Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Good gosh almighty. Episode 280 is broadcasting from the recently reorganized, plush, but not overly ostentatious Nortsch Studios. This will be a quick hit of a Norm Nathan show from March 19, 1994 with the ever so clever title A quick hit from some nitwits. It features quick chatter in choppy edits. There's a Jack Hart Snowy traffic report with US Air Shuttle as a sponsor.
Move on to a Norm show open and some guest info from guests we never hear from. Then Jack and Norm catching a train amongst more snowy traffic. Here are the list of callers. Unknown caller, but we get to hear a poem about growing old.
Then a caller who just never actually comes to the phone because the radio is on in the background. We hear from Marie talking about her chihuahua Pepe, which leads Norm to talk about his horse Sunflower. Then the great Monica from Nahant asking the burning question, was Sunflower a used horse? Norm explains that that's not quite the correct term. She also asks if Norm could do her a favor and write a note to Bob Raleigh to put birthdays in his birthday book. Remember that about Bob? He had a notebook where he wrote listeners birthdays in.
So why did she need Norm to do this favor? You'll have to stay tuned to find out. And it's pretty funny and ridiculous. Wolfie, also known as Loco Lobo on a payphone. And a quick call from Generosa and her cuckoo clock. Other highlights. I join in studio with someone else who I believe to be Rod the security guard. We learn about the latest temperature monitoring technology, nor mentions trying to remain on the air just long enough to reach May 24, which would be his 50th anniversary in radio.
And get ready for a barn burner rendition of hello Bluebird accompanied by some wacky band members. Did you ever wonder what my epitaph would be? Well, you're gonna find out. I participate in a brief Academy Award quiz which led to some talk about winners in different categories. And Norm reads a sweet story of a fifth grade class from Oceanside, California. Lastly, we hear some more teasers for guests we never hear from. Here, John J. Moran, creator of Daring Passages, the board game in a bottle. And then author Michael Rosen with the kids Best Dog Book and Field Guide to neighborhood dogs. Episode 280, a quick hit from some nitwits jabs its way to your ears. Now.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Let it snow.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: Let it snow. You betcha. This report brought to you by U.S. air Shuttle precipitation still hitting area roadways, making things a bit slippery so far. We haven't been burdened by too much depth of snow, so just watch out the traveler. Visibility is also a little bit tough. Downtown area. We do have the Sumner Tunnel shut down this overnight. Two way traffic in the Callahan Tunnel is your alternate route. I'm Jack Hart, WBZ 24 Hour Traffic Network. US Air Shuttle has the most convenient flights to New York every hour on the hour, all day long. No one takes off before them, no one lands after them. US Air Shuttle on time on the
[00:03:15] Speaker D: hour town lift you up when you're down. Nor Nathan or WBC.
[00:03:30] Speaker C: Speaking.
Gonna be talking with a man about who's written a book called Life's Little Frustrations. Or it's actually called Life's Little Frustration Book in just a minute and we'll be talking with you and just having just so darn much fun as we wander through these soft hours of the night. Thank you just so much.
Couple of things. We had the, the lottery numbers of trains coming into the station and it was a little early for you to kind of three off, didn't you? Yes, I, I just went out to check the train that just went past the, the traffic tower. Okay.
Yeah, because. Because I know that you're a totally inflexible human being. Yes, I am.
Anyway, what's doing by way of traffic, this snow or anything, is it still snowing? Oh yes, it's still snowing, Norm. Indeed. And it's frustrating the dickens out of motorists for anyone about. We've gotten just below the freezing point as well and so we're starting to see some slipping and sliding situations on area roadways.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: To grin when I think where my get and go has been.
Old age is golden I've heard it said but sometimes I wonder as I get into bed My ears in the drawer my teeth in the cup my eyes on a table Until I wake up ere sleep dims my eyes I say to myself is there anything else I should lay on the shelf But I'm happy to say as I close the door My friends are the same as in days of yore When I was young my slippers were red I could kick up my heels right over my head When I grew up my slippers were blue but then I could dance the whole night through Now I am old, my slippers are black I walk to the corner and puffed my way back the reason I know my youth has been spent My get up and go has got up and went But I don't mind really when I think with a grin of all the places My get up has been since I've retired from life's competition.
I busy myself with complete repetition. I get up each month, morn and dust off my wits, pick up the paper and read the old bits.
If my name is missing, I know I'm not dead. So I eat my breakfast and go back to bed.
[00:06:10] Speaker C: Where's her radio? It must be across town.
It's probably three, four miles and she's got to crawl every moment of that way.
Oh, oh, oh. Like you just heard me singing. Singing on the delay. By the time she gets back, we're going to have to go to the news. I don't know what that means. Anyway, it is. It's 28 degrees. Sitting out in his tent out there with a. It's probably on the roof somewhere.
There's a. I see. Because somebody said it was.
There was a little funny looking guy with a thermometer built right into his navel. And he wandered to different places so we could get a, you know, a representative temperature. Sometimes he was out in the backside parking lot, sometimes up on the roof.
And this I don't. Oh, God. The old naval thermometer, huh? It's the old naval thermometer stick. Yeah, everybody knows that. We'll take some phone calls. We're going to do.
We're going to do hello, Bluebird soon.
Okay, that's be exciting.
2, 5. We haven't done that for a long time, but we're.
We're living on the edge today.
I'm trying to make it through to May 24th so I can celebrate my 50th in the business. After that, I care even less than what I care now, but. 2, 5, 4, 10, 30. Anyway, area code 617.
And we'll take some calls and we'll sing. We'll have just so much fun later on when I feel like it. If you need remember it.
Remember hello, Bluebird. Okay, everybody, join in.
All day long I jump and run about. You can always hear me shouting out, hello, bluebird.
Got no time for blues or anything. I'm so happy I just want to sing.
Hello, bluebird.
Blue skies, sunshine, friends that are real old folks. Sweethearts, oh, how I feel. I'll not go roaming like I did again.
I'll stay home and be a kid again. Hello, hello, Bluebird. Hello, everybody. Now this is the lovely Mora Bilofsky and his saxophone. No, no, it's trumbone.
It's Trumbo and it's later on his whole place. His trumbone. Him and his trumbone. Right. I think we have chorus coming in, of course.
Oh, yes, that's right. It's. That's right. It's the Westinghouse girls.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:08:49] Speaker C: Girls, cars. They sound like guys, but. Yeah, they're here somewhere. They're doing a little dance first. Come on, line up, guys. Hello, Blue Bird.
No time for blues or anything. I'm so happy I can sing.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Bird.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: All the kids are dancing around the teen canteen. Just so much fun.
Oh, yeah.
This guy play there a jazzy party here. Oh, this. I think. Here it is. Here it is. Coleman out. You can always hear me shouting. Out.
Whistle.
Got some time for a happy. I just want to sing.
Whistle, please.
Thank you.
This is Mo Badetsky coming up playing his citrus. Get ready.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Here we go.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Take it away, Mo.
This guy's camp, by the way. He's camp? Oh, yeah. Oh, you talk about your classic oldies stations. Wilder, can you get an oldie older than this one? A more neoclassic?
Oh, there he is.
Beautiful, beautiful.
I love this.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: What an ending.
[00:10:47] Speaker C: Great ending.
Oh, that was. That was kind of nice. Did you guys like that?
[00:10:52] Speaker B: Is that nice?
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm winded from dancing. I tell you, those girls can show up.
Yeah, I forgot, you know, it's been a long time since I heard them and.
Yeah, some of them are transvestite. It's kind of hard to tell what they are. You know what I'm saying? No, we don't. We don't care about. Whatever your preference. No, it's okay with us. We don't care. We're an equal preference.
In fact. In fact, it's a little more sensual when they play the trombone on the dragon.
Okay, let's take some.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: Let's take some phone calls before we
[00:11:25] Speaker C: talk ourselves right off the air. And I'd have worked forever.
It's okay with me. But if you're a young fella, Tony.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:31] Speaker C: And you've got probably a no kind of future anyway, so what the heck matter? So let's have some fun. Yeah, okay, let's see.
Remember we were talking earlier this week? Yeah. And you said as long as you keep your sense of humor? I says, that's right. As long as I'm telling jokes and some pan holding panhandling by the curbside. What the hell. Let's have some fun. That's right. No, I mean, as soon. As soon as you lose your sense of humor. That's right. You turn into my late mother in law. Yeah, that's not much fun. He died penniless. It'll say on my Grave. But, man, he make you laugh. I tell you something. And he giggled, right? Right to the welfare list. I recall he was the happiest looking guy out there with his little monkey and his. His whatever you call it. Yeah, what is that? The grinding box. The.
The organ? The. Yeah, the old box. The grind box. The. Hey, listen, let's ask Calliope. That's not the Calliope. No, unless. Sort of. Same kind of sound. Let's talk to Marie. Cause she'll know. What do you call that anyway? Marie? Oh, this is my love, Norm.
I'm sorry. Hold on a minute. Let me get him for you. This sounds like the Larry Glick Show.
No, this is Norm. Yes, I'm speaking. Yes, I am. I'm speaking.
[00:12:39] Speaker D: How are you, dear?
[00:12:41] Speaker C: Oh, how nice of you to ask. You really care, don't you? You ask that like you really care. I'm so pleased.
Would you believe some people ask that? They don't really care. They just say that as a matter of course. But you had passion in your voice when you asked.
[00:12:54] Speaker D: You know why?
[00:12:56] Speaker C: Why is that?
[00:12:56] Speaker D: We love animals. You have a horse and I have a Chihuahua.
[00:13:01] Speaker C: I have a horse and you have a chihuahua, eh?
[00:13:04] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:13:05] Speaker C: How is your Chihuahua, baby?
[00:13:08] Speaker D: Well, he's pretty good.
[00:13:09] Speaker C: This is an old burlesque routine I once heard. Oh, that's nice.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: I'm good.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: What can I do for you, Marie?
[00:13:15] Speaker D: I just want to know how you are after that show that you put up with all that kavitzing.
[00:13:21] Speaker C: Oh, did you not like that?
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Was that.
[00:13:23] Speaker C: Did that make you laugh at all? Was that just boring and stupid?
[00:13:27] Speaker D: Oh, it made me laugh, but it was stupid. Tony was good.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Oh, thank you.
[00:13:33] Speaker D: How is Tony?
[00:13:34] Speaker C: Well, you can. He's gonna answer you directly.
[00:13:37] Speaker D: He is.
[00:13:38] Speaker C: How are you, Tony? I'm fine, thank you, Norm. How are you? I'm okay. How are you, Marie?
[00:13:42] Speaker D: I'm fine, Norm. How are you?
[00:13:44] Speaker C: Good, thank you. How you doing, Marie?
[00:13:45] Speaker D: Hi there. How are you?
[00:13:47] Speaker C: I'm pretty good.
[00:13:48] Speaker D: Good.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: How's Pepe?
[00:13:49] Speaker D: Pepe is fine.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: Pepe's her Chihuahua. Oh, the Chihuahua. The Chihuahua, yeah. You have a Chihuahua? I have a horse.
[00:13:57] Speaker D: You have a horse? Well, now you know that I told you. Give him sugar, carrots.
[00:14:01] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Is her teeth. Well, it's a. It's number one. She's a mare, a female, and she's at the age now where her teeth are not in great shape anyway. And with more sugar. I'm not sure that'd be a good thing. Are her teeth on that?
Well, you know, like. Like People's teeth, they. People get old. Yeah. Do they get fillings or they just pull them?
Well, she hasn't had either one, but they start favoring certain teeth. They get worn away mostly. They start to wear down a bit and so you can see the way they chew. Sometimes their lower jaw moves from. Well, obviously there's no upper jaws. They're used from side to side as they try to chew around, especially hay and things.
But she's in great, great health other than that. That's just a natural kind of thing for a horse her age.
And don't tell me about the Chihuahua, because I don't mind talking about my horse. But your Chihuahua is boring. Marie. Do you chew from like that with the lower jump from side to side? Cause it's hard to chew.
[00:14:59] Speaker D: No, I hope I don't.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Oh, okay. I know you don't kiss that way.
You know that. A lobster walks sideways, A crab does. Does a lobster walk sideways too? Oh, is it a crab? Yeah, I knew it was something. I saw something with big claws coming down Tremont Street.
Hey, some high tide, too. Marie, thank you very much for the call.
[00:15:20] Speaker D: Thank you. And.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to clip her off like that. I really didn't. My. My hand slipped.
Okay, let's go to Monica in the hand. Hi, Monica.
[00:15:31] Speaker D: Hi, Norm. How are you Tonight?
[00:15:33] Speaker C: Let's see.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Hold on.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Tonight, let's see. I'm okay.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Good, good.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:15:37] Speaker D: What is the name of your horse? I never thought to ask you.
[00:15:40] Speaker C: My name on my horse is Sunflower. We call her Flower for short.
[00:15:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah? How many years you had her?
[00:15:47] Speaker C: About 12 years, I think, something like that. 12, 13 years old. She's 27, though. Isn't she something? Quite a while. Yeah, she's about 27, 28 now. Yeah, she was about.
I really don't know. I'm guessing at the age. I really can't tell. The vet checks her out a lot.
[00:16:02] Speaker D: Was she a used horse? You got a used.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: A used horse. And we went to the used horse lot and we said, we like that. How much mileage does that horse have?
And that's how we picked her out. Well, what do you mean? A used horse or the old Chevy? Sunflower, I suppose. Unless. Unless you get it when she's a colt just born. All horses, in a sense, are used. If you. If they're right. Yeah, if they're used. If they're used.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: I mean, pre. See, we don't call them used. We call them pre ridden. Priya. Pre. Ridden Horses.
[00:16:36] Speaker D: Norm, how many chickens you got?
[00:16:40] Speaker C: 2.
[00:16:41] Speaker D: Have either one of them started laying yet?
[00:16:43] Speaker C: No, not yet.
They didn't as of yesterday. That is, by yesterday I mean.
[00:16:48] Speaker D: Can I put a guess in?
[00:16:50] Speaker C: We have to write it in on a card.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: See?
[00:16:53] Speaker D: Now, Bob. Norm, do you do the birthday thing to the birthday book?
[00:17:00] Speaker C: What birthday book is that? I have a book called the Daily Celebrity Almanac. Is the title of this. This has birthdays and events and stuff listed in it.
[00:17:10] Speaker D: No, but Bob Raleigh has a birthday book where.
[00:17:13] Speaker C: Oh, he writes the names of his listeners in it. You mean and he mentions their birthday?
[00:17:17] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:18] Speaker C: No, I don't. I don't keep records of that. Because he does that.
[00:17:21] Speaker D: Well, could you do me a favor? Could you write a note for him for April 28?
[00:17:26] Speaker C: Why don't you write it to him directly? Because that's out of stamps.
[00:17:29] Speaker D: Would you believe I'm out of stamp? I use my letter.
[00:17:32] Speaker C: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're talking April 1, April 28, and you're not going to get to the post office between now and then. That's five weeks away.
[00:17:41] Speaker D: My kids do it all.
[00:17:43] Speaker C: Well, tell your kids to do that.
[00:17:44] Speaker D: But they use all my stamps up and then I don't have a stamp.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: You don't have a stamp?
Well, I don't know what to tell you.
I could do that, but I want, you know, I don't see him.
[00:17:55] Speaker D: A little note for Paul, Eddie and Ian on 28 April.
[00:18:04] Speaker C: 28 April?
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: What year this year?
[00:18:08] Speaker D: 1994.
[00:18:09] Speaker C: They probably. They'd probably be so successful. Probably want another. Have another birthday next year. Yeah. All three of them were born on the same day.
[00:18:15] Speaker D: Yes. Isn't that funny?
[00:18:17] Speaker C: They're not triplets.
[00:18:18] Speaker D: No, no, no, no, no. They get all different last names and they don't even know each other. But I know all three of them.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: I see. So she's the link. Monica's the link.
[00:18:28] Speaker D: I have my three birthday cards and three stamps and send.
[00:18:30] Speaker C: Well, you don't have three stamps.
[00:18:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I know it.
[00:18:32] Speaker C: I know it.
[00:18:33] Speaker D: I don't have three birthday cards either.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: Yeah, so that's the way. So you're not. Not only too cheap to send them cards, but you're too cheap even to send a card, one card in here to tell Bob about it.
Even to tell about the egg contest. She's not even going to send us a card? No, she's not. She wanted me to take it down over the phone so she would have to send anyway. How about this. We'll tell Bob that if you call up Bob to have Bob give Norm the message about the egg.
[00:19:02] Speaker D: Okay, that's a deal.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: Okay. All right.
Okay.
Good night, Monica.
How about a song?
Okay. Our phone number is 254-1030, area code 617.
Every. Things are very quiet now, so we could. If you thought about calling and you felt, what's the point? I'm gonna have to keep waiting on the line.
You won't have to do it. Now, here's another quiz. Let me give this to you, Tony. Okay.
Today, May or March. Wait a minute. When is March 19?
The Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time.
You know what year that would have been?
Was that, you know, Rod, seven years ago, so.
Oh, it was first televised. No, no. First televised. Televised. No, it was broadcast on radio, actually, before that. Okay. All right. And of course, began way back in, what, in the 20s? Sometimes.
But the first. The first telecast, would that be 1950? Oh, wait a minute. Say that again. I think it'd be 1959. 1959. I'll say 1957.
Okay, I'll give you another clue. WBZ TV. I don't know whether it was on NBC. Yeah, if it was, it would have been on this station. I suspect it might have been.
WBC TV went on the air in 1948. Yeah.
So it would have been maybe how many years after that, you suppose by that time a lot of stations were on and they were maybe 51 or 52. Actually, it's 53. I was just going to say 53 gave me a chance. But no, you had to jump in and spoil it for me.
But it was the. The best picture that the honor went to. The Greatest show on Earth.
It was Betty Hutton and a whole bunch of people. I can't remember that. That was the best picture of that year.
Gary Cooper won for a best actor for High Noon and the Greatest show on Earth won for best movie. Yeah, you think that. You'd think that High Noon would have won for that.
Shirley Booth was named best actress for her role in Comeback, Little Sheba. Now, back then, did it seem like they picked people from. Like they'd have a best actor from a separate movie, a different movie for best movie, a different actress from another movie.
So everyone won something from each of the best films of that year?
[00:21:32] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:21:32] Speaker C: I tell you, you can do research on that, because I happen to have. Like now that, for instance, there were three different winners right there.
You know, the. The book I have here, the one we get the calendar, the birthdays from, I believe also has a list of the Academy Award things if you wanted to check through it. I don't. I don't know. I can't. I really can't remember. Yeah, well, what else is that? All it has is to have a supporting actor and actress back then. I mean, your list that you're looking at there with winners. No, I. I don't have the list here. No, it would be.
And this very.
This very book here, it's the bible of this show.
Well, as you know, before I go on the air, I have a lot of this stuff is set up for me. Well, you have interns running around and the lovely Marilyn Goralnick who supervises all of them. And on 8 by 10 paper typing no closer than an inch, leaving an inch, border all the way around, double spacing and only on one side of the paper.
All the facts that I really care to know about. About anything in the entire world that may come up and when, if it comes in and it's not typed that way. I tell you that those kids can't get a job for years to come.
Okay, the recommendation from you was horrible. Yeah, no, this is the select Academy Award winners. It doesn't give all of them. But what year did we say? 52, best of 43. Oh, 53.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, no.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Okay, okay, that's right, it was 53, but the movies were from 52. And so Anthony Quinn won a supporting actor in Viva Zapata.
That's a fourth separate film then. Yeah, and here's a fifth one. Best supporting actress was Gloria Graham and the Bad and the Beautiful. Now what about the other years? Were they all different movies back then? I tell you what. Yeah, take a look.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Take the book.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: No, I just. Well, I mean, maybe someone else is interested. Check the first. First movie that ever won did for best Picture. See if that was. Oh, that was. That was Wings. Wings, that's right. I guess that was Wings, wasn't it? Here, let me take some phone calls.
Loco. Is that your name, Loco?
[00:23:38] Speaker B: Yes, the name is Loco Lobo. Let's see, it's Loco Lupo.
[00:23:42] Speaker C: Lupo Lobo, I guess is Wolf also. Yeah. How you doing, Wolfie?
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Holding my own. You brought back some memories.
In 1948, I was working for Warren Electric and Hardware. Sam and Benny. I wonder if you ever met them.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: I don't believe so.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: Well, they were the guys that set up WBZ basically on my back. I used to be the truck driver for them over at the Hardware.
[00:24:13] Speaker C: They set up bz?
[00:24:15] Speaker B: Well, I mean, they. A lot of the lighting and the gelatins and the pulleys and certain things.
[00:24:25] Speaker C: I wasn't here in the business. I mean, I was in the business, but I wasn't at WBZ back then. Yeah, no, I know. Where's Warren? Was that. Was that like at Warren Street, Roxbury or something like that?
[00:24:34] Speaker B: No, no, no. It was in the old furniture section of Washington street, which is now the medical center. We're going to hear the thing they want in nickel in a minute.
Washington street, you remember all the furniture stores that used to be there? And Albiani's Restaurant at Wash. Yeah, And
[00:24:56] Speaker C: Summerfield's Furniture was there, too.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: Wait a second.
[00:25:01] Speaker C: I don't know. You better hold on to that because we got.
Oh, shut up. Wait, wait, wait.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: Hold on, okay?
[00:25:08] Speaker C: Because I got news coming up in about a minute now.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: It's okay, I can hold on because I got something to say to you.
[00:25:15] Speaker C: You got to hold on through the news.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: Oh, let me pinch myself to see if this is really happening to me.
Okay, hold on. We'll put you on hold.
All right. Okay. In fact, you can say something right now because we have another minute. All right.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: You were talking about horses, right?
[00:25:30] Speaker C: Horses. I was talking about horses.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: Yes, horses. Okay. Today in the Louisiana Derby, about a month and a half ago, I gave you a horse called you and I.
Yes, hello?
[00:25:42] Speaker C: Yes, I'm here.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: All right. I gave you a horse called you and I.
Should that horse come half decently out of the Louisiana Derby, I pilot him with deher out of the Kentucky Derby to against going over the Holy Bull in the Derby.
You and I will be there.
[00:26:04] Speaker C: You and I will be there.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: And the Kentucky Derby.
[00:26:07] Speaker C: Yes. See, I look at a horse as kind of fun to ride, lovely to look at. And you look at the horse as simply something to bet on. So philosophies are really quite different.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Now, I went into this here with my eyes open that there are 12 million horse players out there and 11 million 997 of them don't know what they're doing.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: And my job. Arrest them. I'm a cop and this is.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: They need somebody for counseling.
[00:26:36] Speaker C: Sir.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:37] Speaker C: Hey, listen, I gotta go. I gotta break for the news right this very very moment because this is WBC Boston, and WBC Boston cares about. I'll see you later.
[00:26:47] Speaker D: The PLO may be ready to test the water.
[00:26:50] Speaker C: For a long time it was a regular diner. Then it became a kind of a specialty kind of diner for vegetarians and stuff. Is that your cuckoo clock?
[00:26:58] Speaker D: Yeah, it is, my friend.
Well, it's very, it's a pleasure talking to you.
It's losing time here and I've got to check that one out.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: I would think it's telling us about seven and a half minutes fast.
[00:27:12] Speaker D: Oh, I will do that. Thank you, Norm. Okay, talk to you later.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: Bye bye. Generosa. Or maybe, maybe the clock actually, maybe it's. Maybe it's 52 and a half minutes fast or slow or.
Never mind.
It's. Anyway, whatever, whatever it is, it's about 7 minutes before 5 o'. Clock. I just looking up the Beagle. A gentleman wanted to know where on this intelligence list the beagle came in along with the mastiff.
It was tied for 72nd place. So it's apparently at least by the people who made these judgments it was. He's not the brightest dog, the Beagle. But then again, you know, I mean if you have a dog and you love the dog, they seem very intelligent to you and these kind of, this kind of scoring thing doesn't really mean a whole lot. He was here was. Well, I thought this was a lovely story.
In the fifth grade class in a school in Oceanside, California, the called the Lake Elementary School, one of the kids is undergoing chemotherapy.
And so he's as you know, he see he's, he's, he's bald. As a result, you lose your head during the process.
And so.
And these, I guess These are what 11 year old kids are about 11 years old in the 5th grade.
As a result, 13 of the kids in the class shaved their heads so that this, this boy who's undergoing chemo and has become bald as a result of that. So he won't feel self conscious, he will not feel out of place.
And I thought that was what a nice. We're talking little 11 year old kids who had that kind of feeling for another kid in their class. One of the kids, Scott Sibelius, who is 11 and who's one of the baldies there as a result of having his head shaved, said if everybody has the, has their head shaved, sometimes people
[00:29:12] Speaker B: don't know who's who.
[00:29:13] Speaker C: They don't know who has cancer and who just shaved their head.
The.
A young boy named Ian o' Gorman is the, is the, is the sick one.
Anyway, I get. I guess so he still goes to school and all. I thought that was one of the very, very lovely stories about the consideration and the love that a group of kids have for their fellow classmate to do that I think is kind of Chokes you up just thinking of it. Okay, tonight, incidentally, tonight, let's see, we'll be talking with John J. Moran, who's got a game called Daring Passages.
It's the board game made in a bottle or it's called a board game in a bottle.
It's a trivia game made up of quotes and clues and it sounds like a whole lot of fun.
I'll be checking it out throughout the day. And then tonight we'll have John on with us at 11 o' clock when we go on the air.
And he's generous too, like all the other manufacturers of toys that we've had on games and stuff.
We'll have a contest for people to call in and see if they can figure out some of the clues.
And we'll, we'll be giving out the board game, the, the. Not the board. Well, the board game in a bottle during passages when we're on the air tonight. So I look forward to that.
And then on Sunday night we'll be back, incidentally, for the whole two hours, 11 until 1 o' clock in the morning, back to the old schedule again.
And talk with a man named Michael Rosen who's author of the Kids Best Dog Book and Field Guide to Neighborhood Dogs. It's a fun book. And so even though again, if you're not a, a wild dog fancier. And I, and I know there are a lot of people who really don't care that much, I'm not one of them. I do like all animals. But if you don't tune us in anyway, see, I think it should be interesting.
It's called the Kids Best Dog Book and Field Guide to Neighborhood Dogs. She'll talk about how not only children, but adults as well can be their dog's best friend. And I'll talk about all kinds of things from feeding to grooming and more.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: Well, there you go. In and out. And we'll leave you wanting more. Well, I hope. And next week we'll do just that. That's a promise, not a threat. It was something my seventh grade science teacher used to always use when he'd say something to the class. Hey, that's a promise, not a threat.
Should bring that back. They put it on a T shirt. Until then, closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4. Chatter. The US air shuttle. The soft hours of the night.
Snowy traffic reports. Life's little frustration book. Growing old. Listening to the radio while hanging on the line.
Naval thermometers.
Living on the edge. Just trying to make it Mara Bilofsky, Mo Badeski and the talented transvestite brass section of the hello Bluebird Orchestra with vocals by the Westinghouse Girls Dancing in the teen canteen Whistling along Pepe the Chihuahua horse dentistry lobsters and crabs pre ridden horses having used your last stamp the first egg of spring taking a message Little Sheba the dumb birthday game Bible double spacing Summerfield's furniture Pinching yourself horse philosophies cuckoo clocks dog intelligence ratings Heartwarming stories Lake elementary School in Oceanside, California John J. Moran Michael Rosen Monica's three friends Paul, Eddie and Anne Rodney from security Marilyn Gorelnik Sunflower the horse Jack Hart and the man with two chickens but none in the pot Nah Me Nathan. I'm the penniless but hilarious Tony Nesbitt.
[00:33:06] Speaker C: It's a little more sensual when they play the trombone on the dragon.
Okay, let's take some. Let's take some phone calls before we talk ourselves right off the air and I'd have a work forever.
