Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 189

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Well, hello, fellow vaulters of silliness. Today brings us a mix of Norm Nathan shows from early 1994, maybe March. And then we jump to June ish of 94. And because we get to hear three calls from Ruth Clunet, also known as Dave Maynard's Ruth, this episode shall be simply titled Ruth Radio. A nice show open kicks everything off. Oh, let me add that the tape edits were provided by the person whom recorded it. Carol Mateever of Wicker sportswear in Wolfsboro, New Hampshire, is the guest. The company makes high tech thermal underwear out of recycled plastic bottles. The only problem is they make that annoying crinkle sound when you sit down. Okay, next guest, Carl Teterman of selectra electric cars in Wilmington. All I'll say is we've come a long way. But wait for that last comment from him and we can all have a good laugh together. We are treated to many callers throughout this episode. The aforementioned Ruth, a mystery caller. And we hear from Judy, the one and only generosa, a caller from New Jersey. Ruth is back. Linda Chase is on the line, an unknown caller, a very brief call from sue. We hear from Arlene. And the third time's a charm with Ruth. And then we hear from our good friend Raj at MIT. Now, mixed in here is a different show with the host named John. Unsure if it's from WBZ. Well, he's talking with Sharon, who is doing a reenactment play in Lowell about a woman traveling down from Quebec on a seed boat. No, I'm not kidding. Now, before we begin here, some additional highlights. Norm wraps a magazine submission from a lady named Marion Gibbons of Geneva, New York. I joined Norm for a bit. We hear traffic guy Ken Newman's engagement story, the breakdown lane of life with Bob, the George G. Hamilton School Orchestra in Everett, Mass. Where Norm shredded his bow playing the violin. And Norm makes an announcement. The jam packed episode 189 Ruth Radio fiddles its way to your ears now. [00:02:15] Speaker B: Just makes me glow each weekend night. [00:02:24] Speaker C: He'S beyond compare and so debonair he shines so bright. [00:02:37] Speaker D: You're on bz mmm 103. Oh, please don't turn that dial. [00:02:49] Speaker C: He makes me smile. [00:02:55] Speaker D: More making show. [00:03:01] Speaker C: More making show. [00:03:14] Speaker D: This is the Norm Nathan show. Just so excited. Do you realize the last time we said goodbye was like 01:00 last Monday morning, Sunday night, Monday morning? Do you realize how life has been a desert for me since then? Do you realize the wanting, the craving for you that has been building day after day after day till we could get together? I can't stand it I'm just so pleased. Well, I'm telling you, life is empty without my being here in the tin canteen. There's nothing, there's nothing out there. It's all the diaspora. Or as David Letterman would say, that's the way he laughs. And since he's a lot older than I am, I want to be like him. And speaking of that, we're going to be talking with a woman who works. That alone is enough to excite me at this stage of my life. But beyond that, she works for a company that makes underwear. There's a, there's another, there's another word that sets me off in the gales of excitement. But out of plastic soda bottles anyway, I guess that's part of it. Anyway, we'll be talking with her in a minute, but let me pull myself together first. And according to Tony Nesbitt, who made the notes on all of this, it makes for nice, nice soft undies. And Carol's on the line with us right this very moment, unless she got totally discouraged by the opening of this program and decided to hang up on us. How you doing, Carol? [00:04:54] Speaker E: I'm doing fine tonight. [00:04:55] Speaker D: How are you? Okay. I hope you're in a silly mood, because I don't know whether you know the slogan of this. Tony is supposed to send a documented certificate to everyone who appears on this program announcing the fact that the whole point of this program is to be sure to leave this life a little sillier than you found it. [00:05:16] Speaker E: Well, that's great. [00:05:17] Speaker D: Yeah. So you have to raise your right hand and take that oath. Otherwise we just can't talk anymore. Anyway, tell me about this stuff. You're up in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, which is really pretty country up there. [00:05:29] Speaker C: That's right. [00:05:30] Speaker E: It's beautiful. [00:05:31] Speaker D: I don't know. Now, has your company, Wicker Sportswear, has been making this? Well, tell me about the underwear. Now, how is it made? And have you been making it very long? [00:05:40] Speaker E: No, actually it's a new product. What we make is we make high tech thermal underwear, and this is just part of our product line. So what we do is we buy fiber from Wellman Industries, which is a leading plastic recycler. What he does is he takes the actual bottles, the seven upper coke plastic bottles, melts them into fiber, and then he sells the fiber to people such as wicker sportswear, which we spin it into yarn and make it into garments. So we actually make thermal underwear out of the recycled bottles. [00:06:15] Speaker D: Now, is this common? Are there other things that are made with the recycled bottles and stuff. [00:06:21] Speaker E: Well, now they have. Wickers is the only company that makes the underwear out of the recycled bottles. But now they have several different items, like Patagonia will make, I think, shirt out of the recycled bottles. And they had an exhibit at fit in New York City, and they had different things made out of the recycled bottles. And they showed the raw product, which it looks almost like pellets, little plastic pellets, and then they weave them into the recycled. And actually, the first shirt that we had was bright green, like a seven up bottle. That's the product that we started with. [00:06:58] Speaker D: Okay, but you can make them any colors now, you mean? [00:07:00] Speaker E: Yeah, well, now we. Now we make them in off white and navy blue. [00:07:04] Speaker D: Okay. And you can't you. By looking at this underwear, I feel like we're talking much too personal. [00:07:11] Speaker E: Since we've just met, we're only talking long johns, so we're not getting too personal. [00:07:16] Speaker D: I suppose so. We're not talking lingerie or anything. But can you tell by looking at these long johns that how they were made, or do they look like just any thermal underwear? [00:07:27] Speaker E: You couldn't pick them out from our regular products, and they serve the same purpose. Our game is high tech thermal underwear, and it's really a performance product. So people from Ll bean buy it and ems and that some of our customers, and when they wear this product, the moisture wicks from the body versus the name wickers, and it keeps them very comfortable underneath. And this product, it performs in the same way. So you actually couldn't pick it out. The only thing you could pick out was the tag that said it was 100% recycled. [00:08:03] Speaker D: Okay. So you were kind enough to remove the tag before you went out into public with your thermal underwear. Nobody could tell the difference. But it's kind of interesting because we're all so much interested in recycling and all. For example, I know we have a recycling operation in our town. I think most towns do now, where at one time you couldn't give newspapers away, you almost had to pay people to card it away. Now it's become a premium kind of item, you know, where people, people are paying money to take your paper and to sell it. And towns can make money on that. And now you're talking about plastic bottles because those have been recycled for a while now. And this stuff is going to be valuable, like the old newsprint and stuff, you know? [00:08:50] Speaker E: And that was previewed in the November catalog. So we're still waiting for the numbers to come in, but they look really good. [00:08:58] Speaker D: Oh. Because that's one of the big companies, isn't it? [00:09:00] Speaker E: That's right. [00:09:00] Speaker D: I'm guessing because I seem to be on the mailing list for every company in the entire world, and land's End seems to be one of them. [00:09:08] Speaker E: They're a large company. We also do work for Rei, which is out on the west coast, and they're bigger than lands end. [00:09:15] Speaker D: Do you think you could make other things out of these plastic bottles that are maybe a little more glamorous than. And I'm not. I'm certainly not talking down thermal underwear, because I think that's really swell with us macho guys who like to go out in freezing weather, you know. But could you make more delicate stuff and still use the same material? What kind of a future would this have, do you think? [00:09:42] Speaker E: It has an extensive future? I'm sure people will develop it probably into handbags and totes and sweaters or whatever. You know, once you get the fiber soft enough to make a cloth out of it, it's really an extensive use. You can use it for almost anything in the navy for lands, and that's actually what's in their catalog. [00:10:04] Speaker D: Okay. You're delightful. It's fun to talk to you. Carol Matavier. Okay. I'll never forget that name. Every time I put on my. Come closer. I don't want everybody to hear this because this is kind of special. Time to put my underwear. I don't think I care. [00:10:22] Speaker E: Well, thank you. [00:10:24] Speaker D: Don't tell your daughter. And I won't tell my daughters either. And I appreciate you coming on. Best of luck. I'm delighted to hear this because I've been a recycling fan for a very long time, and that's really the only way to go. And I'm delighted that a big company is doing this kind of thing, and you're nice to talk with us, but. [00:10:46] Speaker E: Thank you very much for having me on. [00:10:47] Speaker D: Take care. [00:10:48] Speaker E: Okay. [00:10:48] Speaker D: You too. Bye bye. Carl Thedeman. Pardon me, Teiderman. [00:10:55] Speaker F: The h is silent. [00:10:56] Speaker D: Oh, the h is silent. Well, you just dropped that out of there, and let's just. Okay. Lessen the pollution in the air with too many letters. [00:11:04] Speaker F: Sure. [00:11:04] Speaker D: Okay. Karl Tederman, who is with Selectria company, which is up in Wilmington, which makes electric cars, and from what I gather, last time I heard about electric cars. You've come up a long way. [00:11:19] Speaker F: One of its kind in the US and the state of Massachusetts purchased 20 of our electric cars, which are conversions of geo Metros. We've purchased the geo Metros, pulled out the gasoline engines and all the exhaust systems, and so on, replaced it with electric motors and battery packs. And right now, people, 20 commuters in the state, are leasing the cars from the state and using them to get back and forth from their homes to the train stations on a daily basis. The cars that they're driving right now are highway capable. They have a top speed of at least 70 miles an hour. And the cars are capable of going, on average, about 50 miles or 60 miles on a single charge, which is more than enough for them to get to the train station to plug in and charge up during the day and so on. [00:12:14] Speaker D: Okay, these cars, somehow, when you think of electric cars, you always think of these little tiny things and all. And these are not, these are regular sized cars, are they not? And would anybody be able to tell if they were driving alongside you that it was an electric car? Aside from the fact that I guess it would be a whole lot quieter? [00:12:34] Speaker F: Basically, the only clues that an outsider would have is that there's no tailpipe, and you might hear a slight whirring noise coming from the car. But you're right, it is practically silent in operation. [00:12:46] Speaker D: Miles, I was just looking at some statistics that you passed along. For example, a pickup truck can go up to 70 miles top speed, which is faster than you're allowed to drive anywhere in New England anyway. [00:13:00] Speaker F: That's right. [00:13:01] Speaker D: And go for a 50 miles range and all of that. And with a. There are different kinds of batteries, I guess. Is that right? So depending on the distance, would depend on the kind of battery that you have? [00:13:14] Speaker F: That's right. With the geometro conversion that we offer now with the standard lead acid batteries, the vehicle travels, as you enter, about 50 or 60 miles on a charge. When we put in advanced batteries, such as nickel, cadmium, or nicad batteries, as are known, the vehicle can get up to 100 miles or more on a single charge. And quite a few studies have been done exploring electric vehicles and what sort of hurdles, whether real or psychological, that will have to be overcome before they're more widely accepted. And many have found that people generally have expressed a need for a vehicle that could do at least 100 miles on a charge. And so something like that is on the market now. Unfortunately, the vehicles are being made in such small numbers as to be relatively expensive, although not terribly so. The lead acid car that we make sells for about $30,000, and it's a lot of money compared to any of the electric vehicles now offered on by sale, now offered for sale by the big three, which are generally priced at over $100,000. It comes out looking like a bargain. The point that our company is trying to make as a small electric vehicle company, and we have at this point, roughly 50 employees, is that if we can do something like this on a small scale, handmade basis, and to date, we've delivered roughly over 100 vehicles then in mass production, we feel very comfortable to say that the price of these cars could be down in the range of a gasoline powered vehicle, perhaps even lower than a typical gasoline powered vehicle. And this is also what's being said by the head of quite a few european and japanese automakers, including Honda and Isuzu and Suzuki. And in Europe, Volkswagen, Fiat, Renault, Peugeot, who have all said that they feel comfortable projecting that they can make electric vehicles for about the same price as gasoline powered vehicles. [00:15:22] Speaker D: Really good coming in. I had a great day today. You know what I did today, too. See, I must tell us, because I've gotten behind a long, long period of time in answering mail, namely because the typewriter that I use here at BZ, it's David. David Brudman. It's a snut. He's not his typewriter, but it's sort of assigned to him. And since he broadcasts out of his home now, he doesn't come in. Therefore, when the typewriter breaks down, which it did, nobody has the clout he does to get the thing fixed. Are you following me so far? [00:15:59] Speaker C: Of course. [00:15:59] Speaker D: If I were calling myself with this story, I'd probably hang up on me, too. Anyway, so I bought a typewriter a few weeks ago. But you don't buy just plain typewriters anymore. You buy typewriters that say, if you want to release the margin, press code plus number five. You know, it's got a million directions like that. And I only finally just figured out how to use the thing. So I began, and I felt so proud of myself, I began answering the mail today. So anybody's written to me, or anybody who's got a prize or something coming along in a contest, I'm on my way. Just please hold on for another week, week and a half or so, and I'll take care of all of that. [00:16:41] Speaker C: Now, didn't I offer my services? [00:16:43] Speaker D: Yes, you did. But I just kind of sit there at home, and I just feel so noble doing that. [00:16:48] Speaker C: I understand that now. A little while ago, when you were getting upset there, you said you were going to read something about the forties or something, and then you forgot all about. [00:16:58] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, I didn't do that. This is. I don't know. See, this should be done in cadence kind of like, you know, maybe like rap stuff, only the lines are about the forties and maybe even earlier than that. It says, yeah, no, it says those fantastic forties written by a woman named Marion Gibbons of Geneva, New York. And it's in a magazine that. Well, the title pretty much explains it. Reminisce, I won't hold you on the line while I do this. Maybe I'll do this after we finish this swell conversation. [00:17:38] Speaker C: My entertainment report is, I feel very bad. Like, if you look like you, I forgot the name of the movie. But the very good reviews on the new Peter Falk movie. [00:17:50] Speaker D: Oh, that's where he plays an old man. [00:17:52] Speaker C: You know, he gets to be 107 years old in the movie. Isn't that amazing? [00:17:57] Speaker D: Yeah. I didn't realize he was that old. [00:17:59] Speaker C: No, he starts off younger, but I mean, you know, old but younger. And I haven't seen it, but I'm just getting. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Only. [00:18:06] Speaker C: I saw him last night on David Letterman show Live. It's the first time he's ever been on. He really looks great, actually. [00:18:12] Speaker D: He's a fine actor. It's kind of funny. He's got that, that guttural l. Yeah, right. Listen, I'm Colombo. He talks like that. And so when he's playing another character, it still sounds exactly like him because, I mean, obviously that's the way he talks. [00:18:30] Speaker C: Well, I'll tell you, it's the first time he's ever been on a talk show like that. And he looks great. I mean, for his age and all, he looks super. I mean, he really, the older he gets, the better he looking. He gets. And anyway, he's, I don't know how old he is because, again, I'm getting this second hand in the movie, but I saw a review on it tonight also, and they said he's really great and he might be nominated for Academy Award for next year. [00:18:56] Speaker D: Yeah. The name of the movie is roommates, right. Peter Falk and DB Sweeney. Does he play a young man, too. [00:19:03] Speaker C: Or just, I think an older man, but then he, he gets to be 107. But I'm, you know, see the movie and then we'll know. And then the other thing that I was going to tell you with my little entertainment thing is, you know how we like David Letterman because he's nuts. Tonight he ran over to Radio City Music hall and he danced with the Rockettes. [00:19:24] Speaker D: Oh, he very often said that. [00:19:26] Speaker C: No, he had them in the studio. In his studio. But this time he got up and he left. Of course, they had taped it. I'm sure and he said, oh, you know, I've been here long enough. I'll see you later. Thank you for being here. It was the opening of the show, and the next thing you see him, he's in the line with the Rockets in Radio City Music hall. The show, the whole audience and everything. The audience was crazy. They were screaming like wild. He was dancing right there at radio. Isn't that cute? [00:19:56] Speaker D: That is very cute. You know what I'm looking at right now, too. Hold on a minute. I see a review by James Vernier in the Herald on roommates, and the headline is, don't pay a visit to roommates. He doesn't rate it high at all. [00:20:11] Speaker C: Really? [00:20:11] Speaker D: I'm just looking through the globe. I'm sure, because they must have reviewed it, too. [00:20:17] Speaker C: And Joyce Koheiwa gave it a great review tonight. [00:20:19] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't. I don't just. I don't see a review on the. In the Globe. Maybe it was in another day. Yeah. I loved it. I know it drives you crazy when I do this. [00:20:31] Speaker C: Speaking of that, you know, you're talking about how terrible the ice is. I have to tell you, I haven't been out for about three days, and I finally went out yesterday and had to spend about an hour getting the ice off my car now. But I have to tell you, that was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. [00:20:46] Speaker D: It is beautiful. And, you know, it's hung on those trees absolutely gorgeous all week long. I. You know, I have these. These. I have a long driveway and these overlying branches, they're weighted down by the ice. And as I go through there, as I go banging through all of it, and I keep thinking, if I hit them, why doesn't it. Why doesn't the ice just fall off? [00:21:09] Speaker C: It doesn't. [00:21:10] Speaker B: It's like it's so cold. [00:21:11] Speaker D: It's. Yeah, it's really cold. [00:21:13] Speaker C: Soldiers field road. I drove over that way yesterday. It was just gorgeous. I mean, it is. [00:21:18] Speaker D: It is pretty. [00:21:19] Speaker C: It looks like Winter Wonderland, isn't it? [00:21:22] Speaker D: Hold on a minute. Wait a minute. I think we got something here. [00:21:25] Speaker C: It looked like winter wonderland. [00:21:27] Speaker D: Winter wonderland. [00:21:28] Speaker C: Is that good? [00:21:29] Speaker D: Oh, that is excellent. That is. That is a kind of a picture. You can. You can. You can just. It just forms in your head now. Anyway. How the heck with this? I can't. [00:21:37] Speaker C: All right, now, two last things. Are we going with the powerball? $100 million tomorrow night? [00:21:44] Speaker D: Is that up to that? [00:21:45] Speaker C: Yes, it is. But also, the Boston. The Massachusetts Megabucks is 10 million. So let's, you know, play that. And then if we win, I'll give you some. You give me some. Is that fair? [00:21:58] Speaker D: If I play that and win, would I give you some? I kind of missed that. Was that the question? [00:22:02] Speaker C: No, I say I'll win. If we either one of us win, we'll give each other some. [00:22:06] Speaker D: Okay? [00:22:06] Speaker C: I mean, 10 million, what the heck that. [00:22:09] Speaker D: You know. You know, I know that this sounds really stupid, but I thought, what if I won, say, $10 million? How would I handle that? You know? I mean, I'm not. I can't even put my VCR on the correct time. How would I handle that kind of money? You know? I mean, what would I do with it? You can't just put it in the bank and let it sit there for interest, because everybody will say, you know, at the bank, they pay, what, 3% interest or for whatever it is, you're not getting any kind of a return. Do something with it. [00:22:43] Speaker C: I'll be your financial advisor. [00:22:45] Speaker D: Oh, get out of here. [00:22:46] Speaker C: I'll go from entertainment director to financial advice. I'll advise you correctly. [00:22:51] Speaker D: No, the point is. The point is you want to get it. You want to get some kind of a financial person who can help you. [00:22:56] Speaker C: Oh, sure. [00:22:57] Speaker D: Who knows? But then again, who would you get? Why would you trust anybody? How would you know? You know, so I think the best bet, and I think I would become a real fathead. I think I'm a nice person now, being destitute. And so I think the way life is now, I think that would just complicate things. I would not want to win that kind of money. It would just screw up my whole life. I'd sit around worried about whether or not I'm getting enough interest back on this, whether I've invested in the right things. [00:23:30] Speaker C: Look at all the nice things you could do for people. See, that's what I like to do. I mean, I like to do some things for myself, like buy my apartment building and throw my landlord in jail. But outside of that, I mean, you know, do things to make yourself comfortable, then look at all the people you could help. See, I like to do that. [00:23:47] Speaker D: Yeah. You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to found a university or college. I'd call it the University of Naaman or Naomi. [00:23:59] Speaker C: University nominee. [00:24:02] Speaker D: And what would that be nice to have a college named after you. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Sure. And then what would both. What would you. I mean, what would the. What am I trying to say? You know, what would the people who come there learn? [00:24:16] Speaker D: It's kind of an awkward. They'd learn how to put their sentences together a little bit better than that. First of all, they learning English as I'm learning. I'm still learning it as a second language. They would learn. I don't know, it would be just, you know, general radio, general arts. No, I would open a college and teach people radio. What would they learn if they learned how to do a program like I do? They'd never get a job. I just been around so long and I just happened to be here. But if I was starting out today, I'd never get a job in this business doing this kind of a program. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Well, if I had a station, I would have tomorrow. [00:24:55] Speaker D: You don't have a station. [00:24:56] Speaker C: Well, if I won the lottery, then I could buy a station. I would hire you anytime. [00:25:02] Speaker D: I think we've arrived at a dead end with this conversation, if you want to know the truth. Right. [00:25:07] Speaker C: I'm gonna say goodnight and I'm gonna listen and I expect to hear some fantastic. Some terrible thing that's happened to Fred. [00:25:15] Speaker D: Something. Some terrible things happen. [00:25:16] Speaker C: He'll call you and give you a whole speech. Oh, he hasn't called you yet, so, I mean, that'll, you know, be the exciting part of the night. I mean, but. [00:25:27] Speaker D: Oh, Fred, the guy who stood you up in New Jersey. [00:25:29] Speaker C: Right, right. [00:25:31] Speaker D: But anyway, you're lucky for that. [00:25:33] Speaker C: I think so. I really do. [00:25:35] Speaker D: Okay. Hey, nice to talk to you. [00:25:37] Speaker C: I'm glad you're feeling a little bad, but you didn't sound like you were feeling so good. [00:25:42] Speaker D: I know. It. I know. And it's nasty to say this, but some of the early calls were really kind of boring, you know, and I. And it just kind of bothers me. I keep thinking people who tune in like to giggle and laugh and hear some interesting stuff. And how far do I let boring calls go and inflict them on people? Say, right now, I know there are people going to call and say, nathan has gotten so crutched. [00:26:07] Speaker C: No, I understand. [00:26:08] Speaker D: He's not like Bob Rawley. Bob is a good person. He's a friend to everybody. [00:26:12] Speaker C: And listen to Nathan, because I heard you last week when you yelled at that lady who, you know, was talking about how sick she was. [00:26:20] Speaker D: Golden. [00:26:21] Speaker C: I understand. Because, I mean, you know, let's face it, you know what's wrong with me? And there's another lady who calls you who has had some very serious operation, and you never know it. When she calls you, she calls you on occasion. [00:26:34] Speaker D: No, but when some. Especially when some. That was golden when she called you. Four years. For four years and starting four years ago, saying, this is the last call I'm gonna make. She sounds like she's gonna die on the phone. And four years later, she's saying the same thing and telling that I know, to David Brudnoy, who, as I mentioned, has been through such hell, you know, and is still, you know, sitting there, I'm sure, worried to death about his own future. And she tells him that, I mean, how can you have sympathy? We've all lost people. You've been ill. You know, I lost my wife. You don't need to listen to that crap. I mean, she's a self indulgent, stupid woman by speaking, and those are her good points. [00:27:16] Speaker C: I'm cleaning all these papers since, you know, I'm cleaning for four years. And I found some very nice articles that your wife had written about Dave Maynard in the past. I had. Because I've saved everything. [00:27:26] Speaker D: I mean, well, I'm going to write reviews about him and change the whole tenor, tell what he really is like. [00:27:34] Speaker C: Okay, we'll do it together. [00:27:35] Speaker D: Now, David. Dave used to come to our house quite often. As a matter of fact, I can't remember why. Oh, I think at the time, I guess he lived on the north shore. [00:27:43] Speaker C: Right. [00:27:45] Speaker D: But anyway, I can still see him sitting on our sofa in the family room and while we talk a lot of times. So we got to. We got to be quite close. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Well, I think what I'm trying to figure out what the date a day the March 17 is. Today is like the third, right? [00:28:01] Speaker D: Well, today, Saturday is the fourth, so the 11th and the 18th of Friday. [00:28:05] Speaker C: Okay, well, Friday if you be on the air. So you might want to call because he's going to go to Ireland and march in the St. Patrick's Day parade on his birthday. [00:28:13] Speaker D: No, I think that would be nice to do that. Yes, I think the number. [00:28:17] Speaker C: And maybe you'd like to call him that. [00:28:18] Speaker D: I would like that. [00:28:19] Speaker C: I don't know what time it is, though. [00:28:21] Speaker D: It's 5 hours ahead of us. [00:28:23] Speaker C: 5 hours ahead. [00:28:24] Speaker D: Yeah, they're same as England. It's 5 hours ahead. So if we called him, like about three or four in the morning, it would be like 09:00 in the morning their time. [00:28:33] Speaker C: All right, well, I'll check it out and I'll get all that information as your entertainment reporter is still working to make your program. [00:28:42] Speaker D: Okay. And thank you very much for not ticking me off. Thanks to you and Denise. [00:28:46] Speaker C: You're welcome, because you know I love you madly. [00:28:50] Speaker D: Honest to God. [00:28:51] Speaker C: Honest to God, I love you. [00:28:53] Speaker D: Okay, take care. Bye bye, Ruth. And they were broadcasting a show that I used to love when I was a kid. Can you top this? Oh, yeah. The sort of the, I was going to say round table discussion thing. But it was a scripted. No, it wasn't a scripted. It was. It was to try. People would tell jokes. That's right. It was only scripted as a fact that the moderator, Peter Donnell, would tell somebody's joke and the other three panelists had to top it on the lap or equal it on the laugh meter. That's right. That's right. The laugh meter was, was a laugh meter. Anyway, they got, registered the reaction of the audience to the joke. Most of the jokes they told were terrible, but the thing was that they were so good at telling them, they could take a joke that I couldn't possibly make funny and make you roll on the floor. Who were the, who are the panelists on that? You recall Joe Laurie, junior. Yeah. Senator Ford and Harry Hirschfield. That's right. That's right. In Haverhill. At the Haverhill Public Library next Tuesday afternoon at 215. The. I forget the name of the group. The women of the library have an organization. Anyway, I'll be up there talking with them on this talk. This is coming Tuesday afternoon, 215. I usually don't mention where I'm gonna be because I figure that's, you know, that's the kind of publicity. And I shouldn't use this radio station to mention that. Also, most of them are private organizations and they're kind of private parties. But I think this may be open to the public. I think so. So I look forward to going to my mother's hometown. My mother was born in Haverhill, so it's a, it's a city that means a lot to me. And I'll be up there Tuesday at 215 in the afternoon with, with my tapes and stuff. Well, you're, you're at, you're a local boy just like I am. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was born in Massachusetts. Yeah, I was born in New Bedford. My parents were living in Bourne at the time. We grew up in Kingston. My mother was born and born. My father was born in Eastbridge water. So we're all. Okay. You were born south of. Your folks are south. South Shore. Right? South Shore. My folks were Merrimack Valley. My mother, Haverhill, and my father, Lawrence time, way back the early fifties. Yeah, it was. That's right. It was. [00:31:11] Speaker B: It was the Prescott. And. [00:31:13] Speaker D: Yeah, Norm Prescott was the program director there. And there was. Alan Dairy was doing a thing called the Derry go round. Yeah. And there was a guy named Bob Swan doing a thing called the Swan boat. [00:31:25] Speaker B: We had all these after school and they give out products, you know, whatever the sponsors wearing progresso soup and stuff. And I came out with a shopping bag full of stuff. But what I really wanted to ask you about was your wife used to write a column. [00:31:42] Speaker D: That's right. For the Boston Herald. That's right, yes. [00:31:46] Speaker B: And she used to mention a fellow in the. In the column, Salvilla, and I think he's an old neighbor of mine from East Boston, and I'd love to get in touch with him. [00:31:59] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't have any information on that at all. I don't. I don't even know that. [00:32:03] Speaker B: I think of like records and. [00:32:05] Speaker D: Salvilla. [00:32:06] Speaker B: Salvalla. Ve l l a, Salvalla, Salvalla, yeah. And she mentioned him many times in her comment. I kept saying to my husband, well, I'll write in and I'll ask, you know, and then, you know, I never did and I'd really like to get home. As you get older, you want to hang up, get all these things together, you know. [00:32:29] Speaker D: No, I understand, because I'm in the same boat you are, but I don't know that name. I feel funny, but I should know it, I suppose. [00:32:38] Speaker B: He had a record out at one time. [00:32:40] Speaker D: Was he a singer? Was he a performer himself? [00:32:42] Speaker B: He was a singer. He had one. He was a boxer and a singer. V E l l a. Yeah, sal vella. His sister's name was Dolly and he lived two doors up from me on Liverpool street in East Boston. And when I was nine or ten years old and he chummed around with my brother and then we moved out of East Boston, we moved to Stoneham, and we just kind of lost contact. I went back a couple of times and visited his folks and then, I guess both, I'm sure, deceased, the same as mine are. But I really like to get in touch with him and unless somebody can. [00:33:24] Speaker D: Call and tell me, give me some information. I wish I could help you, Judy. I really can't. [00:33:29] Speaker B: Yeah, but you talk about, you know, my husband listens to you all the time. I have to work, so I'm in bed usually. But he talks about. You talk about your mother. Used to talk about your mother all the time about working in fully basement. [00:33:45] Speaker D: That's a. Did he know my mother? [00:33:46] Speaker B: No, no, no. I'm saying he tells me what you say. [00:33:49] Speaker D: Oh, I see, I see. Yes, she did. She worked in the lower basement of sewing baby clothes. [00:33:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:55] Speaker B: I said, she just. She must have been one super person. [00:33:58] Speaker D: She was. She was very special. Very, very special. [00:34:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:01] Speaker B: And I just. It just. You know, it just reminds me so much of growing up. All the things you mentioned about going to the show and Chelsea and, of course, East Boston Chelsea, you know, interchangeable. And even though it's across the river. But, you know, I think of so many things that I just identify with you. [00:34:22] Speaker D: And then you ended up in pep row, which is way away from there. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's funny. My father. The first time my father came up here, he says they had to pack a lunch. But it was. I think. I think it's just when we came up here was, you know, cost of money, the houses were cheaper, you know. [00:34:40] Speaker D: Well, it's a pretty area. Also, you're. [00:34:42] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I know you have family. [00:34:43] Speaker B: What? Mason, New Hampshire center by the gas station. Just go straight. [00:34:48] Speaker C: And that. [00:34:49] Speaker B: The bridge is right there. And it is. You know, it is one of the last ones in New England. And it's in pretty good condition, so it's really pretty. [00:34:59] Speaker D: Well, good. I'm glad to talk to you, Jude. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Okay. Well, that's all, you know, if there's anything, you know, for Sal, I. Do you want me to call back some other time or is that. [00:35:10] Speaker D: No, just keep listening. If anybody knows, they'll probably call right away. Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Because I really would like to get in touch with him. [00:35:17] Speaker D: Okay. [00:35:17] Speaker B: Oh, thank you and have a nice weekend. [00:35:19] Speaker D: You're welcome. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Bye bye bye. [00:35:21] Speaker D: It's from the January, February issue of last year. And it's by Marion Gibbons of Geneva, New York, who apparently reads the magazine and says she remembers so much of the stuff in the past. Those fantastic forties. I wish I could do this kind of rap style. I'm not sure I'd be good at that. Or whether we need some background music. So let's just read it anyway. Baby snooks, big little books and gangbusters who caught the crooks fireside chats and Easter hats those crazy dancers called Hepcats Major Bo's gong, a Kate Smith song Dorothy Lamore and her sarong Dick Hames and Harry James and Leo the lip at Dodger games a war bond rally and Rudy Valley and misses Nussbaum of Allen's alley Amos and Andy Mahatma Gandhi Little Orphan Annie and her dog Sandy Errol Flynn and gunga Dinn Evelyn and her magic violin Rosemary Clooney and Mickey Rooney Louis Pasteur was really Paul Muhney, Count Basie, George Burns and Gracie that wonderful team of Hepburn and Tracy Joel McRae and Turan Bay Jack Benny, he's Maxwell, you know. And Dennis Day Gable was king, Benny Goodman was swing the Andrew sisters could really sing the Burma Hump, the 01:00 jump and that Chinless wonder Andy Gump, Priscilla Lane and Mule Train and those westerns starring Big John Wayne, Milton Berle and Minnie pearl and Benny grable that is not Benny Grable. Betty Grable, the pinup girl, the London Blitz and Messer Schmidt's. The cats and jammer kids were Hans and Fritz Vic Demone, to each his own and garbo wanted to be alone Louis Prima and Hiroshima and raising the flag on Iwo Jima, Frankenstein, the Majino line, the breakfast club each morning at nine Vaughn Monroe and vinegar Joe life boy really stopped Bo blind dates and Ford v eight s and there were only 48 states a rumble seat and cream of wheat bull Halsey commanded the 7th fleet a Pepsidon smile was right in style like hit parade it's so long for a while. Remember that one? So long for a while. Hello? Yeah, it's on. All lines are now open. All lines are now open. You can call now and you have no trouble getting through. I thought they were all asleep, but they're there. Okay, well, I'll start the day with a little laughter. Okay. I was gonna say to Tony, I'll bet you Generosa has some kind of a function going on with her church in Peabody today. Is that correct? [00:38:54] Speaker C: No, it is not. [00:38:55] Speaker D: See, I missed. I missed. Shame on me. [00:38:59] Speaker C: Shame on you. Because I said, this is one time I'm not going to mention that St. Adelaide's church. [00:39:07] Speaker D: You did. You did. [00:39:09] Speaker C: No, what prompted me to call, honey, was that I heard that lady from Pepro Farmer, East Bostonian calling, ask about a singer. What was his name? [00:39:19] Speaker D: It was Sal Vella. [00:39:21] Speaker C: Oh, salvation. V e l l a v e. [00:39:24] Speaker D: L l a. Sal S a l. As in Salvador, I guess. Salva. [00:39:29] Speaker C: I never heard of him. [00:39:30] Speaker D: Oh, I thought you were gonna supply us with all kinds of information. [00:39:33] Speaker C: No, but you know what I'm going to do? There are a couple of my husband's old musician friends still around. I'm going to give them a basil wuzzle and I'll see what I can find out. [00:39:43] Speaker D: Okay? That would be very nice. [00:39:44] Speaker C: Yeah, you know, anything to help my fellow. [00:39:48] Speaker D: Okay. And maybe. Maybe this woman will send me a note and tell me, you know, with her name and address. So that if you can get the information to me, I'll send it out to her. [00:39:57] Speaker C: Oh, that would be great. [00:39:58] Speaker D: That's because that's the kind of fellow. [00:39:59] Speaker C: That we both are. I know that. You don't have to tell me how good you are. [00:40:03] Speaker D: Well, no, I mean, that's how good both of us are. [00:40:06] Speaker C: Oh, is that right? Thank you for including me. No, I'll. But I will. I'm going to get in touch with a couple of the guys and see what I can come up with. [00:40:17] Speaker D: Okay. [00:40:17] Speaker C: That works. [00:40:18] Speaker D: That would be nice. Thank you very much. Generosity. [00:40:20] Speaker C: I'll be talking to you. My love to the girls. [00:40:23] Speaker D: Bob Batshelter over at the Village green. He's there with his rehearsal band every other Wednesday night, as I've mentioned, and this is not a commercial plug because there's no admission charge. You don't have to buy booze. You go in and sit there and just listen. Don't have to buy anything. I mean, it's a free night. And he's got this big. I think it's a 15 piece band. It's at least 15 pieces. And he was rehearsing the other night for a debut. He's not a debut, but he's going to be on the. On channel two on for a fundraiser. And when do they not have fundraisers on channel two? This is next to Monday night. So, you know, if you've heard me talk about the batchelder man, which is quite a good one, you can catch them live sometime around 08:00 I think it is on. On Monday night, I guess, something like that. Why don't you sit down and talk with me for a little? Can you do that? Yeah, I can do that. Okay. Okay. This is Tony. I'm talking about. Tony and Esprit getting all stuff ready for the morning news team, eh? Yes. Yeah. Yes, I am. Because Bill Lawrence will be here soon. In fact, he's probably been here since about 07:00 yesterday evening. [00:41:34] Speaker G: He was. [00:41:34] Speaker D: So she comes here very early and he and his entire crew. Susan wrist, I think. No, no, actually it's. We have Bob McMahon and Lionh Jones. Oh, Atlanta Jones. Okay. That's a good crew, too. And they will be bringing us up to date with everything that you need to know about anything, including, I have the latest weather for. Oh, the latest weather. Would you just run through that with that? For sure, I'd love to. Okay. Because I know you want to cup your ear like the big time weather guys do. And with broadcasters. Okay, I have you. And if you want a truck like this, that's okay. I have to put my elbow on the counter, too, because the res right. Supposed to resonate or something. That's right. You cup your ear and you have your elbow on the counter. That's right. And it makes your voice to you, not to anybody else listening, but to you. It makes it sound deep. With or without headphones. Well, see, if you have headphones, you don't need to do that. Oh, okay. We used to do that because we didn't have headphones. I worked for very poor stations who couldn't afford headphones. What if I cut my headphone? Maybe that, that might be enhanced doubly. I guess. I would guess so, yeah. All right. Well, we have today, I should have pre read this so I may stutter. Cloudy to partly sunny. Okay. With a couple of flurries, especially near the coast. I think you read this earlier. High near 36 tonight and tomorrow. Plenty of clouds. Low tonight, 26 to 30. High tomorrow, 36. Monday, cloudy with rain, especially in the morning. High near 40. And on Tuesday, cloudy with the chance of rain in the afternoon. High 44. We're getting up there. Closing in on Tuesday. We're getting up there. But every, every time they mention that, like earlier this week, they were talking about getting up to the forties earlier in the week. Then they kept putting that off. Yeah. They were only like 26 degrees off one of those days. Then one of the forecasts this past day was going to be up around 50 by Monday. Now you're putting it off till Tuesday and it's only going to be 44. 44, yeah. So, you know something? Come closer. I want them to hear this because as it is, they, enough people throw stones at them anyhow. You sometimes wonder if they know what they're talking about, these meteorologist people. You think they do? No, I don't. I mean, they come on television especially, and they're wearing nice suits, so they must be making a pretty good bucket. You know, they can afford these nice clothes and nice shirts, all well pressed and everything, and nice ties. Yeah. And they never come back the next day and say, you know what? I told you yesterday, I'm so sorry. I'm so embarrassed. It didn't come out that way. They go on like they never predicted. Wrongly. That really bothers me. I want them to come on and be contrite and apologize every time. That'd be every night. Well, well, whenever, you know, whenever it happens, whenever the weather does not come out the way they said it was, why don't they say, I'm throwing myself at your mercy. I predicted it would be and it didn't. It didn't turn out that way. I'm so, so. I'm so. Please. Gary Lapierre on his. LaPierre on the loose this past Wednesday, his dope slap Wednesday was. One of the dope slaps was to meteorologists, and one of the complaints was, they say tomorrow the high will be 36, the high will be 42. Where do they get the exact number from? Can't they, the low forties, the high thirties, round it off like that. Why do they have to be? Exactly. [00:44:48] Speaker G: And then he mentioned about, of course. [00:44:49] Speaker D: One of the days that it was supposed to be near 40. It was only 19 or something that day, and we had ice all over the place. You understand now why Gary Lapierre is my soulmate? I know. I think along those very same lines, maybe we should have, what? Norm on the loose. What we call Norm. Norm on the loose. Nathan, I used to do a feature. I used to do a feature called Nathan's Notebook. Does that ability at all? That could be it, sure, why not? I think I can see the graphics if you had a tv show, too. A little notebook of the pencil. Nathan's notebook. Yeah. Some theme music. Yeah, you can do that for radio, the theme music. Just making my ear comments about stuff, you know, people, things that people could identify with would be nice, maybe you. [00:45:36] Speaker G: Think if you wanted to, Brian, and. [00:45:38] Speaker D: Propose that they might say, yeah, we could use another feature during the day. I mean, they've already got Lonnie, doctor. Doctor Lonnie Carton, senior editor of education today. Yes. And her feature's called the learning center in the learning center. In the learning center. In the learning center. Yeah. You know what really bothers me? Let's put Lonnie Carton aside, because I don't want this to apply to Doctor Lonnie Carton, PhDs who go around as doctors. It really bothers me. You know, I know I shouldn't say this because she's an employee of this very, very same radio station, but the reason never stopped you before. No, it didn't. What sparked it off was the other day I was watching some program, you know, all these. These daytime talk shows, they very often will have a psychologist on. Not a psychiatrist who's a real doctor, but a psychologist who is a PhD doctor. Doctor of philosophy. Okay. And no matter what the problem is, they know all about it, you know. Anyway, Joyce Brothers was on, and she always says, this is Doctor Joyce Brothers. Now, I know technically she is a doctor. Her PhDs are doctors, Doctor of philosophy. But the idea is people, when they hear doctor, think of medical doctor, which is a whole different connotation. You know, you think of a doctor as someone who mends broken bodies, someone who can take the. Eating something medical. Yeah. And heal people and all that kind of stuff. And have to have a tremendous amount of experience, you know, and not only from dentists, like you said, psychiatrists and pediatricians and all the medical field like that. Yeah, right. I mean, tremendous amount of interns. They have to work as interns and really work up for work forever so they understand the human body. Now, when you say doctor, even as a PhD, and even though you have a right to say that because that's what you are, people kind of assume that you're a medical doctor. And I think that's quite deceptive. So when Joyce brothers comes out, this is doctor Joyce Brothers, I want to say, up yours, man. If I got an infection in my toe, I wouldn't even call you because you have no idea what that is. It just bothers me. I just hate ph. And they call themselves doctors. She's a psychologist. Right? A psychologist. Oh, this is not quite the same thing as a medical doctor, okay? It probably brought up another 20, $30,000 in salary at some time. Well, I mean, I think it's. It leads people to believe that you're more powerful and more knowing in certain areas than you really are. And I think it's a phony kind of thing. And I'm getting my PhD and I'm going to be the first to call myself Doctor Nathan. You've got to get an honorary doctorate. It's kind of funny because a very close friend of mine who I really like and who I've always respected, I just found. And I've known him for years. About a week ago. Well, maybe a month ago. Well, maybe two months ago. [00:48:53] Speaker G: Maybe it was yesterday. [00:48:54] Speaker D: Yeah, maybe it was last year I found out he was a PhD. No clue. The Heimlich maneuver. She had no clue. Let me have some fresh fruit. Stop for a minute. So I really respect that for him. And Bill Lawrence is a doctor of news, information, philosophy and old bones. Yes, he's probably. Nobody knows more about old bones than he does. That's why he's kind of interested in my case, I think, anyway. But he doesn't call himself doctor, and I appreciate that. Anyway, it's time to say goodbye. Thank you, Doctor Nesbitt. I do have a doctorate, thank you very much. And I happen to be Doctor Norm Nathan in the non learning center. And I'll see you tonight. Eleven got an interesting yesterday, but the death of rock and roll Gary J. Katz, Jerry K. And this is about how rock row people die. Yep, that sounds like a twelve. [00:49:56] Speaker G: That is a barn burner. [00:49:58] Speaker D: That sounds like a fun topic. We ought to enjoy that endurance on the norm native. And maybe Sunday night we could talk about well known doctors and PhDs who've been murdered and tortured. See you later. But were they really doctors when they died? Oh, you know, scandal coming out. [00:50:20] Speaker H: The jingle package folks. [00:50:22] Speaker D: Yeah. Now, what is that? [00:50:24] Speaker H: Well, it gives you all the, you know, they do a lot of world famous jingles for all the radio stations and different broadcast personalities. [00:50:32] Speaker D: Oh, I see. Isn't that interesting? Because somebody had sent me some, some jingles that were on this station and a disc, a record form. I meant to bring that in and play that some old WBZ jingles. But this, what you're talking about is jingles from a whole lot of stations. [00:50:49] Speaker H: Like that from all over the country and a matter of fact, all over the world. [00:50:53] Speaker D: Oh, I'd love to hear that. [00:50:55] Speaker H: It's coming out. I can't. If you'll put me back to your producer, I'll give him the number off the air. [00:51:01] Speaker D: I will do that. [00:51:02] Speaker H: I don't want to be at the plug here because I. This is something I heard in a short wave broadcast. It was strictly for AMD Xers. [00:51:09] Speaker D: What is an AMD xer? [00:51:11] Speaker H: Well, in other words, you like to listen to stations that are. If you live in Boston, you might want to have a special radio and you pick up stations out in Iowa or Alabama or something like that. Is there a person who would like to listen to skip, as they call it, faraway radio stations on Amazon? [00:51:28] Speaker D: Oh, I got you. [00:51:29] Speaker H: They turn their radio a certain way and twist the antenna around so they can block out maybe a 50,000 watt station and pick up a 5000 watt station that's broadcasting in the other direction, you know. [00:51:40] Speaker D: And you can do that, huh? [00:51:41] Speaker H: Yeah, with certain antennas and certain radios, you can do that. And they're fairly inexpensive radios that can do that too. You don't need a couple thousand dollar piece of machinery. But it's a hobby that I've got. And I. I picked up some fairly foreign stations here. Even stations in the Caribbean here in New Jersey, which is unusual. [00:52:01] Speaker D: Oh, that sounds like fun. You know, at one time that's. I used to do that late at night, remember, overnight. They used to have programs that they would never put on during the day because they were so far out, you know, I mean, by far out, I don't mean. I don't mean you know, all esoteric or anything, but just kind of, you know, really bad in some cases. And a lot of them would be from nightclubs. And you get a host. Hello, there. Hi, there. Honest, you. You look like Albert Einstein. We have Albert Einstein in the club. What do you say, honey? What do you know? And go on and on like this with these name droppers and all of that. But nowadays, all you do is get all the syndicated stuff. Now, you picking up all these other AM stations around, you get different local programming, especially at night. I mean, programs that are different, or are they all broadcasting pretty much the same shit, syndicated things? [00:52:47] Speaker H: Well, you get some local things, and also, at certain times of the broadcast year, you'll find that certain radio stations are asked to go off the air so that people who do this amd xing or skip, you know, reception, can get the local stations that are far away that they may not get, because, let's say, WBZ or another 50,000 watt radio stations might be on a frequency that blocks them. [00:53:14] Speaker D: So you would tell these stations, like you would tell us that BZ go off the air so I can pick up this other little station. [00:53:20] Speaker H: Well, I guess during transmitter maintenance and other things that may have to happen, you know. [00:53:25] Speaker D: Okay. [00:53:25] Speaker H: Periodically, you know, the station goes off for ten minutes, and all these guys get. You know, they get all. It's like, wow, I got a station in Idaho. Who cares? [00:53:36] Speaker D: No, I think that's fun if the programming is different, because then you pick up, you know, all kinds of shades of all kinds of different things throughout the country or through whatever the reach might be. And I think that's. That's great. It's just that radio has become so, so much the same, and very few, if I may, tout our own horn here. Very few do you tout a horn. That seemed like a wrong. Anyway, aside from that, Norman, that's the Boston accent coming. That's right. It's tuch, your own horn. I know, with something like that, we say not in a couple of weeks, but. But the. But the idea is that we broadcast local programming overnight, and very few stations do, you know. So I just wondered if you tuned around and picked up stations, do you get many that do, especially on AM? Do you really get different programming? Or is it. Do you get the Jim Bohannon show every place across the country? [00:54:29] Speaker H: Well, you do get a lot of local programming, and you do find that some of the DJ's that are on really don't have the pipes that the old guys used to do back in the old days, you get some high, squeaky, little thin voiced man there. Country stuff, you know? [00:54:43] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:44] Speaker H: You know, don't. What do you call it? If you want to keep the beer cold, put it next to my ex wife's heart. You know, songs like that. [00:54:51] Speaker D: That's. Oh, the songs. That's right, too. Put my shoes away, mommy, because I don't expect to wear them again. I expect to be dead by morning. Blues. Get a lot of that kind of stuff. Yeah. [00:55:03] Speaker H: Well, listen, I will give you the number of this production thing to your producer. [00:55:09] Speaker D: Okay? I'm going to turn you over to the ever popular Jim. Hey, whatever happened Jim Crowley. [00:55:15] Speaker H: Whatever happened to a former producer that used to be up there that was on with Larry? I can't say his last name. [00:55:24] Speaker D: Oh, Larry Glick. You can say it. His. And the guy you're talking about is probably Kenny Meyer. [00:55:29] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:55:29] Speaker D: Yeah, Kenny. Kenny works in for the city of Boston, and so far as I know, is not in broadcasting anymore, which is too bad, because I know he loves the business, but he was the muck and Meyer. [00:55:41] Speaker H: Muck and Meyer. [00:55:41] Speaker D: That's right. Yes. And he worked here for a lot of years with Larry, who they ought to both be in radio still. I mean, Larry was fun. However, if he tries to take this program away from me, I'll fight him right to the. I bet you would. [00:55:56] Speaker H: Norman, it's been a pleasure talk with you. [00:55:58] Speaker D: Okay, hold on. Here's Jim Frawley. He'll take the information. [00:56:00] Speaker H: Thank you, sir. Have a good night. [00:56:02] Speaker D: You have a good night, too. [00:56:03] Speaker G: Sure. [00:56:03] Speaker D: As I saw in the Lisa Gibbons show the other day, just as we were talking about that last week, hearing on last Monday morning's Lisa Gibbons show. And the idea of the program was people who proposed in unorthodox, kind of unusual kind of ways. And that was you? [00:56:22] Speaker G: That was me. [00:56:22] Speaker D: And you were mentioning how you did that. Was this a drive in theater? [00:56:27] Speaker G: Yeah, it was at the drive in movies in Milford, New Hampshire. [00:56:30] Speaker D: Yeah, because I didn't. I was trying to. I knew you. That's what you seem to have been saying. And I was trying to think if there were still some drive in theaters left. Obviously, there is one up there. [00:56:39] Speaker G: Wasn't easy to find. [00:56:40] Speaker D: Okay, tell us how you set that up. [00:56:43] Speaker G: Well, the first thing I did is I got the idea and I went to the theater owner to see if he would, you know, to see how I could go about doing it, see if he would show the movie for me in between the. [00:56:54] Speaker D: You know, tell us from people who haven't heard that or haven't seen. Lisa, about this movie. This is a movie involving your fiance and a whole lot of what, stills and things you had taken. [00:57:05] Speaker G: Yeah, it's a collage of pictures, just basically just snapshots of us together, and they kind of fade into each other. And there's music in the background. James Taylor's your smiling face was the music. And at the beginning, the words came up, said a message from Ken to Kristen. And then it played all the pictures in the song. And then at the end, it said, will you marry me? And my voice came on. I said, you know, I asked her to marry me at the drive ins. And then we had all of our. Well, I had called up all of our friends and family beforehand to come to the drive ins and sort of sneak in there and so she wouldn't know anybody was there in their cars and hide out until that came on. And then everyone came out and joined us. We had champagne. [00:57:49] Speaker D: That's beautiful. Now, when you mention this to the man who ran the drive in theater, did he offer any kind of resistance at all, or did he say, hey, I'm a guy who loves romance. What a great idea. What was his attitude? [00:58:01] Speaker G: He thought it was a great idea. He was all up for it. The only thing is, he didn't think that I was going to be able to get it done, because you have to film it in 35 millimeter film, which is real movie film. You can't just use a video camera or a camcorder, or you can't transfer video to film, and you can't transfer any other kind of film except for 35 millimeter camera in it. And it's kind of tough to. To get that done. But I found a guy out of Newton who helped me out with it. He's a big help. [00:58:33] Speaker D: Were there other people? I mean, obviously there were other people at the drive. When was this done? Obviously, this was that one, like, last summer, last fall? [00:58:41] Speaker G: It was September 25. Not last September, but the September before. [00:58:46] Speaker D: Were there a lot of people at the theater there at this drive in that came up the afterwards, because that'd be a big shock to them, too. They were not expecting this? [00:58:54] Speaker G: No, no. It was crowded, and all kinds of people were all crowded around the cars. And there was. I really didn't expect this, but there was tv people there and newspaper people. I guess the drive in owner had alerted the media. That was his whole angle, I guess, why he thought it was such a great idea. [00:59:12] Speaker D: It was with the publicity and stuff, and somehow Leisa Gibbons got it from him? [00:59:18] Speaker G: No. Then I just recently, Russell Ross Jewelers had a contest. True love stories. [00:59:24] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:59:24] Speaker G: And someone told me about it and I entered it and I sent them a videotape and I won. It was a $2,500 gift certificate to Ross jewelers. And then the Ross Jewelers people called up Lisa Givens, and that's how they found out about it. [00:59:38] Speaker D: Okay. Because I did see the show last Monday, and this is the first time I've ever seen you. Because we talk and people think that we're sitting across the table from each other, but we're not because you're at, you're at the traffic headquarters or whatever you want to call it up in the prudential. The prudential center. So I see this guy come on with his, you know, and I'm thinking, I wonder if that's Ken Newman with this good looking guy, with this beautiful woman. And you look like a couple of matinee idols, both of you. I really resented that because you're both incredibly attractive. I stopped. [01:00:13] Speaker G: Oh, go on. [01:00:16] Speaker D: Anyway. And it was, she said, you know, Ken Newman and your fiance's name. I've forgotten. I'm sorry. [01:00:21] Speaker G: It's Kristen. [01:00:22] Speaker D: Kristen, okay. And she has a last name, too. [01:00:25] Speaker G: That Kristen Koenig. [01:00:27] Speaker D: Okay. She'll have that for a while. Now, you've set a wedding date for this summer. Is it. [01:00:32] Speaker G: It's September 29. [01:00:34] Speaker D: September 29. [01:00:35] Speaker G: September 29, coming up. [01:00:36] Speaker D: But it was a lovely moment. It was kind of funny to hear your. This sounds kind of stupid because people always tell you this when they meet you and they have never seen you but only heard you on radio. Well, you don't look like I thought you'd look. And look, it's funny looking at that, that physical being and that voice that I know so well coming out of a body that I doesn't look at all familiar to me. But I thought of that as I watched you. You must be about 9ft tall, are. [01:01:04] Speaker G: You not quite nine, just under eight. Eight seven and a half. [01:01:08] Speaker D: No. No. How tall are you really? [01:01:10] Speaker G: Six two. [01:01:11] Speaker D: Yeah, six two. And this is a good looking guy. You ought not to be on hiding out at the prudential doing traffic reports. You ought to be on television, which I kind of had a. I kind of have a feeling that may be your goal anyway. [01:01:23] Speaker G: Well, that would be nice, but, uh, you don't care. [01:01:26] Speaker D: You just love what you're doing. Whatever it is, as long as you can serve the public. Give me all that kind of baloney and no, nobody's going. [01:01:32] Speaker G: I'm just happy that people can listen to my reports and. And not get involved in traffic jams. [01:01:38] Speaker D: There's somebody who followed my. Oh, that's right. You're not only a good looking guy with a beautiful fiance, but you are humanitarian, and the world welcomes you to its bosom. Anyway, I was. All the kids here, the tea cat teeth are applauding between their tears. [01:01:57] Speaker G: The studio audience, yeah, their hands are. [01:01:59] Speaker D: Wet with tears dripping down to their palms. But I got some calls at home, some people who somehow discovered my phone number. And I was watching it. So I wasn't answering the phone during that period. And the answering machine said, apparently you're not seeing Ken Newman. He's on television right now on lisa's program. And that's what he said he was going to. It was kind of like Nathan, don't you remember? He said he was going to be on. Why are you not washing it? And I was watching it, which is why I didn't answer the phone. [01:02:33] Speaker G: Oh, that's funny. [01:02:34] Speaker D: But it was fun to watch. Did you watch it with your fiance? [01:02:40] Speaker G: She was at work. [01:02:42] Speaker D: Don't let me down like that. [01:02:44] Speaker G: She couldn't watch it. [01:02:45] Speaker D: She was at work. She was changing typewriter ribbons. You're gonna say something kind of mundane like that. [01:02:50] Speaker G: Well, I videotaped it. And then she came home and we watched it together. [01:02:53] Speaker D: Yeah, it was a lovely thing. I wish you the very, very best. It was beautiful. Plus the fact that. That Lisa, I thought, looked rather lovely then I was gonna propose to her, but she kept mentioning her husband. I really resented that a whole lot. [01:03:07] Speaker G: Up close. Up close. You should see her. She's very pretty. But you wouldn't believe how much makeup they put on. It's just amazing amount. [01:03:19] Speaker D: I noticed that she scratched her nose and there was about an inch dent. [01:03:23] Speaker G: That's about right. [01:03:24] Speaker D: And it's the powder dripped out of her mouth. Now you're spoiling everything. [01:03:28] Speaker G: No, she's really nice, though. [01:03:30] Speaker D: Okay. Hey, best wishes. We'll dedicate later on when we play the dumb birthday game. We'll dedicate it to you guys. That doesn't mean anything. It's not as nice as the $2,500 gift certificate for Morris jewelry, but what the heck. [01:03:46] Speaker G: Hey, that's great, though. That would be just fantastic. I appreciate that, Norm. [01:03:51] Speaker D: I imagine you'll probably want to tape that, and you probably want to both listen to it during the weeks and years that lie ahead. Thank you. Anyway. Best wishes to you. It was fun to see you both. [01:04:02] Speaker G: Well, thanks a lot. [01:04:03] Speaker D: Okay, bye. Bye. [01:04:05] Speaker I: I'm going to dress up in her outfit and talk about her life from 1830 to 1860 in Lowell. And all of the things that I say will actually be truthful things that happened to people in Lowell in those years. I'm going to be telling some amazing things about how she walked all the way down from Quebec to Boston when she first arrived in Quebec in a sea boat from county Cork. [01:04:32] Speaker D: My word. How long ago was that? [01:04:34] Speaker I: This was in 1828, and I don't think people in my audience always believe me when I say that's what happened. But based on the research that I've done, people really made that kind of a walk from Quebec to Boston. [01:04:49] Speaker D: That's a long walk. [01:04:50] Speaker I: Well, you know, some of them didn't make it, John, I can imagine there are Irish living in New Hampshire and Maine and so forth who never quite made it all the way down to Boston. [01:05:01] Speaker D: And there are cemeteries up there as well. [01:05:03] Speaker I: Yes, I would imagine so. Now, of course, we didn't all come all that way. Some of us landed in Boston and New York. But if you came over on a seed boat, which was the absolute cheapest way, then you might well land in Quebec. [01:05:17] Speaker D: I'll be doggone. Well, now, tell me about the performances and what the ticket prices are. [01:05:21] Speaker E: Sure. [01:05:22] Speaker I: It's March 10 through twelve and March 17 through 19. And the performances on Sundays are matinees. The other ones are at night at 08:00 and it's at the Charlestown working Theater. The phone number is two four two 3285. And ticket prices are $12 and $10 for seniors. [01:05:42] Speaker D: Thank you, Sharon, very much. [01:05:43] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:05:44] Speaker D: May your cows never run dry. [01:05:48] Speaker C: One classroom. So there's a number you can call. And if you call it, they tell you the winning number. And now they tell you how many winners. They don't say how much it was. [01:06:01] Speaker D: Okay. Because normally during the night, because I have the winning numbers, I just, uh. During the night, usually, and very soon, they will tell how many winners and where the ticket was sold. But I don't have that on here yet. And, son of a gun, you beat the amount. [01:06:17] Speaker C: But I don't know where the ticket was sold. So that's why I was calling, to see if you check your pocket, if you bought your ticket. [01:06:25] Speaker D: Let's see. [01:06:25] Speaker C: Hold on, because I'm all set. I have these architecture ready and everything. Architecture? How about architecture? [01:06:35] Speaker D: Apparently, you use your studying English as a second language, same as I am. [01:06:39] Speaker C: That's right. Like you're typing. [01:06:41] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah, that's right. [01:06:44] Speaker C: I'm teaching. [01:06:44] Speaker D: You typewriter as a matter of fact, I think I mentioned yesterday, I'm getting caught up with my correspondence now because I finally figured out how to work that typewriter I bought. Typewriters are not like they used to be. As I mentioned yesterday. You press code, then you press numbers to get margins, and it gets crazy. However, the mega books, let's see, I have 5910, 1434, and 33 of them, though I did. You had three of them. What is that? [01:07:16] Speaker C: Ticket. [01:07:16] Speaker D: What is that? [01:07:17] Speaker C: A free ticket and a phone call to. To Norman. [01:07:20] Speaker D: A phone call to Norman. [01:07:22] Speaker C: A free ticket. [01:07:23] Speaker D: That's all you get. What do you get with three? What do you get with four? [01:07:26] Speaker C: And $575. Isn't that terrible? [01:07:28] Speaker D: With four? [01:07:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And if you get five, they changed it and you get 1500. Now, used to get 400. I once got 400. Dave Maynard and I played together and we won. We got five out of four, five out of six numbers, and we missed $305,000 by one number. [01:07:50] Speaker D: Oh, isn't that. Isn't that enough that just to grind out your labor? [01:07:55] Speaker C: And now that all this time has passed, I mean. So you didn't get your ticket. I can tell. [01:08:01] Speaker D: No, I don't ever. I don't buy mega. I don't buy lottery tickets. I'm not talking against it or anything, and I'm not on any crusade. I just. I just never. I mean, you have to have an attitude about any kind of contest that you have a fighting chance to win. Maybe I'm a defeatist. [01:08:18] Speaker C: No, but you see, if they want to have the University of Norman, how are we going to do this? I mean. [01:08:23] Speaker D: No, but see, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to have to. Maybe I'll sell cakes and stuff. [01:08:28] Speaker C: I have a lot of cookbooks you can buy. [01:08:31] Speaker D: Oh, please, please, don't. Everything leads you into some kind of a pitch. No, no, I don't. I don't know. Because, I mean, I'm convinced that I will never win any of that stuff. [01:08:43] Speaker C: See, you have to not. You see, English is not my best language. You have to think a different way. You have to have a positive attitude. [01:08:52] Speaker D: I do. I have a positive attitude about everything except things like lottery tickets. Okay, yeah, I have a positive attitude. I even believe that one day I'll make love to like Sophia Lorenzo. That's my attitude. I have that. Yeah, well, you see, there's probably as much less chance of doing that than there is winning the Megabucks, but somehow I feel that's possible. And winning the megabucks for me is not. [01:09:17] Speaker C: Can you imagine a person now looking at their ticket and knowing they have just won 10,128,733? I take 128,000 and be happy for the rest of my life. [01:09:33] Speaker D: I bet you would, you greedy person. [01:09:36] Speaker C: No, I mean, that's not being greedy. I told you I'd give you half. [01:09:40] Speaker D: No, no. I just said that to be dramatic. I didn't really mean what I just said. Don't ever believe anything I said. [01:09:45] Speaker C: I think it's just kind of fun, you know? It's like we were saying something earlier today that really struck home with me. I was talking to a friend of mine who was talking to someone else and said, you know, this person needs just a good job. And I said, she's too old. And I thought, you know, I think that's terrible to say, because I think you're really only as old as you feel. I don't feel. [01:10:10] Speaker D: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. [01:10:11] Speaker C: Get your pencil. [01:10:12] Speaker D: Okay. And this is. I think I'm going to embroider this on my doily. You're only as old as you feel. [01:10:16] Speaker C: Goes around. Comes around. [01:10:18] Speaker D: Right. That's good. [01:10:19] Speaker C: But the thing is, I don't feel. I don't know how you feel. Like when you started in the business and everything, and you're still here all these years later. Do you really feel a lot different? [01:10:33] Speaker D: I feel. I feel more qualified. I feel like I do a better job now than I did back then. But that's kind of hard to prove to anybody, because people will look at you and say, that old poop, you know, isn't about time he stepped aside and let somebody. Young kids, come in. [01:10:47] Speaker C: And I feel the same. I don't feel any different than I did when I started in the music business. And if somebody came here and said to me, here's the money, produce a television show, I would do it tomorrow. [01:10:59] Speaker D: Yeah, see, but then you'd be calling. Still calling on Jerry Vail? [01:11:03] Speaker B: No. [01:11:04] Speaker C: Don Cornell. [01:11:05] Speaker D: And. Don Cornell and all those people. [01:11:07] Speaker C: No, no, no. I'm hip. Well, look at Tony Bennett. I mean, give me a break. [01:11:11] Speaker D: Well, that's different. I mean, he's always been great. I've always been a fan of his. [01:11:15] Speaker C: But. I understand. But what I'm saying is. I'm just saying, in general, I think it's a matter of the mind. I really think. [01:11:22] Speaker D: Of course it is. Of course it is. You know, every now and then, this is always structurally kind of funny. Not long ago. And this happens every now, and somebody will call and say, I norm I am 70 years old. I'm an old person. And I keep thinking, that's practically my age. Why do they sound like they're ready? They're gonna have cardiac arrest on the phone talking to me. Do I sound that old? [01:11:50] Speaker C: No, I don't. [01:11:51] Speaker D: I mean, so. But it's true. I mean, it's. It's an attitude. [01:11:54] Speaker C: It is. [01:11:55] Speaker D: That you have. I know kids I grew up with who were born at the age of 70, right. Way back then, you know, they always thought old and every. You know. And anyway, if you just encourage it, I'll go giving one. One of my long speeches. How about human nature and stuff? That'll bore the hell right out of you. [01:12:16] Speaker C: How about Jerry Lewis? Now, did you know about him? Right. [01:12:19] Speaker D: Yeah, he's. He's in. He's in. [01:12:21] Speaker C: Damien, 68 years old this month, and he looks great. [01:12:26] Speaker D: He does look good. Yeah. [01:12:27] Speaker C: On tv the other day, and, I mean, you know, he's crazy as every son. David let him in, running all around the place and doing all this crazy stuff like he used to do. And he's had open heart surgery and everything else, and, I mean, he looks great. And, you know, that's the whole deal. [01:12:43] Speaker D: I don't need your drugstore philosophy, Ruth. You're making me sick. Just stop it. Stop it. Just fork over your winnings from the lottery. I don't have to move a city like Boston. Thank you. You notice how I try to dress these things up? Ken Newman. You know, you don't get this during the daytime. They just say, how is it doing, Ken? Or some. You know, some kind of a bland intro like that. I try to try to kind of make. Put a little drama into these things. [01:13:15] Speaker G: It's exciting every time. Exciting and new every time. [01:13:18] Speaker D: It's exciting. Let me. Let me. I just. I've got mail here that says that you can hear these letters I'm holding up. In case you think I'm lying, this is proof right here. These are letters I'm holding up. Do you know him? You make traffic of reports, and the intro's exciting and new and certainly encourage guys like Ken Newman. Hold on. It's written in crayon on line paper. You make guys like Ken Newman just reach the ultimate in excitement because of the way you spur them on with your intros. That's. This is typical of tons and tons and tons of letters I get. [01:13:57] Speaker G: Let us just pour in, pour in. [01:13:59] Speaker D: Across this reporter's desk. They do. And it's kind of nice because the kids in the mail room look at me with so much respect. Well, shove it up your nose, mister. Nathan. They cry in great adoration. Anyway, why don't I just shut up so you can give the traffic report? [01:14:18] Speaker G: I'll give another excitement report. [01:14:20] Speaker B: He got up and played piano and sang and he was great. [01:14:23] Speaker D: Oh, he was. He great. Okay, because he told me that he'd been there. [01:14:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:28] Speaker D: And he loved being there, but he didn't tell me he performed. I didn't know that. [01:14:32] Speaker B: Well, you can understand why he wouldn't. [01:14:35] Speaker D: Well, I thought he might say, well, you know, I gave it a. [01:14:37] Speaker B: He wouldn't want you to make any wise comments that he's so well known for. [01:14:41] Speaker D: Well, no, no, no. I'm a fan of his. I think. I think Jack hard is a. Is an interesting guy. [01:14:48] Speaker B: He was very good, and we had a lot of fun. Oh, that's great, because everybody had a good time. [01:14:53] Speaker D: Okay, well, he'll be part of that also. He won't be here in the studio. He'll be back at the, what we call traffic headquarters. You're seeing empty and all that kind of big stuff out there, but he will be part of it. Okay, so that's good. I'll be looking for you. And that's next Friday night at midnight. [01:15:09] Speaker B: And we have another little surprise for you. [01:15:11] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:15:15] Speaker B: I'm trying to think of just the right word. The ever growing list of Norm Nathan theme songs. [01:15:20] Speaker D: Did you do another one? [01:15:21] Speaker B: Yes. Well, it's almost done. And you're gonna be the only guy to have so many lovingly crafted theme songs. [01:15:29] Speaker C: Oh. [01:15:30] Speaker D: Because I am. I am really very lucky. Everybody. Everybody comments on them. They really love them. And I do. I think you do such a good job. Yeah. Yeah. Usually theme music that's written by somebody for some local program comes out to somebody tinking, tinkering with the piano with some cornball lyric, you know, that really doesn't. And yours is so big and professional and beautiful and lovely. I do appreciate it a whole lot. [01:15:56] Speaker B: It was an act of love. [01:15:58] Speaker D: Oh, well, Linda. Oh, God, Linda, I think I'm. I think. I think I'm going to cry. Directions backed up pretty well. Expect to be spending a fair amount of time there, if that's your direction. Expressway, northbound and southbound. We're dealing with delays still in around the Dorchester gas tanks and the Bayside Expo center while people pour into that structure, getting in and out of the south station tunnel on the expressway. Northbound and southbound. Some moderate volume northbound, a little bit tight. Lower deck of Route 93. Heavy getting down towards the center. 128, 495. The mass spike. We're seeing a fair amount of Saturday afternoon volume. So far, no major problems. I'm Jack Hart, WPZ 24 hours traffic network now fly from Boston to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on nation's air. From only $59. Call your travel agent or nation's air at 1800. City jet, nation's air, your ticketless city jet. The musicians union and stuff and fundraisers for musicians very often are held down there and they have some great music. That's the old chateau de Ville and now Lombardo's. That's where it was held. That's right. Okay. I don't remember exactly building it depends on how far back you go. At one time, there were two musicians union. One was for black musicians and one was for white. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't know that. [01:17:16] Speaker D: Now, maybe what you're talking about maybe is more recent than that. And maybe, you know, they did integrate. So there's only one musicians union now for both blacks and whites. But it was separate at one time anyway. No, I don't. I don't know the building you're talking about. [01:17:31] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, geographically, it's been turned. Well, it's been turned into condos now, but it would be behind what is now. I think it's the colonnade or something, right? In that, you know, that the colonnade hotel is opposite the prudential center and then behind that is St. Petolf street. And it's a big, rectangular brick building, and it's quite attractive. And I remember, you know, I was going to school down in that neighborhood back in the late sixties and I was interested in this building, which was no longer a musician junior because my grandfather had, you know, gone down there many times. He used to play the cornet. And I just was wondering if by chance you had ever been in there and could describe, you know, what was happening. But I guess I could maybe go to the library and get some information on it, I guess. [01:18:24] Speaker D: Yeah. I don't know that building at all, you know, and I've been around for quite some time when it was. You know, when it was the musicians building and reunion building. No, I'm not familiar with that. [01:18:39] Speaker B: It just occurred to me. It has etched into the outside of the building. It has the names of several composers all the way around the building on like a marble strip or something. [01:18:51] Speaker D: Really? It's there now? [01:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that's still there. It's been turned into condos. But that sculpture is still intact. So if you go right behind, you know, the St. Petal, the St. Patol restaurant is on the corner of the colonnade, and then if you go down a block toward Boston on the right hand side, it's on a little corner. It's a good sized building and it still has that original embellishment on it. [01:19:19] Speaker D: Is it on the, what is that street the colonnade is on? You said Huntington Avenue. [01:19:25] Speaker B: That's Huntington. [01:19:26] Speaker D: Okay. Is it on the Huntington Avenue side that the building is not on St. Patrick? Um, or is it on the other side? [01:19:33] Speaker B: It's on the other side. [01:19:34] Speaker D: The other side. [01:19:35] Speaker B: Mountain resort. [01:19:36] Speaker D: Seven Springs Mountain resort. [01:19:38] Speaker E: Mm hmm. [01:19:39] Speaker D: Okay. [01:19:40] Speaker C: Absolutely wonderful. [01:19:41] Speaker D: You're nice to call. [01:19:42] Speaker C: So. Well, thank you very much and I. [01:19:44] Speaker B: Enjoy your show on the way home. [01:19:46] Speaker D: Thanks a million. [01:19:47] Speaker C: All righty. [01:19:48] Speaker D: Bye bye. As young as you feel, if you get a chance to tune in, it's at 91.9 on your FM dial. I don't know how far out of Boston you can pick it up, but certainly around Boston itself you can. And again, it's the University of Massachusetts. The campus at the Columbia point out that way, Marcy Boulevard. Be kind of funny because I worked at WHDH for so long, which is at Marcy Boulevard right next to the UMass. And I'll be sitting in with Betty Maurer. Or mower. Mower. And she show runs from 1130 this morning to 03:00 in the afternoon. Sounds awful, doesn't, I mean, that's not awful. It's a good time to be on it. Just, I'm thinking that's not too many hours from now. But anyway, I'll be on some, I'll probably drop by around noon time or something. I don't know why I'm telling you all this. Maybe you don't really care, but if you do, you might tune us in at that time and we'll play a lot of the good classic kind of stuff, like who? Rosemary Clooney and big band music and all that kind of stuff. Okay. That's w U M b on the FM dial at 91.9. Thank you very, very much. Time for us to say goodbye by the end of this program comes very quickly. We'll be back tonight at eleven. And we have an interesting guest tonight. Let me see who that is. Let's see. Tonight we'll be talking with, hold on. One of my flat papers, TG Morgan. He was on with us once before. He's the author of VCR repair your secrets, answering questions on how you can keep your VCR's in pristine condition without spending a small fortune. Okay, so that's tonight at eleven. And a lot of other things will be happening, too. And I hope you can join me. On behalf of myself, the norm, Nathan Persson and Jim Frawley. And Karen Meshlener and the lovely Marilyn garlic. Hope it's a good day for you. Bye bye, old sport. Doctor or taking more than one medicine, Asco's computer system automatically checks for possible harmful drug interactions and alerts you immediately. All that from Osco. You could find yourself sitting in the. [01:22:26] Speaker B: Breakdown lane of life. [01:22:28] Speaker C: Bob, where do you stand on the healthcare debate? [01:22:33] Speaker D: Bob, did you see what they said about that controversial new movie? Hey, Bob, how about those socks last night? Clarkey sound? We'll get along just swell. [01:22:48] Speaker C: We'll be fine. [01:22:50] Speaker D: Two ugly people by dawn's early life. And too much in love to say good night and too ugly to say goodnight. [01:22:57] Speaker B: And I'm glad you're here tonight, too. [01:22:59] Speaker D: Okay, thank you very much. [01:23:01] Speaker B: I'll be listening to you. [01:23:03] Speaker D: Thank you, Arlene. Thanks for calling. Okay, bye bye. [01:23:05] Speaker C: Good night. [01:23:08] Speaker D: I don't know whether you could detect by the quality of my voice or not, but I'm desperately in love with Arlene and I don't care who knows it. Okay, pal, you know what I'm saying? [01:23:19] Speaker C: What kind of a party did you say you went to? [01:23:22] Speaker D: Oh, what kind of a party? [01:23:23] Speaker C: I mean, for who? [01:23:24] Speaker D: Oh, this was for Jack Crowley, who's a news photographer over channel seven. [01:23:28] Speaker C: I missed the name. [01:23:30] Speaker D: Yeah, Jack Crowley. [01:23:31] Speaker C: Okay, now listen, about Tony Bennett, that wasn't why I was calling, but thing is, that song you're talking about, I've been singing. I sang the whole song while you were talking to that lovely lady. And isn't the name of that beautiful girl, maybe? [01:23:46] Speaker D: No, not. [01:23:46] Speaker C: The last line is I will be younger than spring. Da da da da da. [01:23:51] Speaker D: I see beautiful girl walking. Little beautiful girls, I guess, plural. Walk a little slower when you walk by me. [01:24:02] Speaker C: Entertainment reporter and Norm Nathan. Now, he's going to be here a lot because he's getting a special award. And I can't remember because a little news bulletin came into the station the other day. And there were three people being on at some place somewhere, and he's one of them. But in Boston, then he's going to be here at the harbor, that new place. And I think he's going to be in the North Shore and he's going to be around a lot. So we'll. [01:24:28] Speaker D: That's right. He's going to be. That's the fan pier right next to Anthony's pier floor. And then he'll be up in North Shore music theater the next day. Right. [01:24:37] Speaker C: So we have to sort of, you know, get him. But, you know, you know, I think the reason that he's doing a lot of forgetting his old friends like Norman. [01:24:44] Speaker D: Fruits and he's going with these rock johns who haven't known him for two minutes. [01:24:48] Speaker C: His son is now his manager. [01:24:51] Speaker D: Well, his son can go shove it. [01:24:53] Speaker C: Up his nose, his young son. That's probably why. Anyway, as I'm calling it was very funny that you mentioned Alan Dawson because I'm giving you this little story that on. [01:25:05] Speaker B: Let's see. [01:25:06] Speaker C: I got it on my glasses here on. Good, Ruth. Well, how. They have a report. Wednesday, June 15, there's going to be a tribute to Alan Dawson featuring Dave Brubeck, Alan Dawson, James Williams, Billy Pierce, Jack six, John Lockwood, Herb Pomeroy, Andy Magee and others at the Berkley Performance center. [01:25:28] Speaker D: Oh, isn't that nice? Excellent. He's such a nice guy and such a fine drummer. I know it, but I'll never forget that. That commercial we did together, you know, he said, and I was so proud of that, he laid down the sanctuary. I'm saying if Paul Revere were on his or she, you know, he'd be staying over at the Charles river, whatever the thing was. And then the end was, if he, you know, if you lived here, you'd be home by now. City, boom, boom. And that was, you know, that was rap. And I was. [01:26:01] Speaker C: You were way before your turn. [01:26:02] Speaker D: Well, that's what Dan Dawson, because I remember of him that the other day. [01:26:06] Speaker C: He, you know, and he will never tell anyone. He worked on community auditions. And speaking of that, also, the lady that you're speaking to, whose father was the band leader for hildegard. [01:26:18] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Well, Bobby Norris. Yeah, she was out with the WNAC studio orchestra. [01:26:23] Speaker C: Bob Winter was the first. That was his very first job playing for Hildegard. So maybe he played with the banner. He was on the road with her and everything. [01:26:33] Speaker D: He might have played with Bobby Norris. [01:26:34] Speaker C: She could call a Berkeley school and talk to Bob Winter if she'd like to, too, because he told me several times that was his very first job. [01:26:42] Speaker D: Well, then he would know him. [01:26:44] Speaker C: That's right. Last but not least before the news comes out now being entertainment report. I'm also allowed to give you some music reports on tapes and stuff. Now, I got the new Diane Shore and BB king tape and I'm giving it a nine and a half out of ten. And the only reason I'm not giving it a ten is because he sings great the whole time, but a couple of times. And she's my favorite. She screams like she's on star search, and we don't really need that. [01:27:11] Speaker D: But this is s h u r e. Diane. [01:27:17] Speaker C: Excuse me. Schur. [01:27:20] Speaker D: Oh, s c h U. I think. [01:27:22] Speaker C: She'S added another you. It's on the table. [01:27:25] Speaker D: It must be. Either they made a misprint or what she's trying to do. She says if I'm listed in the phone book. That way nobody. It's like an unlisted phone. Who's gonna know how to. [01:27:33] Speaker C: How about this for an old Norm Nathan song? I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. Oh, they do great. [01:27:40] Speaker D: You know, they were singing that at the shows when I was at the George G. Hamilton school in Everett and played the violin in the orchestra. I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. [01:27:51] Speaker C: It's really a great tape. It has. It had. They do duets, the whole thing. It had to be you. I can't stop loving you. You don't know me. Glory of love, try a little tenderness. [01:28:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:28:04] Speaker C: And at last. [01:28:06] Speaker D: Yeah, you know, and all that stuff. Okay. There were two songs we used to play. And the. I must say this, in the Georgie Hamilton School Orchestra, where I was a violinist in the group, we played the Isle of Capri. Do you recall? [01:28:19] Speaker C: Oh, yes. I found you. [01:28:21] Speaker D: It was on the Isle of Capri. Then I found you. It was on the Isle of Union. And the other was. There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor. [01:28:29] Speaker C: I was too young to remember. [01:28:30] Speaker D: Oh, shut up. There were the two big hit tunes of that period. [01:28:34] Speaker C: All right, one last thing before we go on. The Boston at the hat show on Sunday, June 12, free concert with Lou Rawls, Joe Henderson trio, Herbie man reunion band and Wayne Noss, hot and Fire. [01:28:49] Speaker D: Is that part of the Globe jazz festival? [01:28:51] Speaker C: Beginning at three, rain a shine. [01:28:53] Speaker D: Oh, they're gonna get a mob down there. Excellent. Low Ross is a. They're all good. But I've always been a big fan. [01:29:02] Speaker C: Of somebody going to work on Tony Bennett. We'll get him on the air and we'll get Steve. [01:29:08] Speaker D: Well, I don't know. I may. I may not want him on the air. [01:29:10] Speaker C: Now, you said he was a terrible interview, but now he's grown up and he's working. [01:29:15] Speaker D: Oh, the interview I had with him once. I kept looking at his blue eyes. His blue eyes on me really jump out of his head and stare at you. And. And he answered in one word. And wasn't that he was being nasty or anything. [01:29:28] Speaker C: That's his personality. [01:29:29] Speaker D: Yeah, he just. He just. He's not a gregarious kind of guy, and I don't think he's too terribly bright, to tell you the truth. [01:29:37] Speaker C: Don Cornell. [01:29:39] Speaker D: Don Cornell. Probably make a great interview, but it's a lousy singer. Now, he got a good singer, and he's a lousy interview. [01:29:45] Speaker C: Well, we'll try. Let's see if we can get Steve Lawrence. [01:29:48] Speaker D: We'll see if we can get Steve Lawrence. Would be fun. [01:29:51] Speaker C: He's a great. [01:29:52] Speaker D: Yeah, he'd be fun. [01:29:53] Speaker C: Well, we'll see if we can do that. We'll get working on it right now. [01:29:56] Speaker D: Okay. Listen, I want to. Just want to mention we've delayed the start of the 130 news in order that we meet this conversation. Pardon me. [01:30:03] Speaker C: You and I are better, and I love you. [01:30:05] Speaker D: We could skip the whole newscast, so we'd be more entertaining. [01:30:08] Speaker C: That's right. [01:30:09] Speaker D: But anyway, thank you very much, entertainment reporter. [01:30:11] Speaker C: I'll speak to you next week. [01:30:12] Speaker D: Excellent. [01:30:13] Speaker C: Bye bye. [01:30:15] Speaker D: Bye. Bye bye, guys. [01:30:19] Speaker B: Oh, I'm doing quite well. Finished up on finals on Friday, so I've been just having a smile on my face since that time. [01:30:27] Speaker D: I'm glad to hear that. Now, what happens now? You. You're off for the. For a few weeks or summer? [01:30:32] Speaker B: I'm off until eight or nine this morning. [01:30:35] Speaker D: Oh, but what now? What happens at eight or nine this morning? [01:30:38] Speaker B: I start my summer job, so. [01:30:39] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, you have a summer job. [01:30:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:42] Speaker D: What a lovely son you've turned out to be. [01:30:44] Speaker B: I know. I mean, someone's got to pay for that tuition bill, you know? [01:30:48] Speaker D: I know. And I keep hearing from MIT, and they say, I can't, I can't. I don't remember what they said. I don't even know why I brought that up. What kind of a summer job do you have? [01:30:59] Speaker B: I'm just going to work for a professor over the summer here. [01:31:01] Speaker D: Oh, that sounds like fun. There's a guy you like and stuff. [01:31:04] Speaker B: Yeah. He's really interesting to work with, and he's. I mean, so far he and I. [01:31:10] Speaker D: Have gotten along, so he's a professor at MIT. And will the subject be anything which I might vaguely understand? [01:31:20] Speaker B: Well, I'll tell you what it is, then. You can be the judge of that. [01:31:23] Speaker D: Okay. [01:31:23] Speaker B: Economics. [01:31:25] Speaker D: I think I know what that is. Yeah, I thought you were going to say, you know, something along the electrical kind of line. That's kind of vague. [01:31:31] Speaker B: Well, yeah, you wouldn't understand. It involves physics and math and equations and things like that. [01:31:36] Speaker D: So, in economics, yeah, surprisingly, yes. Oh, does it really? Yeah. Oh, so it isn't just straight economics, right. Or it's a specific kind of economic. [01:31:47] Speaker B: Well, no, this is. This is called. Area called public finance. It has to do things with, like, healthcare reform and welfare and unemployment insurance and the government spending lots of money, essentially. [01:31:57] Speaker D: See, no, I understand. I understand that. And I would think that'd be fascinating. [01:32:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's quite interesting. And I think the part I like about it is it does affect people's lives directly, you know? [01:32:07] Speaker D: No, that's. That's great. Boy. And you'll be working for him, right, throughout the entire summer? [01:32:12] Speaker B: Yes. I mean, spending my day sleeping away in front of a computer all summer. What a great summer, huh? [01:32:17] Speaker H: I know. [01:32:18] Speaker B: It's like those days of working on Revere beach, right? [01:32:20] Speaker D: No, that's. That's like, you know, that's like still being in school. But what a, you know what a lot you can learn from this guy. [01:32:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely. And it's fun to work with professors directly, you know, instead of just sitting in an electric hall, you know? [01:32:33] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Well, you know, it's like having a private tutor and getting paid for it. Well, sort of. Maybe it's not exactly like that. [01:32:40] Speaker B: I'm not paid very much anyway. [01:32:41] Speaker D: Okay. What about your folks now? Are they unhappy that you won't be coming home for the summer? [01:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of, but I figured they'll. [01:32:49] Speaker D: Deal with it, so, you know, you're an adult person. The way you said that. They'll deal with it. What the heck? [01:32:55] Speaker B: No, and I'll see them on the weekends. [01:32:56] Speaker D: Sounded like Patty Davis, the Reagan daughter who's kind of on the house with her family. She's going to pose in the nude for the. That's. I don't know why I strike. She's gonna place a post for. She's gonna be in Playboy magazine, I think the July issue. Why Patty? Dave? I don't know why. I. She just said it was kind of interesting. She's 41, so she's really something like that. So she's above the age of most of the models. [01:33:24] Speaker B: You know, a couple months ago was Elle McPherson, and now. [01:33:28] Speaker D: And now it's. Now it's Patty David. Well, I think because of her name. And she says she's exercised a lot. She's trying to keep herself in good shape, and I think just. [01:33:37] Speaker B: I'll use that with next time. You know, what if the playground asked me, you know, Raj. Well, yeah, I've been exercising a lot, so, you know. [01:33:44] Speaker D: That's right. [01:33:44] Speaker H: Yeah. [01:33:45] Speaker D: No, but anyway, just the fact of her name and the fact that she's a Reagan daughter and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, the reason I mention it is somebody said, what do you think? Have you talked with your father about this and wondered, what does he think? And she apparently hasn't talked with him much for many years about anything. But she said something like the answer you just gave, he can deal with it or something. He'll have to deal with it. Or it wasn't, it wasn't particularly friendly kind of statement. But then again, she hasn't been friendly toward them, nor they toward her for a very long time. [01:34:18] Speaker B: My statement I made completely friendly. I'm sure that I'll be seeing plenty of themselves. [01:34:23] Speaker D: No, because you are a friendly person. I wasn't questioning that at all. [01:34:27] Speaker B: It's really going to go downhill when Nancy Reagan poses for them. [01:34:34] Speaker D: Thank you very much. As long as Ronald Reagan doesn't post for Play girl magazine, we're all set. [01:34:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:34:42] Speaker B: What were you talking about with this? Was it the woman before this entertainment report or something about people that hurt her last night or something? People, people heard her last night. That was a very, very. [01:34:56] Speaker D: Oh, that was the program. Oh, that was. Oh, that was the woman before you. That was Arlene from Philadelphia. Yeah, she used to be, she used to be honest. She worked for a six, one of these 900 numbers, these sex lines, and she was, you know, with, talk with guys on the, on that line, a lot of which I think she said, had said originally was just conversation with people, kind of guys, kind of lonesome and talk. But she was also mentioning the kind of phone bills they racked up because it was through. She hasn't done that, I guess, for a couple years or so, but it's 395 a minute. I love the way they do that on those television commercials. Talk with me, honey. It's only $3.95 a minute or something. Only 395. Holy God. If it were a nickel a minute, I would think nine times before I'd ever make that call. And so she says some guys rack up like $10,000 in phone bills. I think she mentioned one guy who was very wealthy and didn't really care, racked up a bill of $100,000. I don't know. I mean, it's beyond my ability to even fathom that. I can't even see that norm was. [01:36:03] Speaker A: Behind in getting to the mail. Big surprise. But, you know, that was always a welcome problem. The listeners were just so darn wonderful. We've reached 200 subscribers here on YouTube alone. There are others on Spotify and more. Thanks to all. Please remember to like, subscribe and share. 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Typewriters reminisce magazine Peter Falk Powerball Massachusetts Megabucks Golda David Brudnoy Norma Nathan Dave Maynard Norm Prescott the Derry Go round the swan Boat Sal Vella filings basement Norm's mom starting the day with some laughter giving you a buzzle Wuzzle Generosa Bill Lawrence Bob McMahon Lana Jones Unacu weather forecasts contrite apologies Lapierre on the Loose and dope slap Wednesday Nathan's Notebook Doctor Lonnie Carton the Learning Center PhD hate old bones AMD Xers and skip reception touting your horn Larry Glick Kenny Meyer Liza Gibbons Ken Newman's fiance Kristen Koenig, which is what I believe he said. Crayons and lined paper Linda Chase Beautiful Girls the WNAC Studio Orchestra Patty Davis Playboy Magazine Ruth Clinic Jim Farley Jack Hart Ken Newman and the president of Naaman University and the Unlearning Center Doctor Norm Nathan I'm accuWeather meteorologist Tony Nesbitt, PhD.