Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: We have another special episode as this veers away from the expected and into a secret club like atmosphere which prompted the title Exclusivity at WBZ Broadcast City. It is a dumb birthday game from June 27, 1993. Players I'm producing and playing in studio in. Bruce Connolly is in traffic and. Yeah, that's it. The birthdays. Ross Perot, Bob Keeshan, Bruce Babbitt, Gary Crosby, Robinson. Bruce.
A date in history. In what year did President Harry S. Truman order the US into the Korean conflict? Then we jump to June 28th for one more birthday. Mel Brooks. And then we go back for another date in history. In what year did Louisville schoolteacher Mildred J. Hill compose a tune for her students called Good Morning to All? Her sister Patty wrote the lyrics and later Elliot added a verse that began Happy birthday to you.
We have a post game call from Generosa.
A couple of commercials here. Kwai garlic tablets and Marazine tablets.
And I thought would include some ABC News with Katherine Cowdery brought to us by Connect long distance episode 293, exclusivity at WBZ Broadcast City initiates its way to your ears now.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Okay, the time is 28 minutes after 3 o'. Clock. You're tuned to a WBZ and Tony Nesbitt is here along our producer. Along with. Along with. We have Bruce Connolly with us. Okay, we'll bring in Bruce Conley. Hi, Bruce.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: Hey, Norm.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: How you doing? Okay. I thought we'd do as kind of an abbreviated version of the dumb birthday game today. I just somehow I thought rather than do the same thing all the time, if we became a little less predictable and just get kind of crazy and do other stuff. Does that make any sense to you at all? Probably doesn't, but what the heck. No, it doesn't make any sense to anybody. Hold on a minute while I check the kids. All those of you who make sense, would you raise your hands?
No, no. Raise your hands either one. It's okay.
Okay, those. That doesn't make any sense to. Would you raise your hands? Oh, look at the forest of hands for that one. My goodness. Okay, anyway, it's 29 after 3 and I thought we just.
You and Tony can guess. Okay, Bruce?
[00:02:28] Speaker C: Yeah, but is this an attempt just to make Tony. Just to have Tony make fun of me after every single one that I get wrong now?
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Yes, it is, it is. It's to make a total fool out of you.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:02:39] Speaker B: But the idea is you can. You can turn the tables and make a fool out of Tony too.
[00:02:43] Speaker D: I feel like that's going to happen.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the idea to see which one of you comes out looking more foolish than the other and also to kind of. Kind of highlight the WBC staff to just show what swell guys we got here. WBZ traffic reporter, WBC producer. And I think people ought to get to know us better because at the moment they hate us. And I figure if they get to know you better, they'll feel better towards you.
Does that sound okay?
[00:03:09] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Hello, Microphone on.
Okay, let me give you some birthdays today.
Also, there aren't too many interesting people born today. The most interesting is Ross Perot. Did you know today's his birthday?
Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah. Let me. Let me give you a little background on him.
This will only take about a half an hour.
Now this, in fact, it'll take about five seconds.
[00:03:32] Speaker D: You have some graphs and some pie charts.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: You can toast. I do, too. And also I pull my ears out at a funny angle and gotten a bad haircut.
And I'm going to talk in a high voice like he does. Like that, too. Hi, this is Raspberul. I'm a millionaire because I'm just as smart and I'm going to be a pain in the butt to every president from here on unless somebody stops and listens to me anyway. Billionaire. He's listed as a billionaire computer tycoon.
You suppose this is the way he writes when he's filling out an application or anything? Your occupation, please, on the resume. Resume? Yeah. Your occupation, right at the top. Billionaire computer tycoon. I'm a billionaire computer tycoon.
[00:04:12] Speaker D: Billion occupation. From whenever he started it until present on the top of the resume.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: He's born in Texarkana, Texas. His estimated worth is over $2 billion.
He had his eyes on the US presidency in 1992. This says. Really? We had noticed that.
Okay. He's estimated worth over $2 billion. Can you imagine that? What's he running for president for? Why doesn't he just sit there, turn that money into dimes and run his feet through it or something?
[00:04:39] Speaker D: That's your sexual perversion, not his.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: I know. I really.
[00:04:42] Speaker D: I bet you he'd like to have it poured over his head in some. The dimes get like. Trickle over his ears.
That's where he gets those funny haircuts, you know, It's a special effect.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: They're trying to. Try to. They're trying to cut around the dimes.
[00:04:55] Speaker D: Yeah, something like that.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: I see. Okay. Okay. How old, Bruce? What do you say? How old do you Think Ross Perot is.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: Well, I'm gonna say 67.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: 67 years old? Why? His haircut is older than that.
What do you think, Tony?
[00:05:12] Speaker D: 67 also. No, no, no. I'll guess different. I'll guess. I'll guess he's 60. 66.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: You're really going out in a limb with that one.
[00:05:27] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: No, actually, you are a little closer. He's 63. Oh, he is 63. So he can be a pain in the butt to presidents to come for many more years.
[00:05:37] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Until he's about 95.
[00:05:39] Speaker D: In fact, he can keep running until he.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Well, little guys like that with big ears and bad haircuts, they live forever. You know, a good haircut, you know, shortens your life. I don't know whether you knew that.
And small ears do, too, so. Ne, since he has neither one, he's got a lifespan probably. Well, more than an elephant.
[00:05:57] Speaker D: Stop there, Norm.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I think so. I think I'm alienating a lot of Ross Perot people.
[00:06:03] Speaker D: Well, no, just because you don't like the way it looks, I don't think it'd be alienating.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Okay. How about Bob Keeshan?
Bob Keeshan. Captain. Captain Kangaroo. Let me see if I can give you a little background of Captain Kangaroo.
This is kind of fun not having a whole bunch of other people bothering us, huh?
[00:06:21] Speaker D: It's the club. It's kind of.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: It's kind of nice. Yeah. We're the select group. Yeah, right. If we can't control who gets on this program, who can?
[00:06:28] Speaker D: We're going to be in the paper tomorrow. We're excluding people Now. Is this if we. If either. Well, y' all already. You've already run for office. Are they gonna look back on this now and say, nathan, he's excluded people from the birthday game club?
[00:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. My reelection chances next May in my town probably are nil.
[00:06:45] Speaker D: This is gonna be a scandal.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Probably will be.
[00:06:48] Speaker D: Along with that thing with the dimes you were talking about.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Probably. This morning in Middleton, all over the town, they'll be talking about this.
[00:06:56] Speaker D: It'll be outside with torches in one of the house.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: And I was just using my present office as a stepping stone to bigger things.
I think I might as well kiss my political career goodbye.
[00:07:05] Speaker D: Do you have an office in Middleton?
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I'm an elected official in town.
[00:07:09] Speaker D: Yes, but do you have. At the town hall. Do you have an office with.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: No, I do not have an office.
[00:07:15] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: No, they're kind enough because they know of the kind of wild life that I lead to. Allow me to have my office in my own home in my dirty den.
[00:07:26] Speaker D: Very nice.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: Piled high with stuff.
[00:07:29] Speaker D: I've seen it.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right, dude.
[00:07:31] Speaker D: I can vouch for that.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Did you know you knew that Captain Kangaroo was Clarabelle the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show? And I guess it aggravated him so much, being such a nutcake, running around tooting his horn there as Clarabelle the Clown, that he decided he'd have a kids show that had more dignity. And so he became Captain Kangaroo and in 1955, and it ran for many years on CBS. He's from Linebrook, New York, ladies and gentlemen. Let's welcome him right now to Star Search 93.
Anyway, Captain Kangaroo. Bob Keeshan, how old do you think? What do you say?
Tony's your name, I believe. Okay.
[00:08:13] Speaker D: Yes, it is.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:08:14] Speaker D: Okay, Bruce, what was the name of the po. Was it just Mr. Moose or something?
[00:08:18] Speaker C: Mr. Moose and the rabbit?
[00:08:21] Speaker D: That was it, right?
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Just for the animals? I believe so, yeah. It was Mr. Green Jeans.
[00:08:27] Speaker D: Oh, of course. Who could forget Mr. Green Jeans?
[00:08:30] Speaker C: I think that was it, though.
[00:08:31] Speaker D: That was it for characters. There wasn't a milkman or.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: Not that I can remember.
[00:08:37] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Does this have anything to do with his age?
[00:08:40] Speaker D: No, I'm trying to figure it.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Are you just stalling? Mostly kind of reminiscing.
[00:08:44] Speaker D: I remember watching Captain.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: I see.
[00:08:45] Speaker D: Okay, let me see. Love those suits. He used to wear collars out to about his shoulders.
He's got to be pushing 74.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: 74. You put that in the form of a question also.
[00:09:04] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
How do you suppose he got the name Captain Kangaroo? Why did he come up with those kind of names?
[00:09:11] Speaker D: Maybe hop to another network.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: Maybe he hopped to another network. Very good.
Bruce, what do you think?
How old do you think Bob Keeshan Captain Kangaroo is?
[00:09:22] Speaker C: I'm gonna guess a little bit older. I'm gonna say he's 82.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: 82.
Do you know, I would have guessed he's older than what. What is listed here? Hold on while I check both sources.
I have a couple of sources.
Both of them say. Wait a minute. Wait, here's the yellow one.
Yeah. 66.
[00:09:42] Speaker D: He'd been 60 when I was watching him. He was 66.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Can't you give. Give a dumb answer without. Without making a whole federal case like it's his fault. He's older than that. What is he lying to us?
[00:09:55] Speaker D: The green jeans is 74?
[00:09:57] Speaker B: That's right.
No, actually, he's 66. That's. That's correct. And so you're both way off, but you. Tony said 74.
[00:10:05] Speaker D: Oh, he looks at least 74.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So you were only.
Oh, boy.
[00:10:09] Speaker C: You know, even with two people, I can't win.
I don't understand.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: No, I understand. The reason is. And I don't want to make excuses for it, but just to soothe your feelings.
But the reason that you don't. Guess it is nothing to feel heartsick about it. Just that you're pitiful.
[00:10:27] Speaker C: Oh, I was worried for a bit.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:10:29] Speaker D: You were worried I was gonna make fun of you.
I haven't said anything.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: How about Bruce Babbitt, who's Secretary of the Interior, almost became a Supreme Court justice? I guess he didn't.
[00:10:39] Speaker D: Almost.
I think a lot of people almost did before we were surprised.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Let me see if I can. Let me see what I can tell you about Bruce Babbitt, because he was governor of Arizona, he's a swell dancer and a neat dresser. We know that, if that'll help you.
[00:10:57] Speaker D: Was he a presidential candidate a few years back?
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Yes, he was. He was. Yes. Yes, he was.
Yeah, that's about it. Bruce Babbitt
[00:11:09] Speaker D: we can say about him.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's about. No, that's all the information I have about him. Yeah. Bruce, let me start with you this time, Bruce. What do you think? I'm gonna say both have the same front name?
[00:11:19] Speaker C: Well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say that he's.
I'm gonna go with 56.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: 56.
Okay. And what do you say there, Tony? 58. Well, Bruce has won this one.
He's 55. Oh, Bruce Travis, 55 years old today.
[00:11:39] Speaker C: Must be the name.
[00:11:40] Speaker D: Now you're only one.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:41] Speaker D: Yeah. See, that was an unfair advantage.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Right, now we're going to get to a name that's neutral territory because it's a name neither one of you has. It's Gary. No, actually, it's the same kind of name. Same kind of wimpish, nerd like name. Gary. Oh, you're Gary.
You might just well be Irving or Naaman.
And Gary Crosby, this is one of the sons of Bing Crosby, of course. Let me see. He's his oldest son, if that's a clue to you.
Gary Crosby, Bing's oldest son, who I think hated his father.
I think all of Bing Crosby's kids hated him.
[00:12:22] Speaker D: I think so.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. He wasn't a good father. He really wasn't. I used to play golf with him, you know, and he would say, I don't know.
Being a good father is not.
I do best. Used to talk like that, you know. And I said, if you just talk like a normal human being instead of acting like a total idiot, maybe they'd like you. And he would say, do you bubba bubba think so?
And then we break his nose.
Okay, Gary Crosby, we'll start with you, Tony. How old do you think Gary Crosby is on this very day, June 27?
[00:12:59] Speaker D: His oldest son, huh?
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:03] Speaker D: How old was Bing when he died?
[00:13:09] Speaker B: I don't know. I can look that up if you.
[00:13:11] Speaker D: I need a little sister.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: I guess we can do that now because we're not under the pressure of a whole panel of people.
[00:13:17] Speaker D: That's true.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: So we can.
We can play the game quite differently. Let's see.
[00:13:22] Speaker C: We can cheat.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: We can cheat, sure. We can do all that stuff that we don't get a chance to when people are looking at us.
I don't know. I'm looking up him in the index and there are a million dates here. Apparently he did a lot of stuff. February 13th. I don't know. I don't know what his birthday was.
No, I'm afraid I don't know.
No, he wasn't born February 13th.
[00:13:50] Speaker D: I appreciate it, Norm, so much.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: Does that help you at all?
[00:13:53] Speaker D: 59. 59.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: 59, okay. 59 for Gary Crosby. What do you think, Bruce?
[00:14:01] Speaker C: I'm gonna say 57.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: 57. Okay. Actually, Tony came within one year. He's 60.
[00:14:07] Speaker D: Oh, yes.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Gary Crosby. That's hard for me to believe that. That kid, that punk kid is 60 years old. The big six year old. This kid's almost as old as I am. I always thought of him as a little kid.
[00:14:18] Speaker D: Think about that.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: He's an old poop.
[00:14:20] Speaker D: Geez.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: You're an old poop, Gary.
[00:14:23] Speaker D: With a wimp name.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: With a wimp name. That's right, Gary. Okay, here's Bruce Johnston. Do you know who that is?
[00:14:32] Speaker D: Another Bruce. I don't like this. This is kind of. It's starting to slant towards me, I think.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: So the Traffic favor Bruce Johnston with the Beach Boys. He wrote I Write the Songs. A hit for Barry Manilow. I thought Barry Manilow wrote that.
Apparently, Bruce Johnston wrote it.
He won a Grammy in 1976.
[00:14:54] Speaker D: So Barry should have said, I sing the songs.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: I sing the songs that Bruce wrote for me.
Yeah, I didn't. I. I was always certain that Bruce Manilow wrote that.
[00:15:04] Speaker D: Barry Manilow.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Bruce Manilow. That's. That's right. It's Bruce Johnston, but Barry Manilow.
[00:15:11] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: What do you think? Bruce.
Bruce Johnston. How old do you think he is?
[00:15:16] Speaker C: Well, Being both a Beach Boys fan and a Barry Manilow fan.
I know that he's
[00:15:28] Speaker B: 54.
You know that he's 54. Okay. And what do you know that he is? Tony.
[00:15:35] Speaker D: I'll say. Big Bruce Johnson. Above a Bruce Johnson.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Johnston, actually, with a T. Johnston. Yes.
[00:15:42] Speaker D: Yes. Okay.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:15:46] Speaker D: 50. 52.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: 52. 52.
You are the closest again, you're closer than Bruce. Yeah, he's 49, actually. Oh, so you were within three years.
And Bruce wasn't that far off either.
[00:16:03] Speaker D: No, but just far enough to lose.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Just far enough to look really stupid. Yeah, that's right.
Let me give you a date. It was on this date, which is June 27, that President Harry S. Truman ordered the U.S. air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict, following a call from the UN Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel the invasion from the north. 54,000 U.S. troops died in that three year war.
And the call for troops from President Truman came on this date, June 27th. The question, of course, is what year was that?
What year was the beginning of the Korean War or our entry into it? Tony, what do you think, big fella?
[00:16:52] Speaker D: I'm so embarrassed by these history questions. Yeah, 19.
How about that?
[00:16:58] Speaker B: 19 is a good start.
[00:16:59] Speaker D: You like that?
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah, excellent start.
[00:17:02] Speaker D: 50.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: Yes.
Oh, you're going through pain, you poor soul. Yeah, poor, poor soul. He's going through agony.
[00:17:16] Speaker D: 19. 1950.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: 1950.
[00:17:21] Speaker D: No, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: He says no, no, no. He says no, we're drawing 1951.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: Now, see, that's the difference between Tony and myself, because right away I would have said 1812.
There was some more that year. I know, but because he's guessing up there, I'm just gonna make him look good and I'm gonna say 19.
63.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: 1963.
[00:17:53] Speaker D: Sorry, Bruce. I'm so sorry. Funny that. Never mind.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:58] Speaker D: Kennedy was president at the time.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: Well, I know, but I just wanted
[00:18:02] Speaker B: to make you look. And Harry Truman was.
[00:18:04] Speaker D: He's throwing the game. Yeah.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Harry Truman was still alive, though. He could have.
Yeah, I think so. In 63, he could have just gone there and said, hey, by the way, while I'm still alive, could you have a war in Korea, please? Thank you, Noah. Yeah, it could have been that way, too. Yeah.
I think you ought to repel an invasion from the north, just the way he phrased it.
[00:18:25] Speaker D: He still could be closer than I am, actually.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: He could be. But actually, you were. You were right on the. On the target. The first guess, when you said 90, it was 50. Okay. Was 50 so you got within a year.
[00:18:35] Speaker D: Anyway, I don't know why I was suspicious about that.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know either.
So that. Let's see. Out of. Out of. See, we've had six of these things so far and Tony has gotten five of them.
[00:18:49] Speaker D: I like playing like this. I can get high scores.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Yeah, Bruce got the other one.
[00:18:53] Speaker D: Yeah. With everyone else I could have lost by, you know.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Bruce here. You're still coming in second. I'll give you one more. Okay, that's not a bad thing.
[00:19:01] Speaker D: He can finish second no matter what.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah, you can finish. Will you finish second?
[00:19:06] Speaker C: I've answered one more question tonight than I have in the last three weeks. So.
So I'm doing well.
[00:19:12] Speaker D: Life is good.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: It's a good night tonight.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: I'll give you a birthday on Sunday or Monday rather. June 28th.
[00:19:23] Speaker D: Tomorrow.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: In other words, Mel Brooks.
Let me see what I can tell you about Mel Brooks. It might be a clue.
Hold on a minute while. Oh, I got a lot of stuff about him. He was born Melvin Kaminsky.
Right away. His age from that. Right.
Born in New York City, he started out as a nightclub comedian and later he was one of the writers for Sid Caesar's show of shows for which he made $2,500 per week.
Gee.
[00:19:52] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Wow. Recorded an album with Carl reiner in the 60s, the 2000 year old man, which is still one of the funniest of all albums ever.
Would you believe I have 256,000 thousand children and not one comes to visit me?
Yeah. Moving right along now. Yeah. He co wrote Get Smart. I didn't know that. For tv.
His best known films include Blazing Saddles. Remember that?
Bean eating.
[00:20:22] Speaker D: Oh, yes.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Oh, that was really gross.
Young Frankenstein.
[00:20:27] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Silent Movie where Marcel Marceau was the only one who spoke the. The mime.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: That was a great movie.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: That was a funny movie. Yes. High Anxiety. I love when he sang it in a Sinatra kind of way. The title song, you give me. Oh, yeah. High Anxiety.
[00:20:46] Speaker D: After that he went down. He hasn't had a.
A real decent hit movie for a while.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: No, he hasn't. The one movie after Spaceballs, History of
[00:20:55] Speaker D: the Worlds, Part one, Life Stinks was another one.
He's got another one coming out. Or at least he wrote one. Wrote it anyway.
And I don't remember who stars in it.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: He wrote the Producers. That was funny.
[00:21:07] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: When he wrote the Springtime for Hitler was one of the songs in that.
Springtime for Hitler and you and. And Germany. That's right. He's married to Actress Ann Bancroft. Oh, they did.
They did a movie that Jack Benny had been in originally where he was an actor in Germany evading the Nazis.
And Ban Kroc was in that movie.
What was the name of that movie, do you know?
Oh, it was a funny movie, and it was a good movie done by Jack Benny also.
Same movie.
I can't remember the name of that.
Anyway, how old would you say Mel Brooks will be on this very day? This. Not. Not this very day, but Monday, June 28th. We'll start with you, Bruce. What do you say?
[00:21:59] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with 63.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: Okay. And what do you think, Tony?
[00:22:05] Speaker D: 68.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: 68. Well, I'm happy to tell Bruce that he won this round.
You're both very close. He's actually. He's 65, Mel. Bruce, 65 on Monday. And Bruce came within two years of it. You came within three. So that's not bad.
So that's it.
[00:22:24] Speaker D: No, more like, when was the aglet invented or something? Or patented?
[00:22:29] Speaker B: 1812.
Same as the. Same as the Korean War.
[00:22:34] Speaker C: Same as the Korean War.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:22:37] Speaker D: Harry Truman patented it.
[00:22:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: You know, there's nothing except Captain Video and his Video Rangers. HBO premiered on the dumont Television Network.
[00:22:49] Speaker D: Actually, wasn't that Cap. Oh, that was Captain Midnight. Listen to me.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah, this is Captain Video.
Captain Video, of course, battled bad guys.
So that was the different plot there. He battled the bad guys all over the universe.
[00:23:02] Speaker D: What year did this?
[00:23:04] Speaker B: The year was 1949, I'll tell you that.
[00:23:06] Speaker D: Then the misery, I was gonna say, because I remember seeing Honeymooners episodes with Norton and watching Captain Video on.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:23:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
So I figured it went back at least that far.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Okay. Okay, I'll give you one more. This is kind of interesting.
Louisville. This is on this date on June 27, Sunday, June 27, Louisville school teacher Mildred J. Hill composed a tune for her students and called it Good Morning to All.
Her sister Patty wrote the lyrics and later added a verse that began, Happy birthday to you.
The song became, and still is, the world's most popular song.
What year?
[00:23:48] Speaker D: Funny, I never heard.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Would that have been.
Never heard of Happy birthday to you?
[00:23:52] Speaker D: Sorry.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it goes. I think it's Happy birthday to you. Now I wish you Happy birthday.
He stuck a feather in his cap and called it Happy Birthday.
I think that's the way it goes. I'm not pretty sure about that.
[00:24:07] Speaker D: I may have heard that before.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: I've got Happy Birthday under my skin. It might be that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My funny. Happy birthday. Sweet comic birthday. No, Might be that it's one of those.
[00:24:21] Speaker D: One more. Something with a little in it, maybe that
[00:24:27] Speaker B: when the happy birthday of the day meets the gold the happy birthday night.
Am I making an ass of myself today? I have no shame. No shame at all.
Oh, it's sickening. Okay, we'll start with you, Tony. What year was that that Happy Birthday was written?
[00:24:46] Speaker D: You know that. That entered the Billboard shots with a. With a bullet, by the way.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: That's right. Number one. With a bullet. You can't do any better than that.
[00:24:52] Speaker D: No, you can't.
No. What. What was it? What was in it when it was recorded, when it was written? What was the question again?
[00:24:59] Speaker B: The question again. Let's see.
She composed the tune to her students and called it good morning to all.
Later the lyrics were added, changing it to happy birthday to you. But I guess when she first wrote it, I don't know, maybe she. She came out to the school in Louisville and said, here's the song. And maybe that was on June 27th. I don't know, somewhere or something like that.
[00:25:23] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: So, Louis.
[00:25:24] Speaker D: Louisville, Kentucky.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:25:27] Speaker D: Kentucky had to be a state at the time. All right.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: I feel. I feel so happy birthday in my shirt. I feel happy birthday in my pants. That might have been the way it went. I. I just don't remember now.
[00:25:42] Speaker D: Oh, ninth. No, I. Geez, I don't know. 1908.
I don't know.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Yeah. You mean like in 1907, people were saying, what is this Happy birthday to you? And they're saying, I never heard that song before.
[00:25:57] Speaker D: I was gonna go back to 1798, but I just didn't think it was.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Okay. 1908. No, I'm not poking fun at you. I want to.
[00:26:05] Speaker D: I want to change it. You're right.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: You want to change.
[00:26:07] Speaker D: No, I do.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: I'm not prompting you in any way. Don't say I'm right. I'm not 17.
[00:26:13] Speaker D: I'm going with 1908.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: 1908.
[00:26:15] Speaker F: Sure.
[00:26:15] Speaker D: Sure.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: And, Bruce.
[00:26:16] Speaker D: Very young song.
The world's been singing it. Singing it so many times, it seems like it's older, but it really is.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Yeah. It's an optical illusion.
[00:26:24] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Bruce, what do you think?
[00:26:26] Speaker D: The Gatlin Brothers?
[00:26:28] Speaker C: Well, I've.
I've determined why I always lose and Tony always wins. Because when I guess, when I don't know an answer, I just guess with all the confidence that I can. And Tony uses deductive reasoning for his answers.
Now, I would have never thought to think that, well, Kentucky was a state then. How do you do that I'm just thinking here, oh, God, what year was that? And he's doing all this computer work over there.
[00:26:54] Speaker D: I know. I take all the fun out of there.
[00:26:59] Speaker C: Well, I'm sticking to the old fashioned way. And I'm gonna say 1907.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: You really went far out on that one.
[00:27:07] Speaker D: And he's closer because it was 1620.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: Actually, he is closer because it was 1859.
[00:27:15] Speaker C: Oh.
Almost near the Korean War. That's.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Right or wrong, you're only about 68 years off. Yeah.
[00:27:23] Speaker D: 1859. What were they singing before that?
[00:27:25] Speaker B: 1859.
[00:27:25] Speaker D: Before someone's birthday.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: What did they sing when it was somebody's birthday?
[00:27:29] Speaker D: Yeah, you hear the song and it's almost like when it's someone's birthday, you know, we say happy birthday to you.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:38] Speaker D: And I can't believe no one.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: Before that. Yeah. Before that, it was something quite different. It was. Oh, say can you see it's your birthday? Marie or whoever, whatever.
You'd add the name there.
[00:27:50] Speaker D: What if it didn't rhyme like Norm? Oh, say can you see it's your birthday, Norm. It doesn't rhyme.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: No, no, Normie.
[00:27:56] Speaker D: Nor me, Bruce.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: Happy birthday day.
You're up to form.
It's your birthday, dear Norm. They would rhyme it, whatever it was.
Happy birthday. Here's a pony. Hope you like it. Dear Tony.
[00:28:13] Speaker D: You don't like my version of it, though. Happy birthday. What was your first one? Happy birthday.
Oh, can you see Brucie. Normie.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that would be.
Can you see.
Happy birthday, Brucey.
[00:28:28] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: That was nice.
[00:28:29] Speaker D: Sure.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:30] Speaker D: Now I'm making an ass out of myself.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Do you think what we're doing will ever replace radio in any form, really? Legitimate radio?
Okay, hey, look, look. A lot of folks say we like it when you're not serious, but could. Is there some kind of a line you could draw between being not serious and being a total idiot? Is there something kind of. Could you compromise on that? Pretty much.
[00:28:55] Speaker D: No, we can't.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: No, we can't. That's right. We either are idiots or we sit here and we. And we lecture to you. Which do you want? For God's sakes, at this time of the morning?
[00:29:04] Speaker D: Could you lecture stupidly to us?
[00:29:06] Speaker B: You know. Okay, the. The. So the winner. Tony got five correct answers, and Bruce, you got two, which is better than you've done in the past.
[00:29:16] Speaker C: I got tears in my eyes.
[00:29:18] Speaker D: Fight the good fight.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: You know what I'm gonna do? You hear this? I'm gonna rattless in your ear.
That's the scorecard.
[00:29:25] Speaker C: Great.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: I'm taking it down to the frame shop in Middleton.
We're gonna frame that, and I'm gonna give that to you when it's your birthday.
And at the same time, I'm gonna sing that song to you.
[00:29:40] Speaker D: One more time. Norm.
Hey, my name. No. Hey, you're adorable
[00:29:48] Speaker B: night and day Happy birthday to you.
Anyway, thanks very much for playing the game, huh?
[00:29:54] Speaker C: Well, thank you.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: What do you think? What do you think, baby?
[00:29:57] Speaker D: I called you for this. Bruce. I'm sorry.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: I think I'm gonna clip both these guys off. Keep talking so I can clip you off the air.
[00:30:04] Speaker D: Oh, why? I don't need.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: Okay. Hello. And now I think I'm gonna clip myself off the air. While I'm talking.
[00:30:12] Speaker G: A young lady from California, a Kwai garlic tablet user, wrote us a fascinating letter about folks in her town who were over 100 years old and take garlic regularly. Listen.
[00:30:22] Speaker H: As a child growing up, I'd seen the benefits of raw garlic in action.
Men and women of my town would eat whole garlic as you eat an apple. They attributed their extraordinary health and longevity to garlic and other wild plants, but most of all to garlic. I remember one man plowing his field until he was 106 years old. And a woman at 102 still chops kindling wood. My children and I are garlic lovers, but in public, it's offensive to eat large amounts because of the odor. That's why we use Kwai tablets. I'm only 29, but I'll keep taking Kwai tablets because I plan on reaching at least 100.
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[00:32:17] Speaker B: Okay, let's talk with Generosa. Son of a gun. I haven't talked with you for a long time, Generosa. How you been?
[00:32:22] Speaker E: I haven't been. I couldn't be better. Let's put it that way. I really have been great. But I enjoyed this birthday game so much. I felt as though I was the only listener going.
I. I was hanging on all that time, you know.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: Oh, you. You were on the line all that time.
[00:32:38] Speaker G: That was you.
[00:32:39] Speaker E: Yes, I was. And I felt as though I was. Oh, I. I have a private showing or a private hearing. It was great. Absolutely funny.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: Well, thank you very much.
[00:32:48] Speaker E: Yeah, no, I've been hanging around. It's been hard to get in on your programs on Saturday nights or Sunday mornings.
I am going to hang on regardless. How's everything going?
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Good, good. Everything's going fine, thank you.
[00:33:02] Speaker E: Oh, good. I'm very glad. The girls are great.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Yes. Well, I don't know where they're great. It might be exaggeration, but they're okay.
[00:33:11] Speaker E: They're keeping busy. Yeah, as I know you are.
I had a lovely visit from one of my cousins from Stoneham.
You had appeared at.
I think it was Mountain View Avenue in Stoneham.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:33:25] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:33:26] Speaker E: Well, my cousin was in the. Was one in the audience.
[00:33:29] Speaker B: Oh, really? Why didn't she come up and say hello and mention you?
[00:33:32] Speaker E: Well, I told him that both my. Both he and his wife were here yesterday.
And I said to him, why didn't you go up and stay to Norman, you know, you know, my cousin, so forth and so on. He says, well, the next time you had been there, I think twice already.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: Well, twice. Yeah, we were there twice altogether. We'd been there once before and then this time.
[00:33:52] Speaker E: Yeah. And they really enjoyed the show so much.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: Oh, good. I remember the audience there was very, very nice. A very warm group of people.
[00:33:59] Speaker E: Oh, they're great. They're wonderful.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they were nice people.
[00:34:02] Speaker E: Yeah. Well, now I can tell Jerry and his wife that. That I did say hello to you
[00:34:10] Speaker B: and tell him I'm sorry that they didn't come by and say hello personally, because I would have Liked to have met them and known. Known who they were related to.
[00:34:17] Speaker E: Yeah, well, May and Jerry are very quiet, laid back people. They're not like me, you know.
You know me.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: Now. People get a little shy about that anyway.
[00:34:26] Speaker E: I know it.
[00:34:26] Speaker D: I know it.
[00:34:27] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: Listen, hey, listen, can you hold on till after the news?
[00:34:31] Speaker E: Sure.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: I'm sorry. We've seen that we making you hold on a lot.
But news, news coming out and we'll. Then we'll talk on the other side of it.
Okay?
[00:34:43] Speaker G: Spend your lunch hour with Paul Harvey News and comment and find out how the news has changed. The WBZ news hour at noon only On News Radio 1030, WBZ Boston.
[00:35:00] Speaker F: From ABC News, I'm Katherine Cowdery. Iraqi officials say there were numerous civilian casualties from a missile attack on Baghdad ordered by President Clinton. He took to the airways last night to say there was compelling evidence of a plot by Iraqi officials to assassinate former President Bush. President Clinton said he ordered the attack to send a message to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Saddam has repeatedly violated the will and conscience of the international community.
But this attempt at revenge by a tyrant against the leader of the world coalition that defeated him in war is particularly loathsome and cowardly. We thank God it was unsuccessful.
[00:35:41] Speaker F: The Pentagon says 23 missiles from two US ships were used and they were apparently successful. Iraq's ambassador to the UN Nazir Hamdoon, denies that Baghdad had anything to do with the alleged plot. And he condemned the attack.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: It was really unwanted and it was surprised.
And Iraq has never been approached on any evidence so that Iraq could provide its own response. Officially, Iraq has denied those reports.
And we have said that Iraq cannot benefit from such activities. And therefore we did not see, you know, what could be motives for the Iraqis to get involved.
[00:36:17] Speaker F: British Prime Minister John Major says the attack was entirely justified. And Senate Republican leader Bob Dole calls the action a good thing. President Clinton is asking for an emergency UN Security Council meeting.
The crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour is starting its seventh day in orbit. The shuttle's payload commander says the world's first commercial space laboratory is performing well and greatly expands the crew's working area. It's called Space Hab and is riding in the shuttle's cargo bay. They're scheduled to conduct more experiments today.
Roy Campanella died last night of a heart attack at the age of 71. He was a power hitting Brooklyn Dodgers catcher whose hall of Fame career was cut short by a car accident after the 1957 season.
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[00:37:01] Speaker I: Hi, David Garner again. President of Connect Long Distance. And I've just taken a phone call from a Mr. Pete Warren who owns a small but thriving office supply company right on the border of Indiana and Illinois. Now, even though most of his best customers are right across the street, due to a fluke of arcane zoning laws and geography, he can only reach them by making out of state long distance calls.
As you can imagine, the expense is really killing him. In fact, he's concerned that he might have to pack up his company and move across the street to Illinois. Well, I assured him that if he switched over to Connect, we could save him up to 20% on his long distance bills. And with those kinds of savings, he'd be able to stay right where he is.
Of course, with our nationwide fiber optic technology, his customers will think he's calling them from right across the street, which in this case, he is. So if you're a small business person, give us a call at 1-800-long-distance. That's 1-800-long-distance. See, we're saving you money already.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: I wonder if any of our out of state listeners ever used Connect Long Distance. And what did you think of that? Mano a mano? Dumb birthday game. Riveting, no?
That may have been the only time we did something like that. Who knows what the next episode will bring? We'll find out together, though somewhat closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: 4.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: Not understanding the explanation Billionaire computer tycoons. Big airs and funny little haircuts. The Surgeon General Warning on good haircuts. Elected town officials.
Tooting your horn.
Star search 93. Checking your sources.
Exclusivity. Golfing with Bing Norm's Bing Crosby impression Just far enough to look really stupid. Melvin Kaminsky Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Eglets, Captain Video the dumont Television Network. The world's most popular song. Good morning to all. Mildred and Patty Hill Deductive reasoning and computer work Replacing legitimate radio with idiots. Kwai Garlic Old plowers and choppers Marazine Connect Long Distance. Katherine Cowdery the choked up Bruce Connolly in the Old Poop with a wimp name Norman Nathan Asking the age old question what did people sing on birthdays before 1859?
I'm Tony Nesbitt.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: Well, am I making an ass of myself today? I have no shame. No shame at all.
Oh, it's sickening.
