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[00:00:00] Jaren. Oh, Jaren. Yes, Jaren. Oh, I'll never forget that ever, for the rest of my natural life. So long as we both shall live. Amen. And you're down in Maryland? Yes. Okay. In fact, I came to see you around July 1st with my friend Steve.
[00:00:16] Oh, you're that Jared. Yep. Oh, yeah. Yep. Well, it's nice to talk with you again. Good to talk with you, too. Have you had a good whatever month this is? August. Yeah, it's. It's been just wonderful and listening to your show, and I'm glad that you found your theme because, you know, I'm just lost about that. Oh, me too. Boy, I began to sweat when I couldn't find it. I thought, oh, my God, what happened, baby? Jared stole it last time he was here. No, no. Okay. A Cutter in Newton. Hi, Cutter. How are you doing, Norm? I'm doing fine. That's what they is. That's your name. That's your nickname, I assume, is it Cutter? Cutter, yes, sir. Not Cutter. Cutter, but just plain Cutter.
[00:00:53] It's Cutter. Okay. It's nice to have you with us. You've played before, I think your name. I played one other time. I played about two months ago. I think. I do recall that. And you had. Did a Stel performance. Well, thank you, sir. Okay, Matthew is with us. And Matthew is in Marlboro. Hello, Matthew. Hello there, Norm. How are you? I'm just fine, thank you very much, Matthew. It's good to talk with you.
[00:01:15] We have Christian also, who's out in Stoughton. Hi, Christian. Hey, Norm. What's up? And let's see what's up now.
[00:01:23] Certainly not me, But. But what the heck? At my age, what can you expect? I don't know. I turned that down into something smutty. But we also have. Tony Nesbitt is with us. Hello, Tony. What's down, Norm?
[00:01:34] I. I don't recall. Yeah.
[00:01:37] Anyway, we also have. Of course, Tony is our producer. And we also have the very lovely Jack Hart, who's back from vacation. Yee haw.
[00:01:46] Da da. Hello. Hello. Now, you've been back probably for a whole week, have you? I've been back. Well, physically, I've been back for. For a whole week, but I don't think I'm exactly back yet. Emotionally, you're still in that swell vacation spot you chose, which was what? Where did you go on your vacation? We went up to. We went up to Ogunquit, Maine. Ogunquit. And I think that's an Irish town in it.
[00:02:13] And we.
[00:02:15] With. With Mahoney and I, young lady, and we, we got one of these 1950s kind of trailer, not trailer park motor court kind of little cabin things, you know, lined up there. Oh that was just like an old fashioned cabin that they used to have when I was a kid. Instead of the motels on the road instead of motels, this was, this was a little cabin with the, with the kitchen and, and all this kind of stuff and just had a delightful time. Oh yeah, the kind of place you'd each, each one was individually heated rather than central heating. Although you didn't care about that at that time because it's probably funny hot. But we didn't have air conditioning. But that's fine with me. Yeah, because when I was a kid we would get these cabins and you'd have to get, you get up in the morning and you keep the stoke, those big pot bellied stoves and stuff to keep the place warm. Oh yeah, well this, well this had a gas log in it which was probably a recent addition, maybe like around 62 in it. But, but fortunately it was the middle of the summer when we were up there and on the way up we stopped to, to see my girlfriend's mother who is a big giant Norm Nathan fan. Oh my goodness. Why don't you mention her name, where she lives and a little history about her. Well that, that would be, that would be Mrs. Daly up there in the sort of coastal area of New Hampshire. Well, that's the coastal area of New Hampshire. That's about three miles long. Yeah, it's all right. Includes Portsmouth pretty much. Yeah, Portsmouth and then Portsmouth and then there's Hampton, there's Hampton beach and maybe a little bit of Greenfield, although I'm not sure that's right on the water there too. It also includes the town of Newcastle, sort of, sort of stuff. Yeah, so I know about that town pretty well. Yeah. So sort of like in that kind of general.
[00:04:11] That's a very pretty area. It's very, very nice. Very nice. So you had a great time. It's nice. Welcome back. And you have more, you have more vacation time coming. I've got I think seven or left. And so in the course of time all, you know, we'll, you know, the, we'll kind of like eeka day here and e a day there and e day, E day everywhere.
[00:04:34] Old McDonald's Day. Okay, that's really nice. Well, we have a great panel and I, I, I don't know if we have a great panel. We won't know until actually we, we start Playing the game. We don't have an awful lot of really well known people born on this date. Will give us some of the bums then. Yeah, we'll give you. Well, you'll have some of the bums too, because I'm going to be around for the next seven, eight or 12 days, something like that. And so I can't. I can't look ahead and borrow from other days because I want to be here then.
[00:05:03] Yeah. So we're here 10 days. 10 days. I guess that's what it is. Okay.
[00:05:08] All right. This is Saturday, August 12th. It's the. Well, this person, you know, George Hamilton, who has the perennial tan.
[00:05:19] He portrayed Dracula, Zorro and evil Knievel. I don't remember that. Evil Knievel. Did he do that too? I don't recall. Yeah, I think it was a made for TV deal. Okay, Zorro. Wasn't Zorro the gay blade? Yeah, it was a spoof. Oh yeah, Was Evil Knievel want a spoof jacket, you know?
[00:05:40] Well, no, that was. That was a serious drama.
[00:05:44] Oh, really?
[00:05:45] A serious drama.
[00:05:47] Okay.
[00:05:49] I see evil getting into his space mobile. He plans to jump over the river more after this.
[00:05:57] He was on. On TV. He was in Dynasty.
[00:06:00] He appeared in Godfather 3.
[00:06:03] I don't call him in that. He reminds me very much of you and Tony and myself.
[00:06:10] Kind of good looking and, you know, well built and sure, well toothed. Yeah, but closer to my age than either of your ages. Oh, so that was a hint. That was a hint. That's right. George Hamilton from Memphis, Tennessee.
[00:06:26] Jaron, what do you think? How old do you think he is? Oh, wow. I gotta say 68. 68 for George Hamilton. Okay, Cutter, what do you say? How old is George Hamilton on this very day, August 12th, this very day, I'm gonna say 64 years old. 64 years old. Okay. And to Matthew, I'll go with 69. 69 says Matthew. And Christian, what do you say? Eh, 66. 66. Okay, Tony, I'm going to sink my teeth into 68.
[00:07:03] I beg your pardon? Was that that hilarious there, Jack? Well, right on cue, Jack checks in the mail. Thank you. Thank you.
[00:07:10] And oh, Jack, what do you. How old do you think that George Hamilton is? Well, I may won't make quite a biting remark, but thank you.
[00:07:21] I'll say 62. 62. I may have thrown you off by saying he's closer to my age.
[00:07:28] I was thinking his first role was in the Jurassic theater.
[00:07:32] So he is closer to my age than yours, but I didn't say he's really that close to my age.
[00:07:37] But actually, Jack came the closest. George Hamilton is 56.
[00:07:41] Yeah, you really duped us that time. Oh, I didn't.
[00:07:46] I've never learned my lesson to listen to you. Oh, but that's true.
[00:07:50] I used to look up to him when I was a kid. And meanwhile, the guy's like two years older than you are. Well, that I. I didn't do that this time. I simply said the same thing. I know. I simply said he was. He was closer to my age than he was to yours. No, you didn't add that. You add that now then to yours. Obviously, we all know that.
[00:08:10] What did I say? You said he's closer to my age. That's all you said?
[00:08:14] Well, the understanding was he's closer to my age than what? Than your age?
[00:08:19] 13 years. Never mind. Anyway, Jack said 62, so Jack was six years off, which isn't too bad.
[00:08:26] The rest of you had him older than that. So Jack wins the first round. How about Buck Owens?
[00:08:31] Well, that's a gun name you can get excited about, huh? Yeah. Country and western entertainer. He was born Elvis Edgar Owens. Alvis. Elvis Edgar Owens Jr. A, L, V, I, S. That's correct. Geez. Yeah.
[00:08:46] Didn't want to have the stigma of Elvis, so they named him Al Alvis Elvis Born in Sherman, Texas. His biggest hit, I've Got a Tiger by the Tail, he recorded that.
[00:08:59] And he's. And he's really ticked off.
[00:09:03] He recorded that in 1965. I'm going to give you some dates so that you can start working that.
[00:09:09] From 1963 to 1972, Buck and his Buckaroos. Oh, geez, Tommy. What's that in his tick tock melody? Whatever that. Oh, Tommy Tucker and his tick tock melody. Yeah, and Bucking His Bucket.
[00:09:24] There's a double bill for you right there. He had 25 consecutive top 10 hits in the country and western charts, including a great tune called Blood on the Saddle.
[00:09:36] You know any good hemorrhoid doctors, as I recall?
[00:09:40] No, I made that part up. I have to take them seriously.
[00:09:44] He wrote Crying Time for. For Ray Charles. That was a pretty good song. All right, it's Cry Me Now.
[00:09:52] Well, no, maybe it wasn't.
[00:09:55] He co hosted Hee Haw. Oh, boy. This guy's got a resume. This is a resume on TV from 1969 to 1986.
[00:10:06] He recorded his biggest hit, A Satisfied Mind, in 1955.
[00:10:13] What kind of a song would you write with the title A Satisfied Mind? I've got a Satisfied Mind.
[00:10:20] And I've got happy feet and gas on my stomach.
[00:10:28] Okay, that's. That's Buck Owens. Anyway. Now, what a treat.
[00:10:32] Okay, he's.
[00:10:34] Anyway, you get all those days. I got a tiger by the till. 65. Satisfied mine. 55. 55 was satisfied.
[00:10:42] Satisfied mind was 55. That's correct. That was his biggest hit. That was his biggest hit. Yeah. Hee Haw was 69 to 86. His career progressed downward. 55. He had his biggest hit. 65. He had that other song there, whatever you mentioned there.
[00:10:59] He was standing in a field of corn. Yeah. And then poof. He was just in a. In a spiral. No. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail. They describe as biggest hit. Also, imagine having two biggest hits. Yeah. He had two biggest hits. They should say biggest hit and bigger hit. Yeah, I suppose they should have, but they don't know. Well, then he'd have to have a big hit if that was the case. So they'd have to be a third, a bigger and a bigger. You'd have to have a big and a bigger. Yeah.
[00:11:25] Okay. How old do you think he is? Jack Hyde. Buck Owens. Buck Owens. I can't do any tooth jokes. We already did them with the other guy.
[00:11:35] So let me see. See? Buck Owens.
[00:11:42] Buck Owens.
[00:11:48] Trying to think of how that song goes so I can figure out how old he would be. Which. Which song is that? I've Got a tiger by the tail Is that the way it went? For you and me, Sweet Marie One day we'll meet again and say I've got a lion by the mane by the mane, my dear I've got a chicken by the beak and a duck by the bill A giraffe by the neck.
[00:12:25] Oh, this is awful.
[00:12:28] I have no standards, and it's even lower than that.
[00:12:33] Buck Owens.
[00:12:35] When was Buck a popular name?
[00:12:39] I was. Well, let's see.
[00:12:41] Buck Owens.
[00:12:43] When I was growing up, a lot of the kids were named Buck Owens. Especially the girls. They were named Buck. But Buck Owens. Yeah. Buck Owens. There was Buck Owens Moscovich, who lived down the street.
[00:12:57] Buck Owens Silverman.
[00:13:00] Buck Owens.
[00:13:03] And Buck Owens Trunella.
[00:13:09] It's a very common name on our street. Every day. If you're all together, would it. Hey, Buck. And they have, like, four people turned around. Probably more. Closer to seven or eight. Yeah. Come to dinner.
[00:13:21] Yeah. It's getting dark. Buck Owens. Come on.
[00:13:24] Can I stay on four more minutes, Matt?
[00:13:27] Be a lot of that kind of talk there. You get yourself in here right now.
[00:13:33] Buck Owens. Goldman.
[00:13:35] You knew you were in trouble. And your mom used all three names? Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
[00:13:41] Buck Owens. Trinella Y. Buck Owens TR.
[00:13:47] There was also Buck Owens Leap off.
[00:13:51] He was a. He lived next to.
[00:13:54] No, he. No, what he would do is he would lean out his windows. We. We lived in this. This is in vine street in Everett. Yeah. 253 Vine Street. We lived. It was a double, two story.
[00:14:07] What do you call those things? Duplex. Duplex, yeah, that's right. Two stories on each side. We lived on the right side on the bottom floor, and the neighbors lived on the wrong side. And he lived in a house similar to our house. His was a duplex. He lived on the second floor, next door, across the courtyard, that little alleyway. We call it a courtyard to be fancy, but it was actually an alleyway.
[00:14:29] And he was great. He would either lean out his pantry window. We had pantries back then. Did you. We lived a high life. Or he would go to the front porch and the pantry had a window, and he would lean out and he would spit and, you know, just a kind of low, lingering kind of spit that would just float down gently into the courtyard. Into the courtyard. Yeah. Yeah. He just liked doing that. He liked spitting. Oh. Scared away the coyotes.
[00:14:58] Pardon me? It scared away the coyotes. No, it didn't. It didn't. I appreciate the fact that you're trying to become part of this bit of humor here, but that doesn't fit at all. No, it doesn't scare away.
[00:15:10] But he would do that. And this was Buck Owens Leap off. This is Buck Owens Leap Off.
[00:15:15] His mother booked numbers.
[00:15:18] His mother booked numbers. Yeah. That was before the lottery, so it was illegal. Notice his father. What does his father do? Well, I don't remember with his father what his father did. I don't know. We call his father. Yeah, that's right. He used to watch the kitchen floor, baby. But he had an uncle. He did the shopping. Pearls and baked cookies.
[00:15:33] Yeah. His uncle used to get arrested every now and then. And that kind of added drama to the street. Did his uncle live on the. The same street? No, he did not. He did not. But he would come around and book numbers in that area that was on the street just to get arrested so that he could have some drama. So this guy's uncle and his mother book numbers?
[00:15:51] Yes, that's correct. Wow. And. But. But Buck Owens himself. Yeah. Only leaned over from the porch and spit.
[00:16:00] He fig. He figured the number's already been taken by his relatives. He's got nothing else to do. So I'll just hang around. I'll spit a lot. Every night like it was a night. Like every summer night, he'd be out there just spitting away. A lot. Yeah, a lot. I don't know. Not just nights. Daytime too. It depended what he had to do. Whether schedule freeze up in the winter and make the courtyard slick. Sure, he had a lovely spitting pond. Yeah, I don't recall that part of it, much as I should remember that part of it. I simply don't. And I feel sick of it. Plain saliva spit. Yeah. Nothing.
[00:16:33] And I remember it used to. We used to look upon it with great nausea. Did you? As I recall. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to remember it with fond memories, but it was kind of sickening.
[00:16:43] And Buck Owens leap off. Buck Owens leave off. He's still hanging around. Still around, still hanging. I don't know. I bet you he's suffering from dry mouth, though. Yeah, he probably did away with himself as soon as he found he couldn't spit anymore. That was. What was the point of going on. That's right. Life has no meaning.
[00:17:02] So, Jack, how old is the original Buck? The original Buckle? The one born Elvis. Edgar Owens. Elvis. Edgar.
[00:17:13] Otherwise known as Ae.
[00:17:18] A, E, O, too. All he needed is the I and a U.
[00:17:25] Elvis. What was his middle. What was his Elvis? Edgar. Edgar.
[00:17:32] He had A, E, O.
[00:17:34] Irving. If we had Irving in there. And what would have been the U? Heavy. Ulysses. Ulysses. Yeah, that was Owens. There we go. E, I, O, U.
[00:17:46] Oh, my.
[00:17:48] Let me see. How old is this? More fun than old Orchard beach, our gun quit. Or wherever the heck you spend. Yeah, wherever you were. Yeah, that would be a great slogan, Norm. Nathan. More fun than o thought you'd be.
[00:18:04] Let's see. He's got to be. They have to have weird. More fun than Belchertown.
[00:18:10] Strange names. How about more fun than Malden. Yeah, let's see. He's got to be Buck Owens.
[00:18:20] Well, he's a lot older now. He's a lot older.
[00:18:24] Aren't we all?
[00:18:31] He's got to be. Oh, he's.
[00:18:34] He's getting up there. He's.
[00:18:37] He's old, see? What are you doing? Aus and Andy? Is that what you're doing now?
[00:18:43] Okay, what do you say? How old is he? Catfish?
[00:18:48] Before my birthday.
[00:18:51] You might not ever have another birthday if we don't get through this.
[00:18:55] He's got to be.
[00:18:58] Wait a minute. This just in. He's dead.
[00:19:03] He heard this. Yeah, that's right.
[00:19:07] I'm gonna say somehow or another. 71. 71, okay. And Tony what do you think? Sure, 71 sounds good to me. I'm tired.
[00:19:17] Okay, guess for myself.
[00:19:19] Christian, how old do you think he is? Christian?
[00:19:22] 70.
[00:19:24] Christian says 70. What do you say, Matthew?
[00:19:27] Go with 80. 80. What the heck? Okay. What the heck. Sure, that's. That's a good attitude. Cutter, what do you think? 74.
[00:19:35] Cutter says 74. And. And Jaren? 81. 81. Okay, beat me out there. Yeah. Actually Buck owens is only 66.
[00:19:46] You guys had him really, really up there. So I'd say Christian, who said 70, is the closest, Christian wins that round. Congratulations, Christian. You would now tie with Jack Hart. We've only gone through two of these nights.
[00:20:01] How about James? How about Jane Wyatt?
[00:20:05] She wasn't Father Knows Best, remember? She was the mother. Oh, she also was insane elsewhere. Maybe she still is.
[00:20:14] Well, no, it's indication. Yeah, she's from. She shows up for work there. No one else is there. She also, I believe played Spock's mother in the original series.
[00:20:26] I believe you're right. Yeah. Amanda. Yeah, she was in a lot of movies long before Father Knows Best and stuff. Also, how can someone name Amanda? She was named her child Spock. She was on television when it was still Father Knows Nothing.
[00:20:43] Oh, you. Well, that's when she was on the show. It's not that it was funny or anything. That wasn't funny at all. That was her attitude. She was kind of like one of Ronald Reagan's daughters. I see. Of course, I had the same attitude toward her father. Of course I had the same attitude toward my father, but that's a whole other thing.
[00:20:59] Jane Wyatt. Anyway, let's start with you, Matthew. How old do you think she is? Oh, geez. What's.
[00:21:06] Let's say 40?
[00:21:09] Say 40.
[00:21:11] Okay, man, she says 40. What do you say?
[00:21:16] Wow, 40.
[00:21:18] She was young when Spock was born back and Father Knows Best. Boy, was she a young mom back then, huh?
[00:21:28] They looked upon him in that neighborhood saying, look at that guy. Was he about 40, going over a 12 year old?
[00:21:35] Well, the likes of young.
[00:21:37] I messed you all up and I'm gonna win this one. Yeah. Her children. Her children, as I recall, were older than she was.
[00:21:43] That was that. That's why the show lasted so long. It had that unique twist to it.
[00:21:49] Cutter, what do you think? How old do you think Jane Wyatt is? Let's go with 62. Otherwise she'd be her own daughter, according to that theory.
[00:21:58] I think you're right, Cutter. I think that's very perceptive of you. That was. That was the sequel to father's nose knows best. I'm my own daughter.
[00:22:06] Jaren, what do you think? Yeah, it's got big ratings in West Virginia. 72.
[00:22:11] Jaren says 72.
[00:22:14] And Tony, what do you say?
[00:22:16] Oh, she's 76. 76. Okay. Christian, 69. Christian says 60. And Jack, 78. 78 is the closest. She's actually 83. Oh, whoa. Years old this very day. Only 43 years off. I mean. Yeah, but. But the. Jack said 78, which is only five years off. Very good.
[00:22:43] And Matthew.
[00:22:46] Oh, Matthew. Come on, Matthew.
[00:22:50] Hey, you said this is just a game, right? No, it is just a game. That's quite true.
[00:22:55] John Derek, born Derrick Harris. Did you know that was his name? Derek Harris. Wow. And he added on a first name. That's interesting. John Derek, Johnny, first names. He doesn't even have a last name.
[00:23:09] He took his first name and kind of made it a last name. Yeah. And that's how Jazz came up to Mississippi, to Chicago.
[00:23:18] That's right. And I don't know what. What. What is right, but whatever you said. That's right. Born in Hollywood, husband of Bo Derek, at one time married to Linda Evans and Ursula Andrus. Makes it sound like he's married to both of them at the same time, doesn't he? Probably wasn't back then.
[00:23:37] He was in the Ten Commandments, Tomahawk Gap, Ambush, no Comment, and Exodus.
[00:23:50] He directed Tomahawk Gap. That's what that guy suffered on the Johnny Carson show that time, didn't he? Yes, Tomahawk Gap, that's right. Yeah, that was. That was one of the Ames brothers.
[00:23:59] Remember that? That thing they used to repeat? Frontier Bris, I think is what they called. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Frontier Bris.
[00:24:06] Oh, you just missed. But it felt good going by there.
[00:24:11] Directed. He directed Bolero, of course, with. With his wife. Bo Derek in it.
[00:24:18] And was that one. She's on 10. 10. Yeah, she was in 10.
[00:24:23] I think he was part of that two. I think there's the. He's an actor, producer, director. He was directed. Those are going to be two of the worst movies I ever made. So what's he done lately? What has he done lately? I hope nothing. If he goes by his previous record, the best bet would be stay home and pull down the shade.
[00:24:42] Don't let anybody see.
[00:24:44] Okay. John Derek. Well, if you had Bo Derek at home, that's not a bad idea.
[00:24:48] Yeah, if I had Bo Derek at home, I'd always be Crane in my neck.
[00:24:53] Derek Crane. Yeah, yeah, get that.
[00:24:56] Okay. Christian, how Old do you think John Derek is? 75.
[00:25:00] John Christian says 75. Sorry. Why are you all laughing?
[00:25:05] That's a reasonable guess.
[00:25:08] On the moon, maybe.
[00:25:11] Well, we'll find out in a few minutes.
[00:25:13] I thought you lost years on the moon.
[00:25:17] No, you lost pounds, but you gain it, you get older. Yeah. No, your eyebrows get thicker on the moon. That's a scientific fact. I feel right, but I can't walk as fast.
[00:25:28] I can't see a damn thing. Toenails become elongated and eyebrows thicken, but your general overall weight is reduced.
[00:25:37] Nobody can figure out why that is. That's why nobody wants to go back on the moon again.
[00:25:43] It says one giant step for man.
[00:25:46] A huge step for toenails. No, he tripped over his toenails. That's right. And combed back his eyebrows. He couldn't see anything and he tripped over his toenails.
[00:25:59] Okay, Jack, how old do you think John Derek is this very day? August 12th. August 12th. August 12th is what today's date is. John Derek. I'm trying to think. There's a movie that. That comes on like. Like every.
[00:26:13] And I'm trying to think of when that is so I can kind of gauge his age.
[00:26:18] Yeah.
[00:26:20] Call the Tri Weekly Journal.
[00:26:25] Directed, produced and starring John Derek. John Derek. Yeah.
[00:26:30] Playing all the parts.
[00:26:33] He's gonna be 64. 64, okay. And Tony, what do you think?
[00:26:42] 63. Tony says 63, and Jaren says a jocular 65.
[00:26:49] A jocular 65.
[00:26:52] Would you mind explaining to us the jocular part? Now, where does that fit in with John Derek?
[00:26:58] I don't know. At home with the shade drawn. Was he athletic? Oh, I see. That's all I can think of. Oh, I see. Okay. Well, what the heck?
[00:27:05] Matthew, how old is John Derek? Let's go with 62. 62. And Cutter. Can we tie?
[00:27:13] You can give any age you want, even if somebody's already given it. All right, damn it. I'm gonna say 63. Oh, 63. Okay. Same as what Tony said.
[00:27:22] Okay. He's a determinist. Said that? Yeah. Damn it, 63.
[00:27:27] That's a guy with determination. By gum. By gum is we don't. We don't get that Wild Jack on a surprise than you. John Derek today is 69. 69. I don't see. Jaren says 65, which is four years off.
[00:27:44] I have a feeling. Let me see. I think that's the closest Christian. 75, which is six years. Six years off. Yeah.
[00:27:54] So it would be. It would be you, Jared. Turn of a gun. Jaren gets the closest to that.
[00:28:01] And Pete Sampras. Do you know that name? Of course. He's the second ranked tennis player in the world who got bounced out of a tournament yesterday. He's the same age as I am.
[00:28:12] Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, why don't you go first? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Go ahead. I'll go out. Okay. He's from Party Potomac, Maryland. Became the youngest man to win the US Open in 1990.
[00:28:26] How old was he then?
[00:28:30] You always try to trick the old guy, don't you?
[00:28:34] Let's see, he. At that time in 1990, he beat Andre Agassi in the final match.
[00:28:43] And anyway, today is his birthday.
[00:28:45] And let's see. We'll start with you, Cutter. How old do you think Pete Sappras is? 25. 25. Okay.
[00:28:55] And Christian? 30.
[00:28:59] And Tony?
[00:29:06] 24.
[00:29:07] Tony says 24. And Matthew? He's 23.
[00:29:11] Matthew says 23. And Jack someone or other Sempras?
[00:29:20] 29.
[00:29:22] Okay. Jack says 29. And Jared? 31. 31. Okay. Actually, he's 24, which is what Tony said. Yes. Yeah, Tony, so was your age.
[00:29:34] That's true. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Wow. That's how I messed up. Yeah.
[00:29:43] Is today your birthday? No. No, it wouldn't be your birthday. What is it? You see, you said you're the same age, but not necessarily born on the same day. They would be a year older. Yeah, but. But this is. Is August 12th your birthday? No. Sure isn't. Okay, when is your birthday? May 4th. Oh, I see. Okay. And you're 24 now? No, he's 23. That's where he made the mistake. Oh, I see. But when he played.
[00:30:06] When he played his last tennis tournament at Wimbledon, I remember him being 23. And I guess I forgot to add my one.
[00:30:14] You're okay, Matthew. Just the same, you were very close. And we have. Jack has two correct answers and nobody else does. Jiren and Christian and Tony all have one apiece. Here's. Here's one for you. This is Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits. Yes. K, N O P F L E R. Leader of the group Dire Straits. Correct. Has been suggested by some to be the replacement for Jerry Garcia. He really.
[00:30:41] Yes. Singer, guitarist, biggest hit was Money for Nothing, written by Mark and Sting.
[00:30:49] Anyway, today is Mark Knopfler's birthday. And of course, the idea is to guess how old he would be as. We'll start with you, Christian, how old do you think? 30.
[00:31:00] Christian says 30.
[00:31:03] And Jack? Oh, I'm just trying to do some math here.
[00:31:12] Be 17 years older than that.
[00:31:16] 47. 47. That's the kind of a mind that invented nuclear fission.
[00:31:27] The new soft drink. That's right. Nuclear fish.
[00:31:31] Just put. I'll have some on ice, please, in that cold glass with a double straw, please. Do not shake it before you open the can, whatever you do. Right? That's right. And don't drop any on your feet.
[00:31:43] Jack, what do you think? No, you just said 47 inch. And, Tony, what do you think?
[00:31:53] 48. 48. Okay.
[00:31:56] Matthew, 49.
[00:32:00] Cutter. Yeah. 49, Cutter says. Yep, 49. Jaren, the song is 10 years old. I gotta say. 34. 34.
[00:32:10] He's up there. They've been around forever. Yeah. Mark Knopfler is actually 46. 46. I believe that that means Tony.
[00:32:20] No, 46.
[00:32:22] Oh, I'm sorry. No, Jack said 47.
[00:32:26] That's right. You said 48. No, that's right.
[00:32:30] Nobody said 45. So, Jack, good figuring, Jack, very good. You have three. You have three answers now, right on top. You haven't won one in, what, two months? Three months. It's been. It's been a few weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Been a good few weeks. And it. I just. I remembered being, like, 16 years old, thereabouts, and hearing some of the original, the first Dire Straits song and thinking that that sounds a little bit like Bob Dylan. And then being shocked and amazed. And I remember that whole scenario.
[00:33:03] That's a lovely story.
[00:33:06] That is just beauteous.
[00:33:07] I want to give you a couple of dates, okay?
[00:33:10] Things that happened on this date, August 12th. Okay. Okay.
[00:33:16] The accordion.
[00:33:19] Let me see. Where, where is it? You know, I gotta tell you, I was watching last Sunday night, one of these. It was a Lawrence Welk kind of a deal. A lot of people from the Lawrence Welk show, now, they've got this theater in Branson, Missouri, and Myrna Fleurner comes out with his accordion, and he says, I'm gonna play you a variety of pokers. And they all were Yada dum, pum, all the same polka. He's just grinning away, thinking he's playing, like, six different songs.
[00:33:50] Did you sit still for that old thing? Oh, sure. I sat there and watched it. I wanted to see if there was actually a different polka song. I'm gonna sit and watch this and every one of them.
[00:34:03] No, that's true. That that confirms the theory that I, I, I'm sure that you knew. Didn't need any confirming by now. The fact this song is played in the key of C.
[00:34:13] There's one that's Right.
[00:34:15] Was. It's the only poke ever been written and they just give it different names.
[00:34:20] Chuck Berry took up with that theory later on. Wrote one song, put a bunch of different words.
[00:34:26] That's right. And he's singing songs right now.
[00:34:30] It's pasa nani polka.
[00:34:36] Okay, so here's the accordion. Celebrate that afterwards. The first US Patent for an accordion was issued on this very date, August 12th to Anthony Fass. F a s s.
[00:34:51] Someone like that something to it. Tony Fast. He was just the fast on the keyboard. He had to carry it in his chest.
[00:34:57] I used to play a lady of Spain on a white accordion. Really fast, really fast.
[00:35:05] Oh, man.
[00:35:08] Okay, we'll start with fingers. Yeah, we'll start with you, Jared.
[00:35:12] How old you. I mean, what year do you think the accordion.
[00:35:16] The first pat came out on the accordion, what year would that have been? Him and Vaithi. Let's get the guy who granted the patent. Yeah, get that guy. That's right. The first. The first US Patent and run him out.
[00:35:27] The first u. S. Patent was patented anyway.
[00:35:31] No, I'm saying get the guy who gave the patent or authorized the accordion to be patented and won't run them out of town. Right.
[00:35:39] What do you. What do you. What do you think, Jaron? How. What year was that? I'm gonna take it. 1898. 1898. What do you think, Cutter? 1865. 1865. Matthew.
[00:35:52] Let's say 1870. 1870.
[00:35:59] Christian. 1845.
[00:36:02] And Tony.
[00:36:04] Hmm. Were they playing it during the civil war?
[00:36:07] I can't give you clues like that.
[00:36:10] 1880.
[00:36:14] Nah. 1881. Would we have already passed the 100th birthday of the accordion?
[00:36:21] At least a patent. Birthday? 1881. I don't know. 1881. Well, you know, the civil war was the harmonica, wasn't it? Probably. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then they added keys and bellows.
[00:36:34] Was that how it went? I didn't want a cannonball kind of hit, you know, Jack, A mansion with a piano and a fireplace and all keys and bellows and harmonica. Check this thing out.
[00:36:48] What do you. What do you think? What do you think, Jack? What year was that first patent for the accordion?
[00:36:55] Well, one of my favorite quotes describes a gentleman as a. As being a man who knows how to play the accordion but doesn't. That's right.
[00:37:04] That's right. The concertina and such had been around, and various squeeze box type instruments have been around for a fair bit of time. But the actual accordion and the patent, that means they could have been playing this thing and. Yeah, and nobody's sick. And then finally.
[00:37:20] And nobody was making money on it. Yeah, exactly.
[00:37:25] I'm gonna say that civilization would be much further ahead if it hadn't been patented in 1855. 1855.
[00:37:35] Boy, you're only a year off there. Is that right? Yeah. 1856 was the year. Wow. He. He was watching that show out of Branson, Missouri. He had no. That's giving him hints. Yeah, that's very good. Do you know my accordions or do I? You sure do. And cutter was. Said 1865. He was pretty close.
[00:37:58] 1856 was the year. Yes.
[00:38:00] Okay, here's one. And again, we'll celebrate that after 4:00'. Clock. Yes.
[00:38:06] Of the accordion. We'll play nothing but accordion music. In the last hour, we will play a polka.
[00:38:12] In fact, I want to talk with. I want to talk with Bill Lawrence and see if instead of going on with the news at 5, they'll skip the news and we can just extend it to two full hours of recording music. Give me a chance because I'll go home, I'll get my CD hooked on polka dot.
[00:38:29] Hooked up. Focus every version of lady of Spain. That's right.
[00:38:38] Okay, here's another. Another invention, a first patent. Also Isaac Singer on this very date. Also sewing machine. Yes, yes. Saturday, August. Not Saturday, but August 12th.
[00:38:51] What year? Isaac Singer happened to be. Walked down just, just before they closed on Saturday afternoon. And he walked in, they gave him a patent, and the last one today, we were closed all day. Tomorrow, you want to take a couple extra patents and keep you going until Monday when we open again? Hey, what are you doing in there so late? Well, I was sitting at home. I had a needle in a thread and I couldn't think of anything to do with it. So I come up to Little Machine, I put the thing on it and look at this, I made a suit.
[00:39:16] Anyway, Isaac Singer patented his sewing machine.
[00:39:20] He opened for business in Boston, Massachusetts with a $40 investment.
[00:39:26] And within weeks he was debt broke and owed $200. Wow. I made that part.
[00:39:33] I hate stories with happy ending.
[00:39:36] $40 investment, that's about the Westinghouse equivalent of buying CBS. It's a $40 investment right there.
[00:39:45] You suppose when.
[00:39:47] When Westinghouse takes over cbs, that maybe we could go on the network with the dumb birthday game? Sure.
[00:39:54] Oh, sure. Yeah.
[00:39:56] Maybe we'll get on Dave. Sure. Do the whole thing. Yeah. Maybe I'll do it on the David Letterman. Well, David will be fired by that time, so. And we'll all have the spot. David's Got a long term, highly, highly expensive contract. I don't think he's gonna. He's about the only networks he had gone for him right now.
[00:40:13] And Tom Snyder, too, I guess. Oh, Tom Snyder's doing very well also. That's true. That's true. Well, that's true. God help me for saying that. Did you. Dan Rather was on the other night on Letterman. I saw that. Yeah. He wouldn't sing his train song at the end. He really.
[00:40:26] I guess. I don't know. He's. I thought he was joking when he said that. They kind of said, no, we don't want you doing that anymore. But he wouldn't do it. The train song. I don't know. He always does a train song just before he leaves. All right. He'll sing some, you know, rolling down the track on whatever Engine 5, and he'll go through this train song on this boxcar thing. Well, the song itself isn't. Isn't. Isn't so bad. It's when he starts getting into the.
[00:40:51] Yeah. I don't know. But he didn't do any of it, really. No, I never saw him do that. They whispered to him and said, no, damn, we don't want to see on Letterman doing train songs anymore. I thought he was very funny with what he did. Yes. Yeah, I thought he was great. Did you see what they did the next night?
[00:41:06] They said, you know, did you know when Dan was out here and he was afraid about singing the train song, but you see what he did? So they showed when Dan walked out to shake Dave's hand.
[00:41:16] And then they cut to a scene where there's. There's Dan hugging him and you don't see their faces anymore. And his hands go down Dave's back and squeeze his butt.
[00:41:25] I did see that. I did see that. Yeah.
[00:41:29] Fondling his tush. I recall seeing that.
[00:41:32] Yeah.
[00:41:40] Okay, the sewing machine patent. And not that anybody still cares about that, but what year would that have been? The first patent on the sewing machine. We'll start with you, Jack.
[00:41:50] The sewing machine. You kind of walked away with this whole thing. Anyway. You got four correct answers. Nobody's got more than one. And right now people are thinking, oh, that little so and so.
[00:42:02] They'll be needling me about.
[00:42:14] I'm treadling on thin water.
[00:42:21] We sound like. We sound like the sick bay at an old folks home.
[00:42:34] Look at the way I can only raise my hand this. This high. Look at that. The arm.
[00:42:40] The elbow keeps dropping down below my waist again.
[00:42:43] I can hardly move. I tell you, I Stand up. I got these kind of like needle. Needle point that feels like needles in my feet.
[00:42:53] I walk and I keep. I keep tripping. So I got a stitch in my back.
[00:43:00] Hold on a minute while I shake my ear. I think there's some pasta back in there.
[00:43:05] Oh, I'm getting sick now. This whole thing is really spoolish.
[00:43:10] Okay, what do you think? Who'd I asked for? Who'd I ask for? So, Jack. Yeah, Jack. The sewing machine. The first US Patent. US Patent of the sauna.
[00:43:24] Let me see.
[00:43:26] He had to have done that. And 1800.
[00:43:33] And stop hemming and hawing.
[00:43:41] We know what hemming is. What's hawing?
[00:43:44] Well, you know, you hem and then you.
[00:43:51] Of course.
[00:43:52] Norm, I'm surprised. Didn't you know that? No, I didn't.
[00:43:57] Let's see.
[00:43:58] He had to have done that in 1840.
[00:44:03] Would it have been that back that far? Sure, I think so.
[00:44:07] Yeah.
[00:44:09] Yeah, you'll say 1840 something. And then Tony, who's been prompting you along, will say 19. 19, 6.
[00:44:18] Just to throw you off.
[00:44:23] 1862. 18 oh, 62. 1862.
[00:44:29] Okay. And Tony, what do you think?
[00:44:33] 18.
[00:44:36] Hold on.
[00:44:44] 40. No, no, no. 1842. 1842. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's it. Yeah. Okay.
[00:44:52] Christian, what do you say? I think I'll tell on my answer to 1895. 1895. Christian. Christian's working his way up to a permanent position on this program.
[00:45:04] I agree. Yeah. No, that was good. It was good. Yeah.
[00:45:08] 1895 is what you said, isn't it? Yep. Okay. And Matthew, what do you say? I'll say.
[00:45:15] Well, let's see.
[00:45:18] Well, Drac's been having luck. I'll go with 1863. 1863.
[00:45:24] Okay. And Cutter? 1827. 1827. And Geron. 1870.
[00:45:33] Duran says 1870. Okay. This is a magic moment. I imagine all you guys are really excited about. We better hurry up, too.
[00:45:39] Yeah, I guess we better. Well, we'll postpone the commercials until the weather clears a little bit more.
[00:45:46] Postponing the commercials because of inclement weather.
[00:45:49] I wonder if they'll buy that.
[00:45:51] But anyway, the sewing machine, the first patent was August 12th. 1851. 1851. Now, Tony said 42. That's nine years.
[00:46:04] You said 62, which is 10 years.
[00:46:08] 11 years, actually. 62. Yeah, 11.
[00:46:11] So 42, I believe.
[00:46:14] Yeah, no question about that.
[00:46:17] At 63, well, that's 12 years. No, it's Tony. Tony wins that round. Wow. And the. The total that. So Tony has two. One apiece from Christian and Jaren and. But Jack walks away with it with four.
[00:46:35] Four corrected. What a wonderful job you've done, Jack. Thank you. That vacation did you lots of good. Oh, it just eased my mind.
[00:46:44] Just. Just a rest. I can look out, looking at you, that the weariness just poured right out of your soul. I'm just sitting here with my feet up, relaxing. Okay, listen, we're gonna do the.
[00:46:54] The Green Turtle Bay Vitamin Company right after the news. For those of you who want to wake up the rest of the family, have them tune in and listen to. To it, okay?
[00:47:04] And I thank you very much, Jared. Thanks a lot for playing the game with us. Thank you.
[00:47:08] Thank you. And same for you, Cutter. Thanks a lot. Thank you very much. And you were fun, Matthew. I appreciate having with us. Well, always nice to be on your show. Well, it's nice to have you on our show too. And same. Same for you, Christian. Thanks a million. It's been fun. Okay. And Jack. Yes?
[00:47:30] I wonder.
[00:47:31] Last night I left my shoes outside my door and they never were polished. Could you do something about it tonight? Thank you. I'll shine them up nice. Well, thank you very much anyway. Thank you very much. That was fun. And congratulations on another splendid win. And. And for me it means not sending any prizes out. And I really appreciate that. Tony too. Thank you very much. Oh, yeah, sure.
[00:47:53] He wouldn't have saw it. He turned out to be, huh?
