August 7, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, are Post forty flakes really the best tasting cereal
of them all? Well, your father says so, and father
knows best.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by America's largest selling brand flakes, Post forty brand Flakes,
and by instant post them the good tasting drink that's
entirely caffeine.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Fred Towns and cities, like.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
People, have birthdays, and Springfield is no exception. In fact,
Springfield celebrates its natal day each year with the annual
Founder's Day Carnal, a fairly gaudy and joyous affair held
in the Municipal Auditorium.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The town shops and schools are closed, and.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Its citizens are urged to join together in the day
long celebration. Grouped around the breakfast table in the White
Frame House on Maple Street in a holiday mood, the
members of the Anderson families are discussing the.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Event like this, Gee, Mommy, it starts to twelve. We
better hurry. You don't get so excited, Kathy, heavens no.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The carnival runs all afternoon and all evening till midnight.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
How much spending money can I have this year?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You'll have to take that up with your father when
he comes down for breakfast. And I hope he's in
a good mood. I remember last year he didn't much
want to go to the carnival. Well, don't urge him,
don't even bring it up. Let him think it's his
idea to go, and then he'll like it. Well, good morning,
Good morning father. Sit down, dear. I'll have a waffle
for you in just a second.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But what's the matter with you kids this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You all look so glum.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Don't you know this is a holiday?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh? Is it really?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Say?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It is, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, we've hardly been discussing in our morning.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, sir, I was lying upstairs in bed thinking about it. Yes,
I said to myself, A man needs a day like
this occasionally today, when he can come down to the
breakfast table lake in his robe and slippers.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So go on, dad.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I decided the only thing to do on a
day like this is to put on some old clothes,
loll around the house, kick around the yard all day.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
All around the house, kick around the yard all day.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There anything wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Daddy? Aren't we going to the Founders Day Carnival?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh? Kid, you surely don't want to go to that
annual hassle.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Sure we all do.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's no sense in going to that carnival. It's the
same thing every year, concession, same acts.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
They got all new acts this year. Almost.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, it wouldn't be so bad if we had a
good time there, but we never do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I had a good time.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Oh sure, you had a great time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Got sick from eating all that junk?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh better shake? This year.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Bud lost his wallet with all his money in it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Betty saw her boyfriend with some other girl and wanted
to throw herself in the lake.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh yeah, we had a wonderful time.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Are you through now? Father?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I guess? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Why well, I have to go to Carnival. I gotta
meet Ralph there.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh can't Ralph take it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He has to get down there early.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He's working in one of the booths where they throw
baseballs at a dummy.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I see it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, if Ralph keeps ducking, I don't think he'll get
hurt very badly.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
They don't throw the baseballs.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
At rol I know it, Princess, I was just joking,
some joke.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You mean we are going after all?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, now I don't want to be an old, wet
blanket or a spoil sport.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
But look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now we have a wonderful free day, no work, no school,
a wonderful chance to spend a day together. So why
should we spoil it by spending it in a dusty,
smoke filled auditorium being jostled around by a mob of
people we hardly know, trying to get a little enjoyment
out of dull entertainment and poisonous food.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You make it sound very intriguing, dear, Well, it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We have a wonderful home here. What better place could
we spend a holiday?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Want us the name of you?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
We have a nice secluded yard, a croquet set some
now it's havevcan and there's just.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
One ball left.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, it might be better to just rest. Oh great,
get acquainted with each other. Families don't spend enough time together.
Then there's books.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This is a good day to catch up on your reading.
Books are your best friends?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Oh sure, bod.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You haven't finished your breakfast? Where are you going.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I'm gonna go out and play football with a bunch
of books.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Patty, how about you do want another waffle? No, Mommy,
I'm not hungry anymore, may big skin?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I guess so I'm not hungry either. I'm going to
my room. But Betty, you've holler me eaten a thing
not enough to keep you alive. You call this living.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, James, You certainly got the children in a fine
holiday mood.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well. I know they feel disappointed right now, but.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Staying home on a day like this is the only
sensible logical thing to do.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh, I agree with you completely. It is the only
sensible thing.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But somehow or other, logic doesn't always make children happy.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Would you hand me that other section of the paper? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Huh. It's kind of fun to get out of the house.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Once in a while.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What'd you say, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you see this piece in here about our neighbor,
Old Fred Kelbert. It says he's just returned from his
annual motor trip. Leave it to old blammermouth to get
in the papers. Says here It was an extremely interesting trip,
highlighted by a visit to Mitchell, South Dakota to see
the famous.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Corn Palace, Corn Palace.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm not sure, but I think it's a big auditorium
build out of corn cops.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well that sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well it won't be with the time Fred gets to
telling about it. All he'll get out of it is
the exact number of kernels they used, and then compare
that with his gas mileage between there and du Buke.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Iowa, I tell.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You, Margaret, there is the biggest bore that ever hit Springfield.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I remember last year he cornered me at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I had to stand there for two hours, two hours
while he told me the exact gas mileage he got
between every single town on his trip.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, and how a gas station man in Wampton Springs,
Minnesota tried to jip him out of two gallons of gas.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
How'd man try to do it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Say where's that book I bored from D Davis a
while back?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
This would be a good day to read that.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What book?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh about four or five years ago? You loved home
Warren Piece, Yeah, that's the one. Good heavens haven't you
returned back yet?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I haven't read it yet. I think I'll go on
the dem and tackle it so I can.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Get it back to Ed so he can read it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, you ought to be able to whip that off
in a couple of hours. It's only fourteen hundred pages.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, sir, this is the life. Let's see now. Oh,
here we are Warren Peace. M that's a heavy book.
Oh here's something lighter. How to tell your friends from apes.
Let's stretch out here on the old Davenport. Yes, sir,
(08:06):
this is the life. Ah boy father?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh oh father?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Are you and the dan?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes, Princess and I'm reading.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, I'll try not to disturb you, but I just
have to use the phone.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The least I can do is let Ralph. No, I
won't be there.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You're right ahead. Just don't hang on the phone all day.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh of course not, father. I wouldn't want to do
anything to ruin this gay holiday. Hello Ralph, and this
is Betty. No, I won't be there early later any
other time. I hate to say.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Why go on tell him why? Yes, that's right. Well, no,
it's not that Ralph. He's really not cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm getting fonder of that Ralph every day.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, anyway, I can't go because we're gonna spend a
perfectly utterly chummy day here in our charming, exciting home.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well stated, well.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Maybe i'll see you tomorrow. Okay, Ralph, goodbye. Are you
enjoying your book?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I haven't even found out what it's about yet.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Well, have fun?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
M now then yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Uh oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Will I disturb you if I use the phone?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
How important? Is it?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Awful?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Important?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Joe Phillips is expecting to see me at the carnival,
and I've got to tell him I won't be there.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Won't he be able to figure that out if he.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Doesn't see you there?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Not, Joe, he's no good at figuring.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
I'm beginning to think somebody else is. Though.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This won't take a second. Dad, Hello, thank you, Joel.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
But oh pretty good considering, say, Joe, I won't be
able to meet you at the Founder's Carnival today.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Well, no, it's not the money exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Who said anything about money?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, Joe, if people are gonna talk about us, they'll
just have to go ahead.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And do it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
No, we're just gonna stay home and play something exciting
like authors.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, I'll be seeing you, Joe so long. Enjoying your book?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Oh, yes, fine.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I've read the first half page over about six times.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Now I couldn't tell you a word that's on it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Maybe you ought to try reading something easier.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Okay, try again, page one.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I thought this was a plot of some kind as kidding,
come right in. Did you wish to.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Use the phone?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Why? Uh? Yes? How did you know? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It just seemed like it was about your turn.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Nothing? Whom uh do.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You have to call?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I have to call?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Let's see now, I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I figured it was really important.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Oh I remember, Katty Davis. Will I disturb you if
I calling?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I want to read this first half page over four
or five more times anyway, so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Hello, Patty, this is Kathy. Yeah, Patty.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
If I was going to meet you at the carnival,
I can't do it. It's not so much the money,
but my daddy's real cheap.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh you're the cheapest man in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, i'll explain it to you later.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Patty, old tightwad tom they calling.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You wouldn't understand. Now, Patty, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Goodbye. Did you think up all those things to say?
All by yourself, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I think.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Are you enjoying your book, daddy?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh? Yes, fine, most interesting book I've ever read.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well, i'll see you later, daddy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'll look forward to it.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
That was a great performance.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Eh.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Let's see now page one ay, Jim?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Oh, no, Mark, surely you don't want to use the
phone too use the phone before?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I just thought maybe you were in on the big
plot the kids have going applot.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
First they're going to disturb me so much I'll give
up the book. Then they're going to shame me into
taking them to the carnival by indicating I'm too chinzy
to take them.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That isn't the reason?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Certainly not?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, I bring gayer tidings. I just went out to
the mailbox. Mail deliveries today, I know, but in the
mad excitement of the holiday, I forgot that. Anyway, I
went out there and guess who I ran into our
dear neighbor Fred Culver.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Oh God, did you get stuck?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I didn't, But it seems he found out you were
going to loll around home all day. So he said,
that's great, I'll just drop over and spend the whole
afternoon telling old Jim about our fascinating trip to.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The corn Palace.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
You mean he's coming over here.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, And Jim, he's going to bring along some of
the most unbelievable mileage figures you've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Trapped right in my own home, poor father.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
That's the trouble with planning a quiet day at home.
You can never be sure how it will end up. However,
here are a few things you can.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Be sure of when it comes to breakfast.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Chances are you've been hearing about brand and it's important
keep regular benefits for years, and maybe you've actually tried it,
only you weren't fully satisfied with the flavor. If that's
the case, I have some good news.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
The fact is something pretty wonderful has happened to brand.
That's right, the Post people have created a wonderful new
flavor for their Post forty.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Percent brand flakes.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
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I've had friends tell me they like new Post brand
flakes better than any other cereal. And that's important because
now your ounce of prevention. Post Brand gives you the
important keep regular benefits of brand in a cereal you'll
(15:05):
really enjoy day after day now, Mother, I hope all
this helps you solve the problem of what cereal to
serve your family. Yes, start serving them new Post brand flakes.
Eat them for flavor, eat them for health. You'll win
both ways. So when you do your marketing this weekend, remember.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
For goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes, so good and
so good for you.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
Yes, ask your grocer for America's largest selling brand flakes,
Post forty brand flakes, so good and so good for you.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, it's going to be an interesting afternoon at the
white frame house on Maple Street. Fred Culver, the longest
winded talker in the neighborhood, has discovered that Jim is
spending a holiday at home, and it's on his way over.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Let's see how Jim handles.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
This little problem, Margaret, Why did you have to tell
Fred I was going to be home?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
What else could I tell him?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Dear, you made it very plain to all of us
that you weren't going to step out of the house.
You see, Father, if you'd gone to the carnival like
the sensible people in towns.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Is simply because I refuse to wait in hot dogs
and strawberry pop.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
That's the life. What is waiting in hot dogs and
strawberry pop.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Don't you want to talk to mister Calver again?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Run outside, kitten.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I don't know what you can do, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, I know I'm not going to let that champion
bore corner me like this without a fight. I'll handle
Ottle Fred's some way how I don't know yet. Maybe
I'll just let him tell his story. I won't say
a word. Let him bore himself to death for once.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Well, that must be him. No, go let him in,
Bud and send him into the den.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, get him here right away. I can hardly wait.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, come on, girls, you come out of the kitchen
with me. The men will want to be alone while
they discussed the corn palace.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Don't rub it in.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Come on, girl, Okay, what can we do here? Me? Oh,
I've got a few ideas that might work.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's right there in the den, mister Culver.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Fine, Bud, Fine, nice?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Long you have here.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We spend all our holidays in it. Yeah, here's mister Culver.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh hello Fred.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
Hi there, Jim, little boy, bye.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I come on in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm coming so you.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Joll's taking her kind of easy today, Hi, Jim.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
That was my original plan.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Well, sir, I don't blame you. No place like home,
I always say, uh huh uh. You take this trip
we made. It was really interesting all the way down
the line. But even so there were times when I
wish I was home.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ever feel like that I do right now.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Yes, sir, Sure, and lucky thing I happened to catch
you in today.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh yeah, things have really been breaking for me lately.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
You know, Jim, I wish you could have been along
on this trip, absolutely one of the most interesting trips
I've ever made. Why you just wouldn't believe the gas
mileage I got? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Guess what I average for the hall trip that is?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Hawk make a guess. Well, no, no, you're off twenty
two and three fourths miles per Would you believe that? Yes,
twenty two and three forts Yeah, I got that, twenty
two and three.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Forths Jim, say that was an interesting trip, wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Say that again? Now, let's see. You want to start
off with the out of state licenses we counted or
the names of the motels we stopped in.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
They both sound so fascinating it's hard to decide.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
I'll show you the snapshots first. I got some real
dandies this year.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't bet.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Yes, sir. We went clean up to Mitchell, South Dakota,
you know, and Jim we saw the corn Palace.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Uh huh was that interesting?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Was it? You wouldn't believe this, gym. But I counted
nineteen out of state licenses park right there.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
No, nineteen can't be.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I'll prove it to you. I got it written down
here someplace. Now where is that?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Never mind?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Bed, never mind? I believe it.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Well, we come to that later on.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Now here's a picture of some rocks outside of Pikestone, Minnesota.
M Really doesn't look like much in black and life.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No it doesn't, but you should have seen it in color.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Incidentally, it was right near here that we stopped at
a very interesting farmhouse to get some water to take
my vitamin pills. And they had the biggest hog there
that you've ever seen, a prize winning boar.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
They get prizes for that.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Oh sure, sure, I got a picture of it here
something Where did I facete that? I know it's in here?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, never mind, Fred, don't bother.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
No, no, no, I want you to see what a
prize for. Looks like.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
I've had a fairly good idea. He's gotta be in here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Look, Fredo man, let's just uh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh hello, mister Culver. Oh hello there, I'm Betty. In
case you've forgotten which.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
One I am.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Oh for sure, sure. I was just telling your father
about a little trip we made.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh I'd love to hear all about it. Did you
really go to the Corn Palace?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yes, sir, we sure, the old Corn Palace.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I just love to hear all.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
About it, oh, Betty, go on, mister Culver.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Well, so the day we arrived there, I counted nineteen
out of state licenses park right there in that one place.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Did you really.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Yes, with missus Culver's help, of course, nineteen?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
What states were they?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Betty?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Well? There was Tennessee, Idaho, Maine.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Betty, I think your mother wants you out in the kitchen.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Arkansas, Utah, Ohio.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Betty, just a minute, father, I want to hear this.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Kansas, New Hampshire. And you don't see many New Hampshires.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'll bet not.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Go on, Betty, Oregon, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, both South and
North Carolina. Gee, how many is that.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He didn't count them. Would you start over again, Betty?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yes, Father, I'm sure your mother wants you out in
the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I didn't hear say, Betty, do you know where I want?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Am I interrupting something.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh no, Bud, mister Culver was just telling father and
me about his trip. I thought you'd like to hear
about this.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Too, Oh boy, would I.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Would you mind starting right in at the beginning, so
Bud won't miss a thing?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Well, I'd be glad to, but maybe it'll.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Bore Jim here. Oh no, no.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Well, interesting things bear repeating. I always say, Bud. We
left here exactly two weeks ago, day before yesterday, and
we motored to Mitchell, South Dakota, and there we took
in the corn Palace and average twenty two and three
fourths miles per gallon. Now what do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Holy calm, Bud?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, what I did, Bud, was put down each gallon
of gas I put into the car at the time
it was put in, and the mileage plus weather conditions
wind makes a difference. You know.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I also indicated whether it was generally uphill or down here.
Excuse me a minute, Fred, Bud, don't you have to
go out now and do your chores.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I don't have any chores to do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You do now? You were better run along.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
But I thought we were just gonna all around the
house and enjoying ourselves today.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Mister Culiber, tell Bud how many out of state licenses
you saw?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Twenty two and three fourths?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:38):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What's the better with me?
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Nineteen?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
What states were they?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
But Tennessee, Idaho, mean arkansaw me?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh, Jim, you'd bet a hurry and dress it. We'll
be late.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The children and I are already.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I would have called you sooner, but I didn't realize
what time it was getting to be.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
We've missed part of the carnival, as it is carnival.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Are you people going to the carnival? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yes, both wouldn't miss it for the world.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Well, I guess I must have misunderstood. I thought you
were going to be home all day. Well, you see,
he was going.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
To be home.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And then we remembered this was carnival day and Jim
had promised to take the children.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Sure, sure, I see.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I'm sorry to have to break this up, Fred, Oh
that's all right, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We can do it later, okay, Fred?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Yeah, I just hope that I haven't lost the snapshot
of that prize boar.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh, you'll find it. Thanks for coming over, Fred.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
That's okay, Jim, glad to do it for you. See fine,
Fred saloon.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh, missus Anderson, may I shake your hand and congratulate
you on your new position as chief of the rescue squad?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, thank you, dear.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But you little traders egging him on like that?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
U us?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
What states were they? I was your guess? Miley? Oh
I lost count? Will you start over?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Whose idea was that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Whose was it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, we haven't time to discuss that now.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
If you don't hurry, we never will get to the carnival.
And we are going, aren't we. Jim.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You want to know something. If I don't get out
of this house, I'll go crazy. Come on, let's go, Culiver.
Make anyone a nervous wreck, couldn't they?
Speaker 6 (25:40):
But he's not the only one.
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The schemes of mice and men have been known to fail,
but not those employed by the Andersons to persuade father
to take them to the annual Founder's Day carnival. And
now the backseat of the Anderson sedan is filled with
sleeping pop fill cotton candy covered children on its way
back to the white frame house on Maple Street like this.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I was just thinking, Margaret, how those.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Kids worked and schemed today to get me out of
the house.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
They were.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Do you have any idea who put them up?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
To all that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I don't think so well I do.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I don't know if you noticed, but as we were
leaving the carnival, I ran into missus Fred Culver, and
she asked me to thank you for calling Fred over
and invite him in to tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
About his trip. Traitor.
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It's a lucky thing that I happened to love you.
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Fred Towns and cities, like.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
People, have birthdays, and Springfield is no exception. In fact,
Springfield celebrates its natal day each year with the annual
Founder's Day Carnal, a fairly gaudy and joyous affair held
in the Municipal Auditorium.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The town shops and schools are closed, and.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Its citizens are urged to join together in the day
long celebration. Grouped around the breakfast table in the White
Frame House on Maple Street in a holiday mood, the
members of the Anderson families are discussing the.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Event like this, Gee, Mommy, it starts to twelve. We
better hurry. You don't get so excited, Kathy, heavens no.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The carnival runs all afternoon and all evening till midnight.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
How much spending money can I have this year?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You'll have to take that up with your father when
he comes down for breakfast. And I hope he's in
a good mood. I remember last year he didn't much
want to go to the carnival. Well, don't urge him,
don't even bring it up. Let him think it's his
idea to go, and then he'll like it. Well, good morning,
Good morning father. Sit down, dear. I'll have a waffle
for you in just a second.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But what's the matter with you kids this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You all look so glum.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Don't you know this is a holiday?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh? Is it really?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Say?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
It is, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, we've hardly been discussing in our morning.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well, sir, I was lying upstairs in bed thinking about it. Yes,
I said to myself, A man needs a day like
this occasionally today, when he can come down to the
breakfast table lake in his robe and slippers.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So go on, dad.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I decided the only thing to do on a
day like this is to put on some old clothes,
loll around the house, kick around the yard all day.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
All around the house, kick around the yard all day.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There anything wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Daddy? Aren't we going to the Founders Day Carnival?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh? Kid, you surely don't want to go to that
annual hassle.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Sure we all do.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's no sense in going to that carnival. It's the
same thing every year, concession, same acts.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
They got all new acts this year. Almost.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, it wouldn't be so bad if we had a
good time there, but we never do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I had a good time.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Oh sure, you had a great time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Got sick from eating all that junk?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh better shake? This year.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Bud lost his wallet with all his money in it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Betty saw her boyfriend with some other girl and wanted
to throw herself in the lake.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh yeah, we had a wonderful time.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Are you through now? Father?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I guess? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Why well, I have to go to Carnival. I gotta
meet Ralph there.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh can't Ralph take it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He has to get down there early.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He's working in one of the booths where they throw
baseballs at a dummy.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I see it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, if Ralph keeps ducking, I don't think he'll get
hurt very badly.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
They don't throw the baseballs.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
At rol I know it, Princess, I was just joking,
some joke.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You mean we are going after all?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, now I don't want to be an old, wet
blanket or a spoil sport.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
But look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now we have a wonderful free day, no work, no school,
a wonderful chance to spend a day together. So why
should we spoil it by spending it in a dusty,
smoke filled auditorium being jostled around by a mob of
people we hardly know, trying to get a little enjoyment
out of dull entertainment and poisonous food.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You make it sound very intriguing, dear, Well, it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We have a wonderful home here. What better place could
we spend a holiday?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Want us the name of you?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
We have a nice secluded yard, a croquet set some
now it's havevcan and there's just.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
One ball left.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, it might be better to just rest. Oh great,
get acquainted with each other. Families don't spend enough time together.
Then there's books.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This is a good day to catch up on your reading.
Books are your best friends?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Oh sure, bod.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You haven't finished your breakfast? Where are you going.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I'm gonna go out and play football with a bunch
of books.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Patty, how about you do want another waffle? No, Mommy,
I'm not hungry anymore, may big skin?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I guess so I'm not hungry either. I'm going to
my room. But Betty, you've holler me eaten a thing
not enough to keep you alive. You call this living.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, James, You certainly got the children in a fine
holiday mood.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well. I know they feel disappointed right now, but.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Staying home on a day like this is the only
sensible logical thing to do.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh, I agree with you completely. It is the only
sensible thing.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But somehow or other, logic doesn't always make children happy.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Would you hand me that other section of the paper? Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Huh. It's kind of fun to get out of the house.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Once in a while.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What'd you say, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you see this piece in here about our neighbor,
Old Fred Kelbert. It says he's just returned from his
annual motor trip. Leave it to old blammermouth to get
in the papers. Says here It was an extremely interesting trip,
highlighted by a visit to Mitchell, South Dakota to see
the famous.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Corn Palace, Corn Palace.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm not sure, but I think it's a big auditorium
build out of corn cops.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well that sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well it won't be with the time Fred gets to
telling about it. All he'll get out of it is
the exact number of kernels they used, and then compare
that with his gas mileage between there and du Buke.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Iowa, I tell.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You, Margaret, there is the biggest bore that ever hit Springfield.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I remember last year he cornered me at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I had to stand there for two hours, two hours
while he told me the exact gas mileage he got
between every single town on his trip.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, and how a gas station man in Wampton Springs,
Minnesota tried to jip him out of two gallons of gas.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
How'd man try to do it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Say where's that book I bored from D Davis a
while back?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
This would be a good day to read that.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What book?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh about four or five years ago? You loved home
Warren Piece, Yeah, that's the one. Good heavens haven't you
returned back yet?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I haven't read it yet. I think I'll go on
the dem and tackle it so I can.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Get it back to Ed so he can read it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, you ought to be able to whip that off
in a couple of hours. It's only fourteen hundred pages.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, sir, this is the life. Let's see now. Oh,
here we are Warren Peace. M that's a heavy book.
Oh here's something lighter. How to tell your friends from apes.
Let's stretch out here on the old Davenport. Yes, sir,
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this is the life. Ah boy father?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh oh father?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Are you and the dan?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yes, Princess and I'm reading.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, I'll try not to disturb you, but I just
have to use the phone.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The least I can do is let Ralph. No, I
won't be there.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You're right ahead. Just don't hang on the phone all day.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh of course not, father. I wouldn't want to do
anything to ruin this gay holiday. Hello Ralph, and this
is Betty. No, I won't be there early later any
other time. I hate to say.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Why go on tell him why? Yes, that's right. Well, no,
it's not that Ralph. He's really not cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm getting fonder of that Ralph every day.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, anyway, I can't go because we're gonna spend a
perfectly utterly chummy day here in our charming, exciting home.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well stated, well.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Maybe i'll see you tomorrow. Okay, Ralph, goodbye. Are you
enjoying your book?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I haven't even found out what it's about yet.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Well, have fun?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
M now then yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Uh oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Will I disturb you if I use the phone?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
How important? Is it?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Awful?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Important?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Joe Phillips is expecting to see me at the carnival,
and I've got to tell him I won't be there.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Won't he be able to figure that out if he.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Doesn't see you there?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Not, Joe, he's no good at figuring.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
I'm beginning to think somebody else is. Though.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This won't take a second. Dad, Hello, thank you, Joel.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
But oh pretty good considering, say, Joe, I won't be
able to meet you at the Founder's Carnival today.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Well, no, it's not the money exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Who said anything about money?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, Joe, if people are gonna talk about us, they'll
just have to go ahead.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
And do it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
No, we're just gonna stay home and play something exciting
like authors.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, I'll be seeing you, Joe so long. Enjoying your book?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Oh, yes, fine.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I've read the first half page over about six times.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Now I couldn't tell you a word that's on it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Maybe you ought to try reading something easier.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Okay, try again, page one.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I thought this was a plot of some kind as kidding,
come right in. Did you wish to.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Use the phone?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Why? Uh? Yes? How did you know? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It just seemed like it was about your turn.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Nothing? Whom uh do.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You have to call?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I have to call?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Let's see now, I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I figured it was really important.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Oh I remember, Katty Davis. Will I disturb you if
I calling?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I want to read this first half page over four
or five more times anyway, so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Hello, Patty, this is Kathy. Yeah, Patty.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
If I was going to meet you at the carnival,
I can't do it. It's not so much the money,
but my daddy's real cheap.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh you're the cheapest man in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Well, i'll explain it to you later.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Patty, old tightwad tom they calling.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You wouldn't understand. Now, Patty, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Goodbye. Did you think up all those things to say?
All by yourself, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I think.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Are you enjoying your book, daddy?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh? Yes, fine, most interesting book I've ever read.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well, i'll see you later, daddy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'll look forward to it.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
That was a great performance.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Eh.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Let's see now page one ay, Jim?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Oh, no, Mark, surely you don't want to use the
phone too use the phone before?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I just thought maybe you were in on the big
plot the kids have going applot.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
First they're going to disturb me so much I'll give
up the book. Then they're going to shame me into
taking them to the carnival by indicating I'm too chinzy
to take them.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That isn't the reason?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Is it?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Certainly not?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, I bring gayer tidings. I just went out to
the mailbox. Mail deliveries today, I know, but in the
mad excitement of the holiday, I forgot that. Anyway, I
went out there and guess who I ran into our
dear neighbor Fred Culver.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Oh God, did you get stuck?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I didn't, But it seems he found out you were
going to loll around home all day. So he said,
that's great, I'll just drop over and spend the whole
afternoon telling old Jim about our fascinating trip to.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The corn Palace.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
You mean he's coming over here.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, And Jim, he's going to bring along some of
the most unbelievable mileage figures you've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Trapped right in my own home, poor father.
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Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, it's going to be an interesting afternoon at the
white frame house on Maple Street. Fred Culver, the longest
winded talker in the neighborhood, has discovered that Jim is
spending a holiday at home, and it's on his way over.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Let's see how Jim handles.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
This little problem, Margaret, Why did you have to tell
Fred I was going to be home?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
What else could I tell him?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Dear, you made it very plain to all of us
that you weren't going to step out of the house.
You see, Father, if you'd gone to the carnival like
the sensible people in towns.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Is simply because I refuse to wait in hot dogs
and strawberry pop.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
That's the life. What is waiting in hot dogs and
strawberry pop.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Don't you want to talk to mister Calver again?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Run outside, kitten.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I don't know what you can do, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, I know I'm not going to let that champion
bore corner me like this without a fight. I'll handle
Ottle Fred's some way how I don't know yet. Maybe
I'll just let him tell his story. I won't say
a word. Let him bore himself to death for once.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Well, that must be him. No, go let him in,
Bud and send him into the den.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, get him here right away. I can hardly wait.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, come on, girls, you come out of the kitchen
with me. The men will want to be alone while
they discussed the corn palace.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Don't rub it in.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Come on, girl, Okay, what can we do here? Me? Oh,
I've got a few ideas that might work.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's right there in the den, mister Culver.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Fine, Bud, Fine, nice?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Long you have here.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We spend all our holidays in it. Yeah, here's mister Culver.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh hello Fred.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
Hi there, Jim, little boy, bye.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I come on in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm coming so you.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Joll's taking her kind of easy today, Hi, Jim.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
That was my original plan.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Well, sir, I don't blame you. No place like home,
I always say, uh huh uh. You take this trip
we made. It was really interesting all the way down
the line. But even so there were times when I
wish I was home.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ever feel like that I do right now.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Yes, sir, Sure, and lucky thing I happened to catch
you in today.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh yeah, things have really been breaking for me lately.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
You know, Jim, I wish you could have been along
on this trip, absolutely one of the most interesting trips
I've ever made. Why you just wouldn't believe the gas
mileage I got? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Guess what I average for the hall trip that is?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Hawk make a guess. Well, no, no, you're off twenty
two and three fourths miles per Would you believe that? Yes,
twenty two and three forts Yeah, I got that, twenty
two and three.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Forths Jim, say that was an interesting trip, wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Say that again? Now, let's see. You want to start
off with the out of state licenses we counted or
the names of the motels we stopped in.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
They both sound so fascinating it's hard to decide.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
I'll show you the snapshots first. I got some real
dandies this year.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't bet.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Yes, sir. We went clean up to Mitchell, South Dakota,
you know, and Jim we saw the corn Palace.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Uh huh was that interesting?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Was it? You wouldn't believe this, gym. But I counted
nineteen out of state licenses park right there.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
No, nineteen can't be.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I'll prove it to you. I got it written down
here someplace. Now where is that?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Never mind?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Bed, never mind? I believe it.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Well, we come to that later on.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Now here's a picture of some rocks outside of Pikestone, Minnesota.
M Really doesn't look like much in black and life.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No it doesn't, but you should have seen it in color.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Incidentally, it was right near here that we stopped at
a very interesting farmhouse to get some water to take
my vitamin pills. And they had the biggest hog there
that you've ever seen, a prize winning boar.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
They get prizes for that.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Oh sure, sure, I got a picture of it here
something Where did I facete that? I know it's in here?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, never mind, Fred, don't bother.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
No, no, no, I want you to see what a
prize for. Looks like.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
I've had a fairly good idea. He's gotta be in here.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Look, Fredo man, let's just uh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh hello, mister Culver. Oh hello there, I'm Betty. In
case you've forgotten which.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
One I am.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Oh for sure, sure. I was just telling your father
about a little trip we made.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh I'd love to hear all about it. Did you
really go to the Corn Palace?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yes, sir, we sure, the old Corn Palace.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I just love to hear all.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
About it, oh, Betty, go on, mister Culver.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Well, so the day we arrived there, I counted nineteen
out of state licenses park right there in that one place.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Did you really.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Yes, with missus Culver's help, of course, nineteen?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
What states were they?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Betty?
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Well? There was Tennessee, Idaho, Maine.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Betty, I think your mother wants you out in the kitchen.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Arkansas, Utah, Ohio.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Betty, just a minute, father, I want to hear this.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Kansas, New Hampshire. And you don't see many New Hampshires.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'll bet not.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Go on, Betty, Oregon, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, both South and
North Carolina. Gee, how many is that.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He didn't count them. Would you start over again, Betty?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yes, Father, I'm sure your mother wants you out in
the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I didn't hear say, Betty, do you know where I want?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Am I interrupting something.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh no, Bud, mister Culver was just telling father and
me about his trip. I thought you'd like to hear
about this.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Too, Oh boy, would I.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Would you mind starting right in at the beginning, so
Bud won't miss a thing?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Well, I'd be glad to, but maybe it'll.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Bore Jim here. Oh no, no.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Well, interesting things bear repeating. I always say, Bud. We
left here exactly two weeks ago, day before yesterday, and
we motored to Mitchell, South Dakota, and there we took
in the corn Palace and average twenty two and three
fourths miles per gallon. Now what do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Holy calm, Bud?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, what I did, Bud, was put down each gallon
of gas I put into the car at the time
it was put in, and the mileage plus weather conditions
wind makes a difference. You know.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I also indicated whether it was generally uphill or down here.
Excuse me a minute, Fred, Bud, don't you have to
go out now and do your chores.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I don't have any chores to do.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You do now? You were better run along.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
But I thought we were just gonna all around the
house and enjoying ourselves today.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Mister Culiber, tell Bud how many out of state licenses
you saw?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Twenty two and three fourths?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:38):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What's the better with me?
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Nineteen?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
What states were they?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
But Tennessee, Idaho, mean arkansaw me?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh, Jim, you'd bet a hurry and dress it. We'll
be late.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The children and I are already.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I would have called you sooner, but I didn't realize
what time it was getting to be.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
We've missed part of the carnival, as it is carnival.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Are you people going to the carnival? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yes, both wouldn't miss it for the world.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Well, I guess I must have misunderstood. I thought you
were going to be home all day. Well, you see,
he was going.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
To be home.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And then we remembered this was carnival day and Jim
had promised to take the children.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Sure, sure, I see.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I'm sorry to have to break this up, Fred, Oh
that's all right, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We can do it later, okay, Fred?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Yeah, I just hope that I haven't lost the snapshot
of that prize boar.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh, you'll find it. Thanks for coming over, Fred.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
That's okay, Jim, glad to do it for you. See fine,
Fred saloon.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh, missus Anderson, may I shake your hand and congratulate
you on your new position as chief of the rescue squad?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, thank you, dear.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But you little traders egging him on like that?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
U us?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
What states were they? I was your guess? Miley? Oh
I lost count? Will you start over?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Whose idea was that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Whose was it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, we haven't time to discuss that now.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
If you don't hurry, we never will get to the carnival.
And we are going, aren't we. Jim.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You want to know something. If I don't get out
of this house, I'll go crazy. Come on, let's go, Culiver.
Make anyone a nervous wreck, couldn't they?
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But he's not the only one.
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Speaker 3 (26:41):
The schemes of mice and men have been known to fail,
but not those employed by the Andersons to persuade father
to take them to the annual Founder's Day carnival. And
now the backseat of the Anderson sedan is filled with
sleeping pop fill cotton candy covered children on its way
back to the white frame house on Maple Street like this.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I was just thinking, Margaret, how those.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Kids worked and schemed today to get me out of
the house.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
They were.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Do you have any idea who put them up?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
To all that.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I don't think so well I do.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I don't know if you noticed, but as we were
leaving the carnival, I ran into missus Fred Culver, and
she asked me to thank you for calling Fred over
and invite him in to tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
About his trip. Traitor.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's a lucky thing that I happened to love you.
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