Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Here we go with part two of back to back dumb birthday games. Today's episode is from the very next night. Last week was from June 27, 1995. This week brings us June 28, 1995. The title for this gem will be happy radio. This should really make you smile. The players. David in New York, June from Wellesley, Beth in Michigan, John in Westboro. I'm on the phone from home. Mike Epstein, producing and playing in studio, and Jack Hart, also known as Paul Drake or Jeffrey Spalding, the Mel Brooks, Danielle Brissbois, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pat Morita, Kathy Bates, Ron Luciano, maybe not, and Don Baylor. Please consider supporting the show on Patreon. And always remember to, like, subscribe and share. Episode 191, happy radio chuckles its way to your ears.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Now, he's in New York, and he'll be playing the game with us. And I'm just so pleased about that. David, thank you for joining us.
[00:01:04] Speaker C: Well, good morning, Norm.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Well, good morning to you, David. Is this the time you're usually up each day?
[00:01:11] Speaker C: Only when you're on.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Hey. What I see. I was kind of hoping to squeeze that out of you. Okay. We also have June from Wellesley, originally from New Jersey and has a lovely accent. Hello, June.
[00:01:23] Speaker D: Hi there, Norm. And it's so nice to be here.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: You could have come up with a more original line. It's so nice to be here, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:01:31] Speaker D: Such a long time from.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: What? From the last time you were on this or.
[00:01:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I played it once before, and I won, and I never even held on to get my prize, so.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Oh, you never got a prize?
[00:01:45] Speaker D: No, I forgot to tell. Well, I didn't know my address or anything, so I missed out on.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: But you did win, and you didn't get anything, and we didn't get your name and address.
[00:01:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Oh, shame on us.
[00:01:57] Speaker D: Well, okay.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:59] Speaker D: That was about a year ago, I guess.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: I tell you what. Hold on. At the end of this, if you win, we'll send you two prizes. And if you win. If you don't win, we'll send you the one. I want to make up for that. That's not right. That's not. That's not right.
[00:02:12] Speaker D: Well, it was my fault. I just hung up. Didn't dawn on me.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Well, we should have asked you the next time you call. That's not right.
[00:02:18] Speaker E: How long ago did you play, June?
[00:02:20] Speaker D: Oh, that was a long time.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: About a year ago, you said?
[00:02:24] Speaker D: Yeah, I think so.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah. No, and June is honest. You would not say she did.
[00:02:28] Speaker E: No, I have no doubt about that.
[00:02:30] Speaker D: But I never thought to give. To hang on. I just hung up, you know, when the thing broke off. But you're so kind and considerate and maybe I'll even get a peeper then tonight, if you.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Yes, yes. As a matter of fact, you will get a peeper key ring anyway, from the last time. If you win tonight, though, you won't get two key people.
[00:02:48] Speaker D: No, no, no.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: But you'll get a bunch of other Junk. You'll get a lot of junk, though. It'll be nice.
[00:02:52] Speaker D: Okay. No, I think it.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: You won't. You won't ever be able to face the mailman ever again.
[00:02:56] Speaker D: Is that right?
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He'll say, boy, who sends you this junk? You must have lots of enemies.
Hey, we're going to go to Michigan and Beth.
How you doing, Beth?
That's all clear out throat and thrust.
[00:03:09] Speaker F: Deeper in my throat.
I would like to tell you also we have an Athens in Michigan.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Is there an. There's an Athens in Michigan also?
[00:03:18] Speaker F: Yeah, just south of battle Creek.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: I kind of have a feeling it's probably in Athens almost every state and maybe. I don't think there's one here. I've never come across it.
[00:03:27] Speaker F: Well, I never came across this one either.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Where in Michigan is Athens?
[00:03:31] Speaker F: Just south of Battle Creek.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: South of Battle Creek.
[00:03:34] Speaker F: Comb of calos, almost down the Indiana line.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Well, that's. I'm glad. Is this your first crack at this game?
[00:03:41] Speaker F: No.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: You're on. You're an old pro. Then.
[00:03:44] Speaker F: Yes, I won. And you accuse me of cheating.
But I enjoyed the prize.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: Okay? Don't tell them what it is because. Lively.
[00:03:52] Speaker F: Don't tell anybody, okay?
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Because a lot of people tell the prize and it's. It's. Sometimes it sounds better than it really is. And I want people to understand that these are junky, worthless things and they're not great.
Okay? John in Westboro. Hi, John. Hi, Norm.
[00:04:08] Speaker D: How are you?
[00:04:09] Speaker B: I'm just fine, thank you. It's nice to have you with us. Thank you.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: It's nice to be here.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: You are a young guy.
[00:04:14] Speaker C: 34.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: 34 is a young guy. Yeah. It's kind of funny. When you're 34, you don't feel like a young guy. You feel like, well, how can I be young? I was young when I was 18, but I'm 34.
[00:04:24] Speaker C: If you live to be 70, you're middle aged at 34.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: You know, somebody told me that when I hit 30, they said, you're middle aged. Cause 60. I don't know how they figured that out. And I thought it was bad enough hitting 30. I thought, you know, boy, now I'm really an adult. I can't claim to be a child anymore. Not that you can when you're 27 or 28, but it seemed like 30 was a dividing line, so I got to be 30. This guy I worked with who was about the same age said, no, we're middle age. And his voice seemed to get older as he talked to me. I wonder if he's still alive. And if he is, can we go up to his house and beat him up, break his nose?
[00:05:02] Speaker E: And a lot of people I work.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: With are a lot younger than me.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: No, 34 is a great. It's a great age. You're at your fiscal peak. Unless you're a boxer. Then you're over the Hill.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: Then you're over there.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. We also have, of course.
Oh, Tony Nesbitt's playing the game with us, too. That's always an exciting moment. Is it? It is. It's an exciting moment. I mentioned it to the kids in the teen canteen before, and you should have seen the look of absolute elation that came over their little tiny, well scrubbed faces.
[00:05:31] Speaker C: You sure it's not from the bad popcorn?
[00:05:33] Speaker E: I was gonna say I thought it was from the gas you put.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: What from the gas? Are you.
[00:05:38] Speaker E: I thought they had gas of some kind.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
[00:05:42] Speaker C: You had a little baby that's inflated, not elated.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Oh, no. But it's kind of funny when you have little babies, very often look like they're smiling, when actually it is gas, you know, gassy stomach and that kind of stuff. I know that because I happen to be a pediatrician.
[00:05:57] Speaker C: A little bromo cells that help the gas and algae headache.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Okay. Mike Epstein, of course, the man you just heard.
[00:06:04] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Who's our producer. You'll be playing the game with us, too. And I imagine you're kind of excited. It probably breaks up the routine of your life and your stay here at double.
[00:06:12] Speaker E: Oh, it absolutely does. And I always look forward to the birthday game all week long when you're here.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: What a nice thing. Okay. And we also have, of course, the very lovely and exciting traffic reporter, WBZ's jackhart. Hey, hey, hey. Hi. The other day. The other day you called yourself Paul Jackhart.
[00:06:31] Speaker G: Oh, yeah. Well, you know, you like to use the full name. Everyone's.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: What is that other name again that you use? Paul Drake. Paul Drake. Yes. It's no secret. And I don't have any secrets here.
[00:06:43] Speaker G: We're all open occasionally. Jeffrey's balding.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: Oh, Jeffrey's Spaulding. Yeah. Paul is Paul Drake. On another radio station. And so you don't even know who you are.
[00:06:55] Speaker G: You know, it's funny. One time I was driving along and I had a car accident. And you know how people's life flashed before their eyes? Well, somebody else's flashed before mine.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: Sounds like a Woody allen joke. My life flashed before my eyes and I was still bored.
[00:07:16] Speaker G: Funny bit, that Woody Allen.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Woody Allen does that. Yeah, with somebody else's life.
[00:07:20] Speaker G: Gingham for becky. And I went down to the fishing hole and caught a mess.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Oh, catfish.
And I realized it wasn't my life flashing.
Okay. Oh, golly jeekers. If only we could do funny stuff like that on our own and be original and creative. We probably wouldn't be working until 321 in the morning. I suppose if that were the case.
[00:07:43] Speaker G: I would be asleep thinking of funny things.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Okay, today is the birthday of Mel Brooks. Talking about funny guys. Although I. Sometimes I'm worried about that because I love his sense of humor and the stuff he puts out. But I think he's kind of used himself up. I'm not quite sure he's got any more humor left.
[00:08:01] Speaker G: Yeah, he did all his jokes in the 2013 year old man.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: That's right. That was the sequel to the 2000 year old man.
[00:08:08] Speaker G: Oh, yeah.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Let me, let me give you a little history about him.
[00:08:12] Speaker C: What are you trying to say? The Brooks has run dry.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Brooks said the Brook has run dry.
[00:08:20] Speaker D: Oh, good. It was good.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: That was very.
You don't get to work for. For a WBZ because you're some kind of a schmucky person, you know? I mean, RKO will accept anybody, but that's not the way it is here, fella.
Yeah, that's why you. That's why Jack has to substitute give other names on other stations. Sure. That's right. Cause he flowers here, there. He doesn't really care.
[00:08:46] Speaker C: Very well.
[00:08:47] Speaker G: Everybody else is saying, oh, there's a.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Schmuck that Drake fell over.
[00:08:51] Speaker G: Yeah, he can't say a funny thing.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he's right. If he doesn't flower there, as Tony just said, he wilts.
[00:08:59] Speaker C: He was Drake eyes. A real quack.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he ought to go to the Jack Hart school of comedy. He'd turn out to be something special.
What is the other? And you use Josiah Jeffrey Spalding. Oh, Jeffrey Spalding, the african explorer. Please don't call me snorer. Yeah, okay. Born Mel Brooks was born Melvin. Camille did read that the other day someplace.
[00:09:27] Speaker G: He got it from one of his brothers.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: No, he wasn't one of his brothers. No, but he got it from some logical source. He didn't just pick the name out of a hat. Or maybe he did. Maybe it was a bricks brothers hat. I never thought.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: And he pulled the tag out.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's almost Mel. Seven and three quarters.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Mel made in Indonesia.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: As a matter of fact, in the movie hall of fame, he's known as the old sweatband.
Oh, listen, we don't get to do this show unless we're pretty sharp. You know.
[00:10:05] Speaker G: We rehearsed for hours, actually.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:10:07] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we get together. As a matter of fact, I forgot to tell you guys, this is microphone. All of you who work here at WBZ, we're having rehearsal right after the program, okay? At 06:00 we'll meet him, meet in my office and we'll go over the Wednesday night show, okay? Because we gotta keep up this pace. Very good.
Okay? Otherwise we'll lose out on a Wednesday night show.
[00:10:31] Speaker C: We always rehearse the show we just did after we've done it.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: No, no, no, don't, don't say that because we've got a tough competition. There's a station in Lynn Wlyn that there's a lot of foreign language programs and, man, you know, we gotta, we gotta top them, okay? Mel Brooks, anyway, he started out as a nightclub comedian. I think I said that. In fact, I remember his very first joke. Look at her. She is so ugly. When she puts on a red dress, she looks like she's hemorrhaging.
But seriously, folks, later, he was one of the later.
I know, I've moved on from that.
[00:11:17] Speaker C: Oh, come on, let me hear that one again.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: The melancholy baby. I call her my melancholy baby. Cause she's got a head like a melon and a face like a collie. But really, though, she's got lovely blonde hair all the way down her back. It's too bad she doesn't have any on top of her head. But really, though, who is that?
Okay.
[00:11:36] Speaker C: I understand. She's pretty skinny, Norm.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah, she's so skinny that one time she swallowed an olive. The guys thought she was pregnant and they all left town. But seriously, though, funny. I didn't think. I didn't think. I didn't think anybody knew that one.
Okay, later he was.
Hold on, now. I'm on a roll here.
There must be a funny second line of that line too.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: With mustard and pickles right across the line.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: That's right. Later he was one of the writers with Sid Caesar's shows for which he made. He made $2,500 per week.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: Hey, that's not bad.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: That's not bad at all. He probably thought it was Pittsburgh. He doesn't know what you produce is here. Mandy.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: What is that, a couple of years?
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you've been here how long, Tony?
[00:12:23] Speaker C: Um, over six years.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you're up to about 22 50 by now. And total earnings.
Recorded an album with Carl Reiner in the sixties, which is the one that Jack Hart was referring to, the 2000 year old man, which is one of the great classics. There are two people in Boston, every time they get together, they do that. One is Ernie Santosuaso. Used to be the. The music critic at the Globe. Very, very nice guy. And the other's Freddie Taylor, who ran the jazz workshop, and Paul Small and now books. People at scullers.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: Big jazz should have them on together doing that.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: We should. We really should. I think maybe we will do that. But every time they get together, they go through that whole 2000 year old man. You know, I have 250,000 sons and that one calls me on Father's Day. That's not exactly the way it goes.
[00:13:13] Speaker G: But one of them comes to visit me.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:13:16] Speaker G: Sure, I understand. He knew Jesus. Oh, he was a thin lad. Used to come in the store, never bought anything. Just take us some water.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Water? Yeah, water. That's what you drink in the water.
Yes. Anyway, he record. I said that. Let's see. He co wrote get smart for tv, which was a funny show, too, with Buck Henry.
Buck, he and Buck Henry put the show together, but the smart was played by Don Adams. Don Adams, yeah, that's right. Don Adams. Do you know who. Don Adams. That much? Yeah. Do you know who patterned that character after the way he talked to speech?
[00:13:55] Speaker G: No. You.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: He said no, no. William Powell, the actor, who was.
What was the thin man? Among other things. William Powell. Very sophisticated kind of guy.
[00:14:07] Speaker G: Thin, laden.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: No, but he used to. Used to talk. He. He talked sort of like that and. And, uh, a little bit on the.
[00:14:13] Speaker G: Top of his nose.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Uh, what was. What was one of his lines?
[00:14:18] Speaker G: Oh, what was the. Well, there was the other movie, the, uh.
Living with life with father or whatever.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'm thinking of one of. One of Don. Don's. Adam's line.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: Missed it by that much.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: Sorry about that.
[00:14:32] Speaker G: Cheap.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: That's right. That. Yeah, that's that. That's William Powell. Sorry about that, chief. That's the way William Powell talked. He talked like that. Anyway, so I pick up where I left off. Anybody know where that was? He's best known, the films included. And we're back to Mel Brooks again. Blazing saddle, junk, Frankenstein, silent movie, high anxiety, life stinks.
Did anybody see that?
[00:14:57] Speaker C: No, I don't remember that one.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: I remember it when it came.
[00:15:00] Speaker C: Came out, and I think it was out for about three weeks.
He played a street person or bombing or something.
[00:15:07] Speaker G: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: I think even the ushers in the movie theater booed it. The end of that. That's right. And spaceballs. He's married to actress Ann Bancroft. Anyway, today's his birthday, June 28.
[00:15:21] Speaker G: I once saw him and Ann Bancroft sing sweet Georgia Brown in Polish.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Oh, that was in.
What was that movie? It was a remake of an old Jack Benny movie. To be or not to be.
[00:15:34] Speaker G: Uh huh. Well, I'd say there used to be a british series whereby different comedians would come out and just sit and answer questions and do bits and such. And she was in the audience, and he brought her up, and they did, you know, they reprised that, so.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Oh, really? Because I think that to be an odobie is where they did originally because they were supposed to be polished citizens in Poland at the time of the nazi invasion.
I forgot about that movie, too. I don't think he produced that. Or maybe he did. I'm not sure. And anyway, start with you, David. How old is Mel Brooks today, would you say?
[00:16:10] Speaker C: I think he might be, let's say 73.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Okay, 73. And June, what do you think?
[00:16:20] Speaker D: I think I'll say 75.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: And Beth?
[00:16:24] Speaker F: Oh, geez. Not that old.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Let's see.
[00:16:29] Speaker F: I.
About 69.
[00:16:33] Speaker B: About 69. Okay, John, about. Okay, we'll call out exactly that. All right, John, what do you say?
[00:16:39] Speaker C: I'd say 68.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: 68. And, Tony.
[00:16:46] Speaker C: This is a guy that kind of fools me. I'm not sure the comedy keeps him young, but I think he may be.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: A little bit older.
And, of course, the question then becomes older than what?
[00:16:57] Speaker C: Older than dirt.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: In fact, I was around when they were inventing dirt, and I said, hey, look at this. We ate rocks.
[00:17:05] Speaker G: We ate big things.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: What a jovial bunch we are, huh? Hey, you know what we could do? We ought to rent ourselves out to parties.
What do you think?
[00:17:18] Speaker G: You can be Carl Reiner, and I'll be Mel Brooks.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: No, we'll be ourselves. You'll be yourself. You'll be Paul Drake like you usually.
[00:17:23] Speaker G: Are, and I'll come in. I'll say, but, Perry, we didn't exactly find the glove.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: You want to strand up my hair? Take all of it.
[00:17:37] Speaker C: Yeah, take the whole thing.
[00:17:38] Speaker B: Right back at the factory, they're making more.
All right, Tony? Enough at my expense.
[00:17:49] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: How old. How old is Mel?
[00:17:51] Speaker C: Boy? All right. I'm gonna say 76.
[00:17:55] Speaker G: That's the spirit.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: 76 is good too. If. If John Rivers married Mel Brooks, your name would be Joan Rivers Brooks. Thank you. But she didn't marry him, so that's not her name, so forget it. Okay, Mike, what do you say?
[00:18:08] Speaker E: Mel Brooks is 73.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: 73.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: Now, if he married doctor Joyce brothers and took her name, he'd be Mel Brooks Brothers.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: That's right. That's very good. Oh, that's very good.
[00:18:23] Speaker C: Ooh.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Oh. And if Veronica Lake married Mel Brooks and then swung over to the gay life and then married Tom Rivers, she'd be Mel Brooks.
I don't know what she'd be. She'd be under a psychiatrist.
[00:18:40] Speaker G: Should get plenty of dates.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: Okay, Jackie, what do you think? How old is Mel Brooks? Oh, let's see.
[00:18:48] Speaker D: He's gonna hit it right on the head.
[00:18:50] Speaker G: He's lived a long time. He's taken it slow.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: I wouldn't say it was exactly.
They'll say 68. Okay, well, the answer happens to be 69, and that's what Beth, our friend from Michigan, said. So you win the first round there, Beth.
[00:19:09] Speaker F: Oh, goody.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: What?
[00:19:13] Speaker C: Please, somebody hit the button on that one.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: Okay, how about Danielle Brisebois? Or Brisboise, however she pronounces it.
Yeah, in French it'd be Danielle Brise Bois, which means Daniel of the woods. And anyway, it probably doesn't mean that at all. Anyway, she appeared in all in the family at the age of ten. At the age of six, she was in the original Broadway musical production of Annie. And right now, at her current age, which is the age we're gonna guess, she's probably unemployed. I haven't seen her on. Is she in anything right now?
[00:19:52] Speaker E: No, she wasn't in all in the family. She was in that show they did. Like, Archie Bunker's place.
[00:19:57] Speaker G: No, she was in all in the family before. That's right. Archie's place. Yeah, because they need to.
[00:20:02] Speaker C: She was in Archie's play, right?
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: Was it the granddaughter or something?
[00:20:06] Speaker E: She was the niece of someone.
[00:20:07] Speaker G: She was. She was the daughter of Edith's second cousin who was a drunk and left him there.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Left her?
[00:20:14] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, exactly what happened.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Okay, why don't you take the first shot at them and, Jack, how old you think Danielle Brisbane is today?
This is her birthday.
[00:20:30] Speaker G: Let's see.
Trying to think. It was a couple. It was after Mike and Gloria moved to California, but it was before they got the divorce.
So let's see, the listen to this.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Is like listening to Albert Einstein discovering e equals Mc squared.
[00:20:49] Speaker G: Well, let me see. Well, let me see. I'm just trying to. Trying to work it all out. Let me see. Ted went to school for four years and then got a fellowship.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Oh, a fellowship.
[00:21:00] Speaker G: So I think it was there for six years. And then he was over there.
So that's 1972. She came in 1979. She was ten.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Maybe you ought to ask Jeffrey Spalding.
[00:21:14] Speaker G: I'm gonna say that she is 2727-2727.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: That'S what that kind of mind thought up. Mm hmm. Mike, what do you think? Mike Epstein.
[00:21:26] Speaker E: Well, without going through all the math.
[00:21:30] Speaker G: Thank you.
[00:21:31] Speaker E: Yeah. I was gonna say 27 anyway.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Okay.
That's right.
[00:21:38] Speaker E: Because Jack did the math for me.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: What do you think, Tony?
[00:21:42] Speaker C: Danielli Brzeboyas. Huh?
[00:21:44] Speaker B: That's the one. Yes.
[00:21:47] Speaker C: Well, with Jack saying she was ten and 79 and that was 16 years ago, that would make her 26.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:22:00] Speaker C: So Jack. Well, the carry too many ones.
[00:22:02] Speaker G: Well, no, you see, the season would have begun earlier in the year.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: That's okay. I didn't expect this going to turn into a debate.
John. John, what do you think?
[00:22:16] Speaker C: I play 25.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Okay. And Beth?
[00:22:23] Speaker F: 26.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: 20.
[00:22:24] Speaker F: I said 25 to 25.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Okay. And June.
[00:22:31] Speaker D: Well, he said ten. But then he was set as she was seven when it was.
It's so close. I I think I'll just go to the extreme. Take the. You had 25, 26. What? You have 27.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:22:50] Speaker E: Bingo.
[00:22:52] Speaker G: I used to have to have to take off my shoes to get beyond eleven.
[00:22:55] Speaker D: Usually Jack is using a year off. Or he's right on.
[00:22:59] Speaker G: Hmm.
[00:23:00] Speaker D: I have to go with 27.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: Okay. And David, what do you think?
[00:23:06] Speaker C: Well, I'm gonna say 26.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: 26 is correct.
[00:23:12] Speaker C: Jack was a year off man.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Tony and David got it. I think it's probably all due to your figuring, Jack. People got. Everybody got pretty close. Nobody was really that far off. Okay. But so we have David and Tony now. And Beth all have one win apiece. You know Mary Stuart Masterson?
[00:23:33] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, I know the name.
[00:23:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. She's an actress.
[00:23:38] Speaker C: Kind of cute.
[00:23:39] Speaker G: She was in which you might call it the fried.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Fried green tomatoes. Oh, was she in that? She was also in funny about love. That sounds like a thirties movie. I. You know, it wasn't in the thirties. I want to throw you off with that. I just never heard of that. She was in bad girls.
[00:23:57] Speaker C: I, uh.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Radio land murders.
[00:24:00] Speaker C: Uh huh.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: Hold your applause till I introduce the entire head table of movies.
Benny and June Joon and married to it. Married to it. I don't know what that means. Do you know I'm married to what?
[00:24:13] Speaker G: I'm not sure.
I think it was a sequel to the Addams family movies.
Cousin it, I see.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, let's start with you, Beth. What do you think? How old is Mary Stuart Masterson?
[00:24:29] Speaker F: Well, let's see.
30.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: 30.
Okay. And Mike, what do you think?
Kind of sounded like some nose from the Jew's harp, which is an instrument. Despite. Despite my normal. My normal feeling for anything with that name in it. Somehow I always hated that instrument.
[00:24:59] Speaker G: Ok, but that was the baritone. Jews Harper.
[00:25:04] Speaker B: That's right. Yeah. The others were. You play them on with your teeth. Remember people used to play that Bri shirtless instrument? Boing, boing. Yeah, we touch her in western kind of stuff.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: Where do they get Jew's harp out of that?
[00:25:16] Speaker B: I have no idea. It's probably an anti semitic kind of phrase. But I can't get. Maybe it was complimentary. I don't know.
[00:25:24] Speaker G: Well, I've also heard it pronounced juice harp. Because, you know, you kind of like if you're chewing tobacco, which would be in like the. The old west, you know, it's boing, boing. Then you get the tobacco juice. Kind of like pointing out.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: That's right. Yeah, because you do it against your teeth. It's possibly that there aren't any more performers on that particular instrument. If you call an instrument.
[00:25:43] Speaker C: They all lost.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: They all lost their teeth. It's coming back.
[00:25:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. All the young kids are in the back.
[00:25:49] Speaker G: I was out at a club just the other night.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: A whole band.
The guitar is passe now. Sure.
[00:25:55] Speaker C: One of my pet projects is trying to get that together with kazoos.
Hope to play the Esplanade on the fourth. Thank you very much.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Maybe they could introduce that to judge Ito's court there. Would that get the trial over with him?
Hey, Mike, how old you think? Mary Stuart Masterson. I don't know. Why? I just love saying her name.
[00:26:21] Speaker C: It's hyphenated, isn't it? Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: No.
Yeah. Three separate names.
[00:26:27] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:26:28] Speaker E: I'll say she's 39.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: 39, huh?
Okay, 39.
[00:26:36] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know.
Whoa. Oh, you too, eh?
Okay. How about you, David? What do you think?
[00:26:49] Speaker C: Not even sure who the heck she is.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: I wouldn't be.
[00:26:52] Speaker G: I wouldn't be a little blonde girl.
[00:26:54] Speaker D: Yeah, she was the blonde one in that one. Yeah, she was a.
[00:26:59] Speaker C: This will be your basic wild haired guess.
33 and a third. How much your record?
[00:27:10] Speaker B: What did you say 33 and a third. Yeah. Okay. You don't mind if I even that out to 46?
Okay, we'll call the 33 then.
[00:27:19] Speaker G: 33.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: 33. Okay. And, uh, Jack?
32. 32. And Tony.
[00:27:27] Speaker C: Oh, she's got some fine tomatoes.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: Green tomatoes. I got it. Chandler?
[00:27:36] Speaker C: I don't know. Confusing. You don't see her in much, and the role she plays tend to be younger, but she may not be as young as the role she plays. You know what I'm trying to say?
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I think you're trying to say she's.
[00:27:50] Speaker E: You're trying to say she's older.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: She's older than the role she plays.
[00:27:54] Speaker C: Older than she actually is.
So I'm kind of stuck in the middle at 2909.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Okay. And June?
[00:28:05] Speaker D: Well, I. From her looks, I have to say I'd put her about 34.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: 34.
I guess you're right there, Tonya. This is exciting now, because I'm just a moment after John guesses, we'll find out how old she really is today. What do you think, John?
[00:28:21] Speaker C: I don't think anybody says 31. That's like, right middle of everybody.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Okay, 31 is a good number.
[00:28:28] Speaker C: 31, yeah.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Actually, Mary Stuart Masterson is 29.
[00:28:32] Speaker C: Oh, no kidding.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Tony hit it right.
He takes. He takes things calmly, doesn't he? Eh?
[00:28:41] Speaker D: Was that Tony?
[00:28:42] Speaker B: That was Tony.
[00:28:43] Speaker C: I told you she looks older.
[00:28:45] Speaker D: Yeah, right.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: And that's a toilet.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:28:51] Speaker C: I'm really shocked at that. I actually.
[00:28:54] Speaker D: Tony, do you have two?
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:28:56] Speaker C: Oh, yes, I do.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: It depends on which. Which you're thinking of. He has one. Yes.
Yes, Tony has two. And the one apiece from David to Beth.
And that's all. David and Beth are the only other two. Pat Mariah, Pat Morita, who was born in Berkeley, California under the name Noriyuku. Noriyuki, japanese performer, an actor.
[00:29:26] Speaker G: Sounds like an italian name, though, doesn't it?
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Pat Marita? Yes, it does. It does. He was Arnold on the tv series Happy Days.
[00:29:34] Speaker G: And interestingly enough, Al Molinaro's birthday was just last week.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: Yes, it was. Isn't that interesting? Boy, that is really interesting. Golly, that is interesting.
[00:29:43] Speaker C: And Ron Howard is directing a new movie out this weekend off. That whole cast, the planets must be on.
[00:29:49] Speaker G: Marion Ross was in Boston this week for a Bob wolf memorial thing. Marion Ross, really? Yeah.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's from that same.
[00:29:58] Speaker C: I'll tell you, happy days are here again.
[00:30:01] Speaker E: Henry Winkler was just in town for some, I think was Emerson's graduation.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. He's been a big supporter of Emerson, which is kind of funny because he actually went to the O'Donnell school of air conditioning.
[00:30:15] Speaker C: Well, that's what he did is he fixed the air conditioning at Emerson.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: I knew there must be a connection.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: And also, that's what he said there when he got there, when he got to fix the air conditioning. I know there must be a connection.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he said, either that or you students stopped sweating so much. Which kind of was a downer for the entire graduation ceremony anyway. Pat Morita. Boy, we're hilarious, aren't we? Somebody's gonna come soon and carry us all away.
[00:30:43] Speaker C: They gotta shut us down.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he was Mister Miyagi teacher of martial arts in the karate kid movies. Well, I'm gonna. They make. They made two of those anyway. Maybe they made four of them. Four of them, right?
[00:30:56] Speaker G: I think so, yeah.
[00:30:57] Speaker C: The last one was the karate girl or something.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: The. The new karate kid. Or the next. The next karate kid. I came out last summer.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: The return of the karate kid.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Was one further adventures of the karate kid.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:31:14] Speaker G: The karate kid takes a day off.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: And the karate kid lives again.
Anyway, Pat Morita. Let's start with you, John. How old you think he is?
[00:31:24] Speaker C: Pat Morita. He's got to be in his fifties.
58.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: 58.
[00:31:30] Speaker G: I understand they're making a. Making a further movie, a more gentle movie. The yoga youngster.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah, nobody cares for that one at all. It was a pretty. A bummer.
Maybe you better think a little bit longer before you say anything more.
Anyway, let's see. Beth, what do you say? How old is Pat Marita?
[00:31:51] Speaker F: Oh, I would say he around 63.
[00:31:59] Speaker B: 63, okay. And June, I have no idea.
[00:32:06] Speaker D: But he's over 50, probably.
Oh, 58.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: I was just thinking of hilarious thoughts, but they're not that hilarious that I want to say them aloud.
[00:32:26] Speaker C: I'm glad you're enjoying them.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: I was thinking of maybe doing a tying in the karate kid series with the Andy Hardy series. I was trying to think of some Andy Hardy movie titles, like Andy Hardy goes to college.
[00:32:41] Speaker G: Karate hardy?
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Andy Hardy has a midnight snack of cookies and milk. The movies were very tame in those days. Okay. Jack, how old do you think Pat Morita is?
[00:32:54] Speaker G: I think he's older. I think he's like 71.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: What?
[00:32:58] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, Tony, what do you think? You were so shocked by that.
[00:33:04] Speaker C: Geez, I still see him as a tai chi tike.
[00:33:08] Speaker D: What.
[00:33:25] Speaker C: What else is in what other kind of martial art do we have?
[00:33:29] Speaker B: Let's see. Never mind that. How old you think?
[00:33:33] Speaker G: One toddler?
[00:33:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:35] Speaker C: He may be one, he may be up there, but because of the. All the exercises there with the concentration.
[00:33:41] Speaker D: It doesn't cause that.
[00:33:43] Speaker C: Working on the bonsai trees.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:33:45] Speaker G: Cleaning the car.
[00:33:46] Speaker C: Yep. Yep. Painting the fence.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: Yep. You realize we're only up to the fourth name. I'm 72 commercials behind. We haven't highly gone.
[00:33:54] Speaker C: Don't worry about it, Norm. The clock in my room only says.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: 01:10 and I pulled out the clock in this room. The heck with that, man. They're not gonna intimidate us.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: You know, I think. I think Jack may have something that he may be my original answer.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: And. Well, that is what?
[00:34:11] Speaker C: And that is 56.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: 56. Okay, Mike, what do you think?
[00:34:17] Speaker E: I think that the Jack's got the right idea. I just don't think he's quite that old.
[00:34:22] Speaker C: Um, yeah, my answer is really the 56 or 71. So.
[00:34:26] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm gonna go with 60. 65.
[00:34:34] Speaker B: 65. Okay, David, what do you say?
[00:34:38] Speaker C: 66?
[00:34:38] Speaker B: 66. Okay. He's actually is today. Fat Marina is 65 and that means very much. Mike Epstein, hit right on the button. Hey, listen, if you will all hold on a minute, I'll see if I can at least get a few commercials in. And we have a big staff here. Let me. Let's. Let's guess the age of Kathy Bates.
[00:35:02] Speaker G: Hmm?
[00:35:02] Speaker B: I know you all know Kathy Bates, eh?
[00:35:04] Speaker C: Oh, she was in the movie with Mary Stuart Masterson. Oh, what? She wasn't that interesting.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: Now, what movie was that?
[00:35:10] Speaker C: Green tomatoes. Right?
[00:35:11] Speaker G: Green Pratt.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. That's right.
[00:35:13] Speaker G: They were never in the same scenes because Mary Stuart Masters.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:35:18] Speaker G: Played the flashback, Jessica Dandy's flashback Persona thing.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: And Kathy won an Oscar for best actress in misery, which was really just a fantastic movie.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: And quickly, did you see Dolores Claire born Claiborne, her last movie?
[00:35:34] Speaker B: No. No, I did not know. She's a fine actress. Did you like that?
[00:35:38] Speaker C: That was a great movie.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Okay, I have to see that. She was also in home of our own. And as you mentioned, fried green tomatoes, fields of the Lord, pray you to a kiss, used people. And like that. James Conn. That's right. He was the. He was excellent too. Also, when admin. Misery. Okay, how old is Kathy Bates?
Let's see. We'll start with you, Beth.
[00:36:04] Speaker F: You shouldn't start with me because I know.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Oh, go ahead.
[00:36:07] Speaker F: 47.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Why would you say you knew then? And tipping. Tipping your hand.
[00:36:13] Speaker F: I always.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: See you have a better chance of being the sole winner if you don't say that.
[00:36:23] Speaker F: Everybody follows me.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: I see. Well, I'll never call on you first ever again. Although you. You only won one other one before, so you may be wrong in this one, too.
[00:36:33] Speaker F: That's right.
[00:36:34] Speaker D: I want to follow Tony.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: You would have followed Tony.
[00:36:38] Speaker D: I want to follow Tony. Tony.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: Is that nice? Tony?
[00:36:42] Speaker C: That might be.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: Hey, David, what do you say to.
[00:36:46] Speaker D: Get this one right, Tony, you have to get one out of four, idiot. One out of five.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: Now, let's see what Beth say.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Beth said 47.
[00:36:56] Speaker C: Okay, I'll say 46.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: 46. Okay. June, what do you say?
[00:37:02] Speaker D: Well, she. If I remember she is correctly, she's. Beth might be right on this.
49.
I said it was Tony, I'm gonna go in the forties and stick with David. I'll take the same as David.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: 46.
[00:37:27] Speaker D: 46.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: Okay. Boy, that was planet. That was pretty.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: That was wrenching, wasn't it?
[00:37:33] Speaker B: Oh, was ranching pain involved in that? Oh, that was something.
Okay.
Yeah. Hey, Tony, what do you say?
[00:37:41] Speaker C: Oh, 47.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: 47. And, John, what do you say?
[00:37:45] Speaker C: I gotta get on the board, and I trust June. I'll take 47.
[00:37:50] Speaker D: Oh, okay.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Because June said 46.
Okay. All right, Jack, what do you say?
[00:37:58] Speaker G: Oh, let me think. Hmm.
[00:38:00] Speaker D: He's got it.
[00:38:02] Speaker G: Hmm.
I'm gonna guess 47.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: I suppose I'm gonna mark you down for 47, too, Mike.
[00:38:11] Speaker E: Well, in my whole brief tenure here at WBZ, I've been noted for my original thinking.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: Good.
[00:38:18] Speaker D: Come on, Mike, what is it?
[00:38:19] Speaker E: Based on? That, putting all my prowess to work.
[00:38:22] Speaker B: In the birthday game, I put you down for 47.
[00:38:25] Speaker E: Thank you very much.
[00:38:26] Speaker F: 47.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: We don't need to go through all that. Okay, so we have. 47 is correct. And we have. We have. We have five winners.
[00:38:37] Speaker G: See what doing the math will get you?
[00:38:39] Speaker B: Okay, Tony now has three correct answers. See, if you'd not been so sure, you said Beth, Tony may have picked another number and you could have been tied with him, but. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. You. No, no. Anyway, he's got three.
[00:38:53] Speaker F: I know that because it's the same age I am.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: No, I know you knew that, but the idea was it's. We ought to play poker with her one time.
Just say she'd tell you what. She'd tell you what card she's got. Okay.
[00:39:05] Speaker C: She should get that, you know, get the cousin. Go.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, we get Tony's. Tony leads with three, and Mike and Beth both have two apiece, and Jack and John have one apiece, and so has David.
[00:39:26] Speaker C: And how about June?
[00:39:27] Speaker B: June. Well, here's the final one, because we're getting close to time. We got to do this very quickly now, because we're really tight. Ron Luciano, the former umpire, author wasn't he one guy who ran into problems in Boston?
[00:39:42] Speaker E: Was it in Boston that he did?
[00:39:46] Speaker B: He appeared. Let's see. He wrote, the umpire strikes back. Strike two. And the fall of the Roman Empire.
I don't have any dates at all, so you can pin his agent.
[00:39:58] Speaker G: Well, the fall of the Roman Empire, that's going back at least 2000 years.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Well, you can use that as the basis for your guess if you want to start with you, David. And we really got to go through quickly because I don't. We don't have very much time.
[00:40:14] Speaker C: He just died recently. Committed suicide.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: Ron Luciano.
[00:40:19] Speaker C: I was going to say that.
[00:40:20] Speaker E: Yeah, I thought I heard that somehow.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: Okay, let me give you another name quick. No, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't realize that. Don Baylor. Will you go with him? He's the manager of the Colorado Rockies. American League MVP in 1990. 919, 70 with the California Angels.
[00:40:36] Speaker C: He played for the Red Bucks.
[00:40:37] Speaker E: Yes, he did.
[00:40:38] Speaker B: He holds the record for most times hit by a pitch.
[00:40:42] Speaker C: That's right. Because he used to just pretty much stand on the plate.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: It sounds like that. The early first bartender in cheers, remember it called him coach.
And that was especially how he could stand and get hit by the ball each time.
And anyway, he was hit by the pitch 255 times. He has the single season total record. Also hit 35 times. Not a silly record. Okay, Don Baylor. David, what do you think?
[00:41:12] Speaker C: I'll say that he's 1970.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: Yes, he was with the MVP in 1970.
[00:41:23] Speaker C: 52.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: 52. Okay, June.
[00:41:28] Speaker D: I'll put him at 49.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: And what do you think, Beth?
[00:41:31] Speaker F: I'll put him 50. I don't even know what is.
[00:41:34] Speaker B: John?
[00:41:35] Speaker C: 53.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: Tony?
[00:41:39] Speaker C: 49. No, no, no, no, Tony. No.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: 40.
[00:41:44] Speaker C: 47.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: 47. Okay, Mike, 46. 46. And Jack, plain old. 50.
Plain old fit. Okay. He's actually 45. So we have a two way tie with two of our people here because Mike wins that one. He said 46. Nobody said 44, so Mike has three and Tony has three and some of you have two. And mostly one. And. And so one with none, you have a tie.
[00:42:16] Speaker D: You're not going to do one more to make that?
[00:42:18] Speaker B: Well, no, because we know we're very late. As matter of fact, I'm already past the time I should be gone.
[00:42:24] Speaker D: Listen, I'm going to hold on so I get my.
[00:42:26] Speaker B: Yes, yeah, yeah, you hang on.
[00:42:27] Speaker E: I'll be right with you.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Okay, you hold on, June. That's right. And thank you, Mike.
[00:42:31] Speaker C: You're welcome.
[00:42:31] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: And Tony, of course. Always a pleasure.
[00:42:34] Speaker C: Thanks a lot, Norm.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Okay, thank you. We'll talk to you soon.
[00:42:38] Speaker D: Always great to hear you.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: Okay, thank you. But don't hang up now. No, Jack. Yes, we'll talk to you soon. And we'll talk to you, John. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Beth. Thank you, David. And thank you, America.
[00:42:52] Speaker D: Okay, that's good.
[00:42:55] Speaker A: I don't think that disappointed at all. I wish radio somewhere. Someplace would embrace this style of show. Maybe we broke the mold back then. I believe I still have the pieces around here. Someone get me some superglue. Until next time, closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. Four not hanging on and never receiving a prize peeper. Key rings clearing our throats. Athens, everywhere. USA. Middle age. The kids in the teen canteen. Bromo seltzer. Somebody else's life passing before my eyes. Brooks brothers rehearsal after the program. Wlyn classic jokes. My melancholy baby. The 2000 year old man. Ernie Santisuasso. Freddie Taylor. The jazz workshop. Paul's mall scullers. Don Adams. William Powell. Renting ourselves out for parties. Going through the math. The jew's harp. Having some fine tomatoes. The O'Donnell School of Air conditioning. The yoga youngster. The Tai chi tyke. The jiu jitsu juvenile. The taekwondo toddlereghe. Mike Epstein. Jack Hart. And the old sweatband himself, Norm Nathan. I'm the inflated and elated Tony Nesbit.
