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Fibber McGee and Molly — Community Chest Rally In Omaha. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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with a big rally at the Exxarbon Colosseum. And here in his hotel room, working on a speech that nobody asked him to make, is himself a Fibermaggi and Molly. All right, Molly, let's get to work. I want to dictate the speech I'm going to make tonight if that absorb in Colosseum. Exxarbon! Good suntight. No, dear, he's a name of the... Boy, oh boy, what a speech this will be. I'll fracture him. I'll get a flaws. I'll get cheers. I'll get the foam. Hello, McGee in 303 speaking. The desk. I didn't order no desk. Oh, both the desk clerk. Oh, if I don't form a, won't you own fiddle too, eh? Oh, well. Well, sending right out.
What is this about a fiddle? I ordered an Italian fiddle player to fiddle some fiddle music for me while I dictate my speech. Move music. McGee, you didn't really ask for a violin player. He's on his way up here now. Turg said he was bringing this strativarius with him. That's probably Italian for girlfriend. Boy, when I sound off with that speech tonight at that Exxarbon in Colosseum, Exxarbon! Good sun, hi. Good sun, hi. When I make that speech, I'll head in the aisles. I'll head their eyes full of tears and their hands full of money. Stuffing it into the community chest. Come in. How do you do it, ladies and gentlemen? Oh, hi, bud. For me to meet you, we do it for myself. I am Pasquale Amalifi, the most talented virtuoso of the violin in all of Sousa o Mahá. Oh! I see.
The fiddle player, eh? Do you any good? Well, I'm a good, when I was just a little boy. I played with a hyphids in the Chrysler. I'd run around with the other kids when they should have been home-practicing, eh? Well, you just do the best you can. Well, what do you want to meet me to do, boss? You just play real sad when I give you the high sign. Move music. I'm going to dictate my speech. Got a pencil, my wife? Yes, dear. Well, here we go. Play, fiddle. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to say that I knew, and in fact all of us, have come here tonight, because this is the night we are gathered here tonight at this horse bargain coliseum. It's a bargain. Stop the music. Stop the music. You know, your cold is getting worse, kiddo. Or did I say you got it rolled down? No, dear. Why not? No paper. Oh. Well, that's just the result of somebody's carelessness. Yours. We won't mention no names.
Give me the phone. Hello, this is Mugu and 202, or McGee and 303. Send up two bellhots, one with plain paper and one with carbon paper. That's right, two of them on the double bud. McGee, you didn't need two boys for that? Why, sure I did. The boy that carries the plain paper can't carry the carbon paper. Might get it all smudged up. Here, take the speech down on this envelope till the paper gets here. I got to get busy. Cute, dearie. Music, bud. You people are here today. You people are here tonight because you're the type people. But when other people need help, people like us, people, we like to help people stop the music. What did I say? Read that back. All right, you said American people are generous. They like to help their fellow man in time of need. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Hey, I turned a pretty nice phrase, you know that.
I'll better... Come in. Here's your paper, sir. And your carbon paper, sir. Okay, thanks, boys. Here. Here's seven cents. Divide that among you. McGee, why did you give the boy seven cents for goodness' sake? Why not? Everything else has gone up from a nickel to seven cents. Let's get on with the speech. Music, my stole. The community chest, whichever community needs its help, because of all the good stuff it does, we'll be able to do this stuff without twenty a door and stop the music. Read it back. What did I say? Well, you said your community chest services cover such things as boys, class, the USO, care of the agent, and dozens of other important projects. My very words. All done and who's interrupting me? Come in. Oh, it's Dr. Gamble. Hello, doctor. Hello, Molly. Good evening to you, belt buster. Hi, I'm Ellen Belly.
And don't sit down. I'm busier than a double jointed woodpecker in a lumber yard. I'm working on my speech for tonight. You ready, Moscow? Seas in your ear. Where'd he come from? I didn't see him standing there. Well, he plays the mood music, doctor. Oh, no. Yep. Yeah. Well, I composed my speech. He fiddles. We gotta leave here in a few minutes, and I gotta get out of that ex soybean coliseum. Hey, Saven! You think you oughta try penicillin, Molly? Here is the name of the plane. Come in. Here's your penny, sir. A penny, for what? Well, you gave us seven cents to divide between us, and it didn't come out even. You get a penny back. Oh, okay, let's have it. Oh, thank you, sir. Well, what are you so happy about, son? I won the bed. I told Joe he'd take it. Well, why shouldn't I take it? It was my penny in the first place.
Well, come on. Let's get on with his speech, Molly. It's getting late. What's the subject of this address? Generosity. It's big news. Who asked you to speak anyhow? Only the high muck-and-muck-of-the-hole campaign here asked me to speak. That's who, huh? Guy named Landon. Mr. Landon asked you, McGee? Yes. I didn't know that. Now that Landon doesn't know it either. have had land and nothing to eat. Oh, sure he does. I cornered him on the sidewalk this morning and offered to make the big speech of the evening. Don't do it, he says. And I says, no trouble at all. I says, grabbing him by the lapel. What do you want me to talk about? And he says about ten seconds if we can't stop you. And I says, I'll talk an hour. And he was so overcome with gratitude, he just give a kind of a low moan, put his hands over his eyes, turned on his heel and walked into an open manhole. I can ride upstairs and call my little player. Where are you going, doctor? To find an open manhole, I'm going to join Lander.
To which way out of here? Oh, this dorm is... Oh no, don't do that. I got all my stuff. Oh no! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh no! This place is just like home. Tell him he'll open the office door and be conscious of you. Oh!
Oh! Oh!
My, this is a busy lobby. Yeah, sure is. What do we better call a cabin? Get out of that call of scene because... Oh look, there's Wally Wimpo. Oh, yes. Hello, Mr Wimpo. Hi, Wim. Hello, folks. Oh, am I having a good time this week? I love Omaha. Yeah? Well, good. What do you like best about Omaha, Mr Wimpo? No sweets. Sweetie-Bate, human. Yes, my big old wife. Ah, beautiful, peaceful Nebraska. I was out in the country today with my bird book. And all at once I hear the strange noise and a cup of bushes. The strange noise. Yes. So I could be towed up and peace-drying. Oh. What was it, Wimpo? Tax collector on the land? No. It was the strangest sight, Mr. McGee. I saw a small little body with a sharp bill, four-lebed seat,
and a large copper-colored horn. My goodness. What on earth was it? A canary, two ducks in the saxophone playing named Eddie. Well, I tell you, it must be beautiful out there in the country, Mr Wimpo. With the trees changing color and all. Yes, it's just lovely, Mr. McGee. In fact, I... There I... I wrote a little poem about it today. I call it straw in the brasket. Call in the brasket. I want to hear it, Wimpo. Since we're probably going anyhow. All righty. Yes, me. It's straw in old Nebraska. The leaves are red and gold. The flowers and trees and birds and bees are ready for the cold. The whole world's changing colors and iron change colors too. When sweetie face finds me, I'll be a lovely black and blue. Well, that was really cute wasn't it? Yeah, but we got to get... Oh, excuse me, bud. Oh, my fault, sir.
Oh, it's you, pal. Hi, Molly. Hi, here you are. You're not Mr. Wilcox. You're having fun in Omaha. Oh, you bet I am, Molly. It's my hometown, you know. Born here. Yeah, I understand. I got a bronze plate on your old desk. Got a Benson High School, junior. Yeah, it's hard. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You're right on his old desk. It says, Harlow Wilcox slept here. You're a straight little Joker, pal. I'll come in and have a night. At least that's one man's opinion. And yours? Yep. Well, say, incidentally, kids, did you hear that ball game on the radio this afternoon? Oh, I was sitting there listening. And I got to thinking, on an important part, no plays in our daily menus. Ooh, right out of deep left field. And it's fairly occurred to me that one of the greatest food bargains on the market these days is pet-evaporated milk. Yeah, the what they're cooking. Yes, sir. Pet milk not only gives you all the goodness
of whole sweet milk, but it's easy on your budget, too. Wilcox now pitching for pet. Because pet costs less generally than any other form of whole milk. That's right. Pet-evaporated milk, which is just good sweet country milk, may double rich by evaporation, cost you less than any other form of whole milk. That's why pet milk is such a favorite with economy-minded housewife. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. It's so good, it's good, it's still a... Woonoo, woonoo, please. Look, milk age. Yes, pal. You have to go, Mr. Wilcox. We do. Well, yes, Molly, I do. I really do. There's an old school charm waiting to have dinner with me right now, Bob. Oh, nice. I suppose you'll talk about the days when you tried to see who could get your clothes off first to dive into the old swimming hole, huh? Well, I hardly think so. Her name is Mary McNamara. Do you wonder? Oh, what's this? You have an awful mistake I made.
Wasn't that about the old school charm? Oh, boy, oh, boy. That was like one girl basketball player falling down and grabbing another girl basketball player by her uniform. Oh, boy, oh, boy. That was like one girl basketball player falling down and grabbing another girl basketball player by her uniform. What do you mean, Mary? You pulled a bloomer. Oh, my gosh, don't you get it, Molly? Basketball girls pulled a... Change funny, McGee. Change. What's up? When I'm in Fred Knitten, he used that gag at the Elks Club in Noah, who... Oh, hey! There's what trivia. He's going out to the Colosseum. Maybe he'll take us. Hey, Latria. Hi, boy. Hello, Mr. Mayor. Oh, glad to see you, Molly. Come on in. Come on in. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'm going out. I'll see you, Molly. Come on, let's get outside here. I brought a cab coming in a few minutes. Oh, okay. Hey, this is quite a town with Fred. You ever been here before? Oh, yes. I know Omaha very well. That's always. Come over here quite often to attend the theatre, McGee. Oh, the theatre, huh? Yes. Yes.
In fact, I was here a couple of years ago when Oklahoma played Omaha. Good game, was it, Mr. Mayor? Game. Yeah, you said you'd seen Omaha play against Oklahoma here. Must have been a good game, too, because then Oklahoma's playing ice football and Omaha. It's just a minute for you. I don't think you would. You know, I just love football, Mr. Mayor. I wish I understood it. You know, McGee took me to see Michigan play William and Mary one time. And they had William down on Mary's 30-yard line. Yes. And all of a sudden. Wait, wait, wait, Molly. Please. I'm afraid I didn't make myself quite clear here. When I mention Oklahoma, I didn't mean a football game. It wasn't a football game. I saw it all. It was a musical comedy. Oh, I know what you mean, boy. I've seen plenty of games like that. Team gets an off day and they play like a bunch of chorus girls. A whole club. Yeah, a whole club.
They didn't play like chorus girls. They were chorus girls. That was a whole line of chorus girls. Playing football? Definitely, Dave. So stinking, little stinking. No, no, no, no. Well, you have to call your chorus girls in the line, eh? I see. What they use in the backfield, ballet dancers. Because with chorus girls in the line distract the other players, the backfield to slip around the end and... Oh, stop it! This is getting ridiculous. Look, what I was trying to say... Would let those little girls play a rough game like football and get all muddy deafness. They did? Play a rough game of football. A rough game of mudball. Who was that? You said that... I didn't saw I say a goal, babe, at all. A ball game this ball. Look, when I said I was all home, I was playing on my locker. And home, home, home, I play, I'm a hammer. Along my lumber. Look, come on there. I didn't say a miracle. You were the ones. I was only trying. Humanity. All right. All right. All right.
McGee. Yes, boy? I am taking a cab out of that sobbing coliseum right now. We know. Sure, boy. May I go to? Yes. You may go straight to. Good-bye. Oh, my God. Here's a new tune by Ken Darby dedicated to his old home state and mine by Little Nebraska Town. Just a little bit south of Omaha on the Burlington Railroad Line. There's Geneva, Rooney, Elphadier, and the next little town is mine.
Oh, it's plain as can be, it's heaven to me. By Little Nebraska Town. There's a house with a yard full of clothes and a barn where we played any over. How I miss a perfume of lilac's in bloom and medals of gold and brown. How dear to me is the memory of my little Nebraska Town. There's a lazy old blue meander and blue. My little Nebraska Town. There's a girl and a boy on the river.
There's a kid he pock up to give her. Now whenever I see him of every tree or medals of milk we down. I am again, who return again to my little Nebraska Town. Hey, taxi. Hey, taxi. I hope we get one quick. I got that speech to make of that exorbitant Colosseum either. I'm glad to finally realize exorbitant is a Colosseum and not a cold in the head. Oh, I finally found it. Well, here's a cab.
Colocabwee, where to all hello there kids. Hi, daughter, hi, Johnny. Hi, old timer. Well, what are you doing driving a cab? I'm just resting, daughter. Spend my first day in Omaha sightseeing. Yeah. Sights are so much my feet hurt so I got me a job driving the cab. Well, we got no time to stand here, laughing old timer. Let's go, boy, to the Colosseum and don't spare the horse bar. Okay, kids, we're off in a cloud of dust. Well, it's lucky you came along, Mr. Oldtimer. I don't drive too fast, though. We don't want you to get arrested. Don't worry, daughter. They can't arrest me in this town. They can't, why not? Now, I got no license to date my cab and I'm not even a citizen of Omaha. All right. Well, just so we get there, boy. Don't worry, Johnny. I'll get you there, pronto. Good. One question, though. Shoot. Where is the joint? What? Oh, my gosh. You don't know where it is? Well, stop the handle.
That reddit, we got to find that Colosseum. We've been driving around and off for over an hour. That rally is half over by this time and all. I don't see it, no place, kids. But I know another nice little place. Charlie's place. Charlie's place. Court of atmosphere. Saw dust up your ankles and barbecue, saw us up your eyeballs. Why, it's the... We don't want to go to Charlie's place. Well, now, how about the railroad station, kids? I can find that. Put Charlie Union for Shrific. You can go any place. Charlie Union for Shrific, Johnny. I tell you, I don't want to go any place. I want to go to the X-Arb and Colosseum. I've got to make a speech. Wait, stop the cab. Huh? Yeah, that's all the floor there, McGee. Huh? Let's ask the man on the corner there. He'll tell us where the Colosseum is. Oh, yeah. Hey, but... Come here, man. The McGee, miss it. Heavenly days, it's old. Hi, Oli. That's your gratitude, you miss it.
I'm even glad to see you, McGee. Huh? Well, come on, hop in, Oli. You know where the X-Arb and Colosseum is, Oli? McGee, I don't even know where Omo is. That varies the hotel. You mean you've been lost ever since you got here? That's right, Mrs. I used to wander around as one happiness is neither the Norwegian picnic. If you couldn't find a hotel, where did you sleep last night? At the Stockyard, Vittercoures. The Stockyard. You're lucky they didn't ship you out. I have awesome worry. They wouldn't get good advice for me. I'm fully talking around the table now. Well, you must like cows if you're willing to spend the night with them. Oh, sure. And Sweden, they get great, big flocks of cabbages. Huh? Do you have cowboys there? No, in Sweden all cows are squirrels, McGee.
Well, well, well, boy. You ask a squarehead question, you get a squarehead answer. You know I like cows a lot because it was by a cow I first met my Mrs. Oh, really? What happened, Oli? Well, she live on next farm to me, you see. And one morning it was so dark we'd go by mistakes to St. Barn and start to make the same cow. Well, if it was the dark, how did you know she was there? When I squeezed something, squeeze a spark. And that was the beginning of her own man? Sure. Soon we must make a beautiful music together, you know, squirting milk into the same bucket. Well, the same getting me to the Colosseum. Dad, where is that Colosseum? I still say we ought to go to Charlie's place. Oh, pipe down and hot the Colosseum. I got a beautiful speech. No, for Charlie's place is the only place I can find. She, we're coming to it now. Dad, I had it all the time and I told you I'd do it. Oh my gosh, stop the cows. Stop it. What is it, dear? Look, right across from Charlie's place.
See it? Achzarbin. Get some height. Huh? Oh! The Achzarbin, Calosseum. Well, I already know. I found it. I found it. Maybe I ought to stay here and get a license. Yeah. Well, come on, Mon. Let's hurry. Hurry up. We'll sneak through the stage door. I hope we ain't too late. So do I, lover. Here's the door. Looks pretty dark, dearie. One small light on the stage. Empty. Everybody gone home. Oh, dear. And after you worked so hard on your speech. Yeah. Do you have nobody here to listen? Look, sweetheart. Mother's here. Huh? I'll listen. I'd love to hear that speech. Yeah. You would? Well, sit down, Tatsi. You're going to hear it.
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