Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, you've decided to return for some more funny. The vault of silliness thanks you for your patronage. A dumb birthday game from September 17, 1994, graces the airwaves today with the title of what's in a name? The players. Lisa in Topsfield, Charlie from Webster, Carol in Lynn, George from South Braintree, Walter and Revere, my old pal Brian McKinley, producing and playing in studio, and Jack Hart, the Roddy McDowell, Ann Bancroft, John Ritter, David Souter, Paul Benedict, Warren Berger, George Blanda, and Dorothy Loudon. Event what year was the US Constitution completed and signed? Episode 202. What's in a name introduces its way to your ears. In three, two and one.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Laughing on the norm, Nathan?
[00:00:57] Speaker C: No, no. This is a serious program, for heaven's sakes.
[00:00:59] Speaker D: Right.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Let's talk about President Clinton, shall we?
[00:01:02] Speaker C: That's right. Well, that's right. Nobody's ever thought of doing that before. Maybe we can talk about the invasion to come, perhaps of Haiti. Okay, let me introduce. We had a whole panel full of exciting people. Well, pro panel. Let's find out whether they are exciting or not. I think that would be good. We have Lisa in Topsville, who's played the game with us before.
Have you ever won?
[00:01:23] Speaker E: Yes, I have.
[00:01:25] Speaker C: So you know that the worthless, tacky prizes that we give away there?
[00:01:28] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:29] Speaker E: Matter of fact, they sold it once.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: You sold it? Yeah, I can imagine.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: On the black market.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah. I can't imagine anybody buying that stuff. But you must have some tacky, worthless friends.
Okay, let's go to Charlie's in the town of Webster, out near Worcester. How you doing, Charlie?
[00:01:47] Speaker F: Hey. Hi, Tom.
[00:01:48] Speaker C: Hi. Is this. This is not your first crack at the game, is it?
[00:01:51] Speaker F: No, it's not.
[00:01:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:52] Speaker F: Yeah, it sure is.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: Oh, it is. It is. Okay. Okay. Well, you'll find that. You'll find the adrenaline will be flowing, and you'll be having such a good time, you won't be able to stop talking about the game, probably for months and years to come. Well, maybe for a couple of minutes.
[00:02:07] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:02:08] Speaker C: Hey, we have Carol who's in. Lynn. Hi, Carol. Hi.
[00:02:11] Speaker G: How are you, sweetie?
[00:02:13] Speaker C: Are you. Are you sucking up to me? Is that what you're doing? What's that? Please?
[00:02:17] Speaker G: Is this the manly Norman now?
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Who is this speaking?
[00:02:20] Speaker G: Carol.
[00:02:21] Speaker C: Oh, Carol. You sound like you get two voices.
[00:02:24] Speaker G: I have allergies and colds, okay? And you sort of turn me on so my voice gets hot.
[00:02:30] Speaker C: Oh, is that what. Do I turn you on? Honestly?
[00:02:32] Speaker G: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: I'm getting excited just at the thought of it.
[00:02:35] Speaker G: I'm moving to Middleton.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: I have to have some. I have to have a room.
[00:02:42] Speaker G: We'll find rooms.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: Yeah. Because my kids have moved out. Therefore I've got their rooms. I promise them if they're thinking of coming back home again, their rooms will be rented anyway, because you're not that far away. You're in Lynn.
[00:02:54] Speaker G: True.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:02:56] Speaker G: Hop. Skipping a jump.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: Wait a minute. Let me write that down. Hops. That's a good way to describe it, isn't it? That's. Picturesque speech. I think I'll send that to Rita stygist. Maybe pick up $5.
Here's we have George, who's in South Braintree.
[00:03:10] Speaker D: I think I'm closer than she is.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: Uh, well, I don't. No, not to. Not to where I live. And even if you were, I'm not interested in you, so knock it off.
[00:03:19] Speaker D: I'm 81 a month from today.
[00:03:21] Speaker C: Is there. There is a south brain tree. There's a brain tree, is there not? That south brain tree is not.
[00:03:26] Speaker D: Well, it's the same. It's a brain tree. South brain tree. East brain tree, you know.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: Oh, I see. Okay.
[00:03:30] Speaker D: Toward Holbrook.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: I didn't know whether or not you thought he was kind of fancier living there.
[00:03:35] Speaker D: On the Connie Chung show earlier tonight, they mentioned something about a white buffalo. Do you ever hear that?
Yeah. I was surprised nobody brought that up.
[00:03:45] Speaker G: Is that like a chocolate mousse?
[00:03:48] Speaker C: Chocolate mousse at a white buffalo?
[00:03:51] Speaker D: That's true. I'm not kidding.
[00:03:53] Speaker F: No, no.
[00:03:53] Speaker C: There is a. What? No, I did read something about a white buffalo.
[00:03:56] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:03:57] Speaker C: But I'm glad you brought that up because that kind of just brought everything to a stead, to its kind of. To a total halt.
[00:04:05] Speaker D: Okay, bring it up before this.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: Walter in revere. Hello, Walter. Hi, Norm. Pleasure to be on the show. Well, it's a pleasure to have you. This is your first crack at it, too, is it not? Yep, it is. Sure. Okay. You understand that if you do win, that is, if you come the closest to the correct ages of all these people we're gonna mention who were born in the state, you win something that's totally nothing.
And again, what we ask you to do is not return it to us because we have no use for it either.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: That's why we're getting rid of it.
[00:04:32] Speaker C: That's right. Otherwise, why would we give it. You think I'm gonna give you something that I want myself mad? Thank you. That was acting. And, of course, we have Brian McKinley, who you heard, who's the producer, who will be with us playing the game. And also, we have the very lovely and exciting Jack Hart. Hello. Hello, Jack. It's nice to have you playing the game, and, of course, you've done it so often that you're the old pro, and you have done, always done extremely well.
[00:04:58] Speaker H: Thank you very much. You know, Norm, just quickly, earlier in the evening, you were talking about your experience on Monday night, and, you know, I didn't have an opportunity to say that. I was only joking when I said I was disgusted. Fact the matter is, I thought that everyone, including yourself, was absolutely. Well, there were a couple of people up there who weren't quite that funny, but you were certainly not amongst.
[00:05:25] Speaker C: I told him, yeah, I appreciate that. I was just. What I was doing was.
[00:05:30] Speaker G: But he looked cute.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: I looked adorable. Yeah. I was reaching out for a compliment. No, because a lot people wondering what we're talking about. It was the thing at the comedy connection, and I never stood up on stage at a comedy club. How many people did you say? 500 people there? Were there that many, do you think?
[00:05:47] Speaker H: Oh, let me think. There were about 24 to a table across, and there had to be at least twelve tables across, so that would have been 288. And then in the back there, close to 500.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. I love the way your mind really, you know, for a guy who's a romantic and a guy who's a funny guy, you're also very technical, the way you figured that out. Oh, you gotta be quick. You gotta be quick. That's right. That's how you figure out, like, a bumper to bumper traffic.
[00:06:17] Speaker H: Oh, sure. Absolutely. We just look at the expressway and say, well, let me see this. Four cars across town.
[00:06:22] Speaker D: There's no easy way to count that.
[00:06:24] Speaker C: Uh huh.
[00:06:25] Speaker D: You know, an easy way to count those people.
[00:06:28] Speaker C: How's that?
[00:06:29] Speaker D: Count their feet and divide by two.
[00:06:35] Speaker H: By ten.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: That's right. That would. That would be even better, wouldn't it? Have everybody take off your shoes and socks. Let's see. That's. How many toes is that?
[00:06:44] Speaker H: Just hope you have a cold that day.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Oh, this is getting kind of silly. But anyway, it was just. It was just to finish this thing off, and we'll never mention it again. Well, I may mention it again a lot. But anyway, it was the raise funds for a place called Lifehouse, which is in Dorchester, and it's for homeless people and all that. And they did raise quite a bit, so a lot of broadcasters were there. And anyway, it was exciting. I'd like to do it again now that I really. I've never been so frightened in my entire life. Fortunately, I'm kidding. Yeah. I mean, it's good to look at.
What? You only saw one line, I think. Did you watch it on tv?
[00:07:25] Speaker G: Right.
[00:07:26] Speaker C: Well, the only line they use was my opening collected. Well, I know that, but that's because I happen to be a great actor.
[00:07:33] Speaker G: I see.
[00:07:34] Speaker C: I was underneath it. I was scared to death. But I'm an actor, so I don't look scared. I'm not a comedian, so I don't look funny, either. But I don't know what any of that means. Anyway, we're all set to play the dumb birthday game. And that is really what I care about at this moment. The heck with what's going on in the past. Let old people reminisce. We don't reminisce. We care about today and tomorrow because we're kids. Right.
Okay. Today's the birthday of Roddy McDowell.
He was a Tony Award. Won a Tony Award for supporting actor in the fighting cock in 1960. Oh, God. Let me get through this. And is known. Bye. Early moviegoers for Lassie come home. And they was the movie version of that 1943. Pay close attention onto these dates because they tip you off as to how old he is. And let's see, how green was my valley and Planet of the Apes in 1968.
And also started in fright night and overboard.
He was born in London, England, so you remember him as kind of a thin guy with a british accent.
A thin guy with a british accent. How old would he be if he were a thin guy with a british accent?
[00:08:52] Speaker H: And if he was fat with a german accent? There would that be a whole different thing?
[00:08:56] Speaker C: That would be a whole thing. He'd be a lot older. Fat guys with german accents are always very old. Thin guys with british accents always appear to be young, but you can't tell, even though he was in. When I say he was in that movie in 1943.
Yeah. Lassie, come home in 1943.
Okay, we'll start with you, Lisa. What do you think?
[00:09:22] Speaker E: I want to say 72.
[00:09:26] Speaker C: 72. Okay, Charlie.
[00:09:31] Speaker F: Roddy McDowell in planetty apes.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: Yeah. He was in that. Yep.
He was also in an industrial slide film called the romance of steel Ingots.
[00:09:44] Speaker F: Never heard of.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: No, no. That didn't get too broad of distribution.
[00:09:48] Speaker F: Roddy McDowell. Roddy McDonald. How about 61?
[00:09:52] Speaker C: How about 61? We certainly will mark that down. And soon enough, Charlie, we'll know whether or not that is the correct answer. That's what makes this game just so darn exciting.
Because we don't know. We just don't know.
Carol, what do you think?
[00:10:06] Speaker G: 63?
[00:10:09] Speaker C: Do I still turn you on? What do you think, huh? I definitely do.
Even if I don't. Just as long as you say that, that's all I really care about. I don't care if you lie.
[00:10:19] Speaker G: Have I ever lied to you, Norman?
[00:10:22] Speaker C: Never. Yes, you lied to me once in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, when we went away for the weekend in 1971. And twice in our vacation in Findlay, Ohio. And I don't forget these things, fella.
Okay, George from not Braintree, but South Braintree. Yeah, I'm sorry, what was that kind of a noise? Roddy McDowell. How old do you think he is?
[00:10:46] Speaker D: How about 78?
[00:10:48] Speaker C: 78. We'll mark that down and put it up on the big scoreboard and find out in a few minutes how close you are, Walter?
[00:10:58] Speaker E: 80.
[00:10:59] Speaker C: 80. Well, he's getting older by the minute, isn't he?
I'm afraid to ask you, Brian. You're going to say he's dead.
He died in 96. Who is Roddy McDowell?
[00:11:09] Speaker B: No.
The only thing I remember him for is planet Vape.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: So you remember what he looks like?
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: I'll say 68.
[00:11:17] Speaker C: 68, okay. And they're very lovely and exciting. Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Hart.
[00:11:23] Speaker H: Well, thank you very much, and, of course, all the guest spots on your various Quinn Martin productions.
[00:11:32] Speaker C: Let's see, 67, 67. Okay. Just one question. First of all, about traffic people like you do. Most of them use their own names when they're on, like on WBZ, because they all have. They all have really great show business names. Even you do, like Jack Hart. You know, that's a. That's a name people would take. If the name, like, were Marshall Berkowitz, they would become Jack Hart. That would be the. And all of the. All of the traffic people have those names. I know they do different names when they're on different stations, since they're not fooling us.
[00:12:10] Speaker H: Well, some of them are just born that way.
Some of them take them. Of course, many people are hired on their name alone, but for the most part, the names, especially on BZ, for the most part, we do use our own names there. But, yeah, we pretty much use our.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: Own names because I was listening to, like, some of the traffic people we have here at BC. Can you mention some of their names? Oh, sure.
[00:12:37] Speaker H: Let me see. We've got rich Kirkland.
That's a good, strong name. Lou Ambrosino, who used to use different names.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, Lou Ambrosino. Okay, now that sounds like a real name. Sure, sure.
[00:12:51] Speaker H: But that's his fake name. His real name is John Smith.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: That's what he wanted to be more ethnic so it could appeal to our ethnic viewers.
[00:13:01] Speaker H: Geraldo Rivera.
[00:13:02] Speaker C: Sure. That's right.
[00:13:04] Speaker H: Let's see. Joe Stapleton.
[00:13:06] Speaker C: See, that's a perfect radio name. That's a made up name.
[00:13:09] Speaker H: Sure.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: Yeah, but that's his real name.
[00:13:12] Speaker H: That's his real name. Absolutely. His parents were in the paper fastener. His ancestors were the paper fastener business.
Victoria Provo. She's going to be doing a news show by herself. They're going to call it Victoria Provo loan.
[00:13:27] Speaker C: Oh, that's a wonderful, wonderful play on words.
[00:13:32] Speaker H: I think you'll have Wayne Schofield in here after me. That's a beautiful stage name.
[00:13:38] Speaker C: And you have Jeff somebody in the morning.
[00:13:41] Speaker H: Jeff Brown once in a while.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: Yeah, that's his real name. Jeff Brown. Brown.
[00:13:45] Speaker H: Absolutely. He's been seen lately with Lonnie Anderson, Aaron Sawyer.
[00:13:51] Speaker C: Wait a minute. There's a joke there, and I don't know what it is.
[00:13:55] Speaker H: The man that Lonnie Anderson has been seeing lately is also Jeff Brown.
[00:13:59] Speaker C: Oh, I see. I've lost track of her romantic interests, and you mustn't do that if you're in this business. You must be on top of things.
[00:14:07] Speaker H: Yes. Oh, you got Ken Newman. That's a good radio name.
[00:14:11] Speaker C: Ken Newman. Yes. Rob Floyd. Rob Floyd.
[00:14:14] Speaker H: Yeah, absolutely. Oftentimes known as pretty boy.
Who else have we got that comes on here?
Oh, it's just a whole host of us.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: But they're all real names of these people.
[00:14:29] Speaker H: Provo loan. Well, we wonder about that.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: I know she has another name when she's on another station, as you do, too. I shouldn't be saying this, should I? That's kind of a secret.
[00:14:40] Speaker H: I don't think that anybody is really too terribly fooled.
[00:14:45] Speaker C: It'd be like if I had about three or four different names that appeared on different stations. Anyway, you're wondering about Ronnie McDowell, how old he is, aren't you? Forget that. We were working on that. Okay.
[00:14:57] Speaker H: What's his real name?
[00:14:58] Speaker C: Roddy McDowell's real name is Norm Nathan, but I took it first. Actually, that's because it's not my real name.
[00:15:06] Speaker H: I see.
[00:15:06] Speaker C: I told you. My real name is Henry Fonda. Those that seem to have been taken, and so there's no point to that.
In fact, he used to call me Lassie was my nickname, and I was taken, too.
Anyway, the answer, Roddy McDowell, is actually 66.
And so Jack Hart said 67.
Brian was close with 68.
So I would say that Jack Hart walks away with that one, just one year off. Excellent work. Good deal. Just for that, you earn yourself a new name.
And that name is Ish kabibble.
Ishka Bibble would be very good. Well, how many people listening know who we're talking about when we talk? Ishka Bibble.
That's right. He did the novelty songs with Kay Kaiser.
[00:15:57] Speaker H: He actually died about six months ago.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: Oh, well, then you can take the name.
[00:16:02] Speaker D: Sure.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Just call him ish. Ish.
I think that was probably. What's his real name. Yeah.
Ann Bancroft, born Anna. Speaking of real names, Ann Marie Luisa Italiano, which is a beautiful name. She changed it to Ann Bancroft. She won an oscar in 1962 for the miracle Worker. She was nominated in 1967 for the graduate. Remember that? When she was driving Dustin Hoffman crazy? And the graduate, she was the older woman and also appeared in Agnes of Goddesse and Point of no return. She's been married to Mel Brooks since 1964.
That's 30 years they've been married, and that's something. Can you imagine being married to Mel Brooks for 30 years? I would think she'd be going crazy. That must be fun, except she's got a great sense of humor herself. I've seen they were also together in.
What was that? To be or not to be. Remember that about the movie, the theater group during Nazi Germany, Hitler in springtime.
[00:17:09] Speaker H: Or something to that effect, was the play they were trying to put on. Trying to put on a lousy play so that.
[00:17:14] Speaker C: No, no, no, that was the producers.
That was a Mel Brooks production, too. That's right. That was Mel Brooks. But no, this was a to be or not to be. They were a husband and wife team in the movie and trying to escape from the Nazis and stuff. Anyway, Ann Bancroft, we'll start with you, Jack. How old. How old you think Ann Bancroft is anyway?
[00:17:35] Speaker H: And today, let's see, I've seen her and Mel Brooks Singh, sweet Georgia Brown in Polish.
[00:17:41] Speaker C: Really?
Could that have been from to be or not to be?
[00:17:47] Speaker H: I don't know, but I saw them do it. There used to be an english series that used to have, like, comedians come out and just do, like an hour taking questions and doing bits. And at one point, he dragged her out of the audience and they sang Sweet Georgia Brown in Polish.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: I think they did do that in that movie. I believe so.
[00:18:05] Speaker H: Let's see. I'm trying to think. She was in a movie, the Slender Thread, about 1962, actually, 1967.
[00:18:13] Speaker C: She was in the miracle worker, won an Oscar for that in 1962.
[00:18:19] Speaker H: Let me see. She was only about 35 and 67, which is so there are 500 of her? Yes.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: Well, she has 500ft. So that you divide that in half. Yeah. And then you get 732 toes all on 1ft. Right.
[00:18:40] Speaker H: Let's see. She's got to be 62.
[00:18:53] Speaker C: 62. Okay. Do you realize it took you so long to answer? And we've got 750 more guests to do and 900 people on a panel. That means that there are 600 people in the club, and therefore the trains would crash about the time that they all met together in Peoria, Illinois.
[00:19:14] Speaker H: And you're the bus driver.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: That's right. That's right. Brian, how old do you think Bancroft is?
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Ann Bancroft?
[00:19:23] Speaker C: Oh, this is going to be a long story. I know.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Sorry. Talk amongst yourselves for a second. Uh, 63.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: 63, okay. And Walter? Uh, go with 60. Walter is going with 60. What are you going with, George?
[00:19:37] Speaker D: 67.
[00:19:39] Speaker C: 67. And Carol?
[00:19:41] Speaker G: Uh, 67.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: Also 67. Also for Carol and Charlie.
[00:19:47] Speaker F: No long shot. I don't know, I.
How about 69?
[00:19:52] Speaker C: All right, we'll mark that down. And what do you think, Lisa?
[00:19:55] Speaker E: I'm gonna go with Jack.
[00:19:56] Speaker C: 62.
Okay. You should have gone with Brian because he hit it right on the button. Yeah, he was 63, but Jack was very, very close.
Okay, so Brian has won one, and Jack is one. One. How about John Ritter?
You see, what I can tell you about him that you don't already know? He was born Jonathan Ritter. I guess that wasn't much of a change.
His father was, because. Text rit. Excuse me? Text Ritter.
The cowboy star.
Let's see. He appeared in tv's three's company.
Three's a crowd.
Was that a tv show? To three's a crowd?
[00:20:39] Speaker H: Yeah, after he finally.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: After the other two.
[00:20:42] Speaker H: Well, the only remaining girl in the alternate left. They did another show where he got married. Oh, and the father was a pest.
[00:20:52] Speaker C: Okay, who's the father? Was there anybody we know?
[00:20:55] Speaker H: Oh, you'd know him if you saw him. White haired guy, tall fella kind of thing.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: Oh, that's. That's.
[00:21:04] Speaker H: That's right.
[00:21:05] Speaker C: Yeah. What's one of the traffic guys? Isn't that. Yeah, that's. That's Stapleton, I believe. Yeah, he went into traffic reporting business after that.
[00:21:14] Speaker H: Yeah, he played a father in a series before he was a driver.
[00:21:16] Speaker C: That's right. Yeah, that was his springboard two success. Anyway, he was also in Hooper Man, I guess that was a tv series, wasn't it? A show, Hearts of Fire. And in a film satirizing tv called Stay Tuned.
Anyway, his dad was the late cowboy movie actor, as I mentioned, Jitex Ritter.
So that's John Ritter and let's see. Why don't we start with you, Carol?
[00:21:42] Speaker G: I'd say 44.
[00:21:46] Speaker C: Carol would say 44. And that's just so darn nice the way you said that.
[00:21:52] Speaker G: Thank you.
[00:21:55] Speaker C: You know something? I think I'm just wildly in love.
And it feels just so good. I haven't been this wildly in love for. Yeah, for about 58 years, I think was the last time.
Anyway. Walter, what do you think? Try 48. 48 says Walter. And Lisa, 45. Lisa says 45.
Okay.
[00:22:17] Speaker H: Jack, also known as the poor man's bow bridges.
[00:22:22] Speaker D: Really?
[00:22:22] Speaker C: Why is that? I never heard.
[00:22:24] Speaker H: Because he, you know, he sort of plays like the parts in the lower budget movies and things like that that you would normally see, like bow bridges. It's sort of like Jess White is already a poor man's Phil Silvers.
[00:22:34] Speaker C: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's true. That sounds right. I never thought of it that way. But then again, I never thought of a lot of things anyway. In fact, I never really thought very much. I just found it slowed me down. You think too much, my mother would say, Norman, you think too much.
Guys shouldn't go to college. Only girls.
[00:22:56] Speaker H: Let's see. 46.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: Okay. And Brian?
[00:23:01] Speaker B: 43.
[00:23:02] Speaker C: 43, okay, let's see. Charlie, what do you think?
[00:23:07] Speaker F: 47.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: Okay. And how old do you think John Ritter is, George?
[00:23:12] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 54.
[00:23:14] Speaker C: 54, okay. John Ritter is 46.
So Jyd hit that one right on the button. And the Charlie came very close. He said 47.
And a lot of you were well, and Lisa said 45, just a year the other way.
But Jack hit it right on the button. And now has two correct answers to Brian's one.
Okay, very good. Very good, Jack. Thank you very much, Senator Vergan. Let's see. How about David Souter from New Hampshire? Although he was born in Massachusetts, justice now been named justice of the US Supreme Court. Just was named within the past few months. Remember David Souter? Judge David Souter, justice of the Supreme Court. That would be a nice title, wouldn't it? Justice Nathan of the United States Supreme Court.
Thank you, but I don't think I can be appointed. I don't think the Congress would vote for me because I happen to have a very active sexual life.
That wouldn't be bad either. Neither one being true. Anyway. David Souter, before I say too much, let me ask you, George, how old do you think?
[00:24:34] Speaker D: I don't remember that fall very well. I'm going to say 61.
[00:24:38] Speaker C: 61.
[00:24:39] Speaker D: I may be way off.
[00:24:41] Speaker C: You may be, but then again, you may be very close.
Lisa, what do you think?
[00:24:48] Speaker E: 52.
[00:24:49] Speaker C: 52.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Okay, Brian, I'm gonna say 57.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: 57, okay. And Charlie, boy, I gotta take a.
[00:25:01] Speaker F: Long shot at this one. Sounds like an old guy that offers money to young girls.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: Let's go way out. 74. 74, okay. And Walter.
67. 67 says, walter and Carol, be lovely and beautiful. Carol says, thank you, my dear.
[00:25:24] Speaker G: 65.
[00:25:26] Speaker C: 65, okay. What do you think, Jack?
[00:25:29] Speaker H: Yeah, David Suiter. He did change his name from David Gigolo.
[00:25:34] Speaker C: You know.
[00:25:35] Speaker H: Son of a gun. I was going to say 52.
[00:25:37] Speaker C: You still want to say 52?
[00:25:39] Speaker H: Yeah, why not?
[00:25:40] Speaker C: Okay. Actually, his age is 55. 55. Let's see. I think Brian comes the closest.
Yeah, Brian says 57. So he's just two years off.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: I had no idea who he was. I don't have any idea.
[00:25:57] Speaker D: I just made a wildcat from the.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: You said like a 95 or something.
[00:26:03] Speaker F: No, no, no, I'm.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: Sir, this is. Oh, George, you said 61. Yeah. You. I mean, none of you were very far off, except Charlie said 74.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Oh, it was Charlie who said 74.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Yeah, Charlie. Charlie was 19 years off. But what the heck is 19 years? No, the idea is it was just appointed to the supreme court, and they wouldn't pick a 74 year old guy.
[00:26:28] Speaker F: You never know.
[00:26:29] Speaker C: Well, you never know. That's quite true. Also, Paul Benedict, who I think is a funny character. He's an actor from Silver City, New Mexico.
He played the. He was on the Jefferson. Remember that? The guy with a funny face?
[00:26:42] Speaker G: The neighbor.
[00:26:43] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. They described him. He played Harry Bentley. Described here as the long faced englishman on the Jefferson. What's that?
[00:26:52] Speaker E: I said, oh, that dude.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: That's the dude. Oh, yeah, man. That's dude. He. Cool dude. I always thought he was very. It's a very funny. All you have to do is say hello, and he'd have me laughing. There's something about his face that. Anyway, he also appeared in the freshman with Marlon Brando. That was a movie that lasted about four minutes, I think.
I think they stopped the movie and sold candy or something and figured the heck with it. That didn't last very long at all. But anyway, that's Paul Benedict.
[00:27:20] Speaker H: He also ran a theater company in Boston for a number of years.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Oh, did he? Yeah. I didn't know that son of. Again. Paul Benedict.
Paul Bennett. I don't know why I keep repeating his name.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah, some Paul Benedict.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: Paul Bennett. If I keep repeating it, that'll give you a better chance of getting.
[00:27:39] Speaker D: His father was married to a colorful colored girl.
[00:27:42] Speaker C: No, no, that was another character. I don't know what his name is. I know the one you mean, though Paul Benedict was not married in the series, he was a neighbor. Came down and always said funny things.
[00:27:54] Speaker H: Long winded star.
[00:27:55] Speaker G: He lived across the way.
[00:27:57] Speaker C: He lived across the way.
[00:27:58] Speaker G: The other ones lived upstairs.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: You know, all that stuff. That's pretty good. Okay, let's start with you, Lisa. How old do you think he is?
[00:28:09] Speaker E: Um, he's probably about 49.
[00:28:15] Speaker C: 49, okay. Charlie?
[00:28:19] Speaker F: I was gonna go around 56.
[00:28:22] Speaker C: 56, okay. Carol?
[00:28:25] Speaker G: 59.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: What do you think, George?
[00:28:28] Speaker D: 48.
[00:28:29] Speaker C: And Walter try 55. We'll try 55.
And if the shoe fits. Thank you.
We'll put it on his nose. Now, that doesn't make any sense at all, does it? Brian wasn't even funny. See that? No reaction there at all from anybody either way. Brian, what do you think?
[00:28:49] Speaker B: I would have to say he's 58.
[00:28:54] Speaker C: 58. Okay. And Jack? 60.
Jack says 60. Okay. You know, Charlie, hit it right on the button. Wow. 56. 56. And Walter was very close. He said 55.
And a lot of the rest of you are not that far off either, except Marshall Kwitkin.
And you don't even know who Marshall Kwitkin is, but he's playing the game at home, and I get. I get vibrations, so I know he guessed 81.
How's he doing?
I don't know how he's doing, but I know how I'm doing. That's really rotten. Warren Berger talking about the supreme court. Former chief Justice Warren Berger.
He was appointed to the. Pardon me, what's Warren.
[00:29:40] Speaker H: Was he in a pickle burger?
[00:29:43] Speaker C: No, he's not. No, no.
What do you mean by that, fella?
There's nothing like a guy pulling a little joke, a play on words, and then somebody saying, what do you mean by that? I sound like my own relatives.
[00:29:58] Speaker H: You get used to it after a while.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: No, no, I get relatives like that, stare at you.
What do you mean?
Well, you see, pickled burger. See, see, he's got nice buns. You know, get it? That sort of tied in all together, you know, he's in a cheesy joke. Cheesy joke? Yeah. What do you mean by that, Paul?
Okay, anyway, former chief Justice Warren Burger, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, was appointed to the court in 1969 by President Nixon.
He served for 17 years, all of them as chief justice, and he stepped down in 1986.
Okay, hold on while I just rattled some papers in your ear. And so that's chief. Former chief justice Warmbier. I didn't realize in this run he was chief justice the whole time, all 17 years. That ought to get him a pretty good job. Now, it's a good thing to put on your application, but do you think you're overqualified coming in here and wanting to be a shoe salesman? They cried. Anyway, let's start with you, Jack. Warren Burger. Warren Burger. Warren Burger. Warren Burger.
I'd like a barbecued Warren burger.
That's really more stupid than yours.
[00:31:16] Speaker H: Some bacon and tomatoes. Yeah, let's see.
I must admit, there was kind of humorous.
[00:31:25] Speaker B: That was a good one.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: What do you mean by relish that one, huh?
[00:31:28] Speaker H: Yeah.
Let's see. Any relation to Hamilton Berger from the Perry Mason?
[00:31:33] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:31:37] Speaker H: He has got to be what you call 78.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: 78, okay. Brian?
[00:31:44] Speaker B: I'll have to say he's 74.
[00:31:50] Speaker C: Okay. And, Walter, go with the high. 85. 85. Okay. George?
[00:31:59] Speaker D: 78.
[00:32:00] Speaker C: 78. Same as with Jackson.
[00:32:02] Speaker H: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:03] Speaker C: Okay. Carol?
[00:32:04] Speaker G: 79.
[00:32:06] Speaker C: 79. Okay. Charlie?
[00:32:08] Speaker F: That was Stuberger. Oh. Warren Burger. 81.
[00:32:14] Speaker C: Do you think he went through his entire life and still gets jokes like that made up?
Lisa?
[00:32:22] Speaker E: 77.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: 77.
Okay.
He's actually 87.
So we have another person breaking into the winning column. And that's the very lovely and exciting Walter.
Yeah, so we have. Jack's got two, and Brian has two. And Walter and Charlie both have won a piece.
George Blanda. You remember George Blanda. He was born September 17. Also, isn't his brother waring Blanda? Yes, exactly.
Oh, geez.
Okay, let me tell you about George Blanda.
Quarterback. Spent 26 years as an active pro football player.
Jeez. Boy, his brains must be coming out of his left ear. Imagine getting banged around in that for 26 years. He scored a record 2002 points.
Let's see. This may be a clue. When he was 43, he won four games and tied one for the Raiders with last minute passing and kicking heroics. When he was 43 and lasted 26 years as an active player. This is. He didn't just step aside and become a coach. You actively played all that time.
Okay, let's. Let's see. We'll start with you, Carol. How old you think George Blander?
[00:33:55] Speaker G: 53.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: 53.
Okay. And let's see. Walter?
60.
Okay. Six? 60. And Lisa?
[00:34:11] Speaker E: 67.
[00:34:12] Speaker C: 67.
And Jack?
Mmm. 64.
64.
Okay. George, what do you think? 16161. And Charlie?
[00:34:27] Speaker F: 66.
[00:34:28] Speaker C: And Briande?
[00:34:32] Speaker B: 58.
[00:34:34] Speaker C: 58. You didn't sound too sure of yourself.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: No, I didn't.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: No, I was guessing.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: I think I'm guessing way too low.
[00:34:40] Speaker C: Okay. Actually, you are, because George Blanda is 67 years old today, which is what Lisa said.
[00:34:46] Speaker H: Hmm.
[00:34:47] Speaker C: Did you know that, or was that a guess?
[00:34:49] Speaker E: I kind of knew it.
[00:34:50] Speaker C: Well, that's good. There's nothing wrong with knowing that. That's okay.
Where were you with the other six. Guess.
Okay, I was close.
No, you were very close, matter of fact. Okay, so, Lisa, Charlie and Walter, I want a piece, and here's the very last one. Oh, I know it. I know it.
Okay, Dorothy Loudon, this is maybe a little tougher. She was born in Boston. She starred in Annie on Broadway. She was.
She was the woman who ran the orphanage, the tough character in one of the productions. But Annie has been around, and there have been so many different casts that you might not know that, but she won a Tony in 1977 for her role in Annie as Miss Hannigan. She also used to make records. She's quite a good singer. She was a pop singer back a few years.
I can't think of anything well known that she recorded, but a very decent, almost a cabaret kind of singer, and then went into the theater. And anyway, she was Miss Hannigan, 1977, winning a Tony for her role there in the show Annie.
Great show.
My youngest daughter, who was here earlier tonight, saw that she fell in love with that show when it first opened and must have seen it about eight times.
Isn't that an interesting story? I like to. I'd like to come across these human interest stories and just relate them to you while you go. Oh, gee. Okay, we'll start. Let's see. Let's start with Brian. We'll start with you this time.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: 57.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: 57. Okay. And Lisa?
[00:36:58] Speaker E: 64.
[00:37:00] Speaker C: 64.
Okay. Carol?
66.
66. And Charlie.
[00:37:11] Speaker F: That was. 64 was my guess. Could I. Could I guess that, too, now?
[00:37:15] Speaker C: Oh, sure.
[00:37:16] Speaker F: Okay, 64.
[00:37:17] Speaker C: Okay. Any numbers you want, even somebody's already guessed it doesn't matter. Okay. George, what do you think?
[00:37:22] Speaker D: Put me on the border saying 45. Let's get that number one up there for me.
[00:37:28] Speaker C: Oh, you're gonna see 45. Yeah. Okay.
Jack?
57. 57. Same as what Brian said, eh? Okay. And Walter?
[00:37:39] Speaker E: 67.
[00:37:41] Speaker C: 67.
Okay. Dorothy Loudon is actually 61 years old today. Let me see. Who comes the closest. I think 64 seems to be. Let's see, that's within three years.
My goodness, this requires some mathematic. No, I guess 64 is the closest.
Yeah. From 61, that's only three years off. And the next closest, 57, would have been four years off.
Okay, so the winners there, Lisa and Charlie.
[00:38:18] Speaker F: Wow.
[00:38:20] Speaker C: So that means we have a four way tie.
Brian, Jack, Lisa and Charlie. That's the exciting thing about this game, is you feel like you've lost totally when you can come from behind. And that's why America is playing it, and that's why we're making it both a board and a computer game.
[00:38:40] Speaker H: No dates or obscure celebrities that we could.
[00:38:44] Speaker C: Well, we should have something. Something as a tiebreaker. Yes. I tell you what.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Obscure celebrities. Who were the last three people?
[00:38:51] Speaker C: That was pretty obscure to me.
Okay, I tell you what, I'll give you an event and you tell me the year this happened. And this is one that I think is particularly interesting. The US Constitution, that's not the boat, but the Constitution itself was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
It was signed by representatives from twelve states, including George Washington, chairman of the constitutional convention. The original is displayed in the National Archives in Washington, DC in a bulletproof display case filled with helium and water vapor to preserve it by maintaining proper humidity. Isn't that something for the US Constitution still be in existence? The original one.
And today, as a result of this being the time the US Constitution was completed and signed, is citizenship day. Did you know that today is citizenship day? September 17. What do you know? I don't know quite how to observe that. We ought to observe that in some kind of way.
[00:40:00] Speaker H: Uh huh.
[00:40:02] Speaker C: I don't know. I don't know how.
[00:40:03] Speaker H: Well, we all ought to go out and like spout out like the names of presidents and things.
[00:40:09] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe, maybe take a George Washington look alike to lunch. That would be kind of nice.
[00:40:14] Speaker H: I wear my pouch when I come back this afternoon.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: I think that's, that's only fair.
[00:40:19] Speaker H: But you know, you see all the trouble they go through to preserve this, this piece of paper from all those years ago. Now, if they had been smart like the cavemen, they would have painted it.
[00:40:27] Speaker C: On the wall of a cave. They didn't know back then, see, I mean, they thought we've got new things like paper. They didn't have paper, but they didn't realize that paper didn't last very long unless you play around with it like they do with it.
Well, now, of course they do paint stuff back on caves again. I know that because I did. See, I think it was President Clinton, as a matter of fact, was out there in a cave painting stuff.
[00:40:53] Speaker H: A recent edict.
[00:40:55] Speaker C: Okay, well, now that we've got milked, that one for really hilarious laughs. Lisa, we'll start with you. What year was that the US Constitution was completed? Remember, not long ago we had an anniversary of the constitution and it was a whole year. It was honored in with all kinds of activities in many communities.
In fact, I was on a local committee in the little town I live in to pay homage to the US Constitution on its anniversary date.
Okay, so what date was that? What year was that, Lisa?
Good question.
[00:41:34] Speaker E: Only thing I can think of. 1770.
[00:41:36] Speaker C: 617. 76. Okay, okay. And Charlie, what year would you say?
[00:41:42] Speaker F: Gosh, history.
[00:41:44] Speaker C: Oh, you sound like you're in pain.
[00:41:48] Speaker F: But a long time out of school.
I like that. And I can't. We can't go with the same date.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: Oh, sure you can.
Called earlier.
[00:41:59] Speaker H: Whose date? Left him the prom.
[00:42:01] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. 1776. It sounds good to me.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: Okay, Carol, what do you think?
[00:42:15] Speaker G: 1880.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: 618. 86. So we didn't have any constitution during the Civil War, which no wonder. No wonder they drove Abraham Lincoln to drink. He said, I don't know what I can do with you. We don't even have a us constitution.
Okay, George, what do you say?
[00:42:37] Speaker D: 1850.
[00:42:38] Speaker C: 818. 50. Okay. Just in time for the civil war, then. Okay. But not too soon for the war of 1812.
Okay, Walter, what do you think?
[00:42:49] Speaker E: 1776.
[00:42:51] Speaker C: You say 1770. You haven't said, that's the spirit, Jack. At all.
Oh, you did? I missed that. Sorry.
[00:42:58] Speaker H: Say it again, Jack. That's the spirit.
[00:43:01] Speaker C: Brian, what do you think? What year was that? I don't know. Geez.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Would it be 1776, by any chance?
[00:43:08] Speaker C: Well, we'll put you down for 1776.
And if we have any other orders, we'll try to move it up a little bit. Jack, what do you think?
[00:43:17] Speaker H: 1943.
[00:43:19] Speaker C: They're not.
[00:43:22] Speaker H: 1780.
[00:43:22] Speaker C: 917. 89.
Okay, let's see. The year actually was 1787.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1776 was the end of the Declaration. The Declaration of Independence.
[00:43:41] Speaker B: Yeah. To think I'd go back to school.
[00:43:44] Speaker H: Okay, and that was on July 4.
[00:43:47] Speaker C: Anyway.
[00:43:47] Speaker G: Didn't I say 1786?
[00:43:52] Speaker C: Yeah, this. Carol. That's right. You said 1886.
[00:43:55] Speaker G: Are you sure? Let's have a record.
[00:43:57] Speaker C: No, I've got it. No, no, I bet. Remember I said there was no. As a result, there was no constitution during the Civil War.
Oh, I see. Oh, sure. No, that means if you remember, 1886. Is there any Jack? Jack said 1789. So Jack has squeaked by.
[00:44:16] Speaker G: He was there.
[00:44:17] Speaker H: Yes, I was.
[00:44:18] Speaker C: As the winner of the standard bastion, Jack.
[00:44:23] Speaker H: Yes, they did. Horses and buggies and just wreaking havoc down there in Pennsylvania.
[00:44:31] Speaker C: Except for my uncle, who was a bartender at a tavern. So I do that old joke. A tavern on the. On the Lexington green. He was the man who poured the shot heard around the world.
Wow.
Okay, I want to thank all of you for playing this well game with us and for bringing some excitement and fun and certainly a large dose of education.
Pardon me, is somebody. Somebody losing their teeth or teeth that they were losing? Okay, Lisa. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thanks, Norman.
[00:45:08] Speaker E: It was fun.
[00:45:09] Speaker C: You did okay.
[00:45:10] Speaker E: All right.
[00:45:11] Speaker C: You just. You just overshadowed her, Jack, and in the last moment. And that's why you're a true champion, Charlie, thanks a lot.
[00:45:21] Speaker F: Thank you, Norman. It was fun, too.
[00:45:23] Speaker C: Okay. Enjoyed having you. And I enjoyed having you, too, Carol. You know that. God knows, you know that.
[00:45:27] Speaker G: I'm going to take a history lesson.
[00:45:30] Speaker C: You don't need to do that. You've already won me overdose, you sweet, wonderful thing. Take care, Carol. And thank you. George.
[00:45:37] Speaker D: I couldn't get on the board today.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: Let me look. No, I guess you couldn't. You and. But Carol couldn't get on the board either, so you're in pretty good company.
Take care, George.
[00:45:47] Speaker D: Okay, buddy.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Okay. And thank you to Walter.
I think that that was the teeth clicking. That was Walter hanging up. Okay. And Jack, of course. Always a pleasure.
[00:45:58] Speaker H: Well, thank you very much.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: And we'll hear your report coming up in a few minutes. And we're kind of excited about that. Yeah.
[00:46:04] Speaker H: I gotta go check my traffic balloon.
[00:46:08] Speaker C: That's right. You can tell how many cars by counting the tires and then dividing by four.
[00:46:14] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:46:15] Speaker H: Or counting the spark plugs and divided by the number depending on the type.
[00:46:18] Speaker C: Of engine it is when you get out of here. Okay. Thank you. And, of course, Brian, always a great pleasure.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Thank you so much.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: And I imagine it's kind of exciting for you to be here at WBZ broadcast City.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: It is exciting.
[00:46:33] Speaker C: 72 story building 70.
With some of the most exciting shops and everything you find anywhere. Have you been up to the WBZ hall of Fame?
[00:46:42] Speaker B: Actually, no, I haven't. But, you know, this is a great studio. We're on the 70. What floor are we on?
[00:46:46] Speaker C: This is the 68th floor.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: And we get a view of a wall. Come on.
[00:46:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I know it's hard to look out when the windows are kind of dirty, but. But we're right across from the WBZ farm and food store, which is kind of. Kind of exciting and. Why don't I just shut up? Anyway, thanks. Thanks.
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