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[00:00:02] Speaker A: Mmm.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: Ah, man. Enjoying another coffee from Fred.
Actually, Fred, I think I mentioned it before, has become a monthly subscriber on Buy Me a Coffee. And just to let you know, Fred, your special certificate is in the process of being put together.
And by process, I mean once I finish editing this podcast, I will begin to work on it. Salamatsin Darba, which means how do you do to Kazakhstan? That's right, you heard it. The silliness is spreading. And that's a good thing. And a very happy birthday to the queen of cassettes, the titaness of tape, the recording ranger herself, Joan from Tewkesbury. She is the provider of at least 90% of these episodes you've listened to. Let's all take a moment and thank her for her loving dedication to the silly. And Uncle Norm, love you, Joan. This classic is from October 27, 1991, which I've titled Over Me. Julated the players, Mary Ellen and Braintree. May from Boston, Constance Jan from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. I'm producing an on the phone from Master Control.
And Matt Phipps in traffic. The birthdays with all the music and sound effects.
Fred Decordova, Teresa wright, Ralph Kiner, H.R. haldeman, John Cleese, Nanette Febre. And which one will we choose next? Carrie Snodgrass or Ruby D?
Or Simon Lebon? We also get some commercials. Gold Bond, keep it in your sneaker. The Resolve Stop Smoking kit. And a new one that I haven't come across. 1900 auto, ABC episode 258. Over magulated. Perforate your eardrums. Now.
[00:02:01] Speaker C: Birthday game, you don't need skill. You don't have to be a brain. You just call Norm to play the dumb birthday game. Play the dumb, dumb birthday game.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: That's a group called Linda's League. Who did that. That theme song for us. That's. That is just so darn adorable. And we are ready to play that very same game, the Dumb birthday game. And I'd like very much to introduce you to members of our panel, who today will be Mary Ellen, who's in Braintree. Hi, Mary Ellen. Good morning.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Hi, Norm. How are you?
[00:02:39] Speaker A: I'm okay. How are you doing? I'm fine.
Hey, you're really nifty, eh?
[00:02:44] Speaker C: Absolutely keen.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: Okay. And we have May in Boston. Hi, May.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: Hi. How are ya?
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness.
I'm okay. How are you? Okay.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: Hanging.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: You're hanging?
[00:02:56] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:02:58] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Would you turn your radio down? Whoever's gonna turn, that's yours. Okay.
[00:03:02] Speaker C: There we go.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Okay. And we have Constance Hi, Nami. Hello. Hello, Constance.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:03:07] Speaker D: Hello.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: And we also have Jan, who's in West Virginia.
[00:03:11] Speaker C: No, no, Virginia, Norm.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sorry. Just Virginia.
[00:03:14] Speaker C: I know how you are because I've been listening. I'm looking for my Excedrin right now because I think I'm going to get a headache.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: No, no, you're going to be fine. Now this is a fun thing. This takes away headaches.
[00:03:25] Speaker C: Oh, it does.
And then I don't have to find them.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Oh, no, no, you don't have to find them at all. No, no, no, no. This, this makes you feel better because we get giggly and talk silly.
[00:03:35] Speaker E: How.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Well, I know.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Now we have a. We have all four of you are all women. Yes.
[00:03:41] Speaker C: That's terrible.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: No, it's not. No, it's very nice. We just. It's never.
[00:03:45] Speaker C: It's nice for you. It's not nice for us.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Well, we have some men too.
[00:03:49] Speaker C: I know. Tony.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: That's right, we have Tony.
[00:03:51] Speaker C: Poor Tony.
[00:03:52] Speaker F: Happy Halloween.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: Happy ex Hun. Happy after honeymoon, Tony.
[00:03:57] Speaker F: Oh, thank you very much and I'm glad to be. What, what kind of a gift after a honeymoon? What more can I ask for? But to be on the line on the birthday game with four lovely ladies.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: He's really milking it. Isn't he milking his part?
[00:04:09] Speaker C: Well, he learned a lot on his honeymoon.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: We also have. We also have. Well, we certainly hope so because he didn't know a whole lot before he.
Let's check in with Matt Phipps also.
[00:04:21] Speaker F: Happy Halloween, Matt.
[00:04:22] Speaker E: Oh, Happy Halloween. Hello, Norman. Hello, ladies.
Hi.
[00:04:27] Speaker D: Hi there.
[00:04:27] Speaker E: Hi.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Why am I getting excited?
[00:04:33] Speaker C: May I ask a silly question? What does Matt do?
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Oh, Matt is our traffic. I'm sorry. You tell, you tell her.
[00:04:39] Speaker E: Oh, I'm a traffic guy. I'm a traffic lord, actually.
[00:04:41] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. He reports on traffic. And if you think it's not tough like at 3:30 in the morning to find some.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: I know. Yes. What? Cat's crossing the street.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Now, where in Virginia are you? Jane?
[00:04:55] Speaker C: I'm in the.
[00:04:55] Speaker G: She.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Oh, that sounds so pretty. The Shenandoah. Makes me want to sing folk songs.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: That's about all you have on the radio.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: Okay, here's. Here's the first.
The first birthday on this day, October, when I say, was it 27th? October 27th. Freddie Cordova. Do you know that name?
I mean, if you want to Anglicize it. I don't want to pronounce it that.
[00:05:20] Speaker F: Way on the Tonight Show.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: I know, but I was just trying to get out of the fact that I Was pronouncing it wrong and making an excuse give you the chance?
[00:05:28] Speaker E: It's a Chrysler car, isn't it?
[00:05:31] Speaker A: DeCordova. Say that again. How do you say it? DeCordova.
[00:05:34] Speaker E: DeCordova.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Decordova. Okay. Fred de Cordova.
[00:05:37] Speaker E: Rich, Corinthian leather. You know, the whole deal.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: That's right. And it's got airbags because. Not because the government forced them upon us, even though we fought them for years, but because we care about your safety more than we do about profits.
You seen the ads for those? For those airbags. But that's a whole other thing.
[00:05:56] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:05:56] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: He is the executive producer, of course, on the Tonight show. And Johnny Carson mentions him quite often. He also wrote a book on Johnny Carson recently.
[00:06:06] Speaker F: He also produced Bedtime for Bonzo.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Did he? Yeah.
[00:06:11] Speaker F: They always comment on how old he is.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Now. Now we'll find out.
As we ask, first of all, Mary Allen, how old would you say Fred decordova is?
[00:06:24] Speaker C: Well, you know, he directed Jack Benny.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: No, I didn't know that. That he did. You mean, I didn't know he directed.
You see. You know, Jack Benny. No, he's a female Jack Benny. That's. That's really scary.
[00:06:42] Speaker E: Jeez.
[00:06:43] Speaker H: Well, you see.
[00:06:45] Speaker C: Must be 79.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: 79.
You see?
[00:06:52] Speaker C: You see?
[00:06:53] Speaker A: You know, you see. Well, well. Rochester.
Mark. Now you know, you see. Okay, Mary, what do you think?
[00:07:05] Speaker C: Are you talking to me?
[00:07:07] Speaker E: Oh, May.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: I'm sorry. It's May.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: Oh, that's okay. That's okay.
Is sweet. No matter what.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Just wake up. And I think he's around 70. 70. Let me say. 70.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: 70.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: He used to be an actor, you know.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: I didn't know that. You. You guys are bringing out all kinds of guys.
[00:07:30] Speaker C: Guys, Guys. What's right with you? What's the matter with you?
[00:07:32] Speaker A: No, guys. Is. I. I figure that's just, you know, it's a term, but it's not masculine or feminine. It's a unisex term. That's right. What do you think? Constance. How old is he? No, you already said that, May. Now, come on, man. Who am I talking to?
What a night this has been. Constance.
[00:07:48] Speaker E: Happy Halloween, everyone.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: Constance. Or April Fool's Day on me. Constance. So how old you say that he is?
[00:07:56] Speaker C: 69.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: 69, okay. And Jan, all the way down there in the Beautiful Shenandoah.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: I'm 72. I have no idea.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: No idea. You. Have you seen him?
[00:08:05] Speaker C: No.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: You never heard that?
[00:08:08] Speaker C: I don't. I only get one channel down here.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Really?
[00:08:11] Speaker C: That's right. What network is that abc ufo, Public Broadcasting.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:08:18] Speaker C: If I didn't have the roof and if I didn't have the trees and if I didn't live in the valley, I might get more channels.
Okay, I see 72.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Okay. And what does Tony say?
[00:08:28] Speaker F: 80.
[00:08:29] Speaker C: 80.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Yeah. 80.
Did you. You learned that diction. You learned that diction from Steve Allen? 80. Yes.
Quote, unquote, Quote.
Okay. And Matt Phipps, this. He's a traffic guy. Traffic lord.
[00:08:45] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:46] Speaker E: I think he's more like 81.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: More like 81.
[00:08:50] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: Okay.
Okay. Now let's check and just see as we check the birth record and find out.
Oh, my, oh, my.
Oh, the things piece together beautifully here.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: It's a nice man. Okay. I have a feeling this is going to go on for a very long time, which is okay because it's a. It's a. It's a lovely theme and a great band. Freddy Decard decord the Cordova. To Cordova.
[00:09:32] Speaker E: Fred.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: The Cordova.
I wish he had a birthday again next week because then by then I'd know how to say it is actually 81 years old. That. Which is exactly what Matt said. Wow.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Matt Phipps was right. None of you were all that. That off. Mary Allen said 79, which wasn't bad. Tony said 80.
[00:09:52] Speaker F: I wanted a baby one.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you. You. If you wanted to say it, why didn't you say it?
[00:09:57] Speaker F: I don't know. Because I thought Matt wouldn't say it, that's why.
[00:10:00] Speaker E: Well, you know.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Hey, was that an excuse? Did you. Did you hear that? He would have said it except he. Except he thought Matt wouldn't say it.
[00:10:09] Speaker E: Or he kind of slammed me there. Didn't you?
[00:10:11] Speaker F: No, I don't think so.
[00:10:13] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: Okay. How about Teresa Wright, the actress?
And I. I should not singer. Not to Theresa then. She plays. She played the wife of Orville.
[00:10:26] Speaker E: No, no, I don't.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: No, you know, I don't think so. No, no. You know, no, she. She played the. Was she with the rifle for Gary Cooper or somebody when they were played the Lou Gehrig.
[00:10:41] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: She's one of those movies. She. Anyway, okay, that's way back.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: Wasn't she in G.I. joe or. Oh, no, the Spencer Tracy move. Never mind.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: She's been in a lot of movies through the years. In past years.
[00:10:54] Speaker C: Not so much lately, but not really major parts. Right.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: I would agree with you on that.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: The leading lady.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:05] Speaker C: Good actress.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: She's sort of a Nancy Davis or who's now Nancy Reagan.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: A guy named.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: No.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: Is the one I'm thinking of with Spencer Tracy and the Dream. I thought anyway back in the 40s and 50s movies.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Now what was that movie?
[00:11:23] Speaker C: A guy named Joe.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: Oh, a guy. He was an Air Force pilot who died.
[00:11:27] Speaker C: That was Irene.
Yeah, yeah, she was in it too, but I think Teresa Wright was also in it. But Irene. Danielle was the leading lady. But Teresa Wright to me never had a leading lady part in a movie. Maybe so.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. She was always the sort of the co star with a strong man.
[00:11:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: So tell me, Jen, how old would you say Teresa Wright is? We'll start out with you.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: 29 going on.
Oh, Lordy. I'd say 75.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: 75. Okay.
And Matt Phipps, what do you think?
[00:12:03] Speaker E: I'll go 68.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: 68. Okay. Tony?
[00:12:08] Speaker F: 73.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: 73.
Okay. Constance?
[00:12:13] Speaker C: 74.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: 74.
May.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: I'm going to stick with 7O.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: 7O.
The same as you guessed for Fred DeCordova. DeCordova. Okay.
[00:12:27] Speaker E: Cordoloba.
[00:12:28] Speaker C: No, no, no, you're accenting the wrong syllable.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Mary Ellen, what do you think about Theresa Wright? You know, I mean about her age.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: Oh, her age?
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:39] Speaker C: I believe she's 73.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: You believe she's 73. Okay. That was the same thing that Tony said. Oh, you didn't know that?
[00:12:48] Speaker C: I. I forgot.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: No, that's okay with two people can guess the same age. There's no, no rules against that. Okay, let us check and see how old Teresa Wright is and what Tony will play for this?
Nothing. He's playing. Nothing.
[00:13:06] Speaker F: Oddly enough, the card is playing. But there's nothing there.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: There's nothing there.
[00:13:11] Speaker F: Kind of like the theme of this whole show tonight.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Kind of interesting.
[00:13:14] Speaker E: You know that the lights are on, but we're not home.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: You know that before the. Before the program, I knew it was going to be a difficult line. I wanted.
[00:13:22] Speaker C: If you all would get some new batteries, I'd appreciate it.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: Okay.
I went to the men's room just before I went on the air earlier, and I looked in the mirror and there was no reflection.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: You're practicing for Halloween?
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Hey, do we. We have. Teresa Wright's age? Is.
Do I look like an idiot?
Is that the whole thing? Is that what we were mentioning?
[00:13:46] Speaker F: Nancy Davis and Nancy Reagan and that was Ron Reagan saying, do I look like an idiot?
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Oh, boy, you're really hip.
Your references are so remote.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: How old is she?
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Oh, how old is she? Oh, well. You're going to be a pest about this, are you? No, Theresa wright actually is 73 years old.
[00:14:07] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: Tony and Mary Ellen both guessed 73.
And Constance, you were very close with 74, but. That was close, but you get no cigar, so you'll just have to go by your own.
You, you. You sweet little thing.
Ralph Kiner, a sports broadcaster, hall of Fame baseball player. Ralph Kiner.
He played for one of the major league teams.
[00:14:40] Speaker C: Oh, great.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: I think he. I think. I think he played for the Detroit Tigers, but I'm not positive about that.
[00:14:48] Speaker F: Don't say it.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I won't say that though, even though that's what I think. But anyway, he may have for a couple of minutes. Most everybody did it on his way over to Detroit maybe, or Cleveland or someplace. Ralph Kiner, K I N E I Doesn't sound familiar to you guys, huh?
[00:15:07] Speaker C: What does it to me?
[00:15:09] Speaker E: Yeah, it does to me, but that's about it.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Oh, if I told you that, then you just have to figure it out.
[00:15:16] Speaker C: 10, 15 years ago.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: More. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Well, Mary Ellen, let me ask you first. How old do you think he is?
[00:15:26] Speaker C: What did you say he did?
[00:15:29] Speaker A: He makes Indian artifacts out of waste baskets.
He was a major league baseball player. He's in the hall of Fame.
So he was no Slocker. He was. He made. He made the big time.
[00:15:42] Speaker C: He was a good hitter.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: He was a good hitter. He held a bat in an interesting manner, had a good eye and was a fast to fleet outfielder.
[00:15:51] Speaker F: What was that joke Norm used to have? How do you hold a bat?
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember going up to him one time and I said, excuse me, sir, but you're so good at this. Could you tell me, how do you hold a bat? And he said, well, sir, gently by the tips of its wings.
That's what he said. And of course I punched him in the mouth immediately because I don't take that gaff from anybody.
[00:16:15] Speaker C: Another one of those Halloween jokes?
[00:16:18] Speaker A: I don't think so.
[00:16:19] Speaker F: Geez, are you on like 10 second delay, man?
[00:16:24] Speaker C: Back to life, kids.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I wonder if you'd turn Constance down, please, and you're on the air.
Ralph. I mean, Ralph kind. How old is he, Mary Ellen?
[00:16:34] Speaker C: Okay, baseball player, hall of Fame.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Are you. Do you have your hands crossed across the telephone mouthpiece?
[00:16:42] Speaker C: Not at the moment.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Okay. Because you're coming in kind of muffled.
[00:16:46] Speaker E: I kind of like it, actually.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: It is kind of nice. It's kind of like it kind of, kind of puts a breeze across the.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: Back of your neck handkerchief over the phone so nobody recognizes.
[00:16:55] Speaker F: But she's whispering in your ear.
[00:16:57] Speaker E: Yes, yes.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: How old did you say, Mary Ellen?
[00:17:02] Speaker E: Ooh.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: Can you say anything? I Would say it would have to be weighing all of these facts. 59.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: 59.
[00:17:14] Speaker F: That's not 39.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: May. How old do you think?
[00:17:19] Speaker C: About 57.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: I think about 57.
Constance?
[00:17:26] Speaker C: 58.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: 58.
Jan?
[00:17:31] Speaker C: 52.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: 52.
Well, she doesn't know. She's only got one commercial set station and one PBS station.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: Yeah, but they got beautiful blossoms in the Shenandoah Valley.
[00:17:47] Speaker E: Hey, and that makes up for it.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:17:50] Speaker C: We've got beautiful leaves up here.
Well, we did.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Tony, what do you think?
[00:17:59] Speaker F: 61.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: 61. Okay.
[00:18:02] Speaker E: And Matt, I'm gonna say right around 60.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: 60. Okay.
Don't you be embarrassed by that at all. Even if we laugh at you when the final answer comes out. All right. And we giggle and point at you and push our elbows into your ribs.
Okay. Ralph Kiner's age.
[00:18:25] Speaker E: Does that show into a valley.
[00:18:33] Speaker F: One TV station, one radio station is one song that that radio station plays.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: Ralph Kiner is 69 years old, and the closest actually was Tony, who was not terribly close.
[00:18:56] Speaker E: He got one Tony.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: He said Tony. Well, that's. That's the second one. He said 60. He said. He said 61, which is still eight years off. But the rest of you had had him younger than that.
[00:19:08] Speaker C: Yeah, nobody got a cigar on that one.
[00:19:11] Speaker E: Oh, that was pathetic. Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: No, that was really. That was embarrassing.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Norm.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: Does anybody ever call who you are talking about on birthdays and yell or scream the comments everyone makes?
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Most everybody who we've guessed ages have called. Yes. Either that or they write notes. Oh, yeah.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: They can't sue, can they? They don't know our last names. Okay.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: No, no. They're just so flattered that we mentioned them on this big time show.
[00:19:39] Speaker D: That.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: They would not think of suing. No. We've furthered their careers. Why would they sue?
[00:19:43] Speaker E: Hey, Norm, I have a question, too.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:45] Speaker E: Is there a Fond du Lac, Wisconsin?
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Yes, there is. There is.
[00:19:48] Speaker E: Really?
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Do you know what Fond du Lac means?
[00:19:50] Speaker E: No, I don't.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: It's a French word. It means bottom of the lake.
See, I don't usually say it that way because.
Pardon me, goose. Pimply. Yeah.
[00:20:08] Speaker E: Lots of artifact stores. Right.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Okay.
Is that driving you crazy? You're starting to sweat.
You're getting sweat all over the console.
[00:20:22] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:20:23] Speaker F: I think it might short circuit.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Hey, here's the team, the half of the team of Haldeman and Ehrlichman. You remember those guys from the Richard Nixon era? Okay. This is H.R. haldeman.
Do you know that Ehrlichman. Well, I Won't go through that. That's kind of boring. H.R. haldeman, anyway, is the guy we're talking about. This is his birthday. He was born October 27th.
I'm going to ask the very lovely Tony if he would take the first shot at this.
[00:20:54] Speaker F: Who is this guy?
[00:20:55] Speaker A: H.R. haldeman. Remember Haldeman and Ehrlichman and the whole Watergate thing and all of that?
[00:21:00] Speaker C: This was a guy who used to have that very crew cut.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah. He now has a. He has a beard, has he not? No, he's kind of got hip looking.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: They were all born again Christians, I think so.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: Something like that.
[00:21:11] Speaker C: That's not in the ministry. The one in the ministry, it's called all your faith.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: No, that's Coleman Colson, I think. Colson is that. Yeah. What do you think, Tony?
[00:21:23] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: H.R. haldeman, which stands for as you know, home run Haldeman. I made that up.
Doesn't mean that at all.
Yeah, it means.
It means Henry Rose Haldeman.
I made that up too.
I'm making up everything.
[00:21:42] Speaker E: Happy Halloween, everyone.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: What do you think, Tony?
[00:21:49] Speaker F: Oh, I guess I'll venture to say that he is pushing 74.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: 74.
He's pushing 74.
May, what do you say?
[00:22:04] Speaker C: Let me see. He must have been in his 40s then.
And that's probably how. How long ago was that? 15 years ago.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: That's 72 years ago.
[00:22:16] Speaker C: I'm not going to help you with mathematics. I'm going through here.
He's probably 60.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: He's probably 60.
Okay, Constance.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: I'll say 75.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: 75.
What do you think, Jan?
[00:22:37] Speaker C: 59.
Okay. He's just a little boy.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: A little boy at 59 with his crew cup. That's fine. His little beard, his little fake probably. It's probably a toy beard he bought at the joke shop. Pasted on his chin. His little baby chin.
[00:22:54] Speaker F: Of course, he's probably wearing it today because we all know it's Halloween.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Ah.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Oh. Easy, easy. There you go.
Yeah. Oh boy.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: Woke me up, Tony.
[00:23:04] Speaker E: Keep it in your sneaker there, May.
[00:23:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: You almost knocked us off the air there, man.
This probably wasn't a bad idea, but you should have done it four hours ago.
Mary Ellen, what do you say?
[00:23:19] Speaker C: 62.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: 62.
[00:23:22] Speaker F: Feels so bad for Mary Ellen. She's caught up in this.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: What's that?
[00:23:29] Speaker C: Nothing.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:31] Speaker E: She said she was the only normal one.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: Oh, I see. Was a heavy breathing met Matt. What do you say? 58. 58. Okay, now it's time to check. Since all the guesses are In how old are H.R. halderman?
H.R. halderman is 65 years old. That means the closest was. Let's see, I believe Mary Ellen said 62.
Let's see who else guessed that close?
No, I don't think there was anybody tied with. I think. I think Mary Ellen.
[00:24:04] Speaker C: Yay, Mary Ellen.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Y.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: No hamburger.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: I don't know what you said, Mary Ellen, but I think it was really spicy and wonderful.
John Cleese, the great, funny, funny British guy who was in Fawlty Towers, and of course, a fish named Wanda called Wanda. And he does a lot of commercials which are funny also.
Let's start with Matt Phipps on this one, ladies and gentlemen.
And ladies and gentlemen, who the hell am I talking to anyway? John Cleese. How old do you think he is, Matt?
[00:24:39] Speaker E: I'm gonna say, see, Python was 52.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: 52.
Okay. Tony, 53.
Jan.
[00:24:51] Speaker C: 55.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Constance, 52.
May.
[00:24:57] Speaker C: I think 55.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Mary Ellen.
[00:25:02] Speaker C: I think he's 50.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: 50. Okay, let's. Let's check his age.
[00:25:06] Speaker F: Hang on.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: Do you have any British music?
Nice. It's nice. Martial music.
Oh, Monty Python. That's right. He was part of the Monty Python. He was the one with the funny walk, which is funny. Okay. John cleesis actually is 52 years old. That's what Matt said, and that's what.
[00:25:46] Speaker E: Constance.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Okay, so so far we have Mary Ellen with two wins and Tony with two, Matt with two, and Constance with one, and May and Jan just adding sex appeal to the game.
[00:26:07] Speaker C: And that's very expensive.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: It is, it is, it is. You try to go into a store and buy that, man, it'll cost you an arm and a leg.
I wonder why I said that.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: I wonder.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Nanette Fabre, you know? Nanette Fabre.
No, Nanette. Nanette. Like a. No, no. Nanette Fabre. Who's been. Well, I'll clue you. She.
[00:26:31] Speaker C: She.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Originally. Let's see, the first thing I remember seeing her on television was, I believe your show of shows with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. And recently it was. I think she was. She played the mother of somebody on, I don't know, the Jackie Gleason show she was on.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: No, she played the. The mother. The Franklin's mother.
[00:26:52] Speaker E: No, one day at a time.
[00:26:53] Speaker C: One day at a time.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: Oh, Bonnie Franklin's mother.
[00:26:56] Speaker E: Her daughter's now on Coach, right?
[00:26:59] Speaker C: Oh, that's her niece.
[00:27:00] Speaker E: Her niece is on Coach. Okay.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: Oh, what. What. What is her name?
[00:27:04] Speaker E: What is her. Shelly Fab.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Shelly Fabric.
[00:27:06] Speaker E: She sang Johnny Angel. What's that?
Johnny Angel. How I love you. She sang that song.
[00:27:11] Speaker F: Come on, sing it.
[00:27:12] Speaker E: She did. She sang that song.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: Was she ever a musketeer?
[00:27:17] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: Okay, but we're guessing Nanette.
Yeah, we're guessing.
We're digressing a little because we're guessing Nanette February. See, Nanette February also had a hearing problem, which has been corrected.
[00:27:32] Speaker F: Excuse me?
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Never mind.
Constance, how old do you think nanette February is?
[00:27:41] Speaker C: 64.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: 64. And Jan, what do you say?
[00:27:47] Speaker C: 67.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: Matt?
70. 70. Okay.
Mary Ellen?
[00:28:01] Speaker C: 76.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: 76.
And that's the spirit.
In honor of Jack.
[00:28:10] Speaker E: That's right. Yeah.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: Oh, boy.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: And Tony, what do you think now that you're. Now that you've got everybody looking at you?
[00:28:17] Speaker E: Disgust.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:28:19] Speaker F: Oh, 69.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: And May, I think she's 74.
What was that about?
[00:28:31] Speaker F: I don't know.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: May. Was that. Was that some gas that made you.
[00:28:36] Speaker C: She's saying that. Sing from Louisiana Purchase.
She's the one saying that. Eyes all here. Eyes all here.
[00:28:45] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Really?
[00:28:46] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:28:47] Speaker C: I woke you all up.
[00:28:49] Speaker D: Yay.
[00:28:49] Speaker A: Hey, could you just lower your voice just a little bit to a loud, shrieking din? Okay, I'm sorry. Because you're driving. You're driving the equipment just crazy.
[00:29:00] Speaker E: My scanner's just shut down. Hang on a second.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Okay. Nanette Febre. Her age is Jan, 71.
And that's Matt. Who said 70? Again, the closest.
Matt has three.
Well, you've got an excuse for everything, haven't you?
You were one of the biggest sores.
[00:29:28] Speaker E: The sun was in my eyes.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Right.
Oh, what a sore loser this guy is.
No, the dog.
Dog ate my birthday sheet. She'll pull that one fella.
That's right.
That's right. I'm still upset.
[00:29:43] Speaker F: Trains broke down.
[00:29:44] Speaker E: I'm still on daylight time.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: That's a good one.
[00:29:48] Speaker F: It's the extra hour.
[00:29:49] Speaker E: Right.
[00:29:50] Speaker C: Have you noticed how we are? The females are trying to be kind, guessing female ages, and the men are awful.
[00:29:57] Speaker F: No, I haven't noticed.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Why? Let me see.
No, I don't know that. That's. I know what? I don't think we can back that up at all, because you. You.
No, you women have guessed very, very, very, very high ages. Actually just as high as the guys.
Yes, I have the numbers all in front of me.
[00:30:23] Speaker C: All right.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: No, I don't. I don't believe the women have been any more polite so far as, you know, lowering the ages than men have.
[00:30:30] Speaker C: Okay.
I always think it's fake when Matt and Tony usually always win.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it's really not.
[00:30:38] Speaker E: I'm not in the same room, though.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: You know, Matt is not even in the same building.
[00:30:41] Speaker C: I know he's not. He's down in a big.
[00:30:43] Speaker D: Where.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Where is Matt, by the way?
[00:30:46] Speaker E: In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's. That's.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: Where is the traffic located? What tower are you sitting in?
[00:30:54] Speaker E: I'm actually at Leverett Circle right now. A little desk, lemonade stand.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: That's right. Right in front of the all Night drugstore.
[00:31:00] Speaker C: I haven't been to Boston since I was 19. Come on, where were you?
[00:31:03] Speaker E: No, I'm in the. I'm in the. The Prudential Building. The.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: That tells me a heck of a lot.
[00:31:08] Speaker E: Right, Right in Back Bay on Boylston Street.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: How far away in miles are you from WBZ?
[00:31:16] Speaker F: What, 60 or 70?
[00:31:17] Speaker C: Matt.
[00:31:17] Speaker E: Yeah, that's about, right? 60 or 70 miles.
[00:31:20] Speaker A: No, no, it's about.
[00:31:21] Speaker C: What, is it in another state?
[00:31:22] Speaker A: No, it's about, what, three miles?
[00:31:24] Speaker E: It's right down the pike. It's one exit down the pike. Yeah.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Okay. Okay, I'll give you.
[00:31:29] Speaker C: Thank you for that information because I wondered and wondered about it.
[00:31:32] Speaker E: You're welcome.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: Okay.
And Tony's not in the same room with me, too. He's. He's in the control room.
[00:31:37] Speaker C: Oh, I know that.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: Okay, okay, let me give you one more. One more. Okay, one more.
Carrie Snodgrass.
Jeez, let's forget she's an attractive lady. She's an actress and she made a movie called the Three Faces of Tony Nesbit.
[00:32:04] Speaker F: And she did a wonderful job playing the part.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: She did, she did. As a matter of fact, she looked more masculine than you do.
[00:32:11] Speaker E: Now.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: We'll do a. No, she is an attractive lady. Actually, Ruby Dee. Does that name anything?
[00:32:16] Speaker F: I like Carrie Snodgrass.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker E: Really? Me too.
[00:32:19] Speaker C: Ruby D. Is Ossie Davis wife.
[00:32:23] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:32:24] Speaker E: Let's do something like recent. Anybody?
[00:32:27] Speaker A: How about. How about Simon LeBon?
[00:32:29] Speaker E: Oh, from Durand.
There you go.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: Okay, let's do Simon lebon.
[00:32:36] Speaker C: Who is Simon Levon?
You made that up.
[00:32:41] Speaker A: Simon lebon. L, E, B, O, N.
What does he do?
Simon Levant takes. He takes the old, old alarm clocks apart and puts them back together again in the shape of baseball players.
He also carves statues out of mocha fudge of senators.
Now he's a singer. He's with a group called Duran Duran.
[00:33:16] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:33:18] Speaker C: I know that name.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: Okay, let's start.
[00:33:20] Speaker C: You're X ing Carrie Snodgrass.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: We're asking this Carrie Snodgrass. We're going to close with Simon LeBon.
[00:33:27] Speaker C: All right.
[00:33:28] Speaker A: And we're going to start with May.
[00:33:31] Speaker C: Let me see now.
Now, is he the lead singer? Does he play guitar? Also, whether he sings. Does he play the drum?
I'm playing this for all.
[00:33:45] Speaker E: No, he sings and he carves mocha statues, just like Norm said.
[00:33:50] Speaker C: While he's singing.
[00:33:51] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:33:51] Speaker F: You have to see it.
[00:33:52] Speaker E: It's the greatest stage show I see.
[00:33:54] Speaker C: It to believe it, huh? Let me see. Okay, wild guess. 42.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: Wild guest, 42. We'll put that next to May's name.
Okay.
He also. He also has probably the most exciting collection of potholders of any rock.
He's got one in the shape of Wound Socket, Rhode island, that still carries the original label. Welcome to Woundsocket, America's favorite little town.
[00:34:24] Speaker C: Does he crochet these himself?
[00:34:27] Speaker A: He's also got a. He's got one of those pictures of a Russian general in one of those oval port frames. Oh, yeah, that's kind of brownish in color. Yeah, yeah. And he paints it on his wall and pretends that it's his great grandfather.
[00:34:42] Speaker C: You mean the picture is brown?
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Isaac put Klubn.
[00:34:46] Speaker C: Do you think. Do you think the picture is brown or the general is brown?
[00:34:49] Speaker A: No, the picture is kind of a brownish thing, like the old sepia tone?
Yes, sepia tone, that's correct. Okay, let's. Constance, how old would you say?
[00:34:59] Speaker C: What did she say?
[00:35:00] Speaker A: She didn't say anything worthwhile.
[00:35:05] Speaker C: Nay, go ahead.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: She said, are my shoes ready? Did you put soles on them?
[00:35:11] Speaker C: Listen, I take care of my own soul. I don't need any help from you.
[00:35:16] Speaker A: You're a wonderful person.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: I know that.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: How old do you think he is, Constant?
[00:35:21] Speaker C: I'll say 50. I don't know who he is.
I think he's Duran Duran's father myself.
[00:35:27] Speaker A: After all those clues, that didn't help you at all? Are you telling us that.
[00:35:32] Speaker C: No, no, no.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: Okay.
Mary Ellen, how old do you think?
[00:35:39] Speaker C: 37.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: 37.
Okay.
And let's see. How about. Let's see. Tony, what do you think?
[00:35:48] Speaker F: 31.
[00:35:50] Speaker C: 31. 31. 31. That's a child bride, huh?
[00:36:00] Speaker A: How about you, Jad? What do you think?
[00:36:02] Speaker C: Oh, Lord, 29.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Oh, Lord, 29.
Could I leave off the oh, Lord pride and just put the 29?
Matt, what do you say?
[00:36:13] Speaker E: I'll say 35.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Okay, now we're gonna check.
[00:36:18] Speaker F: I don't have to worry about Matt winning this one.
[00:36:21] Speaker C: Oh, he knows. He knows.
[00:36:23] Speaker F: No, I don't know, but, yeah, I don't think he's 35.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: Okay, let's check that to see how old he actually is as the tension builds.
[00:36:36] Speaker E: What?
[00:36:36] Speaker C: Thank you. Thank you.
[00:36:39] Speaker F: That was. Cut off one of their records.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: That wasn't the actual. The real Simon Levon. It was an imitator.
[00:36:44] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: Okay. The guy who wants very much to sound like him and nobody dares tell him he doesn't sound anything like him.
Yeah, that's right, because he's a big, strong guy. Okay. The actual age of Simon lebon, the age that you've been waiting for fresh daily from nearby farms and never used an animal research, is actually 33.
So Tony and Matt are the winners.
Yes, because Tony said 31 and Matt said 35. They were both two years off in different directions.
Nobody else came was that close.
Well, I don't know what to say. Suddenly, silence descended upon us all.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: You all through.
[00:37:36] Speaker A: And the earth was covered with molten lava and the sea separated from the sky.
[00:37:40] Speaker E: Let's do the Snodgrass person.
[00:37:41] Speaker A: You want to do the Snodgrass? Okay, sure. Okay. At the moment, we have. Matt has four, Tony has three, Constance has one, and Mary Ellen has two.
[00:37:58] Speaker C: I think there's a real gender gap there.
[00:38:02] Speaker E: Most of them were over 70 years old.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:38:06] Speaker C: Now, now, look here, dear. Does not add an age gap to the gender gap.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: Okay, Okay, I see. We were guessing. Oh, you're guessing a lot of women.
[00:38:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, Teresa Wright and Nanette February predominate the.
[00:38:21] Speaker F: The birthday panel.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:38:24] Speaker F: And they're doing what they do best.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: Okay, how about.
What do you want, Ruby D or Carrie Snodgrass?
[00:38:31] Speaker E: Snodgrass.
[00:38:34] Speaker C: You did 10 last night.
[00:38:35] Speaker I: Okay.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: Okay, let's start with Mary Ellen and Carrie Snodgrass.
She was.
She also, in addition to the three faces of Tony Nesbitt, she also starred in an industrial film called the Romance of Steel Ingots.
Yeah. In which she's saying the love theme.
What do you think, Mary Ellen?
[00:39:03] Speaker C: I think.
Say the name again.
[00:39:12] Speaker A: Yeah, Carrie. Carrie. Carrie Snugdress.
[00:39:15] Speaker F: She didn't change her name. That's probably her real name.
[00:39:17] Speaker C: I think it was Walter lipstick.
I would have changed it.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: Are you stalling, Mary Ellen, or am I just being foolish to think that?
[00:39:26] Speaker B: No.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:28] Speaker C: I don't know what that was an answer to, but anyway, I think she's 53 this very day.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: 53 on this very day. October 26th.
May, what do you say?
[00:39:41] Speaker C: 46.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: Okay. Did you notice that? May, what do you say?
Sounds like the opening to a 40s song. Hey, May, what do you say? I just came back from la.
From la.
[00:40:00] Speaker C: There's the rhymer.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: Constance.
What do you say, constance?
[00:40:05] Speaker C: I'll say 47.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: 47.
And Jan. 48.
Tony.
[00:40:20] Speaker E: We've secretly switched Tony's coffee.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: He's looking up her age.
The book that they have in that control room.
[00:40:28] Speaker F: Should I go for my original answer that I always wanted to say?
I don't know. What the hell does that mean?
[00:40:34] Speaker A: I don't. I don't know either. I'll say it.
39, you mean.
[00:40:42] Speaker C: That's your cue, kid.
You're wrong.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: You know.
You know, is it Constance who keeps talking constantly, or is that May?
[00:40:57] Speaker C: No, it's not May.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: It's May.
[00:41:00] Speaker E: It's October, actually. I'm sorry.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: Anyway, 39, you know, says Tony, so we'll mark down.
[00:41:12] Speaker F: Well, actually, that was only one face.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: What's that face?
[00:41:15] Speaker F: That's 41.
And the third face says 46.
[00:41:18] Speaker A: Okay. And the. And you put them all together, and they spell what you want to. You want to keep.
You want to keep it with 39, or do you.
[00:41:27] Speaker D: No, 39.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: It's fine.
[00:41:28] Speaker F: Okay, that rhymes. And that does, too.
[00:41:31] Speaker A: 39 is fine.
Matt Phipps. What do you say?
[00:41:35] Speaker E: Who is this person, Norm? Do we know who?
[00:41:37] Speaker A: Carrie.
She's an actress.
[00:41:40] Speaker C: She was in the diary of a Mad Housewife. That's right.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: That's right. She was.
[00:41:45] Speaker E: Okay. Oh, okay, 97 then.
[00:41:50] Speaker F: I find no humor in that whatsoever.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: How old do you say? Do you want to get 97?
[00:41:56] Speaker E: I'll say I don't know who she is.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: Okay, 97.
[00:42:01] Speaker F: I think I do think.
[00:42:02] Speaker A: I'm wrong. Now.
[00:42:03] Speaker F: I want to change my answer.
[00:42:04] Speaker A: Well, it's too late. They've already. No, they've already put.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: Put on the twice, too.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: Okay. Carrie Snodgrass.
The actual age of Carrie Snodgrass, checking her birth records is.
I have no idea.
What was that?
Okay, Carrie snodgrass is actually 45 years old today.
[00:42:36] Speaker F: See if I change it to 46.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Well, May said 46.
[00:42:42] Speaker D: I won.
[00:42:42] Speaker C: I won. I won.
Oh, give me a break.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Okay, now, Aliyah, we'll check over the.
The totals here and see how we're doing.
[00:42:54] Speaker C: You all through? You played 10 last night?
[00:42:57] Speaker A: Yeah, we played 10.
[00:42:58] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:42:59] Speaker F: We have one more. You have that other guy, John Dweeb.
[00:43:01] Speaker C: What the.
[00:43:02] Speaker F: What was the guy?
[00:43:02] Speaker E: D. Brown. Who was it?
[00:43:03] Speaker F: D. Brown.
[00:43:04] Speaker C: Oh, Ruby.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: D.
See, we did eight. We did eight so far. I think eight is not bad.
Eight is. Eight is enough.
Eight is. Yes.
[00:43:17] Speaker C: We're going to talk about to. If you did 10 last evening and you're only doing eight tonight.
[00:43:22] Speaker E: Yeah, but sometimes that means you leave Norm alone now.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: Thank you very much.
[00:43:27] Speaker F: Eight is great, but nine is fine.
[00:43:31] Speaker E: Plus, I'm in the lead, so.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I think. I think. I think we've done quite enough. I really do.
So here's. Here's it. Matt has four, Tony has three.
[00:43:44] Speaker E: Thank you. Thank you.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Constance has one.
And May has one.
And Mary Ellen has two.
So Matt really walks away with the whole thing. Sort of. Cody with three didn't do badly either.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: Kids are hoisting Matt up on their shoulders and throwing him at May.
And so, as I said, after a particularly bad basketball game that I had played, I was just so disgusted with my play that when we went back to the dressing room, I threw myself on the floor and missed.
Thank you very much. Thank you so much, everybody.
Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, I take it back.
[00:44:43] Speaker C: You know, what's wrong with you, Norman? You realize you've got an extra hour to go and you're saving yourself.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: Well, I don't know. It's. It's already nine minutes before four.
[00:44:53] Speaker C: No, no.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: We have less than an hour to go on this program. And I feel badly about that, Norm. I wish we could turn the clock back again at four and make it three.
[00:45:01] Speaker E: Me, too. Me, too. Yeah.
[00:45:03] Speaker C: Norman.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: Yes, ma'? Am?
[00:45:05] Speaker C: May I ask you a question?
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Hold on a minute. Jan is calling from the Shenandoah Valley.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: With a question, please.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:45:13] Speaker C: When it's Tony's birthday and Matt's birthday and your birthday, do we get to guess those birthdays?
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Yes. But not mine. No.
[00:45:21] Speaker C: No.
[00:45:22] Speaker A: All right.
[00:45:22] Speaker C: But Tony's birthday.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Oh, you can guess mine.
[00:45:24] Speaker D: Sure, sure.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: You can guess mine when it comes up. I'm not sure.
[00:45:26] Speaker C: Do you know that song? Do you know that song, Methuselah lived 900 years.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: May, shut up. Yeah.
[00:45:36] Speaker C: I'm saying that because I'm one year behind you.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: Cool, man.
[00:45:42] Speaker A: You're. You're. You're a year younger than I am.
[00:45:45] Speaker C: I have no idea.
[00:45:47] Speaker A: I see. Well, you may very well be.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
[00:45:50] Speaker A: But I bet you're not as pretty as I am.
[00:45:53] Speaker F: Oh, no one?
[00:45:57] Speaker A: No. I want to thank you.
Make your underwear squirm.
All right with that.
Anyway, Matt is the winner and. And is a true champion. And Tony comes in second.
And if there's no prizes for either one of them.
And, Mary Ellen, you did okay, too. You all did well. You all fun. I want to thank you very much, first of all, Mary Ellen. Yet. Thank you for playing the game.
[00:46:23] Speaker C: Thank you for Letting me play the game.
[00:46:25] Speaker F: A little more heavy breathing before you go?
[00:46:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. Could you do it just kind of maybe.
Maybe a note of. Kind of a. Kind of a feeling of a lustful kind of. Well, never mind.
[00:46:39] Speaker B: May.
[00:46:40] Speaker C: Good evening, sir.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: Nice. Nice to have played with you.
[00:46:42] Speaker C: Yes. My cat is now back.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Okay. Your cat is now back. Did you say that?
[00:46:47] Speaker F: I think she did. Now.
[00:46:48] Speaker A: My cat is now back. Yeah, it sounds like one of those secret words.
Hello, I'm a Russian spy. My cat is now back.
Oh, that means he's got the documents in his briefcase. I don't know what. My cat is now back. What the hell is that?
I think these games go too long. I think.
I don't know.
Okay. Constance, it's a pleasure. It's been a pleasure. It's been a pleasure with you.
I think your date is just beeped his horn. He's at the door.
He's ready to take you to the prom. I hope you're. You're ready.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: Okay. Take care, Constance. Nice to talk with you, Jan. You.
[00:47:31] Speaker F: Can tell there at the end she had no idea what you were talking about.
[00:47:34] Speaker A: Sometimes I have no idea either.
And that's what makes calling sick today.
[00:47:39] Speaker F: Now you know why.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: That's right. I was. Was I? Yeah, I was going to call in sick today. Yeah.
And Jan.
No, I'm. I thought this way I'd get here and make everybody else sick instead. Yes, ma'.
[00:47:51] Speaker C: Am. Since it's called the dumb birthday game. I do not feel dumb since I didn't get anything right. I feel so intelligent.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: You are intelligent, Jan. Not only that, I enjoyed it, but you're a ravishing.
[00:48:03] Speaker C: Enjoy your program. Even though you're off the wall, all of you have to be committed.
[00:48:09] Speaker E: Why, thank you, Jan.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: I don't know. I think this program has intelligence and it has structure and it has meaning. It.
[00:48:16] Speaker C: I. I don't think anybody in the hierarchy in WBC ever listens at this hour. Thank God.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: No, I think if the boss listens, we're all. I'm done. I don't know about the rest of you. You can all go.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: Okay. I hope I can hear you on the radio. You're fading tonight, but I hope I can get. Okay, good night.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Good night.
[00:48:35] Speaker F: We're fading.
[00:48:35] Speaker A: Literally. I know. If I've been fading for about 40 years now.
[00:48:41] Speaker F: Always a pleasure.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: Always a pleasure to talk to you, Tony.
[00:48:43] Speaker F: And I'll talk to you next week.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: Next week.
You're only in the next room.
Take care and we'll. We'll talk again to Matt, right after the 4 o' clock news because I'm going to give you about 10 minutes to get a really gangbusters traffic report.
[00:48:59] Speaker E: You got it.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: For five after four. People are waiting for it. A lot of people are getting up.
[00:49:03] Speaker E: Are the delivery trucks out now?
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Delivery trucks are starting to come in.
[00:49:07] Speaker E: Jack left me a list here, actually.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: Yeah, delivery trucks. Did he mention the. I don't think there are any bulb to bulb changes or wall washers. Wall washers this weekend. Somehow or other they all seem to be off. That's probably why Jack.
Jack is not. Not here.
He figured, what is there to talk about?
A curiosity factor. They marked down curiosity factor factor.
[00:49:29] Speaker E: Not causing a problem.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: Not causing any problem at all. But is a curiosity factor.
[00:49:33] Speaker E: That's right.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: Okay, we'll talk to you soon.
[00:49:35] Speaker E: All righty.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: Okay. Well, this has been a really exciting hour.
And now to bring this hour to a crescendo, ladies and gentlemen, to kind of, kind of, kind of give it a good finish, ladies and gentlemen, because it was excitement building up every moment.
Let us bring it to a climax. You pride the expression with this.
[00:49:57] Speaker D: Joan Cantwell of Brockton, Massachusetts is telling us about her skin problems.
[00:50:01] Speaker G: I had developed a skin skin rash and the rash was red, itchy, very uncomfortable. At its worst it was painful. It was very irritating.
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[00:50:41] Speaker G: It's gone. Completely gone. The itching in the area of the rash was taken care of. It doesn't itch anymore. I don't use any other powder but Cold Bond.
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[00:52:01] Speaker A: The time is about two minutes before 4:00'. Clock. You're tuned to a WBC, one of the great stations of America. Why they're broadcasting this program I'll never know. Anyway, there's always a weak, weak spot to anything.
We'll have news in about a minute and a half. We'll take some more phone calls. We'll be around for about another half hour. So 35 minutes and I'd love to hear from you. 2, 5, 4, 1030, area code 617. We have about three open lines.
And whatever you, whatever may be in your mind, do give me a call and we'll say hello. Right?
Just call me, quote, unquote, quote, quote.
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[00:53:37] Speaker A: Oh, look at that. Look at that. It's almost time for the news and here we are just diddling our doodle. Diddling our doodle. I'm sorry, I don't Even know what that means. It sounds awful though, doesn't it? Oh, it's news I better clear away.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: A little known fact was that diddling our doodle was the flip side to Chuck Berry's My Ding a ling. Yup.
[00:53:57] Speaker E: True story.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Hello?
[00:54:00] Speaker H: Hi, Mickey, It's Sylvia. What about this weekend?
[00:54:03] Speaker A: I can't.
[00:54:03] Speaker D: I gotta go car shopping this weekend.
[00:54:05] Speaker H: That's easy.
[00:54:05] Speaker E: DOT.
[00:54:06] Speaker H: 1900 autoABC. A friend of mine just called them and loved it. They'll give you all the information you want about any new or used car and even send a printout of the details at no extra charge.
[00:54:15] Speaker D: Gee, Sylvia, I've always gone to the car dealers. I get brochures and business cards and.
[00:54:20] Speaker H: You don't have to do that anymore. 1900 auto ABC will tell you what's standard, what's optional about financing your trade in everything. They'll even tell you dealer invoice. You'll take forever collecting brochures. Just dial 1-900- AUTO-ABC. Two bucks a minute. Seven or eight minutes. Beats the heck out of spending the weekend on Auto Row.
[00:54:39] Speaker C: And Mickey.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: Yeah?
[00:54:40] Speaker H: I'm wearing that cowgirl outfit.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: 1-900-Auto.
[00:54:43] Speaker D: ABC will tell me everything.
[00:54:44] Speaker H: I packed a picnic line.
[00:54:45] Speaker D: And they'll explain about options and financing I bought.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: You mean I don't have to call them?
[00:54:50] Speaker H: That's 1900. A, U, T, O, A, B, C. Call them and pick me up, lover boy.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: Chicken.
[00:54:55] Speaker D: Sure sounds good. 1900 Auto ABC, Buffalo, New York.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for Linda's league. Swell, nifty and keen. The headache elixir that is the dumb birthday game. The Corinthian leather draped Chrysler Fred Decordova airbags. The female Jack Benny. Steve Allen's diction. Lousy excuses. Making Indian artifacts out of wastebaskets. Answering the age old question of how do you hold a bat? Muffled, whispery, breathy voices having only two channels but beautiful blossoms down in the Shenandoah Valley, Fond du Lac and other sweet steamy French phrases.
Sex appeal.
76. That's the spirit.
Loud shrieking din backing it up. Carrie Snodgrass and her Oscar worthy performance in the three faces of Tony Nesbit. Simon Lebon's clock repair and Fudge sculpting potholders and Russian generals. Isaac put Klubnik.
31 year old child brides Animal. The Muppet gender and age gaps. The romance of stealing. It's Bob Raleigh having no idea. Methuselah, the secret code. My cat is now back.
Intelligence, structure and meaning Curiosity Factors. Joan Cantwell from Brockton and her red itchy painful rash.
Triple Action Gold Bond Medicated Powder. Keep it in your sneaker. Friction, sweating and discomfort.
The Resolve stop smoking kit. 1900 auto ABC diddling our doodles Home Run Haldeman. The over modulated May Monty Python Traffic Lord Matt Phipps in the October April fool himself. Norm Nathan. I'm the really hip excuse laden Tony Nesbit.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember going up to him one time and I said, excuse me, sir, but you're so good at this. Could you tell me, how do you hold a bat? And he said, well, sir, gently by the tips of its wings.
