Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This episode 184 for those keeping score at home is an interesting one. It's a collection of Norm Nathan shows from April 5 and possibly June 5 and July 9 of 1995. Hey, I'm just going off what's written on the cassette. Let me give you the title. An eclectic mishmash. Now I'll explain. It begins with Norm speaking with a guest named Ed from Kent, Washington, about opening a classic style gas station or collecting classic gas station memorabilia. Then we have a very brief call with Dave. Next, Norm is hanging on every word from Fred in New Jersey, whose latest tale had Norm raising an eyebrow again until Freds friend Prunella gets on the line and verifies the wackiness, including yet another Fred Fable. We hear a promo for WBZ Sports Saturday and then stepped through a portal into the Jack Hart traffic sponsor zone. That's right. Amassed here is a collection that includes preparation h, true value, foxwoods, thrifty car rental, Exxon massport, Star Market, John Deere and Dunkin donuts. There's a commercial for tweeter and the Grundig yacht Boy 400 shortwave radio, voiced by Bill Lawrence.
Jack's alter ego makes an appearance as Paul Drake delivers a traffic report for WBNW. Next is Norm talking with the creator of the game, daring passages, but we don't get to play.
Ken Newman has a cameo with another traffic report. Josh Binswanger intros Jack with, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, you guessed it, traffic. Finally, back to Norm, promoting a couple of guests. Coming up, David Nemeck and Richard Dubrov. Norm shares a Henry Morgan story about reading a commercial for the Eversharp Schick injector Razr. And then we have some more calls. David, Sandy or Cindy couldn't quite understand correcting Norm's grammar. Marion Gloucester weighing in on the haddock cod scraw debate, Joan in Schenectady, New York, and Paul in New York, who host a talk show on Saturdays and Sundays on WCGY. You may want to print this out, you know, just to help you keep up. Episode 184, an eclectic mishmash stirs its way to your ears.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: No, but it. It's kind of like it's really a recreation of an old fashioned gas station. Is that what the idea is, Ed?
[00:02:36] Speaker C: Yes, it is. Yeah, it's.
Excuse me. We got a 1922 farmhouse out here.
You know, we made it look old like that, with the gas pumps out there and the old Coca Cola machines and signs and all that.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: What now, what year are you talking about that you want to recreate?
[00:02:57] Speaker C: Well, it's actually, the gas pumps that I've got out on the island are from the late fifties, early to late fifties, but yet the styling of the garage is more from the forties and thirties.
But I've got gas pumps out here from 1905.
A curbside pump, and I got a 1924 glass top gravity feed pump, and I got 50. I just picked up a couple more, so I'm back up to 52 pumps.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: That's kind of wild. How long you been doing this?
[00:03:37] Speaker C: Oh, three years.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
Tell me where Kent, Washington, is.
[00:03:43] Speaker C: It's between Seattle and Tacoma.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Seattle and Tacoma. Because Seattle is right on the coast. Yeah, and where. I forgot what Tacoma is that.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: Well, Tacoma is basically on the coast, too. It's. It's surrounded by the Puget Sound also.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: Okay, two. 5410. 30. Let's take a couple of more calls, and we'll take some more. Saturday, May 20. May 24. Yeah? Was the first day I started broadcasting so that we're coming up to my 51st year in the business. Isn't that ridiculous?
[00:04:16] Speaker C: Well, my mother says she's been keeping you company all these years and helping you out. So.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: She has. Without your mom, I would have been out of this business years ago.
[00:04:26] Speaker C: We knew that. I'll tell her that tomorrow.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Thanks, David. I appreciate it.
[00:04:29] Speaker C: God bless, Norm.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: God bless you. Bye bye now. Okay, two. 5410. 30. I have to talk to you some more in just a minute, but first I'll consult, sir.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: Now, when I picked the mouse up, because the mouse got burned. When I picked it up to see what was wrong with it, it bit me in the finger. And now the bite is infected.
But I don't know if I have anything to worry about because it lived in the house for so long. It's probably not dirty anyway.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: Probably not rabid, eh?
[00:04:56] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Okay. But you. You're gonna get checked out anyway, I would think.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Well, I guess if the redness stays around the bite. It's a very tiny bite.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: Well, if it's. If it's a rabid mouse, you ought to get. You know, you. You'd want to take care of it right away.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: I don't think it was rabid because it's a. It was a big brown mouse with a white belly, had big eyes and big ears, and it was very dumb looking. It would sit on the kitchen counter and look at me while I was eating. I mean, it was very tame.
I feel very bad that I put the toaster on when it was in there.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Where is the mouse now? Is the mouse still in your house?
[00:05:30] Speaker C: No, it died.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: How did it die?
[00:05:33] Speaker C: The cat finally attacked it. The house cat finally attacked it. Who would never attack it before now? I don't know whether the cat did that because it was thick or the cat didn't like me touching it. I have no idea why the cat finally attacked it after two years, but I know it was the same mouth.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:52] Speaker C: Now, I mean, that's. That really. That really happened. And it's really true. That's not. You know, I just. I just mentioned that I don't feel so good because I got this infection on my finger. But I have a friend who doesn't want to talk to you.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: I get friends like that, too. We don't want to talk.
[00:06:09] Speaker C: I'm at her house right now. She's listening on the radio. She won't talk to you, but I asked her if she would tell you what happened to her. She went to a store where they have these electric carts. Yeah, she's disabled.
And she got in the electric car and she really. She doesn't know how to drive it. She smashed into a display and knocked it down when she created a panic in the store. When she got out in the parking lot, something happened to the. To the adjustment on the electricity, and the thing got away from her. She was. It was racing through the parking lot, down the hill with her, screaming for somebody to help her. She had no control over it.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: Oh, gee.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: Now you're going to tell me you don't believe that either.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: I highly believe anything you say.
[00:06:55] Speaker C: Hold on, Norman. Hold on.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:57] Speaker C: This is the last time you're going to tell me you don't believe anything.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:02] Speaker D: Hello, Norman.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:07:05] Speaker D: Hi.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: What's your name?
[00:07:07] Speaker D: Prunella.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Prunella. Okay. Now you're gonna vouch for what Fred has been saying.
[00:07:12] Speaker D: It definitely happened, you know, about the mouse daughter. And my daughter was yelling and screaming, mom, where are you going?
I thought I was on the runaway railroad.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: Okay, now, see, I can believe that story because you sound credible. Do you know anything? Were you an eyewitness to this mouse story?
[00:07:31] Speaker D: I wasn't an eyewitness, but I can see the sore on his finger.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And you think this?
[00:07:37] Speaker D: Believe me, you don't know Freddie? Or maybe you do know Freddie. No, I definitely happened to him. Believe me.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: You did when he come closer, because I don't want everybody to hear this, especially Freddie.
All these weird things always happen to Fred. And I never hear anybody else talking about things quite so weird that happened to them. So after a while, you become quite suspicious.
[00:08:02] Speaker D: No, I understand. But you should hear my stories.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Oh, maybe. Maybe you're both weird. I don't know.
[00:08:09] Speaker D: We sure are.
But it's fun weird, and they actually do happen. Some night when I'm in the mood, I'll give you a call and let you know, let you. Let you know a few more things that have happened. But that is true. It is true about the mouse and embellished a bit, but it is true also about the shopping cart. And, I mean, I just took off. I thought I was going to be a piece of roadkill.
It was just terrible.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: No, that is kind of scary. I'm glad you got out of that.
[00:08:36] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I was able to stop it. I turned the wheel and was able to, you know, get some control of it.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: But you think basically Fred is, is quite reliable in these stories?
[00:08:49] Speaker D: Oh, yes.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: Because he told me one story one time about having met this beautiful woman in a club. Do you know that story?
[00:08:58] Speaker D: Which club? Which woman?
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Well, it was a woman in a club. And she invited him to his home.
[00:09:05] Speaker D: Inviting him to his home, to her.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Home, which was an expensive home in some expensive area.
[00:09:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: And it turned out that this beautiful woman turned out to be a man.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:09:18] Speaker D: That was on Long Beach island. Yes, that did happen.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: That really did happen. You're telling that really did happen.
[00:09:24] Speaker D: As a matter of fact, I know the person because he had pointed it, you know the person out to me after that. And yes, it happened on Long Beach island. Down here in Jersey, definitely.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: Okay, so you will endorse that story?
[00:09:36] Speaker D: I will. I certainly will.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Son of a gun. That spoils everything.
I wanted to believe that Fred lived in a. In a. In a dream world, in a fantasy world, and made up all these things. And now you're suggesting that maybe he doesn't. That he's telling the truth.
[00:09:51] Speaker D: Well, believe me, he's a very interesting person and he's a lot of fun. But, you know, certain things do happen to some people sometimes, and more so than other people. He's very interesting. Like I said, a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And believe him. Believe him. Believe me. You know, he really is. Well, like I said, maybe a little embellishment here and there, but no, he's. He's pretty credible.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Okay. A little embellishment I can take. But I always have a feeling he's sitting down there before he makes a phone call and is dreaming up these things. So he's got this kind of wild story to tell, and I'm. I'm. I've been convinced that none of this stuff ever happened.
[00:10:31] Speaker D: Oh, no, no, it's true.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I.
[00:10:33] Speaker D: You know, I don't know how to tell you that it. You know, it is true. I know it's true because he doesn't lie. He really doesn't lie. You know, like I said, a lot of interesting things happened to him. He.
I don't know what he has told you because I don't listen to the radio that often, but a lot of interesting things do happen. And believe him. Believe him. You know, don't take it with a grain of salt. It really does happen. I know it's true about the mouse. I know. Definitely it's true.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: And you know it's true about the beautiful woman who was really a man.
[00:11:08] Speaker D: Yes, yes, definitely.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: That was really true.
[00:11:10] Speaker D: How about another story? Did he ever tell you? What other ones has he told you?
Do you remember anything?
[00:11:17] Speaker B: No. Offhand, I can't think of anything that comes to mind readily. But he has told me other stories. But that was the most graphic, and that's one of the first things he ever told me. And then about a mouse living on the bottom of his toaster. Doesn't that. Wouldn't that sound a little suspicious to you if you didn't know Fred?
[00:11:37] Speaker D: Sure.
Definitely, definitely.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: And then this beautiful woman who took him out to his house in this plush estate and turned out to be a man. Wouldn't you be suspicious of that kind of a story?
[00:11:48] Speaker D: Well, no, not down here.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Not down there.
[00:11:51] Speaker D: You see an awful lot down here on the Jersey shore, believe me. No, that doesn't surprise me at all. Ask him some time to tell you the story about Sonny the elephant.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: I don't think I'm ready for that one just yet.
[00:12:04] Speaker D: You'll love that one.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Sonny the elephant.
[00:12:07] Speaker D: Sunny the elephant. Yeah, yeah, Sonny the elephant. And. Yeah, that's a pretty. You know, there's a couple of pretty good stories around that one. And he'll tell you someday. I guess he would. You know.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, how do you know that? So were you there during the.
[00:12:21] Speaker D: Yes, I was part of that.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Oh, you. Okay, so you're vouching for.
[00:12:25] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, I was part of a few of them. But, you know, these things just more or less, like, fall into his laugh at times. Yeah. Like I said, he's very interesting. He's a lot of fun.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, now, what kind of a relationship do you have with Fred?
[00:12:37] Speaker D: I know Fred a long time. Very, very good friends.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: I see.
[00:12:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:12:42] Speaker D: And I.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Well, I appreciate that.
I'm sorry. Tell me your name again.
[00:12:49] Speaker D: Prunella.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Prunella.
[00:12:51] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: See, even that sounds phony. Well, I'm sorry.
[00:12:57] Speaker D: I wish I could have my mother.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: No, no, that's okay. We'll just call your city or town clerk and check on you. No, no, you sound. You sound credible. And if you say that Fred tells the truth all the time. No, he does, but just embellishes a bit.
[00:13:12] Speaker D: Okay, I'm believing that lies.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: Oh, I see. So now what am I? What?
[00:13:17] Speaker C: How?
[00:13:17] Speaker B: I see. Cause I was wondering. What am I supposed to believe now?
Hey, I wish you both well, and I hope you both have a nice weekend.
[00:13:25] Speaker D: Yes, you, too.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Now take care, dear. Bye bye. Prunella.
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[00:16:07] Speaker C: Oh, that town from the Sound of Music, that's Salzburg, so it's the name of that puzzle is called Mozart's window. Then we have jewel in the night, which is a panoramic of the Tower of London. We've got palace of devotion, which is a panoramic of the Taj Mahal hall in India. We have monumental reflections, which is a puzzle of Mount McKinley, Alaska, reflected off a glacier lake called Wonder Lake, up in Denali National park in Alaska. And then our last daring puzzle is called American Echoes, and it's panoramic of the Grand Canyon.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: And I'm sorry, does that series have a name?
[00:16:46] Speaker C: It's called daring Puzzles is the series.
Each version has its own title and has its own sort of label, so they're different looking, even though they all come in the black bottle packaging. And then with each puzzle, as we said, comes a scroll, a story that kind of puts you into that puzzle and you learn something about each location. So it's kind of fun. And it's a puzzle adventure series.
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[00:20:56] Speaker D: Whenever you busy in Boston, Nathan show.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
We'll be here through the night. Well, you knew that anyway. And for the first couple hours or so, I'm gonna talk baseball.
I'm not talking about today's scores or anything of that type, but a couple of interesting topics. One is a league that was started back a few years, like in the end of the 19th century, called the Beer and Whiskey League. It was called the American association. At that point, the only major league was the National League, as we refer to it today, as the senior circuit. The American League had always, the junior circuit hadn't been started yet, and this was an interesting league. And a man named David Nemeck has written a book about it, which is absolutely fascinating. We'll talk with him in just a little bit.
A lot of the rules, although the league didn't last, it lasted less than ten years.
It was very influential, changing a lot of the baseball rules that are still in effect to this very, very moment. And then later on, we'll talk with Richard Dubrov, who was the author of a book called how, how was the game of fans journey around baseball. And he talks about his kind of an odyssey around the baseball parks that exist today and have existed over the past few years, a little more current view of baseball. And he has a lot of opinions, not only about Fenway park, but about Boston and of course, all the other baseball parks throughout the country and how we can improve baseball. Anyway, our phone number, I'll tell you the phone number. Don't call just yet, because I want to talk with David Niemeck first, and then Richard Dubrov. 254-1030 area code 617. But we'll open it up a little bit later on and you can add your comments. And I would be just sedan grateful to hear from you. We'll talk about the history of the American association, baseball's renegade major league.
You could hear him on being rebroadcast, in a sense, on Henry Morgan's microphone. And Henry Morgan would, you know, then throw in comments? Oh, yeah. Oh, sure. Whatever he said. But he would talk back at Lowell Thomas, who was doing his regular show, which either became illegal soon after that or was illegal all that time. But you can't just take somebody's program and broadcast it on your own station without permission and all that kind of stuff.
[00:23:38] Speaker C: Didn't bother him?
[00:23:39] Speaker B: No, it didn't bother him at all.
[00:23:40] Speaker C: He.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: But he would come up with, you know, these wild things that, that were very, very, very funny. He was a very creative kind of guy. I mentioned yesterday that or sometime that he was advertising at one time, the ever sharp schick injector razor. Remember that? When I first came on, you were able to shave very quickly without hurting yourself and all of that. And part of his pitch and the commercials were just wild. Part of the pitch here was he said, the Evershot shick injector razor people were putting, he said in the event, in the rare event that you happen to cut yourself, the chick injector people were putting vitamins in the blade so that if you did cut yourself, it would go directly into your bloodstream. The vitamins would, and I'm phrasing it very badly, but, but, you know, nobody who's advertising razor blades even suggest that you might cut yourself.
And he had one scene. He was showing how quickly you could shave with it.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: Where did you go to school?
[00:24:47] Speaker B: I went to, I grew up in Everett.
[00:24:49] Speaker D: Everett.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: What college you go to?
[00:24:52] Speaker B: I didn't.
[00:24:53] Speaker C: You didn't?
[00:24:54] Speaker B: No. I know it sounds like I'm an intellectual, but you really don't. That's fine.
[00:24:58] Speaker C: You put up a good front. I know almost anybody.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: I'm a fake. It's all a fraud. No, I never did. I've taken some courses here or there, but I never enrolled formally. I just wanted to get at the radio from high school, so I got in. My first job was the day before I graduated high school. I would not do it that way again or what I advise anybody. I think, going to, I would go to college and I would love to. Maybe I still enroll. Or maybe I can be a 10 zero year old college graduate that they write these funny stories about. Yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker C: Never too late.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: Among the graduates here, I know an.
[00:25:34] Speaker C: 82 year old grandmother in Florida who just graduated college.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Hey, it's not too late for me, David. Yeah.
[00:25:40] Speaker C: You're younger than us.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: You're inspiring me.
[00:25:43] Speaker C: There's one last thing before I leave you. I missed most of the conversation on screw most of the definition. But you must have heard the joke.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Cab driver, the past. Practical.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: Perfect.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: Right.
Hey, thanks a lot, David. Bye bye. Okay, we're coming up the news. We're gonna have time after to talk with Don and Sandy and Mary and Joe and Marilyn. I'm making up those last couple. We'll have a lot of people on. On the line. Hang in there. News coming along. Then we'll talk after that. Okay. We have about another 20 minutes after that.
[00:26:16] Speaker D: Ouch.
What? What's that? Embarrassment. Oh, Ovaltine. I have drank it.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:26:24] Speaker D: You said you stood back.
Do you remember?
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Not exactly. I don't. I try not to remember anything I've said.
[00:26:33] Speaker D: Anyway, somebody was asking you about what color you went to, and you said, well, you didn't get.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: Oh, I said I stood back in the 8th grade.
[00:26:40] Speaker D: I guess I did. In the 8th grade?
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:43] Speaker D: Oh, no, you let me down.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Why is that?
[00:26:46] Speaker D: Because, of course, you said I stood back. That meant. You said you. You did stand all the way.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Well, no, I mean, that was just. That was a phrase that we used to use for.
[00:26:58] Speaker D: Oh, never, never make a mistake in grammar.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: No, Sandy, I don't. I don't really consider that a mistake. We. When you get flunked out a year of school, you'd say, I stood. I stood back.
[00:27:11] Speaker D: No, no, no, you stood.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Of all the things I've said over the past 51 years, you're going to pick on me for that? Oh, Sandy.
[00:27:19] Speaker D: Well, I thought I'd get you.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: And now you want me to take you to the senior.
[00:27:23] Speaker D: Pretty soon you're going to go back and talk about the gout.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: I don't think so. Not if I can help. If we want. I think we pretty well cover the gout. I will talk about other diseases, if you'd like.
[00:27:34] Speaker D: Oh, no, please get on with those. Okay, tell me about those. Well, I just.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: I'll never do that again, I swear.
[00:27:42] Speaker D: You stood back.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: I'll never do that again.
[00:27:45] Speaker D: It's like running your finger across the blackboard.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Oh, you're an awful sound. Oh, I needed that. Sandy, I'll be good from now on. I promise you, I'll be good.
[00:27:55] Speaker D: Okay. All right. I just want you to know I'm a steady listener.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: I appreciate that.
[00:28:00] Speaker D: Very first time I called.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad. I'm glad I made the mistake then, because this. Otherwise you still wouldn't have called.
[00:28:06] Speaker D: Know, I think I might have if I'd gotten up enough ambition. But this time I had to wait. And I waited.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad you got on. And I'm glad I'm glad to have heard from you.
[00:28:17] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Take care.
[00:28:18] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: Bye bye.
[00:28:19] Speaker D: Bye bye.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Okay. I'll never make that mistake again, although it was good to make that mistake. Otherwise, you know, I wouldn't have got to talk them to her. Marion Gloucester. Hello.
[00:28:31] Speaker D: Hi, Norm. How are you?
[00:28:32] Speaker B: I'm fine, thank you. How are you?
[00:28:34] Speaker D: Well, I am the authority on fish, so I thought I'd add.
[00:28:39] Speaker B: That's right.
If somebody from Gloucester is not an authority on fish, I don't know who would be.
[00:28:46] Speaker D: Who is?
[00:28:47] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:28:47] Speaker D: Well, first of all, scrod was used to denote a small haddock, but with the demise of the haddock, it kind of applies to any small, small brand of fish, like a small cod fish or a small pollock. Now, so when you see scroud on the menu, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get headache.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Okay. So it could be, does it indicate kind of, like the fish of the day or something like that?
Catch of the day?
[00:29:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: Okay. I think we started out that way, and then I got so many comments from so many people going in various kind of directions, I guess everybody, to.
[00:29:30] Speaker D: Take faith out there. There's so many people in Gloucester against the ban on fishing because it's kind of eliminating their livelihood.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: I know.
[00:29:41] Speaker D: Exactly. I went out on the party boat the past couple of weeks, and they're catching a lot of small haddock, and I haven't seen haddock in about five or six years around here. They also had a couple of good sized ones, like eight or nine pounds, but they had, you know, they were just undersized. Now they have a limit in the size, like they do on freshwater fish. And the haddock and the codfish have to be at least 19 inches long before they can keep them. But they were catching a lot of small ones, so they are coming back.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: Okay, so that's the good news then.
[00:30:20] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: Oh, that's, that's good. And this, the ban on the fishing, like what at Georgia's bank and that kind of stuff.
I know that's kind of tough when you make your living fishing and to be told you can't fish here or whatever, and obviously, it's going to be a financial drain on a lot of the fishermen who.
But would there be any other solution to that rather than overfishing to the point where we'd end up with nothing, no fish?
[00:30:52] Speaker D: You know, the, the ocean is so big that everybody thought it was just a inexhaustible area and that they could catch whatever they wanted to catch. And that used to be the way of fishing in the old days was to, you know, how much fish you could bring in, made you like, you know, the top one of the fishing people there. But just like everything else, you need to have conservation. You can't just use up and not replace or not restore.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was driving at. So it's kind of interesting that you, you know, from Gloucester and. And certainly aware of the fishing industry and all that, still, you're not opposed to this limitation of fishing, because you seem to be suggesting that in the future it'll help.
[00:31:50] Speaker D: I think so. I don't think it'll ever come back to where it was. But I think down the line now that they've taken these steps, that there will be some kind of fishing industry, there might be not what they're expecting today, but there'll be some type of form of fishing that people can still go out commercially and catch fish.
[00:32:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you like fish? You appreciate it yourself? Yeah, I am. I am, too. I've got to really, really like it a whole lot the past few years. I never cared for it when I was a kid. Then again, our taste do change as we get older, I guess, or as we become adults.
Anyway, I appreciate talking to you, and I appreciate the definition of scrat. I take yours as the authentic one. I shall post it on the bulletin board here in the teen canteen.
[00:32:43] Speaker D: Well, being a nurse, that comes right under my category.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: Okay. You're practicing nurse right now.
[00:32:49] Speaker D: Yep. I'm at work right now. I listen to you every night here on the weekends. I love you. Like, people hear me chuckling to my. As they go by, and she goes, oh, she wasn't Norm again.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: I'm very flattered, Mary. Thanks, Amelia.
[00:33:04] Speaker D: Have a good day.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: You, too. Bye bye. That's. That's really nice. Okay, let's go to Joan in New York. Hey, Joan.
[00:33:13] Speaker D: Hello.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: Hi, Joan. How you doing?
[00:33:15] Speaker D: Joan is connectivity Joe.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Well, I said New York. I meant New York state.
[00:33:20] Speaker D: I said Newport. No, I have a trivia question.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:33:24] Speaker D: You mentioned Brian Dennehy.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:33:27] Speaker D: You know, he has a daughter who's an actress.
[00:33:31] Speaker B: I didn't know that.
[00:33:32] Speaker D: I didn't. Do you know what soap opera she was on?
[00:33:36] Speaker B: No. I didn't even know he had a daughter. So anything. Anything, you tell me.
[00:33:40] Speaker D: Another. Another daughter of a very famous person were on this certain soap opera together, but they were such good friends and fooled around so much and were late, and they both got fired at the same time.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:33:54] Speaker D: So you don't know I have no idea.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: No. Do you know the answer then?
[00:33:58] Speaker D: Yeah, it's one that's been on the very longest. It was on radio for years before it was on television. So it's the very longest running soap. A guiding light.
[00:34:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That was on radio for. Yeah, what, 25 years or something? And I think it's been on radio and television combined about 50 years.
[00:34:18] Speaker D: Yeah. It had papa Bauer and Burt Bauer. So for us.
[00:34:21] Speaker B: But not now. Now, his daughter. What is her name? You know her first name?
[00:34:27] Speaker D: No, I don't know her name. Forgotten her name.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Does she use the name Dennehy is her last name?
[00:34:33] Speaker D: I think she did, yeah. But the other girl of the famous person was Robert Goulet's daughter from his first marriage.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:34:42] Speaker D: Nothing? Not the marriage to the.
The singer actress, but his first marriage.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:34:49] Speaker D: And she was a very pretty redhead, and then his daughter was a very pretty, cute little blonde.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: Now, are they both acting now or they.
[00:34:59] Speaker D: I don't know if they're still acting after they got fired. I never saw them on another.
Another show, but they. They could be. I don't know.
[00:35:07] Speaker B: But they. But they got fired because they knew each day they were kidding around a.
[00:35:11] Speaker D: Little bit much, and they were late. And so when they both got fired together.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Isn't that awful? What a way to lose a job.
Yeah. I appreciate the information. I had no idea about that.
[00:35:24] Speaker D: Yeah. So that was a trivia for you. You didn't know?
[00:35:27] Speaker B: I didn't know. I failed miserably.
I fell right in my face. You won the. You won the fight, Joe.
[00:35:34] Speaker D: No, I won the fight.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah, because I didn't know, and you knew, so I failed.
[00:35:41] Speaker D: Do I win anything?
[00:35:44] Speaker B: You. Well, you. You win the.
I don't know. You win. The feeling that. That you. You. That I become humbled by my lack of knowledge about this situation. That's a victory.
[00:35:56] Speaker D: How do you get on your. Your guessing of the ages?
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Oh, just call any night, because I mentioned a few times before, we actually play the game and stuff anybody would like, you just. Just give a call, and then we call you back so that we're paying the phone bill. And you don't have to worry about that for that whole hour during the.
[00:36:16] Speaker D: Middle of it, so I didn't know.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Okay. We'll be doing it again next Friday night, Saturday. Just. Just call toward the beginning of the program, and we'll work it out.
[00:36:25] Speaker D: You do it two nights, then?
[00:36:27] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:27] Speaker D: Okay. Okay.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: Okay. Thanks a lot. Bye bye.
Okay, let's talk with. Let me see. How about. Oh, Paul, who's in New York also. Hi, Paul.
[00:36:41] Speaker C: Good morning to you, Norm.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: How you doing? Good.
[00:36:44] Speaker C: I really just wanted to call to say that I really enjoy listening to you.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: Well, thank you.
[00:36:49] Speaker C: I work on the radio every Saturday and Sunday. Oh, where do you work at Wgy?
[00:36:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's one of the big stations. Yeah, Wg wide Schenectady. You're calling from, are you? You're not far from where that woman just called?
[00:37:06] Speaker C: Um, no. Well, actually, I drive from, uh, beautiful downtown Troy into, uh, connected.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: And not too many people are willing to admit that.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: So, uh, it's been a long time I've been to Troy and, uh, and Albany, and I mentioned water fleet in that area also, but it's been quite some time since I've been out that way. Although I have, uh, I have a nephew who lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which isn't all that far from there on that side of, you know. Right. Right near the New York border. Now, what kind of a show do you do?
[00:37:38] Speaker C: I talk show on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Now, do you talk politics and stuff? Mostly. Probably a lot heavier than the silliness that we do here.
[00:37:46] Speaker C: Well, I try to stay out of the politics as much as possible.
[00:37:49] Speaker B: Now, what do you do in that case? What kind of stuff do you talk about?
[00:37:53] Speaker C: Usually. Usually a stupid question.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: Okay. So you sound. Sounds like this program, really just kind of a silly program to make people chuckle a little bit.
[00:38:03] Speaker C: Yeah, we try.
I gotta tell you, Norm, I get the biggest hoot when you start talking about old Boston radio, especially the stories that come out of wmes.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. The worst station in the entire world.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: I've heard some of those stories, and. And I just get a big laugh out of that. I don't know if you've ever been on any of the computer bulletin boards. Sometimes your name comes up.
[00:38:29] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:38:30] Speaker C: And one time somebody had posted a note about you, very complimentary. And then the legendary Charlie Van Dyke.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, sure.
[00:38:41] Speaker C: Had mentioned your name and said how. How nicer guy you are.
[00:38:47] Speaker B: Oh, he's not nice, because he's one of the nicest guys in the business. I worked with him just a little short time at WRKO. He was program director there for a while. But here's a guy with a voice that's about nine levels below sea level or something. Beautiful, rich voice and a very nice.
[00:39:04] Speaker C: Man on one of. One of the voices that you hear on probably almost every television station in. In the country. Yeah, he does a lot of announcing on tv stations.
[00:39:18] Speaker B: Is he? Do you know if he's still in air? Is it Arizona?
[00:39:21] Speaker C: Yeah, he's. From what I. From what I can tell, he's in Scottsdale.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. I'd like to pin it down and maybe give him a call one day, because he was one of the nicest bosses I ever had. And you know how rare those can be in that field.
[00:39:37] Speaker C: In this business, there's very few far between.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: I know it. I get to sign off. And about the fact that I supposed to be signing up right this very second, I hope you'll call earlier one night we can talk a little bit more. But it's been a pleasure talking with you.
[00:39:49] Speaker C: Very nice talking to you too, Norman.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: Thanks a million. Thank you. It is time to say goodbye on behalf of our entire crew, the lovely hope shower, the lovely Marilyn Garonnek, myself, the almost good looking Norm Nathan person. Tonight we'll be back at eleven if you can join me for just a couple hours tonight. I appreciate it. Have a great day. Bye bye, old sport. From WBZ Boston 420.
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The evershop shick injector razor. Ovaltine. Staying back in 8th grade. Haddock cod, scrod. George's bank. Commercial fishing, Gloucester. Being humbled by a lack of knowledge. WGY radio. Wmex wrko, wbnw. Charlie Van Dyke. Hope Shower. Paul Drake. Ken Newman. Jack Hart. And the almost good looking Norm Nathan person. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
