Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: As always, thanks for being here. There are links below with ways to support the show. All is appreciated. We begin this month with a dumb birthday game from February 5, 1995, which I've titled the forecast is for Fun. Let's get right to it. The players, Pam from Savannah, Georgia. Todd at Emerson College. Dora in Seekonk, Steven from Waltham. Chuck Tanowitz producing and playing in studio. And Ken Newman in traffic. The birthdays, Hank Aaron, Red Buttons, Bobby Brown, Roger Staubach, Al Cooper, Barbara Hershey and Nigel Olson.
We gets ourselves two dates in history. In what year was the first Charlie Chaplin talkie released? And in what year was the first adding machine patented? Episode 221. The forecast is for fun. Storms its way to your ears in three, two, and one.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Pam from Savannah. Savannah, Georgia.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: No kidding. No, you cannot hear us in Savannah, can you?
[00:01:10] Speaker C: Sure I can.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: You're listening to us in Savannah, Georgia.
[00:01:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Oh, I'm so excited about that, Pam.
[00:01:16] Speaker C: Well, I recently moved down here about a month and a half ago. And when I moved, I could get you where I used to live. And so when I moved here, I wasn't sure, but I could, and so I can now.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Where. Where did you move from?
[00:01:28] Speaker C: I moved from North Carolina.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Cause I know we do get calls from there, but never, almost never from Georgia. I'm so pleased.
[00:01:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Talk to me some more with that lovely accent. Cause I think I'm falling in love with you.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Oh, my. Savannah's a real pretty area. It's. I really have enjoyed it. I came down here for a new job, and so it's been exciting.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: What kind of a job? What kind of business are you in?
[00:01:52] Speaker C: I do counseling.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Oh, do you? What kind of counseling?
[00:01:55] Speaker C: Work with people with disabilities.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: You sound like a very special kind of person.
[00:01:59] Speaker C: Well, thank you.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: That's. That's really an incredible feel. That's really nice. I've been to Atlanta, Georgia, which I think is a very pretty city, although I haven't been there in a lot of years. I don't know what it's like right now, but I've never been over on the coast, like where you are in Savannah.
[00:02:14] Speaker C: You should come visit.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: It's.
[00:02:15] Speaker C: It's beautiful.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: I'd like to. I think maybe one day I just might do that.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: You should.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Have you ever been up to New England?
[00:02:23] Speaker C: No.
[00:02:24] Speaker B: See, hey, that makes. That makes us even.
[00:02:26] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I've been to North Carolina also. But you've never been to New England, so come on up this way. This is a nice area, too.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Okay. We have Todd, who is a New Englander himself, living in Boston at this moment. Hi, Todd.
[00:02:40] Speaker D: Hello, Norm. How are you?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: I'm just fine, thank you. What do you do? I'm going to college.
[00:02:45] Speaker D: At this moment.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: At this very moment. What college?
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Emerson.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Emerson. You're going to be a broadcaster or a TV person or a writer, a movie person.
[00:02:53] Speaker D: None of those.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Sorry.
No, really. What, what, what. What is your. What would you. What are you planning to do?
[00:02:59] Speaker D: I'm a light designer here.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Well, now, will that be in the theater? Lighting? You mean in the theater or what?
[00:03:05] Speaker D: No, that's what I'm studying right now, but I plan on hopefully getting into theme parks or concerts a little more exciting.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Oh, really? That sounds great. Yeah.
[00:03:12] Speaker D: It's going to be fun, I hope.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, what year are you in?
[00:03:15] Speaker D: A senior.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Oh, congrats. Best wishes. But you'll be getting out of here before you can hardly blink.
[00:03:20] Speaker D: I can hardly wait.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: How. It'd be fun to see how you. That's. I've never talked to anybody who was interested in that area and that sounds like a fascinating one.
[00:03:27] Speaker D: We're. We're a small breed, that's for sure.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Okay. And I hope the, the, the. The job openings. Openings are a large breed. Anyway.
[00:03:37] Speaker D: Me too.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Okay. Dora is with us from se. Down near the Rhode island line in Massachusetts. Hi, Dora.
[00:03:44] Speaker E: Hi, Norm.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: How are you doing?
[00:03:46] Speaker E: I'm very happy to be awake for once while you're playing this game.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad that you're with us now. What now what do you do down there?
[00:03:53] Speaker E: I'm a homemaker and I paint.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: What kind of stuff do you paint?
[00:03:58] Speaker E: Lately I've been doing, well, a lot of figure drawing. Models.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
You draw them from life? You mean life drawing. People pause. I mean, pose for you and everything.
[00:04:11] Speaker E: Yeah, they pause and pose.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: I know. English, as you know, is not my first language. I'm studying it as a second language and I hope to master it one day.
I'm delighted that you're playing the game with a store. And are you pretty good? It'd be fun to see some of your stuff. Do you put it. You want to exhibit at any time?
[00:04:31] Speaker E: I did one at the library in town last summer. I might try to do that again, but I'm not really famous.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Do you have. No, but I mean, even then we have an art association of the town that I live in and I'm amazed at the quality of the stuff that people turn out really, I mean, really first rate. And they're none of them. They don't have names like Beethoven, like, not Beethoven like Rembrandt or Picasso or anything.
[00:04:57] Speaker E: So it's something people can learn, and I think a lot of people take it up at some point in their life, and a lot of them are very good.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Do you have a Seekonk Art association or anything down there?
[00:05:06] Speaker C: No.
[00:05:07] Speaker E: We have some in Providence and Fall river nearby and Westport. I belong to the Westport Artist. Just if I happen to go there.
Yeah, not in seacon, but we have a town arts council, and they organize the shows.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Oh, that's really nice. That's really. Because I'm so proud of the fact that little town that I live in and I've lived in for a lot of years. At one time, we had nothing much going. We have an arts council, and I forget one. A whole bunch of really, you know, historic society and all of that kind of. And I think those things are very important in towns.
[00:05:43] Speaker E: Culture.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I hate to say culture. That sounds so snobby, but. But basically, yeah, just.
Just a whole lot of things that people ought to know about that enrich your life, your lot of people's lives and. And make. Make life even more interesting. I like to think of it that. I suppose that's culture, too. But anyway, let's talk with Steve, who's in. Stephen in Waltham. Hi, Stephen. Hi. No, hey, you sound like a young guy, too. Are you a student? Yeah. Where? Cardinal Thomas. That high school? Yep. Okay. We're glad to have you with us, and it's nice that you're up this late. I appreciate you being there. Yep. Okay. We have. We also, of course, I have Chuck Tanowitz, who is our producer, who will be playing the game with us. Hey, Chuck. Nice to have you.
[00:06:31] Speaker F: Good evening, Norm.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Good evening. I don't have to ask you what your occupation is, because I can see what you do right here, and it's not a pretty picture.
Okay. And we also, of course, have the very exciting Ken Newman, who's the WBC 24 Traffic Network person.
[00:06:48] Speaker G: Hello, Norm. Hello, everybody.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Hello there.
Hi.
They're all responding, so I never got. This is a friendly bunch. And what would you like to be when you grow up, Ken?
[00:07:01] Speaker G: A traffic reporter during the day.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Is there something that has more status for traffic reporters? And like, for example, are you looked down upon by other people, you know, who were on during the daytime? They say, well, you're not really a traffic reporter. You're on during the nighttime?
[00:07:21] Speaker G: Well, actually, I don't get to See anybody during the daytime.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: So I don't either.
[00:07:25] Speaker G: They don't really have a chance to look down on me.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: I guess I think we're both. The reason I brought it up was because I, you know, I respect you and I think you do a nice job and I think you're. You're right at the top of the list so far as quality and, and talent is concerned.
I mention that because I happen to be in the same boat you are. Seeing. I was trying to search enough for company. I have a feeling people who work during the day look down on me. I think Gary lapierre looks down on me. I think so. I'm not sure.
[00:07:55] Speaker G: I hope it's the kind of cutthroat business, you know that it is.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: You think Diane Stern, maybe she looks down on me. I really. I don't really know.
[00:08:07] Speaker G: It's a dog eat dog.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Oh, it's a dog eat dog world. Deb Lawler I don't think looks down on me because she's a nice lady. Susan Rist looks up to me. I'm making all this up, you understand. I'm just trying to be frisky and silly, as a matter of fact. And Bill Lawrence wants to. He will be on at 5 this morning updating everything.
Actually wants to be like me when he grows up. But he'll never make it because he's not good looking enough.
Isn't that nice? Nobody laughed. I appreciate that. Usually. Usually I get funny answers. Oh geez. He say that? What's with that guy anyway, here's how we play the dumb birthday game. Of course, today is February.
Is it the fourth or fifth? No, today's the fifth.
Yeah. And so I tell you who was born today.
This is known as weatherman's day. Did you know that?
There's no more explanation than that.
[00:09:02] Speaker F: It's pretty appropriate for today.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess so. It makes sense.
[00:09:06] Speaker G: They've had all day yesterday a national holiday out of it.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's. It. But this is a book that was published several months ago and February 5th, they have it listed as weatherman's day.
[00:09:16] Speaker C: Well, it was nice here Yesterday. It was 75 degrees in Savannah. Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: No kidding.
[00:09:22] Speaker G: Jealous.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: Yeah. When you. When you hear about storms coming up through this way, does that make the weather seem even nicer where you are? You, you know, you say all those poor souls up there.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: Oh yeah. I call my family and my friends in North Carolina and taunt them.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Oh, in North Carolina, did they have snow? They'd have snow.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: Yeah, they have. Usually The. The pattern is that if Atlanta gets it, then usually Charlotte. Enough that way will get it.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Okay. Because at one time I. From what I understood, Atlanta didn't even have snow plows or anything because they never got snow.
That's not true, apparently.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: No, they get some. Not a lot, but they do get some.
[00:10:01] Speaker F: They got dusted this morning. Yesterday morning, yeah.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: It's interesting because this past day I talked with some. We have listeners in the Baltimore, Washington area. And one guy said he's traveling from Washington up toward the Baltimore. And it's normally about a 45 minute trip. It took him over two hours because of all the snow piling up. And he said he had a car with hardly any horsepower, I guess. And so he could hardly keep ahead of the snowplows. He was really in a state of panic. He finally got into the house and he called. But they got about four or five inches. I never think of Washington, D.C. as having that much snow. But they did.
[00:10:38] Speaker G: They've had more snow than us this year.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Is that right?
[00:10:41] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: Well, it serves them right for being in the nation's capital. Heck with them. Okay. Today is Hank Aaron's birthday. Hank Aaron. I'll give you some information about him with some dates and all which may help you figure out his age. Although I don't have too many dates. All time. Home run king, of course. Hank Aaron, he hit more home runs.755 than any other player in baseball history. And had 6,856 total bases. 1722 more than second place Stan Musial. That's funny. Baseball has more statistics, I think, than any other sport.
You know how many times a guy spit? A pitcher spit during a game or scratched his crotch during a. They got statistics for everything. Anyway, Hank Aaron played in 24 all star games. Can you imagine that? Most of us never get to play in one regular big league game. This guy was in 24 all star games. A record he shares with Stan Musial and Willie Mays. He was elected to the Baseball hall of fame in 1982.
I don't know whether that helps you guess his age or not, but you have to be out of baseball 10 years, I think it is, before you are eligible for the Baseball hall of Fame. And he was elected in 1982. I don't know whether he played up until 1972.
I would. I would. That's. That. It's possible.
[00:12:17] Speaker F: Later than that.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: I thought.
[00:12:18] Speaker F: I thought he played as late as 76.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah, you may very well be right. I don't know. We'll start with you, Pam. Okay. How old do you think Hank Aaron is today? February 5th. Weatherman's Day.
[00:12:32] Speaker C: Oh, let's say 56.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: 56. Okay. And Todd?
[00:12:38] Speaker D: 61.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Todd says 61. What do you. I hit it right on the button. He's 61?
Yes. Did you know that, Todd, or was that just a guess?
[00:12:47] Speaker D: That was the first number that came to my mind.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Right on the button. And Dora was not far off. She said 62. But I suspect the fact that you said 61 had some influence upon her.
[00:12:59] Speaker D: I hope not.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Okay, well, she was close. She was second closest. Okay. Red Buttons, the comic and actor and stuff.
Actor, comedian. Born Aaron Schwatz, C H W A T T in New York City. Red butts. He won an Oscar for supporting actor in Sayonara in 1957. There's. So there's a clue there. He started his show business career singing for pennies in Manhattan's Lower east side.
He was in some episodes of Knott's Landing and the movie 18 Again with George Burns. He's also. Also been on those testimonial programs. You know, dinners. The dinners. Yeah. Well, no, the dinners. You know, he said.
He said you get a dinner. They didn't give a dinner to whoever it is. Even though, you know, that routine that he does. It's very. I can't think of a single example. And yet he's very, very funny with that. How come they're giving a dinner to you? They didn't give a dinner to Cleopatra and look what she did for Anthony or something.
Now, that isn't terribly funny. That's not one of his lines. He would not like me saying that and attributing that to him. But anyway, that's. That's Aaron Schwartz or Red Buttons. What do you think, Ken?
[00:14:23] Speaker G: Oh, geez, I don't know.
Well, I think he's 65.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Well, your voice is rising in indecision.
[00:14:37] Speaker G: It shows my lack of knowledge.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: Well, that's okay. I'm not quite sure too many people would be able to guess Red Button's age. He hasn't been on television for a long time. But anyway, Chuck, what do you think?
[00:14:51] Speaker F: I'll go with 67. How about that one?
[00:14:54] Speaker B: 67. Okay. What do you think, Stephen? 72. Steven says 72, and Dora says 76. 76. And if. If Jack Hart were here, he'd say something about. That's the spirit.
[00:15:09] Speaker G: That's the spirit.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Or that's the number of. That's the number of trombones in our band. Or he makes Some comment, but Todd, what do you say?
[00:15:17] Speaker D: 74.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: Todd says 74 and Pam 68. Okay, he's. He. The Dora. Hit it right on the button. He is 76 years old today. Red button. 76.
[00:15:31] Speaker E: I was at his birthday party.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: I see. Well, you sound like a kind of person that would be invited to a lot of places, including Bobby Brown's birthday party. Today's Bobby Brown.
[00:15:45] Speaker G: That was a brilliant segue.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that was very smooth.
[00:15:49] Speaker F: Right into that.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Wasn't that just so darn smooth that they'll probably have that as part of a textbook at Emerson College next year on a segue that. You don't need that. Of course, Todd, because you're getting into lighting and stuff and I'm a senior.
[00:16:04] Speaker D: So I won't see it next year.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Oh, that's right too. Yeah, well, that's. I'll send it to you.
[00:16:09] Speaker D: Oh, please.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: You'll probably be doing lighting on some big time Broadway play and, well, you.
[00:16:15] Speaker G: Could still flunk a few classes.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:16:18] Speaker F: If you want it the norm, rethin Segway classes.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: That's right, that's right, that's right. You could flunk something. So you have to repe.
Great.
[00:16:24] Speaker D: Now I'm jinxed.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Okay, Bobby Brown, singer, dancer, born in Boston, by the way. He's one of our local folks. Hits include My Prerogative, on Our Own and Every Little Step, for which he won a 1989 Grammy Award as Best R B Male Vocal. His LP Don't Be Cruel sold over 8 million copies. And of course, in July, July 18, 1992, he married Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston is correct, Ken. They have a daughter.
And anyway, how old would Bobby Brown be? Bobby Brown. We'll start with Dora.
[00:17:12] Speaker E: Bobby Brown.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Bobby Brown.
[00:17:15] Speaker E: 40.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: Bobby Brown is 43, says the very lovely Dora. Okay, and what do you say, Chuck?
[00:17:26] Speaker F: 35.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: Chuck says 35 and Pam says 30.
Okay. And Ken say 27.
What do you think, Stephen? 26. 26. Stephen and Todd, 33. Okay.
Stephen is. Hits it right on the button.
He's 26.
And Ken was very close. Yeah, you, you were. You, you, you Just missed by just one. One year.
[00:17:59] Speaker G: Story of my life.
Just missing just one year.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: Just missing by one year. Yeah, it was in all the newspapers this morning. And I understand it'll be a television documentary.
The man who missed by one year his entire life.
[00:18:16] Speaker G: Movie of the week.
[00:18:17] Speaker F: I think I saw that a fortune cookie once.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Bobby Brown by one year.
Okay, let's see, that means that. Let's see. We, Todd, Dora and Stephen, all have one apiece as we go to Roger Staubach, former Dallas quarterback, leading NFC, that is National Football Conference passer five times graduate of the U.S. naval Academy for many years. I love this next line. For many years, he did the roll aids TV commercials.
How do you spell roll? A7932. AB962. Am I close?
Anyway, Roger, style back or Starbuck or however you pronounce. I think it's style back. Stoneback. Sounds kind of. Doesn't sound right. But anyway, let's see. We'll start with you, Steven. Since you won that last round, how old do you think Roger Staubach is today? Weatherman's Day?
52. 52. Okay. And Todd?
[00:19:27] Speaker D: 53.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Todd says 53. And Ken says Roger is 54. Roger's 54. And Pam, 54. 54 also. And Dora, 51. 51. And what do you think, Chuck?
[00:19:45] Speaker F: 55.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: You're all very, very close. You're all within the. The right area. However.
However, it's a Chuck. No, no, it isn't Chuck. I'm sorry. Don't get too excited. It's Todd who said 53. And that's the correct answer.
[00:20:02] Speaker G: And Todd by one year again.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah, by one year again. That's right. You're Mr. One Year Miss.
And. And that means that Todd has now burst out, sprinted out into the lead.
[00:20:13] Speaker D: I'm out in the clear.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: You're in the. Well, yeah, just. Well, just not too far ahead of others. You got two. Dora and Stephen are right behind you. So keep moving because you know how Dora is. Anyway, Dora and Stephen have won a piece. And we'll go to Al Cooper. K O O P E R Blues rock musician from Brooklyn, New York, played a big part in the success of Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Discovered Leonard Skynyrd and the Tubes.
And that's about all I can tell you. I don't even have a year for all of that stuff.
Al Cooper. Al Cooper. Do you all know that name?
[00:20:53] Speaker C: I don't.
[00:20:55] Speaker E: Vaguely.
[00:20:56] Speaker G: Sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think I'd know if my. If I bumped into him.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Yeah, you probably wouldn't actually, because he's a transvestite and wears women's clothing.
I just said that. He's trying to. He's trying to get on the Jerry Springer show because it seems like the rest of his career is pretty well wiped out.
[00:21:17] Speaker G: His lawyer will call you in the morning.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: That's right. I certainly hope somebody will call me in the morning because it's just so lonely where I am. Anyway, it's because groups like Blood, Sweat and Tears, Leonard Skinner, Tubes, and so not particularly well known. I mean, they're known, but they're not obviously contemporary groups. And so it's kind of a yesteryear kind of thing.
[00:21:39] Speaker G: Yeah. Oh, it's a shame.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: No, it is a shame how. How quickly fame comes and how quickly he just disappears down what we call the toilet. Just like that, it's gone. One day you're a big hero, the next day you're being flushed. But let's start with. Let's see who we start with. The last winner was Todd. So we'll start with you, Todd. Al Cooper.
[00:22:03] Speaker D: Alrighty.
61.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Al Cooper says. I mean, Todd says Al Cooper, 61.
And Al Cooper says. Todd is 12, but what does he know? And Chuck, what do you think?
[00:22:21] Speaker F: 57.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: 57?
[00:22:24] Speaker F: Why not? I have no idea. Yeah, sounded like a good number.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: 57 is an excellent number, sir. The Heinz folks have used it for years. Yeah, that's true. They like that. Yeah. A lot. And what do you think, Pam?
[00:22:37] Speaker C: 47.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: 27.
[00:22:39] Speaker C: No, 47.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Oh, 47.
Okay. And Stephen? 63. Steven says 63. What do you say, Dora?
[00:22:48] Speaker E: 62.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: 62. And Ken?
[00:22:52] Speaker G: I'll say 62 also. Even though it's probably up by one year.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: No, as a matter of fact, you're off by about 11 years on this one. And no, 51 is the correct answer. He's 51. I think that puts Pam.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: Oh, I finally got.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: Yes, Pam said 47. Yeah. So she was four years away from it. And that's closer than anybody else.
The next closest was Todd, who said 61. So she was 10 years off. Okay. One of my favorite actresses, I don't. I just like the way she looks, which is probably not the way you judge actresses, but her name is Barbara Hershey. She's been in. In some of the Woody Allen movies. She was. Her. Her birth name was Barbara Herstein.
Born in Los Angeles, California. Barbara Hershey. She appeared in the Last Temptation of Christ, Beaches, Hoosiers. Remember she in Hoosiers? Do you remember that picture with Gene Hackman, The. The high school basketball team in Indiana that based upon apparently, an actual story. An actual team.
[00:24:04] Speaker E: I saw that.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And Barbara Hershey.
Was that Gene. Did she play the part of Gene Hackman's fiance?
[00:24:14] Speaker E: I think so.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: I think. I think that was her role in that. Falling Down. She was in that. I don't remember that movie at all.
[00:24:21] Speaker G: Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that was with Michael Douglas.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: Michael. Oh, that was that where he was On a one man killing. Killing spree. Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker G: He had the short hair and the glasses.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. A dangerous woman.
She was in that Public Eye and Splitting Heirs. H E I R S I Don't you know that one? Splitting.
[00:24:47] Speaker G: No.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: And. And what was the. But this doesn't list any but.
[00:24:52] Speaker E: Any.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Any Woody Allen movies. And she's been in a few. Wasn't she in what?
[00:24:58] Speaker F: She was a Stardust Memories, wasn't she?
[00:25:00] Speaker B: She was in one a little more recent than that. Also the one with Michael Caine.
[00:25:05] Speaker F: Oh, Hannah's Sisters.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Hannah's. Hannah's sister. What is it called?
[00:25:09] Speaker F: Hannah and Her Sister.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Hannah and her Sisters. When she was in that, I believe she was in that, don't you know, Barbara Hershey. And I think. I think she was in one or two other Woody Allen movies.
If not, she should have been. Damn it, what's wrong with that man? Okay, Barbara Hershey, and we'll start with. We'll start with you, Pam. What do you think? How old is Barbara Hershey?
[00:25:36] Speaker C: 56.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: 56. Okay. What do you think, Todd?
[00:25:42] Speaker D: 41.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Okay. And when you're lighting her, I want you to, you know, light her lightly so that. So she looks like about that age.
[00:25:52] Speaker D: A nice rose tint from the side.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: Oh, that would be just a darn nice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that would be nice.
[00:25:57] Speaker F: We should get lighting in here for you, Norm, just to.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah, for the radio. We should do lighting for radio. Yeah.
[00:26:04] Speaker D: The next time you take your picture, Norm, I'll come in and light you for it.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: That would be even nicer. That would even make more. That starts to make sense now.
Yeah. Can you make me look like I'm really a young, good looking stud?
[00:26:16] Speaker D: Oh, it probably wouldn't take too much.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: It probably wouldn't take too much. Oh, geez.
[00:26:21] Speaker F: He really wants to win the game.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: He really is sucking up to me, isn't he? Isn't that pitiful? Dora, how old do you think Barbara Hershey is?
[00:26:29] Speaker E: 46.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: Anyway, Doris is 46.
And Stephen, what do you think? 55. 55.
[00:26:39] Speaker F: Okay, Chuck, 47.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Chuck says 47. And Ken, I think he's on the other line.
[00:26:52] Speaker F: Force.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: Was that cellular phone force calling you?
[00:26:56] Speaker G: Yes, as a matter of fact, let me. Let me just put you off for a second here.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: I want to just take a guess on Barbara Hershey quickly and then you can go 47. You're right.
You and Chuck both said the right number. Now go on and answer the phone because there may be some 75 part car pile up somewhere, you know, and.
And. And Ken Newman should really inform us just so that he could say, I'm terribly sorry. I don't care how many cars are involved. I'm doing the dumb birthday game. I'm too busy right now. I don't know how many would take that as a. As the answer.
Anyway, Chuck and ken did say 47 both. And that's how old she is. She's 47. How young she is. Dora, you were very close. You said 46.
[00:27:40] Speaker E: My generation.
[00:27:42] Speaker B: Is that about how old you are?
[00:27:44] Speaker E: A little older, yeah.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Well, that's a beautiful age. That's when women really begin to ripen into something very special.
[00:27:52] Speaker E: Like fine wine.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Like fine wine. That's right. Up to that point, they don't even know what life is, and they just bland nothingness until they reach the late 40s. Funny, one of the talks I do, we talk about the old radio soap operas. And one of them was. Was Helen Trent. And each one always had a kind of a little slogan or a little reason for the program to be on the air. This is an old radio soap opera. Helen Trent. And the announcer would say that the point of the program was, can a woman over the age of 35 still find romance and love? Or something like that. And I thought over the age of 35, that must have seemed very old at that time to me. It would have, because I was very young in school and stuff. But 35. I don't think a woman is ready for romance probably till she's about whatever age you. You say you are, Dora. Maybe, you know, late 40s. I think you're just about getting there.
Anyway, let's do a night.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: I disagree with that.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: How? You're very young, Pam. Are you?
[00:28:58] Speaker C: I'm not that young.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: Are you older than that?
[00:29:02] Speaker C: No, I'm in my mid-30s.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: Well, you got a way to go there before you become really just totally desirable. But doesn't that make you feel good to know that you still another 10, 15 years from now?
[00:29:13] Speaker C: Well, it makes it sound like I'm not in anything now.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Say that again?
[00:29:19] Speaker C: I said it makes it sound like I'm not doing anything now.
[00:29:22] Speaker G: You just can't please all the people all the time.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: I really can't. No. I thought.
[00:29:25] Speaker F: Get yourself out of this one, Norm.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: I thought I was. I thought I was. I'd really be very complimentary to the entire world and that there'd be a statue erected in my name as a result of that. And.
No.
[00:29:38] Speaker G: But instead.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. I'm Getting a sharp tongued woman, a witch, yelling at me. I think there are some. I, I just thought of this. It's kind of interesting if that you brought that up. There are some women who become extremely desirable and tempting in their mid-30s.
I just remembered that.
[00:29:58] Speaker F: Now you can end up with the jury's first trial.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: That's right. I'd forgotten about that. Let's see, Nigel Olson, does that mean anything to you? We're getting sort of hitting the bottom.
[00:30:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember him.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: He was a drummer with Elton John's band.
Is that the one you're thinking of?
[00:30:13] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: His biggest hit. You know his biggest hit was in 1978. It was called Dancing Shoes. Yes, sir, I put on my dancing shoes Said let me dance so ho, ho, hey, hey.
[00:30:28] Speaker G: Is that how it went?
[00:30:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's exactly the way the song went, John. It was a big hit.
I can see why. Yeah, he's sang it like that while he was playing the drums. Yeah. Sir, let me play the drum, put on my dancing shoes.
[00:30:44] Speaker G: I would think it would be tough to dance while you're playing the drums.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: If my kids are listening now, they're thinking, oh, dad, how are we gonna face our friends after you act like a total ass. Now just stop it. Okay, Nigel Olson, we're gonna start with, let's see, we'll start with Stephen. What do you think, Nigel olson, he's about 33. About 33. You're about the same age as Pam.
So what do you think, pam?
[00:31:13] Speaker C: I think 46.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: 46. Okay. And Dora?
[00:31:18] Speaker E: 45.
[00:31:19] Speaker B: And what do you think, Todd?
[00:31:21] Speaker D: 43.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: And Ken say 43. 43. And Stephen Jordy.
[00:31:30] Speaker C: He already got.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: Oh, you said 33. Did you say 33, Steve? Yep. Okay, I marked that next to your name. Chuck. Excuse me. So what do you say, Chuck?
[00:31:39] Speaker F: I think he's gonna hit the big five. Zero.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Big five, zero. Big five. Big five. Okay. Nigel Olson, 46. Oh, and that's exactly what Pam said.
[00:31:51] Speaker G: Right on the ball.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: And so you know that means Pam and Todd are now even at two apiece, screaming here. Oh, this is such a tight game. It's a seat squirmer down to the playoffs. Yeah, this is a real nail biter. Yeah, Dora, Steven, Chuck and Ken all have won a piece, but everybody scored. So that means that on this last one that's coming up this very moment, any one of the other four who have one a piece win that will we can have a three way tie or more. Well, this is just. I, I can't stand it. I'm beginning to sweat.
Okay, here's. Here's. Let's see.
[00:32:29] Speaker C: Right outside and get cooled down.
[00:32:32] Speaker B: What's that?
[00:32:33] Speaker C: I said right outside and get cooled down.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Oh, I guess maybe you're right. Maybe a little roll in the snow here, I think, would help a little bit.
[00:32:40] Speaker G: Go for those icy conditions while you're out there.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Okay. That's right. I understand the. The temperature's dropping, therefore the water turns to ice. They tell me we Learned that in Mr. Blueton's chemistry class.
[00:32:54] Speaker G: You could slip and fall out on the road.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: Okay, how about I'll give you a date and you tell me what year this happened? Because the day would have been February 5th, which is today's date. The first Charlie Chaplin talkie was released. It was called Modern Times.
And this was a talking. When we think of Charlie Chaplin. Mostly silent movies, but he made some talkies. Modern Times, the first one. It was a satire on dehumanizing conditions in an industrial plant.
Wait a minute. The satire and dehumanizing conditions in an industrial plant was Chaplin's last appearance? Oh, yes. As the Little Tramp, which was his character in all his movies.
What year would that have been? The first Charlie Chaplin talkie? And I will ask you, Pam.
[00:33:49] Speaker C: Oh, I have no clue.
1932.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: 1932. Okay, Todd, what do you think?
[00:34:00] Speaker D: 34.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: Todd says 1934. And Adora?
[00:34:06] Speaker E: 1920.
[00:34:08] Speaker B: 1920.
Okay. Stephen? 1923.
And Chuck?
[00:34:16] Speaker F: 1935.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: Chuck says 1935. And Ken?
[00:34:23] Speaker G: 1936. I think he was late getting into the.
[00:34:26] Speaker F: He was late getting into them.
[00:34:27] Speaker G: He hated the whole talking.
[00:34:29] Speaker F: Even this one really wasn't a talkie. It was kind of a.
The only sound was music and a little bit off of a. A record player. Really didn't do much talking in the movie.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: H. You. You and Chuck are the closest.
Ken says 36, and it was actually was 1937. So you're right about being late.
1937, the wizard of Oz was in.
[00:34:53] Speaker G: Color, and that came out two years later. So he was way behind.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: That's right. 1939 was the wizard of Oz. And Gone with the wind was 1939. The one with the. Lawrence Olivier.
Wuthering Heights, I believe, was 1939. Also. That was black and white.
[00:35:12] Speaker F: But I mean, it was big year for movies.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a very sophisticated talking movie and all that. I mean, you.
I. There were a couple of other big movies that came out that sent me in 1939. So he was a couple years before the Modern Times. Anyway, we now have a. Let's See, we have a. A four way. A four way tie. No, a three way tie. Because Ken now has two, Todd still has two, and so does Pam. I'll give you one more. Okay. Because we're getting kind of close to the news and stuff.
How about the first adding machine? This, this is kind of, kind of tough. First adding machine that was February 5th also was patented by Frank Baldwin. It weighed 10 pounds and was 20 inches high.
And it was the first adding machine.
I'm reading you can buy them for.
[00:36:11] Speaker G: Like $2 now and they weigh about an ounce.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: I know it, I know it. And let's start with you, Ken. What do you think? What year do you think that was?
[00:36:20] Speaker G: Oh, geez, that's.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: This is kind of tough.
[00:36:23] Speaker G: First adding machine.
[00:36:24] Speaker B: But then again, it's tough for everybody because who would know this?
[00:36:28] Speaker F: I guess you're not counting the abacus on this one.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: Well, in a way, the abacus was an adding machine. And I'm not suggesting to you that this was an electrical machine.
[00:36:40] Speaker G: Could have been an abacus. Which means it would be like what, BC?
[00:36:43] Speaker F: Well, you know, 100 BC that's right.
[00:36:46] Speaker G: Before they started documenting time.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: That's right.
Two years later, the first man roamed the earth. I was the first woman roamed the earth. I forget which it was. You couldn't tell. Actually, men and women looked exactly the same.
[00:36:59] Speaker F: The first sighting machine was a couple of rocks on the ground. There we go.
[00:37:03] Speaker G: Fingers.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Okay. No, it was. I will tell you, it's within the past 150 years. So you don't know.
[00:37:10] Speaker F: We narrowed it down now.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: All right, you don't have to go back that far.
[00:37:13] Speaker E: Sometime after the Civil War.
[00:37:15] Speaker B: Okay, well, no, I didn't, I didn't say that. I didn't say that at all. No, I just said in the past 150 years.
So what do you think, Ken?
[00:37:24] Speaker G: Say 18. I think it was 18 something. So I'll go with 1880.
[00:37:31] Speaker B: 1880. Okay.
[00:37:34] Speaker F: And truck, stick around that same area. 1883.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: 1883. All right, Stephen, what do you think? First adding machine patent.
1890.
Okay. And Dora?
1890 was the year that Rose Kennedy was born.
[00:37:54] Speaker E: 1886.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: 1886.
Okay. And the toddler.
[00:38:02] Speaker D: 1876.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: 1876. And Pam, up to you. Now you can, can win the whole thing if you come the closest.
[00:38:12] Speaker C: Feel the pressure.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Oh, the pressure is great. Yeah. But you just sound like you can take the pressure because relax, you're a beautiful, ripe woman.
[00:38:24] Speaker C: 1885.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: 1885.
Okay. The actual year was 1850.
Then I wouldn't have guessed it would have been that far back and. Except I had the answer right in front of me.
[00:38:37] Speaker C: When was it?
[00:38:38] Speaker F: You didn't have to guess.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't have to guess. That's true. I think Todd. Todd said 1876 and yeah, I would say Todd. Todd got that. And now has sprinted into the lead with three correct answers.
[00:38:56] Speaker F: Does that make him the birthday game champion?
[00:38:58] Speaker B: Music well, for this game, for Weatherman Day. That's right. He's the dumb birthday game winner. The Weatherman.
[00:39:05] Speaker F: The Weatherman wither.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: The Weatherman. That's right. He's won on the Weatherman's Day. 1995. That's something you can take for your first job application.
[00:39:16] Speaker D: Oh, thank you. So hold on.
[00:39:18] Speaker F: You can put it on a plaque.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I just put down in the resume.
[00:39:24] Speaker D: Awards or under technical achievement.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. Any way you want to do it. I suppose you can see in a graduated Emerson 18. Whatever year this is.
[00:39:33] Speaker F: 18. 1876.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: Yeah. 1990. 1995. I won the dumb birthday game. 1995.
[00:39:40] Speaker D: On the weatherman's day.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: On weatherman's day. 1995. That's right. Well, this is.
I imagine you can write your ticket for any job in the world right now.
[00:39:50] Speaker D: Well, I know your name carries a lot of cloud out there.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: Oh, it certainly does.
[00:39:53] Speaker F: At least in 38 states.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Not even in the half of one state. But anyway, hold on. Todd and Chuck. Chuck Tanowitz will talk with you and take your name and address and we'll send you something really totally worthless. Is that okay with you?
[00:40:09] Speaker D: I appreciate it, Norm.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Thank you very much. Okay, so don't hang up a. Pam?
[00:40:14] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: It's been a pleasure talking with you.
I wish you the very best in your new home down there in Savannah.
[00:40:21] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: And I thank you very much for calling. It's your pleasure to talk with.
[00:40:24] Speaker C: Enjoyed it.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Okay, take care.
[00:40:26] Speaker E: Bye bye.
[00:40:27] Speaker B: And same to you, Dora. Thank you. Okay.
[00:40:31] Speaker E: It was over too soon. I really had a good time.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad you did. I enjoyed having you too. This was, I thought, a great panel. A lot of fun people. Thank you. And thank you to Stephen and best wishes to you. I'm glad. I appreciate you staying up so late to be part of all of this. You sound great. Bye, Norm. Take care. Bye. Bye, Stephen. And same to you, Ken. So long and make it a good day.
[00:40:52] Speaker G: I will. You too.
[00:40:53] Speaker B: Okay, thanks a lot. We'll talk to you soon. It's three minutes before 4:00. That was an interesting panel, you know. Okay.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: As nor mentioned, February 5th is National Weatherman's Day. Now known as National Weather Persons Day. It commemorates the birth of John Jeffreys in 1744. He was a Boston doctor and one of America's first weather observers. He started logging daily weather observations in Boston back in 1774. A decade later, in 1784, we would find him taking the first balloon weather observation over London. Consider yourself informed. And now we shall close the vault and leave this world a little sillier than we found it for Weatherman's Day. Sweet Southern accents. Lighting designers, homemakers. Painting, pausing and posing. The Middleton Art Association. The cutthroat business of traffic reporting. Looking down on Norm. Looking up to Norm. Aaron Schwatt. Smooth, brilliant segues. The movie of the week. Rolaid's Fame. Lighting for radio suck ups. The cellular one phone Force ripening women and fine wine. Dancing shoes, icy conditions. Mr. Bluton's chemistry class. Frank Baldwin being able to handle the pressure. Chuck Tanowitz. Mr. One year. Ms. Ken Newman. And the man who, in the right light, looks exactly like the statue erected in his name. Norm. Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Yes, sir. Put on my dancing shoes, it'll be dance. Oh, hey. He.
