Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: In a minute.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Hey, you okay? We're back.
Hello, all, and welcome back to another episode of Norm Nathan's vault of Silliness. Today we have a dumb birthday game from May 27, 1992, which I've titled whether or not the players. Ann from south Boston, Ted in Ottawa, Bobby in south Boston, Rob from Dorchester. I'm on the phone seeking Norm's doctorly advice. We have Lynn Palumba, who's producing, and on the phone for master control, and Jack Hard, the Vincent Price, Henry Kissinger, Lee Merryweather, Lew Gossett, Bruce Weitz, and Herman wook event in history. The Golden Gate bridge was opened in what year? We are also entertained by some commercials, M. Steinerd and sons, the Scotia prince, voiced by Tom Bergeron, paperama and purity supreme. And we close with one, the beautiful Robert from Everett. Episode 186, whether or not drifts its way to your ears now.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Okay, it's time to play the dumb birthday game. And what a thrilling moment this all is, as I'm sure you'll agree. And let's find out who's on our panel. Ann from South Boston is. Hi, Ann.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: Hi, Norm. How are you?
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Okay, thank you. How you doing?
[00:01:25] Speaker C: Very good.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Okay, we have Ted, who's up in Ottawa, Canada.
[00:01:29] Speaker D: Good morning again, Norm. And Jack.
[00:01:31] Speaker E: How's the weather?
[00:01:33] Speaker A: You're being wise. I'm not gonna plug him in for a while so he can't respond to you just yet.
[00:01:39] Speaker D: I'll get a leader.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Okay. Hey, Bobby, how you doing in South Boston also, huh?
[00:01:43] Speaker E: Hey, how are you, nami. Good.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Have you played the game with us before?
[00:01:47] Speaker E: Never. Hey, I've listened a lot.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Okay. Hey, well, it's nice to have you with us. I appreciate you calling.
[00:01:52] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Okay. We have Robert, who's in Dorchester. Hi, Robert.
[00:01:55] Speaker E: How you doing?
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Okay, thanks. Oh, hey, it's Rob.
[00:01:58] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: Oh, well, good. I'm glad that you're with us.
[00:02:00] Speaker E: First time I ever played it.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Hey, you'll be a champion. You and Bobby and the other first time players, you'll come through. And we have. Hey, Tony Nesbitt is on one of the lines. Hi, Tony.
[00:02:12] Speaker D: Hey, Norm.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Hey, how you. How you doing?
[00:02:14] Speaker D: You know, I know you're a doctor.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Yes, I am a doctor, and I.
[00:02:18] Speaker D: Have a nagging cough.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: A nagging cough.
[00:02:21] Speaker D: But I'm not experiencing any chest pain or discomfort.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: I see.
[00:02:25] Speaker D: I was wondering what you could recommend.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: I would recommend a glass of tea. A big, tall glass of hot tea with a little bit of strawberry jam to sweeten it up.
[00:02:37] Speaker D: You know, just. Just knowing that you're there for me a call 24 hours a day, and.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Of course, makes me feel better already.
Oh, wait a minute.
[00:02:45] Speaker D: I'm sorry. That was asking her.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: No, no, I thought. No, I am. I happen to be a nurse also. I'm the only doctor who's also a registered nurse.
[00:02:53] Speaker D: And you look great in the script, by the way.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: I do. I'm also a patient because I want to know all facets of this. I'm also the director of a large metropolitan hospital.
[00:03:04] Speaker D: See, I knew there was a reason I called.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: I also make bandages because medicine, as you know, is my life.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: I know. I know. If only everyone else knew how much you're absorbed into it.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: When I see somebody recovering from sickness and thanking me, kissing my fingers, the kind of treatment I've given them, it's all the gratitude that I really need.
[00:03:28] Speaker D: You're so absorbed, you're like a sterile gauze pad.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: You see, I'm so absorbed in my work that didn't even seem funny because. Because I can't make you work in a hospital. I can't make light of medicine. Medicine is everything. I think I'll take some of my medicine. Take one of my inhalers, you say.
[00:03:47] Speaker D: Whitehead, get a glass of water.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: I think I will. Are we being silly? No.
[00:03:54] Speaker D: I thought we were being very, very serious.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Very, very serious. Okay. Hey, we have Lynn Palumbo. Who?
Did somebody just hang up?
[00:04:02] Speaker C: No, I think that was me clicking myself on. Is it working?
[00:04:05] Speaker A: Oh, I see. Yeah, it's working just fine.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: Technology. Isn't it great?
[00:04:08] Speaker A: It's really lovely. This is Lynn Palumbo. I remember when you were on here, you were broadcasting from one of the microphones instead of in the control room. Lynn is our producer. At this very moment, even as we speak, you were capturing men's hearts, and I think Tony described you in a proper way. He said, you are incredibly beautiful, terribly shapely and sensuous and wearing very tight clothes.
[00:04:30] Speaker D: I was on medication at the time.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. He's just saying that to soften because he gets embarrassed.
[00:04:39] Speaker D: Last night's game, by the way, was very, very great.
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Will be better.
[00:04:44] Speaker D: Well, tonight's gonna be much better because Lynn is here, obviously.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: And we also have Jack hard, who's here today, too, but he played the sounder, so that's okay. We'll let it play in sports.
Depend on New England. Get on with it, Kurt. Get over that. WBZ Boston. Oh, shut up.
[00:05:03] Speaker D: Well, at least we know where we are now.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. This modern technology, as Lynn pointed out, can confuse you. A little bit. Okay, let me see now. Can you bring in. Can you bring in Jack for me, please? If you would, please, Jackie there. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's Jack. Okay, Jack. And the rain is coming down. Is it ready? Cold coming in by the morning right now. Is it raining? People raising. Is it raining very hard right now? Gee, I don't think it's raining torrentially.
[00:05:34] Speaker D: Is it raining at all?
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Is it raining at all? Let me look out here.
[00:05:41] Speaker D: Jack, did you have a hard time doing that ryopan plus commercial?
[00:05:48] Speaker A: As a matter of fact, I just looked out the window and there's a car pulling up. I think it's the management, so we better play a fast game. And anyway, the driveway, the park, the. Whatever we call it, the parking lot is totally dry. So here the rain is.
[00:06:02] Speaker D: So is the humor.
[00:06:03] Speaker A: The rain is not. Yeah, the rain is not coming down at all at the moment here. Now, where you are, it may be jet.
[00:06:10] Speaker D: You're broadcasting from a shower, that's why.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. Well, it's about time.
Okay, here's some. Some interesting people born on this day. I sprinkled myself with some gold on powder. When I'm done.
You smell just so darn sweet.
Lynn Palumbo is getting all.
And Ann is ready to attack you. Okay, today is May 27, and today is the day.
What was that?
Today's the day of the birthday of Vincent Price. So I'm going to ask you first, Ann, if you would tell me the. How old you think Vincent Price is on this very day.
[00:06:54] Speaker C: I'll go for 81.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: 81, you say, eh? And Ted up there in Ottawa, Canada. What do you think?
[00:07:03] Speaker D: 83.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: 83.
Bobby?
Bobby falling asleep?
[00:07:12] Speaker E: No, I'm right here.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Nami.
[00:07:15] Speaker E: I was just trying to keep the phone off my mouth while everybody else was talking.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Trying to keep the phone off your mouth? You use.
[00:07:24] Speaker D: My magic cough.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: I see.
[00:07:26] Speaker E: I didn't want to be a jerk.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Okay?
[00:07:30] Speaker E: I know Vinny's up there in age, I would say he is probably. Oh, I'm gonna go 76.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: That's the spirit.
[00:07:46] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Thank you. Okay. Are you gonna take this long every time around?
[00:07:51] Speaker E: I'm not wolfing now.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: You're certainly not. That's for sure. No, because you would have gotten in five bad jokes by then if you.
[00:08:02] Speaker D: Something like, how much does Vincent cost?
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Oh, you stole Robertson night.
Robert. Robert.
[00:08:10] Speaker E: I'm playing for him.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: You are?
[00:08:12] Speaker E: No, I'm not.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: Okay, Robert, right now, has been kidnapped and he's being held. No. Who would kidnap Robert? That was a stupid comment. Here's another Robert. We have Robert. Not Robert, actually. Rob, who's in Dorchester. Hey, Rob, how you doing? I'm doing okay. That isn't why I called on you. I was hoping you guessed how old you thought Vincent Price was today.
[00:08:36] Speaker E: I'll say 80.
82.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: 82. Okay. And Tony?
[00:08:45] Speaker D: 80. I'll say 81. Also.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: 81. The same as Ann.
[00:08:49] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Okay. And Lynn?
[00:08:53] Speaker C: 84.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: 84.
[00:08:55] Speaker D: That was my second guess.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Jack, I got your third guess. Let's see what he said. Jack, what do you think?
I'll say, you know, 84 sounds darn good.
[00:09:09] Speaker D: You're right. It was my third.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: He was second guessing himself. Okay, now we're going to check the actual age of Vincent Price. And this is the exciting moment when we find out who has won this first round, which is a crucial round. Vincent Price actually is 81.
Tony and Ann both had it right on the butt. Holy smoke. How did you do that, Ann? Did you. Did you know exactly that his age? Or were you just guessing?
Oh, really?
How in heaven's name would you know that?
[00:09:49] Speaker C: Because I seen a biography of him in the paper once.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: So she just did the math.
[00:09:55] Speaker D: And that's. And that's what he said. He didn't want to give his actual birthday, he said, but I was found.
[00:09:59] Speaker C: Out how old my grandmother's going to be. So I figured.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: And you were subtracted a year or added a year or something.
[00:10:05] Speaker D: I read that biography, by the way. He didn't want to give the year he was born. He just said, I'm one year older than Ann's grandmother.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: I think everybody's talking on put together phones.
[00:10:20] Speaker D: I think there was a little interference from, like, the planet x.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: Okay. Today is secretary of state, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who shows up on television whenever there's a world crisis, whether you want him to be there or not.
And I think that what's happening there is that we should organize our forces involved in war anyway. Just kind of automatically. Automatically. There he is. Anyway, that's beside the point. Let's ask Jack Hart. You go first. If you reject the actual age today of Henry Kissinger, well, in case he's listening, I don't want to be insult. I don't want to insult him, so I'll be diplomatic.
That's a good boy. That's a very good boy.
68, 68 years old. We'll mark that down on the green sheet.
[00:11:15] Speaker D: Mark it down on the green card.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: On the green card, too. And, Lynn, what would you say?
[00:11:23] Speaker C: Henry Kissinger.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: 72, 72 years old is Henry Kissinger.
[00:11:37] Speaker E: That's very good.
[00:11:38] Speaker D: Rough Jack Benny.
[00:11:39] Speaker E: They're doing Kissinger.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Okay.
I'm 39 years old.
Tony, what do you think?
[00:11:48] Speaker D: I'll have to say he's pushing a governmental 69.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: A 69? You're saying the same as Jack hard?
[00:11:59] Speaker D: No, he said 68, didn't he?
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Oh, you said 69. Did you not check? Oh, I said 68. Did you? Uh huh. I wrote down 69. Shame on me. Okay, Rob, what do you think?
[00:12:11] Speaker E: I'll say 70.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: 70.
[00:12:15] Speaker E: When you do that imitation, it sounds like Alpha Godfrey and slow mo.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: I purposely do it that way because it's a very hard imitation. Nobody does Henry Kissinger like Arthur Godfrey in slow motion as a result.
[00:12:35] Speaker C: Hello?
[00:12:37] Speaker A: What is that?
That was interesting. That was kind of fun. Hold on a minute. I think I have a call on call waiting. I'll be right back with you. Hello?
No, I'm on the air right now.
That was acting, what I just did.
Hey, Bobby, what do you think?
[00:12:59] Speaker E: I don't know. I think he was always. I think he was always old when he was.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: He was actually born at the age of 56.
[00:13:07] Speaker E: I mean, you know, like all the woman always said. Like, I can remember my mother saying, geez, he's a good looking guy. My mother's 80 now.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Makes him a year older.
[00:13:24] Speaker E: What was the highest you had? 70.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: No, see, I really can't tell you that because.
[00:13:29] Speaker E: Okay, I'm gonna go. I think. I think one of the people said 70. I'm gonna go 71.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: 71. Okay.
[00:13:35] Speaker C: I feel like we're bidding for the prices right here.
One.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Right. So far, the high bid is 71. And Henry Kissinger going, going.
Hey, Ted, what do you think?
[00:13:47] Speaker D: I'm gonna take the low bid and go 67.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: 67.
Okay. And Ann, let me go at 74. 74. Because he's your Uncle Bernie's age, only a little bit younger.
[00:14:03] Speaker C: I don't have an Uncle Bernie.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's. That's why you're. You're kind of a little off on Henry Kissinger's age.
Yeah, because the actual age of Henry Kissinger is 69. Which is what? Tony's man.
[00:14:16] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Tony, hit it right on the button.
[00:14:19] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: And I thought you had said, try to.
[00:14:23] Speaker D: I was just gonna say try to accuse me. Now I'm at home, for crying out loud.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Well, so you didn't get the sheet of birthdays that I gave you to bring home?
[00:14:36] Speaker E: No.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: Okay. Lee. Lee. Lee Merriweather has a birthday. Oak was also born on this date. Let me see. Let me see. Give you some identification. Lee Merryweather.
[00:14:47] Speaker D: I think she'd make a great meteorologist.
[00:14:49] Speaker E: Don't you?
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Mm hmm. That would be nice. Yes, sure. Her evil twin sister is Gail storm.
I was going to mention Sue Rainey, who was a vocalist, but nobody's heard of Sue Ray.
[00:15:03] Speaker D: And I was going to mention rain Pryor, but I don't think anybody really knows who rain Pryor is.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: And there must be somebody named Snow.
[00:15:12] Speaker D: Phoebe Snow.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Phoebe Snow. That's right. That's right. Well, this is fun. Let's just continue with this line here. This will be kind of weather joke. Lee Merriweather actually was Miss America at one point, and she was also. She's also an actress, and she shows up very often doing. Doesn't she do parades? Every now and then. Lee Merriweather and somebody else. Anyway, she's an attractive lady.
[00:15:36] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker E: Willard Scott.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: Did she work with Willard Scott?
[00:15:40] Speaker D: Barnaby Jones secretary.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Shoot.
[00:15:43] Speaker D: What was that? She was Barnaby Jones secretary.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: Oh, is that Lee Meriwether?
[00:15:47] Speaker D: Right.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: She was also a catwoman.
Okay, you all know her about her. Lily Munster in the. In the new bunsters. I'm gonna call on Bobby first, then Bobby. How old do you think Lee Merriweather is?
[00:16:00] Speaker E: Holy cow, you got me on this one.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: I'll give you all the time you need to guess, though.
Meantime, we'll just.
[00:16:08] Speaker E: Can we play the monster theme in the background?
[00:16:10] Speaker A: No, I get another thing I wanted to sing for you. I feel so sexy in my shirt.
That's the way Henry kissing you would sing it. I feel so sexy in my shirt I feel so sexy for the girl I feel so sexy as he walks on the catwalk.
Yes.
[00:16:37] Speaker D: No, the new one. The new monsters.
[00:16:39] Speaker E: Yeah. The movie.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: No, it was a show that was.
[00:16:41] Speaker C: Our Adam's family, actually.
[00:16:45] Speaker D: Yeah, the tv show. The syndicated tv show. The new one.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Yeah, with John Shuck.
[00:16:53] Speaker E: I want to go way off, basically. I don't know. Yeah, let me see. I don't know.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: I feel so sexy in my show.
Did I hear somebody say, do it again, Norm? Do that song again.
[00:17:08] Speaker C: Do it again, Norm.
[00:17:10] Speaker E: Why wouldn't you go to Tony on this one?
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Never mind that. To go into Tony. It's your turn, Bobby.
[00:17:16] Speaker E: All of a sudden you go to Bobby from salty.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Well, I'm just. You know, we just. We just take people at random, you know?
Well, you're welcome to say that. That won't count, but we want to know how old Lee Merriweather is.
You sound like if you miss it, somebody's gonna shoot your head off or something.
[00:17:42] Speaker E: I try to get them.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. It's really not that crucial.
[00:17:44] Speaker E: All right, 54 54.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[00:17:49] Speaker D: See, you could hear the bomb going away. The nose.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: Okay. How about you, Tony? How old do you think Lee Merriweather is?
[00:17:58] Speaker D: Lee, Merry Christmas, huh?
[00:18:01] Speaker E: Hello.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:02] Speaker D: Okay.
I'll say she is.
40. 49.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: 49.
[00:18:14] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Okay.
And, Ted, what do you think?
[00:18:20] Speaker D: 53.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: 53.
And Jack?
52.
And what do you think, Rob?
51.
Okay. What do you think, Lynn?
[00:18:37] Speaker C: 58.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: 58. C. You notice the way Lynn does it so nice? She does ask it in the form of a question, which is actually one of the rules that we don't actually stick by too well. Look, and what do you think? Tell us on your cheap Kmart phone, the quality of that thing is that awful?
52. Okay, I shouldn't say cheap Kmart. That's kind of blasting an entire.
How about chintzy Kmart phone? Yeah, but I mean, it's kind of blasting a retail firm.
[00:19:16] Speaker C: Kmart is the value shoppers, in that case.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: Right. It's probably a Westinghouse phone. Might be a Westinghouse phone. Yeah. Yeah. Could very well be. Yeah. Well, we'd give you a better phone.
[00:19:28] Speaker D: But laugh it up now, Tony. Be in the unemployment line.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: We try to give. We give you a phone that's a little less than perfect. We're trying to cut expenses.
[00:19:41] Speaker E: Well, by a hot one, Bobby from southeast.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: Okay. The actual age of Lee Merriweather is 57. And Lynn. Lynn said 58, and I think nobody said 56, but she went over.
[00:19:56] Speaker E: Went over.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: No, there's no rule against that. Whoever gets the closest, and she was the closest at 58, and nobody. Yeah, nobody said 56. The closest on the other side would have been Bobby, who said 54. But. But Lynn is a little closer. Why am I analyzing it so deeply?
[00:20:16] Speaker C: Because I finally got one right.
[00:20:18] Speaker D: Is that your first one?
[00:20:19] Speaker E: You could go on right now. But you know what we should do, though? I'm not gonna change the rules.
I don't know who's doing that. But. No.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:20:32] Speaker E: No, we should do. Well, I'd say I don't want to change the rules of the game, because you've been playing the dumper of the game for so long. But I've often thought, when I was listening, when people come close, if they went over, you know, like. Like, honestly, like the price is right. Like, you know, the close is without going over.
[00:20:48] Speaker C: I don't agree with that rule. So let's move on.
[00:20:52] Speaker E: All right. Leave things like it is, I guess.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, no, the idea is to guess as close as you can. That's a good. I'm glad you're interested, Bobby and I'm glad you're thinking of ways to refine the game. Yeah. Would you please, for God's sake, shut up? Okay. Hey, Lou Gossett, the actor, he was in a gentleman. What's that? Officer and gentleman. Officer and a gentleman. That's right. And a number of other movies. Very often plays a tough guy who kind of cows you into submission. Whatever it is quite a good actor. And he scares me just to look at him.
He's always. You know that. Anyway, let's start with. Let's see who we start with this time. Let's start with Rob. We'll start with you this time.
Blue gossip.
And, Ann, what do you think?
[00:21:47] Speaker C: 56.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: 56, okay. And Jack, do you know in his fan club, they have a newsletter, and there's one person that writes, like, a column about it, and they call it the Gosset column.
I'll say 48.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: Good one, Jack.
[00:22:05] Speaker D: I like that.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not laughing, but it was very, very. That's right. That's the kind where you just kind of, you say, that's a good one. Yeah, you love telling a joke, and somebody says, oh, that's, that's very good. That's quite humorous, but they don't laugh.
Anyway, Ted, what do you say?
[00:22:24] Speaker D: I'm going with 46.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: 46.
Okay. And Lynn, are you there? Lynn here. Okay.
[00:22:34] Speaker C: I'm just wondering about news.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: Um, the news has been canceled because of inclement weather.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: He is 50.
50.
How come they are 56?
[00:22:47] Speaker A: 56, okay. And, uh, Bobby, let me get something right here.
[00:22:54] Speaker E: Officer. Gentlemen, is this the black gentleman that played the sergeant?
[00:22:59] Speaker A: That is correct.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: He is starting to gray.
[00:23:07] Speaker E: I will go with.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: This is the time when Bobby's guessing for everybody goes to the bathroom. 51 makes a sandwich. 51. No, 51. Tony, what do you say?
[00:23:18] Speaker D: 51.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: 51. Also, you kind of just a tag along, aren't you?
You just tag along with whatever seems like they're correct answer.
[00:23:27] Speaker D: Well, maybe, but the minute you mentioned his name, I said 51 to myself. And it just took you this long to get there? So just because somebody guesses it before.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: I do, and then I go along.
[00:23:37] Speaker D: With them, you've got to accuse me of being a tag along?
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Oh, well, in that case, give me back my baseball.
I don't want to play with you anymore. Lou Gossett is actually 56. Lynn said 56, and Ann said fifties. The two ladies, the women rule. Okay, before we go on to the next one, let us review the scores. So far we have Ann, who has got the two correct answers. Tony has two correct answers, and so does Lynn.
However, Jack and Rob and Bobby and Ted have.
Have a scoreless at this moment. Is that. Is that radio saying something about going to the project with problems?
[00:24:24] Speaker D: I thought he said something about wild ducks.
[00:24:26] Speaker A: Wild ducks. Maybe that's. Yes. Wild baby ducks near some work project. Oh, wild baby.
[00:24:33] Speaker D: Did he really say that?
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yes, because that's what I thought I heard. Oh.
Oh, baby duck. Sounds like projects. Yes. No, it doesn't. Maybe. Okay, where they are they in the central artery, walking up and down, causing.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: Big traction, leaning too hard against their phone.
[00:24:49] Speaker E: Not me.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: Okay. Bruce whites. You know who he is?
He played Hill street blues.
That's right. He's the guy who was in disguise. Always. Always living with the bums and stuff.
Undercover cop.
[00:25:04] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: Always had a beard and all that stuff. Okay. Talk to his mom on the phone a lot. That's true. That's right. That's right. He always talked. That was a great bit. Yeah. Mom, I can't make it tonight. Not be. Anyway. Tony, what do you think? How old is Bruce Whites? Oh, wow. Thanks.
[00:25:23] Speaker C: First, you were complaining that we didn't get to you when you thought of an answer.
[00:25:27] Speaker D: I know.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: I thought we were gonna go on with.
[00:25:29] Speaker D: Well, I think he. He may be a little over the hill.
I'll say. He's 51.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: 51, okay. Is that over? That's. That's right.
[00:25:44] Speaker D: Well, no, it was just a joke. All the 51 year olds don't, you know?
[00:25:48] Speaker A: No. But you're 25 or 24.
Yeah, yeah, one or the other. So 51 would be over the hill. It was over the hill when I was 25. 51. Jesus. He's still working. He's still occupying his space. Taking the place of some young guy. I don't think that way anymore. Of course. No, no, not a bit.
And what do you say?
50.
Okay. And, Rob?
[00:26:20] Speaker E: 49.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: 49. Okay.
Jack.
Oh, let me see.
51.
51, that's the bad.
Yeah. Okay, Ted, what do you say?
[00:26:36] Speaker D: I don't think he's that old. I think 45.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: 45.
And let's. Bobby, what do you think?
I don't know what that was, but that really turned me on. I already get goose pimples with that one.
[00:26:56] Speaker E: Not Jay Leno. Not.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's Jay Leno. That's Saturday Night Live, isn't it?
[00:27:04] Speaker E: Yeah, Carson was using it the other night.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Well, everybody's using it now. Yeah, that's.
[00:27:10] Speaker E: I don't know. I don't even know which character this is on Hill street blues.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: I thought we described him in graphic detail.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: And this is the combat man.
[00:27:19] Speaker E: I must have been looking at my photos of the politicians from southeast. I don't know, will say, probably looking.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: At the pictures of Annette Funicello.
[00:27:31] Speaker E: I'll go with. I don't think he. I don't think the guys at all either. I'll shoot a 49.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: I'll shoot a 49. Okay. And Lynn?
[00:27:44] Speaker C: 47.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: 47. Okay. Here's the actual age of Bruce whites. It's actually 40 49.
So Rob has it and Bobby has.
Yeah. Which means that almost everybody has at least one win except Ted and Jack. I'm saving mine for the end of the week.
This is a close game. Yeah. Because we have Ann and Tony. Tony and Lynn are all Thai with two apiece. So how about. Here's a literary one. Herman Wouk.
Herman Wouk is a writer.
He wrote. He's written a number of things, including the Kane mutiny, which was one of his. That he won a. I believe he won a. An award for that.
I can't remember whether he won. He won the tony for the stage.
Now he must have. Book award. I don't know. It was a bone originally, and then it was a movie with Jose Ferrer and Humphrey Bogard and Fred McMurray.
I believe he know. He is still around. Henry Herman, who.
Yeah, he also. He also was a writer, I believe, for.
I believe for radio. An old radio song. He might have written some comedy material.
Yes.
[00:29:15] Speaker D: You're giving us a little too much information.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: More information you care to people.
Well, you know, I just. I don't.
Didn't he also do the winds of war and things like that? That's right. That was Herman wook. And he also wrote the unfield.
[00:29:30] Speaker D: No, that was Womba.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Oh, wumba. That's right. Yeah. Joseph.
Okay, let's start with. Let me see. Who have we not started with so far? We haven't started with you, Lynn, how old do you think HERMAn Wook is?
[00:29:44] Speaker C: 63.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: 63.
Okay. And Rob?
[00:29:52] Speaker E: 75.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Okay. And Jack? 78.
78 for Herman. Woo. Okay. A Ted.
[00:30:03] Speaker E: Good question.
[00:30:05] Speaker D: 69.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Okay, good. And, Bobby.
[00:30:09] Speaker E: I'm gonna go higher.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:13] Speaker E: Go.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: 81.
And Tony?
[00:30:23] Speaker D: 78.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: 78. Same as J.
[00:30:26] Speaker D: And I'll admit that's a tag along answer.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: Okay. You're an honest person, and you deserve at least.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: Every time you and Jack are on the same answer, though, you're both wrong.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. We don't need a smart guy here.
[00:30:40] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Well, let's see.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, we'll just see in just a moment. We'll see. And what do you think?
[00:30:48] Speaker C: 82.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: 82. Okay, here's the actual age of Herman.
[00:30:53] Speaker D: Please be 78, please.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: Yes. He's 77.
However, you and Jack, who said 78 are the closest. There we go. So what do you think about that? Rob was very close. He said 75.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: I blessed you with my comment. You should be thanking me.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Thank you. Oh, thank you.
I want to give you one more. And this has to do with it, with a date of a historic event. Oh, God, I hate this. And I know, I know I'm doing that to irritate Tony because he hates.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: This, because I'm a student of history and I don't want to embarrass everybody.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: Okay, let's see how you embarrass them this time and make them cringe. The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco with Marin County, California, was opened on May 27. What year?
And let's start with Anne on this. What year was the Golden Gate Bridge opened? The famed, fabulous Golden Gate, San Francisco. Open your go. I'll just kind of hum in 1939. How much?
[00:32:05] Speaker C: 19. 39.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: 39. Was that Henry Kissinger again? No, 1939.
Ann says that the Golden Gate, you know, bridge, you see, was opened for Maxwell's only that year.
[00:32:27] Speaker D: Why do they call it the Golden Gate? Is there. Do they open it to a golden gate? Is there a golden gate? You have to go through you. The bridge isn't gold.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: No.
[00:32:36] Speaker E: You pass over, you're going into the gold.
[00:32:41] Speaker A: I guess not going into the gold.
[00:32:44] Speaker D: Is that a bear commercial?
[00:32:46] Speaker A: I'd go for the gold. It's an excellent. It's an excellent question, and I have no answer. For San Francisco is where the 40 918 49 ers went to mine for gold. Oh, that's. That's probably it.
[00:32:58] Speaker D: Is there a gate?
[00:32:59] Speaker A: That's my gateway. Well, it's a gateway. Give the answer away.
[00:33:03] Speaker E: The 49.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. That was 1849.
[00:33:07] Speaker E: Yeah, but 49.
[00:33:09] Speaker A: Well, maybe. I don't know. I'm not. I'm not saying anything. I'll just ask Ted up in Ottawa, Canada, we should ask you about the Jacques Cartier Bridge or something up there. I suppose I still wouldn't be able.
[00:33:20] Speaker D: To get it right.
[00:33:20] Speaker A: That's right, because that's a. That's in Quebec and not in where you are.
[00:33:23] Speaker D: It doesn't matter.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Ontario.
[00:33:26] Speaker D: The Golden Gate Bridge.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:28] Speaker D: Let's see the bigger. Like this old five or whatever. Say 1912.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: 1912, okay. And Bobby, unbelievable.
[00:33:40] Speaker E: I really don't know and I should know my history here.
I want to say, like, 19. 38.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: 38. Okay. And what do you think, Rob?
[00:33:56] Speaker E: Must be 19. 31.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: 31.
Tony.
[00:34:02] Speaker D: 19.
[00:34:07] Speaker C: Come on.
[00:34:08] Speaker D: 16.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: 1916.
Oh, Lynn, come on. Give the guy a break. Come on.
[00:34:15] Speaker C: Well, see, I know this answer. That's. That's why he's way off.
[00:34:21] Speaker E: Oh, shit. We should all hang up now.
[00:34:24] Speaker A: Oh, you tell us the answer then. Lynn.
What is it? When was the Golden Gate bridge open?
[00:34:30] Speaker D: For a second. Now.
She's doing. I know what she's doing.
[00:34:39] Speaker C: Is anybody after me?
[00:34:40] Speaker E: Are you looking?
[00:34:41] Speaker A: Yes. Somebody. No, just tell us quickly.
[00:34:43] Speaker C: It's 1937.
[00:34:46] Speaker E: Oh, you. Oh, you look that up.
[00:34:50] Speaker C: I know that answer.
[00:34:54] Speaker D: She took one of my classes in history.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: What did you look at? What did you look it up in? They don't have the.
[00:34:58] Speaker C: I didn't look up anything. What took me a long time is I had to do something else that had nothing to do with that. And Tony knows what it is, a producer thing, and we'll just leave it at that. And Jack can give his answer.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Hmm.
[00:35:10] Speaker C: And you better go with me, Jack, because it is right.
[00:35:12] Speaker A: Is that right? Right.
Okay, Jack. Well, you're up against it right now. She sounds great. She said, I love aggressive women like that.
[00:35:20] Speaker E: I'm.
[00:35:22] Speaker A: Boy, I'm already getting excited. Yeah, I'm getting excited. Yeah. And I love to be up against aggressive women. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. Maybe at the. During the 04:00 news, she'll tie us up or something. That'd be nice.
[00:35:37] Speaker E: What took so long there? Lynn, though?
Producer work?
[00:35:41] Speaker A: No, she said she had to do some producer stuff.
[00:35:43] Speaker E: Oh, okay.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:46] Speaker D: She'll explain later. Norm.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Let me get out my. My almanac, and I'll do some traffic stuff over here.
[00:35:55] Speaker D: You should know this, Jack, too.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: I should?
[00:35:58] Speaker D: Yeah. Traffic bridges.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I suppose you're right. You should know the issue.
[00:36:03] Speaker C: Go with my answer.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: It is right. I guess I better go with 1937. Okay. Don't get beaten.
[00:36:11] Speaker C: Technique. The right answer.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: Okay. The actual answer is 1712.
No. The actual date that the Golden Gate bridge was opened, connecting San Francisco with Marin County, California.
It was 1937. Lynn was right. Very well know about that. Yeah. Well, thank you. So let's. That's the final one. Let's see. Let's.
Let's see.
When has three correct answers. And you have three correct answers, Tony.
[00:36:48] Speaker D: Right.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: That's how you knew was a tie, didn't you, devil?
[00:36:51] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: And see, Jack has two, and Ann has. Also has two correct answers.
Bobby has one.
[00:36:59] Speaker E: I tried.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: Yeah. No, that's okay. Rob has one correct answer also.
And the Ted from Ottawa, Canada, is a good fellow.
And so actually, the winners are Tony and Lynn. Huh?
[00:37:16] Speaker C: Tony, I'm very proud of you.
[00:37:18] Speaker D: Thank you. I am, too.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: Okay. Well, that seems to be the end of the game. It sort of fizzling out here is kids. I was one more.
[00:37:26] Speaker D: There is one more birthday today.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: There's what now? What birthday is?
[00:37:29] Speaker C: How do you see your birthday?
[00:37:30] Speaker D: No, it's my wife's birthday.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Heidi's birthday.
Oh, very happy birthday, Heidi. Heidi Nesbitt and her orchestra. That's Rudy night. Is she at work right now?
[00:37:42] Speaker D: No, no, she's on vacation this week.
[00:37:45] Speaker A: You have a big. Heidi. She. Oh, that's right. She's sleeping right now.
[00:37:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:49] Speaker A: So where did she go?
She's right.
And thank you very much for playing the game with us. I appreciate.
Thank you very much, Ted and Bobby. Thank you.
[00:38:04] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: Nice to have you with us. And nice to have you too, Rob.
[00:38:08] Speaker C: Rob's gone.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: Oh, Rob is. Rob is the one who hung up then and now it's no Tony. We'll say goodbye to Lynn.
[00:38:15] Speaker C: Goodbye.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Okay, bye bye now and see you later, Tony. Thank you very much. Did you want to hang up on me, Tony?
I guess that's my answer. I guess he did. Okay. And thank you very much also, Jack. Thank you. Just wonderful. It was a wonderful, wonderful. It was wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And thank you so much, all of you. It was just wonderful. Anyway, it's eight minutes before 04:00 here at WBZ and we'll be around till five this morning. We'll take some calls now on whatever subject you'd care to talk about. The number is 61725 410 30.
Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon.
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[00:40:59] Speaker A: The time is coming up to about five minutes before 04:00 coming up to 03:55 a.m. on this lovely whatever day it is Wednesday morning.
Norm Nathan sitting in for Bob Rawley. Throughout this week, the five day WBZ accuweather forecast from meteorologist Roy gallant calls for, let's see, gray and cool weather this very day and tonight. Also Wednesday and Wednesday night with light rain and drizzle and some fog.
The highs during the day, about 52 degrees. Lows overnight tonight, 47 degrees. Thursday, cloudy to partly sunny day, still cool with a possible shower and highs about 58. Friday and Saturday getting nicer.
Partly sunny both days. Highs on Friday will be about 63 degrees and the highs on Saturday getting up to 67 degrees. So not anywhere near as warm as we had it last week, but warming up a bit by, at least by Friday and Saturday, but still kind of drizzling and not, not the greatest kind of weather between now and then.
Okay. Two 5410 30, area code 617. Be around till five. At five, Gary Lapierre, Peter Meade will be back today. I've been saying he's back.
And anyway, he will be back today, along with Elliot Abrams with the weather and Gil Santos and sports and the whole crew. Just updating you on all kinds of stuff that's. And Jackie Goddard. All kinds of stuff that's going on throughout the world. And again, love to talk with you, whatever may be in your mind. It's two.
Seems like it was just yesterday, how.
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We'll check the news at four, see what's going on. I guess we get time to talk to Robert from. Couple of seconds. Anyway. I.
[00:44:53] Speaker I: You're the most beautiful man in the whole world to talk to. My nephew, John O'Neill from Montreal.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Was that your nephew?
[00:45:00] Speaker I: Proud of you. And he rolled and I was listening to everything.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: Well, what a wonderful person you are.
[00:45:06] Speaker I: He is beautiful, wasn't he?
[00:45:08] Speaker A: He was beautiful.
[00:45:10] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:45:10] Speaker I: Come on now. He was good, wasn't he?
[00:45:12] Speaker A: How did you get.
[00:45:13] Speaker I: The first time? He. He. He said, that's the first time I've ever been on a radio talk show with Norm Nathan. 38 states in all of Canada.
[00:45:22] Speaker A: He was proud. Well, not quite all of Canada, but how did you get in on that conversation?
[00:45:28] Speaker I: He has one of these things.
[00:45:30] Speaker E: He.
[00:45:30] Speaker I: That guy's a genius. You didn't even ask him what he does for a living or anything?
[00:45:34] Speaker A: No, I didn't.
[00:45:35] Speaker I: He's a projectionist. A movie project for movie stars and everything. And when you have special movies for old movies and things, he travels all around. He has two theaters. He's a manager. And I was waiting for you to ask, what do you do for a living? You didn't say.
He talks like an O'Neal. I laugh and we talk. He has a number thing. He punches buttons in.
Is that a conference call?
[00:46:05] Speaker G: They call it.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: I guess they do, yes.
[00:46:08] Speaker I: And I was listening all the time. And I says, I. Oh, he's going to the news. I said, tell him who I am.
And he knocked his head off.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:17] Speaker I: You're a nice man.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: I am. I'm a kind. You are.
[00:46:20] Speaker I: No, no, you're beautiful. You are. But did I upset you when I jumped in?
[00:46:25] Speaker A: No, you didn't upset me. I just couldn't figure out how you got there.
[00:46:28] Speaker I: What do you mean? I was on the line.
[00:46:29] Speaker D: Listen.
[00:46:30] Speaker A: Well, I didn't know that.
[00:46:31] Speaker I: That's the first time. I didn't know.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: I didn't know I was talking to an interesting man and suddenly in comes Robert from Everett. Anyway, I gotta. I gotta bleep you out now, because we got news coming up. It's 04:00. You're tuned to WBZ Boston. I see you in a few minutes, kids.
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[00:48:00] Speaker B: Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for nagging coughs, norm being a doctor, nurse, patient, hospital director and bandage manufacturer. Sterile gauze pads, medicine hot tea, top hour sounders, eyewitness accounts, dry humor, rain ryopan plus gold Bond Wolfie 76. That's the spirit. Norm's Henry Kissinger impression cameos from Arthur Godfrey and Jack Benny. Diplomacy, call waiting, acting weather puns. Right, said Fred, your face pressing against the phone buttons of your chintzy Kmart phone up against aggressive women M. Steinerd and sons, the Scotia Prince, Tom Bergeron, Robert from Everett, Lynn Palumbo, Jack Hart and the man who's so sexy in his shirt, Nami Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
