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8:40. . . . . . . . kind of a commode. Looks like some kind of a glass front commode where you put your shirts in. Had one of them at Denver in a hotel I was in Denver. He just pulled in knobs in the front there and it swings out and you put shirts in. In which point, why it's this? Don't look like no commode to me. It's got some kind of a light shining out in front of it. Some kind of light. They must have some kind of kerosene lamp in the back there. It's all lit up. Maybe 20 of them dioramas. Gonna have a little historical diorama here. Maybe the scenes of the civil war. They had dioramas back in the dark day. Do you know what a diorama is? Has nothing to do with birth control. Totally different thing. At which point, you better look that up. That's your work for tonight. It's diorama. D-I-A, diorama, R-A-M-A. Look

9:47it up. It's almost like a panorama but not quite. It's obnoxious. I'll bet we're going to see scenes of civil war or one time selling them. I was in St. Louis one time. I saw when things paid five cents to see it. Well, I'm worth it but it was interesting to see. They come on there and they have pictures of what's his name. General Ulysses S. Grant and kind of interesting. The public see scenes of civil war here. The thing is flickering and all of a sudden, on comes a theme from Gunsmoke. I know if you can give me the theme from Gunsmoke, how did it sound? You know what? Can you hammer it to me? You don't know it. Well, listen, anybody who is with a modern life, I mean, these things are ingrained in your bone. By the way, there was no music at all during the West. It sounded remotely like that. This music was created out of whole cloth by an American composer roughly in

10:521932. I'm serious. By a single composer and from that time on, that has been called music of the West. So doc looks like this. My god, that commode is playing music. At that point, why it gets up since that's the circle around it? Because he's going to get attacked by nobody from his blind side. And he figures this thing. He is not only alive. It's going to jump at him any minute now, see? You know how long it takes a color TV set to warm up, right? Sometimes two or three weeks, you know, go like that, see? And all of a sudden on comes this color TV set comes out. It's all furry. And with that doc, my god, it's alive. It's alive. It's coming at me. And with that point, why it's easy doc, easy doc. I told you, now watch a minute, now we're going to see Gettysburg here. I saw just like that. Come on with Gettysburg. And with that, you suddenly see James Harnet, you know

11:56how the opening scenes of, what is it, Bonanza? Yeah, we're doing all TV shows. The opening scene is Harnet. Riding like men over the prairie, see? And he's, with that doc, doc looks over at that. Why? He says, my god, what, what is that there? And with that light, looks down, he looks real capy, so I can't tell right now what it is. It appears to be some man riding a horse. My god, he don't know how to ride. Look away, since that horse got their arms up in the air. That guy's going to get thrown right on his, you know what, he made it. Now that horse's done, but he is done for it. I don't know where that man made a ride a horse. And look at them funny clothes. Never saw it. I hate you seeing him like a duck. Now I never see nothing like that. I know what that is there. And of course, they're sitting there. Don't find them watching an episode out of Tombstone. And why it says, my god, look at that town there. But damn, there's a town there. And Doc says, can you make out what that lettering says on that building over there, saloon? That's a

12:58saloon. My god, that's a saloon. That don't look like no saloon I have seen. And of course, the whole point of this thing is the confrontation of reality and the intermixing of the dream. And I can't see this by the end of the scene, by the end of the, you know, the whole point of the play is by the end of the sequence, the one hour bananza. Doc and Wyatt would be digging it all the way. And one of them kept saying, you know, I've got we've got to see this next week. And we talked to that guy in that white coat. That was awful good. You know, I kind of like that, especially when that guy come on there with that funny hat there. And did you notice the shoot? And he said, I never saw it says, shoot in my life like that. That's funny shoot. You know, that guy held that gun like that. All they get in our gang, it's time to sing. No mark, no name, just a name of his. Oh, no mark. You do not know what I'm doing. No mark, do we bring up all the two we know? Hold it Bill there. That's very good. If you can reset that. And yeah, I'll tell you, crime is rampant, which reminds me, this is

14:04WOR, New York. And we have a couple of little dingies here. Hey, do you have, excuse me, not yet. We got other business here. Do you have the TV guide spot in there, please? Well, the public is panting. They can hardly wait to hear what it's here. Bring it out. And come on, that's it. It goes in the machine. Press the button there. This is a very good bill. In the current issue of TV guide, magazine, a look at television's old movie revival. In the past year, the medium has been dusting off its reels of films from the 30s and 40s and coming up with some interesting viewer reactions. A report this week in TV guide. In the same issue, a look back to television's golden days of comedy when Sid Cesar and Ernie Kovacs were household words and everybody's favorite uncle was named Milti. This week TV guides cover story profiles Lucy and Desi Jr. In the 20 years since they appeared on the first cover of TV guide, television

15:07has changed dramatically. Lucille Ball talks about her reactions to the changes in TV guide. America's biggest selling weekly magazine TV guide on sale everywhere. Hey, that's another that. Got it out, you guys. A little tinkly thing there. You know, I saw a guy the other day on the E-Train, reading TV guide, and boom, and his whips. Oh, you don't know. We have a couple of commercials here. Let's see, we got down time. Oh, yes, it's money saving time again. It's your local general tire store during their great white wall clearance sale on the discontinued design general jet tire. Discontinued the design. What's for this? Now you can get a pair of long mileage general white wall tires for only $25.90. That's for the popular size and everybody loves this. It's way up

16:10on a chart. Now, it's for popular size, $6.50, $13.00, plus the $1.73 federal excise tax per tire. And they're built with a general tire quality throughout, which means it's a beautiful tire. You can bounce it around and it's a great tire to roll down a road and all that. See your local general tire headquarters displaying the big red general tire G at Herb Jordan's general tire of New Jersey. See, Frank McDonald, Route 17 and Union Avenue in East Rutherford. Exciting East Rutherford. Now, it has watch us grow. There's a big sign there. In fact, they've over-floated the queens halfway into flushing now. They're all the way up on the Connecticut. Let's see. Hey, that's interesting. Have you ever noticed how many times when you go into a town as a sign that says, watch us grow, growing by leaps and bounds, grow with the East Fig note. Have you seen that kind of stuff? And I've never been able to

17:12say why a town wants to grow. You know? I just, it's never been quite explained to me. Why a town should want to grow? Because you know what it causes. First thing that happens when the town grows, they put in parking means. Then they start to own cars away. Then they start to own you away. Next thing you know, they level the entire main street and put up their gigantic high rise. And then they raise your taxes. And you're still living next to the side. It says, watch us grow. But I've always thought, you know, though, that the television really reflects our time greatly. And since there's been waves of TV programming has disappeared and come back. I thought tonight I would give you a little illustration here of what the crime is really like as opposed to television crime. Now, you have my thing up there, please. Wouldn't it be kind of great if somebody put on a crime newscast, you

18:16know, real crimes. The way really, the way crime, you'll never see this kind of stuff on Adam 12 or on any of the crime shows because these are real crimes. And real crimes usually have no logic whatsoever. And so now it is time for the WLR crime report. And now our first report on the crime log up tonight, Washington, the police report on James and Alan's admission to the hospital for treatment of secondary, very burns said that he was assaulted with a bowl of hot spaghetti. Alan said Wednesday, he was sweeping in his apartment when a mysterious unknown woman dumped the spaghetti on him. There have been no arrest. The woman is not available for comment. All right, get it set up in there. You mean it didn't reset? Well, it's a matter with the equipment here. It's all falling apart. Well, then get the other one on it. Throw that out. Get the other one on. See, I work so glad and nothing happens. All right, you want to hear another one? All right, here

19:18we go. All right, everybody, let's dance. South end on sea, England, police were baffled at why the burglar alarm at a tailor shop rang. They searched the shop without finding anything. And then as they were leaving, one noticed that one of the mannequins in the display window blinked at him. John McDade, the unsuccessful burglar pleaded guilty to the burglarry and was fined $23.50 and given a six month suspended sentence, the mannequin blinked as the officer was leaving the burglar store. All right, everybody, let's dance. Yes, dog catchers in two cities abandoned their regular work this week to get chased the bank robbers. In each case, chasing the men in their radio equipped dog catching trucks. In Milton, Massachusetts, dog officer John Lank was riding in his truck Thursday when they heard a police radio dispatch reporting a robbery and nearby canton. He spotted the car and gave chase with 15 yapping dogs in the back of his truck, radioing his location to police as he hurtled down the road. Soon the alleged getaway car had a string of police

20:21vehicles on its tail led by Lank and his dog catchers truck. The two men in the car stopped and were hauled out by Lank who turned them over to arriving police officers. Police said the two were armed with a 45 caliber gun. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, dog catchers Steve Hill also overheard a police report of a bank robbery Thursday. Hill spotted the car pulling out of a parking lot and gave chase again with 15 to 20 dogs barking in the back of his truck. Police said several shots were fired at Hill. Some striking truck and missing all the dogs. He was not injured, but the whole car soon joined Hill's truck and they finally captured the guys in an alley. One of them complained. He said someone should have given that guy driving that dog truck a traffic citation. The guy drove like he was a nut. All right, everybody left stand. Yes, crime is everywhere. And now, from the editorial section of the New York Times Thursday, March 15, 1973, through the editor, may I alert your readers to and apparently know and entirely ingenious little rocket. My wife and I had just put a subway token into the slot of a turnstile in 125th Street and 7th Avenue Station of the downtown

21:24IRT. And we're pressing against the bar ready to go through when the train was coming in. When suddenly a lad of eight or nine darted under her arm placed his mouth against the turnstile slap and sucked vigorously. As she stood there bewildered, he moved swiftly to the next turnstile where another woman had just deposited the token and repeated the procedure. He then ran off and up the stairs. At this point, the woman in the change put with the merge and said to my wife and the other woman, you let up still your token, your stoops, then using a long knife. She pushed down into the slap and as she explained, shoved the wabs of paper to fill that and inserted previously the catch tokens before they activated the mechanism that allowed the passenger to enter. The lightweight tokens it seems respond easily to the section. The change put woman was gracious enough to permit the two passengers to go through the gate without having to pay again. However, others may not be as lucky with tokens costing 35 cents. The youngster is doing pretty well financially, running up and down second coins out of the turnstiles of New York subways. When is this going to stop? All right, everybody, let's stand. Yes, now that as you see. Oh, you want to hear

22:29another one? Italy, it's happening everywhere. The main street of this small town, Artina Italy, near Rome, was almost deserted just before 1.30 pm yesterday. A car screeched to a stop. A masked armed man jumped out, rushed to the bank, ran headlong into the plate grass door, bounced back into the arms of two accomplices. With a bloody nose and two teeth flying out on the road, the bank had been closed three minutes ahead of time. The door was shut. The log gave us a town to like the strings of a violin cashier, Rolando Tatini, 38 reported. Walk with a holding there, sub-machine gun and pistols, the accomplices dragged the car man back to his car. He was bleeding through his mask. I saw him, his sunglasses were broken and he dropped one of his guns. Then they spread away and disappeared in the Paravi. Tete the explained that the bank occasionally closes early. When there are no customers, he just ran into the window, smacked that right into the stained end of that beautiful piece of glass. No sunglasses. His gun was broken, two teeth were out, and now he knows something. All right, everybody, let's stand. And now, on a mysterious Spanish scene, Madrid,

23:34Matador Luis Segura was planning a comeback this year. A Matador, but it's definitely one thought he would be banking in the middle of the city park. But the Segura is seemingly good fortune. A runaway bull forced the Matador's debut Friday in the Plaza de la Espanya, as police told it, the bull mysteriously escaped from a truck carrying it across town to an arena. As it rampaged through the park, large numbers of people were there on hand, eating their sandwiches and drinking wine. One of the most popular centers of the capital, the bull rushed through the park. Outstep Segura, suddenly, out of a doorway, armed with his cape, completely dressed in his bullfighting uniform, and carrying his sword. To the cheers of hundreds of passes by, Segura let the bull make several passes, executed them gracefully, and a couple of beautiful maneuvers, and then he dispatched with one fell swoop. He executed the charging animal with his sword, a magnificently performed maneuver to the cries of allay from the crowd. Police said the investigation is now under way to determine how the bull mysteriously escaped

24:35from the truck. They were also trying to find out just how Segura happened to be passing by the park at that very moment. Caring his sword, dressed completely in his bullfighting uniform, carrying his cape, and equipped with full fighting gear. It was that great and very mysterious coincidence. All right, everybody, let's stand. Well, now you just want to hear what the crime is really like. I mean, crime. I mean, you don't see that kind of stuff on Adam 12, mysterious case of a snookered bullfighter. Now, let's see, do you have another one of those fun little commercials in there for us? Bill, please. I guess it was in here yesterday. Well, but, Gillis, sitting right where he's sitting, and I get him a Valentine bearing in the well-based French's racing form all over the park, big mess all over, and he's sitting there. And after Wiley says, kind of, my fortune is made. I'm rich. So, he naturally asks him how come he says, there's this horse running in his seventh race, and on to one, called three rings. He says, oh, my life, we've

25:39been drinking Valentine beer, and Valentine stands for purity, body, and flavor, the three rings. Now, here's this horse I can't mess. So, well, it takes all his money out of the bank, and he bets it to win. Not guess what happens. The horse wins. So many people have had the same hunch about Valentine and the three rings. They bet the horse down to where we only bays to 40, and Wilbur ain't rich after all. Some world, huh? Hey, let me get you another Valentine on the house. Yeah, okay. Valentine beer is a product of the fall stamp ruling corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, and other cities. If it says do in the, you know, style of the commercial, that's pretty good. I know whether I dropped enough cheese, though, did I? Nothing like beer. Let's see, how you guys stand for prunes tonight, huh? Dr. David Smith is one of his strategy. If you got me, say no. Hey, fellow, is this your wife's face, baby? Yeah, less than don't worry. It's easy. My wife's

26:43on number five. You have a prune. Now, look, fellow, there's nothing to it. Have another prune. Hey, nice. That's nice. It's horrible. Mention prunes and people just naturally break up. But maybe they still don't know that pound for pound prunes have more iron, niacin, and vitamin B2 than the six leading fresh fruits. And eight times the vitamin A of the most popular fresh fruit. They're even good for your complexion. It's about time people gave another thought to their California prune. The funny fruit, that does so much for you. Hey, fellow, look, you get three kids for the place of one. I have another prune. I just tell you, damn, I think it's prunes. Yeah, that was a word, by the way, from the California prune advisory board. They give advice on prunes. You know, if you're, you know, if you're suffering

27:46from prune trauma, you go to them and they give you a little advice on how to handle your prune problem. By the way, speaking of the food, we have with us, of course, the tonight, the house of Chan. And yes, the house of Chan is with us tonight. And they got a letter from somebody said to ship it. I'm coming from New York and is the house of Chan that good? Well, that's a leading question. I don't know what you call good. But yes, I can say this. Any restaurant that has survived 35 years in the heart of Manhattan has got to be serving good wonton soup. Because you remember the great wonton soup riots of the late 50s that cleaned a lot of bad Chinese restaurants out of the Midtown area. And you remember them? They were running around burning down Chinese restaurants. Well, I would like to recommend the house of Chan, which is really superb food. They're open seven days a week and they have a great location, which is a 52nd Street and 7th Avenue. Now, you can't get more in the center of the world than that.

28:49In fact, there is a rumor that the axis upon which the world spins go right through their kitchen because right up there, you know, the whole world is spinning right. Well, you know, New Yorkers, I don't believe these things. I mean, you know, it really, it really offends them to realize that the center of the United States is someplace out in Kansas, not in the bone box. But nevertheless, the house of Chan is open seven days a week and they have a great bar. And they are open to midnight. And if you're in a hurry, if you're going to make a show in town, you just tell them. And they'll lay it on you. The food is great. I recommend it, truly. And you know, speaking of Chinese food, it isn't often that you find in a music. For example, very few people write music say about Greek food. They've never heard any songs about Greek food. Well, you know, I mean, let's be honest tonight. I'm not putting down Greek food. People don't write about it though, you know, in music. We have here a real classic collector's item.

29:55The guy said that he was looking through a lot of old records in a joint over Jersey, the other name he bought a record for three cents. And he says, I bought it for three cents. And he says, I made it. He saw it was the kind of really rotten, bad record that would appeal to your aesthetic sensibilities. And I would like you to listen just to a little bit of this. It's very few people write songs about Chao Ming. Yeah, that's bad. I could cry all night in sorrow. I could moan all day in pain. Because the Chinaman gave the place up, and my life does things the same. Life ate the same. The Chinese restaurant moved out of the neighborhood. Listen, this guy's going to kill himself. No more Chao Ming. No more Chao Ming. Yaka Ming have been spouted. No more teaching.

30:55I know what I'm supposed to. No more teaching. No more kissing and the yellow booze. Under the neon lights, they always have a trend. There's a fortune teller, ladies. Crying in her fortune case. Because the Chinaman gave the place up. Now she's never heard of this thing. This is the Foyah Ferala. No Chao Ming. What's life? No more Chao Ming. Yaka Ming has been spitting through. Yaka Ming has been spitting through. No more kissing. No more kissing. There's various authentic Chinese music too. Yaka Ming has been spitting through. Of course, this was translated from the Mandarin. This was very popular in 17th century Haiko. I remember how it's been top-game in view. He's been eightful young and kissing in the red and yellow booze. This record is worth every bit of pre-sense.

31:57But what is it? Easily. No more Chao Ming. Make me a bee spout. No more teaching at all. You should imagine these two. Talk to me, guys. Right now. Hey, I got a idea. How about a song about no more Chao Ming, huh? Well, can't think of many. We're gonna pick up. We're gonna put some China. I'm in it. Don't come back. I think I'll die. I'm gonna put these two. Now that's a song about some. If a Chinese don't come back and make Chao Sui and Chao Ming, I'm gonna die. Now that's a real thing, you know? I'll tell you. I mean, I know many guys whose lives ended. The day that some blood closed up. You're new in every way. I didn't, you know, totally. Hey, speaking of great cultural movements here, we're gonna do food benefits over this weekend. You know, we keep getting letters from people asking, you know, when there's our next live performance. But we're doing a benefit at Villanova.

32:57Villanova, that's an elegant school. Villanova, this weekend. Villanova University at 8 o'clock, 8 p.m. in the beautiful, fragrant, field house. That's the 30th Friday, this Friday, the fragrant field house. Oh, that's, that field house has seen many disasters. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Villanova. You know, outside of Philly there. And we're gonna do another one. And this is gonna be Saturday night. March the 31st at 8 p.m. in the theater of the new Providence High School. We're gonna do a benefit for the new Providence High School of sophomore class. Yeah, they need a benefit. You know, get new crib sheets and all that stuff there. You know, and that's gonna be Saturday night. New Providence High, 35 Pioneer Drive, New Providence, New Jersey. New Providence. Well, that old Providence wasn't so good. You didn't do one, you know. You know, speaking of a crime, and it's all, it's all around this, you know, that the real thing never looks like the TV version.

34:01Not at all. Like the other day, you know, you see little crimes happen sometimes at time. Like the other day, there was a guy, I saw a guy really bugged, that somebody had come along and had stolen two of his hubcaps on his car. And he was walking around real mad, saying, you have to walk around looking at this car and yelling and saying, oh boy, what a time to live in. Man, I'll tell you, this is really, really bad news and comp come over. And I was right there, it was then right, you know, when all of a sudden the policeman came over, he said, hey, he said, what what happened here? He says, this car is parked right here. The guy's still two hubcaps right off of it, right in broad daylight. Cops is very interesting. He said, well, you know, you can't watch every hubcap in town. And he's walking around, and all of a sudden, I see this guy's face get kind of scared. And the cop is looking at the car, I think. And he starts taking out his book. You know, he's going to make a report at which point the guy says, oh, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's okay, you know, just a couple of hubcaps.

35:03What the heck? I can get them a series, you know, don't worry about it. Have some of them at just a minute here now. You're complaining, and you're right, that we ought to do something about this hubcap thing. He says, I'm going to make out a report. What time did you park your car here? And what kind of hubcaps, let's see, you have a Chevy? Yes, I see, two Chevrolet hubcaps. And now let me take a look. Lice them, can I see your registration? And the guy said, well, come on, I mean, you know, it's just a couple of hubcaps, and it began to build. And pretty soon, the cops just out. Let me see your registration, buddy. It stopped from being served to buddy. Let me see that registration, buddy. The guy takes out his wallet. He's looking real scared. You know, I could see a lot of our, look, it's just a couple of hubcaps. And he takes out his wallet. He gives them the registration. There's a long pregnant pause. And the cop walks back to the squad car. And you know, that little thing they do with the, with the radio, he talks into their microphone. Now, it's like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. That point, he walks over and says,

36:03would you step back into my vehicle, sir? And, uh, sit in the back seat, and we'll go downtown and talk about your hubcaps. The guys shake and get in the car and where to go. That's not that kind of scene. What was it about? What did happen? What did they fried out when they called down? Probably, you know, the guy had four bushel baskets of parking tickets, which he had not paid you. No, no, no. Because no, we couldn't be a stolen car, because no guy would have stolen car wrap on him, is going to stand around a holler at a cop about no and no way. But they probably called down there, and it turned out since 1932, this guy has not paid a parking ticket, and now they've got seven bushel baskets of them down there. Right, you know, it's got a great little moment, just the kind of thing you don't see in Adam 12, you know, the real kind, because usually when guys say that they've been had in Adam 12, they have been.

37:05You know, they really have been. Of course, you have to learn to believe in things. And I like Amanda believes in things. I really do. And tonight we have a great, a great little announcement to make. You know, did you know what week this is? To me, it's very important announcement. You know what week this is? No, I'm not one of these guys that come on and say, hey, you know, it's National Pickle Week. You know, that's always done on radios. It's not at all. This is a very special week. This is National Root of Baguio Week. And yes, Root of Baguio. And I personally, I am a defender of the Root of Baguio. And I hate to see, you know, the Root of Baguio, and I'm not an advocate. I'm not going to offend you by advocate, anything here. Not that I'm worried about offending you. But I say that men who like the Root of Baguio should be allowed to eat them. You agree? But do you know that this is not the case? Are you aware that among the vegetable world, Root of Baguio is one of the very few vegetables

38:07that creates actual animosity among non-Root of Baguio eaters? I mean, to the point where they want to ban it. And in fact, if you think I'm kidding, here. Now, look at this. Here I am a Root of Baguio fan. And there's no place in town where you can get a decent Root of Baguio in New York. No way. Here is from Dover, Delaware. Now, you think a town like Dover, Delaware, would have a little tolerance, wouldn't you? Well, you know, after all, Delaware is one of the original 13 states. And there wasn't America founded on tolerance of other guys. It's religious differences and all that jazz. Isn't that true? And Delaware, I think, was the first state in the union, wasn't it? Which one was the first one in the union? Yeah, it was Delaware, wasn't it? I'm ashamed. Listen to this. This is from the Delaware, the state news. Dover, Delaware. And this is the newspaper. It just came out. I'm stunned. I was sent to me by another fellow victim. And the headline. It's in the letters to the editor department.

39:07The headline, which is called a mail shoot, headline reads, people who eat rutabagas are swine. And here's the letter to the editor. I don't like rutabagas. It says, deal with that. I do not like rutabagas. I have never liked rutabagas. Their awful color turns me off, and a smell of cooking rutabagas seconds me, and the taste is rotten. I think the world would be a better place without them, and I try to convince people of that. But they don't listen. In fact, the sale of rutabagas keeps increasing in the Delaware, Delaware area. Why, just a while ago, they opened a store in Dover that sells nothing but rutabagas, pandering to the taste of rutabagas. Now, some of the restaurants in Dover have rutabagas as an occasional side dish, but it's getting to be more and more plentiful. One in particular offered rutabagas as a main course. I cannot stand it. Walking past a place where I know it are serving rutabagas. When I smell that smell, ruins my appetite for the rest of the day, and I know I speak for thousands of others. Isn't that true? Every letter to the editor guy believes that he speaks for thousands of others.

40:10He believes this. I speak for thousands, and now I have got an idea which I have talked over with. Many of my friends will feel the same way that I do. In fact, I know at least 20 people who feel the way I do about rutabagas eating, and I'm going to get a group together, and we'll go to a town council meeting on demand of law against the selling or serving of rutabagas in public places in Dover. I believe the mayor will go along with us, especially if we emphasize how the smell of cooking rutabagas detracts from the natural beauty of our town at Dover Delaware. And if we say that what we want to do is to keep over free from big city problems, solutions, and bad smells, we represent the community as a whole, and we say get rid of rutabagas. I'm starting to write a speech right now which I'm going to deliver to the mayor, quote people who eat rutabagas should be put in a field with the other swine, sign that disgusted reader. Well, I don't know. All I can say is that this is an example of what I've had to go

41:10against most of my life, because I'm one of those poor unfortunate who, for no reason at all, and I'm the only one in my family. My mother hated rutabagas. My brother wouldn't even talk about it. And my own man would laugh when they were mentioned. He thought that they rutabagas was funny. Somewhere along the line, I think it was at a penny-support once in the Warren G. Harding School. I had a taste of a rutabagas casserole with bits of bacon in it. I was about nine at the time. Instantly I was hooked. I loved, and I do love, and I enjoy rutabagas immensely. And from time to time, I go into restaurants like the other day. I went into this fancy restaurant. I'll tell you where it was for four seasons, right? That's pretty fancy, right? And I asked them what vegetables they had on the menu. And this elegant waiter says, so we have the cream spinach. And we have a Belgian cat-out, as a baby once, done in the glazed sauce,

42:11a la anglaise. And I said, you got any rutabagas? This is excusing me, sir. I said, do you have any rutabagas today on the menu? This is, sir, I'm sorry, we did not carry that sort of thing here. And he walked away. He just turned around and walked away. Well, it's this sort of thing that happens to rutabagas fans throughout life. There are millions of tiny little, how can I say, biases and prejudices. I also am an addict of the yellow turnip. Better not as the turnip. You can't convince anybody of that. But I'll bet. I bet you have never seen your favorite vegetable, denounced in public print. By an angry letter writer who was forming a committee to do away with it. Right. You've never seen that, you know, a dedicated group. Stomp out the mashed potatoes. Tromp on the acorn squash. Do away with the French cut string beans.

43:13A real baby, yes. So many things in this life. What makes you think that we're ever going to do away with the war with this kind of attitude, right? And this came from the first state of the union.