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Today we have a dumb birthday game from August 15, 1995, with the title the Comedy Surgeon. We start with a partial dumb birthday game theme to open the show. The players, Steve and Newton. The wonderful Joan from Tewkesbury. Irene in Dayton, Ohio. I'm on the phone from parts unknown and highly inconvenienced. Mike Epstein producing and playing in studio and back from vacation. Maybe it's Jack Hart in the esteemed traffic department.
Birthdays, Mike Connors, Linda Ellerby, Rosemarie, Jimmy Webb, Dame Wendy Hiller and Julia Child. And here's a good history question. In what year did Thomas Edison coin the telephone greeting hello?
In a letter addressed to the president of the telegraph company?
And wait, you hear. What was the original suggestion? Episode 301, the Comedy Surgeon, cuts its way to your ears now.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Oh, yes, it is fun time. It is time for the really swell dumb birthday game. A lot of interesting people born on this day, August 15th.
And so let's see who's gonna play the game with us. Steve and Newton.
He's with us. Hi, Steve.
[00:01:48] Speaker C: Good morning, Norm. How are you?
[00:01:50] Speaker B: I'm just fine, thank you. Nice to have you with us. And nice of you to stay up at this hour.
Do you usually stay up at this hour?
[00:01:58] Speaker C: Occasionally.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Okay, Joan and Tewkesbury, I know you stay up at this hour a lot
[00:02:03] Speaker D: because I was trying to sleep in between your guests and.
And your music and your dumb birthday game, but I'm not having any luck. Your program's too good.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Oh, what a nice. Joan.
[00:02:18] Speaker C: Joan.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: Bless you. That is such a nice thing to say. We have Irene, who is in Ohio. Hi, Irene.
[00:02:25] Speaker D: Hi, Norm.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: What town again?
[00:02:28] Speaker D: Dayton.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Pardon me?
[00:02:29] Speaker D: Dayton, Ohio.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Oh, Dayton. That's right. Dayton, Ohio.
It's nice to have you with us also.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: And we have, in addition to all of that, we have.
We have the very beautiful and lovely model Tony Nesbitt.
[00:02:44] Speaker C: I'll tell you, Norman, it's quite an inconvenience for me to be calling you at this time. I just hope you appreciate it.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: So if I say thank you for being with us, you won't say, no problem because there are a lot of problems?
[00:02:54] Speaker C: Yeah, damn right there's a lot of problems.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad. Because otherwise, what's the point? Why would I thank you for staying awake when it's. When it's. You don't have to exert yourself or do anything. I want there to be problems.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: All there is.
[00:03:07] Speaker D: Hi, Tony.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: How Hall.
Who just said hello, Tony?
[00:03:11] Speaker D: Joan.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Oh, Joan from Tewkesbury. You know Joan from Tewkesburg?
[00:03:14] Speaker C: Yes, I do.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: You took her to her high school prom.
Remember that? And she bought you a corsage. A wrist corsage. A gardenia corsage.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: Yes. And she put it on my. You're exactly right.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Okay. Mike Epstein is playing the game with us also. Mike is our producer for the entire week. As a matter of fact, I'm just.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: The whole week.
[00:03:34] Speaker E: The whole darn week.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: The whole darn week.
[00:03:37] Speaker E: Before I go. Before we go on, I told the. This guy that I know that I'd say hi to him because he found out that I'd be with you tonight. His name is Scott. He's. He works up at a. One of these cellular. What? Cellular phone companies up in Andover. Sold me a great pager today. And he said, hey, say hi to Norm for me.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: You have a pager now, Mike?
[00:03:57] Speaker E: I. I needed one, Tony.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: He really does.
[00:04:00] Speaker E: Yeah, because you keep bugging me at home, and I keep telling you, don't
[00:04:03] Speaker B: bug me at home, Tony. Yeah, that was acting.
[00:04:06] Speaker E: So now I've. I've got a page. You can page me, Tony.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Okay. Hey, Scott, thanks for selling him that swell pager.
Did you at least take a few bucks off now that you plugged them? We actually. We didn't mention the name of the company.
[00:04:18] Speaker E: No, we don't.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: No, we did. Okay. And you know who's back from his week. Weekend off. Although you don't. Jack Hunt really doesn't have a weekend off because you're.
[00:04:26] Speaker E: No, he's on all the time.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. He's Paul Drake someplace else.
He's Eliza Virila someplace else.
[00:04:33] Speaker C: Jeffrey Spalding.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Jeffrey Spaulding at Someplace else. I liked it when you were Marilyn May someplace.
[00:04:39] Speaker F: I thought.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: I thought that was stretching it a little bit, but what the heck, I
[00:04:43] Speaker F: kind of liked it myself.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Any. I don't see why we should not have strands of estites. Every other program has them.
I was thinking.
I was suggesting this. Somebody opening a transvestite shop. You know, clothing for transvestites. And they said, you don't seem to understand. There's just women's clothing they wear, you
[00:05:04] Speaker E: know, it's not a woman's transvestite.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Well, I suppose because guys are built differently.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: Well, yeah. So there'd be women's clothing in men's sizes.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. You know, big broad shoulders on them and all that kind of.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: I love that, that really, that lovely red dress. Do you have that in a 42 long?
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yes, I do. Hi there.
[00:05:24] Speaker D: I'm.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: I'm 6 foot 5 and with broad shoulders and I can never find a dress that really fits.
[00:05:30] Speaker C: Come on over here. We've got this lovely 48 wide.
Sure.
[00:05:35] Speaker F: A size 13 and a teensy little shoe.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Okay, I think it's ready.
[00:05:41] Speaker C: We're ready to play the game now.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Although I'm not really sure that that's so either.
Okay, today's August.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: Where else did you get like, you know, a size 10 and a half pump? You know, you have to go to a store like.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: That's right. And when, and then when, when they're wearing spike heels, they're really spiky.
Okay, Mike. Talking about big guys and from here on, here on I'll probably think of him as wearing a dress and he's not like that at all. Mike Connors, the actor, he was born Creek or Ohanian. Did you know that is that was his name Creek or Hanian?
[00:06:19] Speaker F: And I always thought he was Irish.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: I know what you would think so. With Connors, actually. Oh, I guess he's, he's Armenian, born in Fresno, California.
Yes. Oh, yes.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: What was he in?
[00:06:32] Speaker E: Mike Connors.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: He was in Mannix. That started in the TVC or Mannix and the.
The FBI story.
Was spotted on the basketball court at UCLA by director William Wellman who suggested he might make a good Tarzan.
He debuted.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Quite a compliment, isn't it?
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:06:56] Speaker E: Well, you could really swing with a swing from a tree with a. With a nape there guy.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Hey, listen, I made a few bucks reading him, you know, my, my loincloth and my, my bottle of special made oils to oil his body or grease it and Anyway, debuted in Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford.
Am I thinking of the same Mike Connors, the guy who played basketball for the Celtics? Or who, who am I thinking of?
[00:07:27] Speaker C: But that was the Rifleman, wasn't it?
[00:07:29] Speaker F: That's Chuck Connors.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: That's Chuck Connors. Oh, Chuck Connors.
[00:07:32] Speaker F: Okay, Connors. He's. Well, at least at the time, you know, sor. Hair, sort of angular.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: Oh yes.
[00:07:37] Speaker F: You know, yeah.
[00:07:38] Speaker C: Good look.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Good looking guy like he, he looks like most of us would like to look if we could buy a look.
[00:07:45] Speaker C: Can I tell you in a dress?
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Well, in a Dress. The guy is stunning.
Okay. Hey, Steve, how old do you think Mike Connors is today?
[00:07:55] Speaker C: I'm gonna guess 73.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Okay. And Joan?
[00:08:01] Speaker D: 70.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Joan says 70. And Irene.
[00:08:05] Speaker D: Oh, you know, I just saw him on Murder, She Wrote all the.
[00:08:10] Speaker C: Mike Connor sighting hotline.
[00:08:12] Speaker D: I think it was a rerun.
So, you know.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: Well, yeah, they are running reruns.
Although they're making new. New shows too, but they are rerunning the others.
[00:08:26] Speaker D: This was a rerun. I. I believe I had seen it before, but I forgot about it.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: That must have been a memorable thing. Was it?
[00:08:36] Speaker D: Well, let's see. Well, I didn't like him in that. I liked him in the Hammer.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: You don't mind. You don't mind guessing his age, do you? But if you could fit that into any of this.
[00:08:48] Speaker D: Okay, I'll say 67.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Too late for that now.
Tony, what do you think?
[00:08:57] Speaker C: I don't know. When was Mannix on?
[00:08:59] Speaker E: Oh, it was back in the 70s sometime.
[00:09:01] Speaker C: 70s, right.
[00:09:02] Speaker E: Yeah,
[00:09:04] Speaker F: it was one of those Quinn Martin type of shows where they've got the sort of like the, the mosaic thing that turns into a picture and, and lots of like trumpet music.
[00:09:15] Speaker C: How old was he in that? Don't. I'm trying to.
[00:09:19] Speaker F: Well, he's old enough to have his private detective license.
[00:09:23] Speaker C: What year was he born to be a gumshoe? Eh?
[00:09:25] Speaker E: Yeah. What year was he born?
[00:09:29] Speaker C: See that? So talking about 20 odd years ago, let's say Mike Connors is
[00:09:41] Speaker B: 64. 64, okay, Mike, what do you think? Mike Epstein.
[00:09:48] Speaker E: I think Tony's in the right idea. I think he was a little older than that.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I thought you might want to be specific about that. Yeah,
[00:10:01] Speaker E: I think he's going to be 67 today.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: 67 years old today. Okay. And Jack, let me see.
[00:10:12] Speaker F: Mike Connors.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
65. 65, okay.
Mike Connors is 70.
Joan Jones said 70.
[00:10:28] Speaker E: She was the president of his fan club.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: I bet you the. The president of the. We love you, Mike. Although the world may have forgotten you, we never will. Mike Connors. Yes, you wonderful private detective fan club of Muthuan, Massachusetts.
Oh, you forgot that.
[00:10:44] Speaker F: Although we hated you on murder she wrote McFan Club.
[00:10:48] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Oh, that was Irene, though.
Oh, yeah.
[00:10:51] Speaker F: No, no, different fan club.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: That was totally different. Oh, yes. Oh, different goals, different everything. Different refreshments, different newsletter, different mailing address. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Different T shirts.
Anyway, Joan, you won that first round of my Linda Ellerby. You know Linda Ellerby. Oh, yes, yeah, it goes.
That's right. I don't know why she uses that like it's a such a clever thing. She reads these essays and so it goes.
I wonder how long it took her to dream up that she should come
[00:11:25] Speaker F: up with something snappy like. Like what do you know about that?
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Or how's about that?
How's about that? Would fit on a T shirt nicely.
[00:11:34] Speaker F: Or just a plain old whoosh.
[00:11:36] Speaker C: Yeah, gee whizzed.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: Okay. She's an author, a newswoman.
She's born in Bryan, Texas. She co hosted Our World on ABC tv. That was an all night show that lasted a little while. Yeah, it was before they replaced it and have the regular news on now. She did Maxwell House coffee commercials and says has been fighting breast cancer. I didn't know that.
She's lost somewhat weight. At first she used to say, well,
[00:12:08] Speaker C: that was because of the treatments.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, but. But I think aside from that, even before she was trying to change her image. Even at one time she said, women, it's a double standard. Guys don't have to look beautiful, women do. And she says, the heck with it, I want to look like me. And the next thing you know, she had her hair done and she was, you know, trying to fit the pattern because her career was going nowhere at that point.
But anyway, she's on quite a good deal now. Anyway, how old do you think she is? Jack, we'll start with you. Linda Ellerby.
[00:12:41] Speaker F: Linda Ellerby.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Linda Ellerby.
[00:12:43] Speaker F: Linda Ellerby.
Isn't she doing like a Nick News now, sort of a kids thing?
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Yes, she is. Yes, she is. On the Nickelodeon channel.
You sound like you've discovered some flaw in her character.
You say that she's doing a Nickelodeon thing, huh? Oh, oh, I see. Sure. No, it's a. Hey, listen, I don't object. No, it's okay. It's okay with me if she. She doesn't mind.
[00:13:13] Speaker C: Hey, always, forever. Look at it with that one eyebrow raised.
[00:13:19] Speaker F: Nick News, nicknames.
Let's see.
She is gonna be 54.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: 54, okay. Mike Epstein.
I don't know. I use your last name. There's no other Mike on the panel.
[00:13:37] Speaker E: But it's all right.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: It's okay.
[00:13:38] Speaker E: It's okay. Yeah, no one saw. No one saw. Taking that.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: No, because then you'll be well known around the Merrimack Valley up where I
[00:13:46] Speaker E: reside, which of course is the lovely.
Thank you very much.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yes, my father resided in Mathun at one Pie. I probably told you that about several million times.
He grew up in Lawrence. Lawrence, yes, and Methuen his family lived in Methuen for a while, but he. I asked him, always asked him, would you point out the house you lived in? We'll travel up there and sit on the front lawn, have a little picnic and pay homage. And he just never would go along with that.
I don't understand why.
Maybe they hated him up there.
[00:14:17] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:14:18] Speaker E: My father's family came from Havel. And he was always taking us up there, of course, to visit his folks and to just show it. To show us what Haver used to
[00:14:26] Speaker B: be back in his.
A lot of it. Where my grandfather lived. My mother was born in Haverhill, and where my grandfather lived. The place looks exactly the same. Immigrants would go there. Able is an interesting city. It's like most cities, the immigrants, when they first come to the country and you're poor, you. You go to one section. In this case it was Mount Washington, top of the hill.
And then as you got more money, went to Main street, and if you really hit it big, you went to Canoza Avenue.
And every city is like that. It's got its, you know, it's. It's got its steps.
We were just talking, Mike, just in order to give you a little more time to think.
I appreciate it because none of that was terribly important.
[00:15:10] Speaker E: I'm gonna say that Linda Ellerby is 53 years old, and I'll bet she's never been to have or Methorn.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: She probably hasn't. Probably never been to the top of Mount Washington where my grandfather had his place.
I walked up this driveway.
He had some barns in the back, and he used to grow corn. And I thought it was a lovely place. Looked a lot smaller than I remember it. But as I was walking by the house up the driveway, a little dog came out the door and started biting my ankle. And I thought, thomas Wolf is right. You can't go home again.
Damn little dog. I was here before you were, you punk. Didn't make any impression on him anyway. Tony, how old do you think Linda Ellerby is?
[00:15:54] Speaker C: She's a newsworthy 51.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: I'm so glad you had a chance to work that one out.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: Thanks. I have another one too, so.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: I'll wait, though. Well, it.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Will it only apply to Linda Ellerby?
[00:16:08] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Well, why don't you use it?
[00:16:10] Speaker C: No, no, no. I have to wait till the very end.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay.
Irene, what do you think? How old is Linda Ellerby?
[00:16:17] Speaker D: What were the guesses? 54, 53 and.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: And 51. That's correct.
[00:16:22] Speaker F: When did you fill it in with a 52?
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Bingo?
[00:16:26] Speaker B: Maybe 56.
[00:16:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:30] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: And Joan, how about 52?
[00:16:35] Speaker E: There we go.
[00:16:36] Speaker B: Okay, 52.
[00:16:37] Speaker C: That's right. That's why I have 55.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Steve, how old do you think she is?
[00:16:42] Speaker C: Norm, I'm gonna say 51. Also.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: 51 is a good guess and it's accurate. That's exactly how old she is. So you and Tony.
[00:16:50] Speaker C: So I guess I nicked that one out.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Oh, wait a minute.
[00:16:55] Speaker E: I was waiting for that.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Oh, oh, Nick. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's very good.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: That was worth saving, wasn't it?
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Oh, that's really amusing.
Really nice. Very nice. Oh, yes.
Okay. Rose Marie, the comedian Sally Rogers on the Dick Van Dyke show talking about Nick at night. Because that, that's on.
Oh, we were talking Nickelodeon, but she's part of Nick at Night. Appeared in the film Family man.
And she, she was a child star also. I think she was. She was a child baby. Yeah, she was Baby Rosemary. That's right. You're right.
And she couldn't have been more than. I think she was 5, 6 years old when she started performing. And she's now been performing for several years. I can't tell you exactly how old because then you would guess Show.
[00:17:41] Speaker C: One of the best shows ever.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: It is excellent, actually. It is an excellent show that I
[00:17:46] Speaker C: Love Lucy and I don't think you need anything else.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: Now, Mary Tyler Moore, though, I love that show. I think that's one of the great all time shows.
[00:17:53] Speaker F: Well, the, the, the Rose, the Sally Rogers character was based on Silma diamond because the, the, the several of them were based on Carl Reiner's experience as a writer for Sid Caesar and such and Selma diamond, who was on Night Court the first couple of seasons as the little bailiff.
That's where the Sally Rogers character came from.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: Is that right?
[00:18:19] Speaker C: Yes, she was the bailiff.
The beginning.
[00:18:22] Speaker F: Was that the Night Court on Night Court, you know, you know, tell me about it. And she'd just sort of walk out.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Okay. Irene, how old do you think Rosemary is?
[00:18:35] Speaker D: She's older than water.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Older than water.
That's so colorful.
How old would that be, do you think?
[00:18:45] Speaker D: Older than water?
[00:18:47] Speaker B: Yeah, just.
[00:18:48] Speaker D: No, I, I don't know. You know that.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: Could you translate that and maybe in some kind of a number.
[00:18:55] Speaker D: 70.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: 70.
Okay.
I think water's 69 years old a week from next Tuesday.
[00:19:06] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: Steve, what do you think?
[00:19:13] Speaker C: I will say, where was Marie?
71.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: 71.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:19:22] Speaker F: And Jack, now, is Marie her last name?
[00:19:26] Speaker B: No, she only goes by one name.
She does have a last name, but I don't know what it is. It was Rosemary. Rosemary.
I don't know.
[00:19:41] Speaker D: Tyler Moore. Norm, A while ago, she was with Mary Tyler Moore. You know, she's. She's coming on with a new series in the fall.
[00:19:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Who is Mary Tyler Moore? You mean.
[00:19:53] Speaker D: Okay, have you heard that?
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Yes, I have heard. Oh, okay. Yes, I have heard that. Oh, yeah, because I'm. I'm at the heart of the entertainment reception area. Anything that happens in the entertainment business
[00:20:05] Speaker D: anywhere in the world, you're well in.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it pours into our entertainment headquarters here at wbc.
[00:20:11] Speaker C: She gets to be tough in this, too. She gets to swear every once in a while.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Oh, does she get out?
[00:20:16] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:20:16] Speaker E: Mary Tyler Moore.
[00:20:17] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, damn it, and stuff like that.
People are at deadline, and she screams and yells. So it's kind of a change in character.
[00:20:28] Speaker E: Mary Tyler Moore doesn't swear, man.
[00:20:30] Speaker F: Of course not.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Did I ask you, Jack? Were you. Did I ask you about Rosemary's age?
[00:20:36] Speaker F: Well, you didn't, but. Or at least that I recall.
Let's see. Rosemary.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: He, he, he.
[00:20:46] Speaker F: With no looks of her. Yeah. She could be like. Like a week older than.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Than water.
[00:20:55] Speaker F: I understand that she's the. The new model for the latest edition of the Pillsbury Doe person.
She's gonna be moldy bread.
[00:21:06] Speaker E: Yeah, she's gonna be 77.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: 77, okay.
And, Joan, I think she's 70.
You think she's 70, do you?
Well, I hope you can prove that into court, and you'll hear from my lawyer in the morning.
Tony, what do you say?
[00:21:25] Speaker C: I believe she is pushing 80.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Pushing 80. 80, okay. And, Mike, I'm gonna.
[00:21:37] Speaker E: What am I gonna do? I'm gonna take a guess.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: I'm gonna say taking a guess is good.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: Work it out, Mike. Come on. Talk it through.
[00:21:46] Speaker E: She's. She's not a young.
Not a young one, but she's not quite as old as water.
Well, except for the water in the Merrimack river, of course. Which brings us back to Havelo, Methuen. I'm gonna go with 80. I don't know why I'm stuck in that. I'm gonna go with 81.
[00:22:03] Speaker D: Can I change that?
[00:22:04] Speaker B: Norm, this is Irene.
[00:22:07] Speaker D: Huh?
[00:22:08] Speaker B: You want to change your 70?
[00:22:10] Speaker D: Yeah.
Can I say 75 instead?
[00:22:13] Speaker B: You can if you'd like to, but think about it clearly.
[00:22:16] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: I'll say 75.
[00:22:19] Speaker D: Was that a clue or a hen or something? Boom.
[00:22:21] Speaker C: She's 70.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: She is 70. That's. I hope I was hoping you really would change it.
[00:22:25] Speaker F: She's only 70.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: She's 70.
[00:22:28] Speaker D: 70.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: 70, yeah.
[00:22:30] Speaker C: Boy, should I change my answer to 70, Norm?
[00:22:34] Speaker B: No, no, Joan. Joan said 70.
In fact, she's the same age as Mike Connors, who is also 70. And Joan gets that one, too. Right on the button.
[00:22:45] Speaker D: Oh, she's older than 70.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: I want. Not necessarily.
[00:22:50] Speaker D: Oh, come on. Look how long she's been on tv.
She's. Look how long she's been in the movies.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: No, but she's just. She was a little kid when she started. She really was.
[00:23:01] Speaker D: No, but still, you know, I mean, look at George Vernon. He might have been a little kid, too.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: He's a hunter.
[00:23:08] Speaker C: She was in her 30s during Dick Van Dyke.
[00:23:10] Speaker D: That seems.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: Seems to be about right.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Yeah, and I. I would think it would be right. I would guess. I would guess.
[00:23:15] Speaker D: I remember her on the Jack Carr Show. She had her.
Her. Her complexion was like a road map then.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: Like a what?
[00:23:26] Speaker B: A road map.
Like a road map then. My question is.
[00:23:30] Speaker F: My question is, what's with the bow? She said the same bow in her hair since 1812. That's right.
[00:23:36] Speaker C: Do all that bow.
[00:23:36] Speaker D: Ish.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: She does.
No, I mean every couple of weeks she takes it off and rinses it out.
So it's not.
Yeah, it's not as bad as it seems. Jimmy Webb, remember all the things he wrote.
His songwriter. He wrote the 1967.
[00:23:54] Speaker C: Here's. Here's a.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: Here's a clue. A Grammy winner. Up, up and Away and My Beautiful and a lot of.
Oh, geez, I'm sorry. Maybe.
Maybe if you pack it in ice, you'll be okay by morning.
And he wrote a lot of Glen Campbell songs, including by the Time I Get to Phoenix.
He also wrote MacArthur park, the one left of Caico.
Says he used to meet his girlfriend at that park, which is on the edge of downtown Los Angeles.
They would picnic under the trees and sometimes eat cake for lunch. He says this is more than anybody really cares to know.
[00:24:38] Speaker D: Where are you?
[00:24:39] Speaker C: This is the birthday.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: This isn't the birthday.
[00:24:41] Speaker C: Wow. This is gonna be the longest because
[00:24:43] Speaker F: we have cloaks and everything. Wear sandals and huarachi
[00:24:50] Speaker E: shoes.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: So he says MacArthur park, he says, is, quote, just about a love affair.
Thank you.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: They used to eat cake. But he doesn't explain why he. That someone left it out in the
[00:25:04] Speaker F: rain one day because someone wouldn't let
[00:25:07] Speaker C: them eat it, probably.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Are you guys leading up to anything? You just kind of rambled.
[00:25:13] Speaker C: I don't know if we were leading up to anything. We were going around in a circle.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Okay, Jimmy Webb then. Okay, now, how old is he today? And don't Forget, it was 1967 when he wrote up, up and Away.
Up, up and Away.
Pardon me?
[00:25:32] Speaker C: You said that won a Grammy?
[00:25:34] Speaker B: Yes, 1960. The 1960 Grammy winner. It was up, up and away.
[00:25:39] Speaker E: 1960 or 67?
[00:25:41] Speaker B: 67. 67, yeah.
What do you think? Let's see. Let's start with you, Steve.
What do you think? How old do you think Jimmy Webb is?
[00:25:50] Speaker D: 60.
[00:25:51] Speaker C: 71. The Grammy.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: 67. Yes.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: Let's say 50.
No, 61.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: 61.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: And, Joan, what do you.
Perhaps I can sing a medley of his songs while you're thinking of it.
[00:26:22] Speaker D: How about.
48?
[00:26:31] Speaker B: 48, okay. Irene, what do you think?
[00:26:35] Speaker C: 48.
[00:26:40] Speaker D: I'll say 52.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: 52.
Okay. Tony.
[00:26:47] Speaker C: He's a lofty.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: He loftied us. Up, up and Away.
You have to start piecing things together. After you get to work with Tony for a while, you begin to catch on to this kind of elusive humor, which most people don't understand. Not at all.
[00:27:04] Speaker C: Some people say I'm false. Hot air.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: I thought. I thought you'd work in a spider or something with that web thing.
[00:27:09] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:27:10] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Oh, he's just. It's starting to work.
[00:27:12] Speaker F: Well, maybe I'm arachnin my brain.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Oh, that's pretty good.
[00:27:26] Speaker F: That joke didn't fly.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: He's never saying too.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: That.
Oh.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: What.
How we'd something when.
[00:27:35] Speaker F: Oh, what a tangled whip we weave when at first we.
[00:27:39] Speaker E: When we practice to deceive or something.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the one I was. Exactly the one I was.
[00:27:44] Speaker C: The Raven Never. No. So.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right.
And you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. Sure would attain.
And then give me a house by the side of the road and let me be a friend to man.
Thank you.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: That was beautiful.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: That was lovely.
[00:28:03] Speaker E: I need a tissue.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:06] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Tony, what do you think? Jimmy Webb.
[00:28:10] Speaker C: A lofty 60.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: A lofty 60.
Okay. And, Mike, what do you think?
[00:28:15] Speaker E: I think he's 58 years old.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: 58 years old. And Jack.
[00:28:21] Speaker F: The tangled web we weave while we ponder we can weary.
[00:28:28] Speaker E: God bless America.
[00:28:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
What a.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: What a something we weave when we ponder how the applesauce got on our sleeve.
There's several. There's several verses of it that many people don't know.
I'll say he's 59.
Who asked you?
[00:28:55] Speaker C: No.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Oh, I asked.
I knew somebody did.
Okay. Jimmy Webb, sometimes known as James Webb.
Okay. He's actually 49.
Joan seems to be leaping through. Yeah, he's 49.
Wow. Joan said 48.
And Irene was fairly close at 52.
[00:29:24] Speaker F: Well, no wonder that he used to eat cake for lunch, because he was just a young kid.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he was just a kid having a love affair. MacArthur.
[00:29:32] Speaker C: No worries about cholesterol or sugar.
[00:29:36] Speaker F: 28, 29. Then we would have known that it, you know, the song would have been Someone Left the Sandwiches out in the Rain.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Yes, ma'.
[00:29:43] Speaker D: Am. You know what I heard that a lot of disc jockeys won't play that song because it's seven and a half
[00:29:51] Speaker F: minutes long unless they have to go to the bathroom.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:29:55] Speaker D: I love that.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: That's right.
My prostate is kicking up again. Play a long song.
Yeah. Segue from that into Benny Goodman. Sing, sing, sing. That runs about 12 and a half minutes.
I used to do a lot of that during the night when I did that. The jazz show.
[00:30:15] Speaker C: You should just take a nap, though. You didn't have to go look at that.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: I'm going to do a crossword puzzle playing any longer.
Okay. Dame Wendy Hiller.
Wendy Hiller, Incidentally, the first time I ever saw her was with Leslie Howard in the Petrified Forest. No, no, no, not the Petrified Forest.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: Were they having a picnic? No.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: My Fair lady was based upon the George Bernard Shaw play called Big Million Pygmalion. That's right. And she. It's kind of funny to see that they show that on TV in American movie classics and stuff. Every now and then she. She plays the. The part, of course, that Julie Andrews later played and Rex Harrison later on played the part that Leslie Howard played. The.
This. The script to that. The dialogue is exactly the same as in the musical.
And you keep waiting for them to burst out into song, you know, because it's so. It so closely follows the original line. They hardly changed anything. Well, I suppose you start editing George Bernard show, you're going to be a nutcake anyway. But it's kind of funny if you ever get a chance to see that Pygmalion.
And she's obviously a very young woman in that Wendy Hiller. She's the. She's the cute girl with a little dimples and stuff. And she's the.
Sells the flowers and she's the one he tries to make into a lydie.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: And all that from the movie.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: That was the original movie.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: Yeah, that original movie.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah, the original. That's. That's long before the musical came over. Long, long before that. So you get an idea. Now, that roughly the era we're talking about. Anyway, she won an Academy Award for separate tables, appeared in A Man for All Seasons. And Making Love.
[00:32:00] Speaker D: Huh?
[00:32:00] Speaker B: Ooh, those. Those English.
They just don't care.
Tony, what do you think? How old do you think Dame. Dame Wendy Hiller is?
[00:32:17] Speaker C: I don't know. I'll have to go with a saucy 80 with her.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: A saucy 80.
A saucy 80.
Okay. Now, Irene, what do you think?
Are you speaking or clearing your throat
[00:32:36] Speaker D: now? I am.
85.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: 85.
Okay. And Joan, 84.
Joan says 84. Steve.
[00:32:49] Speaker C: I'm gonna say 80 off.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: 80 also. Okay.
[00:32:52] Speaker F: And Jack, now you say Dame Wendy Heller.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Yes. Did she.
[00:32:58] Speaker F: Didn't she used to be Tomato Wendy Hiller.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Tomato Wendy Hill. What are we missing here?
[00:33:05] Speaker E: Dame.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Dame.
[00:33:08] Speaker F: You know, like. Like you tomatoes are all alike.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: Dame, you tomato. She's a hot dog.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: I see. Yeah, that's more of a stretch than what you usually do, Tony.
[00:33:17] Speaker C: Well, thank you very much.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: Yeah, that was really a tough one to follow.
Yeah, you should have been all with a chesty. With Paul Sloan and his brain teasers. What is this man talking about? And then you could give one of your quotes and people try to figure out what. What it is you're saying.
Anyway, how old do you think Wendy Hiller is?
[00:33:38] Speaker F: Wendy Hiller.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: Wendy Hiller, yes.
[00:33:42] Speaker F: Oh, let's see. She is gonna be.
Oh, she's gonna be 83.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: 83. Okay. And, Mike,
[00:33:53] Speaker E: I don't know why.
I don't know what makes me think these things, but I think she's younger.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: You don't think she's over the hill then, do you?
[00:34:07] Speaker E: No, I'm gonna go with 79.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: 79.
[00:34:14] Speaker C: When Mark's younger.
[00:34:15] Speaker B: Damn. Well, you. You all actually. You all guess very close.
You all, your guesses all were pretty much close to the same age.
Actually, Dame Wendy Hiller is 83 years old today, which is what Jack Hart said.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: And Joan said 84. She was very close. And Irene, 85. So you're all very close. How about now? See, yesterday we guessed Julia Child.
[00:34:42] Speaker C: Julia Child.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: I had. I had her on. I had by mistake. But apparently I've checked two sources, and today actually is Julia Child's birthday. So if you heard yesterday's program, I guess you got an edge. We'll do it again. Okay. Okay. With all this.
[00:34:56] Speaker C: I don't remember.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: No, I don't think most people would. And this is a different panel.
And I wouldn't have. Exactly. I think I would have sort of remembered.
[00:35:04] Speaker E: I. I missed part of last night's game, so I might have missed the Julia Child segment.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: Okay, we'll do Julia Child then. Julia Child. Let me tell you about Julia. You all know Julia Child. Anyway, you've all been invited for some of her delicious French cooking.
She was born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, California. She seems so New England.
Seems funny. She's from the west coast. Star of Dinner with Julia. She debuted on public television in 1962.
She was the first woman to be inducted into the Culinary Institute of America's hall of Fame.
[00:35:42] Speaker E: Did you ever.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Did you know there was such a thing? No, I didn't.
Yeah.
[00:35:47] Speaker C: When was she inducted?
[00:35:49] Speaker B: What I'm wondering about is what. What did she. What kind of a statue would that be? Would it be a statue of like a laid of lady Ladle. Ladle or spoon or something?
[00:35:58] Speaker C: It's probably like a chef's hat or something.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: It's maybe a chef's hat.
[00:36:01] Speaker F: Well, you know, like the. Like the King Arthur legends. Is the lady in the lake. Well, maybe they have like the lady in the soup.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: It could be that too. Then again, maybe it would not be.
I sure hope not. What about a.
[00:36:14] Speaker C: Maybe it's like a bronzed butcher knife or something.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I was think. I was thinking more of a rolling pin, but rolling pin would be very nice. And you could carve the name on there and everything.
[00:36:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: You have now won this award from the Culinary Institute of America's hall of fame.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: Maybe it's the frying pan, because then you can engrave all on the inside of the frying pan. Plus on the handle, it already has the hole to hang it up with.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: That makes sense.
[00:36:39] Speaker C: That would be nice.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: That makes good sense. You betcha.
[00:36:43] Speaker C: Right there on the bottom of that pan, you know, you can engrave right
[00:36:45] Speaker E: in there and it could be passed around to each new inductee with their
[00:36:49] Speaker B: name inscribed on it.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: Right.
[00:36:50] Speaker D: Yeah. And.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: And if you get desperate, you can make an omelette in it.
[00:36:53] Speaker B: So I guess you could.
[00:36:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:57] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:36:58] Speaker C: It's functional, yet practical.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: Buy it today. Here's.
Watch your screen now for the number.
[00:37:05] Speaker E: Visa and American Express, 19.95 plus 35 shipping.
[00:37:12] Speaker C: Okay. Have.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: Have your card ready. Okay. How about you, Steve? How old do you think Julia Child is today?
You probably don't even care anymore, do you? At this point, you know, he's probably thinking, I wish I'd just gone to bed. What have I become involved in this craziness for?
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Let's say 81.
[00:37:31] Speaker B: You're probably the only person in Newton who's still awake.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: For the most part, I think.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe.
[00:37:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Oh, I thought maybe. There's one police officer driving the cruiser,
[00:37:42] Speaker C: lonely as he is, would sleep also.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Oh, he'd be sleeping too.
[00:37:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:47] Speaker D: You're funny. What do you think of all this?
[00:37:50] Speaker B: I think of this in my laugh room. I have a giggles room at home.
I just sit there and I think of it. All of it comes to me.
There's a little switch on the. On the wall. I turn that on and it makes me think. Funny stuff.
[00:38:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Along with the well stocked bar, but, you know.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: Yeah, the well stock well stocked by Helms. A lot more, actually.
Pardon me.
[00:38:13] Speaker D: Were you a comedian at one time?
[00:38:15] Speaker B: Not really. I was a surgeon.
[00:38:17] Speaker D: But, you know, you're a comedian now.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: I'm a comedian now. Have you. You just proclaimed it.
[00:38:24] Speaker C: Have you saw some of his operations?
[00:38:29] Speaker B: Actually, it was a lover. But the women used to laugh so much during my. My love making that. Well, there's no sense of my going.
It makes me sick to think of it.
[00:38:39] Speaker C: Me too.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: Why you too? Why you too?
Julia. I mean, Joan. I'm sorry, Joan. How old is Julia Child?
[00:38:51] Speaker D: 83.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: Pardon me?
[00:38:53] Speaker D: 83.
[00:38:53] Speaker B: 83. Okay.
And Irene?
[00:38:59] Speaker D: 72.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: 72. Tony.
[00:39:03] Speaker C: She's a well done 83.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: 83. A well done 83.
[00:39:07] Speaker E: How many?
[00:39:08] Speaker B: How many? Okay, Mike, what do you think?
[00:39:11] Speaker E: I'll. I'll go with 81. Did you hear the thing that Paul Harvey did about her? One of his rest of the stories, I guess when she was younger, before she went into television and whatever, she couldn't cook worth a lick. And then she met this guy who.
Who loved a good meal.
And so for some reason, Julia took it upon herself to learn how to cook to perfection so that she could get this guy.
Yeah.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he just died over the last year or two or something like that. No kidding. That's why she learned how to cook.
[00:39:44] Speaker E: I heard that on Paul Harvey.
[00:39:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: No, if you heard it on Paul Harvey, it must be. It must be true. It must be yuppie.
[00:39:49] Speaker F: Well, they were also spies or some other such thing.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Were they?
[00:39:53] Speaker F: Yeah, something. They were. There was some.
They were in Europe for a while.
I think it might have been like either during or just after World War II and some espionage.
[00:40:07] Speaker E: I don't know about that, but I know that she snuck into the Betty Crocker facility and did some espionage work over there.
[00:40:14] Speaker C: Yeah, she was working for Duncan. I.
[00:40:16] Speaker E: She snuck in wearing one of those disguised chef hats, you know.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: And what she did was Change the recipes enough to make them out stated or a wrong where it said she changed it to three tablespoons full of melted butter when it was only a half a teaspoon.
And it just. And she did a lot of that kind of stuff. I see tons. One pound of paprika.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: That was just in the brownies.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:40:45] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:40:45] Speaker F: She used to sneak in with a loaded potato masher.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: I think people should. I don't know.
These are. These are, you know, these are kitchen tested recipes. I can't understand why they really suck. I mean, what's happened here?
[00:40:59] Speaker C: Devil the brownie.
[00:41:03] Speaker B: Anyway, Jack, what do you think? How old is Julia Child?
[00:41:18] Speaker C: Good job.
[00:41:21] Speaker B: And that's the way her husband sounded, not bigger.
You want to. Do you want to keep muling like this forever or do you want to.
[00:41:35] Speaker C: No, he said 84, didn't he? Oh, yeah.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Oh, you said 84.
[00:41:41] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: Oh, actually the age is 83. Oh, Tony and Joan, did you know that was 83, Joan? And do you heard it last night? Oh, you heard the program.
Okay, so you got four correct people
[00:41:54] Speaker D: that didn't listen last night.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: And I had a feeling she heard it last night, so I just went along with her.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: That's very good.
[00:41:59] Speaker F: They had her 80th birthday party. Well, they had like 180th birthday parties for. Everybody was doing some sort of a special thing. But I thought it was four years ago.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Oh, hey, listen, if you'll all hang on, I have a couple of commercials and then we'll be back. And place direct quote means affordable life insurance.
[00:42:21] Speaker F: 1-800-761-0600.
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Okay, we're back with the birthday game. And we have Norm. Yes, ma'.
[00:42:30] Speaker E: Am.
[00:42:30] Speaker D: Can I ask you just one little question?
[00:42:33] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:42:33] Speaker D: I was listening last night. You know, your guest was lateral thinking.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Paul Sloan.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:42:40] Speaker D: Yeah. And you know, there was a caller called in and, and gave him one. And just as he gave the answer, the signal went out on my radio.
[00:42:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:54] Speaker D: And it was the one maybe you can remember. The guy goes in.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: Well, I tell you what, I tell you what, could you call me back in the next hour we talk about that? Because we're running kind of short of time.
[00:43:04] Speaker D: Okay. But then I called already this week, so that's.
[00:43:09] Speaker B: So that doesn't matter. We don't have. We don't have any rules like that.
[00:43:11] Speaker D: Oh, don't talk.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: No, absolutely not. No, no. As long as you're sparkling and in a wondrous conversationalist, we don't care how Many times you call. As long as it's. As long as it's no more than twice a decade.
[00:43:25] Speaker C: There's station rules and then there's Norm Nathan's rules.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: That's right.
Does the station actually have rules?
Anyway, here's.
[00:43:32] Speaker C: Don't worry about it, please.
[00:43:33] Speaker B: Here. Here are a couple of dates.
This. This would be. I'll give you a historical event and you tell me what year this. This first one is kind of funny. Thomas Edison.
[00:43:45] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Thomas Edison coined the telephone greeting. I never knew this. Coined the telephone greeting.
[00:43:53] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Hello.
In a letter addressed on this day.
[00:44:02] Speaker E: Something's missing here.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: No, it was August 15th that he wrote a letter to the president of the telegraph company.
[00:44:08] Speaker F: Please deposit 10 more sentence.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Oh, will you be quiet?
[00:44:11] Speaker E: Pick up the phone and say hello.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: Edison suggested the use of hello to answer the phone instead of the. The word that Alexander Bell had suggested. You know what he suggested I answer the phone.
[00:44:23] Speaker C: Yeah. My hand is on what he asked.
No.
[00:44:28] Speaker D: Hi.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: No, it's high.
[00:44:32] Speaker D: What a hoy or something like that.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: That's right. Somebody came close. Ahoy. It was Ahoy.
[00:44:39] Speaker C: Ahoy.
[00:44:40] Speaker B: Imagine that.
[00:44:40] Speaker C: Imagine picking up the phone all the time. And you'd pick up, the phone rings, you say, come here, Watson, I need you. Oh, I'm fine than you hurry.
[00:44:48] Speaker F: Can you imagine our radio would have changed. Ahoy, you're on the air.
[00:44:54] Speaker B: Would you turn your incandescent light bulb down, please?
[00:44:57] Speaker D: I pick up the phone and I say, what do you want?
[00:45:01] Speaker B: Okay, let's. Let's get on with this because we're getting very close to the news and. Okay, we'll start with.
Let's see, Jack. What year would that have been when Edison wrote that letter suggesting. Hello.
[00:45:14] Speaker C: I can't believe this is even in a book.
Yeah, historical.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Somebody's got a record of it. Yeah, they knew exactly the year the whole business.
[00:45:23] Speaker F: Let's see.
Well, let me see. The phone was 19. 1876, census period.
So I'm gonna have to say that people weren't saying ahoy very long. I'll say 1877.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: Okay, Mike, what do you think?
[00:45:41] Speaker E: I'll go 1879.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: Nine. Okay. And Tony?
[00:45:47] Speaker C: Oh, 18.
Let me see if it came along. 76. Not that many people had it. So by the time was prolific in society and everyone had a phone up close to it.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: 1880. 1880.
Irene.
[00:46:05] Speaker D: 1880. 1899.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: 1899. Okay, Joe, I'll go along with Jack.
[00:46:13] Speaker D: He seems to know these things.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: 1877. 1877.
[00:46:18] Speaker C: He's an old phone Man.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: Yeah, Steve, what do you think?
I think he fallen asleep on us. Has he? Are you there, John? Steve?
[00:46:30] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Oh, you are there.
[00:46:32] Speaker C: Okay.
He almost joined the rest of the city of Newton.
[00:46:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. He was, you know, the only man there still away.
[00:46:41] Speaker C: 1885.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: 1885, okay. Actually 1877 was correct.
[00:46:51] Speaker C: Really?
[00:46:51] Speaker B: A year later. Yeah. Or thereabouts. Yeah, just within a year.
[00:46:55] Speaker F: Because Edison just did not want to get involved in. In saying like ahoy too much. So dip this in the bud.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he said, yeah, the heck with this Ahoy baloney.
Okay, so Joan actually wins the entire game. I had one more date, but I
[00:47:11] Speaker C: just can't get over that someone actually had to suggest how to answer the phone.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. You know, well, nobody picked up a phone and made any comment like that to show that you were there. Hey, listen, you guys and Joan, hang in there.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: And you.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: You have won, okay?
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Yeah, Joan.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Yay, Joan, hang in there, okay? Because we can we get news coming up. Would you plug the news in for me?
WBZ Boston, it is 4 o'. Clock.
[00:47:34] Speaker C: No problem, Norm.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: From ABC News, I'm Joe Ball.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: Laughter is definitely the best medicine. And a well stocked bar doesn't hurt either.
Keep liking and subscribing. We've picked up a couple of newbies, so thank you very much. See you next week. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4 Jones. High praise for the show. Gardenia corsages.
Scott at some cellular company in New Hampshire where Mike Epstein got a new pager. Paul Drake, a Loysavilla. Jeffrey Spalding, Marilyn May.
Women's clothing in men's sizes 10 and a half sized pumps, size 13 spiked heels.
Mike Connor's real name, Crekor Ohanian.
Loincloths and special oil and body grease.
Buying a look.
Nice gams.
Old enough to have your gumshoe license. Fan club newsletters.
And so it goes.
Nick News, Methuen, Massachusetts. Paying homage.
Uppity Canosa Avenue.
Nippy punk, Little dogs. Child star Baby Rosemary. The Dick Van Dyke Show. Older than water.
Tough foul mouth. Mary Tyler Moore Working it out and talking it through.
Cake for a rainy day lunch.
Elusive humor weaving lofty tangled webs of hot air and large prostate. Bathroom break songs.
Pygmalion Tomato dames. Julia Child leftovers. The Culinary Institute of America hall of Fame. The lady in the soup. Bronzed rolling pins. Norm's Giggle Room Chef spies. Sparkling wondrous personalities. Ahoy, you're on the air. Mike Epstein, Jack Hart and the man who shouldn't have gone home again.
[00:49:36] Speaker C: Norm.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: Nathan. Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon. Yours truly, radio model Tony Nesbitt.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: Wish I'd just gone to bed. What if I become involved in this craziness for.
