Norm Nathan’s Vault of Silliness w/Tony Nesbitt - Ep 270 - The ADHD Radio Free-for-All

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Let's start off right away with the title for this Here episode number 270, the ADHD radio free for All. I had to trim this up quite a bit as it is really scattered, hence the name. We're all over the place, but it certainly keeps things interesting. And it's nice to hear all the WBZ voices of the past, with the exception of Jack, of course. Well, I mean, it's always nice to hear Jack, but he's not from the past because he's still doing traffic and other things. And never mind by the scrawled dates on the cassette. This is a Norm Nathan show from January 16th and maybe February 25th, 1995. It begins with guest Richard Smith, who sounds a lot like Fred from New Jersey, talking about his book Richard Smith's Guide to Getting 143 Lessons in Etiquette for a World Gone Mad. And it included the Getting Even Rude whistle. It's a wildly accurate interview with insights that are as relevant today as they were 31 years ago. Calls are taken. Bill and Lynn Dolemite from Michigan, Norm's tiny 10 year old cousin from Florida, Hillary. And it's the sweetest call. Charlie and Redding, Joanne and Fred from Rosendale. When that concludes, we hear Norm referencing someone named Chuck from Binghamton, New York and his quest for something to do. Doris, who calls in, may have some answers. We hear from Ben Parker in Traffic. Then Norm talks about radio drama Cats Infected with Satan. I told you this was all over the place. Next caller is talking about WHDH and Dick Summers. Suddenly we have a caller reading a poem to Bob Rowley. Hey, now, why don't we check in with David Brudnoi? He's talking daytime TV talk shows that he was or would be on and not on regarding his book Life is Not a Rehearsal. It included Oprah, where he would be appearing with Greg Louganis, who was set to reveal something. You'll actually hear it on here, but I won't tell you. Now then there's a mystery talk show that pops in. And then it's back to David, who's now speaking with actor Rufus Sewell. And calls from Doug and someone else ready for the next jump. Hey, it's Steve Lavelli with a guest that's wrote some dating guidebook. And then they take a call. Okay, here we go. Back to Norm with Ruth Clennet on the line. Norm's commentary on award shows is so spot on. The next caller sounds like Joan from Tewksbury. So that's what I'm Going with. Then we have another caller which was possibly one of those phone booth calls we would make. Boy, do I wish I had more of those moments. Jump now to Norm with Ed Mullen on the line talking about some tune and then Ed intros Jack speaking of the Jack of all traffic. Sprinkled about this radio salad mix are approximately 1 million dramatic sponsor reads from Jack, some with reports. Now don't quote me on how many times we hear certain sponsors, but I'm pretty darn close. John Deere with Fox Run equipment in North Pembroke five times. Nashua Outdoor Power Equipment repair two times and 146 supply center in Milbury. Dunkin Donuts, the Delta Connection approximately seven times. Ryopan plus two, but only once. Kwai Garlic twice. HP deskjet, printer, Fortune magazine and two for Silver Lake Dodge. And there's some bizarre backwards masking weirdness that happens in the middle. It's really strange. So cue the Twilight Zone theme. Keep this description on hand so you can follow along at home. Episode 270, the ADHD radio free for all. Hey look, a squirrel starts now. [00:03:49] Speaker B: We're all annoyed at people who blow their horns or, you know, try to get ahead of us online, you know, all of the things that make our lives, let's say, less than perfect. So. So it's not just Manhattan, but I think anywhere in the country. [00:04:08] Speaker C: Now, you pass along solutions to problems. For example, somebody has a problem, but maybe they're waiting in line to get to a phone booth and somebody's already on the line there and they're just talking on and on and on. They won't get off. And you've got to call. You gotta make a phone call. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Of course. Why should you wait for these people? [00:04:26] Speaker C: These people are inconsiderate, terribly inconsiderate. And you have answers as to how you can counteract that. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Right again. In New York City, where payphones are at a premium because none of them work. So you. [00:04:41] Speaker C: That's true here too. I want you to know. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Really? [00:04:44] Speaker C: In Boston, a lot of them don't work here too. [00:04:46] Speaker B: I can't believe I thought you were such a civilized city. [00:04:49] Speaker C: We are, terribly. But we show our civilization in other ways. [00:04:52] Speaker B: I see. [00:04:54] Speaker C: As soon as those ways come to. [00:04:55] Speaker B: Me, I'll tell you. Well, in Manhattan, as soon as it seems that as soon as somebody finds a working phone booth, they either work it over with a bat or the bumper of their car. So you're lucky every eight blocks if you find something that works. So I think if you make a phone Call from a public phone. You should be as quick as possible, you know, say, yes, my dear, I'm bringing home a loaf of bread, and hang up and that's it. Now, if you're waiting for the phone, they keep talking. Give them a minute. And after about a minute you kind of lean over and say, do you mind if I say hello to the. [00:05:34] Speaker C: Person you're talking to or blow in their ear? Did you have that in one of them or. [00:05:40] Speaker B: Exactly. And this gives them the idea that somebody else is waiting for the phone. This is my feeling. Then, of course. Do you have that wonderful anti vulgarian whistle that comes with a book? [00:05:55] Speaker C: Yes, yes, I do have the whistle. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Well, since the book has come out, this whistle has become, I hate to say it, but a very popular item. And what I did, in fact, earlier tonight, if somebody is staying on the phone too long, you take the whistle that comes with getting even, you just go. Exactly. Now, who would stay on a phone when something like that happens? You know, I mean, wouldn't you get off very quickly? [00:06:23] Speaker C: I would think so. But you have answers to a lot of the annoying kind of things that all of us face, and there's so many of them. I'm trying to find one in particular and pick one that you. That you think, and I'll look through the book again because I just read it and as I mentioned, I just laughed through the whole thing. Pick one that you think is particularly annoying to many people and what your solutions to that would be. [00:06:47] Speaker B: You mean a really general. Like, for example, it seems that the most popular gripe in the book is when you go into a supermarket, people who, you know the 10 items or less line. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Yes. And somebody has many, as you wrote, many more items. [00:07:07] Speaker B: And you get on the line and you've obeyed the law scrupulously. You only have four items and the person in front of you has 22 items. Now what do you do if you're in a hurry? You have the right to take the first 12 items out of their cart and just put them on the floor and say, I'm sorry, but you have 12 items too many. Just pile them in a very neat pile on the floor and they're legal. And they may not go through. If they get annoyed at you, you know what you do? Very simply? Blow the horn and Exactly. They assume you're crazy and do not cross you. [00:07:53] Speaker C: I think. I think pretending that you're crazy, I think would turn people off on a lot of things that you would do. Nobody wants to deal with a person that's unsound. [00:08:00] Speaker B: You know what we recommend? Have you ever gone into a movie and the people in front of you are talking? [00:08:05] Speaker C: Yes. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Now, that's the worst, Especially in New York. Now, what do you get from movies? How much is a movie up there? [00:08:13] Speaker C: I. I don't see. I'm a senior citizen now. Oh, I have to beat the horn to make the blow on that one. So it's. It's a. It's about five, six, seven dollars, depending on where the theater is. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Eight dollars to get into a movie. So if I pay that much, I want to, you know, hear the movie and not the people in front of me. So if they're constantly talking, what I generally do is just go. And they assume you're crazy and move to the farthest end of the theater. [00:08:43] Speaker C: But in addition to that, you have some other things that you say or do besides. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Well, the first line of defense that I think is a great idea is if they keep talking, you take a rubber band and snap it against the back of their neck. Now, most. And if they start yelling at you, call the usher and have them ejected for making a fuss. This is my feeling. And then if they still keep talking, you very gently sew the back of their shirt to the seat. Yeah. [00:09:16] Speaker C: The thing, Kristen, the thing with the ushers. I don't know how many theaters now, you know, it's Cinema 1 through Cinema 9056. I'm not sure there are any ushers anymore. Somebody takes your ticket, and you don't see anybody until the cleaning crew comes in after the movie is over and picks up your book. [00:09:33] Speaker B: I don't know why. I think the easiest thing is when you buy getting even. To take that little whistle out and just use. Works so wonderfully in so many circumstances. You know, when you go into a restaurant and they're not paying attention, you ever see the sign? Please wait until the hostess seats you. And you stand there for about three days, and you still haven't been seated. Guess what? The hostess comes running over. [00:10:05] Speaker C: Really? As soon as you blow you a. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Little hard, they assume this is a person out of the ordinary. We better cater to him. And it works. It's like magic. I'm subtitling it. The magic whistle, the magic horn. It's wonderful. [00:10:22] Speaker C: Okay. You also have. There was one session, looking for it. Now, there's so much in the book, and one of the areas was hyphenated Americans. And you were putting. You were putting the names of different ethnic groups together into one name. Some of them were kind of Funny. For example, you were talking about Afro Americans, but. And that led to other groups like French Greeks would become freaks. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:10:50] Speaker C: I thought was great. You had Finnish and Chinese. I don't know how many people you run into of those combinations. They become thin chins. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Well, I think the whole point of getting even is that if we live in this country, everybody is an American. And I think as soon as you start referring to your saying I'm whatever it is, Latin American or Chinese American, then you aren't American. I mean, if somebody in France says, what are you? I'm French or I'm Italian. Somebody doesn't say I'm Swiss Italian. And I think in this country, what is so divisive is constantly referring to each other as half of one thing and half of the other. So if we're going to do it, I just included this very convenient chart that will help you. For example, a friend of mine is half black and half Jewish, so we call him bluish. [00:11:57] Speaker D: Okay. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Funny, you don't look bluish. [00:12:00] Speaker B: And you know, he's perfectly happy to walk around being referred to as bluish. [00:12:07] Speaker C: It's a funny idea because you have somebody who is part Italian and partly Icelandic becomes italic. Italic. That's right. Yeah. [00:12:15] Speaker B: And I think it's a wonderful. Either do that completely, or if you're another friend of mine, which is where I got this whole thing from, is half Hungarian and half Polish and he refers to him as hung pole. [00:12:37] Speaker C: Sounds slightly obscene there, but okay. [00:12:39] Speaker B: Oh, no, not at all. I mean, this person is with the embassy. So again, I don't approve of any of these things like Afro American or Jewish American or anything like that. You're either American or you're not, period. No discussion. [00:12:57] Speaker C: No, I think I, I think that's quite true. Let me just take a break and, and let's, let's ask people. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm starting to shriek. Let's go to dollar, is it. Oh, let me see. [00:13:08] Speaker B: I got. Oh, Bill. [00:13:09] Speaker C: Bill and Lynn. Hi, Bill. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Hi. Good evening. [00:13:11] Speaker C: Good evening. [00:13:12] Speaker B: I have a personal anecdote to relate to your guest and I'd like him to comment on it. [00:13:17] Speaker C: Okay. If it's a bad anecdote, you know, we'll blow the whistle on you. [00:13:20] Speaker E: Okay. [00:13:22] Speaker B: In the late 70s, I was visiting a prominent Boston hotel. I was in the lobby, needed to use the men's room. I walked up to the information desk and a young woman in her late 30s, I remember she was writing. She was very intent. Intent writing something down. She didn't Even look at me. And I said, excuse me? She said, yes. And she didn't look up. I said, where's the men's room? Without gesturing, without looking up, she said, take a left, third door and your right. Thank you. I said, you're welcome. And I went away. Now, I could have been nude. I could have been wearing the Freddy Krueger mask. [00:14:04] Speaker C: I bet if you were nude, she would have noticed that. [00:14:06] Speaker B: But no, she wouldn't. She didn't look up. So what should I have done or said? The main question, did you get relief? Yes, it is. That's. I mean, we're talking, that's the key part. But I find, you know, something like that very. What you just said actually happened to me at a well known hotel in Denver where I needed some information. Desk clerk didn't look up. But you know what was on the desk? You know the old time bells. Yes. That they have, you know those crazy. Where you hit the top. [00:14:43] Speaker C: Oh, you hit the tin, you. The little top thing there. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Boom. Yeah. And I saw it there. And he didn't even look up. And I had a deeper problem than, let's say, you know, the call of nature. And after about eight seconds, he didn't look up. And I smashed my hand down on the bell about five times. And you know what happened? He looked up and he said, why are you hitting that bell? Bell? I said, better the bell than your head. And I proceeded to ask, and you know what? He was extremely polite. All of a sudden, most people, it's a power trip. That woman was playing, you know, doing on you. And most people, once you call them on it very quickly, will kind of straighten up and, and do what you want them to do. Or at least acknowledge the fact that you had to use the, you know, the men's room. [00:15:45] Speaker C: Yeah. At least you want them to acknowledge the fact at least you're there, you know, not totally ignore you or what. [00:15:52] Speaker B: You could have done is when you returned, say, you know, you have a wonderful men's room. You should visit it sometimes. [00:16:00] Speaker C: And would you help me? Would you help me zip up my fly? Try that, try that line. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Or you're a little low on, on, on paper. I would have said, I found your name and phone number in there. Yeah, I found your name and not your phone number. Your zip code should be more specific. [00:16:17] Speaker C: Written on the walls of the men's room. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you very much for your help. You're welcome. [00:16:22] Speaker E: Bye bye. [00:16:23] Speaker C: No, that's true. You know, you know, it annoys me too when you're going through the checkout count or any place where the people dealing with you and you say, hey, thank you very much. I appreciate all your help. [00:16:32] Speaker B: And they say, yeah, yeah, like you're insulting them. Like, how dare you? How dare you be cheerful? I know. [00:16:40] Speaker C: At least say thank you. Damn it. I mean, you don't have to do that. [00:16:44] Speaker B: That's like, in getting even. One of the more popular bits of advice, you know, when you go into a store and you buy something and it costs. Let's say it costs a pen for $1.98, and you give the cashier a $20 bill, and she looks at you and says, don't you have anything smaller? As though you're supposed to be this Good Humor man with a little change thing on your side. And I always hold up a quarter and say, how's this? Like, if you want to take a quarter for the pen and suddenly they realize they lost the power and you've gotten. [00:17:23] Speaker E: No, that's great. [00:17:24] Speaker C: Let's go to a Michigan dolomite. Is that your name? Dolomite? [00:17:28] Speaker B: Yes, Dolomite. [00:17:29] Speaker C: Oh, Dolomite. Okay. Where in Michigan are you? [00:17:31] Speaker B: I'm near Detroit. [00:17:33] Speaker C: Okay, here's Richard Smith on the line with you. What would the problem be? [00:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I got a problem with this guy coming to me trying to sell me vacuum cleaners. [00:17:40] Speaker F: Can you dig it? [00:17:41] Speaker B: Really? [00:17:42] Speaker F: So I ain't lying. I ain't lying about it. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Door to door, door to door, coming. Selling vacuums. I'm like, what beautiful day in the merry month of May the great doctor sailed away. The captain, lieutenant were having a few words till that big Titanic get that mighty iceberg. And then this guy's trying to sell me this. I don't know what's going on. You see what I'm saying? [00:18:05] Speaker C: You sound like you're doing a rap song is what you sound like you're saying. Dolomite. Do you mind if I get rid of you? Because I don't. I don't understand the word you're saying. Did you follow that, Richard? [00:18:14] Speaker B: I think. I think he needs a vacuum cleaner. [00:18:17] Speaker C: I don't follow that at all. Tonight is a weird. It's. [00:18:20] Speaker B: It's. It. [00:18:21] Speaker C: Well, last night was. Was kind of weird. I think I was the weirdest of all the callers, but that's the best. Okay, here's Hillary, who says she's my cousin. Hillary. [00:18:32] Speaker F: Hi. [00:18:32] Speaker C: Hi. Now, how are we related? I probably should know. You and you probably are shocked by me asking that question, but you're just a young little person, huh? [00:18:42] Speaker F: Uh huh. [00:18:43] Speaker C: How old are you? [00:18:44] Speaker F: 10. [00:18:45] Speaker C: And you're my cousin? [00:18:47] Speaker B: Yes, sir. [00:18:48] Speaker C: Now where, where are you calling from? [00:18:50] Speaker F: Florida. [00:18:51] Speaker C: Oh, Florida. You're Adam's sister. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Adam? [00:18:55] Speaker F: You mean Andrew. [00:18:57] Speaker C: I'm sorry, Andrew's sister. That's. Oh my goodness. I gotta, I gotta see. Do you have a, you have a gripe, Hillary, that have you. Well, you can't hear the program down there, so you don't know what we're talking about. [00:19:07] Speaker F: Well, I can hear you through the. [00:19:10] Speaker C: Oh, through the telephone. [00:19:11] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah. [00:19:12] Speaker C: Do you have, do you have like as a 10 year old you have a problem that Richard Smith, who's written a book getting even could help you with? [00:19:22] Speaker F: No. [00:19:23] Speaker C: You know, some situation that you run into and you're wondering what can I do at a time like this? [00:19:29] Speaker F: No, I just called him to say hi. [00:19:31] Speaker C: Oh, well, okay, Hillary, I appreciate that. Your folks okay and everybody? Well, yeah, well, I'm glad, I'm glad that you're nice to call. Would you say hello to Andrew for me? Cause he's along with you, is one of my favorite people. [00:19:42] Speaker F: Yeah. We're gonna see you soon. [00:19:44] Speaker C: How come? Is there going to be a family party coming up? [00:19:48] Speaker F: No, I just asked to see you. [00:19:50] Speaker C: Oh, I would like that, Hillary, very much. You're adorable. Thanks a lot for calling and say hello to everybody in the family for me down there. Bye. Bye, sweetie. I'm sorry, Richard. I have relatives who are from up here knowing that will move down to Florida. They have two sweet kids. I have a few more. [00:20:07] Speaker B: Take the cold. [00:20:08] Speaker C: Yeah, Hillary and. No, that's true. And, and Hillary and Richard. I'm not Richard, that's you, Hillary. And Andrew is her sister, his brother and they, they call me from time to just say hello and I'm, I'm very flattered by that. But they can't hear the program so they didn't know what the topic was. We get out to Michigan or all parts of the country, but not, we don't do too well there. Let's talk with, let's see. Fred in. No, this is Charlie in Redding. Is it Charlie? [00:20:33] Speaker F: Yep. [00:20:34] Speaker D: Hi. [00:20:34] Speaker C: Charlie, do you have, you have a problem that Richard could help you with? [00:20:37] Speaker B: Well, I don't know if this is, if this is in his book or not, but there's one thing that really bugs me is when I'm at, well, for instance, Suffolk Downs. You're going up to the lunch counter. [00:20:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:50] Speaker B: This is a racetrack dog and a Coke. [00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a racetrack. You know that Richard. Okay. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's, that happens to me at places like that. But it can happen any place where they serve food. And there's a line, maybe eight people, and you get in the line like you're supposed to, and you're waiting and waiting, and then someone comes up and starts a new, brand new line. Instead of getting behind you, you mean? So it's like it's a race to see who gets there first. Yeah, everybody. You know, a lot of people, they get in line like they should, and somebody inevitably will come up and go right up to the counter. Yeah, well, then somebody will come up behind them. You've really got to be aggressive. And just what we do in New York City, a very, very simple solution is if somebody say there are four people online and you're fourth, and somebody goes right, you just yell out, I'm behind the person in front of me. And guess what? You're behind the person in back of me. And they usually pay attention. And usually the cashier will say, and take, you know, the legitimate next person. Not, you know, not. Not the person who cut the line. Did this ever happen to you? Yeah. And you know what? You've got to speak up because you think you're polite, right? Sure. And most people really are. Most people are really polite. Getting even is for the people, those few people who want to make victims out of us. And that's why again, in New York, if somebody say, I'm on fifth online, and somebody just walks right up, and they kind of look like, oh, I'll just be a minute. I only, you know, have a $1 purchase or something. It's, hey, get back there in getting even. As a matter of fact, I have one passage where you ever. In the supermarket and somebody says, do you mind if I go ahead of you? I have just this one item. And I always say to them, $2, please. And they look at me and they say what? I say, that's my speed for letting you go ahead of me. And you know what? [00:23:07] Speaker C: I stand in bed, shut up, stand there. They go back. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Or I'll say, $4. If you also have coupons. You know, a lot of people when they. In the supermarket, you say, you know, you want to be a nice guy. Say they have one item, and you'll say, sure, go ahead and guess what? They have coupons from the Korean War. They've been. And you're standing there for four days, and then they have a check. And of course, you got to call the manager who's asleep in the meat department. So by the time you get out, it's April. I know. So I always do that when they say, could I go ahead of you? No problem. $2, please. That's. That's my standard fee. Well, maybe I'll try that because that's right to me. I've made $2. I made $2 about a week ago doing that. [00:23:57] Speaker C: Okay, thank you. Okay, Charlie, take care now. Let's just take a break for. Okay, what we. I was going to call them for a message, but actually they're really commercials. [00:24:05] Speaker F: The sign says that you can only be in the line if you have 12 items. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Right. You just take the. Take the. If the person's in front of you, take the first five items out of their card and just put them on the floor. I'm serious. I do that constantly. And if they look at you, you just take with the book, getting even. You have this wonderful anti vulgarian whistle and you just go. They assume you're crazy and keep going because these people always have coupons. They always want to write a check. Oh, see, you're lucky. They give you a bag. Usually they just cradle your arms and throw like 40 cans of grapefruit sections. You walk out with a hernia. So I would. I would, you know, tell the bag. Or to divide it up into. No, you know what I would tell. I would say, look, you pack that bag any way you want, but if it's too heavy, I'll give you, you know, you have to carry it out to my car and. And just see what he says. [00:25:21] Speaker F: Okay. [00:25:21] Speaker B: You know, just give it a shot. [00:25:23] Speaker F: Great. [00:25:23] Speaker B: See what happens. [00:25:24] Speaker C: Just stick up your rights. That's what the whole idea, Joy. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Right. Stop taking it. [00:25:28] Speaker C: Yeah, don't. Let's not. Let's not take it. I won't take anymore. [00:25:31] Speaker B: Exactly. Stand there with a large hatchet while screaming. There. [00:25:35] Speaker C: Okay, thank you, Joanne. Okay, let's go to. Let's see, Fred in Roslindale. Hello, Fred. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Hi, Norm. [00:25:43] Speaker C: Hi. [00:25:43] Speaker F: How are you doing? [00:25:44] Speaker C: Good. [00:25:45] Speaker B: I got something in defense of telemarketing. Do you have anything in your book about that? Yes, in defense of telemarketing. Well, not quite in defense, but I know that when I was doing research for the book, a lot of people complained that about 7:30 at night they would sit down for supper and suddenly the phone would ring and somebody would be trying to sell them land that's 30ft underwater in Hawaii or Florida. And what we suggest is, in my case, the telemarketer always says, will you put the lady of the house on? And I get my two and a half year old daughter and say, tell the man all about your new dolly. Oh, but that's not in defense of telemarketing. No, no, because most of the calls, people complain that they call it really bad hours. [00:26:38] Speaker C: I would, I would like to hear somebody defending telemarketing. Yeah, I've done telemarketing because I find that. I really find it so ugly, I can't stand it. You tell us what's good about it. [00:26:50] Speaker F: Okay, well, what. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Most people are just trying to make a living. And I find what I do, when. [00:26:56] Speaker F: I, when I did do it, when. [00:26:59] Speaker B: I got an exceptionally rude person, what I would do, I would just leave. [00:27:04] Speaker C: That person's name and number on every. [00:27:06] Speaker F: Answering machine I get the rest of the day. And they would be inundated with phone calls. So if you are, you know, most. [00:27:14] Speaker B: People out there just trying to make a living, we do call between five. [00:27:17] Speaker F: And nine because those are the meet hours when people are usually home and most people aren't scam artists out there in the front. [00:27:25] Speaker E: Can I. [00:27:25] Speaker C: Can I tell you a couple of things that bother me about telemarketing? Besides, you know, the fact that the calls come and stuff and normally what I do, I try not to be rude. I just say I don't. Just don't do business over the phone. If it's a charitable organization, send me a note and I'll take care of it. That way, if it looks good, good. And I really would. It's not just to put them off. I will give a contribution if it's okay. I just don't want to pledge something to somebody who, I don't know, who just suddenly called out of the blue. But I. But I. I find that it's just kind of annoying. Some somehow telemarketing people sound like they're reading their scripts and. Now tell me until we get it memorized now. Well, no, I mean, I've never heard anybody call and sounded like they were really talking to you. They always say, well, Mr. Nathan, we have, you know, and they're reading it. You can hear the paper flapping and you say, I mean, either tell me or just get the hell off the phone and stop bugging me. No. Now, do you sound like you're really talking to somebody when you're working at it or are you reading it? [00:28:23] Speaker B: That's the idea. [00:28:25] Speaker C: Because most, Most people I know don't. Most people sound like they're reading it. You can even see where it says insert. Insert name here. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Well, you know what I just want to say, if the telemarketer whoever he or she is, sounds reasonably polite and has a reasonable product. I will at least talk to them. But a lot of them sound like they're trying to sell me a 79 Dodge. If that happens, I just go and blow the wonderful whistle that comes with. [00:28:59] Speaker C: Getting even in some cases where it is. I know he gets some mail from Binghamton. I know we can be heard up there. And I must tell you, Chuck will be there without his wife for the first few months or weeks or something. So he's looking for some action. And a lot of people suggest what action is there in Binghamton, New York? And if you want to give him a call, you don't have to discuss that solely. We have whatever subject is on your mind, give me a call. We keep it a little light during the night. The idea is, if you're lying there worried about the world and the whole thing of New York. [00:29:35] Speaker B: The hot dog people. [00:29:37] Speaker C: No, that. That they're Nathan. That. Nathan. That. That's their first name. Yeah, Nathan's famous. It's Nathan. His name was Nathan something, but that was not his last name. And that is my last name. So we're not. No, no relation. [00:29:52] Speaker B: And I just thought it was pretty interesting that they're going to try to resurrect and revive. [00:29:58] Speaker C: Is that the same as the. The narrow gauge that he was talking about? [00:30:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:30:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Except the train. I'm trying to remember now. This is. [00:30:06] Speaker C: You know, I was awfully young, and. [00:30:07] Speaker B: This is going back at least. Oh, I'd say at least 20, 25 years. [00:30:13] Speaker C: This is the WBC 24 hour traffic network. And with us, I guess, through this night will be Ben Parker. Is that right, Ben? That. That is correct, Norm. You. I always envy guys with voices like yours. You. You just have such a tremendous sound. I really hate your guts. Well, no, but I'm. I'm just reminded of my earlier days in radio when I was auditioning as a staff announcer and stuff. And there'd always be people in line, somebody like you, with this great voice who would always get the job, so. You bring back funny memories. Anyway. Anyway, you sound very good. I'm delighted to be working with you. [00:30:47] Speaker F: Well. [00:30:48] Speaker C: Well, thank you, Norman. [00:30:48] Speaker E: I. I always spoke highly of you. [00:30:50] Speaker C: So I don't know why you have to say those things about me. No, that's. It's total jealousy. It's an old man slobbering jealousy. And you. You have a chance to play the dumb birthday game with us a little later on. You're going to be on throughout the entire night. [00:31:02] Speaker E: Yes, I will. [00:31:02] Speaker C: And I'll. I'll be dumb if you'd like. No, no, no, no, no. The game is dumb. No, the game is done. But I. I suspect you couldn't be dumb, you know, if you really sat down and said, boy, I gotta be dumb. I've gotta work at being dumb, you wouldn't be able to do that. Anyway, what I'll do right now is just ask you as ad living people do everywhere who have got the great gift for gab. Say, Ben, what's traffic like anyways? Well, anyways, Norm, traffic is looking pretty good station at Binghamton. I was asking people who knew about the area to suggest places that might be interesting for Chuck, because he's going to be going there as a bachelor. He is married, but his wife will be back here for a while till he gets settled and. And he was wondering, is there anything to do in Binghamton? Doris, what do you think? [00:31:55] Speaker F: Hi, Normie. First of all, I'm one of those cat mothers who has the greatest cat in the world. But that's not why I called. I'm not from Binghamton, I'm a Bostonian. But we did live several years in the Binghamton area. [00:32:06] Speaker C: Okay. [00:32:07] Speaker F: Okay. Now, the population of the Southern Tier, which is Binghamton, Johnson City and endicott, is about 125,000 people. So it's because it's so far from the big city, you have to think small. Whether it's the airport or anything else, everything is on a smaller scale. You can't go into the big city because you're there. [00:32:29] Speaker C: Okay, that is the big city. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Right? [00:32:31] Speaker F: But there's a lot of warmth and a lot of friendliness there. It's a very physically a very pretty area. You're in a valley and looking out the window at the mountains. It's very pretty. But the weather is something you have to get used to when you're used to living near the ocean. [00:32:48] Speaker C: Okay, now, how is the weather different, say, than here? [00:32:50] Speaker F: It doesn't move the way it moves here. If the weatherman says snowy and cold on Monday, you don't have to bother even listening on Thursday because the same thing is happening. [00:33:01] Speaker C: The high pressure air, whatever it is, stays. Sits there. Stagnant is the word I was trying to think of. [00:33:08] Speaker F: But I'll tell you, they believe it's gonna snow. While the snow is coming down, the trucks are out there not only with the plows, but removing the snow from the streets. They don't just push it to the side, so you Learn to adjust. You learn to coexist. This was it. You learn not to panic. How am I going to get to the supermarket? Because you are going to get there. [00:33:31] Speaker C: Okay. As long as you can get yourself plowed out of your own driveway. [00:33:34] Speaker F: Right. And you have 24 hours to do your sidewalk or else. And the town will be glad to do it and charge you $100. [00:33:41] Speaker C: Oh, really? But they insist upon you clearing the sidewalk. [00:33:44] Speaker F: Right. But there's a lot of good restaurants. There are sports teams. There are several colleges. The big one, the State University, Binghamton, part of the state university set up. So there's all kinds of cultural activities if you're interested. [00:34:00] Speaker C: What are the sports teams? [00:34:01] Speaker B: Well, there's a triple. [00:34:02] Speaker F: I don't know which major league team has AAA baseball team there. But Texas is also hockey. I don't know anything about that. [00:34:12] Speaker C: Okay, so you're saying he will be very happy there because that's a really Whoopi area. [00:34:17] Speaker F: I think so. I think your attitude has a lot to do with it. Don't forget, this is not New York City. This is Midwest up there. [00:34:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:25] Speaker F: Whether it's your speech or your politics or whatever, this is definitely Midwestern. [00:34:30] Speaker C: Okay. This is, well, upstate New York. This is not really upstate New York. [00:34:34] Speaker F: Though, is the Southern tier. It's about maybe 15 miles from Pennsylvania. It's pretty far up. [00:34:40] Speaker C: Okay. [00:34:41] Speaker F: Schools are fabulous when the time comes. [00:34:44] Speaker C: Radio drama back and they had a thing about cats on it, you know, with the cats snarling and the cats sounding weird, like they were. Their entire body was kind of infected with. With Satan and everything. And we would sit there, we were listening to that. It was at night and at dark. [00:35:02] Speaker E: And all that kind of stuff. [00:35:03] Speaker C: It was supposed to scare you. And we kind of giggling at that. We've had cats through the years and the cats don't ever eh. That way. And you figure, you know, drama. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Whdh hdh. Okay. On bz, at the same time. There used to be a nighttime personality. I didn't know if you remembered him. And the first name I can remember is Dick. And it's always sticking. [00:35:25] Speaker C: Yes, Dick. And I. I was trying to think of his name the other day. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he. Remember, he used to talk about sandwiches, like. And things like the Earl of Shrewsbury and stuff. [00:35:35] Speaker C: I don't. Because I couldn't listen him because I was on opposite. [00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's true too. [00:35:38] Speaker C: But he used to do. Did he do poetry? [00:35:40] Speaker B: Yep. [00:35:41] Speaker E: Okay. [00:35:41] Speaker C: Now that's Dick. He was a nice man. I like Dick. [00:35:45] Speaker B: And I can't Remember his last name? [00:35:46] Speaker C: We did some shows later on when we were on different, different cities. He. He went to New York. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Yep. [00:35:53] Speaker C: And I went back to HDH and we did a show on both stations at one time. That is, I called him and he called me and. [00:36:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:02] Speaker C: And so we kind of tied up together for a couple of quiz things and I can't think of his last name. He was very, very popular. He did very well here. [00:36:10] Speaker B: He was. It was really a big time nighttime show. [00:36:12] Speaker C: He rivaled yours. No, he really was a tough rival too. He really was because he did very, very well. No, I, I know you're talking about and I wish I could think of his last name and I don't. Somebody told me where he was, but I, I don't think he's in, in New York City City anymore and I'm still around. Oh, Dick Summers. That's. [00:36:31] Speaker B: That's the guy. [00:36:32] Speaker C: That's the guy. That's who. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the. [00:36:35] Speaker B: I just couldn't remember his name. [00:36:36] Speaker C: Yeah, he's still. From what I gather he's still in broadcasting somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Maybe, maybe from our vast audience in 38 states. Dick. Summer. Yeah, no, I was telling somebody in my earphones were telling me Dick. So I know that but I just. We're just wondering where he was now and I'm not really pretty sure. Yeah, somebody will call and tell me. I know that. [00:36:56] Speaker B: Listen, are you still going to just be on for the weekends for the. [00:36:59] Speaker C: Time being or just these three nights? So far as I know. Yeah. Which is kind of comfortable. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Well, I'll, I'll bet it is nice because you've got rest of the free time. But I was thinking maybe one night you could take a portion of the Sounds of the Night program we used to have years ago and play maybe 10 or 15 minutes. [00:37:18] Speaker G: John Deere Dealer Fox Run Equipment Company Incorporated in North Pembroke is offering their best prices of 95 right now. Hurry in. Best Buy Savings end February 28th. [00:37:29] Speaker F: You're very different. But of course you like David. Both have this uncanny knack for turning, you know, ahas into serrated knives. But he. My father used to say this. I'll see if I can do this right. The rain, it falleth from above upon the just. An unjust fellow, but more upon the just because the unjust hath the just. Umbrella. [00:37:53] Speaker E: Oh, wow, that's. That's very nice. [00:37:55] Speaker G: John Deere dealer Fox Run Equipment Company incorporated in North Pembroke is offering their best prices of 95 right now. Hurry in Best Buy Savings and February 28th, Dunkin Donuts would like to introduce a fresh low fat muffin that doesn't taste like a low fat muffin. Actually, every baker would like to introduce a low fat muffin that tastes great. But at Dunkin Donuts we've done it. The Delta Connection offers four convenient daily non stops to Buffalo in Rochester, NY every business day. Call your travel agent or the Delta connection at 1-800-345-3400. Express Airlines the Delta Connection is Boston's largest airline offering over 140 daily departures to 27 cities in the northeastern Canada. Call your travel agent or Delta connection at 1-800-345-3400. [00:38:50] Speaker E: Interviewed all sorts of people and asked people in the public eye to come with me to radio or television and talk about things that maybe they were a little unanxious to talk about. I talked them into it basically, or my producer did and feeling I treat them well and they wouldn't reject, rejected and regret it. And most have not. [00:39:08] Speaker C: Not. [00:39:09] Speaker E: And I figured that if I've asked thousands of people over the years who had other things to do in life to come on TV or radio with me, I really should do it when asked. And so I do. I say yes to virtually everything. I said no to the Bob Grant show in New York. I think it's just mean. I said no to Jack Cole show. [00:39:25] Speaker C: He. [00:39:26] Speaker E: He snookered me a couple years ago, had me on and then just sort of sneered throughout it. It was ridiculous. And I won't do current event or the Maury Povich show and I might, I suppose, since Barry Nolan is somebody I've known for years and we're. We're on good relationship maybe would do Hard Copy though I'm not anxious to for the obvious reasons. We have upcoming in a few days or a week or so, Day one and the Today show and so on and which will do good jobs and be fair about it now it can be critical now they want but there's a difference. Oprah, I think is a better show currently than it was a couple of years ago. She's turned away from the freak show approach. At least there have been improvements in it and significant improvements and she's bright and it's a popular program and what we'll be doing in a couple of days as I understand that again these things can fall apart. Somebody of national reputation is going to reveal something about his or her life and I having done the same, will be there with this person. I do not know who this person is and nor does Kevin. And it's being kept very hush hush and sounded me interesting. I guess the phenomenon is what happens to you or what happens in your life when that which had been private becomes in fact public. It seemed to me a worthy theme. And do a little juggling tomorrow. Talk to the university and handle it and do it. But I'll let you know later when it's happened and what's going on and so on and so forth. I won't be off the radio more than a couple hours, if that. All right. I mention this to you because as happens, and quite coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, because we talked earlier today both about the Oprah possibility and also about our theme for the first couple of hours tonight. We'll be talking in a few moments with Monica Collins, who as you know is the chief television critic of the Boston Herald, has written also for TV Guide and for USA Today and she's quite excellent what she does. [00:41:23] Speaker G: Business Express Airlines, the Delta Connection is the only airline to offer convenient service to both Washington national and Dulles airports for as little as $139 one way. Some restrictions apply. Contact your Travel Agent or 1-800-345-3400. Little John Deere Dealer Fox Run Equipment Company incorporated in North Pembroke is offering their best prices of 95 right now. Hurry in Best Buy Savings and February 28th offers more flights to Canada than any other airline serving Boston with non stop service to Ottawa, Quebec City, Halifax, Moncton, Montreal and Toronto. Call 1-800-345-3400. Northbound Route 93 getting into the South Station Tunnel. We've got some work crews to watch out for tonight. We've got the Callahan Tunnel shut down for a little change of scenery two. [00:42:15] Speaker E: Way traffic and the Sumner Tunnel is. [00:42:17] Speaker G: Your alternate route traveling 128, 495 the mass spike doing reasonably well. A little bit of moisture on road surfaces might make things a bit slippery. Drive with care and about 3 o' clock this afternoon we will see the Four River Bridge on Route 3 in the Quincy Weymouth area in the up position. Thank you very much Darrell. We continue in pretty good shape and on Boston area roadway surface are a little bit damp and slippery. Be careful, a little bit of fog will hamper visibility downtown. Work crews in the Callahan Tunnel this overnight have that structure shut down two way traffic in the Sumner Tunnel to your alternate route northbound Route 93, the expressway getting into the South Station Tunnel. We do have work crews there washing walls, changing bulbs, etc. [00:43:00] Speaker C: Watch out for them. 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The main roadways are in many instances being hit by the DPW sanding crews. Hopefully that'll ease things out before the morning commute. Otherwise work crews have the Callahan Tunnel shut down this particular overnight two way traffic in the Sumner is your alternate route northbound in the South Station tunnel we've got wall washing and Bulba changing southbound getting into the South Station tunnel. We do have a work crew on the Congress street on ramp that shut down. Look for detours. And if you're heading towards Logan Airport a little bit later on today, realize that as a result of the the school week vacation we do have parking at a premium. I'm Jack Hart, WBZ 24 Hour Traffic Network. Your local John Deere dealer Nashua Outdoor Power Equipment Repair in Nashua is offering their best prices of 95 right now. Hurry in Best Buy Savings and February 28 Express Airlines. The Delta connection offers four convenient daily non stops to Buffalo and Rochester, New York every business day. 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[00:46:01] Speaker E: And Kevin said, I don't know. Tomorrow night, excuse me, Friday night on 2020 at the ABC program, a packaged piece in the program that is, as you know, hosted by by Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs will have this. And today they pulled the rug out from under the Oprah show and said that even though the program was to air next week after 2020, they didn't want their star on the program tomorrow. So they called up Kevin and said, would David, meaning me, want be willing to be the centerpiece of this thing tomorrow? And Kevin laughed and said, you know, you don't know David. You wouldn't ask the question. They called me, we talked and I said, sure, fun. So we're going to tape this thing tomorrow and then it will air in a few days. I'll let you know when. If you've watched the daytime chat shows, you know that probably the best of them are Oprah's and Phil Donahue's and there are problems with all of them, but they're not undistinguished and they are not a place where you leave feeling soiled and you need a shower or complete sort of tune up. So I'm looking forward to it tomorrow. I'm very sorry to hear the reason that Greg Lucanus is the Featured fellow on 2020. It is not his sexuality. It is, not surprisingly, given that they asked me to be on with him. It is that he also is HIV positive and has been such for a long time, including when he competed in the Olympics. Indicating of course, that you could do a lot of stuff in the early stages of it. It's going to be front page news tomorrow in all the papers and you'll hear it on our news on Channel 4 tonight, I'm sure. I'm quite sure you will. And perhaps on our shorter news is. [00:47:34] Speaker F: Here is area code 617-727-7780. You can also reach us on the Electronic superhighway at our email address. [00:47:46] Speaker G: Has been proven in multiple human clinical studies for more than a decade. Why compromise? Take Kwai. Look for Kwai at Douglas Maxey and GNC John Deere Dealer Fox Run Equipment Company Incorporated in North Pembroke is offering their best prices of 95 right now. Hurry in. Best Buy Savings and February 28th. [00:48:07] Speaker D: And for this they needed interpreters, Irish Gaelic speakers who would be prepared to assist and help. And my character Owen is a young man who wants to get out of his small town. He wants to forward himself. He's not a villain because it's quite easy to talk your way into, into. [00:48:25] Speaker C: Any frame of mind. [00:48:25] Speaker D: And he believes that he's bringing his country into the modern age. I mean, you can quite easily see that under a certain fascist rule, people will stop starving, there will be roads built, etc. So he's talked his way into this and he brings the Royal Engineers and the army back to his home country town of Bork or Billy Bog or Bali Bay. [00:48:47] Speaker E: That's right. It is the hardest European language I am convinced. I have a friend who speaks Irish and he tries to explain to me how the endings change continually. And it just seems to me like anybody who can speak it ought to be, you know, Prime Minister forever. It's a damn hardest. [00:49:06] Speaker D: Like when I was little, I mean there wasn't little about 16. I remember watching this TV program with all these set. Set in a French classroom. It was a documentary with all these four year olds speaking French. And I remember actually thinking, God, they're really advanced. [00:49:21] Speaker E: How about little kids speaking Chinese? [00:49:22] Speaker D: I know, just think, well, have you ever hear Chinese people with Welsh accents try that? [00:49:27] Speaker E: I haven't, but I know that Welsh is a language that has no vowels, right? Just consonants. [00:49:34] Speaker D: Is what? Welsh. [00:49:35] Speaker E: That's about it. [00:49:35] Speaker C: So. [00:49:36] Speaker E: So the con. The conflict then in translations is will the old language remain for those place names or will they all be destroyed by the. [00:49:45] Speaker D: I think I gave you a slightly egotistical rendition of the script. I just told you about my character then. [00:49:49] Speaker E: But. Well, that's the important thing. After all, you don't have to do Brian Dennehy throwing Dana Delaney's and so on. You know, somebody here saw the play, would like to talk with you. Put on a set of headphones if you wouldn't. That's put a lot too, because you can. You can't read the words. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Doug. [00:50:01] Speaker E: Good evening. You're on WBC with Rufus Sewell. [00:50:04] Speaker C: Hi. [00:50:04] Speaker B: I won tickets for the Thursday show. [00:50:06] Speaker C: Oh, good premiere. [00:50:07] Speaker F: I enjoyed it very much. [00:50:09] Speaker B: But I had one kind of question or statement. When the multi languages in the play somewhat make it difficult, especially with the brogues, where, when you're in the beginning, when you're trying to get used to the brogues and you can't figure out who can only speak Irish, who can only speak English. And then when they're going back and forth, but everyone only speaks when they're speaking those languages, they're only speaking English. [00:50:34] Speaker F: And then they throw in the Latin. [00:50:35] Speaker B: And the Greek just to really throw you out. [00:50:38] Speaker D: Well, it's a kind of signal that the British army's plan worked, that the play is written in English and not in Gaelic. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but. [00:50:48] Speaker D: Coming from London, you suddenly realize, oh, I have just come from a dead city. Because you suddenly come across a city that is not dead and you can feel the difference. [00:50:57] Speaker E: Even with the smelly river Liffey. [00:50:58] Speaker C: It's. [00:50:59] Speaker D: Well, the smelly river Liffey. Lovely phrase. [00:51:01] Speaker C: That is. [00:51:03] Speaker D: That adds to it. Well, I just. [00:51:06] Speaker E: I've only been to Ireland three times, but I absolutely love it. And I'm hoping one of these days to take a trip to the west country and go to places with these weird names like Keon Buller. Exactly. [00:51:18] Speaker B: Right, right. [00:51:19] Speaker E: You know what I do is every time I go, I load up on. On Irish woolens and. [00:51:23] Speaker C: And. [00:51:23] Speaker E: And then I, you know, want to get a shalala. Now I have a canar. Kathy, we'll get to you right after a little break here on bz. We'll be back with our guest, Rufus Sewell, co star of translations and of a man of no importance, right after these. Yes, we use that a lot of times they puck him behind. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Okay. [00:51:43] Speaker F: I have to say, I saw the play Friday night. I was completely bowled over. Rufus, I don't want to embarrass you, but you are gorgeous. [00:51:54] Speaker G: Right? [00:51:56] Speaker F: Better. More than a hunk. [00:51:57] Speaker E: We're gonna ask him to stay the weekend here. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Go ahead, please. [00:52:00] Speaker F: Drive him over in my direction. [00:52:02] Speaker C: All right. Anyway, over here. [00:52:05] Speaker F: I have to admit, at first I went only because Brian Dunn, he was in it and I loved him. I had no idea what the play was about. And then when I heard it was about, I said, oh, I don't want to go and get depressed and be sad. And I just loved. [00:52:19] Speaker D: It was not at all unusual to find people living in the mountains and the hills and the tiny communities who could not speak a word of English, but were fluent in Greek and Latin and knew the classics, the Greeks, intimately, but they just. They knew it through the medium of Gaelic rather than English. But the assumption of the English was that non, non English speaking is an indication of peasantry, you know. [00:52:49] Speaker G: Downtown area. We're dealing with work crews northbound inside the South Station tunnel. They'll be taking up space until about 5am Also, the Callahan Tunnel just Shutting down. That will be in effect until five 32 way traffic in the Sumner Tunnel. [00:53:03] Speaker C: Is your alternate route traveling on the. [00:53:04] Speaker G: Mass pike heading westbound, actually eastbound in the Newton area. We do have a moving band of work crews. They'll be there for a little bit longer. And for anyone heading towards Vernon, Connecticut by way of Interstate 84 heading westbound coming off the Mass pike, we have a very serious accident there. And that's going to tie things up. [00:53:25] Speaker C: For a little bit longer. [00:53:26] Speaker G: I'm Jack Hark, WBZ 24 Hour Traffic Traffic Network. The Hewlett Packer desk. Jet 1200C printer. The serious business printer with a great looking black and white color now at a new low price. And 95 companies are on the line in fortunes eagerly awaited survey of America's most admired corporations. Pick up your copy at newsstands. [00:53:48] Speaker C: Fortune. Put it to work. [00:53:51] Speaker D: Nomination non initiation. [00:53:53] Speaker C: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm receptive. [00:53:55] Speaker C: Non initiation. They've got a picture to go with it. And you've got to explain to me what this means because from, from receptive non initiation. I don't even know what we're talking about. [00:54:04] Speaker D: Well, there's a professor at Hunter College in New York named Sue Rosenberg Zonk who wrote about this. She may not have invented it, but it's the first time I encountered the term. The idea is that as we all know, and by the way, seriously, I agree with this statement that men have been unfairly more powerful in society than women, which is actually I believe, a fact. But Sue Rosenberg, Zoc feels that because that's been true, and it's true in hierarchies women are forced to be compliant or sexually available in order to get ahead in the man controlled world. So she says that if a woman in a hierarchy makes a pass at a man who's ahead of her in that hierarchy and the guy actually accepts it, he not she, is guilty of sexual harassment. And she calls this, this whole concept receptive non initiation. It means that you, you receive the pass, you didn't initiate, but you're still guilty. And I, I hadn't realized that before, but certainly from now on I'll try to live by what Professor Zot says. Well, petting is a problem. Well, for the reason I just said, among other things, it uses that Animal companion reference again. But also now it's, it's considered dangerous. Actually you're supposed to protect yourself, perhaps wear rubber gloves or whatever. [00:55:25] Speaker B: Rephrased or reconstructed. I'm sure I've offended somebody by saying that. But how about intrasexual convocational activity? That way Date trees would not be offended. [00:55:37] Speaker D: I think. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Think that's. [00:55:38] Speaker D: That's a great suggestion. [00:55:39] Speaker B: Yeah. For the next. [00:55:40] Speaker D: Actually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide in your bookstores now. Yes, it is. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Okay. And I'm a cousin of Steve's, too. [00:55:48] Speaker D: Oh, I think. Thank God or goddess you call. [00:55:53] Speaker G: Dodge and Leasing's President's Week sale now through February 25th. Save on a Dodge Caravan for 14, 959amonth or lease for 259amonth. No money down and no payments until May. Silver Lake Dodge and leasing on Route 9 in Wellesley's President's Week sale now through February 25th. Save on a Dodge Intrepid just 16, 449 or lease for $267. No money down and no payments until May. Silver Lake Dodge and leasing on Route 9 in Wellesley. [00:56:25] Speaker F: Your first name, please? And I. Oh, yeah. No, no, honey. [00:56:29] Speaker C: Did you say hello, honey? [00:56:31] Speaker F: You know, I said Normie always sounds so much upper when you're there. Tony. [00:56:37] Speaker C: Oh, isn't that nice? This is Ruth, who was our entertainment editor here on the Normie Nathan Show. [00:56:43] Speaker F: I'm not talking so much about entertainment. [00:56:46] Speaker C: No, no, you don't have to do that every time. I'm simply identifying. No, you can talk about anything. [00:56:50] Speaker F: I know. I was gonna. That lady semi sort of beat me to it. But funny, I've been collecting bone china color cups and sauces forever. And I also have a collection of mugs. Isn't that funny? [00:57:03] Speaker C: Isn't it? Various kinds of mugs with different, you know, identification things. [00:57:07] Speaker F: Yes, but mainly I have bone china cups and sauces that I love. My mother used to have some. And then, of course, I got them after she passed away and I started collecting them the way, way, way many years back. And they used to sell individual ones in Jordan Marsh. That was the only place you could really go in. You know, every week you could go in and buy one. And they weren't very expensive because they're all, you know, beautifully made in England or Ireland. Those are the two places mainly. And they're just, you know, some of them all hand painted inside and everything. And now you can't get them any place. I mean, you know, they cost a fortune. But I have 50 also displayed on a couple of shelves. You saw them when you were here. [00:57:53] Speaker C: Last at your house? Oh, yeah, that's right, too. I didn't see. The thing was, I was so excited about the sexual encounter that we had, I forgot to look at the china Fred. [00:58:05] Speaker F: Now. [00:58:07] Speaker C: Fred is Fred as well. His girl, she's not feeling well, so he's fooling around on the side. I mean, it's. How can you be sympathetic toward that? [00:58:17] Speaker F: I know he went from. From that. From all his collectibles to his sexual whatever. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Well, he went from a. Sexual proclivities and his. His lust, his animal lust to his collections, his collectibles. I don't. Most of the time, I tell you that. Come closer. I don't want everybody to hear this. Most of the time, I think he's making up these stories. I don't believe almost anything he ever says. [00:58:40] Speaker G: Which he. [00:58:40] Speaker C: The guy you were supposed to meet. [00:58:41] Speaker F: Correct. [00:58:42] Speaker C: He's in a. Funny. [00:58:43] Speaker F: I think. [00:58:43] Speaker C: I think you're lucky you never met him. I. I really think luck is with you. I don't. [00:58:47] Speaker F: I was gonna say that you. The more you talk to him, the luckier I feel. [00:58:51] Speaker C: No, I. I don't think there was a chance that he was going to meet with you because that was. That was another one of his little stories that he was making. [00:58:57] Speaker F: That's right. I mean. And, you know. And we never heard about the girlfriend until tonight. That particular girlfriend, no. [00:59:04] Speaker C: But he's never said he's been gone with anybody any kind of regular basis. He never said that. [00:59:08] Speaker B: That's right. [00:59:09] Speaker C: And next time he'll talk about. I don't know how he parachuted off the Empire State Building, but I don't know, he'll have some cockamamie story. [00:59:19] Speaker F: I had a lovely letter. How's this? A little lovely letter from a lady from Lynn. Could you say that? [00:59:25] Speaker C: A lovely lady from us. A lovely letter. [00:59:28] Speaker F: A lady from Lynn. [00:59:29] Speaker G: A lady. [00:59:30] Speaker C: A Lynn lady. Lovely lady letter. [00:59:32] Speaker F: And she said when she hears me talk to you. It sounds like you and I are really good friends. [00:59:39] Speaker C: We're more than friends. What's her name? The lovely. I hope it's Lillian or Lola or something like that. [00:59:46] Speaker F: Matter of fact, wait a minute. I'll tell you if you give me two seconds, because she sent me a card. [00:59:53] Speaker C: If it doesn't begin with an L. [00:59:55] Speaker B: I don't want to hear it. [00:59:56] Speaker F: It is close, Alan. [00:59:57] Speaker C: It's close. Okay, wait a minute. [01:00:00] Speaker F: And I have to take it back. She's not from Lynn. She's from neither. Alan. From neither. [01:00:06] Speaker C: Ellen. [01:00:06] Speaker B: From. [01:00:06] Speaker C: Well, that spoils every. Well, Ellen and does have a. Have an L. Well, anyway. Yes, Ellen. Ellen, Ruth and I are so close. [01:00:16] Speaker F: You and Norman. [01:00:16] Speaker C: It's almost good friends. [01:00:18] Speaker F: And she really enjoys listening to you. [01:00:20] Speaker C: It's almost obscene. We're that close? Yeah. [01:00:23] Speaker F: So what else you want to tell me? Anything good? See any good movies? This guy to have no entertainment. [01:00:28] Speaker C: Well, I almost went to see the, the Paul Newman movie Nobody's fool. But I, I mean, that's as close to giving a review as I give you, which is a stupid review because I never got to see it. [01:00:40] Speaker F: I know. I haven't either. I haven't seen any moves lately. It's terrible. [01:00:44] Speaker C: There aren't. There are. There are an awful lot of movies that you really don't care to see. [01:00:48] Speaker F: I know most of the movies now getting very bad press. I mean, who knows if that's good bad, you know, if that's true, you have to go see it for yourself. [01:00:57] Speaker C: No, I will say I have kids who go to the movies once in a while and, and friends who do. So I get reviews from them. And Nobody's Fool I wanted to see, but I had nobody to go see it with. [01:01:10] Speaker B: It was awful. Oh, it's so awful. [01:01:13] Speaker C: And I, I, I don't like to go to the movies alone. Well, last time I did, I saw Pulp Fiction and fell asleep. But aside from that, I like to, you know, I like to hit, hit the person with me in my, in their, in their ribs with my elbow and say, did you see that? [01:01:29] Speaker F: I know. [01:01:30] Speaker C: And if, and if they're not, you know, if they haven't come into the movies with me or they're just, you know, sitting there with their boyfriend or girlfriend or something, they don't really appreciate that. [01:01:38] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:01:39] Speaker C: I want to kind of interrupt other people's conversations and talk with them because I get lonesome sitting there alone. I don't like to be alone at the movies. [01:01:46] Speaker F: Oh, I don't blame you. Get a little popcorn and a friend I know. [01:01:50] Speaker C: And I try to, I try to invite the lady who was selling me M M's down with me. Just, you know. You know, I'll pay you for a, for a hundred boxes of M M. Just come down, sit with me and let me talk to you. [01:02:02] Speaker F: Now, to get to my. [01:02:04] Speaker C: I made that up. I'm a too cheap to do anything. [01:02:07] Speaker F: Like that now, you know, tomorrow night they're going to have on television. This is my entertainment report. Wait a minute. I want to make sure I have it right. They're going to have the first time they've got. Yes, they're going to have the Screen Actors Guild Awards. That's the first time. [01:02:27] Speaker C: That's what the, that's what the world needs more in television does another award, another award show. [01:02:31] Speaker F: Right. They're going to be televised. [01:02:33] Speaker C: Then the Grammys are coming up in. [01:02:34] Speaker F: March and next week they're having the. No, next week. Yeah, next week the Grammys. [01:02:39] Speaker C: Well, that's next week is March. [01:02:41] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, it's in the TV guy. I think it's Wednesday or whatever it is. [01:02:45] Speaker C: That's all, all people in the entertainment business, whether they're singers or anything, they sit around all year and every week they go to some award. [01:02:52] Speaker F: Yeah, right. [01:02:53] Speaker C: I mean, they must be such a bunch of fatheads, you know, and they think that everybody's so excited. The daytime soap operas, aren't they having awards? [01:03:03] Speaker F: They had them last week. [01:03:04] Speaker C: Oh, that was last week. [01:03:06] Speaker F: They had it last week. [01:03:07] Speaker C: You know, how many awards can you go? They become meaningless after a while. [01:03:11] Speaker B: I know. [01:03:12] Speaker F: I saw Helen Hunt tonight, who I like from Mad about you and she was on with David Letterman and she's said she was going to fly back to California tonight to be the first presenter at the SAG awards tomorrow night. And then next Wednesday there's a comedy awards or something. [01:03:33] Speaker C: She's going to be. Oh, aren't they? Shame. [01:03:37] Speaker F: It is. [01:03:38] Speaker C: I mean, that's shameful. [01:03:40] Speaker F: I know. And it is boring. I think the only reason a lot of people watch it to see what the women are wearing. [01:03:46] Speaker C: Well, I certainly watch it for that reason myself, you know, for what they're almost not wearing. [01:03:50] Speaker F: I know. [01:03:51] Speaker C: Why don't they have awards for other businesses? Why are they just entertainers all as such a bunch of fatheads? Hey, give me awards, we'll have an award night. What about people? What about, you know, say, delicatessen workers for the guy who makes the best hot pastrami sandwich. [01:04:08] Speaker F: Right, but they have the commercials, don't they? They have, they do. [01:04:12] Speaker C: There's the Clio. Is the, the best commercials. Yeah. [01:04:16] Speaker F: That's good. [01:04:17] Speaker C: That's kind of funny because some of the commercial, especially if they, they bring in some from overseas. [01:04:21] Speaker F: Yeah, they're great. [01:04:22] Speaker C: Oh, they, they have some wild ones and some of them would be rated triple X in this country because they don't have the hang ups that we do about sex over there in their commercials. And they get pretty strong and some of them. But they're funny. I mean, they're not, they're not just obscene, they're fun. Are you breathing hard? Of course I can hear that. You know, and I'm, I'm getting excited just listening. [01:04:45] Speaker F: Today I was in the hospital having my little checkup and I'm a little tired and out of breath and all that. [01:04:51] Speaker C: Are you okay. [01:04:52] Speaker F: Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, yeah. And tomorrow I'm plan hope to get up early if I can go to sleep. But how can I sleep when you're on the radio? [01:05:02] Speaker C: God knows. God knows. [01:05:03] Speaker F: Having our rent control meeting in the neighborhood here. And I must go to it. It's very important. [01:05:10] Speaker C: No, I. We can make jokes about that, but I think those things are very important. [01:05:14] Speaker F: No, seriously. I mean, I don't want to get into this. It's kind of personal. Except I have to say, if you ever met my landlord, you wouldn't believe it. We'll leave it that way. [01:05:25] Speaker C: I've had landlords like that myself. [01:05:28] Speaker F: I've been in this place almost 28 years. [01:05:31] Speaker B: And you just. [01:05:32] Speaker F: It's a story for later because I don't want to get into too much. But if you see me sleeping in the parking lot in my car, you'll understand. [01:05:40] Speaker C: I hope it works out okay, but. [01:05:42] Speaker F: A lot of people are going to go, I guess. [01:05:43] Speaker B: Good. [01:05:44] Speaker E: Good. [01:05:44] Speaker F: May I send everybody a letter? Do you want to come for coffee and stuff? By the way, did you go to the Cools Corner Theater to check that out? You were going to go. [01:05:52] Speaker C: No, I know it. I should have done. I did not. I just was kind of bushed that morning. [01:05:56] Speaker F: Morning. [01:05:56] Speaker C: And I just went right home. [01:05:57] Speaker F: I think they had a little bit of it on the news. [01:06:00] Speaker C: I. I didn't see much about that at all publicized anywhere. I think we're the only. About the only people talked about it. [01:06:06] Speaker F: Yeah. But I think I did see a little. I mean, some nights when the news is on, I'm in the other room or something, you know, and I hear something and I think that one of the stations had a little blurb on it showed all the people in line in their costumes and everything. See, I'm constantly listening. I know everything you're doing. Listen, I'm gonna let you talk to Robert. [01:06:27] Speaker C: I hope I'll talk to him next. [01:06:30] Speaker F: He'll tell you that I've talked to you too long and he's been waiting too long. But between Fred and Robert, I mean, you get. Always get me in the middle here. But you're the one I really love. [01:06:40] Speaker C: I'm glad and I. And I hope everything's going okay for you, Ruth. And good luck at the rent meeting. [01:06:45] Speaker F: Yeah. And thank you. I'll be maybe a couple calling you to rent a room. [01:06:49] Speaker C: I hope it works out okay. I know you're kidding about this, but it sounds like it's serious business. [01:06:54] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. I mean, you have to laugh because some of these things are nonsensical. But I'll tell you truthfully, though, the people, you know, people are always knocking the government and everything, but the people who are in charge of all this right now are very helpful so far. I've had a lot of dealings with them in the last couple of weeks. And to the people who help have problems, they've been extremely helpful. They're very cooperative, and they're not rude, and they'll listen. And then they call you back and they're checking on things. And you have to give them a little credit because I'm sure they're bothered by a million people right now. [01:07:29] Speaker C: I think a lot of people in government get a really bad deal from people who just assume that they're all inefficient and they've been put there by their relatives and all that. One thing I noticed. I'll just say this now, let you go. The post office department, for example, gets. Gets knocked all over the place. I think what they do is absolutely incredible. When they take millions and millions and millions of pieces of mail and nearly every one of them gets to where they're going, and usually in pretty good time, you know, then somebody will say, yeah, that was. I sent a letter to the president. I just got an answer back. And Mr. And President Coolidge said, you know, making jokes about it, I have found the. The mail system really very, very good. I just thought I'd say. [01:08:15] Speaker F: I heard you say that before. [01:08:16] Speaker C: Yes, I mean. [01:08:17] Speaker B: I mean. [01:08:17] Speaker C: I mean, people say that because they. They got a letter that's missing or something, you know, out of the millions and millions that are spent for now for 32 cents. I mean, how can you beat that? [01:08:28] Speaker F: That's right. I. There was something in the paper a couple of weeks ago. I think I sent it to my sister. I don't have it here. But it was true. Wherever it was. The lady had sent a letter. A lady received a letter that was mailed to her in 1956, and it just arrived really. Seriously, wherever it was. But she still got it. [01:08:51] Speaker C: No, but I. You know, I mean, something like that, obviously, it's not. It's not typical, and it's kind of funny. And it's too bad Robert Ripley isn't still alive doing Believe it or not, because that's the kind of thing he gets used to get into his column. Right, but the thing that makes it unusual is because those things don't really happen that often. [01:09:09] Speaker F: No, that's true. [01:09:10] Speaker C: It really is. And most of the time that you send a letter to somebody and gets to them and it gets them fairly quickly. [01:09:16] Speaker F: That's right. [01:09:17] Speaker B: Okay. [01:09:18] Speaker F: And Dave made a very good rapport. Is that the word? [01:09:21] Speaker C: Rapport is excellent. [01:09:23] Speaker B: Poor. [01:09:23] Speaker F: Hey, I love you. [01:09:24] Speaker C: Good luck. Good luck. [01:09:25] Speaker F: Thanks. [01:09:26] Speaker B: Bye. [01:09:26] Speaker C: Bye. [01:09:27] Speaker F: SVBD. It's worth about $120 now. [01:09:32] Speaker C: Now what does that mean? [01:09:34] Speaker F: Well, it's the mints special mint. [01:09:37] Speaker C: I've never noticed letters like that on any coin. [01:09:39] Speaker F: That was the only one. [01:09:41] Speaker C: Really? [01:09:42] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:09:43] Speaker B: Wow. [01:09:43] Speaker F: 1909. And I have one, but it's not, it's not the one that's worth, you know, real lot of money, but it's just exciting. I just love. I can't get a handful of change. I save all my change and if I don't take it to the bank pretty soon, I'm gonna have to take it in shifts. [01:10:06] Speaker C: No, no. Well, when you get the change though, you check through it, don't you? And if it's not valuable. [01:10:11] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:10:12] Speaker C: Don't you then get rid of the change anyway? [01:10:15] Speaker F: Well, I get rid of the change. Unless it's like sometimes you all run across maybe a 1955 nickel. Okay. And it'll be just beautiful, you know, and you can always tell. And also I get the penny still with the feather on them because I look for. [01:10:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:10:34] Speaker F: You know, but what's nice about it is that, you know, that somebody was broke and they went into their collection, you know, and a lot of times they let go of a coin that's really valuable. I, I, I would recommend to everybody to get the coin book for the year, you know, and every time you get changed, just make the habit of taking it home and checking it. You'd be surprised. You might find a coin even if they're worth three, four dollars, you know, in one day you could get a couple of coins worth 3, 4 bucks. I mean, that's money. Now that'll get you into saving them. [01:11:10] Speaker C: Now, the book you, you can buy at the post office. [01:11:14] Speaker F: I don't buy mine there. No, I go to, I have a. [01:11:17] Speaker B: Place I go to Westland Center, a regular coin shop. [01:11:20] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, I know. I've been going to him a long time. Yeah, I get my gold coins. [01:11:25] Speaker C: Well, that's right. Of course you wouldn't get coin. But why would you get coins, A coin book at a post office? That doesn't make any sense. What? I just, it, I was still, I was still thinking of stamps, actually. [01:11:35] Speaker F: The, they have a nice, I mean, a stamp place at the post office. Really, where you can buy everything. [01:11:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Those are stamps, though. But not coins. [01:11:46] Speaker F: No, not the coins. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Coins. [01:11:47] Speaker F: I go to a different place. [01:11:49] Speaker C: Okay. [01:11:49] Speaker F: He has some good deals sometime, you know. Sherwood Forest itself. Sir? [01:11:54] Speaker C: Yes. [01:11:54] Speaker F: I can give you a special number. [01:11:56] Speaker C: Oh, that would be lovely. [01:11:57] Speaker F: That Mansfield code. You'd have to find out the Mansfield code for us. It's 0623, but it might be different for you. That's Mansfield. That's not far from Nottingham. And that's 824490. [01:12:12] Speaker C: And private functions and all. And public functions too, for that matter. [01:12:16] Speaker F: Right. [01:12:16] Speaker C: And is a, and is an interesting man. Anyway, I, I, I somehow had a feeling you knew all about Keith and 98 Five Point. [01:12:24] Speaker B: Right. [01:12:25] Speaker F: Well, I got as much, this is as much as I have right now. [01:12:28] Speaker B: It was on even though it was. [01:12:29] Speaker F: On the Mercury label. [01:12:32] Speaker B: Now I know that's not quite the publisher, but it's just one step closer. [01:12:37] Speaker C: Mercury label, yeah. [01:12:38] Speaker B: The writers of the song were Tony Powers and George Fischoff. [01:12:45] Speaker F: Spelled F I S H O F. [01:12:48] Speaker C: I F. And what was his first name? [01:12:51] Speaker F: George. [01:12:52] Speaker C: Oh, George Fish off and Tony Powers. [01:12:55] Speaker F: Right. [01:12:55] Speaker B: And it was written in 1966. [01:12:59] Speaker F: And the backing vocals on that song. [01:13:03] Speaker B: Were done by the Tokens. And the Tokens were famous for the Lion Sleeps Tonight. [01:13:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I remember that. And I was just a kid when that came out. I was only maybe 59 or 63 or 60 something at the time. Yeah. [01:13:18] Speaker B: And the last bit of info I. [01:13:20] Speaker F: Have is Keith's real name is James Barry Keifer. [01:13:26] Speaker B: K E E F E R. Boy. [01:13:30] Speaker C: You have a ton of information there. That's fantastic, Ed. [01:13:34] Speaker B: I have a lot of encyclopedias. [01:13:38] Speaker C: I guess so. That's great. So, so we got the. Keith was actually James Barry Kiefer and he recorded that in 1966. The tokens were the backup performers. And it was Tony Powers and George Fischoff who wrote that. And it was on a Mercury record. [01:13:57] Speaker F: Right. [01:13:58] Speaker C: I think that pretty well covers it. The only thing he was asking about was the publisher of that. But I mean, with all that information, I wouldn't, It'd be very difficult to do that. I, I might mention the fact that Ed Mullen and along with Tony and some other people are part of the. What do we, what do we call that, Ed? [01:14:17] Speaker F: The Swell Music Quiz. [01:14:18] Speaker C: Oh, the Swell. That's right, the Swell Music Quiz. And we're going to do that again soon. I've been telling Tony line of people we want to, we want to do that and so we'll find out when is convenient for you. [01:14:31] Speaker B: That'd be great. [01:14:32] Speaker C: And because you're kind of the key person, because you know all that stuff more than anybody in the entire world. I think there was somebody in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1937 who knew a lot. But aside from him, and he didn't speak English well enough for us to even follow him, you're the only one that knows. [01:14:52] Speaker F: What can I say? [01:14:54] Speaker C: Hey, do you want to go to the home show? [01:14:59] Speaker B: So we got. [01:15:00] Speaker C: We got six measly tickets, a pair of tickets to the home show, which opens today. [01:15:07] Speaker F: Really? [01:15:08] Speaker C: Shall we send you a couple? [01:15:09] Speaker F: Oh, that'd be great. [01:15:11] Speaker B: Okay. [01:15:12] Speaker F: Okay. [01:15:13] Speaker C: I've got your address, but it's at home. I don't have it received. When I have your address at home, you know, you're a friend. All right, because I don't have. Most of the addresses I have are right here, the at the station, but that's business stuff. [01:15:24] Speaker F: Oh, okay. [01:15:24] Speaker C: But you and I are buddies, for God's sake. So I have you at home. [01:15:28] Speaker B: But. [01:15:28] Speaker C: So meantime, I'll turn you back over to Tony and he'll take the name and address. They'll get the things out. The problem is the. They'll be mailed out Monday, so you won't get them till Tuesday, but sometime during the week. And since. May I say it? [01:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:44] Speaker C: Okay. Since you and Trish are getting married within a couple of months, less than a couple of months, month and a half, you might want to take it at the home show because you already have a house and everything. You'll be able to get some ideas and wallpaper and stuff and things so that your house will stand out from all the others in the entire world. [01:16:05] Speaker B: It sounds good. Also, on the other hand, she might get all kinds of crazy ideas about remodeling every weekend. [01:16:12] Speaker C: I try to keep Norma away from these home shows. Matter of fact, way back as for the same reason. But I think it's about time you change the wallpaper in your room from the bunnies and the Mother Goose bribes and stuff like that. Maybe a little bit more adult. [01:16:25] Speaker B: Don't talk about the bunnies like that. [01:16:27] Speaker C: Okay. Let me turn you over to Tony. He'll get the information. We good to talk to you. [01:16:32] Speaker B: Good to talk to you, Newton R. Okay. [01:16:33] Speaker G: Thank you, Rhode Scholar. This is beautiful stuff, Jack Hard. [01:16:39] Speaker C: Wow. Sure, I can top that. [01:16:43] Speaker A: No truer words were ever spoken. Was I right or was I right? This must have been the most scattershot tape I've ever come across. A little something for everyone. Really. I'll be here next week and I hope you are too closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it for payphone courtesy Anti vulgarian whistles and magic horns Movie theater etiquette manners People of unsound minds Hyphenated Americans freaks Finchins Bluish italics and hung poles Service bells Power tripping morons Bathroom walls rapping vacuum salespeople Suffolk Downs coupons napping meat department managers backwards masking defending telemarketers yeah not really Nathan's famous no relation the Narrow Gauge Railroad Cultural activities in Binghamton New York Radio drama Cats Infected with Satan WHDH Dick Summers Bob Raleigh David Brudnoy Barry Nolan Monica Collins Moist roads the Four River Bridge fog hampered travel Wall washers and bulb changing the electronic superhighway John Deere Fox Run equipment incorporated in North Pembroke Nashua Outdoor power equipment repair 146 supply center in Milbury Duncan the Delta connection Ryopam plus two Qigarlic HP Deskjet printer Fortune magazine Silverlight Dodge Speaking Irish the Welsh brogues Rufus Sewell Steve Lavelli Bone china A lovely letter from a lady in Lynn who's from Needham and is named Ellen popcorn M&MS. 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