Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Let's close out this rather, um, eventful month of July 2024, with the dumb birthday game from July 31, 1994. The title bottom of the barrel broadcasting the players, Brian Dorothy in New Jersey, Dennis from West Roxbury, Adam Wolfe producing and playing in studio, and Rob Floyd in traffic. I did not call, and Norm does not hold back, nor does Adam Wolf. But Dorothy shows me some love. Later, the birthdays. Kurt Gowdy, Don Murray, Bill Weld, Yvonne Gulagong Cawley, Wesley Snipes, Sherri Lansing Lobo, and William Bennett. There's some postgame fun as Norm teases a guest, H. Jackson Brown, who was the author of Wit and Wisdom from the Peanut Butter Gang. There's a music interlude in into the news sounder. And later, a call from Eleanor. Commercial content includes baby Goldbond with Wendy Miller of Loganville, Georgia. Listen to collage by Michelle Bjorn and Dave Maynard. For Caitlin travel in a trip to the UK. Episode 194 bottom of the barrel broadcasting scrapes its way to your ears in three, two, and one.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: And Rob, Brian.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: Hello, Norman.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Hello, Norman. Norman, you're doing your Chauncey imitation, are you?
[00:01:28] Speaker C: Oh, I do enjoy his stories.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: You made the cut, you know, because we started out with 720 people competing.
[00:01:35] Speaker D: Everybody else, what, fell asleep or.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah, mostly that was it. Yeah, well, they turned the radio off in total disgust, so I'm just the.
[00:01:43] Speaker D: Scraping of the bottom of the barrel.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: This is it. This is what is known as the bottom of the barrel panel. Oh, okay.
[00:01:49] Speaker D: Well, I should fit right in then.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: We have Dorothy, who's in New Jersey.
[00:01:54] Speaker E: Hi, Norman. Nathan.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: You called me correctly by my full name. That was really nice. I haven't had it all said since I was in school.
[00:02:06] Speaker E: Well, I hope I do better this time than I did the last time I played this game.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Did you do really lousy.
[00:02:12] Speaker E: Pathetic.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: You really stuck.
[00:02:14] Speaker E: You were just going to cut me right off.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Oh, you really. You really stunk up the place, eh?
[00:02:17] Speaker E: Yeah, I really did.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:22] Speaker E: Better luck this time.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Okay, we have Dennis, who's in West Roxbury.
[00:02:27] Speaker F: Hello, Norm.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: How you doing?
[00:02:30] Speaker F: Such an honor to be a member of such a bottom of the barrel group. I feel so honored.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: That would be a good name for you. Think that'd be a good name for a rock root? The bottom of the barrel gang?
[00:02:41] Speaker F: I'll be swell. Absolutely fantastic.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: I think we're on to something.
[00:02:46] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: We also have Adam Wolf with us, who was our, uh. Who. Who picked the bottom of the barrel group, because he's our producer today, sitting in with us. Hello, Adam. You know, if only if Tony had called it, it'd be really bottom of the barrel. But yeah, no, Tony, yeah, Tony normally calls in that Tony Nesbit to play this game. Obviously, he's smug and arrogant and he thinks he's just too good for us. And I hope I'm not over playing him.
[00:03:10] Speaker F: No, not at all.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Or giving him more credit than he deserves or something like that. Anyway, we also have Rob Floyd, who's with us, and I must be the bottom of the barrel since I'm the last one to be introduced. Oh, no, the order. Order doesn't make any difference. No, it doesn't make any difference. Trying to think of why we pick the order the way it is. I remember doing a television show with a certain woman who, when she joined the show, which was, had already been on for about a year, this tv show, she insisted upon being getting top billing, and she held out on her contract till she got top billing. There were only the two of us. I mean, she could have asked me and said, okay, cop billing, who notices that? Especially on the television, Billings. I don't think it mattered. So as I was getting fired about a year later and my contract was not being renewed, I told the program director over there, you know, how come, how come you gave in to this woman? You know, what was the big deal? Because he did give her top billing. And he said, we didn't give her top billing. We decided to compromise and we put the names in alphabetical order. And it was just a wild coincidence, I suppose, that her last name was a lower letter than mine. Last name. Anyway, every time we talk about billing, I just think of that, Rob. And I go off into my aimless ramblings, which I just did, and I. Forgive me for that.
A lot of good people born, interesting people. I don't know how good they are, but a lot of interesting people born in this state, including Kurt Gowdy, the famous sportscaster who did a lot of his work over in Boston covering the Red Sox for many years. He's from Green River, Wyoming. That's where he was born. And now I think he lives in Wellesley. From Green river to Wellesley, he played basketball, announced the Red Sox games, of course, did play by play on the network, and done a whole lot. It said his son, Kurt Gowdy junior, is married to a soap opera star. Did you know that? Doesn't say who the soap opera star is.
And I didn't know that. And that funnicella, maybe, maybe she's so popper star, it's kind of a coincidence. I guess. But Curt Gowdy owns WCCM and Lawrence, so it did. I don't know. He's still there. No longer.
[00:05:24] Speaker D: No longer.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: No longer. And also, what's the FM station? CGY. CGY. CGY, yes. And at one point, they dumped. I think they dumped the general manager and brought in as the new general manager or program or something. Kurt Gowdy junior. I thought. No, no, no, it wasn't. It was. Cheryl Gowdy was his other daughter.
Anyway, it was a terrible scandal that I just kind of brought up. Again, the it.
The it. We found out. Yeah. Anyway, Brian, I think I'm digressing. How old do you think Curt Gowdy is today, Brian?
[00:06:00] Speaker C: Oh, um, haven't got a clue. Um, 54.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: 54, okay. What do you think, Ken?
[00:06:09] Speaker F: Well being.
[00:06:09] Speaker D: I also have no idea even who he is.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: Good gowdy.
[00:06:13] Speaker D: I don't think I ever listened to any sports.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Isn't that. Isn't that wild?
[00:06:18] Speaker D: Is he, like, retired for years?
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Well, he's. No, he. Well, he's sort of retired in a sense. He still does sports from time to time.
Not as. Not as. He's not as heavily into it as he was before, but he was within, I guess. NBC did a lot of sports and again, did all the Red Sox games for a lot of years.
It's kind of funny not having heard of him.
[00:06:41] Speaker D: I'm going to make him older than I originally thought. I'm going to add a couple of years and make them 73.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: 73. Okay. Dorothy, what do you think? Do you know Curt Gowdy?
[00:06:52] Speaker E: Oh, yes, I know who he is.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:54] Speaker E: I think he's older than that. I'm gonna say 75.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Okay. What do you say, Dennis?
[00:07:02] Speaker F: I would say 76.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Okay. See, now, if Tony were here, he'd throw in some stupid line like, well, that's the spirit. But he's the spirit. No, hey, please. I thought we had gotten beyond that. Adam, what do you think? How old you think Kurt Gowdy is today? July 3174. 74. Okay. And, Rob?
65. Rob says 65. That's the limit.
That's the limit. At least I say it with a little more enthusiasm. If you're gonna do bad jokes, say them like they're funny jokes. You know, don't say it like, I know this is a rotten joke. I'm just saying that's the limit.
Anyway, Curt Gowdy is 75, which is what Dorothy said.
[00:07:49] Speaker E: Oh, good.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And the rest, some of you were very, very close, but he's 75 years old today. He's been around for a while do.
[00:07:57] Speaker D: We get a half a point for being close?
[00:07:59] Speaker B: No, you get nothing at all. You. Not even. Not even a pleasant smile. You get nothing. Nothing. Don't count on anything. You understand? Nothing.
[00:08:07] Speaker D: Yes, sir.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Actually, in Kurt's defense, the guy is a hell of a broadcaster. He did.
He did the World Series on radio not too many years ago.
And I had not heard him do play by play in baseball since the Red Sox years. And I'd forgotten just how good he was. He was. He just is head and shoulders above almost anybody. He's really special. Curt Gowdy, even if he got spoiled. Kids.
Okay, Don Murray, the actor.
Oh, okay, let me see. Don Murray. Let me start. What can I tell you about him? In many movies, he was also in the tv series the Outcasts in 1968. I'll give you some dates which will help kind of hone in on his age.
And the baby. The rain must fall. He also was in bus stop. And that was one of his first movies with Marilyn Monroe. That was Don Murray. He also played a priest in something or other, didn't he? In some. Maybe. That was. I don't know why that wasn't a tv series.
He never rose to, you know, meteoric heights. But he's been in a number of movies and is quite a good actor. And Rob Floyd. What do you think?
I'm gonna say 58. 58.
[00:09:26] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Okay. What do you say, Adam? 50. Adam says 50. And Dennis says.
[00:09:34] Speaker F: Yeah, I think I'm gonna say 59.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: 59. And little Dorothy, did I ask you what town you're from in New Jersey?
[00:09:43] Speaker E: Haskell.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Haskell, New Jersey?
[00:09:45] Speaker E: Yeah. Never heard of it, right?
[00:09:47] Speaker B: No, I never. Never have.
[00:09:50] Speaker E: I'm gonna guess he's around 56.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Okay, Ken.
[00:09:57] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 65.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: 65. Okay. And, Brian, I'm gonna have to go.
[00:10:03] Speaker C: With my previous answer and say 54.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Okay. Actually, Ken hit it right of the button. And Ken was very close with Curt Gowdy's age, too. You're a cracker, Jack. And he is 65.
[00:10:14] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: Today. Yeah. He registers for Social Security and Medicare. Me? Oh, yeah. Well, no, not you. No, not you yet. No, I just say that just to.
[00:10:26] Speaker D: Make me feel better.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: I don't know why I said it. Tell you the truth. If I had any logical reason, I probably wouldn't have said it.
[00:10:32] Speaker D: Well, if this game was logical.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: No.
One of the things that we pride ourselves on. See, now, you meant that as an insult. But I'm telling you that anything that. What we pride ourselves on is that nothing on this program makes any sense at all. Thank you very much.
[00:10:47] Speaker D: That's why I'm so proud to be in.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Okay. Governor Weld. Bill Weld. This is his birthday today, too. Did you know that Governor Weld was born July 31?
He is the husband of Susan. Well, who's a very nice lady.
I'd just like to throw that in to show you that I'm hip on politics and stuff. Dorothy, we'll start with you, since you don't even live in Massachusetts.
[00:11:12] Speaker E: I don't live in Massachusetts. I never even saw a picture of him.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: So, governor. Well, you probably will see a lot of it. There's rumors that he's thinking of running for the republican nomination for president next time around and all that.
[00:11:26] Speaker E: I'll just take a guess and say 60.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Okay. Because that's what you think governors ought to be around 60. They all look like they're about that.
[00:11:34] Speaker E: We have a female governor in New Jersey.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Yes. Her name begins with a w.
Yeah, you got me.
[00:11:42] Speaker E: I can't remember.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: So I could have asked you the age of the New Jersey governor. You wouldn't have known that then.
[00:11:49] Speaker E: I guess not.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: You would have said around 60.
[00:11:51] Speaker E: About 60.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Okay, Brian, what do you think?
[00:11:55] Speaker C: 44.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: 44 for Governor Weld. And to Adam. 43. 43. Okay. That sounds like a well thought out answer, Ken.
[00:12:06] Speaker D: 45.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: 45.
And, Rob, I'm going to say 50 50. And what do you say, Dennis?
[00:12:18] Speaker F: 49.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: 49 is exactly right. Did you know that for. Were you just guessing?
[00:12:24] Speaker F: No, that was it. I knew that. There was no guess.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:12:28] Speaker F: Because he was born in 1945.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: He was born in 19.
Okay. Yeah, but you're right. Anyway, so happy birthday, governor. Well, he is 49. You know what else is? We won't guess the year of this, but this is the anniversary of the marriage of. Perry Como and his wife, Roselle were married on this date on July 31. They were high school sweethearts in their hometown of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Lovely story. And they've been married ever since. They were married in 1933. So this is their 61st wedding anniversary. I say it's not a lovely story. They may be hating each other's guts, sleeping in separate rooms and never talking to each other. I don't know. But he seems like a very gentle, easy going kind of guy. I'm just guessing that. That everything is nice on the home front. But 61 years, that's really something when you figure he's a good looking vocalist, you know, and has been for years. And there must been women throwing themselves at him, and he avoided the temptation.
[00:13:31] Speaker E: You're a very religious man.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Is he?
[00:13:34] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. That's kind of interesting. Is not. Not many people could hold up under that.
[00:13:40] Speaker G: How do you hold up?
[00:13:42] Speaker B: You know, I hold up very well because I happen to be very much like Perry Como. I'm a good looking singer and very religious also. And also former barber. Oh, yeah.
Also, I was a funny looking little fat guy. The women were not throwing themselves. I mean, anyway, let's get to Yvonne Gulagong, the tennis player.
She's actually Ivano. These are not terribly well known people.
Yvonne Gulagong Cawley is her full marriage name. Now, let me tell you something about her so that you have some basis for guessing.
Yvonne Gulagong, first Aborigine in international sports.
That makes her sound like they let her out of her cage each time she plays tennis. But she's the big tennis star from Australia.
And I guess. I guess, in other words, her ancestry is australian. So she's a native of Australia or an aborigine, as opposed to the fact that the country mostly was settled by english men and women.
And I'm probably miles off on that explanation, but I think that's roughly. That's it. How about you, Ken? How old do you think Ivan Gulagan Cawley is? I think she's still playing tennis. If that's a clue.
[00:15:05] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 27.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: 27. Okay. What do you think, Dennis?
[00:15:15] Speaker F: I going to say 31.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: And Brian?
[00:15:23] Speaker C: 33.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: Okay. What do you say, Adam? 2929-2929. Rob?
Gee Adams sounded so sure of himself. 29 sounds good. Okay. And Dorothy?
[00:15:38] Speaker E: Yeah, that 29 does sound good.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: That sounds good.
[00:15:41] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Okay. Actually, she's 43.
[00:15:44] Speaker E: Oh, gosh.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Wow. And I think she's still playing. I'm not sure. Can you play? Can he continue?
[00:15:50] Speaker F: Yeah, she'll be pretty young to play.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: I would think playing championship tennis at the age of 43 would be kind of wearing.
[00:15:56] Speaker C: How old is John McEnroe?
[00:15:58] Speaker B: How old is John McEnroe? He must be 38, 40 something. Well, let me look at. I'll look him up.
[00:16:04] Speaker F: I think McEnroe is 35 this year.
[00:16:07] Speaker D: Do we all get the guess on him?
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Okay. No, we. I'll tell you no, because he wasn't. He was born February 16, and so I'm looking him up right this very moment. You ask a question, you get an answer, you come to the right place.
[00:16:19] Speaker F: All right.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Because you have a right to know. That's right. 38. He's 35. He turned 35 last February also. There's your answer. Thank you very much. The closest with the Gulagong's age would have been Brian who said 33? He was only ten years off, and the rest of you were even. No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Dennis at 39?
Oh, no. I'm sorry. Excuse me, Brian, I got your hopes up. You all excited there for a second? Actually, it's actually Dennis is that he was the closest, and he was only four years off. Very good, Dennis.
I sound like Jack Benny, you know? That's very good, Dennis. Nice guess. You. You know, you see Wellesley? No. See what? His name is Wesley Snipes. The actor.
[00:17:13] Speaker E: Wesley snipes.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Wesley Snipes. He's been in.
I don't. I don't have anything on.
White men can't jump.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: Demolition man, huh?
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Okay, there you go.
[00:17:24] Speaker C: It just came out, like, a couple months ago. I think it was bad movie.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: I heard it was all he was. Been in a couple of other movies. Because I've seen him in movies, and I haven't seen either of those two.
[00:17:35] Speaker C: Passenger 57.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Rising sun. Rising sun.
Okay, and pass. What did you see? Passenger.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: Passenger 57. Okay, he was like a terrorist, anti terrorist cop guy or something.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: Okay, let's. Let's start with the. Let me see what we start. Why don't we start with you, Adam. How old do you think he's? 45, maybe. Maybe 45, you say? Okay, let me double check his age so that.
Okay, Ken, what do you think?
[00:18:08] Speaker D: I say 34, right?
[00:18:13] Speaker B: And Dorothy, try 35.
Okay.
And Rob?
34.
Brian?
[00:18:31] Speaker C: 30.
[00:18:33] Speaker E: 30 sounds like Tony.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Let me think of a joke now.
[00:18:41] Speaker E: I just like Tony.
[00:18:42] Speaker C: 30. I'll say 34, 34, something like that.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: Okay, Dennis, what do you think?
[00:18:51] Speaker F: I am gonna say? 33.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: 33. Okay. You're all very close. Except you, Adam.
You said 45. He's 32.
He's 32. So. So Dennis is correct. I mean, within a year. And.
No, that's all, because the rest, nobody gets 31, which would have been on the other side of his age. So Dennis is walking away with this whole thing.
As you can look up at center field and see the scoreboard, you see Dennis has got three. He's got three out of five.
You're just walking away with it, Dennis.
[00:19:32] Speaker F: What do you know about that?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder if there's some kind of a career you could follow based upon your knowledge of people's birthdays.
[00:19:39] Speaker F: That's something to look forward to, you know?
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. Maybe you could set up some kind of, like a.
An amusement something and, like, at a carnival. You could guess ages and stuff, you.
[00:19:50] Speaker F: Know, I'll sit right here in my. In my backyard. My fifth of an acre backyard in West Roxbury. I'll set up this tremendous big, big apparatus here, and it'll be tremendous.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: You will attract me. I'm coming.
[00:20:07] Speaker G: Okay, sounds good.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: And I'm bringing my entire staff, Adam. Adam Wolfe and Rob Floyd with me.
[00:20:13] Speaker F: Well, we look forward to that.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: And we all sit in a chair and you guess our ages. Anyway, this is Sherri Lansing. Here's somebody even more remote. And you know, she, as the first woman to hit a major studio. I forget which studio it was. I think she just moved to second studio, Paramount. Okay. She's also an actress. She was an actress before she became a movie producer and stuff. She was in fatal attraction as an actress. And that's what it says. Oh, no, no. I must know. She produced those movies. I'm sorry, I'm reading this wrong. Yeah, she was. Yeah, she produced Fatal Attraction and the accused. Mm hmm. Very attractive lady. Which is what made me think she must have been in those movies, because I think she. I think she was an actress at one time. I met her. I met Sherri Lansing before. Did you? Where in Lowell? It was on the school ties set. She was a producer on school ties.
[00:21:12] Speaker D: How old did she look?
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Well, Rob, to take the first guess at that, I would say she looked about, uh.
See, that was.
I say she's about 4045-4545 maybe 44.
Did you find her to be an attractive woman? Very attractive, yeah. I like how you kind of lowered your voice when you said that. Very attractive. Kind of like a sound of awe. Oh. And excitement there. Yeah, you almost gurgled when you said that.
[00:21:51] Speaker D: I can feel the drool coming down.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Okay, because I've just seen pictures of her. I think she's very attractive too.
In fact, attractive enough so that I've sent her several. I've seen letters, all very well written with correct pronunciation and punctuation, rather. Dorothy, what do you think?
[00:22:11] Speaker E: Oh, I feel so uninformed because I don't know who these people are.
I'm gonna say she's 46.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: 46. Okay, Brian, what do you think?
[00:22:23] Speaker C: I just want to know if Rob was being kind or is that what he really thinks?
[00:22:30] Speaker B: No, I think. Well, we can ask him. What do you. Is that. You really think she's 44? I don't know.
[00:22:39] Speaker C: 39.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: That's being really nice. Okay, you. You're saying. You're saying 39.
We'll put that down here.
39.
My imitation of Jack Bang is worse every. Every time. Okay. How about you, Adam? Hey, how about 43? How about 43? How about you, Ken?
[00:23:04] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 47.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: 47. And what do you say, Dennis?
[00:23:09] Speaker F: Well, allowing for the fact that many people in Hollywood shave a little off their age, I'm gonna say 51 in reality.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: Okay, 51. Actually, you are the closest with that. You are that. She's 50.
Okay, so you think maybe she's even older than 51? Is that what you're suggesting?
[00:23:30] Speaker F: I'll be kind to this poor, nice lady, okay.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: No, she seems to be about 50. I think that's probably accurate. I think, anyway. But that.
That's right. You're. The guy keeps winning.
[00:23:44] Speaker F: Isn't that obnoxious?
[00:23:46] Speaker B: That really is obnoxious.
That's not right.
Who talks that way? Who says that? What? That's that comic from Boston.
[00:23:56] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Oh, not Lenny Clark. Isn't Lenny. No, no. Not Lenny Clark. No. You poke your eye. You poke your eye out. That's not nice.
[00:24:04] Speaker C: We're baggy pants people.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. We know. We're big pants people.
[00:24:08] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's right.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: What is his name?
[00:24:10] Speaker C: Ah, it's right on the tip of my tongue.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: That's funny, because he's done. He's done national commercials and been on national television and all that kind of stuff. Okay, let's go to Lobo while we're thinking of his name. Lobo, born Roland Lavoie or Lavoie.
Lobo. You know, the group singer Lobo. The singer Lobo from Tallahassee, Florida. Biggest hit was.
Anybody know his biggest hit?
[00:24:38] Speaker C: I got the comedian's name.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: What's it. Who's that?
[00:24:41] Speaker C: Kevin Meaney.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Kevin Meaney, that's right.
[00:24:43] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: Thank you very much.
The biggest hit Lobo had was in 1972. There's a clue to help you kind of get closer to his age. I'd love you to want me, and I'd like to sing maybe seven or eight courses of that for you now. Thank you very much.
Maybe I won't. Okay, Lobo. Lobo.
Let's see.
Brian, what do you think?
[00:25:13] Speaker C: Is that just one guy?
[00:25:15] Speaker B: I thought it was a whole group.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: I know there's a group.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, this is. No, I guess that just. It's just Lobo. Lobo is just one person.
[00:25:25] Speaker C: One person with one hit.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Now you're making. Now you're belittling the man and you're belittling me, and you're belittling this whole game when you. When you phrase it like that.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: I'm sorry.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Well, I would think so.
[00:25:37] Speaker C: I'm humble now. Um, geez.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Lobo means wolf, doesn't it? Where do you get that out of Lavoie?
[00:25:47] Speaker C: Um. 40. 41.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: 41. Okay. And, Ken.
[00:25:54] Speaker D: Jesus. I was thinking it was, like, real, real elderly type person.
[00:25:59] Speaker C: It could be true.
[00:26:00] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 58.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: 58.
Okay.
[00:26:06] Speaker E: And, Dorothy, the governor of New Jersey is Whitman.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Okay, now, we're putting all these things together now. Is it Whitman? Is that her name?
[00:26:17] Speaker E: Yeah.
It just came to me.
I'm gonna guess he's 45.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: 45. Her name is Kevin Meany. Whitman. Lobo.
I'm sorry, I talked all the way through your answer. 45. Is that what you said?
[00:26:34] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Okay. Dennis.
[00:26:37] Speaker F: I'm gonna say 47.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: 47. And Adam? 42.
And Rob? 53. 53.
Okay, let's see. He's 51, so I believe 53 would be the closest. Yes, that's within two years. And nobody got any closer than that. So you got one right, rob on the board. You're leaving Adam in the dust. And also Brian, who hasn't gotten any yet either.
I'm sorry, did I embarrass you, Brian, by saying that? I feel ashamed.
[00:27:16] Speaker D: You don't have to rub it in.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: I know. Okay, just one more. And this is another one. Maybe you've seen this guy. He's been around for a long time, and he first started under the Pisa political person.
He first appeared on the scene under the Reagan administration as secretary of education in 85 and 88. A former drug czar.
He's the one who. I don't know. He came up with a slogan, say no to drugs or something like that. Anyway, he was going after. He was going to rid the country of drugs, as I recall. I don't think he succeeded, as I haven't seen the paper. William Bennett, right? William Bennett is exactly right. We ought not to even have to guess the age. That was a very good, very good. William Bennett. Okay, let's start with you, Rob. What do you think? William Bennett.
[00:28:10] Speaker F: Fool.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Let's say 52. No. Yeah. 52. Okay. Adam? 55. Okay.
Since you knew who he was, I would think you should win this round.
Okay. Dennis.
[00:28:28] Speaker F: 53.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: And then Dorothy.
[00:28:32] Speaker E: Well, I'm gonna go with a fellow who knows him. 55.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Okay.
Ken.
[00:28:40] Speaker D: I think he's in one of his rehab centers, isn't he? Recovering from drug infection.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: Picked up while he was wiping them out by accidentally giving it a personal case test or something.
[00:28:56] Speaker D: I would say 62.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: 62, okay. Brian.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: Uh, Christy Todd Whitman. Um, 54.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: 54. That's very good. Did you just think of that full name?
[00:29:11] Speaker C: Uh, yeah, yeah.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: She.
[00:29:13] Speaker C: Wasn't she, like, a governor in New Jersey at one time?
[00:29:16] Speaker B: She is now.
[00:29:17] Speaker C: She is, yeah.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: She's the governor of New Jersey right there. How did you happen to know all her name and not know that?
[00:29:22] Speaker C: I. Well, I couldn't remember if she got reelected or nothing.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: No, I see real attention.
[00:29:28] Speaker C: You should have known that.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: No, this is. This is her first term, I think, is it not?
[00:29:31] Speaker E: Yes, sir.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So she wasn't reelected. She was elected, and she beat a guy who's. Florio. Florio, yeah, who had been the governor.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. He was very upset about that.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: And she. And she also ran into some trouble, didn't she, when she brought up in charges or something? Or indicted.
[00:29:51] Speaker E: No, her campaign manager was.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: He made some remark about Ed Rollins.
[00:29:58] Speaker E: About the buying black boats or something.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
Adams said Ed Rollins. That's right. He was her campaign manager.
[00:30:09] Speaker E: Right?
[00:30:09] Speaker B: That's right. And made a little fall fire there with.
Anyway, William Bennett is 51, and so I think that's Dennis again. Dennis said 50. No, no, Brian said 54.
Okay. Did I say 52, winwin? 51. What am I saying? 51? You said. You know, Rob said 52. I'm sorry, I can't read my own writing. No, Rob is the closest. He's. You're right. You said 52, and he's 51.
[00:30:38] Speaker D: So I guess 62 isn't really too close, is it?
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Not too close, no. How about 55? Is that close enough? Close. It's close, but not close enough.
Okay, so we have the. The winner is a dentist, and I imagine, boy, you're just chuckling inside and just sit down, thrilled, waiting for your worthless, tasteless, tacky kind of prize.
[00:31:00] Speaker F: Well, I'll tell you. No, I don't feel that way at all. I'm delighted about the prize. But the thing is, everybody is so. Everybody is so very sharp on the dates. I'm surprised they won, because everybody was so close.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: Everybody really was close. What a nice winning statement that was. It shows you are really a sport.
You play the game win or lose. You say you play it well.
[00:31:24] Speaker F: Well, it's a lot of fun. I've been listening for a long time, Norm, and I think you've got a tremendous show, and I think you've got the best show there is, a night night radio. And I just. Happy to even be a listener.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: So he sounds like he's really kissing. He's really. And I'm.
Yeah, he wants. He thinks it's going to be a better prize.
You're still going to give it. You're still going to put it up at a flea market. No matter what you say, you're not winning me over with that kind of phony stuff, so just stop it. Right. This.
[00:31:54] Speaker F: Okay, okay, I won't say anymore.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Okay, just hold on. Because one of your prizes, you get to talk to Adam and give Adam your name and address. Full name, so he can send some piece of.
[00:32:06] Speaker D: Okay, you have to take your picture, too.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right.
[00:32:11] Speaker F: Oh, great. Okay, what is.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: What is the.
[00:32:13] Speaker F: Shall I wear a mask or something?
[00:32:15] Speaker B: Or do you have a newspaper in West Roxbury?
[00:32:19] Speaker F: Yeah, there's something. There's something out here. A little. Little rag out here. It's called the parkway transcript. Yeah.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: Okay, we'll send a full page publicity release and a montage of photographs to the transcript.
[00:32:33] Speaker F: Gee, such a deal.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Okay, here's Adam's. Prying into your life would get all the information. I thank you. And. Hey, Brian, thanks a lot. Nice to talk with you.
[00:32:43] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: No, and Ken, it's nice you to come out with us. I appreciate that also.
[00:32:49] Speaker D: You know, just one thing.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:32:54] Speaker D: When you say that the gifts show up at tag sale, isn't it like the same gift that you keep on going back to the tax, right?
[00:33:01] Speaker B: That's right.
That's right. If we get a clue as to which flea market it's going to be in, we go and buy it, and then we give it a. You know, because you can pick them up, usually for about a nickel.
[00:33:10] Speaker D: It's like the fruitcake that keeps on changing.
[00:33:14] Speaker B: That's right. The same one fruitcake. Same as the. You know, there's only one gift, one fruitcake. And we've mentioned in the past this was another thing the iteam at the WBC tv dug up. There's only one polka, and it keeps kids getting different names.
[00:33:31] Speaker E: That's true.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Have you noticed that, too? That every polka is pretty similar to every other polka? Until you listen closely, realize it is the same polka.
[00:33:39] Speaker E: Exactly.
[00:33:40] Speaker B: On your knees polka. Let's do the dance polka. Salute to New Jersey Polka. And then he plays the same thing. It doesn't really matter.
[00:33:48] Speaker D: See, those different bands play it this way. Different orchestras.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Sometimes the orchestration may be slightly different, throwing you totally off, but it's the same one. He can. Anyway, again, thank you very, very much. Thank you, Dorothy.
[00:34:01] Speaker E: Well, Norm, it wasn't for Kurt Gowdy, I'd have a zero again.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: That's right, too. You hit his age right on the button.
[00:34:10] Speaker E: Yes, I did. Well, I'm glad I got one.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: And you found out the name of your governor and everything, so.
[00:34:16] Speaker E: Yes, I did.
[00:34:17] Speaker B: It wasn't a totally useless day.
[00:34:19] Speaker E: That's right.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: Hey, good luck.
[00:34:21] Speaker E: It shouldn't be a total loss.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: Okay. I hope you have a great Sunday. Thanks a lot for calling.
[00:34:25] Speaker E: Okay, thank you, Norm.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Bye bye bye now. Okay. And the same goes for you there, Rob Floyd. Okay.
And also Adam. And anyways, twelve, about twelve minutes before 04:00 so we now have a lot of open lines, but they'll be filling up soon. So I hope you'll give me a call because we'll be around for about another half hour or so. And the phone number is two 5410 30, area code 617. That's just so we'll just sit around and we'll chat and just have just the darn much fun.
[00:34:53] Speaker H: Does your baby suffer from red, irritating diaper rash?
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[00:35:54] Speaker I: Use only as directed.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Okay. Two 5410 30, area code 617. The WBZ accuweather forecast from Alexnowski, partly cloudy, sticky the rest of the night. And a shower or two here, there, low 68 to 72. You notice the way we refudge on that? We say, well, a shower here or there. And they say, boy, I don't know. I was up all night, I didn't see a shower. Well, that's because it was there. See, it wasn't where you are. So that kind of fogs the thing. Anyway, the rest of the week, really. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, pretty much the same. Very warm, humid, maybe an afternoon thunderstorm, that kind of stuff. Any one of those three days, temperatures generally in the upper eighties to about 90 roughly on that. So hot, sticky weather will be with us at least through Tuesday. The temperature outside our WBZ studios right now is 73 degrees. 73.
Okay, two five. We have two open lines now at 254 1030. We have, on one of the lines we have the very lovely Eleanor.
[00:37:03] Speaker H: How are you, Norman?
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Okay. How are you, Eleanor?
[00:37:05] Speaker H: Norman, it was so nice of those people with their office of record players last weekend.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that was really.
[00:37:13] Speaker H: Was it last weekend or the weekend before? It was very nice of them to call in.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, good. Yes.
[00:37:19] Speaker H: Now all my radios are starting to go.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Oh, come on, stop freeloading, pal.
[00:37:26] Speaker H: I came very close to guessing Yvonne Gulagong's age. I was guessing 45.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: I see. Okay, well, now you'll know better.
[00:37:36] Speaker H: And you were talking about Don Murray. You mentioned he played the role of a priest. Yes, that was the movie the Hoodlum Priest.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: Oh, the hoodlum priest, that's right. Yeah. He's made a ton of movies, and it's still.
I suppose he's fairly well known. I don't know.
He's a fine actor.
[00:37:55] Speaker H: I would think so from his role in bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe that, you know, a lot of people would know him.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Yeah, but that was a very long time ago.
[00:38:04] Speaker H: That was one of my favorite one. I think that was one of her favorite roles that she took in West Stop.
[00:38:12] Speaker B: Yes.
Well, you're okay, Eleanor.
[00:38:15] Speaker H: No, I'm numb. So anyway, you were talking about Perry Como and the temptations he had. He was a singer, you know, and etcetera. Well, the poor guy, he didn't have much energy.
He knew he fell asleep during his tv program.
[00:38:30] Speaker B: Well. Well, no, but I was being serious about that when he was, you know, he was a good looking guy. He was a singer, and women make a play for singer anyway, even funny looking ones. And here's a guy, you know, I don't know, maybe he fooled around a lot. I just. He seems like he did not. I don't really know. I don't know. But he's at least not enough to aggravate his wife. And they stuck together for. And still us together after 61 years. I think that's incredible.
[00:38:59] Speaker H: Well, so did you and Norma.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'm. You know, I mean, I'm not. I'm not a good looking young singer, you know, nationally known, all that kind of stuff.
[00:39:07] Speaker H: Also pretty close, Norm.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: Well, I happen to be one of those schmucky people who's very devoted and doesn't fool around.
[00:39:13] Speaker H: Nom. You know, before you know it, winter will be coming back. We still have about another month of the hot weather. Yes, well, usually in the winter when you're freezing and you want to the days are short. You want to get right home to your apartment or your home. And so the days are longer now. So I've been going out to these malls that I know I'll never get to in the wintertime. I went out to Arsenal Mall in Watertown. Yeah, and that's a nice one. That's a nice mall.
[00:39:45] Speaker B: Yes, I guess it is. It's not far from WBZ.
[00:39:49] Speaker H: Oh, is it?
[00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we're. We're in Austin, actually, I guess, which is really right next to Watertown, where the mall is.
And I think we broadcast from the wall.
[00:40:03] Speaker H: You did? But I didn't get there to see you at that time. But I don't know if you broadcast there. But WBZ did.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it seems to me I've been there, but I can't remember what the occasion was.
[00:40:14] Speaker H: Have you? Um.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Um. No, sir. I can't remember what the occasion was and why I'd even want to remember what the occasion was. I don't know. That was a totally senseless statement.
[00:40:25] Speaker H: Yes.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: I'll be quiet. Go ahead.
[00:40:26] Speaker H: Have you ever been to the Cambridge side Galleria?
[00:40:30] Speaker B: I've been outside and near it. In that area.
[00:40:32] Speaker H: Near it.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: You mean like Leechmere Square? In that area?
[00:40:36] Speaker H: Cambridge side Galleria. All I know is you take the red line to Kendall, and from there they have a shuttle bus. Because I don't drive.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: Maybe I'm not thinking of the same one. Is the one at Leechmere Square?
[00:40:50] Speaker H: There could be, but. There could be. Maybe you are thinking of a different one, because this one is beautiful. It has three stories.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: What are you doing? A book on shopping malls?
[00:41:00] Speaker H: Well, as I told you, in the winter, I don't do much running around because it's so cold, you know? You don't want to. I'm looking forward to winter, though.
[00:41:08] Speaker E: I love.
[00:41:08] Speaker H: I love the winter.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Oh, get out of here. Get out of here.
[00:41:13] Speaker H: But anyway, I did at the Cambridge side Galleria, they have this, like a food emporium. What do they call it? Food festival, where all the little food eating places are. And there's a little shop here called Nathan's.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:41:30] Speaker H: Yeah. I don't know what kind of food it served. Now, I should have done a little research while I was there.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you should have done that. You came that close and you didn't even care. I don't know. Maybe it's Nathan's. From Nathan's hot dogs from Coney island?
[00:41:44] Speaker H: No, I don't know. But they had another interesting restaurant there that I had never. You might say I'm doing an ad for them.
They had another nice restaurant they called the Big Easy, and it featured food like New Orleans food.
[00:42:00] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:42:00] Speaker H: And I think I, for the first time in my life, I actually saw what crawfish looks like. It looks like a little small lobster.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: It must have a lot of Cajun food and stuff.
[00:42:09] Speaker H: I believe so.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: You believe so?
[00:42:13] Speaker H: I don't know that much about Cajun.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: What if you could have asked questions? You sound like you're doing a book on malls and everything and you leave out the important things.
[00:42:22] Speaker H: Well, she. She told me I saw they looked like the lady, the young woman behind there, you know, I said, they look like lobster. She's. Oh, but they taste like shrimp.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: I thought she was going to say it tastes like chicken, which is kind of an old unfunny joke.
[00:42:37] Speaker H: I always remember when Elvis made that lp king Creole. There was one song on there that he did called crawfish. He did it so beautifully.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: I've never heard anybody wander from one topic to another with such speed and absolute. You're absolutely dazzling.
[00:42:56] Speaker H: Isn't it delightful?
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Eleanor, you're always, always delightful to talk with you. And I certainly appreciate you taking time out when at this time of the morning you could be in another shopping mall.
[00:43:07] Speaker H: Right? Well, they don't stay open. There is no 24 hours shopping mall, is there?
[00:43:12] Speaker B: No, but it's not.
[00:43:13] Speaker H: That's what we need to for the night owls.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: A 24 hours shopping mall?
[00:43:18] Speaker H: Yes.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I suppose so. They all close about 09:00 yeah, they should at least stay open till midnight, shouldn't they? Hmm.
[00:43:26] Speaker H: At least the first night people.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:29] Speaker H: So, Norman, next time I go there, I'll investigate and see what kind of food Nathan serves.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's hot dogs, but you don't have. Don't go on my account. Hey, take care. I gotta get going. Listen. Yeah, what to? Collage. Oh, yeah.
Where'd this guy come from?
Plays nice piano.
Collage by Michel Bagnon.
Brings back images. And you close your eyes and you see pictures. Like a middle square on New Year's Eve.
Snow coming down over Richardson's dairy.
Oh, no, baby, that romantic. Oh, that's so nice.
The automatic teller machine on a soft was available at Tower Records. Sam Goody, musicland and wherever fine music is sold. Collage by Michelle Bayard. There is nothing, nothing like it.
Yeah, he's probably right. We've checked to see if there was anything like it anywhere. We have again the WBZ tv iteam checking that out. They have not found anything like it. Not at all. Not at all. Not on your bethe. Okay. It's two and a half minutes before 04:00. Will this. Will this sanity, insanity never stop?
[00:45:06] Speaker G: Hi, everybody. This is Dave Minton inviting you to join us on our United Kingdom holiday in England, Wales and Scotland, October 9 through the 21st. We'll fly to London first for four nights. A full day of sightseeing is included in London for day tours to Bath and Stonehenge. And then we depart for Oxford in Shakespeare's birthplace. Stratford on avant will then travel to northern Wales with its spectacular fall scenery. En route to Scotland, we'll visit Chester, Haworth and York, once the military capital of Roman Britain, where traces of the roman garrison building still survive. And then we'll complete our tour in Scotland. Last two days, we'll be in Edinburgh, thought to be one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Remember, it's October 9 through the 21st, and our accommodations will be first class throughout, and breakfast and either lunch or dinner on all but one day. Included in the tour price of 21.69 spaces limited. Call Caitlin travel in Lexington at 862-6229 for information and reservations. That's 862-6229.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: It'S about a minute before, a minute and a half before 04:00 it's a little too tight with the news to take calls now. We'll take them right after the news. So we'll be around for a little bit after that. Our guest Sunday night will be talking with a man named H. Jackson Brown. Let's see what H. Jackson Brown is, and why is he leering at us like that? He's the author of Wit and Wisdom from the Peanut Butter Gang, which is a collection of quotes from children on everything from parents and school to food, pets, and brothers and sisters and which sounds like kind of the old art linkletter thing, you know, funny things kids say. He's also the author of the best selling Life's little instruction book and Life's little instruction book, volume two, among others. Sounds like an interesting man. And that, that'll be coming up on Sunday night here at WBZ.
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[00:49:14] Speaker B: Collage by Michelle Bayard there is nothing, nothing like it.
