Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: 250 episodes. What in tarnation?
How did that happen?
That's a lot of norm. And I know, I'm so grateful for it.
Thank you all for listening, commenting, sharing and supporting the efforts here at the Vault of Silliness.
Let us celebrate with one absolute guaranteed constant of the Norm Nathan show in this rebroadcast podcast, a Dumb Birthday Game. This one from August 24, 1992. Let's call it History Lessons.
The players, Isabel from Shelburne, Vermont, Steve the Bullet, the wrestling guy from Melrose, Kathleen and Waltham, a first timer, Dave Baptist, who's out in Palo Alto, California, a guest from earlier in the night and co author of the Everyday Guide to Everyday Stuff. I'm producing and playing in studio. And Russ Gannon in traffic.
Cal Ripken Jr, Marlee Maitland, Dennis James, Jerry Cooney, Steve Guttenberg and Mason Williams. And we get a couple of dates in history.
In what year did Amelia Earhart become the first woman to make a non stop flight across the United States from LA to Newark, New Jersey?
And in what year did the eruption of Mount Vesuvius bury the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum?
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Hercules.
[00:01:21] Speaker C: Hercule.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Hercule. Herculaneum. Herculaneum. Yeah, that's it. We are treated to a couple of commercials later on. Family life publishers will kit and Dymatap episode 250 history lessons lectures its way to your ears now.
[00:01:42] Speaker C: Thank you. Just sit down much. And it is time for the Dumb Birthday Game.
The time actually is 11 after 3 o'. Clock. And let's meet members of the panel. This is where we tell you who was born on this date. And of course this date now is August 24th. Do you believe all that?
Summer's almost gone. I guess it's really not. We have another month actually.
But I did. I went out, got a new pair of knickers and some argyle socks and a ruffled Spanish shirt and my cummerbund. I'm all set to go back to school. Got my little lunch bucket with the Ninja Turtles on the as the design on it.
Anyway, let's see who's on the panel with us. Isabel from Vermont is with us. Hi, Isabel.
[00:02:32] Speaker D: I'm fine. How are you?
[00:02:34] Speaker C: I'm just fine, thank you. Of course, you know the rules. That August 24, a number of interesting people were born and you as a panel member will tell us how old you think these people as we unveil them throughout the next hour or so. Isn't that an exciting concept for a game?
What part do you Want me to repeat?
[00:02:54] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:02:55] Speaker D: I didn't hear the age.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: You didn't hear the. No, no.
You'll have a chance to guess the ages of people born on this date in just a little bit. I know you're excited about that.
[00:03:05] Speaker D: Oh, I'm terribly excited.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: I can tell that point. There's excitement written all over your voice.
If excitement can be written over a voice which doesn't make much sense. But we have Ste the Bullet. The big wrestling guy from Melrose, is gonna play the game with us, too. Steve, you're just too tough to go to sleep, don't you?
[00:03:24] Speaker F: You know, Norm, when you're the greatest thing walking the planet, you don't need sleep.
[00:03:30] Speaker C: Steve, back off.
What the hell is this?
[00:03:35] Speaker F: I don't know, Norm.
[00:03:36] Speaker C: I don't know. You're getting as silly as I am.
[00:03:38] Speaker F: 3:12 in the morning.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: I know. It's a time that brings out kind of silly talk, Right? Okay, we have. Kathleen is with us, too. Kathleen is in Waltham. And, of course, Kathleen normally lives in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but moved to Waltham especially so she could play the game. Is that true?
[00:03:57] Speaker F: No, I must have the.
[00:03:59] Speaker C: Excuse me, I have the wrong cue card. That's right. Now you're Kathleen, who really does live in Waltham.
[00:04:05] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:04:06] Speaker C: Have you played the Dumb Bertha game with us before, Kathleen? No, never played that before. When you are in for a kind of thrill that it'll be hard to match in whatever happens to you for the rest of your life, you'll remember this moment.
It'll be like when you first went to the New York World's Fair.
[00:04:23] Speaker D: Oh, great.
[00:04:24] Speaker C: It'll be that kind of a memory.
And Dave Baptist. Oh, I'm delighted he's playing the game with us. We talked with Dave a little bit. He's out in California, and he's written the book along with Dan Pavlik called Everyday Guide to Everyday Stuff. And we did about 45 hilarious moments just on the book alone. And you can get many hilarious moments just by buying the book and reading the rest of the stuff. Anyway, Dave, I'm glad you're playing the game with us, Norm.
[00:04:49] Speaker E: This is a bit of a hilarious moment itself.
[00:04:52] Speaker C: I think this is the kind of magic moment that you will remember for a very long time.
[00:04:56] Speaker E: I'm standing in Denny's foyer taking this call.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: Son of again. I'm just thrilled at the whole picture of that.
[00:05:03] Speaker E: I don't know how it quite transpires. The dumb birthday game ended anyway. But I'm Sure. We'll make a connection.
[00:05:08] Speaker C: Okay. And, you know, of course you can't hear us out in Palo Alto, California, but you know the rules. I tell you who was born and you just guess their age.
It's a stupid kind of concept, but the. The dialogue that goes with it is so hilarious that it just makes up for anything.
[00:05:25] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:05:25] Speaker C: Because sometimes it can be terribly boring, too. But, hey, that's the price you pay.
[00:05:29] Speaker E: Not tonight.
[00:05:30] Speaker C: Not tonight, no, not tonight. No, not tonight. Tony Nesbit, WBZ ace producer, comes playing the game with us.
[00:05:36] Speaker E: Who?
[00:05:36] Speaker C: I think you know your name. I think you know it quite well. Thank you.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Just in from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
[00:05:41] Speaker C: Just. Yeah. Or Findlay, Ohio.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: Yeah, you confused me with Kathleen, and I can see the resemblance, so I understand why that's true.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: As a matter of fact, got a card, a picture postcard the other day from somebody, one of our listeners, who was passing through Fond du Lac and got a picture postcard saying something about, welcome to Fond du Lac with some pictures of the lake that's nearby up there and all that. And said, couldn't get through Fond du Lac without sending us some remembrance of that. Very picturesque, because it's one of my favorite cities that I've never been to.
And also we have with us Russ Gannon, WBZ 24 Hour Traffic Network.
And we have.
We have. We have Dave Baptist on the phone. We were both exchanging exotic highways.
He in California, Northern California, and you and me in here in Massachusetts.
[00:06:33] Speaker G: Exotic highways.
[00:06:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, he was, you know, he'd met, for example. Mention a couple of highways and out your way, Dave.
[00:06:39] Speaker E: Okay. We took router 82. Route 82 to get to the Denny's. And we crossed the Dumbarton Bridge, Highway 84 to get across the bay.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Can you match that with some exotic highways over here?
The Callahan Tunnel. We thought we, you know.
[00:06:55] Speaker G: Well, I suppose, sure. Route 1 and of course, 95, which goes all the way down the coast. But is there any more exotic highway than Route 66?
[00:07:05] Speaker C: No, they're supposed to be standing up for us on the East Coast. And also, not just numbers. What about names? What highways do we have here? Oh, I know. The Alewife Brook Parkway. They can't beat that out in California.
[00:07:19] Speaker E: We got the pch.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: The pch.
[00:07:21] Speaker E: Pacific Coast Highway.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: Oh, geez, you beat me again.
[00:07:26] Speaker E: All right. Okay, we're gonna Exchange that. Top 10 Lists of highways and traffic hotspots, Russ.
[00:07:33] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:07:33] Speaker E: I'm gonna send it to wbz.
[00:07:37] Speaker C: Why do you suppose the.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: I've got one. I've Got one he can't talk.
[00:07:40] Speaker C: Yeah, Revere Beach Parkway. Revere Beach Parkway, yeah. How can you top. Can you top that? Dave?
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Look, he's down.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: He's down.
David, Dave doesn't sound as clear as he did when we were talking to him earlier. Why do you suppose that Dave's not at home now? Oh, you're not home now?
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Is that Denny? He's on a phone. He's at a phone booth in Denny's.
[00:08:05] Speaker C: Oh, I see.
[00:08:06] Speaker F: This is the problem.
[00:08:08] Speaker E: I was supposed to go to a show tonight. They canceled the show out here in Palo Alto.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: Was it Guns N Roses?
[00:08:13] Speaker D: No, no, it was just some stinking.
[00:08:16] Speaker E: Like, sing along thing, and they canceled it. And now we're eating some kind of slam. Some kind of charred remains of a slam breakfast.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: Can they bring your phone to your table so you can eat and talk at the same time? Ernie, because you stuck in a phone booth while everybody else is slurping, I.
[00:08:30] Speaker E: Don'T think we can do anything but me stand in front of the men's room and talk.
[00:08:34] Speaker C: Oh, so you're outside the men's room on a payphone while everybody else is sitting there eating and enjoying them.
[00:08:39] Speaker E: And, you know, I've got a view of the men's room and the kitchen, not by coincidence, and the entrance, too.
[00:08:45] Speaker C: So sort of interchangeable. Is it? Okay.
[00:08:49] Speaker E: I feel like I should be greeting people. Welcome to Danny's.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: Okay, here's some. Some people who were born on this very date, August 24th. Cal Ripken Jr. Of course, of the Orioles. This is the son of the guy who's the. Who's the coach now and the brother of the other Billy Ripken.
Hold the whole Ripken dynasty. This is Cal Ripken Jr. Isabel, what would you say. How old is Cal Ripken Jr. He's a baseball player.
Major league baseball player.
[00:09:20] Speaker D: I'd say he's 34.
[00:09:22] Speaker C: 34, okay. And Steve, what do you think?
He doesn't want to wrestle you. He just wants you to guess his age.
[00:09:31] Speaker F: He knows he doesn't want to wrestle.
I'll say 43.
[00:09:36] Speaker C: Okay. But if he does wrestle you, he wants to have an infielder's glove on. I don't know why he's insisting upon that.
[00:09:42] Speaker F: If he wrestles me, he won't need a glove. He'll be on the ground.
[00:09:46] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. He's talking real tough, this guy, isn't he?
[00:09:49] Speaker F: Huh?
[00:09:49] Speaker C: Hey, Kathleen, what do you think? How old is Cal Ripken Jr.
[00:09:53] Speaker D: I'll say 38.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: 38. Okay. And what do you think, Dave.
[00:09:58] Speaker E: He is 32 and not a day older.
[00:10:00] Speaker C: 32 and not a day older.
Okay, Tony, he's 32.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Tomorrow he'll be a day older.
[00:10:06] Speaker C: Okay, well. Well, if he's 32, then I found the prices, right?
[00:10:10] Speaker E: When they bend a dollar over, he's 32 in a day.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:10:15] Speaker E: No, he's 32.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: 32. And Russ, what do you think?
[00:10:18] Speaker G: Oh, what, Tony?
[00:10:20] Speaker C: What?
[00:10:20] Speaker B: I was just gonna tell Steve he has to be careful. Cause Cal could just rip into him.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: See? Ripken. It's a play on words. And we deal in this kind of joviality and humor and he'll get his.
[00:10:30] Speaker E: Potty enough brother to back him up.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: See, there you go. See how that is.
What do you think, Russ?
[00:10:37] Speaker G: I'll say 33.
[00:10:38] Speaker C: 33. Okay. Well, it's too bad you didn't say 32, because that's exactly how it was today.
Oh, I wonder if the. If you win one of. See the prizes.
We have a place here called the tacky and tasteless WBZ gift and bookshop. And that's where we get the prizes from.
[00:10:58] Speaker E: I want the Dalmatian.
[00:11:00] Speaker C: The Dalmatian.
[00:11:01] Speaker E: Spotted dalmatian.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: I don't know whether we have any.
[00:11:04] Speaker E: Wheel of fortune set.
[00:11:06] Speaker C: The closest we have to that actually is a litter box with a year's supply of cat litter and about three pounds of. I think we have three pounds of delicat. Delicat. Well, something like that. Anyway, I was thinking.
[00:11:24] Speaker E: I apologize to the rest of the panel because that was a sucker question I asked Norm to ask a sports related birthday.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: That's true. He cheated.
[00:11:32] Speaker F: Hey, Norm.
Are you bought here too, Norm, just like the referee?
[00:11:36] Speaker C: I can. I can be bought. I can be bought with a price, but my price is high. He gave me 10 pounds of peanut brittle and that's all I need, man, to swing this thing over and to turn bad.
Okay, how about moving right along?
[00:11:52] Speaker F: And I thought you weren't biased.
[00:11:54] Speaker C: No, actually, I happen to be an honest guy. And I know I'm your idol and I want to always be your idol. I am clean and I'm neat and I'm a good person and I'm not on the side of evil.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: And since he's accepted the bribe, he's in a very sticky situation.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: Oh, be quiet. Yeah, Tony, we did the peanut brittle about 10 minutes ago. Nobody remembers that.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: I'm waiting for you to, you know, to shut up.
[00:12:18] Speaker C: But I know that when I don't see you drop it because then it doesn't fit in with what we're talking about these kids today. They don't know timing. They don't know comedy timing. That's why they don't do stand up. You see.
Anyway, how about Marlee Matlin, the actress? The. She's the deaf actress.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Maitland or Matlin?
[00:12:38] Speaker C: Maitland or Matlin. M A, T, L, I, N. I don't know. Or M A, T, L, E, N. I'm not sure how she spells the name, but she was in. In the movie with. Heard the actor.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: John Hurt.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: John Hurt? No, not John Hurt.
[00:12:52] Speaker G: No, William Hurt.
[00:12:53] Speaker C: William Hurt. William.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: Children of a Lesser God.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: Yes, he was. Yeah. And a fine actress.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: And she's in.
What's the name of the NBC show?
[00:13:03] Speaker C: It's called the Romance of Stealing It.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: What a fit.
[00:13:07] Speaker G: Yeah, with I'll Fly Away.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:13:13] Speaker E: Match Game pm. That's the show.
[00:13:16] Speaker G: With Gene Rayburn.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: I can't even think of the male star that's in it, too, but.
[00:13:21] Speaker C: Right. It's called a Galloping Gourmet. No, no, it's not all that. No, it's not called that. Russ, let me ask you first.
Marley maitland.
[00:13:31] Speaker G: I'll say 43.
[00:13:32] Speaker C: 43 says Russ. And Tony.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: 27.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: 27 says Tony and Dave.
[00:13:40] Speaker E: Okay, 28.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: 28. And Kathleen, 26. 46. 26.
[00:13:48] Speaker F: I thought it was bad with Ripken.
[00:13:51] Speaker C: Yeah. Steve, what do you think?
[00:13:53] Speaker F: I'll say 32.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: 32, that's right. You did say Cal Ripken was 43.
[00:14:00] Speaker F: I thought that's what he was because he has white hair.
[00:14:03] Speaker C: Cal Ripken Jr. Yeah. You're not thinking about his father.
[00:14:07] Speaker F: His father's the coach. Cal Ripken's the shortstop. Billy's the first baseman. Right.
[00:14:12] Speaker C: Second baseman.
[00:14:13] Speaker F: Second baseball.
[00:14:14] Speaker E: Candy Ripken is the team mother.
She keeps the stats.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:14:19] Speaker F: Yeah, because. No, next time. Next time you watch an Orioles game or something, you see Cal Ripken on tv, he's got white hair up front.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: I'm gonna watch that. Seriously, I will. I will watch it specifically for that specific purpose. Hey, Isabel. Yes.
[00:14:33] Speaker D: 31.
[00:14:34] Speaker C: 31.
Okay. The actual age of Miley Maitland is 27.
Tony said it right on the button. And Dave, I had a feeling you were gonna say that.
[00:14:47] Speaker E: Well, I can't. I can't say what would have been.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: No, I suppose not. But you sounded like. Because Tony said that you changed yours to 28. Were you gonna say 27?
[00:14:56] Speaker E: I certainly was.
[00:14:57] Speaker C: Son of a gun.
Okay, because. Okay, because, you know, you can guess the same age somebody else does. No rules against that.
[00:15:07] Speaker E: There had been some kind of.
[00:15:08] Speaker C: No, we.
[00:15:08] Speaker G: We suspect Tony all The time. I mean, he just.
[00:15:12] Speaker F: He's bought, you know.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: He's bought.
[00:15:14] Speaker F: Yeah, he's got. He's got the early edition of tomorrow morning. His paper sitting right beside him.
[00:15:19] Speaker C: Oh, I wonder what he was rattling there. Stop rattling.
Okay. Dennis James is one that.
Remember Dennis, remember? He.
He was a host in the early days of television. He did something with old gold when they used to have the dancing cigarette pack. And he also.
Dennis James. Do you all remember Dennis? Anybody remember him?
[00:15:41] Speaker B: Well, the early days of television. No, not quite.
[00:15:44] Speaker F: Yeah, I was around then.
[00:15:45] Speaker C: I remember him. Yeah, he's. Anyway, he's sort of. He's sort of from the.
Well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
[00:15:52] Speaker F: He's the one who dances around with dancing. Cigarette pack.
[00:15:56] Speaker C: Yeah, Steve, you seem to know that. You tell me how old.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: I wonder where you're headed tonight.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: Is Dennis James today?
[00:16:02] Speaker F: What was that? Tony. You know, it was a joke. Go with Tony first.
[00:16:05] Speaker C: No, no, we'll go with you. Because otherwise there's two out of three falls right in Melrose Square at high noon.
And I'm gonna bring my.
My asbestos shorts.
[00:16:20] Speaker F: That's where I draw the law. I'm flying out that day.
Okay, I'll say 69.
[00:16:27] Speaker C: 69. Okay.
And that's a good number. And Dave, what do you think?
[00:16:32] Speaker E: 61.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: 61.
And Russ.
[00:16:40] Speaker G: I'll say 72.
[00:16:41] Speaker C: 72. Isabel, what do you think?
[00:16:44] Speaker D: 70.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: 70. Okay. And Kathleen?
[00:16:48] Speaker D: 75.
[00:16:49] Speaker C: 75. And Tony, 73. 73. Okay. The winner. Actually his. And she guessed his exact age.
75.
That's Kathleen. Kathleen is 1 1.
Very good. Kathleen, 75 years old. Dennis, I got another guy for you from that same era of television, early days of television. Hint, hint. His name is Derwent. I want. I don't even have to hint. I'd tell you who he is. Derwood Kirby.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: No, Derwood Kirby, age wise, is kind of a hint.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: He worked for years with Gary Moore and then later was on some other TV shows and stuff. Again, the early days of television. Durward Kirby.
[00:17:30] Speaker F: Give me a year. How early?
[00:17:33] Speaker C: Oh, he was in television. The early 50s. Right through the 50s. Late 40s maybe, but the 50s anyway, almost in the beginning of television.
And he was in radio before that out of, I think, Chicago. Gary Moore used to do a show out of Chicago called Club Matinee. I think Derwood Kirby was the announcer.
Who?
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Derwood. What kind of name?
[00:17:57] Speaker C: Derwood happens to be a Serbo. Croatian name.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: Oh, that explains it.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: Yeah, his real name is not Durwood. He just changed it to that because he did a program in the Durwood in the Serbo Croatian language. His real name is actually Fred.
Fred Kirby, but he thought that had no glamour.
Why do you make me say stupid things like this? Why do you make me ramble on in a dumb way like that? I'm gonna ask you first.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: I don't want you sweat.
[00:18:27] Speaker C: I did sweat.
Kathleen, how old do you think Durward Kirby is?
[00:18:34] Speaker D: 80.
[00:18:35] Speaker C: 80, okay. And Isabel, what do you think?
[00:18:39] Speaker D: 75.
[00:18:41] Speaker C: 75.
Okay.
And Tony?
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Any guy named Durowood's got to be at least 79.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: 79 says Tony. And Russ.
[00:18:54] Speaker G: Well, I will say I still don't trust Tony, so I'll say 78.
[00:19:01] Speaker C: 78.
[00:19:01] Speaker G: He threw the last one. He was so close.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: Okay.
Yeah, well, you say you don't trust him and yet you guess within a year of what he touches. I have to.
[00:19:09] Speaker G: I have to. You know, he's got the wire service right there.
[00:19:12] Speaker C: You know he doesn't have the wire service. What, I allow that. Would I allow that in my class?
[00:19:18] Speaker F: My mouth is shut.
[00:19:19] Speaker C: Okay, Steve. Well, open it up a little bit and tell me how old you think Derwood Kirby is On this day, August 24th.
[00:19:26] Speaker F: Okay.
He was in TV, early 50s. Give him about 20 years to get into it.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: Carry the one.
[00:19:34] Speaker F: Now. You just screwed me all up, like. 75.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: 75.
[00:19:38] Speaker F: Thanks, Charles.
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Okay.
And what do you think, Dave? Okay.
[00:19:41] Speaker E: Nobody in the restaurant has even heard of Derwood Kirby, so I got no help.
83.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: 83. Now, he wasn't a long. He did a tremendous amount of work on radio and television, but he hasn't been in it for a long time. Great voice and great performer. Not a great performer.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: You almost described your career there for a second.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: Yeah, my career is the same way. As a matter of fact, I think it was. MAD magazine listed a whole bunch of people who were on television during that period.
And the gist of the article was they couldn't figure out what it was they did. And Derwood Kirby was one of them. And I think McMahon was another one.
And I think Ed Sullivan, too. No talent people on television, but somehow it lasted a long time.
But anyway, Derwood Kirby is exactly 80 years old today. And Kathleen said 80. Hey, Kathleen, hit it right on the button.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: I missed by one. See, I threw it again.
[00:20:36] Speaker G: R. Yeah, keep playing it up to him.
[00:20:40] Speaker C: Yeah. And Russ. Oh, darn. And Russ. Russ missed just by two.
Because he followed you.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you followed a little closer. You only would have missed by one.
[00:20:50] Speaker C: Okay. Do you remember the boxer Jerry Cooney? Oh, yes, he was one of our great hopes.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: The Great White hope, I believe they.
[00:20:56] Speaker C: Called him, but fell apart. Something. Nothing much ever happened to Jerry Cooney. A boxer? Heavyweight boxer.
So let's start with you, Dave. What do you think? How old have you heard of Jerry Cooney? The boxer?
[00:21:09] Speaker E: The Holmes Cooney fight? Come on.
[00:21:11] Speaker C: Oh, that's right, too. I kept thinking he's a New Englander. People outside of New England would not know him, but he was nationally known. That's true.
[00:21:19] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:21:21] Speaker F: Let'S see.
[00:21:22] Speaker E: He's also Jay Leno's stunt double, if you didn't know that.
[00:21:25] Speaker C: No, I didn't know that.
[00:21:26] Speaker E: Okay, now you know. He is 43 years old.
[00:21:29] Speaker C: 43 years old, says Dave and Kathleen. What do you say?
[00:21:34] Speaker D: 48.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: 48.
Are you taking note of the way we speak, Dave? Because we speak proper English?
[00:21:42] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: Here.
Okay.
Alaska. Isabel, who's up in Vermont. Vermont talks nice, too.
[00:21:51] Speaker D: Yes, I'd say 50.
[00:21:53] Speaker C: 50. You say Jerry Cooney is 50.
And what do you think, Russell?
[00:21:58] Speaker G: I'll say Jerry is 44.
[00:22:01] Speaker C: And Tony.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah, 44.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: 44.
And Steve, the bullet from Melrose?
What do you think?
[00:22:09] Speaker F: Yo, man. I'll say.
Oh, geez.
47.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: 47. Okay, here comes the answer now. The actual age of heavyweight boxer. Former heavyweight boxer. Jerry Cooney is actually 36.
Wow.
He was boxing. He was already washed up by the time he was 20, I think. No, I know.
I know. That doesn't seem possible that he'd be that young.
[00:22:34] Speaker F: You know who boxes a lot like him? Whose style is like his? The kid from Chelsea, Ruiz.
[00:22:40] Speaker C: Oh, really? He boxes? Yeah.
[00:22:42] Speaker F: Awful lot like him. The style's just like him.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Is that good or bad?
[00:22:47] Speaker F: He didn't go to the Olympics, so I guess it's all right.
[00:22:52] Speaker E: When you're saying he boxes like Jerry Cooney, that means he gets off the mat gracefully, rises up on the ropes.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Was that Dave's first one?
[00:23:00] Speaker C: Right?
That was. Now, just a moment. Yeah, that was. Dave said. Dave said 43.
And although, Dave, you were, what, seven years too old? You're still the closest of anybody.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: 36.
[00:23:13] Speaker F: Wow.
[00:23:15] Speaker E: I got Cal Ripken.
[00:23:16] Speaker C: Pardon me? That's right.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: That's what he did. He got Cal Ripken, too.
[00:23:19] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. No, no, no. It's not Dave's first. That's correct. He has two.
No, Kathleen has two, and Tony has two, and the others have none. Oh, Isabelle, Steve and Russ.
[00:23:33] Speaker F: I don't think I'm going to quit.
[00:23:34] Speaker C: My job as a referee.
Okay, here's an Actor Steve, Is it Gutenberg or Guttenberg? Gutenberg. Gutenberg, yeah. Steve Gutenberg. This is his birthday. He was born August 24th also. And I think it'd be a good time to start with Isabel this time. What do you think, Isabelle?
[00:23:53] Speaker D: Who in the world. Esteemed. Whatever.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: No, he's Police Academy movies.
[00:23:57] Speaker C: Yeah, he's. That's right. That's right. He's. His faces should be very familiar. Cocoon 2.
Yeah.
[00:24:06] Speaker F: Academy 1, 2, 3 and 4.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: They don't have movies in Shelburne, Vermont.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: No, but actually you have television.
And his police. His first 19 Police Academy movies are all on television.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: But they only get the early years of television in Vermont. Up in Shelburne, they just. They just installed it.
[00:24:24] Speaker C: Right, right.
Then you should know Derwood Kirby and Dennis James.
[00:24:28] Speaker D: I do know Derwood Kirby.
[00:24:30] Speaker C: See, that's right. They're still getting the Derwood Kirby films and stuff.
They get in the early Ed Sullivan. Before there was. Before they were Coast To Coast.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: See, people don't realize that if you've never had a tv. When you buy a tv, that's what you have. You have to start from the beginning, the program. You just can't tune in the new stuff.
[00:24:49] Speaker C: No, you have to. That's. You're absolutely correct.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: You gotta watch 50 years of television.
[00:24:52] Speaker C: You start with the year 1948 when it first came to Boston, generally. And then you watch all those shows. Lucky Pup. You watch that.
Roberta Quinlan, car 54.
[00:25:04] Speaker F: Car 54.
[00:25:06] Speaker C: All that stuff. Yeah. Isabelle, what do you think? Steve Gutenberg, good show.
[00:25:12] Speaker D: Now he's, I think, of New Hampshire. Gutenberg, New Hampshire. So I say he was old, about 48.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: 48 years old, you say. And he comes from New Hampshire. At least there's a Gutenberg family in New Hampshire, you say. And they run a pharmacy in Derry. Now.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: They run a printing company.
[00:25:30] Speaker D: No, no, no. They have cows.
[00:25:33] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking of the wrong. Different family.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: You're thinking the Gutenbergs of Maine.
[00:25:40] Speaker C: Yeah, they're the printing family. Yeah, yeah. Movable type.
Yeah, they have that on their license plates.
Movable type. Says on their plates says M O.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: V, T, Y, P.
Steve.
[00:25:53] Speaker C: What do you say? Steve Guttenberg. How old would he be? You know how old all the Steve's would be because you give the same name.
[00:26:00] Speaker F: Plus, isn't the greatest thing walking the earth today? But anyways, I'll say 34.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: 34 says Steve. Okay. And Kathryn?
[00:26:08] Speaker F: 30. Forget it.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Did you say 34?
[00:26:11] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:26:12] Speaker C: Okay, Kathleen.
[00:26:14] Speaker D: Well, I never heard of him. I'd say 36.
[00:26:17] Speaker C: 36. Okay. And Dave, what do you say?
[00:26:20] Speaker E: Okay, Steve Guttenberg and I partied a couple years ago on his birthday at the copa. He turned 32. He's 32.
[00:26:29] Speaker C: 32 years old. Okay, can you see your friends who are eating now while you're standing there by the men's room?
And you're standing by the men's room with the phone book?
[00:26:38] Speaker E: I'm defenseless. All I have is my chocolate shake.
[00:26:41] Speaker C: You're a good.
You're a good sport, but. However, a Westinghouse hitman is out to Palo Alto to take care of you. Anyway.
[00:26:49] Speaker E: Actually, Palo Alto's known for its drive bys. I don't think you need to send a hitman.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: Okay? They see a guy hanging around the phone long enough, they figure booking numbers, he's in competition, get him wearing bright clothes.
[00:27:01] Speaker E: What a clog.
[00:27:04] Speaker C: Tony, what do you say? Steve Guttenberg.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Tony was a little older than that, but Dave sounds very convincing since he. He partied with him at the Copa. Oh, excuse.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: And what.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: What was the. I forgot Dave's guess.
[00:27:18] Speaker C: Steve said 32. I don't normally repeat that.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: No, no, Dave.
[00:27:21] Speaker C: Dave said. No, Dave said 32. Okay. Yep.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: All right. Oh, well, I'm gonna go 33 then.
[00:27:27] Speaker C: 33. Okay. And Russ, what do you think?
[00:27:31] Speaker G: I'll go with 32.
[00:27:33] Speaker C: 32 also. Okay. The actual age of Steve Guttenberg. And I just checked.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: I had a different answer. If this is the different answer, I'll be very upset.
[00:27:42] Speaker C: Okay, Steve Guttenberg. I checked his.
The town clerk and the birth records in his hometown, which I forget where that was.
But anyway, he's 34 and I believe. And Steve said 34. He hit it right on the button.
Yeah, very good, Steve.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Dave partied with a different Steve Gutenberg.
[00:28:06] Speaker E: Gutenberg, who did write the Bible. I guess he was. Five minutes.
[00:28:11] Speaker C: I'll give you one more. I just have one more big name here.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Maybe we do some dates.
[00:28:15] Speaker C: Well, I can do one date after this if you'd like. A date? In case you're wondering what the date is, the dates. What we do is we pick an event that happened on this date, like August 24th, and I tell you the event and you tell me the year. But anyway, Mason Williams will do him first. A composer born in Abilene, Texas.
He did some. What was a big thing. He did an instrumental. It was an instrumental a few years back.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: A few years. Oh, so a few years meaning.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry, only a few years are 105. No, no, no, no. He goes back to.
I'd say the.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: The Bronze Age.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: No, I'd say the 60s. 70s, somewhere on in there.
70s, maybe. Mason Williams, what was it called? It was called.
And it was an instrumental and I just can't think of the name of it.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Did he just write it or was he a performer?
[00:29:08] Speaker C: It was his group. His group played it and I think he wrote it also. I believe so.
[00:29:13] Speaker F: Mason Williams.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: Mason Williams?
[00:29:15] Speaker F: Doesn't ring a bell. Oh, everything's raffling.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Oh, was it the bricklayer's theme?
[00:29:21] Speaker F: Oh, I want to forget about it.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: Hey, what do you think, Russ? How old do you think Mason Williams would be? Do you know? Nobody knows who I'm talking about. No, no.
[00:29:30] Speaker G: I'd rather guess Mason Reese myself.
[00:29:34] Speaker C: How about Mason Adams? You know who Mason Adams is?
Mason Adams is the actor who talks like this. He's the one who says if it. With a name like Smuckers, it's gotta be good. He was also on the Lou Grant show. And Lou Grant was a newspaper editor and stuff.
Hi, wow. Fx.
That's right. If you think we're gonna print that, you got another thing going for it. We're not gonna print any dirty stories about Dave Baptist. He's all just cause he's in our reading area.
Besides, he's sort of. Cause there are papers in Los Angeles.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: That'S very, very good.
[00:30:13] Speaker C: Dave is up there somewhere in San Francisco.
[00:30:16] Speaker E: Even though they may be true.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: It may be true, but there are certain moral issues involved here, you know?
Well, I think I'm strangling on my own spit anyway. That poses an interesting romantic picture, doesn't it?
[00:30:31] Speaker G: Sure does.
[00:30:33] Speaker C: Okay, Russ, how old?
You've stalled long enough. We won't allow a minute longer. How old is Mason Williams otherwise? Tell me or are you gonna see the dark side of me?
[00:30:45] Speaker G: Not that again.
Caution of the wind and say 67.
[00:30:51] Speaker C: 67. Yeah. You won't see the dark side of me today. Tell you the truth, it's scared me the other day.
[00:30:57] Speaker F: Hey, I thought. Norm, I started early when I was talking to you. When I was scared.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: Well, people are scared talking to me because I'm a very commanding figure.
[00:31:05] Speaker F: You're a presence.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: I walk there and I pull myself up on my full 411 inches in height.
My little paunch hanging over my little belt, my white canvas belt.
Anyway. And people do get scared.
[00:31:19] Speaker B: Striking very similar to the Elvis.
[00:31:22] Speaker C: They say. They say. Don't. Don't get rise wise with this guy. He'll go into cardiac arrest. And how we get rid of the body of the little fat paunchy guy.
[00:31:31] Speaker F: If your name is ever on a contract, remind me not to sign it. You scared me.
[00:31:36] Speaker C: Steve.
You'll always be my son.
Now sit down and drink your milk and be quiet.
[00:31:43] Speaker F: I don't have any milk.
[00:31:44] Speaker C: That's right, Tony. Anyway, how old do you think Mason Williams is? Assuming you knew him, if you knew who he was, how old would you say?
[00:31:52] Speaker B: Oh, in that case, he's at least. He's got to be pushing a few years back. You say he had a hit, huh?
[00:31:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:59] Speaker B: Was he trying for a long time before he had that hit?
[00:32:02] Speaker C: That's the only hit I know that he's had. I don't know how long he tried before or after.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: Then he's at least 71.
[00:32:07] Speaker C: At least 71.
And what do you think, Dave?
[00:32:11] Speaker E: I've taken a loose pull of the kitchen staff, and they say he is.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: I'm sorry, I said what it's say.
[00:32:19] Speaker E: Santa Ocho, which I believe is 78.
[00:32:21] Speaker F: Oh, that's good.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: Oh, say Sante Ocho. The staff at Lenny's, the kitchen help at Denny's. And is it actually. Are you actually in Palo Alto right now?
[00:32:33] Speaker E: Yes, I am.
[00:32:34] Speaker C: Son of a gun. Boy, pinch me. I wish I were there.
I once dreamed I was in Palo Alto, California, and I woke up and it was a bad dream, and it was actually Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
[00:32:47] Speaker D: Oh, Fond du Lac's nice.
Uh.
[00:32:49] Speaker C: Oh, Fond du Lac's nice. We don't need that. Just stop it. Who was that? Was that Kathleen or Isabel?
Was that you? Kathleen. Who said that? No, it was Isabel. Okay, I'm gonna ask you, Kathleen, though, how old is. How old. How old is Mason Williams, who would talk this way if he were really Mason Adams, but he's not, so he doesn't talk this way. But it's gives me a chance to act like a total fool.
[00:33:17] Speaker D: I'll take a guess and say 55. I don't know.
[00:33:20] Speaker C: 55. Okay. You want to throw in your line, Tony?
[00:33:23] Speaker B: That's the limit.
[00:33:24] Speaker C: Okay, Tony.
Steve, what do you say?
[00:33:29] Speaker F: I say he's old, but I don't know how old. So I'll say tony sounds like a round, beautiful figure. So. Yeah, I'll take that.
[00:33:39] Speaker C: 78.
[00:33:40] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:33:40] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:33:41] Speaker F: And Isabel, shut up anytime. But I will.
[00:33:43] Speaker C: Okay, Isabel, what do you think?
[00:33:46] Speaker D: 65.
[00:33:47] Speaker C: 65. Okay. The actual age of Mason Williams and I, apparently the only living broadcaster or people in any field who actually remembers.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: Him, but you can't remember his song.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: Can't remember the song. Now, when we finish the game. I'm going to ask. Somebody will call and know it. It was very popular.
Mason Williams is actually 50 and Kathleen said 55.
So Kathleen now has three. Oh, same as you, Tony. You have three.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: I do.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: And yeah, you have three.
[00:34:19] Speaker G: I do.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Oh, stop it, Russ. I really didn't think. I thought I still had two.
[00:34:23] Speaker D: Steve, do you have a booby prize?
[00:34:27] Speaker C: This is Isabelle, I take it, who has not answered any correct ones.
We could send you a booby prize. Yeah, yeah. What kind of a prize would your booby like?
I hope that sounded obscene because I meant to be that way.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: It certainly did.
[00:34:46] Speaker C: Okay, I tell you what. Now what I want to do is I'm going to give you one date and you tell me what year this happened.
See if I can find it. Now that I've packed it aside in my velocity.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: On August 24, Mason Williams had a hit with this song.
[00:35:01] Speaker C: I just can't think of the name. Isn't that awful? And I remember playing that a lot when I went on days after giving up my jazz show. Going on days and playing square music.
[00:35:11] Speaker B: Oh, so it was a square.
[00:35:12] Speaker C: It was. It's. Yeah, it's not.
It wouldn't be considered too terribly hit by anybody. I mean, even people who were young in those days. It wasn't a rock thing or anything.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: And I don't blame you for not remembering it.
[00:35:25] Speaker E: They've got Air supply piped in here, so you tell me about square music.
[00:35:28] Speaker C: Okay, okay, okay. Here's the year. The year was the year that Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a non stop flight across the United States. It's not the year that she disappeared.
She became the first woman to make a non stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in just over 19 hours.
And what year would that be? I mean, she set some great landlords.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: That's about the same amount of time it takes to leave Logan sometimes and get across country.
[00:36:06] Speaker C: As a matter of fact, it took same time to get out of Foxborough for the U2 concert tonight. That's right.
[00:36:12] Speaker F: That's the worst airport, Logan. Oh, okay.
[00:36:16] Speaker G: Okay, you said a mouthful.
[00:36:18] Speaker C: Wow. The year that.
[00:36:19] Speaker F: Okay, beating them all up in there one night.
You know what happened one night? Oh, Jesus.
[00:36:25] Speaker C: Where? Wish they said Logan.
[00:36:27] Speaker F: Yeah, Delayed plane for three hours.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: Oh, geez. Oh, don't tell us. We feel so badly for you.
[00:36:34] Speaker F: Of course you do.
[00:36:35] Speaker C: Okay. The best thing today.
Okay. Amelia Earhart. Anyway, what was the issue made the. She's first woman to make a non stop Flight across the United States.
I think we can start with you, Steve, because you just sound so chipper.
[00:36:48] Speaker F: Amelia Earhart.
[00:36:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Just to see if you can figure out what. What year that might have been to be able to fly from Los Angeles to.
To New Jersey. Newark, New Jersey.
She thinks she'd go someplace a little more romantic than that, huh? Well, back then, Newark maybe. Palo Alto to.
To Bango or Maine or someplace.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: He could have picked up a Grand Slam breakfast on the way over.
[00:37:11] Speaker C: I wonder if they did serve breakfast aboard that flight.
[00:37:14] Speaker B: She was in there in an in house movie.
[00:37:16] Speaker C: That's right. She was there in over 19 hours.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: They probably showed all six Police Academy films.
[00:37:23] Speaker C: Last time I was on a flight though, they didn't have any movies. They couldn't rent a movie, so the airline stewardess did a tap dance.
That's awful. And I remember the co pilot came out and sang.
He sang a couple of operatic selections by Mason Williams.
Yeah, it was from both from Phantom of the Opera, as I recall. Anyway, Steve, what do you say? How old is Amelia? I mean, what year was Amelia Earhart? Did she do that non stop flight?
[00:37:56] Speaker F: Trying to think back to my school days here.
I'll say.
Oh, Jesus, the 1700 is good enough.
1750 sounds good.
[00:38:12] Speaker C: That's pretty good. She didn't wait till the last minute, you know, she said, hey look, anybody can do it later when they invent the plane.
[00:38:20] Speaker F: Why wouldn't you invent it?
[00:38:22] Speaker C: Well, I don't think it was around in 1752, otherwise we would have fought the British and had a better chance of winning during the Revolutionary War.
[00:38:31] Speaker F: Oh my God.
[00:38:34] Speaker C: Do you think we oughta. Do you think we oughta get a little bit more money for public school education?
Does this prove a pointer?
[00:38:40] Speaker G: Was it again, Norm? What if by land, two if by sea, three if by air, three if by air.
[00:38:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I forgot about that. That's right. Yeah, yeah.
And that's, you know what it is.
That's right. And her name was Amelia Earhart. I suppose that's where the air came from anyway.
Oh my God.
Hey, listen, listen, you're a tough guy. It doesn't matter if you make a fool of yourself. If I make a fool of myself, I can't even defend me. See? So you're okay. Hey, what do you think, Kathleen? I want to ask you, how old do you think. I mean, what year do you think there was the first flight?
[00:39:21] Speaker D: 1930.
[00:39:22] Speaker C: 1930.
No, it reminds me of the time they invented the phone booth. Also was invented in 1793, which didn't make any sense because they hadn't invented the phone yet.
[00:39:36] Speaker F: Hey, how do I know? I wasn't around back then.
[00:39:39] Speaker C: I don't know, okay?
[00:39:41] Speaker F: I slept in school.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: No, nobody, Nobody's making fun of you at all, Steven.
[00:39:48] Speaker F: Nobody better be making fun of me.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Here comes the tough talk again.
[00:39:54] Speaker F: No, I'm not gonna talk tough. It's quarter or four in the morning.
[00:39:57] Speaker C: I know it. We all should be sleeping.
Except. Except for Dave. Except. Except David, where Dave is. It's. What? It's.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: It's. Oh, gee, it's only quarter of one.
[00:40:06] Speaker C: It's 13 minutes before one o'. Clock. That's right. It's.
[00:40:09] Speaker E: I think the janitors are sleeping out here because they just put a bunch.
[00:40:12] Speaker C: Of wet floor pylons on the carpet.
[00:40:15] Speaker E: On the carpeting?
[00:40:16] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. How late does Denny stay open where you are?
[00:40:19] Speaker E: Well, you know, they are open 24 hours, but they have door locks on the front door. So you figure that out?
[00:40:24] Speaker C: Oh, I think I saw that in a book called Everyday Guide to Everyday Stuff.
Why'd they have door locks on a place that's plugs? What's that?
[00:40:33] Speaker E: Mercer with plugs? Alex Trech doesn't get plugs like this.
[00:40:36] Speaker C: Okay, Dave, what do you think. What year was the. Did Amelia Earhart make the first woman flight there from 1931? 1931, okay. And Isabel, what do you say?
[00:40:49] Speaker D: Well, I entertained to Mary Earhart at Indiana University when she came to the speech.
[00:40:58] Speaker C: I don't know what you're saying, but I want to marry.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: You introduced Amelia Earhart at Indiana University.
[00:41:03] Speaker C: Is that what you said, Isabel?
No kidding. When was that?
[00:41:06] Speaker D: That's what I'm trying to remember now.
[00:41:09] Speaker C: How did. How did you happen to introduce her? Were you the president of the class or something?
[00:41:13] Speaker D: Oh, no, no. I just happened to be the best looking person to be a.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: Were you a beautiful woman at Indiana?
[00:41:20] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness.
[00:41:21] Speaker C: What? Now, what school was this? Indiana University.
[00:41:24] Speaker D: That's right, in Bloomington, Indiana.
[00:41:26] Speaker C: On Bloomington.
Were you really beautiful then? Are you beautiful now?
[00:41:33] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness, yes.
[00:41:35] Speaker C: Because I'm an incredibly handsome person myself.
[00:41:38] Speaker D: Oh, I could tell that by your voice.
[00:41:40] Speaker C: Let's get together. Our children will be gorgeous.
[00:41:43] Speaker D: Yes, they will.
[00:41:44] Speaker C: I don't know why was there a suddenly stark silence when I said that. I thought it was kind of a cute, clever.
[00:41:52] Speaker D: I graduated in 1940.
[00:41:55] Speaker C: 1950.
[00:41:56] Speaker B: 40.
[00:41:57] Speaker C: Oh, 40. From where was? From college.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: I'm translating for Norm.
[00:42:02] Speaker C: As you know, English is only my fourth language. I don't do too well by it.
[00:42:07] Speaker D: But I say 1940.
[00:42:09] Speaker C: 1940.
Okay.
And Tony, what do you say?
[00:42:15] Speaker B: Well, 1751.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: Some people never learn.
[00:42:20] Speaker F: Do you Take the shots, Tony, won't you?
[00:42:24] Speaker C: 19.
Oh, I'll go ahead.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: When did she disappear?
[00:42:31] Speaker C: Do you.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: I don't know that date either.
[00:42:33] Speaker C: I don't know, She's. I still see her myself. Do you? No, I don't know.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: I think she's been said it with Elvis a few times.
[00:42:39] Speaker F: She was out in the crowd last night at Marshfield, matter of fact.
[00:42:43] Speaker C: That's right. She was cheering you on. She's saying go get him, Bullet or something to that effect.
[00:42:49] Speaker F: She wasn't saying that. I don't think she was throwing stuff at me. I'm not sure just.
[00:42:53] Speaker B: Just to hear you say it.
1939.
[00:42:57] Speaker C: 19, you say? 1939 was the year, you know, you see, it was 1939.
And she flew from Los Angeles to Rochester, New York.
She donned her most beautiful clothes.
I think I better stop now because I'm losing everything.
Okay. What do you.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: I knew you were going to go that long. I wouldn't have said 1939.
[00:43:30] Speaker C: What do you think, Russ?
[00:43:31] Speaker G: Well, if I'm not mistaken, if my.
My history is. Is not too far off. She left the Colonial Williamsburg national Airport in 1783.
I will say.
[00:43:53] Speaker F: I graduated Melrose.
[00:43:57] Speaker G: 19.
[00:44:00] Speaker C: 1943. 1943.
That's really good. She did it right during World War II.
Maybe that's why she disappeared. I got shot down by somebody over someplace.
Okay. No, actually. Actually, the year that Amelia Earhart.
And I'll read the whole thing again because it's just so darn exciting. She became the first woman to make a non stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in just over 19 hours.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: 1758, when that was.
[00:44:34] Speaker C: That's right. You know, Tony, he was in 1492.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: He left off of Columbus's aircraft carrier.
[00:44:45] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:44:46] Speaker F: You're both lucky.
[00:44:48] Speaker C: It was 1931. 1932.
Dave said 1931. And so he was the closest.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to agree with him because he sounded very sure about it.
[00:44:59] Speaker C: Well, he was. Within a year. That was very good, Dave. You're okay. Well, you cal. You Californians, despite Governor Pete Wilson, who's been dragging you down into the mud, you're still okay.
[00:45:10] Speaker E: You guys, besides that education shortfall, we're not doing too bad.
[00:45:15] Speaker C: Well, that means we. I believe we may have a tie here between Kathleen and Dave, arm wrestler, not to mention Tony. All of whom have three correct answers.
[00:45:26] Speaker E: I'll thumb wrestle him.
[00:45:28] Speaker F: Russell beat.
[00:45:29] Speaker C: I see Russ has been close, but as we say. No, you know what?
Steve has one and Isabel has none.
[00:45:38] Speaker D: Now, does that mean I have to stay in at recess?
[00:45:42] Speaker C: It means yes, it does mean that.
And it means you have to stay after school and get the rattan on your tooss.
Now, why I said that, I'll never know.
Never mind. No, just forget what I just said.
We used to call it the rat.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: A paddler. That's what you wanted to say.
[00:46:01] Speaker C: But they used to do that when I was a kid. They would hit you across the back of your hand with a ruler or something and they would call that the rattan. I guess that was the thing that hit you with. I always thought it was the red hand because it kind of turned red when they hit you.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: English really wasn't just.
[00:46:16] Speaker C: No, I didn't know it then either.
[00:46:18] Speaker B: I'm thinking of rattan trunks and chairs and stuff. I kept telling Roux was made from rattan back then.
[00:46:23] Speaker C: Maybe that was kind of like wicker. Kind of like a wicker set. No, I kept telling them that my folks came from far off lands. I know. And I was 32 years old before I spoke English.
Yeah.
[00:46:35] Speaker D: What did you speak?
[00:46:36] Speaker C: Pardon me?
[00:46:37] Speaker D: What did you speak?
[00:46:40] Speaker C: Chagra, I love.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: Now this story is very heartwarming about how Chakra is. Tell us about the language.
[00:46:48] Speaker F: Noor.
[00:46:48] Speaker C: Oh, Chagra is an interesting language in that it has no. No vowels and only syllables.
I mean, only consonants.
And only five consonants, as a matter of fact. And no vowels.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: It's amazing.
[00:47:01] Speaker C: So it makes the language kind of difficult.
[00:47:03] Speaker D: Would you like A, E, I, O, U?
[00:47:05] Speaker C: No, no. It has no A, E, I, O, U. No vowels. Just. Just consonants. Five consonants. So it's somewhat limited, but once you get the hang of it, it has a flow to it that's kind of beautiful. Would you like to hear me say, hello, how are you? How's your family? In Chagra?
[00:47:21] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: Okay.
Would you all like to hear that or is it just the one person?
[00:47:26] Speaker B: I'd love to hear this.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Okay. This is. Hello, how are you? How's your family?
[00:47:29] Speaker B: Just a warning, a sidebar to it all. Please have a towel handy. It's a very messy language.
[00:47:35] Speaker D: It's not.
[00:47:36] Speaker C: It's a beautiful language.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: It is, but it's messy because you.
[00:47:38] Speaker C: Tend to speak well because you only have a few consonants to work with. You don't have any vowels. It kind of limits you a little bit here. But here's the way it goes. If we were to meet I would say.
And that's, hello, Hawaii. How's your family?
Wow.
I think everybody's sorry they took part in this thing. They're trying to think, how can. In court, can I deny that I was any part of that whole thing?
I think General Manager John Spinola will have you at the hearings. He would like witnesses.
[00:48:16] Speaker D: Is it legal to be acting like this at this hour in the morning?
[00:48:20] Speaker C: No, it's not legal. That's the fun of it.
No, that's the fun. That's the fun of it. Hey, I don't know what to do now.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: You get another date.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: A name we might not know.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: We can guess.
[00:48:30] Speaker C: Yeah, we gotta break the.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: No one knew Mason Williams.
[00:48:32] Speaker C: We gotta break the tie. Yeah, I give you a real tough one.
[00:48:37] Speaker F: Throw them in a ring with me. Whoever wins, wins.
[00:48:39] Speaker C: Okay. Whoever wins, wins. Okay, here's it. This goes back the Mount Vesuvius. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. You know about the. Over the Pompeii eruption?
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:57] Speaker C: Okay. An estimated 20,000 people died.
I've been to Pompeii. It's outside of Naples, Italy, as I'm sure you all know.
And it was one of the. It's one of the, you know, big events in world history.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: I remember seeing a display, I think it was Museum of Fine Arts on Pompeii.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: They still have. They still. Because of the volcanic ash. As you go through the area outside of Naples, you can see some bodies preserved because of the ash. And also basements and the outlines of houses and all that. You know, considering how long ago it was. It's a miraculous, amazing, amazing thing.
[00:49:38] Speaker E: Now we know how Dick Clark stays so young looking.
[00:49:41] Speaker B: He was at Pompeii.
[00:49:42] Speaker C: That's right. Yeah. No, he happened to have a volcanic ash. Bottle of volcanic ash he puts on his face, did you say?
Okay, let me ask you. Okay. The.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: Just the three of us.
[00:49:55] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm just gonna ask the three of you because we have to break the tie.
[00:49:58] Speaker E: Oh, man. The pressure's on.
[00:49:59] Speaker C: Okay, Kathleen, I'll ask you first. What year do you think that was? The eruption of Vesuvius and the ending of Pompeii?
[00:50:17] Speaker D: 1895.
[00:50:19] Speaker C: 1895. Just after the plane was invented.
1895.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: The flights were all booked out of Pompeii.
[00:50:28] Speaker C: That did. Yeah.
[00:50:29] Speaker E: It was a train derailment. That's what it was.
[00:50:30] Speaker C: Yeah. It happened right at the same time as the Spanish American War.
Okay.
Okay, Kathleen, thank you very much. For that. And Dave, what do you think the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
[00:50:44] Speaker E: I would say that was the year 963 B.C.
[00:50:48] Speaker C: 963 B.C. yes. Okay. And what do you say, Tony?
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Oh, he's kind of confused with this BCAD stuff now, huh?
It is 963.
But it's 963.
Gee, was that B.C.
[00:51:04] Speaker E: What'S the opposite of B.C.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: Oh, A.D. i'll go with the A.D. i'll go, you know, a thousand years.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: What year would you say? 963? AD yeah, I'm gonna say AD okay, 960. Now I gotta figure some something else. How do you figure this the actual year was AD well. And I win no matter what year or not necessarily. Not necessarily. I don't know which is closer.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Well, he's 963 years off at least.
[00:51:32] Speaker C: Well, B.C. but what if it were exactly zero, the year one A.D. then I would have it.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: I'd only be 962 years off and he'd be 964.
[00:51:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. Actually it was A.D. 79. 79.
It was in 79. The year of our Lord. 79.
[00:51:54] Speaker E: Okay, you guys want to know the truth?
[00:51:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:57] Speaker E: I lost. But I wanted to say 463 I still no. Yeah, I would have had you. No, no, you would have had 463 AD huh?
[00:52:04] Speaker B: Yeah, you would have had me.
[00:52:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
Okay, so the, the actual winner, I.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: Give you gives the A.D. what did happen in 963? Something very important happened in 963 A.D. i, I. But maybe that's when they invented the cruise ship.
[00:52:19] Speaker F: Oh, come on, Tony.
[00:52:23] Speaker G: No, it's when, that's when they invented the stewardess.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: Long before the invent of the plane. The stewardess was invented.
[00:52:33] Speaker C: That's right. She had to hang around for years.
By that time she was not hired, she was fired because she was too old.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: That's right.
Did I capture the gold in this one?
[00:52:44] Speaker C: Tony won this whole business broke the tie and won. Which means we don't have to give away any tacky prizes.
Kids here in the teen canteen, of course, carrying Tony around on their shoulders. Hey, listen, I better say goodbye. It's coming up very perilously close to news time.
Isabel, thank you very much.
[00:53:04] Speaker D: Well, you're very welcome.
[00:53:06] Speaker C: And I hope we'll be talking to you again soon from your.
[00:53:08] Speaker D: I do too. Tomorrow will be fine.
[00:53:10] Speaker C: Okay, I'll call you first thing. Okay, Bye bye, Isabelle. And bye bye to you, Steve. Thanks a lot, Norm.
[00:53:17] Speaker F: Thank you. And Tony, thanks for the wake up call. I appreciate it.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: You're welcome.
[00:53:20] Speaker C: Bye. Bye. To Steve and Kathleen. You're a nice person and you did very, very well.
[00:53:24] Speaker D: Oh, thank you. Enjoy your program.
[00:53:27] Speaker C: Thanks a lot. And Dave, a pleasure. And anybody who wants a laugh and some fun stuff. The everyday guide to everyday stuff. Price turns Sloan. If they forgot the name, call me. And thanks a million. Take care of yourself.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: Thank you, Dave.
[00:53:40] Speaker E: Thanks a lot.
[00:53:40] Speaker C: Okay, you too, Tony. You want to hang up on me?
[00:53:42] Speaker B: I think I will.
[00:53:44] Speaker C: Good. Okay. And Russ will talk to you in a few minutes right after the news.
[00:53:48] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:53:49] Speaker C: Okay. Bye. Bye. Now it is coming up, the news. No, I'm Nathan here. Wbz.
And that's the dumb birthday game. And what, what a hoot that is. Oh, you betcha. WBZ Boston. It is now 4 o'. Clock.
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[00:55:05] Speaker A: Once again, thank you just so darn much from both Norm and me. All of you meant a lot to us then and you mean in some ways even more now. Our journey to the next 250 begins next week. Closing the vault and definitely without a doubt leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4. The best back to school outfit ever. Knickers, argyle socks, a ruffled Spanish shirt, cummerbund and a Ninja Turtles lunchbox. Begging one's pardon the wrong cue card using the payphone in the Denny's foyer.
Picture postcards from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Exotic highways and traffic hotspots. Wrestling while wearing an infielder's glove.
Joviality and humor. A year's supply of delicat. 10 pounds of peanut brittle used as a bribe.
Comedy and timing. The romance of steel ingots. Match game PM the galloping Gourmet dancing. Cigarette packs.
[00:56:08] Speaker C: Kerwood.
[00:56:09] Speaker A: No, I'm sorry. Derwood Kirby.
Gary Moore in the early days of television. Serbo Croatian names such as Fred sweaty from saying stupid things.
[00:56:21] Speaker C: Hang on, let me mop my brow.
[00:56:24] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:56:25] Speaker A: Playing it up in throwing the game. Jay Leno, stunt double. Getting off the mat gracefully. Shelburne, VT TV Lucky pup. Roberta Quinlan, Car 54, the New Hampshire Gutenbergs. Partying at the Coppa. Enjoying a chocolate shake by the bathroom. Waiting for a drive by town clerks and local birth records. Composers from the Bronze Age. Smuckers strangling on your own spit. Norm's dark side.
The kitchen staff at Denny's and the Grand Slam breakfast round. Beautiful figures.
Booby prizes and square music.
Tap dancing stewardesses and Hop Radic Sing Co Pilots.
That was awful.
Wet floor pylons placed on the carpet. Jack Benny, the Mighty. Christopher Columbus Aircraft Carrier. Getting the rattan on your tush. The heartwarming story of chagra volcanic ash.
3am Wake up calls to the greatest thing walking the planet. The wrestling guy, Steve. The bullet from Melrose. Dave Baptist, Russ Gannon. And the man looking just so stylish in his asbestos shorts, Norm Nathan. I'm the least trusted player in dumb birthday game history.
Tony Nesbit.
[00:57:45] Speaker C: We could send you a booby prize. Yeah?
Yeah. What kind of a prize would your booby like?
I hope that sounded obscene, because I meant to be that way.
[00:57:58] Speaker B: It certainly did.
[00:57:59] Speaker C: Okay.
