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[00:00:01] Speaker A: There are a lot of languages in Nigeria, our latest country added to the analytics, but I'll go with the Enlay Ba Honi Ndewo and how far Today we have a dumb birthday game from October 17, 1993 which is titled I'm a Fun Guy.
This was a bittersweet time for Norm and me as there were shift changes and I was offered to be the full time in studio producer for David Brudnoy. David and I had worked together quite a bit but it was on a fill in basis. That meant that Norm and I would not be together all weekend long. I would still book all his guests, join in on the phone and in studio when I could and continue to work with them outside with the old time radio show he would do around the area. It was hard for me to tell him without choking up, but he understood I had to keep following my radio dreams to be full time only to lose that later and get thrown back to part time Weekend silver lining Norm and I were back together and some weird 2 to 5am shift on Friday and Saturday mornings.
I won't get into why this happened at this time, so I'll leave the discussion with a cliffhanger. Please hit the like button. Rate the show, download, share, comment, follow and subscribe so we can continue to spread the silly it's needed and we provide that here every single week.
Lastly, my obligatory reminder to support the show if you can Patreon buy me a coffee and Kastos. All links are below. As always, a huge thanks to those that already do on to the game we go. The players Brad from Quebec, Lewis in Fall River, Jim from Detroit, Ted in Boston. I'm on the phone from parts unknown Fred Gendron in traffic and Sid Whitaker producing and playing in studio.
The birthdays Evel Knievel, George Wendt, Arthur Miller, Margot Kidder, Tom Poston, Jimmy Breslin, Jim Seals and Gary Puckett.
Some ancillary it was Norm's dad's birthday. Abe Nathan born on October 17, 1895.
We have quite a few commercials the US Air Shuttle, the Wee Tea Shop but but it's cut off so it's really we Witten hour watches Duplatron Tony Floramos with of course Bill Marlowe, Bibi Goldbaughn with Gwendolyn Jones of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and rich chocolate Ovaltine. We get a couple of post game callers, the enlightening dawn and Sam from Olson who's actually Monadnock drugged stained teeth, skin boils and and broken bones.
Episode 257 I'm a Fun guy. Shrooms its way to your ears. In 3, 2, and 1.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Hello. It is time for the dumb birthday game in which we guess the ages of people born on this date. This is October 17, 1993.
I'm sure the fact that I included the year help you identify that more closely. I don't know why I said that. Today was the birthday of my, my father, Abe Nathan, perhaps you know him.
Born in on April, on October 17, 1895, which would make him what, 100? And what am I saying? He would make him 98 years old today. He died a few years ago at the age of 92, which was not bad.
But today is his birthday, October 17, and it's also the birthday of a whole lot of other very interesting people. And let's see who's playing the game with us. We have Brad, who's up there in Quebec province, La Belle Provence. Nice to. Nice to have you again with us, Brad.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: Hey, it's always a pleasure. Sorry.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Oh, no pleasure either way is okay with us.
[00:04:01] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: We have Lewis. Yes, Lewis. And Fall River.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: Yes, you do.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: Hey, nice to have you with us also at this first time. You played the game with us too.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: Yes, it is, Norm.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Hey, you must be really excited.
[00:04:12] Speaker C: I am really excited.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Oh, the adrenaline's flowing. You're probably just gone whoopee do. Yay. Can it really be happening to me? Right on.
Okay, Jim, who's out in Detroit. Hi, Jim.
[00:04:23] Speaker C: How you doing? Norm? Listen, this time I played it smart.
I called at 11 o' clock and we went over and caught a Chinese dinner over in Windsor, Ontario. And I got back just in time.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Okay, so yeah, I'm ready to roll. The old tum tum there is just full of food and so you're in good shape. Okay, if, if, if, if you react to food and all that this time of the night the way I do, you're ready to fall asleep. But we'll keep. I'll, I'll every now and then I'll go, hey, Jim, get up. Something like that. She'll keep you on your toes.
We have Ted, who's here in Boston, who's playing the game with us also. Hi, Ted.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: Hi.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Hey. Hi. Hi. Hi.
[00:04:59] Speaker C: I'm awake.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Okay, that's good because it's what, 19 after three right now? And they may only. The only people who may be awake are the ones who are playing the dumb birthday game, which includes the very lovely and for many years my beautiful assistant.
Really my beautiful associate. He was not my assistant. My associate because we're on an equal level. The very lovely Tony Nesbitt.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: Hope you do. Yay. I'm so excited.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Tony's here. That. Does that mean. You know what that means? Tony's middle name is Fun Guy.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah, Tony Fun Guy.
[00:05:34] Speaker C: I used to work in a laboratory.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: I beg your pardon?
[00:05:37] Speaker C: I used to work in a laboratory.
Fun Guy. Fungi.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Fun. Oh, fun.
[00:05:43] Speaker C: G. I'm sorry.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Fun Guy. Well, no, no. See, sometimes. Sometimes your humor, I know, is so intellectual that I don't know what the heck.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: I know what it is.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: I don't even know what you're talking about.
[00:05:52] Speaker C: It's the new shift, Norm.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: I know what you're working.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: I'm working with an intellectual now and.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's right, you're working with.
You're working with David. David Brudnoy.
And so your whole life has changed around, hasn't it?
[00:06:05] Speaker C: Yes, it has.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:07] Speaker C: Hey, David's great.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Well, yes, he is. Yes, he is.
[00:06:11] Speaker C: Well, working with David.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he's working. Yeah, I know it. Instead of working with some schlock like me, he's working with Mr. Intellectual, which is really very, very nice, I imagine. I imagine probably in another few months, the way you're going, working with David, it'll probably be impossible to talk to you on a regular level.
Probably. The only way I could talk with you is probably, you know, in some kind of an intellectual way.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: Of course. Well, the whole I won't be able birthday game will have to change, and we'll have to bring it to some kind of new level.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: I think it'll have to be more intellectual.
[00:06:44] Speaker C: I think so.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:06:45] Speaker C: Maybe only guests. Birthdays of Plato and Socrates, and we'll speak in Latin.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: The game will be in Latin. That's right. Okay, we have Fred Gendron with a touch of Japanese.
[00:06:59] Speaker C: I'm sorry we had to have that.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Oh, Japanese would be good. Yeah, that'd be good.
[00:07:02] Speaker C: I'll be spending some time at the University of Tokyo.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Well, as you know, I taught at the University of Bombay for several years.
[00:07:08] Speaker C: I know, I know.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: And anyway, Fred Gendron is. Hey, Fred. Hello, Norm. Hey, Fred is our traffic guy. You got it. And this is your. About your fourth appearance on the dumb birthday game.
[00:07:18] Speaker D: Yeah. Don't change it yet. Don't improve it yet. I haven't perfected this part. I haven't gotten out of last place.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: Of the way it is now. We. It'll take a while before we get to the.
The Latin version of that, which is probably going on right now at college campuses across the Country.
I'm glad I said that, because if.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: It is, then the future of America is doomed.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Hey, you know who else we have here? We have Sid Whitaker and his RCA Bluebird Recording Orchestra. Said our producer now who's playing the dumbarty game with us. Nice to see you, Sid. Nice to be here.
[00:07:49] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Hello, Sid. Looks like a man.
[00:07:53] Speaker C: Who does he look like?
[00:07:55] Speaker B: He looks like a man named Dick Smarrick, who's a priest who heads the Saint.
What's the name of the church here in Brighton? The Catholic church.
Oh, isn't that awful to bring it up in that? No, but Dick Smerrick is an old friend of mine, you know, from way back. Is his first church was in Middleton. And we got to know each other because he loves jazz and so do I. So we got Chami. Anyway, Sid Whitaker looks like a young Dick Schmarrick. So I look at him and it's kind of scary.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: I'll wear my white collar next time, Norman.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's the only reason I know you're not Dick Smarak is because you're not wearing a white collar. So don't do that. That'll really throw me off.
Okay, we're gonna play anyway. Today's October 17th, and as I mentioned, besides it being my father's birthday, it's also the birthday of a few other lesser known people like Evel Knievel.
I didn't hear any gasp or anything. I think this is going to be a quiet night.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. That's better. Oh, my God.
Okay, Brad, I'll ask you first. As long as you volunteered that that wonderful statement should have killed an offset. No, that's okay. Evel Knievel. How old? Let me. Let me see what I can. Why you brought me the first?
Yeah, he was his. He was born Robert Craig. Now that's a good name. That's the kind of name a guy getting in the radio would take.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: He's got two first names.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah, Robert and Craig. Yeah, Bob Craig from Butte, Montana. He tried to jump to Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle. That's the only information that I have on him. Plus his son, of course, is now doing the same kind of crazy stuff.
Bobby Knievel, Robbie. Oh, so he's Obviously Robert Craig Jr. Yeah, I never thought of that.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: Better than Evel Knievel Jr. I suppose.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: What do you suppose a guy named Robert Craig would pick up the name Evel Knievel?
[00:09:49] Speaker C: Well, his son, like I said, his son does go by Robbie Knievel.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Okay. So he sort of established part of the name.
There was another guy named Evil Knish, an Israeli.
[00:10:01] Speaker C: Are you guys gonna let me in?
[00:10:03] Speaker B: No, we're not. So shut up.
Evil Knish was an Israeli stuntman. Yeah. And he jumped over 17,000 kosha. Dill pickles.
Yeah.
Was mortally wounded, as I recall, in a. In a bowl of dill.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Let me. Let me.
Anyway, Brad, quick, save us by telling us how old you think Evil Knievel is this very day.
[00:10:34] Speaker C: That joke was really sour, by the way.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus.
[00:10:39] Speaker C: I'm gonna have to say 56.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: You're gonna have to say that, are you?
[00:10:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:45] Speaker C: I'm forced.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Okay. And Lewis, way down there in Fall river, what do you think?
[00:10:50] Speaker C: I think that evel Knievel is 68 years old.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: 68 years old. We'll put that right up on the scoreboard.
[00:10:58] Speaker C: And, Jim, I'm gonna go with 59.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: 59. Okay. And what do you say, Ted?
[00:11:08] Speaker C: 57.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: And Tony?
[00:11:12] Speaker C: 300. Oh, I'm sorry. That's the number of bones he's broken. I'm getting that confused.
He's broken this many times, but I believe today he holds steady at 55.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: 55 years of age. Kind of like the speed record speed thing. It's only appropriate that he be. That I suppose you're figuring. Sure.
[00:11:36] Speaker C: Even. And if he. If he isn't, and we do this next year, I'll say it again.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: In case he's really 54, you mean?
[00:11:43] Speaker C: Well, unless I forget, he's 58 or something like that, I'll still say 55. Using the same logic I'm using now.
He'll always be 55 to me. That's what I'm trying to say.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Well, you're such a sentimental old poop.
Fred Gendron, what do you think? How old would you say Evil Knievel is?
[00:11:59] Speaker D: I want Tony to miss by 1.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: 54. 54. Okay.
[00:12:04] Speaker D: Down, Tony, down.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: Okay, because. Because Brad said 56, and so that he may miss on that score. But we don't know yet, do we?
[00:12:12] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Okay, Sid, what do you think?
[00:12:14] Speaker C: I. I think I'm gonna have to go with 52.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: 52.
Okay, now comes the really exciting part of this game. For people who've never heard it before. They probably said, when does the exciting part come and in what form? And this is it. When I tell you his actual age, evil Knievel is 55. Which is what? Tony, hit it right on the box, Tony.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: See that, Tony?
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:12:39] Speaker D: Oh, geez, Tony probably has a little calendar book in front of him with all these dates in there.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Now everybody suspects it.
[00:12:45] Speaker C: No, I broke, I broke up the old Evil Knievel set I had from when I was about 8 years old. And they had a little trading card in there and I was checking it out.
Yeah, I did have that. Anyone remember those?
[00:12:58] Speaker B: Had the wind up motorcycle.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: Wind up motorcycle.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Oh, really? Yes. I don't remember those. Yeah, of course, I was 72 at the time. I didn't. So I never bothered to collect those kind of childish things.
I was collecting unemployment and Social Security retirement pay.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: Uh huh.
Funny. You're still doing that now.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm still doing that now.
And I'm still telling the same stupid jokes that nobody laughs at. Oh God. Time does not change anything. Anyway, how about George went Now? George went. I know, that's a very cute remark. Yeah, the, the beer guzzling regular on Cheers with a good name, a great name named Norm. Norm Peterson. That's right, Norm.
And they just.
[00:13:45] Speaker C: Mailman.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: No, no, that's Cliff. Cliff.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: Norm was a painter.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: No, Razakana. Razza Ratzenberger. Yeah.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: Was it Norma Painter? Yes.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Oh, is that what he was?
[00:14:00] Speaker C: Pretty much.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: I didn't, I didn't know that.
[00:14:02] Speaker C: Yeah, a house painter. Not, not like a.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: No, not an artist. No, he didn't look like an artist. He looked more like that beefy actor. They describe him as a beefy actor. George went. Okay, we'll start with you, Sid. How old is George?
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Oh, geez, I, I should know this one too.
I'm gonna.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Why is that? Why should you know this?
[00:14:24] Speaker C: Because I, I think I'm supposed to watch Cheers on a regular basis and I, I, as much as I hate to admit this, I, I actually do not.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: But why, why should you watch it on a regular basis? I mean, is that one of your courses at school? Yeah.
[00:14:36] Speaker C: Yeah, actually.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: Oh, really? No kidding on it. So no kidding? Is that, Is that what you do in communications courses? You have to watch television a lot?
[00:14:44] Speaker C: That's the secret. Yeah.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Yep. Oh, and what happens if you do badly? They make you watch Sally Jesse Raphael.
That's kind of punishment to make you.
[00:14:52] Speaker C: Listen to radio that. No problem.
Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say it's 49.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Okay, maybe none of your professors are listening right now, so you might be able to sneak past this. Yeah, Fred Gendron and his orchestra. What do you think? How old is George? Fred?
[00:15:10] Speaker C: Well, I thought George, Fred or George went.
[00:15:13] Speaker D: George went.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry. He said how old? Is George Fred. I, I Sorry, I was.
[00:15:18] Speaker D: I thought you said George Brett. So I don't know what's going on.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: I, I had the best bet to know what's going on is to ignore Tony. First of all, I, I try, but.
[00:15:28] Speaker D: You know, he's all over the place. Every, every corner. I turn, there he is peeking around.
I put blind phones, blindfolds on, and I still see him. I'm gonna go with 49 as well.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: He's kind of like a shopping cart, isn't he? No matter where you go, there they are kind of hanging around there.
In fact, the first man on the moon, the first thing he discovered when he set foot on the moon was a shopping cart from a market basket store.
Boy, that was another one that really. Have we got a really bad panel or am I really bad tonight?
[00:16:01] Speaker C: Me. Is this an audience or an oil painting?
[00:16:03] Speaker B: What is this? You must be alive. I can hear you breathing. But seriously, folks, I know a guy who was so religious, he had a stained glass eye. But no, really, folks, I know a place was so boring, one day the tide went out, never bothered to come back in again. But no, seriously, folks.
[00:16:20] Speaker C: Anyway, Tony, what do you think about the Melancholy Baby? I love that.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Oh, Melancholy Baby. I call my sweetheart my Melancholy Baby. And she's gonna add like a melon on the face like a collie. But really, though, she's got lovely blonde hair all the way down her back. It's too bad she is not on her head. And she's so skinny that when she swallowed an olive one day, ten men left town in a frantic state. But seriously, folks, you want to guess or do you want me to keep going like this?
[00:16:45] Speaker C: Actually, I'd like to have you keep going like this.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: I don't really care to anymore.
[00:16:50] Speaker C: I believe he is now 45.
Who.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Are we talking about anyway? I've lost my place.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: George, Fred, Brett Wendt.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Okay, norm on Cheers. 45 years old. Okay.
And Ted, what do you say?
[00:17:06] Speaker C: I'm gonna say 52. It's weird.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Okay, Ted says 52, and he said that with great authority.
So let the rest of you take note.
[00:17:17] Speaker C: Jim, the big five zero.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: The big five zero.
And Lou, they call you Lewis or Louie or Lou Louis? Lewis. Okay. And how old do you think George?
[00:17:28] Speaker C: I think George is 46 years old.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: 26.
[00:17:31] Speaker C: 46.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: 46.
Okay.
And Brad, I'll have to take an.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: Unexplored answer and say 47.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Okay. Was. Was unexplored. Was that significant to anything or.
[00:17:46] Speaker C: I have no idea. Maybe to the Shopping cart in the moon.
I don't know. Maybe there's a tie in there.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: George went is actually 45 years old. Tony said that right on the button. And Lewis was very close by with 46. And Brad not far off with 47.
Son of a gun. But two right on the button. Why is that, Tony? Have you been looking these things up? And cheating?
[00:18:12] Speaker C: God, what happened to that nice introduction about my lovely associate and all this? And now you turn on me and you're accusing me of. Huh?
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Well, you can still be my beautiful associate. You can still be my beautiful associate. And a cheater, you know.
Okay, how about Arthur Miller, the playwright?
Wrote Death of a Salesman? The Crucible, also. Yes.
[00:18:33] Speaker C: Is that the one that was married to Marilyn?
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Yes, he was. And I'll even tell you the years he was married to Marilyn Monroe, so that might help your guess's age.
He was married to her from 1959 to 1961. Two years. They were short years, but they were filled with glory and wonderment.
I made that up in hot sex? Yes. Maybe not.
Maybe not. I don't know.
Okay, let's start with Jim out there in Detroit. What do you think? How old do you think Arthur Miller is?
[00:19:05] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with 77 years old.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: 77. For Jim, there's a lot. It seemed to be a lot of agony there when Jim said that answer was.
Ted, were you one of those that agonized?
Why don't I just ask you how old you think Arthur Miller is and stop being so cutesy?
What do you think?
Oh, Ted, are you awake?
Okay.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Oh, yes.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Okay. How old do you think Arthur Miller is? October 17th, this very day?
[00:19:44] Speaker C: Probably around.
I'm stretching you a little bit.
Yeah. 78.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: 78. Yeah. Okay.
And Tony, what do you say?
[00:19:57] Speaker C: He said it was 59 to 61, right? He was married to.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: He was married to Marilyn Monroe from 59 to 61. That's. That's correct.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: And he was old, man. He was old then. Yeah. All right, then I'll go with 79.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: 79.
[00:20:22] Speaker C: You got a problem?
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Okay. No, I don't have a problem.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: No.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: I'm trying to figure out how old he was back then for the guy to. For him to be called old.
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was trying to.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: Say, because I have a feeling he may have been quite a good deal younger than I am right this very moment. And so I'm beginning to take Umbridge.
But once I take Umbrage, we'll move on to Bethune, and then we'll Take that town and then move across the border into Salem, New Hampshire. Thank you.
Brad, what do you say?
[00:20:49] Speaker C: Oh, I'll go with Tony and say 79.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: 79, because he's got a good record so far.
[00:20:56] Speaker C: That wasn't my original answer. That he was old then kind of made me say that.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: My original answer was a very spirited one.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: Oh, a 76.
Fred, what do you say?
[00:21:09] Speaker D: I say 73.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: 73?
[00:21:12] Speaker D: Yes, sir.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Okay. And Lewis, what do you say?
[00:21:16] Speaker C: 76 years old. That's the spirit. That's it.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: Thank goodness.
Sid, what do you think?
[00:21:23] Speaker C: I'll say 75.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: 75. Okay. The actual age, this very day, October 70th, of Arthur Miller is 78. And Ted said that. That's exactly what Ted said. But Tony and Brad both said 79, which was very good.
[00:21:38] Speaker C: I hate you, Tony.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: And.
And Jim said 77, which was also good.
So we had. We had a lot. A lot. Most of you were very, very close.
How about.
[00:21:48] Speaker C: So he was old back then. Wow.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Well, wait a minute. 61 was 30 years ago.
He would have been 40, 48.
Well. Or he would have been 46 or something like that.
He was old then. That's it, 46.
[00:22:08] Speaker C: Hey, it wasn't my quote.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: Whose quote was it? Will you stand up against the walls? Put your hand in the top of the car.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: I'll tell you one thing. He sure got lucky.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: He got lucky with Marilyn. I don't know.
I don't know about that.
She was so completely neurotic. I'm not sure that she was a whole lot of fun. Oh, in bed? Yeah, sure.
[00:22:29] Speaker C: I didn't mean that.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: But that isn't everything, you know. There's something else, and I can't think of what that might be at the offhand. Anyway, before we get too racy, let's. For the WBC audience.
If I get too racy, I have to move over to wbcn.
Anyway, Margot Kidder, who was Lois Lane in the Superman movies.
That's about it. That's. I guess it is about it. I don't think she's done much beyond that. That was it. Yeah. I was looking for some more stuff. It says she was Lois Lane of the Superman movies, period.
[00:23:05] Speaker C: I happen to see her on a commercial regarding helping children in South America here in Detroit the other day. Adam.
That's right. That's less than my sr.
Well, we're.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Gonna have to have you take a first shot then, because you've probably seen him more recently than any.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with 45 years.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Old. 45 years old. Okay, and Brad, what do you say?
[00:23:27] Speaker C: 45.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: 6. 46. And Lewis, 43 years old. 43.
Okay.
[00:23:36] Speaker C: Tony, since Brad went with me the last time, I'm gonna go with Brad this time. 46.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: All right, 46.
Sid, I'm gonna go with 44. I think 44 is okay.
[00:23:48] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: And Ted, I'm gonna do 40. 40. And what do you say, Fred? I'm sorry, was that Fred or that was Ted? Oh, that was Ted. Now Fred. Yeah, that's right. Dead and now Fred.
And then we'll go with Ed.
[00:24:01] Speaker D: Well, keeping with tradition, I'm gonna stay way away from everybody else's guests and be way off and say 50.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Why not? I can't.
[00:24:10] Speaker D: I might as well try something crazy.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: Okay, Jim actually hit it on the nose because she's 45.
[00:24:17] Speaker C: I hate you, Brad.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: And Jim, now you all. You all were running in there roughly in the neighborhood it. As it were, so to speak.
Having said that. Anyway, Jim. Jim had it hit it. So Jim has now got a correct answer. So is Ted. And Tony has two correct answers as we go to Tom Poston. Tom Poston was on the Newhart show.
The what? You know. The what? The one called Bob. The one one about him being an innkeeper. Newhart? Yeah.
[00:24:48] Speaker C: Oh, no, wait a minute. What was it called? The Bob Newhart show. No, that was his first one.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: And this was just called the New Hard show or the Bob Show. Anyway, he was.
He was the handyman. Was going around with all the stuff and the tools and equipment in his pocket and stuff. Tom post it. Tom Poston also was a member of the Steve Allen crew. And Steve Allen was doing the nighttime.
The early, you know, the nighttime show. Way, way, way, way back.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: Great then too.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Oh, I thought the Steve Allen show was excellent funny show. And Tom Poston and a whole bunch of Carl Reiner was on that too. Was he. Was he on that show?
And that will be cast.
Anyway, Tom Poston, what does it have.
[00:25:30] Speaker C: There listed for his accomplishment?
[00:25:32] Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna. I was just gonna tell you. He's from Columbus, Ohio. Well, that's.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: That's a major accomplishment.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah, right there. He won an Emmy for the best supporting actor in the comedy series man on the street on the Steve Allen show in 1959 and appeared on the new R TV series. It's just what we've been talking about. But he was on the Steve Allen show in 1959. That's the date you might think about as we go to.
Fred, how old do you think Tom Poston is.
[00:26:01] Speaker D: I will say 50. 50 something. Can I have 50 through 59?
[00:26:07] Speaker B: You want to take. You want to take all of those numbers? I suppose I would like the decade.
[00:26:13] Speaker D: I will say 57.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: 57.
Okay. And what would you say, Lewis?
[00:26:21] Speaker C: I would say 64.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: 64. Okay. And Brad?
[00:26:26] Speaker C: 60.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: 60.
Ted?
[00:26:30] Speaker C: I'd say 72.
Yeah, I remember him.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: What was the. Oh, for anything special or.
[00:26:41] Speaker C: I'm gonna.
[00:26:41] Speaker D: It's Fred.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: It's good.
[00:26:42] Speaker D: I'm gonna be the furthest away again.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Well, you know, I haven't even. I haven't even told you how old he is.
[00:26:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I just have a bad vibe already.
[00:26:52] Speaker C: You got that checked?
[00:26:54] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Go to the Bad Vibes store and they had a little. Have a little media here. You stick your vibes in it and they tell you whether good or bad.
Access. Barely. No, it hasn't really reached the red mark. So you're not in serious breast condition?
[00:27:08] Speaker D: I need a vibe transplant.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: That's right, too. Yeah.
Sid, what do you think?
[00:27:16] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with 62, I think.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: 62, you think. You're never really quite sure of yourself, are you, Sid? But then again, you're a young fella and confidence comes slowly.
[00:27:27] Speaker C: Especially when you work with Tony.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: Sorry, what?
[00:27:32] Speaker B: We'll ask Tony how old you think Tom Poston is today.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: Now, remember, Tony, we hate each other. I know, I know.
61.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: 61.
Okay. And Jim?
[00:27:44] Speaker C: Norm? 67.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: 67. Okay. Actually, Tom Poston is 66.
[00:27:52] Speaker C: Really?
[00:27:53] Speaker B: 66 years old today. So I believe that's Root.
Oh, that's very good. That's very Good.
Jim said 67, and nobody said 65 and. Or says 66. So Jim and Tony are now tied to a piece.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: I hate you even more, Tony.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: How about Jimmy Breslin?
I wrote Table Money. He's a.
[00:28:22] Speaker C: A columnist.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: A columnist in New York. Yeah, he's written a number of. A number of books. Besides Table Money, he wrote a book called the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. He also ran for.
[00:28:34] Speaker C: That was about Westinghouse management, wasn't it?
[00:28:37] Speaker B: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight.
Yes, I believe so. I believe it was. Yes, I believe so.
[00:28:44] Speaker C: By the way, did you happen to see the article in today's paper, Today's Herald, about a friend of ours?
[00:28:51] Speaker B: I did not. I didn't. I haven't checked check today's paper at all. What would be 24, if you want to. I don't have the paper right in front of me. I'd have it out in the Car.
You're going to tell us what that is or no?
Is it. Is it too dangerous?
[00:29:07] Speaker C: I probably. Well, no, I suppose.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: No, nothing is too dangerous.
[00:29:10] Speaker C: No, that's right.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: Who's it about?
[00:29:12] Speaker C: Oh, the program director at we have Dead Haddock was. Was let go.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Now, who is that?
Is that the guy who was here?
[00:29:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: David Bernstein.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: Yes. Isn't that interesting how we were talking about that the other night.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: I thought he was let go some time ago. Well.
[00:29:28] Speaker C: Well, now it's official.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: It was in the paper. Oh, I see. Now he's really been let go. The other was just make believe they're.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: Not planning on filling his position.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: Isn't that sad when you're let go and they're not Filling your position makes you feel like you were totally worthless, doesn't it? Makes you feel like you were worth nothing. That you didn't do anything for the station amounted to one fiddling thing.
[00:29:50] Speaker C: I know.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: And including the station that used to be at before that. And it must make you hang your head in total depression and good. And I'd say beautiful. Was that.
Was that a subtle way of putting it? Wow. Okay. Anyway, we have Jim and Tony. Two apiece.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Jimmy Breslin. Huh?
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Jimmy. Oh, we're back to Jimmy Breslin. That's right. The man. Oh, we. That. Oh, that's right. The gang. They couldn't shoot straight. Started this all off. He also, along with Norman Mailer, ran for president, didn't he? Went at one point.
Really? He. I think Norman Mailer was the presidential candidate and Jimmy Breslin was the vice presidential candidate.
Was he running for mayor of New York?
[00:30:35] Speaker C: Well, there's a.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Might have been. Might have been the mayor of New York and Lieutenant mayor or whatever it is.
Vice mayor, I don't know. But they ran as a team for some office. It might have been for.
Might have been for a town moderator in the town of Middleton, I think. Or maybe.
Or maybe. Anyway, Jimmy Breslin. How old is Jimmy Breslin today? We're going to start with you, Tony. What do you say?
[00:30:56] Speaker C: Oh, great.
Any. Any dates at all you can give me to.
[00:31:04] Speaker B: Let's see. No, no, this does not have any. No.
[00:31:07] Speaker C: What do you think he ran for a certain type of office. Do you remember when that was?
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Boy, I would say that was 15 years ago, maybe.
[00:31:17] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:18] Speaker B: I'm not sure. I'm not really sure about that.
Maybe 20 years ago. No. 15 years ago.
[00:31:24] Speaker C: 15.
[00:31:25] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe. Yeah.
I don't remember the office.
[00:31:29] Speaker C: He's 59. No.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Based upon the information I gave you. Eh.
[00:31:35] Speaker C: Which really is rather vague, but that's a rather vague 59.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: Okay.
Lewis, what do you think?
[00:31:43] Speaker C: I think he's 73 years old.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: 73 years old.
[00:31:46] Speaker C: I'm in a fog.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: Well, wait a minute. Don't give up. You don't know.
You don't know. I mean, Lewis may be out of his mind completely. He may be totally drunk and can't come up with a correct answer. And I mean, don't believe it right away.
That's what makes a ball game.
That was my Hungarian gypsy princess grandmother used to say that. Show me a man who plays ball fairly and I'll show you a jar of Salopatica.
I can see that. The message.
[00:32:19] Speaker C: Do you remember. You have to try to remember a lot of these and put them in a book and publish it one of these days.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Okay. Some of her sayings.
[00:32:26] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: The sayings of my Hungarian gypsy princess grandmother.
[00:32:29] Speaker C: Yes.
I can see it on the New York Times and the. All the bestseller lists across the country.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Truly an inspiration.
[00:32:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
Maybe I could book you for your own show.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: That'd be kind of. That's right. I could come on this program and. And kind of promote the book. Yeah. You can interview my own book. Yeah, you could.
[00:32:47] Speaker C: Yeah, that could be kind of painful, but.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:32:51] Speaker C: Moving right along.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Moving right along. Let's go to you. You. Now, let's see. Let's. You. Who? Let's see. You. Who? Who? Fred, how about you, Fred? How old do you think Jimmy Breslin is?
[00:33:02] Speaker D: Well, Tony, the good news is that I. I think you're fairly close. The bad news is that I think you're fairly close. And I agree with you, but I'm going to say 60. But I. I have a bad track.
[00:33:12] Speaker C: Wait a minute. What?
[00:33:14] Speaker D: I'm on the same page as you right now, and that's bad news for you.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: So long. And make it a good day.
[00:33:22] Speaker D: I didn't know.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: I would just wait until you kind of your energy just completely ebbed from your body and we could hear the thud as you fell on the floor. I. I just didn't follow that.
Ted, what do you think.
[00:33:37] Speaker C: I'd say 60.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: 60?
[00:33:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Okay. And Jim, I saw him on one.
[00:33:46] Speaker C: Of the talk shows in the last couple years, and I think he is 67 years old.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: 67 years of age.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: And Sid, what do you say?
[00:33:55] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with 64.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: 60. 64. And Brad. And Brad will say 60. 60.
[00:34:03] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: He's actually 63.
Sid said 60.
[00:34:07] Speaker C: So Lewis was nuts.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: No, Lewis was. Was off by 10 years.
Yeah, 10 years.
In fact, he was the farthest off from anybody, so. So see, before you get.
That's right.
Okay, I could say you get the booby prize, but we went through that last night, if I recall.
You weren't with us last night, Fred. We had an exciting program. I got to say the word breast a lot, because you may find it.
[00:34:38] Speaker D: Hard to believe, but Jack Hart actually told me all about it. He was so excited earlier this evening, I swear to God.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: That's. That's funny. You told me the story. Yeah, because when I first got in the radio, couldn't say things like breast. So as a result of being able to say it, now I just keep saying it every opportunity, even when it doesn't fit.
And there must be a joke in that line, too. Yeah, definitely. Okay. Anyway, Sid. Sid said 64, and nobody since 60, so Sid wins that round.
All right, well, you want to keep this thing going or should we just call it quits?
[00:35:13] Speaker D: Am I the only one without a point?
[00:35:16] Speaker B: No, You? No. You? No. Brad, Lewis and Fred are all in a zero column.
[00:35:22] Speaker D: Okay, great.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And of course, we have a. This tie between Tony and. And Jim. And of course, Ted and Sid both have one a piece, so it could. It could go anyway. I mean, it was a movie. We'll be here all night with this ball game.
[00:35:36] Speaker C: I want to win my. You know, I'm doing what you want to do. Yeah. Wasn't that a movie one time, Norm?
[00:35:40] Speaker B: What was that only Jim, Fred and.
[00:35:43] Speaker C: Sid or something like that?
[00:35:44] Speaker B: Yes, it was.
[00:35:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: They all slept in the same bed. Yeah.
Jim Seals of these team of Seals and Crofts.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: Oh, boy.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: The biggest hit.
[00:35:53] Speaker C: No winners on this one.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: They were. Their biggest hit came out in 1976. They're only here called Get Closer. Did you know that? Would you guess the name of that title?
[00:36:03] Speaker C: What was the year?
[00:36:03] Speaker B: 7 76. Yeah, that's the right. Get Closer. Get Closer was the title. And we'll start with.
Let's start with Brad.
[00:36:14] Speaker C: Why me?
Oh, I don't know. Let's say 50.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: 50, okay. And Lewis, 44 years old.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: Jim, 45.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: Ted.
[00:36:32] Speaker C: Who was it?
[00:36:33] Speaker B: Jim Seals of the team of Seals and Crofts. The singers.
50. Yeah. Okay. Tony.
[00:36:49] Speaker C: I'll say he's pushing 51.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: 51. Pushing 51.
[00:36:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:54] Speaker D: Okay, Fred, I'm gonna say 50. 47. And I know I got this one.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: Oh, no, I don't. Of course I don't. No, because. Because I know you're a Jim Seals fan. You have all the Seals and drops. Right.
All the compact discs. You get them on video.
Yeah, and. Yeah. And just 1045 that they once made.
And, Sid, what do you say?
[00:37:18] Speaker C: I'm gonna say 49, I think.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: 49, you think. See, you're not certain of yourself at all. You're not. You're just not sure yourself.
Everything's like that. I think what I'm going to say is maybe I'll say, well, I don't know. Maybe. No, you're going to become a pastor. Say, oh, it's 49. I know that for a fact.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: I need to. I need to look to Tony for help with that. I think.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Go.
[00:37:39] Speaker C: There I go again.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: I wouldn't look to Tony for much of anything if I were you.
I mean, look at Tony.
[00:37:46] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: See what's happened to Tony.
Look at me for anything. Yeah. Okay. And he works with David Brudner. So what? You know, what kind of a reward is that?
[00:37:59] Speaker C: That's true. I almost forgot.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Jim Seals is 51.
Yes. Tony said 51.
Pushing 51. Okay.
Brad and Ted were close with 50. That was pretty good. Okay, one.
We have just one more and then we'll just talk this whole game into bed for another night. Gary Pocket talking about singing people from Hibbing, Minnesota, Leader of the Union Gap, the vocal group named after the town of Union Gap, Washington, and formed in San Diego, California. That. That ought to help a lot. His hits include Let Me Get a Map.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: Wait a minute.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: Okay, Minnesota. Born in Minnesota.
Union Gap. Named after Union Gap, Washington. But the group was formed in California.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: And his name is Puckett, too.
[00:38:53] Speaker B: And his name is Gary Puckett. His middle name is Arizona.
I made that up, and I'm so pleased I did.
[00:39:03] Speaker C: I thought his name was Kick the.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: Kick the Puckett. Yeah, I see.
And, boy, this has got to be the last one.
Hits include Young Girl and Lady Willpower.
And we'll start.
We'll start with you, Sid.
Gary Puckett.
How old is Gary Puckett of the Union Gap?
[00:39:29] Speaker C: I'll have to go with 55.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: See, that I'll have to go with.
I think I might go with.
I don't know, but let's try.
No, see, he hasn't learned his lessons about being positive yet. I got a lot of work to do with this young guy. A lot of work.
[00:39:46] Speaker C: Got your work cut out for you?
[00:39:47] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I got to give you a little confidence.
I gave that to David Brudnoy because he was a very shy person that originally, you know, just wasn't sure of. Himself at all that. No ego.
And David shy. You know, I think. I think he took too many lessons from me and somehow he got to be a monster on the loose. I couldn't control him after a while. But we're going to put a little bit of that into you, Sid.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: I'll look forward to it, Norm.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Okay. And Bob Raleigh himself also wasn't sure of himself either until he took my course.
Nobody dares laugh on that one. That's making me feel very, very vulnerable.
Fred, what do you say about Gary Puckett?
[00:40:29] Speaker D: Without reservation, without hesitation, I proclaim, claim that today he is. Oh, get on with three years old.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: No, do you hear that? There's a guy with confidence.
[00:40:38] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm confident.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:39] Speaker D: Fred is not doing me any good, though.
[00:40:41] Speaker B: Fred has taken my. My confidence course. Okay. And I will.
[00:40:45] Speaker D: And if. If you tell me differently, I just won't believe you. As far as I deserve. He's 53, okay.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: No matter what the record shows.
[00:40:52] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: As you know, I call the town and city clerks on all of these things.
And in this case, I called the town clerk in Hibbing, Minnesota to get his official age, so. I know, and don't argue with me, but when you. Anyway, Tony, what do you think?
[00:41:08] Speaker C: Well, Dr. Nathan Stein, since you've created all these other monsters.
[00:41:13] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:41:14] Speaker C: Yeah, boy.
Any dates on releases of songs or anything? Nothing.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: No, nothing at all. It's totally divorced. I checked it all out and I could find nothing. Well, he's left not a trace.
[00:41:25] Speaker C: I could say something, but I don't want to give him a hint.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: You. Oh, you could if you want to.
[00:41:31] Speaker C: 69 or 70, Tony. Okay, what's that?
[00:41:35] Speaker B: One of his hits.
[00:41:36] Speaker C: That's when his. They had hits out on the radio.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:40] Speaker C: Okay. That era.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: 54. 54.
And Ken, what do you say?
[00:41:54] Speaker C: I say 48.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: I'm sorry, 48, is that what you said? Yeah. Okay. Jim, 51 and Lewis, 47 and Brad 52.
Okay. He actually sees we've. We've really run into a problem here.
He's. He's 51. And that means that Jim and Tony are tied with three apiece. I'm sick to death of this game. And now it's. Now it's a tie.
[00:42:25] Speaker C: Give Jim a gift, will ya? I want to go to bed.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Okay, so do that. There's no sense trying to play out the tie because we're all sick to death of this whole thing.
[00:42:35] Speaker C: You know what? I want to ask you guys out in Boston, though.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:38] Speaker C: I listen to BZ all The time when in the road report.
How come they never finish working on the Callahan tunnel?
It's always closed.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:42:48] Speaker D: Yeah, it's very dirty. They have to keep washing it.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:52] Speaker C: They have the cleanest walls and the brightest bulbs of any tunnel in this nation. Really?
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of a showcase. It's a showcase. They can't remember why it is, but it was written into the will of Ocephius Callahan, for whom the tunnel is named.
[00:43:10] Speaker C: Really?
[00:43:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:43:11] Speaker C: And the other thing. Keep the Minute man as the symbol for a University of Massachusetts.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: Have you heard about that out in Detroit?
[00:43:18] Speaker C: Oh, sure have. I can't believe that.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: I know it.
[00:43:22] Speaker C: I can't believe it.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: I know. I think.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: I think we were talking about it today over dinner.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: I think. I think we're getting so silly about so many of these things for people who are not knowing what we're talking about. The Minute man is. That's the symbol. Also the nickname of the University of Massachusetts football team, the Minutemen. I suppose that's the. Probably the name of all the other sporting teams there, too. Maybe, but somebody said it was.
It indicated violence, in a sense, because it was a fighting team, that is the Minute Men.
Also, it's sexist because it's got a man man in the title. Minute Men. Not. It should be Minute Persons. I suppose we wanted to be correct about that and a whole bunch of.
[00:44:04] Speaker C: Other stuff in the Detroit News today, and I couldn't believe it.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I. I think it. I think we've gotten kind of silly about that. Anyway, anyway, hang in there, Jim. And in a moment, Sid, thank you very much for playing the game with us. Sid, thank you.
[00:44:17] Speaker C: My pleasure.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Okay, Sid will take your name and address and all. We'll get some kind of a junkie nothing out to you in Detroit. Okay.
[00:44:24] Speaker C: Hey, well, Norm, listen. It was great to. To play the game. I've been trying to get in on this for six months, and like I say, I'm. I'm thrilled. I'm not going to be able to go to sleep.
I'm gonna be up all night.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: Just kind of. Just kind of a glow about this whole thing. Okay. And the bread up there in Quebec. Canada.
[00:44:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: It's been fun having you with us. I appreciate that.
[00:44:48] Speaker C: Yeah. I guess I'll go put some more Gold Bond powder on my feet and drink some Ovaltine.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: You're a lovely person and you're a credit. Thank you very much to Quebecois. Is that what you call people from Quebec? Quebec. Quebecois. Quebecois.
[00:45:02] Speaker C: Quebecers.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: Okay, Quebecers. Hey, thanks a million. Have a good weekend.
[00:45:06] Speaker C: Okay, you too, Norm.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Bye. Bye. Bye.
[00:45:07] Speaker D: Bye.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: Okay, that's my friend Brad and my friend Lewis. Nice to have you with us.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: Yes. No, I thought. I figured I'd change a minute man to minute person. You have to revise the Bible.
Amen. To a person.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:45:21] Speaker C: Okay, thank you.
[00:45:23] Speaker B: Thank you very much, Lewis. And thank you very much, Ted.
[00:45:26] Speaker C: Hey, you've been great.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: Okay. Hey, thanks a lot. And of course, the lovely Tony.
I. I guess he hung up on me. And Fred, we'll talk to you again soon.
[00:45:39] Speaker D: All right, thank you, Norm.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: I'll keep listening to you for the rest of the night.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Okay, thanks a million. I will only be out actually about another 20 minutes and. Okay, I turn you over to Sid now so you can get the information.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Okay, thanks a lot, norm.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Thank you.
2, 5, 4, 10:30, we'll be. We'll be out for another 20 minutes. We got news coming up. And then after that I would. I wouldn't mind at all if you. If you didn't mind talking with me because I get kind of lonesome just sitting here. See, now all the. All the people from the dumb birthday game now are gone, so it's just me.
Not an easy blowed the bear or something. Anyway, news time. And then we'll talk some more after that. The Bruins tied the Sharks 1 1, same as they tied the. The Mighty Ducks the other day. 11 also.
And Toronto, meantime, won the World Series. The opener from the World Series over to Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 8 to 5. Second game also at Toronto. And that will be played tonight. And it's about 20 seconds away from news time. Right now, the news of the day throughout the day, WBZ midday news. For up to the minute news information, listen to News Radio 1030, WBZ Boston 24 hour traffic network. Of course, that's Fred Gendron who did a. Just a stellar job and just. Just lost by like a cat's whisker on the dumb birthday game.
[00:47:13] Speaker D: Just lost by an average of maybe eight years on each guest. Yeah, I mean, that's not bad. It is really not too bad.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: No, you. You were within a decade.
[00:47:21] Speaker C: What the heck?
[00:47:22] Speaker B: That's close enough.
[00:47:23] Speaker D: That's good enough for me.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:47:24] Speaker D: All right, we've got a couple of delays out there. Believe it or not, this update sponsored by the US Air shuttle outbound on Commonwealth Avenue. We still have some police activity right by the BU Bridge. In fact, a lot of that roadway is shut down and they've been out there for quite some time. So you may have a bit of a detour through that stretch.
Don't be surprised rather, if you see some significant delays approaching that point. Also, watch out for a breakdown. Not much of a factor, but it is there. Eastbound on the turnpike, right by Nickerson Field, Fred Genver and WBZ 24 hour.
[00:47:58] Speaker C: Traffic network fly US Air Shuttle and earn 1500 miles in US Air's frequent traffic traveler program. US Air Shuttle has convenient flights to New York every hour. US Air Shuttle on time? On the hour.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: Looking for a different place to have lunch? Try the Wee Tea Shop. See? Although I suspect it's 10 after 4 to a lot of other places as well. My name is Norm Nathan and we'll be around for a while. Let's just hear this word and then we'll take some phone calls.
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[00:49:31] Speaker C: Panasonic's largest copier and fax dealer in America.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Duplotron is especially proud of being included.
[00:49:36] Speaker C: In Inc. 500 as one of America's.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: Fastest growing companies on birthday Gay.
[00:49:40] Speaker C: Talk about Margot Kidder. Her only role is Lois Lane, but I think the there were two Lois Lanes. There's Phyllis Coates and Noel Neal, who played in the original Superman.
Phyllis Coates was the original Lois Lane with George Reeves.
[00:50:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, you're going back a little bit. But hey, you're, you know all that stuff, big guy.
[00:50:08] Speaker C: And what happened was that George Reeves was the his first role was he was in Gaul with the Wind. He played one of the twin suitors for Ms. Scarlett.
[00:50:22] Speaker B: No, I didn't know that.
[00:50:23] Speaker C: Yeah, there was Rand Brooks and him. They were unidentical twin brothers. Rand Brooks ended up.
He was on Rinch and Tin. He played Corporal Boone.
And I don't know if he's still living, but they set out of the original Gauntlet to win cast. Only Butterfly, the Queen and, you know, the main stars, and Libby de Havilland. Everybody else has passed away.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: No, that's true. Yeah. Leslie Howard and Clark Gable and Vivian Lee and you can go on and on like that. That's true.
Yeah. Well, you know, I guess that's natural. The movie was made, what, 1939.
[00:50:58] Speaker C: 39.
Selznick.
You know, his wife used to work for Republic Pictures.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: Was she an actress?
[00:51:06] Speaker C: David Selzick? Well, his. David Selznick married Phyllis Isley, who was. Her father was Phillip Eisley, was one of the executives of Republic Pictures. So when she left Republic, they said, well, Phyllis Eisley.
So they wanted to change the name of Jennifer Jones.
[00:51:26] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:51:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: Senator knew all these things.
[00:51:30] Speaker C: Robert Walker and that.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. Yeah. I remember Robert, who committed suicide, I think. Did he not?
[00:51:36] Speaker C: I heard two stories. I heard that he. He developed TB and it, you know, it just went on from there.
And they had. I think they had two sons.
They had a son, Robert Walker Jr. He was working for American International doing those stupid monster pictures, you know, like this. You know, one of those pictures where, you know, he'd be. He was a teenage. Be driving along and find these mushrooms and they'd have tentacles and they draw the blood out of, you know, one of those, you know, old crazy movies that you see on Steve Rama.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, right.
[00:52:13] Speaker C: You remember people, Rama.
[00:52:14] Speaker B: Yes, I do.
I do. Yeah.
Hey, Don, you're always an enlightening kind of chap, and I thank you for the call. I have to move along.
Going to be signing off soon. Hey, thanks a lot, Don. Take care. Yeah. Bye. Bye. When are you going to visit Tommy Floramo's restaurant? Hi, this is Bill Marlo. The reason I ask is everyone who goes absolutely loves it. And you really don't know what you're missing if you haven't been there. Tommy Floramo's Restaurant, located between Chelsea Stadium and the mystic mall at 213Everett Avenue. You'll have choices like huge, meaty baby back ribs that are absolutely out of this world. They'll melt in your mouth and fall off the bone. Or the sirloin steaks with mushroom sauce. Or garlic butter or the steak pizzaiola marinara with the pasta and the salad. Why we have sauteed pork chops with mushrooms and onions and vinegar peppers. Delicious. You've got to try Floramo's famous marinated barbecued steak tips. They have tender lamb tips which are really medallions and delicious pork in the turkey tips. Forget about it. Absolutely outstanding. Take my advice and visit Tommy Floramos for that Italian seafood and barbecue. There were 213 Everett Avenue and Chelsea, the parking free. Please tell Tommy that Bill Marlow is the man who sent you and we love it there.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: Floramos, does your baby suffer from red irritated diaper rash? Irritable, you know, especially when he went to changing because he was galled, had heat rash and diaper rash. Well, I felt sorry for the poor little fella. Then Gwendolyn Jones of Fort Lauderdale, Florida discovered Baby Gold Bond medicated powder. Baby Gold Bond. It's the only thing I used. It began to get better, lighter, you know, each day and it seems to cut down the red looking part of it and then it just seemed to dry up and it was gone. Baby Gold Bond combines zinc oxide with the finest talcum powder to relieve baby's red irritated skin and actually helps prevent diaper rash. With ingredients medical experts recognize as both safe and effective, including a skin protecting medication ordinary baby powders don't have. He isn't gauded anymore. I'm still using it on him when I have him because I like it and I'm sure he likes it. Baby Gold Bond. Baby Gold Bond medicated powder does more for diaper rash than ordinary baby powders. Use only as directed. Available at all Walgreens stores.
[00:54:29] Speaker B: Let's go to Sam and Alston and. Hi, Sam. Good morning.
[00:54:33] Speaker C: Oh, yes, how you doing?
[00:54:35] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:54:36] Speaker C: Remember me?
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Oh, yes, this is the.
The weird one. Yeah, you're the weird fellow.
[00:54:43] Speaker C: No, you know what I found out?
[00:54:45] Speaker B: What's that? That you're weird?
[00:54:46] Speaker C: No, that everything I talked about, that they thought I was weird, you know, that I was all correct.
So like I wanted to bring the attention. Like last night I was watching these sports on television.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Oh, that's weird.
[00:55:00] Speaker C: So the interview was with Scott, second use for the Patriots.
And this guy was in the background saying that, accusing me again, falsely accusing me of being violent. And what they did to tell the public, they.
[00:55:18] Speaker B: Who's this? Somebody on television was telling the public about you.
[00:55:21] Speaker C: Yeah, they keep saying that I was violent. But what it adds up to, I've got like 10 acts of violence they committed against me.
They Drugged my body. They stained my teeth yellow. They cause my skin to have boils on it.
They've broken my bones about six, total of six times during my lifetime. And the key point has got something to do with an Irish takeover. But I thought, this is why I'm thankful to wbz because through your station I have a chance to voice my opinion, you might say, and kind of fight back.
So what they just did.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: Who, who's. Who's the. You never identified the they that you're talking about?
[00:56:08] Speaker C: Well, if I'm correct, it's got something to do with. It's either the Boston Police Department, the Irish Marines.
They thought when I was born that because I was born with six sisters preceding me, they thought I was going to grow up to be like a potential leader or a threat.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Yeah, see, you know what, what happens now is I gotta leave because we're just practically out of time. She.
Rich chocolate Ovaltine.
Rich chocolate Ovaltine. When my mom said I should drink.
[00:56:41] Speaker C: Rich chocolate Ovaltine because it was good.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: For me, I knew what that meant.
[00:56:45] Speaker C: It was going to taste yucky, like spinach and broccoli. Boy, was I wrong. It was really chocolatey.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: I guess that's why they call it.
[00:56:52] Speaker C: Rich chocolate Ovaltine instead of plain Ovaltine. Rich chocolate Ovaltine is a different kind.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: Of Ovaltine with a flavor kids love.
[00:56:59] Speaker C: Plus extra vitamins and minerals you won't find in Nestle's Quick or Hershey's. It's kind of like drinking a chocolate bar, but it's got all this good stuff in it. Things kids need to stay healthy. I love it and my mom's really proud of me when I drink my rich chocolate Ovaltine.
[00:57:14] Speaker B: Rich chocolate Ovaltine with more vitamins and minerals than any other milk flavoring.
[00:57:19] Speaker C: It's the one in the canister made specially for kids.
Rich chocolate Ovaltine. Extra delicious, extra nutritious.
[00:57:31] Speaker B: Available in the nutrition section of Walgreens. Reverend Barbara Lundblad joins us for the first time.
Okay, we'll. We'll be joining the Protestant hour just a bit. I just want to say goodbye because it's majestic. Sid Whitaker's are producer and my name is Norm Nathan. On behalf of myself and the very lovely Marilyn Gorella, have a good day. See you tonight at midnight. An interesting guest will be with us too. Bye bye old sport in WBZ Boston, 20 after 4.
[00:57:58] Speaker A: How about Monadnock calling in again to continue with his wild stories?
Please, someone put an APB out from an adnoc. I would love to interview him. See you all Next week, closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. Four full tummies and food comas. Fun guys and fun guys. My new shift, Intellectuals. David Rudnoy. The University of Bombay. The Latin version of the dumb birthday game. Dick Schmerick. Evil knish, Kosher dill pickles.
Immediate accusations of treason. The beefy Norm Peterson. Stained glass eyes and other. But seriously, folks, jokes taking umbrage. 76. That's the spirit. 77. That's the strip. Neuroses in bed.
Subtlety. Norms. HG PG, booby prizes and breasts. My bedmates, Jim, Fred and Sid. Compact discs, video and 45s. Kicking the pucket. The showcase of tunnels, the Callahan, the Umass Minutemen. Uneasy loads to bear. Losing by a cat's whisker. The US Air Shuttle. The Watchmaker's Watch. Whitnour Duplatron People Ramas Baby Golbond. The bpd. The Irish Marines. The Protestant Hour. Tommy Floramo. Bill Marlowe, Gwendolyn Jones. Abe Nathan. Marilyn Gorelnick. Uncle Norm's Confidence Course graduate Fred Gendron. Uncle Norm's Confidence Course flunky father Sid Whitaker. And the man who enjoyed sticking his vibes in a meter a little too much. Norm Nathan. I'm Norm's lovely associate, Tony Shopping Cart Nesbitt.
[00:59:51] Speaker B: Evil knish was an Israeli stuntman. Yeah, and he jumped over 17,000 Kosha Dill pickles.
