Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Please come on in and warm yourself by the fire. Grab a cup of hot cocoa, a fuzzy blanket and crank up your streaming machine as the vault of Selinus brings you a dumb birthday game from January 8, 1995. Later, you'll understand why I have titled this episode A Little off the Top. The players, Robert from Everett, wearing makeup and a bow tie, hoping a talent scout will discover him. Marilyn and Revere Marie from Quincy. I'm producing and in the studio. Liz is also in the studio. And Ken Newman in traffic. The birthdays, David Bowie, Shirley Bassey, Charles Osgood, Soupy Sales, Yvette, Larry Storch, Butterfly, McQueen and Sander Vanoker. Post game callers, Craig and the one and only Generosa. Oh, and thank you to Gladys for keeping me highly caffeinated this week. Episode 219, a little off the top heads its way to your ears in three, two and one.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Hello, Robert.
[00:01:09] Speaker C: How you doing, buddy?
[00:01:10] Speaker B: I'm doing okay.
I was doing okay after this point. Well, I. Tony, Tony, Tony Nesbitt sprung you on me.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: No, no, no. I dressed up. I dressed up. I have my tuxedo on, I have makeup and my bow tie.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:01:25] Speaker C: Nobody does a show with 38 states in all of Canada. There may be a talent scout out there, may catch my act.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Listen, I got news for you, Robert. You're all washed up. Forget it.
Put your stuff away in the trunk. Bury it.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Drop it in a break. Give me a break.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Bury it in the mystic river and call it a day. Okay, let's see who else is playing the game. And I hope we have no more surprises like that. Marilyn in. In Revere. Oh, hello, Marilyn.
[00:01:55] Speaker D: Yes, hello again.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Hello.
And we have Marie also, who's in Quincy.
[00:02:01] Speaker E: Hi, Norm, how are you?
[00:02:02] Speaker B: I'm fine, thank you.
[00:02:04] Speaker E: I have a question to ask you.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Yes?
[00:02:06] Speaker E: Do you think if you won the $9.1 million in lottery that it wouldn't be as boring to read?
[00:02:14] Speaker B: No, I suppose it would not be boring if I had bought it. Even if you buy a ticket, then you care about the number.
Do you buy lottery tickets?
[00:02:23] Speaker E: Yeah, I do.
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Okay, so I have a win. No. So you really care about the lottery numbers then? Obviously. Because you want to know whether you won. Yeah, I think I bought about two lottery tickets in the entire run of the lottery, so. So I don't really care. So that makes it boring, I suppose. But most people do buy lottery tickets, so I'm being kind of selfish about that. Does somebody have a radio on?
[00:02:48] Speaker E: Sounds like it's on your end.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: Or a television. No, no, that's it. Is that you, Robert? You have the television set on?
[00:02:56] Speaker C: No, sir.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Marilyn?
[00:02:58] Speaker D: Yes, it's off now.
[00:03:00] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Would you turn it off then? That would be really just certain. I'm nice. Okay.
And Tony Nesbitt will be playing the game with us. Hello, Tony. Hello, Norm. Hello.
[00:03:10] Speaker F: Hi.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Hi.
[00:03:12] Speaker F: You know, we had a big list of people to play tonight, but no one answered their phone. So they happen to wake up now and say, hey, he didn't call.
[00:03:19] Speaker B: I did. And you didn't answer. Yeah, that's right. Because people say they like to play and then they drift off to sleep. Yeah, they're probably right now dreaming of Robert being attacked by lions and hoping they tear his body to bits. I don't mean that. Yes, I do.
[00:03:35] Speaker F: Yes, you do.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: Okay. Yes you do. Liz, The. The adorable Liz is playing with us to do. Hi, honey.
I beg your pardon?
[00:03:43] Speaker G: I said, hi, honey.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: You did say that, didn't you? That was very, very nice. Very nice. Norm.
[00:03:49] Speaker F: Norm.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Yes, you.
[00:03:50] Speaker F: Beads of sweat on your forehead. Now what is that?
[00:03:52] Speaker B: Yes, it really is. Yeah, I'm getting. Not only that, but I'm breaking out into a rash.
Shoot.
[00:03:58] Speaker F: Would you like some gold von cream?
[00:04:01] Speaker B: That would be nice.
[00:04:02] Speaker F: And what's the sound when you rub a little bit on the cooling effect?
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Something like that.
[00:04:09] Speaker D: Right.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Okay. We also. We also have, of course, the exciting Ken Newman who's playing the game with us. Hi, ken, the Traffic WBZ 24 hour traffic network reporter. Hello, Ken.
[00:04:21] Speaker H: Hello, everybody.
[00:04:22] Speaker E: Hi.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Okay, now we've got.
[00:04:26] Speaker F: He's on his sixth cup of coffee, doesn't he?
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he's really. He's really up there. Okay, okay. As you know, for those folks of you maybe who do not know, the way we play the game is. Is there something. Somebody having an asthma attack?
[00:04:39] Speaker H: That was. That was the. The important traffic information coming in code over the line.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: Oh, is it.
[00:04:46] Speaker F: What is that? How does it come up when you.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Decipher the kind of. Is it heavy breathing? Is that how it comes in?
[00:04:53] Speaker H: No, it's little electronic whistles and chirps.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Whistles and chirps.
[00:04:59] Speaker F: Is that a Christmas song?
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I believe so. Whistles and chirps and funny little noises.
[00:05:05] Speaker H: A few of my favorite things.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, here's the way we play the game is I tell you who was born on this date and you tell me how old they are. And of course, from then on we, just because of our snappy ad living, we take that dull premise and build it into something totally mediocre.
And whoever gets the most correct answers, or at least the closest, more. More close answers than anybody else, gets a junkie prize.
[00:05:32] Speaker F: I love the honesty.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: Okay. Today's the birthday of David Bowie. Of course, I try to tell you a little something about these people.
David Bowie.
I don't seem to have any information. Oh, yes, I do. He was born David Robert Jones in London, England. His biggest hit, fame in 1975. He married model Iman. Iman. Iman, yes. In 1992, his second marriage. He was in the film the man who Fell to Earth in 1976. Actually, this is the 1994 edition of the celebrity book. No, no, I'm updating the ages. But they may have done something since then that I'm not aware of. I've ordered. Oh, you did order a recent book, and that'll probably come probably by May or June. Yeah.
So meantime, we'll have to go buy some of the older information. And I'll ask you, Robert David Bowie, what do you think?
[00:06:33] Speaker C: Gee, I don't even know David Bowie.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Oh, that. What a shock that comes to us. What a shock. No, I know you're serious. I know you are.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: You said he was born 1975.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: No, I didn't say yes. I said he was born in 1992. Where did you get 1990?
[00:06:48] Speaker F: He was in a movie in 76.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Yeah, he did a movie. And he. He. His biggest hit was fame in 1975.
[00:06:55] Speaker F: Oh 5.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: He married model Iman. Is that Iman? Iman. Imani in 1992.
[00:07:02] Speaker C: Oh, I'll give you 47 years old on that one.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: 47 years old on that one. Okay. And Marilyn, what do you think?
[00:07:09] Speaker D: I'll say 40.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: And what do you think, Marie?
[00:07:15] Speaker E: Let me see. I don't think he's 50 yet, so I say 49.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: 49. Okay.
[00:07:22] Speaker F: And Tony, I don't think he's 50 yet either.
[00:07:26] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:07:28] Speaker F: I'll take a stab at stab. Bowie knife.
[00:07:32] Speaker H: Get it?
[00:07:32] Speaker F: Step.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent. That really nice.
[00:07:37] Speaker G: Oy, it's gonna be a long knife.
[00:07:39] Speaker F: 40.
Yeah, I'll say 49.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: 49 also. Okay. Liz, what do you think?
[00:07:46] Speaker G: I'll say 49.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: 49 also. Okay. And Ken?
[00:07:51] Speaker H: I think it's 47.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: 47. Okay. We have a lot of winners, although nobody hit it right on the button, which is 48. 48. So we have Roberts at 47. Ken said 47. And Marie, Tony and Liz all said 49. Hey, so the only record. Yeah. Marilyn from Revere is the only one who kind of missed totally, but we still love you, baby. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying, babe?
[00:08:20] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. How about Shirley Bassey? Do you know that name? She's quite a good vocalist. Yeah, from Cardiff, Wales. Her biggest record, Goldfinger. Goldfinger in 19. That was in 1965. Hard to believe it went 30 years ago. 30. Yeah, just 30 years ago. That's right. From the James Bond movie of the same name, Gold Finger.
[00:08:45] Speaker F: No, no.
[00:08:46] Speaker H: I wonder if they named the movie after the song or.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:08:49] Speaker H: That works.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: No, they named Shirley Bassey after the movie with which was the song, and. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm trying to make something humorous.
[00:08:57] Speaker F: What was the name of that movie and song again?
[00:08:59] Speaker B: The gold thing? Goldfinger. Okay, so Shirley Bassey, who's also done a lot of other excellent recordings, she's quite, quite good. We'll start with you, Ken. How old do you think Shirley Bassey is today?
January 8th?
[00:09:16] Speaker H: How about 56?
[00:09:20] Speaker B: About 56. Okay, Liz, what do you think?
[00:09:24] Speaker G: I'll say 57.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: Liz will say 57. And Tony will say something fishy about this. Bassey. Fishy.
I think I get it.
[00:09:36] Speaker F: Too bad.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: Surely your name isn't Bassey.
It is.
[00:09:42] Speaker F: And will you please stop calling me Shirley?
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, God, we're a bunch of moviegoers.
[00:09:51] Speaker F: He's gonna be in town next week. Leslie Nielsen.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Is he?
[00:09:55] Speaker F: Yeah, he's receiving the Chowder Pot Award from the New England Video Retailers association or something.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Is he really?
[00:10:02] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: I must be overwhelmed by that.
[00:10:07] Speaker F: No, I try to get a number for the New Eng Video dealers, and it wasn't listed, so try to get them on the show. Maybe I should have done a little more research.
[00:10:16] Speaker G: Well, tell him if he's listening, to call in.
[00:10:18] Speaker F: Yeah, Leslie.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he's probably.
[00:10:21] Speaker F: Surely.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he probably is listening.
Anyway, 50.
[00:10:25] Speaker F: Let me see. 30 years ago, so she was probably about.
And so at 30 of that, and you could easily.
[00:10:35] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:10:35] Speaker F: 61.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: 61. Okay. And Marie?
[00:10:40] Speaker E: Well, I'd say about 64.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: 64. And what do you think, Marilyn?
[00:10:48] Speaker D: I think about, let's see.
60.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: 60. Okay. And Robert, I have to say 62 years old. 62 years old. Okay. So now we're gonna check and see how old Shirley Bassey really is.
She's. She's 58. Oh, he's old today. I think Liz came the closest with 57.
Ken was not far off. He said 56, and nobody said 59.
So Liz now has two out of two. Very nice. Thank you.
[00:11:23] Speaker G: Thank You.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: No, that's okay.
[00:11:26] Speaker F: One for each dimple.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Do we include Liz as an employee here at wbc and so she's not eligible for.
[00:11:31] Speaker G: Hey, I work. I work. I've been putting the.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: The. Okay.
[00:11:35] Speaker I: No, no, but he's trying to say.
[00:11:37] Speaker F: You don't get a prize.
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. If you work here.
[00:11:39] Speaker G: That's all right. You can hold off on the prize. After the last two that I got, I think I'll.
I'll let you keep your prize.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Did you actually win something? Yeah, I know that you won, but I mean, did you actually get something?
[00:11:52] Speaker F: I saw it at the house, too, in the. And it's in the closet in the envelope. It has a name on. I said, oh, what did Norm send you?
[00:11:58] Speaker G: And I saved your letter.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: I hope you don't mind the lipstick smudges on it.
[00:12:04] Speaker G: Well, the cologne was a little strong.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: I borrowed that from Bob Raleigh.
[00:12:10] Speaker G: That explains it.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Okay.
Why not just throw all your eggs in one basket and jump in the river and drown and scramble them?
This is the birthday of one of my favorite broadcasters, Charles Osgood.
[00:12:26] Speaker F: Ah, the Osgood files, which I think is making. Will be making a return to.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: That's right. He'll be back, probably on B.C. yeah. Okay. Because we're gonna start using some CBS radio stuff too.
Okay. Charles Osgood. Let me see what I can tell you about Charles Osgood.
[00:12:41] Speaker F: Dave Maynard and his other side can take a hike. No, that'll still be on.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: He was born Charles Wood. I didn't realize that.
Maybe old Charles Wood changed it to Charles Osgood. Why would he do that? What's wrong with the name Charles Wood?
[00:12:57] Speaker F: I don't know.
Okay, but where would he get Osgood even if he thought there was a problem with Wood?
[00:13:02] Speaker B: I don't know. That might have been his mother's maiden name. It's hard to know where people get names. At one time he worked as an announcer for Bob and Ray.
[00:13:11] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: When they went, left HCA in Boston, went to New York. I guess I didn't know that. His books include Nothing could be finer than a crisis that is minor in the morning.
And there's nothing that I wouldn't do if you would be my P. O. S S lq.
I have no idea what that is. What is poslq?
I don't know.
[00:13:38] Speaker H: It's a good scrabble word.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: But anyway, good yet is a good scrabble word.
[00:13:43] Speaker F: My.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: My puzzle on sophisticated stuff in the. At the Latin Quarter.
But he's a great, very, very interesting man. I met him once at A party in Wellesley.
[00:13:58] Speaker F: Well, there you go. You know, when you do this, you flaunt, you know, you name celebrity.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:03] Speaker F: Name dropper.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Yeah. He was drunk out of his. He was drunk out of his skull. And I wanted so much to talk with him because, you know, he's. No. There was nothing wrong with him having by a bit. He was at a private party. He was sleeping overnight. He wasn't going anywhere. And. But I've always admired him. I think he's one of the really great broadcasters. And so I said, charlie, could I talk to you a little bit? And he said, I think I'll throw up. Anyway, that was the end of the conversation. I never did talk to him.
[00:14:32] Speaker F: And if he threw up, would we call it the Osgood Bile then?
Maybe not.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: No, I said, maybe, Maybe not.
Okay. And if he smiles, mine is not as good as yours. The maybe. The Charles would be Osgood smile. Yeah, okay.
[00:14:53] Speaker F: Okay, Marie, they ran a race, and it could be the Osgood Mile could do that.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:15:00] Speaker F: Anything else? If he worked putting new ceramics in bathrooms, it could be the Osgood tile.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Or if. If he had some kind of a hemorrhoid.
I don't know that anybody cares, but today is his birthday.
[00:15:14] Speaker E: You don't care what I say or you don't care?
[00:15:16] Speaker B: No, no, I don't care how old he is? No, we care what you say. We care desperately, Desperately. You don't understand what I'm saying, sweetie.
Okay.
How old do you think?
[00:15:26] Speaker E: I think he's. I remember him turning 60, so 62.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: 62. Okay.
And, Liz, what do you think?
[00:15:41] Speaker G: Say 63.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: 63.
All right. And 10.
[00:15:46] Speaker H: I'll do the old one Upman thing there and go with 64.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Right. And what do you think, Robert?
[00:15:52] Speaker C: Oh, that's the young man. I know who he is.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: You know who Charles Osman is?
[00:15:56] Speaker F: You worked with him, didn't you?
[00:15:57] Speaker C: 67.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: 67, that's right.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: No, man, if I win tonight, do I get a lock of your hair instead of a present?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: You have all of it? Sure. I'll get another set. Okay. Okay.
Marilyn, what do you think? How old do you think Charles Osgood is?
[00:16:18] Speaker D: Let's see.
Probably 72.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: That'd be an interesting prize, wouldn't it?
[00:16:24] Speaker F: The old one?
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah, just don't let the cat at it.
Tony, what do you say?
[00:16:32] Speaker F: Oh, you know, if he was in Germany during World War II, would it be the Osgood Heil?
[00:16:36] Speaker B: Oh, would you stop? When you just stop.
[00:16:40] Speaker F: Let's see, what's the high age?
[00:16:42] Speaker B: The Highest age is 72.
[00:16:44] Speaker F: Oh, no, no, no, no. What's the low age?
[00:16:46] Speaker B: The lowest is 62.
[00:16:50] Speaker F: Oh, okay, 66.
Right in the middle.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: 66. Okay. Actually, Charles would have been right in the middle there.
[00:17:00] Speaker F: 72.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: And those. Actually, actually 62. He's 62 years old today. Charles Osgood. And that means Marie. Marie has got. Now got two correct answers.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: Very good.
[00:17:12] Speaker E: I don't want a lock of anyone's hair, though.
[00:17:15] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Maria's. Maria's tied with Liz. They both have two apiece. And one by Robert and one by Ken and one by Tony. Marilyn, you're the only one who hasn't scored yet, but you sure scored with me, baby.
That was kind of sexual tease right there.
[00:17:35] Speaker F: Oh, is that what that was?
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it usually does nothing but nauseate women, but I keep using it. You never know.
[00:17:41] Speaker H: Well, sometimes it makes them file sexual harassment suits.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: I know. And sometimes I think about that. I was at. Well, never mind that story.
[00:17:49] Speaker F: Oh, come on, tell us one of those name dropping stories.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: No, I was at an office the other day. I won't tell you which one, because we could track it down maybe. And there was a woman who was there who's pinch hitting for the regular woman who was on. Who just had a baby and was not in. And I said, the secretary of.
[00:18:07] Speaker F: Or at the front reception.
[00:18:09] Speaker H: No, no, no, I thought you were actually playing baseball.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, this was. They were not secretaries. No, these were. These were skilled craftspeople. Okay. But I won't tell you what the field was. And I said to her she was attractive.
[00:18:22] Speaker F: You were in a brothel. Come on, don't.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, I said she was very attractive. And I said, the fellow who runs this office, I think is probably practicing discrimination because there's not an ugly woman here. You're all incredibly beautiful. And she gave me kind of look like old, fat old guy.
Go away. You know, And I expected next thing she was going to take me to court.
So, I don't know, guys are kind of confused as to what sexual harassment really is, you know? Well, never mind. I don't know. Explore it here. But I mean, it becomes a problem just to say something like that.
And you're not. Who has the asthma?
[00:19:04] Speaker F: Marilyn, you're breathing heavily into the phone.
[00:19:08] Speaker G: All this sexual talk you're getting around.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's this sexual harassment. Anyway, Soupy Sales was born. He was. He was born. Milton Hines in Franklinton, North Carolina, hosted a Children's show from 1955 to 1966. Was the world's leading authority on pie Throwing. Remember, national shows were based on that. He had one record that made the charts in 1965, and I didn't realize that was called the Mouse.
[00:19:38] Speaker F: How did that go?
[00:19:39] Speaker B: The mouse who went.
[00:19:41] Speaker F: Mouse finger.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Oh, say, can you see there's a mouse on. On me. Something of that nature. I forget. Anyway, Soupy Sales.
Let's start with you, Tony. What do you think? How old is soupy sales?
[00:19:59] Speaker F: So 55 to 60 something. The show ran.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: It ran from. I'll tell you exactly. It ran from. Yeah. 55 to 66.
Means it hasn't been on the air in years. 29 years.
[00:20:12] Speaker F: Yes, 29 years.
When it was off the air, was he like in. Like on Truth or Dare or some of the Truth or Consequences? What's.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: No, no. Yeah, he was. Was that once in my line. I know he was on some panel shows.
[00:20:25] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, one of those. To Tell the Truth. That was the one. I think he was on that, too.
[00:20:30] Speaker E: It doesn't really do much for you, but.
[00:20:32] Speaker F: Well, I'm just trying to picture him. That's about the last time I saw him, and that was, like, in the mid-70s, so.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Oh, I was getting mixed up with Pinky Lee, who I think died. Did he not? Oh, did he? I know he had a heart attack at one point.
[00:20:46] Speaker G: Well, that should make Soupy feel good.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Pinky. Pinky Lee. Let me look at Pinky Lee.
I don't know why I'm looking. Why am I looking up Pinky Lee? I just see if he's got to.
[00:21:00] Speaker F: Give me time to figure this out now. This in my head. So it's probably a walk.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Pinky. Pinky Lee.
He's not even in the book.
[00:21:08] Speaker F: He's been dead that long.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: This means a man died, and nobody even cares to put him in the book.
You know what? I always have this dread that I will die and my name will be spelled wrong on the tombstone.
[00:21:22] Speaker G: We'll go down with Magic Marker and fix it.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it'll. It'll say, you know, it'll say Ron Nason or something like that?
[00:21:32] Speaker F: 63.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: I'm sorry, I forget the question now.
Okay. Soupy sales.
[00:21:38] Speaker G: Minestrone sales.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: 63. Okay, Robert, what do you think Soupy.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: Sales is the one that told kids on television, go into your mother's pocket, send me a dollar. And he got thousands and thousands of dollars. The kids would send Soupy Sales. Do you remember that one?
[00:21:57] Speaker B: I remember him when he's instructed the kids to do that. Yes, I do. I did realize he got all that Money. What did he do with it?
[00:22:04] Speaker C: He sent it right back. Of course. Publicity stuff.
[00:22:07] Speaker H: He should be an evangelist.
[00:22:09] Speaker B: That's right.
That's right. This is an Abadam non denominational program.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Is he the one throw the pies and everything? The pies and do all this. The stick, like you call. You know, the burlesque stuff?
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I said he was the leading authority on pie throwing. I believe I said that, right? Production. Yes.
[00:22:28] Speaker C: You're a genius.
[00:22:29] Speaker F: Who made him that? Did he graduate from something? Did he get a degree in pie throwing?
[00:22:33] Speaker B: Who?
[00:22:34] Speaker F: High school?
[00:22:35] Speaker E: No, pie school.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Pie school, Yeah.
[00:22:38] Speaker F: I mean, how do you become the leading authority and who designates you?
[00:22:41] Speaker H: I think there's a lot of competition for that slot.
[00:22:43] Speaker F: And you just work your way up and then suddenly you're like, you know, king pie throw.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just happened that Milton Burrow did it.
Well, yeah, but he didn't.
[00:22:53] Speaker F: He's not the leading authority on it.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: No, he didn't do all the pie stuff. I don't. He used to say make up and they would slam, you know, some powder puff, some makeup on his face.
[00:23:02] Speaker C: Yeah, but you know what the pie was made of?
[00:23:05] Speaker B: No.
[00:23:06] Speaker C: The pie was made of shaving cream.
[00:23:10] Speaker H: That would be a terrible tasting pie.
[00:23:12] Speaker C: Yeah, because I had many of those thrown in my face.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be, you know, that would make a lot of foam and all, you know, kind of. It'd be a nice picturesque.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: Sales is 63 years old.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: Who asked you?
Oh, I think I did. Oh, so you're sticking with what Tony said?
[00:23:29] Speaker F: Of course.
[00:23:29] Speaker C: That's his age.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Okay. And Ken, what do you think?
[00:23:34] Speaker H: 65.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: All right. And Marilyn?
[00:23:37] Speaker D: 66.
[00:23:39] Speaker E: Marie, you said it shows in 55.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Yes, 55 to 66.
[00:23:48] Speaker E: 70.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: All right. And Liz?
[00:23:52] Speaker G: 67.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: Okay. Soupy sales today, January 8th, is 69.
Okay. He's the same age I am.
[00:24:03] Speaker C: Boy, I'm not going to get a lock of your hair.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Marie. No, Marie said 70. So she, I believe, was the close notice of 68. So Marie has now moved into the elite. She has three correct answers. Very good, Marie.
[00:24:17] Speaker E: No one's gonna lock my hair either. But.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: What.
[00:24:22] Speaker E: But that's okay.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: What do we get, baby? What is it exactly? Okay, how about Yvette Menu, who's a French actress?
Oh, no, she was.
She was born in Hollywood, California, but her name is M I, M I, E, U, X. How would you pronounce that? Robert? You're from Canada. Yvette?
No, it's M I, M I, E.
[00:24:52] Speaker C: U, X. Oh, no, that's like mini they call Mino.
[00:24:55] Speaker E: What?
[00:24:56] Speaker B: Why is it we never get a straight answer?
[00:24:57] Speaker F: It's been mukes.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be. It would be. Actually, yes. If we want an anglicizer, we call her Yvette, but it's Yvette. Mimi.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: If you pronounce it in English, it's Levette.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: It isn't. It isn't Lovette. It's Yvette with a Y.
Mamu. Okay. She was born. And actually. Actually, she was born in Hollywood. Where? California. Hollywood. California. Where?
Hollywood.
[00:25:25] Speaker F: Thank you.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: In Hollywood. She's born. I'm sorry. She's born in Hollywood. Only 3,000 miles away from Broadway.
[00:25:34] Speaker F: What is.
[00:25:34] Speaker I: What is 3,000 miles away?
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Hollywood. And she was in the movie Joy in the Morning with Richard Chamberlain and the black hole in 1979.
[00:25:45] Speaker F: Some reason. It's not like those two movies could be tied in. But why.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Why was. Why was. The last movie was in 1979, and she hasn't been in a movie since then.
[00:25:55] Speaker E: Was she like Catwoman or something?
[00:25:57] Speaker B: No, that was.
[00:25:58] Speaker F: Well, there's a few people, but.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: You mean on Bat. On the Batman TV series now?
[00:26:03] Speaker E: Yeah, but she reminds me of somebody that play.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: I don't know, man. No, I don't. I don't know. I mean, of course, this is an old book, but it doesn't have anything more recent than 1979. And we're going to start with, let's see, Marie, since she's leading the pack.
[00:26:18] Speaker E: And I'm the one that doesn't know who she is or I know her face.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: But do you know her face?
[00:26:24] Speaker E: Well, I don't. Not personally, but I've seen her in something, or I think I have.
Oh, God, I don't know. 53.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: 53. Okay. Now, I know it's tough sometimes to guess these things, and I. I really. I really feel that these panel members do such a swell job.
[00:26:45] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Because I don't think I could guess anywhere near as close as.
[00:26:49] Speaker I: One of these days, I'm gonna come.
[00:26:51] Speaker F: In and I'm gonna host it, and you're gonna get.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: And I'll guess.
[00:26:53] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: You'll see how Robin get the new.
[00:26:54] Speaker F: Book when you get the new book.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Okay.
Ken Newman, what do you think?
[00:26:59] Speaker H: I was afraid you were going to ask me next.
I have that phobia.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: It's called the next in line phobia. It's a very serious phobia.
[00:27:11] Speaker H: Yeah, it is. It is. It's treatable, though. That's good.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: The good news, Dan Quayle had that when he was the vice president and Nothing ever happened there, so don't worry about it.
[00:27:24] Speaker F: What is the cure? You go to the end of the line, you just never get what you want. You just keep getting out of line and going back again.
[00:27:30] Speaker B: See, Ken Newman has the same problem I've had through the years because of his last name is sort of the second half of the Alphabet, as is Nathan.
And as a result, you don't get called on till later. Nesbitt too, the same thing. You don't get called on in class because they call you alphabetically.
[00:27:52] Speaker H: Even when they reverse it, it doesn't really help much.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Reverse web.
[00:27:57] Speaker H: Sometimes I go start from the Z's. Just to change it up a little bit. At least they did that in my.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah, they did it a few times. And is the 14th letter. So it's right sort of in the middle. Yeah, Yeah.
[00:28:09] Speaker H: I had a tragic childhood. Anyway, what was the point of that?
[00:28:13] Speaker F: No, I just wanted to know where were you going with that?
[00:28:15] Speaker B: There's no point to anything I do. You know that. No, there's no point to this program. There's not even a point to WBC radio station. There's nothing. No point to wasting.
[00:28:24] Speaker F: Okay, I'm sorry.
Dose of reality came in.
[00:28:28] Speaker I: I'm sorry.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: I don't know. I never understood why you. You wanted to find some kind of sanity and reason to all of this business here. Just come in, have fun, pick up your paycheck, go home, don't make a thing.
[00:28:40] Speaker F: We get paid for this. Is that what the. Is that what that was? That I got promised.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: I promised George Westinghouse. I wouldn't say about that.
Anyway, Ken, I'm sorry.
[00:28:50] Speaker F: The question is, I got gas money this week. Is that what you mean? That was.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Okay. Yvette, mi mieux.
[00:28:58] Speaker F: Would you like the most dance in your shirt?
[00:29:02] Speaker H: Well, let's see.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker C: Yvette.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: I love saying that, though. That's really so kind of sensuous. Yvette Mimi sounds like a French cow.
That's when you say that means you have a face like a big cow, my dear.
Or you can say universe de fromage.
[00:29:32] Speaker F: Is it the big piece of cheese.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: That's a big piece of cheese?
[00:29:35] Speaker C: Yes, that's correct.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: You have a face like a big piece of cheese.
[00:29:38] Speaker F: That's right.
[00:29:39] Speaker H: I'll have to learn that one.
[00:29:42] Speaker B: And then throw in the macherie that. That makes it all.
[00:29:45] Speaker F: And then after mon cherie Yvette Mimieu, just throw that in there too. Because they won't make us a name and they'll think it's proud of them?
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah, you bet. Me? Mirror. Sure.
[00:29:54] Speaker F: Mario Lemieux souffle.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Okay. Will you tell us how old you think you've been? Exactly?
[00:30:05] Speaker F: 50. 50.
[00:30:06] Speaker H: I think she's 50.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: 50. Okay. And let's see. Marilyn.
[00:30:11] Speaker D: 63.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: 63. Okay. And Robert.
Robert.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: That's Robert from Oriel, Canada, from Everett. That way. You know, I have a funny line, but they cut me off.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: He said funny line about the French girl. Yeah. Tell us how old you think Yvette Mimi is.
[00:30:33] Speaker C: Okay, she's 55.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: 55.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: If you wouldn't let me do that line. Boy, it's funny.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: It's funny.
[00:30:39] Speaker F: Look ahead.
[00:30:40] Speaker C: What the heck has to do with French girls?
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead, do it.
[00:30:43] Speaker C: And it's a clean show.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: But nobody has a.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Do it. Do it.
[00:30:48] Speaker H: Killing us. You're killing us.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: I love the French girls in Montreal. You got a Hannah. And they're going to get it anyway.
[00:30:55] Speaker F: What?
[00:30:56] Speaker B: Okay, let's move right along now.
Yeah, that joke. That joke was old when you were involved.
[00:31:03] Speaker C: I know it's old, but I don't tell new jokes. I just refresh your memory, huh?
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. Yeah, me. I am. I'm really ticked off at you, fella. Tony, what do you think?
I don't mean about my met Mimi. I mean what a jerk Robert is. That's what I want to discuss.
[00:31:23] Speaker F: I hope he gets to sing for us before this night is out.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: Okay, how old.
[00:31:29] Speaker F: How old is Yvette Mimiu.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Yvette Mimi. She's getting more publicity Robbie's gotten in.
[00:31:35] Speaker F: 20 years since 79. Since that last movie. 79. Last movie.
[00:31:40] Speaker H: So that was the Black Hole.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: The Black Hole, yeah.
[00:31:43] Speaker F: Who was she in that?
[00:31:44] Speaker B: No, that was the Disney.
[00:31:45] Speaker F: That was the Disney film.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Right?
[00:31:48] Speaker F: That was Disney's first PG rated film.
[00:31:51] Speaker H: All right, Ken, historical moment right there.
[00:31:53] Speaker F: What's that say about us, huh? We know that.
I wonder who she was in that.
[00:32:00] Speaker H: I don't really remember. I just remember the robot.
[00:32:02] Speaker F: Yeah, me too.
[00:32:03] Speaker H: Million.
[00:32:04] Speaker F: All right, so 79 was what, 16 years ago?
[00:32:09] Speaker B: It's gonna be the longest dumb birthday game we've had.
48. 48. And Liz. 50. Liz says 50. Okay, now the answer is she's 56 years old today. 56. Okay, let's see who came to. Well, it would be Rob aft. He said 50.
[00:32:31] Speaker C: Yeah, he said, I know my. I know him. I know the French girls.
[00:32:35] Speaker F: You know you.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: And they know you, too. That's why they walk across the street when they see you coming, huh?
[00:32:42] Speaker C: Hey, I'm winning. Almost.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Well, not quite. I Think Maria's that lock of hair? Oh, yes, sir. You have two correct answers. Actually, you are doing pretty well. And Marie has three and Tony has one. Liz has a couple. And Ken has one.
[00:32:57] Speaker G: I do have a couple.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Does she ever. Liz has a couple. That's right.
[00:33:00] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: And Marilyn.
[00:33:03] Speaker E: Marilyn, yeah.
[00:33:04] Speaker B: Marilyn. Yes.
[00:33:05] Speaker F: Marilyn's a loser.
[00:33:11] Speaker H: No, no.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: Larry Storch. Larry Storch?
[00:33:14] Speaker C: Oh, no.
He's the greatest man.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: Would you like some Storch?
Oh, shut up. Will you shut the heck up?
[00:33:24] Speaker C: Oh, my.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: Shut up. After Robert Larry store.
[00:33:33] Speaker F: He'S aggravating everybody.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: Robert.
[00:33:37] Speaker C: My kind of people.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah, listen. Their voice is still chipping away there. He won't. He won't be quiet. Best remembered as cat. As Corporal Randolph. A gun. A G, A R, N on E, on F Troop. That's correct.
[00:33:49] Speaker F: Just still on Nick at night.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:33:51] Speaker F: I can't watch it anymore. I don't find it funny anymore.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: No, I don't watch it.
[00:33:54] Speaker F: When I was younger.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: No, I watch. I watch Nick and Knight for a couple other things. The Mary show and Bob Newhart. Yes, so. And also Dick Van Dyke show, which is actually Genie and Be With.
I never liked that. The first time around.
[00:34:09] Speaker F: Genie was. Jeannie was okay. I kind of used to get a little spots in my head when I used to watch that show.
[00:34:17] Speaker H: The outfit alone makes it worth watching.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's probably true, Tony.
[00:34:20] Speaker G: A sexual thought. Imagine that, Noah.
[00:34:25] Speaker H: That was a moment of imagination.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, we're gonna start with you, Rob. Larry. Larry Storch.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: He is my favorite. I idolized this man. He was great.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: He's.
[00:34:36] Speaker C: He's a two years older than I am. This is a beautiful, funny, funny man.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Would you just.
[00:34:44] Speaker C: No, he was in nightclub. Nightclubs.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: No, I know that. We all know that. Just tell us how old you think he is today.
[00:34:52] Speaker C: All right. Right. Today, I'd say. But Larry's about 71.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: About 71. That's funny.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: I didn't know he's around.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Yes, he still is around. He's still alive. He's all alive.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: Those good guys.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: That's right. The good guys never die.
[00:35:08] Speaker H: It sounds like a Western.
[00:35:10] Speaker G: They just fade away.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Okay, Marilyn, what do you think? How old is Larry storch?
[00:35:15] Speaker D: I'll say 70.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Say that again.
[00:35:18] Speaker D: 70.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: He said that with such a sensuous voice. That was really nice. I say he's 70.
I think it's gas coming up.
I try to sound romantic and all. It does sound like some kind of stomach ailment.
Marie what do you think now?
[00:35:40] Speaker E: What did Robert say?
[00:35:41] Speaker B: Robert said 71. And nobody's ever asked what Robert said.
[00:35:44] Speaker E: Nobody cares. I don't agree with him on anything.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: He said 71 and Marilyn said 70.
[00:35:52] Speaker E: Oh, 73.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: Okay. And Tony.
[00:35:56] Speaker F: Well, Robert seems to have a. A bead on this. He said two years older than he is. So, Robert, are you 69?
Robert?
[00:36:08] Speaker C: No, I'm 68.
[00:36:09] Speaker F: You're 68, but I. I'm off.
[00:36:13] Speaker C: I think the young lady hit it. 73.
[00:36:15] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:36:15] Speaker B: Okay, Tony, what do you think?
[00:36:17] Speaker F: Yeah. 73.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: 73.
[00:36:19] Speaker G: Okay, Liz, I'll say 74.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: 74. It can.
[00:36:24] Speaker H: Well, I'll say 74, too.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: 74. Also. He's 72.
[00:36:29] Speaker H: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:30] Speaker B: So, Robert, who said 71?
[00:36:33] Speaker C: Did I win and.
[00:36:34] Speaker B: Yes, you did. And Marie said 73, and so did Tony. Yay. So we had three winners there.
[00:36:40] Speaker H: Almost said 73.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: Yeah. So that means Marie now has four, and she's leading the check.
[00:36:47] Speaker E: I haven't got one right on the head yet.
[00:36:49] Speaker H: Yeah.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: And Robert's got three.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: Boy, oh, boy, I'm good.
I get a T shirt.
[00:36:58] Speaker G: You wait till you see what you.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: Yes, you have. And it says over across the front, I am a total jerk. And you are to wear that because.
[00:37:05] Speaker F: I'm with stupid and it points right up at you.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. There's a little arrow pointing up at your face.
[00:37:11] Speaker C: Tony, thank you very much. I got on.
[00:37:14] Speaker F: No, no. Oh, you're welcome.
[00:37:15] Speaker C: Trying to help my career.
[00:37:16] Speaker F: I know. Okay, how about you stop calling, Go on the road.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: That's right. Now you're. Now you're barred from this for the next three years.
[00:37:23] Speaker C: Oh, no. Don't say. I've never been banned from your show, have I?
[00:37:27] Speaker F: No, not this show. You've been banned from many other shows.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: I know. I know from every other show.
[00:37:31] Speaker F: This is the only show in Boston that once I'm on the air, I know it.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: That shows you what we're thinking about. Butterfly, McQueen. I don't have any information about her except that she was in Gone with the Wind.
I didn't realize she was still alive because most of the cast of Gone where the Wind is pretty well. Gone with the Wind.
[00:37:51] Speaker F: Wasn't she the. The model for that Mrs. Butterworth bottle?
[00:37:55] Speaker B: Was she? I don't know.
[00:37:58] Speaker F: Now he's just kind of put those two together for some reason.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: But anyway, she was in the Kona, where The win was 1939, and she was in the. She's done a few things, I think, since then. I'm not quite sure. Exactly.
[00:38:12] Speaker E: What the. The maid, when they were coming back through and one was having the baby, and she says, I don't know nothing about birth and no babies. She was like a. She was a young black slave.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:38:26] Speaker F: And she won. Didn't she win?
[00:38:28] Speaker B: I. I think she may want the first.
[00:38:30] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:38:30] Speaker B: Did she win a nomination or. Maybe.
[00:38:32] Speaker F: I think she won the Academy Award.
[00:38:34] Speaker J: Yeah.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: Okay. Butterfly McQueen. I guess you all know who she is, then.
[00:38:37] Speaker E: No. Mean, we know how old she is, but.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Well, you can sort of figure 1939 for the movie itself and work on from that basis. And what do you think, Marilyn?
72. 72.
[00:38:58] Speaker H: Cut the tension with a knife.
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Boy, that was exciting. Wasn't that an exciting moment there with a butter knife?
[00:39:04] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:39:07] Speaker B: Okay. Marie, did she change her name? Butterfly. I mean, Butterfly McQueen. Yeah.
[00:39:14] Speaker F: I wonder what it was before. Probably was Caterpillar.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: It was Caterpillar McLean.
I think I get that. I'm not sure.
[00:39:24] Speaker F: Yeah. Okay.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Very subtle kind of stuff. Yeah.
Marie, what are you.
[00:39:29] Speaker F: Time for Spring.
[00:39:31] Speaker E: Am I the first one here?
[00:39:33] Speaker B: No, you're the second. Maryland said 72.
[00:39:36] Speaker F: Maryland was Norm's first.
[00:39:38] Speaker E: When wasn't the movie. 19 what? 39.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: 1939Ers. When they made good and when won the award for gone with the win. 1939? Yes.
[00:39:46] Speaker E: How many years ago was that?
[00:39:47] Speaker F: 56.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: That's about.
[00:39:49] Speaker F: It's more than 10 and less than 60?
[00:39:55] Speaker B: 82. 82.
Okay, Liz, what do you say?
[00:40:02] Speaker G: I'll say 78.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: 78. Okay. Ken?
[00:40:07] Speaker H: I'll say 80.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: And Tony?
84.
84. Okay. And what do you think, Robert?
[00:40:19] Speaker C: 82 years old. I remember the little girl. She's fantastic. And a movie star.
I love these people.
[00:40:28] Speaker H: Is there anybody that you really just hate?
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Anybody? Anybody born after 1906?
[00:40:35] Speaker C: You're my best friend. I don't hate you.
[00:40:37] Speaker B: Okay, butterfly. McQueen, today is 84 years old. Exactly what Tony said.
[00:40:42] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Yes. He gets it right on the button. A lot of you, you were.
[00:40:46] Speaker F: He's moving like a butterfly and stinging like.
[00:40:49] Speaker H: Thinking like a McQueen.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:51] Speaker F: Thinking like I'm a queen.
[00:40:53] Speaker B: Okay, so this is. Here's the very last one now. And so far, Marie leads with four, and Tony has three, and so does she and so does Robert.
[00:41:04] Speaker F: So I'm in a class with Robert.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: That's right.
Yeah. This is kind of scary. So this is a.
An exciting round, this next one. This is a tension builder.
[00:41:15] Speaker E: You're a young guy.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: Well, I'm just gonna go be an old guy. Old guy? No, I can only Go by people who are born on this date.
[00:41:24] Speaker C: Somebody in vaudeville.
[00:41:26] Speaker B: Somebody in vaudeville.
[00:41:27] Speaker F: They're all dead.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah, they are.
[00:41:29] Speaker C: They're not dead. It's on the television.
[00:41:31] Speaker E: What?
[00:41:33] Speaker B: It's. They're not dead. It's on the television.
[00:41:35] Speaker F: He's the poltergeist.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: Oh, I see. I see. In other words, as long as they're on television, they'll live forever. They'll live forever in television. And the hearts of men of goodwill.
[00:41:47] Speaker F: Amen.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: Forever. And that's why, Virginia, there is a Robert from Everett.
[00:41:53] Speaker C: Give me Milton Burl. He's good. He just had a birthday.
[00:41:57] Speaker B: No, see, we're talking about. People have birthdays today.
[00:41:59] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: Sandy Van Oker.
[00:42:03] Speaker E: What?
[00:42:03] Speaker B: Okay, I'm waiting. I'm waiting for the reaction on that one.
Or Sander, as we call it. So his full name is Sander S. Andy. He's a newsman for CBS Cleveland. From Cleveland. He. He's noted for the way he writes. It says here. So he writes backward because he's Hebrew. He doesn't.
I don't know what that means.
I guess he's a good writer, but so is Charles Osgood. He does mostly radio and some tv. Sandy. Sander Van Oka. He'd probably be on our radio station, cbs.
[00:42:39] Speaker F: Yeah, he is.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah. That's what I want to be. I want to be a CBS guy reporting from all over the world. I want to say things like, Norm Nathan, CBS News, the Punjab.
Something like that too. I've always wanted to do that.
[00:42:53] Speaker F: Can you do an interview with me and. And you can come up. What did you really think of BZ management? Tony, I. I really can't tell you what I thought of it. You can lean over and say. You can whisper to me, just between you.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: And I'll say they really.
[00:43:08] Speaker F: And then it'll be a big scandal.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: That'll be really nice.
[00:43:11] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:43:11] Speaker E: I invited to the White House. That way you never know, whoever it.
[00:43:15] Speaker H: Is you were supposedly talking about might invite you over to dinner.
[00:43:18] Speaker E: Oh, I'm sorry. That's what I meant.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Okay. Sander Van Ochre, which is a great name.
[00:43:23] Speaker E: Sandra. Is it a girl or a guy?
[00:43:25] Speaker B: No, this is a guy. Sander. S A N D E R. They sometimes call him Sandy Van Oker, but Sander, when he's, you know, being of an official news guy. Van Ocher. V A N O C U R.
An unusual name.
It's. It's actually a chagra name and it means looking at you from the top of the hill while my mother brings up My lunch.
[00:43:51] Speaker F: And in Chagra, how would that sound?
[00:43:53] Speaker B: It. Or if you said it in Chagra, it'd be something like that.
[00:44:01] Speaker F: One of the Romance languages.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: We better get through this quickly because maybe poetry.
[00:44:04] Speaker F: And then the pain is starting to.
[00:44:06] Speaker I: Come up my spine.
[00:44:08] Speaker F: I go from the top of my head.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Now the ABC News people are looking over her shoulder saying, I wonder if they'll get rip get through in time for us to go on with our newscast.
[00:44:16] Speaker F: Norm Nathan, Antwerp, Belgian.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Norm Nathan, CBS News.
[00:44:23] Speaker F: Moscow.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, Rajas, what does that mean?
Anyway, Ken, what do you think? We'll start with you. Tell me how old you think Sander Van Oker is.
[00:44:34] Speaker H: Oh, did we get a point of reference that I missed?
[00:44:37] Speaker B: No, there's no. There's no.
[00:44:38] Speaker F: There's no point of reference. There's no point at all?
[00:44:40] Speaker B: No, there's nothing. No, I don't have any dates at all that you can hang your guess on at all.
[00:44:46] Speaker H: You say he's an older guy?
[00:44:48] Speaker C: I'd say he's Norman.
[00:44:50] Speaker B: No, he's not the same age as I am. But he's an older guy. Yes.
[00:44:55] Speaker C: Right.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:56] Speaker H: So would you say maybe he's about.
Oh, I don't know, I wonder if.
[00:45:02] Speaker F: We cut him in half and count some wings, could we find out how old he is?
[00:45:06] Speaker H: You cut his age?
[00:45:08] Speaker F: Ochre. Get it? Oak.
Thank you very much.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Come on, Come on, you guys. We don't. We don't have much time. How old do you think? What do you say?
[00:45:18] Speaker H: 70, I guess.
[00:45:19] Speaker B: 70. And Liz?
[00:45:21] Speaker G: 59.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: And Tony?
[00:45:24] Speaker F: 72.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: And Marie?
[00:45:26] Speaker E: I'll give my father's age. 57.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: Okay. And your father's 57? Yeah.
[00:45:32] Speaker E: How old do you think I am? 100.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: I don't care to discuss it. It's okay with you. Marilyn, what do you think?
[00:45:40] Speaker D: I'd say 69.
[00:45:41] Speaker B: 69. And Robert?
[00:45:43] Speaker C: 73 years old.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: 73 years old. Okay. He's actually 67 today.
So let me see.
I believe Marilyn got that one.
Yeah. The actual winner of the entire thing is Marie, who got four. So, Marie, if you'd hang in there while we get your name and address and expect a two to four years delivery on a special worthless prize. Alexa, I thank all of you. Robert, thank you. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to get rid of all of you very quickly. Oh, I think I just got rid of Mary. No. Oh, Marie is the one. Yeah, you hold on. Marie and Ken, thank you very much. And like that. And you, Liz, and Tony and the whole crew. And now it's time for it, for the news.
This is hello, Bluebird, one of my favorite tunes.
Everybody join in now.
Okay, I'll sing along and lead the group. Now.
Day long I jump and run about. You can always hear me shouting out hello, blue bird.
Got no time for blues or anything. I'm so happy I just want to sing.
Hello, bluebird, blue sky, sunshine, friends that are real old folks sweethearts, oh, how I feel I'll let go roaming like I did again. I'll stay home, I'll be a kid again. Hello, bluebird. Hello.
I just love this song. It makes me almost want to cry.
You folks at home and you folks on the highways are driving. If you wanted to join us, that would be nice too.
Okay, everybody. Now you could always hear me shouting out, hello, bluebird.
Got no time for blues or anything. I'm so happy, I just want to see sing.
Hello, blue bird, blue sky, sunshine, friends that are real.
Oh, folks, sweethearts, oh, how I feel. I'll not grow men like I get a bed. I'll be home and be again again.
Hello, blueberry. Hello.
All day long I jump back on out you get. Can always hear me shouting out.
Everybody join in.
Hello. Hello, Blueberry. Yes, sir.
Oh, folks, sweethearts, oh, how I feel the BZ corral so lovely.
Okay, everybody else join in now. All you folks on the Southeast Expressway, everybody in Reading, join us.
Hello. Hello, blueberry.
Blue sky. Oh, nice.
Stanley Peppercorn playing the trombone.
Playing, sweetheart. That's nice.
I'll stay home. I'll be a kid again. Hello, bluebird. Hello.
Oh, big sockle finish. Nice, nice, nice. Oh, that was just a nice Route 62.
[00:49:52] Speaker I: First I go past the Portside Diner.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Oh, okay. I know where that is.
[00:49:57] Speaker I: I gotta throw that in.
[00:49:58] Speaker B: That's right. We were talking about that about a week. Yeah, about a week or so ago. Then you come through downtown Danvers.
[00:50:04] Speaker I: And then I cut. I stay on 62, I believe.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: And you go by. You go by the agricultural school. Yep.
[00:50:13] Speaker I: And then I come to a tree. It says the first town meeting.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: That's right, there was the first town meeting held there. That's Maple Street Route 62, Middleton. It's on the right hand side from where you're coming.
[00:50:25] Speaker I: My question was, were you there for the first time meeting?
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Of course I was.
[00:50:29] Speaker I: Okay.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I was there. I was there maybe in fact, even about 20, 30, 40 years before that.
[00:50:35] Speaker I: I was looking for your name on the tree.
[00:50:37] Speaker B: The first town meeting was. Let's see, the town was. Was established in.
In 1728.
[00:50:44] Speaker I: All right.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: I thought first time meeting was soon after that.
[00:50:47] Speaker I: I thought I saw the nn.
[00:50:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:50:50] Speaker I: That was you.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: No, that was me. Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes, I was there, mate. Seconding them. Seconding emotions, not emotions. Seconding motions and amending things. Yeah, I was right there. I was very active.
[00:51:01] Speaker I: You were probably just whittling things off the tree as they were.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: I do that sometimes in the summertime.
No, that's. That's good. So you go that way and then I do that 114 up to Andover and.
[00:51:13] Speaker I: No, I cut through Harold Parker.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: Oh, the Harold Parker station. Yeah.
[00:51:16] Speaker I: 114 is dangerous. No one pays attention to bike riders.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. You're on a bike, though. That's right. You're wise to go where you're going the next.
[00:51:25] Speaker I: I got a pretty cool mountain bike.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: Oh, have you?
[00:51:28] Speaker I: Yeah. So you put it this way, it costs more than my car.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: Now. How often do you take this route on bike?
[00:51:37] Speaker I: Well, put it this way. I worked when I lived in Peabody with my parents. I worked right out of high school. I worked at GE four and a half years.
And I went through the apprentice training program there.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you bike all the time?
[00:51:50] Speaker I: I missed two days and four years.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: No kidding.
[00:51:52] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:51:53] Speaker B: You must be in great physical shape. Yeah.
[00:51:56] Speaker I: Mentally I got a few problems.
[00:51:58] Speaker B: I see. But physically, you're okay. Yeah, I know. I see.
[00:52:03] Speaker I: I never missed. I mean, I've run the marathon three times.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: No kidding.
[00:52:06] Speaker I: Just for fun.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: You're talking about the Boston Marathon and Cape Cod.
[00:52:11] Speaker I: Twice, as a matter of fact. You was my inspiration. Before my first marathon, I was. I ran the Clarence Demar Marathon in New Hampshire. I was going out with one of your daughter Sarah, one of her good friends at the time. And we're still friends, but I must.
[00:52:30] Speaker B: Say, you're going out with one of my daughter Sarah's friends.
[00:52:33] Speaker I: Yes.
[00:52:34] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:52:34] Speaker I: And I saw you down West Peabody at the New Brothers Deli.
[00:52:40] Speaker B: I remember. Yeah, I remember that. Sure.
[00:52:44] Speaker I: I saw your daughter. And I wasn't just getting into talk radio at the time. It's probably about five years ago. And Sarah was like, well, my father's got a radio show on the weekends. I'm like, huh?
[00:52:56] Speaker B: What?
[00:52:57] Speaker I: I was into, like, Larry. I just came into Larry Glick at the time.
[00:53:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Now, Larry Glick was a great deal of fun. Yeah. And I liked him, too. I used to listen to them all the time also. Yeah.
[00:53:06] Speaker I: Then all of a sudden, I heard Rush Wimbar and I'm like, wow, this guy must really.
[00:53:10] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:53:11] Speaker I: He wow. My God, he really knows what's going on.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[00:53:15] Speaker I: Yeah. The more you listen to him, the more you migrate from him.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: Good, good, good fella. I was hoping that would be the end of your story there, because I think he, I think he, he makes up a certain amount and he. Well, anyway, that's a whole. We won't get into that.
[00:53:32] Speaker I: Well, the only thing I don't want to get, like you said, I don't want to get political. But I'm glad he's on because the more he's on, the more I know.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: Okay. I don't know what that. The other way. Oh, the other way. Okay, I see. Okay.
[00:53:43] Speaker I: Creates more followers towards what he thinks he's creating.
[00:53:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he's, he almost does, he's almost doing stand up comedy more than he is. Yeah, Political stuff, it's called.
[00:53:57] Speaker I: If someone wants to expose themselves like that, let them do it.
[00:54:02] Speaker B: Okay. You know something, Craig? You're okay.
[00:54:04] Speaker I: I think you know what I'm saying.
[00:54:06] Speaker B: Yes, I do.
[00:54:07] Speaker I: You're gonna see it. It's fully dying. But anyway, as far as the, the, the marathon and everything, I was, I was pretty nervous as my first one.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: But you, but you made the whole room. Yeah.
[00:54:20] Speaker I: So Sarah brought me over and I. You were with a good friend of yours, and I forget what his name was.
[00:54:27] Speaker B: He's probably Ed Mitchell, I think.
[00:54:29] Speaker I: Very nice guy.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: Ed Mitchell's a very close friend of mine. And we had been over that rest. The one in Peabody you're talking about.
[00:54:37] Speaker I: He's doing a lot of things at that mall now.
[00:54:40] Speaker B: Oh, that's, yeah, that's the small mall. Yeah. Okay.
[00:54:43] Speaker I: Where Mal's was at the time.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:54:47] Speaker I: Male supermarket.
[00:54:48] Speaker B: You know what used to be there at one time was Jerry Lewis set up a series of movie theaters.
[00:54:55] Speaker I: Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: And one of them, one of them was there. The Jerry Lewis theater. He wanted to have family owned theater. Not family owned, but family movies and stuff. And the theater, he set one up at that place. It lasted about three minutes. I think after the second reel of.
[00:55:10] Speaker I: A movie, a little longer.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I think the Sting was there. And there were a few other things.
[00:55:14] Speaker F: Right.
[00:55:15] Speaker I: I used to work at Mal Supermarket.
[00:55:17] Speaker B: Oh, did you?
[00:55:17] Speaker I: Yeah, for about two years my junior and senior year in high school.
[00:55:21] Speaker B: Son of a gun, you're following in my footsteps. I, I, I, I worked at first national stores through my high school years.
[00:55:27] Speaker I: With the famous rolling, rolling groceries. You'd roll them out the door in the, in the baskets.
[00:55:35] Speaker B: Oh, that was even before then. That was when we used to have.
[00:55:38] Speaker I: That one down at Salem, the first one I remember, like 5 years old, my mother.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:55:43] Speaker I: We'd walk out and we'd have nothing for groceries, and all of a sudden there'd be a basket rolling out on rollers.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: You know, I worked in a store long before they. They advanced quite that far. But I know what you're talking about.
[00:55:57] Speaker I: I didn't think that was advancing, actually.
[00:55:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:56:00] Speaker I: But to build up to my pinnacle here. When I was nervous about my marathon and Sarah introduced me to you and you were like, well, how you doing? I'm like, well, I got my first marathon tomorrow. It's the Clarence Dumas marathon up in New Hampshire. And I'm just doing a little cable loading of stuff. When you're like, well, what's your name? I said, well, my name is Craig. You're like, craig, that is a big, strong name. You'll do fine.
Stuck with me the whole race.
[00:56:32] Speaker B: Oh, isn't that nice?
[00:56:33] Speaker I: Through the whole race, I'm like, well, I got a big strong name. I gotta do well.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:56:37] Speaker I: I can't let myself down.
[00:56:38] Speaker B: That's right. Hey, Craig, you're okay.
[00:56:40] Speaker I: Hey, you know what, Norm?
[00:56:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:42] Speaker I: I was gonna call and say you have a great show and all that, but I'm not even gonna say that because I'm gonna give myself credit. I don't listen to bad shows.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: Okay, you're okay.
[00:56:53] Speaker I: I don't.
[00:56:54] Speaker B: I like you, Craig. You're okay.
[00:56:55] Speaker I: Well, I think I'm a little better than okay.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: Well, when I say I think okay.
[00:57:01] Speaker I: I'm only kidding, though.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:57:03] Speaker I: Hey, I'm gonna look for your name in that tree from now on.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: Okay? Take care of yourself.
[00:57:08] Speaker I: I'll see you around the streets of Middleton.
[00:57:10] Speaker B: Okay, great question.
[00:57:11] Speaker J: And then I'm going to say, ciao.
Village green. You go on Wednesday nights. Do you ever show up on Wednesday?
[00:57:20] Speaker B: Yes, I do. I did. I missed this last Wednesday. You're talking about the Bob Bachelder band. He's there every other Wednesday night. He was there. He was there. He was there last Wednesday and I. And I missed it. So he won't be there next Wednesday, but the Wednesday following.
[00:57:35] Speaker J: I'll have to. I'll have to jot that down because a couple of the girls and I. I want to go.
What time will he be there?
[00:57:42] Speaker B: Well, he's there from 7:30 to 10:30. It's just.
Again, it's not a. It's the band rehearsing.
[00:57:49] Speaker J: Yes, I know. I know what it is, okay. Because a friend of My son's plays there. He plays the trumpet. Jim Pastore, he's a very good trumpet player.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: Oh, he, he plays in the Bachelor band.
[00:58:01] Speaker J: Sits in with them.
[00:58:02] Speaker B: Okay, well, there's another band too on Monday nights, the Dick Donovan band that plays at Angelica's, which is right in Middleton Square.
[00:58:09] Speaker J: Yeah, right now.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: And I, I'm. I probably will be there this coming Monday and not that my being there's a big deal. The big deal is the band is there.
[00:58:18] Speaker J: Oh yeah.
[00:58:18] Speaker B: With some good vocalists.
Oh yeah. Every Monday night there. They rehearse there also.
[00:58:24] Speaker J: Oh, great.
[00:58:25] Speaker B: So there's another opportunity catch big. There's some, there's some other big bands that rehearse up on the north shore, also on the south shore and all over the place. So people, people who like big band music ought to be interested in the fact that the big bands still do exist and there are a lot of good musicians who are rehearsing at various locations and you can just drop in and, and watch them and listen to the stuff.
[00:58:46] Speaker J: Oh, well, then I'm gonna, I'm just gonna jot that down.
[00:58:49] Speaker B: Okay. Dick Donovan. That's Monday. Every Monday night.
[00:58:53] Speaker J: Yeah, that's not too far from me.
You very much. I look forward to seeing you some Wednesday night.
[00:59:00] Speaker B: Okay, Very good. Okay, bye bye, Generosa.
[00:59:03] Speaker J: Bye bye, dear.
[00:59:04] Speaker B: Okay. And you can look forward to seeing me and Monday night and Angelica's. I don't know. I'm not the big attraction. The big attraction, obviously is the band and some good vocalists, including Rick Cassiotes, who is our. Who's a member of our board of selectman, who sings with the band.
And Sophie. Oh, I'm getting her name wrong. Shame on me. Anyway, she's the female vocalist and she sings and she's very, very good. Anyway, we will see you there one night. But a lot of people say, boy, I love the big bands and I mentioned some of these places where they're playing, but I don't know, maybe it goes over the heads of people and not too many come out to see them. Or maybe you'd just rather remember rather than take us up on it now. But there are a lot of good musicians playing and big bands and playing good big band stuff. And I'll mention next time we get together, I'll mention a few others because I keep getting more information about other big bands that are rehearsing and some of them are quite good. Anyway, I think it's time for us to say goodbye. Oh, I feel so bad about that. I'm just really getting so comfortable. On behalf of Tony Nesbit and our producer. On behalf of the of course the very lovely Marilyn Gorelnick and on behalf of myself, the almost.
Wouldn't you know I missed it again. The almost good looking Norm Nathan person. Thank you very much. We'll see you tonight at 11. I hope it's a great day for you. It's 4:35 coming up. Bye bye old sport.
[01:00:39] Speaker A: So nice to hear that close from Norm from the almost good looking part to Bye bye old sport. Sweet sounds. Thanks for tuning in again. Please subscribe, like and share these shows. We need to keep spreading the silly. See you next week. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for drowning one's dreams in the Mystic River Breaking out in a rash Heavy breathing, whistles and chirps and funny little noises are a few of my favorite things. Snappy ad libbing, Gold finger Leslie Nielsen the Chowderpot Award. The New England Video Retailers Association Lipstick stained letters in strong cologne the Osgoode Files Biles, Smiles, Miles, Tiles, Piles though that was cut out and heils Dave Maynard and the other side, Bob and Ray. Name dropping, nauseating sexual teases. Incredibly beautiful skilled craftspeople Pie throwing, Soupy and Pinky Outdated old birthday books, Locks of hair. The French cow Levette Mumu.
The lack of sanity and reason Jokes that refresh your memory. F Troop, Caterpillar, McQueen, Tension Builders, Chagra. No points of reference. No point at all really, Norm. Singing hello Bluebird. The WBZ Chorale chorus and band featuring Stanley Peppercorn on the trombone. Big Socko finishes kinda like this. Credits list the Portside Diner Seconding and amending. The Harold Parker State Forest. The New Brothers Deli. Larry Glick, Ed Mitchell. Mal's Supermarket. The Jerry Lewis Theater. First National Building. Up to youo Pinnacle. Big strong names. The Village Green Angelicas. Bob Bachelder. Dick Donovan, Rick Casiotes. Sophie Generosa. Robert from Everett, Ken Newman. And reporting live from the Punjab, the unforgettable Ron Nason. I mean Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
[01:02:58] Speaker B: Charlie, could I talk to you a little bit? He said I think I'll throw up.
[01:03:21] Speaker F: Sa.
