Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness w/Tony Nesbitt - Ep 307 - Comedy Connections

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Nice to see you all here again for another super entertaining episode of Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with little old me, Tony Nesbit. Couple of house cleaning items. Before we get started, we are inching ever so close to 300 subscribers on YouTube. Thank you to all who've subscribed on all the platforms. It would be a nice achievement to get to 300 on the tube. Now let me share not one, but two. Two possible signs of norm. Back on episode 305, the song I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts with Merv Griffin singing was discussed. Last week. I went out on a quick errand and as I pull into a parking lot, that very song comes on. Mr. Merv singing and all. I did my usual of looking around and saying, hi, Norm, thanks for stopping by again. Next was just the other day after an appointment that had a little bit of disappointing news. While driving home, I passed Norman Drive. I didn't think that much of that until the navigation had me take the next right, which was east street, the very same street that Norm lived on in Middleton. Now that is something. It just felt like he was saying, I'm here, I'm around. It's gonna be okay. What do you think? Now back to our regularly scheduled program already in progress. Today brings forth the Norm Nathan show from September 17th and what I believe is the following weekend, the 23rd of 1994, the title of which shall be Comedy Connections. Keith Shields was producing. It begins with a commercial sponsor read by Jack Hart for Exxon. We are just so darn blessed to have more sprinkled throughout this rebroadcast podcast too. Three for Air Canada and one each for Aniston and Foxwoods. Time for calls. Kicking it off is Fred from Medford. Norm and he were talking about Norm's upcoming stand up at the Comedy Connection, which was a fundraiser to benefit Lifehouse Incorporated that helped homeless people in Dorchester at the time. Ruth Clennet a. Of course, at this time of year the subject would be the farm stand, which was going to be happening at following weekend. We also hear from Judy, June, Molly and Maine, Nancy, Pete, Denise, Clarence, Jim about Nutcracker collecting. Mary and Bill from Dedham. Next we get bonus content. Bob Raleigh and Mike Epstein talking about Danny Bonaduce who was on some show where he was a judge, then David Brudnoy and his guest Barbara Bush. And there's one call included from Irene. Now back to Norm on the phone is Paul Elwell talking comedy Norm's appearance at the fundraiser. And there's a mention of one of my current favorites, the king of New England comedy, Barb MARLEY. That's right. 32 years ago. Doing his stand up back then too. And I remember seeing ads to him in the paper all the time. I think he actually may be even bigger now. Next, Ruth is back, Agnes, Anne and Dick. Okay, folks, I'm thrilled about this last segment as it's time for Norm calls. A phone booth at Victoria Station in London and we're lucky enough to talk to Sasha. Episode 307, Comedy Connections Guffaws its way to your ears. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Now apply for an Exxon credit card and you'll get a free six pack of Coca Cola. Exxon. Rely on the tiger. [00:03:36] Speaker C: It's a little bit before. [00:03:39] Speaker B: I just made that up. That's the best. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Oh dear, [00:03:52] Speaker B: The arm. Raise it here to WBZ just till 1 o' clock. 2. He doesn't do anything, he just looks at the audience. I was thinking of doing that too. I'm willing to pull any kind of trick at all, including maybe one of the water pistols, you know, firing them into the audience. I understand Bruce Wagler is going to throw snowballs at the audience. He was thinking of that at one point and I thought that'd be good for about 20 seconds of an act. But if they throw it back at him and bop him off the head, that might. Well, you get the sympathy vote. But anyway, this is it for people who are wondering what we're talking about. Although I talked about it for hours, kind of hoping I could stack the audience with a few sympathetic people, tell [00:04:33] Speaker C: them there won't be a pit band like Robert from Everett wanted to see. [00:04:37] Speaker B: That's right, he would have liked that too. No, this, this is at the Comedy Connection at the Fandel Hall Marketplace. And it's, it's, it's a fundraiser for a group called Lifehouse Incorporated, which is a obviously a non profit organization. It's about 10 years old and it's to help the homeless people and homeless families in the Dorchester area and that kind of stuff. Yeah, and they're the guys over there who were putting this thing together, talking about the hook or the gong to get rid of some of us who are really going to be really awful. But they better not. Man, I'll break their nose. They come near me with that hook, I won't break their nose because I happen to be a wimp. But I'll be thinking about it. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Speaking of stuff that's kind of out of line, I was wondering, I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but Last night, were you actually talking about drinking urine? [00:05:31] Speaker B: Yes, we were. That was a big topic. I didn't bring the topic up. A guy called and said he had just read a book that had to do with that. It wasn't called Urine wasn't in the title, but that was. It had to do with taking care of all kinds of illnesses that you'd have, including cancer. He talked about a lot of. Said the book, talked a lot. A lot of things and that was that and some woman. I don't even. Let's not even talk about it anymore. But, but that was part of it, you know, putting some in a. In a dropper and dropping it on your. No, I don't want to talk about it. It was awful. We were, we did talk about it and we do get involved in some really tasteless moments on this program and I'm so proud of that. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Just one last thing. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Yes? [00:06:18] Speaker C: You're my best friend. [00:06:21] Speaker B: He's going to play a little bit of Robert from Everett on his seat. He tapes everything and then plays extras back and then hangs up on. Okay, let's go to Ruth in the. [00:06:32] Speaker D: Hello. [00:06:32] Speaker B: I was going to say Ruth and Maynard. It's not Ruth and Maynard, it's. You always identify. [00:06:38] Speaker D: Did you. [00:06:38] Speaker B: You didn't identify yourself as Dave Maynard's friend? [00:06:40] Speaker D: I did this time because I said hurry up to Keith because I tell you the truth, two nights in a row I've been trying to call you and I waited and waited and then it got later and later and the next thing I knew there was the dumb birthday game. I fell asleep. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Oh, so we were jammed. We were jammed when you called. [00:06:57] Speaker D: Yeah, so I just. Actually, I thought. I just wanted to identify myself so he would know who I was, you know. [00:07:03] Speaker B: He put you on. Anyway. Anyway, I know you're going to talk about next Saturday's. [00:07:09] Speaker D: I am. And you know, wouldn't it have been a wonderful weekend this. I mean the sun was out like it. Just pray that it'll be a great weekend because I will rain down, you [00:07:18] Speaker B: know that I'll throw myself on my knees and I'll worship until. For days. [00:07:22] Speaker D: Proud of your act tomorrow night anyway, [00:07:26] Speaker B: did I didn't mention it was seven. It starts at seven o'. Clock. [00:07:29] Speaker C: Six. [00:07:29] Speaker D: Oh, you all right? [00:07:31] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:07:31] Speaker D: Oh, you. [00:07:32] Speaker B: No, no, it starts at seven. They've got it listed as seven to nine. No, no, no, the whole thing is seven to nine. 30 is what the publicity release says. [00:07:41] Speaker D: I see. And you're going to be great. [00:07:43] Speaker B: I go. I go on Fairly close to the beginning, around 7:30. Because they want to get me out of the way and get on the really. The really laugh people like. [00:07:51] Speaker D: Not true. Not true. I heard you saying that all week. I hear everything you say. I told you that. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Oh, you never. Well, I mean, the person you lead off with is not the one you hold in the highest estate. [00:08:00] Speaker D: Of course. That's the birth process. You see, you start off with a bang. And that's the thing. You have to have a positive attitude and say, I'm going to be great. And you just come right out there and do the best you can. And then you start off for the whole night and the whole night will be great. See, that's my. [00:08:19] Speaker B: I never thought of that. [00:08:20] Speaker D: That's the philosophy. [00:08:21] Speaker B: I feel better already. [00:08:22] Speaker D: They put you on first because they want you to be the opening act. I mean, some of these opening acts. [00:08:28] Speaker B: That's kind of a silly thing you just said. They put you on first if they [00:08:31] Speaker C: want you to be the opening. [00:08:34] Speaker B: Sometimes they put you on last. They want you to be a. Finalized. Sometimes in the middle because they want you. What kind of logic. Wait a minute, wait a minute. [00:08:40] Speaker D: I just finished watching three hours of the Emmys. You want to have my little. [00:08:43] Speaker B: No, I don't even care about. No, I got a whole list of the Emmys here and they're all programs I never saw. [00:08:48] Speaker D: Really? [00:08:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And I guess I thought I watched a fair amount of television, but I don't see. I never see the ones that won the awards. You know, Fraser, Murphy Brown, that kind of stuff. [00:08:58] Speaker D: I do see Fraser1 everything there though. He was. I really love Paul Reiser, though. I wish. Mad about you. Did you watch that at all? Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt? [00:09:09] Speaker B: Just a little bit. I do like Reiser. I think he's a very funny guy. [00:09:12] Speaker D: Really good show. [00:09:13] Speaker B: Anyway, do your job about the. [00:09:17] Speaker D: So anyway, I'm wishing you good luck because I know you'll be great. [00:09:21] Speaker B: I hope so. [00:09:22] Speaker D: I'm sure you'll be great. [00:09:22] Speaker B: I got friends of mine who are going to be there and I hate to make an ass of myself in [00:09:26] Speaker C: front of them, but you. [00:09:27] Speaker D: But see, you're so good all the time that. Just be yourself, that's the main thing, and you'll be great. All right now, the WBZ farm stand next Saturday coming up. And it starts at six in the morning until whenever. And we're going to hope it's a beautiful day because this weekend was so great. We should have moved it up in a hurry. Now we had a Lot of people calling serious to find out if there's any way they can get there. If they don't have a car. Yes, we have a bus that comes to WBZ and the bus will be leaving 7:30am, 9am and 11am and they can get a ride out there on the bus and then the bus will take them back anytime from 10, 12 and 2 o'. Clock. [00:10:10] Speaker B: Okay, tell us the leaving times again. [00:10:13] Speaker D: 7:30, right in front of WBZ in front of the front door. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Okay, 7:30, 11. [00:10:19] Speaker D: No, 9. 9 and 11. [00:10:21] Speaker B: 9 and 11. Okay. And then it leaves. [00:10:23] Speaker D: It'll come back at 10. [00:10:26] Speaker B: It leaves Wilmington at 10, 12, 12 and around 2. 2 and around 2. [00:10:33] Speaker C: Right. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Okay. So they can come here like pick up the 7:30 bus at Soldiersfield Road. [00:10:39] Speaker C: Correct. [00:10:39] Speaker B: They can get to see all the swell stuff they're doing in bz. They're remodeling and rebuilding the whole thing. [00:10:45] Speaker D: That's right. Absolutely. [00:10:46] Speaker B: It's really nice. [00:10:47] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it will be. [00:10:49] Speaker D: Nice paint job today. Nice paint. [00:10:52] Speaker C: White. [00:10:52] Speaker D: The whole outside is painted white. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:10:54] Speaker D: Oh, you came in the dark. [00:10:55] Speaker B: That's right, I came in. Yeah, it was kind of. I didn't see that, but I'll see in the morning. [00:10:59] Speaker D: They painted it yesterday. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Okay, so they can pick up the bus right there in front at 7:30, right near the trash bucket. And the new entrance? The new entrance. [00:11:08] Speaker D: Oh, there'll be a big bus there. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Okay. [00:11:10] Speaker D: Nice man all cheers this time every year named John Devine. [00:11:13] Speaker B: Okay, so he's the, he's the bus. He's the one bus. Them, they go back and forth. [00:11:17] Speaker D: Correct. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Okay, then I can pick up the bus at 2pm to come home if they want to stay the whole time. [00:11:22] Speaker C: That's right. [00:11:23] Speaker D: Or they can come when they want and whatever, whatever. And then when they're out there, if they have a lot of bundles, there'll be a little shuttle bus taking them back and forth to, you know, if they have a car and they can't walk with all their stuff because we got lots of good stuff. [00:11:36] Speaker B: I know you have. You got real good stuff. We have you, we have me and I'm good stuff. I'm good stuff. I'm really good stuff. Yeah. [00:11:44] Speaker D: But we just really hope that's going to be a good weekend because we last two years it rained, you know, even though it was okay. It would just be a nice way to have a great day for everybody. We've got a petting zoo, as I told you before, and we have the York Wild Animal Kingdom. Group come down there, or whatever you call that up there in York, Maine, they bring down a whole bunch of animals and we have a face painting and we have clowns and we have the New Liberty Jazz Band, and we have another orchestra and we have all kinds of. We have £50,000 of produce. [00:12:21] Speaker B: Okay. £50,000 of produce. Alive. Alive. [00:12:25] Speaker D: And you get all the bread that [00:12:26] Speaker B: you want, like last year, and a lot of them, you understand, so they can buy food and stuff to eat there. [00:12:31] Speaker D: Oh, absolutely. [00:12:32] Speaker C: No, we have breakfast first of all, [00:12:34] Speaker D: serving pancakes with fresh blueberries and sausages and all that stuff. And coffee. Very nice coffee companies. [00:12:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:43] Speaker D: And then we have hamburgers, hot dogs for lunch and all that stuff, too. Oh, I keep saying all that. [00:12:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:49] Speaker B: No, you have, you have a lot of stuff. I can't hardly wait to see all that stuff. Okay, that's good. And it's, it's. It's a Route 93 to Route 39. [00:12:57] Speaker D: Correct. [00:12:57] Speaker B: And that's the, that's the key thing. That's right. That's right. Route 93. Well, if you go south, you won't get the exit 39, but 39. So they just remember 93 and then 39, which. 39, which is 93, you know, backwards. [00:13:13] Speaker D: That's right. [00:13:13] Speaker B: And it's the. What. What is the place in Wilmington? [00:13:17] Speaker D: Okay. Right. So I hope to see you there and I hope your big success tomorrow night and that. That's it. Like, I and my friend David Letterman won the show for the best show. [00:13:27] Speaker B: Yes. He has Variety show. That was good. [00:13:29] Speaker D: That was nice. [00:13:30] Speaker B: That was very nice. [00:13:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Really? [00:13:31] Speaker B: Because he must be thrilled by that. And Jane Leno must be absolutely. [00:13:37] Speaker D: Not too nice when he came out and did his little speech because they had them as presenters and that, you know, it is kind of a tough thing to put somebody in, though. I mean, you know, I like Jay Leno and that, but the thing is, after they're sitting there for two hours and they don't win and. And somebody else wins, and then they're a presenter, they're a little down, you know, what you expect, you know, but he, he had a couple of wise lines. I thought we're uncalled for, but what are you going to say? Everybody had a story, but it was a pretty good show, actually. And you didn't watch any, but I suppose. [00:14:10] Speaker B: No, I did. I didn't see any of it. No, no, I was busy reading the Bible. I'll see you later. [00:14:17] Speaker D: Bye. [00:14:18] Speaker B: Okay. 2, 5, 4, 10, 30. [00:14:20] Speaker D: You know, we may just love it then. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Again, you may hate it. [00:14:25] Speaker D: No, then again, we may just like it. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [00:14:29] Speaker D: I'm being diplomatic for me. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Why are you being diplomatic? You, why don't you just. If you're being diplomatic, you'll say, we all know it's going to be sensational. It'll be hilarious. And probably get a standing ovation. [00:14:40] Speaker D: It will. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Saying we don't know. [00:14:41] Speaker D: How do you know whether we're going to stand in ovate or sit in ovate? [00:14:45] Speaker B: Well, you do bad stuff. You ought to be a weather person doing stand up. That, that, that's awful humor what you're doing. [00:14:51] Speaker D: I don't. Well, that's because I'm, I'm not a pro comedian. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Well, don't try some people. [00:14:58] Speaker D: Why not? No, they call it sense of humor. [00:15:01] Speaker B: They call what sense of humor? Not what you're doing funny. [00:15:05] Speaker D: And you're not a professional comedian. [00:15:07] Speaker B: I see. They call that sense of humor. [00:15:09] Speaker D: No. You know, I was listening to your, to your guest tonight and I loved it. I mean, to hear this band playing that reminds me of when I was a little kid and I got on my mother's nerves and she'd say, judith, don't hang my tea kettle. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Did she say that? Now that's a stand up routine right there. [00:15:29] Speaker D: Well, I don't know. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Oh, Judy, are you. [00:15:33] Speaker C: You're pitiful. [00:15:34] Speaker D: That's a stand up routine. [00:15:36] Speaker B: No, Judy, I'm just throwing in stupid lines. You're supposed to giggle a little bit and get on with it. Anyway, no, anyway, that's not why you called me. You called me because you had some really serious business, I'll bet you. [00:15:47] Speaker D: Yeah, sure, okay. No, the other thing was we have collections in our family and I'm not going to say the kind you put out every Friday morning at curbside. My sister, who happens to have her own museum also collects a lot of other stuff. She collects ink wells. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:16:08] Speaker D: Yes, she has. People bring her ink wells and then from the time she was a little kid she collected miniatures and she has miniature food and all kinds of little things. And she has a dollhouse. But she says someday in the future she'll get the dollhouse furnished. She has enough food, miniature food to be a caterer. People get her little cakes and pies and things like that. And she's got tons of stuff. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Right, by that you mean cake made out of what? [00:16:40] Speaker D: No, it's made out of like, I guess composition plastic or. But it looks like, it looks like real food. And she, I got her one time a plate of gefilta. Fish. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Miniature gefilte fish. Yes, it's the, the, actually the miniature. I miniature the inkwells. That would be interesting in school at one time and you know, and everybody. Because inkwells is such a thing of the past now. [00:17:09] Speaker D: Yeah. And well, people had them on their desks and you put plain old pens in it. That was even before fountain pens. [00:17:16] Speaker B: That's right. [00:17:17] Speaker D: Dipped your pen in the ink and wrote. [00:17:19] Speaker B: That's right. [00:17:19] Speaker D: Well, there's still people who write with quill pens in our area. Yeah, yeah. They like the way it comes out and they carve the end. You take a feather, it's like a goose quill or you know, a feather [00:17:32] Speaker C: from a goose or it's the way [00:17:33] Speaker B: they sign the duck or something. The Declaration of Independence. [00:17:37] Speaker D: Yes. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Stop twice daily and you get mileage plus or one pass miles. Air Canada, a welcome departure. [00:17:47] Speaker C: He's the talk of the town. [00:17:49] Speaker D: Lift you up when you're down. Nor Nathan. RWBC in Boston. Here's Norm Kent. And I just got a fit of laughing here. I felt so ridiculous to myself. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Joe as Joe, as I know is in a great adventure environmentalist and he voiced all this environment. I'm an environmentalist too and I have tons of animals and all that. But I can't see building a big pen going through all this to raise wolves in captivity in order to save the species. I mean I would love to, I would like to save the species, but what, what do you do with them after a while? I suppose I could have asked that to Joe but Joe has a way of answering in 25 minutes. Something that you kind of hope he just knock off in a little bit. I just, I'm probably rude to him. I just didn't feel like going through all of that. [00:18:43] Speaker D: I was fine, but anyhow, I should [00:18:45] Speaker B: have done what you did. I should have just sat there and giggled at him, I suppose. [00:18:50] Speaker D: Listen, what I really wanted to say was that I think you were gonna be. You're really be terrific next Saturday. But is this 7:30 in the morning or 7:30 at night? [00:19:01] Speaker B: Oh no, no, this is, these are two separate things we're talking about. [00:19:04] Speaker C: Okay. [00:19:05] Speaker B: The comedy connection. Things where a lot of people in broadcasting, particularly in broadcasting and in the media, newspaper stuff are doing stand up comedy. That's, that's Monday night. [00:19:15] Speaker D: That's, that's tomorrow night. [00:19:16] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Or actually this coming night if you figure now is now into Monday. Monday night between 6:30 or 7:00 clock and 9. 7 and 9:30, something like that. It starts around 7 and it's at the Comedy Connection, which is in the Fantal hall of Fame, Quincy Marketplace. [00:19:31] Speaker D: Okay. [00:19:32] Speaker B: It's a regular comedy workshop there where they've had very big names all the time until, until Monday night, I guess. That's where we do our, our bit to raise funds for this company, this organization that helps the homeless and so on. Next Saturday up in Wilmington at the Shriners Building and stuff out there is, is the farm at WBC Farm Stand, where there'll be a lot of things on media social sale farm produce things and petting zoos and all kinds of fun things and bands. Yeah, and that's, that's on route. [00:20:04] Speaker D: That's on route, yeah, I know Route 93. 93. And you take the reverse, you'd get off at exit 39. [00:20:10] Speaker B: That's correct, absolutely, yes. [00:20:11] Speaker D: But tell me, what time does this start? [00:20:13] Speaker B: This one, that one next? The, the farm stand starts very early. I think they'll, they'll start being there like about 6:30 in the morning, 6:30, 7 in the morning. [00:20:22] Speaker D: And then what time does it finish up? [00:20:23] Speaker B: Whenever they sell everything, I guess. But usually it's around. Oh, usually goes till about two in the afternoon, something like that. It ends fairly early in the afternoon. Two, three, it depends. [00:20:33] Speaker D: Now you're not going to be there though? [00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'll be there. I'll just, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to be in a stand or anything. I'll just, when I leave here probably I don't know whether I'll go home first and then come back or just go right from here, in which case I'll be there like you know, seven, eight, nine o' clock in the morning. So I'll be there. I'll be there during some of those hours. Yes, I will. I was there. I've been there the past couple of years because I love stuff too. And you can get a lot of great bargains and some, some good stuff. [00:21:01] Speaker D: Yeah, I bet. Well, it sounds like fun anyhow. Sounds like. And that's next Saturday? [00:21:07] Speaker B: That's, that's next Saturday. [00:21:08] Speaker D: Do you think it'll be over by two though? By two or three or do you think. [00:21:12] Speaker B: I think you, I think you probably should get there probably. But at least by noon or 1 o' clock in the afternoon just to make sure there's a lot of stuff. But then again, maybe you get there two or three and get really great bargains when they're ready to close and want to get rid of stuff, you know, I don't know. [00:21:25] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I just wanted to have an idea. Now I. Now I'm straightened out because I heard the 7:30 time and I really wasn't listening with a full two ears, you know. But anyhow. [00:21:38] Speaker B: That's a funny way to phrase it. Yeah, okay. [00:21:40] Speaker D: But anyhow, listen. So you're going to be there tomorrow night? [00:21:45] Speaker B: Yes. [00:21:45] Speaker D: Okay. Well, I wish you good look and I'm good luck and I'm sure you'll be great. Why don't you make a tape? [00:21:52] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I mean, you know, I'd have to bring a tape recorder or have, you know, have them. I don't know what kind of facilities. Maybe they'll be taping the whole thing. I don't know. In which case, if we can, you know, even. Even run some of the other stuff too of some of the other people who are going to be there. A lot of BZ people are going to be there as well and other stations too, and I wouldn't mind running to tape with them. Maybe they'll tape the whole thing. Maybe get it and play at least play excerpts of a lot of different people for next weekend. I think that would be fun. [00:22:19] Speaker D: Sounds good. Sure. [00:22:21] Speaker B: I will try to see what we can do about that. [00:22:23] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. Well, listen, take care now. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Okay, Thanks a lot. [00:22:27] Speaker D: As I said, I know you have others waiting, so I'm not going to [00:22:30] Speaker B: say anything more, but you're more important than they are. [00:22:34] Speaker D: Well, listen, you're such a sweet sweetheart and everybody loves you so much that you cheer everybody up. And, hey, we just can't say enough for you. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Well, you're a nice person. I thank you a lot, June. [00:22:46] Speaker D: Thanks and love you very much. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Maybe we'll see at the farm stand next week. [00:22:50] Speaker D: I hope so. I. I don't think I'll make it till about 1:30, though. That's the problem. That's why I was concerned. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, it may very well still be going on. [00:22:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:22:59] Speaker B: In fact, I'm sure it'll be going on at 1:30. It's just whether you have enough time ready to look around, but. [00:23:04] Speaker D: Right. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Come by and come by anyway. I'm sure things will be happy. [00:23:06] Speaker D: Okay. And I hope you're not too tired and you might just be there. [00:23:09] Speaker B: I may go home and come back again, in which case I definitely will be there at that time. [00:23:13] Speaker D: Okay, Good enough. Take care. All right. Bye. Bye. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Bye. [00:23:16] Speaker C: Bye. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Okay, we'll go to. Is this Molly in Maine? Yes, it is. Molly and Maine. Hello, Molly and Maine. [00:23:23] Speaker D: Hi there. You're old moonbeam. [00:23:26] Speaker B: You're old moon beam. Did you call me? [00:23:28] Speaker D: Can you hear me, Norman? [00:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't hear me, too? [00:23:31] Speaker D: I'm in my bedroom in the wrong phone. I should have called you out of the other phone. [00:23:35] Speaker B: No, you sound fine. There's no problem with you. [00:23:37] Speaker D: You don't sound so hot. To say [00:23:43] Speaker B: that hurt, Molly. [00:23:45] Speaker D: I listened to the woman who was talking before and she said about all that I can. I really enjoy you and I thank you very much for your program. I really do. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Well, that's kind of you, Molly. Thank you. Where. Where are you, by the way? In Maine. [00:24:01] Speaker D: I'm in Kingfield, right at the base of Sugarloaf. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, that's beautiful country. [00:24:06] Speaker D: It is. I'm blessed. I really am. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah. That is. You don't talk as your accent isn't as thick as most Mainers I know. Are you a native up there? [00:24:14] Speaker D: No, no, I'm from Britain. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Oh, no wonder you sound British. I knew you had an accent, but I didn't pick it up at first as being an English accent. I knew it wasn't Maine. Oh, I'm so stupid. I can't believe it. [00:24:28] Speaker D: But I always come back to Maine because I love it. [00:24:31] Speaker B: Okay. No, it isn't so. Oh, you're staying there? Just for the summer. [00:24:34] Speaker D: Then would you do me a favor? [00:24:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:37] Speaker D: Would you hold on now? Go out to the other telephone. [00:24:40] Speaker B: I'll be happy to. [00:24:41] Speaker D: Hold on. [00:24:42] Speaker B: I'll be happy to do that. Molly. The rose is all envy. [00:24:46] Speaker C: The bloom of your cheeks. [00:24:48] Speaker B: And I kind of like the same one. I'm hanging in there. And the sun, even in these, your smile. [00:24:55] Speaker D: Are you there? [00:24:56] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Yes, I am. [00:24:57] Speaker D: There you are. I can hear you better. Okay, now talk. How shall I talk? [00:25:02] Speaker B: No, no, I just, I just, I, I. The last question I asked you was, are you there up there on the base of Sugarloaf, just for the summer, or do you. [00:25:10] Speaker D: No, dear, I'm here now for a bit. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Oh, you, you stay there year round now? [00:25:14] Speaker D: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not. But I'm here for a while. God knows where I'm going afterwards. [00:25:23] Speaker C: Oh, you don't. [00:25:23] Speaker B: You don't have any. [00:25:24] Speaker D: Always turn into busy. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Well, that's that. But you don't have any other home other than where you are right now. You won't be. Will you be going back to England? [00:25:33] Speaker C: Hello. [00:25:36] Speaker D: But I'll go to Guyana in, In December. [00:25:40] Speaker C: I'm. [00:25:40] Speaker B: So you're going where in December? [00:25:42] Speaker D: Guyana. [00:25:44] Speaker B: Well, now, where is that? [00:25:45] Speaker D: South America. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Oh, I should have known that. Diana is the name of the town in South Diana. [00:25:50] Speaker D: Georgetown. [00:25:51] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, Guyana. With a G. I see. Oh, I'll get you. [00:25:55] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:25:57] Speaker B: You're already a world traveler, aren't you, Molly? [00:25:59] Speaker D: Not. Not necessarily. [00:26:01] Speaker B: It sounds that way, but I'm happy. Well, that's the main thing. [00:26:05] Speaker D: I love you, dear. I. I get the biggest kick. Like I send you a postcard card a long time ago and I find myself Molly Moose Bottom. That's not my real name. [00:26:17] Speaker B: I didn't think it was. No, I. If you want to send me another [00:26:20] Speaker D: postcard when I was in Main, I should be a Molly Moose Bottom. [00:26:24] Speaker B: I think that's. I think that's adorable. [00:26:26] Speaker D: Guess what? [00:26:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:27] Speaker D: I collect paperwork. [00:26:29] Speaker B: You collect paperwork? [00:26:30] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:26:31] Speaker B: That's kind of interesting. [00:26:32] Speaker D: Yeah, but I. I leave them everywhere. I collect them for a bit and then I leave them. Well, you. [00:26:36] Speaker B: You keep traveling around so much so you got no place to put them. [00:26:39] Speaker D: Well, that's it. [00:26:42] Speaker B: You'll be the. You're the only traveling museum. [00:26:45] Speaker D: Well, you should see my back. [00:26:48] Speaker B: I should have seen your back. [00:26:51] Speaker D: I'm only kidding. [00:26:52] Speaker B: No, I'd love to see your back. I'm getting. I'm getting turned on just at the thought of it. Oh, Molly. Molly showed me her back. Oh, my. Kevin. Hey, Molly, Best of luck to you. I appreciate the call. If you want to send me another card as my Molly Moose bottom, I'll be looking for. Okay. [00:27:07] Speaker D: Thanks a lot very much for taking my call. [00:27:09] Speaker B: You're welcome. Thanks for calling. Bye Bye. Molly Moose Bottom. [00:27:13] Speaker C: Bessie Dupree of St. Petersburg, Florida. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Get in touch with a guy about the wolves. So there's. Apparently. I think maybe I was a little too hasty and hanging up with beautiful animals. Beautiful animals. Apparently he was interested in the wolves also. Maybe we'll. We'll talk with Joe. That was Joe from Quincy. We'll talk with. With them another night and go into more details about that. [00:27:34] Speaker D: More interesting than you really think, you know? [00:27:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And that very well may be. I. I didn't go into it because I thought, how many people want to build a huge pen and bring up walls, you know? So I didn't think there were many. [00:27:47] Speaker C: I know. [00:27:47] Speaker D: You're lucky if you get them to do it for dogs. Never mind. [00:27:50] Speaker B: That's. That's quite true. [00:27:53] Speaker D: Listen, I want a picture of you. Do you send the mouse. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Say that again. [00:27:56] Speaker D: Can I have a picture of you? [00:27:57] Speaker B: Yes, you may. Yes, you may. What a nice thing to ask about Nancy. And I got. I got these great pictures that don't look anything like me, so it'll be a pleasure. [00:28:05] Speaker D: Well, I have barbs in this tiger, [00:28:07] Speaker C: so I don't know. [00:28:08] Speaker B: Well, he's a good looking guy and I'm not particularly so, but beauty is [00:28:12] Speaker D: the eye of the beholder, no? [00:28:15] Speaker B: Yes, it is. It's in the eye of the beholder. And if you can look at that my picture and see beauty there, I'll exaggerate a little. Okay, that's right. Just pretend. [00:28:25] Speaker D: Okay, I'm happy. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to turn you over to Keith Shields. [00:28:28] Speaker D: Thank you very much. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Thanks for calling, Nancy. Bye bye now. [00:28:31] Speaker D: Bye bye. [00:28:32] Speaker B: That's my friend Nancy. She wants a picture. Okay, we can take a break for the news then. We'll take some more calls after, including Pete and Denise. [00:28:39] Speaker C: Oh, you're gonna do well. [00:28:40] Speaker B: Well, you don't know that. Neither do I. But I really appreciate the boost in the enthusiasm and I thank you for that. [00:28:46] Speaker C: Pete, you're talking about having butterflies and stuff. Yes, that's normal. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Is it? [00:28:52] Speaker C: Yep. I've performed before. [00:28:54] Speaker B: You must be. You must be a psychiatrist son of a guy. [00:28:57] Speaker C: No, really, it is normal. I've. See, I've performed before, Norm. [00:29:01] Speaker B: With the accordion on stage? [00:29:02] Speaker C: Yeah, and I felt them too. Struck the first few notes. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Really? You, a great accordion player, got nervous. I can't believe that. What did you play? Lady of Spain On a white accordion? [00:29:14] Speaker D: No, I played. [00:29:16] Speaker C: Oh, God, once. It was a song called the Gay Ranchero. I forget what I did. [00:29:26] Speaker B: No, I understand, I understand. But when. When you do something that you've never done before or something not quite the same way you've done it before, then you really kind of get a little uptight. I talk before, I talk before groups quite a lot and most of the time I don't get nervous. But this is a little different. So you do get a little uptight. Now, for example, if you were to play the accordion before 2000 accordion teachers and that kind of stuff, I don't. Never mind, forget what I'm saying. I don't even know what I'm saying. But thank you very much for the vote of confidence. I gotta move along, Pete. But I really appreciate your vote of confidence very, very much. It's very kind of you to say that. [00:30:04] Speaker C: Hello. [00:30:05] Speaker B: How you doing, Denise? [00:30:06] Speaker D: Hi, Norm. And listen, as long as you're having butterflies and not moths. [00:30:11] Speaker B: And not moths, boy, we got a bunch of stand up comics, I tell you, calling me tonight. I hope you don't mind if I don't use that. [00:30:21] Speaker D: Please don't okay. By the way, Bill is coming as my authorized representative. I have to go to a meeting in my capacity as a very important person. I can't be there. [00:30:33] Speaker B: Oh, Bill will be there. [00:30:36] Speaker D: Bill will be there with a friend of ours named Judith. Yes. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Oh, isn't that nice of him to do that? And nice of Judith. I appreciate that. I'm sorry you won't be able to make it, but I can understand how many things, you know, kind of tear away at you, things that you got to do. [00:30:50] Speaker D: Yeah. Unfortunately, I'm the chairlady of this condo association. Don't ask me why I am the chair. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Well, no, but that's an important post, and that's very good. You're looking out for the people who own condos there, and you want to make sure that life is fair and honest and decent for them, and I admire that. [00:31:06] Speaker D: Well, thank you. And we have our meeting on Monday night. That's right. How rude of these folks to schedule us at night. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Well, I think Monday is probably the slowest night in any club. And so they figured, well, give the. You know, it's a charitable thing. Give it to them on Monday night when we don't do much business anyway. You know, I think I know. [00:31:23] Speaker D: So I just wanted to wish you the best of luck and to let you know that. But I'm doing something next weekend that I've never done either. [00:31:30] Speaker B: What's that? [00:31:31] Speaker D: I'm speaking to a bunch of doctors at an American Medical Association. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Oh, really? What? The legal aspect of doctoring. [00:31:39] Speaker D: It's the impact. Are you ready for this? I hope I don't put you to sleep now. [00:31:43] Speaker B: Fire away. [00:31:44] Speaker D: It's the impact of the Americans with Disabilities act on how it impacts doctors on getting their license and getting privileges at hospital. [00:31:52] Speaker B: Oh, that sounds like a. A topic that would be fascinating, particularly the doctors who must be hit with this kind of stuff all the time. [00:31:58] Speaker D: Yeah, I've actually spoken to a bunch of lawyers about it twice this spring at various bar association things, and it went over really well. But I've never spoken in front of a whole big room full of doctors. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Oh, I'm. [00:32:09] Speaker D: You'll do. You'll do. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Fantastic. [00:32:11] Speaker D: Oh, I know. I'm just wondering if they're gonna bring their rotten tomatoes, because, you know, I'm a lawyer and you know how doctors feel about lawyers. [00:32:17] Speaker B: How did. How do lawyers feel about doctors? Is it reciprocal? [00:32:21] Speaker D: No, because doctors generate all this income. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay. When are you going to be doing this? [00:32:26] Speaker D: That's actually next. I'm scheduled on this Conference a week from. Well, a week from Sunday, week from yesterday. [00:32:33] Speaker C: Okay. [00:32:34] Speaker D: Yeah. And it's up in Ottawa. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Oh, isn't that something? So this is kind of a. What is this in North. Just North America, or is it international? [00:32:42] Speaker D: It's actually called the International Conference on Physician Health, and it's sponsored by the American Medical association and the Canadian Medical Association. [00:32:49] Speaker B: I think it's a great honor for you to be there. What a. What a good choice they made. [00:32:53] Speaker D: Well, thank you. I'm actually very excited about it. But see, we're both doing things we've never. I've sort of given this speech, so I know the speech, so. But I've never done it in front of doctors. And I had to make a whole bunch of overhead slide transparencies because doctors like slides. [00:33:07] Speaker B: Do they? That's known. That's right. It's known in the medical trade. Doctors like slides. That's true. Okay. It's kind of funny because I, I, Somebody was suggesting. Somebody said to me, if, you know, if this scares you so much, why do you do it? But I, I think. I think there are things you got to do whether they frighten you or not. And I think fear at least shows you're alive. There ought to be some sensations in life. You ought to feel fear. You ought to feel exhilaration, all kinds of. And to accept challenges. The worst thing that could happen is I look like a total idiot and a fool and fall down flat on my face in front of people I love who'll be there watching, you know, and I'll be humiliated forever. But then again, maybe, Maybe it'll work out okay, and I'll be exhilarated. The fact that I took a chance and it worked out. [00:33:53] Speaker D: Absolutely. Remember, the sun will still come up the next day, and the people who still love you will still love you, including me. [00:34:01] Speaker C: Okay. [00:34:02] Speaker D: I told Bill to come over and say hello. [00:34:04] Speaker B: No, I hope, I hope he does. [00:34:05] Speaker C: Now. [00:34:06] Speaker B: I was. I talked before one high school. This was something I had never done before. One time I spoke to a high school graduating class, and I thought, what am I going to tell high school kids? That they don't really care. This fat old guy coming up, a dark note. They'll, you know, listen for about three seconds, and they won't even remember who it is. But, but, but I talk with my own kids about the topic. But anyway, one thing, one thing I think is quite true, and this can apply to everybody. And I'm about to give you some philosophy, Denise, which you probably already have taken as your Own. [00:34:34] Speaker D: Oh, absolutely. It's roided on the doilies. It's framed on my wall. Absolutely. [00:34:39] Speaker B: Well, you don't. You don't. You don't know yet. I haven't told you yet what this bit of philosophy is, but basically it is that, that you ought not to be afraid to fail. Failure is not so awful. The only way you're never going to fail is to never do anything. And if you never do anything, what's the sense of going through life living a bland existence like that, which is kind of stupid. So you have to. You have to take chances. And sometimes you're gonna. You're gonna fail, but that's. There's no other way to do it. God, that was beautiful the way I just said that. [00:35:07] Speaker D: Oh, it is. And I totally agree with that, actually. I do. Really. [00:35:12] Speaker B: No, I think I decided to disagree with it because it's written in stone. Thank you so much. [00:35:19] Speaker D: Out. Absolutely. But listen, best. Best of luck. After we get back, I'll let you know about Ottawa because I've never been to that city in Canada. [00:35:27] Speaker B: I've never been to Ontario at all. But I understand that is a magnificent city in a great province of Canada. [00:35:33] Speaker C: That's. [00:35:33] Speaker B: That's just lovely. [00:35:34] Speaker D: Well, this friend who's. Who was actually going with Bill tomorrow night is also driving up with us because her mother lives near there. So we're. And you'll. You'll actually recognize him. You can't miss our friend. She's quite lovely. And I think she thinks you're cute, too. Long blonde hair down past her waist. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Okay, I'll watch. I'll watch. I'll watch her. Only to prevent Bill from being a smart guy. [00:35:56] Speaker D: That's right. [00:35:57] Speaker B: Keep. Keep him in check. I'll look for him. And thanks a million days. Good luck to you. [00:36:01] Speaker D: Take care, Bunch. [00:36:02] Speaker B: What a nice thing to do. Thank you. [00:36:04] Speaker C: And tomorrow night, you know, just be yourself normally and you'll knock them off the stairs. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Yeah, Very lovely. Thanks a million. I appreciate that, Clarence. Thanks a lot. Okay, good luck to you. And we going to be at the farm stand next week? [00:36:17] Speaker C: No, I won't be able to go. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Will your kids be there? [00:36:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, they'll be my son, Clarence and his wife, Brenda. They will be there. It'll be the 10th year. [00:36:28] Speaker B: I will be looking for them then. Because I'll be there too. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Thanks a lot, Doc. [00:36:32] Speaker B: Thanks for coming to 30. [00:36:34] Speaker C: You're a serious collector. [00:36:36] Speaker B: And 25 to 30 nutcrackers is serious. Yeah, because she has almost 17,000. [00:36:42] Speaker C: Right. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Salt and pepper shakers. [00:36:44] Speaker C: So we had one collector who died a while back, but he had 4,000 [00:36:48] Speaker B: in his collection of nutcrackers. [00:36:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Wow. But the problem that we have in [00:36:54] Speaker C: collecting which other people have is there are other people who are collecting things like animals. So if we have enough cracker, it looks like an animal, the animal collectors will be trying to get the stuff, or if it's a soldier or different things like that, or if it's brass or cast iron. So people in these other fields are competing against other collectors. So that's what the difficulty is in collecting. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I can see that. How long have you been collecting nutcrackers? [00:37:32] Speaker C: About 12, 14 years. Yeah, maybe a little bit longer. [00:37:36] Speaker B: How did you happen to get interested in nutcrackers? [00:37:39] Speaker C: Well, I was in California and my mother liked macadamia nuts and she bought a cracker from the farm stand out there and it wouldn't crack for her. She didn't have enough strength. So I took some tools of my father's and I ground up a couple tools and made a nutcracker for her. And then I got interested and I started collecting and doing other stuff. I designed a few and that's how I started into it. [00:38:11] Speaker B: How do you keep them? Where do you keep them? [00:38:14] Speaker C: Okay. My first collection was 400 nutcrackers. And about 10 years ago I got sick and looked like I was going to die. So museum from Texas came up and picked it up. They came and picked up my collection, took it back down to Texas. [00:38:31] Speaker B: So that collection is on display at a museum in Texas now. [00:38:34] Speaker C: It was until last year. Then the museum closed because the land was taken over by a coal company for strip mining. So everything there is in storage. I'll be getting some of it back in about six months. And so I started a new collection and I only have about 50 or 60 pieces of my new collection. [00:38:55] Speaker B: And you came through? I fished through, yeah. That's good. That's lovely. [00:39:01] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:39:01] Speaker C: I was in the hospital. Well, what happened is the VA gave me a wrong medication and I lost my kidneys. Oh my. [00:39:08] Speaker B: And did you have. Do you have other kidneys now, kidney transplant or anything? [00:39:14] Speaker C: No, I can't get a transplant because I'm allergic to the transplant medications, the anti rejection drugs, which are steroids and I can't take steroids. I lost the use of my fingers and feet to neuropathy. I can still move them, but there's a lot of things I can't do with them. I can't pick up little things and I have trouble Writing and things like that. [00:39:38] Speaker B: I'm starting to hear that. But anyway, you're back to the collection again and you're building that up and. Yeah. And you may get. You say you'll get some of the old stuff back. [00:39:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I expect. Get about 3/4 of the old collection back. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Oh, that's great. Well, you. You'll have the largest selection of nutcrackers. Oh, no, no. There's somebody else. You mentioned somebody else there. They have more than you. [00:39:58] Speaker C: He had 4, 000 pieces. Daughter has it now, but there are a lot of collections with 4 to 600 nutcrackers which were a lot better than what I had. I visited a man in Pennsylvania and he has some nutcrackers that he paid 600 to $1,000 a piece for. Wow. Really beautiful stuff. He had a carved head made from ivory ebony and baleen. Baleen. The whale's strainer. Big long strainers. And the carving had that. And he paid 650 for that. [00:40:35] Speaker B: And absolutely beautiful. [00:40:38] Speaker C: Then he had some ivory stuff and very interesting things. And then the beetle cutters. For cutting the beetle nut? Yes, they cut it before they chew it. Those are beautiful. They're extremely old. Some are 5, 600 years old. [00:40:56] Speaker B: There's so much on this collecting thing. So many different angles and things. Right. [00:40:59] Speaker C: And a woman in Ohio has a beetle cutter which is also a dagger. When you. If you reverse the blades, it's a cutter. If you turn the handles away from the blades, you have a dagger. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I hope she doesn't get too many people that get too angry at people. [00:41:18] Speaker C: Yeah. So her. Her competition was knife collectors, but she was lucky to get that. [00:41:22] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [00:41:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker B: That's interesting stuff. Thank you. You're not even talking twisted, Jim. I'll tell you, you sound. Okay. [00:41:28] Speaker C: Okay. [00:41:29] Speaker B: And good luck and thanks for calling. [00:41:30] Speaker C: Okay, bye. [00:41:31] Speaker B: Bye. Bye. Bye. Let me check. I'll check the weather in just a minute. We have some open lines right now and maybe time for one or two more calls. [00:41:38] Speaker D: How would you like one of me? [00:41:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd love one of you. Would you send it to me? [00:41:42] Speaker C: No, I will. Number one. [00:41:44] Speaker D: And number two, last night I had a bigger loss than you did over that urine test. I think he. He means five drops on the. The tongue instead of seven. [00:41:54] Speaker C: The medical guy who called last night [00:41:56] Speaker B: with those, you think he means five instead of seven drops of urine under the. [00:42:00] Speaker D: Stop being sarcastic. [00:42:01] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:42:02] Speaker D: I laughed like I not listening to him. [00:42:04] Speaker B: I'm sorry because that guy was so serious about it. [00:42:07] Speaker D: And you were trying to. I could hear you. [00:42:08] Speaker C: You have to go to a quick [00:42:09] Speaker D: commercial when you're ready to start laughing, [00:42:11] Speaker C: when you get the coats on. So before you cut me off, I'm [00:42:14] Speaker D: gonna say good night. [00:42:15] Speaker C: I'm gonna lay down and read my book and listen to here. [00:42:17] Speaker B: What are you reading? [00:42:18] Speaker D: I'm reading the Trinity. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:22] Speaker D: Yes. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Hey, thanks very much. [00:42:24] Speaker C: Enjoy yourself. [00:42:25] Speaker B: Thanks a lot. I'm looking for the picture. [00:42:28] Speaker D: You single? [00:42:30] Speaker B: Yes, I am. [00:42:30] Speaker D: Oh, I'm almost. So, wait a minute. [00:42:33] Speaker C: We could be doing a co host [00:42:34] Speaker D: together here at night. [00:42:36] Speaker C: What's wrong? [00:42:36] Speaker D: Just had his fifth marriage. [00:42:38] Speaker C: The DJ out on the coast. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. I. I worked with a guy. [00:42:44] Speaker D: What's his name? [00:42:46] Speaker B: A DJ on the coast. [00:42:47] Speaker D: Dj. I'm sorry. He said he was a talk show host. With the glass that used. With the glasses. And just married a fifth wife [00:42:54] Speaker B: there. Probably a lot of broadcasters like that. I don't know which one you refer to. I work. I work with a guy who. Who now is married to his eighth wife. I can't even imagine that. [00:43:04] Speaker D: Eight. [00:43:04] Speaker C: Eight. [00:43:05] Speaker B: Eight wives. [00:43:05] Speaker C: He's got to be rich. [00:43:07] Speaker B: No, he's not rich. He's in broadcasting. Openly broadcasting. Radio broadcasting. No, I don't know about that. He must. He must. He must have something going for him to get that many women who were willing to marry him after the kind of record he's got. [00:43:21] Speaker D: And they're all friends, right? They all know each other? [00:43:25] Speaker B: No, I don't. I don't think so. No. He's been traveling and he works at stations of various parts of the country. [00:43:30] Speaker C: Oh, there you go. [00:43:31] Speaker D: He's got one in these times. [00:43:32] Speaker B: He's got one that might be. Hey, send me your picture. [00:43:35] Speaker D: I will. [00:43:35] Speaker C: Okay. [00:43:36] Speaker B: Mary, you want to go? I just want to take one more comment call. And that's Bill down in Dedham. Hi, Bill. You're on wbz. [00:43:41] Speaker C: How you doing? [00:43:42] Speaker B: Oh, you sound like you get a cold. [00:43:44] Speaker C: No, no, I just. I just a little. [00:43:47] Speaker B: Little froggy poo there. I saw something, as we doctors say. [00:43:50] Speaker C: How's it going? [00:43:51] Speaker B: It's going okay. What can I do for you, Big Bill? [00:43:53] Speaker C: Say I collect things also, right? [00:43:57] Speaker B: What do you collect? [00:43:58] Speaker C: Well, like paper work, you know, like old magazines and all that. [00:44:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:05] Speaker C: And I have a little pamphlet here from 1945. Okay. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Okay with me. [00:44:12] Speaker C: And that's International Sterling. I guess it's an advertisement. And they have prices on there for the silver, you know. And also they have a picture of Ozzy and Harriet. [00:44:31] Speaker B: They were sponsored on radio by international Sterling. That's right. Way back in the 40s. [00:44:36] Speaker C: Yeah. This is a copyrighted 1945. Okay. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, okay with me. Yeah. [00:44:41] Speaker C: And it says every Sunday, 6:00pm, E, W, T. What is it wartime? [00:44:48] Speaker B: What. What are the initials? [00:44:50] Speaker C: Okay, it says every Sunday. [00:44:52] Speaker B: Yeah. What is one of the initials? W something? [00:44:54] Speaker C: E, W, T. Yeah. [00:44:56] Speaker B: Eastern war time. 6:00pm Eastern war time. Yeah. They said wartime instead of. Instead of daylight saving time because it was daylight saving time year round at one time when we. Daylight time was even two hours difference rather than the one hour now. So it was different during the war. They were. Yeah, they were trying to save electricity and all that. So they called it war time instead, again, instead of standard or daylight. And they were on each Sunday 96. I remember that so well. They had actors who played the part, young actors who played the part of the kids, David and Ricky. And later on, because the kids were David and Ricky, they were too small. And eventually when they got old enough, they. The kids took over the parts and then the kids were actually on. When they went on television, it was actually Ricky and. And David themselves. But I remember the show and it was sponsored by International Silver Company. So. Sterling silver and all that. [00:45:51] Speaker C: Yeah. And Thomas Long Company. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Well, I'm not familiar with it. [00:45:56] Speaker C: Well, that's what the temple came from. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Oh, I see. That was Long Jewelers then. [00:46:01] Speaker C: Oh, is that right? [00:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Who probably sold that stuff? I would. I would assume that's what that was. [00:46:06] Speaker C: So. [00:46:07] Speaker B: So you get all that stuff. I have to go now, Bill. I'm sorry to clip you off like that, but I didn't realize time, you see, when you haven't fought, time just goes by just so darn quick. Quickly. And it's gone by just as quickly already. We'll dance a little bit and I'll tell you that news coming along, Barbara, after that and then we'll see again this weekend. [00:46:25] Speaker C: Okay. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Can make it to the Comedy Connection. We talked about me being there, but there are a ton of others, a lot of busy people, a lot of people from other stations as well, raising funds for a very good cause to help the homeless in the Dorchester area. If you can make it seven o'. Clock. I go on fairly early, so if you come too late, you'll miss me. And that may be all right. On behalf of Keith Shields, the lovely Marilyn Guerrero, myself the Norm Nathan person. Have a good day. Bye. Bye, old sport. From Boston to Halifax non stop twice daily. And you get mileage plus or one pass miles. Air Canada, a welcome departure. The strongest pain relievers you can get without a prescription. Strong, fast Anacin. It works on your headache so you can work better Use as directed. [00:47:13] Speaker C: How was. [00:47:14] Speaker B: Let me run this way in case they missed it. Actor comic Danny Bonaduce presides as judge. Like a judge Wapner, I guess while the five families present their disputes to him, I suspect. Is that correct? No, they. They presented it to the audience. Oh, oh, okay. [00:47:31] Speaker D: And. [00:47:31] Speaker B: And at the end of the show, Bonaduce, he was like a judge and he gave his. His rulings and his verdicts and his. His punishments, if there were any. [00:47:40] Speaker C: It was. [00:47:41] Speaker B: It was a pretty comical thing. They had families like what was some of them. One of them sisters who. [00:47:49] Speaker C: A couple of sisters who were fighting over a man. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Serious stuff or. Yeah, seriously serious. There was one 34 year old man, [00:48:00] Speaker C: excuse me, who was dating an 18 year old woman and the family wanted [00:48:05] Speaker D: to keep them apart. [00:48:07] Speaker C: He got a funny. He got a good sentence. Something like. It was called a perverse or something [00:48:11] Speaker B: like that by Bonaduce as. And look who's throwing the stone. I know Danny Bonaduce who was in Phoenix, Arizona if I'm not mistaken, went downtown to pick up a prostitute and he picked her up. [00:48:23] Speaker C: If I'm not. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Correct me if I'm wrong here. And he picked up the prostitute and while they were in the car he finds out he's got a. A guy in drag there. So he punches. He did mention it. He punched the guy out. [00:48:34] Speaker D: The last time I was in the. [00:48:35] Speaker B: I was wearing a dress like that. No, last time he saw a man in a dress because he called his robe that he had on a dress. [00:48:41] Speaker C: Oh yeah. He said he went to jail for it. [00:48:45] Speaker B: So he's calling the other guy a Ferber. [00:48:47] Speaker C: That's really great. And then there was just a bunch of. [00:48:50] Speaker B: A bunch of family squabble. [00:48:51] Speaker C: Some of it fairly stuff that you'd [00:48:54] Speaker B: see on these tabloids type shows. [00:48:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:56] Speaker B: What it seems to me was like they were just making mockery of some real tragic family situations that we had no business watching. But of course we love that television exploiting personal difficulties. That's hard to believe. Me too. [00:49:08] Speaker D: I'd never heard of such a thing. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Thank you Mike. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Well done. [00:49:10] Speaker B: From Boston to Halifax non stop twice daily. And you get mileage plus or one pass miles. Air Canada a welcome departure Casino welcomes the Twistin Chubby Checkers with rock and roll favorites the Platters and the Shirelles on September 17th and 18th. For tickets call 1-800-play-Big Foxwoods your best bet for excitement. [00:49:34] Speaker D: And he's serving on the Eisenhower Fellowship. He's the head of the Eisenhower Fellowship International Fellowship Board. And let's see, I have a Barbara Bush foundation for Family Literacy and I'm working very hard to make America more literate. But we're also playing golf. I don't want you to think we're working all the time. And at this moment he spent the day bone fishing in Florida with a 10 year old grandson. [00:50:01] Speaker B: We're doing a little grandparenting. Didn't somebody write you a letter once and say, how does it feel to sit around eating bon bons all day? You mentioned that anecdote. The assumption is that if you have helpers who will, you know, do the laundry for you, that therefore you have [00:50:15] Speaker C: nothing else to do in life. [00:50:16] Speaker B: Your book made me exhausted. Just reading a schedule of a week with this head of state and this visit to a school and this series [00:50:25] Speaker C: of answering letters and so on. [00:50:26] Speaker B: I think we overestimate the pleasures of being famous. [00:50:32] Speaker C: I think anonymity is a very nice one. [00:50:34] Speaker D: Well, you do what you want to do. Yeah, and we've always done a lot because we wanted to. Nobody made us do it then and nobody makes us do it now. George Bush has more energy in his little finger than most people have in their whole bodies. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Karen, let's hear final thoughts from you, please. Thank you very much. That's it. [00:50:54] Speaker B: Thanks, Kieran. Good night, Irene. Good evening. You're on WBC with Barbara Bush. [00:50:59] Speaker D: Yes. Hi, David. [00:51:00] Speaker C: Hi, Irene. [00:51:01] Speaker D: I want you to know that I've started listening to you as a result of my husband who enjoys listening to you. [00:51:07] Speaker B: You make it sound like a painful experience. [00:51:10] Speaker D: Sometimes it is. And it's not even that I necessarily disagree with you. A lot of times I do, but I find you very harsh. But let's not take up this time with that. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to say hello to Barbara Bush. I want to know when she's going to run for office. Oh, that is so nice. But you can be on your hands and knees and be grateful for the fact that I am never going to run for public office. [00:51:37] Speaker B: What's his last name? [00:51:38] Speaker C: Jim Loletta. [00:51:39] Speaker B: Jim Loletta. [00:51:41] Speaker C: And then there was Bob Marley, who was professional comic, but he went up after Harvey Leonard, Bruce Schweigler and Michelle Michaels. He went up as if he was supposed to be a weatherman from Maine. [00:51:53] Speaker B: Okay, See, now people afterwards said he was no weatherman from Maine. That guy's of a part professional comic. [00:51:59] Speaker C: Yeah, but they threw him in to [00:52:00] Speaker B: make it look like that they were lying to us. [00:52:03] Speaker C: They. Yes, you were lied to greatly. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Listen, is there anybody we can hit the mouth for lying to us? That. Sure, there's plenty of people. [00:52:10] Speaker C: I have a list of people I could hit the mouth. Now. [00:52:13] Speaker B: Why. Why would they do that? Why would they pretend he was another man? [00:52:16] Speaker C: Because it makes it look like somebody actually pulled it off. Because everybody that was doing it who wasn't a professional comic, it was very obvious that they were not a comic. But he was able to make it look like, geez, maybe this guy shouldn't be a weatherman. It should be a comic. He just did it very well. Yeah, you come through with a sneak attack like that. Because I'm doing a thing like that in December where I have to go to Syracuse with Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League. They're the farm team for the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL. I'm going out there for a week, and I'm going to be roasting the team at the end of the week. But for that whole week, I'm going to be scrimmaging with the team like I'm a new player. And the players are not going to know that. Only the owners of the team are going to know. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Well, now, do you play hockey that well? [00:53:11] Speaker C: Well, it's funny you say that, because the owner of the team asked me if I play that well, but I. I told them I play well enough to. To make the owner of the team look like an idiot. That he'd actually signed somebody that is not, as, you know, is not as good. I play well enough to get by. I play well enough to get by as a goalie, but I'll be able to pull it off. [00:53:31] Speaker B: Okay, so you. So you. You feel that you'll be able to fool the other players themselves into thinking that you really are a hockey player? [00:53:38] Speaker C: No, I think I'll be able to fool them enough to think that the owner of the team might have seen me one time and thought I was really good and was. [00:53:46] Speaker B: Is a total jerk, as you pointed out. [00:53:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it would make him look like an idiot. Make him look like he doesn't know anything at all about hockey. Then at the end of the week, all the players are supposed to be going to a fundraiser. At that fundraiser will actually be a roast for the guys walking up and roast the team. [00:54:00] Speaker B: And when will they find out that you're for. You're not for real? [00:54:03] Speaker C: At the roast at the end of [00:54:05] Speaker B: the week when I actually start performing. So you got to carry this thing on the entire week Yeah, I got [00:54:10] Speaker C: to carry it off for six days. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Now, does that get you nervous? [00:54:13] Speaker C: Because that's. [00:54:13] Speaker B: That's a tough position to be in. [00:54:15] Speaker C: Well, I'm just. The only thing I'm nervous about is actually getting hurt playing, being scrimmaging with the professional hockey players. That, that is the only thing that scares me. [00:54:25] Speaker B: Doesn't get you nervous knowing that these guys are going to look at you and say, you know, how stupid can anybody be to hire this clown to play hockey when he can't play? Or you think you can play well enough so they. [00:54:36] Speaker C: I can play. I can play well enough. That it is make. Look. It'd make the owner look like he might have seen me play one game somewhere. Well, and I had a really good game. And then he. He felt like he saw that one game and he. He felt like I could play professional. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Okay, so. But you're still going to be playing badly enough to make of him look stupid. [00:54:55] Speaker C: Right. [00:54:55] Speaker B: And so you got to carry that out day after day. The reason I meant that, that I find that kind of curious. I once did something sort of like that. I was hired, sort of hired, supposedly the character I played. And they gave me a different name. I hadn't been on television or exposed publicly enough for anybody to know what I looked like. And I was hired as an efficiency expert at the Honeywell Corporation. I went to about three different plants and I was to give a speech on some new program they had showing that if you. If the workers were all efficient, how much more, you know, error free, how much more money they could make and the company would be more profitable and all that kind of stuff. So I was introduced by the plant manager in at least three different locations. And the idea was, as I got up, first of all, I. The briefcase I carried, I dropped. And all the papers were on the floor and everybody helped me pick them up. And everybody was kind of embarrassed, you know. And then there'd be one mistake after another. I'd go to a tripod and it would collapse after the words were misspelled. And I mean, it won. And that got me. So it's the kind of job I would never ever do again. The idea is to keep the people thinking you're just an idiot, but you're for real. And it's kind of like going against the law of self preservation. [00:56:18] Speaker C: Well, that happens a lot where comedians are hired by corporations to come in when, you know, a national corporation, say like digital or even like Westinghouse Broadcasting, would have a big meeting and they'd have all the younger executives come in and they'd have all sorts of speeches and people who are high up in the company and then hire a comedian to come in to act as if he's one of the CEOs or he's somebody who's high in the company and really make some just horrendous speech. And at the end of the speech, we'll get into a point where he's just lampooning everybody who works there and the products and everything. And it's. Actually, I've never done any of them myself. I know people that have. I would like to do them. They're really exciting gigs to do, but that happens quite a bit with. They'll hire somebody to commit as a bogus executive. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Yeah, because. Because I stood up there and these, these things kept going wrong. I mean, your, your inclination is to say, hey, you know, don't feel badly for me, and don't stifle the laughs because you don't want them. You feel embarrassed for what's going on. This is just a joke. But you can't say that. The idea is to make them feel that you're real. You're right to the very end. [00:57:38] Speaker C: Right. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Finally, everything explodes so badly. And then the, the, the, the guy who introduced. Because you're introduced by the head of the company or by the plant manager, and nobody's, Nobody's going to figure for a second a plant manager who does it very seriously is going to introduce some bogus guy. So until he comes on at the end and says, and you know who that was? That was, you know, Norm Nathan. And there was all that. And everybody applauds and, oh, what a funny joke. Up to that moment, man, I, My stomach would, Would turn. I just, I found it very difficult to stand on stage and, and look like a total idiot and yet pretend I was for real. I, I just wanted to share with the audience the fact that I was. This was just an act. I really wasn't as stupid as. As I'm looking, you know. [00:58:24] Speaker C: Well, that's. [00:58:25] Speaker B: I mean, it just goes against you. You got to stand up in front of all and look like an ass. [00:58:29] Speaker C: Well, that's part of the professional training as far as acting or being, I [00:58:34] Speaker B: suppose, but I don't know. I mean, when you're an actor and you're playing and you're doing something asinine, people understand you're an actor doing that. But here it's like you are the idiot. [00:58:47] Speaker C: Well, that is, that is, you know, that's an echelon. Of acting where you can pull off an act without anybody know that you're acting. I mean, that's what really makes it. That's what brings it to the next level. [00:59:00] Speaker B: Okay, you gotta tell me. [00:59:02] Speaker C: Nobody actually knows you're faking it. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Okay. After you pull this off with this hockey team, right, I gotta talk to you and ask you, did your stomach ever turn around and did you get kind of, you know, really uptight and nervous and, and feel like an idiot and want to tell these players what, what you were really doing without, you know, and, and, but, but, but did not over a period of what, four or five days, whatever it is that you, you'll have to do this. I mean, I wish you good luck. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes. I would. [00:59:34] Speaker C: The only thing that I'm actually nervous about is that, I mean, these guys are professional athletes and I've never played hockey at any level that's anywhere close to something like this where I might actually get hurt. That's my only fear, is that, you know, because these guys, you know, these guys are all fighting for jobs. These guys are all looking to move up to the National Hockey League. And, you know, they've got to look at me as just another player where everybody is looking at them to be better than everybody else in the ice. And because of that, you know, I'm a goalie. I'm going into this as a goaltender. So I've got to go in and face all these, you know, 100 mile an hour slap shots. So it should be pretty interesting. [01:00:15] Speaker B: It should be. You know, I would think getting hurt is the least of it. Making a fool yourself as you're pretending again. I know, I know what you're saying. As an actor, what the heck? I mean, that's all part of the game. But I, I would still find that very, very difficult to do. I would never do like that Honeywell job. We finished one, then I had to go to another plant and do it all over again. And by the end of the day, I thought, I don't know what I'm earning for this kind of thing, but whatever it is, it's not nearly enough money. And I'll. I swear to God I'll never do this ever again. And I never would. [01:00:48] Speaker C: Now, at the show, at the Comedy Connection, you were actually the fourth person to take the stage. Billy Martin went up and then there was the woman from the, the charity. [01:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:57] Speaker C: Then Jim, Lola, and then yourself. Now, when you went up there, now, what was your first? [01:01:02] Speaker B: I was, I Was the. I was the first amateur, as it was. [01:01:05] Speaker C: Yeah, you were the first amateur. Yeah, you were the first person outside of, you know, there were two comedians, somebody who just, she just, she didn't try to do anything funny. She just said thank you and made a speech. Now, what was your initial feeling when you took the stage? What did you think about that? [01:01:19] Speaker B: Well, once I got going, it wasn't bad. But until that moment, I mean, all day and for days before that, I. I was, I was worried. I mean, I was really scared. I really scared about that. [01:01:31] Speaker C: You really did. You, you did one of the most professional things that you could have done in that situation, because everybody else who was there as an amateur who was going to perform was looking at the first performer to go, what is this person going to do? Because you had to actually, what we say, you had to take the beach. You had to go in and actually storm the beach and break the first crowd. And the first thing you said when you get up there, when you were talking about how nervous you are, geez, I think I'm going to puke. You actually relaxed everybody in the, in the crowd who was going to perform, because they all felt the same way. I mean, I was standing in the back. I know you were sitting at one of the front tables and back where I was hanging out with Billy Martin and the other comedians, Bruce Schweigler, Harvey Leonard, Michelle Michaels, Shelby Scott, all those people, they were pacing, they were walking the floors. Joyce Cole, Haywook and Sarah Edwards, I mean, they were nervous wrecks. But when you actually went up there and said, yeah, I feel like going to puke, that takes some of the tension off of all of them. Because if six or seven people had gone on stage and had looked like. Had managed to look like they. They didn't feel like they were going to puke. The pressure would have just been building on the next guy and the next guy and the next guy until somebody actually would have went up there and puked. [01:02:53] Speaker B: Well, I didn't say puke. I said, I think I'm going to throw up. [01:02:56] Speaker C: Now, that would have been funny. [01:02:57] Speaker B: I know, but puke is such an ugly word. [01:02:59] Speaker C: Well, that's what would happen. [01:03:01] Speaker B: I know it. But, but in any event, now, once I started going was, see, I've. I've talked before crowds and all that. This, with, with some talks I've. I've given. But. But this was a whole different thing. Anyway, so once I got going, it wasn't so bad. But. But you still wonder, you know, what the what the hell am I doing here? This is a. How many people do you think were there? 5, 600? [01:03:24] Speaker C: Well, when you were there, when you went on early, the place was. Was just about full. There was just over 400 people. Okay. [01:03:32] Speaker B: And here I am on the stage of the Comedy Connection where some, you know, some big names have appeared and what am I doing here anyway? But once I got going, it. I didn't feel so badly. I felt a little out of. I didn't feel as comfortable as I normally would do talking to a group, but. [01:03:49] Speaker C: Well, that's part of the thrill of what I do. When you go to someplace, and I worked in Atlantic City, when you, you know, step out onto a stage where, you know, George Carlin has worked and Rodney Dangerfield has worked and Jay Leno has worked, I mean, that's. To be able to actually plant your feet on the same stage is part of the thrill of the business. [01:04:09] Speaker B: I think your job is much tougher when you do that because, number one, they don't know you. I assume they don't you. When you play in a club like [01:04:17] Speaker C: that, oh, 99 times out of 100, nobody in the crowd knows to how. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Who you are. [01:04:21] Speaker C: You're just the next act. [01:04:22] Speaker B: Okay? So you had. Your material has to be good enough to grab them. [01:04:25] Speaker C: Right. [01:04:26] Speaker B: You know, and it's not like. Like, for example, for these TV people, you know, the, the ones you were mentioning, Shelby Scott and Bruce Schragler, and I keep wanting to put other people in there. Harvey Leonard, the whole group, they're known. They're known to begin with. And so they've got. They got a leg up there. Begin with. People are warm toward them. They want them to be funny because they know them. They're thrilled to be there to watch them in person to see whether they look like they do on television. [01:04:56] Speaker C: Well, see, you. You had the added burden of the fact that most of the people who came down to see you didn't know what you looked like, they still had to go, you know, because everybody, you know, people never look like their voice, right? And, you know, they knew what Harvey Lennon looked like. They knew what all these people looked like. You know, when somebody like yourself goes up in front of a crowd, oh, that's what he looks like, you know, I mean, for all they know that you could have been a black guy, you know, and they have no idea. [01:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's true. No, they, they. So they had to get used to they. The voice I, I assume would have been familiar to them, but not the not the physical appearance, not this little fat guy coming up there and then talking with them and stuff, but any. It was a great experience and I wouldn't mind doing it again. But the thing. The thing that is I find thrilling about this, and you have to find thrilling too, if you look back to when you first started to perform, is making yourself do something that frightens you and overcoming that fear and doing it anyway. [01:06:01] Speaker C: Yes, that's exactly, exactly what it is. [01:06:04] Speaker B: You know, there's a. There's a nice feeling about that same boy. You know, I was scared to death, but damn it, I did it. I did it. And. And somehow I didn't fall on my face and I didn't look like a total idiot. [01:06:16] Speaker C: Oh, no, I'm falling on my face and I've looked like a total idiot on many occasions. Believe me, I've done it for three or four shows at a time. [01:06:25] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. [01:06:26] Speaker C: I mean, you only knew. Roll your stage for seven, seven or eight minutes. I mean, I've seen that. I mean, I've had it happen for 30 minutes. 30 minutes. You've got to try to convince these people that you're funny, and they just won't buy it. [01:06:39] Speaker B: I mean, I've spoken before groups, too, where they stared at me like I was some kind of a jerk and why don't I shut up? [01:06:45] Speaker C: Just speaking, though. I am, you know, I. I'm in a position where I am expected to get a specific response. And if you don't get that response, the longer you go without getting the laughs, the more difficult it becomes. And I've done that for 30 minutes. You know, it happens. This is part of the business, part of the trade, okay? [01:07:06] Speaker B: Now, you don't sweat from within or anything at that point, or you must. There's gotta be some kind of feeling. [01:07:11] Speaker C: Well, you do until it happens a few times and you realize that it's not you. You can't control the circumstances that you're in where it's just not going to work. That. I mean, sometimes you're put in a situation where it can't work. [01:07:24] Speaker B: Okay, now you. Because you use a material that you know has gotten a laugh, and so now this group is not laughing at you. You can. You can sit back in the relaxation. Not the relaxation. I'm using wrong words. [01:07:37] Speaker C: You can put it in autopilot. [01:07:38] Speaker B: Yeah, you can. You realize that, hey, I've gotten laughs. And I know this is where the laughs always come. And this, this group is not laughing. Therefore, you can blame it on the Group and not on yourself. But what do you do at the very beginning when you're first starting and you don't get laughs and you know, with material you're not, you're still not sure at that stage of the game where it's, whether it's funny or not. [01:08:00] Speaker C: That's when you panic. [01:08:01] Speaker B: The beginning. Yeah, the beginning. When you're beginning, that is real. I really admire anybody who stands up and does a bit, like any kind of a bit who does comedy, anything. You're kind of standing there naked on the street stage all by yourself and you get. Nobody's going to help you. I, I think they deserve a whole lot of credit. I think that is a tough thing to do. [01:08:21] Speaker C: Well, there's always, there's always the redemption of. You always get a crowd that, that, you know, you know, people didn't get you that night and you really have a bad set. Somebody in that crowd will see you another time when you do really well and they'll come up and say, geez, I saw you here and it did. And geez, I didn't think you were funny, but now I think you're funny. And in the back of your mind, you, you have the redemption of saying to yourself, well, you know, you just didn't get the jokes the first time. You had to hear it twice. Yeah, yeah, okay. [01:08:48] Speaker B: I remember doing one show once and a woman came up to me afterwards because I was wondering whether I'd, how I'd done. I didn't think I'd done well. And she said, you know, the reason you bombed. That was the opening line, of course. [01:09:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:01] Speaker B: I wanted to hit her right in the face, but being a gentleman did. Anyway, we got this coming up. Paul was good to. It was good to see you and work on the same stage as you. I feel like a real pro comic now. [01:09:12] Speaker C: He did a great job. We can do it again. [01:09:14] Speaker B: I, I hope so because I love seeing you. I think you, I think you, you're just splendid, as we show folks say. And good luck to you. [01:09:21] Speaker C: Yeah, you too, love. Take care. [01:09:22] Speaker B: You too. Bye bye. Okay, news coming up. Kids, boys and girls to. Let me see. Who do you marry? He married. I'm trying to come up with some funny lines now. Actually, Larry is pretty much retired from broadcasting. He did marry fairly recently in the past couple of years or so. But he's, that's not why he's not on radio. He just, he's, he's out of the business now and he has a million other things. He's always Very, very busy and very active and he's quite healthy. [01:09:49] Speaker C: And did he retire? I mean, any reason? [01:09:52] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much retired. Well, you know, as you know, he's not. I think the only reason he knew it was me, because Dave Maynard described this kind of shirt I was wearing, and I apparently was the only one there wearing that kind of slappy dickish shirt. But anyway, one fellow said to me, I called you. My name is. I forget what he said his name was. He said, I called you four years ago. Do you remember? [01:10:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:10:15] Speaker C: On Friday. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And I said, no, give me a clue. What we talking about? [01:10:20] Speaker C: Well, we. [01:10:21] Speaker B: Well, right after we talked, a woman called and said. Said she. She started to argue with you about what I said. You remember that? [01:10:29] Speaker D: I thought between. [01:10:30] Speaker B: Dude, I know this sounds really snobbish, but in four years you talk to an awful lot of people. And with a clue like that, there's just no way to remember. [01:10:38] Speaker D: I have the same thing, you know, I'm standing there all day and because I didn't see a lot of people, I didn't ever get. I. I didn't ever. How's that Good English. I didn't see Gary. I know he was the lapierre, and I know C. Demied was there. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah, they were. Yeah, they were both there. I. I did talk with both of them. It was lovely. They. [01:10:55] Speaker D: It just gets so busy, you know. But it's funny because I be standing there and saying what I'm saying, and they say, are you Ruth? And I say, yes. And they say, I recognize your voice from the Norm Nathan show. And, you know, you say, hello. It's nice. [01:11:09] Speaker C: And, you know, they come and they [01:11:10] Speaker D: say hello, and it's like you're supposed to know who they are. Of course, you never seen them before, but it's very nice. [01:11:17] Speaker B: It is nice. There were a lot. [01:11:18] Speaker C: My voice changing. [01:11:21] Speaker D: A little lemon, a little honey, a little tea maybe, I don't know. [01:11:25] Speaker C: But that's good. [01:11:25] Speaker D: I have a new radio voice. [01:11:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:11:27] Speaker B: When I was a kid, my mother used to buy rock candy. Sure. And she thought that was the answer to everything. [01:11:34] Speaker D: Yeah, I wish I had that. [01:11:35] Speaker B: And a bowel movement. She figured that could fix you up for life. I once talked about this one night. It gets distasteful. So I won't go to that again. I mean, there were a lot of mothers during that period who thought that that was the answer to everything. [01:11:50] Speaker D: I know it's true. [01:11:51] Speaker B: It would bring peace to the world. It would. How was the homeless and everything? If you just had it very good. Yeah. Good bowel movement and everything would be okay. [01:11:59] Speaker C: Now, listen, before I go. [01:12:01] Speaker B: Yes. [01:12:01] Speaker D: Last night, came home very tired. Turn on the TV and up comes the lottery number. Now, how do you like the. [01:12:08] Speaker C: This for luck? [01:12:09] Speaker D: All four of the numbers that I play all the time came out. So I did win a little money. But the last two numbers, if they had been reversed, you and I could have had a wonderful evening. For dinner at the Ritz, I would have won $6,000. The numbers were there, but the last two numbers were third and fourth instead of, you know, correct. And so I want a small amount so. So we could have a cup of coffee in the cafeteria. [01:12:36] Speaker B: Okay. Well, that sounds. That sounds wondrous. [01:12:38] Speaker D: Isn't that disgusting? [01:12:39] Speaker B: It's kind of funny. When I was a kid, before lottery, before they had lotteries, and when betting was illegal. And there's always one of your neighbors getting arrested with his little pad of paper because he's booking numbers. Remember that in the back of the record there were the. The paramutuals at the racetracks. And the last column down was the winning number. It was all strictly illegal. We're supposed to bet, but you bet a penny sometimes or a nickel. And occasionally somebody would win, like, $30. But the funny things were the way they came to the numbers. I was. I was going down. I was driving down the town and came to a railroad crossing, and there was a freight train going by. And on the side were the numbers 96-33-24-9887. They go on and on. And so I divided that by my wife's birthday and added my son's bar mitzvah date. And so I played it. I played that number, I'll bet you for three months, a nickel a day. And as soon as I dropped it, the number came out. I just remember that kind of conversation. It seemed to me you heard the same conversation every day. That was during the Great Depression. [01:13:53] Speaker D: It's fun to do it, you know, I mean, but I played the same number all the time. And I went a little here and [01:13:59] Speaker C: there, but it was, like, so close. [01:14:01] Speaker D: And I thought, oh, my. I mean, do they not know I need a job now that the farm stands over? [01:14:07] Speaker C: Want to hear my sad story? No. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Well, I know your sad story, and it really is. But I'll tell you sad. I'm debating between you and the woman here who was married. They almost married two servicemen from World War II. But one of these, one of the. Whichever story wins out, we'll certainly film it. [01:14:26] Speaker D: Okay, but how about doing a musical on Broadway. And then you can do what you always wanted to do. Be a song and dance man. [01:14:32] Speaker B: That's right. I do want to be a song. [01:14:34] Speaker C: You're going to be the first person [01:14:35] Speaker D: I let audition when I find the backing to redo Woman of the Year, that great musical that was out in 1981 with Lauren Bacall. It's a great musical. It hasn't been revived yet. It's time for it. So you know Harry Gardino? You know who he is? [01:14:52] Speaker B: Yes, the actor. [01:14:53] Speaker D: He was in that with her. And that was a great musical. One of the. One of the best I've ever seen. It has some wonderful songs in it. So when I get the money to have, you know, get it back, I'll have you come and audition for that part. There was actually a takeoff on the Woman of the Year. [01:15:10] Speaker B: Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn. [01:15:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:15:13] Speaker D: Did you ever see the musical? [01:15:14] Speaker B: No, I never did. [01:15:15] Speaker C: Great. [01:15:15] Speaker D: And then when she left, Raquel Welsh came and took the pot. [01:15:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Everybody said Raquel Welch was great. [01:15:21] Speaker D: Yeah, she was good. I saw her. [01:15:23] Speaker B: Lauren Bacall get very. Got very jealous of the fact that Raquel replaced her and did so. Well, I think that would be. That said Landolfi's, I think, is it not? [01:15:34] Speaker C: I think so. [01:15:36] Speaker D: Lantanas. [01:15:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:37] Speaker B: Oh, Lantanas. That's right, Lantanas. But in Randolph. [01:15:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:41] Speaker B: Also. Oh, I'm glad you're coming. [01:15:43] Speaker C: Right. [01:15:43] Speaker D: Well, as a matter of fact, I [01:15:45] Speaker C: wasn't going to go, but when I got the notice and saw who the [01:15:49] Speaker D: speaker was going to be, I changed my mind. [01:15:51] Speaker B: Oh, isn't that nice? [01:15:53] Speaker D: I want to say I'm looking forward to it. [01:15:55] Speaker B: Well, I'm looking forward to meeting you and many there. These are. What is the name of the organization? I forgotten. [01:16:02] Speaker C: Boston Teachers Retirement Group. [01:16:07] Speaker B: Okay. Did you teach for a lot of years? Billie Holiday. And they sold, I guess, quite a few of them at one of the clubs in Cambridge yesterday. I'm trying to look to see what club that was, but anyway, they're. They're on sale now. Johnny Clyde Copeland, a blues singer and guitarist who performed an afternoon concert at the club, said he was pleased to see the greats remembered. And apparently a whole lot of. Oh, this was at the House of Blues. Where else would that be? That's right. Ran off of Harvard Square. Those attending the concert could purchase first a commemorative House of Blues envelopes bearing the stamps at a mobile post office outside the club. But I don't know whether this is something new. Now, with all the new issues of stamps commemorating so many different people. But it's kind of fun. It's kind of fun to see them come out. Let's take some phone calls. [01:17:10] Speaker C: Okay. [01:17:11] Speaker B: Let's go to Ann in Boston. Hi, good morning. Ann here on wbz. [01:17:15] Speaker D: Hi, good morning. I'm calling. Regard to the kittens that that girl had. Yes, I think she should call the Animal Rescue League. [01:17:23] Speaker C: They have a clinic. [01:17:25] Speaker D: I think there is something else they have to do for a kitten to survive because the mother always licks them and you have to kind of stimulate them some way. I know. I've had the experience. They did die. I wasn't doing the right thing. And I really think she should because that's probably why they die. You notice the mother always licks their little bottom. [01:17:47] Speaker B: I guess so, because. But I. Cause I did have something to do with. Well, I did have this one kitten and I bought. Because we. The mother, we never could find. We just found this cat, this little kitten roaming around. And so I used to feed her with a. With a bottle and all that kind of stuff. She survived. [01:18:04] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [01:18:05] Speaker B: Maybe that's why. Maybe. Maybe she. That's why she bit me. [01:18:09] Speaker D: Has to be something. Something else. I would still. They have a clinic and they give you night. This is good free advice. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Well, that's a good idea. [01:18:17] Speaker D: Yeah, I would think so. I'm really concerned because I've had that experience and it wasn't the right thing. It depends how young they are too. And another thing is you always used to bring up a subject of baby pigeons. [01:18:28] Speaker B: Remember one time you were talking, but [01:18:31] Speaker D: you never see them. [01:18:32] Speaker B: That's right. [01:18:32] Speaker D: Well, I could show a million of them to you. I've done it all my life, really. I find little ones. You have to know them sometimes. They could be walking around and you don't know their babies, but they can't fly or eat. [01:18:46] Speaker B: Did bottle feed one of the little kittens? I had, as I mentioned, but I didn't do any of that stuff. And the cat survived. I mean, she survived in the cat hood there and everything, except she never seemed to be quite a happy cat. And maybe that was the reason for it then. [01:19:00] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know how long it has to be done, but people just. You don't realize. I had some kittens. I had someone. Somebody else took care of. And that's what it was all about. That if the bowels don't move, they get constipated and they will die. [01:19:13] Speaker B: I appreciate the information that her best bet is to check With a vet or somebody like that and see how she can do that. Okay, thanks a lot, Dick. Okay, though, take care. Bye. [01:19:23] Speaker D: Bye. [01:19:24] Speaker C: Okay. [01:19:25] Speaker B: 2, 5, 4, 10:30, area code 617. I'd love very much to hear from you because you're really a very nice person. Thank you. You're on the radio in Boston, Massachusetts, right this minute. Oh, my goodness. My goodness. What now? What is your name? No, I'm sorry. Why are you laughing like that? [01:19:47] Speaker D: Because I can't believe I'm on the radio. [01:19:49] Speaker B: No, you really are, and I'm. My name is Norm. What is yours? Sasha. [01:19:56] Speaker D: Yeah, I can't hear you very well. Thing is, I've got to make a phone call because I've got a. [01:20:02] Speaker B: No, no, what are you. You're in Victoria Station in London. [01:20:06] Speaker D: Victoria Station at the moment, yeah. [01:20:08] Speaker B: Now where are you going? [01:20:10] Speaker D: Where am I calling? [01:20:11] Speaker B: No, where are you going? [01:20:14] Speaker D: I'm going to Cheltenham in a minute. Hopefully once I go. [01:20:20] Speaker B: You're going to Scotland. I'm sorry, where did you say you were going? Oh, I see. Do you work there? [01:20:31] Speaker D: No, I. I study there. I'm a student. I've got to go down there to pick up my keys to my new house. [01:20:36] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [01:20:37] Speaker D: What, what now? [01:20:38] Speaker B: What are you studying? [01:20:40] Speaker D: Media. [01:20:41] Speaker B: You studying what now? What are you studying? [01:20:45] Speaker D: Media. Media. [01:20:47] Speaker B: You're studying leap year? No. [01:20:49] Speaker D: You didn't do media communication. Oh. [01:20:51] Speaker B: Oh, the media. Oh, so. Well, that's kind of nice. You already got your start. [01:20:55] Speaker D: You're on. [01:20:56] Speaker B: On American radio right now. [01:20:57] Speaker D: I can't believe it. Is this a joke? [01:20:59] Speaker B: No, no, it's not a joke. It's not a joke at all. Don't I sound like an American? [01:21:03] Speaker D: I can't hear you very well, but [01:21:05] Speaker B: do I sound like an American? [01:21:06] Speaker D: Yeah, you sound like an American. Whereabouts are you? [01:21:09] Speaker B: I am an American and I'm Boston, Massachusetts. [01:21:14] Speaker D: Massachusetts? [01:21:16] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Have you ever been here? [01:21:18] Speaker D: No, I haven't. [01:21:19] Speaker B: Are you planning to come here? [01:21:21] Speaker D: Pardon? [01:21:22] Speaker B: Are you planning to come to the United States? [01:21:24] Speaker D: Yeah, Florida one day. My family is. [01:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, what would you like to do in the media? [01:21:32] Speaker D: Work in tv, sort of behind the television. But not sort of on tv, behind it. I don't know, camera operations. [01:21:39] Speaker B: You mean producing and that kind of stuff? [01:21:43] Speaker D: Maybe, I'm not sure yet. I've still got another two years. [01:21:45] Speaker B: How old are you? You're quite young. You're 19? [01:21:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:21:49] Speaker B: Okay. How much more time do you have in school before you graduate? How much more time do you have before you graduate? [01:21:56] Speaker D: Two, three years. [01:21:58] Speaker B: Okay, so. So you got Plenty of time left then. [01:22:01] Speaker D: Yeah, I've got time to think about [01:22:02] Speaker C: what I want to say. What's on going. [01:22:04] Speaker B: Where do you live? Where? In London? [01:22:06] Speaker D: Ealing is West London. [01:22:10] Speaker C: Okay. [01:22:11] Speaker B: Is there, is there a place there. There's a place in near there called Cottage Farm or Cottage, something like that. [01:22:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:22:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:24] Speaker D: Because I don't know where it is. [01:22:26] Speaker B: Well, it's not too far from where you are. Last time I was in London, which is a few years ago, we stayed at Cottage Farm. Isn't that interesting? [01:22:39] Speaker D: People don't normally pick up ringing phones in public stations and when they do, they just pick it up and put it down and just. I wanted to use it. [01:22:45] Speaker B: No, I know. We just. We just rang hoping that somebody would answer and you did. Is. Is there's a girl, there's another young lady with you? [01:22:53] Speaker D: Yes. [01:22:54] Speaker B: Is she studying the meeting? What's her name? [01:22:57] Speaker D: She doesn't want to talk to you. [01:22:58] Speaker B: No, that's okay. Studying the media also? [01:23:04] Speaker D: No, no, no. She's doing art. [01:23:07] Speaker B: And what is her name? [01:23:08] Speaker D: Alex. [01:23:09] Speaker B: Alex, okay. You know, you're very nice. [01:23:13] Speaker C: You're very. [01:23:14] Speaker B: You're very nice to talk to me and I appreciate you picking up the phone and doing that. [01:23:19] Speaker C: Okay. [01:23:19] Speaker B: Maybe one day we'll meet. [01:23:21] Speaker D: What was your name again? [01:23:23] Speaker B: My name is Norm. Norm Nathan. N A T H A N. And this is what? Yeah, and this is WBZ radio in Boston, Massachusetts. Yeah, that's right. [01:23:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:23:36] Speaker B: It's nice talking with you too. I wish you. I wish you good luck. I hope you have a fantastic career. Sasha. Bye bye now. Bye bye. Was asleep during this whole time. On behalf of Key Shields, our producer, the lovely Marilyn Guerreronik and myself, the almost good looking Norm Nathan person, Gary lapierre and the entire WBZ news team coming up. And I'm gonna sneak out the back door. See you later. [01:24:03] Speaker A: How about that cure all from Norm's mom? Rock candy and a good bowel movement. Let me know in the comments how that works out for y', all, eh? Maybe not. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4. Relying on the tiger drinking urine. You're my best friend. The late lamented WBZ Farm stand. The Comedy Connection. Fanel Hall, Quincy Marketplace. Lifehouse Incorporated. Arriving in the dark. Picking up the shuttle bus by the dumpster. Real good stuff. Petting zoos, clowns. Face painting. £50,000 of produce. The New Liberty Jazz Band. Alive Alive. O93-39 Shriners Auditorium. Sitting and ovating. Banging on the old tea kettle. Banging on the old tea kettle I'm banging on the old tea kettle giggling and getting on with it collecting Inkwell's miniature gefilte fish Air Canada listening with your full two ears Wolf lovers nervous butterflies the Gay Ranchero a room full of doctors the International Conference on Physician Health Philosophy embroidered doilies say that a few times Fast nutcrackers making big time broadcasting bucks International Sterling EWT Eastern wartime Ozzie and Harriet the pleasures of being famous the Syracuse Crunch Bogus executives or most of the people I've worked for taking the beach and overcoming your fears Shelby Scott Bruce Schwegler Harvey Leonard Jules Kulhawic Bob Rolley Mike Epstein David Brudnoy Barbara Bush Betsy Dupree Molly Moosebottom Keith Shields Jack Hart Sasha and the old moonbeam himself Norm Nathan I'm Tony Nesbit [01:26:05] Speaker B: so you have to. You have to take chances and sometimes you're gonna you're gonna fail but that's there's no other way to do it God that was beautiful the way I just. [01:26:23] Speaker C: Sa.