Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Oh, goes the radio as a dumb birthday game from December 24, 1993, brings tidings of good fun. In keeping with that theme, the title shall be Merry Silliness. The players, Mary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Frank from Haverhill. The adorable Fran in Rhode Island. Jack from Ottawa, Canada. John Kelly, producing and playing in studio, Mike Epstein. Also playing in studio, Jack Hart. And I'm on the phone. We get only one birthday of note for Christmas Eve, Bill Rogers. Then we move on to Christmas Day, but not before some discussion of dead and alive birthdays from December 27, the most notable being my mom, Gladys, who resides in the alive category. Happy birthday, Mom. Okay, back to December 25th. Tony Martin, Jimmy Buffett, Annie Lennox and Larry Zonka. Next, we jump to December 28th for Denzel Washington, Maggie Smith and Lou Jacoby. Episode 215 Merry Silliness spreads its cheer to your ears in 3, 2 and 1.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: He was in Pennsylvania.
[00:01:16] Speaker C: Hi, Norm.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Hello. How you doing, Mary?
[00:01:19] Speaker C: Pretty good.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Now, where are you in Pennsylvania?
[00:01:21] Speaker C: In Hatfield.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: In Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Okay, nice to talk with you.
[00:01:27] Speaker C: Nice to talk to you.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Now, where. Now, where's Hatfield? What would that be? Near that we would know.
[00:01:31] Speaker C: Oh, big metropolis of Montgomery Township. I couldn't tell you. It's. It's maybe 45 minutes away from Philadelphia.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Okay. That's okay.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: How are your chickens?
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Oh, the chickens are doing fine. They're doing just fine. Is this the first time you have played with us?
[00:01:50] Speaker C: Oh, no, it's the second time.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Second time. Okay, well, welcome back. We're glad to have you.
[00:01:55] Speaker C: Thank you very much.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: And we have Frank, who's in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Hi, Frank.
[00:01:59] Speaker D: Hi, Norm.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: How are you? Good, thank you. Nice to have you with us, too. Thank you. What are you doing up at this time of the morning?
[00:02:06] Speaker D: Well, ordinarily I'd be listening to this, but I got out of work a little early tonight, so I decided to call in and give it a try.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Oh, that's great. So you work late at night anyway. Oh, yeah. Okay, we have. We have my friend Fran with the adorable voice down in Rhode Island.
[00:02:22] Speaker E: Hi.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Hi. I know you. I know you played before because I remember you.
[00:02:27] Speaker E: I remember you. Yes.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: You're the one who made my dreams come true. Remember that? That's a pretty song.
[00:02:34] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Let's sing that together and dance together one day soon, okay? Jack is up in Ottawa, Canada. Hi, Jack.
[00:02:41] Speaker F: Hi, Norm.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Nice. You played the game with us before, too.
[00:02:45] Speaker F: Just once. This is my second time.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Okay. Your second time. Well, we're glad to have you, too. You're okay, we have. Let's see, we have. John Kelly is with us also.
[00:02:56] Speaker G: Howdy.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Wait a minute, just a moment. Say that again.
[00:02:59] Speaker G: Howdy.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that was good.
[00:03:01] Speaker G: Am I on Mike?
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Yes, you are.
[00:03:03] Speaker G: Are you sure?
[00:03:04] Speaker B: No, you're. I'm not sure.
[00:03:05] Speaker G: No, not there. I am. Howdy.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Funny. See, when you're lying underneath the console microphone using. We have. We also have. Son of a gun. We have Mike Epstein who's with us. Yes, Mike Epstein, who actually goes on duty.
[00:03:24] Speaker H: I go on duty in about an hour. But I gotta tell you, that Get Smart interview, that was. That was great. That was really entertaining.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Well, the guy, Jerry. Yeah. Was great. He knew more about it than I know it. I do. So I was glad he sort of took over.
[00:03:36] Speaker G: He knew more about it than the author.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Well, I don't think so. The author was pretty sharp. He was pretty sharp. We also have. Let's see. So Mike will be playing and Tony, Jack Hart will be playing too. Hi, Jack. Hello.
Hello. That's it, eh? Oh, I could say more if you'd like. Well, I. Well, I imagine you will as we go along.
[00:03:58] Speaker I: No doubt.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. It was kind of interesting a little earlier you were giving a traffic report for, boy, some far off exotic land because they've had some terrible backups in areas that can hear us.
[00:04:09] Speaker G: New Jersey.
[00:04:09] Speaker I: Hackensack, New Jersey. Absolutely.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, good. And Tony Nesbit, let's see where you are. Hold on a minute. Tony.
Hi, Tony.
[00:04:20] Speaker J: This is an immense panel. I am just so honored to be.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Holidays.
[00:04:25] Speaker I: Three names in.
[00:04:26] Speaker H: Tony. Tony, did you get the list that I left you today?
[00:04:30] Speaker J: Yes, I did.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Okay, I see. Okay.
[00:04:34] Speaker J: No, not that kind of.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: I want to tell you that there aren't too many too, too many well known people born on this day.
[00:04:40] Speaker I: Just one second.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Did Tony. Are you Santa Claus?
Is Tony Santa Claus? Yeah, because he got Chris.
[00:04:51] Speaker H: What was that?
[00:04:52] Speaker J: Traffic back up in Hackensack. Because of what?
[00:04:54] Speaker I: It's a hostage situation.
[00:04:56] Speaker J: So if they were listening to this, I guess you could say we have a captive audience.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: Okay, well, I guess we can.
[00:05:06] Speaker J: You saw that coming down the pipe.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: We can walk anyway. December. December 24, which is of course today's date. Not too many well known people were born. As a matter of fact, I got only one name that I care for you to guess at and that's the runner, Bill Rogers.
[00:05:25] Speaker G: Today is December 24th.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Today is December 24th.
[00:05:29] Speaker G: Oh my God. I haven't started my Christmas shopping.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Well, I started In a couple of days you can start for next year. Because I have a feeling people know you don't expect much from you.
[00:05:40] Speaker G: That's true.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Okay, let's start with you, Mary. You know, you're familiar with Bill Rogers. He's. Because he's from around Boston and he's a. He's. I was going to say he's a skinny marathon runner, but all marathon runners all look like they're anemic.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: I don't think I ever heard of him.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Bill Rogers? No, he's one.
[00:05:56] Speaker F: Give us a clue.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:58] Speaker C: There any clues?
[00:05:59] Speaker J: Well, they had a big Broadway play, the Bill Rogers Follies.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: Of course, I don't think.
[00:06:04] Speaker J: Yeah, sure.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: The Bill Rogers followers. That's right. And as you know, he's that Tony. Yeah, he's. This Bill Rogers neighborhood is on channel, on the public.
And he, along with Lorenz Hart, the Rogers and Hart wrote a whole lot of beautiful songs. Oh, sure. He had a silverware plant. Roger Silverware, too.
Incredible. Yeah.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: Now he is Roy Rogers.
[00:06:26] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:27] Speaker C: Are there any real neighborhood.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: Okay, okay.
[00:06:31] Speaker G: Everyone is talking.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: If you'll hold back now, we might even get Mary's guess as to how old Bill Rogers is.
Bill, that is Mary, what do you think? Bill Rogers.
[00:06:41] Speaker C: A normal clue. Do you have one or so? Just go with an Abby.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Normal clue. I don't know what that means, but. But the idea is to guess how old you think Bill Rogers. This is his birthday. How old do you think he is?
[00:06:52] Speaker J: He's a marathon runner. There's nothing else to say really. But.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Well, what?
[00:06:56] Speaker C: 48.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: 48.
Okay, Frank, what do you say?
[00:07:01] Speaker D: I'll say 47.
[00:07:03] Speaker E: And friend, I'm gonna say 44.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: 44. What do you think, Jack, up there in Ottawa?
[00:07:12] Speaker F: 48.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: 48. Same as Mary.
[00:07:16] Speaker F: Right.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: Okay. And John Kelly, who was also a marathon runner.
[00:07:20] Speaker G: He was. He was an excellent marathon runner. And I guess he's not gonna do it anymore.
[00:07:26] Speaker I: Wow, he's like 911.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. Because he's run so, so many times.
[00:07:32] Speaker G: He's a painter, too.
[00:07:33] Speaker C: Pretty good.
[00:07:34] Speaker G: He's a good painter. Yeah.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: He's also a swell. A knee dresser and a swell dancer.
Not too many people know that part of him. Okay, how old is he?
[00:07:44] Speaker G: I'll say 44. Has that been guessed?
[00:07:48] Speaker B: It doesn't matter.
[00:07:49] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: It has been. But you can guess something. An age that somebody else has already guessed. Mike Epstein, what do you think?
[00:07:56] Speaker H: Didn't Bill Rogers have. Have his own store of like, running apparel? They kind of went south.
[00:08:03] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:08:04] Speaker J: What the Franchise or the business itself?
[00:08:07] Speaker B: The business itself kind of went down Heartbreak Hill.
[00:08:09] Speaker H: Yeah.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: Up, up.
[00:08:11] Speaker H: Couldn't quite get over. We're gonna say 45.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Okay. And Jack, what do you think? 44. Okay. And Tony, 44. Body, follow.
[00:08:23] Speaker E: Oh, boy, I'm impressed.
Well, I'm feeling like.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: That's right. You're the first one to say 44, Fran. And we have four guesses along that line. None of whom. Let me see. Wait a minute. Hold on a minute. No, none of whom won.
[00:08:38] Speaker D: Oh.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Because he's 46.
[00:08:40] Speaker J: Really?
[00:08:40] Speaker B: And Frank from Haverhill said 47. So he was within one year. All right, so therefore the 44s were two years off.
[00:08:48] Speaker H: I said 45.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry. That's right. Mike said 45. That's correct. So it's Mike and Frank. That's right, 45, 47. Both winners. I'm. I'm glad you pointed that out.
[00:08:59] Speaker J: Thank you so much for that list you gave me, Mike.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:02] Speaker G: You know, Norm, December 24th would be a lousy day to have a birthday, wouldn't it?
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Wouldn't it? Yeah.
My birthday is the 20th. That wasn't too great either.
Oh, thank you, Raymond. I appreciate that. I've been milking that birthday all week. I'm getting sick of it myself. Okay.
[00:09:25] Speaker F: Birthday again.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Okay, thank you.
[00:09:27] Speaker J: Oh, by the way, Norm, how old are you?
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Oh, shut up.
Just shut up.
Old enough to know better and young enough to desire beautiful women. Well, what the hell does that mean? I don't know what that means. That was just. You live near amtax, you live near Amtrak. Is that significant to what we're saying?
[00:09:49] Speaker C: I'm just making conversation. Go ahead.
[00:09:51] Speaker I: I think she wants you to maybe take.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, I see. Amtrak to Pennsylvania, where Mary lives. I know. That's really nice.
[00:09:58] Speaker I: You can pick one of her homegrown hats out in her Hatfield.
[00:10:01] Speaker J: Yeah.
[00:10:04] Speaker C: I'm not quite sure what that meant, but I think it's probably better that way.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: Moving on. I normally don't catch on to the humor of this. I don't even know what you're talk about it. Okay, we're going to December 25th. Christmas Day itself. We've already. The other day we guessed some Christmas things. Excuse me. I beg your pardon? I turned off the wrong microphone before Santa Claus. Yeah, I turned off John. John Kelly's microphone, and then I coughed and Freudian left. I left my own microphone on. That's stupid. Anyway, Tony, so we guessed a few birthday dates. We had another date last week where there weren't too Many people born, but here's some that we didn't get to. Tony Martin, married to Sid Sharice, who's another woman. I. Even though she's moving along in years, I really feel warmly toward her. Pardon me.
[00:10:59] Speaker C: Nice person and a good dancer.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: That's right. Knee dresser and swirl dancer. And I have a good family. Yeah, nice lady. She's in some great Gene Kelly movies. Beautiful woman. And I met her a few years ago. She was in town. It was a four woman show that played the Wilbur Theater. And it lasted about two performances, I think. And unfortunately it didn't survive. But she came into town and they held a press conference. And her husband, Tony Martin was answering questions. And he was so, so much in his cups, it was hard to understand what he was talking about. But I interviewed her and she was just great. Anyway, let's start with you, Tony, Tony Martin, you, Tony's all know each other anyway. I would guess that's it.
[00:11:44] Speaker J: It's just that he's married to Sid Sharice.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Well, he's also. He was also. He's been in some Marx Brothers movies and he's a singer.
[00:11:51] Speaker J: Okay.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: He's been. And in fact was very, very well known on his own. In fact, better, probably better known than Sid Charisse. At one point he did. He did an awful song in. In one of the Marx Brothers movies called the Tenement Symphony, you know, and there are the Chaluchies and there are the Goldbergs. And, you know, and he'd go through all that and they're all in my neighborhood, all colors and all creeds.
[00:12:15] Speaker I: Well, as much as I like the Marx Brothers movies, they always had a miserable musical, the music.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: When you were a kid and went to see the Marx Brothers movies, you always gasp in horror whenever there was a musical number coming up.
When Hoppo sat down to play, he played well and so did Chico. Although he fooled around with the fingering, you know, he used to stab notes and stuff. But that was that. That we didn't even like that so much. But when somebody, a vocalist starts singing these cornball songs, we thought, why, why are they holding up this movie?
Get rid of them. Cut them out of the film.
[00:12:53] Speaker J: Anyway, that's kind of a good hint then. Mark's brother films, huh?
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Yes. So, you know, he said he's along.
[00:13:00] Speaker J: I say he's pushing 82.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: 82, okay. And what do you think he's pushing, Jack?
[00:13:10] Speaker I: Well, I don't know what he's pushing, but I bet he's pulling a good 83.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: 83. Okay, Mike, I'll.
[00:13:18] Speaker H: I'll say he's about 81.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: 81, okay.
[00:13:22] Speaker G: And John, how about 79?
[00:13:24] Speaker B: About 79, Jack, what do you think? 80? 80? Is that what you said?
[00:13:30] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:13:31] Speaker J: I thought he was yelling for you.
[00:13:32] Speaker F: Hey, I'm too young for this. I'm only 32.
I don't even know the guy you're talking about.
[00:13:40] Speaker G: Doesn't matter. I don't either.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: It's kind of. It's kind of interesting. Young people who don't know anything always are kind of proud of that, aren't they? And they always get. I don't know anything about that. Abraham Lincoln. He was before my time.
How would I know about him? George Washington was even before my father's time. So we don't. Neither one of us know about George Washington. The U.S. constitution. That was written before our time.
The Bill of Rights. What's that? I don't know about that.
Okay, Fran, what do you think?
[00:14:09] Speaker E: No, here's what I think. Am I having a pipe dream, or do I have a vague memory of Tony Martin on the Ed Sullivan show singing Fernando's or Hernando Tide Away?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah. He didn't do that in the show. That was from Pajama Game.
[00:14:24] Speaker E: Oh, was it?
[00:14:25] Speaker B: He may have done that. Another song that he did, I think. To each his Own, I think. I think he had a fairly successful song by Young. I always hated the way he sang. He was sort of Mr. Square with a kind of a throaty kind of voice. I always put him in the same category as kind of Engelbert Humperdinck. And all these people I consider kind of non singers. Wow. You know, no soul. They didn't give you a goose pibble. They sang kind of pretty, but.
[00:14:53] Speaker J: Oh, no. Well, you just say what you mean.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Jeez, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
[00:15:00] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:15:00] Speaker C: He's 80.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: 80. Okay. And Frank from Haverhill, what do you think?
[00:15:05] Speaker D: I'll say 81.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Where do you live in Haverhill, roughly?
[00:15:10] Speaker D: Webster Street.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Where? Whereabouts is that?
[00:15:12] Speaker D: Up near Monument Square.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Okay. Near Canoza Avenue and Main street, where they join in that area.
[00:15:18] Speaker D: Got it.
[00:15:18] Speaker G: How do you know Haverhill, Norm?
[00:15:20] Speaker B: My mother was born there. Really? Have relatives who live in average. Did you. Where did you live?
[00:15:26] Speaker G: I lived on Washington Street.
[00:15:28] Speaker D: Right.
[00:15:28] Speaker G: Downtown.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Oh, the downtown part. Near the. Near the depot.
[00:15:31] Speaker G: Yes.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: See, I do know Averill. Yeah, my.
[00:15:34] Speaker G: Right across the street from the train station.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Oh, really? Because that was where they had the big fire not too many years ago. My grandparents lived. My mother's folks. Lived up on the hill.
[00:15:45] Speaker G: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: On top of Mount Washington.
[00:15:47] Speaker C: Your gypsy grandmother.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Pardon me?
[00:15:50] Speaker C: Is that your gypsy grandmother?
[00:15:51] Speaker B: That was my Hungarian gypsy princess grandmother. You used to say, show me a man who's kind to the people of Haverhill and I'll show you a tarnished and rusted paper clip.
[00:16:08] Speaker C: I wish I could tape them.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah. As a matter of fact, haven't got. Interesting. Because the immigrants used to live up on top of the hill. And then when they started getting money, the next generation would move up to Main Street. Then finally, Canoza Avenue. Hey, with. You know, it's kind of a steady progression. I know all that stuff.
[00:16:25] Speaker J: And it's a wonderful place to purchase gold Bond Haverhill.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Oh, Haverhill. Yeah.
Okay, Mary, how old do you think Tony Martin is? A man who's probably never ever was in Haverhill.
[00:16:37] Speaker D: You're older now.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: That's right. Oh, please, please.
[00:16:41] Speaker C: 79.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: 79, okay. Tony Martin actually is 80. So we did get two correct answers, including the lovely Fran and the really ugly looking Jack.
[00:16:53] Speaker F: Oh, thank you. The only Canadian.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:16:56] Speaker G: I guessed 79.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, you were very close. And as a matter of fact, Mary in Pennsylvania also guessed 79.
[00:17:03] Speaker G: Oh, they were right on the. Right on the dot.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: And no, no, 80 is correct. So you're not listening. You don't listen to this. You don't. You're used to being a producer, so you figure you don't have to listen to this program even when you're part of it. In fact, Mike Epstein guessed 81, so he was. He was very close also. Okay, Jimmy Buffett also was born on. On Christmas Day. His biggest hit was Margaritaville in 1977. He owns a store selling a line of his own tropical clothing.
I didn't know that. That's interesting. Okay, Fran, what do you think? How old do you think Jimmy Buffett is?
[00:17:41] Speaker E: I think that Jimmy Buffett is 40 something.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: 40 something.
[00:17:49] Speaker E: No. Okay, he's 40.
Okay, I'm gonna carry the two soundly.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: You sound like Tony now.
[00:17:59] Speaker E: He's 48.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: 48, okay. And let's see, Mary, what do you think?
[00:18:06] Speaker C: 52.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: 52 says Mary, and Tony says the.
[00:18:10] Speaker J: Old Parrot Head is 47.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Now, why did you call him that?
[00:18:15] Speaker J: His fans are known as Parrot Heads.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Really? Why is that? Why is that?
[00:18:19] Speaker E: Well, because of the tropical thing.
[00:18:21] Speaker J: Yeah.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Oh, because of his tropical clothing store.
[00:18:24] Speaker J: And the tropical theme of his music and so on.
[00:18:27] Speaker G: You know, like a Deadhead for the Grateful Dead.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Well, I can understand Deadheads for the Grateful.
[00:18:32] Speaker J: Yeah.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:34] Speaker G: One of them wear hats with Harrison.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, that's enough. That's the most foolish thing.
[00:18:41] Speaker J: Now that you know that, Norm, can I say it again to get a real hearty laugh out of you?
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:18:45] Speaker J: Thank you. Okay, the old Parrot Head is 47.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Mike, what do you say?
[00:18:59] Speaker H: I think he's Jesus. I want to say he's 52.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: 52. Boy, that was painful, wasn't it?
[00:19:07] Speaker H: That hurt really, really had.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: You already had to fetch that one out, didn't you?
Fetching it out is a dumb birthday games term. I hope I'm not getting too technical.
Okay, and Frank, what do you say?
[00:19:21] Speaker D: I'll say 45.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: Okay. Frank says Jimmy Buffett is 45. And John Kelly says, you know, it.
[00:19:29] Speaker G: Was interesting when Mike said oh, Jesus, because Jesus was also born on.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Oh, will you get on with it?
[00:19:37] Speaker G: Right.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
Did we exhaust all the producers at Emerson College? Is this what was left over?
[00:19:46] Speaker I: He must think he's One of the three wise guys.
[00:19:51] Speaker G: Yeah, really wise producers. 45.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Okay. And Jack, what do you say? 48. Oh. Oh, no. Oh, I'm sorry. Jack. Okay, Jack. Jack from Otto. I was talking to the other Jack, but. Oh, okay, but you said 48. And Jack Hart says.
[00:20:09] Speaker I: Well, I had no luck with this earlier, so I'll try it again.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: 44. 44. Okay. Jimmy Buffett is 47.
And Tony Nesbitt said 47.
[00:20:20] Speaker J: We all thought that was a bird brained answer, so.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Boy, that laid an egg.
Oh, sure.
Okay, so that means that about five of you. Five of you have one correct answer apiece. Frank, Fran, Jack, Mike and Tony.
And otherwise known as the Mills Brothers.
Okay. Ann Lennox, who, you know, was.
I'm sorry. Annie Lennox. Composer, keyboard and flute player for the Eurythmics. And the first big hit they had, Sweet Dreams Are Made of this. They recorded that 1983.
She's from Scotland. Wow. You all know who Annie Lennox is. She got the short hair, strangely attractive, kind of.
She looks a little like that lady who does the exercise stuff, doesn't she?
[00:21:20] Speaker H: Yes.
[00:21:22] Speaker G: In fact, they've never been seen together.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: You think it's probably the same person? It could be, yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker I: Depends on which one has the hair that day.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: That's right, yes.
Okay, let's. Let's kind of lower the hilarity just for a second in order to get some guesses. And we'll go to Jack Hyde. You take the first shot on this. Annie Lennox. Annie Lennox.
[00:21:47] Speaker H: 38.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: 38. Okay. And Frank from Haver. What do you say?
[00:21:55] Speaker D: 33.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: What do you think Jack from Ottawa.
[00:21:58] Speaker F: 32.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Okay. And John about 37. 37.
[00:22:05] Speaker E: Fran, I'm with him on 37.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: 37. Okay. Mary, 36. 36. And let's see.
[00:22:15] Speaker H: Mike, I think she's 34.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: 34. What do you say, Tony?
[00:22:19] Speaker J: You ready, Norm?
[00:22:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:21] Speaker J: 39.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: She's 39 actually, you know, you see, she actually is.
Is this right, don?
She is 39. Exactly. 39 years. You know, the same age as, you know who, who.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: I clap and I dropped my phone.
[00:22:44] Speaker F: Corny claws. That.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Okay, see, but, but It's.
[00:22:47] Speaker J: She is 39.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah, she's 39. So you hit it right on the button.
[00:22:50] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: And Jack was 38, so he was very close too. Fran was 37. You all gets fairly close except Jack from Ottawa who really bombed out. It was really pitiful.
[00:23:04] Speaker F: No, I don't have the buck.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Okay. Larry Zonka, that's always a nice name, I have to say. Larry Zonka from Stowe, Ohio, played for the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants and rushed for over 7,000 yards in his career. Great football player, Larry Zonka. He was. Is he one of the tough guys?
He wasn't one of the really, you know, awful guys? Yeah, tough guy.
[00:23:32] Speaker D: Oh yeah.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: Was he a tough guy, Larry Zanca? He was at the kill his opponents and all that stuff.
[00:23:37] Speaker I: Well, you see, it came from his childhood. You see, his family would make everybody dress up in a lemon colored outfits and go yelling through the streets and everyone called them the screaming yellow Zonkers. So it kind of had an effect in his later life.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: You didn't really say that, did you, Jack? Did you? Did you say what? It seemed something came over my earphones. A really bad joke.
Yeah, must be, must be some technical problem here. Okay, let's see. Let's start with you, Jack from Ottawa, Canada. Larry Zonka.
[00:24:08] Speaker F: I'm not sure, like I'm for cfl, not for NFL.
[00:24:14] Speaker G: Oh, Canadian Football League. Yeah.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:24:18] Speaker F: I'm not too familiar with the NFL. I don't follow it.
What's the Canadian Football League?
[00:24:25] Speaker G: Can I tell a brief?
[00:24:27] Speaker B: No, no, no.
[00:24:33] Speaker G: For him.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: How old, how old is he? 40. 40.
[00:24:36] Speaker F: I'll throw something out because you have more American players in the Canadian Football League.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you have more Canadian players in the American.
Well, it is in the American National Hockey League. So he's just trying to strike back. I hope that's okay. And up in Toronto you get more American players playing there than you have.
[00:24:56] Speaker J: Canadians, actually, you know, they're going to. They're Trying to get a CFL team in Worcester now.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they want to bring. They want to bring Canadian football.
[00:25:05] Speaker G: Football to them, and they play a very weird style of football.
[00:25:10] Speaker F: Watch. The Edmonton Oilers are going to go to Baltimore.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. You're not used to them.
Dimensions of the field is different and. Yeah, some of the rules and all that. Anyway, John, go ahead. What do you. How old do you think Larry Zonk is?
[00:25:25] Speaker G: I'll say 53.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: 53.
Okay. And, Mary, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you like that.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: Oh, that's quite all right. Very exciting.
Oh, 52.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: 52.
Okay. And let's see, Mike, what do you think?
[00:25:47] Speaker H: When did Zonka play?
[00:25:48] Speaker B: In the.
[00:25:49] Speaker H: In the 70s, early 80s.
[00:25:51] Speaker G: 70S.
[00:25:52] Speaker F: No clues? No clues. I'm Canadian. I'm Canadian. I didn't get any clues.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Okay, well, it's true.
[00:26:01] Speaker H: Yeah, I'll say.
I'll say he's 49.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: 49. Okay. And, Frank, what do you say?
[00:26:11] Speaker D: I'll say 43.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: And what will you say, Fred?
[00:26:14] Speaker E: I'll say 50.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: 50. Okay. And Tony?
[00:26:20] Speaker J: 46.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: And what do you think, Jack? 52. 52. He's 47.
Let's see. I think Tony came to close. He's 46. Yeah. And.
[00:26:31] Speaker G: Hey, Tony, are you cheating by any chance?
[00:26:33] Speaker J: Yes, I am.
[00:26:34] Speaker F: Close that book, Tony.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Close that book, Tony.
Close that book, Tony, Hear me, eh? Yeah. You Canadians, you talk really nice, eh? Okay, now. Hey. Okay. Hey, I think we milked that one enough.
Oh, Frank. No, that's not Frank. It's Jack. Who said that? Jack, be quiet.
Let's go to Tuesday, December 28th. Okay? And because we'll be here Saturday night, Sunday morning. So we won't guess the Sunday ones, but we guess. Let me see. And Monday, hardly anybody of note was born. Even the 27th.
[00:27:15] Speaker J: My mom was.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: Is that her birthday? The 27th. Oh, that's nice. Well, she was born the same time as a lot of dead people were born.
I don't mean anything personal by that, but there were some interesting people, but nobody living. Harley, of any note. There's some Marlena Dietrich, Oscar Levant.
[00:27:36] Speaker G: Oh, she's dead.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: Lee Salk, I think. You don't really listen to this program, do you? Did I just say that? Oh, I've been up since. Oh, shut up. You shut up. Most of all, you shut up. Sydney Green Street, Louis Pasteur. They were all born on December 27th on the date that your mom was born.
[00:27:56] Speaker J: Now, who's alive, though, that they have listed the.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: The people who Anna Russell, who not too many people know, was a great satirist. She's a singer, comedian. She used to do satirized opera singing. Anna Russell. She was very big when I was a little bit younger. She's 82.
[00:28:13] Speaker J: Did she lose weight?
[00:28:14] Speaker B: She'd be 82.
[00:28:15] Speaker J: Oh, you mean popular. I'm sorry. No, you meant she was big.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: Does John. Does John Kelly write your material? And I tell him to shut up.
[00:28:25] Speaker G: Constantly telling me to shut up.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yes, that's true.
[00:28:28] Speaker F: What was that book?
[00:28:29] Speaker B: That's. That's quite true.
John Amos, the actor. John Amos. He was in Roofs. Yeah. That's good times. And wasn't he on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? Wasn't he the weather caster?
Gordon? That's right. I thought he was excellent.
[00:28:43] Speaker G: He was great with Andy Amos and Andy.
[00:28:46] Speaker J: Who else, Norm?
[00:28:48] Speaker B: Tova Felshu, who's an Israeli actress who was in Fiddler on the Roof and a few other things in Boston. Not too well known, but quite a good performer.
[00:28:56] Speaker I: Was she in the movie?
[00:28:58] Speaker E: Yeah, she was in the Whole Across.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Or was she in that too?
[00:29:03] Speaker I: So in a movie about a TV movie about a factory burning down?
[00:29:09] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: Oh, that was one in. In New York, wasn't it? New York City, yeah.
Was she in the movie Fiddler on the Roof?
[00:29:21] Speaker E: She was on Broadway, I think, wasn't she?
[00:29:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know.
Yes. Okay. Anyway, those are the ones born. Yeah. On Monday the 27th. But here we go to Tuesday the 28th. Denzel Washington was born there from St. TV, Saint Elsewhere. Was he in that? I didn't realize he was insane.
[00:29:43] Speaker J: Elsewhere.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he was in Glory, Mississippi Masala, Malcolm X.
[00:29:49] Speaker J: Pelican Brief.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: Now, what else he was in.
[00:29:53] Speaker C: He's in a movie.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Philadelphia, New movie. Okay, Philadelphia.
[00:29:57] Speaker J: Tom Hanks. Yeah.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: He was in the movie the Mighty Quinn. Also the first time I'd seen him. The Mighty Quinn. Okay, Denzel Washington, let's start with you. Mary.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: 32.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Frank, what do you say?
[00:30:15] Speaker D: I'll say the big four zero.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: And Fran.
[00:30:19] Speaker E: I don't know.
34.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Okay, Jack.
[00:30:25] Speaker I: Which one?
[00:30:26] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Jack from Ottawa.
I. I'll have to be careful about that.
[00:30:32] Speaker F: 36.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Okay. And, John.
[00:30:36] Speaker G: I was gonna say 36. 37.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Okay. Cause you could still say 36, but that's up to you. Mike, what do you think? 38. 38, Jack, you know, that other Jack.
[00:30:49] Speaker I: Maybe you should call him Jackie O.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: Jackie O. I'll do that. My Jackie is in Ottawa. That O. And you can be Jackie H. Sure.
31. 31. And Tony Denzel. Washington. How old do you think he is?
[00:31:04] Speaker J: 30.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: 35. 35, actually, Mike. Mike Epstein hit it right on the button. He's 38.
[00:31:13] Speaker G: Excellent.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Thanks, Leanne. 38, Mike.
[00:31:16] Speaker H: Thank you very much.
[00:31:18] Speaker B: So Mike has two correct answers, Tony has three, and everybody else has one apiece.
[00:31:25] Speaker G: Except for me.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: Except you and Mary. You and Mary. And neither one. You're both a couple of losers. Pretty beautiful. Pitiful, both of you. Pitiful.
[00:31:35] Speaker G: Okay, thank you and good night.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Maggie's. Maggie Smith has a birthday also was born on December 28th. She's the. Yes. She won an Oscar in 1969 for best actress in the prime of Miss Jean Brody. She was also in Room of the View and Sister Act. Was that. Was that the Whoopi Goldberg movie? I didn't see that. Obviously, Maggie Smith was in that one, too.
[00:32:00] Speaker I: She was also in a movie with Michael Palin.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I was thinking he was a.
[00:32:04] Speaker I: Priest running a wayward home for wayward.
[00:32:08] Speaker C: Called women who hurt their knees or.
[00:32:10] Speaker I: Women have hurt their knees.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Michael. Michael Palin was in. Isn't that interesting, Mike? Because Michael. Michael Palin was in a. In a funny movie. The Russians are coming. The Russians are Coming. He was. He was at the airport. Michael Palin. Remember when. Yeah.
[00:32:28] Speaker J: Monty Python.
[00:32:30] Speaker G: You're thinking of someone else.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry. Then obviously I'm thinking, when the Russians are coming.
[00:32:35] Speaker J: I'm thinking, whoa, he must have been three.
[00:32:37] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:32:38] Speaker I: Oh, no, that was 1969.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true.
[00:32:41] Speaker I: Monkey Python was well under. Began in 68.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Thank you very much for trying to make some dignity out of my stupid answer, Jack. I appreciate that.
[00:32:50] Speaker J: Well, was that. Was he in the movie Norm, or you are thinking of somebody?
[00:32:53] Speaker B: No, I thought it was. I thought it was. Is he a British actor? Is that what you're saying? No, this is very much an American actor. You know, Michael.
[00:33:00] Speaker J: You know, Michael Palin.
[00:33:01] Speaker I: He's the thing.
[00:33:02] Speaker J: He was Kicka Ka Ken from A Fish Called.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: That's right. He was the stutterer. That's right. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's right.
[00:33:09] Speaker I: He also just recently did that. That 80 the thing.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: Well, he just did Pole to Pole.
[00:33:15] Speaker H: Yeah, but.
[00:33:16] Speaker J: And his new one was Pole to Pole.
[00:33:18] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:33:19] Speaker J: Where he went from the north to the South Pole. That was an excellent documentary that he did. Thank you very much.
It's getting too educational.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: Now. Back to the bad jokes.
She sounds so cute. Even though you can't hear what she's saying.
[00:33:36] Speaker G: It doesn't matter.
[00:33:37] Speaker H: She just sounds cute.
[00:33:38] Speaker J: Just a little voice in the Air.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: It's kind of nice. Yeah, it's kind of like a little bird just chirping off in the background.
Okay. Besides, we're guessing Maggie Smith's age. Maggie Smith. Well, let's start with you, John. John Kelly. How old is Maggie Smith?
[00:33:54] Speaker G: Oh, boy. How about 71?
[00:34:00] Speaker B: Maggie Smith says. He says 71.
[00:34:04] Speaker G: I have no idea.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: That why you're laughing? In sheer embarrassment?
[00:34:09] Speaker J: Yeah.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: Okay, Frank from Haverhill, what do you think?
[00:34:13] Speaker D: I'll go with 48.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: You kind of chuckled at that, too, didn't you?
[00:34:19] Speaker J: There's a little disparity between us.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: Okay, Jack hart.
[00:34:25] Speaker I: Let's see.
61.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: And Jack from Ottawa. Jack, Jackie O.
[00:34:31] Speaker F: 75.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: 75.
That sound like it? Yeah.
That's really nice. I like that kind of guess of my best friend.
Yeah. Hey, no, you're gonna do the A's. We're never gonna finish those A's. Mike, what do you say?
[00:34:51] Speaker H: I think I'm gonna say 63.
[00:34:55] Speaker B: 63. Okay. And Mary from Pennsylvania.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: I think she's 46 again.
[00:35:02] Speaker B: She's 46 again. What do you say? 46 again.
[00:35:06] Speaker I: Well, she's been 46 for a while.
[00:35:08] Speaker B: I see.
Still. Still 46.
[00:35:11] Speaker D: Didn't like it the first time. Figured she'd try it again.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe the second run through. Okay. Tony. Tony, how old do you think Maggie Nesbitt is?
[00:35:20] Speaker F: 69.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: She won. I mean, Maggie.
[00:35:22] Speaker J: Maggie Nesbitt.
[00:35:28] Speaker B: Close that book.
[00:35:29] Speaker G: Tony smith.
[00:35:30] Speaker J: Let's see, 69. She won on the list, and she's probably about.
I'm trying to figure this out now.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: Hold on. Give the man.
[00:35:47] Speaker J: 59.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: 59. Okay. What do you think, Fran?
[00:35:54] Speaker E: Well, that's what I was gonna say. 59.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: 59.
[00:35:56] Speaker E: I would like to say that. Doesn't Tony's voice sound funny?
[00:36:00] Speaker B: It always has.
[00:36:04] Speaker E: Just there in the studio.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Different on the phone.
[00:36:07] Speaker E: Tony, you do have a very nice voice, but it just sounds different.
[00:36:10] Speaker C: Very nice.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: No, he is on the telephone.
[00:36:12] Speaker E: That's.
[00:36:12] Speaker B: That may be the. Yeah, that may be the reason.
Yeah. Here's a cheap phone at home.
[00:36:18] Speaker J: I'm scrambling it. My voice is being scrambled.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: That's right.
They're protecting me, actually. You, You. You and Fran hit that right on the button. Maggie Smith is 59. With all that figuring. Yeah, she's 59. So we have just one more. One more guest to do Somebody else born also on that same date on the 28th next Tuesday.
LU Jacoby. Was he in.
Was. Was. Was. Was he the uncle in. In my favorite year?
[00:36:50] Speaker I: I think so. Yeah.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: He does.
[00:36:52] Speaker I: He does the Swiss cheese commercials.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Now I care about how you and how you eat. See, now I, you know, I get him mixed up with a guy who does the. The Dunkin Donuts. Yeah, that's something.
[00:37:04] Speaker J: Does he look like him?
[00:37:05] Speaker H: That's someone else.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he does look like him.
[00:37:07] Speaker J: That helps me with.
[00:37:08] Speaker B: Well, they're both. They're both kind of old Jewish style kind of comics.
[00:37:14] Speaker I: There's actually a very funny album out. You don't have to Be Jewish is the name of it. And he's on it along with Jack Guilford and Arlene Galanka and a bunch of other people.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Oh, that. That album came out a number of years ago, did it not? It's quite an old album. Yeah, I remember that. That's a funny album. Well, now, Jacoby is the one. In my favorite year, he was the one. He was. Well, I'll tell you some other movies in just a minute. But he was running around the table when Mark. The Mark Lynn Baker character brought home the. The O2 character. Remember, he brought him home to his home in. In Brooklyn.
[00:37:49] Speaker E: And Lenny Kazan was it. Lenny Kazan.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Lenny Kazan was the mother. She was great.
[00:37:55] Speaker E: Welcome to my humble Bo Peep.
[00:37:58] Speaker B: Oh, my humble.
[00:38:00] Speaker E: My humble chapeau.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: My humble chapeau.
[00:38:02] Speaker G: That's right.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: And her son said she had been studying at the Sorbonne in Paris or something.
But it was. It was Lu Jacoby, this character, who said to.
To O'Toole, to Peter O'Toole, something about his relationship with some actress. And he said, so tell me, did you stupor.
[00:38:26] Speaker G: You can't say that, Norm.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: I love radio these days.
Few years back, I couldn't have said that. I once said, hell, and I nearly got fired. I came close to getting fired. Now I can say, hey, did you stupor? And I'll probably survive that anyway. But that was Jacoby.
[00:38:44] Speaker I: Let me see. Episode of the. If anyone can remember by this. There's a funny episode of Sanford and Son where someone stole the idea of Sanford and his family, but only made it a Jewish family. It was Goldberg and Son. And so they went down to see it and they were suing them. And he played the fa. He played the Sanford character in that.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Any. He. And other things. He was. He was on the. Says he's from Canada. He was on the Dean Martin show in Somerset, the first serial spin off from another serial, Another World. I don't remember Somerset. Do you? The Another World. Is that. That's still on, isn't it? Isn't that. And apparently they tried Somerset. He was in a film in 1990 called Avalon. Who was in that?
[00:39:30] Speaker G: Oh, Barry Levinson.
[00:39:32] Speaker D: That's a great movie.
[00:39:33] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: Oh, yes, yes. That was Place in Baltimore.
[00:39:38] Speaker D: Yeah. Part of a trilogy. Three movies.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. No, I did see. I did see Avalon and. Okay, he was in the. Lou Jacoby was in that. Okay, we've established who Lou Jacoby is. I guess we can now get on.
[00:39:50] Speaker H: With else that d.
I'm with you. I have no idea who this guy is.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Jacobi. He's a very funny man.
[00:39:57] Speaker J: I'm just going by the Dunkin Donuts.
[00:39:59] Speaker H: Yeah, same here.
[00:40:00] Speaker B: I have the. Duncan, you can guess that guy's age. He's probably about the same age, I would think.
[00:40:06] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Mary, let's start with you.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: 53.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: 53, okay. Frank, what do you think?
[00:40:19] Speaker D: Well, going along with the donut theme, I'd say six dozen.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Okay. Six dozen would make him 72.
[00:40:28] Speaker D: You got it.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: You want to do that?
[00:40:30] Speaker D: Sure.
[00:40:30] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:40:31] Speaker C: Baker's dozen.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Well, a baker's dozen would be 13. Yeah. Would be 13 times 6, which would be 78. Okay. What do you think, friend?
[00:40:43] Speaker E: What did Mary say? Did she say.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: Mary said. Mary said 53.
[00:40:47] Speaker E: Oh, okay. I'm gonna say. I thought she said 67. That's what I'm gonna say. 67.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: Okay.
All right. And Jack from Ottawa.
[00:40:57] Speaker F: I'd say 50 or 69.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: 69.
Okay. And John Kelly, our last chance to.
[00:41:06] Speaker G: Get on the board.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Yes, that's right. Because you've been striking out really fiercely.
[00:41:10] Speaker G: 70.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: 70. Okay. And Mike Epstein.
[00:41:13] Speaker H: 60.
[00:41:14] Speaker B: And Jack Hart. 75. And Tony. Wow.
Hold on.
[00:41:21] Speaker J: Jack's answer that. Well, I'm gonna be strong and stick with my own.
I never really had one, so could you come back to me?
[00:41:29] Speaker B: Yeah. We could do the 4 o'clock news. We could do a lot of Gary Lapierre stuff. Come back to you later. Sure.
[00:41:37] Speaker J: 64.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: 64. 64. Okay. Lucha Kobe on this. On at least on Tuesday on the December 20th will be 80.
Isn't it kind of nice for not people not even coming. Coming close.
[00:41:54] Speaker J: And you said he looked like the Dunkin'the. Dunkin donuts guy isn't 80, maybe 80 pounds overweight, but he's not 80 years old.
[00:42:01] Speaker I: That guy's actually in his late 60s, I believe.
[00:42:04] Speaker G: Yeah, I'm sure you look alike, though.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: Maybe I. They're sort of the same kind of character in a way. Yeah.
[00:42:09] Speaker I: Little funny mustache.
[00:42:11] Speaker J: It's almost like saying, oh, one of my heroes. And then, you know, one of your heroes is not even. Is like right at the same age and I don't know, you're always trying to confuse us.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: You've really turned out to be a sore head, you know that? Can you hear yourself whimpering and whining? Because you won. Yeah, the guy won.
Not that round, the winner. I said. Let me tell you who the winner was. Yeah, who was. And then we can sort of ramble on, but Jack Todd says 75 and he was the closest. All right, so Jack finally makes. Gets, gets to the board and. Oh, I forgot, Jack didn't have any correct answers up to now either.
[00:42:45] Speaker J: Really?
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's. That's unusual, isn't it? So Jack, John and Mary.
Jack Hart, that is. No, Jack, I'm from Ottawa. You had one, but.
Well, everybody had one except. Oh no, the Mike had two and Tony had four. So Tony is the winner.
[00:43:06] Speaker F: Tony had the buck.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he would, he would win the useless worthless prize.
[00:43:12] Speaker J: Thank God.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: Except he works here so we don't send him anything.
[00:43:15] Speaker J: I feel so lucky.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Okay, I want to thank you, all of you for, for taking part.
[00:43:23] Speaker F: Happy holidays and a great new year. Happy Christmas everybody.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: Well, thank you Jack. And happy, happy Christmas to you too, Jack.
[00:43:31] Speaker F: Happy Christmas to everybody.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Norm, a picture of you.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: A picture of me? Yes. Humble, funny looking me.
[00:43:40] Speaker C: The almost good looking Norm Nathan.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, we'll, we'll do that.
[00:43:43] Speaker G: It's kind of like Lou Jacobe.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Yeah, except I'm a lot older.
Hold on a minute. Mary and John Kelly will take your name and address if I can ever scoop him out of the studio and send them back.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Thank you very much.
[00:43:59] Speaker B: Okay, so hold. Yeah, hold on. Don't hang up yet. So, okay.
[00:44:03] Speaker G: Merry Christmas everyone.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: Okay, thank you, John.
I turned off my own microphone as I was saying goodbye to John. I'm so dumb anyway, but adorable. And Mike Epstein, I want to thank you very much. Nicely you come by. Now you're going on duty at 4:00.
[00:44:20] Speaker H: Yeah, now I'm going on duty.
[00:44:22] Speaker J: Gonna.
[00:44:22] Speaker H: I have to go. I have five minutes to do my news ups.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: Your news up. Now what exactly? For those of us who don't understand all those technical terms, what is a news up?
[00:44:31] Speaker H: A news up is an exercise to sort of get the blood moving in a news vein in a news oriented direction.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: What do you do? Push up. Yeah.
[00:44:40] Speaker H: And what you're gonna do is you take association and press wire copy and you rip it off the machine at a high rate of speed and you quickly scan through it, run to us, run into a studio and, and quickly yell out everything on the paper and try to make sense of it all.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: Oh, boy, that sounds like quite an order. Wow.
[00:44:59] Speaker E: Challenging at 4 in the morning.
[00:45:00] Speaker H: Oh, exactly.
[00:45:02] Speaker B: Luckily you make big bucks of this high paying industry, this glamour business. Yeah. So, you know. So I imagine you're really willing.
[00:45:09] Speaker H: By the way, I heard you talking about Nick at night and about some of the old shows they have. Yeah, you missed a really good Mary Tyler Moore episode earlier this evening. It was one where she falls in love with a priest or a minister or something like that. Oh, yeah, it was a really good episode.
[00:45:23] Speaker B: Oh, it's kind of interesting because a few weeks ago they had Ted Baxter trying to make out with a. A nun who was dressed in civilian clothes and a very attractive, sharp lady. That Ted Baxter. I just think of Ted Baxter. I want to laugh. There's such a funny character. Anyway, I think that's one of the best shows that's ever been on television. And Mary Tyler more.
[00:45:44] Speaker H: And if no one else mentioned it, for your funny movies list, I. I want to mention the Monty Python movies. Any of them the Holy Grail.
Oh, Holy Grail is a ride of a movie.
[00:45:55] Speaker B: Funny stuff. Hey, you guys.
[00:45:57] Speaker J: Classic.
[00:45:58] Speaker D: Okay, can I make a vote for a comedy?
[00:46:00] Speaker H: On that note, everyone, Merry Christmas.
[00:46:02] Speaker J: Merry Christmas.
[00:46:03] Speaker H: And we'll see you later.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: Okay, thank you, Mike.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: Bye.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: And that Mike is not going off to do his news ups.
He's gonna. He's gonna flex his byline or something like that.
He's flexing his byline right now. If you think that's not an ugly sight, I don't know what it's.
Now, who suggested. Who's gonna suggest another funny movie?
[00:46:28] Speaker D: I was.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Okay, Frank here.
[00:46:29] Speaker D: I was gonna mention Airplane.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: Oh, sure.
[00:46:33] Speaker D: And also I wanted to mention that you on the dumb birthday game earlier this week, you were guessing the age of Barbara Billingsley.
[00:46:41] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:46:42] Speaker D: And she was in the movie Airplane.
[00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. She was talking jive.
[00:46:46] Speaker D: Yeah, it was great.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. That was a great. That was a great moment. Yeah, I. I thought Airplane 2 was sort of funny, but Airplane, the first one was. I thought it was just hilarious.
[00:46:57] Speaker C: Was Leslie Nielsen in that?
[00:46:59] Speaker B: Yes, he was. Yeah, he was pretty much the whole movie of that one. No, I guess he wasn't the whole movie in that. He came. He came along in one of their later program movies, the. The Naked Gun. Yeah.
[00:47:11] Speaker C: About to crash. And, and the stewardess says, surely you can do something. And he says, stop calling me Shirley.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Yes, that was. That was Leslie Nielsen. Yes, that was fun.
[00:47:21] Speaker J: He was the doctor on There.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: And Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd Bridges was the typical cliches for that kind of a movie.
[00:47:29] Speaker J: The wrong night to start sniffing glue.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Listen, listen and listen hard.
He repeated that about 10 times. Listen and listen hard.
[00:47:42] Speaker J: He was. In fact, he was still talking to him when the plane was already down. You gotta come in and you gotta bring it in slowly.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: There was one scene in the movie.
[00:47:51] Speaker D: Where he took his cigarette and he threw it out the window and he blew up all of the. The gasoline.
[00:48:01] Speaker B: I thought that. That's right. That's. That's got to rank very high as a funny movie, wasn't he? Yes, he was. Yes, Lloyd Bridges was. And he must be very proud. Of course, he's got Jeff and Bo, his two sons, who are doing very, very well. Both fine actors. Jeff especially is been in some very unusual movies and has performed beautifully.
[00:48:23] Speaker D: One with Michelle Pfeiffer.
[00:48:25] Speaker B: That's right. Yeah.
[00:48:26] Speaker D: And so was Bo.
[00:48:27] Speaker J: Right. Fabulous Baker voice.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: The fabulous Baker voice. That's right. Yeah.
Mary. Anyway, you're going to take Mary's name and address, John. Okay. And, Frank, thank you very much for playing with us.
[00:48:39] Speaker D: I enjoyed it very much.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: I enjoyed having you, too. Thank you. And. And thank you very much, Fran.
[00:48:45] Speaker E: Happy holidays, Norm.
[00:48:46] Speaker B: Thank you very, very much. I hope you have a great holiday and a lovely new year.
[00:48:50] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:48:50] Speaker B: Okay, bye. Bye. And Tony.
[00:48:53] Speaker J: Merry Christmas, Norm. Merry Christmas, Jack.
[00:48:57] Speaker B: I guess. I guess he's gone.
[00:49:00] Speaker J: Oh, okay.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: Well, I must have got rid of him.
[00:49:02] Speaker J: Next time you talk to him, tell him I. Tell him I wished him a merry Christmas.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Okay. I think he may be listening right this very moment. But thank you very much, Tony. And I hope you have a great holiday. And I'll see you.
[00:49:12] Speaker J: Who knows? Maybe I'll talk to you Saturday night, Sunday morning.
[00:49:17] Speaker B: Oh, that would be. That would be great. Otherwise, I'll see you after the war in that little cafe in Antwerp, Belgium.
[00:49:23] Speaker J: I'll be there. We'll go for a root beer.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: I think that was quite a nice game for Christmas Eve 1993 and 2024. We will be back next week on New Year's Eve to close out 2024 in style with a show from 1995.
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[00:51:07] Speaker B: He was before my time.
How would I know about him? George Washington was even before my father's time so we don't neither one of us know about George Washington. The US Constitution that was written before our time. I don't know.
[00:51:20] Speaker I: They know they're dinosaurs.
[00:51:22] Speaker B: The Bill of Rights. What's that? I don't know about that.
