Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This month we've jumped around date wise. And that continues with today's offering, a hilarious, dumb birthday game from September 7, Labor Day weekend of 1992. This one will be titled six ties and an ass cut. The players, Jane from Waterloo, Ontario, Pam in Cambridge, who at times sounds like Debbie from Wellesley, Joan in Brookline, John from Amherst. I'm producing and playing in studio. And the affable, Bill Wilson in traffic. The birthdays. Doctor Michael Debakey, Senator Daniel Inouye, Julie Kavner, Corbin Bernson, Michael Feinstein, Elia Kazan. And then we move to September 10 for Amy Irving. We also get two events in history. In what year was the NFL hall of Fame dedicated? In Canton, Ohio. And in what year did James J. Corbett knock out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round. That's right, the 21st round to win the world heavyweight crown under the new Marcus of Queensberry rules. That actually called for the use of gloves. Episode 201, six ties and an ass caught fashions its way to your ears now.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Okay, that's the order of the moment. And that is the dumb birthday game, which I tell you who is born on this date, and you tell me how old they are. And what a swell premise for a really neat and wickedly awesome program idea. Also, we'll have a couple of dates, too. Things that happen on this day, and you tell me what year they happened. And that's the way we go. Let me introduce you to people who are playing the game. Jane, who's up in Ontario, Canada, is playing with us today.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: Hi.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Hi. How you doing? What are you doing up at this hour of the morning waiting to play.
[00:02:03] Speaker C: The dumb birthday game.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Oh, I never thought of that. Do you celebrate Labor Day today?
[00:02:08] Speaker C: We sure do.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Oh, St. And stores are still open there like they are here?
[00:02:12] Speaker C: Not as much. We just started having them open on Sunday in Ontario, and there was a big fight over it. But they finally did get it upheld in court after several people paid thousands and thousands of dollars in fines for the right to open.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: I got, I got you. So you, you go through the same stuff we're going through down here?
[00:02:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Okay, you all set to play the non birthday game? You excited about that? Is this your first crack at it or.
[00:02:41] Speaker C: I.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Okay, that's great. We have Pam with us, too, who's in Cambridge. Hello, Pam.
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Hi.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Oh, this is a young lady, too. How old are you, Pam?
[00:02:51] Speaker D: 24.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Oh, 24. Okay. You sounded even younger than that. I think we told you that before.
[00:02:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Okay. And we have Joan in Brookline. Hi, Joan.
[00:03:01] Speaker E: Hi. How you doing?
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Hey. Doing okay, how about. How you doing?
[00:03:04] Speaker E: I'm doing well.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Okay, we have one guy here among this part of the panel. That's John, who's out in the Amherst, Massachusetts.
[00:03:12] Speaker F: How you doing, uncle?
[00:03:14] Speaker B: Pretty good. Pretty good there, big guy.
Let's see, we also. Of course, we have Tony Nesbitt, our producer, who's gonna be playing the game with us today.
[00:03:24] Speaker G: Of course we do.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Of course we do, Tony.
[00:03:26] Speaker G: That's right.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: Okay. We also have with us kind of.
[00:03:29] Speaker G: Kind of cocky. Sorry.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: No, you are getting very cocky.
[00:03:31] Speaker G: I know.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: It's about the time.
[00:03:33] Speaker G: I haven't won in a while, that's why.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: Time to humble you by putting you on shows like the David Brudeney show. Put you on shows where you have to suffer a little bit. Okay, let's.
That kept them quiet, didn't it?
[00:03:48] Speaker G: Humbled me immediately.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: That. Humbled you?
[00:03:50] Speaker G: Shut me right up.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: And Bill Wilson, WBZ 24 hours traffic network reporter, is going to be playing the game with us today, too, and I'm just delighted about that. Hello again, Bill.
[00:04:00] Speaker H: I've just tickled myself, I imagine so.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: I imagine this is one of the highlights of your day, and I imagine it's one that endears you to your family and friends.
[00:04:07] Speaker G: That's one thing you can't do.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: You know what's that?
[00:04:09] Speaker G: Is tickle yourself. You can attempt to, of course, but you can't tickle yourself.
[00:04:14] Speaker H: Of course you can attempt to.
[00:04:15] Speaker G: Yes.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: What is.
[00:04:17] Speaker G: I've attempted to tickle myself many times.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Shoot me. Bill. What is he talking about?
[00:04:21] Speaker H: Well, it's kind of like to say that you can't give yourself a back rub, either.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, okay.
[00:04:26] Speaker H: Well, it just doesn't work.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Why don't we just move along with the game here? I don't. I don't really care about any of that stuff. What the heck is all that? Today is the birthday of Michael DeBakey. Doctor. Doctor Michael DeBakey, the heart surgeon.
He was the first man to perform something or other, and I never can remember what, but he was. Anyway, it's his birthday. Doctor Michael Debakey. All of you know Michael DeBakey?
[00:04:54] Speaker C: No.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Not much of an enthusiastic.
[00:04:58] Speaker G: The name that Michael DeBakey, what did he do?
[00:05:01] Speaker B: Was it the. Let's see. Let me get some more information. Let's see if this other thing here, heart transplant, did he do a heart. Was he one of the first? He's from Lake Charles, Louisiana. That's where he was born. But he was at.
Was he out in Houston, at the hospital? Out in Houston, I think, where he did those transplants and stuff.
[00:05:21] Speaker G: He's from Louisiana.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Well, he was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
[00:05:25] Speaker G: That's the heart of Cajun country.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: The heart of Cajun country. The heart. I get it.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: Lafayette is.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Pardon me?
[00:05:31] Speaker D: Lafayette, Louisiana is the heart of Cajun country.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: Oh, Lafayette. Oh. You know that stuff. You have this little, tiny, little sweet voice, and yet it rings with authority when you say things like that.
Okay, I tell you what. Let's start with Eugene. All the way up there on Ontario, Canada.
Michael. Doctor Michael Debakey. How old do you think he is today?
[00:05:55] Speaker C: 69. 69.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: 69, okay. And what do you think, Pam?
[00:05:59] Speaker D: Um. 70.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: 70.
And Joan?
[00:06:03] Speaker E: 74.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: How old do you think he is, John?
[00:06:07] Speaker F: I'll go with 74.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Well, you go with big Tony, whatever your name is.
[00:06:15] Speaker G: He was a pioneer in the field, right?
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Yes, he was.
[00:06:18] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Uh oh.
[00:06:20] Speaker G: 74.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: 74 also. Okay. And Bill?
[00:06:23] Speaker H: 73.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: 73. Okay. The actual age of Doctor Michael Debakey today is 84.
So those of you who get 74, actually the closest and still ten years off. But a man who performs heart surgery generally looks younger than he really is. I don't. Nobody can figure out why that should be. Just turns out that way. You ask anybody who's done heart surgery and they'll tell you. Everybody guesses my age at least ten years younger than what I am. Must have something to do with the aorta, septal defects that I deal with.
[00:06:57] Speaker H: They have the best plastic surgeons.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: That's probably it. They probably performed plastic surgery.
[00:07:02] Speaker E: Maybe they just know how important it is to keep your heart.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Well, well, now you're being serious.
Now you're lending a note of solemnity and intelligence.
[00:07:13] Speaker E: I'm sorry, I didn't know we were supposed to be totally brainless.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Oh, yes, we're supposed to. The idea of this whole hour is to just kind of ramble on in a totally stupid manner.
[00:07:26] Speaker G: Being brainless is a requirement.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: That's right. Once you start injecting some kind of reason for this program, we might just well, fold up our tents and steal away. You know what I'm saying? Babe?
[00:07:37] Speaker E: I gotcha.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:39] Speaker H: Babe.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Senator Daniel Inouye.
[00:07:43] Speaker G: In a way.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: In a way. That's right. I was wrong. You were right. I was wrong.
[00:07:47] Speaker G: I was right in a way.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Get out of here.
[00:07:50] Speaker G: I was right in a way.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: In a way.
[00:07:53] Speaker G: No, we get that when you don't respond. I just break out the shovel, dig myself a little deeper, and try to explain it.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Are you quite through? Yes. Okay.
He's a Democrat from Hawaii, as you well know, and a member of a number of investigating teams, including the Iran gate thing that he was on not long ago. And he was part of Watergate, the Watergate investigation. A world war two hero. Although he's taken some flack because he looks japanese. Although he's hawaiian.
[00:08:25] Speaker G: I wonder if he took some flak in Ottawa, too.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I hope not. Well, I think he did, because he's had some tough war injuries. And we'll start with you, Bill Wilson. How old is Senator Daniel? In a way, I know what you are.
[00:08:38] Speaker H: He looks about 64.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: He looks about 64. We'll mark that down. 64 in our green sheet with a blue pen on the yellow paper. And, Tony, what do you say?
[00:08:51] Speaker G: 66.
[00:08:54] Speaker F: And, John, let's see, that was 50 years ago, so he's probably 71.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: I'm sorry, what was 50 years ago?
The world War two. That's right.
[00:09:07] Speaker F: George Bush was the youngest person, so he's probably 71.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Okay, and, Joan, what do you say?
[00:09:14] Speaker E: I'm gonna say 74 again because someone has to be.
[00:09:19] Speaker G: She's caught on quick to the concept.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: Just stick with it. Get a good age and stick with it.
Okay. And, Pam, what do you think?
[00:09:29] Speaker D: Um, 72.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: 72.
And, Joan?
[00:09:33] Speaker E: Yeah?
[00:09:36] Speaker B: I know you're up in Canada. This is guessing the age of a United States senator. No, I'm not.
[00:09:42] Speaker E: I'm in Brookline. That's Jane who's in Canada.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Well, who am I asking? Who said. Oh, I'm sorry, it was Jane who said 74.
[00:09:51] Speaker E: No, no, no, it was Joan who said 74.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Okay, I'm sorry. Well, I'm asking for Jane in Ontario.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with my 69.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: This microphone on. Hello.
I'm sorry. You're gonna say 69?
[00:10:04] Speaker C: I'll say 69 again.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: 69 again. Okay. Boy, I really. That really got out of control there. I was kind of lost track of everything there. Okay, we'll find out the actual age of the senator from Hawaii. He's actually 68. And so Jane. Jane from. From Ontario, Canada, got the closest.
And she's a Canadian.
[00:10:26] Speaker G: Well, I'm Shane.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: You see? Do you see why we say the Canadians know more about us than we do about ourselves or them?
[00:10:33] Speaker G: Prime example.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: You understand why we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: Well, I had a father in world war two, so it was sort of easy to figure it out.
[00:10:40] Speaker G: Oh, well, see.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: Oh, I see.
[00:10:43] Speaker G: I don't feel like that.
[00:10:43] Speaker C: We had the same world war.
[00:10:48] Speaker G: Oddly enough. The same.
[00:10:49] Speaker F: But they were in at first, you know?
[00:10:52] Speaker C: We were in it much. Yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:10:54] Speaker C: I had an uncle who actually went over with the Raf, but I'm getting serious, so I'll stop.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Oh, that's okay. Every now and then we can do that.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:11:02] Speaker G: And that's enough. Get out of here.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: There's a time limit on it.
Okay. Julie Cavner, you mentioned this before, was Rhoda's sister, who's on the Simpsons as the voice of one of the Simpsons and is on some other series now also.
Anyway, she's got a very interesting voice, and she's quite a good actress. She's fun to hear.
[00:11:27] Speaker G: Rhoda's sister.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Rhoda's sister. Trying to picture Rhoda on a diet. And Rhoda.
[00:11:32] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: And Rhoda was hit.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: A doorman. She lived in the apartment.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. Rhoda had the doorman. Julie was her sister.
And anyway, interesting voice. She's also.
She's been in some movies, and I can't think of the names of of any of them.
[00:11:49] Speaker H: She was in that one with Robin Williams where he played the doctor that, uh, took Robert De Niro out of a cold.
[00:11:55] Speaker G: Awakenings. Awakenings.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: That's it. Okay.
[00:11:58] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:11:58] Speaker G: What did she play? His secretary.
[00:12:00] Speaker H: She was the unit nurse or something.
[00:12:02] Speaker G: Medical assistant or something.
[00:12:05] Speaker H: I think she was a unit nurse.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: I'm gonna start. Let's start with you, Joan. How old do you think Julie Kavner is?
[00:12:11] Speaker E: 44.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: 44, you say? Okay. And, Tony, what do you say?
40?
Hmm.
[00:12:24] Speaker G: Yeah. 45.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: 45.
[00:12:27] Speaker G: 45.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Okay. And Jane?
[00:12:31] Speaker C: 42.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: 42. Okay. And Bill?
[00:12:35] Speaker H: 41.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: And what do you think, Pam?
[00:12:39] Speaker D: 40.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: John?
[00:12:43] Speaker F: I'll pick 43.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: 43. Okay. The actual age today, Julie Kavner is 41, which is what Bill said.
That. Interesting. She's 41 years old today. Done a lot for a young woman who's hardly.
[00:12:58] Speaker G: She's pretty young on.
On Rhoda.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Yes, she was. She must have been in her. She was in her twenties.
[00:13:05] Speaker G: Twenties.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: Son of a gun, eh? Mm hmm.
Speaking about television, I don't know. I sometimes get very excited. I'm an excitable person because my ancestry is the mediterranean ocean.
[00:13:19] Speaker G: Really?
[00:13:21] Speaker B: You know? That's right.
[00:13:22] Speaker F: That's right.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: It is. Yeah.
[00:13:24] Speaker G: Backgrounds and a little fishy.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Irving. My grandfather, Isaac. Nathan.
[00:13:30] Speaker G: Isaac.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Seaweed. Seaweed was well known in song and story and in water.
[00:13:36] Speaker G: You're running out of time.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: I don't know what I'm saying. Anyway, Corbin Bernson, who's on La law. He's the guy who.
[00:13:44] Speaker G: Arnie Becker.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Arnie Becker.
[00:13:46] Speaker F: Marlboro man.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Oh, was he a Marlboro man also?
[00:13:49] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: He also cheats on his. Isn't he one of these flirts and stuff.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: All his wife.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah, he's kind of a ladies man. Is that correct? Corbin Bridget?
[00:13:58] Speaker G: Well, he's going back to that this season. He straightened out his ways and was in therapy in the last couple of years, but I guess they're going to go back to his old ways in this, the new season.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: Oh, that's so nice.
[00:14:10] Speaker G: Jesus. Try to inject a little.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: No, that is. No, that is nice. You're injecting a lot of good stuff. That's it.
[00:14:16] Speaker G: I'm not saying anything.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: He was born in North Hollywood, California.
[00:14:20] Speaker G: Which I don't care.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Amounts to nothing. I don't care either, so I don't know why I said that. Okay, let's start with. Let's see who we start with this time. Let's start with you, John Corbin Bernson.
[00:14:32] Speaker F: 44.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: 44. He asked that in the form of a question again. You notice the influence that jeopardy has on all of us.
Okay, and let's see. Pam, what do you say?
[00:14:46] Speaker D: 48?
[00:14:47] Speaker B: 48. Okay. Joan?
[00:14:51] Speaker E: Maybe he's 74.
I don't know. I'll say 45.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: 45. Just a year older than you thought Julie Kavner was.
[00:15:00] Speaker E: I'm really bad at this.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: No, you're not bad at anything, you cute, adorable person. Don't let me hear you castigate.
[00:15:08] Speaker E: I'm going to do that now, so watch it.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Uh oh. Uh oh. Yeah. Bill, what do you say? How old is Corbin Bernson?
[00:15:15] Speaker H: 43, sir.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: 43.
Corbin Bernson. I wish I thought of that name first. That would have been a good name.
[00:15:22] Speaker G: Corbin Nathan.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah. No, just Corbin Bernson.
[00:15:26] Speaker H: Corbin Norman.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: I'd take the whole name. Corbin Bernson.
[00:15:29] Speaker G: Corbin Norman.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
Hi, I'm Corbin Bernson.
Let me work on that for a while.
Maybe he'd like to swap names. He could become. He could be Norm Nathan and I could be Corbin Bernson.
And then I could be just shutting my mouth and being quiet about all this stuff.
[00:15:48] Speaker H: All he can do is say, no, Norm.
[00:15:49] Speaker G: At least I know I'm not the only one getting silence as a response. From what I'm saying, you're going on and on and no one's saying, I feel so much better.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: But Bill Wilson had a good point there. All he can say is no. My mother used to say that a lot. What if I go up to the principal of the school. Mom. And insist that he give me all a's or else I'm going to set fire to the schools and report him to the animal humane society? And my mother would say, hey, all he could do is say no.
Tony, what do you say, how old is Corbin Bernson? Soon to be norm.
[00:16:23] Speaker G: Nathan, I have a choice of three ages here. 43, 44 or 45.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: Hmm. Boy, that is a tough 44.
[00:16:33] Speaker G: You think so?
[00:16:34] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. That way, if we win, we get to split something.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: You know?
[00:16:37] Speaker G: That's true. And if I lose, what happens then? Well, what if we lose?
Sure. You have no answer for that?
44 it is.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: 44.
[00:16:48] Speaker G: Sure, I'm feeling generous. If we do win, I'll be glad to split.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Okay. And Jane, what do you say?
[00:16:53] Speaker C: I think he's 40.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: 40.
Okay. You know something?
You came the closest of any of them.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: 38.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: He's actually 38. Did you just say 38?
[00:17:05] Speaker C: Yeah. He seemed like he hasn't been around that long, so I didn't think he was that old. No, he has a receding hairline, so it's sort of confusing.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. Well, he's right. Yeah, he is right. She is. Damn right. Boy, is she right.
[00:17:18] Speaker G: That receiving hairline makes him look older.
[00:17:23] Speaker F: Smoking that much makes them look older.
[00:17:27] Speaker C: Pink touches twine probably helps.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:17:32] Speaker C: God punishes those, too.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: When swine or outlawed, only outlaws will be swines, I've always said. I've got a bumper sticker to prove it. Anyway, Corbin Bernson is 38 and Jane said 40, and she was absolutely the closest. And she's wonderful. And now I know who to visit when I'm up in Ontario.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: There's lots of. We have an October 5. You can come and drink beer for ten days.
You don't ever have to cover up. You can drink beer.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Just keep drinking beer.
[00:18:09] Speaker F: Sounds more like coffee.
[00:18:11] Speaker C: Schnapps, too.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Oh, schnapps is good.
[00:18:13] Speaker G: Can we crash at your house?
[00:18:14] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:18:15] Speaker G: Okay. What's going on? We got some time off in October.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: What's the name of the town you live in?
[00:18:21] Speaker C: Kitchener. Waterloo.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Pardon me?
[00:18:23] Speaker C: It's Twin Cities.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: And what is it called?
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Kitchener and Waterloo.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Oh, Kitchener and Waterloo. And you live. Well, now, which town do you live in?
[00:18:31] Speaker C: I live in Waterloo, but they just sort of blend.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Because we get a lot of calls from people from Kitchener. Yeah, well, not a lot of calls. We got a couple of calls once about twelve years ago.
[00:18:42] Speaker G: I think it was all in the same hour. So that was it.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: That's right. We have one phone and I think I called them. And now that I think of it, Michael Feinstein, you know these. The singer, Michael Feinstein.
[00:18:55] Speaker G: Isn't it romantic?
[00:18:57] Speaker B: That's right. Isn't it romantic? He's got a very sweet, nice voice. Nice looking young man. Michael Feinstein. He's done a number of cassettes.
[00:19:06] Speaker C: Does he have a group?
[00:19:07] Speaker B: No, just all by himself. He sits at the piano. He does one man shows a lot. Oh, he has somebody else. Usually they play two pianos going and two people singing sometimes, but mostly he's a solo act. And he was at. I saw him at, I think, the colonial or the Schuberth. He did a show, some shows there at one time.
[00:19:28] Speaker G: Would you call him a more smallty version of Harry Connick or.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: Well, he's like a specialist. He's like Bobby Short. You know that name, sand in my shoes, sand from Havana. And.
[00:19:42] Speaker G: I don't think that sounds like one of those commercials. You can just see that the song's rolling up. And 23 more hits.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: That's right. Including such great hits as.
[00:19:51] Speaker H: There's more.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Do you, Ken John Peele, with his code so great, you can. A whole lot of songs like that. And you'll also get for your treasure chest of wonderful melodies of yesteryear. Masses in the cold, cold ground.
[00:20:07] Speaker G: Come on, keep going.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: My horse dobbin.
Anyway, I forgot where we were. Oh, we're talking. We're guessing the age of Michael Feinstein. And back to isn't it romantic? Which is kind of his theme song. And let's start with. Let's see. Have we started with you, Tony?
[00:20:29] Speaker G: No, you haven't.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Okay, we'll start with you right now.
[00:20:31] Speaker G: You're gonna do that.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: 39, you say?
Oh, isn't it, you know, romantic?
Oh, that was awful.
[00:20:42] Speaker G: Oh, I'm gonna be sick.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Oh, that gave me gas.
[00:20:46] Speaker H: Try that new quad.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: Oh, boy. That's right.
[00:20:49] Speaker G: No, he's already had some kawaii. That's why I'm in another studio.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: How would you like to see me scratch an itch man? If you want. If you want a parade of ours, our commercials. Okay, Joan, what do you say? How old do you think Michael Feinstein.
[00:21:05] Speaker G: As he drinks a cup of oval tea?
[00:21:07] Speaker E: Michael Feinstein, confused with Harvey Fierstein? I'm trying to remember.
[00:21:14] Speaker G: Actually, you. Well, never mind.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: I get it mixed up with John Steinbeck.
[00:21:19] Speaker E: I'll say he's 44.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: 44. Okay.
[00:21:24] Speaker G: Somebody's got to be 44 and 74.
That's right.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: You didn't say 74. You said 44. Okay. And, Jane, what do you think?
[00:21:34] Speaker C: I don't know who this man is at all.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: He's been on. He's been on tv a number of times also.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: I'll say.
Well, 41.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: 41.
And also included in this memorable hit tune list of the hit tunes of yesteryear is Zamfir.
[00:21:55] Speaker G: Master of the.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: A, you're adorable b, you're so beautiful c, you're a cutie full of charms.
And the three little fishies and the mama fishy, too.
Okay, Bill, if you dare. What? Michael Feinstein is how old?
[00:22:19] Speaker H: I think he's younger than everybody. Saying about 37.
[00:22:22] Speaker G: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: 37 years old.
[00:22:24] Speaker G: Oh, yeah. Made it sound like you were going to say 28 or something.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Well, that's right, because you said Tony said 39, so that's not. I'm sorry. You said 39. Okay, John, what do you think?
[00:22:37] Speaker F: Oh, I'll give him one year for each white key, so that would make him 36.
I hope the man doesn't sing one.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Year for each white key.
[00:22:48] Speaker G: 36. What piano are you using?
[00:22:53] Speaker B: 36.
[00:22:56] Speaker G: I thought that was where they split evenly. 44 and 44. Because they're 88 keys in a piano, aren't they?
[00:23:01] Speaker F: Well, aren't there a lot of black keys?
[00:23:03] Speaker C: There's more white than black.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:23:07] Speaker C: Yes, sir.
[00:23:07] Speaker E: There's 78 altogether.
[00:23:08] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So if there are more white keys than blacks, there'd be more than 30.
[00:23:12] Speaker G: There'd still be more than 30, yeah.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: What do you. Pam, how old? What kind of a guess would you make for the age of Michael Feinstein?
[00:23:20] Speaker D: A little bird just flew in here and said 37, so I'll go with that.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Did you hear that cute little speech? Was that not adorable?
[00:23:31] Speaker G: You're adorable.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Would I love you? Would I? Doesn't one and one make two?
Would I worship you forever? Does July have a sky of blue?
[00:23:47] Speaker F: Does this guy do any songs that we would know?
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Of course not. Then you become critical.
Okay, what I have now is a couple of events, both sporting events.
[00:23:59] Speaker G: Wait a minute.
[00:24:00] Speaker F: Who won?
[00:24:00] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry.
The winner was John from Amherst, Massachusetts. He said 36, which is exactly Michael Feinstein age.
[00:24:11] Speaker G: He must have a special piano.
[00:24:15] Speaker F: I just have a short reach. I don't know.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: Okay, let me run through the scores that we have so far.
Jane and John. Oh, there used to be a soap opera ones called Jane and John. That's true.
[00:24:29] Speaker G: Can you sing us the theme song?
[00:24:31] Speaker B: Yes, I can. The theme song was there's a love nest. The same one that George Birds and Gracie Allen used later on.
God, I'm so interesting. It's too bad nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about.
[00:24:43] Speaker G: Come on. You started to sing it, you know.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: No, there's a love. That's not any. And, you know, the old. The old burns and Allen theme song. Da da da.
[00:24:51] Speaker F: I never heard any lyrics to it, but I know the sound played on.
[00:24:58] Speaker G: That special 36 key piano.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: There used to be a program in Boston called. It took place at a company called Starks piano Fireproof piano Warehouse, which has a nice romantic sound to it, doesn't it? And they would have. This guy would go from piano to piano.
[00:25:17] Speaker G: Excuse me, I'm sorry.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:25:19] Speaker G: Did they have fireproof pianos?
[00:25:20] Speaker B: They had fireproof. No, the warehouse. The warehouse, I believe, was fireproof. And also the pianist was wearing a fireproof jacket, as I recall.
[00:25:28] Speaker G: I just wanted to.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: Because he played some hot music at that.
[00:25:33] Speaker H: Was it a smoking jacket?
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Smoking jacket, yes, that's right. That's right.
[00:25:39] Speaker G: Oh, yes.
[00:25:40] Speaker B: Anyway, he would. He would go from piano to piano, and they'd be an announcer describing the piano he was playing on and how much it cost and how much you paid per week, you know. And now our pianist is now at this, a lovely upright piano. It costs $632, and you can pay for it $17 a month. And then he would play a tune on it. Isn't that interesting? No, it isn't interesting. Okay.
[00:26:04] Speaker F: Did they sound alike or.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Well, I don't hear that. I was just a little kid at the time. I couldn't tell the difference between one piano and the other. But I suppose if you're already shopping for piano, you got an idea what they sounded like on the air.
[00:26:16] Speaker G: And how long was this program till they played every piano in the warehouse, right?
[00:26:20] Speaker B: That's right, too. Some days, if they hadn't sold pianos for several days and they got a new inventory and the program could last about 29, 30 hours, would he play a full selection?
[00:26:33] Speaker G: Can you remember that? Or would he just, you know, a little, like, chopsticks on each piano all the way through?
[00:26:38] Speaker B: He would play just a little bit, I think. Yeah.
[00:26:40] Speaker F: Oh, so he only used 36 keys?
[00:26:43] Speaker B: That's right. Yeah, that's right. Unless he was going to play a whole song, then he would use all 88.
But then again, it was labor day and. Well, anyway, that's a whole other thing. Okay, here I was giving you the run through. Jane and john both have. Isn't that where we came in? Yeah. Jane and john both have two apiece. And tom. What am I saying? Tony.
Bill and tony and tony, bill and joan have won victory apiece. And pam has just got her own adorable self that we all love and adore, but has no victories at all.
[00:27:24] Speaker G: And she has a little bird, too, right?
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Is that a bird over at your house, pam?
[00:27:28] Speaker G: No, she had the little bird that flew in the window. Wasn't that you?
[00:27:31] Speaker D: Pamdehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker G: See?
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:36] Speaker G: Oh, wow. Well, anyway.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Okay, moving right along here are a couple of sporting events. The national football league hall of fame was opened. Let me get the whole story on that so that you might be better, enriched and have a better chance to guess.
This is the national professional football league. The hall of fame. The NFL hall of Fame, dedicated in Canton, Ohio. What year? What would that have been? The NFL hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Let's start with you, Jane.
[00:28:06] Speaker C: 50.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: 619 56, you say? Okay. And Pam?
[00:28:17] Speaker D: I'll say 1914. How's that?
[00:28:23] Speaker B: 1914 is very good.
[00:28:26] Speaker H: Very good.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Football. I don't think it had been invented then, had it?
No, I guess it had been, but there was no national football league. I don't believe back then, but what the heck. She's so adorable. It doesn't really matter.
[00:28:38] Speaker G: That's right.
If she thinks football was there in 1914, I believe it.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: That's right. I think it would be cute and adorable for it to have been there in 1914. And, Joan, what do you say?
[00:28:51] Speaker E: I think it was a little later than that.
I'll go with 1960. 319.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: 63.
Okay. And John?
[00:29:02] Speaker F: Oh, I was gonna say that. I'll go 1964, then.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Okay. Because you could say the same thing if you wanted to. We have restrictions on.
[00:29:10] Speaker F: No, I don't want to tie with two different girls, you know.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:29:16] Speaker G: Ty, what's the single?
[00:29:17] Speaker C: To be so lucky?
[00:29:18] Speaker B: That's right. Because he's getting a little older now, man. He can't handle it anymore.
Maybe when I was about 19. Okay, Tony, what do you say?
[00:29:28] Speaker G: 1914.
No, no. 1958. I'll go with 15.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: 1958. Okay. And Bill?
[00:29:36] Speaker H: 64 sounds like a great year.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: 1964. Sounds like a great year. And actually it was 1963. So you're close. And Joan hit it right on the button.
[00:29:46] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: Did you know that or was that a guess? Joan?
[00:29:49] Speaker E: That was an educated guess. I knew it was a few years before I was born, and I'm a big football fan.
[00:29:54] Speaker G: She starts coming out with these educated guesses. You can't do that.
Educated guesses are not allowed.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: That's how I get through life, with educated guesses. Well, now, that makes it a three way tie with Joan. Wait a minute. With Joan.
Joan, John and Jane have two apiece. Joan, John and Jane, sort of like.
[00:30:18] Speaker F: The three J's on a holiday.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: I think it's just like that, you know, now that you bring it up, John, and you're one of the three Jays, which sounds like I'm a musical group, doesn't it? And here they are with some of their hit tunes of yesteryear.
You can get the meter on cd or 16 track cassette, including such great songs as the roses all envy the bloom of your cheek, and the sun even envies your smile.
[00:30:49] Speaker G: Said 1999 to three J's on holiday.
[00:30:52] Speaker F: Uncle Norm, do you have records that are under three quarters of an inch thick?
[00:30:57] Speaker B: No, as a matter of fact, I don't have any records like that. I have mostly cylinders.
[00:31:03] Speaker C: They sound like my rolls for my Claire pianos.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: Cylinders, the same as records. I haven't been able to update my record collection.
Okay, how about the. He was a big, very big fight.
[00:31:16] Speaker C: What's the hockey question?
[00:31:17] Speaker B: I don't. I don't. I don't have a hockey question. I do have a. A boxing question. Oh, good. Is that close? They. Because they think. Hey, hey, they do a lot of boxing and hitting in hockey. Anyway, it was on September 7, which, of course, is the date we're talking about that James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans. It was the first major prize fight under the Marquess of Queensberry rules, which called for the use of gloves. And, of course, that was one of the great momentous fights of all time.
Next to when my mother didn't like something my father was doing.
She would have loved to hear me say that on the air. Anyway, the Corbett Sullivan fight, September 7, what year would that have been? And we'll start with Bill Wilson and his orchestra.
[00:32:11] Speaker H: The first year of those rules, the Queensbury rules, probably. 1915.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: 1915, okay.
[00:32:18] Speaker G: They didn't have boxing back then, did they?
Oh, another no response.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: Okay. What do you think, Tony? What. What year was that?
[00:32:27] Speaker G: Could you kind of go through that history again?
[00:32:29] Speaker B: Whole history again?
[00:32:30] Speaker G: Yeah, just.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Okay. It was on September 7.
James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round to win the world heavyweight.
[00:32:39] Speaker G: Oh, it was a heavyweight. Okay. Okay.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: It was in New Orleans, and it was the first major prize fight. Major. Apparently, there have been others, but it's the first major prize fight under the Marcus of Queensberry rules and the call for the use of gloves.
[00:32:55] Speaker G: Oh, now I know why he said 1915.
What would it be on the Bronze Age then?
[00:33:04] Speaker B: Well, they used to box with.
[00:33:05] Speaker G: They just use bare fists.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:10] Speaker H: They fight to the death as well.
[00:33:13] Speaker G: That's right.
Well, 19.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Hey.
[00:33:16] Speaker G: 1915.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: Sold me 1915. You're gonna stick with why?
[00:33:21] Speaker G: Nothing.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: Okay. What do you think, John?
[00:33:24] Speaker F: Oh, let's see.
1890.
[00:33:31] Speaker B: 318. 93 says John. Okay. And, Joan, what do you think?
[00:33:37] Speaker E: I'll take a guess. 1907.
[00:33:40] Speaker B: Okay, that's an educated guess or non educated guess.
[00:33:43] Speaker E: That's. No, that's just a number.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: Had arrested. Non educated or educated smoking or non smoking.
Okay.
[00:33:57] Speaker F: Tomaine or not. Tolmate.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: That's right.
Pam, what would you say?
[00:34:03] Speaker D: Well, since I was so close last time, I will continue to.
[00:34:08] Speaker G: Poor Pam.
[00:34:11] Speaker D: 1890.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: 218. 92.
[00:34:14] Speaker G: Columbus sailed the ocean blue, didn't he?
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:34:18] Speaker D: Give it a take.
[00:34:19] Speaker C: 400 years.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: Sure. Jane, what do you. What do you think?
[00:34:27] Speaker C: 19. Oh.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: 319. Oh, three.
Okay. The actual year of that fight was 1892, which is exactly what Pam says.
[00:34:38] Speaker G: Wow. Yay for Pam.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: And John said 1893. He was very, very close. I thought. I thought you were going to win that one.
[00:34:47] Speaker F: Well, I either tie or get very close.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: I know it. Actually, we have. As a result of all of that, we still have. We have a tie with Jane, with.
[00:34:56] Speaker G: Two, Joan and the three days on holiday.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: John and all have two apiece. And Tony, Bill, and Pam. Pam. All have won a piece.
[00:35:11] Speaker G: Hey, we're all winners, then.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Okay, so we can do one more if you'd like, and maybe break the tie.
How about the. It also is the birthday today of the producer and director Elia Kazan. You know that name? Yes, I know I know you.
[00:35:30] Speaker F: How do you spell that?
[00:35:32] Speaker B: K a z a n. Elias. Elia. Elia Kazan. Born in Turkey under the name Eliahe Kazanjoglo.
Now, that doesn't help you at all. I don't know why he said that, but Aliyah Kazan. I can't think of the movies he's done. I know he's done a lot of good ones. Born in Constantinople, Turkey, September 7.
Director and all. What year would that have been?
And let's. Let's see. We'll start with.
How about you, Pam?
Laia Kazanhorne.
Sounds like something from a Blackstone magic program.
I will now transform this donkey into a banjo by the magic words.
What am I saying here? I think I'll lie down. Why don't you finish the game yourself?
[00:36:24] Speaker G: Is the pain starting to creep up the back of your neck?
[00:36:27] Speaker B: Back of my neck? Right to the middle of before it.
[00:36:29] Speaker D: How about, um, he sounds like he.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Has to be really old just by that name. Alakazan. Is that an old name? But just think, he. Of course, he did have a different name when he was born, although he was born a liar. Is that the old part, or you think Kazana is the old part? What am I saying? Who cares what I'm saying?
[00:36:53] Speaker D: I would say he's probably of the heir of Ronald Reagan or something. How about, um, 80 something. Um.
Um, 82 or so.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: 80. You want to make it 82? Definitely. Or you want to. Is that okay?
[00:37:12] Speaker D: Um, yeah, why not?
[00:37:13] Speaker B: 82. Okay.
[00:37:15] Speaker F: See, that would make them born in 1914. Is that.
[00:37:19] Speaker H: Do you want the year or their age?
[00:37:20] Speaker B: No, no, just the age. Just the age is good. And, Joan, what do you say?
[00:37:25] Speaker E: Someone has to be 74.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: There is a guy, Sidney Farberstein. You want to. You want to say 74?
[00:37:34] Speaker E: I'll go with 74.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: Okay. And, Jane, what do you say?
I love the way you do that. You know what a turn on that is, baby. You know what I'm saying?
[00:37:45] Speaker C: Um.
[00:37:48] Speaker G: Maybe not.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: It's not obviously.
72.
[00:37:53] Speaker B: 72.
Get so excited. I was going to show you my collection of french postcards.
I have 700 semi nude poses of Monsieur Mitterrand that I'm sure you will enjoy.
[00:38:12] Speaker F: That sounds like northern exposure.
[00:38:14] Speaker D: How did you acquire those?
[00:38:18] Speaker B: Maybe you'd rather look at my collection of Marshal Marcel de Gaulle. I can't remember these first names. Pierre and he. Charles de Gaulle. That's all I meant to say.
[00:38:30] Speaker G: Anyway, you had kind of like Marcel Marceau and Charles de Gaulle.
[00:38:35] Speaker C: It's a very quiet Charles de Gaulle.
[00:38:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
Some of my humor is so esoteric that it makes no sense at all to the common person, including me. Okay, so we got Jane says 72. Pam? 82. Joan? 74. John, what do you say?
[00:38:52] Speaker F: I have no idea.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: You said no idea. That's right. You're from here.
[00:38:59] Speaker F: I'll say 73.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: 73. Okay. What do you say, Tony?
[00:39:04] Speaker G: 69.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: And Bill?
[00:39:07] Speaker H: 84.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: 84. Okay.
[00:39:10] Speaker G: What if we beam this show out to deep space? From that story you were reading, we'd.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Never have to worry about an invasion of men from Mars.
[00:39:18] Speaker G: None whatsoever.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: No, stay away from that place, man.
[00:39:22] Speaker G: That crazy either. That they'd come and force to annihilate us to eliminate the stuff from the air.
[00:39:27] Speaker B: They're so stupid, man. We could conquer that whole planet. They wouldn't even know we were there, those dummies.
Okay, Eliah Kazan is actually 83.
And so Pam, who said 82, and Bill, who said 84, were the two closest. Now we have to check the scores again.
[00:39:44] Speaker C: Now you have a four way tie.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: What's that? What's that? Please?
[00:39:48] Speaker C: Four way tie.
[00:39:49] Speaker E: Five.
[00:39:49] Speaker F: Everybody tied except Tony.
[00:39:51] Speaker G: Thank you very much.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: I think. Yes, Pam has got three.
[00:39:56] Speaker C: Part of the management.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: No, wait a minute. No, Pam does not have three.
[00:39:59] Speaker G: She has two, and Bill has two now.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: And Jane has two.
[00:40:02] Speaker C: And Joan.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Joan has two and John has two.
The only one who said who have one apiece would be Tony.
[00:40:11] Speaker G: Oh, come on. Give us one more so I can tie it.
I'm on the out.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Tony is the only one with. With one. Is that right?
[00:40:17] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:40:18] Speaker G: Unless there's someone else playing we don't know about.
[00:40:22] Speaker H: I'm so nervous for you, Tony.
[00:40:24] Speaker G: Thanks. Builtin. Thanks.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: Okay. I don't. I don't know. That's about all the. The ones.
[00:40:29] Speaker G: I've nothing left from next week. Birthdays.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Well, I could. I could check on that.
[00:40:32] Speaker F: Well, Uncle Norm.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:40:34] Speaker F: When is Labor Day's birthday?
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Did all of you hear that question?
When is Labor Day's birthday? Did you all hear that? Do you see what we're. Do you see what we're up against?
Okay, let me see.
See if there's somebody else you might know.
[00:40:52] Speaker G: Do you have any history for next week?
[00:40:55] Speaker B: Well, we can have history. I was trying to. I was trying to confine this to today.
[00:40:59] Speaker H: Wasn't today the day the tie was invented?
[00:41:01] Speaker B: You said the tie was invented on. That's right. On it. September 7.
That's true.
[00:41:08] Speaker G: Who the hell was keeping records of that?
[00:41:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. No, it was.
It was about exactly one year after the invention of the Ascot and the scarf. Somebody said, could we do that? Only in a simpler kind of way. And that came.
[00:41:24] Speaker G: But before or after the bowtie? What kind of tie was invented? The long, straight tie or the bowtie? Is it specific?
[00:41:29] Speaker H: The fish tie.
[00:41:31] Speaker G: That's right.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: I don't. Okay, let me. Let me check. Let me check a birthday from another time. See if we can't just break this part. The expression, this tie.
[00:41:45] Speaker F: Or worse, Tony will get another point.
[00:41:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:49] Speaker G: And then we just call it all null and void.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:53] Speaker G: Thank everybody and send them on their way.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: Okay, let's see. We already guessed Sid Caesar's age the other day. We did?
[00:42:00] Speaker G: Yeah, that's right. I don't remember.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: Okay, hold on a minute. I have a feeling that can do it again.
[00:42:05] Speaker G: Bill, do you remember?
[00:42:06] Speaker H: Yeah, I do.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'll leave him out. We guessed a Michael Keaton and Cliff Robertson and all those people. Christie McNichol. We guessed them.
Okay, wait a minute.
[00:42:18] Speaker F: She's into. Was Christy in her twenties?
[00:42:21] Speaker B: No, she was 33. Well, she's around 40 now.
[00:42:25] Speaker G: No, she's 30.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: 30. I'm sorry. She's 30. That's right. Yeah. Okay. Amy Irving is one of my favorite actresses. I love Amy.
[00:42:34] Speaker G: Ex wife of Steven Spielberg.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. She was in one of the great movies, crossing Delancey, which I just love. Her birthday is Thursday, September 10. Okay.
[00:42:44] Speaker C: As Margaret Trudeau.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Is that right? Margaret Trudeau is how old would Margaret Trudeau be?
[00:42:50] Speaker C: She'll be 44.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: Is she married to somebody else now?
[00:42:53] Speaker C: Yeah. He's a real estate agent in Ottawa.
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Oh, she deserves better than that.
[00:42:58] Speaker C: Well, actually, no, I guess. I think they. They're doing quite like. We haven't heard anything about her. She's sort of settled down, so.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Okay, so she is not as wild as she used to be. No, she was very, very young at the time that. She's only 44 now.
[00:43:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:11] Speaker B: So she was very in her twenties when she was with the. Lester Trudeau now. It isn't Lester Trudeau. What's his name?
[00:43:17] Speaker C: Pearson.
[00:43:18] Speaker B: Lester Pearson.
[00:43:19] Speaker C: Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: No. Pierre Trudeau. That's who she was married to. Pierre. Pierre Elliot Trudeau. That's right. Elliot Trudeau. Okay, we'll do Amy Irving, whose birthday is next Thursday. And we'll start with.
Let's see. Let's start with.
[00:43:35] Speaker F: Has she done anything that we would know about I.
[00:43:38] Speaker G: Crossing Delancy.
[00:43:40] Speaker F: Never heard of.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: No. She's been in some other things as well, but the names escaped me. I just love crossing Delancey so much that. And when I think of her, I think of that.
[00:43:49] Speaker F: Wasn't she in, like, science fiction or.
[00:43:51] Speaker H: Monster made to order, I think was one of them.
[00:43:54] Speaker G: A classic in american?
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. How about.
[00:43:59] Speaker G: Well, if you remember Steven Spielberg, you know who he is? His ex wife. That's his ex wife.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:04] Speaker F: Well, George Burns, you know, could have an ex wife and 50 years younger.
[00:44:09] Speaker G: I mean, you know, with 36 keys in the piano.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: That's right.
I suppose anybody could. The fact that he doesn't have a wife who's 30 or 40 years younger.
I don't know. I'm trying to make sense out of what John just said.
[00:44:28] Speaker F: Well, you know, actors and politicians and entertainment people, they always seem to.
[00:44:34] Speaker G: I'm handing you a shovel.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: I tell you what, John. You take the first shot at this. How old do you think Amy Irving is?
[00:44:42] Speaker F: Oh.
[00:44:46] Speaker I: Why?
[00:44:46] Speaker F: Is it probably early forties. I've only seen it with makeup, and I don't. I don't get to see her every day.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: You know, a moment ago, you didn't even have any idea who she was.
[00:45:01] Speaker F: Well, I know the name because I've seen her in a couple movies, and I. And I liked her. But, I mean, nothing. Those bizarre, offbeat movies you mentioned.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: Crossing Delancey was no offbeat, bizarre movie.
[00:45:13] Speaker F: I've never heard of it. I.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: Okay. Well, how old you think she is now?
[00:45:18] Speaker F: Oh, can I say 42? Then if I like some other age, you know, no, actually, well, if everybody else starts saying, you know, 33, 31. You know.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: No, the idea. The idea is that you say as soon as you. You commit yourself to an age, you have to stay with it. You see, this is not a very flexible program.
We're very stiff necked about all of this. It's really pitiful. But that's the way we are.
[00:45:47] Speaker F: Well, I'll say 42, then.
She could have been playing someone much older in the movie. I saw her. I don't know.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: John, shut up.
[00:45:59] Speaker G: He's still trying to explain that last statement, which I'm just beginning to figure out now.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: Hey, Pam, what do you think?
[00:46:08] Speaker D: How about 43?
[00:46:09] Speaker B: 43, okay. And Jane?
[00:46:14] Speaker C: 38.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: Okay. What do you think, Bill?
[00:46:16] Speaker H: 37.
[00:46:18] Speaker B: And Tony. Hmm.
[00:46:20] Speaker G: Bill sounded really confident, but my original answer was 39.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: 30.
[00:46:25] Speaker F: Uncle Norm, they're all guessing in the 30.
[00:46:31] Speaker C: Does he think we know something?
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Well, yeah, you said 42. You weren't that far off from what they're saying.
Joan, what do you think?
[00:46:39] Speaker E: Let me just say I loved crossing delancey because my family's from Brooklyn and we used to go and get the pickles and.
[00:46:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's a great movie.
[00:46:49] Speaker E: I don't blame you for liking it.
She's younger than that. I'll say. She's 36.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: 36. Okay.
There's a problem with this now. Uh oh.
[00:47:00] Speaker H: Conflicting reports.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: No, no, no. There's no, no, no. I got her age. That is. That's not the problem.
[00:47:04] Speaker G: I have a feeling I must be right.
[00:47:06] Speaker B: The problem is you had Tony won.
[00:47:08] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: And that means it's a tie with everybody.
[00:47:12] Speaker G: Six weight tie.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: She's 39. Oh, and so it's a two. See, everybody's got two correct answers.
I now declare this game null and void.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: Does this mean we're all equally bright or not very brighten?
[00:47:25] Speaker B: No, I think you're all very bright. You're all bright. You all tied it to a piece. This has never happened.
[00:47:31] Speaker G: You know what we can do? We can call everyone back next week, try to fix it.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Then we could do that. Yeah, we could just call him back, because it's just a whole lot of fun.
[00:47:41] Speaker F: Well, Uncle Norm, don't you know when Labor Day was born?
[00:47:45] Speaker G: Probably.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: Who is that?
[00:47:46] Speaker F: Mandev. Usually been waiting all night to find out when the first Labor Day.
[00:47:55] Speaker B: I did have. As a matter of fact, I did have information on that some. Somewhere along the line.
Wait a minute. Maybe I can. Hold on a minute. Let me see if I can we guess that.
[00:48:06] Speaker G: No, John knows.
[00:48:09] Speaker F: I don't. I mean, usually by 01:00 we find out where all the holidays and everything come from. But the guestmaster was on, and he didn't get to his normal stick. So.
[00:48:23] Speaker C: Your day will not be complete without knowing that.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: Okay, here it is.
[00:48:27] Speaker C: 1924 is my guess.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: Okay. 1924, you say? Okay. Okay. Labor Day.
The first observance, believed to have been a parade.
[00:48:38] Speaker G: Oh, believed. Well, we can't believe.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: No, we have to be sure.
[00:48:42] Speaker E: We know when ties are, but we don't know when Labor Day starts, when we're ties.
[00:48:46] Speaker G: Did we get an answer to that?
[00:48:47] Speaker B: And shoelaces. Shoelaces were first invented in 1793, many years before shoes were invented. So anyway, the first observance, believed to have been a parade at 10:00 a.m. tuesday, September 5, 1882. 110 years ago in New York City. Probably organized by John from Amherst.
Okay, when did it become a legal officer?
[00:49:14] Speaker G: No, no, I still. I'm still stuck on ties here. Did you give us the answer to that? When ties were invented?
[00:49:20] Speaker B: No, I made that up. I have no idea what ties were invented. I can't imagine anybody inventing ties. I am confused.
[00:49:28] Speaker G: I am so lost.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed into law an act making the first Monday in September a legal holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia. But a number of states, beginning in about 1893, were already observing Labor Day. More than half of the states. So it started about 1890. 318. 90.
[00:49:52] Speaker F: But, Uncle Norton. See, we were supposed to guess that to break the tie.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: No, no, I. That. No, that wasn't in the rule book. No, I just. I thought you just were curious. I thought you had a hunger for information about it.
[00:50:06] Speaker F: I did, but it doesn't resolve anything other than I.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. No, I told you, I've already declared the game the great. Everybody wins, and, you know. And therefore everybody loses.
That's what it says in the big book here.
[00:50:20] Speaker F: Well, are there that many prizes in the WBZ closet? I mean.
[00:50:24] Speaker B: No, there aren't, as a matter of fact.
[00:50:26] Speaker G: Just. Just ties.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: Hey, look, I think I'm already behind on everything.
[00:50:33] Speaker G: Oh, my God.
[00:50:34] Speaker B: Look at the time. It's almost time. Hey, listen, I want to thank you, Jane.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: Thank you very much. Very nice. And, Pam, you're adorable be, you're so beautiful. See, you're cutie full of charms. Dee, you're delightful. And, e, you're exciting, and if you're a feather in my arm.
Hey, Joan, nice to talk with you. Take care.
[00:50:54] Speaker E: Great talking with you.
[00:50:56] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:50:56] Speaker G: Bye bye, Joan.
[00:50:57] Speaker B: And bye bye, John.
[00:50:59] Speaker F: Goodbye, Uncle Norm.
[00:51:00] Speaker B: Okay. And, Tony, hang up on me, quick as we don't have much time. Oh, very good. And we'll talk to you in a few minutes there, Uncle Bill.
[00:51:08] Speaker H: Okay, Uncle Norm.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: Okay. It is time now for the news. As a matter of fact, that's coming up in about 20 seconds at 04:00 and if you think we're having fun so far, where do you catch the next hour? It'll just. Oh, it'll just be just so darn nice.
[00:51:24] Speaker I: The latest business news and stock market reports from the floor of the exchange every hour, every business day, on New England's news and information station, WBZ Boston.
[00:51:37] Speaker A: I don't think I oversold that, Norm. Singing all those hits from yesteryear was worth the price of admission alone. The kids here in the teen canteen were having a rollicking grand old time. I hope you were, too. We'll be right back after this.
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[00:52:22] Speaker A: Until next time, friends. Closing the vault and leaving this world a lot sillier than we found it. Four swell premises. Being humbled and cocky. Tickling yourself. Aortic septal defects. Not being totally brainless. Reason is unacceptable. Being, in a way, confusion. Having the same world war. The mediterranean oceans. Irving Isaac. Seaweed Nathan. The twin cities of Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Treasure chests of wonderful melodies of yesteryear. Masses in the cold, cold ground. Drunk Jack Benny singing. Zamfair, master of the pan flute. The magical 36 white key piano. Joan, John and Jane Pams. Little bird being interesting, but nobody cares. Stock's fireproof piano warehouse. Fireproof pianists playing hot music in a smoking jacket. To be lucky enough to be tied with two girls. The three j's on holiday. Marcus of Queensberry rules. Smoking or non smoking educated or uneducated headaches. Sidney Fiberstein, semi nude postcards of Francois Mirand, Charles de Gaulle and Marcel Marceau beaming the show into deep space. Are you listening, Elon? Fish ties. Ottawa. Real estate agents crossing Delancey. Labor Day, 1882. Everybody wins and therefore everybody loses. Bill Wilson and everyone's favorite hitmaker, Corbin Norman Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
[00:54:02] Speaker B: What am I saying? Who cares what I'm saying?
