Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: To kick off 2026, we will feature a dumb birthday game from January 2, 1994, which I have titled the Deli. And there are a couple of reasons for that. Italian influences and some sharp commentary. Later.
Players Denise Eden, Boston Marie from Revere. George and Everett. John Kelly, producing and playing in studio. I am on the phone. And Aaron Sawyer in traffic.
The Birthdays, Jim Baker, Julius LaRosa. Daniel Rostenkowski. And then we jump to Monday the 3rd for Mel Gibson, Victor Borga, Jesse White, Dabney Coleman and Bobby Hull. Episode 269, the Deli, slices its way to your ears in three, two, and one.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Okay, that's the game we're gonna play now, in which I tell you who was born on this day, January 2nd.
You tell me how old they are, and we'll just have just so much fun with this release, Simple Game. Thank you so much. I'll introduce you to the panel because I know you want to know who they are. And we have the very lovely Denise.
Hello.
[00:01:09] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: How nice of you to stay up this late.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: Oh, for you, Norm?
[00:01:13] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Oh, anything, anything, anything.
[00:01:17] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:01:18] Speaker B: You're a lovely person, and I appreciate that.
And we have the. We have Ed, who lives here in Boston. Hi, Ed.
[00:01:25] Speaker E: How you doing, Noam?
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Fine. I'm doing just fine. I hope you're doing fine also, big guy.
[00:01:30] Speaker D: Good.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Have you played the dumb birthday game before?
[00:01:33] Speaker E: Yeah, a long time ago.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Long time ago. Did you do fantastically well?
Well, I got one right one night. Well, that isn't too bad. You didn't strike out. Totally.
[00:01:43] Speaker E: All right.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: And what the heck. And as long as we have fun, who cares?
[00:01:46] Speaker D: Sure.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: That's the way I look at it. Marie. The lovely Marie from Revere.
[00:01:51] Speaker C: Hello, Norm.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Hello, Marie.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: How are you?
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Just fine, thank you very much. I'm fine. You're all excited about this. I can just tell by the excitement it's building in your voice.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: That's true.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Okay, we have George. Also, George is in my old hometown of Everett.
Hi, George. I'm glad that you're going to be playing the game with us.
[00:02:15] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: I was trying to think of the name of that thing that was carved under the front of the Parliament Junior High School. It's called character.
[00:02:22] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Now you remember. Okay. And we'd get the mimeographed sheets of that. It was a parlance, Creed.
[00:02:28] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: I would have all young men. And he would go on and on like that.
Somebody sent me a copy of that recently, and as I looked at it, I thought, by golly, this man really Had a piece of junk here with that that was. I don't know, it seemed so out of date, you know, it probably was out of date when we. Memorizing it.
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
That's.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: That's all you're going to say about that, eh? Well, okay. Nobody pays much attention to it.
I guess that's probably so. Okay, we also have. Let's see, we have John Kelly, our producer, who'll be playing the game. Hello, John. Good morning. Good morning to you. We also have.
Let's see, we're on a cast of a lot of people here. We have another producer, Tony Ness. But, hey, I'm glad to. Glad to hear from you, Tony.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: Hello, Norm. Excuse me for one second, though, all right?
[00:03:14] Speaker B: You want to do character or something like that?
[00:03:16] Speaker D: No. Hello, Marie.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: Hello there.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Is there something going between these two of you guys?
[00:03:22] Speaker F: Sounds like it.
[00:03:23] Speaker D: Come on, Norm. You remember Marie with her chihuahua, and she wouldn't mind us putting our shoes under her bed.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: Oh, I remember. I do remember that. You know, I wondered why, when she said, hello, I got goose pimples.
[00:03:35] Speaker D: Yeah, I could hear it in your voice. He just doesn't quite remember, but he's chilled. He's chilled to the bone.
[00:03:40] Speaker F: I think a woman with the chihuahua is one of the most sexy things.
[00:03:44] Speaker C: Oh, that's why I carry him, to turn you guys on.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah, and you. And you're certainly succeeding. You, sir. You devil. You, you wench. You're a winch. Let's go to the top of the PRU. That's where Aaron Sawyer, WBZ 24 hour traffic network reporter is. Hello, Aaron. Hello. Hello. And you're all excited about playing the game. I know, because I can't remember what you did yesterday. Did you come close?
[00:04:11] Speaker E: I got one right.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: I guess you didn't come close.
Oh, yeah. You really, really stank up the place, as I recall. As a matter of fact, there aren't too many people born on January 2nd. So we'll do January 2nd, which is today Sunday, and then January 3rd, which is Monday. Yes, I have a movie to add.
[00:04:27] Speaker D: To your New Year's.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: The reporter in the last row, please, from the Chelsea Record. Yes, sir.
[00:04:33] Speaker D: By the way, your ABC reporting from around the globe has been very entertaining this evening.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Oh, that's good, because I've always wanted to say stuff like that. Let me just do it for somebody who just tuned in recently, doesn't know we're talking. Always wanted to say stuff like, Norm Nathan, ABC News, New Delhi. Very, very authoritative.
[00:04:53] Speaker D: Very, very stupid.
I had a movie to add to Your New Year's, you know, move. Since you only have very few that associated with New Year's.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. A lot of people said that a lot of them were Christmas movies, some Christmas theme. Well, now it had.
[00:05:12] Speaker D: Well, I suppose it encompasses all of New Year's, but it has Christmas characters in it.
And that, you know, Rudolph, Shiny New Year.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: I never heard of that one.
[00:05:24] Speaker D: You never heard of that?
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Never heard of. Oh, yeah.
[00:05:26] Speaker D: Aaron, you remember.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I vaguely.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: With Baby New Year, it had. Had the little hat, you know, the top hat on that they have to wear. Of course. It's Baby New Year. Yeah. He took the top hat off.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: His ears were so wide, everyone would laugh at him.
[00:05:40] Speaker E: It was the dumbo syndrome.
[00:05:41] Speaker C: Yes, yes.
[00:05:44] Speaker D: Based on. And little Baby New Year ran away, and they couldn't have a New Year without him because everyone laughed at him.
They worked that out at the end. Everyone lived happily ever after. And.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Okay, now, was this. This is an animated cartoon.
[00:05:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Was it. Was it Walt Disney? No, it doesn't sound like that.
[00:05:59] Speaker E: Clay produced the Rudolph movies. The Rudolph and the Santa Claus was coming to town with those little Claymation type of things and.
Yeah, all that would. I want to be a dentist.
[00:06:09] Speaker D: Yeah. Very good. You sound just like him.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: So we've. So we've dug up, actually, four movies that had a New Year's theme because a woman had called earlier and thought all the movies seemed to be at Christmas, not about New Year's. And we mentioned When Harry Met Sally. Holiday with Katharine Heffern and Cary Grant. The apartment with Shirley MacLaine had a new Year's scene there.
And Rudolph, Shiny New Year.
[00:06:34] Speaker D: Shiny New Year.
[00:06:35] Speaker F: And you know, Norm, it's a.
[00:06:37] Speaker C: That's such a classic, isn't it?
[00:06:39] Speaker B: That is a classic. Yeah. I never. I never heard of that.
[00:06:41] Speaker D: I have the tape, Norm.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: I'll let you borrow it. I'd love to. I'd love to do that.
[00:06:45] Speaker F: And at the end of It's a Wonderful Life, they. I don't know if this counts, but they sing old an.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: That's true. That's a little touch there. Although it was still Christmas.
[00:06:52] Speaker F: It was Christmas. I don't know why they were singing old an.
Because they were mixed up.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Frank Capra wanted it that way.
Okay, well, let's pick out the. Let's see the birthdays today. Just again, just a few, not too many. But one is Jim Baker, married to at one time to the lovely.
What's her name? The one with a nice Tammy Faye Baker who loved him and was going to stick with him forever and ever until he went to jail.
[00:07:20] Speaker D: Now she's remarried.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Now she's remarried. And who is the lucky guy?
[00:07:25] Speaker D: Well, I don't know, but. But she's kept. I believe she's kept her name, the Baker name. It's like Tammy Faye Baker Johnson, something like that.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Keep it there for any notoriety, any legal reasons. Yeah.
Anyway, he spelled a B, A, K, K, E, R, as everybody knows. Did you know he was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the same as Weldon?
[00:07:49] Speaker D: Gee, excuse me.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: I wonder if he knows. Connection.
[00:07:51] Speaker D: I haven't heard from Weldon for about six years.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: No, I wonder if that's the same. Maybe it's the same person.
Former leader of the PTL TV ministry resigned after a sex scandal with Jessica Hahn serving an eight year prison sentence. He's scheduled for release in October of this very year. Oh, no. Yeah. October 1994.
Tammy Faye Baker divorced him in March 1992.
So they've been divorced almost two years. I didn't realize that. Anyway, today's his birthday. Happy birthday. Yeah. And he's probably celebrating in grand style. Yeah. Maybe somebody brought him a cake with a.
With a file inside. That's right. Yeah. Right now he's smiling away at the. At the bars and it's. It's doing nothing.
Oh, he has a girlfriend, too?
[00:08:40] Speaker E: No. Well, he is someone's girlfriend now.
[00:08:44] Speaker F: Could be.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Okay, Denise, how old are you? How old is Jimmy? Jim Baker?
[00:08:53] Speaker C: Oh, I'd say prison has aged him a bit.
How about, let's say 56?
[00:09:01] Speaker B: 56. Okay. What do you think, Ed?
59. 59.
And, Marie, the dawn is breaking.
[00:09:11] Speaker C: I'll say 47.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: 47. And what does your Chihuahua say?
[00:09:17] Speaker C: Well, he's gone to sleep. He's bored.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Oh, be quiet. We don't have. We don't have to say that, Marie. He's bored.
George, what do you say?
[00:09:27] Speaker D: 55.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: 55.
Okay. And John?
[00:09:31] Speaker F: I'll go with 55.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Also 55. Also on Tony.
[00:09:35] Speaker D: 55.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: 55 or so. Why? And Aaron? 44. 44. Wow.
[00:09:41] Speaker D: 44.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: 40.
Oh, yeah.
[00:09:44] Speaker E: He's not that old.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: His index finger is older than that.
What does that mean? His index finger is older than that.
[00:09:51] Speaker E: I know. Her new husband is quite, quite older than she is.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:09:56] Speaker E: And he was actually, I think, younger than she was when they got married.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: So therefore, putting it all together, they spell trouble. Trouble.
[00:10:05] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Actually, Jim Baker is 55 years old today. Yes. So we had a number of winners. We had George.
[00:10:12] Speaker D: He's a little older than you thought, Aaron.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Oh, I Screwed that one on. Yeah. John, George and Tony all have won that round. And Denise, you were not too far off. You said 56, which is just a year off.
[00:10:25] Speaker C: Well, that's because prison aged him.
[00:10:26] Speaker D: She was confused just for a moment.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: Well, that's right. Well, yeah.
How about Julius LaRosa?
His biggest hit was a Campari in 1953. That gives you cool. Gee, that's 40 years ago now.
[00:10:41] Speaker D: Last night we had Frank Langella.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: That's right, Frank Langella.
[00:10:44] Speaker D: A little Frank Langella sauce.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: On the calamari day I used to do working for a station that had foreign language programs, one of which was an Italian language show. And every day we would have this Italian language soap opera. It was live. And at the end the announcer would say, I just remember that just so clearly.
[00:11:12] Speaker D: That's excellent.
I don't know what you said, but it was beautiful.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: No, it's just a typical sign off.
[00:11:18] Speaker D: Something about the radio station.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Until tomorrow, same time, same station. Another program of La Rosa Grade A. They were the sponsors. Anyway.
Yes.
[00:11:28] Speaker D: Isn't Julius Rosa one that Arthur Godfrey fired?
[00:11:32] Speaker B: That is correct. I was just going to say that his biggest hit, I said, was a compati. I get so carried away by that, I went to my whole speech. That was in 1953. He experienced an unceremonious exit from the Arthur Godfrey show in October 19, 1953, same year he had the hit. As a matter of fact, it was Arthur Godfrey who said something about, you know, get the hell out of here. Because you, you have no. You have, you know, you have no humility at all. And I just as soon you pick up your acom party and get. Get out of here. And I hope I never ever see you again.
[00:12:14] Speaker D: I have a request.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Yes?
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Could you please do the closing of the Italian soap opera with the Arthur Godfrey voice?
[00:12:22] Speaker B: With Arthur Godfrey, Please.
[00:12:23] Speaker F: Is it possible?
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Sure, I think it's possible.
I try to imagine him speaking flawless Italian like I bro.
[00:12:30] Speaker D: I know.
[00:12:31] Speaker E: And throw in Bugs Bunny as well.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: He would probably say, let's see how you say that tonight. Tagian River Dumani Stesa or Staso Statione Unown Ultra program.
[00:12:55] Speaker D: Very nice.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: That was pretty.
[00:13:01] Speaker D: Good.
[00:13:08] Speaker F: You know, people just tuning in are going to think they're on the wrong stage.
[00:13:12] Speaker E: You know, Norman, you're a nice guy.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Grazia. Okay. In fact.
Oh, God, I think I'm overdoing this.
[00:13:26] Speaker D: What? 60. Oh, the age of.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Who's this speaking now, please?
Oh, this is Ed. You want to take the first guest then? And Julius LaRosa, you say 68.
[00:13:36] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: That's. That's.
Oh, 60.
[00:13:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Satanta. Satanta Annie or something like that. I don't know.
Marie, what do you think?
[00:13:49] Speaker C: I'd say 62.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: 62. Okay. Tony, what do you say?
[00:13:54] Speaker D: Now, 40 years ago, you said he had the hit.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Yes, in 1953. And he was also draft from the Godfrey show in that same year.
[00:14:01] Speaker D: 41 years. This year will be 41 years, right?
[00:14:05] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:14:06] Speaker D: Oh, see? So he was probably about.
Huh.
And we had. Huh.
He's the big seven zero today.
He.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: I'll put that down. He's the big.
No, also, he's too fat. He's too fat. He's too fat for me.
70.
[00:14:36] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: And George from Everett, what do you think?
[00:14:40] Speaker D: Well, let me see. I'll stick with 55.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: You'll stick with 55 because it was so successful for you. For Jim Baker, you figure he's got to be the same age.
[00:14:50] Speaker D: Yes. Okay.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: And he's probably in better condition.
[00:14:53] Speaker D: It was 14 years old when he had the head.
[00:14:56] Speaker E: And he was fired for the show.
[00:14:58] Speaker D: Did he have a work permit at that age?
[00:15:01] Speaker B: I can't give any more clues. I cannot give any more clues.
Aaron, what do you say?
[00:15:10] Speaker E: Mayor Cooper? Mayor Cooper. Mayor Maxima Cooper.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: Niheles.
[00:15:14] Speaker E: Mayor Cooper.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: I don't know what that means, but it just sounds my fault.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: My fault.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay.
[00:15:21] Speaker E: My English teacher used to say that.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Over and over again.
[00:15:24] Speaker E: I don't know why.
[00:15:25] Speaker D: Really funny. He was in the English class.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: Wow. Never, never got to be a program director in broadcasting. He never would have used that my fault, my fault phrase.
His fault, Your fault, your fault. Get out of here.
[00:15:36] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:15:37] Speaker E: Mr. Yesaway was his name. A beautiful man. Beautiful.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: What was his name?
[00:15:40] Speaker E: Mr. Yesaway.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: O. Oh, I remember him. He had humility. Mr. Nezawe. Is that his name? Nezaway?
[00:15:48] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
Oh, yes, I may.
[00:15:55] Speaker D: But does it beat my English teacher's name? Who is in high school?
[00:15:59] Speaker F: What's that, Tony?
[00:15:59] Speaker D: Mr. Mailman.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Mr. Mailman.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Really?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: Okay. Anyway, Aaron, how old do you think Julius LaRosa is?
[00:16:07] Speaker E: Julius LaRosa is 78.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: 78.
Okay. Denise, the lovely Denise. What do you say?
[00:16:14] Speaker C: Oh, I think old Julie is probably. I know him well.
[00:16:18] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:19] Speaker C: Julie is probably 69.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: 69.
Okay. And John, what do you think?
[00:16:26] Speaker F: I'll say 68.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: 68. Okay. Julius LaRosa. Today, this very day. July. January 2nd. His birthday is 64.
Let me see who came the closest. That may be Maurice. At 62.
[00:16:41] Speaker C: The Tiwawa.
[00:16:42] Speaker E: I was way off.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Nobody said 66, so. No, Marie got that one. That's 64. She's been two years off. They're very good. How about Daniel Rostenkowski, who's in a little bit of trouble now? He's the congressman from Illinois, also chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of, as we say, financial improprieties.
[00:17:07] Speaker E: The Michael Milken Syndrome.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: That's true. Yes, in 1993. And there's a guy, you know, very, very influential member of Congress.
And to be accused of financial improprieties.
[00:17:20] Speaker D: That'S because he had sticky figures.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: He had sticky fingers. And he was too fat for me. Too fat, fat, fat, fat, fat for me.
Okay, we'll start with. Let's see. Let me start with this. Now, let's start with you, George.
[00:17:34] Speaker D: All right, 68.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: 68.
Okay. And Aaron, what do you think?
[00:17:39] Speaker E: 64.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Aaron says 64.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: And Denise says he is probably about 63. You know what he did, didn't you, Noel?
[00:17:50] Speaker B: What did he do exactly?
[00:17:52] Speaker C: It was that the post office.
Remember the House post office?
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: That'S right. He was saying that his office office was sending out all this stuff and he was trying to get reimbursement for it when they never really sent it out.
[00:18:09] Speaker F: He got caught playing post office.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: That's right.
Son of a gun. Son of a gun.
[00:18:15] Speaker C: Did I say how old he was? I didn't.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: No. I'd forgotten. He hasn't.
[00:18:20] Speaker D: You did. Denise, didn't you. Didn't you say 63?
[00:18:22] Speaker C: 63.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: 63.
[00:18:23] Speaker D: Yes, ma'. Am. Yes.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: You said 63.
And what do you say, Marie?
[00:18:28] Speaker C: 55.
[00:18:30] Speaker D: That's a popular number today.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: 55.
[00:18:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: And John, what do you say?
[00:18:35] Speaker D: 58.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Okay. Ed?
[00:18:39] Speaker E: 60.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: 60.
And Tony, what do you think?
[00:18:42] Speaker D: Oh, rosty as we go.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, Rusty. Rusty is kind of a nice name to say.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: They do call him that.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. Rusty. Oh.
[00:18:52] Speaker D: So, you know, I've done my reading, except I don't remember his age.
[00:18:57] Speaker F: He's Lusty the postman.
[00:19:02] Speaker D: Oh, boy, that hurt.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Oh, 60.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: 62. 62. Did you say 62?
[00:19:14] Speaker D: Yes, I did.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Your eviction is flawless.
[00:19:16] Speaker D: That's what.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Never mind, silly. You know what?
[00:19:19] Speaker D: That's what Lorena said.
[00:19:21] Speaker F: But.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: Oh, oh, bobbing for apple. I still. I still have some more of those limericks. I'll tell you after we get Daniel Rostonkowski's name, age. He's 66.
He's actually 66. Some George said 68.
Let's see if anybody came any closer. Yeah, and Aaron said 64.
So they were both just two years off, I would say those are the two winners, George and Aaron.
Very nice, Norm.
[00:19:53] Speaker D: Speaking of the Bobbits, did you. Well, and not to mention another radio host name and one of your favorites, but Howard Stern.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Oh, he is my role model.
[00:20:03] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Did anyone call and talk to you who may have ordered his pay per view New Year's Eve Spectacular?
[00:20:10] Speaker B: No, I haven't talked to anyone who's even mentioned his name.
[00:20:14] Speaker D: I'm curious as how what that was like last night.
[00:20:17] Speaker F: Tony, you know who watched it? I was really surprised. But Lavelle Diet, of all people.
[00:20:21] Speaker D: Really?
[00:20:21] Speaker B: He ordered that. He ordered the pay per view to watch Howard's turn.
[00:20:24] Speaker F: He talked about it on the air tonight. He said it was the absolute worst piece of doo doo that he's ever seen.
[00:20:31] Speaker E: However, he made millions off of it.
[00:20:33] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:20:34] Speaker E: I agree that he doesn't have much talent, but he is making money.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Unfortunately, he does have talent. He has talent along in the ideas of promotion. Yeah, he gets more promotion on every major show in the entire world.
[00:20:46] Speaker D: One of the features of the show.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: And we were even talking about him. That bothers me. That bothers me.
[00:20:52] Speaker D: Oh, I was. I was just. Well, this was. My connection to it for the program was just to say that one of the features supposedly of this was that John Wayne Bobbitt was supposed to reveal his. His new appendage. Yes, his repaired appendage to the world on the show.
[00:21:10] Speaker E: Well, that would be a violation of the penal law.
[00:21:15] Speaker F: Very good, Aaron.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Matter of fact, there was once a crime most venal, one might say. Twas inches from renal. It wasn't for sport that she made him so short. Her intentions were nothing but penal. That's how that kind of ties in with what you just said.
These were all in the Mike Royko column. Here was another one that I liked even better. She says there once was a lady named Bobbitt who got so fed up that she lopped it. She said, I'm sorry, honey, but your conduct's not funny. And she very efficiently stopped it.
[00:21:50] Speaker E: Well, he got arrested recently for running around half cocked.
[00:21:55] Speaker F: You know, that was on New Year's Eve.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: By the way, I. Incidentally, Aaron, I must tell you, there is a line beyond which we do not go. I thought you had a clean show here. Well, we did up to that point.
I'm not even going to read the last one. I think we better get on with it. Okay.
[00:22:10] Speaker C: Yes, I read how much. I read how much he got for that appearance.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: So a one with Stern.
[00:22:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Because he was on some other show, too. And also got paid for that. I forget which. I think was a Sally. No, not Sally. I think it was the Jenny Jones show. And he was on that one. I think you could. How much did he get paid?
[00:22:29] Speaker C: I already got $500,000.
[00:22:31] Speaker F: Well, they raised money. They had a fundraiser for him, I think, on Howard Stern's radio show.
And I don't know, I guess he couldn't pay his.
His way.
[00:22:41] Speaker D: I saw that Jenny Jones show one late night after work. I happened to turn. I couldn't believe he was on there and so serious.
And his family, his brothers were on, too, talking about this. And I couldn't believe. You can go on.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: And I. I suppose that would take away your sense of humor at the same time.
Maybe.
[00:23:01] Speaker D: I don't know.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: There was once. There was once a man from Manassas who was fond of sleeping with lasses.
His wife had enough, so she chopped off his stuff. And now let's see him try to make passes. Oh, that's good.
[00:23:14] Speaker E: That's cute.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: You know who got famous? They did a big article in the Wall Street Journal after this was the urologist.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? Really?
I guess it's the kind of specialty you don't expect to get too much business on.
[00:23:28] Speaker C: Exactly. And the guy became an instant celebrity. They say that he's getting referrals.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Referrals? You mean there's a lot of this that goes on?
[00:23:37] Speaker E: There was. There was something on Oprah Winfrey about that, where he came on and he couldn't believe the amount of response that was involved with the story.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Anyway, let's go to some birthdays. On Monday, January 3rd.
Mel. Mel Gibson, for one, is from Peekskill, New York, in the movies. The Road Warrior, Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome with Tina Turner, Tequila Sunrise, Hamlet, Forever Young.
[00:24:04] Speaker D: I just watched that this evening.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Which one was that?
[00:24:06] Speaker D: Forever Young.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Forever Young.
[00:24:07] Speaker D: Hbo.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Okay. He was also in the Lethal Weapon films, Air America and the Man Without a Face.
[00:24:16] Speaker F: Is he from New York?
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Yes, he's from Peekskill.
[00:24:19] Speaker F: Really?
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Upstate?
[00:24:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: I thought he was upstate.
[00:24:21] Speaker D: No, no, he was born in the.
[00:24:23] Speaker F: United States and then he moved to Australia.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he and his family of five brothers and five sisters moved to Australia when he was young. He was married. He is married to Robin Moore.
[00:24:33] Speaker D: Had 1500 children.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. They have a million kids.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: He's from a big family, too. He has.
There are 10. At least 10 or 11 children in his family.
Aside from his own family now.
[00:24:47] Speaker D: Six or seven.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Well, how old do you suppose a man would be who'd have six or seven children?
Let's start with you, Denise. What do you think?
[00:24:57] Speaker C: I think he started pretty young, actually. I'm gonna say he's.
[00:25:01] Speaker D: What, having children?
[00:25:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:02] Speaker D: Or acting? Oh, I was.
[00:25:04] Speaker C: No. Having kids.
[00:25:05] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:25:06] Speaker C: I'm gonna say he's 41.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: 41. Okay. And what do you think, Ed?
[00:25:15] Speaker D: 36.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Ed says 36. And Marie.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: 42.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: 42. Okay. George, 48.
[00:25:28] Speaker F: John say 49.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: Tony.
[00:25:33] Speaker D: Hmm.
Mel Gibson, huh?
[00:25:37] Speaker B: That's the guy.
[00:25:39] Speaker D: 41.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: 41. And Aaron, what do you think?
[00:25:45] Speaker E: I'm 40.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Aaron says 40.
I know you have all his records.
Mel Gibson is 40. Will be for. Be 38 rather. 38 on Monday.
[00:25:58] Speaker F: He's a young man.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: 38. Let's see. Aaron said 40. Anybody come closer than that?
[00:26:05] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: No, I'd say Aaron said 40 and Marie said no. She done. That's. No. You're out of it, Maria.
O. Ed said 36, so he was two years the other way.
So Aaron and Ed both won that round. So Aaron and George now have two apiece.
John, Tony and Ed both have one apiece, and so does Marie. I guess the only one who hasn't scored at all is you, Denise.
[00:26:36] Speaker F: Poor Denise.
[00:26:37] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: Oh, Denise.
How about Victor Borg? He has a birthday on Monday, January 3rd? Also.
[00:26:45] Speaker D: He's still kicking, isn't he? Oh, he's.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
He's a funny guy.
[00:26:49] Speaker C: He is so funny.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: He was born Borger Rosenbaum in Denmark. He was. He was.
I don't know whether he was involved in the Holocaust or just missed it, but he learned to speak English by attending movies.
You remember his routine about we ought to. We ought to use sounds for the punctuation?
Oh, yeah, that's right. That was one of the funniest things. Well, the first time I heard one joke was. Was by him. It's been repeated a million times. When I was very young, we were sitting by the fire, which was kind of strange because we had no fireplace, and my father said, how old are you? And I said, I'm seven. He said, that's too bad. When I was your age, I was 12. Remember that? I mean, those jokes have been repeated a million times since, but he was the very first I'd ever heard to say that. And I thought. I thought he was hilarious.
[00:27:42] Speaker E: He also had that play on words where any word that was numerical in nature, like the number, like wonderful, would become tootiful.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: Tootiful. That's right.
[00:27:51] Speaker E: That was funny, too.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: That was a crossword puzzle. Three, actually. And yeah, in. In the paper the other day or someplace was. Was like that one upsmanship, they called it.
And when they described the word like wonderful, it would become three to full or two to full, as you mentioned. Anyway, Victor Borger. Boy, we're so hip. We know everything that's going on, don't we, eh? How old would you say, Aaron, let's start with you. How old is Victor Borga? How old would he be?
[00:28:18] Speaker D: Borga.
[00:28:18] Speaker E: He's going to be 81.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Oh, that's the bad one. I was his age. I was 86 when I was his age.
And Tony, what do you say?
[00:28:28] Speaker D: He is a very funny.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: And a very Danish.
Yes, A prune Danish.
Oh, he's Danish, Yes. Oh, yeah, he's from. Oh, I thought Rosenbaum.
[00:28:43] Speaker E: I thought that would be a Jewish name.
[00:28:45] Speaker D: Well, it is.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: You can't.
[00:28:48] Speaker D: You can't.
[00:28:48] Speaker B: You can't be Danish and Jewish. I'm Jewish and American.
[00:28:52] Speaker D: I think Jewish Danishes are called bagels.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:28:57] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: His original name was Borga Cream cheese or something like that.
No, I mean, his nationality is Danish. His religion is Jewish. Sure. Oh, okay. There's no conflict there.
[00:29:13] Speaker E: Forgive my only.
[00:29:14] Speaker B: Only if you're in Polish. They don't accept you as polls unless you're non Jewish. But that's a whole hatred thing I've got going here, which we won't get into.
He is here he is. Here. He is, Mr. Nazi. We're turning him over to you. Anyway, he was lucky to. To have grown in. In Denmark, which is a. Which is a fantastically wondrous country. Anyway. Tony, what do you say?
[00:29:37] Speaker D: Are you. Are you quite thrown?
[00:29:38] Speaker B: I'm all through with my hate campaign.
[00:29:39] Speaker D: Step down off the soapbox. Thank you so much. Okay, he's 80.
Oh, he's 88 today.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: 88 years old on Monday, you mean, if that's what you mean.
[00:29:52] Speaker D: Monday.
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Is he that old? Yes.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:29:56] Speaker D: 87.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: 87, okay, 87 we'll call it. And what do you call him, John? 85. 85, okay. George, 83. 83.
[00:30:07] Speaker C: And Marie, I'm going to say 85.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Did you do that with an accent or. My hearing strikes me. I'm going to say 85. Did you really do it that way?
[00:30:19] Speaker C: Well, really I did. I was drinking coffee.
[00:30:22] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, right.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: You were thinking like Victor coffee.
[00:30:25] Speaker C: I was thinking of Tony.
[00:30:28] Speaker F: She was drinking coffee.
[00:30:29] Speaker D: You don't know what to put in the coffee, though.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: Oh, you'd be surprised.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: You know something I bet we wouldn't anyway. Ed, what do you say?
[00:30:39] Speaker D: I'm gonna say 83.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: 83. And Denise, I think he's 84. 84. Okay. He's actually going to be 85. Yeah. So that's correct. That means that Marie, John, the two winners there. Let me see, we got a three way tie here now. Four way tie. Aaron, John, George and Marie all have two apiece. Whoa.
And you, Denise, have done very well. You've just been about a year off on a lot of these things. Very, very close.
[00:31:13] Speaker C: I'm thinking is. I'm thinking how old they are now. I guess I'm a year behind.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. That's right. You thought 84 would be correct if we said how old is he today?
Because he won't be to i85 till Monday.
[00:31:24] Speaker C: By the way, I appreciate your comment.
Polish. The ultimate irony is my husband is from a Polish family, has Polish ethnic background and after we got married he converted to Judaism.
[00:31:35] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:31:36] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: I would love for him to go to Poland to tell his son.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: No, my grandfather, my Isaac Nathan came from Poland.
But I don't really think of him as being Polish. But I don't want to get too involved in this because a lot of Poles are going to write in and not write nasty letters. But there's a. Anyway, Jesse White take a poll.
[00:31:58] Speaker D: Then.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to forget the whole thing.
Mostly I'm glad he left Poland to come here. I thought that was a sensible, intelligent man. Jesse White, born in Buffalo, New York. The lonely Maytag repairman on the TV commercial till 1991. He's not doing it now. The guy who was on WKRP was the Matt, the owner of the station.
He's doing them now. And Jesse White worked with Stan Freeberg and a lot of commercials at one point and a lot of funny things that Stan Freeberg had done. But he also.
Jesse White.
[00:32:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: No, I don't think so. Now this is the new book.
Unless he died after they published about him.
[00:32:43] Speaker D: When he died, you know, but the Maytag and I guess the warranty was up or something, maybe. No, I passed away. But.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: Well, it may be. I know, I don't. I don't know. It doesn't say that. He only. He only did maytag till 91 and we know he didn't die then. Okay, so I'm guessing he's still alive and I'm guessing that John Kelly will come up with his age. What do you think?
[00:33:03] Speaker F: First yeah, I would say he's 66.
[00:33:09] Speaker B: 66. Okay. Marie.
[00:33:15] Speaker C: I jump at 67.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: Okay. And Denise.
[00:33:22] Speaker C: I'll also say 67. Do you know if Stan Freeberg had the Maytag advertising contract?
[00:33:28] Speaker B: I don't think he did. I don't think that was one of his. He did a lot of commercials before that, and he did. Well, she did a lot of records several years ago, remember?
[00:33:37] Speaker C: So funny.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: He's. He's a tremendously funny guy. I saw him interviewed on some show and he was so stuffy and proper, I couldn't believe it. I thought this thing become one of the funniest people in the entire world. And he was sitting there like. Like he was on Omnibus. Oh, I'm Omnibus. Oh, there's a. There's an old reference like he was on public television being interviewed, you know.
[00:34:01] Speaker C: Do you remember his politically correct old man River?
[00:34:06] Speaker B: I sort of remember. Yeah. They didn't call it politically correct back then, but.
[00:34:09] Speaker C: That's right. But it was.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: It wasn't old man. Elderly man. Elderly, yeah. And right now it'd be elderly person river, I suppose.
Anyway. Ed, how old do you think Jesse White is? 72. 72. Okay. And George? 71.
[00:34:26] Speaker E: Aaron, I'm going to agree with John and say 66.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: 66. And what do you say, Tony?
[00:34:32] Speaker D: I know he's a lot older than.
Kind of picture him as I think he is.
So I'm gonna say he's.
I'll go with the higher end there. 72.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: 72.
Okay. So that means that you and Ed, who also said 72, are the closest. He's actually will be 75.
Wow. Hubba hubba.
Well, well, well.
[00:35:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I've got a thing for. For appliances.
[00:35:08] Speaker B: Well, hot diggity dog.
[00:35:10] Speaker F: Yeah, Hot diggity dog.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Okay. Daphne Coleman, who's one of. One of my favorites.
He's. Especially when he plays the acerbic kind of kind of guy. I don't. He's. I think he's a very funny man. He's from Austin, Texas. He was in that Girl with Marlo Thomas Slap Maxwell and Beverly Hillbillies film. I didn't remember whether that Girl Slapped Maxwell ran a while. He was also in Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo Bill. Yeah. Yeah. The talk host out of a Buffalo TV station, which didn't run too long, but I thought. I thought was hilarious. I love that show.
[00:35:46] Speaker F: He was in the movie 9 to 5, I think.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: That's right. He was. He was the ruthless boss in the film 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton. He's the guy they strung up he. And that was so funny.
Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, you know, the three of them.
He was in the recent Beverly Hillbillies. That, that's the new film.
I, I didn't, I never got to see that, nor will I ever. But anyways, in that Dabney Coleman. Okay, let me see. Let's start with who's winning?
Well, there are a lot of ties. I just went through that, see.
Yeah.
[00:36:22] Speaker F: Is it like a six way tie now?
[00:36:23] Speaker B: It's a very, very lot of ties. Yeah, I'll mention that after we get through this round. But at least a five way tie.
[00:36:29] Speaker E: All right.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: And we'll start with Tony. What do you think?
[00:36:32] Speaker D: Dabney Coleman, eh?
[00:36:33] Speaker B: Daphne Coleman, Eh.
[00:36:39] Speaker C: 56.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: 56.
Denise, what do you say?
[00:36:49] Speaker C: I'll say 62.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: 62. Okay.
[00:36:52] Speaker C: And Marie, I'm gonna ride with Tony. 56.
[00:36:57] Speaker D: Yee haw.
[00:36:59] Speaker C: Yee haw.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: Okay, come out of the corral.
Oh you. You saucy miss.
Can I rope you anytime?
[00:37:10] Speaker F: You can rope her, Chihuahua.
What's your Chihuahua's name?
[00:37:16] Speaker C: Pepe.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Pepe. Oh that's, that's a, that's a lovely name for Chihuahua. Pepe. That's great. Yeah.
Okay, John, what do you say? How old is Dabney Coleman? How old will he be Monday?
[00:37:28] Speaker F: 65.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: 65. And Ed?
[00:37:33] Speaker D: 58.
[00:37:34] Speaker B: Aaron, what do you think?
[00:37:35] Speaker E: I agree with Ed on 58.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: 58. Okay. And let's see. George.
[00:37:41] Speaker D: 69.
[00:37:42] Speaker B: 69. Actually he's going to be 62, which is exactly what Denise said.
So Denise is out of the shadows, out of the shadows, into the sun. And it's, and it's not. Everybody has scored at least once. Now here's the way the, the tie shapes up. We have two apiece by Ed, Marie, George, John, Tony and Amber. That's about everybody, isn't it?
Except for, except for Denise.
Everybody's tied except Denise.
[00:38:11] Speaker F: Can we give Denise just a point for being a nice person?
[00:38:15] Speaker E: Half a point?
[00:38:16] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: Well then we can make. Well, I suppose we could do. We could make it a seven way tie in that case. Or an eight way tie. A seven way. Let's do Bobby Holland, see how that comes out.
Bobby Hull, the hockey player. A National Hockey League All Star 10 times.
Not just a hockey player, but an incredible hockey player.
And how old would you say he is? Let's start with you, Aaron. How old is Bobby Hull?
[00:38:41] Speaker E: Bobby Hull, having no knowledge of any sports whatsoever, I'll have to say Bobby Hull's 56.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: 56. Okay. Tony.
[00:38:51] Speaker D: Yeah. I was thinking 56, but I'm gonna say 58.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: 58. All right.
[00:38:56] Speaker D: Should that make any sense?
[00:38:58] Speaker B: No, not a bit.
[00:39:01] Speaker D: I'm gonna stick with it then. 58.
[00:39:02] Speaker B: Okay.
If I said it did make sense, you would probably have changed it.
[00:39:07] Speaker D: No, no, I probably would have stuck with 58.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: Okay. John, what do you think?
[00:39:12] Speaker F: The Chicago Blackhawk star. I think he played for Chicago. He was. He is. Now or Tomorrow he'll be 61.
[00:39:21] Speaker B: 61. Okay. George. 62. 62.
[00:39:26] Speaker C: And Marie, I'll go with Tony again. 58.
[00:39:31] Speaker D: Let's ride, baby.
Okay.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: Ed, what do you say?
[00:39:37] Speaker D: I'm gonna go along with the guys.
[00:39:39] Speaker E: 61.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: Okay. And Denise?
[00:39:42] Speaker C: Well, he played until he was about.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Because he had sons. Remember? He had two. Were they both sons? Two sons who were playing at the time he was playing also.
[00:39:50] Speaker D: Their bread is playing.
[00:39:51] Speaker F: Now, Tony, what was his nickname?
[00:39:54] Speaker E: You know, hockey.
[00:39:56] Speaker D: Bobby Hill.
[00:39:57] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:39:58] Speaker D: Oh, I don't remember.
[00:40:00] Speaker B: Is that awful?
[00:40:01] Speaker C: Yeah. I should go wake up my head from Chicago.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. Just. Just to throw out a name, I think. I'm not sure this. I think he was called the Peppermint.
I made that up.
60. Okay.
[00:40:18] Speaker D: All right.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: We'll see. Now if we break the tie with this. This is a very crucial build coming in now. This is really exciting, actually. He'll be 55. And Aaron. Aaron said 56.
[00:40:28] Speaker D: Oh, I should have. Yeah, you're right, Norm, you.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I was kind of hoping you'd back down a little bit.
[00:40:33] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: But I'd say. Yeah, I'd say that the sole winner of that was Aaron. And who now wins the entire game because he broke out of the ties. Got three correct answers.
Tony, John, George, Marie and Ed all had two of you.
This was a hard fought contest, well matched. Yeah. You couldn't come close on this. It was what we call a seat.
[00:40:58] Speaker D: Squirmer, tooth and nail.
[00:40:59] Speaker B: Oh, this was it. Yeah. Everybody battling right to the very edge. Everybody got their money's worth. Who tuned in for this one? Yes, sir.
[00:41:06] Speaker D: Come on, some more cliches. No, they want it by a nose.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Well, that's right. Aaron just surged ahead in the closing moments.
It was down to the wire. That's right, too.
And Aaron. Aaron is not to be feared. After all, he puts his pants on one leg at a time. But he came here to play.
[00:41:28] Speaker C: Was this your first Winnie arm?
[00:41:29] Speaker B: Yes, it is.
[00:41:30] Speaker E: And I suffer from the baby New Year syndrome with the big ears things.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: Do you?
[00:41:34] Speaker E: So it's one of those things.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: This was an Initial victory for Aaron, who looked mighty good during the entire game.
[00:41:41] Speaker C: And now he has an unbeaten streak.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: That's right. Well, he. Well, I wouldn't say that.
[00:41:46] Speaker E: I'd be stretching the truth.
You know what it is?
[00:41:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Karen's voice.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: It's.
[00:41:52] Speaker E: Who's.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Whose voice? Aaron's voice. Well, what about Aaron's voice?
[00:41:58] Speaker E: Great voice.
[00:42:00] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got a nice voice. That's true.
[00:42:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:42:03] Speaker E: I wish you would bring me a paycheck.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: What do you want, an egg in your beer?
You want everything? I want it all. Okay. Anyway, congratulations, Aaron. What. What that means is since we do not award prizes to people who are on our in. In our employ.
[00:42:20] Speaker D: Put it on your resume.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: That's. I don't have to send out anything. I'm still about three. Three birthday game prizes.
[00:42:27] Speaker D: I got plenty of time in our little box. The norm for you. So if you wanna.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: Oh, if I can look in that box there. You think I better wait till you pull stuff out because I don't know what you need.
[00:42:36] Speaker D: They give away stuff that we. That I've booked for next week.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: Usually I don't give the books away till after we interview the authors, but when you give them away before, that.
[00:42:47] Speaker D: Causes kind of a problem.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's kind of ominous to them. Excuse me. We can't have you on.
[00:42:52] Speaker D: We already gave you a book away.
[00:42:55] Speaker F: You could have the winner interview the person.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: You could have the winner interview the person. The one who gets the ties. I say. That's right. They can call up on the phone and. Because they'll have read the book. I never thought of that. Anyway, I want to thank all of you. Denise, you're very nice to have stayed up this long because I know you've had a big weekend. Oh.
[00:43:14] Speaker C: But for you, Noor.
And now for Aaron and Tony and everyone else there.
[00:43:21] Speaker B: You're adorable. Thanks so much.
[00:43:22] Speaker D: Happy New Year, Denise.
[00:43:23] Speaker C: Happy New Year.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:43:25] Speaker D: Bye.
[00:43:25] Speaker B: Bye. Okay. And Ed, thank you very much for coming on with us. I appreciate that.
Okay. And you too, Marie.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Good night.
[00:43:34] Speaker B: And. And what is the dog's name again?
Pepe.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: I love you, Tony.
[00:43:39] Speaker D: I love you, Marie.
And I'll give my best to Pepe.
[00:43:43] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Okay. I think she's a hot babe.
I think I need some marine kind of sickness here.
George. Thanks a lot. Okay.
[00:43:57] Speaker D: Thank you. I love you, George.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Okay, next time and next time I want. I want the entire character. I want it read back to me.
George, I think already left.
[00:44:08] Speaker D: What happened?
[00:44:08] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:44:08] Speaker D: Oh, the character off the.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Yeah, off the front of the Parlor Junior High School that we used to have to recite.
[00:44:14] Speaker D: Norm.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: I did, but back then that was.
[00:44:16] Speaker D: No, you repeated it before.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Well, somebody sent me a copy of it and I read that. So I don't. I would have all young fear into you, didn't it?
[00:44:24] Speaker D: Back then I used to overwhelm you. Wasn't it the one that was on.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: It overwhelmed me. Yes. Because of the fact that he wanted this much from his students.
[00:44:31] Speaker D: Exactly. You remember that?
[00:44:33] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. I would have all young men of sound mind and good character and it would go on and on like that.
And just. Just the words bring tears to your eyes. Yeah, that and that. And Mr. McGrath, who was my general manager at WHDH, he used to bring. He used to bring fear to me. I feared a lot of things. You tell you the truth. Right now I'm scared and I don't even know of what.
I'm never over gonna come. That's probably. That's why I'm so cute and boyish.
[00:45:01] Speaker D: You're afraid of that, right?
[00:45:02] Speaker B: I'm afraid of everything.
I get up in the morning or in the night or whatever it is, and I'm afraid right off.
[00:45:09] Speaker D: That's pretty scary.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: It's also kind of a stupid comment that seemed to go nowhere.
[00:45:16] Speaker F: You know the joke about the guy who gets up, he looks into the mirror and if he sees fog in the mirror, he knows he's still alive.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: I didn't know that. Well. No, that sounds like a Dick Tracy. Remember when Dick Tracy used to have these crime stoppers?
[00:45:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: One of the things was to hold the. Hold the mirror up to the. The face of the guy lying on the floor up to his mouth. And if it fogged up, they knew the guy was still alive.
I do that a lot.
[00:45:40] Speaker D: The way John said it, it sound like the guy gets up, he walks up to the mirror and he looks at it. If he sees fog, I'm thinking maybe he's outside.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: What?
It's really. It's really awful. It's really awful. When I get to understand what John is talking about. I know I'm in bad trouble now.
[00:45:56] Speaker D: I'm really scared. That is scary.
[00:45:58] Speaker B: Anyway, John, thanks very much. And you don't have to take a winning name down because we have.
[00:46:03] Speaker F: I'll go back to my cage.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:46:06] Speaker F: Over on the other side.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: Okay.
Aaron?
[00:46:10] Speaker E: Yes, sir.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Did I start you with that? Aaron?
[00:46:14] Speaker E: I was snoozing. I apologize.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: No. Congratulations. You are the winner. That's really very, very nice. That'll get you absolutely nothing you didn't.
[00:46:20] Speaker D: Think they'd leave you alone, Aaron? When? At parties. And they want to speak to the traffic reporter who works with Norm. Now that you've won the game, you're going to be mobbed.
[00:46:28] Speaker E: I'm in for it now.
[00:46:29] Speaker D: They'll never let you sleep now.
[00:46:30] Speaker E: Nor can I go to the post office in my hometown ever again.
[00:46:33] Speaker D: See, we mentioned that before. That's right.
[00:46:36] Speaker B: Matter of fact, I just got a call from the reporter. One of the reporters of the Malden Evening News. He's on his way to the Pro. He wants to an in depth study of you. Where. Where do you live, by the way?
[00:46:45] Speaker E: Shirley, Mass.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: Oh, in Shirley, that would be. What would that be? The Fitchburg newspaper.
[00:46:51] Speaker E: Oh, well, there's a public spirit out of air.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that guy. He'll be on the phone soon. Oh, she will. Whatever the case may be. Anyway, thanks a lot. Nice to. We'll talk with you soon.
[00:47:01] Speaker E: Thank you, Norm.
[00:47:02] Speaker B: Okay, bye.
[00:47:03] Speaker D: Bye.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: And Tony.
[00:47:05] Speaker D: Yes, Norm?
[00:47:06] Speaker B: To talk with you is just so darn pleasant.
[00:47:08] Speaker D: Oh, same here. I always like talking to you also.
[00:47:11] Speaker B: Okay, I want you to be part of the sermon. This is where I rip up the scores for today because we have a winner. I really should keep these in some kind of a loose leaf notebook with reinforcements and tally them at the reinforcements.
[00:47:24] Speaker D: And tally them at the end of the year. Maybe have some kind of tournament of champions.
[00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah, or maybe we can put them in some leather bound jacket and we can give them as prizes themselves the.
[00:47:33] Speaker D: Scorecard that you won the game on.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be nice.
Hey, take care of yourself.
[00:47:38] Speaker D: You too. I see time is weighing.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: It certainly is weighing. Hey, take care, Tony.
[00:47:44] Speaker D: Take care, Norm.
[00:47:45] Speaker B: Okay, let's see. Let's. Let's check the news. Could you plug the news in for me, John?
Because I seem to be. I seem to not have it here on my little place.
Just. Just the news. I'll just talk a little bit up to 4:00'. Clock and if you throw the news on, I would appreciate it. This is all trade talk you're not hearing behind the scenes. Isn't that exciting? Norm Nathan here, WBZ Boston. The time is newstime. Four o'. Clock.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Not a bad way to start what I call the most hopeless month of the year.
I dislike January very much.
And the weather around here in Massachusetts has only bolstered those feelings. Oh, sure, it's all happy New Year and stuff at midnight on January 1st, but after that, yuck.
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[00:50:07] Speaker B: Grade A. I just remember that just so clearly.
[00:50:11] Speaker D: That's excellent.
[00:50:11] Speaker B: Isn't that beautiful?
[00:50:13] Speaker D: I don't know what you said, but it was beautiful.
