Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with Tony Nesbitt - Ep 203

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, we have quite the show ready to stream across the cybernets. A combo. Norm Nathan show dumb birthday game. The shows, yes, that's plural, are from March 30, April 27, and June 4 of 1996. And the dumb birthday game is from October 5, 1996. Because each of the three calls from the Norm show portions are from the loverly Joan from Tewksbury. And because of the subject matter, we shall title this Joan's garden Tom Howie was producing. Let's see. Other things to tell you here is that we begin with Norm reading a commercial for Spuds restaurant and pubs, a quick blurb on a guest we were going to have on, and then those three entertaining calls from Joan. We are also treated to some sensible advice from Norm's hungarian gypsy princess grandmother. And please stay tuned for a special treat at the end before we close the vault. All right, dumb birthday game time. The players, Jack Hart, Mike and Marlborough, Joanne from Everett, Charlie and Malden, and Betty from Sudbury. The birthdays Bill, Dana, Glynnis Johns, Karen Allen, Donald pleasence. Wait, he's dead. Steve Miller, Sir Bob Geldof and Diane Cilento. Maybe not an event in what year was the first World Series broadcast on radio? Some dead birthdays Chester Allen, Arthur Ray Kroc and Alan Ludden. Episode 203 Jones Garden blossoms its way to your ears in three, two, and one. [00:01:41] Speaker B: While the water is filling my lungs, Spuds restaurant and pub on the North Shore invites you to experience a spectacular meal at one of their five restaurants. Spuds has enjoyed success for over ten years with outstanding food like their boneless buffalo wings coated with a secret honey hot sauce for just $4.95. How about Spud's number one seller, fresh North Atlantic baked haddock? It's spun tacular. And don't miss out on Spud's roasted stuffed chicken. Juicy, tender boneless chicken breast for an unbelievable $6.95. And while watching Spud's large screen tv, enjoy your favorite micro brew. Here's the beef Spuds New York sirloin, filet mignon or one pound of sirloin tips just $9.95. Spun tacular at spuds, a salad is still included with the price of every dinner entree. Mention the salt to your server today and receive a free fried ice cream sundae with the purchase of a dinner entree, spuds restaurants and pubs at Wooburn, sauga, stanvers and Rowley. And please tell them that Norm Nathan sent you. Oh, how about we go to Joan in. Hi, Joan. [00:02:49] Speaker C: Hi, Norm. Interesting program tonight. [00:02:53] Speaker B: I'm sorry, say that again. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Interesting program. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. [00:02:57] Speaker C: I don't get your hearing aid tuned in? [00:02:58] Speaker B: No. You know, I was listening to something else on another line kind of instruction stuff, so I kind of missed that. [00:03:06] Speaker C: Okay. Sign a spring. The rhubarb buds are coming up out of the ground. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Oh, are they? [00:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Last week you mentioned nitrate of soda from Chile. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:17] Speaker C: And you wondered what it was. [00:03:18] Speaker B: I wonder what it was and whether it's still Chili's major export, which it was 2000 years ago when I was in school and we learned that. [00:03:26] Speaker C: Yeah. It's a fertilizer. It's a fertilizer. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah. That's pretty good. [00:03:31] Speaker C: Yeah. And back when I grew strawberries, I used to use it as a side dressing August. And it promoted better growth of the stems and the leaves. And it gave it a good green color, but always had to be careful because if you got down the plants and then the plants got wet, they would burn right away. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Oh, that's like the chicken manure too. If you get them too close, you know, right on the roots of the plants. [00:03:59] Speaker C: Right. [00:04:00] Speaker B: It's not too terribly good. Do they sell nitrate of soda? Not. [00:04:04] Speaker C: I don't know. I don't know whether they do or not. It was very expensive at the time. But of course, all my books are old and I looked it up and this is what they had to offer. But I was going to call Agway today, but I don't think that the agway that we have in shems, that it goes by that name anymore wasn't in the phone book. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Oh, agway. It doesn't go by agway? [00:04:36] Speaker C: Evidently not. Well, I couldn't find it any place in the year. There's an agway in Littleton, but, yeah. [00:04:43] Speaker B: There was an agway in the Danvers, which is not that close to where you are, but here in the Essex county, the north shore. [00:04:53] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, this nitrate of soda used to use it for a lot of vegetables and move up. [00:05:01] Speaker B: So that's what it was. I thought it was some kind of an elixir, you know, that prevented pussy toes or some kind of medicine. It has nothing like that. Nothing to do with that at all. So the major export at that time of Chile, we called it Chile, but the major export was just a fertilizer. [00:05:23] Speaker C: That's right, that's right. [00:05:25] Speaker B: That'd be kind of car to keep the country and riches. Just having a fertilizer is their major export. [00:05:31] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that there were a lot of organic fertilizers that you could use in the place. And the place of that, I could have used manure, but with manure, you get into the seed. Weed seed. And I had enough weed seed to take care of without having any extra come along. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Especially if you get manure from a horse. [00:05:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Because you sweep away a lot of. A lot of the what? They eat stuff. And that is, you know, you do end up with all kinds of weeds. Oh, it's just so terrible. We have piles and piles of horsemen over here. [00:06:15] Speaker C: I'll be over with buckets. [00:06:16] Speaker B: Okay. [00:06:17] Speaker D: Okay. [00:06:17] Speaker B: I'll give you the bags to put them in. But my two dogs love to lie in that. But I know it, you know, but. Well, it's. It's, you know, there's a lot of wood shavings in it and all that kind of stuff. It's really not as bad. And then, of course, when it. When it ages, it just. It smells very much just like regular soil. It's. But I guess. I guess, you know, it's. There's still heat in it, in the fresh manure especially. So they lie in it. So they've just ruled out any possibility of ever coming into the house, I tell you, until I spray them down. Oh, God. We're talking about some. That's something that's probably making everybody else sick to their stomach. Yeah. And they don't even care what we're saying. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Yeah. And then one time, long time ago, you talked about a dibble. If anybody ever used a dibble anymore, and that's a sharp instrument, that it can be made of anything, wood or whatnot. But we use it in the greenhouse, too. We have sheets of small plants, and we turn these sheets over and we put the dibble to the bottom of the bottom of the sheet, and it knocks these little plants right out. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:07:37] Speaker C: Literally, instead of, you know, trying to pull them and you have to pull the bottom from the top and all that kind of thing. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Just looking at dibble. This is a very educational program. I hope people appreciate that. They may just think it's a dull program, but it's not. It's never dull. It's an educational program. And dibble, it says here, a pointed tool used to make holes in the soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. [00:08:07] Speaker C: Years ago, we used to have kind of a plate and dibbles out of it, and then we would set it right down on the seed, on the. On the trays that we were going to transplant the seedlings to, and it would make the hole, and then all we had to do was put the seedling in. But it's all different. They do things all different now. Don't do too much with seedlings. It's more what they call plugs. And they're just little plants that the soil is maybe, like a half inch high, and maybe the plant itself is a half inch high. So just these little things, and you gain so much more time with them. [00:09:01] Speaker B: And right now, the greenhouses. Are they working on geraniums? [00:09:05] Speaker C: Because the geraniums have. March 1. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:09:10] Speaker C: Yes. [00:09:10] Speaker B: Wow. Because, of course, that's a big thing on Memorial day. [00:09:14] Speaker C: Sure. They're coming. They're really, uh, really good looking. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Really good looking geraniums. Right. Hello, geranium. You're a sweet little good looking little fella there. [00:09:27] Speaker C: Ok, ok. Let me see. I had something. Oh, chronicle tonight, and I was in another room and just heard the very end of it. They had a segment on homing pigeons. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:09:40] Speaker C: You didn't see that? [00:09:42] Speaker B: No, I did not. They still exist. [00:09:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. And all I. The only thing when I came, came to realize that it was on. I walked into the room and the pigeons were flying out around the yard and then flying back to the cage or whatever, you know, but. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Oh, on the television program. [00:10:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so they must listen to your program. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Because we've decided, and I thought we'd establish the fact that what we call pigeons are really not pigeons. They're rock doves or something like that. Yeah. That kind of stuff. And that the pigeons are all extinct. And now, every now and then, you come up with something like, maybe they don't know it. Chronicle. I mean, that's channel. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Well, I didn't. I didn't hear the very beginning of it, so I don't know exactly. Yeah, you know what? So anyway. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:35] Speaker C: Take it easy. [00:10:36] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, thank you very much, Joe. [00:10:39] Speaker C: I'll talk to you later. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Okay, fine. Bye bye. Samaris, who has written a book called the truth about exploring the myths and realities of human size and its effect on performance, health, pollution and survival. Well, that's a big title, isn't it? Zawi. His idea is that the bigger is not necessarily better in human beings, and that we'd be better off if we were smaller. And certainly he's got an interesting theory. This is my favorite station in the entire world. Thank you. And Joan, up in Texas, one of my favorite people in the entire world. [00:11:16] Speaker C: I can't say that. Hi, Norm. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Hi. [00:11:20] Speaker C: I can't say that all the radios are tuned for WBZ. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Well, you don't have to I just lied about it in my case. [00:11:29] Speaker C: I have a question for you. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Yes? [00:11:33] Speaker C: We have a water tower in Tewksbury. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Oh, sure. Flaunt it. Flaunt it. Flaunted my face. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Pardon me? [00:11:40] Speaker B: I flaunt it. Oh, we have a water tower in Tewksbury. How. What a bragging you turned into. [00:11:46] Speaker C: Anyway, they're thinking of putting. Installing wireless and cellular communications equipment, I assume on the. [00:12:02] Speaker B: On the top of it, you mean? [00:12:03] Speaker C: Well, I don't know. And then they're talking about buildings and everything. And my question is, will that interfere with our radio and television reception? We have a special town meeting coming up Monday. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Well, you're going to have people from that company that wants to install all that. They will be at the town meeting. [00:12:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess the town manager put this article in. [00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you'd have to just question them. I don't know. They'll tell you not. And maybe it won't. Maybe it won't interfere at all. I don't know. But obviously they're looking for the highest point in town so they can get the best reception, and I never thought of it being put on top of a water tower. That's interesting. [00:12:43] Speaker C: This tower you can see from 495, I think it's between Route 38 and Orbit street. [00:12:51] Speaker B: I'm going to drive by and look at that. No, but there's obviously those water containers or whatever you call them. Water towers are always on the highest point of land. I know that because I happen to be a civil engineer. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Sure. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Well, maybe not so civil and maybe not an engineer either. [00:13:13] Speaker C: Another thing that they're. But I think this has come up before. They're thinking of putting where the Tewksbury airport is. They want to sell it and put houses in there. I don't know. [00:13:26] Speaker B: Is the airport not. Is it open now? [00:13:28] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:13:29] Speaker B: What would they do? Do you mean just close it and turn it in? [00:13:32] Speaker C: Sell the land. Sell the land. [00:13:34] Speaker B: And just get rid of all the planes. [00:13:37] Speaker C: That's right. [00:13:37] Speaker B: So that the planes would not be able to use that anymore. [00:13:40] Speaker C: That's right. Not if they put houses, I guess. [00:13:42] Speaker B: I guess not. Unless they wanted to land on. Make it. They could land on the tower of the water tower. [00:13:48] Speaker C: I don't know how long that airport's been there. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Been there as long as I can remember. Yeah. And I go back because I'm almost 32 years old, so I go back a bit. [00:13:58] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I'm only 29. [00:14:03] Speaker B: Oh, let me lie a little bit without calling my bluff, would you? For God's sakes, Joan, I said I. [00:14:09] Speaker C: Was 29 for so many years. I can't believe that I'm the age. [00:14:14] Speaker B: I was that tough for you to turn 30? [00:14:18] Speaker C: I don't remember. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Oh, come on, of course you do. No, I don't know. You said you were 29 for so long. That must have meant that turning 30 was a traumatic thing for you. [00:14:28] Speaker C: 50 was more traumatic. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Was it really? [00:14:30] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:14:31] Speaker B: You know, 30 was really traumatic for me. I thought, it's the end of the world, 30, I can't. I mean, I really went through hell, the turning 30. No, I haven't minded my age ever since. And right now I'm. I'm so far beyond that and it doesn't bother me anymore. But it did. It did, turning 30. I think the reason for that was, I thought while you're in your twenties, you're sort of still considered a kid and maybe not responsible totally for your actions. People say, oh, he's only in his twenties, you know, but when you turn, I mean, it's not that you're not a full adult at the. In your late twenties, certainly, but somehow you can fake it a little bit. But when you turn 30, there's no, there's no denying the fact that you're an adult, that you can't back off and suddenly you're in a whole different world. You can't use youth as an excuse or anything. And that really bothered me. By the time I was 31, though, it didn't feel badly anymore. [00:15:28] Speaker C: I don't know, maybe I don't even remember when I was 29. But my grand nephews came along and they got to an age. Well, how old are you? And I always said 29, but then their mother got to be 29 and then I had to be 39. I don't know. [00:15:46] Speaker B: But anyway, I think. I think one of the reasons I've always mentioned my age, if anybody's asked me, I don't make a big thing about it because I think it's irrelevant. It's really not terribly important. Was only. I guess I'd like to be a role model for older people. Most people feel very self conscious of their age, and women especially, I find. Do you find this too, or am I being sexist when I say that women especially don't like to tell her age? [00:16:16] Speaker C: Well, my mother never told the rage and we never knew how old she was until she died. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Did she know how old she was? [00:16:24] Speaker C: Oh, she knew how old she was, but she never, she never told. We just never talked about things like that. [00:16:30] Speaker B: I know it, it's kind of silly, you know. [00:16:32] Speaker C: Right. [00:16:33] Speaker B: But that's. But I find that to be true. I've. The age has come up a few times with some women that I know, and they just changed the subject again. I don't think it's important. And you don't need to tell your age. That doesn't really matter. It's what you are and what you're like and all that. But I mention it only because I think there are a lot of people who are very self conscious about that. I keep thinking they'll look at me and they'll say, boy, is he really 70? He's so youthful and it's got a body like a well tempered steel boy. Crooked, small, broad shoulders and slim waist. He's a role model for me. And if he's that old and has that brain and perception, it must be okay to be that age. Am I overdoing this, do you think? A little bit, yeah. I kind of had a feeling I was, you know, I'll back off. [00:17:27] Speaker C: We've had a lot of songbirds around all of a sudden. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. In the morning. [00:17:32] Speaker C: The pheasants are out there. Crazy. [00:17:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. In the morning. For example, when I get home this morning. [00:17:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Which will be a little before 06:00. [00:17:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Oh, the birds are really going crazy. Oh, it's beautiful to hear them. And I can hear a little bit of the peepers. They pretty much settle down for the night. I mean, for the morning. You don't hit them too much by 06:00 in the morning. But you can hear them a little bit. Few, a few stray. But the birds are really loud. [00:18:02] Speaker C: Yes, yes. We had a big flock of crows out here, but they were fighting among themselves, so they weren't bothering with the little birds. But there must have been 25 in the tree. [00:18:18] Speaker B: These are plows, you said crows. Oh, crows. Okay. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Oh, they're, they, they really make up. They make a big noise. [00:18:28] Speaker C: Yes. In the early part of April, I suppose it was cold and everything. I didn't see any birds at all, except we had big hawks. Yeah, a lot of them. And so this, this, I suppose, kept the small birds away. We had the chickadees and whatnot, but I. [00:18:49] Speaker B: Anyway, he was. You were watching the hawks make, make lazy circles in the sky. [00:18:56] Speaker C: Yes. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Okay. I wonder if anybody listening knows what, what show that came from. [00:19:02] Speaker C: I don't. I don't even know. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Don't it? There's a line. Is watching hawks. Let's see. A whole lot of mineral. I just kind of mumble a little bit like I'm in. I'm in deep pain here. And watch the hawks making lazy circles in the sky. Then the rest of it is we know we belong to the land, and the land we belong to is grand. So when we say yep by ok, ok, we're only saying you're doing grand Oklahoma. That's right. [00:19:35] Speaker C: That's not it, though, I don't think. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's it. The Hawks making lazy circles in the sky is from the. Is from that song. Oh, Oklahoma. [00:19:44] Speaker C: That's how much I remember. [00:19:45] Speaker B: Well, that's it, Joan. You don't remember much of anything. What's happening to you? [00:19:49] Speaker C: I don't know. I've fallen apart, I guess. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Oh, Joan, don't do that to me. For God's sakes, Joan. [00:19:56] Speaker C: All right. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Okay. Take care of yourself. [00:19:58] Speaker C: I'll talk to you later. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Okay, Joan. Bye bye, dear. But also there's some rain is predicted for this coming day. Also, this may not be so swell. Okay, let's. Let's take some calls. Joan in Tewksbury. Hi, Joan. [00:20:12] Speaker C: Hi, Norm. How are you? [00:20:13] Speaker B: I'm just fine. You're okay too, I hope. [00:20:15] Speaker C: Yes. Somebody called and said there was an earthquake in Middleton. [00:20:21] Speaker B: An earthquake somewhere in that area. [00:20:23] Speaker C: Yeah, well, it was Littleton. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Oh, Littleton. I see. People always get us mixed up with Littleton or Middleborough. [00:20:30] Speaker C: It's easy enough, you know. I know it sounds, sounds like the. [00:20:34] Speaker B: You know, I used to get, I used to get mail that was diverted through Middle Borough to Middleton also. I guess we're kind of a non entity kind of town. Nobody knows us, knows about us now, although that doesn't happen so much these days. [00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah. I saw in the paper where there's land for sale in Middleton that they want to put up house lots, so. [00:20:59] Speaker B: Well, there's always that. Yeah. [00:21:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Hopefully. Hopefully nobody will see it. They're building. They're going to build houses in Tewksbury like crazy. [00:21:09] Speaker B: We've had, we've had quite an upsurge in building. We have. This is going to seem kind of silly to people who live in bigger cities, but we have over 6000 people there now. And a few years back when I first got to the town about 40 years ago, it was, it was, I think around three, 3000. It's almost. It's doubled. Doubled. That may not seem like much 6000, but the. But in a little town, that's an awful lot. [00:21:35] Speaker C: That's right. Yeah. And then somebody else mentioned that there was a dead crow or something. Yeah, a dead crow. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Yes. [00:21:43] Speaker C: And crows this time. Of year? I don't know. They seem to flock together and I think all those that hadn't been living with each other for a long period of time, they get fighting and the ones that they don't like, they knock out of the. Knock out of the trees. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Oh, so you think it might not be a cat that did it but it might have been another crow? [00:22:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. In this time of year around here, that's when you find the crows lying on the side of the road or something like that. [00:22:15] Speaker B: You're very observant about. [00:22:17] Speaker C: Well, I always have to go out with a shovel and pick them up because nobody else will. [00:22:22] Speaker B: No, but you notice things that are going on around you like that, and that's pretty good. Most people do nothing. [00:22:29] Speaker C: Well, it's wide open here and I can see, you know, everything going on around. Not too many trees. Well, there was trees out in the street, but not too many trees right around here. So, you know, if I hear a squawking or anything, naturally I look up to see where all this noise is coming from. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Yeah, there is a lot of squawking this time of the year too. With the birds coming out in greater numbers and all that. And more sounds of birds and everything. Yeah, it's a lovely time of the year, even though the weather right now is. They're so damp and raw. [00:23:02] Speaker C: Yeah. But I don't know. The bushes have been real nice in the trees. The magnolia has certainly stayed with its flowers a longer period of time than usual. Usually they come out and then they're hit by a frost and they lose all the flowers and then the green leaves come. But this year it's. Well, round here they've been a week in blossom, which is kind of nice. [00:23:26] Speaker B: No, it is nice. You know, it's kind of interesting because one. It seems like one day the trees are totally bare, right. You know, it's still. It's still kind of with their winter nakedness. And then the next day, suddenly they're all leafing out and the tulips are up and it's. I know it happen. It takes more than one day to do that. [00:23:46] Speaker C: But it seems. How did it happen so fast? [00:23:49] Speaker B: I know. [00:23:50] Speaker C: Wasn't I looking? [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yeah. It was like going down the street one day, coming back the next and finding a whole new building there. He'd say, where did they put that up? Where did the trees get to leap so quickly? And where did the forsythia. How did they get into bloom when I wasn't even noticing? [00:24:04] Speaker C: That's right. Yeah. [00:24:05] Speaker B: And I know that our lilac bushes, the buds are really fat. They should start blossoming out soon. And I think the rhododendrons seem to be in bloom in a lot of places, too. [00:24:16] Speaker C: The early ones. It's an early one, I forget. There's two letters to the name. Like a JPE, something like that. I forget. [00:24:27] Speaker B: And the, the dogwoods. Boy, they look fantastic. [00:24:31] Speaker C: Yeah. I've got a dog with a pink one. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Is that come in? Yeah, just started to come in now. [00:24:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:38] Speaker C: And it always used to, years ago in the, in the sixties and seventies, always came in for Memorial Day. And then when we had open house here and for the greenhouses and people would come to see the dogwood and see the flowers in the greenhouses. But now this is early May and it's going to come into flower, so. [00:25:02] Speaker B: Yeah. They seem to be all changed. Yeah, a lot. That's true. You wonder why? Because it does seem like a lot of things seem to be blossoming earlier than usual, but it's certainly welcome. It's really nice. [00:25:13] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I like this. At this time of season one. [00:25:16] Speaker B: It is nice. And you don't have to do much mowing of the lawn yet. [00:25:20] Speaker C: Don't. Don't even talk about that. I can go out now and I can mow, except that it's wet. But the grass is growing in all the places that I don't want it in the garden. I've got the best looking grass and I don't want it there. But we've got to cut it down somehow or another. Anyway, what's his name? Ed McMahon's coming to Lowell. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:25:50] Speaker C: Next Tuesday. And they're going to dedicate a pack bench to him near the Middlesex community college. And he. Evidently, he wasn't born in Lowell. I don't remember where he was born. [00:26:05] Speaker B: No. But he had an aunt or somebody who we lived with for a while who lived in Lowell. [00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Or a grandmother, maybe. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Maybe that was it. Yeah. [00:26:12] Speaker C: Yeah. But. And so he graduated from Lowell High School and he also worked at WLH, the radio station. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Yes, that's right. [00:26:23] Speaker C: That's right. In 1939. Anyway, because on the day that he comes, he's gonna go to that station and recreate the, his 1939 radio station. [00:26:37] Speaker B: That'd be kind of funny. Wlh's. Where's that? On the Dahlbah 14 something or. [00:26:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so. Something like that. [00:26:44] Speaker B: 1430 or in that area. Yeah. That would be fun. That would be fun to hear. I would imagine. [00:26:50] Speaker C: I would imagine he'd be doing that in the morning, because the dedication is going to be at noon time, when all the people around their lunch break, and, you know, they'll be around. I didn't know that there was that many people working around Lowell. But anyway, I guess. But they're gonna have a scholarship, too, I guess, and that's gonna be dedicated. Well, it's in his name, maybe. And it's gonna be dedicated to his son, Michael, who died last year of cancer. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't know about that. No, it's not a shame. [00:27:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Now, when is this? When is this? Next Wednesday. Is that what you said? [00:27:27] Speaker C: Tuesday. [00:27:28] Speaker B: Okay. Just a few days from now, then. [00:27:30] Speaker C: Right. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Okay. Well, that. He's interesting. We had a commercial on here about a college which has an Ed McMahon something around there. I guess he's got a few places dedicated to him, but having one in. [00:27:46] Speaker C: His own Middlesex community college, that's behind this, evidently. He came one other time, maybe, and he said that, you know, I don't know, they were talking of big things, and I. Maybe a park or something. He said he'd be happy with a park bench, so they took him up on it. [00:28:06] Speaker B: I see. Okay. Now, this is Quinnipiac College, which is down in Connecticut as some kind of laboratory, something dedicated to Ed McMahon also. He was on the program with us once. He was. He was on. He was looking for talent or coming to this area. [00:28:23] Speaker C: For star search. [00:28:24] Speaker B: Yeah, for star search. And I talked with him, and I thought he was. He was quite a humble man, you know, for a guy who's been around that long and has had that much notoriety and work with Johnny Carson all those years, he was very, very gentle, kind of. He seemed like quite a nice man. I'm so used to blowhards in this business. When somebody talks to you without throwing themselves at you, you know, with this pompous air, I can't believe it. But he was a very, very simple kind of man, and very modest. [00:28:59] Speaker C: Well, of all the places he's lived and everything, he still considers low as Lowell, his home. So that's kind of nice, you know, that is nice. Dedicated to. And while he's still alive, to dedicate this pack bench to a home. [00:29:12] Speaker B: I think that's great. The last thing I remember, when Jack Benny was still alive, they dedicated a school in Waukegan, Illinois, which, because he used to talk about Waukegan, where he grew up, a lot. And so there's. I guess the school obviously still exists. There's Jack Benny. I don't know. It's a junior high school or an elementary school, but that is kind of nice. Would you like to have a school named after you, Joan? [00:29:35] Speaker C: Sure. Anything. [00:29:36] Speaker B: Anything at all. Yeah, sure. [00:29:37] Speaker C: Right. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Okay. I was. We had a. We did a skid here one night on that, and I was saying, I think. I think they had. Just behind. Where did Johnny Carson broadcast from? That's called Burbank, California, where the NBC studios are out there. Dedicated a little park near there and called it the Johnny Carson park. And I was thinking I'd like anything dedicated to me, including like the Norm Nathan memorial toilets in some public toilet someplace. I remember I did that. I thought anything. But nobody even took me up on that. [00:30:14] Speaker C: No. [00:30:15] Speaker B: Well, you know, we had the dedication, instead of cutting the ribbon, we had the flushing of a toilet, as I recall, and it was all open to the public from then on. But that's got to be kind of. You got to feel kind of good, especially if it's in your own town. [00:30:30] Speaker C: That's right. [00:30:31] Speaker B: You hear that? Middleton, for God's sakes. Do I have to die before you even think of me? [00:30:36] Speaker C: They'll put your initials in a tree. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll die and they won't think of me. Even then. [00:30:42] Speaker C: Everybody will remember you. Everybody remembers you now? [00:30:45] Speaker B: Yeah, for about three minutes after you're gone. [00:30:47] Speaker C: Oh, gone. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Oh, Joan, please. It reminds me of the book Fred Allen wrote, which was a copy of a lot of his scripts and things, and that he toiled over quite a good day. He had some writers at some point, but I think he was certainly responsible for most all of it. And he thought, being on radio, you broadcast it. Then once it's done, it's not like it's being printed that nobody remembers it. Anyway, I've mentioned the name of the book, which I thought was the most frustrating, depressing title of any book I've ever seen. It was called treadmill to oblivion, unholy God. But I mean, obviously that's not true, because people who are around then certainly remember Fred Allen and a lot of his stuff. He just didn't float off into the outer space with nobody remembering him at all. Okay, we'll have to get to Joan something of Tewksbury. I will dedicate something to you, Joan, so hang in there. [00:31:43] Speaker C: The rock out in the middle of the field bugs me. [00:31:46] Speaker B: We'll put a little plaque on that. And there you go. [00:31:49] Speaker C: The people that. That started this greenhouse here, instead of the business, they were all down in Tewksbury Cemetery, naturally. And the stone on the grave is a fieldstone. [00:32:05] Speaker B: Oh, that's nice. [00:32:05] Speaker C: Which, when the first of. The first of them died, they went out into the field and looked for the right stone. I just don't know how they ever found a stone, because when they first started clearing the land, they used to use a lot of dynamite. But this was way back in the twenties and thirties that they did that. But I didn't see how they could find a stone that big. But anyway, it's very nice. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Okay. But anyway, it's very nice. [00:32:40] Speaker C: Okay, Joan, if you have to go with, you know. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Well, and we have to go. I mean, all of us do eventually. It's just a question. We don't want to go too soon. [00:32:49] Speaker C: That's right. [00:32:50] Speaker B: And even. Even if it's late, we don't want to go even then. But it happens. Yeah. Hey, Joni, it's always a kick to talk to you. I thank you very, very much. [00:32:59] Speaker C: Talk to you later. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Okay, dear. Bye bye. You can say one of the anchors on a Saturday morning, of course, is the very lovely and beautiful Jack Hart. [00:33:07] Speaker E: Well, thank you very much. I feel like I should be wearing flowing robes and sitting in a seat of authority. [00:33:14] Speaker B: You're not. [00:33:16] Speaker E: Well, my seat of authority is out being repaired by flowing robes or at the cleaners. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Well, anyway, how you been, Jay? Now that we've gotten through that bit of hilarity and stuff like that, I don't know how we can ever top that again. [00:33:33] Speaker E: I don't know. I've been. Well. How have you been, Normandy? [00:33:36] Speaker B: I've been well, sort of. Well, I don't know. I don't know. This. This kind of. This time of year, I think, during the transition of these seasons. And I say this because I am, as you know, a doctor. [00:33:50] Speaker E: Yes. [00:33:50] Speaker B: So any. Any women who are listening to the program, if they wish to take off their clothes, by all means. I'm a doctor, and I will look at you not with lust, but with strict professionalism. Sure, I've been. I've been really racy today at some age. [00:34:03] Speaker E: That's what you told the woman with the earache who came in. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Yes. I said, yes, sir. Take off everything, because every part of your body is reflected in an earache, and there's no way. Well, anyway, she didn't buy that either, as I recall. I see. [00:34:20] Speaker E: But you know what I think happens this time of year, Norm, is we go from having windows and doors wide open and sort of all our oxygen and energy and so forth, able to flow freely in and out of our abode to being sort of cooped up and it sort of gets our oxygen and our energy, and our atoms sort of bounce off the windows, bounce back to us, and we've already been through with them, but now they. They're sort of covering us. And that's why I think people get a general malaise this time of year. [00:34:49] Speaker B: I see. I didn't know that. No, but you obviously have gone to medical school yourself. You wouldn't have known all that. [00:34:57] Speaker E: Yes, yes. [00:34:58] Speaker B: You know, I feel. I feel sorry for, like, the animals that we have around our house, you know, because I have two. The two Newfoundlands that I've talked about, probably to a point of total boredom and all of that and nausea. [00:35:11] Speaker E: Oh, certainly. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Thank you very much. But they're outdoor dogs. They stay outdoors most of the time. The only time I bring them in is when, you know, it gets really cold, like about five or ten above. But they have, you know, dog houses, and they're in sheltered and areas and all. And I just think I'm going into the warmth of the house, and these chaps are out there. I don't know. I just. I feel very guilty about that. [00:35:37] Speaker E: Well, they've got those big old fur coats. That's their natural instinct, their natural habitat. [00:35:43] Speaker B: No, I know they survive very well, but I just can't help it. You know why? I think it's because I'm too good. I think that's why people walk all over me, because I'm too nice a person. I care about people. I become emotionally involved. [00:36:00] Speaker E: Matter of fact, you know, that reminds me, Norm. I've got some very heavy furniture that I'd like to shift from one side of the room to the other. What are you doing after the dumb birthday game? Do you think you could come and help me? [00:36:13] Speaker B: No, I'm going home to hug the dogs to keep them warm with my body heat. What are you trying. Are you in that process of moving furniture? [00:36:22] Speaker E: Oh, no, no, not at all. It's just that you said that you were so. That you were just so good. I'm figuring, well. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Oh, you're gonna step all over. [00:36:28] Speaker E: I'm gonna use norm's goodness. And I figured, hmm, let's rearrange the furniture. [00:36:34] Speaker B: Just the heavy stuff. Just the heavy stuff. That's not, you know. You know. You know, Jack, I'm at a stage of life now where I'm not sure I can do all that anymore. When I was younger, maybe one of the. I was trying to think of what the advantages were of growing old, and I don't even say older anymore. I just say growing older. I'm not even growing old. I'm already there. But I was one of the. Maybe some other people who are older later on in the last hour can talk to me about what's, what the advantage is, because I can't think of a whole lot of them. One of them is that you can call anybody by their first name and they don't feel offended, you know, I mean, I don't know. Priests, cops, anybody. Any old people, you call them. But now I'm trying to think there must be something else that makes it worthwhile. [00:37:30] Speaker E: It's. It's the, it's the wisdom and, and the, the sagacity that, that you have, you know? [00:37:37] Speaker B: I know. I knew a guy. I'm cutting you off because you're talking like this guy I knew once who used to say that he was an older guy. I see. And he was a really stupid man. He hadn't gained any wisdom through the years at all. He probably was stupid when he was young and when he got older. But he would always say that. He always used to say that you young people, you haven't lived enough to have gained wisdom through the years. I have gained wisdom just by being. He thought he automatically. He gained wisdom simply because his body was deteriorating, but his mind probably was, too, and it was probably even more stupid than when he was younger. So I don't buy that whole thing. [00:38:20] Speaker E: Nowadays, you see, you don't have to attain it. It's like Social Security. You get to a certain age, you can collect Social Security at a certain age. Now they award you with a certificate of sagacity, you see? [00:38:32] Speaker B: That's right. I suppose the best bet, when you get older, or any age for that matter, just keep your mouth shut. They don't know how stupid you are. So you're okay. [00:38:41] Speaker E: Well, look at your gypsy princess grandmother. All the wise and sage thing that you. That you thought that she was saying for years. It turns out she was talking about the. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Well, no, wait a minute. Before you say that. Now, it's kind of interesting because I haven't brought up on her sayings for a very long time. I'd forgotten about that. Yeah. Let me see. She had a thing about old age she used to talk about also at one time, she said, Norman. Norman. Yeah. She said that was the way she opened a lot of her sayings, you know, with some silly name like that. She said, Norman. Show me a. Show me a person who is body may have weathered with age, but whose mind became sharper and gained more wisdom. Show me a person who understands life better at the other end of it than at the beginning. Show me that kind of an intelligent person, a wise person, full of sage advice and wisdom, who can help other people because of their longevity on earth. Show me that kind of person and I will show you a clamshell. So I thought, you know, as I mentioned, at first, we thought, boy, she's saying really provocative things that really mean something. Well, let's. We have to really think about this, because these are not easy things she's saying. She's deep. She's really deep. Then, then we realized she was kooky as a clam chowder bowl or something. [00:40:10] Speaker E: Well, you know, I was wondering, watching an interesting, an interview with George Burns and of all people, Monty hall this past weekend, last Sunday. And it was actually a very good interview. And it kind of showed George he wasn't really being like, like doing like a lot of shtick. He was really sort of talking honestly and, and he was talking about, about his own mother and some of the saying. [00:40:30] Speaker B: I thought to myself, she sounded like my great hungarian gypsy princess grandmother did. Oh, that's, that's really nice. Well, there are people that exist on earth who are like that, and I want to introduce you to some of them who are gonna play the dumb birthday game with us. Are you all set for that? [00:40:49] Speaker E: Oh, boy, am I ever. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Okay, here's Mike from Marlborough, and I don't know whether he's a wise old man or. Pardon me. Good morning. Oh, good morning, Mike. I was trying to detect from your voice whether you're a wise old man or just a young punk kid or something in between. [00:41:07] Speaker D: I guess I must be middle aged. [00:41:10] Speaker B: Yeah. What is, what is middle aged exactly? I remember turning 30 once about 700 years ago, and a guy I worked with at one of the radio stations said, you're now middle aged. And I said, wait a minute, I just turned 30 a long time ago. [00:41:26] Speaker D: My dad told me, don't let anyone tell you that 50 is middle aged. If 50 was middle aged, an awful lot of people would live to be 100. [00:41:34] Speaker B: No, but he said 30. I'm talking 30. And I said, wait. He said, well, you know, middle aged, that's the middle of 60. [00:41:42] Speaker E: And, well, how old was he? [00:41:46] Speaker B: He was about a year younger than I was. So he could flaunt it at me, I suppose. [00:41:50] Speaker E: Oh, no, you see, he wasn't quite 30 yet. He pictured anybody in their thirties. Must be a thousand. [00:41:55] Speaker B: I guess so. Was that a tough, tough age? No, you're not. Yeah, you are 30. You're in your thirties. [00:42:02] Speaker E: I'll be 35 in a couple of weeks. [00:42:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Was it tough for you to turn 30? [00:42:06] Speaker E: Uh, 30 wasn't so bad, I guess. 31, I think I kind of thought to myself, hmm, now I'm actually in my thirties. [00:42:15] Speaker B: Okay, now, because 30 was the worst age I ever hit. I began thinking, you know, because I was, I had been in radio at that point, like, twelve years, and got nowhere. I worked at every schlocky station in the world and my daughters had not yet been born or anything. And I thought, here I am, 30 years old. You know, when you're in your twenties, you can use an excuse like, well, I'm only in my twenties. I did something foolish, but I'm just. [00:42:39] Speaker E: A kid, I'm just a young father. [00:42:40] Speaker B: But when you hit 30, somehow that argument goes out the window. [00:42:44] Speaker E: Well, you become believable when you get to 30. It occurred to me, you're still, you're still young enough that, you know, you can still be like, wacky, but you're, but people will believe if you do something right and you're only like, 27. Sometimes people say, must be a fluke. He's only 27. But if you do something right and you're 30, people say, oh, he's 30. Must have done it right. [00:43:09] Speaker B: I'm gonna have to think about that. I don't know what, I don't know what the heck you're talking about. Let's you buy all that, Mike, you don't have to. [00:43:21] Speaker D: 23 was distressing. [00:43:24] Speaker B: Oh, when you turned 23, that was a tough age. [00:43:26] Speaker D: You know, everything after that's been very, very easy. [00:43:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I found turning 50, 60, 70, 80. Even when I turned 90 and 95, that wasn't as bad as when I turned 30. I was ready to jump off the roof at that point. Anyway. Joanne, what was the toughest age for you to turn? Joanne? [00:43:46] Speaker C: Pardon? [00:43:47] Speaker B: You're not paying attention, are you? I'm gonna have to. [00:43:50] Speaker C: I hear the question. [00:43:51] Speaker B: I'm gonna have to mark you down in class. You know, you want to graduate, you want to go on to big things, you pay attention. Now, I was asking what was a tough age for you to turn 29. How old are you? You sound very young now. [00:44:06] Speaker C: Thank you. 37. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Oh, you are still young. Okay. You're just a little bit older than Jack Hart, but you're sort of in his area there. [00:44:14] Speaker C: Yes. [00:44:14] Speaker B: So turning, say, say that age again. [00:44:17] Speaker C: 29. [00:44:18] Speaker B: When you turn 29. [00:44:20] Speaker C: I knew it was the last time I would ever say 20 anytime. [00:44:23] Speaker B: Okay, so you had the same kind of feeling that I did when I turned 30, that was sort of the same thing. [00:44:29] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One of those milestones. [00:44:32] Speaker B: Does it. Does it. Does it bother you to know that you're gonna be 40 in three years? [00:44:36] Speaker C: Do you know? It does. It actually does. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Is it really? Well, that's too bad. Yeah. Get yourself a Newfoundland dog. Somehow that soothes the. [00:44:48] Speaker C: Actually, my. [00:44:49] Speaker B: I don't know what I just. [00:44:51] Speaker C: Maybe they'd help, but. [00:44:52] Speaker B: No, I'm just saying stupid things. What I just said made absolutely no sense at all. And the fact that you didn't say, nathan, you old Kodji, you're making no sense at all. I think it's a tribute to you. You're okay. [00:45:05] Speaker E: Well, you know, a Newfoundland dog, they're kind of active and playful, and I suppose for somebody who feels as though they're on the precipice of getting old and sort of slowing down, and then a lively dog can sort of rejuvenate them, make them feel like a kid again. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Jack. [00:45:23] Speaker E: Yeah? [00:45:23] Speaker B: Shut up. [00:45:24] Speaker C: I'm not slowing down. [00:45:27] Speaker B: No. I bet at 37, why would you be slowing down? Let's go to. Let's see. We get that with Charlie. Charlie's one of the panel members. He's in Malden, sometimes pronounced Maldon. Charlie. Hi. [00:45:42] Speaker F: Hi. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Is Charlie there? Hey. Yes. Charlie. Charlie, you just lost interest in this whole conversation and drifted off. [00:45:52] Speaker D: I'm just a youngster. [00:45:54] Speaker B: How old are you, Charlie? [00:45:56] Speaker D: 27. [00:45:56] Speaker B: 27. That is interesting. We have a very young panel today. That's very good. [00:46:01] Speaker D: It is, huh? [00:46:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very good. 27. Does that bother you, turning 28? Never mind. Let's get off. We'll get off this old age thing. [00:46:08] Speaker D: Not at all. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, that's nice. I'm glad that you're joining us on the Dunbirth. You know how the rules go. [00:46:14] Speaker D: No. [00:46:17] Speaker B: Okay. Now what I do is I tell you who was born on this date, and then we go and everybody guesses and see how close they can get to the actual age of these well known people. [00:46:26] Speaker D: Okay. [00:46:26] Speaker B: And whoever guesses the most gets closest to the most correct answers, gets a pile of junk, which is the kind of we get from the WBZ junk pioneer as the contest prizes. [00:46:37] Speaker D: Okay. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Does that sound pretty appealing? [00:46:39] Speaker D: That sounds great. [00:46:41] Speaker B: Okay. And we have Betty, who's out in Sudbury. Betty's a little older, I believe, as I recall. [00:46:47] Speaker F: You know, I'm a little older. Oh. I was jotting down the advantages of being older. [00:46:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? What? What now? Besides calling people by their feet, people. [00:46:58] Speaker F: Get up and offer me their seat. [00:47:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but is that an advantage, or would you probably fall apart if they didn't? [00:47:06] Speaker F: No, no, I'm not that bad at condition. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [00:47:10] Speaker F: So then you get into lots of things with the senior discount. [00:47:14] Speaker B: Oh, the senior discount. That's correct. That's right. You do get. You get breaks on a lot of things. [00:47:19] Speaker F: And people are always amazed that I am still able to work full time job. I mean, at my advanced stage. [00:47:27] Speaker D: Half price. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Well, not half. You don't get half price, but you get. [00:47:31] Speaker D: At Stone zoo, they do what? [00:47:33] Speaker B: At Stone Zoo, you get half price. You ought to go to the stone zoo more often, Betty. I think. [00:47:38] Speaker F: Okay, I'll have to remember that when I want to take the grandchildren somewhere. [00:47:42] Speaker B: No, but at stores. For example, some stores have a senior citizens day where they offer you a 20% discount on a specific day. [00:47:50] Speaker F: Tuesday and Wednesday are the usual days, I think. [00:47:55] Speaker E: You get free coffee all the time at wendy's. [00:47:57] Speaker F: For there are a few advantages. [00:48:01] Speaker B: I hadn't thought about that, too. The movie theaters charging a big difference. Who's mumbling a lot? Is that you, Mike or Charlie? [00:48:08] Speaker D: Me. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Which one are you? [00:48:10] Speaker D: Charlie. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Oh, you're Charlie. Bowling. [00:48:12] Speaker D: Bowling. We get a senior citizen discount. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Oh, a senior citizen. When you're bold. Sure. Okay. You can hardly wait for the next 40 years to pass. You can pass 32, because they start talking about senior citizens when you're 50. [00:48:25] Speaker D: Now, that's what they say. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:48:27] Speaker D: Mom? [00:48:27] Speaker B: Yes, it's me, Joanne. [00:48:29] Speaker C: I hate to interrupt every once in a while. I'll get static in another station. [00:48:36] Speaker B: You're hearing another station on your phone? [00:48:38] Speaker C: Hear that? [00:48:40] Speaker B: No, I can hear. Yeah, I can hear kind of a hum there, but I don't hear another station. Yeah, if you do hear it, turn it up. They may have a better program than we have. [00:48:50] Speaker C: Impossible. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Okay, let's go get on with the dumb birthday game. Anyway. Today is the birthday of a man who was born in Quincy. He'd become very successful with his albums and his character of Jose Jimenez. Remember him? The bill. Dana. The best of Jose came out in 1985 with his most famous cut, the Astronaut. He hasn't been around for a long time, has he? I haven't seen him any place lately. He was on make room for Daddy with Danny Thomas and was on television during that period. [00:49:23] Speaker E: He used to show up in the Golden Girls once in a while. [00:49:26] Speaker B: Oh, really? Yeah. Bill. Dana. Anyway, from. From Quincy. And today is his birthday. He was born October 5. And, Mike, what do you think? How old do you think Bill Dana is. Do you know, as you mentioned, I'm. [00:49:41] Speaker D: Still kind of young at 36. He showed up on the Ed Sullivan show, too, right? [00:49:45] Speaker B: He showed up at a lot of shows during that period. Yes. [00:49:48] Speaker D: So I was like a little kid. [00:49:52] Speaker B: Okay, so you can figure it out from that. [00:49:54] Speaker D: If I was, say, six years old and I was seeing him and he was a grown man, how about 62? [00:50:01] Speaker B: 62, okay. Joanne, what do you think? [00:50:06] Speaker C: 69. [00:50:07] Speaker B: All right. And Charlie? [00:50:09] Speaker D: 1971. [00:50:13] Speaker B: Wait a minute, wait a minute. What? 1971? Is that how it was, that when he was born? Is that what you're figuring? [00:50:20] Speaker D: That's my guess. [00:50:22] Speaker B: No, no. How old is Bill Dana? [00:50:28] Speaker D: 28 years old. [00:50:29] Speaker B: Bill Dana's 28. [00:50:31] Speaker D: Yep. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Junior. I see. Bill Dan, a junior. [00:50:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Okay. And, Betty, what do you think? [00:50:39] Speaker F: I'll guess 66. [00:50:40] Speaker B: 66. And the very lovely and exciting Jack Hart in his flowing robes and sitting on his love seat. [00:50:49] Speaker E: I would say 67. [00:50:52] Speaker B: 67. You're all very kind to him. Although Joanne came the closest. She said 69. [00:50:59] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:51:00] Speaker B: He's 72 years old today. Okay. I think the kindest was Charlie. Either that or Charlie's been drinking. Drinking the grape juice. You know, Glynis Johns, there are not a lot of really well known people sort of on the fringe are people who used to. Used to see. Glynis Johns is a british actress. She's born in South Africa. I guess I make her a south african actress and I'm british. But she made a lot of british movies. Nominated for an Oscar in 1960 for supporting actress in the Sundowners. She made a lot of movies, and she's got. She has one of these very deep, husky, kind of lovely voices that used to drive me crazy. Glynis Johns, you know that? Any of you know that name? [00:51:53] Speaker E: No, I know the name, and I think I've probably seen her. The name sounds like she should be younger than she is. [00:52:00] Speaker B: Well, how old do you think she is? When did she win the award? What's that? [00:52:05] Speaker C: When did she win the award? [00:52:07] Speaker B: When did she win the award? Let's see. What can I just say? She won the award. She won the award in 1960. 1960, singing figure 30. Was that 36 years ago? Yeah, 36 years ago. Wow. Jack, what do you think? [00:52:27] Speaker E: Oh, let's see. [00:52:29] Speaker B: It was her voice, I remember even more than what she looks like. Hmm. [00:52:33] Speaker E: A husky voice. [00:52:34] Speaker B: Yeah. I wish she'd call me up and make an obscene phone call one day, just for old time's sake. [00:52:40] Speaker E: Just breathe into the phone. [00:52:42] Speaker B: No, not breathe. No, she has to speak. [00:52:44] Speaker E: Yeah, speak breathably. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I love you. You hunk. Something like that would be good. I wish a woman would call me a hunk. They never did. Even when I was at the age where I could have been a hunk. [00:52:58] Speaker D: Oh, come on. [00:52:59] Speaker B: No, nobody ever did. No, nothing like that. No, I was always nice little normie with the glasses and the violin. What a life. I wish I could live it all over again. Man, I'd be a hungry next time around. [00:53:13] Speaker E: A hunk with a violin. [00:53:14] Speaker C: I think I lived on your old street. [00:53:16] Speaker B: What's that? [00:53:17] Speaker C: I think I live. I live on your old street. Malden street. [00:53:21] Speaker B: You live in Everett? [00:53:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:24] Speaker B: And because it says Joanne Boston, you actually live in Everett then, right? You know, I live on Malden street. Oh, no, I lived on. Well, I didn't live far from there. I lived on Vine street, which is about four, what? Four or five streets the other way. [00:53:37] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:53:38] Speaker B: No, I know that. That whole area, that's the old. That's ward two of Everett. [00:53:43] Speaker C: Yes. [00:53:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:45] Speaker C: My father's a councilman now. [00:53:48] Speaker B: Okay, that's interesting, because my father. My father ran a first national store in Prattville, which is on the Chelsea side. Now, it's very busy with a highway going through and all that kind of stuff, but it was kind of like a little village back way, way back when I lived there. And it was kind of fun. It was really kind of fun. But Malden Street I remember very well. [00:54:07] Speaker C: Yep, that's where I am now. [00:54:09] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad. Now I know where you are, and I plan to do something about it. Joanne, I don't remember what now, but if I were young and a hunk, I'd know what to do. [00:54:23] Speaker C: I appreciate that. Thank you. [00:54:25] Speaker B: Okay, Jack, what do you think? [00:54:27] Speaker E: Oh, 63. [00:54:30] Speaker B: Okay. Do you remember who we were talking about? Yep. Okay, I remember. Okay. Glynis Johns. Betty, what do you think? [00:54:36] Speaker F: I'm going to guess 66. I'm going to stick with that number when I don't know what. [00:54:41] Speaker B: Okay, that's right. That's what you guessed for Bill Dana, and you weren't really off that farm. Charlie, what do you think? [00:54:48] Speaker D: I'm going to have to go with the big 67. [00:54:50] Speaker B: 67, okay, the big 67 and Joanne Malden street, eh? [00:54:58] Speaker C: Yep. Malden Street. [00:55:00] Speaker B: I know where that is. I had a friend who lived. I think it was on Maldon. It might have been Francis, which is what, the next street over. Yeah. His name was Sidney Gelpie. Sidney Gelpie was a friend, and he. I so envied him. He had his own room back then. We didn't. You know, we shared rooms with our sisters or something. He had his own room and on the wall were pinup pictures. [00:55:22] Speaker E: Wow. [00:55:22] Speaker B: Boy, I thought, that's pretty racy stuff. [00:55:24] Speaker C: They're still there. [00:55:26] Speaker B: They're still in the same. You live in that same house, do you? That's kind of funny. I thought, boy, this guy really knows how to live, you know? Anyway, how old do you think Glynis Johns is, Joanne? [00:55:40] Speaker C: 66. [00:55:40] Speaker B: 66, okay. And Mike? [00:55:45] Speaker D: Oh, let's go to the next decade. I'll say 70. [00:55:50] Speaker B: 70 is the closest. Mmm. Because he. She's 73. [00:55:54] Speaker E: Wow. Oh, I knew she was older than her name sounds. [00:55:59] Speaker B: She's older than the name. Glenn is John. Yeah, it's true. It's kind of funny. You meet some little kid, some little baby, and his name is. I don't know, he has a grown. [00:56:09] Speaker E: Up name, like a woman, like a little. Little baby girl has the name Martha or something like that. [00:56:14] Speaker B: Something like that. You figured, yeah, those are the names you have to grow into later on. Yeah, but maybe. Maybe we should just name babies and have them pick their own names when they get old enough to, you know, so they. Why should we have to pick names for other people or have other people pick names for us? [00:56:30] Speaker E: Well, in many cultures, people do change their names several times throughout their lives. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Really? [00:56:35] Speaker E: The American Indians, you know, they start out as one name for whatever sort of thing was going on in nature or whatever. And then if, whatever their attributes are, as they get older, you know, they become runs like the wind or, you know, stands on 1ft or, you know, scratches themselves daily. [00:56:55] Speaker B: Scratches other people when they're asleep. [00:56:57] Speaker E: And then as they get older, you know, it's. Oh, there goes. Bent over and spitting, you know. [00:57:06] Speaker B: Okay, Karen Allen, the actress, her films include ghost in the. In two cities. Wait a minute, I'm looking at the wrong thing here. Ghost in. In. I was looking at. [00:57:21] Speaker D: Don't try to mess us up. [00:57:22] Speaker B: No, I certainly would try to do that. Ghost in the machine, raiders of the Lost Ark, animal house. Karen Allen was a married to some producer in Hollywood. She was also in a Michael Caine movie. I can't think of the names of those things. And Michael Caine dressed in women's clothing and went around murdering people. I can't. Do you remember that? Yeah, he does that on his. It's a hobby of his. He just. He loved it so much in the movie, he took it up as a real thing. But she was mad. [00:58:02] Speaker E: You won't find him at home. [00:58:03] Speaker B: She was married to the director of that movie. He sort of is known as. As Alfred son of a. An Alfred Hitchcock follower. His movies sort of, you know, had a little twist like the Hitchcock movies did. I can't think of what his name is. But anyway, we'll start with you, Charlie. What do you think? Karen Allen. I can't give you any dates for any of these movies. I don't. [00:58:32] Speaker E: Well, Animal House was, I think, 1981. [00:58:34] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:35] Speaker E: Or 1978. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Okay, so. So we're talking 46. 46. Yes, Charlie. Okay. And Mike, what do you think? [00:58:48] Speaker D: I was 78. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:51] Speaker D: I was 18. And she was a babe. Tim Matheson was her husband. And that wasn't he? [00:59:00] Speaker E: No, he was in animal house. He was her boyfriend, I think. [00:59:05] Speaker D: Same thing. Right. [00:59:07] Speaker E: Well, they were in college. [00:59:09] Speaker D: 45 ago. [00:59:11] Speaker B: What did you say, Mike? [00:59:12] Speaker D: I said 45. [00:59:13] Speaker B: 45. Okay. [00:59:14] Speaker F: And Betty, I'm gonna guess 52. [00:59:18] Speaker B: 52. Okay. Joanne? 5161-510-5151 okay. And Jack? 46. 46. A lot of you are very, very close. Mike, however, hit it right on the button. She's 45. Wow. And Charlie and Jack Bones at 50 of 47. Not bad. Not bad, guys, we're there. Okay, how about Donald pleasence or pleasance? Yeah, from England. [00:59:51] Speaker E: He actually died this past year. [00:59:52] Speaker B: Oh, did he? Yep. Hold on just a minute. Just 1 second, please. No. Cause we're just hearing his name right. [01:00:05] Speaker E: Out of the book. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Tearing his name out. Because. [01:00:08] Speaker D: Don't call after Doc. [01:00:10] Speaker B: Yeah. No, because we. We only do live now. Yeah. No, we don't guess the ages of dead people. It would be disrespectful. Yeah, terribly disrespectful. [01:00:19] Speaker E: Because technically speaking, they're not aging. [01:00:22] Speaker B: That's right. That's certainly not. [01:00:24] Speaker D: We have to subtract. [01:00:25] Speaker B: Okay, how about Steve Miller? He's singer guitarist from Dallas, Texas. One of West Paul's protege started playing for money when he was twelve with a group called the Marksman Combo. He got his first recording contract at age 24 after an appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. The Steve Miller Band had a big hit in 1974. Do you know the name of that hit? [01:00:53] Speaker D: Yep. [01:00:54] Speaker B: What was it? [01:00:55] Speaker E: Lying like an eagle. [01:00:57] Speaker D: Eagle. [01:00:58] Speaker B: No. The Joker. Oh, you know, you remember the Joker? [01:01:02] Speaker D: I'm a smoker. I'm midnight Joker. Whoa. Play my music in the sun hey. [01:01:10] Speaker B: Kid, you got the voice, you got the looks. I like to be a big record star. Okay? But that was. Anyway, that was in 1974. So you have. You have that date also. Whoa. I gave you the answer. [01:01:26] Speaker D: Okay? [01:01:27] Speaker B: I did give you the answer. I'm just looking back on it. Okay, let's see if you. Let's see if you remember it. That's right. [01:01:34] Speaker D: What do you want, a couple notes? [01:01:36] Speaker B: No, I read a thing here. Said he got his first recording contract. I told you the age and what the. And when. The year was at the Monterey Pop festival. So all you have to do is figure that you know his age. We'll start with you. Let's see. We'll start with. Betty. [01:01:53] Speaker F: What do you think if I cut those dates right? He's 72. [01:02:00] Speaker B: 72. And you're a teacher, Betty. [01:02:04] Speaker E: Do you have to take off your shoes to count? [01:02:06] Speaker F: By the way, I'm not hearing too clearly. You're fading in and out. [01:02:10] Speaker B: No, that's because you're an old person, and that's the way it is. I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Because I'm an old person, too. Turn her up. No, I know. We're getting up. We're getting a buzzing on the line. Is that what. That's that we figured was from Joanne, I guess. Did you say that, Joanne? Yeah. Yeah. See, because we turn it. If we turn any. The whole thing up, it turns up the humming. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:02:37] Speaker D: Go to commercial and call her back. [01:02:40] Speaker B: I guess we could do that, couldn't we? [01:02:43] Speaker E: Or we could see if we could all. [01:02:44] Speaker B: But it wouldn't work anyway. You think we'd still get the humming and stuff? [01:02:47] Speaker E: Or we could figure out. [01:02:49] Speaker B: I'm checking with our technical staff. We have 17 people who preside over the technical perfection of this, the quality of this program. [01:02:57] Speaker E: You know, what we could do was we could figure out what key the hum was in, and then we could do sort of a barbershop harmony. [01:03:02] Speaker D: I could sing again. [01:03:03] Speaker B: Boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, Joanne, what do you. How old do you think Steve Miller is? [01:03:09] Speaker C: I'm so embarrassed. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Oh, don't be embarrassed. Don't be embarrassed, my dear. I'm a doctor. I told you. [01:03:16] Speaker C: Could you give me the hint that you gave everybody else's age in the. [01:03:19] Speaker B: Oh, I made. I got. I said it, and I should not have done that. So the only other date I'll tell you is the big hit, the Steve Miliband made in 1974 called the Joker. But if I repeat the whole other thing, and then, then you'll know. [01:03:35] Speaker C: Okay, hold on. [01:03:37] Speaker B: 1974, 84, 90. That's 22 years ago. He made the Joker. If you have any idea what. What age he might have been back then, golly, this is an exciting program. No wonder this 46. [01:03:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:52] Speaker B: No wonder the entire world has adopted the dumb birthday game as their own and stolen it from us. [01:04:00] Speaker E: Yeah, but if you ever heard what people had to say about how that. How much they enjoy listening to this game in the middle of the night. [01:04:18] Speaker B: Who did that? Is that you, Charlie? [01:04:20] Speaker D: Yeah, that's me. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Okay. Was that Steve Miller? You were just playing right here? Okay, well, how old do you think he is then? 46. Okay, you could say 46. Okay. And, uh, let's see, Jack. 51. 51. All right. And Mike? [01:04:36] Speaker D: 52. [01:04:38] Speaker B: What? No, turn. Turn that off now. Okay, Mike, I'm sorry, what did you say, five. Two or six? Five. Two. Okay. Actually, 53. You want again? Mike. Mike, you're out. You're on the way to a really nice streak. He's 53. Yeah, you were just a year off. What's the prize package? Oh, it's a bunch of junk. Whatever I can find around the house. That. Causing a lot of clutter that I want to get rid of. [01:05:05] Speaker D: Oh, I'm short on socks. [01:05:07] Speaker B: You're short on what? Socks. Facts. [01:05:10] Speaker D: Socks. [01:05:12] Speaker E: Socks. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Oh, socks. Oh, I see. [01:05:16] Speaker D: Oh. [01:05:17] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Yeah. Well, okay. I can send you one of my cats to, for that matter, and a year's supply of cat litter, plus a five pound box of peanut brittle. What do you think? Terrific. Okay. How about Sir Bob Geldorf? Oh, yeah, I found Bob. Sir. Sir. The boomtown rats. Right, right. From Ireland. Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the superstar benefit group band Aidae. Okay, so. And today is his birthday. He was born October 5. Sir Bob Geldorf. Geldorf. No. G E l D o F. Mike, what do you think? You way ahead of everybody. Now, would I buy that album? I don't know. Let me see. I got a record of when you bought the album. It's right here in my sales slip, but I can't. Can't find it right off hand. [01:06:10] Speaker D: How about 42? [01:06:11] Speaker B: 42. 42. Okay. And Joanne, what do you say? [01:06:17] Speaker C: 47. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Joanne. The lovely Joanne from Malden Street. Everett says the lovely 47. [01:06:26] Speaker D: Charlie, I'm gonna have to go with 48. [01:06:31] Speaker B: 48. Okay, 48. Betty? [01:06:35] Speaker F: 49. [01:06:37] Speaker B: 49. And, Jack, let's see. [01:06:41] Speaker E: He was only 28 when he did that Band Aid concert. And did we have. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Was that 84 or 85? [01:06:48] Speaker D: It was 1980. [01:06:49] Speaker E: 519. 85. So that's eleven years ago. I'm gonna say, for the heck of it, 40. [01:06:56] Speaker B: 40. Okay. Was he. Was. Did he do a lot of dancing on tables and stuff? Poppyldorf. Somebody from the Boomtown rats that used to do a lot of that kind of stuff, jumping on chairs and stuff? I did it. I did it. I did a tv show one time, and our guests at one of the shows was. That was the Boomtown rats. [01:07:19] Speaker C: Sergeant Billy. [01:07:21] Speaker E: Oh, no, you're thinking of Boomtown. [01:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah. No, this was the year. The year here was. This year would have been about 19 when they were on with us. Was it would have been about 19, 75, 76, somewhere in that. [01:07:41] Speaker E: That was too early for the boomtown rats. [01:07:43] Speaker D: It was still in Ireland. [01:07:44] Speaker B: No, the boomtown rats weren't organized that early 20 years ago. Yeah, because he was. They might have been organized, but they. [01:07:50] Speaker D: Were on the other side of the. [01:07:51] Speaker B: Ocean because he was. [01:07:52] Speaker E: He was still only in his twenties and 85. [01:07:56] Speaker B: Oh, and his. Okay, well, how. Now that's interesting because he's now 42. Maybe he was 30. Maybe he was. And that means that Mike hit it on the button again. Wow. Are you cheating, Mike? Well, there's no. Actually. No, actually, there's no. There's no such a thing as cheating because we never said you couldn't look up these things in advance and stuff. Okay, I'll give. Give you one more and then I. [01:08:24] Speaker D: Can hit me with some old time movie stars and I'll just go down the tube. [01:08:29] Speaker B: Okay. No, I actually know what's her name. No, there are. There are other people born my mother's age. No, there are other people born in the state who are still. Oh, I have a Diane Cilento. Do you know that name? Sean Connery's ex wife. She's from Australia. She was in Tom Jones with. Well, okay, we'll skip her. But I'll tell you, she's 63, if you're wondering. [01:08:55] Speaker D: Oh, I was gonna guess that. I was gonna say 63. [01:08:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, sure. It's also the birthday of dead people like Chester Allen Arthur, the 21st president of the United States. Ray Kroc, who was the founder of McDonald's. This is his birthday. Alan Ludden was married to Betty White. And he did it. No, he did the Ge college bowl and password. He did some very. Yeah, he did. See, he did some very hip kind of quiz things. Okay, here's the. Here's the last one. That. This is a. This is an event and you tell me what year it happened. The. One moment, please. Okay. It was on this date, October 5, the World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time with the sports writer Grantland Rice describing the action between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. The Giants won in that year. And what year would that have been? October 5. It was the first World Series game broadcast on radio. And that's. That's kind of interesting. Anyway, I'll tell you, I had a couple of more things to add, but then that would give you. Give the year away. You wouldn't want that. No, no, no. Betty, what year do you suppose that was? The first World Series? [01:10:25] Speaker F: I'm guessing 1920. [01:10:27] Speaker B: 119. 21. Okay. And Joanne, what do you think? [01:10:33] Speaker C: 1930. [01:10:35] Speaker B: 219. 32. Okay. And Charlie, what do you say? [01:10:42] Speaker D: I have to go at 1920. [01:10:44] Speaker B: 719. 27. Mike, what do you think? [01:10:48] Speaker D: In honor of WBZ's 75th anniversary, I'll go with 1921. [01:10:53] Speaker B: Okay. Jack, what year do you think it was? [01:10:59] Speaker E: 19. [01:11:00] Speaker B: 1919. Which would make that 77 years ago. [01:11:07] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Even older than WBZ. What could be older than WBZ? I'm glad to say that BZ is older than I am. That's one of the few things I can't say. Say, because I happen to be older than most everything else in the world. Including the city of Everett and particularly Malden street. That's right. Actually, 1921. Mike hit her right on the button again. And so did Betty. But it was 1921. And you're right. About 75 years ago was that. It was about the same time that Beasie went on the air. But these would. I don't. This had been. [01:11:48] Speaker E: Do we know what station? [01:11:49] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. It doesn't say. That really bothers me. It should. It should be there, but it doesn't. It doesn't say. I don't. I don't know. Do we own. We own. I'm acting like I'm Mister Westinghouse, and I really own this stuff. But the Westinghouse station in New York now is w I n s. I don't know whether that was the station or not at that time, but it went on about the same time Bz went on. [01:12:16] Speaker D: Wow. [01:12:17] Speaker B: Anyway, so the winner actually is Mike from the beautiful community of Marlboro. And what I do at this point. [01:12:26] Speaker D: See this flavor packer box? [01:12:29] Speaker B: What's that? [01:12:30] Speaker D: Filter flavor packer box? [01:12:35] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:12:35] Speaker E: Marlboro. [01:12:36] Speaker B: Oh, Marlboro. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Okay, you hang on, Mike. And you talk with Tom Howie. And he'll take your name and address so that I can get all this junk out to you. And again, for those of you who have been waiting for the package of junk to send you, who won this thing in the past, I've been very bad about this. And I've really gotten way behind in a lot of stuff. So I'll try to get it out as soon as I can, but it doesn't really matter. It's not even worth having. [01:13:07] Speaker E: Yes, it is. Because it came from you. [01:13:10] Speaker B: It came with love and emotion. Thank you, Noah. Okay. Thank you, Mike. Here's the attorney over to Tom, I guess I already did. And, Joanne, thank you very much for joining us. You're okay. [01:13:22] Speaker C: Thank you for having me. Okay, take care now. [01:13:25] Speaker B: Okay. Take care. Bye bye, Joanne. Okay. Did I. Did I knock off anybody else I should have? No. I guess I did. Charlie, thanks a lot. I appreciate you're in the next community over from Joanne. Did she sound appealing to you at all? [01:13:39] Speaker D: You never know. Actually, I'm in Malden, and she's on Malden street, so we kind of get something. [01:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah, well, Malden is right next to Everett. [01:13:48] Speaker E: Also, you can get together and right down the street, discuss the history of the word Malden. [01:13:52] Speaker D: That's right. Thank you, Norm. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. I was ready to discuss the history of Malden, the word Malden, like you suggested. Jack. He didn't seem at all interested. Not at all. What's this with kids these days? [01:14:06] Speaker E: They're not interested in history or etymology. Nothing. [01:14:10] Speaker B: You can't teach them anything. [01:14:11] Speaker E: Nothing. [01:14:12] Speaker B: Oh, it's terrible. They think they know it all. Yeah, that sounds just like my father describing me. You, kids today, you don't know what life is. You don't know what anything is. You're dumb. You're stupid. He was a nice gentleman. The only problem with him was that he understood me. That's right. I hated that. Anyway, Betty, how are you feeling? You better now? [01:14:48] Speaker F: Well, other than I'm awake, because I've got a bad cold. But basically from my surgery, I'm all recovered. [01:14:56] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. [01:14:58] Speaker F: I think, knock on wood I'm on the other side of the big sea oh, that's. [01:15:04] Speaker B: That's. Oh, I'm delighted to hear that. That's great. That's great. [01:15:07] Speaker F: I wanted to say, don't be nervous about that singing, because they'll love you even if you sing off key. [01:15:13] Speaker B: Well, I'm not even worried about singing off key, because I'm thinking a lot of it. We kind of half spoken and half sung, because I'm not a singer. I don't pretend to be, but my problem is trying to keep up, you know, get the words in while the band is playing that part of the song. Yeah. You know, I think what people don't realize, unless you're. No. Unless you're a musician, you don't realize that the band is not playing the melody. They're just playing chords, and you're the one that does the melody. And if it's a little tricky at all, it's to know when to come in at the right time and that kind of stuff. [01:15:52] Speaker F: But, you know, that's tricky, even for a professional, if it's something you aren't familiar with. [01:15:59] Speaker B: Oh, Betty, you're so wonderful. You're such a comfortable. [01:16:03] Speaker F: Anyway, thank you. I appreciate the big draw is just to see you. You know, all your fans are out there. Remember you were nervous about coming out to do talk to my kids and what, it turned out that every teacher in the building couldn't make it down. [01:16:19] Speaker C: To see you did? [01:16:20] Speaker B: Yeah, we had a nice. We had a nice group down there. I remember that. Yeah. [01:16:23] Speaker F: Hey, Betty loves you and has, you know, they courted to you your music. [01:16:28] Speaker B: Stop sucking up to me, Betty, would you please? Hey. No, thank you very much. And I'm glad you're feeling better, and I hope you get rid of the cold quickly. [01:16:36] Speaker F: Okay? [01:16:36] Speaker B: Thanks for playing the game with us. Bye bye. Bye, Betty. [01:16:39] Speaker E: Say, Norm, speaking of big bands, have I heard you mention the singer Tony Ballard? [01:16:45] Speaker B: No, I don't think so. I don't know that name. [01:16:47] Speaker E: I thought that I had heard that because I was at Moneen Washington hosting a function this past weekend out in Worcester. Charity thing for. Co hosting it. A charity thing for the UMass medical Center. Children's. Children's center. And there was a big, like, 25 piece swing orchestra there. And the. One of the singers was this woman, Tony Ballard. And she was quite a singer. And I thought that I had heard you mention her name before. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Oh, this is a woman. T o n I. Toni Ballard. No, I may have somewhere along the line. That's one of those familiar sounding names. Tony Ballard. And here she is to sing the everlastingly popular, immortal hit tune of yesteryear. And today, the evergreen standard, one that has rightly earned its niche in America's hall of Fame. What? We're throwing money into the jukebox all over America to hear. And here she is. Oh, now I've forgotten the name of the song anyway. Tony Balor. That's. That's nice. Did they raise a lot of money? I'm not exactly sure how much they. [01:17:54] Speaker E: Raised, but it was a pretty good crowd and it was a. It was a pretty good band. Dom V and the swing out band, I think, was the name of it. But it was. It was a fine, tight, solid rock and roll swing band. [01:18:09] Speaker B: Rock and roll swing bandaid. [01:18:10] Speaker E: Well, you know what I mean. You know, just sort of, you know, it was. They were tight. They were good. It was. People were digging, in the vernacular. [01:18:18] Speaker B: It's amazing, though, how many big bands there are around that are still playing all over the place. You know, not big name. Well, even the big names. We've got new leaders, but. And they're playing. But a lot of good local bands. Anyway, thank you very much. Always good to talk to you, Jack. And I hope you have. [01:18:36] Speaker E: You and Moneen. [01:18:39] Speaker B: Monina. I always want to call her Mona or Mooney. Moneen. I hope you and Moneen have a fantastically wondrous weekend. [01:18:48] Speaker E: Oh, well, thank you. And you as well. Are you doing that big band thing this weekend? [01:18:52] Speaker B: This very day, Saturday between. Anyway, the event is between noon and five at Wonderland Ballroom and Revere. [01:19:01] Speaker E: Oh, well, have fun. Nothing like being in front of a. [01:19:03] Speaker B: Band and singing and singing away and making an ass of yourself. That's the way I look at it. Don't try to soothe me. [01:19:09] Speaker E: It's fun. [01:19:10] Speaker B: Okay, take care. Bye bye. Bye bye. That's my friend Jack. We've been friends ever since we were little kids. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Before we sign off, a couple of quick notes I've been telling you about Patreon as a way to support this show. There is another cool way you can do that. It's called buy me a coffee. I do love coffee. As a matter of fact, I'm enjoying a cup right now that's hot. Click the link below and see what it's all about. And keep me and this show caffeinated. We've also joined some new streaming platforms and added more subs here on YouTube. I'm pretty far away from what I need to start earning here on the tube, but we are growing and I am so very thankful. I cannot leave without acknowledging one of my favorite, totally improvised moments with norm the toilet dedication. So please take a seat and enjoy. [01:20:07] Speaker B: I mentioned the fact that since Johnny Carson had a public park, or may have a public park named after him in Burbank, California, in honor of his 20 years broadcasting from the NBC studios in Burbank, right on Bob Hope Drive, and the fact that Jack Benny had a school named after him in Waukegan, Illinois. I was just very anxious to. To have some kind of a public building named after me. And I have talked some folks. I don't want to name the community, but it's not far from here, namely public toilets after me. It isn't exactly what I dreamed about, but it's better than nothing. And we're at. And we are now. I'm now about to step on stage. You can hear the crowd gathering. It looks like a. Looks like a pretty friendly crowd, too. Hello, is on. Yeah. I want to thank you very much for this great honor. The fact that the city council of this wonderful city, which I know wants to remain anonymous, has given of itself to honor me by naming this beautiful structure the norm. Nathan public toilets. I can't tell you how you, pardon the expression, how moved I am. Thank you. I would like to cut the ribbon. And all of you are welcome to use the facilities in my honor. Thank you. Ah, just a thrill. Just a thrill. Think of me every time you use these facilities. Thank you. See you later on. Thank you so much. [01:22:11] Speaker A: Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. Four spuds. Restaurant and pubs. Fried ice cream sundaes. Rhubarb buds. Say that a few times fast. Nitrate of soda from Chile. Chicken manure. Agway elixirs for pussy toes. Dibbles. Really good looking geraniums. Homing pigeons. Songbirds. Flaunting your water tower. Traumatic age. Churning civil engineers. Blooming flowers and flowering blooms. Ed McMahon's park bench. WLH cunnipiac. College radio. Blowhards. Jack Benny's school. Norm Nathan's memorial public toilets. Fred Allen in his treadmill to oblivion. Joan from Tewksbury's rock in the middle of a field. Norm's HG Pg. Hungarian gypsy prince's grandmother. Flowing robes and seats of authority. Looking at one not with lust, but with strict professionalism. General Millais. Boredom and nausea. Stepping on Norm's goodness to move. Just the heavy stuff. Old people. Wisdom and sagacity. George Burns. Monty hall. Senior citizen. Discounts half price at the Stone Zoo. Bowling Bill Dana Junior. Jose Jimenez. Husky voiced babes and young hunks. Sidney Gelpie, altering your name as you age. Michael Caine, animal house. The marksman combo, being short on socks. Peanut brittle. Love and emotion. History and entomology. Tony Ballard, rightly earning your niche in America's hall of Fame. Moaning daily. Bobo and Keery, the forever 29. Joan from Tewksbury. Tom Howey, Jack Hartley and the man who's watching the Hawks make lazy circles in the sky. Doctor Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt. [01:24:07] Speaker B: And please tell them that Norm Nathan sent.