a theme song for the NBC News. Except I saw he did the music for JFK, and I thought the music was different there.
Yeah, I thought it was quite nice.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: He's retiring this year because he's 70.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: He's retiring this year because he's 70. No, he wants to devote more. He's not retiring. He's going to leave in another year or so. Going to leave the Boston Pops. But he wants to devote his time to writing music, so he won't be actually retiring.
And I know that because he told me so.
I made that up. He wouldn't tell me anything to rap. Okay, let's start with you, Mike. How old is John Williams?
How old is he? This very day, February eigth, I would.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: Have to say that he's 73.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: 73.
That's the spirit.
I like to throw in lines that make no sense at all. Rich, what do you say?
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Not that old. I'd say he's just ready for early retirement. 62.
[00:23:13] Speaker C: 62. And Mary Ellen.
[00:23:17] Speaker D: Yikes.
[00:23:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. This is a toughie. God, be careful before you answer.
[00:23:23] Speaker D: I'll say 57.
[00:23:29] Speaker C: 57.
[00:23:31] Speaker D: I developed a skin rash.
[00:23:38] Speaker C: You sound like. What is that name? The lady from Indiana who says.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: That'S the first thing I thought of, Norm.
[00:23:49] Speaker C: Okay, what do you say, Tony?
How old is.
That's not nice.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: What we're doing is not nice. We love you very shows.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: No class at all.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: When did the show ever have class? Wait a minute.
[00:24:16] Speaker C: That's true.
How old would you say John Williams?
[00:24:20] Speaker B: That's what we're talking about. John Williams.
[00:24:22] Speaker C: John Williams.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Just took a nice deep breath. They're a little noisy, but 59.
[00:24:31] Speaker C: 59, okay. And Jack, it's John Williams we're talking about. 61. 61. Okay, let's check the actual age.
John Williams.
I don't get this one at all.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: It's just an overture. That's all I see.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: Because it's a long range John Williams. It's the Williams tell overture. That's right.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Thank you, Jack.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: There you go. And we're trying to tell the age of Williams.
Out of the west comes John Williams, masked man with his baton.
Okay, the actual age of John Williams is 60. He's 60 years old today, which means that you got one. And so did Jack.
You said 59 and Jack said 61. So you both guessed around. They love me.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Thank you, Britt.
[00:25:26] Speaker C: Okay, let's see now. The way I look at it.
Is that your fourth win, Jack? I think so. You guessed everybody but Ted Coppell. Wow, we're having a lucky streak. Oh, no, there was somebody else in there that I didn't guess. No, you guessed Jack Lemon. You said 68 and he's 67. You guessed Gary Coleman right in the button. Lana Turner, year off.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Well, you really didn't guess. Lana Turner. Jack.
[00:25:51] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you're right.
And John Williams. And let's see, Mike has two, rich has one, Tony has one.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Finally.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: And Mary Ellen.
[00:26:05] Speaker D: Don't say it.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: You're a lovely person.
Okay, how about Robert Klein, one of my favorite comics. Very funny guy. Robert Klein. His birthday is today. And we'll start with you, Mary Ellen. How old is Robert Klein?
[00:26:22] Speaker D: Robert Klein is 51.
[00:26:25] Speaker C: Robert Klein is 51.
Okay. And rich, what do you say?
[00:26:32] Speaker B: Robert Klein is 59.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: Robert Klein is 59. That was a little rhyme there, wasn't it? That was nice.
I'm Robert Klein. I'm 59 and I'm feeling fine.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Wow. Great.
[00:26:50] Speaker C: Almost all the time.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Great.
[00:26:53] Speaker C: Mike, what do you think?
[00:26:56] Speaker B: 55.
[00:26:57] Speaker C: Okay, 55.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: And Tony, he's going to be 53.
[00:27:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Or he is, actually, because his birthday is today the eigth. And Jack? 53. Same. You saying the same as Tony? Yeah. Okay, let's check the actual age now of Robert Klein.
Okay. He's actually 50 years old today. And Mary Ellen said 51. So, Mary Ellen.
So now, Mary Ellen, every one of you has won at least one time. And I'm just. You want. Yeah, you were the closest. You said 51 and he's 50.
[00:27:46] Speaker D: I thought I won the whole thing.
[00:27:48] Speaker C: No.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it was double or nothing.
[00:27:50] Speaker C: Not loud, Mary.
It'll have to be about quadruple or nothing because Jack has got four already.
Nick Nolte, the very fine actor. Nick Nolte.
Let's start with Jack Hart. What do you say?
47. 47, of course. He's in the Prince of Tides with Barbara Streisand. His very newest movie has done dozens of other fine movies. Tony, what do you say?
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Oh, Nick, Nick, Nick is.
He's pushing a royal.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: He doesn't know kids. He's stalling.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: He's 40.
[00:28:36] Speaker C: Did you say how much?
[00:28:38] Speaker B: 47.
[00:28:39] Speaker C: 47. You're guessing the same as Jack?
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Is that what Jack said?
[00:28:42] Speaker C: Yes, I did.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: He said 50 something.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: 47.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: That's how much I was paying attention.
[00:28:47] Speaker C: Okay, how about. Mary Ellen, what do you think?
[00:28:53] Speaker D: I think 50.
[00:28:54] Speaker C: 50.
Okay. And rich? 4848-4848 okay.
And what do you think, Mike?
[00:29:07] Speaker B: I'll have to say 49.
[00:29:09] Speaker C: 49.
Okay, let us check again and see how old.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: Nick.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: I was thinking of a movie he was in with Bette Midler. And who's that little short actor? Who's in.
No, no.
The one who is married to the little short lady on Cheers.
Danny DeVito. The something. Beverly Hills movie.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: You remember Beverly Hills 501. Two.
[00:29:50] Speaker C: Oh, no. There was a movie. He was down and out. Down and out. In Beverly Hills. He was found at the bottom of a swimming pool.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Remember?
[00:29:57] Speaker C: They dragged him out, rehabilitated him or something. I thought the splash was for that, but it could be, I suppose, as well as prince of tide.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Okay, that's what it meant. Damn it.
[00:30:10] Speaker C: Well, he gets violent if you don't recognize his cockamamie sound effects, doesn't he? What a producer.
[00:30:17] Speaker D: I want it my way.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: Or not.
[00:30:18] Speaker D: That or kakamami.
[00:30:20] Speaker C: Okay. Nick Nolte actually is 58.
Holy smoke. And that means Mary Ellen, who said 50 is the closest, even though she was eight years off.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: 58.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: Wow.
Yeah. I'm so pleased he's 58. I'm going to check that in two years.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: That can't be because he was in that show, rich man thinking about nickname and I can't see. No, norm, I'm sorry.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Okay, hold on a minute.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Hold on.
[00:30:46] Speaker C: Don't be a sore head. Okay, 58. I have it one source here. Actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 8, 1934. Now, let me check my other source.
Nick Nolte.
Nick Nolte, son of a gun. He doesn't seem to be in the other source. They don't even have him listed. How can they not have him? It's an enigma. It's an enigma inside a pincushion wrapped inside a dream, inside a butterfly and a pad of butter. In fact, it was Winston Churchill who said that because he was drunk at the.
Was always. I think he was always drunk.
No, he drank a lot, but he wasn't always drunk. That's not nice. No, I don't have a confidence going.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: To come and beat you up now.
[00:31:40] Speaker C: Okay, well, we'll have to let it go by the 58 because, I don't know.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Mariel.
[00:31:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I would have guessed younger than that, too. What about Brooke Adams?
Do you know Brooke Adams, the actress?
You know the name Brooke?
Brooke Adams?
Yeah, she was in the romance of the cheechy fly.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: I have that on tape at home.
[00:32:09] Speaker C: Yeah. You have the soundtrack probably was written by John Williams. Yes, as a matter of fact, the narration was by Gary Coleman. It's amazing. And they were all born on the same day. Isn't that a coincidence?
Brooke Adams wasn't her sister. That actress who had the food problem. Edie Adams.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: Very good.
[00:32:29] Speaker C: Had the food problem.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: Edie Adams.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: Edie really like eating Edie. Yeah, I see.
That's about it. That went over as well as my prior humor. Went over kind of awful. A city with nobody laughing. It's your biggest joke.
[00:32:46] Speaker B: One Adams. Twelve, would you.
[00:32:48] Speaker C: Okay, let's start with Mike how old is Brooke Adams, even though nobody seems to know who she is?
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I have no idea. I'll say 26.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: Okay, 26. And what do you say, rich?
[00:33:06] Speaker B: I have no idea who she is either. I'll say 28.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: 28.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: She's probably 95.
[00:33:16] Speaker C: Wouldn't that be a joke on her?
She probably thinks she's twelve. Mary Ellen, what do you say? Do you know Brooke Adams?
[00:33:24] Speaker D: I do believe I do, yeah.
[00:33:26] Speaker C: You're the only one, apparently in the whole group.
[00:33:29] Speaker D: Yeah, well, she has a very irritating voice. She's kind of short.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Bring a little gold.
[00:33:37] Speaker C: And I put her in your sneaker.
Let her walk a mile in your sneaker and see how she does.
[00:33:47] Speaker D: She was in dead zone, Christopher Walken.
[00:33:54] Speaker C: Oh, dead zone. Yeah.
So you can make an intelligent guess then?
[00:33:59] Speaker D: I can. You'll probably be wrong, but I'll do it.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:34:03] Speaker D: No, wait a minute.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:34:08] Speaker D: 39.
[00:34:10] Speaker C: 49.
[00:34:11] Speaker D: No, 39.
[00:34:15] Speaker C: You did say 39.
Well, all right, I'll mark it.
I'll put that down as 39 for Brooke Adams.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: Born in Rochester, New York.
[00:34:42] Speaker C: Illinois.
Or.
How old do you think she is, Tony?
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Sound like your batteries are running down.
[00:34:51] Speaker C: My batteries have been running down for about 30 years, and it's not a pretty picture.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: I'll say somewhere in between all the ages and say 37.
[00:35:07] Speaker C: That's not exactly in between all the ages, but what the heck. Okay, Jack, what do you think? Her real name is? Phyllis, but she was always Babylon.
I'd say she's.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Going to some great lengths.
[00:35:26] Speaker C: I suppose her original name actually was. She's Joan River'sister.
Well, never mind.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: I see.
[00:35:41] Speaker C: She'S married to Mel Brooks.
I think she was River Phoenix. Yeah, right.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: And the only product that she uses when she makes herself up is ponds.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: Should have been. All right, pull a muscle, but keep stretching like this, with jokes.
I just pulled one now.
[00:36:19] Speaker C: So what do you say big Jack Adams is?
30. 30. Okay, let us check. Let's see what sound effect we have for this one.
How old do you suppose Brooke Adams is? Let's check.
Well, that was.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Sorry to let you down. That was a little ripple.
[00:36:42] Speaker C: Yeah, we've been short changed on that one, man. Okay, the actual age of Brooke Adams is 43. Wow. Mary Ellen wins again.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Wow. Sure, Mary Ellen. Yeah, you tricked us all in the beginning by. Oh, gee, I got some wrong. I'm losing and now you.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: She's a birthday shark, that's what she is.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: We've been tricked, we've been swindled.
[00:37:08] Speaker C: Okay, duped. So we've had a lot of well known people, except for Brooke Adams, who's well known, apparently only by Mary Ellen.
But let's see this. Did you say, oh, well, no, sorry.
Okay.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: Listen to Jeff Bridges.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: I suppose it's all water under the bridge, though.
Luckily, the phone is very low level. We can't hear much of what you're saying.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: I'm only whispering, that's why.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: Oh, I see. Okay, here's the final lineup of winners. Mike, at least how many rounds you want. Mike won two and Rich won one.
Mary Ellen just had her third.
Tony had one, Jackhart had four. Son of a gun.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: The big winner.
[00:38:12] Speaker C: The big winner is actually Jack.
Thank you.
Oh, that was just so nice. Thank you, Mary. Are you. Are you single, Mary Ellen?
[00:38:34] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:38:35] Speaker C: Okay, I tell you what. I'm going to send you something, too, okay. Because you came close, you know.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: I'm going to send you something for a single person.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: For a single person. I asked you that yesterday. Soup for one.
It's kind of outdated now, but not really, because it still makes some sense. The Boston's most eligible bachelor book. Would that be okay in 1990? It's a 1991 edition, but it would be the very last edition of the series, unfortunately. I'll send it to. Is that okay with you?
[00:39:08] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:39:09] Speaker C: You don't sound terrible.
[00:39:11] Speaker B: That was pretty sick.
[00:39:13] Speaker C: I think I'll just take it and pass it out to anybody who drives by. Soldiers.
I'll stand at the stoplight and shove it in their window.
[00:39:28] Speaker D: I'll take.
[00:39:29] Speaker C: Okay.
Okay. And I want to thank all of you for playing you. Mike, always a pleasure. Thank you, Norm.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: And I didn't win, so please don't send me anything.
[00:39:41] Speaker C: No, that's right, too, because the kind of prize you get is none of the kind that you don't want. Thank you very much, Mike. And rich, I appreciate you joining us today.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: You're quite welcome. It was a pleasure.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Okay.
And Mary Ellen, always a pleasure. Stay tuned. Oh, yeah. Talk with Tony with your name and address, and I'll get that out to you if you're interested. Do you do dating at all?
[00:40:03] Speaker D: Sure, yeah.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: What, are you going to look at the pictures anyway?
Yeah, they're all completely nude.
I made that up.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Just the one.
[00:40:21] Speaker C: Sneakers.
We thought if a book can't nauseate you, what good is it?
[00:40:33] Speaker B: I'll see you tomorrow, Norm.
[00:40:34] Speaker C: Okay, Tony.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: Thanks.
[00:40:35] Speaker C: Tomorrow.
I don't know what he means by that, but that sounded ominous. Okay, you take Mary Ellen's name and address. And I thank you very much for playing the game, Mary Ellen. And also, I thank you to Jack Hart. Well, thank you and we'll talk to you soon as well. Traffic report. Okay, well, that was just kind of fun, folks. Two 5410 30 now we have all the lines open again, and I love very much to talk with you. Meantime, the WBZ five day accuweather forecast from Roy Gallant with the music of Ben Webster playing the tennis axe of home.
This is Blue Moon. Isn't that pretty?
[00:41:39] Speaker B: It, um.
[00:41:42] Speaker C: Oh, you left me alone without a love of my own.
Anyway, here's the five day forecast. Overnight, occasional mixed rain and snow near the coast. Bit of wet snow in the interior.
Lows 28 degrees inland and 33 at the coast, which is about what it is right now. 32 outside, plush but not overly ostentatious. WBZ Studios Saturday and Saturday night, brisk and cold with an occasional snow flurry. A couple of inches of accumulations. Highs on Saturday, 34. Low Saturday night, 20.
Sunday, blustery, very cold.
Lots of clouds and some flurries, some brightening in the afternoon. The high temperatures on Sunday, 25. However, there'll be a strong wind which will make it feel like it's down about zero hot.
I like your attitude. With that kind of an attitude, you'll get through life beautifully. Totally, totally devoid of any touch of reality.
Thank you. Monday, it's hot. I know. Monday, mostly sunny with highs about 32, and Tuesday, mostly cloudy with a period of snow. Possible highs, 36.
Thank you very much behalf of my partner, the late bet Webster.
We had reminds me of I work for the dissjackers. He used to say the silliest things. He once said, here he is, the late Nat Cole, stepping up to the microphone to sing. And I thought, that's got to be one of the neatest trench of the day.
Anyway, okay, two 5410 30. Do give me a call and we'll talk and visit and have such a swell relationship.
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[00:44:37] Speaker C: Everybody, this is Dave Maynard inviting you to join me for WBZ's first day live from the north american home show at the Bayside Exposition center. We'll give you some great ideas for Valentine's Day as we talk with Greg Godeck, author of 1001 ways to be romantic, and with Boston magazine's Beth Wolfensberger. We'll discuss mortgages with Fred Johnson of Shaw McBank and a whole lot more. Please join me for first day tomorrow morning at nine on New England's news and information station WBZ AM 1030.
The time is 5 minutes before 04:00. You're tuned to WBZ. My name is Norm Nathan and Tony Nesbitt is our producer. And on the line with us is Mary from New Hampshire. Hi, Mary.
[00:45:21] Speaker D: Hi, Norm. I just want to thank you. I'm telling you, that dumb game gets me laughing. I had to call you up this morning, tell you how much I enjoyed it.
[00:45:28] Speaker C: Oh, I'm very glad you did that. You know that, Mary, you're okay.
[00:45:32] Speaker D: Oh, I know that too.
Listen, I have a big question for you I've been wondering about for years. Does anybody who knows a lot about radio like you do remember, between the bookends was.
[00:45:47] Speaker C: Yes, yes. Ted Malone, was that what it's called? Between the bookends? He used to read poetry.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:45:54] Speaker C: He had a woman playing the organ behind it and her name was Rosa or something like that. I forget. He was on around noontime.
[00:46:04] Speaker D: Was he to? The reason I remember it so well. I was sick as a child. I was in bed for about a year and the joy of my life was to get a radio. And I started listening to him every day. And it gave me such an appreciation for poetry that I started reading, reading, reading all kinds of poetry. And really it was a wonderful program.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: Yeah, there used to be even before him. And this was, I hate to say this, or I'm pleased to say this was even before my own time because I just remember the name was a guy named Tony Wands who also did poetry. That used to be a big thing in radio one time.
[00:46:43] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:46:43] Speaker C: But I do remember Ted Malone very much because he was not before my time. I used to listen to him too.
[00:46:50] Speaker D: What about Jesse Crawford? Didn't he have a show on around then playing the.
[00:46:56] Speaker C: Crawford?
[00:46:56] Speaker D: Yeah, gee, that sure dates, huh?
[00:47:00] Speaker C: Well, don't worry about.
[00:47:01] Speaker D: Don't. I don't. I've enjoyed being where.
[00:47:06] Speaker C: I'm. Of course, Jesse Crawford was very well known during that period. I don't remember when his show was on the air, but he did play organ. There was also another organist who I think either played at this station or one of the other Boston stations. Just a local program. Francis J. Cronin was his name. Does that sound familiar to you at all?
[00:47:25] Speaker D: No. It sounds like a jesuit priest.
[00:47:28] Speaker C: It does, doesn't it? Father Cronin, sir. Father, I have a confession. But no, he was.
Maybe he was a priest because he played. I really don't remember much of how he sounded, but he did play the organ, and I think he did a morning show somewhere. That's when morning shows could be composed of people sitting around playing the organ, which would sound silly now. I mean, nobody would ever dare do that.
[00:47:54] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm thinking of one other was Edgar Guest.
[00:47:57] Speaker C: Oh, Edgar Guest had a lot of printed stuff.
He's got a lot of books out.
He did some on the radio, I remember, but mostly he had books. And his stuff was really hokey.
If you can keep your head about, you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. And then we used to say that you'll be the tallest guy in the crowd.
But he would always be. I don't know whether he wrote, give me a home house by the side of the road and let me be a friend to man. But that was the kind of thing that he did, right? One that he did do, I remember was something about people said you couldn't do something or other. They couldn't do it. But he rolled up his sleeves and stuck out his chin and went ahead and did it with a grin. He did it. Or something like that. It was that kind of poetry we all went through when we were very young, the Edgar guest period. Then later on, we were ashamed to admit that we even had heard of him. But that was Edgar guest.
[00:49:08] Speaker D: I do remember that you were talking a while ago about Nyla Mac and let's pretend.
[00:49:13] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I love that show.
[00:49:14] Speaker D: Oh, did I?
It was such a joy just to. I think it was 1030 on Saturday morning.
[00:49:19] Speaker C: Somewhere around there. How will we go to let's pretend land? Yes. Remember, somebody would say, how shall we get to let's pretend land, Uncle Bill? And say, let's go through coaches. They would describe a whole scene and then you hear the sound effects of maybe a coach with horses pulling it and that kind of stuff. Anyway, tell me what you're going to say, because we're running kind of long, lady.
[00:49:41] Speaker D: A while back you were going and you said that was less pretend music. That country garden music.
[00:49:48] Speaker C: Yeah, wasn't that it?
[00:49:50] Speaker D: I thought it was.
[00:49:54] Speaker C: Yes, that was it. Isn't that what I was just doing?
[00:49:56] Speaker D: No, I didn't think it was that.
[00:50:01] Speaker C: No, but what you just hummed was the theme for let's pretend. You're right. I thought that's what I was humming. I have to go because it's newstime. Oh, God.
[00:50:09] Speaker D: Oh, I hate it. I'll call you again sometime. I love you.
[00:50:12] Speaker C: Please do. Bye. Bye, Mary. WBZ Boston. This 04:00.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: Ever the professional, Norm, squeezing that station idea in the nick of time. We'll wrap up the show after these messages.
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[00:50:58] Speaker D: Know what it's like to be an outsider? Well, that's how some kids treat my friend Lisa. They think she's weird or something just because she has epilepsy.
[00:51:07] Speaker C: If you have a distorted picture of kids with epilepsy, listen.
[00:51:11] Speaker D: Hi, Lisa. Epilepsy doesn't make her weird. Lisa's just like everybody else. And she's really fun to be with.
[00:51:18] Speaker C: Kids with epilepsy or any disability. Let's count them in. Get the facts. Call Epilepsy foundation of America. 1803. Three, two, 1000.
[00:51:28] Speaker A: Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. For the bleach boys. Lucky pup. Fudini Pinhead. And the lovely Doris I. Pana. Toothpaste. Salapatica. Countryside. Let's pretend. Nyla Mack. Uncle Bill. Cream of wheat. Can openers. Watching one's sodium intake. Practicing safe soup. Not wearing pants. Laying bricks. John Uhler II. The Tall. Chris Lemon. Little Jerry Coleman. Fred Tapioca. Rich and poor. Julia Jean. Mildred Francis. Suffering from traffic congestion. Norm's verie impression. John Williams. Nick Nolte. Cockamamie sound effects. Soreheads. Winston Churchill's great quote. It's an enigma inside a pincushion. Wrapped inside a dream. Inside a butterfly in a pad of butter. The romance of the titsi fly gold bond keep it in your sneaker pawns. Cold cream. Boston's most eligible bachelor guide, 1991 edition. Ben Webster on tenor sacks devoid of reality. Constitution, tax services first day, the North American home Show, the Bayside Expo center, between the bookends with Ted Malone, radio poet.
You know, let's bring that back. Francis J. Cronin, Edgar. Guest old time Radio Roy Galant, Dave Maynard, Tom Bergeron, Warren Shepard, Daryl Gould, Jack Hart and the tallest guy in the crowd, Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
