Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Thanks for being here. For this week's slice of silly, we have a dumb birthday game from April 16, 1994, which I have titled the Insulting of Sling because of the insults that are slung norm's way. Get it? It's a play on the Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.
Thank you very much.
The players, Virginia and Somerville. Mary from Quincy, Jack Hart in Traffic. I'm playing in studio. I, Emilio Morata, producing and playing in studio, the Birthdays Ellen Barkin, Bobby Vinton, Edie Adams, Sir Peter Ustinov, Dusty Springfield, Jimmy Osmond, Henry Mancini and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Episode 283 the insulting of Sling mocks its way to your ears.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Now their actual age. And the winner, the one who wins the.
Gets the closest to the most number of names will win something totally useless and something that'll probably show up at a flea market seconds after it's received. Thank you very much. Let's see who's playing the game with us. We have Virginia, who is in Somerville. Hi, Virginia.
[00:01:10] Speaker C: Hi. How are you doing?
[00:01:12] Speaker B: I'm doing okay, thank you. Is this. Have you played the game with us before last year? Oh, not, not. Not since then, no.
[00:01:19] Speaker C: I beat Roberta by one. I got one Right.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Okay, well, this time maybe you get a whole bunch of them, right?
[00:01:27] Speaker C: Oh, I hope so.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: And you'll win something really tacky and useless. Won't that be fun?
[00:01:31] Speaker C: Just what I always wanted.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Okay, we have another woman. This is Mary, who's down in Quincy, is playing the game with us also. Hi, Mary.
[00:01:41] Speaker C: Hi, Nam.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: What'd you call me?
Hi, Nam.
Hi, Nam. Yeah, that's my name. Nam it Nominate. Nominating.
As a matter of fact, in school we would. We would have elections. I remember. And the teacher would say, we're now open for nominations.
[00:01:57] Speaker C: Right.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: And I thought she was talking about me from. From my.
I lift my head up off the desk and become wide awake.
[00:02:06] Speaker C: At that point we had a norm in the family. So we always have all kinds of names.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Okay. See, a finky kind of nerd person, A little wimp like creature, a dweeb.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: No, he was pretty. Pretty brusque and, you know, know it all.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: And what he was. Oh, yeah, is he. Does he no longer exist?
[00:02:25] Speaker C: Oh, no, he's found.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:27] Speaker C: Like, oh, he's sound asleep.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: How old is he?
[00:02:30] Speaker C: Wow, I hate to say it, but 80.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you were talking about a young, young kid.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: No.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay.
Norman is his name. Okay.
What is he, your husband or your father?
[00:02:44] Speaker C: My brother.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Your brother.
Okay. Okay. We also have with us. Let's see, let's call in.
Jack Hart is playing the game with Jack.
[00:02:55] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: Hello. I'm told that you were you interviewed for the Lawrence Eagle Tribune or something?
[00:03:02] Speaker D: Oh, I went down to that America's Talking thing, that big thing that they had down at Faneuil hall today. And I did my little spiel, did my little stand up thing and, and as I was getting off there was, getting off the stage, there was a woman there from the Lawrence Eagle Tribune who was you know, just sort of overseeing the whole thing and writing a little bit of an article on it. And she just happened to pull me aside and asked me a couple of questions about the whole process and the, and the excitement of the experience is this for what?
[00:03:36] Speaker B: For CNBC.
[00:03:38] Speaker D: CNBC apparently is starting a new channel. America's talking 24 hours of.
And and so they, they were holding some tryouts today for it.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: And now the Trans War. You said you what you did some stand up kind of stuff. What did you do exactly? Well, I went.
[00:03:59] Speaker D: The thing that you had to do was you had to bring a tape of something that you had done recently before which I, I had interviewed David Brudnoy who was gracious enough to grant me an interview. And so I brought that down. But then when you got there you also had to stand up on a little riser to the camera and little crowd there and tell them what kind of talk show you'd like to have. So I told them and I told
[00:04:25] Speaker B: them a little bit about what I
[00:04:26] Speaker D: did and etcetera, and etcetera. And there with all.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Were there a lot of people doing the same thing as you?
[00:04:32] Speaker D: Well, it was, it started at 11 o' clock today. I got there in the early afternoon and it was going on for a little bit of time. So there were a handful of people there. But people have been coming and going for a good portion of the day.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: So they were interviewing quite a few people then. Yes. And this, this goes on what regional interviews throughout the country.
[00:04:49] Speaker D: They're, they're doing 10 stops. They'll be, they'll be in Boston this past day today and Sunday between 11 and 7 and they're doing it in 10 other cities between now and the early part of May and then by the end of May, from what I understand, they want to at least have some, you know, have it whittled down to a handful.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Well, I wish you the very best of luck.
[00:05:14] Speaker D: Thank you very much.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Wouldn't it be nice if you won that over hundreds of people who Obviously are competing.
[00:05:20] Speaker D: Hundreds and thousands.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Hundreds of thousands of people are competing.
[00:05:23] Speaker D: That would be a kick.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: What kind of a talk show would you like to do?
[00:05:26] Speaker D: What kind of. Well, let me see. I'd like to speak with, you know, of course, I'd like to speak with some stars and so forth, you know, much like yourself and things, but, you know, more. Less about the esteem and so forth, more about what's going on in their lives. I wouldn't mind speaking with some regular people. People find out, you know, to find out what. What goes on in the gas station attendance mind on a cold, rainy night when somebody's pulled up to the pump and they're blowing their horn frantically trying to get somebody to come out and pump their gas and they just don't want to leave the confines of their warm thing. And quite frankly, I wouldn't mind having a few of you weekly World types. Multiples of limbs, birthmark shaped like presidents, things like this.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: I see, I see some fun, some features somebody's discovered a. A hailstone that's in the shape of David Bradno's nose. Some of that tape.
[00:06:20] Speaker E: Absolutely.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: The real, real folks.
[00:06:22] Speaker D: I must say that if I, If I do ever get an opportunity to do a talk show, much of my inspiration will have come from your very program.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Boy, you're really sucking up to me, aren't you? You're sickening. Just stop that.
Okay. We also have this. This is, by the way, for people who just tuned in, is the Dumb Birthday Game. And Tony will be playing the game with us. Tony Nesbitt.
[00:06:45] Speaker E: I'm still here.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Still here. Still here. Still here.
[00:06:48] Speaker E: Was here with Jack's taking me with him when he gets the job.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah, with Lucy Johnson, Princess Cheyenne, if I had a talk. And also Montana.
[00:06:56] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: If I had a talk show, I'd have a lot of attractive women, mostly.
That's a good way to meet women every day. That would be fun. Yeah, attractive women. Maybe some on the kind of loose side, some saucy wenches. Different types of women. Like that would be kind of nice.
[00:07:13] Speaker D: Sure. Some saucy wenches and, you know, maybe some, you know, some main dish kind of wenches and, you know, why was
[00:07:22] Speaker B: it I felt you were going to come out with some obnoxious remark like that?
[00:07:25] Speaker D: Ah, because I often do.
[00:07:28] Speaker E: Oh, that's it.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: That's right. I knew you had a track record for something. I forgot what it was.
And Emilio Morata is with us also. Who will be playing the Dumb Birthday Game? Amelio. I know him. Who had a chance to watch all of the proceedings from. From his perch high above the main master control. I think we call these things.
[00:07:48] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: I've never really understood the terminology.
And what does that say? Body gloves.
[00:07:54] Speaker F: Body glove, yes.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah. What is that? Is that the name of the gym you work at?
[00:07:57] Speaker F: No, it's a clothing line.
It's like a kind of athletic apparel kind of skin type stuff that a lot of the females that you like to look at where.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: Oh, he's wearing it, you know, it's a hat.
[00:08:09] Speaker F: I'm wearing a hat.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: Oh, he's got a hat on. Is this. Is this just for women or is it men's?
[00:08:13] Speaker F: No, no, it's athletic apparel.
[00:08:15] Speaker D: It's like for women.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: No, for men and women. Surfer wear and.
[00:08:19] Speaker E: Yeah, that stuff too. Oh, I see.
[00:08:21] Speaker F: I was wondering if you could, you know, loosen the patent, maybe cut Jack in if he gets the show. We could do the Dumb Birthday Game on his show one week, maybe.
[00:08:29] Speaker E: Sure. Wouldn't that.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you'd have to pay pray through the nose.
[00:08:32] Speaker F: There's a lot. A lot of legalities involved.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Well, there's one legality. I mean, I own the name Dumb
[00:08:37] Speaker D: Birthday Game, the intellectual rights to it.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: I own the intellectual, philosophical, every kind of rice. Yeah. Anyway, let's, let's. Let's do it again. That'd be kind of nice. You all set? You Virginia and Harriet?
[00:08:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm set.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Okay. Today is the birthday. Today, April 16, is the birthday of Ellen Barkin, who I think is a lovely looking lady. What was that one she. The movie she did with Sea of Love. Sea of Love with Al Pacino. I. Boy, I thought that was really.
[00:09:03] Speaker E: I was disappointed, actually. Yeah, I had heard so much about it. I rented it. I said, wait a minute. You want respected Steam.
[00:09:09] Speaker F: You wanted her to be the killer, though, didn't you, Tony?
[00:09:11] Speaker E: I don't remember, actually.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: He wanted to see.
[00:09:15] Speaker E: Did you really, Jack?
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Oh, she was hot.
[00:09:17] Speaker D: Yeah, but I think she was even hotter.
Yeah.
[00:09:22] Speaker E: That's the first guest of Jack Show. That's right. Emilio's right.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Okay, we'll start with you, Virginia. Ellen Barkin. Let me tell you something about her.
She was in Switch, Sea of Love and this Boy's Life. That doesn't say very much. There was something on hbo, I think, this past day with. She was in with.
It's funny, I remember her, but I can't remember the mail. It was in that.
[00:09:46] Speaker E: That's this Boy's Life with Robert De Niro. That one.
[00:09:51] Speaker F: I don't.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: I thought it was. Maybe that was I just saw that recently.
[00:09:54] Speaker E: That was a pretty good movie.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Okay. A romantic comedy. I think they build it as that. Was that romantic? I don't know. No, I think it was something else. But in any event, Mary Virginia, how old do you think Ellen Barkin is?
[00:10:08] Speaker C: Oh, I think she's your age. 39.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: 39. Okay.
No, I never said I was 39.
You're thinking of the other guy who sits in for me when I can't make it the rest of the week. Oh, he says 36.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: Okay. Harriet, how old you think she would be today? April 16th.
Are you okay? Helen? Harriet? Did I say Helen? Harriet?
[00:10:37] Speaker E: No.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Harriet, are you there?
I think she fell asleep on us. Harriet. Oh, no, it isn't Harriet. It's Mary.
[00:10:45] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: I'm sorry, why have I got Harriet and Brighton? Do we have somebody with that name signed? Yeah, it's Mary. No one. You didn't respond.
Mary and Quincy. I'm sorry. It's Mary and Virginia, Mary and Quinn
[00:10:59] Speaker E: and Harriet and Brighton.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Well, hello, Harriet. I don't know why I wrote. Why would I write down Harriet, Brighton, Mary? Anyway, how old do you think Ellen Barkin is?
[00:11:07] Speaker C: 42.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: 42.
Okay.
What is that noise coming from Ellen's room?
Tonto?
Ellen Barkin.
Back to the old Tanto jokes.
[00:11:24] Speaker F: Where's the rim shut when you need it?
[00:11:26] Speaker B: Tony, what do you think?
[00:11:28] Speaker E: I. I believe.
And she's now, I believe, separated or getting a divorce from her husband. So there's another one who's her husband?
[00:11:36] Speaker B: He's a well known person.
[00:11:38] Speaker D: Irish fella.
[00:11:39] Speaker E: Irish fella.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Irish actor. Yeah, let's just call him Lynn.
[00:11:43] Speaker E: Sorry, it's not even there in your book at all.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: No, no, it doesn't say Liam o'.
[00:11:48] Speaker D: Flaherty.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: We'll call him that.
[00:11:49] Speaker D: Patio furniture.
[00:11:52] Speaker E: Oh, boy.
She's. I think she's now 41.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Now 41. Okay. And Emilio.
[00:12:03] Speaker F: Yeah, she's got to be somewhere around there. That's. I'm gonna go with 41, too.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: 41. Okay. And Jack, what do you think?
[00:12:10] Speaker D: 43.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: 43. She's 39 is correct. And that's a Virginia. Virginia won the first.
You're kind of on your way to getting a really nothing kind of gift as a. As a prize.
[00:12:23] Speaker D: You know, I saw an old movie with Angie Dickinson and you know, Angie Dickinson when she was young and Ellen Barkin could have been sisters.
[00:12:30] Speaker E: You're right.
[00:12:30] Speaker F: Yeah. I have to agree with that.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they're both very appealing women. Yeah. Oh, boy.
[00:12:35] Speaker E: Gee, they have the same.
Same facial structure as a Matter of fact, yeah.
[00:12:39] Speaker D: Same sort of crooked smile.
[00:12:41] Speaker E: Yep.
[00:12:41] Speaker F: Although I saw Ellen Bakken on like a Letterman type talk show, and she had like a really strange family life. Her family was, like, really into pot.
And it's kind of weird.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: It's like her grandmother did a lot of cooking.
[00:12:55] Speaker F: No, not pottery.
The illegal kind.
[00:12:58] Speaker E: A lot of craps, a lot of crafts.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
Okay. This is also the birthday of Bobby Vincent.
I say that like it's terribly important. He's known as the Polish Prince.
Is in his name was the song with the rose. What Roses are Red. That was his big hit.
That was his big hit back in 1962. Velvet Plus. Let's see, from 62 to 72, he sang more number one hits than any male vocalist. He began his career as a clarinetist and band leader. And also Sauteed Fish.
I made that part up.
[00:13:39] Speaker E: This guy. The epitome of nerd, huh? Geez.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Bobby Vinton. Yeah. Did all that kind of stuff. Bobby Vinton.
[00:13:46] Speaker F: That's his.
[00:13:46] Speaker E: No, no. Blue velvet, though, too. Isn't that his?
[00:13:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: She wore blue, everybody. Velvet.
Blue were the colors of her play things.
Anyway, let's start with you, Jack. How old do you think Bobby Vinton is? The Polish Prince. The Polish Prince. How old is he today?
[00:14:07] Speaker D: Everybody saying roll off, and she looks like a bar.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: That's right. In honor of Bobby Vin, perhaps during the last hour of the program, we'll play some polkas.
As you know, there's only been one written. So play that over and over again
[00:14:26] Speaker D: and give it a different name each time.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: Here's the Polish Prince Polka.
Now, the Sauteed Fish Polka.
Oh, man. So what do you say there, Jack? How old is Bobby Vinton today?
And say it like you really care.
[00:14:46] Speaker D: Oh, let's see. He is.
Oh, let me see.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: It's the. Ok.
[00:14:58] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Do you guys think.
[00:15:01] Speaker E: Hey, what do you guys think?
[00:15:08] Speaker C: I don't think any of you are Polish.
[00:15:10] Speaker F: Does she mean we smell?
[00:15:13] Speaker B: Who says what? Nobody here is Polish.
[00:15:16] Speaker D: How do you know?
[00:15:16] Speaker C: Well, you don't sound it.
[00:15:18] Speaker E: What does that mean?
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Yeah, what is that?
My grandfather. My grandfather, Isaac Nathan Potclubnik.
And that was his, really, his name came to this country from Poland. I'm Polish.
Although I never admit that, usually publicly.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Who is this? No, I've been talking.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: No, this is his son.
[00:15:38] Speaker C: Well, you know something?
It's very, very hard for me to hear. I don't know. You're not coming through too clear, huh?
[00:15:45] Speaker B: Well.
[00:15:45] Speaker C: Well, Norman, I went to Everett High, and then I moved to Chelsea, too. So I'm just like you.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: You sound exactly like me.
I thought I was talking just then.
That's really an exciting story. And we're going to buy the movie rights to that also. Who said that? Is that Virginia or Mary?
[00:16:06] Speaker C: Yes, but I still want to know. Character by Albert North.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Do you know it? Can you say it?
[00:16:17] Speaker C: No.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Okay, that's good. I'm glad we had to learn it. Yeah, we did learn it, but you didn't retain it, for Craig's sake.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: I'm 70 years old. How the hell do you expect me to remember now?
[00:16:26] Speaker B: Well, you're getting violent, aren't you?
It's a stupid thing anyway. It's carved into the front of the parlor in junior high school. It's etched in. It's a whole thing. I would have all young people, you know, be swell and kind and love each other and eat malt and milks every Saturday night. And bells, walking down from Tony, one of these, you know, these philosophical things about how he looks at you and. And they would. And we'd have to memorize that. Otherwise you couldn't get out of high school.
[00:16:53] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: If you ever buy junior high. Had to memorize.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: That's right. You had to memorize it. And it stayed with us, right, for about two weeks till we get out of school.
[00:17:01] Speaker C: I remembered it for quite a while, but now I've got three children, nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Who asked? Jack.
[00:17:08] Speaker E: Jack, here's the second show.
[00:17:12] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Okay, Jack. Anyway, Jack, we're guessing Bobby Vinton's age. Oh, are we still on? Yeah, yeah. Okay. How old do you think he is there, Jack?
[00:17:21] Speaker D: Well, let's see. By now he could be the Polish King.
He's got to be. Who is the Polish King?
Bobby Pippin's father.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right.
[00:17:33] Speaker D: He's gonna be 64 if he's a day.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: 64 if he is a day.
[00:17:39] Speaker D: Or an afternoon.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: Oh, an afternoon, yes.
Emilio, how little do you think he is?
[00:17:45] Speaker F: Well, Norm, being of Polish descent, maybe you can answer this question for me.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Being a Polish descent, I really could not answer any questions at all, as a matter of fact.
[00:17:55] Speaker F: But why. Why is it people feel that it's necessary to throw the moniker of Polish in front of everything? Like, for instance, Ron Jaworski was known as the Polish Rifle.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Well, Bobby Vint calls himself the Polish Prince.
[00:18:08] Speaker F: Well, I'm saying, people, it's like. I know.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: I don't know. Poles are very proud of themselves. I call myself the Polish Talk.
No, it just. It just comes with the territory, right?
[00:18:18] Speaker E: Well, I mean, from now on you've
[00:18:19] Speaker B: got to do that. I'm the Polish doctor.
[00:18:21] Speaker F: Ron Jaworski, the Polish rifle. Ivan Putsky's, the Polish power.
[00:18:25] Speaker E: Yeah, that's right.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: And I suppose a lot of, a lot of ethnic groups do that.
[00:18:31] Speaker E: The Polish Pope. Yeah, he goes around like that.
[00:18:33] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: The Italian Stallion. They do that with other groups too.
[00:18:37] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Don't they?
[00:18:38] Speaker E: I think.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, but that's.
[00:18:39] Speaker D: Personally, I'm the Irish traffic reporter.
[00:18:44] Speaker F: Anyways, I'm going to say that Bobby Vinton is 67 years old.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: 67 years of age. Thank you very much. And Tony, what do you think? 66. 66, yeah. You know how you say that in Polish?
No, I'm sorry, I have no idea. I just said that.
[00:19:04] Speaker E: 60. 60, that's right.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
And Mary, Mary, how old are you?
[00:19:12] Speaker C: Nice. I must say. 59.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: 59, why? You're trying to get a date with them.
[00:19:17] Speaker C: Well, I figured I've got to try and show you guys up and you know.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:20] Speaker F: He brings that accordion with him.
[00:19:21] Speaker E: He gets in the way and what
[00:19:24] Speaker B: do you say, Virginia?
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Oh, I'll give him a break. I'll say 65.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: 65, that's some big break.
Actually. 59 is correct. That's what Mary said. Mary was right on the button. Yeah.
[00:19:37] Speaker F: How could he be so young and be a prince?
[00:19:39] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Oh yeah, A lot of wealth. When we look at. We had little Prince Edward and some. There's princes who are little kids over there. Now I know all that stuff because
[00:19:48] Speaker C: I keep getting older.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: You, you were very conscious of your age, aren't you very self conscious about that. Don't, don't, don't do that.
[00:19:55] Speaker C: The ages were 36. So you know, I was old then.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: You did one at 36.
[00:20:02] Speaker C: I was a grandmother at 36.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Doesn't make you old.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: So that maybe, you know, I felt old then so.
[00:20:08] Speaker D: Well, you know someone, some wise man once said, age is just a number and mine is unlisted.
[00:20:14] Speaker C: I'm looking for, for a young gentleman like Norm Nathan.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: Well.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: And I've got his picture and he's so handsome.
[00:20:24] Speaker E: Nor you sending out the fake photos again.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sending up. I sent out pictures of Bobby Vine.
My lips are parted slightly so you can tell I'm singing. Roses are red Royal. I love.
Okay, Today is also the birthday of Edie Adams. Remember Edams? She was the. In the cigar commercial.
[00:20:44] Speaker F: True.
[00:20:44] Speaker D: The wife of Ernie Kovacs.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: The Ernie Kovacs? That's right.
She married comedian ernie Kovacs in 1954 and was the Muriel Cigar Girl for many years. Very attractive lady and. And quite talented. Sang, sang awfully well.
[00:20:59] Speaker D: And frequent clue and crossword puzzles.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Really?
[00:21:02] Speaker D: Entertainer Adams.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: I've never seen that. The one. The one I see is Comedian Johnson.
[00:21:09] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: Arty, Arty, Arty. Do you do a lot of crossword puzzles?
[00:21:12] Speaker D: Oh, by the pound.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: Oh. Cause I do. I'm a real crossword puzzle freak. I love to do them.
Thank you very much.
[00:21:22] Speaker F: Is she a blonde haired woman?
[00:21:23] Speaker B: She is a blonde haired woman. Yes, she is.
And she's got blonde hair all the way down her back. It's too bad she doesn't have that many on top of her head. But that's the way. Hey, hey, zoom.
Is the other one about the hair.
Tony, how old do you think Edie Adams is? And then how old is her hair?
Melancholy Baby.
[00:21:44] Speaker E: Why is it. Yeah, give us the melancholy baby.
Oh, come on, come on, give us one more.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: What the hell you mean, what a. Whoa. The way she looks. She's got a head like a melon and a face like a collar. Excuse me. Hey, hey, hey. She swallowed an olive and 10 men got frightened and left out. But seriously, though, She had buck teeth that were so severe I asked her to marry me. She said, I will and bit off three of my toes.
[00:22:12] Speaker C: Hey, Groucho's not playing this game.
[00:22:17] Speaker F: You got another one.
[00:22:17] Speaker E: Come on. That's my first time I heard you say that one.
[00:22:21] Speaker C: This game.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Yes, Groucho's in there. S. Thank you very much. Who said that? Is that Virginia or is that.
[00:22:27] Speaker C: Yeah, Groucho playing this game?
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Groucho is playing this game. But I'm asking Tony. The age of Ed Adams. Very serious. Because this is a serious game. All right, very serious.
[00:22:37] Speaker E: Married in 54 to Ernie Kovacs. Yeah, comedian Kovac. Doesn't that appear in crossword puzzles too?
[00:22:42] Speaker B: I haven't seen Ernie Kovacs. Bernie Kovacs. You know, Jack. Jack Hyde, incidentally, has so much talent.
[00:22:50] Speaker E: How much talent does he have?
[00:22:52] Speaker B: As a matter of fact, he's got more talent in his little finger than he has in his entire body. That's how talent he is.
[00:23:01] Speaker E: How about that town you came from, Norm? Did you come from a small town?
[00:23:03] Speaker B: I came from a town that was so small we never even had a sanitation department. Used to have this old lady came in twice a week to pick up. But seriously, though.
[00:23:11] Speaker E: And it used to be on the coast. It was in a small coastal town.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: It was a small coastal town. It was so boring. One Day the tide went out, it never bothered to come back in again.
Oh, my God.
[00:23:23] Speaker F: How long have you guys been working on that one?
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Ah, the mosquitoes were so big that it once been a Greyhound bus, and it was swelled up so far you couldn't get through the Sumner Tunnel. But really? Well, okay.
[00:23:36] Speaker D: All righty.
[00:23:36] Speaker E: Adams is married.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Who has to bring a host? Talking about Ed, I'm doing stick.
[00:23:43] Speaker F: How'd she work her way into this conversation
[00:23:47] Speaker B: anyway? So how old do you think she is?
[00:23:49] Speaker E: That was 40 years ago she was married.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: That's right. She was elected just about three years ago as Ms. Vera. Course veins of 1993. Whatever.
[00:24:02] Speaker F: I think there's too many hormones raging in this world.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Would you be quiet? Not the old guys.
[00:24:09] Speaker E: 6.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: 70.
[00:24:11] Speaker D: 73.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: 73.
[00:24:13] Speaker F: He married her that old, you think?
[00:24:15] Speaker E: What, at 54, 40 years ago. Oh, no, that's right. No, I'm thinking I'm wrong.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: I'm sorry. She was. She was married to him in 1950. I'm sorry.
[00:24:24] Speaker E: I was going the opposite way. I have to change that then.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Okay, you can change that.
[00:24:27] Speaker E: So probably 63.
[00:24:32] Speaker F: See, now you took my answer. I prodded you in a place.
[00:24:34] Speaker E: No, that's what I meant. I was. I went the opposite way.
[00:24:36] Speaker F: I'm here for you. I just wanted to make sure you're all set.
[00:24:39] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Well, what would you say, Medio? How old would you say she is?
[00:24:42] Speaker F: 63.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: You're gonna say 63 also. Okay, Virginia, what do you think?
[00:24:48] Speaker C: Oh, I'll go for 61.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: 61. Okay. And the jack?
[00:24:53] Speaker D: 65.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Jack says 65.
And what do you say, Mary?
[00:24:57] Speaker C: I'm gonna stay in the middle. I get 64.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: 64, actually, 65 is correct.
Oh, Jack hard wins it right on the button. So we have Virginia, Mary and Jack all have one apiece.
And also anyway, Peter Ustinoff, you know, he's. He's actually Sir Peter Usinoff, the actor.
He won an Oscar for supporting actor in 1960 in Spartacus and a 1964 for Topaki.
You always say that.
[00:25:27] Speaker E: And I. I've yet to see that film.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: I. I have never seen either one of them. That's right.
[00:25:32] Speaker E: You've never seen Spartacus?
[00:25:33] Speaker B: No. It's the kind of movie I've never
[00:25:34] Speaker E: seen Gone with the Wind, so.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: I mean, you've never seen Gone with the Wind?
Oh, what if you get hit by a bus tomorrow and never survive?
[00:25:43] Speaker E: You.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: You will have gone to your grave without having seen Gone with the Wind. That's so sad.
[00:25:47] Speaker E: One of these days I'M just gonna rent all these classic movies and just. Just plop myself down in front of
[00:25:52] Speaker B: the TV and just watch one right after the other.
[00:25:54] Speaker E: You got it?
[00:25:54] Speaker B: I can't imagine anybody wanted to see a movie called Spartacus or Tapaki. It's like.
There was one. There was one by Yul Brenner with. With a funny name, the King and I. Tora. Tora.
[00:26:07] Speaker C: Tora.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Why would anybody want to see a movie called that? That was a good movie.
[00:26:11] Speaker E: Yes, it was.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Excuse me. Hope I'm not seven.
[00:26:14] Speaker E: Yes, it was far too Atticus.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Well, actually, he won the Academy Award for that, so it couldn't.
[00:26:18] Speaker E: I think. I think actually Topaka, in honor of Pina Houston on his birthday. Topaki just broke the top 10 of video rentals this week.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Oh, really? Yeah, that's right. A lot of people want to honor.
That's right, sir. Peter Houston.
[00:26:31] Speaker E: If I ever win it, we should go into, you know, one of those big video stores and say, can I have Peter Houston off in Topaki and just see if they can even punch that up in the computer system.
[00:26:41] Speaker D: I'd really like to know.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: Other films include Lorenzo's Oil and various Agatha Christie mysteries. He's been to some great Agatha Christie movies.
Well, Anyway, Spartacus was 60, if that'll help you. And Tupaki was 64.
And Virginia, what do you say? How old is Peter Usinoff on this very day?
[00:27:04] Speaker C: Well, I think he's older than me.
[00:27:08] Speaker E: Oh, wow.
[00:27:11] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:27:12] Speaker E: Surprised he's still standing.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: You'll say 70. What?
[00:27:15] Speaker C: 73.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: 73.
[00:27:17] Speaker C: Okay, Mary, let's try 71.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Let's try 71. Okay, Tony?
74. 74. Emilio, is he that old?
[00:27:32] Speaker E: God, I don't. I was thinking long Spartacus in 60 and 34.
[00:27:38] Speaker F: But how old was he? I mean, to be Spartacus, you had to be young and virile and strong, don't you.
[00:27:42] Speaker D: I mean, Tony Curtis was Spartacus.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Oh, you want the rocks, Mr. Flintstone?
[00:27:50] Speaker F: That would be Stoney Curtis.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:27:52] Speaker F: Tony Curtis was the actor.
[00:27:54] Speaker E: Stoney Curtis is back in Bedrock.
[00:27:57] Speaker F: Don't confuse the two, Jack.
Okay, I. I'll say 69.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: 69 and Jack.
[00:28:04] Speaker D: 76. That's the thing.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Okay, anybody want to finish that out?
[00:28:10] Speaker E: Trombones.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that's trombone.
We've all kind of lost interest in those old lines. Peter Houston off 73 today. That's what I was, right?
[00:28:21] Speaker E: No, I said 74.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: Jeez. Yeah, you were very close. Well, everybody, you all guessed fairly close. I got it, but Virginia got it right? On the bike. That's correct, Virginia. That's crazy. You're excited, aren't you, Virginia?
[00:28:32] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh. Cause last time I only got one.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Now you're already. You're already ahead of yourself.
[00:28:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:38] Speaker B: Okay. How about Dusty Springfield?
How about Dusty Springfield?
[00:28:43] Speaker E: Oh, I have to hire someone to go in there. Clean it up then.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Well, I was fishing.
[00:28:49] Speaker F: I was fishing for something like that.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: She was actually born.
Her name at birth was Mary o'. Brien. I don't know how she got Dusty Springfield out of all that.
She's from London, England. Born there. Anyway, her biggest hit was you don't have to say you love me.
That was recorded in 19.
[00:29:05] Speaker E: Send me the check every month.
That's the rest of the title of that song.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: And we'll just fool around and we don't have to commit it. I don't like long term relationships. That didn't make any sense at all what I said. Anyway, she recorded you don't have to say you love me in 1966, if that's any clue to you.
[00:29:26] Speaker E: How did that go?
[00:29:28] Speaker B: You don't have to say you love me. Just be closer and.
Hey, how would you like to do a talk show, kid?
Can we call you the Polish traffic guys? Sure, if you like.
[00:29:41] Speaker E: Sure.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Okay. Dusty Springfield. Okay, we'll start with. Let's see, we'll start with you. Emedio. How old do you take.
[00:29:49] Speaker F: No, don't do that to me.
[00:29:51] Speaker E: What was the 61?
[00:29:52] Speaker F: 66.
[00:29:53] Speaker E: 66 was the song.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: 66, yeah.
[00:29:59] Speaker F: 53, 55.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: I could put, I could put a few commercials on while he starting this over in his head.
[00:30:06] Speaker F: 56.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: 56.
Okay. And let's see. Virginia.
[00:30:14] Speaker C: Gee, I don't even remember her.
[00:30:18] Speaker F: That's funny news. Do I?
[00:30:19] Speaker E: Virginia.
[00:30:21] Speaker D: Another great song.
Only want to be with you.
[00:30:24] Speaker E: And how did that go?
[00:30:25] Speaker B: That was a pretty song.
[00:30:26] Speaker D: Yeah, that was a great song.
[00:30:27] Speaker E: How did that go?
You don't have to say.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: I only want to be with you
[00:30:36] Speaker D: asked if I care to dance to that.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: I'm sorry. You all right, Jack?
Yeah. This chair is a little uncomfortable.
[00:30:45] Speaker F: Yeah, we're breaking all the music.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: Sounded like you're there. You're getting your. Your, your bottom pinched.
[00:30:52] Speaker D: Well, like I said, the chair is uncomfortable.
[00:30:54] Speaker C: What was your name again?
[00:30:56] Speaker B: Her name is Dusty Springfield.
[00:30:58] Speaker C: Dusty Springfield. Never heard of him.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Never heard of Dusty Springfield.
That's the shame. That's a shame.
[00:31:04] Speaker C: I'll say 58.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: We'll say 58. Okay.
[00:31:07] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: How old would you say she is if you'd heard of her now? There's a stupid 90. I see.
Okay, Jack, 51. 51.
Okay. And Mary, 48. And what do you think, Tony?
[00:31:23] Speaker E: You really think she was that young when she recorded? You don't have to say you love me, Jack.
[00:31:27] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, she was, you know, just
[00:31:29] Speaker E: starting out back then.
[00:31:30] Speaker D: That's 28 years ago.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: So you're gonna figure she was like, say maybe 22, 23 somewhere.
[00:31:37] Speaker F: She was a dustbin ball then. She wasn't really dusting.
[00:31:41] Speaker E: She was just funny. Yeah, Just, just. Just the dust. There's a song in that, isn't it?
[00:31:48] Speaker D: Hanging out under the bed.
[00:31:50] Speaker E: I make my way under the refrigerator.
[00:31:52] Speaker D: And
[00:31:56] Speaker E: the spring.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: Dusty Springfield.
[00:31:59] Speaker E: She's aged another year since we've started this.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: 52. 52. Okay. She's no relation to either Steve Lawrence.
Yeah. Melissa Manchester by the sea. Both Manchester change her name, too.
[00:32:16] Speaker D: Bill Clinton or Loretta Lynn.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Bill Clinton, that's correct. Or his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, which occupies a whole bunch of places.
[00:32:24] Speaker E: Rick Middleton.
[00:32:26] Speaker D: Carl Malden Middleton.
[00:32:27] Speaker E: Mike Milbury.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: Mike Milbury, that's right. Yeah.
Kay Medford, a little more obscure person, but she used to be in musical comedies. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We're. We're on a roll right here. Yeah, sure.
[00:32:42] Speaker F: Daryl Boston.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Daryl Boston. Or. Or a North Andover or any of those people.
[00:32:49] Speaker F: Dude, there is an actual person named Daryl Boston.
[00:32:52] Speaker D: No, we believe you.
[00:32:54] Speaker F: He's a baseball player.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I. No, we believe you. Just. It's hard to understand when you get that funny hat on your head.
Dusty Springfield actually is 55 years old today.
You're gonna say, what? 56.
[00:33:09] Speaker E: I looked at him and I said that was what I was gonna say,
[00:33:11] Speaker B: but then Jack duped me. He duped you?
Anyway, Amidio said 56, so he. He's the closest. Yeah.
[00:33:18] Speaker F: I'd like to say, Tony, that also when someone gets guess is 65, I'm going to say that's the limit because that is the limit in rural areas. Okay, So I just want to clarify that. So if I come over.
[00:33:29] Speaker E: That's all right.
[00:33:31] Speaker D: So we'll leave that up to you.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: Thank you, Jeff.
I love doing this program.
[00:33:36] Speaker D: Don't you?
[00:33:37] Speaker F: Really?
[00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's like. Like the old Algonquin Round table with all the great intellects that sit there and discuss all this heavy stuff, you know, and. And have great rapier, like, senses of witness.
[00:33:49] Speaker F: What can we call this?
[00:33:50] Speaker E: Round Table. Some play in the word Algonquin.
[00:33:53] Speaker B: Well, I would say this is probably
[00:33:55] Speaker D: the eerie Chuck E. Cheese.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: No, I'm trying to think of some really fancy hotel, because that was the Algonquin. We could be the Avery. Yeah, the Avery Avery.
[00:34:05] Speaker D: Round table, Motel 6.
[00:34:08] Speaker B: Okay. The Motel 6 roundtable. That would be good.
[00:34:11] Speaker E: We're the Dean's Motel Roundtable.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: Okay. Jimmy Osmond, who's one of the Osmond brothers, as you know.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: Really?
[00:34:19] Speaker B: He's the youngest. I can give you that clue. The youngest of the talented. It says talented.
Let me cross that word out here.
[00:34:27] Speaker C: It's because you don't know what it means.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: Wow.
Oh, is that a dagger right into my soul?
A dagger into mine soul.
Oh, Jim. Jiminy. He's the youngest of the. Jiminy.
[00:34:43] Speaker F: They felt the quakes all the way back to Poland.
[00:34:45] Speaker C: You can't even read right, Norm.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Now, was he a little bit country or. She's getting pretty up because I'm losing.
Oh, that's how you get. You begin to claw when you're losing. Anyway, Jimmy Osmond, let's start with Virginia. Is that who's been insulting me? Is that you, Virginia?
[00:35:03] Speaker C: No, it was Mary.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Well, let's start with Mary, then. Mary, how old is Jimmy Osmond?
[00:35:08] Speaker C: 43.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: 43.
[00:35:11] Speaker D: He's the youngest of the group.
[00:35:13] Speaker B: Okay, and Virginia, what do you think?
[00:35:15] Speaker C: Oh, I'll say 39.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Okay, you'll say 39. And let's see, Jack, what would you say? 29. 29.
Okay. And Emilio.
[00:35:28] Speaker F: Jeez.
Wow. 32.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: 32.
And Tony, let me see.
[00:35:35] Speaker E: When was that show on?
[00:35:37] Speaker F: I figured 75. 75. 78 somewhere in there.
[00:35:40] Speaker E: 78. 78 was how many years ago?
Sorry, Norm, sorry.
That was 16 years ago.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: 16 years ago, yeah.
[00:35:52] Speaker E: Yes, I. I think 29. And his teeth are still probably about 15.
[00:35:56] Speaker F: I was gonna make a teeth joke. Yeah, a tooth joke.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Teeth.
[00:35:59] Speaker F: Tooth.
[00:36:00] Speaker E: A tooth.
[00:36:00] Speaker F: Toofy.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: I don't believe any of you made
[00:36:06] Speaker D: a dent in the teeth jokes.
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:07] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. Something about a crown in there, too, isn't it?
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:36:12] Speaker E: Pretty big cap.
[00:36:12] Speaker B: How old is he, Tony?
[00:36:14] Speaker E: I said 29.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't hear that.
[00:36:17] Speaker E: Funny, I just can't understand why you're not paying attention as you yawn there.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: I know, I know. Oh, God, I was so. I wish I was in Lucy Johnson's arms, to tell you the truth.
[00:36:27] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: Anyway, Jimmy Osmond is 31 years old today. Yes, 31. Emilio said 32, so he's 13, and nobody said 30. Although Jack said 29, which was close, and so did Tony.
So we have two by Emilio, two by Virginia, and one by Mary. My Mary?
[00:36:50] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: And none by Tony. Tony, usually you do much Better than this. You're obviously a total loser today. Well, you know why? My mind is.
[00:36:58] Speaker E: Is elsewhere at the moment.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: I see, yes.
[00:37:01] Speaker E: Where is it? Sandwich moment.
I've got. I.
I'm. Never mind.
[00:37:07] Speaker F: We can't discuss that chat.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: Today is also.
[00:37:11] Speaker E: I'm thinking about Lucy in Montana.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: Today is Henry Mancini's birthday.
[00:37:16] Speaker E: Yes, today.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, you got to be quiet. See.
[00:37:20] Speaker F: No, usually it's me, now it's them.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: No, it's. I know it. She's Emilio's.
[00:37:25] Speaker E: It's contagious.
[00:37:26] Speaker F: So good.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Okay. Henry Mancini, anyway, began his screen work with the part of a score for the Abbott and Costello film Lost in Alaska.
[00:37:39] Speaker E: There's a way to start a career.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Yeah, in 1952. And he only did part of this score.
The other part of the score was by an obscure writer whose name has been lost to history.
Biggest hit was love. Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet in 1969.
The B side of Windmills of your mind, first played by rhythm. It says an R. R. What is that? Rhythm and rub? No, what is RR Station in Orlando, Florida? Oh, Rock and roll Rocket. Of course. Rock and roll, of course. That's. That was so obvious. I didn't. Couldn't think of that.
[00:38:16] Speaker E: The guy was going to tell you
[00:38:18] Speaker B: a drastic change from the bubblegum and rock of the day.
That's. That's the windmills, the B side of Windmills of your mind.
[00:38:27] Speaker E: What's the B side called?
[00:38:29] Speaker B: I don't know. It doesn't say.
That's the whole thing. He said he wrote many hits, including Moon river, which was originally called Blue river and changed by Johnny Mercer. Apparently he wrote that. He wrote the music and other people wrote the words. He also wrote the music to viewer mail.
[00:38:48] Speaker D: Viewer mail.
[00:38:48] Speaker E: The Letterman was on NBC.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Oh, is that Henry Mancini? Also, there was a serious story about him in the news today. He now has cancer. Yes, it's just two months after being told he has inoperable cancer. The award winning composer plans to score a Broadway musical and to appear at a birthday tribute.
He says work is the best therapy. Anyway, today is his birthday and they're having a birthday gala starring Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Quincy Jones, Andy Williams, John Williams and Luciano Pavarotti. Oh. Set for next Tuesday.
And the affair has raised $2 million for the UCLA center for the Performing Arts and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
[00:39:34] Speaker E: That's the same guest list for your upcoming 50th. Pardon me, the sum of the same guests guest list we have coming up here.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: 50th oh, the 50th anniversary, yeah.
Well, that would be nice.
Anyway, that's Henry Mancini. And so today. Actually, today is his birthday, and they're going to be celebrating in the next Tuesday.
And let's start with you, Jack. How old you think Henry Mancini is today?
[00:40:00] Speaker D: Mancini.
Let's see.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: We're speaking in my native Chagra, by the way.
I usually speak Chagra with a dialect which is. Yeah. Which is only limited to a few consonants. Yeah, but he's speaking pure chakra. Yeah. From the Northern Province, the northern part of Perim.
That's right.
[00:40:32] Speaker E: I know more about your history than
[00:40:34] Speaker B: you do, I guess. You do.
I'm a little ashamed of it, to tell you the truth.
[00:40:38] Speaker E: You were the only Pud Klubnik from
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Harim, by the way. That's right. Yeah.
[00:40:41] Speaker F: I thought he was Polish.
[00:40:42] Speaker D: Yeah, well, this is before it was Poland.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. It was incorporated into Poland, I recall, in 1892.
I don't know. Why did I say that? I don't know. Anyway, Jack, how old is whoever we're talking about? I think it's Henry Mancini.
[00:41:03] Speaker D: I would say that he is. He's 75.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: 75 years old on this day. Emilio, what do you think?
[00:41:11] Speaker F: I'm gonna say 70?
[00:41:13] Speaker B: And Amelia's gonna say 70? And Tony will say.
[00:41:15] Speaker E: I'm trying to remember all the stuff I've been reading about him. I think it's 70.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: 70.
Okay. And Mary.
[00:41:21] Speaker C: 72.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: 72 says Mary.
Virginia, what do you think?
[00:41:27] Speaker C: I'll go with 75. You gotta be older than big.
[00:41:31] Speaker B: You judge everything by how old you are, don't you? Well, you know, you must be a real boring broad.
[00:41:36] Speaker C: Oh, no, I'm a real hefty cat.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: I see.
[00:41:39] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: No, he is actually 70 years old today.
[00:41:43] Speaker E: Yes, 70. I have been reading my stuff.
[00:41:46] Speaker D: Great.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: I got one.
[00:41:47] Speaker E: I can sleep. I can relax. I don't have to win as long as I get one.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: You did get one. And Emilio now has three and leads Virginia, who has two.
So here's one more. Just one more. Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
[00:42:04] Speaker F: Okay, that's a.
[00:42:05] Speaker B: That sounds like an old Middle east song, doesn't it?
[00:42:13] Speaker E: Wait a minute. That was a polka, wasn't it?
[00:42:15] Speaker B: No, no, the.
Okay. Anyway,
[00:42:28] Speaker E: Abdul.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Anyway, he was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcinder Jr. In New York City.
He was a. And he played basketball as Lou Elson before, changed his name to Kareem Abdul.
[00:42:43] Speaker E: Last name Cinder.
[00:42:45] Speaker B: Bless you.
[00:42:46] Speaker E: Was his last name Cinder? Or was it Alcindor?
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Al Cinder. Okay.
[00:42:50] Speaker E: Just wanted to. Because it always Like Lou.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: Al.
[00:42:52] Speaker E: I thought it was like Joe Bob or something. Lou Alison Alice's Middle Lewis.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: No, no, he played in Milwaukee.
He played in Milwaukee from 1969 to 1975.
The Bucks retired his number 33. In 1993.
He played for the LA Lakers. On April 4, 1984, he broke Wilt Chamberlain's all time NBA regular season scoring record of 31,419 points. If I remember correctly, Sam saying this from the top of my head.
[00:43:26] Speaker C: Oh, boy, he's smart.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: And early in 1985. Let's see if I remember. I think he broke the record for most points scored in a professional basketball career.
At age 40, he averaged 14.6 points a game.
[00:43:41] Speaker F: What year was that?
[00:43:42] Speaker E: No, you've got a head.
[00:43:43] Speaker C: Oh, come on.
[00:43:44] Speaker E: You've got a headphone.
[00:43:45] Speaker C: No cheating.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: No, no, I did read all that. Of course. Of course I did. I was. I wasn't trying to.
I wasn't trying to show up.
[00:43:54] Speaker E: Norm can remember all that, but can he do his own taxes?
[00:43:57] Speaker B: No, no.
Okay.
[00:44:02] Speaker C: The Chelsea High. He's smart.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: That's right. My folks, we had lived in Everett, but my folks wanted me to get the best possible education that they could. They could find. And so we moved to Chelsea so I could go to Chelsea High School.
[00:44:14] Speaker C: That's the only way you get your diploma.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: That's right. And I'd like to sing for you the Chelsea High School fight song.
[00:44:19] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: And my two sons graduated from Chelsea High.
[00:44:23] Speaker B: Nobody gives a damn.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: Yeah, but you would if you knew one of mine was on the Mall. Malden Police Department. If you. In case you get caught speeding or
[00:44:31] Speaker B: something, you know, in Malden. Yeah. What makes you think any of us would get caught speeding anywhere?
[00:44:36] Speaker F: What makes you think we'd go to Malden?
[00:44:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:38] Speaker C: I beg your pardon?
[00:44:39] Speaker B: I was. I was actually. I was lost in Malden once. It's kind of an interesting story. Is it? Yeah. I was lost in Malden and I. I survived in. Right in the thick of it. And I survived for several days on birch bark and wild berries until at least. And one time taken by fever. I thought I was gonna die right there in Thirst. A missionary tribe came through and found me. Thank God for that. And one more day and I would have been gone.
[00:45:04] Speaker C: Well, if you survived going through Chelsea, you could survive anything.
[00:45:09] Speaker B: You know something? You're getting on my nerves.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: I got news for you. I listen to you every night when you're on.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: Then you're okay.
[00:45:16] Speaker C: You're on my nerves too. How's that grab you? Wow.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Oh, it grabs me nice. If you really.
[00:45:22] Speaker C: Right. With a hair shot.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: Okay. Virginia, how old is Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
[00:45:33] Speaker C: I don't know who he is.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it doesn't really matter. He probably doesn't know who you are either.
[00:45:39] Speaker C: I don't think so.
I'll say 47.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: 47. You say 47. What made you say 47 if you
[00:45:46] Speaker C: don't know if I like that? Age. Age. My son's 47.
[00:45:49] Speaker B: Oh, actually, that's. That's why you picked that. Okay, Mary.
[00:45:52] Speaker C: 51.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: 51. Antoni, is that. And. And, yes, it is. Antonio. Antonio. Like an Anthony.
[00:46:02] Speaker F: Antonio.
[00:46:03] Speaker B: Anthony. Anthony.
[00:46:04] Speaker E: Exactly.
Okay, sure, whatever you say.
50.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: 50.
And Emilio.
[00:46:13] Speaker F: Well, through the power of deduction, his Rookie year was 69.
So I'm going to say that was 25 years ago. Correct. Am I correct in my mathematics? Yeah, he was 22. Probably entering the league.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: 21.
[00:46:26] Speaker F: So I'm gonna say he's 43.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: 43.
[00:46:30] Speaker D: Well, that's a map for you.
[00:46:31] Speaker F: No, wait a second.
[00:46:32] Speaker E: Excuse me.
[00:46:32] Speaker F: Hold on.
[00:46:32] Speaker D: Wait a second.
[00:46:33] Speaker E: Yeah, the same problem. I did, I subtracted.
[00:46:35] Speaker F: I did.
[00:46:36] Speaker E: I subtracted, as he said, by the power of deduction.
[00:46:41] Speaker B: You must have gone to Chelsea High School also.
[00:46:44] Speaker F: I used to go through Malden every day to get there, too.
[00:46:47] Speaker C: Okay, watch out for my son.
[00:46:50] Speaker F: I say he's 47, then.
[00:46:52] Speaker B: 47. Okay. And Jack.
[00:46:55] Speaker D: 46.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: 46.
Okay. He is 47. That was very good.
[00:47:01] Speaker F: Very good.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: Emilio and Virginia. That's why I asked her how come she arrived to 47 having never heard of him.
[00:47:08] Speaker C: Him.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: And he hit his age right on the button.
Okay.
Yeah, that was very good. As a matter of fact, Emilio is the winner, which is really nice for me. That means I don't have to send out any prizes.
[00:47:20] Speaker E: Are you caught up with that yet?
[00:47:22] Speaker B: Just about. I sent a bunch last week. Yeah, I bought that.
[00:47:25] Speaker E: And I've got to let everyone know that the pulp, the lateral thinking puzzle books, they're going to go out in the mill on Monday.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Oh, that's all packaged up and ready to go. Because I get calls every now and then from somebody who says, hey, yeah, you forgot me.
[00:47:37] Speaker F: Disgruntled.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we have disgruntled. I'd say disgruntled is a good angel.
[00:47:41] Speaker E: There were seven winners, so I think
[00:47:43] Speaker C: Emilio had three, didn't he?
[00:47:45] Speaker B: No, Emilio had four. Oh, let me check.
[00:47:48] Speaker E: Until he went to see his doctor
[00:47:50] Speaker B: and he got him a couple of.
[00:47:51] Speaker D: You know, it's no longer politically correct to say Disgruntled. Now that. Now you have to say gruntly challenged.
[00:47:58] Speaker F: I see.
[00:47:59] Speaker D: That was just a fact that I read in the paper.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: Anyway, Amelia does have four and.
And Virginia, you did very well with three.
[00:48:09] Speaker C: Well, I did better than last time.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: You did much better. And you did much better than anybody else did here, except for Emilio.
[00:48:15] Speaker F: No, no, it was Virginia or Mary that was really on you. This.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: I think it's Virginia, was it not? Is that Virginia? No, no, Mary was Mary now who went to Chelsea High School. Was that you, Virginia?
[00:48:27] Speaker C: No, I didn't. My two children did.
[00:48:30] Speaker B: Oh, I think it's both Mary and Virginia.
[00:48:32] Speaker F: I think they both were ganging up on here.
[00:48:34] Speaker B: I think they were both. Yeah, they're both.
[00:48:35] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:48:36] Speaker C: My two children graduated from Chelsea High.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: This is Virginia.
[00:48:42] Speaker C: Yeah, okay.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Do you mind if I hang up on you?
Bye.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: A well deserved and perfect ending to this one. The hang up was all Norm had left. By the way, I have seen Gone with the Wind. Actually saw it in a theater during an anniversary release with a lovely lass whom I've lost contact with over the years named Mary Brown. Quite much enjoyed the movie and the company. Looks like we'll venture back to 1992 for next week's episode. So I'll see you then. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4 useless and tacky prizes. 80 year old know it alls. America's talking spiels and tryouts. The Lawrence Eagle Tribune Birthmarks shaped like a president.
The Brudnoy Hailstone shaped like his nose. Princess Cheyenne and her friend Montana.
Saucy Wenches, Body Glove, Athletic apparel. The Sea of Love. The mysterious Harriet in Brighton. The Lone Ranger in Tonto.
Patty O Furniture Jack many cameos. The Polish Prince, Blue Velvet Polkas. Isaac Nathan Pod Clubnik buying the movie rights. The Parlan Junior High School in Chelsea, Mass. Which I believe is now known as the Phoenix Charter Academy in Chelsea. But don't quote me on that.
Malted milk Friday nights.
Proud poles, 66 age self consciousness.
Muriel Cigars. Crossword Puzzle Freaks. My melancholy baby shtick. Ms. Varicose Veins. 1993 dust bunnies. The Algonquin Roundtable. Soul Daggers. Uppity Players. Birthday Galas. Pure Chagra from the Isle of Perim.
Boring Broads. Joe Bob Cinder having a head for numbers. The Chelsea High School fight Song. Birch Bark and Wild Berries. Life Saving Missionary Tales. America's talking biggest mistake in not hiring him. But of course that was our gain. Jack Hart and our multi nominated Polish talk host, Nom Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbit.
Or at least that's what I was gonna say.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: She wore blue, everybody. Velvet were the colors of her playthings anyway.
